{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c006\">It is not, my reverend Ambrosius, because we seek\r\nafter many words—a thing which is forbidden, and\r\nin the indulgence of which it is impossible to avoid\r\nsin<a id=\"r842\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f842\"><sup>[842]</sup></a>—that we now begin the fifth book of our reply\r\nto the treatise of Celsus, but with the endeavour, so far as may\r\nbe within our power, to leave none of his statements without\r\nexamination, and especially those in which it might appear to\r\nsome that he had skilfully assailed us and the Jews. If it were\r\npossible, indeed, for me to enter along with my words into the\r\nconscience of every one without exception who peruses this\r\nwork, and to extract each dart which wounds him who is not\r\ncompletely protected with the “whole armour” of God, and\r\napply a rational medicine to cure the wound inflicted by Celsus,\r\nwhich prevents those who listen to his words from remaining\r\n“sound in the faith,” I would do so. But since it is the work\r\nof God alone, in conformity with His own Spirit, and along\r\nwith that of Christ, to take up His abode invisibly in those\r\npersons whom He judges worthy of being visited; so, on the\r\nother hand, is <i>our</i> object to try, by means of arguments and\r\ntreatises, to confirm men in their faith, and to earn the name\r\nof “workmen needing not to be ashamed, rightly dividing\r\nthe word of truth.”<a id=\"r843\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f843\"><sup>[843]</sup></a> And there is one thing above all which\r\nit appears to us we ought to do, if we would discharge faithfully\r\nthe task enjoined upon us by you, and that is to overturn\r\nto the best of our ability the confident assertions of Celsus.\r\nLet us then quote such assertions of his as follow those which\r\nwe have already refuted (the reader must decide whether we\r\nhave done so successfully or not), and let us reply to them.\r\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_269\">269</span>And may God grant that we approach not our subject with\r\nour understanding and reason empty and devoid of divine inspiration,\r\nthat the faith of those whom we wish to aid may not\r\ndepend upon human wisdom, but that, receiving the “mind”\r\nof Christ from His Father, who alone can bestow it, and being\r\nstrengthened by participating in the word of God, we may pull\r\ndown “every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge\r\nof God,”<a id=\"r844\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f844\"><sup>[844]</sup></a> and the imagination of Celsus, who exalts himself\r\nagainst us, and against Jesus, and also against Moses and\r\nthe prophets, in order that He who “gave the word to those\r\nwho published it with great power”<a id=\"r845\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f845\"><sup>[845]</sup></a> may supply us also, and\r\nbestow upon us “great power,” so that faith in the word and\r\npower of God may be implanted in the minds of all who will\r\nperuse our work.</p>","headings":["The writings of Origen, Vol. 2 of 2","BOOK V.","Chapter I."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg70693-paragraph-328"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"acd350604d0d77d139121a49e7288836f805eba88359f493170c399300a9ac25","edition_title":"The writings of Origen, Vol. 2 (of 2)","edition_translators":["Frederick Crombie","W. H. Cairns"],"edition_year":1872,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"2CO","chapter":10,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"2 Cor. x. 5","verse":5,"verse_end":5}],"headings":[],"id":"pg70693-f844","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":"f844","source_ebook":70693,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f844\">\n<p class=\"c007\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r844\">844</a>. </span><abbr class=\"spell\">Cf.</abbr> 2 <abbr title=\"Corinthians\">Cor.</abbr> <abbr title=\"ten\">x.</abbr> 5.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"76ed9a9fd752c1d5095189e38fe3dcbbea0fd23d6be719db17360e4da14552fa","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/70693/pg70693-images.html#f844","text_sha256":"ddeb6fe308c7d201d212e2e91e56c858dec62bca5f4674b873f89a55e8da0eb7","verified":false,"work_id":null}