{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c006\">It is related of the priestess of Apollo, that she at times\r\nallowed herself to be influenced in her answers by bribes; but\r\nour prophets were admired for their plain truthfulness, not only\r\nby their contemporaries, but also by those who lived in later\r\ntimes. For through the commands pronounced by the prophets\r\ncities were founded, men were cured, and plagues were stayed.\r\nIndeed, the whole Jewish race went out as a colony from Egypt\r\nto Palestine, in accordance with the divine oracles. They also,\r\nwhen they followed the commands of God, were prosperous;\r\nwhen they departed from them, they suffered reverses. What\r\nneed is there to quote all the princes and private persons in\r\nScripture history who fared well or ill according as they obeyed\r\nor despised the words of the prophets? If we refer to those\r\nwho were unhappy because they were childless, but who, after\r\noffering prayers to the Creator of all, became fathers and\r\nmothers, let any one read the accounts of Abraham and Sarah,\r\nto whom at an advanced age was born Isaac, the father of the\r\nwhole Jewish nation: and there are other instances of the same\r\nthing. Let him also read the account of Hezekiah, who not\r\nonly recovered from his sickness, according to the prediction of\r\nIsaiah, but was also bold enough to say, “Afterwards I shall\r\nbeget children, who shall declare Thy righteousness.”<a id=\"r1650\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f1650\"><sup>[1650]</sup></a> And in\r\nthe fourth book of Kings we read that the prophet Elisha made\r\nknown to a woman who had received him hospitably, that by\r\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_531\">531</span>the grace of God she should have a son; and through the\r\nprayers of Elisha she became a mother. The maimed were\r\ncured by Jesus in great numbers. And the books of the\r\nMaccabees relate what punishments were inflicted upon those\r\nwho dared to profane the Jewish service in the temple at\r\nJerusalem.</p>","headings":["The writings of Origen, Vol. 2 of 2","BOOK VIII.","Chapter XLVI."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg70693-paragraph-593"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"e9366acc36156814b05bd23682144854c08905f5d47ca3218ea1cbb5b69b741d","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":38,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Isa. xxxviii. 19","verse":19,"verse_end":19}],"headings":[],"id":"pg70693-f1650","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":"f1650","source_ebook":70693,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f1650\">\n<p class=\"c007\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r1650\">1650</a>. </span><abbr title=\"Isaiah\">Isa.</abbr> <abbr title=\"thirty-eight\">xxxviii.</abbr> 19 (according to the <abbr title=\"Septuagint\">LXX.</abbr>).</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"76ed9a9fd752c1d5095189e38fe3dcbbea0fd23d6be719db17360e4da14552fa","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/70693/pg70693-images.html#f1650","text_sha256":"8f1fd65afe6c52d73057ab8fbe6af966a4747ad8d5ab1c28e1f2edfc7da44f0a","verified":false,"work_id":null}