{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c006\">Now if these things be so, why should it not be consistent\r\nwith reason to hold with regard to Jesus, who was able to\r\neffect results so great, that there dwelt in <i>Him</i> no ordinary\r\ndivinity? while this was not the case either with the Proconnesian\r\nAristeas (although Apollo would have him regarded as\r\na god), or with the other individuals enumerated by Celsus\r\nwhen he says, “No one regards Abaris the Hyperborean as a\r\ngod, who was possessed of such power as to be borne along like\r\nan arrow from a bow.”<a id=\"r341\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f341\"><sup>[341]</sup></a> For with what object did the deity\r\nwho bestowed upon this Hyperborean Abaris the power of\r\nbeing carried along like an arrow, confer upon him such a gift?\r\nWas it that the human race might be benefited thereby,<a id=\"r342\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f342\"><sup>[342]</sup></a> or\r\ndid he himself obtain any advantage from the possession of\r\nsuch a power?—always supposing it to be conceded that these\r\nstatements are not wholly inventions, but that the thing\r\nactually happened through the co-operation of some demon.\r\nBut if it be recorded that my Jesus was received up into\r\nglory,<a id=\"r343\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f343\"><sup>[343]</sup></a> I perceive the divine arrangement<a id=\"r344\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f344\"><sup>[344]</sup></a> in such an act, viz.\r\nbecause God, who brought this to pass, commends in this way\r\nthe Teacher to those who witnessed it, in order that as men who\r\nare contending not for human doctrine, but for divine teaching,\r\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_113\">113</span>they may devote themselves as far as possible to the God who\r\nis over all, and may do all things in order to please Him, as\r\nthose who are to receive in the divine judgment the reward of\r\nthe good or evil which they have wrought in this life.</p>","headings":["The writings of Origen, Vol. 2 of 2","BOOK III.","Chapter XXXI."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg70693-paragraph-164"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"83dee0932019f0ec7ca5b2d2df5fa9e39fe7994be13a0478a058161e999c3503","edition_title":"The writings of Origen, Vol. 2 (of 2)","edition_translators":["Frederick Crombie","W. H. Cairns"],"edition_year":1872,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"1TI","chapter":3,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"1 Tim. iii. 16","verse":16,"verse_end":16}],"headings":[],"id":"pg70693-f343","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":"f343","source_ebook":70693,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f343\">\n<p class=\"c007\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r343\">343</a>. </span><abbr class=\"spell\">Cf.</abbr> 1 <abbr title=\"Timothy\">Tim.</abbr> <abbr title=\"three\">iii.</abbr> 16.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"76ed9a9fd752c1d5095189e38fe3dcbbea0fd23d6be719db17360e4da14552fa","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/70693/pg70693-images.html#f343","text_sha256":"5f1668dd992ba36824ee30139020fbedca56bcc68d7fa9f8dfcbf5b3a47f06ce","verified":false,"work_id":null}