{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c006\">But it is to be observed that the Jews, who claim for themselves\r\na correct understanding of the law of Moses, carefully\r\nrestrict their food to such things as are accounted clean, and\r\nabstain from those that are unclean. They also do not use in\r\ntheir food the blood of an animal nor the flesh of an animal\r\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_515\">515</span>torn by wild beasts, and some other things which it would take\r\ntoo long for us at present to detail. But Jesus, wishing to lead\r\nall men by His teaching to the pure worship and service of God,\r\nand anxious not to throw any hindrance in the way of many\r\nwho might be benefited by Christianity, through the imposition\r\nof a burdensome code of rules in regard to food, has laid it\r\ndown, that “not that which goeth into the mouth defileth a\r\nman, but that which cometh out of the mouth; for whatsoever\r\nentereth in at the mouth goeth into the belly, and is cast out\r\ninto the draught. But those things which proceed out of the\r\nmouth are evil thoughts when spoken, murders, adulteries, fornications,\r\nthefts, false witness, blasphemies.”<a id=\"r1613\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f1613\"><sup>[1613]</sup></a> Paul also says,\r\n“Meat commendeth us not to God: for neither, if we eat, are\r\nwe the better; neither, if we eat not, are we the worse.”<a id=\"r1614\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f1614\"><sup>[1614]</sup></a>\r\nWherefore, as there is some obscurity about this matter, without\r\nsome explanation is given, it seemed good to the apostles of\r\nJesus and the elders assembled together at Antioch, and also,\r\nas they themselves say, to the Holy Spirit, to write a letter to\r\nthe Gentile believers, forbidding them to partake of those things\r\nfrom which alone they say it is necessary to abstain, namely,\r\n“things offered to idols, things strangled, and blood.”<a id=\"r1615\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f1615\"><sup>[1615]</sup></a></p>","headings":["The writings of Origen, Vol. 2 of 2","BOOK VIII.","Chapter XXIX."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg70693-paragraph-576"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"3d67a3aede6e76f7f561fa8f34c463a0baa9cf782fb71cd321485c90152492ca","edition_title":"The writings of Origen, Vol. 2 (of 2)","edition_translators":["Frederick Crombie","W. H. Cairns"],"edition_year":1872,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"1CO","chapter":8,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"1 Cor. viii. 8","verse":8,"verse_end":8}],"headings":[],"id":"pg70693-f1614","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":"f1614","source_ebook":70693,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f1614\">\n<p class=\"c007\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r1614\">1614</a>. </span>1 <abbr title=\"Corinthians\">Cor.</abbr> <abbr title=\"eight\">viii.</abbr> 8.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"76ed9a9fd752c1d5095189e38fe3dcbbea0fd23d6be719db17360e4da14552fa","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/70693/pg70693-images.html#f1614","text_sha256":"12428999e460783c7c0e7ffbd172998c5c1cd4408916929aaa90c62a337c2452","verified":false,"work_id":null}