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Chapter
LXIX.
After this, Celsus, confusing together the Christian
doctrine and the opinions of some heretical sect, and bringing them
forward as charges that were applicable to all who believe in the
divine word, says: “Such a body as yours could not
have belonged to
God.” Now, in answer to this, we have to say that Jesus, on
entering into the world, assumed, as one born of a woman, a human body,
and one which was capable of suffering a natural death. For which
reason, in addition to others, we say that He was also a great
wrestler;3207
having, on account
of His human body, been tempted in all respects like other men, but no
longer as men, with sin as a consequence, but being altogether without
sin. For it is distinctly clear to us that “He did no sin,
neither was guile found in His mouth; and as one who knew no
sin,”3208
God delivered Him
up as pure for all who had sinned. Then Celsus says:
“The body of god would not have been so generated as you, O
Jesus, were.” He saw, besides, that if, as it is written,
it had been born, His body somehow might be even more divine than that
of the multitude, and in a certain sense a body of god. But he
disbelieves the accounts of His conception by the Holy Ghost, and
believes that He was begotten by one Panthera, who corrupted the
Virgin, “because a god’s body would not have been so
generated as you were.” But we have spoken of these matters
at greater length in the preceding pages.E.C.F. INDEX & SEARCH
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