Origen, AGAINST CELSUS, Part V, Complete

Translated from the Greek original by Frederick Crombie.

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For example, suppose that there were some honey (placed before one) which had not been manufactured by bees, no one could tell from the taste or sight that it was not their workmanship, because the honey which comes from bees does not make known its origin by the senses, [4657] but experience alone can tell that it does not proceed from them. In the same way, too, experience teaches that wine comes from the vine, for taste does not enable us to distinguish (the wine) which comes from the vine. In the same manner, therefore, the visible [4658] body does not make known the manner of its existence. And you will be induced to accept this view, [4659] by (regarding) the heavenly bodies, whose existence and splendour we perceive as we gaze at them; and yet, I presume, their appearance does not suggest to us whether they are created or uncreated; and accordingly different opinions have existed on these points. And yet those who say that they are created are not agreed as to the manner of their creation, for their appearance does not suggest it, although the force of reason [4660] may have discovered that they are created, and how their creation was effected.

[4657] te aisthesei ten archen.

[4658] to aistheton soma.

[4659] prosachthese de to legomeno.

[4660] khan biasamenos ho logos heure.

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