{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c006\">As we allege, however, that he has fallen into confusion in\r\nconsequence of false notions which he has imbibed, come and\r\nlet us point them out to the best of our ability, and show that\r\nalthough Celsus considers it to be a Jewish custom to bow\r\ndown to the heaven and the angels in it, such a practice is not\r\nat all Jewish, but is in violation of Judaism, as it also is to do\r\nobeisance to sun, moon, and stars, as well as images. You will\r\nfind at least in the book of Jeremiah the words of God censuring\r\nby the mouth of the prophet the Jewish people for\r\ndoing obeisance to such objects, and for sacrificing to the queen\r\nof heaven, and to all the host of heaven.<a id=\"r857\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f857\"><sup>[857]</sup></a> The writings of the\r\nChristians, moreover, show, in censuring the sins committed\r\namong the Jews, that when God abandoned that people on\r\naccount of certain sins, these sins [of idol-worship] also were\r\ncommitted by them. For it is related in the Acts of the\r\nApostles regarding the Jews, that “God turned, and gave\r\nthem up to worship the host of heaven; as it is written in the\r\nbook of the prophets, O ye house of Israel, have ye offered to\r\nme slain beasts and sacrifices by the space of forty years in the\r\nwilderness? Yea, ye took up the tabernacle of Moloch, and\r\nthe star of your god Remphan, figures which you made to\r\nworship them.”<a id=\"r858\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f858\"><sup>[858]</sup></a> And in the writings of Paul, who was carefully\r\ntrained in Jewish customs, and converted afterwards to\r\nChristianity by a miraculous appearance of Jesus, the following\r\nwords may be read in the Epistle to the Colossians: “Let no\r\nman beguile you of your reward in a voluntary humility and\r\nworshipping of angels, intruding into those things which he\r\nhath not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind; and not\r\nholding the head, from which all the body by joint and bands\r\nhaving nourishment ministered, and knit together, increaseth\r\nwith the increase of God.”<a id=\"r859\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f859\"><sup>[859]</sup></a> But Celsus, having neither read\r\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_276\">276</span>these verses, nor having learned their contents from any other\r\nsource, has represented, I know not how, the Jews as not transgressing\r\ntheir law in bowing down to the heavens, and to the\r\nangels therein.</p>","headings":["The writings of Origen, Vol. 2 of 2","BOOK V.","Chapter VIII."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg70693-paragraph-335"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"7ffd194c8a2feabf3902f258c6ea7653d60e36dc2a914ad92b5ba8c0d7572838","edition_title":"The writings of Origen, Vol. 2 (of 2)","edition_translators":["Frederick Crombie","W. H. Cairns"],"edition_year":1872,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"COL","chapter":2,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Col. ii. 18","verse":18,"verse_end":18}],"headings":[],"id":"pg70693-f859","license_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/policy/license.html","public_import_allowed":false,"record_kind":"original-editor-translator-note","review_required":["work and recension attribution","original-work chronology","Bible reference numbering and citation kind","English edition rights and attribution"],"review_status":"needs_review","rights_evidence":"Project Gutenberg metadata: Public domain in the USA. Existing 1872 English edition; listed translators died 1889 and 1872. Electronic transcription subject to Project Gutenberg reuse terms.","source_anchor":"f859","source_ebook":70693,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f859\">\n<p class=\"c007\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r859\">859</a>. </span><abbr class=\"spell\">Cf.</abbr> <abbr title=\"Colossians\">Col.</abbr> <abbr title=\"two\">ii.</abbr> 18, 19.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"76ed9a9fd752c1d5095189e38fe3dcbbea0fd23d6be719db17360e4da14552fa","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/70693/pg70693-images.html#f859","text_sha256":"a551c15bb4a5ce9e96ffc95bc6cef6d124a2f6e206631628db0e02768e1fa9b1","verified":false,"work_id":null}