Note 59 — LECTURE I. NECESSITY FOR A PROPER COMPARISON OF THE TWO RELIGIONS.
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Celsus, quoting our Lord’s saying, Matt. xix. 24, and the exhortation to forgive our enemies, Matt. v. 43, 45, alleged they were transferred and coarsely perverted from Plato, de Legibus, and Crito.—Origen, contra Celsum, Book vi. chaps. 15, 16, and Book vii. chap. 61.