{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c005\">18. And now, if we institute a similar examination with\r\nregard to the Gospels, how shall it appear otherwise than\r\nabsurd to take the injunction literally, “Salute no man by\r\nthe way?”<a id=\"r954\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f954\"><sup>[954]</sup></a> And yet there are simple individuals, who think\r\nthat our Saviour gave this command to His apostles! How,\r\nalso, can it appear possible for such an order as this to be\r\nobserved, especially in those countries where there is a rigorous\r\nwinter, attended by frost and ice, viz. that one should possess\r\n“neither two coats, nor shoes?”<a id=\"r955\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f955\"><sup>[955]</sup></a> And this, that when one\r\nis smitten on the right cheek, he is ordered to present the left\r\nalso, since every one who strikes with the <i>right</i> hand smites\r\nthe <i>left</i> cheek? This precept also in the Gospels must be\r\naccounted among impossibilities, viz. that if the right eye\r\n“offend” thee, it is to be plucked out; for even if we were\r\nto suppose that bodily eyes were spoken of, how shall it appear\r\nappropriate, that when both eyes have the property of sight,\r\nthe responsibility of the “offence” should be transferred to\r\none eye, and that the right one? Or who shall be considered\r\nfree of a crime of the greatest enormity, that lays hands upon\r\nhimself? But perhaps the epistles of the Apostle Paul will\r\nappear to be beyond this. For what is his meaning, when he\r\nsays, “Is any man called, being circumcised? Let him not\r\nbecome uncircumcised.”<a id=\"r956\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f956\"><sup>[956]</sup></a> This expression indeed, in the first\r\nplace, does not on careful consideration seem to be spoken\r\nwith reference to the subject of which he was treating at the\r\ntime, for this discourse consisted of injunctions relating to\r\nmarriage and to chastity; and these words, therefore, will\r\nhave the appearance of an unnecessary addition to such a\r\nsubject. In the second place, however, what objection would\r\nthere be, if, for the sake of avoiding that unseemliness which\r\nis caused by circumcision, a man were able to become uncircumcised?<a id=\"r957\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f957\"><sup>[957]</sup></a>\r\nAnd, in the third place, that is altogether\r\nimpossible.</p>","headings":["The Writings of Origen, Vol. 1 of 2","ORIGEN DE PRINCIPIIS.","BOOK IV.","FROM THE LATIN."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg70561-paragraph-322"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"a2c506cd1e95048eaec34ab918c9b72eb81bf51b76127c44c2ba8ac3fd25890e","edition_title":"The writings of Origen, Vol. 1 (of 2)","edition_translators":["Frederick Crombie"],"edition_year":1869,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"LUK","chapter":10,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Luke x. 4","verse":4,"verse_end":4}],"headings":[],"id":"pg70561-f954","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":"f954","source_ebook":70561,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f954\">\n<p class=\"c006\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r954\">954</a>. </span>Luke <abbr title=\"ten\">x.</abbr> 4.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"de125e213d16053354f22b34a1c8d477ac23f201e660e4f4841b2ed7e05bb367","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/70561/pg70561-images.html#f954","text_sha256":"2be2f9e57b76c6b60b06c8b62e1e4c214df614a8f272d91c8345f645a97f99e5","verified":false,"work_id":null}