{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c006\">After the instance borrowed from the Mithraic mysteries,\r\nCelsus declares that he who would investigate the Christian\r\nmysteries, along with the aforesaid Persian, will, on comparing\r\nthe two together, and on unveiling the rites of the Christians,\r\nsee in this way the difference between them. Now, wherever he\r\nwas able to give the names of the various sects, he was nothing\r\nloth to quote those with which he thought himself acquainted;\r\nbut when he ought most of all to have done this, if they\r\nwere really known to him, and to have informed us which was\r\nthe sect that makes use of the diagram he has drawn, he has\r\nnot done so. It seems to me, however, that it is from some\r\nstatements of a very insignificant sect called Ophites, which he\r\nhas misunderstood, that, in my opinion, he has partly borrowed\r\nwhat he says about the diagram.<a id=\"r1160\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f1160\"><sup>[1160]</sup></a> Now, as we have always been\r\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_363\">363</span>animated by a love of learning,<a id=\"r1161\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f1161\"><sup>[1161]</sup></a> we have fallen in with this\r\ndiagram, and we have found in it the representations of men\r\nwho, as Paul says, “creep into houses, and lead captive silly\r\nwomen laden with sins, led away with divers lusts; ever learning,\r\nand never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.”<a id=\"r1162\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f1162\"><sup>[1162]</sup></a>\r\nThe diagram was, however, so destitute of all credibility, that\r\nneither these easily deceived women, nor the most rustic class of\r\nmen, nor those who were ready to be led away by any plausible\r\npretender whatever, ever gave their assent to the diagram. Nor,\r\nindeed, have we ever met any individual, although we have\r\nvisited many parts of the earth, and have sought out all those\r\nwho anywhere made profession of knowledge, that placed any\r\nfaith in this diagram.</p>","headings":["The writings of Origen, Vol. 2 of 2","BOOK VI.","Chapter XXIV."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg70693-paragraph-417"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"2e32ef9df4011df070969b84bf1efa78f60acda8971a295e2bf6431ea60611fd","edition_title":"The writings of Origen, Vol. 2 (of 2)","edition_translators":["Frederick Crombie","W. H. Cairns"],"edition_year":1872,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"2TI","chapter":3,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"2 Tim. iii. 6","verse":6,"verse_end":6}],"headings":[],"id":"pg70693-f1162","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":"f1162","source_ebook":70693,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f1162\">\n<p class=\"c007\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r1162\">1162</a>. </span><abbr class=\"spell\">Cf.</abbr> 2 <abbr title=\"Timothy\">Tim.</abbr> <abbr title=\"three\">iii.</abbr> 6, 7.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"76ed9a9fd752c1d5095189e38fe3dcbbea0fd23d6be719db17360e4da14552fa","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/70693/pg70693-images.html#f1162","text_sha256":"b92b32aac167c966a167b1088674fe5cf617813d5b30583435f20ad3a7dc91e6","verified":false,"work_id":null}