{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c006\">In the next place, ridiculing after his usual style the race\r\nof Jews and Christians, he compares them all “to a flight of\r\nbats or to a swarm of ants issuing out of their nest, or to frogs\r\nholding council in a marsh, or to worms crawling together in\r\nthe corner of a dunghill, and quarrelling with one another as\r\nto which of them were the greater sinners, and asserting that\r\nGod shows and announces to us all things beforehand; and\r\nthat, abandoning the whole world, and the regions of heaven,<a id=\"r554\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f554\"><sup>[554]</sup></a>\r\nand this great earth, he becomes a citizen<a id=\"r555\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f555\"><sup>[555]</sup></a> among us alone, and\r\nto us alone makes his intimations, and does not cease sending\r\nand inquiring, in what way we may be associated with him for\r\never.” And in his fictitious representation, he compares us to\r\n“worms which assert that there is a God, and that immediately\r\nafter him, we who are made by him are altogether like unto\r\nGod, and that all things have been made subject to us,—earth,\r\nand water, and air, and stars,—and that all things exist for our\r\nsake, and are ordained to be subject to us.” And, according to\r\nhis representation, the worms—that is, we ourselves—say that\r\n“now, since certain amongst us commit sin, God will come or\r\nwill send his Son to consume the wicked with fire, that the\r\nrest of us may have eternal life with him.” And to all this\r\nhe subjoins the remark, that “such wranglings would be more\r\nendurable amongst worms and frogs than betwixt Jews and\r\nChristians.”</p>","headings":["The writings of Origen, Vol. 2 of 2","BOOK IV.","Chapter XXIII."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg70693-paragraph-242"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"111bd55a39bf478fba601300ab047afe5d4f5cf44f5b1b333f9e0544fe54c74b","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-f554","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":"f554","source_ebook":70693,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f554\">\n<p class=\"c007\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r554\">554</a>. </span><span lang=\"grc\">τὴν οὐράνιον φορὰν.</span></p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"76ed9a9fd752c1d5095189e38fe3dcbbea0fd23d6be719db17360e4da14552fa","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/70693/pg70693-images.html#f554","text_sha256":"1b739718037d82f5eb207e947b7490181721ee39b68a66b59a0e240a148c5834","verified":false,"work_id":null}