{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c006\">Now the reason why circumcision is practised among the\r\nJews is not the same as that which explains its existence among\r\nthe Egyptians and Colchians, and therefore it is not to be considered\r\nthe same circumcision. And as he who sacrifices does\r\nnot sacrifice to the same god, although he appears to perform\r\nthe rite of sacrifice in a similar manner, and he who offers up\r\nprayer does not pray to the same divinity, although he asks the\r\nsame things in his supplication; so, in the same way, if one performs\r\nthe rite of circumcision, it by no means follows that it is\r\nnot a different act from the circumcision performed upon another.\r\nFor the purpose, and the law, and the wish of him who\r\nperforms the rite, place the act in a different category. But\r\nthat the whole subject may be still better understood, we have\r\nto remark that the term for “righteousness”<a id=\"r991\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f991\"><sup>[991]</sup></a> is the same\r\namong all the Greeks; but righteousness is shown to be one\r\nthing according to the view of Epicurus; and another according\r\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_318\">318</span>to the Stoics, who deny the threefold division of the soul;\r\nand a different thing again according to the followers of Plato,\r\nwho hold that righteousness is the proper business of the parts\r\nof the soul.<a id=\"r992\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f992\"><sup>[992]</sup></a> And so also the “courage”<a id=\"r993\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f993\"><sup>[993]</sup></a> of Epicurus is\r\none thing, who would undergo some labours in order to escape\r\nfrom a greater number; and a different thing that of the\r\nphilosopher of the Porch, who would choose all virtue for its\r\nown sake; and a different thing still that of Plato, who maintains\r\nthat virtue itself is the act of the irascible part of the soul,\r\nand who assigns to it a place about the breast.<a id=\"r994\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f994\"><sup>[994]</sup></a> And so circumcision\r\nwill be a different thing according to the varying\r\nopinions of those who undergo it. But on such a subject it is\r\nunnecessary to speak on this occasion in a treatise like the\r\npresent; for whoever desires to see what led us to the subject,\r\ncan read what we have said upon it in the Epistle of Paul to\r\nthe Romans.</p>","headings":["The writings of Origen, Vol. 2 of 2","BOOK V.","Chapter XLVII."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg70693-paragraph-374"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"1653013d0be64b5f49c988e1230b79277c5fd666621fedbe850e60bc7de84244","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-f992","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":"f992","source_ebook":70693,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f992\">\n<p class=\"c007\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r992\">992</a>. </span><span lang=\"grc\">ἰδιοπραγίαν τῶν μερῶν τῆς ψυχῆς.</span></p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"76ed9a9fd752c1d5095189e38fe3dcbbea0fd23d6be719db17360e4da14552fa","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/70693/pg70693-images.html#f992","text_sha256":"4e48eed853bb5cad526ca81c7c16c2c25d92b1e0dcabd219634428a5fb86c825","verified":false,"work_id":null}