{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c006\">And how can the following assertion of this Jew of Celsus\r\nappear anything else than a manifest falsehood, viz. that Jesus\r\n“having gained over no one during his life, not even his own\r\ndisciples, underwent these punishments and sufferings?” For\r\nfrom what other source sprang the envy which was aroused\r\nagainst Him by the Jewish high priests, and elders, and scribes,\r\nsave from the fact that multitudes obeyed and followed Him,\r\nand were led into the deserts not only by the persuasive<a id=\"r125\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f125\"><sup>[125]</sup></a> language\r\nof Him whose words were always appropriate to His\r\nhearers, but who also by His miracles made an impression on\r\nthose who were not moved to belief by His words? And is it\r\nnot a manifest falsehood to say that “he did not gain over even\r\nhis own disciples,” who exhibited, indeed, at that time some\r\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_43\">43</span>symptoms of human weakness arising from cowardly fear—for\r\nthey had not yet been disciplined to the exhibition of full\r\ncourage—but who by no means abandoned the judgments\r\nwhich they had formed regarding Him as the Christ? For\r\nPeter, after his denial, perceiving to what a depth of wickedness\r\nhe had fallen, “went out and wept bitterly;” while the\r\nothers, although stricken with dismay on account of what had\r\nhappened to Jesus (for they still continued to admire Him),\r\nhad, by His glorious appearance,<a id=\"r126\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f126\"><sup>[126]</sup></a> their belief more firmly\r\nestablished than before that He was the Son of God.</p>","headings":["The writings of Origen, Vol. 2 of 2","BOOK II.","Chapter XXXIX."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg70693-paragraph-83"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"201d85bd75aab3e02ad2e77a2d4c21e05c723f0cf22d872f8c8b0cadfd71c701","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-f126","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":"f126","source_ebook":70693,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f126\">\n<p class=\"c007\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r126\">126</a>. </span><span lang=\"grc\">ἐπιφανείας.</span></p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"76ed9a9fd752c1d5095189e38fe3dcbbea0fd23d6be719db17360e4da14552fa","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/70693/pg70693-images.html#f126","text_sha256":"455203765ec9f0d990d20f560be2523a26524741627cc8297147473d1199efbe","verified":false,"work_id":null}