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Chapter
XXXII.
The supposed great learning of Celsus, which is
composed, however, rather of curious trifles and silly talk than
anything else, has made us touch upon these topics, from a wish to show
to every one who peruses his treatise and our reply, that we have no
lack of information on those subjects, from which he takes occasion to
calumniate the Christians, who neither are acquainted with, nor concern
themselves about, such matters. For we, too, desired both to
learn and set forth these things, in order that sorcerers might not,
under pretext of knowing more than we, delude those who are easily
carried away by the glitter4452
of names. And
I could have given many more illustrations to show that we are
acquainted with the opinions of these deluders,4453
and that we disown them, as being alien to ours, and impious, and not
in harmony with the doctrines of true Christians, of which we are ready
to make confession even to the death. It must be noticed, too,
that those who have drawn up this array of fictions, have, from neither
understanding magic, nor discriminating the meaning of holy Scripture,
thrown everything into confusion; seeing that they have borrowed from
magic the names of Ialdabaoth, and Astaphæus, and Horæus, and
from the Hebrew Scriptures him who is termed in Hebrew
Iao or Jah, and
Sabaoth, and Adonæus, and Eloæus. Now the names taken from the Scriptures
are names of one and the same God; which, not being understood by the
enemies of God, as even themselves acknowledge, led to their imagining
that Iao was a different God, and Sabaoth another, and Adonæus,
whom the Scriptures term Adonai, a third besides, and that Eloæus, whom the prophets name in Hebrew Eloi, was
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