{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c006\">Celsus next relates other fables, to the effect that “certain\r\npersons return to the shapes of the archontics,<a id=\"r1203\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f1203\"><sup>[1203]</sup></a> so that some are\r\ncalled lions, others bulls, others dragons, or eagles, or bears, or\r\ndogs.” We found also in the Diagram which we possessed,\r\nand which Celsus called the “square pattern,” the statements<a id=\"r1204\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f1204\"><sup>[1204]</sup></a>\r\nmade by these unhappy beings concerning the gates of Paradise.\r\nThe flaming sword was depicted as the diameter of a flaming\r\ncircle, and as if mounting guard over the tree of knowledge and\r\nof life. Celsus, however, either would not or could not repeat\r\nthe harangues which, according to the fables of these impious\r\nindividuals, are represented as spoken at each of the gates by\r\nthose who pass through them; but this we have done in order\r\nto show to Celsus and those who read his treatise, that we know\r\nthe depth of these unhallowed mysteries,<a id=\"r1205\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f1205\"><sup>[1205]</sup></a> and that they are\r\nfar removed from the worship which Christians offer up to\r\nGod.</p>","headings":["The writings of Origen, Vol. 2 of 2","BOOK VI.","Chapter XXXIII."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg70693-paragraph-426"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"de25cf455356807dc833d9dd009a54ff390f8fe9f14c568a2e8ab53a1af02387","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-f1204","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":"f1204","source_ebook":70693,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f1204\">\n<p class=\"c007\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r1204\">1204</a>. </span>Guietus thinks that some word has been omitted here, as <span lang=\"grc\">ξίφος</span>, which\r\nseems very probable.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"76ed9a9fd752c1d5095189e38fe3dcbbea0fd23d6be719db17360e4da14552fa","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/70693/pg70693-images.html#f1204","text_sha256":"23cb23892f6c7e8c390e85b93941fc5dd215de6ad10ab147c90ba849432b3eb8","verified":false,"work_id":null}