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XXXVI.
Celsus next says: “What is the nature
of the ichor in the body of the crucified Jesus? Is it
‘such as flows in the bodies of the immortal
gods?’”3297
He puts this
question in a spirit of mockery; but we shall show from the
serious narratives of
the Gospels, although Celsus may not like it, that it was no mythic and
Homeric ichor which flowed from the body of Jesus, but that, after His
death, “one of the soldiers with a spear pierced His side, and
there came thereout blood and water. And he that saw it bare
record, and his record is true, and he knoweth that he saith the
truth.”3298
Now, in other
dead bodies the blood congeals, and pure water does not flow forth; but
the miraculous feature in the case of the dead body of Jesus was, that
around the dead body blood and water flowed forth from the side.
But if this Celsus, who, in order to find matter of accusation against
Jesus and the Christians, extracts from the Gospel even passages which
are incorrectly interpreted, but passes over in silence the evidences
of the divinity of Jesus, would listen to divine portents, let him read
the Gospel, and see that even the centurion, and they who with him kept
watch over Jesus, on seeing the earthquake, and the events that
occurred, were greatly afraid, saying, “This man was the Son of
God.”3299
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