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ORIGENES

Kata Kelsou en tomois 8 [Greek]. Contra Celsum Libri Octo: Ejusdem Philocalia. / Ed. W. Spencer.

Cambridge
exc. John Field, impensis William Morden
1658

€140 - €200

3 parts in 1 vol. in-4to, [12] 428 [8] 110 [2] 98 [38] pp, title page printed in red and black. Parallel text in GREEK and Latin. Some pale damp staining in the beginning of the vol. Contemporary full vellum binding, slightly soiled

Spencer's first ed. of the most influential work of early Christian apologetics, in which Origen defends Christianity against the pagan philosopher and controversialist Celsus, who had written an attack on Christianity in his treatise 'The True Word' (not the same Celsus as the famous physician) Before this book was written, around 248 AD, Christianity was seen by many as merely a folk religion for the illiterate and uneducated, but Origen raised it to a level of academic respectability

Greek