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XXXI.
Now if these things be so, why should it not be
consistent with reason to hold with regard to Jesus, who was able to
effect results so great, that there dwelt in Him no ordinary
divinity? while this was not the case either with the Proconnesian
Aristeas (although Apollo would have him regarded as a god), or with
the other individuals enumerated by Celsus when he says, “No one
regards Abaris the Hyperborean as a god, who was possessed of such
power as to be borne along like an arrow from a bow.”3532
| 3532 ὥστε
ὀϊστῷ βέλει
συμφέρεσθαι.
Spencer and Bohereau would delete βέλει as a gloss. | For with what object did the deity who
bestowed upon this Hyperborean Abaris the power of being carried along
like an arrow, confer upon him such a gift? Was it that the human
race might be benefited thereby,3533
| 3533 Guietus would insert
ἤ before ἵνα
τὶ
ὠφεληθῇ. This
emendation is adopted in the translation. | or did he
himself obtain any advantage from the possession of such a
power?—always supposing it to be conceded that these statements
are not wholly inventions, but that the thing actually happened through
the co-operation of some demon. But if it be recorded that my
Jesus was received up into glory,3534
I perceive the
divine arrangement3535
in such an act,
viz., because God, who brought this to pass, commends in this way the
Teacher to those who witnessed it, in order that as men who are
contending not for human doctrine, but for divine teaching, they may
devote themselves as far as possible to the God who is over all, and
may do all things in order to please Him, as those who are to receive
in the divine judgment the reward of the good or evil which they have
wrought in this life.E.C.F. INDEX & SEARCH
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