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

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:&#160; &#8220;By what train of argument were you led to regard him as the Son of God?&#8221;&#160; For he makes us answer that &#8220;we were won over to him, because we know that his punishment was undergone to bring about the destruction of the father of evil.&#8221;&#160; 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.&#160; And, as if we said that we consider Him to be the Son of God because He suffered punishment, he asks:&#160; &#8220;What then? have not many others, too, been punished, and that not less disgracefully?&#8221;&#160; 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 crucifixion!