{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c006\">And Christians have nothing to fear, even if demons should\r\nnot be well-disposed to them; for they are protected by the\r\nsupreme God, who is well pleased with their piety, and who\r\nsets His divine angels to watch over those who are worthy of\r\nsuch guardianship, so that they can suffer nothing from demons.\r\nHe who by his piety possesses the favour of the Most High,\r\nwho has accepted the guidance of Jesus, the “Angel of the\r\ngreat counsel,”<a id=\"r1608\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f1608\"><sup>[1608]</sup></a> being well contented with the favour of God\r\nthrough Christ Jesus, may say with confidence that he has\r\nnothing to suffer from the whole host of demons. “The Lord\r\nis my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? The Lord\r\nis the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid? Though\r\nan host should encamp against me, my heart shall not fear.”<a id=\"r1609\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f1609\"><sup>[1609]</sup></a>\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_514\">514</span>So much, then, in reply to those statements of Celsus: “If\r\nthey are demons, they too evidently belong to God, and they\r\nare to be believed, to be sacrificed to according to the laws, and\r\nprayers are to be offered to them that they may be propitious.”</p>","headings":["The writings of Origen, Vol. 2 of 2","BOOK VIII.","Chapter XXVII."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg70693-paragraph-574"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"d53c21b9e0b97c6a9f8b6a3750a540bf25e099fa0f4b30de00f5af6c5572e95a","edition_title":"The writings of Origen, Vol. 2 (of 2)","edition_translators":["Frederick Crombie","W. H. Cairns"],"edition_year":1872,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"ISA","chapter":9,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Isa. ix. 6","verse":6,"verse_end":6}],"headings":[],"id":"pg70693-f1608","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":"f1608","source_ebook":70693,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f1608\">\n<p class=\"c007\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r1608\">1608</a>. </span><abbr title=\"Isaiah\">Isa.</abbr> <abbr title=\"nine\">ix.</abbr> 6 (<abbr title=\"Septuagint\">LXX.</abbr>).</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"76ed9a9fd752c1d5095189e38fe3dcbbea0fd23d6be719db17360e4da14552fa","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/70693/pg70693-images.html#f1608","text_sha256":"e03b446df22b6ce05778a29d4cf8e29d38b137be333569d7d1d9e2a3a7edbfc4","verified":false,"work_id":null}