{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c006\">He next likens our teacher to one suffering from ophthalmia,\r\nand his disciples to those suffering from the same disease, and\r\nsays that “such an one amongst a company of those who are\r\nafflicted with ophthalmia, accuses those who are sharp-sighted\r\nof being blind.” Who, then, would we ask, O Greeks, are\r\nthey who in our judgment do not see, save those who are unable\r\nto look up from the exceeding greatness of the world and\r\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_156\">156</span>its contents, and from the beauty of created things, and to see\r\nthat they ought to worship, and admire, and reverence Him\r\nalone who made these things, and that it is not befitting to\r\ntreat with reverence anything contrived by man, and applied\r\nto the honour of God, whether it be without a reference to the\r\nCreator, or with one?<a id=\"r467\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f467\"><sup>[467]</sup></a> For, to compare with that illimitable\r\nexcellence, which surpasses all created being, things which ought\r\nnot to be brought into comparison with it, is the act of those\r\nwhose understanding is darkened. We do not then say that\r\nthose who are sharp-sighted are suffering from ophthalmia or\r\nblindness; but we assert that those who, in ignorance of God,\r\ngive themselves to temples and images, and so-called sacred\r\nseasons,<a id=\"r468\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f468\"><sup>[468]</sup></a> are blinded in their minds, and especially when, in\r\naddition to their impiety, they live also in licentiousness, not\r\neven inquiring after any honourable work whatever, but doing\r\neverything that is of a disgraceful character.</p>","headings":["The writings of Origen, Vol. 2 of 2","BOOK III.","Chapter LXXVII."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg70693-paragraph-215"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"173023ebcaf0525162515cda957e3ffd129b6c829d5464301ff1750c450358ee","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-f467","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":"f467","source_ebook":70693,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f467\">\n<p class=\"c007\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r467\">467</a>. </span><span lang=\"grc\">εἴτε χωρὶς τοῦ δημιουργοῦ θεοῦ εἴτε καὶ μετ’ ἐκείνου.</span></p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"76ed9a9fd752c1d5095189e38fe3dcbbea0fd23d6be719db17360e4da14552fa","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/70693/pg70693-images.html#f467","text_sha256":"5d121944d37450f0909ec996269e78c7df88b3106c725ed35e4c4a88b9750593","verified":false,"work_id":null}