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Origen: Against Celsus, Books I–VIII
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περιγεγραμμένον τινά .
John i. 26 .
Matt. xviii. 20 .
Matt. xxviii. 20 .
1 Cor. vi. 17 .
εἰ γὰρ κατὰ τὴν Παύλου διδασκαλίαν, λέγοντος· “ὁ κολλώμενος τῷ κυρίῳ, ἓν πνεῦμά ἐστι·” πᾶς ὁ νοησας τί τὸ κολλᾶσθαι τῷ κυρίῳ, καὶ κολληθεὶς αὐτῷ, ἕν ἐστι πνεῦμα πρὸς τὸν κύριον· πῶς οὐ πολλῷ μᾶλλον θειοτέρως καὶ μειζόνως ἕν ἐστι τό ποτε σύνθετον πρὸς τὸν λόγον τοῦ Θεοῦ ;
Matt. xii. 24 .
Matt. xxvi. 61 .
John xviii. 4 sqq.
Matt. xxvi. 52–54 .
Matt. xxvii. 3–5 .
διάπυρος καὶ σφόδρα .
ἀπίθανον .
Ps. cix. 1, 2 . [cviii. 1, 2, Sept. S.]
Ps. cix. 8 . [cviii. 8, Sept. S.]
τερετίσματα .
[See De Princip ., iv. i. 5, where Origen gives the length of our Lord’s ministry as “only a year and a few months.” S.]
Cf. Clem. Alex., Strom ., v. c. ix. [See vol. ii. pp. 457, 458. S.]
δοκούσῃ δεινότητι ῥητορικῇ .
Matt. x. 18 .
Modestinus, lib. vi. Regularum, ad legem Corneliam de Sicariis : “Circumcidere filios suos Judæis tantum rescripto divi Pii permittitur: in non ejusdem religionis qui hoc fecerit, castrantis pœna irrogatur.”
Matt. x. 18 .
Matt. xxiv. 14 .
[“Celsus quotes the writings of the disciples of Jesus concerning His life, as possessing unquestioned authority; and that these were the four canonical Gospels is proved both by the absence of all evidence to the contrary, and by the special facts which he brings forward. And not only this, but both Celsus and Porphyry appear to have been acquainted with the Pauline Epistles” (Westcott’s History of the Canon of the New Testament , pp. 464, 465, 137, 138, 401, 402). See also infra , cap. lxxiv. S.]
[ Luke xxi. 20 . S.]
ὅσα περὶ τούτου καὶ παρὰ τῷ Παύλῳ πεφιλοσόφηται .
Cf. Plato, de Rep ., x. p. 614.
Cf. Plin., Nat. Hist ., vii. c. 52.
John x. 18 .
John xix. 32, 33 .
Οὐ μόνον οὖν οὐχ ὁ νεκρὸς ἀθάνατος, ἀλλ᾽ οὐδ᾽ ὁ πρὸ τοῦ νεκροῦ ᾽Ιησοῦς ὁ σύνθετος ἀθάνατος ἦν, ὅς γε ἔμελλε τεθνήξεσθαι .
Rom. vi. 9 .
οὕτως ἀθρόως .
εὐτελέσι .
ἀργὸς λόγος .
Euripid., Phœnissæ , 18–20.
ἀντὶ τοῦ ἕσται .
Matt. xxvi. 23 .
ἁλῶν καὶ τραπέζης .
Archilochus.
Guietus would expunge these words as “inept.”
Matt. xxvi. 39 .
Matt. xxvi. 39 .
Deut. xxxii. 39 .
καὶ ταῦτα δὲ πολλὴν ἔχοντα διήγησιν ἀπὸ σοφίας Θεοῦ οἷς ὁ Παῦλος ὠνόμασε τελείοις εὐλόγως παραδοθησέμένην .
1 Cor. ii. 6 .
John viii. 40 .
The original here is probably corrupt: ῞Οτι ἐχρῆν αὐτὸν (ὣς φησι) φειδόμενον ἀνθρώπων αὐτὰς ἐκθέσθαι τὰς προφητείας, καὶ συναγορεύσαντα ταῖς πιθανότησιν αὐτῶν, τὴν φαινομένην αὐτῶν ἀνατροπὴν τῆς χρήσεως τῶν προφητικῶν ἐκθέσθαι . For φειδόμενον Boherellus would read κηδόμενον , and τὴν φαινομένην αὐτῷ ἀνατροπήν .
ὄλεθρον .
[In fulfillment of the great plan foreshadowed in Daniel, and promised by Haggai (ii. 7) , where I adhere to the Anglican version and the Vulgate.]
Ps. cvii. 20 .
Cf. Matt. xxvii. 51, 52; cf. Luke xxiii. 44, 45 .
ὦ οὗτος .
[Testimony not to be scorned.]
On Phlegon, cf. note in Migne, pp. 823, 854. [See also vol. iii. Elucidation V. p. 58.]
Eurip., Bacchæ , 498 (ed. Dindorf).
Cf. Euseb., Hist. Eccles ., bk. ii. c. vii.
Matt. xxvii. 19 .
Cf. Iliad , v. 340.
Cf. John xix. 34, 35 .
Cf. Matt. xxvii. 54 .
χανδόν .
Ps. lxix. 21 .
ὦ πιστότατοι .
τὸν Χριστόν .
τὰ ἀνθρώπων .
μαρτύρασθαι περὶ τῶν πρακτέων .
παραδόξως .
τῆς τῶν λόγων αὐτοῦ ἀκολουθίας .
ἐπιφανείας .
τὴν περὶ αὐτοῦ ἀδιάστροφον ἔννοιαν .
πόνον .
ἀγῶνα τὸν πρῶτον καὶ μέγιστον τῆς ψυχῆς .
[See Dean Plumptre’s The Spirits in Prison: Studies on the Life after Death , p. 85. S.]
τῆς κατὰ τὴν κακίαν χύσεως .
καὶ ταῦτα .
John xxi. 18, 19 .
Acts v. 41 .
The reading in the text is εἰ καὶ ἴσμεν ; for which both Bohereau and De la Rue propose ἐπεὶ ἴσμεν , which has been adopted in the translation: cf. ἐπεὶ ἐκολάσθη , infra .
Cf. Isa. xxxv. 5, 6 .
ὧν ᾽Ιησοῦς αἰσθητῶν .
φαντασιῶν .
Matt. xxiv. 23–27 .
Cf. Matt. vii. 22, 23, with Luke xiii. 26, 27 .
θειότης , lit. divinity.
2 Thess. ii. 3, 4 .
2 Thess. ii. 6–10 .
2 Thess. ii. 10–12 .
Cf. Dan. vii. 26 .
συναρπάζει τὸν λόγον .
φάσσα .
περιστερά .
[ δεήσεται . S.]
ὥστε μηδὲν διαφέρειν παραπλήσιον εἶναι λέγειν γοητειαν της ᾽Ιησοῦ τῇ Μωϋσέως .
Deut. xiii. 1–3 .
Cf. Deut. xxxiv. 5, 6 .
Cf. Herodot., iv. 95.
Cf. Herodot., ii. 122.
Cf. Herodot., ii. 122.
Cf. Diodor., iv., Bibl. Hist .
αὐτῷ σώματι . [See Mozley’s Bampton Lectures On Miracles , 3d ed., p. 297: “That a man should rise from the dead, was treated by them (the heathen) as an absolutely incredible fact.” S.]
γυνη πάροιστρος .
κατά τινα διάθεσιν ὀνειρώξας .
ἢ κατά τὴν αὐτοῦ βούλησιν δόξῃ πεπλανημένῃ φαντασιωθείς .
Cf. Ex. xxiv. 2 .
τερατείας .
πῶς οἴονται τὸ παραπλήσιον πλάσασθαι λέγειν αὐτὸν τοῖς ἱστορουμένοις , etc.
καταβεβηκέναι βιᾷ . Bohereau proposes the omission of βιᾷ .
ἐτερατεύσατο .
Cf. 1 Kings xvii. 21, 22 . [3 Kings, Sept. and Vulg. S.]
Cf. 2 Kings iv. 34, 35 . [4 Kings, Sept. and Vulg. S.]
τερατευομένοις .
τερατείαν .
[See cap. xxxiii., note, p. 455, supra .]
Isa. liii. 7 .
εἰ δὲ τὸ “ἐπήρκεσεν ” ἀπὸ τῶν μέσων καὶ σωματικῶν λαμβάνει .
τὰ μὲν οὖν γινόμενα περὶ ψυχῆς τεθνηκότων φαντάσματα ἀπό τινος ὑποκειμένου γίνεται, τοῦ κατὰ τὴν ὑφεστηκυῖαν ἐν τῷ καλουμένῳ αὐγοειδεῖ σώματι ψυχήν . Cf. note in Benedictine ed.
ὕπαρ .
ἐν σώματι ἀντιτύπῳ ἐγηγέρθαι .
ψυχῆς σῶμα .
Cf. Homer, Iliad , xxiii. 66, 67.
Cf. John xx. 27 .
Ps. xvi. 9, 10 .
John xx. 26, 27 .
Luke xxiv. 15, 31 .
Acts i. 3 .
Cf. John xx. 26 .
1 Cor. xv. 3–8 .
πλείονα τῇ ἐπινοίᾳ ἦν .
οὕτω καὶ ταῖς ὄψεσι πάντως μὲν τῆς ψυχῆς, ἐγὼ δ᾽ ἡγοῦμαι, ὅτι καὶ τοῦ σώματος .
Matt. xxvi. 48 .
Matt. xxvi. 55 .
τὸν μὴ ἀπεκδυσάμενον , etc. Cf. Alford, in loco ( Col. ii. 15 ).
διηνεκῶς .
τὴν οικονομίαν τελεσαντος .
χρήσιμον δ᾽ οἶμαι πρὸς ἀπολογίαν τῶν προκειμένων .
Cf. Rom. xiv. 9 .
1 Cor. xv. 52 .
Cf. 1 Cor. xv. 52 with 1 Thess. iv. 16 .
Cf. 1 Thess. iv. 13–15 .
1 Cor. ii. 2 .
Cf. 1 Cor. iii. 2, 3 .
οὕτω μοι νόει καὶ τὸν υἱὸν τοῦ Θεοῦ ὦφθαι τῇ παραπλησίᾳ εἰς τὸ περὶ ἐκείνων, εἰς τὸ ὦφθαι αὐτοῖς τὸν Θεόν, κρίσει .
Cf. Gen. xix. 10, 11 . [Also Jude 7 , “strange (or other ) flesh.”]
Cf. Luke xxiv. 30, 31 .
Cf. Gal. vi. 14 .
Rom. vi. 10 .
Phil. iii. 10 .
2 Tim. ii. 11 .
Cf. Rom. vi. 4 .
Luke xxiii. 53 , οὐκ ἦν οὔπω οὐδεὶς κείμενος .
John xix. 41 , ἐν ᾧ οὐδέπω οὐδεὶς ἐτέθη .
Cf. Matt. xxvii. 60 with John xix. 41 .
Cf. Luke xxiii. 53 with John xix. 41 .
τοῖς ἑαυτοῦ θιασώταις .
Matt. xxviii. 1, 2 .
Matt. xxviii. 9 .
λέγω δὲ οὐ περὶ τῶν σχέσιν πρὸς ἕτερα ἐχόντων, ἀλλὰ περὶ τῶν κατὰ διαφοράν .
ἐναντίον τὸν μὲν κολαζόμενον πᾶσιν ἑωρᾶσθαι, ἀναστάντα δὲ ἑνί . The Benedictine editor reads τὸν μὲν κολαζόμενον , and Bohereau proposes ἐναντίον τῷ κολαζόμενον μὲν , etc.
Cf. Luke x. 22 .
John i. 18 .
ὧν ἴχνη ἐν τοῖς γεγραμμένοις εὑρίσκοντες ἀφορμὰς ἔχομεν θεολογεῖν .
1 John i. 5 .
John iv. 24 .
The text is, τοὺς δὲ ἁμαρτάνοντας ἢ μεταγνόντας ἐλεήσων . Bohereau would read μὴ μεταγνόντας , or would render the passage as if the reading were ἢ ἁμαρτανόντας, ἢ μεταγνόντας . This suggestion has been adopted in the translation.
Matt. iii. 17 .
οὐδέπω δὲ λέγω, ὅτι οὐ πάντως ἐστὶν ἀὴρ πεπληγμένος· ἢ πληγὴ ἀέρος, ἢ ὅ τι ποτὲ λέγεται ἐν τοῖς περὶ φωνῆς .
Cf. Matt. xi. 28 .
αὐτοὶ γὰρ ἑαυτοῖς περιπίπτετε . [See note supra , cap. xiii. p. 437. S.]
Cf. Ex. xxxii. 4 .
The text reads ἡμῶν , for which Bohereau and the Benedictine editor propose either ὑμᾶς or ἡμᾶς , the former of which is preferred by Lommatzsch.
κατ᾽ ἀμφοτέρας τὰς ἀρχὰς τῶν πραγμάτων ἀπιστοῦντι ;
Cf. Luke xi. 48 .
Cf. Deut. xxviii. 66 .
Isa. v. 8 .
Isa. v. 11 .
Isa. v. 18 .
Isa. v. 20 .
Isa. v. 22 .
Cf. Isa. i. 4 .
Isa. i. 7 .
Ezek. ii. 6 .
Cf. Odyss ., x. 281.