{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c005\">Moreover, since he frequently calls the Christian doctrine\r\na secret system [of belief], we must confute him on this point\r\nalso, since almost the entire world is better acquainted with\r\nwhat Christians preach than with the favourite opinions of\r\nphilosophers. For who is ignorant of the statement that\r\nJesus was born of a virgin, and that He was crucified, and\r\nthat His resurrection is an article of faith among many, and\r\nthat a general judgment is announced to come, in which the\r\nwicked are to be punished according to their deserts, and the\r\nrighteous to be duly rewarded? And yet the mystery of\r\nthe resurrection, not being understood,<a id=\"r1145\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f1145\"><sup>[1145]</sup></a> is made a subject of\r\nridicule among unbelievers. In these circumstances, to speak\r\nof the Christian doctrine as a <i>secret</i> system, is altogether\r\nabsurd. But that there should be certain doctrines, not made\r\nknown to the multitude, which are [revealed] after the exoteric\r\nones have been taught, is not a peculiarity of Christianity\r\nalone, but also of philosophic systems, in which certain truths\r\nare exoteric and others esoteric. Some of the hearers of\r\nPythagoras were content with his <i>ipse dixit</i>; while others\r\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_404\">404</span>were taught in secret those doctrines which were not deemed\r\nfit to be communicated to profane and insufficiently prepared\r\nears. Moreover, all the mysteries that are celebrated everywhere\r\nthroughout Greece and barbarous countries, although\r\nheld in secret, have no discredit thrown upon them, so that\r\nit is in vain that he endeavours to calumniate the secret\r\ndoctrines of Christianity, seeing he does not correctly understand\r\nits nature.</p>","headings":["The Writings of Origen, Vol. 1 of 2","ORIGEN CONTRA CELSUM.","ORIGEN AGAINST CELSUS. BOOK I.","Chapter VII."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg70561-paragraph-405"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"92d453c3fe6f484c5062bacc016408023089cfc82d65822334ebc5e8e2a7353b","edition_title":"The writings of Origen, Vol. 1 (of 2)","edition_translators":["Frederick Crombie"],"edition_year":1869,"explicit_reference_candidates":[],"headings":[],"id":"pg70561-f1145","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 1869 English translation; translator died 1889. Electronic transcription subject to Project Gutenberg reuse terms.","source_anchor":"f1145","source_ebook":70561,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f1145\">\n<p class=\"c006\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r1145\">1145</a>. </span>The words, as they stand in the text of Lommatzsch, are, <span lang=\"grc\">ἀλλὰ καὶ\r\nμὴν νοηθὲν τὸ περὶ τῆς ἀναστάσεως μυστήριον</span>. Ruæus would read <span lang=\"grc\">μὴ</span>\r\ninstead of <span lang=\"grc\">μήν</span>. This emendation has been adopted in the translation.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"de125e213d16053354f22b34a1c8d477ac23f201e660e4f4841b2ed7e05bb367","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/70561/pg70561-images.html#f1145","text_sha256":"11391fc83ac4f02fd6f9bd51a20fc64d33130c7ccd574763c418b917cff6e409","verified":false,"work_id":null}