{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c006\">In the next place, miracles were performed in all countries,\r\nor at least in many of them, as Celsus himself admits, instancing\r\nthe case of Esculapius, who conferred benefits on\r\nmany, and who foretold future events to entire cities, which\r\nwere dedicated to him, such as Tricca, and Epidaurus, and\r\nCos, and Pergamus; and along with Esculapius he mentions\r\nAristeas of Proconnesus, and a certain Clazomenian, and\r\nCleomedes of Astypalæa. But among the Jews alone, who say\r\nthey are dedicated to the God of all things, there was wrought\r\nno miracle or sign which might help to confirm their faith in\r\nthe Creator of all things, and strengthen their hope of another\r\nand better life! But how can they imagine such a state of\r\nthings? For they would immediately have gone over to the\r\nworship of those demons which gave oracles and performed\r\ncures, and deserted the God who was believed, as far as words\r\nwent,<a id=\"r259\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f259\"><sup>[259]</sup></a> to assist them, but who never manifested to them His\r\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_88\">88</span>visible presence. But if this result has not taken place, and\r\nif, on the contrary, they have suffered countless calamities\r\nrather than renounce Judaism and their law, and have been\r\ncruelly treated, at one time in Assyria, at another in Persia,\r\nand at another under Antiochus, is it not in keeping with the\r\nprobabilities of the case<a id=\"r260\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f260\"><sup>[260]</sup></a> for those to suppose who do not yield\r\ntheir belief to their miraculous histories and prophecies, that\r\nthe events in question could not be inventions, but that a\r\ncertain divine Spirit being in the holy souls of the prophets, as\r\nof men who underwent any labour for the cause of virtue, <i>did</i>\r\nmove them to prophesy some things relating to their contemporaries,\r\nand others to their posterity, but chiefly regarding a certain\r\npersonage who was to come as a Saviour to the human race?</p>","headings":["The writings of Origen, Vol. 2 of 2","BOOK III.","Chapter III."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg70693-paragraph-135"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"80b176fe52bc5537893bbe98335389061365905c81d3099def13be6c9e913896","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-f259","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":"f259","source_ebook":70693,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f259\">\n<p class=\"c007\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r259\">259</a>. </span><span lang=\"grc\">μέχρι λόγου.</span></p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"76ed9a9fd752c1d5095189e38fe3dcbbea0fd23d6be719db17360e4da14552fa","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/70693/pg70693-images.html#f259","text_sha256":"f4a19d1ece2cbcc96aff03a84eaf85e67f58f22fb3cee9d50f9037b3151d9218","verified":false,"work_id":null}