{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c006\">Celsus, still expressing his opinion regarding the Jews, says:\r\n“It is not probable that they are in great favour with God, or\r\nare regarded by Him with more affection than others, or that\r\nangels are sent by Him to them alone, as if to them had been\r\nallotted some region of the blessed. For we may see both the\r\npeople themselves, and the country of which they were deemed\r\nworthy.” We shall refute this, by remarking that it is evident\r\nthat this nation <i>was</i> in great favour with God, from the fact\r\nthat the God who presides over all things was called the God of\r\nthe Hebrews, even by those who were aliens to our faith. And\r\nbecause they were in favour with God, they were not abandoned\r\nby Him;<a id=\"r1005\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f1005\"><sup>[1005]</sup></a> but although few in number, they continued to enjoy\r\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_321\">321</span>the protection of the divine power, so that in the reign of\r\nAlexander of Macedon they sustained no injury from him,\r\nalthough they refused, on account of certain covenants and\r\noaths, to take up arms against Darius. They say that on that\r\noccasion the Jewish high priest, clothed in his sacred robe,\r\nreceived obeisance from Alexander, who declared that he had\r\nbeheld an individual arrayed in this fashion, who announced to\r\nhim in his sleep that he was to be the subjugator of the whole\r\nof Asia. Accordingly, we Christians maintain that “it was\r\nthe fortune of that people in a remarkable degree to enjoy\r\nGod’s favour, and to be loved by Him in a way different from\r\nothers;” but that this economy of things and this divine favour\r\nwere transferred to us, after Jesus had conveyed the power\r\nwhich had been manifested among the Jews to those who had\r\nbecome converts to Him from among the heathen. And for\r\nthis reason, although the Romans desired to perpetrate many\r\natrocities against the Christians, in order to ensure their extermination,\r\nthey were unsuccessful; for there was a divine\r\nhand which fought on their behalf, and whose desire it was\r\nthat the word of God should spread from one corner of the\r\nland of Judea throughout the whole human race.</p>","headings":["The writings of Origen, Vol. 2 of 2","BOOK V.","Chapter L."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg70693-paragraph-378"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"4c230de71d8b7cc1bcc28dd1665fb11c7fa82abaaf30154f7fc4bb7fdc141f31","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-f1005","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":"f1005","source_ebook":70693,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f1005\">\n<p class=\"c007\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r1005\">1005</a>. </span><span lang=\"grc\">καὶ ὡς εὐδοκιμοῦντες γε ὅσον οὐκ ἐγκατελείποντο.</span> The negative particle\r\n(<span lang=\"grc\">οὐκ</span>) is wanting in the editions of Hœschel and Spencer, but is found in\r\nthe Royal, Basil, and Vatican <abbr class=\"spell\"><span class=\"fss\">MSS.</span></abbr> Guietus would delete ὅσον (which\r\nemendation has been adopted in the translation), while Boherellus would\r\nread <span lang=\"grc\">ὅσοι</span> instead.—<span class=\"sc\">Ruæus.</span></p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"76ed9a9fd752c1d5095189e38fe3dcbbea0fd23d6be719db17360e4da14552fa","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/70693/pg70693-images.html#f1005","text_sha256":"2e6a6e390299e97142a385354135d5d0b8e10e2730fb43d46b6492d523fbd2f7","verified":false,"work_id":null}