{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c006\">After these points, Celsus proceeds to bring against the\r\nGospel narrative a charge which is not to be lightly passed\r\nover, saying that “if Jesus desired to show that his power was\r\nreally divine, he ought to have appeared to those who had ill-treated\r\nhim, and to him who had condemned him, and to all men\r\nuniversally.” For it appears to us also to be true, according\r\nto the Gospel account, that He was not seen after His resurrection\r\nin the same manner as He used formerly to show Himself—publicly,\r\nand to all men. But it is recorded in the Acts,\r\nthat “being seen during forty days,” He expounded to His\r\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_66\">66</span>disciples “the things pertaining to the kingdom of God.”<a id=\"r178\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f178\"><sup>[178]</sup></a>\r\nAnd in the Gospels<a id=\"r179\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f179\"><sup>[179]</sup></a> it is not stated that He was always with\r\nthem; but that on one occasion He appeared in their midst,\r\nafter eight days, when the doors were shut, and on another in\r\nsome similar fashion. And Paul also, in the concluding portions\r\nof the first Epistle to the Corinthians, in reference to His\r\nnot having publicly appeared as He did in the period before\r\nHe suffered, writes as follows: “For I delivered unto you first\r\nof all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our\r\nsins according to the Scriptures; and that He was seen of\r\nCephas, then of the twelve: after that He was seen of above\r\nfive hundred brethren at once, of whom the greater part remain\r\nunto the present time, but some are fallen asleep. After that\r\nHe was seen of James, then of all the apostles. And last of\r\nall He was seen of me also, as of one born out of due time.”<a id=\"r180\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f180\"><sup>[180]</sup></a>\r\nI am of opinion now that the statements in this passage contain\r\nsome great and wonderful mysteries, which are beyond\r\nthe grasp not merely of the great multitude of ordinary believers,\r\nbut even of those who are far advanced [in Christian\r\nknowledge], and that in them the reason would be explained\r\nwhy He did not show Himself, after His resurrection from the\r\ndead, in the same manner as before that event. And in a\r\ntreatise of this nature, composed in answer to a work directed\r\nagainst the Christians and their faith, observe whether we are\r\nable to adduce a few rational arguments out of a greater\r\nnumber, and thus make an impression upon the hearers of this\r\napology.</p>","headings":["The writings of Origen, Vol. 2 of 2","BOOK II.","Chapter LXIII."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg70693-paragraph-110"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"a8e8796266cddb7e9260402f344dd0b2252499089b3886773417f1e20ce7d883","edition_title":"The writings of Origen, Vol. 2 (of 2)","edition_translators":["Frederick Crombie","W. H. Cairns"],"edition_year":1872,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"JHN","chapter":20,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"John xx. 26","verse":26,"verse_end":26}],"headings":[],"id":"pg70693-f179","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":"f179","source_ebook":70693,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f179\">\n<p class=\"c007\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r179\">179</a>. </span><abbr class=\"spell\">Cf.</abbr> John <abbr title=\"twenty\">xx.</abbr> 26.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"76ed9a9fd752c1d5095189e38fe3dcbbea0fd23d6be719db17360e4da14552fa","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/70693/pg70693-images.html#f179","text_sha256":"fcd79f4947629065a5b9ffb2929ccf305d7ce64de44616ccdb1c57ba018fe8c8","verified":false,"work_id":null}