{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c006\">After this, being desirous to show that it is nothing either\r\nwonderful or new which we state regarding floods or conflagrations,\r\nbut that, from misunderstanding the accounts of these\r\nthings which are current among Greeks or barbarous nations,\r\nwe have accorded our belief to our own Scriptures when treating\r\nof them, he writes as follows: “The belief has spread among\r\nthem, from a misunderstanding of the accounts of these\r\noccurrences, that after lengthened cycles of time, and the\r\nreturns and conjunctions of planets, conflagrations and floods\r\nare wont to happen, and because after the last flood, which\r\ntook place in the time of Deucalion, the lapse of time, agreeably\r\nto the vicissitude of all things, requires a conflagration;\r\nand this made them give utterance to the erroneous opinion\r\nthat God will descend, bringing fire like a torturer.” Now\r\nin answer to this we say, that I do not understand how Celsus,\r\nwho has read a great deal, and who shows that he has perused\r\nmany histories, had not his attention arrested<a id=\"r509\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f509\"><sup>[509]</sup></a> by the\r\nantiquity of Moses, who is related by certain Greek historians\r\nto have lived about the time of Inachus the son of Phoroneus,\r\nand is acknowledged by the Egyptians to be a man of great\r\nantiquity, as well as by those who have studied the history of\r\nthe Phœnicians. And any one who likes may peruse the two\r\nbooks of Flavius Josephus on the antiquities of the Jews, in\r\norder that he may see in what way Moses was more ancient\r\nthan those who asserted that floods and conflagrations take place\r\nin the world after long intervals of time; which statement\r\nCelsus alleges the Jews and Christians to have misunderstood,\r\nand, not comprehending what was said about a conflagration,\r\nto have declared that “God will descend, bringing fire like a\r\ntorturer.”<a id=\"r510\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f510\"><sup>[510]</sup></a></p>","headings":["The writings of Origen, Vol. 2 of 2","BOOK IV.","Chapter XI."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg70693-paragraph-230"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"8935f99e54dbd15b2eef8ba1a79645e68cc4f7e06c7b2eff831f053c975aaace","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-f509","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":"f509","source_ebook":70693,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f509\">\n<p class=\"c007\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r509\">509</a>. </span><span lang=\"grc\">οὐκ ἐπέστη.</span></p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"76ed9a9fd752c1d5095189e38fe3dcbbea0fd23d6be719db17360e4da14552fa","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/70693/pg70693-images.html#f509","text_sha256":"680595ed387a7526c89a831d2e2cfdfd3fe75765722090d47713f936ed91a389","verified":false,"work_id":null}