The writings of Origen, Vol. 2 (of 2) — John Shaqi
The writings of Origen, Vol. 2 (of 2)Origen
Religion
The writings of Origen, Vol. 2 (of 2)
Origen
Apologetics -- History -- Early church, ca. 30-600; Celsus (Platonic philosopher), active 180; Theology -- History -- Early Church, ca. 30-600
Moreover, let them show where there is to be found even the appearance
of language dictated by arrogance,[53] and proceeding from Jesus. For
how could an arrogant man thus express himself, “Learn of me, for I am
meek and lowly of heart, and you shall find rest for your souls?”[54] or
how can He be styled arrogant, who after supper laid aside His garments
in the presence of His disciples, and, after girding Himself with a
towel, and pouring water into a basin, proceeded to wash the feet of
each disciple, and rebuked him who was unwilling to allow them to be
washed, with the words, “Except I wash thee, thou hast no part with
me?”[55] Or how could He be called such who said, “I was amongst you,
not as he that sitteth at meat, but as he that serveth?”[56] And let any
one show what were the falsehoods which He uttered, and let him point
out what are great and what are small falsehoods, that he may prove
Jesus to have been guilty of the former. And there is yet another way in
which we may confute him. For as one falsehood is not less or more false
than another, so one truth is not less or more true than another. And
what charges of impiety he has to bring against Jesus, let the Jew of
Celsus especially bring forward. Was it impious to abstain from
corporeal circumcision, and from a literal Sabbath, and literal
festivals, and literal new moons, and from clean and unclean meats, and
to turn the mind to the good and true and spiritual law of God, while at
the same time he who was an ambassador for Christ knew how to become to
the Jews as a Jew, that he might gain the Jews, and to those who are
under the law, as under the law, that he might gain those who are under
the law?
Footnote 53:
ἀλαζονεία.
Footnote 54:
Matt. xi. 29.
Footnote 55:
John xvi. 4.
Footnote 56:
Luke xxii. 27.
Chapter VIII.
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