{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c006\">That philosophical discourses, however, distinguished by\r\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_147\">147</span>orderly arrangement and elegant expression,<a id=\"r441\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f441\"><sup>[441]</sup></a> should produce\r\nsuch results in the case of those individuals just enumerated,\r\nand upon others<a id=\"r442\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f442\"><sup>[442]</sup></a> who have led wicked lives, is not at all to be\r\nwondered at. But when we consider that those discourses,\r\nwhich Celsus terms “vulgar,”<a id=\"r443\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f443\"><sup>[443]</sup></a> are filled with power, as if they\r\nwere spells, and see that they at once convert multitudes from\r\na life of licentiousness to one of extreme regularity,<a id=\"r444\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f444\"><sup>[444]</sup></a> and from\r\na life of wickedness to a better, and from a state of cowardice\r\nor unmanliness to one of such high-toned courage as to lead\r\nmen to despise even death through the piety which shows itself\r\nwithin them, why should we not justly admire the power which\r\nthey contain? For the words of those who at the first assumed\r\nthe office of [Christian] ambassadors, and who gave their\r\nlabours to rear up the churches of God,—nay, their preaching\r\nalso,—were accompanied with a persuasive power, though not\r\nlike that found among those who profess the philosophy of\r\nPlato, or of any other merely human philosopher, which possesses\r\nno other qualities than those of human nature. But the\r\ndemonstration which followed the words of the apostles of\r\nJesus was given from God, and was accredited<a id=\"r445\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f445\"><sup>[445]</sup></a> by the Spirit\r\nand by power. And therefore <i>their</i> word ran swiftly and\r\nspeedily, or rather the word of <i>God</i> through their instrumentality,\r\ntransformed numbers of persons who had been sinners\r\nboth by nature and habit, whom no one could have reformed\r\nby punishment, but who were changed by the word, which\r\nmoulded and transformed them according to its pleasure.</p>","headings":["The writings of Origen, Vol. 2 of 2","BOOK III.","Chapter LXVIII."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg70693-paragraph-205"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"58f9268f6addc1200057af809819eb4fcd6f47cb52f1fff62db814be2e013e22","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-f441","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":"f441","source_ebook":70693,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f441\">\n<p class=\"c007\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r441\">441</a>. </span><span lang=\"grc\">Ἀλλὰ τὴν μὲν τάξιν καὶ σύνθεσιν καὶ φράσιν τῶν ἀπὸ φιλοσοφίας λόγων.</span></p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"76ed9a9fd752c1d5095189e38fe3dcbbea0fd23d6be719db17360e4da14552fa","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/70693/pg70693-images.html#f441","text_sha256":"19b4549dd8a0aa4b653f00c7c65fa3322d220dbb2db4e13f01300b29c5417044","verified":false,"work_id":null}