Book, Chapter

  1        1, Pref   |    brought by Celsus against the Christians, and to his accusations
  2        1, Pref   |    charges of Celsus against the Christians, in order to prevent him
  3        1, I      |       Christianity, is, that the Christians entered into secret associations
  4        1, I      |        the "love-feasts " of the Christians, as if they had their origin
  5        1, I      |          the associations of the Christians are in violation of it,
  6        1, I      |         liberties of a state, so Christians also, when tyrannized over
  7        1, III    |       proceeding to speak of the Christians teaching and practising
  8        1, III    |           but in the case of the Christians, the Roman Senate, and the
  9        1, V      |     correctness, saying that the Christians do not consider those to
 10        1, VI     |        of incantations, that the Christians appear to be possessed of (
 11        1, VI     |         not by incantations that Christians seem to prevail (over evil
 12        1, VI     |       miracles, it is clear that Christians employ no spells or incantations,
 13        1, VII    |      better acquainted with what Christians preach than with the favourite
 14        1, IX     |          says, is the case among Christians. And he asserts that certain
 15        1, XIII   |        it to be a saying of many Christians, that "the wisdom of this
 16        1, XXI    |         doctrine of the Jews and Christians, which preserves the immutability
 17        1, XXV    |        defend the conduct of the Christians, when they struggle even
 18        1, XXV    |         approve the piety of the Christians, who apply none of the names
 19        1, XXVI   |  generation, in so far as we are Christians, and says that "a few years
 20        1, XXVI   |      doctrine, being regarded by Christians as the Son of God." Now,
 21        1, XLV    |       the Jews to Moses; and the Christians, who do not deny the prophetic
 22        1, XLVI   |        are still preserved among Christians traces of that Holy Spirit
 23        1, XLIX   |       with the statements of the Christians, that many prophets foretold
 24        1, LI     | worshipped and reverenced by the Christians. Moreover, I am of opinion
 25        1, LVII   |       Apostles; so that it is to Christians that he owes this mention
 26        1, LXVII  |       not feign themselves to be Christians for the sake of subsistence
 27        2, V      | Scriptures; whereas those of the Christians are the truth, having power
 28        2, VIII   |     extent are still found among Christians, and some of them more remarkable
 29        2, X      |  hostility against Jesus and the Christians? and these the truth, which
 30        2, XIII   |   foretold what would befall the Christians in after generations. And
 31        2, XIII   |        who has undergone it. But Christians alone, according to the
 32        2, XXVIII |         subject of reproach that Christians should make use of the prophets,
 33        2, XXVIII |         powerful argument of the Christians, as being the strongest
 34        2, XXVIII |          be advanced against the Christians only by one who was an opponent
 35        2, XXXI   |        XXXI.~He next charges the Christians with being "guilty of sophistical
 36        2, XXXII  |          some difficulty even to Christians, and which, owing to the
 37        2, XXXIII |     matter of charge against the Christians, and refuse to believe them
 38        2, XXXVI  | accusation against Jesus and the Christians, extracts from the Gospel
 39        2, LXIII  |        work directed against the Christians and their faith, observe
 40        2, LXXVI  |        not have recourse to? But Christians, who know only one God--
 41        3, I      |     controversy between Jews and Christians is a most foolish one,"
 42        3, I      |   investigations of the Jews and Christians: for both believe that it
 43        3, I      |    actually come or not." For we Christians, indeed, have believed in
 44        3, II     |          who charge the Jews and Christians with folly, show us how
 45        3, IV     |        the case, how do Jews and Christians search after "the shadow
 46        3, IV     |         number. Neither Jews nor Christians, then, are wrong in assuming
 47        3, VII    |       out any act on the part of Christians which savours of rebellion.
 48        3, VII    |          whatever. Nor would the Christians, had they owed their origin
 49        3, VIII   |           But with regard to the Christians, because they were taught
 50        3, IX     |         all men wished to become Christians, the latter would not desire
 51        3, IX     |         is clear from this, that Christians do not neglect, as far as
 52        3, IX     |         all men wished to become Christians, the latter would not desire
 53        3, X      |         proof of his statement: "Christians at first were few in number,
 54        3, X      |        from the beginning." That Christians at first were few in number,
 55        3, X      |       But let it be granted that Christians were few in number at the
 56        3, X      |          that help to prove that Christians would be unwilling to make
 57        3, XI     |          addition, that "all the Christians were of one mind," not observing,
 58        3, XII    |    against it, saying that "when Christians had greatly increased in
 59        3, XVIII  |     system, when he asserts that Christians "repel every wise man from
 60        3, XXXVII |         Apollo or Zeus." Whereas Christians (who have learned that their
 61        3, XXXVII |        good human soul. And such Christians will also show, that as
 62        3, XLIV   |   individuals who are considered Christians, not of the more intelligent,
 63        3, XLIV   |       those who are deemed to be Christians living licentiously, he
 64        3, XLIV   |         that the doctrine of the Christians invites men to wisdom, the
 65        3, LI     |        doing, let us see whether Christians do not exhort multitudes
 66        3, LI     |          stands and listens. The Christians, however, having previously,
 67        3, LI     |      things than are approved by Christians; and among these there are
 68        3, LI     |   treating them as dead; but the Christians lament as dead those who
 69        3, LV     |        and see whether it be the Christians or Celsus who have reason
 70        3, LVIII  |        hid from the multitude of Christians, where are discussed topics
 71        3, LIX    |       what kind of persons these Christians invite. Every one, they
 72        3, LXXV   |        those who are intelligent Christians, keeping this in view, deal
 73        3, LXXX   |        that Celsus alleges that "Christians are won over by us through
 74        4, I      |        it as future, and against Christians on the other, who acknowledge
 75        4, II     |            II.~"But that certain Christians and (all) Jews should maintain,
 76        4, II     |        earth; and with regard to Christians, that certain of them say
 77        4, II     |   prophecies themselves which we Christians and Jews quote in our discussions
 78        4, III    |        ancient Jews, viz. to the Christians, who will render to God
 79        4, XI     |      Celsus alleges the Jews and Christians to have misunderstood, and,
 80        4, XX     |     still in the future, and the Christians as maintaining in their
 81        4, XX     |      which happened." And as the Christians are said to make statements
 82        4, XXI    |        accounts both of Jews and Christians. For, in order that the
 83        4, XXII   |        according to Celsus, "the Christians, making certain additional
 84        4, XXII   |          to pass to others,--the Christians, I mean, to whom has come
 85        4, XXIII  |       style the race of Jews and Christians, he compares them all "to
 86        4, XXIII  |      frogs than betwixt Jews and Christians."~
 87        4, XXIV   |        men, while you hold cheap Christians and Jews, because their
 88        4, XXV    |           why should those among Christians who are wicked, and those
 89        4, XXV    |       Deity. Nor can those among Christians and Jews who are wicked,
 90        4, XXV    |       who, in truth, are neither Christians nor Jews, be compared, more
 91        4, XXVI   |         of those opinions of the Christians and Jews-which displease
 92        4, XXVI   |         acknowledged opinions of Christians and Jews, and compare them
 93        4, XXVII  |         who are neither Jews nor Christians. Of a truth, such evil practices
 94        4, XXVII  |         not at all prevail among Christians, if you properly examine
 95        4, XXVIII |      regards as worms, viz., the Christians, as saying that "God, having
 96        4, XXVIII |         but certainly not by the Christians, who have been taught that "
 97        4, XXX    |          worms and flogs than by Christians and Jews who quarrel with
 98        4, XXXI   |      difference between Jews and Christians, and those animals previously
 99        4, XXXII  |    accomplish the destruction of Christians; for they stirred up both
100        4, XXXIII |        then--adduced by Jews and Christians to prove the sacred character
101        4, XXXV   |  arguments to show that Jews and Christians do not decide correctly
102        4, XXXVI  |     Celsus, who accuses Jews and Christians of ignorance and want of
103        4, XXXVI  |          other books against the Christians), called those individuals "
104        4, XXXVIII|       more modest among Jews and Christians are ashamed of these things,
105        4, XXXIX  |     Celsus--which be it far from Christians to do!--they would ridicule
106        4, XLVII  |         charges against Jews and Christians? He adds: "He who had been
107        4, XLIX   |      more modest of the Jews and Christians" were the (first) allegorical
108        4, L      |        modest among the Jews and Christians endeavour somehow to give
109        4, LVII   |        opinions, calumniates the Christians, and thus abandon a doctrine
110        4, LXVII  |      periods have revolved. Nay, Christians too will be the same in
111        4, LXXV   |        beyond all admiration. We Christians, however, who are devoted
112        4, LXXVII |          to accuse both Jews and Christians, he quotes against himself
113        4, LXXVII |          certain of the Jews and Christians declared that the sun and
114        4, LXXXIII|     sovereignties not only of us Christians, but of all mankind, as
115        4, LXXXIII|    sympathy of those who are not Christians from those who bear the
116        4, LXXXIII|           but that of an animal. Christians, however, will not yield
117        4, LXXXVII|        the books of the Jews and Christians as exceedingly simple and
118        4, LXXXIX |      ideas than, I do not say we Christians do, or than the Jews, who
119        5, II     |          as follows: "O Jews and Christians, no God or son of a God
120        5, IV     |         place, as if the Jews or Christians had answered regarding those
121        5, VI     |   compare them with those of the Christians, that the Jews who follow
122        5, VII    |       certainly neither Jews nor Christians call the "heaven" God. Let
123        5, VIII   |      heaven. The writings of the Christians, moreover, show, in censuring
124        5, XIV    |        not shared by some of the Christians, and they pronounce it to
125        5, XXII   |      those who are indeed called Christians, but who set aside the doctrine
126        5, XXXV   |      escape censure; whereas the Christians, who have abandoned their
127        5, XXXV   |          fathers, why should the Christians (since the Gospel requires
128        5, XXXIX  |          against them, while the Christians appear deserving of censure,
129        5, XL     |       violence and injustice. We Christians, then, who have come to
130        5, XLI    |        that has reference to the Christians, as most of them refer to
131        5, L      |         of Asia. Accordingly, we Christians maintain that "it was the
132        5, L      |      many atrocities against the Christians, in order to ensure their
133        5, LIII   |         against the claims which Christians advance on behalf of their
134        5, LV     |        be of divine origin among Christians or not--he adds: "The sixty
135        5, LIX    |       these (clearly meaning the Christians), have the same God;" and
136        5, LXI    |      numerous heresies among the Christians is a ground of accusation
137        5, LXI    |     philosophers, nor those true Christians who introduce monstrous
138        5, LXI    |         on that account of being Christians, and yet would regulate
139        5, LXI    |        also, that certain of the Christians are believers in the Sibyl,
140        5, LXIV   |          that "certain among the Christians are called 'cauterized in
141        5, LXV    |  understood how it is that those Christians who have made progress in
142        5, LXV    |    Celsus supposes to be used by Christians have been expressed in better
143        6, I      |        Celsus brings against the Christians, not, as might be supposed,
144        6, XI     |            If these (meaning the Christians) bring forward this person,
145        6, XI     |       danger of death, which the Christians were taught to prefer, by
146        6, XIX    |     place alleges, that "certain Christians, having misunderstood the
147        6, XXII   |          his accusations against Christians and Jews, he quoted, most
148        6, XXII   |          way of accusing Jews or Christians, why did it not also appear
149        6, XXIII  |       synagogues, and adopted by Christians, and partly from those of
150        6, XXIII  |         and partly from those of Christians alone--let him peruse, at
151        6, XXIV   |       unveiling the rites of the Christians, see in this way the difference
152        6, XXVI   |         his treatise against the Christians, have introduced among the
153        6, XXVII  |        the Gospel, such as that "Christians offered up an infant in
154        6, XXVII  |       the Gospel to believe that Christians are men of such a character;
155        6, XXVII  |  conversation with those who are Christians.~
156        6, XXVIII |   actuated, when he alleged that Christians term the Creator an "accursed
157        6, XXVIII |        arise and exterminate the Christians as the most impious Of mankind.
158        6, XXVIII |   Ophites, are so far from being Christians, that they bring accusations
159        6, XXVIII |        his discourse against the Christians, represents as such those
160        6, XXVIII |      chargeable also against the Christians! Long ago, indeed, that
161        6, XXIX   |         place, as if it were the Christians whom he was calumniating,
162        6, XXIX   |         imagining that it is the Christians who so speak, he expresses
163        6, XXIX   |          distinctly slanders the Christians, asserting that, when the
164        6, XXX    |        names are not found among Christians, but who, I think, are accepted
165        6, XXX    |   professed to know, but that we Christians, knowing them better than
166        6, XXX    |       these are not the words of Christians, but of those who are altogether
167        6, XXXII  |       occasion to calumniate the Christians, who neither are acquainted
168        6, XXXII  |       with the doctrines of true Christians, of which we are ready to
169        6, XXXIII |   removed from the worship which Christians offer up to God.~
170        6, XXXIV  |         all the doctrines of the Christians. And this is evident also
171        6, XL     |      their intense hatred of the Christians, maintain, in the presence
172        6, XL     |        actually ascertained that Christians devour the flesh of infants,
173        6, XL     |  falsehoods invented against the Christians, and this admission made
174        6, XL     |   calumnies invented against the Christians, where he says that "he
175        6, XL     |       said by Celsus against the Christians was of such a nature as
176        6, XL     |     lived as neighbours with the Christians, and have not even heard
177        6, XLI    |      object to write against the Christians, he says that, "having become
178        6, LXVII  |  passions from seeing the truth? Christians, however, by no means consider
179        7, I      |    brought by Celsus against the Christians, and have as far as possible
180        7, II     |         Celsus against Jesus and Christians were so utterly feeble,
181        7, IV     |          those demons which many Christians cast out of persons possessed
182        7, V      |          believed not only among Christians and Jews, but also by many
183        7, VIII   |       from those of the Jews and Christians, or to persons whose prophecies
184        7, XXVI   |        Moses, and that which the Christians, under the direction of
185        7, XXVI   |          embrace the Gospel. For Christians could not slay their enemies,
186        7, XXVI   |       the devices of men against Christians have been brought to sought;
187        7, XXXVII |   ridicule for thus ascribing to Christians words which they never uttered?
188        7, XXXVII |        of sense. And thus, while Christians would not say that it is
189        7, XXXIX  |      beyond the. capacity of all Christians. "Let them hear," says he, "
190        7, XXXIX  |         proper objects. All true Christians therefore have the eye of
191        7, XL     |        which he addresses to all Christians, but which, if applicable
192        7, XL     |    inappropriate as addressed to Christians: "If you seek one to be
193        7, XLIV   |          world"--the simplest of Christians, who lead, however, a life
194        7, XLVIII |         the Athenians. But among Christians may be found men who have
195        7, XLVIII |        god they serve. But among Christians, those who maintain a perpetual
196        7, LIX    |      whether it was given to the Christians in the recorded teaching
197        7, LIX    |        the principles of Jews or Christians, that the same things were
198        7, LIX    |        language used by Jews and Christians, although indeed the language
199        7, LXIV   |           agree in this with the Christians and Jews, but they are actuated
200        7, LXIV   |         sacrificial victims. But Christians and Jews have regard to
201        7, LXVII  |         His next remark upon the Christians is: "They will admit that
202        7, LXX    |       justify the conduct of the Christians in refusing homage to any
203        8, XV     |         and ascribes them to all Christians. I call it "a most obscure
204        8, XVIII  |         general, we see that all Christians strive to raise altars and
205        8, XXVII  |                       XXVII.~And Christians have nothing to fear, even
206        8, XXX    |           which is known to most Christians: "The eating of animals,"
207        8, XXXI   |      what is adduced by Jews and Christians alike in defence of abstinence
208        8, XXXVII |    forgets that he is addressing Christians, who pray to God alone through
209        8, XXXVII |  absurdly attributes them all to Christians. "If," says he, "they who
210        8, XXXVII |           when he considers that Christians in prayer do not even use
211        8, XXXVIII|      XXXVIII.~He next represents Christians as saying what he never
212        8, XXXIX  |         and maliciously charging Christians with sentiments which they
213        8, XLIII  |         It is not, then, because Christians cast insults upon demons
214        8, XLIII  |       souls of those who condemn Christians, and betray them, and rejoice
215        8, XLIV   |       will be at peace with the. Christians. But when they recover their
216        8, XLIV   |         to take their revenge on Christians, and persecute them, then
217        8, XLIV   |          feel a deep interest in Christians when on their trial, and
218        8, XLVII  |    angels; and those recorded by Christians by Jesus Himself, or by
219        8, XLVII  |      people of great wisdom. But Christians, who have in so wonderful
220        8, XLVIII |         have heard. But Jews and Christians have been thus affected
221        8, LI     |     certainly in writing against Christians, the very essence of whose
222        8, LII    |     calumnies thrown out against Christians, and who, from a notion
223        8, LII    |          who, from a notion that Christians are an impious people, will
224        8, LII    |          are unwilling to become Christians to accept that truth. And
225        8, LXII   |          statements put forth by Christians were well-founded, when
226        8, LXIX   |      adopt the principles of the Christians, to despise the duties paid
227        8, LXXIV  |         our fellow-citizens. And Christians are benefactors of their
228        8, LXXV   |      escaping public duties that Christians decline public offices,