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Ante-Nicene Fathers/Volume IV/Origen/Origen Against Celsus/Book II/Chapter XXII

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Ante-Nicene Fathers Vol. IV, Origen, Origen Against Celsus, Book II
by Origen, translated by Frederick Crombie
Chapter XXII
156294Ante-Nicene Fathers Vol. IV, Origen, Origen Against Celsus, Book II — Chapter XXIIFrederick CrombieOrigen

Chapter XXII.

He adds to this, as if he had brought together an argument with conclusive demonstrations and consequences, the following:  “And, which is still more absurd, God himself conspired against those who sat at his table, by converting them into traitors and impious men.”  But how Jesus could either conspire or convert His disciples into traitors or impious men, it would be impossible for him to prove, save by means of such a deduction as any one could refute with the greatest ease.