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Chapter
LI.
But seeing that we have answered to the best of
our ability the charges brought by Celsus against the Jews and their
doctrine, let us proceed to consider what follows, and to prove that it
is no empty boast on our part when we make a profession of knowing the
great God, and that we have not been led away by any juggling
tricks4246 of Moses (as Celsus
imagines), or even of our own Saviour Jesus; but that for a good end we
listen to the God who speaks in Moses, and have accepted Jesus, whom he
testifies to be God, as the Son of God, in hope of receiving the best
rewards if we regulate our lives according to His word. And we
shall willingly pass over what we have already stated by way of
anticipation on the points, “whence we came and who is our
leader, and what law proceeded from Him.” And if Celsus
would maintain that there is no difference between us and the
Egyptians, who worship the goat, or the ram, or the crocodile, or the
ox, or the river-horse, or the dog-faced baboon,4247 or the cat, he can ascertain if it be so,
and so may any other who thinks alike on the subject. We,
however, have to the best of our ability defended ourselves at great
length in the preceding pages on the subject of the honour which we
render to our Jesus, pointing out that we have found the better
part;4248
4248 ὅτι
κρεῖττον
εὕρομεν. | and that in showing that the truth which is
contained in the teaching of Jesus Christ is pure and unmixed with
error, we are not commending ourselves, but our Teacher, to whom
testimony was borne through many witnesses by the Supreme God and the
prophetic writings among the Jews, and by the very clearness of the
case itself, for it is demonstrated that He could not have accomplished
such mighty works without the divine help.E.C.F. INDEX & SEARCH
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