{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c006\">Accordingly, let us pass on to another charge made by\r\nCelsus, who is not even acquainted with the words [of our\r\nsacred books], but who, from misunderstanding them, has said\r\nthat “we declare the wisdom that is among men to be foolishness\r\nwith God;” Paul having said that “the wisdom of the\r\n<i>world</i> is foolishness with God.”<a id=\"r1092\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f1092\"><sup>[1092]</sup></a> Celsus says that “the reason\r\nof this has been stated long ago.” And the reason he imagines\r\nto be, “our desire to win over by means of this saying the\r\nignorant and foolish alone.” But, as he himself has intimated,\r\nhe has said the same thing before; and we, to the best of our\r\nability, replied to it. Notwithstanding this, however, he wished\r\nto show that this statement was an invention<a id=\"r1093\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f1093\"><sup>[1093]</sup></a> of ours, and\r\nborrowed from the Grecian sages, who declare that human\r\nwisdom is of one kind, and divine of another. And he quotes\r\nthe words of Heraclitus, where he says in one passage, that\r\n“man’s method of action is not regulated by fixed principles,\r\nbut that of God is;”<a id=\"r1094\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f1094\"><sup>[1094]</sup></a> and in another, that “a foolish man\r\nlistens to a demon, as a boy does to a man.” He quotes, moreover,\r\nthe following from the <i>Apology of Socrates</i>, of which\r\nPlato was the author: “For I, O men of Athens, have obtained\r\nthis name by no other means than by my wisdom. And of\r\nwhat sort is this wisdom? Such, probably, as is human; for\r\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_350\">350</span>in that respect I venture to think that I am in reality wise.”<a id=\"r1095\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f1095\"><sup>[1095]</sup></a>\r\nSuch are the passages adduced by Celsus. But I shall subjoin\r\nalso the following from Plato’s letter to Hermeas, and Erastus,\r\nand Coriscus: “To Erastus and Coriscus I say, although I\r\nam an old man, that, in addition to this noble knowledge of\r\n‘forms’ [which they possess], they need a wisdom, with regard\r\nto the class of wicked and unjust persons, which may serve as\r\na protective and repelling force against them. For they are\r\ninexperienced, in consequence of having passed a large portion\r\nof their lives with us, who are moderate<a id=\"r1096\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f1096\"><sup>[1096]</sup></a> individuals, and not\r\nwicked. I have accordingly said that they need these things,\r\nin order that they may not be compelled to neglect the true\r\nwisdom, and to apply themselves in a greater degree than is\r\nproper to that which is necessary and human.”</p>","headings":["The writings of Origen, Vol. 2 of 2","BOOK VI.","Chapter XII."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg70693-paragraph-405"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"7e604906c4291779331a740aeeb3ced5477539fce84b1a4b3e55431be57bef54","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-f1095","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":"f1095","source_ebook":70693,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f1095\">\n<p class=\"c007\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r1095\">1095</a>. </span><abbr class=\"spell\">Cf.</abbr> Plato’s <abbr title=\"Apology\"><i>Apolog.</i></abbr></p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"76ed9a9fd752c1d5095189e38fe3dcbbea0fd23d6be719db17360e4da14552fa","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/70693/pg70693-images.html#f1095","text_sha256":"92cf90db293391c97190be38a133334e4a8a79f74944bee05509443d2716369f","verified":false,"work_id":null}