{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c006\">But what need is there to point out how agreeable to sound\r\nreason, and unattended with injury either to master or slave,\r\nwas the law that one of the same faith<a id=\"r984\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f984\"><sup>[984]</sup></a> should not be allowed\r\nto continue in slavery more than six years?<a id=\"r985\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f985\"><sup>[985]</sup></a> The Jews, then,\r\ncannot be said to preserve their own law in the same points with\r\nthe other nations. For it would be censurable in them, and\r\nwould involve a charge of insensibility to the superiority of\r\ntheir law, if they were to believe that they had been legislated\r\nfor in the same way as the other nations among the heathen.\r\nAnd although Celsus will not admit it, the Jews nevertheless <i>are</i>\r\npossessed of a wisdom superior not only to that of the multitude,\r\nbut also of those who have the appearance of philosophers;\r\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_314\">314</span>because those who engage in philosophical pursuits, after the\r\nutterance of the most venerable philosophical sentiments, fall\r\naway into the worship of idols and demons, whereas the very\r\nlowest Jew directs his look to the Supreme God alone; and\r\nthey do well, indeed, so far as this point is concerned, to pride\r\nthemselves thereon, and to keep aloof from the society of others\r\nas accursed and impious. And would that they had not sinned,\r\nand transgressed the law, and slain the prophets in former\r\ntimes, and in these latter days conspired against Jesus, that we\r\nmight be in possession of a pattern of a heavenly city which\r\neven Plato would have sought to describe; although I doubt\r\nwhether he could have accomplished as much as was done by\r\nMoses and those who followed him, who nourished a “chosen\r\ngeneration,” and “a holy nation,” dedicated to God, with words\r\nfree from all superstition.</p>","headings":["The writings of Origen, Vol. 2 of 2","BOOK V.","Chapter XLIII."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg70693-paragraph-370"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"7834246e8f3c947d8bb3fd87992b468185df6bfac2ef3a36bb442604a26f923a","edition_title":"The writings of Origen, Vol. 2 (of 2)","edition_translators":["Frederick Crombie","W. H. Cairns"],"edition_year":1872,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"JER","chapter":34,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Jer. xxxiv. 14","verse":14,"verse_end":14}],"headings":[],"id":"pg70693-f985","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":"f985","source_ebook":70693,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f985\">\n<p class=\"c007\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r985\">985</a>. </span><abbr class=\"spell\">Cf.</abbr> <abbr title=\"Exodus\">Ex.</abbr> <abbr title=\"twenty-one\">xxi.</abbr> 2 and <abbr title=\"Jeremiah\">Jer.</abbr> <abbr title=\"thirty-four\">xxxiv.</abbr> 14.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"76ed9a9fd752c1d5095189e38fe3dcbbea0fd23d6be719db17360e4da14552fa","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/70693/pg70693-images.html#f985","text_sha256":"3ce60903ce52e71490fb64fa9196de4c9be27f7f863dbcd1891defe434622616","verified":false,"work_id":null}