{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c006\">The remarks which we have made not only answer the\r\nstatements of Celsus regarding the superintending spirits, but\r\nanticipate in some measure what he afterwards brings forward,\r\nwhen he says: “Let the second party come forward; and I\r\nshall ask them whence they come, and whom they regard as the\r\noriginator of their ancestral customs. They will reply, No one,\r\nbecause they spring from the same source as the Jews themselves,\r\nand derive their instruction and superintendence<a id=\"r957\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f957\"><sup>[957]</sup></a> from\r\nno other quarter, and notwithstanding they have revolted from\r\nthe Jews.” Each one of us, then, is come “in the last days,”\r\nwhen one Jesus has visited us, to the “visible mountain of\r\nthe Lord,” the Word that is above every word, and to the\r\n“house of God,” which is “the church of the living God, the\r\npillar and ground of the truth.”<a id=\"r958\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f958\"><sup>[958]</sup></a> And we notice how it is\r\nbuilt upon “the tops of the mountains,” <i>i.e.</i> the predictions of\r\nall the prophets, which are its foundations. And this house\r\nis exalted above the hills, <i>i.e.</i> those individuals among men who\r\nmake a profession of superior attainments in wisdom and truth;\r\nand all the nations come to it, and the “many nations” go\r\nforth, and say to one another, turning to the religion which in\r\nthe last days has shone forth through Jesus Christ: “Come ye,\r\nand let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the house of\r\nthe God of Jacob; and He will teach us of His ways, and we\r\nwill walk in them.”<a id=\"r959\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f959\"><sup>[959]</sup></a> For the law came forth from the dwellers\r\nin Sion, and settled among us as a spiritual law. Moreover, the\r\nword of the Lord came forth from that very Jerusalem, that it\r\nmight be disseminated through all places, and might judge in\r\nthe midst of the heathen, selecting those whom it sees to be\r\nsubmissive, and rejecting<a id=\"r960\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f960\"><sup>[960]</sup></a> the disobedient, who are many in\r\nnumber. And to those who inquire of us whence we come,\r\nor who is our founder,<a id=\"r961\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f961\"><sup>[961]</sup></a> we reply that we are come, agreeably\r\nto the counsels of Jesus, to “cut down our hostile and insolent\r\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_303\">303</span>‘wordy’<a id=\"r962\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f962\"><sup>[962]</sup></a> swords into ploughshares, and to convert into\r\npruning-hooks the spears formerly employed in war.”<a id=\"r963\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f963\"><sup>[963]</sup></a> For we\r\nno longer take up “sword against nation,” nor do we “learn\r\nwar any more,” having become children of peace, for the sake\r\nof Jesus, who is our leader, instead of those whom our fathers\r\nfollowed, among whom we were “strangers to the covenant,”\r\nand having received a law, for which we give thanks to Him\r\nthat rescued us from the error [of our ways], saying, “Our\r\nfathers honoured lying idols, and there is not among them one\r\nthat causeth it to rain.”<a id=\"r964\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f964\"><sup>[964]</sup></a> Our Superintendent, then, and\r\nTeacher, having come forth from the Jews, regulates the whole\r\nworld by the word of His teaching. And having made these\r\nremarks by way of anticipation, we have refuted as well as we\r\ncould the untrue statements of Celsus, by subjoining the\r\nappropriate answer.</p>","headings":["The writings of Origen, Vol. 2 of 2","BOOK V.","Chapter XXXIII."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg70693-paragraph-360"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"0839cac10f2dde0206d9311d99c5df345b87514b777980d1fa8077ea1727af4b","edition_title":"The writings of Origen, Vol. 2 (of 2)","edition_translators":["Frederick Crombie","W. H. 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