{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c006\">After the above remarks he proceeds as follows: “Let no\r\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_331\">331</span>one suppose that I am ignorant that some of them will concede\r\nthat their God is the same as that of the Jews, while others\r\nwill maintain that he is a different one, to whom the latter is\r\nin opposition, and that it was from the former that the Son\r\ncame.” Now, if he imagine that the existence of numerous\r\nheresies among the Christians is a ground of accusation against\r\nChristianity, why, in a similar way, should it not be a ground\r\nof accusation against philosophy, that the various sects of philosophers\r\ndiffer from each other, not on small and indifferent\r\npoints, but upon those of the highest importance? Nay,\r\nmedicine also ought to be a subject of attack, on account of\r\nits many conflicting schools. Let it be admitted, then, that\r\nthere are amongst us some who deny that our God is the same\r\nas that of the Jews: nevertheless, on that account those are not\r\nto be blamed who prove from the same Scriptures that one and\r\nthe same Deity is the God of the Jews and of the Gentiles\r\nalike, as Paul, too, distinctly says, who was a convert from\r\nJudaism to Christianity, “I thank my God, whom I serve from\r\nmy forefathers with a pure conscience.”<a id=\"r1022\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f1022\"><sup>[1022]</sup></a> And let it be\r\nadmitted also, that there is a third class who call certain persons\r\n“carnal,” and others “spiritual” (I think he here means\r\nthe followers of Valentinus): yet what does this avail against\r\nus, who belong to the church, and who make it an accusation\r\nagainst such as hold that certain natures are saved, and that\r\nothers perish in consequence of their natural constitution?<a id=\"r1023\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f1023\"><sup>[1023]</sup></a>\r\nAnd let it be admitted further, that there are some who give\r\nthemselves out as Gnostics, in the same way as those Epicureans\r\nwho call themselves philosophers: yet neither will they\r\nwho annihilate the doctrine of providence be deemed true\r\nphilosophers, nor those true Christians who introduce monstrous\r\ninventions, which are disapproved of by those who are the disciples\r\nof Jesus. Let it be admitted, moreover, that there are\r\nsome who accept Jesus, and who boast on that account of being\r\nChristians, and yet would regulate their lives, like the Jewish\r\nmultitude, in accordance with the Jewish law,—and these are\r\nthe twofold sect of Ebionites, who either acknowledge with us\r\nthat Jesus was born of a virgin, or deny this, and maintain\r\nthat He was begotten like other human beings,—what does\r\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_332\">332</span>that avail by way of charge against such as belong to the\r\nchurch, and whom Celsus has styled “those of the multitude?”<a id=\"r1024\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f1024\"><sup>[1024]</sup></a>\r\nHe adds, also, that certain of the Christians are\r\nbelievers in the Sibyl,<a id=\"r1025\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f1025\"><sup>[1025]</sup></a> having probably misunderstood some\r\nwho blamed such as believed in the existence of a prophetic\r\nSibyl, and termed those who held this belief Sibyllists.</p>","headings":["The writings of Origen, Vol. 2 of 2","BOOK V.","Chapter LXI."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg70693-paragraph-389"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"3ff2f4f8a40ea1b048f3595a6236ed25d794863df0107c364c7248529ee5ba46","edition_title":"The writings of Origen, Vol. 2 (of 2)","edition_translators":["Frederick Crombie","W. 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