...say with Paul, ' God forbid that I should glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world is crucified to me, and I unto the world.' And again, ' Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions,...

...God forbid," says Paul, " that 1 should glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world is crucified to me, and I unto the world." And, writing to the Corinthians, he says, " I desire to know nothing among you but Jesus Christ, and him...

...then, who do not regard the apostle as a holy and wise man, will not adopt his language, and say, " The world is crucified to me, and I unto the world." And consequently in this point, too, Celsus is guilty of falsehood. He continues, moreover, to linger over...