{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c005\">But it was, as the prophets also predicted, from a virgin\r\nthat there was to be born, according to the promised sign,\r\none who was to give His name to the fact, showing that at\r\nHis birth God was to be with man. Now it seems to me\r\nappropriate to the character of a Jew to have quoted the\r\nprophecy of Isaiah, which says that Emmanuel was to be born\r\nof a virgin. This, however, Celsus, who professes to know\r\neverything, has not done, either from ignorance or from an\r\nunwillingness (if he had read it and voluntarily passed it by\r\nin silence) to furnish an argument which might defeat his\r\npurpose. And the prediction runs thus: “And the Lord\r\nspake again unto Ahaz, saying, Ask thee a sign of the Lord\r\nthy God; ask it either in the depth or in the height above.\r\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_434\">434</span>But Ahaz said, I will not ask, neither will I tempt the Lord.\r\nAnd he said, Hear ye now, O house of David; is it a small\r\nthing for you to weary men, but will ye weary my God also?\r\nTherefore the Lord Himself shall give you a sign. Behold,\r\na virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call His\r\nname Immanuel, which is, being interpreted, God with us.”<a id=\"r1173\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f1173\"><sup>[1173]</sup></a>\r\nAnd that it was from intentional malice that Celsus did not\r\nquote this prophecy, is clear to me from this, that although\r\nhe makes numerous quotations from the Gospel according to\r\nMatthew, as of the star that appeared at the birth of Christ,\r\nand other miraculous occurrences, he has made no mention\r\nat all of this. Now, if a Jew should split words, and say that\r\nthe words are not, “Lo, a virgin,” but, “Lo, a young woman,”<a id=\"r1174\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f1174\"><sup>[1174]</sup></a>\r\nwe reply that the word “Olmah”—which the Septuagint have\r\nrendered by “a virgin,” and others by “a young woman”—occurs,\r\nas they say, in Deuteronomy, as applied to a “virgin,”\r\nin the following connection: “If a damsel that is a virgin\r\nbe betrothed unto an husband, and a man find her in the\r\ncity, and lie with her; then ye shall bring them both out\r\nunto the gate of that city, and ye shall stone them with\r\nstones that they die; the damsel,<a id=\"r1175\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f1175\"><sup>[1175]</sup></a> because she cried not, being\r\nin the city; and the man, because he humbled his neighbour’s\r\nwife.”<a id=\"r1176\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f1176\"><sup>[1176]</sup></a> And again: “But if a man find a betrothed damsel\r\nin a field, and the man force her, and lie with her: then the\r\nman only that lay with her shall die: but unto the damsel<a id=\"r1177\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f1177\"><sup>[1177]</sup></a>\r\nye shall do nothing; there is in her no sin worthy of death.”</p>","headings":["The Writings of Origen, Vol. 1 of 2","ORIGEN CONTRA CELSUM.","ORIGEN AGAINST CELSUS. BOOK I.","Chapter XXXIV."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg70561-paragraph-432"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"53545c9cbb5c7fd23a61935d737ef0dd8c397873322b13e1783c0b0945c4fa57","edition_title":"The writings of Origen, Vol. 1 (of 2)","edition_translators":["Frederick Crombie"],"edition_year":1869,"explicit_reference_candidates":[],"headings":[],"id":"pg70561-f1177","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":"f1177","source_ebook":70561,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f1177\">\n<p class=\"c006\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r1177\">1177</a>. </span><span lang=\"grc\">τῇ νεάνιδι.</span></p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"de125e213d16053354f22b34a1c8d477ac23f201e660e4f4841b2ed7e05bb367","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/70561/pg70561-images.html#f1177","text_sha256":"4cb4b61f7ee5d883845db1687d95d842f4c18ce656767380806112151a4b1f51","verified":false,"work_id":null}