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	Celsus - LoveToKnow 1911
		Celsus indeed says that the Jews are almost as ridiculous as the foes they attack; the latter said the saviour from Heaven had come, the former still looked for his coming.
		Celsus does not indeed repeat the Thyestean charges so frequently brought against Christians by their calumniators, but he says the Christian teachers who are mainly weavers and cobblers have no power over men of education.
		Celsus and Porphyry are the two early literary opponents of Christianity who have most claim to consideration, and it is worth noticing that, while they agree alike in high aims, in skilful address and in devoted toil, their religious standpoints are widely dissimilar.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Celsus (1661 words)

	Celsus the First Nietzsche
		Celsus' animosity against the Christians is obviously great, and his condescension high, and while the worm, disgusting and non-sentient, is his central metaphor for dispensing with them, his ire finds other, equally miasmatic figures.
		Celsus argues that the ubiquity of fundamental themes in myth and theology is explained by the ultimate derivation of them all from an ancient and primordial source which can be guessed at behind their similarity in multiplicity.
		Celsus is simply doing, in his metaphysical style, what resident alarmists had been doing since prehistory when they sensed the imminence of crisis, namely activating the scapegoat mechanism; but the Christians whom he relegates to disgusting worm-hood appear, on the other hand, to be doing something quite different.
	www.humnet.ucla.edu /humnet/anthropoetics/Ap0301/CELSUS.htm (8342 words)

	JewishEncyclopedia.com - CELSUS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Origen was not clear as to the person of Celsus; he mentions two Epicureans by that name, one of whom was said to have lived under Nero and the other under Hadrian; and it was against the latter that he directed his polemic.
		Celsus was by no means friendly to the Jews, regarding them as slaves escaped from Egypt.
		Celsus gave all the ideas on miracles, angelology, and demonology current at his time even among the Jews; so that his treatise is important also for the study of Judaism.
	www.jewishencyclopedia.com /view.jsp?artid=290&letter=C (764 words)

	Aulus Cornelius Celsus Summary
		Celsus is believed to have died in Rome somewhere around AD 50 but not until fourteen hundred years after his death did he gain recognition and praise for both his medical techniques and masterful literary ability.
		Surgery, according to Celsus, should be the most satisfying field for the practitioner because the surgeon knew that a cure was the result of his skill, not mysterious forces, accident, or good fortune.
		Celsus' work was rediscovered by Pope Nicholas V and published in 1478.
	www.bookrags.com /Aulus_Cornelius_Celsus (2205 words)

	Celsus's Decircumcision Operation
		Celsus does not mention the strong pull exerted on the skin by the retraction of the annular scar around the base of the penis.
		While Celsus does not refer explicitly to the Jews, a glans bared by circumcision was associated with Jewishness in Rome during the early empire.
		Celsus recommends linamenta, dressed flax (L. usitatissimum) to arrest bleeding (5.26.23.C, 7.30.3.C); to repress the fungation of flesh (5.26.30.C); to dress wounds (7.14.4, 7.19.9); to prevent separated edges of skin from reuniting.
	www.cirp.org /library/restoration/rubin (2412 words)

	Celsus' view of Christians and Christianity
		Celsus was a Greek writer in the second century who criticized Christianity as a threat to the stable communities and worldview that the "pagan" religious and social system sought to uphold.
		But as Celsus delights to heap up calumnies against us, and, in addition to those which he has already uttered, has added others, let us examine these also, and see whether it be the Christians or Celsus who have reason to be ashamed of what is said.
		Celsus goes on to say: "We must not disobey the ancient writer [Homer], who said long ago, 'Let one be king, whom the son of crafty Saturn appointed ;'" and adds: "If you set aside this maxim, you will deservedly suffer for it at the hands of the king.
	www.bluffton.edu /~humanities/1/celsus.htm (1237 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Celsus the Platonist
		Celsus from Origen's answer, a task which was accomplished by Jachmann in 1846, and more successfully by Keim in 1873.
		Celsus inaugurates a general attack on Christianity from the point of view of philosophy.
		Celsus did not succeed in escaping, as is evident in many passages of his work, and as Origen was very careful to point out.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/03490a.htm (2338 words)

	Origen Against Celsus Book VIII
		Celsus supposes that men "discharge the duties of life until they are loosened from its bonds," when, in accordance with commonly received customs, they offer sacrifices to each of the gods recognised in the state; and he fails to perceive the true duty which is fulfilled by an earnest piety.
		If Celsus had carefully weighed the meaning of the word "profitable," and had considered that the tritest profit lies in virtue and in virtuous action, he would not have applied the phrase "as far as it is profitable" to the service of such demons, as he has acknowledged them to be.
		Celsus, indeed, says that "we seem to do the greater honour to the great God when we sing hymns in honour of the sun and Minerva; "but we know it to be the opposite of that.
	www.forerunner.com /churchfathers/X0120_16._Against_Celsus_B.html (8921 words)

	AskWhy! on Celsus and Origen - Christianity Revealed (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Celsus says the Christian idea is a false interpretation of the Greek cycle of catastrophes, the last of which was Deucalion’s flood and the next of which would be fire, God coming to earth as a consuming flame.
		Celsus agrees with this but says that the Christians were inconsistent in their condemnation of images, because they magnify humanity by saying they were made in the image of God.
		Celsus warned the Christians that they must submit to the conditions of life and the commonwealth of society to share in them, even though they might not be wholly to their taste.
	www.askwhy.co.uk /christianity/0615ContraCelsum.html (10208 words)

	New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge, Vol. II: Basilica - Chambers \| Christian Classics Ethereal ...
		Origen gives the arguments of Celsus sometimes word for word, sometimes in substance; in the latter case there is little abbreviation and not many omissions, so that there is very fair material for an attempt to reconstruct the original text of Celsus.
		He was thus at least a contemporary of the Celsus to whom Lucian dedicated his "Alexander," and some have supposed the two to be identical.
		Celsus shows a good knowledge of Genesis and Exodus; Aubé thinks he can prove an acquaintance with the Prophets and with the Psalms, and a reference to Jonah and Daniel is indeed found in vii.
	www.ccel.org /ccel/schaff/encyc02.celsus.html (1258 words)

	Celsus Biography / Profile
		All that is left of Celsus (SEHL-suhs) is his influential anti-Christian polemic entitled Alīthīs Logos (probably between 175 and 181 c.e.; On the True Doctrine, 1987, translated from pieces preserved in the reply written by the Christian writer Origen).
		Portions of this work are reminiscent of philosopher Lucian’s satirical portrayal of the charlatan Peregrinus, and the author also exhibits a good knowledge of second century Judaic and Christian perspectives.
		Celsus also found hypocritical their apparent disdain for the same Judaic traditions from which they claimed descent.
	www.enotes.com /salem-lit/celsus (323 words)

	Origen Against Celsus Book V
		Moreover, this inference follows from the dictum of Celsus, that it is an act of impiety on the part of the Jews to do away with those ancestral laws which forbid the worship of any other deity than the Creator of all things.
		Chapter L. Celsus, still expressing his opinion regarding the Jews, says: "It is not probable that they are in great favour with God, or are regarded by Him with more affection than others, or that angels are sent by Him to them alone, as if to them had been allotted some region of the blessed.
		But Celsus challenges the account also that an angel rolled away the stone from the sepulchre where the body of Jesus lay, acting like a lad at school, who should bring a charge against any one by help of a string of commonplaces.
	www.forerunner.com /churchfathers/X0118_13._Against_Celsus_B.html (6107 words)

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	Celsus, Origen and Hoffmann
		Celsus has been sneering at how Jesus responded to the threat of death, and 'may this cup pass from me', and Origen has been pointing out the errors and omissions.
		Celsus did not understand that it was impossible for the same men both to be deceived into thinking that Jesus was God and the prophesied Christ, and to have invented tales about him, when they obviously would have known that the tales were untrue.
		But Celsus is not discussing the veracity of the bible: he presumes it records the words of the disciples accurately, and accuses the latter of lying as they report Jesus words and actions.
	www.tertullian.org /rpearse/celsus/celsus.htm (2581 words)

	Celsus Library, Ephesus Turkey
		Built in 135 A.D., it is a monumental tomb for Gaius Julius Celsus Polemaeanus, the governor of the province of Asia; from his son Galius Julius Aquila.
		The grave of Celsus is beneath the ground floor, across the entrance.
		The statues in the niches of the columns today are the copies of the originals, which were taken to Viana on the excavations in 1910.
	www.ephesus.us /ephesus/celsuslibrary.htm (176 words)

	Letter Against Celsus - Origen - Book I
		After this, through the influence of some motive which is unknown to me, Celsus asserts that it is by the names of certain demons, and by the use of incantations, that the Christians appear to be possessed of (miraculous) power; hinting, I suppose, at the practices of those who expel evil spirits by incantations.
		After these statements, Celsus, from a secret desire to cast discredit upon the Mosaic account of the creation, which teaches that the world is not yet ten thousand years old, but very much under that, while concealing his wish, intimates his agreement with those who hold that the world is uncreated.
		And yet, against his will, Celsus is entangled into testifying that the world is comparatively modern, and not yet ten thousand years old, when he says that the Greeks consider those things as ancient, because, owing to the deluges and conflagrations, they have not beheld or received any memorials of older events.
	mb-soft.com /believe/txu/origen0b.htm (8037 words)

	Celsus
		Celsus indeed says that the Jews are almost as ridiculous as the foes they attack; the latter said the savior from Heaven had come, the former still looked for his coming.
		He is keen, positive, logical; combining with curious dashes of skepticism many genuine moral convictions and a good knowledge of the various national religions and mythologies whose relative value he is able to appreciate.
		During these years Commodus was associated with Marcus in the imperium, and Celsus has a reference to this joint rule.
	www.nndb.com /people/968/000104656 (1587 words)

	CELSUS ON CHRISTIANITY
		CELSUS (178ECE) Wrote"On the True Doctrine, known primarily from the polemical book, "Contra Celsum," written br Origen of Alexandria in response the Celsus's questions.
		Celsus' books, along with those of Porphry and others, were condemned by order of Valentinian III and Theodosious in 448CE.
		Celsus is one of the handful of critics who have not been written completely out of history.
	members.aol.com /PS418/celsus.html (1619 words)

	The Discovery of the Relics of Celsus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		For if blessed Celsus had not been buried in that very place, he would not have been found by any manner of excavation; also, if the workmen had not torn up the ground, the tresure would never have been found.
		He exhorted the people that they not refrain from visiting blessed Celsus frequently and that in each future year they should celebrate the day of his birth, which happened to be January 4, with the greatest honor, as was ordered by apostolic authority.
		For Celsus is the son of the resurrection, who did not fail to build on that foundation over which the architect Paul placed "gold, silver, and precious stones" [1 Cor.
	urban.hunter.cuny.edu /~thead/celsus.htm (2323 words)

	Celsus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Celsus (Greek: Κέλσος) was a 2nd century Greek philosopher and opponent of Christianity.
		Celsus wrote his work True Discourse as a polemic against the Christians in approximately 178 CE., or generally between 170 and 180 CE.
		Porphyry is mainly a pure philosopher, but also a man of deep religious feeling, whose quest and goal are the knowledge of God; Celsus, the friend of Lucian, though sometimes called Epicurean and sometimes Platonist, is not a professed philosopher at all, but a man of the world.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Celsus (2406 words)

	Origen: Contra Celsus
		Celsus, indeed, did not see that it was an inconsistency for the same persons both to be deceived regarding Jesus, believing Him to be God, and the subject of prophecy, and to invent fictions about Him, knowing manifestly that these statements were false.
		Celsus, moreover, unable to resist the miracles which Jesus is recorded to have performed, has already on several occasions spoken of them slanderously as works of sorcery; and we also on several occasions have, to the best of our ability, replied to his statements.
		And Celsus, seeing this, called the woman "half-mad,"- a statement which is not made by the history recording the fact, but from which he took occasion to charge the occurrences with being untrue.
	www.webcom.com /~gnosis/library/orig_cc2.htm (7668 words)

	Amazon.ca: On the True Doctrine : A Discourse Against the Christians: Books: Celsus,R. Joseph Hoffman (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Celsus' discourse shows him to be an eclectic philosopher--a dabbler in various schools of thought, including Platonism and Stoicism, and a student of the history and religious customs of many nations.
		Celsus, with that biting tongue that one loves from Roman writers, demonstrates the falsity of Christian doctrine, its philosophical weaknesses and inherent contradictions.
		This work by the second-century writer Celsus the Philosopher is lost, like so much of ancient literature, not because of 16th century style 'censorship' but because of the collapse of the society that gave it birth.
	www.amazon.ca /True-Doctrine-Discourse-Against-Christians/dp/0195041518 (2671 words)

	Celsus on Jesus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Celsus lived in during the 2nd century, CE.
		Celsus' writings no longer survive in tact, but we have access to some of his work when Origen quotes passages for the purpose of refutation.
		Jesus had come from a village in Judea, and was the son of a poor Jewess who gained her living by the work of her own hands.
	ccat.sas.upenn.edu /~humm/Topics/JewishJesus/celsus.html (163 words)

	Letter Against Celsus - Origen - Book VIII
		The seed of man." [4690] Moreover, Celsus thinks that he ought not to reason with those who hope for the good of the body, as they are unreasonably intent upon an object which can never satisfy their expectations.
		It is not an undignified thing, therefore, to reason even with the coarse and unrefined, and to try to bring them as far as possible to a higher state of refinement'to bring the impure to the highest practicable degree of purity'to bring the unreasoning multitude to reason, and the diseased in mind to spiritual health.
		Celsus goes on to say: "We must not disobey the ancient writer, who said long ago, 'Let one be king, whom the son of crafty Saturn appointed; '" [4713] and adds: "If you set aside this maxim, you will deservedly suffer for it at the hands of the king.
	mb-soft.com /believe/txu/origen0i.htm (10332 words)

	Origen: Contra Celsus
		But," continues Celsus, "Ammon in divine things would not make a worse ambassador than the angels of the Jews, so that there is nothing wrong in each nation observing its established method of worship.
		Celsus, moreover, says that no wrong is committed by any one who wishes to observe the religious worship sanctioned by the laws of his country; and it follows, according to his view, that the Scythians commit no wrong, when, in conformity with their country's laws, they eat human beings.
		Celsus, still expressing his opinion regarding the Jews, says: "It is not probable that they are in great favour with God, or are regarded by Him with more affection than others, or that angels are sent by Him to them alone, as if to them had been allotted some region of the blessed.
	www.webcom.com /~gnosis/library/orig_cc5.htm (7294 words)

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