{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c005\">After this, Celsus next asserts that “Those herdsmen and\r\nshepherds who followed Moses as their leader, had their\r\nminds deluded by vulgar deceits, and so supposed that there\r\nwas one God.” Let him show, then, how, after this irrational\r\ndeparture, as he regards it, of the herdsmen and shepherds\r\nfrom the worship of many gods, he himself is able to establish\r\nthe multiplicity of deities that are found amongst the Greeks,\r\nor among those other nations that are called Barbarian.\r\nLet him establish, therefore, the existence of Mnemosyne,\r\nthe mother of the Muses by Zeus; or of Themis, the parent\r\nof the Hours; or let him prove that the ever naked Graces\r\ncan have a real, substantial existence. But he will not be\r\nable to show, from any actions of theirs, that these fictitious\r\nrepresentations<a id=\"r1163\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f1163\"><sup>[1163]</sup></a> of the Greeks, which have the appearance of\r\nbeing invested with bodies, are [really] gods. And why should\r\nthe fables of the Greeks regarding the gods be true, any more\r\nthan those of the Egyptians for example, who in their language\r\nknow nothing of a Mnemosyne, mother of the nine\r\nMuses; nor of a Themis, parent of the Hours; nor of a\r\nEuphrosyne, one of the Graces; nor of any other of these\r\nnames? How much more manifest (and how much better\r\nthan all these inventions!) is it that, convinced by what we\r\nsee, in the admirable order of the world, we should worship the\r\nMaker of it as the one Author of one effect, and which, as being\r\nwholly in harmony with itself, cannot on that account have\r\nbeen the work of many makers; and that we should believe that\r\nthe whole heaven is not held together by the movements of\r\nmany souls, for one is enough, which bears the whole of the\r\nnon-wandering<a id=\"r1164\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f1164\"><sup>[1164]</sup></a> sphere from east to west, and embraces\r\nwithin it all things which the world requires, and which are\r\nnot self-existing! For all are parts of the world, while God\r\nis no part of the whole. But God cannot be imperfect, as a\r\npart is imperfect. And perhaps profounder consideration\r\nwill show, that as God is not a part, so neither is He properly\r\nthe whole, since the whole is composed of parts; and\r\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_421\">421</span>reason will not allow us to believe that the God who is over\r\nall is composed of parts, each one of which cannot do what\r\nall the other parts can.</p>","headings":["The Writings of Origen, Vol. 1 of 2","ORIGEN CONTRA CELSUM.","ORIGEN AGAINST CELSUS. BOOK I.","Chapter XXIII."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg70561-paragraph-421"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"e49c75cc0c4f007e5a62c9afd9f4f81b287b388be468104ee2952a17fad7c496","edition_title":"The writings of Origen, Vol. 1 (of 2)","edition_translators":["Frederick Crombie"],"edition_year":1869,"explicit_reference_candidates":[],"headings":[],"id":"pg70561-f1164","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 1869 English translation; translator died 1889. Electronic transcription subject to Project Gutenberg reuse terms.","source_anchor":"f1164","source_ebook":70561,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f1164\">\n<p class=\"c006\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r1164\">1164</a>. </span><span lang=\"grc\">τὴν ἀπλανῆ.</span></p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"de125e213d16053354f22b34a1c8d477ac23f201e660e4f4841b2ed7e05bb367","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/70561/pg70561-images.html#f1164","text_sha256":"b692a0db8bd492394138801e503d92c6a00c654e9f90b67f4c7a209ef00b52e3","verified":false,"work_id":null}