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Chapter
XLII.
In order to show that he had read the book of
Genesis, Celsus rejects the story of the dove, although unable to
adduce any reason which might prove it to be a fiction. In the
next place, as his habit is, in order to put the narrative in a more
ridiculous light, he converts the “raven” into a
“crow,” and imagines that Moses so wrote, having recklessly
altered the accounts related of the Grecian Deucalion; unless perhaps
he regards the narrative as not having proceeded from Moses, but from
several individuals, as appears from his employing the
plural number in the expressions, “falsifying and
recklessly altering the story of Deucalion,”3880
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ῥᾳδιουργοῦντες. | as well as from the words, “For
they did not expect, I suppose, that these things would come to
light.” But how should they, who gave their
Scriptures to the whole nation, not expect that they would come
to light, and who predicted, moreover, that this religion should be
proclaimed to all nations? Jesus declared, “The
kingdom of God shall be taken from you, and given to a nation bringing
forth the fruits thereof;”3881
and in
uttering these words to the Jews, what other meaning did He intend to
convey than this, viz., that He Himself should, through his divine
power, bring forth into light the whole of the Jewish Scriptures, which
contain the mysteries of the kingdom of God? If, then, they
peruse the Theogonies of the Greeks, and the stories about the twelve
gods, they impart to them an air of dignity, by investing them with an
allegorical signification; but when they wish to throw contempt upon
our biblical narratives, they assert that they are fables, clumsily
invented for infant children!E.C.F. INDEX & SEARCH
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