{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c006\">He next represents Christians as saying what he never\r\nheard from any Christian; or if he did, it must have been from\r\none of the most ignorant and lawless of the people. “Behold,”\r\nthey are made to say, “I go up to a statue of Jupiter or\r\nApollo, or some other god: I revile it, and beat it, yet it takes\r\nno vengeance on me.” He is not aware that among the prohibitions\r\nof the divine law is this, “Thou shalt not revile the\r\ngods,”<a id=\"r1634\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f1634\"><sup>[1634]</sup></a> and this is intended to prevent the formation of the\r\nhabit of reviling any one whatever; for we have been taught,\r\n“Bless, and curse not,”<a id=\"r1635\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f1635\"><sup>[1635]</sup></a> and it is said that “revilers shall not\r\ninherit the kingdom of God.”<a id=\"r1636\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f1636\"><sup>[1636]</sup></a> And who amongst us is so\r\nfoolish as to speak in the way Celsus describes, and to fail to\r\nsee that such contemptuous language can be of no avail for\r\nremoving prevailing notions about the gods? For it is matter\r\nof observation that there are men who utterly deny the existence\r\nof a God or of an overruling providence, and who by\r\ntheir impious and destructive teaching have founded sects\r\namong those who are called philosophers, and yet neither they\r\nthemselves, nor those who have embraced their opinions, have\r\nsuffered any of those things which mankind generally account\r\nevils: they are both strong in body and rich in possessions.\r\nAnd yet if we ask what loss they have sustained, we shall find\r\nthat they have suffered the most certain injury. For what\r\ngreater injury can befall a man than that he should be unable\r\namidst the order of the world to see Him who has made it?\r\nand what sorer affliction can come to any one than that blindness\r\nof mind which prevents him from seeing the Creator and\r\nFather of every soul?</p>","headings":["The writings of Origen, Vol. 2 of 2","BOOK VIII.","Chapter XXXVIII."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg70693-paragraph-585"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"e34d84f34fad705f6bb26023424b916ad0bd0b556fc6256ba8949c7a48c8d6e3","edition_title":"The writings of Origen, Vol. 2 (of 2)","edition_translators":["Frederick Crombie","W. H. Cairns"],"edition_year":1872,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"ROM","chapter":12,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Rom. xii. 14","verse":14,"verse_end":14}],"headings":[],"id":"pg70693-f1635","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":"f1635","source_ebook":70693,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f1635\">\n<p class=\"c007\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r1635\">1635</a>. </span><abbr title=\"Romans\">Rom.</abbr> <abbr title=\"twelve\">xii.</abbr> 14.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"76ed9a9fd752c1d5095189e38fe3dcbbea0fd23d6be719db17360e4da14552fa","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/70693/pg70693-images.html#f1635","text_sha256":"dbffa6f9f7e7b08879a02282dd143f4822740324d05d917b70e9e67a594c4dbd","verified":false,"work_id":null}