Bad Advertisement?
Are you a Christian?
Online Store:Visit Our Store
| Chapter VI
PREVIOUS SECTION - NEXT SECTION - HELP 
Chapter VI.
Celsus, therefore, not investigating in a spirit
of impartiality the facts, which are related by the Egyptians in one
way, and by the Hebrews in another, but being bewitched, as it
were,3453
| 3453 Προκαταληφθεὶς
ὡς ὑπο
φίλτρων τῶν
Αἰγυπτίων. | in favour of the former, accepted as true
the statements of those who had oppressed the strangers, and declared
that the Hebrews, who had been unjustly treated, had departed from
Egypt after revolting against the Egyptians,—not observing how
impossible it was for so great a multitude of rebellious Egyptians to
become a nation, which, dating its origin from the said revolt, should
change its language at the time of its rebellion, so that those who up
to that time made use of the Egyptian tongue, should completely adopt,
all at once, the language of the Hebrews! Let it be granted,
however, according to his supposition, that on abandoning Egypt they
did conceive a hatred also of their mother tongue,3454
| 3454 Τὴν
σύντροφον
φωνήν. | how did it happen that after so doing they
did not rather adopt the Syrian or Phœnician language, instead of
preferring the Hebrew, which is different from both? But reason
seems to me to demonstrate that the statement is false, which makes
those who were Egyptians by race to have revolted against Egyptians,
and to have left the country, and to have proceeded to Palestine, and
occupied the land now called Judea. For Hebrew was the language
of their fathers before their descent into Egypt; and the Hebrew
letters, employed by Moses in writing those five books which are deemed
sacred by the Jews, were different from those of the
Egyptians.E.C.F. INDEX & SEARCH
|
