{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c006\">What I have now said, then, is offered not for the purpose of\r\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_472\">472</span>cavilling with any right opinions or sound doctrines held even\r\nby Greeks, but with the desire of showing that the same things,\r\nand indeed much better and diviner things than these, have\r\nbeen said by those divine men, the prophets of God and the\r\napostles of Jesus. These truths are fully investigated by all\r\nwho wish to attain a perfect knowledge of Christianity, and who\r\nknow that “the mouth of the righteous speaketh wisdom, and\r\nhis tongue talketh of judgment; the law of his God is in his\r\nheart.”<a id=\"r1524\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f1524\"><sup>[1524]</sup></a> But even in regard to those who, either from deficiency\r\nof knowledge or want of inclination, or from not having Jesus\r\nto lead them to a rational view of religion, have not gone into\r\nthese deep questions, we find that they believe in the Most High\r\nGod, and in His only-begotten Son, the Word and God, and that\r\nthey often exhibit in their character a high degree of gravity,\r\nof purity, and integrity; while those who call themselves wise\r\nhave despised these virtues, and have wallowed in the filth of\r\nsodomy, in lawless lust, “men with men working that which is\r\nunseemly.”<a id=\"r1525\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f1525\"><sup>[1525]</sup></a></p>","headings":["The writings of Origen, Vol. 2 of 2","BOOK VII.","Chapter XLIX."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg70693-paragraph-526"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"11b0fcf47a682ef08773bd288be6bc8c1a4d51cfead4cc75dafc762b5298de99","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":37,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Ps. xxxvii. 30","verse":30,"verse_end":30}],"headings":[],"id":"pg70693-f1524","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":"f1524","source_ebook":70693,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f1524\">\n<p class=\"c007\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r1524\">1524</a>. </span><abbr title=\"Psalms\">Ps.</abbr> <abbr title=\"thirty-seven\">xxxvii.</abbr> 30, 31.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"76ed9a9fd752c1d5095189e38fe3dcbbea0fd23d6be719db17360e4da14552fa","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/70693/pg70693-images.html#f1524","text_sha256":"09791247bde10e03dbdd07f66ae43addff565bbee4c20c6690ffecaf8c51e47a","verified":false,"work_id":null}