{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c012\">and adds: “If you set aside this maxim, you will deservedly\r\nsuffer for it at the hands of the king. For if all were to do the\r\nsame as you, there would be nothing to prevent his being left\r\nin utter solitude and desertion, and the affairs of the earth\r\nwould fall into the hands of the wildest and most lawless barbarians;\r\nand then there would no longer remain among men\r\nany of the glory of your religion or of the true wisdom.” If,\r\nthen, “there shall be one lord, one king,” he must be, not the\r\nman “whom the son of crafty Saturn appointed,” but the man\r\nto whom He gave the power, who “removeth kings and setteth\r\nup kings,”<a id=\"r1673\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f1673\"><sup>[1673]</sup></a> and who “raiseth up the useful man in time of\r\nneed upon earth.”<a id=\"r1674\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f1674\"><sup>[1674]</sup></a> For kings are not appointed by that son\r\nof Saturn, who, according to Grecian fable, hurled his father\r\nfrom his throne, and sent him down to Tartarus (whatever\r\ninterpretation may be given to this allegory), but by God, who\r\ngoverns all things, and who wisely arranges whatever belongs\r\nto the appointment of kings. We therefore do set aside the\r\nmaxim contained in the line,</p>","headings":["The writings of Origen, Vol. 2 of 2","BOOK VIII.","Chapter LXVIII."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg70693-paragraph-617"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"a73c619f396aaaeecdb75cfcdc13466d214cba930f2ad839b561c06c64a8ce4c","edition_title":"The writings of Origen, Vol. 2 (of 2)","edition_translators":["Frederick Crombie","W. H. Cairns"],"edition_year":1872,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"DAN","chapter":2,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Dan. ii. 21","verse":21,"verse_end":21}],"headings":[],"id":"pg70693-f1673","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":"f1673","source_ebook":70693,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f1673\">\n<p class=\"c007\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r1673\">1673</a>. </span><abbr title=\"Daniel\">Dan.</abbr> <abbr title=\"two\">ii.</abbr> 21.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"76ed9a9fd752c1d5095189e38fe3dcbbea0fd23d6be719db17360e4da14552fa","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/70693/pg70693-images.html#f1673","text_sha256":"53364ba2c82fef171eb2b4f1608864d739f9b8d1a16da5e8f7a19c399bed0930","verified":false,"work_id":null}