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Page 49
Chapter XXX.
It appears to me that Celsus has also misunderstood this statement, "Let Us make man in Our image and likeness;" [3806] and has therefore represented the "worms" as saying that, being created by God, we altogether resemble Him. If, however, he had known the difference between man being created "in the image of God" and "after His likeness," and that God is recorded to have said, "Let Us make man after Our image and likeness," but that He made man "after the image" of God, but not then also "after His likeness," [3807] he would not have represented us as saying that "we are altogether like Him." Moreover, we do not assert that the stars are subject to us; since the resurrection which is called the "resurrection of the just," and which is understood by wise men, is compared to the sun, and moon, and stars, by him who said, "There is one glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars; for one star differeth from another star in glory. So also is the resurrection of the dead." [3808] Daniel also prophesied long ago regarding these things. [3809] Celsus says further, that we assert that "all things have been arranged so as to be subject to us," having perhaps heard some of the intelligent among us speaking to that effect, and perhaps also not understanding the saying, that "he who is the greatest amongst us is the servant of all." [3810] And if the Greeks say, "Then sun and moon are the slaves of mortal men," [3811] they express approval of the statement, and give an explanation of its meaning; but since such a statement is either not made at all by us, or is expressed in a different way, Celsus here too falsely accuses us. Moreover, we who, according to Celsus, are "worms," are represented by him as saying that, "seeing some among us are guilty of sin, God will come to us, or will send His own Son, that He may consume the wicked, and that we other frogs may enjoy eternal life with Him."
[3806] Cf. Gen. i. 26.
[3807] Cf. Gen. i. 27.
[3808] Cf. 1 Cor. xv. 41, 42.
[3809] Cf. Dan. xii. 3.
[3810] Cf. Matt. xx. 27.
[3811] Cf. Euripides, Phoenissae, 546, 547.
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