After these matters, Celsus brings the following charges against us from another quarter: “Certain most impious errors,” he says, “are committed by them [the Christians], due to their extreme ignorance, in which they [the Christians] have wandered away from the meaning of the divine enigmas, creating an adversary to God, [i.e.] the devil, and naming him in the Hebrew tongue, Satan. Now, of a truth, such statements are altogether of mortal invention, and not even proper to be repeated, viz., that the mighty God, in His desire to confer good upon men, has yet one counterworking Him, and is helpless.”
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Author: Origen
Keywords: Faust, Faustian, Faust Legend, Satan, Jewish satan, Devil, Jewish devil, Myth, Demons, Lucifer, Baalzebub, Yetzer hara, Yetzer ha ra, Yetser hara, Yetser ha ra, Evil inclination, Evil One, Rebel angel, Rebellious angel, Fallen angel, Celsus, Against Celsus, Origen, Origen Celsus, Celsus devil, Celsus Satan, Celsus Origen Satan, Celsus Origen devil
Bible reference(s): 1 Chronicles 21:1, Job 1:6, Job 1:7, Job 1:8, Job 1:9, Job 1:12, Job 2:1, Job 2:2, Job 2:3, Job 2:4, Job 2:6, Job 2:7, Zechariah 3:1, Zechariah 3:2, Matthew 4:1, Matthew 4:5, Matthew 4:8, Matthew 4:10, Matthew 4:11, Matthew 12:26, Matthew 13:39, Matthew 16:23, Matthew 25:41, Mark 1:13, Mark 3:23, Mark 3:26, Mark 4:15, Mark 8:33, Luke 4:2, Luke 4:3, Luke 4:5, Luke 4:13, Luke 8:12, Luke 10:18, Luke 11:18, Luke 13:16, Luke 22:3, Luke 22:31, John 8:44, John 13:2, John 13:27, Acts 5:3, Acts 10:38, Acts 13:10, Acts 26:18, Romans 16:20, 1 Corinthians 5:5, 1 Corinthians 7:5, 2 Corinthians 2:11, 2 Corinthians 11:14, 2 Corinthians 12:7, Ephesians 4:27, Ephesians 6:11, 1 Thessalonians 2:18, 2 Thessalonians 2:9, 1 Timothy 1:20, 1 Timothy 3:6, 1 Timothy 3:7, 1 Timothy 5:15, 2 Timothy 2:26, Hebrews 2:14, James 4:7, 1 Peter 5:8, 1 John 3:8, 1 John 3:10, Revelation 2:9, Revelation 2:10, Revelation 2:13, Revelation 2:24, Revelation 3:9, Revelation 12:9, Revelation 12:12, Revelation 20:2, Revelation 20:7, Revelation 20:10
Source: Contra Celsum (Against Celsus), book 6, chapter XLII, as translated in Ante-Nicene Fathers, Vol. 4, edited by Alexander Robert, 1885.
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