{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c006\">And let any one who peruses the treatise of Celsus observe\r\nwhether it does not convey some such insinuation as the above,\r\nwhen he says: “And they attempted to derive their origin from\r\nthe first race of jugglers and deceivers, appealing to the testimony\r\nof dark and ambiguous words, whose meaning was veiled\r\nin obscurity.” For these names are indeed obscure, and not\r\nwithin the comprehension and knowledge of many, though not\r\nin our opinion of doubtful meaning, even although assumed by\r\nthose who are aliens to our religion; but as, according to Celsus,\r\nthey do not<a id=\"r616\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f616\"><sup>[616]</sup></a> convey any ambiguity, I am at a loss to know why\r\nhe has rejected them. And yet, if he had wished honestly to\r\noverturn the genealogy which he deemed the Jews to have\r\nso shamelessly arrogated, in boasting of Abraham and his\r\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_198\">198</span>descendants [as their progenitors], he ought to have quoted <i>all</i>\r\nthe passages bearing on the subject; and, in the first place, to\r\nhave advocated his cause with such arguments as he thought\r\nlikely to be convincing, and in the next to have bravely<a id=\"r617\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f617\"><sup>[617]</sup></a> refuted,\r\nby means of what appeared to him to be the true meaning, and\r\nby arguments in its favour, the errors existing on the subject.\r\nBut neither Celsus nor any one else will be able, by their discussions\r\nregarding the nature of names employed for miraculous\r\npurposes, to lay down the correct doctrine regarding them, and\r\nto demonstrate that those men were to be lightly esteemed whose\r\nnames merely, not among their countrymen alone, but also\r\namongst foreigners, could accomplish [such results]. He ought\r\nto have shown, moreover, how we, in misinterpreting<a id=\"r618\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f618\"><sup>[618]</sup></a> the\r\npassages in which these names are found, deceive our hearers,\r\nas he imagines, while he himself, who boasts that he is not\r\nignorant or unintelligent, gives the true interpretation of them.\r\nAnd he hazarded the assertion,<a id=\"r619\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f619\"><sup>[619]</sup></a> in speaking of those names,\r\nfrom which the Jews deduce their genealogies, that “never,\r\nduring the long antecedent period, has there been any dispute\r\nabout these names, but that at the present time the Jews\r\ndispute about them with certain others,” whom he does not\r\nmention. Now, let him who chooses show who these are\r\nthat dispute with the Jews, and who adduce even probable\r\narguments to show that Jews and Christians do not decide correctly\r\non the points relating to these names, but that there are\r\nothers who have discussed these questions with the greatest\r\nlearning and accuracy. But we are well assured that none can\r\nestablish anything of the sort, it being manifest that these\r\nnames are derived from the Hebrew language, which is found\r\nonly among the Jews.</p>","headings":["The writings of Origen, Vol. 2 of 2","BOOK IV.","Chapter XXXV."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg70693-paragraph-254"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"693535650bb88a4d6ddfa31ab4b91e7bf3fff261b3d4eeefbe98dd654c247819","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-f617","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":"f617","source_ebook":70693,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f617\">\n<p class=\"c007\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r617\">617</a>. </span><span lang=\"grc\">γενναίως.</span></p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"76ed9a9fd752c1d5095189e38fe3dcbbea0fd23d6be719db17360e4da14552fa","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/70693/pg70693-images.html#f617","text_sha256":"4881ce81e698be0cf937d40a1feff25b846e1a2fc7c3de17d897f399d542ceb2","verified":false,"work_id":null}