{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c006\">Having completed seven books, I now propose to\r\nbegin the eighth. And may God and His only-begotten\r\nSon the Word be with us, to enable us\r\neffectively to refute the falsehoods which Celsus\r\nhas published under the delusive title of <i>A True Discourse</i>,\r\nand at the same time to unfold the truths of Christianity with\r\nsuch fulness as our purpose requires. And as Paul said, “We\r\nare ambassadors for Christ, as though God did beseech you by\r\nus,”<a id=\"r1562\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f1562\"><sup>[1562]</sup></a> so would we in the same spirit and language earnestly\r\ndesire to be ambassadors for Christ to men, even as the Word\r\nof God beseeches them to the love of Himself, seeking to win\r\nover to righteousness, truth, and the other virtues, those who,\r\nuntil they receive the doctrines of Jesus Christ, live in darkness\r\nabout God and in ignorance of their Creator. Again, then, I\r\nwould say, may God bestow upon us His pure and true Word,\r\neven “the Lord strong and mighty in battle”<a id=\"r1563\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f1563\"><sup>[1563]</sup></a> against sin.\r\nWe must now proceed to state the next objection of Celsus, and\r\nafterwards to answer it.</p>","headings":["The writings of Origen, Vol. 2 of 2","BOOK VIII.","Chapter I."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg70693-paragraph-548"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"277b37ec6a0a864526e09aa8f7e226ed7217033dbaad858ab0977a16f3b1d7d1","edition_title":"The writings of Origen, Vol. 2 (of 2)","edition_translators":["Frederick Crombie","W. H. Cairns"],"edition_year":1872,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"2CO","chapter":5,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"2 Cor. v. 20","verse":20,"verse_end":20}],"headings":[],"id":"pg70693-f1562","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":"f1562","source_ebook":70693,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f1562\">\n<p class=\"c007\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r1562\">1562</a>. </span>2 <abbr title=\"Corinthians\">Cor.</abbr> <abbr title=\"five\">v.</abbr> 20.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"76ed9a9fd752c1d5095189e38fe3dcbbea0fd23d6be719db17360e4da14552fa","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/70693/pg70693-images.html#f1562","text_sha256":"4fdc4e7c0c5c0064138db1077677082040bb74d944b3f4755ef33f0ae89f3bac","verified":false,"work_id":null}