{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c006\">5. In all these cases consider whether it would not be well\r\nto remember the words, “Thou shalt not remove the ancient\r\nlandmarks which thy fathers have set.”<a id=\"r1087\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f1087\"><sup>[1087]</sup></a> Nor do I say this\r\nbecause I shun the labour of investigating the Jewish Scriptures,\r\nand comparing them with ours, and noticing their various\r\nreadings. This, if it be not arrogant to say it, I have already\r\nto a great extent done to the best of my ability, labouring\r\nhard to get at the meaning in all the editions and various\r\nreadings;<a id=\"r1088\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f1088\"><sup>[1088]</sup></a> while I paid particular attention to the interpretation\r\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_375\">375</span>of the Seventy, lest I might be found to accredit any\r\nforgery to the churches which are under heaven, and give an\r\noccasion to those who seek such a starting-point for gratifying\r\ntheir desire to slander the common brethren, and to bring some\r\naccusation against those who shine forth in our community.\r\nAnd I make it my endeavour not to be ignorant of their\r\nvarious readings, lest in my controversies with the Jews I\r\nshould quote to them what is not found in their copies, and\r\nthat I may make some use of what is found there, even\r\nalthough it should not be in our Scriptures. For if we are\r\nso prepared for them in our discussions, they will not, as is\r\ntheir manner, scornfully laugh at Gentile believers for their\r\nignorance of the true reading as they have them. So far as\r\nto the History of Susanna not being found in the Hebrew.</p>","headings":["The Writings of Origen, Vol. 1 of 2","LETTERS.","A LETTER FROM ORIGEN TO AFRICANUS."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg70561-paragraph-364"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"d2f398cbe4b521f3c58da0f0596347e1104a3c79b0a1270fc5b58ceb2118cb35","edition_title":"The writings of Origen, Vol. 1 (of 2)","edition_translators":["Frederick Crombie"],"edition_year":1869,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"PRO","chapter":22,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Prov. xxii. 28","verse":28,"verse_end":28}],"headings":[],"id":"pg70561-f1087","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 1869 English translation; translator died 1889. Electronic transcription subject to Project Gutenberg reuse terms.","source_anchor":"f1087","source_ebook":70561,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f1087\">\n<p class=\"c006\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r1087\">1087</a>. </span><abbr title=\"Proverbs\">Prov.</abbr> <abbr title=\"twenty-two\">xxii.</abbr> 28.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"de125e213d16053354f22b34a1c8d477ac23f201e660e4f4841b2ed7e05bb367","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/70561/pg70561-images.html#f1087","text_sha256":"bdc1e9b7a69fcbf611117f9f076ba3423877ce11b227ae7038d6e843132e75dd","verified":false,"work_id":null}