{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c006\">Celsus, however, shows that he has read a good many\r\nGrecian histories, when he quotes further what is told of Cleomedes\r\nof Astypalea, “who,” he relates, “entered into an ark,\r\nand although shut up within it, was not found therein, but\r\nthrough some arrangement of the divinity, flew out, when\r\ncertain persons had cut open the ark in order to apprehend\r\nhim.” Now this story, if an invention, as it appears to be,\r\ncannot be compared with what is related of Jesus, since in\r\nthe lives of such men there is found no indication of their\r\npossessing the divinity which is ascribed to them; whereas the\r\ndivinity of Jesus is established both by the existence of the\r\nchurches of the saved,<a id=\"r349\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f349\"><sup>[349]</sup></a> and by the prophecies uttered concerning\r\nHim, and by the cures wrought in His name, and by\r\nthe wisdom and knowledge which are in Him, and the deeper\r\ntruths which are discovered by those who know how to ascend\r\nfrom a simple faith, and to investigate the meaning which lies\r\nin the divine Scriptures, agreeably to the injunctions of Jesus,\r\nwho said, “Search the Scriptures,”<a id=\"r350\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f350\"><sup>[350]</sup></a> and to the wish of Paul,\r\nwho taught that “we ought to know how to answer every\r\nman;”<a id=\"r351\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f351\"><sup>[351]</sup></a> nay, also of him who said, “Be ready always to give\r\nan answer to every man that asketh of you a reason of the\r\nfaith<a id=\"r352\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f352\"><sup>[352]</sup></a> that is in you.”<a id=\"r353\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f353\"><sup>[353]</sup></a> If he wishes to have it conceded, however,\r\nthat it is not a fiction, let him show with what object this\r\nsupernatural power made him, through some arrangement of\r\nthe divinity, flee from the ark. For if he will adduce any\r\nreason worthy of consideration, and point out any purpose\r\nworthy of God in conferring such a power on Cleomedes, we\r\nwill decide on the answer which we ought to give; but if he\r\nfail to say anything convincing on the point, clearly because no\r\nreason <i>can</i> be discovered, then we shall either speak slightingly\r\nof the story to those who have not accepted it, and charge it\r\nwith being false, or we shall say that some demoniac power,\r\ncasting a glamour over the eyes, produced, in the case of the\r\nAstypalean, a result like that which is produced by the performers\r\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_115\">115</span>of juggling tricks,<a id=\"r354\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f354\"><sup>[354]</sup></a> while Celsus thinks that with\r\nrespect to him he has spoken like an oracle, when he said\r\nthat “by some divine arrangement he flew away from the\r\nark.”</p>","headings":["The writings of Origen, Vol. 2 of 2","BOOK III.","Chapter XXXIII."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg70693-paragraph-166"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"d43dd2eec60c8571a026d3463f0cca44ebd08b68da5180cb08a56f2a6196a955","edition_title":"The writings of Origen, Vol. 2 (of 2)","edition_translators":["Frederick Crombie","W. H. Cairns"],"edition_year":1872,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"JHN","chapter":5,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"John v. 39","verse":39,"verse_end":39}],"headings":[],"id":"pg70693-f350","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":"f350","source_ebook":70693,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f350\">\n<p class=\"c007\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r350\">350</a>. </span>John <abbr title=\"five\">v.</abbr> 39.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"76ed9a9fd752c1d5095189e38fe3dcbbea0fd23d6be719db17360e4da14552fa","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/70693/pg70693-images.html#f350","text_sha256":"d876464996623be2d94eb5b974a01c92f55f646d2351eafe0a247b612c88fa17","verified":false,"work_id":null}