{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c006\">Celsus then continues: “The Jews accordingly, and these\r\n(clearly meaning the Christians), have the same God;” and as\r\nif advancing a proposition which would not be conceded, he\r\nproceeds to make the following assertion: “It is certain,\r\nindeed, that the members of the great church<a id=\"r1014\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f1014\"><sup>[1014]</sup></a> admit this, and\r\nadopt as true the accounts regarding the creation of the world\r\nwhich are current among the Jews, viz. concerning the six\r\ndays and the seventh;” on which day, as the Scripture says,\r\nGod “ceased”<a id=\"r1015\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f1015\"><sup>[1015]</sup></a> from His works, retiring into the contemplation\r\nof Himself, but on which, as Celsus says (who does not abide\r\nby the letter of the history, and who does not understand its\r\nmeaning), God “rested,”<a id=\"r1016\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f1016\"><sup>[1016]</sup></a>—a term which is not found in the\r\nrecord. With respect, however, to the creation of the world,\r\nand the “rest<a id=\"r1017\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f1017\"><sup>[1017]</sup></a> which is reserved after it for the people of\r\nGod,” the subject is extensive, and mystical, and profound, and\r\ndifficult of explanation. In the next place, as it appears to me,\r\nfrom a desire to fill up his book, and to give it an appearance\r\nof importance, he recklessly adds certain statements, such as\r\nthe following, relating to the first man, of whom he says: “We\r\ngive the same account as do the Jews, and deduce the same\r\ngenealogy from him as they do.” However, as regards “the\r\nconspiracies of brothers against one another,” we know of none\r\nsuch, save that Cain conspired against Abel, and Esau against\r\nJacob; but not Abel against Cain, nor Jacob against Esau:\r\nfor if this had been the case, Celsus would have been correct\r\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_330\">330</span>in saying that we give the same accounts as do the Jews of\r\n“the conspiracies of brothers against one another.” Let it\r\nbe granted, however, that we speak of the same descent into\r\nEgypt as they, and of their return<a id=\"r1018\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f1018\"><sup>[1018]</sup></a> thence, which was not a\r\n“flight,”<a id=\"r1019\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f1019\"><sup>[1019]</sup></a> as Celsus considers it to have been, what does that\r\navail towards founding an accusation against us or against the\r\nJews? Here, indeed, he thought to cast ridicule upon us,\r\nwhen, in speaking of the Hebrew people, he termed their\r\nexodus a “flight;” but when it was his business to investigate\r\nthe account of the punishments inflicted by God upon Egypt,\r\nthat topic he purposely passed by in silence.</p>","headings":["The writings of Origen, Vol. 2 of 2","BOOK V.","Chapter LIX."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg70693-paragraph-387"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"a0606c47aea7a100c8a14e18dccb7d321936983a9becbd6d81010b9a0f24df94","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-f1014","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":"f1014","source_ebook":70693,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f1014\">\n<p class=\"c007\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r1014\">1014</a>. </span><span lang=\"grc\">τῶν ἀπὸ μεγάλης ἐκκλησίας.</span></p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"76ed9a9fd752c1d5095189e38fe3dcbbea0fd23d6be719db17360e4da14552fa","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/70693/pg70693-images.html#f1014","text_sha256":"e28a2ee24ffc3f27595b569d5aa00494f5e03ac352d50e30f5fb5e3d9f61e8fa","verified":false,"work_id":null}