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[3746] [Gieseler cites this chapter (and cap. xix. infra) to show that Origen taught that the Logos did not assume a human body. Could words be stronger to the contrary? “He becomes, as it were, flesh,” is used below to guard against transmutation.]
[3747] προηγουμένην.
[3748] ἄτιμον.
[3749] ἐκλεῖπον.
[3750] [The transfiguration did not conflict with his mortal nature, nor the incarnation with his immortality.]
[3751] τί ἀκολουθεῖ.
[3752] [Such are the accommodations reflected upon by Gieseler. See Book III. cap. lxxix., supra.]
[3753] τί ἄτοπον.
[3755] ὅμως δ᾽ ἀπολογησόμεθα, ὅτι οὐ φῂς, ὦ Κέλσε, ὧς ἐν φαρμάκου μοίρα ποτὲ δίδοται χρῆσθαι τῷ πλανᾷν καὶ τῷ ψεύδεσθαι;
[3756] προηγουμένως, ἀλλ᾽ ἐκ περιστάσεως.
[3757] Cf. Plato in the Timæus, and book iii., de Legibus.
[3758] σαφής.
[3759] ᾽Επὰν τὸ προκείμενον ᾖ παραστῆσαι καὶ τὰ τῆς κατὰ τὸν τόπον ἱσνορίας τίνα ἔχοι λόγον, καὶ τὰ τῆς περὶ αὐτοῦ ἀναγωγῆς.
[3760] Otus and Ephialtes. Cf. Smith’s Dict. of Myth. and Biog., s.v.
[3761] Cf. Hom., Odyss., xi. 305.
[3762] [Demonstrated by Justin, vol. i. pp. 277, 278, this series.]
[3763] ἁγιστείας.
[3764] ἐπεσκοπήθησαν.
[3765] Θεῖόν τι καὶ ἱερὸν χρῆμα γεγονέναι τὸν ᾽Ιησοῦν.
[3766] οὐδ᾽ ἀποκατασταθήσονται. [A very bold and confident assertion this must have seemed sixteen hundred years ago.]
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