{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c006\">“But,” continues Celsus, “what great deeds did Jesus perform\r\nas being a God? Did he put his enemies to shame, or\r\nbring to a ridiculous conclusion what was designed against\r\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_38\">38</span>him?” Now to this question, although we are able to show\r\nthe striking and miraculous character of the events which befell\r\nHim, yet from what other source can we furnish an answer\r\nthan from the Gospel narratives, which state that “there was\r\nan earthquake, and that the rocks were split asunder, and the\r\ntombs opened, and the veil of the temple rent in twain from\r\ntop to bottom, and that darkness prevailed in the day-time, the\r\nsun failing to give light?”<a id=\"r109\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f109\"><sup>[109]</sup></a> But if Celsus believe the Gospel\r\naccounts when he thinks that he can find in them matter of\r\ncharge against the Christians, and refuse to believe them when\r\nthey establish the divinity of Jesus, our answer to him is: “Sir,<a id=\"r110\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f110\"><sup>[110]</sup></a>\r\neither disbelieve all the Gospel narratives, and then no longer\r\nimagine that you can found charges upon them; or, in yielding\r\nyour belief to their statements, look in admiration on the Logos\r\nof God, who became incarnate, and who desired to confer\r\nbenefits upon the whole human race. And this feature\r\nevinces the nobility of the work of Jesus, that, down to the\r\npresent time, those whom God wills are healed by His name.\r\nAnd with regard to the eclipse in the time of Tiberius Cæsar,\r\nin whose reign Jesus appears to have been crucified, and\r\nthe great earthquakes which then took place, Phlegon too, I\r\nthink, has written in the thirteenth or fourteenth book of his\r\nChronicles.”<a id=\"r111\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f111\"><sup>[111]</sup></a></p>","headings":["The writings of Origen, Vol. 2 of 2","BOOK II.","Chapter XXXIII."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg70693-paragraph-76"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"f53b9b42668fe55304312c8a5571a00e4a1db71a1d8c88254e61aba0b0deae26","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-f111","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":"f111","source_ebook":70693,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f111\">\n<p class=\"c007\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r111\">111</a>. </span>On Phlegon, <abbr class=\"spell\">cf.</abbr> note in Migne, <abbr title=\"pages\">pp.</abbr> 823, 854.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"76ed9a9fd752c1d5095189e38fe3dcbbea0fd23d6be719db17360e4da14552fa","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/70693/pg70693-images.html#f111","text_sha256":"11ca8e27eb01d68fbb569ff407320d16401afccc55b94f35c9382f26ac9ce783","verified":false,"work_id":null}