{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c005\">Celsus next proceeds to say, that the system of doctrine, viz.\r\nJudaism, upon which Christianity depends, was barbarous in\r\nits origin. And with an appearance of fairness, he does not\r\nreproach Christianity<a id=\"r1140\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f1140\"><sup>[1140]</sup></a> because of its origin among barbarians,\r\nbut gives the latter credit for their ability in discovering [such]\r\ndoctrines. To this, however, he adds the statement, that the\r\nGreeks are more skilful than any others in judging, establishing,\r\nand reducing to practice the discoveries of barbarous\r\nnations. Now this is our answer to his allegations, and our\r\ndefence of the truths contained in Christianity, that if any\r\none were to come from the study of Grecian opinions and\r\nusages to the gospel, he would not only decide that its doctrines\r\nwere true, but would by practice establish their truth,\r\nand supply whatever seemed wanting, from a Grecian point\r\nof view, to their demonstration, and thus confirm the truth\r\nof Christianity. We have to say, moreover, that the gospel\r\nhas a demonstration of its own, more divine than any established\r\nby Grecian dialectics. And this diviner method is\r\ncalled by the apostle the “manifestation of the Spirit and of\r\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_400\">400</span>power:” of “the Spirit,” on account of the prophecies, which\r\nare sufficient to produce faith in any one who reads them,\r\nespecially in those things which relate to Christ; and of\r\n“power,” because of the signs and wonders which we must\r\nbelieve to have been performed, both on many other grounds,\r\nand on this, that traces of them are still preserved among\r\nthose who regulate their lives by the precepts of the gospel.</p>","headings":["The Writings of Origen, Vol. 1 of 2","ORIGEN CONTRA CELSUM.","ORIGEN AGAINST CELSUS. BOOK I.","Chapter II."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg70561-paragraph-400"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"d87b2910dd4014ddc4d1569207b955d6f3907f02e90d7372ed676575eeec039e","edition_title":"The writings of Origen, Vol. 1 (of 2)","edition_translators":["Frederick Crombie"],"edition_year":1869,"explicit_reference_candidates":[],"headings":[],"id":"pg70561-f1140","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":"f1140","source_ebook":70561,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f1140\">\n<p class=\"c006\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r1140\">1140</a>. </span><span lang=\"grc\">τῷ λόγῳ.</span></p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"de125e213d16053354f22b34a1c8d477ac23f201e660e4f4841b2ed7e05bb367","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/70561/pg70561-images.html#f1140","text_sha256":"9a028bfaadbc07953200f5a969a1e0569f516fc1b7e14db331c895bb8648a5f3","verified":false,"work_id":null}