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Chapter
XVIII.
In the next place, referring to the statements of
the Egyptians, who talk loftily about irrational animals, and who
assert that they are a sort of symbols of God, or anything else which
their prophets, so termed, are accustomed to call them, Celsus says
that “an impression is produced in the minds of those who have
learned these things; that they have not been initiated in
vain;”3483
| 3483 φαντασίαν
ἐξαποστέλλειν
τοῖς ταῦτα
μεμαθηκόσιν,
ὅτι μὴ μάτην
μεμύηνται. | while with regard
to the truths which are taught in our writings to those who have made
progress in the study of Christianity (through that which is called by
Paul the gift consisting in the “word of wisdom” through
the Spirit, and in the “word of knowledge” according to the
Spirit), Celsus does not seem even to have formed an idea,3484
judging not only from what he has already
said, but from what he subsequently adds in his attack upon the
Christian system, when he asserts that Christians “repel every
wise man from the doctrine of their faith, and invite only the ignorant
and the vulgar;” on which assertions we shall remark in due time,
when we come to the proper place.E.C.F. INDEX & SEARCH
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