{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c005\">17. In the passages containing the commandments also,\r\nsimilar things are found. For in the law Moses is commanded\r\nto destroy every male that is not circumcised on the\r\neighth day, which is exceedingly incongruous,<a id=\"r940\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f940\"><sup>[940]</sup></a> since it would\r\nbe necessary, if it were related that the law was executed\r\naccording to the history, to command those parents to be\r\npunished who did not circumcise their children, and also\r\nthose who were the nurses of little children. The declaration\r\nof Scripture now is, “The uncircumcised male, <i>i.e.</i> who\r\nshall not have been circumcised, shall be cut off from his\r\npeople.”<a id=\"r941\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f941\"><sup>[941]</sup></a> And if we are to inquire regarding the impossibilities\r\nof the law, we find an animal called the goat-stag,<a id=\"r942\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f942\"><sup>[942]</sup></a>\r\nwhich cannot possibly exist, but which, as being in the number\r\nof clean beasts, Moses commands to be eaten; and a griffin,<a id=\"r943\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f943\"><sup>[943]</sup></a>\r\nwhich no one ever remembers or heard of as yielding to\r\nhuman power, but which the legislator forbids to be used for\r\nfood. Respecting the celebrated<a id=\"r944\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f944\"><sup>[944]</sup></a> observance of the Sabbath\r\nalso he thus speaks: “Ye shall sit, every one in your dwellings;\r\nno one shall move from his place on the Sabbath-day.”<a id=\"r945\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f945\"><sup>[945]</sup></a>\r\nWhich precept it is impossible to observe literally; for no\r\nman can sit a whole day so as not to move from the place\r\nwhere he sat down. With respect to each one of these points\r\nnow, those who belong to the circumcision, and all who would\r\nhave no more meaning to be found in sacred Scripture than\r\nwhat is indicated by the letter, consider that there should be\r\nno investigation regarding the goat-stag, and the griffin, and\r\nthe vulture; and they invent some empty and trifling tales\r\nabout the Sabbath, drawn from some traditional sources or\r\nother, alleging that every one’s place is computed to him\r\nwithin two thousand cubits.<a id=\"r946\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f946\"><sup>[946]</sup></a> Others, again, among whom is\r\nDositheus the Samaritan, censure indeed expositions of this\r\nkind, but themselves lay down something more ridiculous,\r\nviz. that each one must remain until the evening in the\r\nposture, place, or position in which he found himself on the\r\nSabbath-day; <i>i.e.</i> if found sitting, he is to sit the whole day,\r\nor if reclining, he is to recline the whole day. Moreover,\r\nthe injunction which runs, “Bear no burden on the Sabbath-day,”<a id=\"r947\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f947\"><sup>[947]</sup></a>\r\nseems to me an impossibility. For the Jewish doctors,\r\nin consequence of these [prescriptions], have betaken themselves,\r\nas the holy apostle says, to innumerable fables, saying\r\nthat it is not accounted a burden if a man wear shoes without\r\nnails, but that it is a burden if shoes with nails be worn;\r\nand that if it be carried on one shoulder, they consider it a\r\nburden; but if on both, they declare it to be none.</p>","headings":["The Writings of Origen, Vol. 1 of 2","ORIGEN DE PRINCIPIIS.","BOOK IV.","FROM THE LATIN."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg70561-paragraph-320"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"a6dcca25110e238739375d44930c216fba10f89d2c1dc7a829866530ac1d9fcc","edition_title":"The writings of Origen, Vol. 1 (of 2)","edition_translators":["Frederick Crombie"],"edition_year":1869,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"DEU","chapter":14,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Deut. xiv. 5","verse":5,"verse_end":5}],"headings":[],"id":"pg70561-f942","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. 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