{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c006\">And I have not yet spoken of the observance<a id=\"r298\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f298\"><sup>[298]</sup></a> of all that is\r\nwritten in the Gospels, each one of which contains much\r\ndoctrine difficult to be understood, not merely by the multitude,\r\nbut even by certain of the more intelligent, including a very\r\nprofound explanation of the parables which Jesus delivered to\r\n“those without,” while reserving the exhibition of their full\r\nmeaning<a id=\"r299\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f299\"><sup>[299]</sup></a> for those who had passed beyond the stage of\r\nexoteric teaching, and who came to Him privately in the house.\r\nAnd when he comes to understand it, he will admire the\r\nreason why some are said to be “without,” and others “in the\r\nhouse.” And again, who would not be filled with astonishment\r\nthat is able to comprehend the movements<a id=\"r300\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f300\"><sup>[300]</sup></a> of Jesus; ascending\r\nat one time a mountain for the purpose of delivering certain\r\ndiscourses, or of performing certain miracles, or for His own\r\ntransfiguration, and descending again to heal the sick and those\r\nwho were unable to follow Him whither His disciples went?\r\nBut it is not the appropriate time to describe at present the\r\ntruly venerable and divine contents of the Gospels, or the mind\r\nof Christ—that is, the wisdom and the word—contained in the\r\nwritings of Paul. But what we have said is sufficient by way\r\nof answer to the unphilosophic sneers<a id=\"r301\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f301\"><sup>[301]</sup></a> of Celsus, in comparing\r\nthe inner mysteries of the church of God to the cats, and apes,\r\nand crocodiles, and goats, and dogs of Egypt.</p>","headings":["The writings of Origen, Vol. 2 of 2","BOOK III.","Chapter XXI."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg70693-paragraph-153"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"93dbfbc206f7053930e69276f8988c608f08dbb49347b024039c23b75b2fa1a2","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-f299","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":"f299","source_ebook":70693,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f299\">\n<p class=\"c007\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r299\">299</a>. </span><span lang=\"grc\">σαφήνειαν.</span></p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"76ed9a9fd752c1d5095189e38fe3dcbbea0fd23d6be719db17360e4da14552fa","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/70693/pg70693-images.html#f299","text_sha256":"e9b79f9100eb1bd6cae20d9be9436747a2492bc29c834ed328c368c3a774706d","verified":false,"work_id":null}