Celsus wonders why the Jews adore phantasms but not angels

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Giuseppe
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Celsus wonders why the Jews adore phantasms but not angels

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He next proceeds to make the following statement about the Jews:— The first point relating to the Jews which is fitted to excite wonder, is that they should worship the heaven and the angels who dwell therein, and yet pass by and neglect its most venerable and powerful parts, as the sun, the moon, and the other heavenly bodies, both fixed stars and planets, as if it were possible that 'the whole' could be God, and yet its parts not divine; or (as if it were reasonable) to treat with the greatest respect those who are said to appear to such as are in darkness somewhere, blinded by some crooked sorcery, or dreaming dreams through the influence of shadowy spectres, while those who prophesy so clearly and strikingly to all men, by means of whom rain, and heat, and clouds, and thunder (to which they offer worship), and lightnings, and fruits, and all kinds of productiveness, are brought about — by means of whom God is revealed to them — the most prominent heralds among those beings that are above — those that are truly heavenly angels — are to be regarded as of no account!
(Origen, Contra Celsum, 5:6)


The contradiction for Celsus:

1) the Jews ''treat with the greatest respect those who are said to appear to such as are in darkness somewhere, blinded by some crooked sorcery, or dreaming dreams through the influence of shadowy spectres''
2) but the Jews don't adore angels.


The same contradiction apparently seen in Romans 8:38-39:
For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor rulers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, 39 nor height, nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.
The contradiction in Paul:

1) he treats with the greatest respect that who is said to appear to him in the third heaven somewhere, blinded by some crooked sorcery, or in dreams, visions and revelations, i.e. Christ Jesus
2) but he doesn't adore angels.
Nihil enim in speciem fallacius est quam prava religio. -Liv. xxxix. 16.
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