{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c006\">I am, however, of opinion that these individuals are the only\r\ninstances with which Celsus was acquainted. And yet, that he\r\nmight appear voluntarily to pass by other similar cases, he says,\r\n“And one might name many others of the same kind.” Let\r\nit be granted, then, that many such persons have existed who\r\nconferred no benefit upon the human race: what would each\r\none of their acts be found to amount to in comparison with the\r\nwork of Jesus, and the miracles related of Him, of which we\r\nhave already spoken at considerable length? He next imagines\r\nthat, “in worshipping him who,” as <i>he</i> says, “was taken\r\nprisoner and put to death, we are acting like the Getæ who\r\nworship Zamolxis, and the Cilicians who worship Mopsus, and\r\nthe Acarnanians who pay divine honours to Amphilochus, and\r\nlike the Thebans who do the same to Amphiaraus, and the\r\nLebadians to Trophonius.” Now in these instances we shall\r\nprove that he has compared us to the foregoing without good\r\ngrounds. For these different tribes erected temples and statues\r\nto those individuals above enumerated, whereas we have refrained\r\nfrom offering to the divinity honour by any such means\r\n(seeing they are adapted rather to demons, which are somehow\r\nfixed in a certain place which they prefer to any other, or\r\nwhich take up their dwelling, as it were, after being removed\r\n[from one place to another] by certain rites and incantations),\r\nand are lost in reverential wonder at Jesus, who has recalled\r\nour minds from all sensible things, as being not only corruptible,\r\nbut destined to corruption, and elevated them to\r\nhonour the God who is over all with prayers and a righteous\r\nlife, which we offer to Him as being intermediate between the\r\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_116\">116</span>nature of the uncreated and that of all created things,<a id=\"r355\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f355\"><sup>[355]</sup></a> and\r\nwho bestows upon us the benefits which come from the Father,\r\nand who as High Priest conveys our prayers to the supreme\r\nGod.</p>","headings":["The writings of Origen, Vol. 2 of 2","BOOK III.","Chapter XXXIV."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg70693-paragraph-167"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"42db687088ed615db52619bcb4872f2544911c31371dfe6de7dd4c60bcd73171","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-f355","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":"f355","source_ebook":70693,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f355\">\n<p class=\"c007\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r355\">355</a>. </span><span lang=\"grc\">οἳς προσάγομεν αὐτῷ, ὡς διὰ μεταξὺ ὄντος τῆς τοῦ ἀγενήτου καὶ τῆς τῶν\r\nγενητῶν πάντων φύσεως.</span> <span lang=\"la\">“Hoeschel (itemque Spencerus ad marg.) suspicabatur\r\nlegendum:</span> <span lang=\"grc\">ὡς δὴ μεταξὺ ὄντος.</span> <span lang=\"la\">Male. Nihil mutari necesse est.\r\nAgitur quippe de precibus, quas offerimus Deo ‘per eum, qui veluti medius\r\nest inter increatam naturam et creatam.</span>’”—<span class=\"sc\">Ruæus.</span></p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"76ed9a9fd752c1d5095189e38fe3dcbbea0fd23d6be719db17360e4da14552fa","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/70693/pg70693-images.html#f355","text_sha256":"63695d96b4df684f67b2d8ea0e56645bc6153431d7484ed756f57494d8cb7908","verified":false,"work_id":null}