Arguments Of Celsus Porphyry And The Emperor Julian Against The Christians

Against the Christians is a literary critique of Christianity. Its incisive remarks extend to key figures, philosophies, and dogmas. The divinity of Jesus is questioned, as is the truthfulness of the apostles and the Christian concept of God on a larger scale. It rejects the gospels as the work of frauds who attributed their own writings to late disciples of Jesus.

Arguments of Celsus, Porphyry and the Emperor Julian Against the Christians is a series of essays by Flavius Josephus. They cover criticism of Christianity by people who lived during the days of Early Christianity.

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1830 edition. Excerpt: ... Chrysostom*, and Gregory Nazianzen f, who adds, that he not only called them Galilaeans himself, but made a law that no one should call them by any other name; thinking thereby to abolish the name of Christians. They also called them Atheists, and their religion the Atheism or Impiety, because they derided the worship of the heathen gods. Dio J: says, AciJius Glabrio was put to death for atheism, meaning the Christian religion. And the Christian apologists, Athenagoras, Justin Martyr, ArnobiusH, and others, reckon this among the crimes which the heathens usually lay to their charge. Eusebius says * * the name was become so common, that when the persecuting magistrates would oblige a Christian to renounce his religion, they bade him abjure it in this form, by saying among other things, Afjs Ts; 'A&'sc, 'Confusion to the atheists, Away with the impious, ' meaning the Christians. To this they added the name of Greeks and Impostors. Which is noted by St. Jeromett, who says, * Chrys. Horn. 63. torn. 5. f Naz. i. Invectiv. J Dio in Domitian. Athen. Legal, pro Christ. Just. Apol. i. p. 47. DEGREES Amob. lib. i. ** Kuseb. lib. iv. c. 15. f f Hieron. Ep. 10. ad Furiam. Ubicunque viderint Wheresoever they saw a Christian, they would presently cry out, 'O ygaixos Sx/ DEGREESth?, 'Behold a Grecian impostor.' This was the character which the Jews gave our Saviour, 6 -x'hui/os, 'that deceiver, ' Matt, xxvii. 63. And Justin Martyr ] says, they endeavoured to propagate it to posterity, sending their apostles or emissaries from Jerusalem to all the synagogues in the world, to bid them beware of a certain impious, lawless sect, lately risen up under one Jesus, a Galilaean impostor. Hence Lucian J took occasion in his blasphemous raillery to st