{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c006\">After this he again slanders the ambassador of Christianity,\r\nand gives out regarding him that he relates “ridiculous things,”\r\nalthough he does not show or clearly point out what are the\r\nthings which he calls “ridiculous.” And in his slanders he\r\nsays that “no wise man believes the gospel, being driven away\r\nby the multitudes who adhere to it.” And in this he acts\r\nlike one who should say that owing to the multitude of those\r\nignorant persons who are brought into subjection to the laws,\r\nno wise man would yield obedience to Solon, for example, or\r\nto Lycurgus, or Zaleucus, or any other legislator, and especially\r\nif by wise man he means one who is wise [by living] in\r\nconformity with virtue. For, as with regard to these ignorant\r\npersons, the legislators, according to their ideas of utility,\r\ncaused them to be surrounded with appropriate guidance and\r\nlaws, so God, legislating through Jesus Christ for men in all\r\nparts of the world, brings to Himself even those who are not\r\nwise in the way in which it is possible for such persons to be\r\nbrought to a better life. And God, well knowing this, as we\r\nhave already shown in the preceding pages, says in the books\r\nof Moses: “They have moved me to jealousy with that which\r\nis not God; they have provoked me to anger with their idols:\r\nand I will move them to jealousy with those which are not a\r\npeople; I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation.”<a id=\"r454\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f454\"><sup>[454]</sup></a>\r\nAnd Paul also, knowing this, said, “But God hath chosen the\r\nfoolish things of the world to confound the wise,”<a id=\"r455\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f455\"><sup>[455]</sup></a> calling, in\r\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_152\">152</span>a general way, wise all who appear to have made advances in\r\nknowledge, but have fallen into an atheistic polytheism, since\r\n“professing themselves to be wise they became fools, and\r\nchanged the glory of the incorruptible God into an image\r\nmade like to corruptible man, and to birds, and four-footed\r\nbeasts, and creeping things.”<a id=\"r456\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f456\"><sup>[456]</sup></a></p>","headings":["The writings of Origen, Vol. 2 of 2","BOOK III.","Chapter LXXIII."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg70693-paragraph-211"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"d8061510e3c6d4b115ac0530ae6ec15d56cdca507497955d2bf0c58e53f93b9a","edition_title":"The writings of Origen, Vol. 2 (of 2)","edition_translators":["Frederick Crombie","W. H. Cairns"],"edition_year":1872,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"DEU","chapter":32,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Deut. xxxii. 21","verse":21,"verse_end":21}],"headings":[],"id":"pg70693-f454","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":"f454","source_ebook":70693,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f454\">\n<p class=\"c007\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r454\">454</a>. </span><abbr class=\"spell\">Cf.</abbr> <abbr title=\"Deuteronomy\">Deut.</abbr> <abbr title=\"thirty-two\">xxxii.</abbr> 21.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"76ed9a9fd752c1d5095189e38fe3dcbbea0fd23d6be719db17360e4da14552fa","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/70693/pg70693-images.html#f454","text_sha256":"6e863c0d0c20fd3ac6a58e461ebe65afc105c09f40059eafc9aa1039c8312435","verified":false,"work_id":null}