{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c006\">But what need is there to quote any more passages against\r\nCelsus, in order to prove that his words contain nothing which\r\nwas not said long before among ourselves, since that has been\r\nsufficiently established by what we have said? It seems that\r\nwhat follows has some reference to this: “If you think that a\r\nDivine Spirit has descended from God to announce divine things\r\nto men, it is doubtless this same Spirit that reveals these truths;\r\nand it was under the same influence that men of old made\r\nknown many important truths.” But he does not know how\r\ngreat is the difference between those things and the clear and\r\ncertain teaching of those who say to us, “Thine incorruptible\r\nspirit is in all things, wherefore God chasteneth them by little and\r\nlittle that offend;”<a id=\"r1539\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f1539\"><sup>[1539]</sup></a> and of those who, among their other instructions,\r\nteach us that the words, “Receive ye the Holy Ghost,”<a id=\"r1540\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f1540\"><sup>[1540]</sup></a>\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_474\">474</span>refer to a degree of spiritual influence higher than that in the\r\npassage, “Ye shall be baptized with the Holy Ghost not many\r\ndays hence.”<a id=\"r1541\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f1541\"><sup>[1541]</sup></a> But it is a difficult matter, even after much careful\r\nconsideration, to perceive the difference between those who\r\nhave received a knowledge of the truth and a notion of God at\r\ndifferent intervals and for short periods of time, and those who\r\nare more fully inspired by God, who have constant communion\r\nwith Him, and are always led by His Spirit. Had Celsus set\r\nhimself to understand this, he would not have reproached us\r\nwith ignorance, or forbidden us to characterize as “blind” those\r\nwho believe that religion shows itself in such products of man’s\r\nmechanical art as images. For every one who sees with the eyes\r\nof his soul serves the Divine Being in no other way than in that\r\nwhich leads him ever to have regard to the Creator of all, to\r\naddress his prayers to Him alone, and to do all things as in the\r\nsight of God, who sees us altogether, even to our thoughts. Our\r\nearnest desire then is both to see for ourselves, and to be leaders\r\nof the blind, to bring them to the Word of God, that He may\r\ntake away from their minds the blindness of ignorance. And\r\nif our actions are worthy of Him who taught His disciples, “Ye\r\nare the light of the world,”<a id=\"r1542\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f1542\"><sup>[1542]</sup></a> and of the Word, who says, “The\r\nlight shineth in darkness,”<a id=\"r1543\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f1543\"><sup>[1543]</sup></a> then we shall be light to those who\r\nare in darkness; we shall give wisdom to those who are without\r\nit, and we shall instruct the ignorant.</p>","headings":["The writings of Origen, Vol. 2 of 2","BOOK VII.","Chapter LI."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg70693-paragraph-528"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"185ffdb94cb3fb1847587c2beda88108a4be727f1118eb645bf6ceeb23754347","edition_title":"The writings of Origen, Vol. 2 (of 2)","edition_translators":["Frederick Crombie","W. H. Cairns"],"edition_year":1872,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"MAT","chapter":5,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Matt. v. 14","verse":14,"verse_end":14}],"headings":[],"id":"pg70693-f1542","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":"f1542","source_ebook":70693,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f1542\">\n<p class=\"c007\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r1542\">1542</a>. </span><abbr title=\"Matthew\">Matt.</abbr> <abbr title=\"five\">v.</abbr> 14.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"76ed9a9fd752c1d5095189e38fe3dcbbea0fd23d6be719db17360e4da14552fa","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/70693/pg70693-images.html#f1542","text_sha256":"a7af3ee4fc95ce3d86d614884cca404a6056b36c83d12a84c31bd51f3a17365e","verified":false,"work_id":null}