{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c006\">Celsus, therefore, not investigating in a spirit of impartiality\r\nthe facts, which are related by the Egyptians in one way, and\r\nby the Hebrews in another, but being bewitched, as it were,<a id=\"r264\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f264\"><sup>[264]</sup></a>\r\nin favour of the former, accepted as true the statements of\r\nthose who had oppressed the strangers, and declared that the\r\nHebrews, who had been unjustly treated, had departed from\r\nEgypt after revolting against the Egyptians,—not observing how\r\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_90\">90</span>impossible it was for so great a multitude of rebellious Egyptians\r\nto become a nation, which, dating its origin from the\r\nsaid revolt, should change its language at the time of its rebellion,\r\nso that those who up to that time made use of the\r\nEgyptian tongue, should completely adopt, all at once, the\r\nlanguage of the Hebrews! Let it be granted, however,\r\naccording to his supposition, that on abandoning Egypt they\r\ndid conceive a hatred also of their mother tongue,<a id=\"r265\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f265\"><sup>[265]</sup></a> how did it\r\nhappen that after so doing they did not rather adopt the\r\nSyrian or Phœnician language, instead of preferring the\r\nHebrew, which is different from both? But reason seems to\r\nme to demonstrate that the statement is false, which makes\r\nthose who were Egyptians by race to have revolted against\r\nEgyptians, and to have left the country, and to have proceeded\r\nto Palestine, and occupied the land now called Judea. For\r\nHebrew was the language of their fathers before their descent\r\ninto Egypt; and the Hebrew letters, employed by Moses in\r\nwriting those five books which are deemed sacred by the Jews,\r\nwere different from those of the Egyptians.</p>","headings":["The writings of Origen, Vol. 2 of 2","BOOK III.","Chapter VI."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg70693-paragraph-138"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"4b98765a69f170c082a94d9de40a04616b7a67855ca60c4c4d46758d0b5e34ef","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-f265","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":"f265","source_ebook":70693,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f265\">\n<p class=\"c007\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r265\">265</a>. </span><span lang=\"grc\">Τὴν σύντροφον φωνὴν.</span></p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"76ed9a9fd752c1d5095189e38fe3dcbbea0fd23d6be719db17360e4da14552fa","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/70693/pg70693-images.html#f265","text_sha256":"2fcb0ae6b0151f132448a1d1f97618cbec2b5d3a5362dabc88c744378636ed47","verified":false,"work_id":null}