Origen: Contra Celsum by Origen

Author:Origen
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1980-02-28T05:00:00+00:00

1 Jer. i. 9–10.

2 Read τς with Bo., K. tr.

3 Gen. xi. 4.

4 II Cor. x. 5.

5 I Cor. iii. 9.

6 Cf. I, 49. For Marcion’s view that the Jewish Messiah was quite different from Jesus Christ cf. Tertullian, adv. Marc, IV, 6; Harnack, Marcion (ed. 2), p. 117.

7 I, 49–57; II, 28–30.

8 I, 49.

9 Matt. x. 6; xv. 24.

10 Matt. xxi. 43, 41.

11 Cf. Clem. Hom, III, 39, on Gen. xviii. 21.

12 Wisd. of Sol. vii. 27.

13 Cf. I, 57; II, 35, 78; III, 28; de Princ. III, 1.

14 Cf. Celsus in IV, 23, 36; VI, 78.

15 I Tim. iv. 10.

16 Wisd. of Sol. i. 7.

17 Jer. xxiii. 24.

18 Acts xvii. 28.

19 John i. 1–2.

20 Cf. IV, 12; V, 12. Aristobulus ap. Eus. P.E. VIII, 10, 15, 377D; Philo, de Post. Caini, 6, 30; Justin, Dial. 127; Clem. Al. Strom, VII, 5, 5.

21 Cf. Celsus in VI, 78.

22 Wisd. of Sol. vii. 27.

23 Deut. xxxii. 8–9. Cf. v, 25–30, below.

24 Ps. ii. 8.

25 Matt. xiii. 3.

26 Axiomatic in discussions of the destructibility of the world; cf. Philo, de Aetern. 27.

27 Cf. I, 7.

28 For threats of torment in the mystery-religions, cf. Celsus in III, 16; VIII, 48. Discussion in Cumont, Lux perpetua, pp. 219 ff.

29 See Celsus in I, 19; IV, 41.

30 Inachus was father, not son, of Phoroneus according to the usual story. Origen’s memory probably failed him. Moses is said to be Inachus’ contemporary by Ptolemy, priest of Mendes (Tatian, 38); Apion ap. Africanus ap. Eus. P.E. x, 10,16,490B; Tertullian, Apol. 19; Clem. Al. Strom. I, 101, 5; Ps.-Justin, Cohort. 9; Eus. Chronic, (p. 7, ed. Helm).

31 Josephus, c. Apionem, I, 13, 70 ff., quotes Egyptian and Phoenician writers on this point. Cf. Tatian, 37–8; Theophilus, ad Autol. III, 21–2.

32 Eccles. i. 9. Origen’s exegesis of this text (de Princ. III, 5, 3) aroused the wrath of Jerome (Ep. CXXIV, 9) and Augustine (de Civ. Dei XII, 13).

33 Stoic doctrine; cf. IV, 68; V, 20.

34 Read δίως with A (We., K. tr.).

35 Jer. xxiii. 24.

36 Deut. iv. 24; ix. 3; Heb. xii. 29.

37 Dan. vii. 10.

38 Mal. iii. 2.

39 I Cor. iii. 12.

40 Read προσπίπτει with MI, K. tr.

41 I Cor. iii. 13–15.

42 Read παγγελίας with Selwyn, We.

43 What follows is Platonic (Rep. 381B, C; Phaedrus, 246D).

44 Read κα μόν δ with K. tr.

45 Read λελέχθαι with We., K. tr.

46 Ps. d. 28; Mal. iii 6.

47 Cf. my remarks in Harv. Theol. Rev. XLI (1948), p. 92 n. 15.

48 Phil. ii. 6–7.

49 I Pet. ii. 22.

50 II Cor. v. 21.

51 Phil. ii. 8.

52 Origen quotes Hippocrates, De Flatibus I, a hackneyed quotation; cf. Origen, Hom, in Jerem. XIV, I; Eusebius, H.E. X, 4, II; Lucian, Bis Accus. I; Plutarch, Mor. 291 C.

53 Read ρχεσθαι, καίτοι. . . .

54 Verbal allusion to Plato, Rep. 518A. Cf. VI, 17.

55 Isa. liii. 2–3.

56 μεταβολή is common, μεταμόρφωσις late and rare.

57 For this Orphic myth, cf. Rohde, Psyche (E.T.), pp. 340 f.; A. B. Cook, Zeus, II, pp. 1030–2; Guthrie, Orpheus and Greek Religion (1935), pp.

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