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Chapter
LXXV.
I think what has been stated is enough to convince any
one that the unbelief of the Jews with regard to Jesus was in keeping
with what is related of this people from the beginning. For I
would say in reply to this Jew of Celsus, when he asks, “What God
that appeared among men is received with incredulity, and that, too,
when appearing to those who
expect him? or why, pray, is he not recognized by those who have been
long looking for him?” what answer, friends, would you have us
return to your3409
| 3409 The text reads
ἡμῶν, for which Bohereau and the
Benedictine editor propose either ὑμᾶς or ἡμᾶς, the former of which is preferred by
Lommatzsch. | questions?
Which class of miracles, in your judgment, do you regard as the
greater? Those which were wrought in Egypt and the wilderness, or
those which we declare that Jesus performed among you? For if the
former are in your opinion greater than the latter, does it not appear
from this very fact to be in conformity with the character of those who
disbelieved the greater to despise the less? And this is the
opinion entertained with respect to our accounts of the miracles of
Jesus. But if those related of Jesus are considered to be as
great as those recorded of Moses, what strange thing has come to pass
among a nation which has manifested incredulity with regard to the
commencement of both dispensations?3410
| 3410 κατ᾽
ἀμφοτέρας
τὰς ἀρχὰς
τῶν
πραγμάτων
ἀπιστοῦντι
; | For the
beginning of the legislation was in the time of Moses, in whose work
are recorded the sins of the unbelievers and wicked among you, while
the commencement of our legislation and second covenant is admitted to
have been in the time of Jesus. And by your unbelief of Jesus ye
show that ye are the sons of those who in the desert discredited the
divine appearances; and thus what was spoken by our Saviour will be
applicable also to you who believed not on Him: “Therefore
ye bear witness that ye allow the deeds of your
fathers.”3411
And there is
fulfilled among you also the prophecy which said: “Your
life shall hang in doubt before your eyes, and you will have no
assurance of your life.”3412
For ye did
not believe in the life which came to visit the human
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