{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c006\">In the Acts of the Apostles also, Stephen, in his other testimony,\r\nsays, “Which of the prophets have not your fathers\r\npersecuted? And they have slain them which showed before\r\nof the coming of the Just One; of whom ye have been now\r\nthe betrayers and murderers.”<a id=\"r1097\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f1097\"><sup>[1097]</sup></a> That Stephen speaks the\r\ntruth, every one will admit who receives the Acts of the\r\nApostles; but it is impossible to show from the extant books\r\nof the Old Testament how with any justice he throws the\r\nblame of having persecuted and slain the prophets on the\r\nfathers of those who believed not in Christ. And Paul, in the\r\nfirst Epistle to the Thessalonians, testifies this concerning the\r\nJews: “For ye, brethren, became followers of the churches\r\nof God which in Judea are in Christ Jesus: for ye also have\r\nsuffered like things of your own countrymen, even as they\r\nhave of the Jews; who both killed the Lord Jesus and their\r\nown prophets, and have persecuted us; and they please not\r\nGod, and are contrary to all men.”<a id=\"r1098\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f1098\"><sup>[1098]</sup></a> What I have said is, I\r\nthink, sufficient to prove that it would be nothing wonderful if\r\nthis history were true, and the licentious and cruel attack was\r\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_380\">380</span>actually made on Susanna by those who were at that time\r\nelders, and written down by the wisdom of the Spirit, but\r\nremoved by these rulers of Sodom,<a id=\"r1099\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f1099\"><sup>[1099]</sup></a> as the Spirit would call\r\nthem.</p>","headings":["The Writings of Origen, Vol. 1 of 2","LETTERS.","A LETTER FROM ORIGEN TO AFRICANUS."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg70561-paragraph-371"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"0335e6869231386038a7960ad12d6d99045d991629a9760173f76e0effa6aae9","edition_title":"The writings of Origen, Vol. 1 (of 2)","edition_translators":["Frederick Crombie"],"edition_year":1869,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"ACT","chapter":7,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Acts vii. 52","verse":52,"verse_end":52}],"headings":[],"id":"pg70561-f1097","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":"f1097","source_ebook":70561,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f1097\">\n<p class=\"c006\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r1097\">1097</a>. </span>Acts <abbr title=\"seven\">vii.</abbr> 52.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"de125e213d16053354f22b34a1c8d477ac23f201e660e4f4841b2ed7e05bb367","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/70561/pg70561-images.html#f1097","text_sha256":"05c1df418a52f03726169aede6f3a6b5a6a2179f8226ecc09ce66fdb84e1617c","verified":false,"work_id":null}