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Origen: Against Celsus, Books I–VIII
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Book VIII — Translator and historical edition notes (part 11)
Thucyd., book i. sect. lxx.
Gal. iv. 10, 11 .
Col. ii. 16 . The whole passage in the English version is, “Let no man judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holyday ” ( ἐν μέρει ἑορτῆς ). Origen’s interpretation is not followed by any modern expositors. It is adopted by Chrysostom and Theodoret.
[Dr. Hessey notes this as “a curious comment” of Origen’s on St. Paul’s language: Bampton Lectures, On Sunday: its Origin, History, and Present Obligation , pp. 48, 286–289, 4th ed. S.]
Deut. xvi. 3 .
Ex. xii. 8 .
Lev. xvi. 29 .
Gal. v. 17 .
1 Cor. viii. 4, 11 .
[See Liddon’s Bampton Lectures on The Divinity of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ , p. 383, where it is pointed out that “Origen often insists upon the worship of Christ as being a Christian duty.” S.]
Isa. ix. 6 (LXX.).
Ps. xxvii. 1, 3 .
Rom. xiv. 21 .
Rom. xiv. 15 .
1 Cor. viii. 13 .
Matt. xv. 11, 17–19 .
1 Cor. viii. 8 .
Acts xv. 28, 29 . It was at Jerusalem.
Acts xv. 28, 29 . It was at Jerusalem.
[Sextus, or Xystus. See note of Spencer in Migne. S.]
[ 1 Cor. xv. 35 . S.]
Ps. lxxviii. 49 .
Wisdom of Sol. xvii. 1 .
1 Cor. x. 31 .
Col. iii. 17 .
1 Tim. iv. 4, 5 .
Gen. i. 11 .
Heb. iv. 14 .
Dan. vii. 10 .
Heb. i. 14 .
Matt. xviii. 10 .
Ps. xxxiv. 7 .
Eph. vi. 11 .
Eph. vi. 12 .
Matt. v. 44, 45 .
Ps. vii. 3–5 .
Ps. xxxiv. 7 .
Matt. xviii. 10 .
John xiv. 30 .
[A very express testimony in favour “of speaking in the congregation in such a tongue as the people understandeth” (Art. XXIV. of Church of England). See Rev. H. Cary’s Testimonies of the Fathers of the First Four Centuries , etc., p. 287, Oxford, 1835. S.]
Ex. xxii. 28 [ θεοὺς οὐ κακολογήσεις , Sept. S.].
Rom. xii. 14 .
1 Cor. vi. 10 .
“The mills of the gods grind slowly, but they grind to powder” (Plutarch): [ De Sera Numinis Vindicta , sect. iii. S.]
Hom. Il ., xx. 308.
Deut. xxiv. 16 .
Jer. xxxi. 30 .
Ezek. xviii. 20 .
Ex. xx. 5 .
Ezek. xviii. 2–4 .
1 Cor. vi. 10 .
Luke xxiii. 21, 25 .
ἀγγελμάτων . Spencer reads ἀγαλμάτων in this and the following sentences.
John xii. 24 .
Rom. viii. 32 .
Euripides, Hippolytus , 612.
Isa. xxxviii. 19 (according to the LXX.).
[ 2 Kings iv. 17 . 4 Kings, Sept. and Vulg. S.]
φιλόσοφον .
Ecclus. x. 19 . In the LXX. the last clause is, “What is a dishonourable seed? They that transgress the commandments.”
[ Eccles. viii. 11 . See cap. xl., supra . De Maistre has admirably annotated Plutarch’s Delay of the Divine Judgment .]
καταληπτικὴ φαντασία .
Lam. iii. 34 .
Isa. xlix. 9 .
Isa. ix. 2 .
Ps. ii. 3 .
Luke xiii. 11, 16 .
Rom. vii. 24 .
Ps. cxvi. 15 .
Isa. liii. 12 .
Eph. vi. 11 .
Ps. xxvi. 2 .
2 Tim. ii. 5 .
Matt. iv. 9, 10 .
Phil. ii. 10, 11 .
[Observe this traditional objection to incense. Comp. vol. ii. p. 532.]
Acts x. 38 .
Rom. xiii. 1, 2 .
Ps. cxlviii. 3 .
Homer’s Iliad , ii. 547, 548.
[“Origen pointed out that hymns were addressed only to God and to His Only-begotten Word, who is also God.…The hymnody of the primitive Church protected and proclaimed the truths which she taught and cherished.”— Liddon’s Bampton Lectures, On the Divinity of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ , pp. 385, 386. S.]
Ps. civ. 15 .
Homer’s Iliad , ii. 205.
Dan. ii. 21 .
Ecclus. x. 4 . (LXX.).
Matt. xviii. 19 .
Ex. xiv. 14 .
[Comp. Cowper, Task , book vi., sub finem .]
Luke xiv. 34, 35; Matt. v. 13 .
John xvi. 33 .
Phil. iv. 13 .
Matt. x. 29, 30 .
Zeph. iii. 7–13 .
“A language to last as long as the world.”— Bouhéreau .
Eph. vi. 11 .
1 Tim. ii. 1, 2 .
Luke xix. 17 .
Ps. lxxxii. 1, 7 .
σύστημα πατρίδος . [A very notable passage as to the autonomy of the primitive Churches in their divers nations.]