{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c006\">The preceding remarks might suffice as an answer to the\r\ncharges of Celsus, so far as regards those points in which our\r\nSaviour Jesus Christ is made the subject of special investigation.\r\nBut that we may avoid the appearance of intentionally passing\r\nover any portion of his work, as if we were unable to meet him,\r\nlet us, even at the risk of being tautological (since we are\r\nchallenged to this by Celsus), endeavour as far as we can\r\nwith all due brevity to continue our discourse, since perhaps\r\nsomething either more precise or more novel may occur to us\r\nupon the several topics. He says, indeed, that “he has omitted\r\nthe refutations which have been adduced against the claims\r\nwhich Christians advance on behalf of their teacher,” although\r\nhe has <i>not</i> omitted anything which he was able to bring forward,\r\nas is manifest from his previous language, but makes this\r\nstatement only as an empty rhetorical device. That we are\r\nnot refuted, however, on the subject of our great Saviour,\r\nalthough the accuser may <i>appear</i> to refute us, will be manifest\r\nto those who peruse in a spirit of truth-loving investigation all\r\nthat is predicted and recorded of Him. And, in the next place,\r\nsince he considers that he makes a concession in saying of the\r\nSaviour, “Let him appear to be really an angel,” we reply\r\nthat we do not accept of such a concession from Celsus; but\r\nwe look to the work of Him who came to visit the whole human\r\nrace in His word and teaching, as each one of His adherents\r\nwas capable of receiving Him. And this was the work of one\r\nwho, as the prophecy regarding Him said, was not simply an\r\nangel, but the “Angel of the great council:”<a id=\"r1009\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f1009\"><sup>[1009]</sup></a> for He announced\r\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_324\">324</span>to men the great counsel of the God and Father of all things\r\nregarding them, [saying] of those who yield themselves up to a\r\nlife of pure religion, that they ascend by means of their great\r\ndeeds to God; but of those who do not adhere to Him, that\r\nthey place themselves at a distance from God, and journey on\r\nto destruction through their unbelief of Him. He then continues:\r\n“If even the angel came to men, is he the first and\r\nonly one who came, or did others come on former occasions?”\r\nAnd he thinks he can meet either of these dilemmas at great\r\nlength, although there is not a single real Christian who asserts\r\nthat Christ was the only being that visited the human race.\r\nFor, as Celsus says, “If they should say the only one,” there\r\nare others who appeared to different individuals.</p>","headings":["The writings of Origen, Vol. 2 of 2","BOOK V.","Chapter LIII."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg70693-paragraph-381"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"a1ed66bcdc67499963ec360789bf0e9dfa37dcba368f9801133b24c732f11f47","edition_title":"The writings of Origen, Vol. 2 (of 2)","edition_translators":["Frederick Crombie","W. H. Cairns"],"edition_year":1872,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"ISA","chapter":9,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Isa. ix. 6","verse":6,"verse_end":6}],"headings":[],"id":"pg70693-f1009","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":"f1009","source_ebook":70693,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f1009\">\n<p class=\"c007\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r1009\">1009</a>. </span><abbr class=\"spell\">Cf.</abbr> <abbr title=\"Isaiah\">Isa.</abbr> <abbr title=\"nine\">ix.</abbr> 6.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"76ed9a9fd752c1d5095189e38fe3dcbbea0fd23d6be719db17360e4da14552fa","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/70693/pg70693-images.html#f1009","text_sha256":"16b515e0a5de18560a325f08055db1f8fa1a91b9aa8e4c8b05997bb6fe92e01b","verified":false,"work_id":null}