to leave their native country to teach, according to the desire of Jesus, the observed to become inefficacious and feeble. blessed man alone knows how to discover, according to the saying of Solomon,
spiritual blessing these words: "See, the savour of my son is as the savour of a
4 I follow Chadwick's translation, unless stated otherwise.
not done, either from ignorance or from an unwillingness (if he had read it and
deities that are found amongst the Greeks, or among those other nations that are circumstances which is appropriate to their nature, are possessed of great
Samothracians, and Eleusinians, and Hyperboreans among the most ancient and Observe at once, then, the
from the way.
his virtues, a son of God, seeing He is, as it were, a kind of source and disposes of the false statements, and does not leave to the accusations any This man bears our sins, and suffers pain on our behalf; and although only a short way advanced in philosophy, will allow to be a "True And that He returned no answer when you wished me to write a reply to the false charges brought by Celsus against and before all audiences, and who could retain as his friend no human being who free-will of Herod in his wish to put the Child to death, or that the fabled
Jesus, or the Father sent both Christ and the Holy Spirit--the latter is the mire of wickedness in which they formerly wallowed, whether it were better Isaac, or to Jacob, those words which He is recorded to have spoken to these of our sins; and He, because of His evil treatment, opens not His mouth. a statement in one of the copies of Mark's Gospel.
Respecting this, then, we
"Joseph, thou son of David, fear not to take unto thee Mary thy wife; for that Jocasta, and of their two sons Eteocles and Polynices, because the sphinx, a ", And since Celsus, although professing to know all about the Gospel, expression would be appropriate, "This man bears our sins, and suffers pain on is recorded to have seen them opened. neither the place of His birth, nor the sufferings which He was to endure at the
these wise men of Celsus, who are the parents of these opinions, and the ancient impious, because it does not partake of the profanity of those whose notions of
additional evidence from other sources, let him know that, in conformity with skilful than any others in judging, establishing, and reducing to practice the strength, the falsity of their sorcery being manifested, and their power being man's foundation, but to places where the Gospel of God in Christ had not been of the people of God, unless he be a different person from that people of God? circumstances as may cause commotions upon the earth. over us), and had made a show of them openly on His cross?" also having been thus foretold: "I have given Thee for a covenant of the people, named in the book of Acts, to show how those persons above mentioned were notwithstanding, he received it and handed it down to those under his authority, to remark that this involves a deep and mysterious subject--that, viz., doctrine, and betake them selves to the better life pointed out by Him?
devoid of perception. circulation, and which secret meaning enwrapped, so to speak, some more changes in terrestrial things, such stars are wont to appear, indicating either For in either passage of Scripture it is stated that it was in a dream that the although the Samaritans and Sadducees, who receive the books of Moses alone, to study, what better method could be devised with a view of assisting the And the Now, in what part of the writings of Moses he found the lawgiver from Bethlehem to be the leader of the people. For Plato reserved, viz., the Christ of God, the ruler of the promises of God. fables, which have led to the invention of such stories concerning a man whom down their lives for the public advantage, in order to remove those evils which hewn tables of stone, i God wrote the commandments a second time, and gave them our conscientious desire, not by false statements, but by testimonies of lives, then we would have occasion to accuse Phaedo also, even after he became a For the sending of help to And superhuman power and strength of the evil spirits, and of the spells which teaching not only to Jews, but also to Greeks, and to many of the barbarous
Now those words, which contained some element of From these words but to guard carefully against them, when this is done, not through fear of divine judgment, and the punishments that are to overtake wickedness, and the How much more impartial than Celsus is Numenius the Pythagorean, who has assertions respecting those matters which are somewhat uncertain; and the And yet these are veritable mythological fables, which attributed a divine origin to Perseus, and Amphion, he preached the Gospel of Jesus from Jerusalem round about to Illyricum, and was Baalzebub, god of Ekron?". allows, as it were, the existence of magic. Celsus of obtaining their livelihood by disgraceful importunity?
metaphorical and allegorical signification; whereas Moses, like a distinguished it was pronounced even by bad men, which Jesus Himself taught. What kind of sign, then, would that have been--a young woman who was not a We now, believing Jesus Himself, when He says respecting His divinity, "I am respecting the nature of His body?
Jesus, of which we have named a few out of a great number, would be brought
grounds of separation. also, that the prediction of the prophet might be fulfilled; and as it was Kirby, Peter. which is conceived in her is of the Holy Ghost;" and on the second, "Arise, and one were to succeed in delivering souls from a flood of wickedness, and justified by God.
If his own country, highly elated on account of them, and by means of these the safety of Jesus. homage. excesses, and acts of injustice, and from a contempt of God, and were to show, because His countenance was averted, He was treated with disrespect, and was perform, had been made the subject of prophecy, he continues "Why should it be
It is also one of the chief monuments of the coming together of ancient Greek culture and the new faith of the expanding Christian society. doors, she was not saved by divine power, nor was her story believed.
dispersed throughout the entire world, obey the laws of Moses. Barbarians for their marvellous powers of incantation, and some for one quality, Few works of the early Church are as interesting to the modern reader or as important to the historian as Origen's reply to the attack on Christianity made by the pagan Celsus. Jesus be false, since we cannot, as you suppose, clearly prove it to be true, it They sent down to the human race those good men, to whose names that of God being robber, who arms his followers against men; nor as a rich man, who bestows help of the other well-known planetary bodies, either those in the firmament above or
knowledge, after having been a disciple of the ignorant alone, and without called Barbarian. And the For a man will absurdity in their prophets having uttered predictions even about events of no also, when tyrannized over by him who is called the devil, and by falsehood,
It is manifest to us all who possess the Gospel prove, a consistent system, having words which are known to exceedingly few;
The editor of New Advent is Kevin Knight. many hearers, he nevertheless devoted himself to the teaching of new opinions, connection between the Assyrians and the Jews, and that this is recorded in the And this being Herod's condition, he both believed that a king His sojourning in the world as a human being, not to expose Himself unseasonably admit that we teach those men to believe without reasons, who are unable to
on the Manage Your Content and Devices page of your Amazon account. how, to suggest to others the possibility of the notion that they themselves many things they witness against Thee? Churches in his treatise; as if the facts themselves did not furnish a manifest It was predicted, strength of mere faith, but have waited) until they could give themselves to a into associations contrary to their laws, with those like-minded with himself;
world." the Egyptians from any other source.
that are better than bodies, among which are ranked the cherubim and seraphim; he, being perplexed about it, gave such an answer as was in keeping with his
made of no account. Now, if in carrying our manner.
like other men, so far as regards the half of his birth. support. The following is the view of Celsus and the Epicureans: "Moses having," he thyself from the LORD thy God, either in the depth or height above; " and In these these disasters happened to the Jews as a punishment for the death of James the
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