{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c006\">Let us next notice the statements of Celsus, which follow\r\nthe preceding, and which are as follow: “As the Jews, then,\r\nbecame a peculiar people, and enacted laws in keeping with the\r\ncustoms of their country,<a id=\"r932\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f932\"><sup>[932]</sup></a> and maintain them up to the present\r\ntime, and observe a mode of worship which, whatever be its\r\nnature, is yet derived from their fathers, they act in these respects\r\nlike other men, because each nation retains its ancestral\r\ncustoms, whatever they are, if they happen to be established\r\namong them. And such an arrangement appears to be advantageous,\r\nnot only because it has occurred to the mind of other\r\nnations to decide some things differently, but also because it is\r\na duty to protect what has been established for the public advantage;\r\nand also because, in all probability, the various quarters\r\nof the earth were from the beginning allotted to different\r\nsuperintending spirits,<a id=\"r933\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f933\"><sup>[933]</sup></a> and were thus distributed among certain\r\ngoverning powers,<a id=\"r934\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f934\"><sup>[934]</sup></a> and in this manner the administration of the\r\nworld is carried on. And whatever is done among each nation\r\nin this way would be rightly done, wherever it was agreeable to\r\nthe wishes [of the superintending powers], while it would be an\r\nact of impiety to get rid of<a id=\"r935\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f935\"><sup>[935]</sup></a> the institutions established from the\r\nbeginning in the various places.” By these words Celsus shows\r\nthat the Jews, who were formerly Egyptians, subsequently\r\nbecame a “peculiar people,” and enacted laws which they carefully\r\npreserve. And not to repeat his statements, which have\r\nbeen already before us, he says that it is advantageous to the\r\nJews to observe their ancestral worship, as other nations carefully\r\nattend to theirs. And he further states a deeper reason\r\nwhy it is of advantage to the Jews to cultivate their ancestral\r\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_294\">294</span>customs, in hinting dimly that those to whom was allotted the\r\noffice of superintending the country which was being legislated\r\nfor, enacted the laws of each land in co-operation with its\r\nlegislators. He appears, then, to indicate that both the country\r\nof the Jews, and the nation which inhabits it, are superintended\r\nby one or more beings, who, whether they were one or more,\r\nco-operated with Moses, and enacted the laws of the Jews.</p>","headings":["The writings of Origen, Vol. 2 of 2","BOOK V.","Chapter XXV."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg70693-paragraph-352"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"ac7db6ee93f13b7c3eb3688e847d222aa57f9c2e6c10414cd46e86fc724f9fbc","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-f935","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":"f935","source_ebook":70693,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f935\">\n<p class=\"c007\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r935\">935</a>. </span><span lang=\"grc\">παραλύειν.</span></p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"76ed9a9fd752c1d5095189e38fe3dcbbea0fd23d6be719db17360e4da14552fa","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/70693/pg70693-images.html#f935","text_sha256":"773db4621ced00ee2aa9a6ed28e89902ed42dca12a8068951098a23c761826c9","verified":false,"work_id":null}