Against Celsus 2.22 · Sophia Scriptura

Greek text · Koetschau 1:152

Εἶτα ὡς συναγαγὼν ἀραρυίαις ἀποδείξεσι καὶ ἀκολουθίαις τὸν λόγον εἶπε τό· καὶ ὅπερ ἔτι ἀτοπώτερον, αὐτὸς ὁ θεὸς τοῖς συντραπέζοις ἐπεβούλευε, προδότας καὶ δυσσεβεῖς ποιῶν. πῶς γὰρ ὁ Ἰησοῦς ἢ ἐπεβούλευσεν ἢ προδότας καὶ δυσσεβεῖς τοὺς μαθητὰς ἐποίησεν, οὐκ ἂν ἔχοι παραδεικνύειν εἰ μὴ ἐξ ἧς ἐνόμισεν ἀκολουθίας. ἣν καὶ ὁ τυχὼν εὐχερέστατα διελέγξαι ἄν.

English · Claude translation

Then, as if he had concluded his argument with firmly fitted proofs and consequences, he said: “And what is still more absurd, the god himself plotted against those who shared his table, making them traitors and ungodly.” But how Jesus either plotted against his disciples or made them traitors and ungodly, he could not show, except from the chain of reasoning he imagined, which anyone at all could very easily refute.

About this passage

Source

Koetschau 1:152 · Paul Koetschau, ed., Origenes Werke 1–2: Gegen Celsus, GCS 2–3 (Leipzig: Hinrichs, 1899) · Greek text: P. Koetschau, Origenes Werke 1–2 (GCS 2–3, 1899), digitized by the Perseus Digital Library and published by the First Thousand Years of Greek project (Open Greek and Latin), CC BY-SA 4.0

Text

As printed in Koetschau, GCS 2–3. Manuscript variants and the editor's apparatus are not reproduced; no textual problem is noted in this passage.

Translation

Claude translation (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 · Translated by Claude from the Greek text of Koetschau, GCS 2–3; made independently of existing English translations.

Compare

Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 4 (1885) (an older public-domain English translation, whole volume at CCEL; checked against ours only after ours was made)

Topics

Christology

Notes

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (missing accent and breathing in the digital text): ἐξ ης ἐνόμισεν → ἐξ ἧς ἐνόμισεν.

Cite this passage

Origen, Cels. 2.22 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/origen-celsum/2/22/).

Plain text

Origen, Cels. 2.22 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/origen-celsum/2/22/).