Apologetics -- History -- Early church, ca. 30-600; Celsus (Platonic philosopher), active 180; Theology -- History -- Early Church, ca. 30-600
had been a God, His predictions must infallibly have come to pass; and
assertion, that He plotted against the members of His own table:
Refuted—chaps. xx.-xxii. Assertion, that the things which He suffered
could have been neither painful nor distressing, because He submitted to
them voluntarily and as a God—chap. xxiii. Misrepresentation of Celsus
as to the language employed by Jesus during His sufferings—chaps. xxiv.,
xxv. Celsus charges the disciples with having invented statements:
Answer—chap. xxvi. Alleges that Christian believers have corrupted the
gospel in order to be able to reply to objections: Answer—chap. xxvii.
The Jew of Celsus reproaches Christians with making use of the prophets:
Answer—chap. xxviii. Assertion of Celsus, that from such signs and
misinterpretations, and from proofs so mean, no one could prove Jesus to
be God and the Son of God: Answer—chap. xxx. Charges Christians with
sophistical reasoning in saying that the Son of God is the Logos
Himself: Refutation—chap. xxxi. Objection of Celsus to our Lord’s
genealogy: Refutation—chap. xxxii. Celsus ridicules the actions of Jesus
as unworthy of a God: Refutation—chap. xxxiii. Inconsistency of Celsus
in representing the Jew as conversant with Greek literature; various
remarks of Celsus answered—chap. xxxiv. Question of Celsus, why Jesus
does not give some manifestation of His divinity by taking vengeance
upon those who insult Him and His Father: Answered—chap. xxxv. Celsus
scoffingly inquires, What was the nature of the ichor in the body of
Jesus? and asserts that Jesus rushed with open mouth to drink of the
vinegar and gall: Answer—chaps. xxxvi., xxxvii. Sneer of the Jew, that
Christians find fault with Jews for not recognising Jesus as God:
Answer—chap. xxxviii. Falsehood of the assertion of this Jew of Celsus,
that Jesus gained over to His cause no one during His life, not even His
own disciples—chap. xxxix. Jew goes on to assert that Jesus did not show
Himself to be pure from all evil: Answer—chaps. xli., xlii. Falsity of
the statement, that Jesus, after failing to gain over those who were in
this world, went to Hades to gain over those who were there—chap. xliii.
Celsus asserts further, that other individuals who have been condemned
and died miserable deaths ought to be regarded as greater and more
divine messengers of heaven than Jesus: Answer—chap. xliv. Argument of
Celsus against the truth of Christianity, from the different behaviour
of the actual followers of Jesus during His life and that of Christians
at the present day: Answer—chap. xlv. Falsehood of the assertion, that
Jesus when on earth gained over to Himself only sailors and
tax-gatherers of the most worthless character—chap. xlvi. Answer to the
question, By what train of argument were Christians led to regard Jesus
as the Son of God?—chap. xlvii. Assertion of Celsus, that Jesus is
deemed by Christians to be the Son of God because He healed the lame and
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