{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c006\">I think what has been stated is enough to convince any one\r\nthat the unbelief of the Jews with regard to Jesus was in\r\nkeeping with what is related of this people from the beginning.\r\nFor I would say in reply to this Jew of Celsus, when he asks,\r\n“What God that appeared among men is received with incredulity,\r\nand that, too, when appearing to those who expect him?\r\nor why, pray, is he not recognised by those who have been\r\nlong looking for him?” what answer, friends, would you have\r\nus return to your<a id=\"r223\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f223\"><sup>[223]</sup></a> questions? Which class of miracles, in your\r\njudgment, do you regard as the greater? Those which were\r\nwrought in Egypt and the wilderness, or those which we declare\r\nthat Jesus performed among you? For if the former are\r\nin your opinion greater than the latter, does it not appear\r\nfrom this very fact to be in conformity with the character of\r\nthose who disbelieved the greater to despise the less? And\r\nthis is the opinion entertained with respect to our accounts of\r\nthe miracles of Jesus. But if those related of Jesus are considered\r\nto be as great as those recorded of Moses, what strange\r\nthing has come to pass among a nation which has manifested\r\nincredulity with regard to the commencement of both dispensations?<a id=\"r224\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f224\"><sup>[224]</sup></a>\r\nFor the beginning of the legislation was in the time\r\nof Moses, in whose work are recorded the sins of the unbelievers\r\nand wicked among you, while the commencement of our\r\nlegislation and second covenant is admitted to have been in\r\nthe time of Jesus. And by your unbelief of Jesus ye show\r\nthat ye are the sons of those who in the desert discredited the\r\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_79\">79</span>divine appearances; and thus what was spoken by our Saviour\r\nwill be applicable also to you who believed not on Him:\r\n“Therefore ye bear witness that ye allow the deeds of your\r\nfathers.”<a id=\"r225\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f225\"><sup>[225]</sup></a> And there is fulfilled among you also the prophecy\r\nwhich said: “Your life shall hang in doubt before your eyes,\r\nand you will have no assurance of your life.”<a id=\"r226\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f226\"><sup>[226]</sup></a> For ye did not\r\nbelieve in the life which came to visit the human race.</p>","headings":["The writings of Origen, Vol. 2 of 2","BOOK II.","Chapter LXXV."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg70693-paragraph-123"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"e3208c3e6475166148440ad3ef15bf262cf116e0d1158e96a8d6b857bd14c57a","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-f223","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":"f223","source_ebook":70693,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f223\">\n<p class=\"c007\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r223\">223</a>. </span>The text reads <span lang=\"grc\">ἡμῶν</span>, for which Bohereau and the Benedictine editor\r\npropose either <span lang=\"grc\">ὑμᾶς</span> or <span lang=\"grc\">ἡμᾶς</span>, the former of which is preferred by Lommatzsch.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"76ed9a9fd752c1d5095189e38fe3dcbbea0fd23d6be719db17360e4da14552fa","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/70693/pg70693-images.html#f223","text_sha256":"5f93df844b380da52da0323c6503270c8716f89d477820e76a4008e2003d5c90","verified":false,"work_id":null}