{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c006\">Celsus next says: “What is the nature of the ichor in the\r\nbody of the crucified Jesus? Is it ‘such as flows in the bodies\r\nof the immortal gods?’”<a id=\"r115\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f115\"><sup>[115]</sup></a> He puts this question in a spirit\r\nof mockery; but we shall show from the serious narratives of\r\nthe Gospels, although Celsus may not like it, that it was no\r\nmythic and Homeric ichor which flowed from the body of\r\nJesus, but that, after His death, “one of the soldiers with a\r\nspear pierced His side, and there came thereout blood and\r\nwater. And he that saw it bare record, and his record is true,\r\nand he knoweth that he saith the truth.”<a id=\"r116\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f116\"><sup>[116]</sup></a> Now, in other dead\r\nbodies the blood congeals, and pure water does not flow forth;\r\nbut the miraculous feature in the case of the dead body of\r\nJesus was, that around the dead body blood and water flowed\r\nforth from the side. But if this Celsus, who, in order to find\r\nmatter of accusation against Jesus and the Christians, extracts\r\nfrom the Gospel even passages which are incorrectly interpreted,\r\nbut passes over in silence the evidences of the divinity\r\nof Jesus, would listen to divine portents, let him read the\r\nGospel, and see that even the centurion, and they who with\r\nhim kept watch over Jesus, on seeing the earthquake, and the\r\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_41\">41</span>events that occurred, were greatly afraid, saying, “This man\r\nwas the son of God.”<a id=\"r117\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f117\"><sup>[117]</sup></a></p>","headings":["The writings of Origen, Vol. 2 of 2","BOOK II.","Chapter XXXVI."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg70693-paragraph-80"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"c0f32097cf8487227bc3ff64f0f51439a7601dbdab009bad8a4a21bdbfd8bd04","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-f115","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":"f115","source_ebook":70693,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f115\">\n<p class=\"c007\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r115\">115</a>. </span><abbr class=\"spell\">Cf.</abbr> <i>Iliad</i>, <abbr title=\"six\">vi.</abbr> 340.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"76ed9a9fd752c1d5095189e38fe3dcbbea0fd23d6be719db17360e4da14552fa","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/70693/pg70693-images.html#f115","text_sha256":"510a245ba01426c6dcfaa02e03f473b5b0eaafbc89332cbea6fd0c938c46b1da","verified":false,"work_id":null}