{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c005\">The following is the view of Celsus and the Epicureans:\r\n“Moses having,” he says, “learned the doctrine which is to\r\nbe found existing among wise nations and eloquent men,\r\nobtained the reputation of divinity.” Now, in answer to this\r\nwe have to say, that it may be allowed him that Moses did\r\nindeed hear a somewhat ancient doctrine, and transmitted\r\nthe same to the Hebrews; that if the doctrine which he\r\nheard was false, and neither pious nor venerable, and if\r\nnotwithstanding, he received it and handed it down to those\r\nunder his authority, he is liable to censure; but if, as you\r\nassert, he gave his adherence to opinions that were wise and\r\ntrue, and educated his people by means of them, what, pray,\r\nhas he done deserving of condemnation? Would, indeed,\r\nthat not only Epicurus, but Aristotle, whose sentiments\r\nregarding providence are not so impious [as those of the\r\nformer], and the Stoics, who assert that God is a body, had\r\nheard such a doctrine! Then the world would not have been\r\nfilled with opinions which either disallow or enfeeble the action\r\nof providence, or introduce a corrupt corporeal principle,\r\naccording to which the god of the Stoics is a body, with\r\nrespect to whom they are not afraid to say that he is capable\r\nof change, and may be altered and transformed in all his\r\nparts, and, generally, that he is capable of corruption, if\r\nthere be any one to corrupt him, but that he has the good\r\nfortune to escape corruption, because there is none to corrupt.\r\nWhereas the doctrine of the Jews and Christians, which\r\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_419\">419</span>preserves the immutability and unalterableness of the divine\r\nnature, is stigmatized as impious, because it does not partake\r\nof the profanity of those whose notions of God are marked\r\nby impiety, but because it says in the supplication addressed\r\nto the Divinity, “Thou art the same,”<a id=\"r1161\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f1161\"><sup>[1161]</sup></a> it being, moreover,\r\nan article of faith that God has said, “I change not.”<a id=\"r1162\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f1162\"><sup>[1162]</sup></a></p>","headings":["The Writings of Origen, Vol. 1 of 2","ORIGEN CONTRA CELSUM.","ORIGEN AGAINST CELSUS. BOOK I.","Chapter XXI."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg70561-paragraph-419"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"1ecc9e48f0592a1afa6ff84ab3363b04bf422a48599a05e485bcd3d34370398a","edition_title":"The writings of Origen, Vol. 1 (of 2)","edition_translators":["Frederick Crombie"],"edition_year":1869,"explicit_reference_candidates":[],"headings":[],"id":"pg70561-f1162","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":"f1162","source_ebook":70561,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f1162\">\n<p class=\"c006\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r1162\">1162</a>. </span><abbr title=\"Malachi\">Mal.</abbr> <abbr title=\"three\">iii.</abbr> 6.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"de125e213d16053354f22b34a1c8d477ac23f201e660e4f4841b2ed7e05bb367","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/70561/pg70561-images.html#f1162","text_sha256":"573f79dd228b5f34e2b454eb5e747ecbc4436402573c7241cffba9f9e3e8fed6","verified":false,"work_id":null}