{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c006\">He says, indeed, that “we ridicule the Egyptians, although\r\nthey present many by no means contemptible mysteries<a id=\"r294\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f294\"><sup>[294]</sup></a> for\r\nour consideration, when they teach us that such rites are acts\r\nof worship offered to eternal ideas, and not, as the multitude\r\nthink, to ephemeral animals; and that we are silly, because we\r\nintroduce nothing nobler than the goats and dogs of the Egyptian\r\nworship in our narratives about Jesus.” Now to this we\r\nreply, “Good sir,<a id=\"r295\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f295\"><sup>[295]</sup></a> [suppose that] you are right in eulogizing\r\nthe fact that the Egyptians present to view many by no means\r\ncontemptible mysteries, and obscure explanations about the\r\nanimals [worshipped] among them, you nevertheless do not act\r\nconsistently in accusing us as if you believed that <i>we</i> had\r\nnothing to state which was worthy of consideration, but that all\r\n<i>our</i> doctrines were contemptible and of no account, seeing we\r\nunfold<a id=\"r296\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f296\"><sup>[296]</sup></a> the narratives concerning Jesus according to the\r\n‘wisdom of the word’ to those who are ‘perfect’ in Christianity.\r\nRegarding whom, as being competent to understand\r\nthe wisdom that is in Christianity, Paul says: ‘We speak\r\nwisdom among them that are perfect; yet not the wisdom of\r\nthis world, nor of the princes of this world, who come to nought,\r\nbut we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, even the\r\nhidden wisdom which God ordained before the world unto our\r\nglory, which none of the princes of this world knew.’”<a id=\"r297\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f297\"><sup>[297]</sup></a></p>","headings":["The writings of Origen, Vol. 2 of 2","BOOK III.","Chapter XIX."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg70693-paragraph-151"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"c994fcf7fa8539355825f0dbc90c1333b5aaf56c28de6d9c1e35f0ba33635dd0","edition_title":"The writings of Origen, Vol. 2 (of 2)","edition_translators":["Frederick Crombie","W. H. Cairns"],"edition_year":1872,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"1CO","chapter":2,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"1 Cor. ii. 6-8","verse":6,"verse_end":8}],"headings":[],"id":"pg70693-f297","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":"f297","source_ebook":70693,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f297\">\n<p class=\"c007\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r297\">297</a>. </span>1 <abbr title=\"Corinthians\">Cor.</abbr> <abbr title=\"two\">ii.</abbr> 6-8.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"76ed9a9fd752c1d5095189e38fe3dcbbea0fd23d6be719db17360e4da14552fa","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/70693/pg70693-images.html#f297","text_sha256":"43eb8cd44b44af28f600b0037b7de75ec7457d4d80f8371c490ae2eab9501f5f","verified":false,"work_id":null}