{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c006\">But as Celsus would compare the venerable customs of the\r\nJews with the laws of certain nations, let us proceed to look at\r\nthem. He is of opinion, accordingly, that there is no difference\r\nbetween the doctrine regarding “heaven” and that regarding\r\n“God;” and he says that “the Persians, like the Jews, offer\r\nsacrifices to Jupiter upon the tops of the mountains,”—not\r\nobserving that, as the Jews were acquainted with one God, so\r\nthey had only one holy house of prayer, and one altar of whole\r\nburnt-offerings, and one censer for incense, and one high priest\r\nof God. The Jews, then, had nothing in common with the\r\nPersians, who ascend the summits of their mountains, which are\r\nmany in number, and offer up sacrifices which have nothing\r\nin common with those which are regulated by the Mosaic code,—in\r\nconformity to which the Jewish priests “served unto the\r\nexample and shadow of heavenly things,” explaining enigmatically\r\nthe object of the law regarding the sacrifices, and the\r\nthings of which these sacrifices were the symbols. The Persians\r\ntherefore may call the “whole circle of heaven” Jupiter;\r\nbut we maintain that “the heaven” is neither Jupiter nor God,\r\nas we indeed know that certain beings of a class inferior to\r\nGod have ascended above the heavens and all visible nature:\r\nand in this sense we understand the words, “Praise God, ye\r\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_315\">315</span>heaven of heavens, and ye waters that be above the heavens;\r\nlet them praise the name of the Lord.”<a id=\"r986\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f986\"><sup>[986]</sup></a></p>","headings":["The writings of Origen, Vol. 2 of 2","BOOK V.","Chapter XLIV."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg70693-paragraph-371"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"a0388fc3ddd275985b4d28fcdab1d87088ebe2a68c885d0335e937d1401cb3c1","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":148,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Ps. cxlviii. 4","verse":4,"verse_end":4}],"headings":[],"id":"pg70693-f986","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":"f986","source_ebook":70693,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f986\">\n<p class=\"c007\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r986\">986</a>. </span><abbr class=\"spell\">Cf.</abbr> <abbr title=\"Psalms\">Ps.</abbr> <abbr title=\"a hundred and forty-eight\">cxlviii.</abbr> 4, 5.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"76ed9a9fd752c1d5095189e38fe3dcbbea0fd23d6be719db17360e4da14552fa","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/70693/pg70693-images.html#f986","text_sha256":"85740e0aec63ddac1d6a9e4ef3e428101760f559ff9d38e715ef8d68a8079a39","verified":false,"work_id":null}