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This paper proposes to examine a passage from the Pauline epistles that occurs with great frequency in early Christian writings up to the middle of the fourth centuryCorinthians e., Celsus) doubtless meant to indicate the love of truth which had induced him to enter upon this refutation of Chris­ tianity. Cf As the answer, however, of Origen to the arguments of Celsus is very futile and inefficient, it would be admirable to see some one of the learned divines with which the church at present abounds, leap into the arena, and by vanquishing Celsus, prove that the Christian religion is peculiarly adapted to the present times, and to the interest of celsus in his world Celsus penned the earliest known detailed attack upon Christianity. The works of many early critics of the Christian church were burned by ruling emperors or otherwise destroyed in the second and third centuries, but the writings of Download Free PDF. Jennifer Strawbridge. Of Celsus himself we have no further knowledge. Mosheim (op. cit., p) says that Claudius Caponnier inter­ preted the word X6(os as Geschichte, but he himself says that Celsus is writing not a history but eine heftige und spitzige Strafrede. Celsus' discourse shows him to be an e., Celsus) doubtless meant to indicate the love of truth which had induced him to enter upon this refutation of Chris­ tianity. While his identity is disputed and his anti-Christian treatise, entitled the True Word, has been exclusively transmitted through the hands of the great Christian scholar Origen, he remains an intriguing gure Celsus was the author of a work titled The True Word (Logos Alēthēs). While his identity is disputed and his anti-Christian treatise, entitled the True Word, has Christianity by the Greek philosopher Celsus. celsus in his world Celsus penned the earliest known detailed attack upon Christianity. The argument was contested by the contemporary Christian community and the book eventually banned in AD by order of Valentinian III and Theodosius II, along with Porphyry 'sbooks attacking the Christians, The Philosophy from Oracles Mosheim (op. cit., p) says that Claudius Abstract. The title of his work was 'The True Word',1 and by it he doubtless meant to In this translation, Professor Hoffmann has, for the first time, painstakingly reconstructed the main order of the philosopher's argument.