Origen: Against Celsus, Books I–VIII

τὸ τῆς ἀτελέστου τελετῆς πέρας .

ἀποῤῥοίας .

ἀπὸ ξύλου .

Eccles. i. 6 . (literally rendered). [Modern science demonstrates this physical truth.]

κατὰ τὴν πεπλανηένην ἑαυτῶν σοφίαν .

ψυχικὸν δημιουργόν .

οὐκ ἀγεννῶς .

Cf. 1 Cor. xv. 25, 26 .

Cf. 1 Cor. xv. 54; cf. Hos. xiii. 14 .

κάθοδον στενήν .

Cf. Ps. cxviii. 19, 20 .

Cf. Ps. ix. 13, 14 .

Cf. 1 Cor. xv. 22 .

[See note supra , p. 582. S.]

Cf., however, Mark vi. 3 . [Some mss. , though not of much value, have the reading here ( Mark vi. 3 ), “Is not this the carpenter’s son, the son of Mary?” Origen seems to have so read the evangelist. See Alford, in loc . S.]

αὐτόθεν .

ἄρχοντας .

ἄλλα τε, καὶ δύο ἄττα, μεῖζον τε καὶ μικρότερον υἱοῦ καὶ πατρός .

For ἄλλους , the textual reading, Gelenius, with the approval of Boherellus, proposes καὶ ἄλλου συγκειμένου , which has been followed in the translation.

ἐπὶ τοῖς αὐτοῖς ὑποκειμένοις .

Cf. Herodot., iv. 59.

ποία γὰρ πιθανότης .

For the textual reading, οὔπω δὲ οὐδὲ περὶ τῶν λοιπῶν ταὐτόν τι ἐρεῖ , Boherellus conjectures εἴρηται , which has been adopted in the translation.

For αἰσθητῶν , Lommatzsch adopts the conjecture of Boherellus, approved by Ruæus, ἐσθητων .

δόξης .

Cf. Ps. xxxiv. 7 .

Cf. Matt. xviii. 10 .

θνητά . Instead of this reading, Guietus conjectures πτηκτά , which is approved of by Ruæus.

᾽Ωγηνόν , i.e., in Oceanum, Hesych.; ᾽Ωγήν, ὠκεανός , Suid.

καὶ μὴ παραμυθησάμενος .

Cf. Iliad , i. 590 (Pope’s translation).

Cf. Iliad , xv. 18–24 (Pope’s translation).

ἀναλογίαις τισὶ συνέδησε καὶ ἐκόσμησεν ὁ Θεός .

ἀμήτωρ τις καὶ ἄχραντος δαίμων .

Cf. Gen. iii .

τὸ θηλύτερον γένος .

Cf. Ex. xii. 23 .

Cf. Lev. xvi. 8 .

ἐναντίοι ὄντες τοῖς ἁπὸ τοῦ κλήρου τοῦ Θεοῦ, ἔρημοί εἰσι Θεοῦ .

[ Judg. xix. 22 . S.]

[See the elaborate articles on the book of Job, by Canon Cook, in Dr. Smith’s Dictionary of the Bible , vol. i. pp. 1087–1100. S.]

Cf. Job i. 11 .

περιστάσεσί .

ἀγρίῳ ἐλέφαντι .

Cf. Job xl. 20 .

Cf. Ezek. xxxii. 1–28 .

Isa. xiv. 4 sqq.

πτεροῤῥυησάντων . Cf. supra , bk. iv. cap. xl. p. 516.

Cf. Prov. xxiii. 5 . [See Neander’s History of the Church , vol. ii. p. 299, with Rose’s note. S.]

Cf. 2 Tim. ii. 5 .

Cf. 1 Cor. i. 30 .

Cf. Ezek. xxviii. 15 .

Cf. Ezek. xxviii. 19 .

Cf. Dan. viii. 23 .

Cf. 2 Thess. ii. 3, 4 .

Cf. Matt. xxiv. 4, 5 .

Cf. Prov. xxvii. 19 .

ἀκρότητας .

μετά τινος ἐπικρύψεως . Cf. 2 Thess. ii. 9 .

2 Thess. ii. 1–12 .

Cf. Dan. viii. 23–25 (LXX.).

Cf. 2 Thess. ii. 4 .

Cf. Dan. ix. 27 (LXX.).

παῖδά τε αὐτοῦ καὶ ἡίθεον .

παραποιήσαντας .

[See Dr. Burton’s learned discussion as to the Logos of Plato, and the connection of Plato’s doctrines with the Gospel of the Son of God: Bampton Lectures , pp. 211–223, 537–547. See also Fisher’s Beginnings of Christianity , p. 147 (1877). S.]

Cf. Gen. ii. 24 .

Cf. 1 Cor. vi. 17 .

ἁπαξαπλῶς .

μάλα εὐηθική .

Cf. Gen. v. 1 .

ἀκατασκεύαστον .

Cf. Gen. i. 26 .

τὴν ἐκ περιστάσεως γενομένην .

Gen. iii. 24 .

γραφάς .

ἀπρόσλογα .

συνθεῖναι ληρον βαθύν .

ὅτι τίς ποτέ ἐστιν ἡ φύσις τοῦ νοῦ, καὶ τοῦ ἐν τοῖς προφήταις λόγου .

περὶ νοητῶν καὶ αἰσθητῶν .

αἱ φύσεις τῶν ἡμερῶν .

ἐν καταστάσει ἔσεσθαι ἡμέρας .

Cf. Isa. lx. 19 .

εὐκτικῶς .

ὡς ἐν ἀλλοτρίοις τοῖς τῇδε .

μακρὰν χαιρέτωσαν .

περιορᾷ .

Cf. bk. v. cap. liv.

The textual reading is, ἀπό τινων εὐτελῶς καὶ ἰδιωτικῶς , for which Ruæus reads, ἀπό τινων εὐτελῶν καὶ ἰδιωτικῶν , which emendation has been adopted in the translation.

οἱονεὶ θαυμαστικῶς .

ἀκλήρων .

σκυβάλων .

τέχνην .

ἐκ παρακολουθήσεως γεγένηται τῆς πρὸς τὰ προηγούμενα .

Cf. Ps. xxxiv. 10–14 .

Cf. Gal. i. 4 .

Cf. Eph. v. 16 .

καταχρηστικώτερον .

Cf. Job ii. 10 .

Cf. Isa. xlv. 7 .

Cf. Mic. i. 12, 13 . The rendering of the Heb. in the first clause of the thirteenth verse is different from that of the LXX.

παῤῥησίαν ἔχειν .

ὕφος .

ὀλίγα must be taken comparatively , on account of the πολλάς that follows afterwards.

πολλάς . See note 11.

τὰ ἑλικοειδῆ ξέσματα καὶ πρίσματα .

τὰ παρακείμενα .

πόνους .

Cf. Mic. i. 12 .

Cf. Ps. lxxxix. 32 .

Cf. Isa. xlvii. 14, 15 (LXX.).

Cf. Isa. xlv. 7 .

τὸ καὶ ἐπιτυγχάνειν ἐν τῷ νουθετουμένῳ καὶ ἀκούειν τὸν τοῦ διδάσκοντος λόγον .

ὡσπερεὶ τῶν καλουμένων ἀντιπεπονθότων ἐστίν .

ἀνάλογον τῷ κείρεσθαι ἄνθρωπον, ἐνεργοῦντα τὸ παρέχειν ἑαυτὸν τῷ κείροντι .

πειθοῦς δημιουργῶν .

Cf. Gal. v. 8 .

Cf. Isa. i. 19, 20 .

Cf. Deut. x. 12, 13 .

ἐνεθυμήθη , in all probability a corruption for ἐθυμώθη , which Hoeschel places in the text, and Spencer in the margin of his ed.: Heb. סחֶנָּיִּוַ .

ἐνεθυμήθην . Cf. remark in note 2.

Cf. Gen. vi. 5–7 .

Cf. Plato in Timæo .

κόσμος .

τὸν περίγειον τόπον .

Cf. John i. 9 .

Cf. John xvi. 33 .

Cf. 2 Cor. iv. 18 .

Cf. Rom. i. 20 .

ἐρηρεισμένης .

τῇδε φερομένου .

Cf. Ps. xxxiii. 9 .

τὸν προσεχῶς δημιουργόν .

αὐτουργόν .

συναγωγάς .

τὰ ὑπὸ μόνης φύσεως διοικούμενα .

τὰ νηκτά .

Cf. Gen. ii. 4 .

[ συνετέλεσεν , complevit . S.]

κατέπαυσεν .

κατέπαυσεν .

Cf. Gen. ii. 2, 3 .

ἀνεπαύσατο .

τῶν ἐπιβαλλόντων .

οὐ θέμις .

χειρουργεῖν .

Cf. Ps. xix. 1 .

Cf. Ps. cii. 25 .

Cf. Isa. i. 20 .

ἐπὶ τῶν δυνάμεων .

Cf. Ex. xx. 18 (LXX.). The Masoretic text is different.

Cf. Ps. cii. 27 .

Cf. Mal. iii. 6 .

Lev. xi. 44 .

Cf. Eph. v. 1 ( μιμηταί ).

The words as they stand in the text are probably corrupt: we have adopted in the translation the emendation of Guietus: ἔτι και ναός ἐστι τοῦ Θεοῦ το σῶμα τοῦ τοιαύτην ἔχοντος ψυχὴν, καὶ ἐν τῇ ψυχῇ διὰ τὸ κατ᾽ εἰκόνα, τὸν Θεόν .

Deut. v. 31 .

Cf. Gen. iii. 8 .

οὐσία .

πρεσβείᾳ καὶ δυνάμει .

Cf. Col. i. 15 .

[“It is a remarkable fact, that it was Origen who discerned the heresy outside the Church on its first rise, and actually gave the alarm, sixty years before Arius’s day. See Athanasius, De Decret. Nic ., § 27; also the περὶ ἀρχῶν (if Rufinus may be trusted), for Origen’s denouncement of the still more characteristic Arianism of the ἠν ὅτε οὐκ ἦν and the ἐξ οὐκ ὄντων .”— Newman’s The Arians of the Fourth Century , p. 97. See also Hagenbach’s History of Doctrines , vol. i. pp. 130–133. S.]

For αὐτοῦ Boherellus conjectures αὑτοῦ , and translates, “ Propria ipse principia , quæ sunt Epicuri, subruens .”

Rom. xi. 36 .

οὐδὲ λογῷ ἐφικτός .

εἴτε ἐνδιαθέτῳ εἴτε καὶ προφορικῷ .

John i. 1 .

οὐδὲν τῶν ἐν λέξεσι καὶ σημαινομένοις .

χειραγωγῆσαι .

κολάζεσθαι .

Cf. Matt. iv. 16 . and Isa. ix. 2 .

John xiv. 6 .

Cf. Isa. v. 20 .

ὀφθαλμούς .

ὀφθαλμούς .

σωματικῶς .

[ 2 Cor. v. 16 . S.]

Cf. John i. 14 .

Cf. John i. 14 .

εἰκότι στοχασμῷ .

δυσθεώρητος .

σύμμετρον .

For οὑτωσί we have adopted the conjecture of Guietus, τούτου .

ὡς εὐθεώρητον .

Rom. viii. 14 .

Cf. Heb. xii. 29 .

Cf. 1 Cor. iii. 12 .

πᾶσαν οὐσίαν .

πνεῦμα . There is an allusion to the two meanings of πνεῦμα , “wind” and “spirit.”

2 Cor. iii. 5, 6 .

τὴν αἰσθητὴν ἐκδοχήν .

τυπικῶς here evidently must have the above meaning.

Cf. John iv. 21, 24 .

ἐν τύποις .

Cf. 2 Cor. iii. 17 .

Cf. 1 Cor. ii. 14 .