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Chapter XIX.
He says, indeed, that “we ridicule the
Egyptians, although they present many by no means contemptible
mysteries3485
for our
consideration, when they teach us that such rites are acts of worship
offered to eternal ideas, and not, as the multitude think, to ephemeral
animals; and that we are silly, because we introduce nothing nobler
than the goats and dogs of the Egyptian worship in our narratives about
Jesus.” Now to this we reply, “Good sir,3486
(suppose that) you are right in eulogizing
the fact that the Egyptians present to view many by no means
contemptible mysteries, and obscure explanations about the animals
(worshipped) among them, you nevertheless do not act consistently in
accusing us as if you believed that we had nothing to state which was
worthy of consideration, but that all our doctrines were
contemptible and of no account, seeing we unfold3487
the narratives concerning Jesus according to
the ‘wisdom of the word’ to those who are
‘perfect’ in Christianity. Regarding whom, as being
competent to understand the wisdom that is in Christianity, Paul
says: ‘We speak wisdom among them that are perfect; yet not
the wisdom of this world, nor of the princes of this world, who come to
nought, but we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, even the hidden
wisdom, which God ordained before the world unto our glory; which none
of the princes of this world knew.’”3488
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