{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c007\">Now we have proved that many foolish assertions, opposed to\r\nthe narratives of our Gospels, occur in the statements of the\r\nJew, either with respect to Jesus or ourselves. And I do not\r\nthink that he has shown that “we fall upon our own swords;”\r\nbut he only so imagines. And when the Jew adds, in a general\r\nway, this to his former remarks: “O most high and heavenly\r\none! what God, on appearing to men, is received with incredulity?”\r\nwe must say to him, that according to the accounts in\r\nthe law of Moses, God is related to have visited the Hebrews\r\nin a most public manner, not only in the signs and wonders\r\nperformed in Egypt, and also in the passage of the Red Sea,\r\nand in the pillar of fire and cloud of light, but also when the\r\nDecalogue was announced to the whole people, and yet was\r\nreceived with incredulity by those who saw these things:\r\nfor had they believed what they saw and heard, they would\r\nnot have fashioned the calf, nor changed their own glory into\r\nthe likeness of a grass-eating calf; nor would they have said to\r\none another with reference to the calf, “These be thy gods,\r\nO Israel, who brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.”<a id=\"r222\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f222\"><sup>[222]</sup></a>\r\nAnd observe whether it is not entirely in keeping with the\r\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_78\">78</span>character of the same people, who formerly refused to believe\r\nsuch wonders and such appearances of divinity, throughout\r\nthe whole period of wandering in the wilderness, as they are\r\nrecorded in the law of the Jews to have done, to refuse to be\r\nconvinced also, on occasion of the glorious advent of Jesus, by\r\nthe mighty words which were spoken by Him with authority,\r\nand the marvels which He performed in the presence of all the\r\npeople.</p>","headings":["The writings of Origen, Vol. 2 of 2","BOOK II.","Chapter LXXIV."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg70693-paragraph-122"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"8b60c4138e59698a2ad119270342810f3999d77e7cb83688e39bda6e94b1bb10","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-f222","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":"f222","source_ebook":70693,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f222\">\n<p class=\"c007\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r222\">222</a>. </span><abbr class=\"spell\">Cf.</abbr> <abbr title=\"Exodus\">Ex.</abbr> <abbr title=\"thirty-two\">xxxii.</abbr> 4.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"76ed9a9fd752c1d5095189e38fe3dcbbea0fd23d6be719db17360e4da14552fa","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/70693/pg70693-images.html#f222","text_sha256":"18ddea501ed6eb52764cedeb8ee01e1270eebee8569651fcbf3150bdd43dc3a1","verified":false,"work_id":null}