{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c006\">We must notice the remarks which Celsus next makes, when\r\nhe says to us, that “faith, having taken possession of our\r\nminds, makes us yield the assent which we give to the doctrine\r\nof Jesus;” for of a truth it is faith which does produce such an\r\nassent. Observe, however, whether that faith does not of itself\r\nexhibit what is worthy of praise, seeing we entrust ourselves to\r\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_121\">121</span>the God who is over all, acknowledging our gratitude to Him\r\nwho has led us to such a faith, and declaring that He could\r\nnot have attempted or accomplished such a result without the\r\ndivine assistance. And we have confidence also in the intentions\r\nof the writers of the Gospels, observing their piety and\r\nconscientiousness, manifested in their writings, which contain\r\nnothing that is spurious, or deceptive,<a id=\"r368\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f368\"><sup>[368]</sup></a> or false, or cunning;\r\nfor it is evident to us that souls unacquainted with those\r\nartifices which are taught by the cunning sophistry of the\r\nGreeks (which is characterized by great plausibility and acuteness),\r\nand by the kind of rhetoric in vogue in the courts of\r\njustice, would not have been able thus to invent occurrences\r\nwhich are fitted of themselves to conduct to faith, and to a life\r\nin keeping with faith. And I am of opinion that it was on\r\nthis account that Jesus wished to employ such persons as\r\nteachers of His doctrines, viz. that there might be no ground\r\nfor any suspicion of plausible sophistry, but that it might\r\nclearly appear to all who were capable of understanding, that\r\nthe guileless purpose of the writers being, so to speak, marked\r\nwith great simplicity, was deemed worthy of being accompanied\r\nby a diviner power, which accomplished far more than it seemed\r\npossible could be accomplished by a periphrasis of words, and a\r\nweaving of sentences, accompanied by all the distinctions of\r\nGrecian art.</p>","headings":["The writings of Origen, Vol. 2 of 2","BOOK III.","Chapter XXXIX."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg70693-paragraph-172"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"be718596c6b7600edd0704f389672b7ba2d388916b805a3455a7e26451265747","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-f368","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":"f368","source_ebook":70693,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f368\">\n<p class=\"c007\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r368\">368</a>. </span><span lang=\"grc\">κυβευτικόν.</span></p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"76ed9a9fd752c1d5095189e38fe3dcbbea0fd23d6be719db17360e4da14552fa","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/70693/pg70693-images.html#f368","text_sha256":"0c978e97b4463fe3a86bf5133b7f2573f3845be76396f39b1ccb3cb392b1d571","verified":false,"work_id":null}