Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Penny Cyclopædia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, Vol. 17: Organ-Pertinax
It was about this time that he wrote an answer. In eight books. To the objections brought against Christianity by Celsus. A philosopher who lived in the rei na of Hadrian and the Antonines, in a work entitled The rue Word' (adyog The objections of Oahu, as they appear from the answer of Origen (for the work itself is lost), are of a frivolous and malignant character. And the work of Origen has been esteemed both in ancient and modern times. Not only as a satisfactory answer to his opponent. But as one of the best apologies for the Christian religion that have been written by the antients.
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