Book, Chapter

  1        1, Pref   |        separation. For observe that he says, firstly: "Who shall separate
  2        1, Pref   |         grounded in their religion, he says: "For I am persuaded that
  3        1, Pref   |          represent falsehood as truth, says with regard to such: "Beware
  4        1, Pref   |              faith;" regarding whom he says, "Him that is weak in the
  5        1, V      |             Citium, who in his Polity, says: "And there will be no need
  6        1, VIII   |              which is akin to God, and says that "they in whom this
  7        1, IX     |         whither they will, so also, he says, is the case among Christians.
  8        1, XII    |                next place, when Celsus says in express words, "If they
  9        1, XIII   |                of Jesus, Paul, when he says: "For after that, in the
 10        1, XIV    |              of Celsus: "There is," he says, "an authoritative account
 11        1, XV     |      composition of the historian; and says, in the second place, that
 12        1, XX     |            thousand years old, when he says that the Greeks consider
 13        1, XXI    |         Epicureans: "Moses having," he says, "learned the doctrine which
 14        1, XXI    |                impiety, but because it says in the supplication addressed
 15        1, XXII   |       Egyptians rather than Moses, who says that Abraham was the first
 16        1, XXIV   |         subsequent part of his work he says, that "It makes no difference
 17        1, XXV    |            should surprise us, when he says, "My fear, O Protagoras,
 18        1, XXVI   |              as we are Christians, and says that "a few years ago he
 19        1, XXXIV  |              prophecy of Isaiah, which says that Immanuel was to be
 20        1, XXXIX  |              believed. Such things, he says, have no connection with
 21        1, XL     |         learned philosopher. For Plato says, that it is not an indication
 22        1, XLI    |                When you were bathing," says the Jew, "beside John, you
 23        1, XLIV   |           credit than they are when He says that He beheld such a sight,
 24        1, XLVI   |              him, "Sir, who is it that says in Isaiah, 'And now the
 25        1, XLVII  |             Christ, who was a prophet, says nevertheless--being, although
 26        1, XLVII  |             genuine disciple of Jesus, says that he regarded this James
 27        1, XLVII  |             and doctrine. If, then, he says that it was on account of
 28        1, XLVIII |                of touch, by which John says that he "handled with his
 29        1, XLVIII |            that John testifies when he says, "I beheld the Spirit descending
 30        1, XLVIII |                that they would see it, says, "Verily, verily, I say
 31        1, XLVIII |             object to explain why Paul says, "Whether in the body, I
 32        1, L      |        referred to by the prophets, he says that "some, carried away
 33        1, L      |              And as in what follows he says, in the character of the
 34        1, LI     |              those who, as Celsus' Jew says, were fanatics and mob-leaders,
 35        1, LVI    |               sceptre of His kingdom," says that this God has been anointed
 36        1, LVIII  |               mentioned in the Gospel, says that "Chaldeans are spoken
 37        1, LXI    |            superiority of His kingdom, says: "If My kingdom were of
 38        1, LXII   |            have stated a little above, says: "And my speech and my preaching
 39        1, LXIII  |               according to Luke, Peter says to Jesus, "Depart from me,
 40        1, LXIII  |            became an apostle of Jesus, says in his Epistle to Timothy, "
 41        1, LXIV   |            opinions are the true ones, says that according to the principles
 42        1, LXV    |                philosophy." He further says, "that Jesus went about
 43        1, LXVI   |       believing Jesus Himself, when He says respecting His divinity, "
 44        1, LXVI   |            similar import; and when He says respecting His being clothed
 45        1, LXIX   |            believe in the divine word, says: "Such a body as yours could
 46        1, LXIX   |                had sinned. Then Celsus says: "The body of god would
 47        2, III    |                greater effect) when he says: "Certain among you have
 48        2, IV     |               have some force, when he says: "How is it that you take
 49        2, IV     |              of the evangelists--Mark--says: "The beginning of the Gospel
 50        2, VIII   |                               VIII.~He says, further, that "many other
 51        2, VIII   |             practice of wickedness. He says, moreover, that this charge
 52        2, IX     |        according to the Greeks, he who says, "I know both the number
 53        2, IX     |        manifesting Himself everywhere, says regarding Him: "There stands
 54        2, IX     |            thoughts of the Son of God, says: "Where two or three are
 55        2, X      |          Moreover, again, when the Jew says, "We both found him guilty,
 56        2, XIII   |                on account, as Josephus says, of James the Just, the
 57        2, XVI    |                against him: as if," he says, "any one were to say that
 58        2, XIX    |           argument to a conclusion, he says: "Not because these things
 59        2, XIX    |               is to no purpose that he says, "It is altogether impossible
 60        2, XX     |               this: "These events," he says, "he predicted as being
 61        2, XX     |               these things," because," says the psalmist, "he remembered
 62        2, XXI    |              by the salt of the table, says to him:--~"But thou hast
 63        2, XXVII  |                   XXVII.~After this he says, that certain of the Christian
 64        2, XXVIII |               spare individuals, as he says, and to expound the prophecies
 65        2, XXX    |            Jesus. "For as the sun," he says, "which enlightens all other
 66        2, XXXIV  |           Euripides, in which Dionysus says:--~"The divinity himself
 67        2, XXXVI  |                     XXXVI.~Celsus next says: "What is the nature of
 68        2, XLIV   |               Celsus in the next place says, with indescribable silliness: "
 69        2, XLIV   |           compares Him to robbers, and says that "any similarly shameless
 70        2, XLV    |        disciples of Jesus, in which he says: "In the next place, those
 71        2, XLVI   |           charge of falsehood, when he says that Jesus, "when on earth,
 72        2, XLVI   |             treatise as we have it, be says: "Is it not the height of
 73        2, XLIX   |                works of human sorcery, says in express terms as follows: "
 74        2, XLIX   |           statements, since what Jesus says regarding those who are
 75        2, XLIX   |                sorcerers--and since He says that even some who lead
 76        2, L      |               he is God." And again he says to the Thessalonians: "And
 77        2, L      |              continue in existence, he says: "Because they received
 78        2, LIII   |                as, e.g., when this Jew says of Christ, "But, O light
 79        2, LIII   |      perverting the words of Jesus, he says, "And he terms him who devises
 80        2, LIII   |                same." And when the Jew says, "Is it not a wretched inference
 81        2, LIII   |             strengthen his attempt, he says: "He himself acknowledged
 82        2, LIV    |              who had become believers, says: "By what, then, were you
 83        2, LVI    |                 LVI.~But since the Jew says that these histories of
 84        2, LVIII  |                risen from the dead, he says to those Jews who are converts
 85        2, LX     |           opinion as an Epicurean, and says, "That some one having so
 86        2, LX     |                the soul, as even Plato says in his treatise on the Soul
 87        2, LXII   |                Him, then the Scripture says, in express words, "And
 88        2, LXV    |          change in different words, he says, that they who sleep are
 89        2, LXXIV  |              all this, the Jew further says: "All these statements are
 90        2, LXXVI  |              on light grounds, when he says, 'Woe unto you,' and 'I
 91        2, LXXVI  |            severity to those which, he says, Jesus made use of. For
 92        2, LXXVI  |              the people, when the Lord says to the prophet, "Thou dwellest
 93        2, LXXVI  |    threatenings and revilings, when He says, "Woe unto you," and "I
 94        2, LXXVI  |                 when Hermes, in Homer, says to Odysseus,~"Why, now,
 95        2, LXXVII |                that he both thinks and says so. We shall give this answer,
 96        2, LXXVII |              one who both believes and says that there is a bodily resurrection,
 97        2, LXXVIII|               speaks in the prophecies says, "A people whom I did not
 98        3, V      |          people in matters of worship, says that "they suffered from
 99        3, IX     |          examine his assertion when he says, "If all men wished to become
100        3, XI     |                                 XI.~He says, in addition, that "all
101        3, XIII   |                striking manner when he says, "For there must be heresies
102        3, XVI    |              truth is precious--Celsus says, at the close, "Forbid that
103        3, XVIII  |        accustomed to call them, Celsus says that "an impression is produced
104        3, XIX    |                                XIX.~He says, indeed, that "we ridicule
105        3, XIX    |               is in Christianity, Paul says: 'We speak wisdom among
106        3, XXII   |              gods after being men, and says that "we cannot bear to
107        3, XXVI   |                 Let us see what Celsus says next, when he adduces from
108        3, XXXI   |           enumerated by Celsus when he says, "No one regards Abaris
109        3, XXXIV  |                other similar cases, he says, "And one might name many
110        3, XXXIV  |            worshipping him who," as he says, "was taken prisoner and
111        3, XXXVII |         convicted of falsehood when he says, "that they will not endure
112        3, XXXIX  |             Celsus next makes, when he says to us, that "faith, having
113        3, XLII   |              which we would return, he says with respect to the change
114        3, XLIII  |                         XLIII.~He next says of us, that "we ridicule
115        3, XLIII  |           Jupiter is in Crete, when he says that "we are ignorant of
116        3, XLIV   |                teaches continence, and says, "Whosoever looketh upon
117        3, XLV    |                of the prophets--Hosea--says at the end of his prophecies: "
118        3, XLVI   |               to the multitude. For he says: "And Moses was learned
119        3, XLVII  |               as censuring wicked men, says of them that they are wise
120        3, XLVII  |           invisible or incorporeal, it says also that these constitute
121        3, XLVII  |               are not seen,--these, it says, constitute the wisdom of
122        3, XLVII  |             Paul, as a lover of truth, says of certain wise men among
123        3, XLVII  |                that they knew God, and says, too, that this did not
124        3, XLIX   |              not to seem so, as Celsus says. And it is no hindrance
125        3, LII    |                have no resemblance. He says that these individuals,
126        3, LX     |        initiated of Celsus accordingly says, "Let him whose soul is
127        3, LXI    |              respecting which the word says, "They that be whole need
128        3, LXII   |            intent, indeed, that Celsus says of us that we assert that "
129        3, LXII   |             exist in men. As Paul also says, "When the commandment came,
130        3, LXIII  |             exalt you in due time;" he says that "those persons who
131        3, LXIII  |             Scriptures when the sinner says in his prayers to God, "
132        3, LXIII  |                invited by the word, he says, "All men, then, without
133        3, LXIV   |                     LXIV.~But since he says, in addition to this, "What
134        3, LXVII  |                speak the truth when he says "that sinners by nature
135        3, LXXIII |                 And in his slanders he says that "no wise man believes
136        3, LXXIII |                in the preceding pages, says in the books of Moses "They
137        3, LXXV   |             LXXV.~But as he afterwards says that "the teacher of Christianity
138        3, LXXVII |             from the same disease, and says that "such an one amongst
139        4, III    |            question of Celsus, when he says, "What is the meaning of
140        4, V      |                Celsus imagines when he says, "If you were to change
141        4, VI     |          Celsus, listen to him when he says: "Now God, being unknown
142        4, XII    |               especially where Solomon says, "What is the thing which
143        4, XIII   |              is in mockery that Celsus says we speak of "God coming
144        4, XIII   |               follows. The divine word says that our God is "a consuming
145        4, XIII   |          consumed? for (the Scripture) says: "The fire will try each
146        4, XIV    |               fashion: "And again," he says, "let us resume the subject
147        4, XIX    |              state of mind. But Celsus says also, that "one acts thus
148        4, XX     |              or a fire, as Plato, too, says somewhere to this effect: "
149        4, XXX    |         regarding these things. Celsus says further, that we assert
150        4, XXXV   |      insinuation as the above, when he says: "And they attempted to
151        4, XXXVI  |            proOfs of these assertions, says: "The Jews, then, leading
152        4, XXXVII |                fashioning" of the man, says, "And breathed into his
153        4, XXXVIII|             allegorically, although he says afterwards, that "the more
154        4, XL     |                Adam" (as the Scripture says) "all die," and were condemned
155        4, XLIII  |          spotted were Jacob's;" and he says that "God presented his
156        4, XLIV   |               meaning of Scripture, he says that "God gave wells also
157        4, XLVIII |             and Christian doctrine, he says: "The more modest of Jewish
158        4, XLVIII |              This reverend philosopher says in his treatises, that matter
159        4, XLVIII |             reverence, Protarchus," he says, "for the very names of
160        4, XLIX   |                the Scriptures, when he says "that they are incapable
161        4, XLIX   |            Paul, the apostle of Jesus, says: "It is written in the law,
162        4, XLIX   |          another passage the same Paul says: "For it is written, For
163        4, L      |           aforesaid Pharaoh boastfully says, "The rivers are mine, and
164        4, LIII   |                pity. Celsus, moreover, says that it was not his purpose
165        4, LVIII  |              in what follows, where he says that "irrational animals
166        4, LXII   |               the Theoetetus, where he says that "evils cannot disappear
167        4, LXVIII |               LXVIII.~Celsus, however, says that it is only "the course
168        4, LXXII  |                angry at all, and which says in the thirty-seventh Psalm, "
169        4, LXXII  |               awaking Him, the prophet says: "Awake, why sleepest Thou,
170        4, LXXV   |                one of our own wise men says somewhere: "Do not say,
171        4, LXXVI  |          assertions of Celsus, when he says that "we indeed by labour
172        4, LXXIX  |             the irrational animals, he says: "With respect to your assertion,
173        4, LXXXIII|           sharing their toils, when he says of the ants, that "they
174        4, XCI    |                For this wonderful poet says, in his poem regarding the
175        4, XCI    |             second--the bird--the poet says:--~"Jove's bird on sounding
176        4, XCIV   |            omen, rejoiced, as the poet says:--~"The divine Ulysses rejoiced
177        4, XCIV   |          perceiving God, or, as Celsus says, the gods, it is clear that
178        4, XCIV   |                therefore the poet also says:--~ "And while he prayed,
179        4, XCVI   |               Celsus is false, when he says: "What could be called more
180        5, IV     |                       IV.~But since he says, in the next place, as if
181        5, VI     |         speaking in the person of God, says, "Thou shall have no other
182        5, X      |          speaking of the resurrection, says: "And there are also celestial
183        5, XI     |             who comprehend also how He says, "I am the light of the
184        5, XII    |              for I believe Him when He says, "I am a God nigh at hand,
185        5, XVIII  |              the Corinthians, where he says: "But some man will say,
186        5, XVIII  |          observe how in these words he says that there is sown, "not
187        5, XXV    |             been already before us, he says that it is advantageous
188        5, XXVI   |                    XXVI.~"We must," he says, "observe the laws, not
189        5, XXXIII |                brings forward, when he says: "Let the second party come
190        5, XXXVI  |                the ambassadors of God, says that "Ammon did not make
191        5, XXXVI  |              nature. Celsus, moreover, says that no wrong is committed
192        5, XLI    |                they have a custom,' he says, 'of going up to the tops
193        5, XLIV   |                regarding "God;" and he says that "the Persians, like
194        5, XLIX   |   transmigration of souls, as the poet says: -- "And some one, lifting
195        5, L      |            opinion regarding the Jews, says: "It is not probable that
196        5, LIII   |            upon the several topics. He says, indeed, that "he has omitted
197        5, LIII   |             human race. For, as Celsus says, "If they should say the
198        5, LIX    |            which day, as the Scripture says, God "ceased" from His works,
199        5, LIX    |                but on which, as Celsus says (who does not abide by the
200        5, LIX    |              the first man, of whom he says: "We give the same account.
201        5, LXI    |               as Paul, too, distinctly says, who was a convert from
202        5, LXIII  |               he has yet mentioned, he says, agreeably to his usual
203        5, LXIV   |          following: "You may hear," he says, "all those who differ so
204        6, II     |               effectually. The prophet says in the sixty-seventh Psalm,
205        6, III    |               chief good," and that he says, "The chief good can by
206        6, III    |               For respecting such Paul says in express words: "The wrath
207        6, V      |              us to come to this light, says, in the prophecies of Isaiah: "
208        6, V      |              of images, and of demons, says, "To those that sat in the
209        6, X      |                words of Paul, where he says, in censuring the hasty
210        6, XII    |          foolishness with God." Celsus says that "the reason of this
211        6, XII    |                of Heraclitus, where he says in one passage, that "man'
212        6, XIII   |             the words of David what he says regarding the man who is
213        6, XIII   |              faith. And therefore Paul says: "To one is given by the
214        6, XV     |              our great Saviour Himself says: "Learn of Me, for I am
215        6, XIX    |             their sake to attain them, says in the second Epistle to
216        6, XXI    |              our most ancient prophet, says that a divine vision was
217        6, XXII   |            Persian mysteries, where he says: "These things are obscurely
218        6, XXIV   |                partly borrowed what he says about the diagram. Now,
219        6, XXIV   |    representations of men who, as Paul says, "creep into houses, and
220        6, XXV    |               places. Moreover, Celsus says that the diagram was "divided
221        6, XXX    |               Celsus has given. Celsus says that "the goat was shaped
222        6, XXX    |               Lion-like. Again, Celsus says that the "second in order
223        6, XXXV   | misunderstanding the preacher, when he says: "The wind goeth in a circle
224        6, XL     |               the Christians, where he says that "he has seen in the
225        6, XLI    |             against the Christians, he says that, "having become acquainted
226        6, XLII   |               most impious errors," he says, "are committed by them,
227        6, XLVI   |              quoted from him, where he says, "so that he sitteth in
228        6, XLVIII |                however, holy Scripture says that the perfect man is
229        6, LV     |              is in this sense that Job says to his wife: "If we have
230        6, LVII   |                taught by Paul, when he says: "This persuasion cometh
231        6, LXI    |                forth commands." Celsus says, that" it is not in keeping
232        6, LXV    |           assertion of Celsus, when he says, "Neither is God to be reached
233        6, LXVI   |           because he has heard Him who says, "I am the way, and the
234        6, LXVII  |            could retort on Celsus, who says nothing that is distinct
235        6, LXX    |               of "sense;" as when Paul says, "But our sufficiency is
236        6, LXXVI  |        Jerusalem?" or when the prophet says, "We beheld Him, and He
237        6, LXXIX  |             language of Celsus when he says, "He ought to have breathed (
238        7, IX     |          nations. "There are many," he says, "who, although of no name,
239        7, XI     |             not to be believed when he says that he has heard such men
240        7, XI     |              speaking falsely, when he says that "those prophets whom
241        7, XI     |             the names of those whom he says he had heard, if he had
242        7, XIV    |               in regard to Him, Celsus says: "But pray, if the prophets
243        7, XV     |               the character of God, he says: "If these things were predicted
244        7, XVII   |                 It is that in which he says: "The prophets would not
245        7, XVIII  |                  For, as the Psalmist, says, "many are the afflictions
246        7, XX     |             other. Paul in like manner says, that "the letter killeth,
247        7, XX     |     contradictions. Indeed, if Ezekiel says in one place, "I gave them
248        7, XX     |               the law taken literally, says, "If the ministration of
249        7, XX     |              calls it "spiritual," and says, "We know that the law is
250        7, XXI    |          communicate." For, as Solomon says, "riches" are the true good,
251        7, XXII   |              be observed that, when he says, "Every morning will I destroy
252        7, XXIV   |               one of earthly glory. He says, "O Lord my God, if I have
253        7, XXVIII |              present evils. Thus Homer says: 'But the gods shall send
254        7, XXVIII |            sent. 'The extent of it,' a says he, 'is immense, and we
255        7, XXIX   |              mythology. "Ye are come," says he, "unto Mount Sion, and
256        7, XXX    |              land in which we live. He says: "Yet once, and I will shake
257        7, XXXI   |               Phaedon of Plato, Celsus says: "It is not easy for every
258        7, XXXI   |              of Plato's words, when he says that on account of our weakness
259        7, XXXIV  |               nearness to God, when he says in his prayer, "My soul
260        7, XXXIV  |              misrepresents us, when he says that we expect to see God
261        7, XXXIV  |               of. For when the prophet says, "Open Thou mine eyes, that
262        7, XXXIV  |             the body. When our Saviour says, "He that hath ears to hear,
263        7, XXXIV  |             figuratively, as when John says, "Our hands have handled
264        7, XXXIV  |              only to hear what Solomon says, "Thou shalt find a divine
265        7, XXXIX  |           Christians. "Let them hear," says he, "if they are able to
266        7, XXXIX  |           familiar to our Saviour, who says," For judgment I am come
267        7, XLIII  |                Observe that when Plato says, that "after having found
268        7, XLIII  |               of "the unspeakable." He says: "since the wise men have
269        7, XLIII  |             labours to express when he says, "I heard unspeakable words,
270        7, XLIV   |               But when the Word of God says, "No man knoweth the Father
271        7, XLV    |               God dwelleth in you." He says also that we look upon nothing
272        7, L      |               here on earth, as he who says: "Verily every man at his
273        7, L      |               proclaims the truth, and says, "Our soul is bowed down
274        7, L      |               It is a prophet also who says, "Thou hast brought us down
275        7, L      |             been recognised by him who says, "Now we see in a glass,
276        7, LI     |           world," and of the Word, who says, "The light shineth in darkness,"
277        7, LIV    |            state. For, indeed, Orpheus says much Worse things than Homer
278        7, LVIII  |             follows. "They have also," says he, "a precept to this effect,
279        7, LXI    |                which he utters when he says: "But let this suffice as
280        7, LXII   |             follows. "Let us pass on," says he, "to another point. They
281        7, LXII   |               of men.' Heraclitus also says in one place: 'Persons who
282        7, LXVI   |             true gods. Celsus, indeed, says that "they do not take them
283        7, LXVI   |           dedicated to men than, as he says, to the honour of the gods
284        7, LXVIII |               Yet it is impossible, he says, for a man to serve many
285        8, II     |              spirits of that sort." He says also, "He who serves many
286        8, II     |               honour." "Wherefore," he says, "in honouring and worshipping
287        8, IV     |            lords." To this effect Paul says, "For though there be that
288        8, IV     |               that knowledge." When he says, "To us there is but one
289        8, IV     |               and the philosophers, he says, "We are of the party of
290        8, XII    |               some may imagine that he says something plausible against
291        8, XII    |            plausible against us. "If," says he, "these people worshipped
292        8, XII    |                the Supreme God. "For," says He, "My Father is in Me,
293        8, XII    |                believe Himself when He says, "Before Abraham was, I
294        8, XII    |           Abraham was, I am." Again He says, "I am the truth;" and surely
295        8, XIV    |             rather believe Him when He says, "The Father who sent Me
296        8, XVIII  |               people." And the Saviour says, "If any man hear My words,
297        8, XIX    |              had built that temple, He says to them, "Destroy this temple,
298        8, XIX    |                are divinely opened, it says that the temple which has
299        8, XIX    |                God. Accordingly, Peter says, "Ye also, as lively stones,
300        8, XIX    |           Jesus Christ;" and Paul also says, "Being built upon the foundation
301        8, XXI    |                see what Celsus further says of God, and how he urges
302        8, XXIII  |               bitter herbs," or why it says, "Humble your souls," and
303        8, XXV    |                            XXV.~Celsus says that "the demons belong
304        8, XXV    |                the word of God nowhere says of evil things that they
305        8, XXV    |                Celsus is false when he says, "If they are demons, it
306        8, XXV    |                 but, as holy Scripture says, "Beelzebub."~
307        8, XXVIII |               higher and purer life it says, "It is good neither to
308        8, XXIX   |                blasphemies." Paul also says, "Meat commendeth us not
309        8, XXX    |                The eating of animals," says he, "is a matter of indifference;
310        8, XXXII  |             precept of the word, which says, "Whether ye eat or drink,
311        8, XXXIV  |               heaven." And the prophet says, "The angel of the Lord
312        8, XXXV   |             writings the righteous man says, "O Lord my God, if I have
313        8, XXXVII |               all to Christians. "If," says he, "they who are addressed
314        8, XXXIX  |                than an answer, when he says, "Do you not see, good sir,
315        8, XLI    |            manner of old wives. "You," says he, "mock and revile the
316        8, XLII   |              to place?" Again, when he says, "Those who crucified your
317        8, XLIII  |            abusive language to images, says: "Of those whom you load
318        8, XLVIII |              the heathen mysteries. He says, "Just as you, good sir,
319        8, L      |        indulgence. For the divine word says: "What is an honourable
320        8, LI     |            very doctrine from which he says that no Christian and no
321        8, LI     |             himself approve of. "For," says he, "if it were held by
322        8, LXII   |            Although, therefore, Celsus says that "we must offer sacrifices
323        8, LXVI   |               again becoming sensible--says: "If, however, any worshipper
324        8, LXVI   |               confusion of thought, he says: "But if any one commands
325        8, LXVII  |             its glory. Celsus, indeed, says that "we seem to do the
326        8, LXX    |            farthing," as the Scripture says, "not one of them falls
327        8, LXXI   |            allegations: for none of us says of our present rulers, that
328        8, LXXII  |                   LXXII.~Afterwards he says: "If it were possible,"