{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c006\">In beginning this our sixth book, we desire, my\r\nreverend Ambrosius, to answer in it those accusations\r\nwhich Celsus brings against the <i>Christians</i>,\r\nnot, as might be supposed, those objections which\r\nhe has adduced from <i>writers on philosophy</i>. For he has quoted\r\na considerable number of passages, chiefly from Plato, and has\r\nplaced alongside of these such declarations of Holy Scripture\r\nas are fitted to impress even the intelligent mind; subjoining\r\nthe assertion, that “these things are stated much better among\r\nthe Greeks [than in the Scriptures], and in a manner which is\r\nfree from all exaggerations<a id=\"r1035\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f1035\"><sup>[1035]</sup></a> and promises on the part of God,\r\nor the Son of God.” Now we maintain, that if it is the\r\nobject of the ambassadors of the truth to confer benefits upon\r\nthe greatest possible number, and, so far as they can, to win\r\nover to its side, through their love to men, every one without\r\nexception—intelligent as well as simple—not Greeks only, but\r\nalso barbarians (and great, indeed, is the humanity which should\r\nsucceed in converting the rustic and the ignorant<a id=\"r1036\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f1036\"><sup>[1036]</sup></a>), it is manifest\r\nthat they must adopt a style of address fitted to do good\r\nto all, and to gain over to them men of every sort. Those, on\r\nthe other hand, who turn away<a id=\"r1037\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f1037\"><sup>[1037]</sup></a> from the ignorant as being\r\nmere slaves,<a id=\"r1038\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f1038\"><sup>[1038]</sup></a> and unable to understand the flowing periods of a\r\npolished and logical discourse, and so devote their attention solely\r\nto such as have been brought up amongst literary pursuits,<a id=\"r1039\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f1039\"><sup>[1039]</sup></a>\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_337\">337</span>confine their views of the public good within very strait and\r\nnarrow limits.</p>","headings":["The writings of Origen, Vol. 2 of 2","BOOK VI.","Chapter I."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg70693-paragraph-394"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"27984de0a19ff4cf8880cf094c40840b1f5d8d87495af1428861e09dbed5e823","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-f1036","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":"f1036","source_ebook":70693,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f1036\">\n<p class=\"c007\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r1036\">1036</a>. </span><span lang=\"grc\">πολὺ δὲ τὸ ἥμερον ἐὰν ... οἷος τέ τις γένηται ἐπιστρέφειν.</span></p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"76ed9a9fd752c1d5095189e38fe3dcbbea0fd23d6be719db17360e4da14552fa","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/70693/pg70693-images.html#f1036","text_sha256":"5ed94a2e589830f52f65e97fed45695545a5322b89d23d4ba98cb761ca2b2a06","verified":false,"work_id":null}