{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c006\">He says, in addition, that “all the Christians were of one\r\nmind,” not observing, even in this particular, that from the\r\nbeginning there were differences of opinion among believers\r\nregarding the meaning<a id=\"r277\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f277\"><sup>[277]</sup></a> of the books held to be divine. At all\r\nevents, while the apostles were still preaching, and while eye-witnesses\r\nof [the works of] Jesus were still teaching His doctrine,\r\nthere was no small discussion among the converts from\r\nJudaism regarding Gentile believers, on the point whether they\r\nought to observe Jewish customs, or should reject the burden\r\nof clean and unclean meats, as not being obligatory on those\r\nwho had abandoned their ancestral Gentile customs, and had\r\nbecome believers in Jesus. Nay, even in the epistles of Paul,\r\nwho was contemporary with those who had seen Jesus, certain\r\nparticulars are found mentioned as having been the subject of\r\ndispute,—viz. respecting the resurrection,<a id=\"r278\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f278\"><sup>[278]</sup></a> and whether it were\r\nalready past, and the day of the Lord, whether it were nigh at\r\nhand<a id=\"r279\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f279\"><sup>[279]</sup></a> or not. Nay, the very exhortation to “avoid profane\r\nand vain babblings, and oppositions of science falsely so called:\r\nwhich some professing, have erred concerning the faith,”<a id=\"r280\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f280\"><sup>[280]</sup></a> is\r\nenough to show that from the very beginning, when, as Celsus\r\nimagines, believers were few in number, there were certain doctrines\r\ninterpreted in different ways.<a id=\"r281\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f281\"><sup>[281]</sup></a></p>","headings":["The writings of Origen, Vol. 2 of 2","BOOK III.","Chapter XI."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg70693-paragraph-143"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"468d1109e432328f7152bded2e5c18a286bccd51a2233a139e908eeba14adde3","edition_title":"The writings of Origen, Vol. 2 (of 2)","edition_translators":["Frederick Crombie","W. H. Cairns"],"edition_year":1872,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"1TI","chapter":6,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"1 Tim. vi. 20","verse":20,"verse_end":20}],"headings":[],"id":"pg70693-f280","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":"f280","source_ebook":70693,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f280\">\n<p class=\"c007\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r280\">280</a>. </span><abbr class=\"spell\">Cf.</abbr> 1 <abbr title=\"Timothy\">Tim.</abbr> <abbr title=\"six\">vi.</abbr> 20.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"76ed9a9fd752c1d5095189e38fe3dcbbea0fd23d6be719db17360e4da14552fa","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/70693/pg70693-images.html#f280","text_sha256":"d265e3746c37622d159c2b0e94348c7cc5e832b4f315325e12caca99219b039b","verified":false,"work_id":null}