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Chapter
XXIX.
In the next place, as if it were the Christians
whom he was calumniating, he continues his accusations against those
who termed the God of Moses and of his law an “accursed”
divinity; and imagining that it is the Christians who so speak, he
expresses himself thus: “What could be more foolish or
insane than such senseless4433 wisdom? For
what blunder has the Jewish lawgiver committed? and why do you accept,
by means, as you say,4434
4434 Boherellus proposes
φῇς for the textual
reading φησί. | of a certain
allegorical and typical method of interpretation, the cosmogony which
he gives, and the law of the Jews, while it is with unwillingness, O
most impious man, that you give praise to the Creator of the world, who
promised to give them all things; who promised to multiply their race
to the ends of the earth, and to raise them up from the dead with the
same flesh and blood, and who gave inspiration4435
4435 καὶ τοῖς
προφήταις
ἐμπνέοντα. | to
their prophets; and, again, you slander Him! When you feel the
force of such considerations, indeed, you acknowledge that you worship
the same God; but when your teacher Jesus and the Jewish Moses give
contradictory decisions,4436
4436 ὅταν
δὲ τὰ
ἐναντία ὁ
σὸς
διδάσκαλος
᾽Ιησοῦς, καὶ
ὁ ᾽Ιουδαίων
Μωϋσῆς,
νομοθετῇ. | you seek another
God, instead of Him, and the Father!” Now, by such
statements, this illustrious philosopher Celsus distinctly slanders the
Christians, asserting that, when the Jews press them hard, they
acknowledge the same God as they do; but that when Jesus legislates
differently from Moses, they seek another god instead of Him.
Now, whether we are conversing with the Jews, or are alone with
ourselves, we know of only one and the same God, whom the Jews also
worshipped of old time, and still profess to worship as God, and we are
guilty of no impiety towards Him. We do not assert,
however, that God will raise men from the dead with the same flesh and
blood, as has been shown in the preceding pages; for we do not maintain
that the natural4437 body, which is sown
in corruption, and in dishonour, and in weakness, will rise again such
as it was sown. On such subjects, however, we have spoken at
adequate length in the foregoing pages.E.C.F. INDEX & SEARCH
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