{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c005\">In what follows, Celsus, assailing the Mosaic history, finds\r\nfault with those who give it a tropical and allegorical signification.\r\nAnd here one might say to this great man, who\r\ninscribed upon his own work the title of a <i>True Discourse</i>,\r\n“Why, good sir, do you make it a boast to have it recorded\r\nthat the gods should engage in such adventures as\r\nare described by your learned poets and philosophers, and\r\nbe guilty of abominable intrigues, and of engaging in wars\r\nagainst their own fathers, and of cutting off their secret parts,\r\nand should dare to commit and to suffer such enormities;\r\nwhile Moses, who gives no such accounts respecting God, nor\r\neven regarding the holy angels, and who relates deeds of far\r\nless atrocity regarding men (for in his writings no one ever\r\nventured to commit such crimes as Kronos did against Uranus,\r\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_415\">415</span>or Zeus against his father, or that of the father of men and\r\ngods, who had intercourse with his own daughter), should be\r\nconsidered as having deceived those who were placed under\r\nhis laws, and to have led them into error?” And here Celsus\r\nseems to me to act somewhat as Thrasymachus the Platonic\r\nphilosopher did, when he would not allow Socrates to answer\r\nregarding justice, as he wished, but said, “Take care not to\r\nsay that utility is justice, or duty, or anything of that kind.”\r\nFor in like manner Celsus assails (as he thinks) the Mosaic\r\nhistories, and finds fault with those who understand them\r\nallegorically, at the same time bestowing also some praise\r\nupon those who do so, to the effect that they are more impartial\r\n[than those who do not]; and thus, as it were, he\r\nprevents by his cavils those who are able to show the true\r\nstate of the case from offering such a defence as they would\r\nwish to offer.<a id=\"r1158\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f1158\"><sup>[1158]</sup></a></p>","headings":["The Writings of Origen, Vol. 1 of 2","ORIGEN CONTRA CELSUM.","ORIGEN AGAINST CELSUS. BOOK I.","Chapter XVII."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg70561-paragraph-415"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"de0724313f382a1dd601d4b8ec399ca95e475623683bf0d60d54b42c3b555ea5","edition_title":"The writings of Origen, Vol. 1 (of 2)","edition_translators":["Frederick Crombie"],"edition_year":1869,"explicit_reference_candidates":[],"headings":[],"id":"pg70561-f1158","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 1869 English translation; translator died 1889. Electronic transcription subject to Project Gutenberg reuse terms.","source_anchor":"f1158","source_ebook":70561,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f1158\">\n<p class=\"c006\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r1158\">1158</a>. </span><span lang=\"grc\">Οἱονεὶ κωλύεται κατηγορήσας, ὡς βούλεται, ἀπολογεῖσθαι τοὺς δυναμένους\r\nὡς πέφυκεν ἔχειν τὰ πράγματα.</span> We have taken <span lang=\"grc\">κωλύεται</span> as\r\nmiddle. Some propose <span lang=\"grc\">κωλύει</span>. And we have read <span lang=\"grc\">βούλονται</span>, a lection\r\nwhich is given by a second hand in one <abbr class=\"spell\"><span class=\"fss\">MS.</span></abbr></p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"de125e213d16053354f22b34a1c8d477ac23f201e660e4f4841b2ed7e05bb367","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/70561/pg70561-images.html#f1158","text_sha256":"f859013911a584032455dca9c50388873aecce4e21b81c8c164409a0c199abe8","verified":false,"work_id":null}