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Celsus

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Celsus (lived 2nd century AD)

Platonist philosopher from Alexandria. He was one of the earliest opponents of Christianity.

He was the author of Alethes Logos/The True Account, in which he accused the Christians of absurd credulity, and attacked them for their party schisms, their exorcism of demons, and their disreputable characters. Most of the work is preserved in the Christian theologian Origen's work Contra Celsum.



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Celsus could never have spoken it as a physician, had he not been a wise man withal, when he giveth it for one of the great precepts of health and lasting, that a man do vary, and interchange contraries, but with an inclination to the more benign extreme: use fasting and full eating, but rather full eating; watching and sleep, but rather sleep; sitting and exercise, but rather exercise; and the like.
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