{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c006\">The Jew continues his discourse thus: “How should we\r\ndeem him to be a God, who not only in other respects, as was\r\ncurrently reported, performed none of his promises, but who also,\r\nafter we had convicted him, and condemned him as deserving\r\nof punishment, was found attempting to conceal himself, and\r\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_11\">11</span>endeavouring to escape in a most disgraceful manner, and who\r\nwas betrayed by those whom he called disciples? And yet,”\r\nhe continues, “he who was a God could neither flee nor be\r\nled away a prisoner; and least of all could he be deserted and\r\ndelivered up by those who had been his associates, and had\r\nshared all things in common, and had had him for their teacher,\r\nwho was deemed to be a Saviour, and a Son of the greatest\r\nGod, and an angel.” To which we reply, that even we do not\r\nsuppose the body of Jesus, which was then an object of sight\r\nand perception, to have been God. And why do I say His\r\nbody? Nay, not even His soul, of which it is related, “My\r\nsoul is exceeding sorrowful, even unto death.”<a id=\"r58\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f58\"><sup>[58]</sup></a> But as, according\r\nto the Jewish manner of speaking, “I am the Lord, the\r\nGod of all flesh,” and, “Before me there was no God formed,\r\nneither shall there be after me,” God is believed to be He\r\nwho employs the soul and body of the prophet as an instrument;\r\nand as, according to the Greeks, he who says,</p>","headings":["The writings of Origen, Vol. 2 of 2","BOOK II.","Chapter IX."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg70693-paragraph-48"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"090d700fdd0e267a3c1a28fc998662a694adc50bd3739a977fb58cf858ccba1e","edition_title":"The writings of Origen, Vol. 2 (of 2)","edition_translators":["Frederick Crombie","W. H. Cairns"],"edition_year":1872,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"MAT","chapter":26,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Matt. xxvi. 38","verse":38,"verse_end":38}],"headings":[],"id":"pg70693-f58","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":"f58","source_ebook":70693,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f58\">\n<p class=\"c007\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r58\">58</a>. </span><abbr title=\"Matthew\">Matt.</abbr> <abbr title=\"twenty-six\">xxvi.</abbr> 38.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"76ed9a9fd752c1d5095189e38fe3dcbbea0fd23d6be719db17360e4da14552fa","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/70693/pg70693-images.html#f58","text_sha256":"b1b40bb503c9f03416f166bcea6af98a55e37b9b0044862397530e67188c1cd5","verified":false,"work_id":null}