{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c006\">After this, he who extracts from the Gospel narrative those\r\nstatements on which he thinks he can found an accusation,\r\nmakes the vinegar and the gall a subject of reproach to Jesus,\r\nsaying that “he rushed with open mouth<a id=\"r118\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f118\"><sup>[118]</sup></a> to drink of them,\r\nand could not endure his thirst as any ordinary man frequently\r\nendures it.” Now this matter admits of an explanation of a\r\npeculiar and figurative kind; but on the present occasion, the\r\nstatement that the prophets predicted this very incident may be\r\naccepted as the more common answer to the objection. For in\r\nthe sixty-ninth Psalm there is written, with reference to Christ:\r\n“And they gave me gall for my meat, and in my thirst they gave\r\nme vinegar to drink.”<a id=\"r119\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f119\"><sup>[119]</sup></a> Now, let the Jews say who it is that\r\nthe prophetic writing represents as uttering these words; and\r\nlet them adduce from history one who received gall for his food,\r\nand to whom vinegar was given as drink. Would they venture\r\nto assert that the Christ whom they expect still to come might\r\nbe placed in such circumstances? Then we would say, What\r\nprevents the prediction from having been already accomplished?\r\nFor this very prediction was uttered many ages before, and is\r\nsufficient, along with the other prophetic utterances, to lead him\r\nwho fairly examines the whole matter to the conclusion that\r\nJesus is He who was prophesied of as Christ, and as the Son of\r\nGod.</p>","headings":["The writings of Origen, Vol. 2 of 2","BOOK II.","Chapter XXXVII."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg70693-paragraph-81"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"9425acd1372024a0222629da001e2a70f3414c276f9fc93cbf936748b643c530","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-f118","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":"f118","source_ebook":70693,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f118\">\n<p class=\"c007\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r118\">118</a>. </span><span lang=\"grc\">χανδὸν.</span></p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"76ed9a9fd752c1d5095189e38fe3dcbbea0fd23d6be719db17360e4da14552fa","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/70693/pg70693-images.html#f118","text_sha256":"a03e3289d1dc06bf68a5ccf68613b9b3d7faaac5e62cdfaf60bb4514ab148963","verified":false,"work_id":null}