{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c005\">Let us notice also how he thinks to cast discredit upon our\r\nsystem of morals,<a id=\"r1141\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f1141\"><sup>[1141]</sup></a> alleging that it is only common to us with\r\nother philosophers, and no venerable or new branch of instruction.\r\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_401\">401</span>In reply to which we have to say, that unless all\r\nmen had naturally impressed upon their minds sound ideas\r\nof morality, the doctrine of the punishment of sinners would\r\nhave been excluded by those who bring upon themselves\r\nthe righteous judgments of God. It is not therefore matter\r\nof surprise that the same God should have sown in the hearts\r\nof all men those truths which He taught by the prophets\r\nand the Saviour, in order that at the divine judgment every\r\nman may be without excuse, having the “requirements<a id=\"r1142\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f1142\"><sup>[1142]</sup></a> of\r\nthe law written upon his heart,”—a truth obscurely alluded\r\nto by the Bible<a id=\"r1143\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f1143\"><sup>[1143]</sup></a> in what the Greeks regard as a myth, where\r\nit represents God as having with His own finger written\r\ndown the commandments, and given them to Moses, and\r\nwhich the wickedness of the worshippers of the calf made\r\nhim break in pieces, as if the flood of wickedness, so to speak,\r\nhad swept them away. But Moses having again hewn tables\r\nof stone, God wrote the commandments a second time, and\r\ngave them to him; the prophetic word preparing the soul, as\r\nit were, after the first transgression, for the writing of God\r\na second time.</p>","headings":["The Writings of Origen, Vol. 1 of 2","ORIGEN CONTRA CELSUM.","ORIGEN AGAINST CELSUS. BOOK I.","Chapter IV."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg70561-paragraph-402"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"aaaff191f454032f4dbcfdeb30411a4648efec540ac9a6b17099168c9659f313","edition_title":"The writings of Origen, Vol. 1 (of 2)","edition_translators":["Frederick Crombie"],"edition_year":1869,"explicit_reference_candidates":[],"headings":[],"id":"pg70561-f1141","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 1869 English translation; translator died 1889. Electronic transcription subject to Project Gutenberg reuse terms.","source_anchor":"f1141","source_ebook":70561,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f1141\">\n<p class=\"c006\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r1141\">1141</a>. </span><span lang=\"grc\">τὸν ἠθικὸν τόπον.</span></p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"de125e213d16053354f22b34a1c8d477ac23f201e660e4f4841b2ed7e05bb367","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/70561/pg70561-images.html#f1141","text_sha256":"02c7bfabae2511e6267faccbf1d3c5f8e78ed1f1f19eaaf97a4348f6a0f040c6","verified":false,"work_id":null}