{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c006\">But since the Jew says that these histories of the alleged\r\ndescent of heroes to Hades, and of their return thence, are\r\njuggling impositions,<a id=\"r160\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f160\"><sup>[160]</sup></a> maintaining that these heroes disappeared\r\nfor a certain time, and secretly withdrew themselves from\r\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_60\">60</span>the sight of all men, and gave themselves out afterwards as\r\nhaving returned from Hades,—for such is the meaning which\r\nhis words seem to convey respecting the Odrysian Orpheus, and\r\nthe Thessalian Protesilaus, and the Tænarian Hercules, and\r\nTheseus also,—let us endeavour to show that the account of\r\nJesus being raised from the dead cannot possibly be compared\r\nto these. For each one of the heroes respectively mentioned\r\nmight, had he wished, have secretly withdrawn himself from\r\nthe sight of men, and returned again, if so determined, to those\r\nwhom he had left; but seeing that Jesus was crucified before\r\nall the Jews, and His body slain in the presence of His nation,\r\nhow can they bring themselves to say that He practised a\r\nsimilar deception<a id=\"r161\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f161\"><sup>[161]</sup></a> with those heroes who are related to have\r\ngone down to Hades, and to have returned thence? But we\r\nsay that the following consideration might be adduced, perhaps,\r\nas a defence of the public crucifixion of Jesus, especially in\r\nconnection with the existence of those stories of heroes who are\r\nsupposed to have been compelled<a id=\"r162\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f162\"><sup>[162]</sup></a> to descend to Hades: that\r\nif we were to suppose Jesus to have died an obscure death, so\r\nthat the fact of His decease was not patent to the whole nation\r\nof the Jews, and afterwards to have actually risen from the\r\ndead, there would, in such a case, have been ground for the same\r\nsuspicion entertained regarding the heroes being also entertained\r\nregarding Himself. Probably, then, in addition to other\r\ncauses for the crucifixion of Jesus, this also may have contributed\r\nto His dying a conspicuous death upon the cross, that\r\nno one might have it in his power to say that He voluntarily\r\nwithdrew from the sight of men, and seemed only to die, without\r\nreally doing so; but, appearing again, made a juggler’s\r\ntrick<a id=\"r163\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f163\"><sup>[163]</sup></a> of the resurrection from the dead. But a clear and unmistakeable\r\nproof of the fact I hold to be the undertaking of\r\nHis disciples, who devoted themselves to the teaching of a\r\ndoctrine which was attended with danger to human life,—a\r\ndoctrine which they would not have taught with such courage\r\nhad they invented the resurrection of Jesus from the dead;\r\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_61\">61</span>and who also, at the same time, not only prepared others to\r\ndespise death, but were themselves the first to manifest their\r\ndisregard for its terrors.</p>","headings":["The writings of Origen, Vol. 2 of 2","BOOK II.","Chapter LVI."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg70693-paragraph-101"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"cd30b3b67fc42f93223dde63cc87f85347ec85548b2401749a8db8cd04b4d2c8","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-f161","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":"f161","source_ebook":70693,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f161\">\n<p class=\"c007\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r161\">161</a>. </span><span lang=\"grc\">πῶς οἴονται τὸ παραπλήσιον πλάσασθαι λέγειν αὐτὸν τοῖς ἰστορουμένοις,</span> etc.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"76ed9a9fd752c1d5095189e38fe3dcbbea0fd23d6be719db17360e4da14552fa","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/70693/pg70693-images.html#f161","text_sha256":"f9966147077ebcc9721988966dd3b1fbea1da224c6047c1b90f3308be5d4a4c2","verified":false,"work_id":null}