{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c005\">Continuing to pour abuse upon Jesus as one who, on\r\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_478\">478</span>account of his impiety and wicked opinions, was, so to speak,\r\nhated by God, he asserts that “these tenets of his were\r\nthose of a wicked and God-hated sorcerer.” And yet, if the\r\nname and the thing be properly examined, it will be found\r\nan impossibility that man should be hated by God, seeing\r\nGod loves all existing things, and “hateth nothing of what\r\nHe has made,” for He created nothing in a spirit of hatred.\r\nAnd if certain expressions in the prophets convey such an\r\nimpression, they are to be interpreted in accordance with\r\nthe general principle by which Scripture employs such language\r\nwith regard to God as if He were subject to human\r\naffections. But what reply need be made to him who, while\r\nprofessing to bring forward credible statements, thinks himself\r\nbound to make use of calumnies and slanders against Jesus,\r\nas if He were a wicked sorcerer? Such is not the procedure\r\nof one who seeks to make good his case, but of one who is in\r\nan ignorant and unphilosophic state of mind, inasmuch as\r\nthe proper course is to state the case, and candidly to investigate\r\nit; and, according to the best of his ability, to bring\r\nforward what occurs to him with regard to it. But as the\r\nJew of Celsus has, with the above remarks, brought to a\r\nclose his charges against Jesus, so we also shall here bring to\r\na termination the contents of our first book in reply to him.\r\nAnd if God bestow the gift of that truth which destroys all\r\nfalsehood, agreeably to the words of the prayer, “Cut them\r\noff in thy truth,”<a id=\"r1251\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f1251\"><sup>[1251]</sup></a> we shall begin, in what follows, the consideration\r\nof the second appearance of the Jew, in which he\r\nis represented by Celsus as addressing those who have become\r\nconverts to Jesus.</p>","headings":["The Writings of Origen, Vol. 1 of 2","ORIGEN CONTRA CELSUM.","ORIGEN AGAINST CELSUS. BOOK I.","Chapter LXXI."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg70561-paragraph-470"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"f6e0e0d394005c853c2f2e7e51318af21999ed5ff287fe58d9c2e13854b395ea","edition_title":"The writings of Origen, Vol. 1 (of 2)","edition_translators":["Frederick Crombie"],"edition_year":1869,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"PSA","chapter":54,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Ps. liv. 5","verse":5,"verse_end":5}],"headings":[],"id":"pg70561-f1251","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":"f1251","source_ebook":70561,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f1251\">\n<p class=\"c006\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r1251\">1251</a>. </span><abbr title=\"Psalms\">Ps.</abbr> <abbr title=\"forty-four\">liv.</abbr> 5.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"de125e213d16053354f22b34a1c8d477ac23f201e660e4f4841b2ed7e05bb367","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/70561/pg70561-images.html#f1251","text_sha256":"caad820b85666ae51a289611db698a2ccc209b3a0fef15da635cafb21d33d862","verified":false,"work_id":null}