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Chapter
XLVII.
He represents, moreover, a statement of his own as
if it were an answer to one of his questions, in which he asks:
“By what train of argument were you led to regard him as the Son
of God?” For he makes us answer that “we were won
over to him, because3317
| 3317 The reading in the
text is εἰ καὶ
ἴσμεν; for which both Bohereau and De
la Rue propose ἐπεὶ
ἴσμεν, which has been adopted in the
translation: cf. ἐπεὶ
ἐκολάσθη,
infra. | we know that his
punishment was undergone to bring about the destruction of the father
of evil.” Now we were won over to His doctrine by
innumerable other considerations, of which we have stated only the
smallest part in the preceding pages; but, if God permit, we shall
continue to enumerate them, not only while dealing with the so-called
True Discourse of Celsus, but also on many other
occasions. And, as if we said that we consider Him to be the Son
of God because He suffered punishment, he asks: “What then?
have not many others, too, been punished, and that not less
disgracefully?” And here Celsus acts like the most
contemptible enemies of the Gospel, and like those who imagine that it
follows as a consequence from our history of the crucified Jesus, that
we should worship those who have undergone
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