{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c007\">Origen occupied too prominent a position in the literary\r\nsociety of the city to be able to remain with safety, and therefore\r\nwithdrew to Palestine to his friend Bishop Alexander of\r\nJerusalem, and afterwards to Cæsarea, where he received an\r\nhonourable welcome from Bishop Theoctistus. This step proved\r\nthe beginning of his after troubles. These two men, filled with\r\nbecoming admiration for the most learned teacher in the Church,\r\nrequested him to expound the Scriptures in their presence in a\r\npublic assembly of the Christians. Origen, although still a\r\nlayman, and without any sacerdotal dignity in the Church,\r\ncomplied with the request. When this proceeding reached the\r\nears of Demetrius, he was filled with the utmost indignation.\r\n“Such an act was never either heard or done before, that laymen\r\nshould deliver discourses in the presence of the bishops,”<a id=\"r11\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f11\"><sup>[11]</sup></a>\r\nwas his indignant remonstrance to the two offending bishops,\r\nand Origen received a command to return immediately to Alexandria.\r\nHe obeyed, and for some years appears to have devoted\r\nhimself solely to his studies in his usual spirit of self-abnegation.</p>","headings":["The writings of Origen, Vol. 2 of 2","LIFE OF ORIGEN."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg70693-paragraph-25"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"9129dc64bfb9a04722301c30d030122cf42d04821b3ac6a33ebdaecbc68d2c62","edition_title":"The writings of Origen, Vol. 2 (of 2)","edition_translators":["Frederick Crombie","W. H. Cairns"],"edition_year":1872,"explicit_reference_candidates":[],"headings":[],"id":"pg70693-f11","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":"f11","source_ebook":70693,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f11\">\n<p class=\"c007\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r11\">11</a>. </span><i>Ibid.</i> <abbr title=\"book\">b.</abbr> <abbr title=\"six\">vi.</abbr> <abbr title=\"chapter\">c.</abbr> 19.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"76ed9a9fd752c1d5095189e38fe3dcbbea0fd23d6be719db17360e4da14552fa","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/70693/pg70693-images.html#f11","text_sha256":"2729461fa64a2baa49e7a9d84626f0c45dfcafc1668fad3ff722b0d9c950b8d0","verified":false,"work_id":null}