{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c006\">Celsus in the next place alleges, that “certain Christians,\r\nhaving misunderstood the words of Plato, loudly boast of a\r\n‘super-celestial’ God, thus ascending beyond the heaven of the\r\nJews.” By these words, indeed, he does not make it clear\r\nwhether they also ascend beyond the <i>God</i> of the Jews, or only\r\nbeyond the heaven by which they swear. It is not our purpose\r\nat present, however, to speak of those who acknowledge another\r\ngod than the one worshipped by the Jews, but to defend ourselves,\r\nand to show that it was impossible for the prophets of\r\nthe Jews, whose writings are reckoned among ours, to have\r\nborrowed anything from Plato, because they were older than\r\nhe. They did not then borrow from him the declaration, that\r\n“all things are around the King of all, and that all exist on\r\naccount of him;” for we have learned that nobler thoughts\r\nthan these have been uttered by the prophets, by Jesus Himself\r\nand His disciples, who have clearly indicated the meaning\r\nof the spirit that was in them, which was none other than the\r\nspirit of Christ. Nor was the philosopher the first to present\r\nto view the “super-celestial” place; for David long ago brought\r\nto view the profundity and multitude of the thoughts concerning\r\nGod entertained by those who have ascended above visible\r\nthings, when he said in the book of Psalms: “Praise God, ye\r\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_358\">358</span>heaven of heavens; and ye waters that be above the heavens,\r\nlet them praise the name of the Lord.”<a id=\"r1135\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f1135\"><sup>[1135]</sup></a> I do not, indeed, deny\r\nthat Plato learned from certain Hebrews the words quoted from\r\nthe <i>Phœdrus</i>, or even, as some have recorded, that he quoted\r\nthem from a perusal of our prophetic writings, when he said:\r\n“No poet here below has ever sung of the super-celestial place,\r\nor ever will sing in a becoming manner,” and so on. And in\r\nthe same passage is the following: “For the essence, which is\r\nboth colourless and formless, and which cannot be touched,\r\nwhich really exists, is the pilot of the soul, and is beheld by the\r\nunderstanding alone; and around it the genus of true knowledge\r\nholds this place.”<a id=\"r1136\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f1136\"><sup>[1136]</sup></a> Our Paul, moreover, educated by\r\nthese words, and longing after things “supra-mundane” and\r\n“super-celestial,” and doing his utmost for their sake to attain\r\nthem, says in the second Epistle to the Corinthians: “For our\r\nlight affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a\r\nfar more exceeding and eternal weight of glory; while we look\r\nnot at the things which are seen, but at the things which are\r\nnot seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but\r\nthe things which are unseen are eternal.”<a id=\"r1137\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f1137\"><sup>[1137]</sup></a></p>","headings":["The writings of Origen, Vol. 2 of 2","BOOK VI.","Chapter XIX."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg70693-paragraph-412"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"dbb3b76e8c0faba2bc092f8092f0154ad3a727e53c892da4b57cbce575a87020","edition_title":"The writings of Origen, Vol. 2 (of 2)","edition_translators":["Frederick Crombie","W. H. Cairns"],"edition_year":1872,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"2CO","chapter":4,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"2 Cor. iv. 17","verse":17,"verse_end":17}],"headings":[],"id":"pg70693-f1137","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":"f1137","source_ebook":70693,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f1137\">\n<p class=\"c007\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r1137\">1137</a>. </span><abbr class=\"spell\">Cf.</abbr> 2 <abbr title=\"Corinthians\">Cor.</abbr> <abbr title=\"four\">iv.</abbr> 17, 18.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"76ed9a9fd752c1d5095189e38fe3dcbbea0fd23d6be719db17360e4da14552fa","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/70693/pg70693-images.html#f1137","text_sha256":"ec25488aa155cf7cf2f2a7c8a4af1f23a6d5c62163331efaa54fce54b58567b4","verified":false,"work_id":null}