{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c006\">The argument which Celsus employs against us and the\r\nJews will be turned against himself thus: My good sir, does\r\nthe God who is over all things know what takes place among\r\nmen, or does He not know? Now if you admit the existence\r\nof a God and of providence, as your treatise indicates, He must\r\nof necessity know. And if He does know, why does He not\r\nmake [men] better? Is it obligatory, then, on <i>us</i> to defend\r\nGod’s procedure in not making men better, although He knows\r\ntheir state, but not equally binding on <i>you</i>, who do not distinctly\r\nshow by your treatise that you are an Epicurean, but\r\npretend to recognise a providence, to explain why God,\r\nalthough knowing all that takes place among men, does not\r\nmake them better, nor by divine power liberate all men from\r\nevil? We are not ashamed, however, to say that God is constantly\r\nsending [instructors] in order to make men better; for\r\nthere are to be found amongst men reasons<a id=\"r489\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f489\"><sup>[489]</sup></a> given by God\r\nwhich exhort them to enter on a better life. But there are\r\nmany diversities amongst those who serve God, and they are\r\nfew in number who are perfect and pure ambassadors of the\r\ntruth, and who produce a complete reformation, as did Moses\r\nand the prophets. But above all these, great was the reformation\r\neffected by Jesus, who desired to heal not only those who\r\nlived in one corner of the world, but as far as in Him lay, men\r\nin every country, for He came as the Saviour of <i>all</i> men.</p>","headings":["The writings of Origen, Vol. 2 of 2","BOOK IV.","Chapter IV."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg70693-paragraph-223"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"6e444d7d75671883d445e336c23cf98cf8f574f47dd454335b8e42a689316292","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-f489","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":"f489","source_ebook":70693,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f489\">\n<p class=\"c007\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r489\">489</a>. </span><span lang=\"grc\">οἱ γὰρ ἐπὶ τὰ βέλτιστα προκαλούμενοι λόγοι, Θεοῦ αὐτοὺς δεδωκότος, εἰσὶν\r\nἐν ἀνθρώποις.</span></p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"76ed9a9fd752c1d5095189e38fe3dcbbea0fd23d6be719db17360e4da14552fa","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/70693/pg70693-images.html#f489","text_sha256":"f68b4ab9fcafe3c843dea6189df1c80bf3ffa07ef1929327470249b130936939","verified":false,"work_id":null}