{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c006\">The disciples of Pythagoras, too, and of Plato, although they\r\nappear to hold the incorruptibility of the world, yet fall into\r\nsimilar errors. For as the planets, after certain definite cycles,\r\nassume the same positions, and hold the same relations to one\r\nanother, all things on earth will, they assert, be like what they\r\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_290\">290</span>were at the time when the same state of planetary relations\r\nexisted in the world. From this view it necessarily follows,\r\nthat when, after the lapse of a lengthened cycle, the planets\r\ncome to occupy towards each other the same relations which\r\nthey occupied in the time of Socrates, Socrates will again be\r\nborn of the same parents, and suffer the same treatment, being\r\naccused by Anytus and Melitus, and condemned by the Council\r\nof Areopagus! The learned among the Egyptians, moreover,\r\nhold similar views, and yet they are treated with respect, and\r\ndo not incur the ridicule of Celsus and such as he; while we,\r\nwho maintain that all things are administered by God in proportion\r\nto the relation of the free-will of each individual, and are\r\never being brought into a better condition, so far as they admit\r\nof being so,<a id=\"r923\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f923\"><sup>[923]</sup></a> and who know that the nature of our free-will admits\r\nof the occurrence of contingent events<a id=\"r924\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f924\"><sup>[924]</sup></a> (for it is incapable\r\nof receiving the wholly unchangeable character of God), yet\r\ndo not appear to say anything worthy of a testing examination.</p>","headings":["The writings of Origen, Vol. 2 of 2","BOOK V.","Chapter XXI."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg70693-paragraph-348"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"b1a8f9734c22fa3cd3c04168ee93f026f3505096ca2f2b44cfa1d6514c82e758","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-f923","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":"f923","source_ebook":70693,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f923\">\n<p class=\"c007\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r923\">923</a>. </span><span lang=\"grc\">κατὰ τὸ ἐνδεχόμενον.</span></p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"76ed9a9fd752c1d5095189e38fe3dcbbea0fd23d6be719db17360e4da14552fa","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/70693/pg70693-images.html#f923","text_sha256":"fb178eee45fa3c4167651d80cc08347409771245ec7aecfec28575838d67f845","verified":false,"work_id":null}