{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c006\">But let it be granted that Jesus observed all the Jewish\r\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_8\">8</span>usages, including even their sacrificial observances, what does\r\nthat avail to prevent our recognising Him as the Son of God?\r\nJesus, then, is the Son of God, who gave the law and the prophets;\r\nand we, who belong to the church, do not transgress the\r\nlaw, but have escaped the mythologizings<a id=\"r50\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f50\"><sup>[50]</sup></a> of the Jews, and\r\nhave our minds chastened and educated by the mystical contemplation\r\nof the law and the prophets. For the prophets\r\nthemselves, as not resting the sense of these words in the plain\r\nhistory which they relate, nor in the legal enactments taken\r\naccording to the word and letter, express themselves somewhere,\r\nwhen about to relate histories, in words like this, “I will open\r\nmy mouth in parables, I will utter hard sayings of old;”<a id=\"r51\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f51\"><sup>[51]</sup></a> and\r\nin another place, when offering up a prayer regarding the law\r\nas being obscure, and needing divine help for its comprehension,\r\nthey offer up this prayer, “Open Thou mine eyes, that I may\r\nbehold wondrous things out of Thy law.”<a id=\"r52\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f52\"><sup>[52]</sup></a></p>","headings":["The writings of Origen, Vol. 2 of 2","BOOK II.","Chapter VI."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg70693-paragraph-45"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"76de7f262406d43efdfc296d3ced4e8f69de1c0e01f7f315a90f32dab09ac925","edition_title":"The writings of Origen, Vol. 2 (of 2)","edition_translators":["Frederick Crombie","W. H. Cairns"],"edition_year":1872,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"PSA","chapter":119,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Ps. cxix. 18","verse":18,"verse_end":18}],"headings":[],"id":"pg70693-f52","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":"f52","source_ebook":70693,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f52\">\n<p class=\"c007\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r52\">52</a>. </span><abbr title=\"Psalms\">Ps.</abbr> <abbr title=\"a hundred and nineteen\">cxix.</abbr> 18.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"76ed9a9fd752c1d5095189e38fe3dcbbea0fd23d6be719db17360e4da14552fa","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/70693/pg70693-images.html#f52","text_sha256":"ef76e5a9a8dc96adbf5e4a4abd0861483588e6beb7ed5717409c0687a32fa98a","verified":false,"work_id":null}