{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c005\">I would like to say to Celsus, who represents the Jew as\r\naccepting somehow John as a Baptist, who baptized Jesus,\r\nthat the existence of John the Baptist, baptizing for the remission\r\nof sins, is related by one who lived no great length\r\nof time after John and Jesus. For in the 18th book of his\r\n<i>Antiquities of the Jews</i>, Josephus bears witness to John as\r\nhaving been a Baptist, and as promising purification to those\r\nwho underwent the rite.<a id=\"r1194\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f1194\"><sup>[1194]</sup></a> Now this writer, although not\r\nbelieving in Jesus as the Christ, in seeking after the cause\r\nof the fall of Jerusalem and the destruction of the temple,\r\nwhereas he ought to have said that the conspiracy against\r\nJesus was the cause of these calamities befalling the people,\r\nsince they put to death Christ, who was a prophet, says\r\nnevertheless—being, although against his will, not far from\r\nthe truth—that these disasters happened to the Jews as a\r\npunishment for the death of James the Just, who was a\r\nbrother of Jesus (called Christ),—the Jews having put him\r\nto death, although he was a man most distinguished for his\r\njustice. Paul, a genuine disciple of Jesus, says that he\r\nregarded this James as a brother of the Lord, not so much\r\non account of their relationship by blood, or of their being\r\nbrought up together, as because of his virtue and doctrine.<a id=\"r1195\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f1195\"><sup>[1195]</sup></a>\r\nIf, then, he says that it was on account of James that the\r\ndesolation of Jerusalem was made to overtake the Jews, how\r\nshould it not be more in accordance with reason to say that it\r\nhappened on account [of the death] of Jesus Christ, of whose\r\ndivinity so many churches are witnesses, composed of those\r\nwho have been converted from a flood of sins, and who have\r\njoined themselves to the Creator, and who refer all their\r\nactions to His good pleasure?</p>","headings":["The Writings of Origen, Vol. 1 of 2","ORIGEN CONTRA CELSUM.","ORIGEN AGAINST CELSUS. BOOK I.","Chapter XLVII."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg70561-paragraph-445"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"221f2cda51386b7d1ead2af60d2b9d8ec62d4e94d437f86115e87caabd1cc6ff","edition_title":"The writings of Origen, Vol. 1 (of 2)","edition_translators":["Frederick Crombie"],"edition_year":1869,"explicit_reference_candidates":[],"headings":[],"id":"pg70561-f1194","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 1869 English translation; translator died 1889. Electronic transcription subject to Project Gutenberg reuse terms.","source_anchor":"f1194","source_ebook":70561,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f1194\">\n<p class=\"c006\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r1194\">1194</a>. </span><abbr class=\"spell\">Cf.</abbr> Joseph. <i>Antiq.</i> book <abbr title=\"eighteen\">xviii.</abbr> <abbr title=\"chapter\">c.</abbr> <abbr title=\"ten\">x.</abbr> <abbr title=\"section\">sec.</abbr> 2.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"de125e213d16053354f22b34a1c8d477ac23f201e660e4f4841b2ed7e05bb367","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/70561/pg70561-images.html#f1194","text_sha256":"4c09be093e904f64d99cf6191d1fbc79d4e50e2236d390d853d9c88e29c51f01","verified":false,"work_id":null}