{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c006\">Celsus then extracts from the Gospel the precept, “To him\r\nwho strikes thee once, thou shalt offer thyself to be struck again,”\r\nalthough without giving any passage from the Old Testament\r\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_448\">448</span>which he considers opposed to it. On the one hand, we know\r\nthat “it was said to them in old time, An eye for an eye, and\r\na tooth for a tooth;”<a id=\"r1463\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f1463\"><sup>[1463]</sup></a> and on the other, we have read, “I say\r\nunto you, Whoever shall smite thee on the one cheek, turn to\r\nhim the other also.”<a id=\"r1464\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f1464\"><sup>[1464]</sup></a> But as there is reason to believe that\r\nCelsus produces the objections which he has heard from those\r\nwho wish to make a difference between the God of the gospel\r\nand the God of the law, we must say in reply, that this precept,\r\n“Whosoever shall strike thee on the one cheek, turn to\r\nhim the other,” is not unknown to the older Scriptures. For\r\nthus, in the Lamentations of Jeremiah, it is said, “It is good for\r\na man that he beareth the yoke in his youth: he sitteth alone,\r\nand keepeth silence, because he hath borne it upon him: he\r\ngiveth his cheek to him that smiteth him; he is filled full with\r\nreproach.”<a id=\"r1465\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f1465\"><sup>[1465]</sup></a> There is no discrepancy, then, between the God of\r\nthe gospel and the God of the law, even when we take literally\r\nthe precept regarding the blow on the face. So, then, we infer\r\nthat neither “Jesus nor Moses has taught falsely.” The\r\nFather in sending Jesus did not “forget the commands which\r\nHe had given to Moses:” He did not “change His mind,\r\ncondemn His own laws, and send by His messenger counter\r\ninstructions.”</p>","headings":["The writings of Origen, Vol. 2 of 2","BOOK VII.","Chapter XXV."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg70693-paragraph-502"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"00cda807250e263602ed16756a08e12c58927ce609e2cc594375a465f3f47c8d","edition_title":"The writings of Origen, Vol. 2 (of 2)","edition_translators":["Frederick Crombie","W. H. Cairns"],"edition_year":1872,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"MAT","chapter":5,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Matt. v. 39","verse":39,"verse_end":39}],"headings":[],"id":"pg70693-f1464","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":"f1464","source_ebook":70693,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f1464\">\n<p class=\"c007\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r1464\">1464</a>. </span><abbr title=\"Matthew\">Matt.</abbr> <abbr title=\"five\">v.</abbr> 39.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"76ed9a9fd752c1d5095189e38fe3dcbbea0fd23d6be719db17360e4da14552fa","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/70693/pg70693-images.html#f1464","text_sha256":"24b552e2c801f869fa065014e59c0c3f81f261e8c20e1a6cfa279bde3978363e","verified":false,"work_id":null}