{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c006\">Again Celsus proceeds: “If you should tell them that Jesus\r\nis not the Son of God, but that God is the Father of all, and\r\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_502\">502</span>that He alone ought to be truly worshipped, they would not\r\nconsent to discontinue their worship of him who is their leader\r\nin the sedition. And they call him Son of God, not out of\r\nany extreme reverence for God, but from an extreme desire to\r\nextol Jesus Christ.” We, however, have learned who the Son\r\nof God is, and know that He is “the brightness of His glory,\r\nand the express image of His person,” and “the breath of the\r\npower of God, and a pure influence flowing from the glory of\r\nthe Almighty;” moreover, “the brightness of the everlasting\r\nlight, the unspotted mirror of the power of God, and the image\r\nof His goodness.”<a id=\"r1589\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f1589\"><sup>[1589]</sup></a> We know, therefore, that He is the Son of\r\nGod, and that God is His Father. And there is nothing extravagant\r\nor unbecoming the character of God in the doctrine\r\nthat He should have begotten such an only Son; and no one\r\nwill persuade us that such a one is not a Son of the unbegotten\r\nGod and Father. If Celsus has heard something of\r\ncertain persons holding that the Son of God is not the Son of\r\nthe Creator of the universe, that is a matter which lies between\r\nhim and the supporters of such an opinion. Jesus is, then,\r\nnot the leader of any seditious movement, but the promoter of\r\npeace. For He said to His disciples, “Peace I leave with you,\r\nmy peace I give unto you;” and as He knew that it would be\r\nmen of the world, and not men of God, who would wage war\r\nagainst us, he added, “Not as the world giveth peace, do I give\r\npeace unto you.”<a id=\"r1590\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f1590\"><sup>[1590]</sup></a> And even although we are oppressed in the\r\nworld, we have confidence in Him who said, “In the world ye\r\nshall have tribulation; but be of good cheer, I have overcome\r\nthe world.” And it is He whom we call Son of God—Son of\r\nthat God, namely, whom, to quote the words of Celsus, “we\r\nmost highly reverence;” and He is the Son who has been most\r\nhighly exalted by the Father. Grant that there may be some\r\nindividuals among the multitudes of believers who are not in\r\nentire agreement with us, and who incautiously assert that the\r\nSaviour is the Most High God; however, we do not hold with\r\nthem, but rather believe Him when He says, “The Father who\r\nsent me is greater than I.”<a id=\"r1591\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f1591\"><sup>[1591]</sup></a> We would not therefore make\r\nHim whom we call Father inferior—as Celsus accuses us of\r\ndoing—to the Son of God.</p>","headings":["The writings of Origen, Vol. 2 of 2","BOOK VIII.","Chapter XIV."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg70693-paragraph-561"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"f03af63327a90af725f1c8d7af201efb6b440b64bef16d175b9992dd5167bc15","edition_title":"The writings of Origen, Vol. 2 (of 2)","edition_translators":["Frederick Crombie","W. H. Cairns"],"edition_year":1872,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"JHN","chapter":14,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"John xiv. 27","verse":27,"verse_end":27}],"headings":[],"id":"pg70693-f1590","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":"f1590","source_ebook":70693,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f1590\">\n<p class=\"c007\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r1590\">1590</a>. </span>John <abbr title=\"fourteen\">xiv.</abbr> 27.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"76ed9a9fd752c1d5095189e38fe3dcbbea0fd23d6be719db17360e4da14552fa","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/70693/pg70693-images.html#f1590","text_sha256":"e4dae88f0aa5634e22779e18c620d7b70881ff8634bb923823cbb95361a8c605","verified":false,"work_id":null}