{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c006\">But we, in proving the facts related of our Jesus from the\r\nprophetic Scriptures, and comparing afterwards His history\r\nwith them, demonstrate that no dissoluteness on his part is recorded.\r\nFor even they who conspired against Him, and who\r\nsought false witnesses to aid them, did not find even any\r\nplausible grounds for advancing a false charge against Him,\r\nso as to accuse Him of licentiousness; but His death was\r\nindeed the result of a conspiracy, and bore no resemblance to\r\nthe death of Æsculapius by lightning. And what is there that is\r\nvenerable in the madman Dionysus, and his female garments,\r\nthat <i>he</i> should be worshipped as a god? And if they who\r\nwould defend such beings betake themselves to allegorical\r\ninterpretations, we must examine each individual instance, and\r\nascertain whether it is well founded,<a id=\"r308\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f308\"><sup>[308]</sup></a> and also in each particular\r\ncase, whether those beings can have a real existence, and are\r\ndeserving of respect and worship who were torn by the Titans,\r\nand cast down from their heavenly throne. Whereas our\r\nJesus, who appeared to the members of His own troop<a id=\"r309\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f309\"><sup>[309]</sup></a>—for I\r\nwill take the word that Celsus employs—did <i>really</i> appear, and\r\nCelsus makes a false accusation against the gospel in saying\r\nthat what appeared was a shadow. And let the statements of\r\ntheir histories and that of Jesus be carefully compared together.\r\nWill Celsus have the former to be true, but the latter, although\r\nrecorded by eye-witnesses who showed by their acts that they\r\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_104\">104</span>clearly understood the nature of what they had seen, and who\r\nmanifested their state of mind by what they cheerfully underwent\r\nfor the sake of His gospel, to be inventions? Now, who is\r\nthere that, desiring to act always in conformity with right reason,\r\nwould yield his assent at random<a id=\"r310\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f310\"><sup>[310]</sup></a> to what is related of the one,\r\nbut would rush to the history of Jesus, and without examination\r\nrefuse to believe what is recorded of Him?<a id=\"r311\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f311\"><sup>[311]</sup></a></p>","headings":["The writings of Origen, Vol. 2 of 2","BOOK III.","Chapter XXIII."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg70693-paragraph-156"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"50f47d1e37c4f101e864aa10cfcd1dcb3932c46857abea051d35ef35b7f4d9ea","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-f308","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":"f308","source_ebook":70693,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f308\">\n<p class=\"c007\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r308\">308</a>. </span><span lang=\"grc\">εἰ τὸ ὑγιὲς ἔχουσιν.</span></p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"76ed9a9fd752c1d5095189e38fe3dcbbea0fd23d6be719db17360e4da14552fa","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/70693/pg70693-images.html#f308","text_sha256":"9cdd38b41cb607029955deccc72b646614222c1331363de14b65e2e5905655d2","verified":false,"work_id":null}