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{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c005\">In the next place, when Celsus says in express words, “If\r\nthey would answer me, not as if I were asking for information,\r\nfor I am acquainted with all their opinions, but because\r\nI take an equal interest in them all, it would be well. And\r\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_409\">409</span>if they will not, but will keep reiterating, as they generally\r\ndo, ‘Do not investigate,’ etc., they must, he continues, explain\r\nto me at least of what nature these things are of which\r\nthey speak, and whence they are derived,” etc. Now, with\r\nregard to his statement that he “is acquainted with all our\r\ndoctrines,” we have to say that this is a boastful and daring\r\nassertion; for if he had read the prophets in particular,\r\nwhich are full of acknowledged difficulties, and of declarations\r\nthat are obscure to the multitude, and if he had perused\r\nthe parables of the Gospels, and the other writings of the\r\nlaw and of the Jewish history, and the utterances of the\r\napostles, and had read them candidly, with a desire to enter\r\ninto their meaning, he would not have expressed himself with\r\nsuch boldness, nor said that he “was acquainted with all\r\ntheir doctrines.” Even we ourselves, who have devoted much\r\nstudy to these writings, would not say that “we were acquainted\r\nwith everything,” for we have a regard for truth.\r\nNot one of us will assert, “I know all the doctrines of Epicurus,”\r\nor will be confident that he knows all those of Plato,\r\nin the knowledge of the fact that so many differences of\r\nopinion exist among the expositors of these systems. For\r\nwho is so daring as to say that he knows all the opinions of\r\nthe Stoics or of the Peripatetics? Unless, indeed, it should\r\nbe the case that he has heard this boast, “I know them all,”\r\nfrom some ignorant and senseless individuals, who do not\r\nperceive their own ignorance, and should thus imagine, from\r\nhaving had such persons as his teachers, that he was acquainted\r\nwith them all. Such an one appears to me to act\r\nvery much as a person would do who had visited Egypt (where\r\nthe Egyptian <i>savans</i>, learned in their country’s literature, are\r\ngreatly given to philosophizing about those things which are\r\nregarded among them as divine, but where the vulgar, hearing\r\ncertain myths, the reasons of which they do not understand,\r\nare greatly elated because of their fancied knowledge), and\r\nwho should imagine that he is acquainted with the whole circle\r\nof Egyptian knowledge, after having been a disciple of the\r\nignorant alone, and without having associated with any of the\r\npriests, or having learned the mysteries of the Egyptians from\r\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_410\">410</span>any other source. And what I have said regarding the learned\r\nand ignorant among the Egyptians, I might have said also of\r\nthe Persians; among whom there are mysteries, conducted on\r\nrational principles by the learned among them, but understood\r\nin a symbolical sense by the more superficial of the multitude.<a id=\"r1153\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f1153\"><sup>[1153]</sup></a>\r\nAnd the same remark applies to the Syrians, and Indians,\r\nand to all those who have a literature and a mythology.</p>","headings":["The Writings of Origen, Vol. 1 of 2","ORIGEN CONTRA CELSUM.","ORIGEN AGAINST CELSUS. 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