{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c006\">And I have not yet spoken of the other evils which prevail\r\namongst men, from which even those who have the appearance\r\nof philosophers are not speedily freed, for in philosophy there\r\nare many pretenders. Nor do I say anything on the point that\r\nmany such evils are found to exist among those who are neither\r\nJews nor Christians. Of a truth, such evil practices do not at\r\nall prevail among <i>Christians</i>, if you properly examine what constitutes\r\na Christian. Or, if any persons of that kind should be\r\ndiscovered, they are at least not to be found among those who\r\nfrequent the assemblies, and come to the public prayers, without\r\ntheir being excluded from them, unless it should happen,\r\nand that rarely, that some one individual of such a character\r\nescapes notice in the crowd. We, then, are not worms who\r\nassemble together; who take our stand against the Jews on\r\nthose Scriptures which they believe to be divine, and who show\r\nthat He who was spoken of in prophecy <i>has</i> come, and that\r\n<i>they</i> have been abandoned on account of the greatness of their\r\nsins, and that <i>we</i> who have accepted the Word have the highest\r\nhopes in God, both because of our faith in Him, and of His\r\nability to receive us into His communion pure from all evil and\r\nwickedness of life. If a man, then, should call himself a Jew\r\nor a Christian, he would not say without qualification that God\r\nhad made the whole world, and the vault of heaven<a id=\"r570\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f570\"><sup>[570]</sup></a> for us in\r\nparticular. But if a man is, as Jesus taught, pure in heart,\r\nand meek, and peaceful, and cheerfully submits to dangers for\r\nthe sake of his religion, such an one might reasonably have confidence\r\nin God, and with a full apprehension of the word contained\r\nin the prophecies, might say this also: “All these things\r\nhas God shown beforehand, and announced to us who believe.”</p>","headings":["The writings of Origen, Vol. 2 of 2","BOOK IV.","Chapter XXVII."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg70693-paragraph-246"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"2ab8178a77b78cce8b1d03bed89c5048b72bd05d2c02ee2671e8b4f342bb8364","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-f570","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":"f570","source_ebook":70693,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f570\">\n<p class=\"c007\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r570\">570</a>. </span><span lang=\"grc\">τὴν οὐράνιον φοράν.</span></p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"76ed9a9fd752c1d5095189e38fe3dcbbea0fd23d6be719db17360e4da14552fa","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/70693/pg70693-images.html#f570","text_sha256":"9af79e0664a37891ffce41e6b6e7e4dd39558e5488da64df3b514af3be7a9bcc","verified":false,"work_id":null}