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Chapter VII.
Moreover, let them show where there is to be found
even the appearance of language dictated by arrogance3229
and proceeding from Jesus. For how
could an arrogant man thus express himself, “Learn of Me, for I
am meek and lowly of heart, and you shall find rest for your
souls?”3230
or how can He be
styled arrogant, who after supper laid aside His garments in the
presence of His disciples, and, after girding Himself with a towel, and
pouring water into a basin, proceeded to wash the feet of each
disciple, and rebuked him who was unwilling to allow them to be washed,
with the words, “Except I wash thee, thou hast no part with
Me?”3231
Or how could
He be called such who said, “I was amongst you, not as he that
sitteth at meat, but as he that serveth?”3232
And let any one show what were the
falsehoods which He uttered, and let him point out what are great and
what are small falsehoods, that he may prove Jesus to have been guilty
of the former. And there is yet another way in which we may
confute him. For as one falsehood is not less or more false than
another, so one truth is not less or more true than another. And
what charges of impiety he has to bring against Jesus, let the Jew of
Celsus especially bring forward. Was it impious to abstain from
corporeal circumcision, and from a literal Sabbath, and literal
festivals, and literal new moons, and from clean and unclean meats, and
to turn the mind to the good and true and spiritual law of God, while
at the same time he who was an ambassador for Christ knew how to become
to the Jews as a Jew, that he might gain the Jews, and to those who are
under the law, as under the law, that he might gain those who are under
the law?E.C.F. INDEX & SEARCH
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