{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c006\">But besides, the prophecies which he introduces into his argument\r\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_439\">439</span>are very different from what the prophets actually foretold\r\nof Jesus Christ. For the prophecies do not foretell that God\r\nwill be crucified, when they say of Him who should suffer, “We\r\nbeheld Him, and He had no form or comeliness; but His form\r\nwas dishonoured and marred more than the sons of men; He\r\nwas a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief.”<a id=\"r1435\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f1435\"><sup>[1435]</sup></a> Observe,\r\nthen, how distinctly they say that it was a man who should\r\nendure these human sufferings. And Jesus Himself, who knew\r\nperfectly that one who was to die must be a man, said to His\r\naccusers: “But now ye seek to kill me, a man that hath spoken\r\nunto you the truth which I heard of God.”<a id=\"r1436\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f1436\"><sup>[1436]</sup></a> And if in that\r\nman as He appeared among men there was something divine,\r\nnamely the only-begotten Son of God, the first-born of all\r\ncreation, one who said of Himself, “I am the truth,” “I am\r\nthe life,” “I am the door,” “I am the way,” “I am the living\r\nbread which came down from heaven,” of this Being and His\r\nnature we must judge and reason in a way quite different from\r\nthat in which we judge of the man who was seen in Jesus\r\nChrist. Accordingly, you will find no Christian, however\r\nsimple he may be, and however little versed in critical studies,\r\nwho would say that He who died was “the truth,” “the life,”\r\n“the way,” “the living bread which came down from heaven,”\r\n“the resurrection;” for it was He who appeared to us in the\r\nform of the man Jesus, who taught us, saying, “I am the resurrection.”\r\nThere is no one amongst us, I say, so extravagant\r\nas to affirm “the Life died,” “the Resurrection died.” The\r\nsupposition of Celsus would have some foundation if we were\r\nto say that it had been foretold by the prophets that death would\r\nbefall God the Word, the Truth, the Life, the Resurrection, or\r\nany other name which is assumed by the Son of God.</p>","headings":["The writings of Origen, Vol. 2 of 2","BOOK VII.","Chapter XVI."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg70693-paragraph-493"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"43de61fa274f2f076b0953760f1112f94734281d8bd08eb63f8a1677d0bade7a","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":53,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Isa. liii. 2","verse":2,"verse_end":2}],"headings":[],"id":"pg70693-f1435","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":"f1435","source_ebook":70693,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f1435\">\n<p class=\"c007\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r1435\">1435</a>. </span><abbr title=\"Isaiah\">Isa.</abbr> <abbr title=\"fifty-three\">liii.</abbr> 2, 3.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"76ed9a9fd752c1d5095189e38fe3dcbbea0fd23d6be719db17360e4da14552fa","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/70693/pg70693-images.html#f1435","text_sha256":"4836eec05e4c1d3b8c61a65c377d06f3f5c96a36e1ee18ddda8115772c2861a8","verified":false,"work_id":null}