{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c006\">But since he is manifestly guilty of falsehood in the statements\r\nwhich follow, let us examine his assertion when he says,\r\n“If all men wished to become Christians, the latter would not\r\ndesire such a result.” Now that the above statement is false\r\nis clear from this, that Christians do not neglect, as far as\r\nin them lies, to take measures to disseminate their doctrine\r\nthroughout the whole world. Some of them, accordingly, have\r\nmade it their business to itinerate not only through cities, but\r\neven villages and country houses,<a id=\"r269\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f269\"><sup>[269]</sup></a> that they might make converts\r\nto God. And no one would maintain that they did this\r\nfor the sake of gain, when sometimes they would not accept\r\neven necessary sustenance; or if at any time they were pressed\r\nby a necessity of this sort, were contented with the mere supply\r\nof their wants, although many were willing to share [their\r\nabundance] with them, and to bestow help upon them far above\r\ntheir need. At the present day, indeed, when, owing to the\r\nmultitude of Christian believers, not only rich men, but persons\r\nof rank, and delicate and high-born ladies, receive the teachers\r\nof Christianity, some perhaps will dare to say that it is for the\r\nsake of a little glory<a id=\"r270\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f270\"><sup>[270]</sup></a> that certain individuals assume the office\r\nof Christian instructors. It is impossible, however, rationally\r\nto entertain such a suspicion with respect to Christianity in\r\nits beginnings, when the danger incurred, especially by its\r\nteachers, was great; while at the present day the discredit\r\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_93\">93</span>attaching to it among the rest of mankind is greater than any\r\nsupposed honour enjoyed among those who hold the same\r\nbelief, especially when such honour is not shared by all. It is\r\nfalse, then, from the very nature of the case, to say that “if\r\nall men wished to become Christians, the latter would not\r\ndesire such a result.”</p>","headings":["The writings of Origen, Vol. 2 of 2","BOOK III.","Chapter IX."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg70693-paragraph-141"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"d166174ddc2cb5836299ff24034b012bd90377e612c69f186390c394b0a0e03c","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-f270","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":"f270","source_ebook":70693,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f270\">\n<p class=\"c007\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r270\">270</a>. </span><span lang=\"grc\">Δοξάριον.</span></p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"76ed9a9fd752c1d5095189e38fe3dcbbea0fd23d6be719db17360e4da14552fa","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/70693/pg70693-images.html#f270","text_sha256":"05448d8a820973fc6e0b007b7c8ef01682bd8df9eab83564c2175c152d2badc3","verified":false,"work_id":null}