{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c006\">It is our practice, indeed, to make use of the words of the\r\nprophets, who demonstrate that Jesus is the Christ predicted\r\nby them, and who show from the prophetic writings that the\r\nevents in the Gospels regarding Jesus have been fulfilled. But\r\nwhen Celsus speaks of “circles upon circles,” [he perhaps borrowed\r\nthe expression] from the aforementioned heresy, which\r\nincludes in one circle (which they call the soul of all things,\r\nand Leviathan) the seven circles of archontic demons, or perhaps\r\nit arises from misunderstanding the preacher, when he\r\nsays: “The wind goeth in a circle of circles, and returneth again\r\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_374\">374</span>upon its circles.”<a id=\"r1208\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f1208\"><sup>[1208]</sup></a> The expression, too, “effluents of an earthly\r\nchurch and of circumcision,” was probably taken from the fact\r\nthat the church on earth was called by some an effluent from a\r\nheavenly church and a better world; and that the circumcision\r\ndescribed in the law was a symbol of the circumcision performed\r\nthere, in a certain place set apart for purification. The adherents\r\nof Valentinus, moreover, in keeping with their system of\r\nerror,<a id=\"r1209\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f1209\"><sup>[1209]</sup></a> give the name of Prunicos to a certain kind of wisdom,\r\nof which they would have the woman afflicted with the twelve\r\nyears’ issue of blood to be the symbol; so that Celsus, who\r\nconfuses together all sorts of opinions—Greek, Barbarian, and\r\nHeretical—having heard of her, asserted that it was a power\r\nflowing forth from one Prunicos, a virgin. The “living soul,”\r\nagain, is perhaps mysteriously referred by some of the followers\r\nof Valentinus to the being whom they term the psychic<a id=\"r1210\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f1210\"><sup>[1210]</sup></a> creator\r\nof the world; or perhaps, in contradistinction to a “dead”\r\nsoul, the “living” soul is termed by some, not inelegantly,<a id=\"r1211\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f1211\"><sup>[1211]</sup></a> the\r\nsoul of “him who is saved.” I know nothing, however, of a\r\n“heaven which is said to be slain,” or of an “earth slaughtered\r\nby the sword,” or of many persons slain in order that they\r\nmight live; for it is not unlikely that these were coined by\r\nCelsus out of his own brain.</p>","headings":["The writings of Origen, Vol. 2 of 2","BOOK VI.","Chapter XXXV."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg70693-paragraph-428"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"a5b1c1b0d24f53af1295f108bc293942b2fe213a01d3199a49e885d2487d7ad1","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-f1209","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":"f1209","source_ebook":70693,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f1209\">\n<p class=\"c007\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r1209\">1209</a>. </span><span lang=\"grc\">κατὰ τὴν πεπλανημένην ἑαυτῶν σοφίαν.</span></p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"76ed9a9fd752c1d5095189e38fe3dcbbea0fd23d6be719db17360e4da14552fa","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/70693/pg70693-images.html#f1209","text_sha256":"482532a6729834b3692aa31b61bdfd89aac43a2a49a28098e00eb005a3d28f80","verified":false,"work_id":null}