{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c006\">After this, wishing to prove that the occurrences which befell\r\nHim were painful and distressing, and that it was impossible for\r\nHim, had He wished, to render them otherwise, he proceeds:\r\n“Why does he mourn, and lament, and pray to escape the fear\r\nof death, expressing himself in terms like these: ‘O Father, if\r\nit be possible, let this cup pass from me?’”<a id=\"r100\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f100\"><sup>[100]</sup></a> Now in these\r\nwords observe the malignity of Celsus, how not accepting the\r\nlove of truth which actuates the writers of the Gospels (who\r\nmight have passed over in silence those points which, as Celsus\r\nthinks, are censurable, but who did not omit them for many\r\nreasons, which any one, in expounding the Gospel, can give in\r\ntheir proper place), he brings an accusation against the Gospel\r\nstatement, grossly exaggerating the facts, and quoting what is\r\nnot written in the Gospels, seeing it is nowhere found that\r\nJesus lamented. And he changes the words in the expression,\r\n“Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me,” and does\r\nnot give what follows immediately after, which manifests at\r\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_31\">31</span>once the ready obedience of Jesus to His Father, and His\r\ngreatness of mind, and which runs thus: “Nevertheless, not as\r\nI will, but as Thou wilt.”<a id=\"r101\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f101\"><sup>[101]</sup></a> Nay, even the cheerful obedience\r\nof Jesus to the will of His Father in those things which He\r\nwas condemned to suffer, exhibited in the declaration, “If this\r\ncup cannot pass from me except I drink it, Thy will be done,”\r\nhe pretends not to have observed, acting here like those wicked\r\nindividuals who listen to the Holy Scriptures in a malignant\r\nspirit, and “who talk wickedness with lofty head.” For they\r\nappear to have heard the declaration, “I kill,”<a id=\"r102\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f102\"><sup>[102]</sup></a> and they often\r\nmake it to us a subject of reproach; but the words, “I will\r\nmake alive,” they do not remember,—the whole sentence showing\r\nthat those who live amid public wickedness, and who work\r\nwickedly, are put to death by God, and that a better life is\r\ninfused into them instead, even one which God will give to\r\nthose who have died to sin. And so also these men have heard\r\nthe words, “I will smite;” but they do not see these, “and I\r\nwill heal,” which are like the words of a physician, who cuts\r\nbodies asunder, and inflicts severe wounds, in order to extract\r\nfrom them substances that are injurious and prejudicial to\r\nhealth, and who does not terminate his work with pains and\r\nlacerations, but by his treatment restores the body to that state\r\nof soundness which he has in view. Moreover, they have not\r\nheard the whole of the announcement, “For He maketh sore,\r\nand again bindeth up;” but only this part, “He maketh sore.”\r\nSo in like manner acts this Jew of Celsus, who quotes the\r\nwords, “O Father, would that this cup might pass from me;”\r\nbut who does not add what follows, and which exhibits the\r\nfirmness of Jesus, and His preparedness for suffering. But\r\nthese matters, which afford great room for explanation from\r\nthe wisdom of God, and which may reasonably be pondered\r\nover<a id=\"r103\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f103\"><sup>[103]</sup></a> by those whom Paul calls “perfect” when he said, “We\r\nspeak wisdom among them who are perfect,”<a id=\"r104\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f104\"><sup>[104]</sup></a> we pass by for\r\nthe present, and shall speak for a little of those matters which\r\nare useful for our present purpose.</p>","headings":["The writings of Origen, Vol. 2 of 2","BOOK II.","Chapter XXIV."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg70693-paragraph-67"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"1fae015db206de47b70ca1dd7ad1de76a9697806b48cd875df194070c43cd4fe","edition_title":"The writings of Origen, Vol. 2 (of 2)","edition_translators":["Frederick Crombie","W. H. 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