{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c005\">18. And if we go to the Gospel and institute a similar\r\nexamination, what would be more irrational than [to take\r\nliterally the injunction], “Salute no man by the way,”<a id=\"r958\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f958\"><sup>[958]</sup></a>\r\nwhich simple persons think the Saviour enjoined on the\r\napostles? The command, moreover, that the right cheek\r\nshould be smitten, is most incredible, since every one who\r\nstrikes, unless he happen to have some bodily defect,<a id=\"r959\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f959\"><sup>[959]</sup></a> smites\r\nthe <i>left</i> cheek with his <i>right</i> hand. And it is impossible to\r\ntake [literally, the statement] in the Gospel about the “offending”\r\nof the right eye. For, to grant the possibility of one\r\nbeing “offended” by the sense of sight, how, when there are\r\ntwo eyes that see, should the blame be laid upon the right\r\neye? And who is there that, condemning himself for having\r\nlooked upon a woman to lust after her, would rationally\r\ntransfer the blame to the right eye alone, and throw <i>it</i> away?\r\nThe apostle, moreover, lays down the law, saying, “Is any\r\nman called, being circumcised? Let him not become uncircumcised.”<a id=\"r960\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f960\"><sup>[960]</sup></a>\r\nIn the first place, any one will see that he does\r\nnot utter these words in connection with the subject before\r\nhim. For, when laying down precepts on marriage and purity,\r\nhow will it not appear that he has introduced these words at\r\nrandom?<a id=\"r961\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f961\"><sup>[961]</sup></a> But, in the second place, who will say that a\r\nman does wrong who endeavours to become uncircumcised,\r\nif that be possible, on account of the disgrace that is considered\r\nby the multitude to attach to circumcision?</p>","headings":["The Writings of Origen, Vol. 1 of 2","ORIGEN DE PRINCIPIIS.","BOOK IV.","FROM THE GREEK."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg70561-paragraph-324"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"86b78c5440bd4e8ba29fba3d34c39b6b3b6fbad75489e3d8f23182440c32cd7f","edition_title":"The writings of Origen, Vol. 1 (of 2)","edition_translators":["Frederick Crombie"],"edition_year":1869,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"1CO","chapter":7,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"1 Cor. vii. 18","verse":18,"verse_end":18}],"headings":[],"id":"pg70561-f960","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":"f960","source_ebook":70561,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f960\">\n<p class=\"c006\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r960\">960</a>. </span>1 <abbr title=\"Corinthians\">Cor.</abbr> <abbr title=\"seven\">vii.</abbr> 18.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"de125e213d16053354f22b34a1c8d477ac23f201e660e4f4841b2ed7e05bb367","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/70561/pg70561-images.html#f960","text_sha256":"ecd694740d85d8142db539e6b62d0607fa834292052df1f9fa793c92f4f62021","verified":false,"work_id":null}