{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c006\">6. After proceeding with this work as far as the place\r\nwhere Celsus introduces the Jew disputing with Jesus, I\r\nresolved to prefix this preface to the beginning [of the\r\ntreatise], in order that the reader of our reply to Celsus\r\nmight fall in with it first, and see that this book has been\r\ncomposed not for those who are thorough believers, but for\r\nsuch as are either wholly unacquainted with the Christian\r\nfaith, or for those who, as the apostle terms them, are “weak\r\nin the faith;” regarding whom he says, “Him that is weak in\r\nthe faith receive ye.”<a id=\"r1135\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f1135\"><sup>[1135]</sup></a> And this preface must be my apology\r\nfor beginning my answer to Celsus on one plan, and carrying\r\nit on on another. For my first intention was to indicate\r\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_398\">398</span>his principal objections, and then briefly the answers that\r\nwere returned to them, and subsequently to make a systematic\r\ntreatise of the whole discourse.<a id=\"r1136\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f1136\"><sup>[1136]</sup></a> But afterwards, circumstances\r\nthemselves suggested to me that I should be economical of\r\nmy time, and that, satisfied with what I had already stated at\r\nthe commencement, I should in the following part grapple\r\nclosely, to the best of my ability, with the charges of Celsus.\r\nI have therefore to ask indulgence for those portions which\r\nfollow the preface towards the beginning of the book. And\r\nif you are not impressed by the powerful arguments which\r\nsucceed, then, asking similar indulgence also with respect to\r\nthem, I refer you, if you still desire an argumentative solution\r\nof the objections of Celsus, to those men who are wiser\r\nthan myself, and who are able by words and treatises to\r\noverthrow the charges which he brings against us. But\r\nbetter is the man who, although meeting with the work of\r\nCelsus, needs no answer to it at all, but who despises all its\r\ncontents, since they are contemned, and with good reason, by\r\nevery believer in Christ, through the Spirit that is in him.</p>","headings":["The Writings of Origen, Vol. 1 of 2","ORIGEN CONTRA CELSUM.","ORIGEN AGAINST CELSUS. BOOK I.","PREFACE."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg70561-paragraph-398"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"2452788b763f637e2bb405417a67dd3e31dcf51e66d0554231c9f13f6eb43b79","edition_title":"The writings of Origen, Vol. 1 (of 2)","edition_translators":["Frederick Crombie"],"edition_year":1869,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"ROM","chapter":14,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Rom. xiv. 1","verse":1,"verse_end":1}],"headings":[],"id":"pg70561-f1135","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":"f1135","source_ebook":70561,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f1135\">\n<p class=\"c006\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r1135\">1135</a>. </span><abbr title=\"Romans\">Rom.</abbr> <abbr title=\"fourteen\">xiv.</abbr> 1.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"de125e213d16053354f22b34a1c8d477ac23f201e660e4f4841b2ed7e05bb367","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/70561/pg70561-images.html#f1135","text_sha256":"20e99a7a69e4307e42dbc80ff5b489e8996622a9d3e0b29b2654bb37bd0b054a","verified":false,"work_id":null}