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Book III.
Chapter I.
In the first book of our answer to the work of
Celsus, who had boastfully entitled the treatise which he had composed
against us A True Discourse, we have gone through, as you
enjoined, my faithful Ambrosius, to the best of our ability, his
preface, and the parts immediately following it, testing each one of
his assertions as we went along, until we finished with the
tirade3434
| 3434 δημηγορίας:
cf. book i. c. 71. | of this Jew of his,
feigned to have been delivered against Jesus. And in the second
book we met, as we best could, all the charges contained in the
invective3435
| 3435 δημηγορίας:
cf. book i. c. 71. | of the said Jew,
which were levelled at us who are believers in God through Christ; and
now we enter upon this third division of our discourse, in which our
object is to refute the allegations which he makes in his own
person.
He gives it as his opinion, that “the
controversy between Jews and Christians is a most foolish one,”
and asserts that “the discussions which we have with each other
regarding Christ differ in no respect from what is called in the
proverb, ‘a fight about the shadow of an
ass;’”3436
| 3436 κατὰ τὴν
παροιμίαν
καλουμένης
ὄνου σκιᾶς
μάχης. On this proverb, see
Zenobius, Centuria Sexta, adag. 28, and the note of
Schottius. Cf. also Suidas, s.v. ὄνου
σκιά.—De la Rue. | and thinks that
“there is nothing of importance3437
in
the investigations of the Jews and Christians: for both believe
that it was predicted by the Divine Spirit that one was to come as a
Saviour to the human race, but do not yet agree on the point whether
the person predicted has actually come or not.” For we
Christians, indeed, have believed in Jesus, as He who came according to
the predictions of the prophets. But the majority of the Jews are
so far from believing in Him, that those of them who lived at the time
of His coming conspired against Him; and those of the present day,
approving of what the Jews of former times dared to do against Him,
speak evil of Him, asserting that it was by means of sorcery3438
that he passed himself off for Him who was
predicted by the prophets as the One who was to come, and who was
called, agreeably to the traditions of the Jews,3439
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᾽Ιουδαίων
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