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However, Celsus's harshest criticism was reserved for Christians, who "wall themselves off and break away from the rest of mankind". [6] Celsus initiated a critical attack on Christianity, ridiculing many of its dogmas. He wrote that some Jews said Jesus's father was actually a Roman soldier named Pantera. Origen considered this a fabricated story.
Aulus Cornelius Celsus (c. 25 BC – c. 50 AD) was a Roman encyclopaedist, known for his extant medical work, De Medicina, which is believed to be the only surviving section of a much larger encyclopedia.
Greek text of Origen's apologetic treatise Contra Celsum, which is considered to be the most important work of early Christian apologetics [1] [2]. Against Celsus (Greek: Κατὰ Κέλσου, Kata Kelsou; Latin: Contra Celsum), preserved entirely in Greek, is a major apologetics work by the Church Father Origen of Alexandria, written in around 248 AD, countering the writings of Celsus, a ...
Anders Celsius's original thermometer used a reversed scale, with 100 as the freezing point and 0 as the boiling point of water.. In 1742, Swedish astronomer Anders Celsius (1701–1744) created a temperature scale that was the reverse of the scale now known as "Celsius": 0 represented the boiling point of water, while 100 represented the freezing point of water. [5]
Celsus was a very common name, and Origen, perhaps as innuendo, expresses uncertainty about whether Celsus is the same person as Celsus the Epicurean. This may have been an attempt to discredit Celsus, since Epicureanism was disreputable, and in any case Celsus's philosophical writings are Platonist and incompatible with Epicureanism.
Nazarus and Celsus (standing figures), by Titian.The kneeling figure is a donor named Altobello Averoldi.. This legend, written much later, is without historical foundation and places the martyrdom of Nazarus and Celsus during the persecution of Nero, and describes with many details the supposed journeyings of Nazarius through Gaul and Italy.
Celsus (or Kelsos, c. 177 AD) an opponent of Christianity quoted by Origen; Aulus Cornelius Celsus (c. 25 BC – c. 50 AD), an encyclopedist best known for his medical writings; Aulus Marius Celsus, a Roman senator whose career began under Nero; Tiberius Julius Celsus Polemaeanus, commonly known as Celsus (ca. 45 – before ca. 120); Roman ...
Celsus and Marcionilla (Greek: Κέλσος & Μαρκιονίλλα) were early Christian martyrs. Marcionilla was a matron , [ 1 ] and Celsus was her little son. Together with Anastasius , Anthony , Julian and others they suffered martyrdom in Antioch during the Diocletianic Persecution .