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Against Celsus
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[3813] καὶ ἀμείβουσι σώματα.
[3814] Cf. 1 Cor. ii. 11.
[3815] Cf. Rom. i. 19.
[3817] οὔτ᾽ ἐν λόγῳ οὔτ᾽ ἐν ἀριθμῷ αὐτούς ποτε γεγενημένους.
[3818] ἐπολιτεύετο.
[3819] [See note on Book III. cap. lxxvi. supra, and to vol. iii. p. 76, this series.]
[3820] Cf. Deut. iv. 16-18.
[3821] Cf. Deut. iv. 19.
[3822] πολιτεία.
[3823] οὐδὲ φαίνεσθαι θηλυδρίαν οἷόν τ᾽ ἦν.
[3824] οἵ τινες διὰ τὸ καθαρὸν ἦθος, καὶ τὸ ὑπὲρ ἄνθρωπον.
[3825] θείᾳ μοίρᾳ.
[3826] καίτοιγε πάντα κάλων κινήσαντες.
[3827] ἀπὸ πρώτης σπορᾶς γοήτων καὶ πλάνων ἀνθρώπων.
[3828] παρεξηούμενοι.
[3829] [This formula he regards as an adumbration of the Triad (see our vol. ii. p. 101): thus, “the God of Abraham” = Fatherhood; “of Isaac” = Sonship; “of Jacob” = Wisdom, and the Founder of the New Israel.]
[3830] εἴτε καὶ αὐτόθεν σεμνύνουσαν ἐν ἀποῤῥήτοις τοὺς ἄνδρας, εἴτε καὶ δι᾽ ὑπονοιῶν αἰνισσμένην τινὰ μεγάλα καὶ θαυμάσια τοῖς θεωρῆσαι αὐτὰ δυναμένοις;
[3831] μυστικῆς ἀναγραφῆς.
[3832] ἐροῦμέν τε· ὅτι μήποτε τὸ καὶ ὑφ᾽ ὑμῶν παραλαμβάνεσθαι τὰ ὀνόματα τῶν τριῶν τούτων γεναρχῶν τοῦ ἔθνους, τῇ ἐναργείᾳ καταλαμβανόντων, οὐκ εὐκαταφρόνητα ἀνύεσθαι ἐκ τῆς κατεπικλήσεως αὐτῶν, παρίστησι τὸ θεῖον τῶν ἀνδρῶν. Guietus would expunge the words τῇ ἐναργείᾳ καταλαμβανόντων.
[3833] [See p. 511, supra, on the formula of benediction and exorcism, and compare Num. vi. 24.]
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