Excerpt from Celsus and Aristides, Vol. 6 Truly this is a new people, and there is something divine mingled with it. Take now their writings and read. We notice that this assertion of novelty and appeal for attention is in the Syriac text, and not in the Greek. Celsus, then, disposes rapidly enough of the philosophy of the man whom he is criticising, as if it were enough to say, one more philo sopher What of that? But as he runs his eye over the section on the Divine Nature, and catches sight of the statement that God made all things for the sake of man, he cannot refrain from an attack on this ridiculous Stoic doctrine, and as it is clearly one of the special beliefs of Aristides, it must be reserved for a special refutation. It is interesting to observe how careful Celsus is to confute the emphatic and repeated statements of his adversary and since Aris tides has the trick of saying things several times over, like a counsel addressing a jury, Celsus feels bound to take him on his repetitions. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.