{"schemaVersion":2,"id":"tlg2042.tlg001.local001","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg2042.tlg001.local001/","urn":"urn:cts:greekLit:tlg2042.tlg001.local001","title":"Contra Celsum","titleGreek":null,"alternateTitles":[],"author":"Origenes","authorityName":"ORIGENES Theol.","authorUrl":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/authors/tlg2042-origenes/","authorityUrl":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/authors/tlg2042-origenes/","editors":["Paul Koetschau"],"publication":{"digitalPublisher":"Trustees of Tufts University","sourceTitle":"Origenes Werke","edition":null,"publisher":"J. C. Hinrichs'sche Buchhandlung","place":"Leipzig","date":"1899","volume":"1-2","series":null,"citation":null,"citationShort":null},"rights":{"text":"Available under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"},"provenance":{"authority":"Perseus Project","sponsors":[],"funders":[],"principal":null,"responsibilities":[]},"corpus":{"version":"2.2.0","date":"2026-08-29"},"revisionDate":"2026-08-15","sourceUrl":"http://www.archive.org/stream/origeneswerke00origgoog#page/n13/mode/2up","sourceLinkType":null,"sourceRights":null,"citation":"Origenes. Contra Celsum. ed. Paul Koetschau. Origenes Werke, Leipzig, J. C. Hinrichs'sche Buchhandlung, 1899. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg2042.tlg001.local001","excerpt":"Ὁ μὲν σωτὴρ καὶ κύριος ἡμῶν Ἰησοῦς Χριστὸς ψευδομαρτυρούμενος μὲν „ἐσιώπα“ κατηγορούμενος δὲ „οὐδὲν ἀπεκρίνατο“, πειθόμενος πάντα τὸν βίον ἑαυτοῦ καὶ τὰς ἐν Ἰουδαίοις πράξεις κρείττους γεγονέναι φωνῆς ἐλεγχούσης τὴν ψευδομαρτυρίαν καὶ λέξεων ἀπολογουμένων πρὸς τὰς κατηγορίας· σὺ δ᾿, ὦ φιλόθεε Ἀμβρόσιε, οὐκ οἶδ᾿ ὅπως πρὸς τὰς Κέλσου κατὰ Χριστιανῶν ἐν συγγράμμασι ψευδομαρτυρίας καὶ τῆς πίστεως τῶν ἐκκλησιῶν ἐν βιβλίῳ κατηγορίας ἐβουλήθης ἡμᾶς ἀπολογήσασθαι. ὡς οὐκ ὄντος ἐναργοῦς ἐλέγχου ἐν τοῖς πράγμασι καὶ πάντων γραμμάτων κρείττονος λόγου, τοῦ τε τὰς ψευδομαρτυρίας ἀφανίζοντος καὶ ταῖς κατηγορίαις μηδὲ πιθανότητα εἰς τὸ δύνασθαί τι αὐτὰς ἐνδιδόντος. περὶ δὲ τοῦ Ἰησοῦ ὅτι „ἐσιώπα“ ψευδομαρτυρούμενος, ἀρκεῖ ἐπὶ τοῦ παρόντος τὰ Ματθαίου παραθέσθαι· τὰ γὰρ ἰσοδυναμοῦντα αὐτῷ ὁ Μάρκος ἔγραψεν. ἔχει δ᾿ οὕτως ἡ τοῦ Ματθαίου λέξις· „ὁ δὲ ἀρχιερεὺς καὶ τὸ συνέδριον ἐζήτουν ψευδομαρτυρίαν κατὰ…","divisions":[{"label":"Book praef","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg2042.tlg001.local001/#tlg2042-tlg001-local001-praef"},{"label":"ΠΡΟΣ ΤΟΝ ΕΠΙΓΕΓΡΑΜΜΕΝΟΝ ΚΕΛΣΟΥ ΑΛΗΘΗ ΛΟΓΟΝ ΩΠΙΓΕΝΟΥΣ ΤΟΜΟΣ ΠΡΩΤΟΣ.","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg2042.tlg001.local001/#tlg2042-tlg001-local001-1"},{"label":"ΠΡΟΣ ΤΟΝ ΕΠΙΓΕΓΡΑΜΜΕΝΟΝ ΚΕΛΣΟΥ ΑΛΗΘΗ ΛΟΓΟΝ ΩΡΙΓΕΝΟΥΣ ΤΟΜΟΣ ΔΕΥΤΕΡΟΣ.","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg2042.tlg001.local001/#tlg2042-tlg001-local001-2"},{"label":"ΠΡΟΣ ΤΟΝ ΕΠΙΓΕΓΡΛΜΜΕΝΟΝ ΚΕΛΣΟΥ ΑΛΠΘΗ ΛΟΓΟΝ ΩΡΙΓΕΝΟΥΣ ΤΟΜΟΣ ΤΡΙΤΟΣ.","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg2042.tlg001.local001/#tlg2042-tlg001-local001-3"},{"label":"ΠΡΟΣ ΤΟΝ ΕΠΙΓΕΓΡΑΜΜΕΝΟΝ ΚΕΛΣΟΥ ΑΛΗΘΗ ΛΟΤΟΝ ΩΡΙΓΕΝΟΥΣ ΤΟΜΟΣ ΤΕΤΑΡΤΟΣ.","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg2042.tlg001.local001/#tlg2042-tlg001-local001-4"},{"label":"ΠΡΟΣ ΤΟΝ ΕΠΙΓΕΓΡΑΜΜΕΝΟΝ ΚΕΛΣΟΥ ΑΛΗΘΗ ΛΟΓΟΝ ΩΡΙΓΕΝΟΥΣ ΤΟΜΟΣ ΠΕΜΠΤΟΣ.","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg2042.tlg001.local001/#tlg2042-tlg001-local001-5"},{"label":"ΠΡΟΣ ΤΟΝ ΕΠΙΓΕΓΡΑΜΜΕΝΟΝ ΚΕΛΣΟΥ ΑΛΠΘΗ ΛΟΓΟΝ ΩΡΙΓΕΝΟΥΣ ΤΟΜΟΣ ΕΚΤΟΣ.","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg2042.tlg001.local001/#tlg2042-tlg001-local001-6"},{"label":"ΠΡΟΣ ΤΟΝ ΕΠΙΓΕΓΡΑΜΜΕΝΟΝ ΚΕΛΣΟΥ ΑΛΗΘΗ ΛΟΓΟΝ ΩΡΙΓΕΝΟΥΣ ΤΟΜΟΣ ΕΒΔΟΜΟΣ.","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg2042.tlg001.local001/#tlg2042-tlg001-local001-7"},{"label":"ΠΡΟΣ ΤΟΝ ΕΙΠΓΕΓΡΑΜΜΕΝΟΝ ΚΕΛΣΟΥ ΑΛΗΘΗ ΛΟΓΟΝ ΩΡΙΓΕΝΟΥΣ ΤΟΜΟΣ ΟΓΔΟΟΣ.","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg2042.tlg001.local001/#tlg2042-tlg001-local001-8"}],"formats":{"html":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg2042.tlg001.local001/","json":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/api/works/tlg2042.tlg001.local001.json","compressedReadingDocument":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg2042/tlg001/local001.json.gz"}}