{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c005\">For the law and the prophets are full of marvels similar\r\nto those recorded of Jesus at His baptism, viz. regarding\r\nthe dove and the voice from heaven. And I think the\r\nwonders wrought by Jesus are a proof of the Holy Spirit’s\r\nhaving then appeared in the form of a dove, although Celsus,\r\nfrom a desire to cast discredit upon them, alleges that He\r\nperformed only what He had learned among the Egyptians.\r\nAnd I shall refer not only to His miracles, but, as is proper,\r\nto those also of the apostles of Jesus. For they could not\r\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_446\">446</span>without the help of miracles and wonders have prevailed\r\non those who heard their new doctrines and new teachings\r\nto abandon their national usages, and to accept their instructions\r\nat the danger to themselves even of death. And\r\nthere are still preserved among Christians traces of that\r\nHoly Spirit which appeared in the form of a dove. They\r\nexpel evil spirits, and perform many cures, and foresee\r\ncertain events, according to the will of the Logos. And\r\nalthough Celsus, or the Jew whom he has introduced, may\r\ntreat with mockery what I am going to say, I shall say it\r\nnevertheless,—that many have been converted to Christianity\r\nas if against their will, some sort of spirit having suddenly\r\ntransformed their minds from a hatred of the doctrine to a\r\nreadiness to die in its defence, and having appeared to them\r\neither in a waking vision or a dream of the night. Many\r\nsuch instances have we known, which, if we were to commit\r\nto writing, although they were seen and witnessed by ourselves,\r\nwe should afford great occasion for ridicule to unbelievers,\r\nwho would imagine that we, like those whom they\r\nsuppose to have invented such things, had ourselves also done\r\nthe same. But God is witness of our conscientious desire,\r\nnot by false statements, but by testimonies of different kinds,\r\nto establish the divinity of the doctrine of Jesus. And as it\r\nis a Jew who is perplexed about the account of the Holy\r\nSpirit having descended upon Jesus in the form of a dove, we\r\nwould say to him, “Sir, who is it that says in Isaiah, ‘And\r\nnow the Lord hath sent me and His Spirit?’”<a id=\"r1193\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f1193\"><sup>[1193]</sup></a> In which\r\nsentence, as the meaning is doubtful—viz. whether the\r\nFather and the Holy Spirit sent Jesus, or the Father sent\r\nboth Christ and the Holy Spirit—the latter is correct. For,\r\nbecause the Saviour was sent, afterwards the Holy Spirit\r\nwas sent also, that the prediction of the prophet might be\r\nfulfilled; and as it was necessary that the fulfilment of the\r\nprophecy should be known to posterity, the disciples of Jesus\r\nfor that reason committed the result to writing.</p>","headings":["The Writings of Origen, Vol. 1 of 2","ORIGEN CONTRA CELSUM.","ORIGEN AGAINST CELSUS. BOOK I.","Chapter XLVI."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg70561-paragraph-444"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"1999655787b4c073679f70cc070ac82e08a24ef879f7fbac94654786e7cbabf9","edition_title":"The writings of Origen, Vol. 1 (of 2)","edition_translators":["Frederick Crombie"],"edition_year":1869,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"ISA","chapter":48,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Isa. xlviii. 16","verse":16,"verse_end":16}],"headings":[],"id":"pg70561-f1193","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":"f1193","source_ebook":70561,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f1193\">\n<p class=\"c006\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r1193\">1193</a>. </span><abbr class=\"spell\">Cf.</abbr> <abbr title=\"Isaiah\">Isa.</abbr> <abbr title=\"forty-eight\">xlviii.</abbr> 16.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"de125e213d16053354f22b34a1c8d477ac23f201e660e4f4841b2ed7e05bb367","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/70561/pg70561-images.html#f1193","text_sha256":"5139200fefa620c18b2200bbff14313dd1eae86a3066c9ac46b5d9ed4a5c14ec","verified":false,"work_id":null}