{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c007\">And to such a degree does the gospel desire that there should\r\nbe wise men among believers, that for the sake of exercising\r\nthe understanding of its hearers, it has spoken certain truths\r\nin enigmas, others in what are called “dark” sayings, others in\r\nparables, and others in problems.<a id=\"r383\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f383\"><sup>[383]</sup></a> And one of the prophets—Hosea—says\r\nat the end of his prophecies: “Who is wise, and\r\nhe will understand these things? or prudent, and he shall\r\nknow them?”<a id=\"r384\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f384\"><sup>[384]</sup></a> Daniel, moreover, and his fellow-captives,\r\nmade such progress in the learning which the wise men around\r\nthe king in Babylon cultivated, that they were shown to excel\r\nall of them in a tenfold degree. And in the book of Ezekiel\r\nit is said to the ruler of Tyre, who greatly prided himself on\r\nhis wisdom, “Art thou wiser than Daniel? Every secret was\r\nnot revealed to thee.”<a id=\"r385\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f385\"><sup>[385]</sup></a></p>","headings":["The writings of Origen, Vol. 2 of 2","BOOK III.","Chapter XLV."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg70693-paragraph-181"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"e557a3192013a07af8695a71bcce9a1c8e4e3c75bb7fe9030b24b85c16739eb8","edition_title":"The writings of Origen, Vol. 2 (of 2)","edition_translators":["Frederick Crombie","W. H. Cairns"],"edition_year":1872,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"EZK","chapter":20,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Ezek. xx. 3","verse":3,"verse_end":3}],"headings":[],"id":"pg70693-f385","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":"f385","source_ebook":70693,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f385\">\n<p class=\"c007\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r385\">385</a>. </span><abbr class=\"spell\">Cf.</abbr> <abbr title=\"Ezekiel\">Ezek.</abbr> <abbr title=\"twenty\">xx.</abbr> 3.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"76ed9a9fd752c1d5095189e38fe3dcbbea0fd23d6be719db17360e4da14552fa","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/70693/pg70693-images.html#f385","text_sha256":"5c26aa05f26efefa59ba16c3702a49a7fff6393486f953037f5eef9a42d530ec","verified":false,"work_id":null}