{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c006\">But let us observe how this Jew of Celsus asserts that, “if\r\nthis at least would have helped to manifest his divinity, he\r\nought accordingly to have at once disappeared from the cross.”\r\nNow this seems to me to be like the argument of those who\r\noppose the doctrine of providence, and who arrange things\r\ndifferently from what they are, and allege that the world would\r\nbe better if it were as they arrange it. Now, in those instances\r\nin which their arrangement is a possible one, they are proved\r\nto make the world, so far as depends upon them, worse by their\r\narrangement than it actually is; while in those cases in which\r\nthey do not portray things worse than they really are, they\r\nare shown, to desire impossibilities; so that in either case they\r\nare deserving of ridicule. And here, accordingly, that there\r\nwas no impossibility in His coming, as a being of diviner\r\nnature, in order to disappear when He chose, is clear from the\r\nvery nature of the case; and is certain, moreover, from what\r\nis recorded of Him, in the judgment of those who do not adopt\r\ncertain portions merely of the narrative that they may have\r\nground for accusing Christianity, and who consider other portions\r\nto be fiction. For it is related in St. Luke’s Gospel, that\r\nJesus after His resurrection took bread, and blessed it, and\r\nbreaking it, distributed it to Simon and Cleopas; and when\r\nthey had received the bread, “their eyes were opened, and\r\nthey knew Him, and He vanished out of their sight.”<a id=\"r197\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f197\"><sup>[197]</sup></a></p>","headings":["The writings of Origen, Vol. 2 of 2","BOOK II.","Chapter LXVIII."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg70693-paragraph-115"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"ade460db7c49770c647cbb8ccbbcb555cd3eaadf5bfa3e375bff45fb80daff71","edition_title":"The writings of Origen, Vol. 2 (of 2)","edition_translators":["Frederick Crombie","W. H. Cairns"],"edition_year":1872,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"LUK","chapter":24,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Luke xxiv. 30","verse":30,"verse_end":30}],"headings":[],"id":"pg70693-f197","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":"f197","source_ebook":70693,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f197\">\n<p class=\"c007\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r197\">197</a>. </span><abbr class=\"spell\">Cf.</abbr> Luke <abbr title=\"twenty-four\">xxiv.</abbr> 30, 31.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"76ed9a9fd752c1d5095189e38fe3dcbbea0fd23d6be719db17360e4da14552fa","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/70693/pg70693-images.html#f197","text_sha256":"e2f2204a8c3b9ad5dff4f4d62cd3f7bc6a896021249ba9bbbd10af9408f9606d","verified":false,"work_id":null}