{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c006\">Celsus appears to me to have misunderstood the statement of\r\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_334\">334</span>the apostle, which declares that “in the latter times some shall\r\ndepart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits and\r\ndoctrines of devils, speaking lies in hypocrisy, having their conscience\r\nseared with a hot iron, forbidding to marry, and commanding\r\nto abstain from meats, which God hath created to be\r\nreceived with thanksgiving of them who believe;”<a id=\"r1029\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f1029\"><sup>[1029]</sup></a> and to have\r\nmisunderstood also those who employed these declarations of\r\nthe apostle against such as had corrupted the doctrines of\r\nChristianity. And it is owing to this cause that Celsus has\r\nsaid that “certain among the Christians are called ‘cauterized\r\nin the ears;’”<a id=\"r1030\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f1030\"><sup>[1030]</sup></a> and also that some are termed “enigmas,”<a id=\"r1031\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f1031\"><sup>[1031]</sup></a>—a\r\nterm which we have never met. The expression “stumbling-block”<a id=\"r1032\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f1032\"><sup>[1032]</sup></a>\r\nis, indeed, of frequent occurrence in these writings,—an\r\nappellation which we are accustomed to apply to those who\r\nturn away simple persons, and those who are easily deceived,\r\nfrom sound doctrine. But neither we, nor, I imagine, any\r\nother, whether Christian or heretic, know of any who are\r\nstyled Sirens, who betray and deceive,<a id=\"r1033\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f1033\"><sup>[1033]</sup></a> and stop their ears,\r\nand change into swine those whom they delude. And yet this\r\nman, who affects to know everything, uses such language as\r\nthe following: “You may hear,” he says, “all those who\r\ndiffer so widely, and who assail each other in their disputes\r\nwith the most shameless language, uttering the words, ‘The\r\nworld is crucified to me, and I unto the world.’” And this is\r\nthe only phrase which, it appears, Celsus could remember out\r\nof Paul’s writings; and yet why should we not also employ\r\ninnumerable other quotations from the Scriptures, such as,\r\n“For though we do walk in the flesh, we do not war after the\r\nflesh; (for the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but\r\nmighty through God to the pulling down of strongholds,) casting\r\ndown imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself\r\nagainst the knowledge of God?”<a id=\"r1034\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f1034\"><sup>[1034]</sup></a></p>","headings":["The writings of Origen, Vol. 2 of 2","BOOK V.","Chapter LXIV."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg70693-paragraph-392"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"65a7c05851bed8d3e6c7e66ecc75dde9140cee22e8800a89ce66a319aa5d21f9","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-f1030","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":"f1030","source_ebook":70693,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f1030\">\n<p class=\"c007\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r1030\">1030</a>. </span><span lang=\"grc\">ἀκοῆς καυστήρια.</span> <abbr class=\"spell\">Cf.</abbr> note in Benedictine <abbr title=\"edition\">ed.</abbr></p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"76ed9a9fd752c1d5095189e38fe3dcbbea0fd23d6be719db17360e4da14552fa","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/70693/pg70693-images.html#f1030","text_sha256":"f560545ba9f07641043193d044d97d2332a6071b0ff688ab9abf02dba3ab2693","verified":false,"work_id":null}