{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c006\">But as Celsus delights to heap up calumnies against us, and,\r\nin addition to those which he has already uttered, has added\r\nothers, let us examine these also, and see whether it be the\r\nChristians or Celsus who have reason to be ashamed of what is\r\nsaid. He asserts, “We see, indeed, in private houses workers\r\nin wool and leather, and fullers, and persons of the most\r\nuninstructed and rustic character, not venturing to utter a\r\nword in the presence of their elders and wiser masters;<a id=\"r409\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f409\"><sup>[409]</sup></a> but\r\nwhen they get hold of the children privately, and certain\r\nwomen as ignorant as themselves, they pour forth wonderful\r\nstatements, to the effect that they ought not to give heed to\r\ntheir father and to their teachers, but should obey them; that\r\nthe former are foolish and stupid, and neither know nor can\r\nperform anything that is really good, being preoccupied with\r\nempty trifles; that <i>they</i> alone know how men ought to live,\r\nand that, if the children obey them, they will both be happy\r\nthemselves, and will make their home happy also. And while\r\nthus speaking, if they see one of the instructors of youth\r\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_136\">136</span>approaching, or one of the more intelligent class, or even the\r\nfather himself, the more timid among them become afraid,\r\nwhile the more forward incite the children to throw off the\r\nyoke, whispering that in the presence of father and teachers\r\nthey neither will nor can explain to them any good thing,\r\nseeing they turn away with aversion from the silliness and\r\nstupidity of such persons as being altogether corrupt, and far\r\nadvanced in wickedness, and such as would inflict punishment\r\nupon them; but that if they wish [to avail themselves of their\r\naid,] they must leave their father and their instructors, and go\r\nwith the women and their playfellows to the women’s apartments,\r\nor to the leather shop, or to the fuller’s shop, that they\r\nmay attain to perfection;—and by words like these they gain\r\nthem over.”</p>","headings":["The writings of Origen, Vol. 2 of 2","BOOK III.","Chapter LV."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg70693-paragraph-191"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"812eeccd9180311a4095771e9935cffb026f02d34073d6243cf860b6d998e096","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-f409","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":"f409","source_ebook":70693,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f409\">\n<p class=\"c007\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r409\">409</a>. </span>The allusion is to the practice of wealthy Greeks and Romans having\r\namong their slaves artificers of various kinds, for whose service there was\r\nconstant demand in the houses and villas of the rich, and who therefore\r\nhad their residence in or near the dwelling of their master. Many of these\r\nartificers seem, from the language of Celsus, to have been converts to\r\nChristianity.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"76ed9a9fd752c1d5095189e38fe3dcbbea0fd23d6be719db17360e4da14552fa","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/70693/pg70693-images.html#f409","text_sha256":"cd9da99412378280507d1f02416477d6c6655ac8e72f32475f65688e813dffd2","verified":false,"work_id":null}