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Celsus in Roman Biography

Cel'sus, [Fr. Cklse, sels ; It. Celso, chel'so,] an Epicurean philosopher, who lived in the second century, in the reign of the Antonines, and was probably a Roman. He was a friend of Lucian. He is supposed to be the author of the attack on Christianity called " Ao;oc ufajOr/r" (a " True Discourse,") which was ably confuted by Qrigen, and which has...

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Celsus in Wikipedia

Celsus (Greek: Κέλσος) was a 2nd century Greek philosopher and opponent of Christianity. He is known to us entirely because his literary work, The True Word (Account, Doctrine or Discourse) (Λόγος Ἀληθής), was largely reproduced in excerpts by Origen in his counter-polemic Contra Celsum. The work is the earliest extant anti-Christian polemic. Th...

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Celsus in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities

A Platonic, or perhaps Epicurean, philosopher who lived about A.D. 180. His name is famous as that of one of the bitterest enemies of Christianity. From a motive of curiosity, or, perhaps, in order to be better able to combat the new religion, Celsus caused himself to be initiated into the mysteries of Christianity, and to be received into tha...

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