One of the Church Fathers

ORIGENES. Acht Bücher von der Wahrheit der Christlichen Religion wider den Weltweisen Celsus. Johann Lorenz Mosheim hat sie aus dem Griechischen übersetzet und durch Anmerkungen aufgekläret. Hamburg (Johann Carl Bohn) 1745.
4:o. (4), (1)-62, (2), (3), 4-923, (1 blank) pp. Title with engraved vignette (lacks engraved frontispiece).
Contemporary brown half leather, worn, faded gilt spine in six compartments, spine label missing, speckled edges. Minor foxing. Old annotation on first endpaper.

Against Celsus, preserved entire in Greek, was Origen´s last treatise, written about 248. Ambrose had requested that Origen provide an answer to a book entitled The True Doctrine which attacked Christianity, and had been written some time in the second century by an unknown Middle Platonic philosopher named Celsus. In Against Celsus, Origen drew freely on the Greek philosophers and poets as well as the Bible to provide a rational basis for holding the Christian faith. (Wikipedia).

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