{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c006\">In the next place, as if he had forgotten that it was his\r\nobject to write against the Christians, he says that, “having\r\nbecome acquainted with one Dionysius, an Egyptian musician,\r\nthe latter told him, with respect to magic arts, that it was only\r\nover the uneducated and men of corrupt morals that they had\r\nany power, while on philosophers they were unable to produce\r\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_380\">380</span>any effect, because they were careful to observe a healthy manner\r\nof life.” If, now, it had been our purpose to treat of magic,\r\nwe could have added a few remarks in addition to what we\r\nhave already said on this topic; but since it is only the more\r\nimportant matters which we have to notice in answer to Celsus,\r\nwe shall say of magic, that any one who chooses to inquire\r\nwhether philosophers were ever led captive by it or not, can\r\nread what has been written by Moiragenes regarding the\r\nmemoirs of the magician and philosopher Apollonius of Tyana,\r\nin which this individual, who is not a Christian, but a philosopher,\r\nasserts that some philosophers of no mean note were won\r\nover by the magic power possessed by Apollonius, and resorted\r\nto him as a sorcerer; and among these, I think, he especially\r\nmentioned Euphrates and a certain Epicurean. Now <i>we</i>, on\r\nthe other hand, affirm, and have learned by experience, that\r\nthey who worship the God of all things in conformity with the\r\nChristianity which comes by Jesus, and who live according to\r\nHis gospel, using night and day, continuously and becomingly,\r\nthe prescribed prayers, are not carried away either by magic or\r\ndemons. For verily “the angel of the Lord encamps round\r\nabout them that fear Him, and delivereth them”<a id=\"r1229\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f1229\"><sup>[1229]</sup></a> from all\r\nevil; and the angels of the little ones in the church, who are\r\nappointed to watch over them, are said always to behold the\r\nface of their Father who is in heaven,<a id=\"r1230\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f1230\"><sup>[1230]</sup></a> whatever be the meaning\r\nof “face” or of “behold.”</p>","headings":["The writings of Origen, Vol. 2 of 2","BOOK VI.","Chapter XLI."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg70693-paragraph-434"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"a6d77e4ddf7640889ceaedcdab6987e6ea651865870c9e5ed0e6410c928e8201","edition_title":"The writings of Origen, Vol. 2 (of 2)","edition_translators":["Frederick Crombie","W. H. Cairns"],"edition_year":1872,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"PSA","chapter":34,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Ps. xxxiv. 7","verse":7,"verse_end":7}],"headings":[],"id":"pg70693-f1229","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":"f1229","source_ebook":70693,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f1229\">\n<p class=\"c007\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r1229\">1229</a>. </span><abbr class=\"spell\">Cf.</abbr> <abbr title=\"Psalms\">Ps.</abbr> <abbr title=\"thirty-four\">xxxiv.</abbr> 7.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"76ed9a9fd752c1d5095189e38fe3dcbbea0fd23d6be719db17360e4da14552fa","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/70693/pg70693-images.html#f1229","text_sha256":"530f43047286f1968fb4913136166182634cc00860a0e47aacf996b6861ca4d8","verified":false,"work_id":null}