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Chapter V.
After these matters, although Celsus becomes
tautological in his statements about Jesus, repeating for the second
time that “he was punished by the Jews for his crimes,” we
shall not again take up the defence, being satisfied with what we have
already said. But, in the next place, as this Jew of his
disparages the doctrine regarding the resurrection of the dead, and the
divine judgment, and of the rewards to be bestowed upon the just, and
of the fire which is to devour the wicked, as being stale3223
opinions, and thinks that he will overthrow
Christianity by asserting that there is nothing new in its teaching
upon these points, we have to say to him, that our Lord, seeing the
conduct of the Jews not to be at all in keeping with the teaching of
the prophets, inculcated by a parable that the kingdom of God would be
taken from them, and given to the converts from heathenism. For
which reason, now, we may also see of a truth that all the doctrines of
the Jews of the present day are mere trifles and fables,3224
since they have not the light that proceeds
from the knowledge of the Scriptures; whereas those of the Christians
are the truth, having power to raise and elevate the soul and
understanding of man, and to persuade him to seek a citizenship, not
like the earthly3225
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᾽Ιουδαίοις. | Jews here below,
but in heaven. And this result shows itself among those who are
able to see the grandeur of the ideas contained in the law and the
prophets, and who are able to commend them to
others.E.C.F. INDEX & SEARCH
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