Origen against Celsus translated from the original into English by James Bellamy ...

CHAP. LIV.

AND our Saviour has so effectu∣ally consulted, ev'n the Tempo∣ral Advantage of his Followers, that he wou'dn't have 'em to be rash, and precipitate, but gives 'em this neces∣sary Lesson, When they persecute you in one City, flee unto another; and teaches 'em by his own Example, not to run into needless Dangers.

Celsus takes Occasion, ev'n from hence, to form an Accusation against him, in the Person of a Jew, in the following Words, You run up and down, with your Disciples. But as for the Charge, which is here brought against our Blessed Saviour, we meet with a Parallel Case, ev'n in the Histories, which the Greeks have publish'd. For Aristotle, that Famous Philosopher, when he saw, he shou'd be condemn'd, as a wicked Person, by reason of some pecu∣liar, and in some Sence, dangerous No∣tions he advanc'd, which, as the Athe∣nians thought, did give too great En∣couragement to Licentiousness, took an

Opportunity to go from Athens, and remov'd his School to Chalcis, making the following Apology, to some of his Acquaintance,

Let us leave Athens, (says he) that we mayn't suffer it, to be in the Power of the Athenians, to re-act that horrid Impiety, which they plainly discover'd, by their ill Treatment of so great a Genius, as the World knows Socrates to have been, and to commit, a most griev∣ous Offence against so sacred a Thing as Philosophy.