Origen:
Contra Celsum.
". . .
[I]t
is not wrong to form associations against the laws for the sake
of truth. For just as it would be right for people to
form associations secretly to kill a tyrant who had seized
control of their city, so too, since the devil, as Christians
call him, and falsehood reign as tyrants, Christians form
associations against the devil contrary to his laws, in order
to save others whom they might be able to persuade to abandon
the law which is like that of the Scythians and of a tyrant."a
RAWLS
". . . [T]the
entire Jewish nation was destroyed less than one generation
later on account of these sufferings which they inflicted upon
Jesus. . . We will go so far as to say that they will
not be restored again."b
". . . [J]ust
as robbers in deserted places advance one individual to be their
chief, so the daemons have formed, as it were,
confederacies in various parts of the earth and have made one
individual their chief, to lead them in doing the deeds
which they have chosen to do in order to steal and rob the
souls of men."c
PAINE
". . . [W]e
worship the
Father of the truth and the Son who
is the truth; they are two distinct existences, but
one in mental unity, in agreement, and in identity of
will. Thus he who has seen the Son, who is an effulgence of
the glory and express image of the Person of God, has seen God in
him who is God's image."d
". . . [I]f
there are two laws opposed to one another, the law of God
and the law of mammon, it is preferable for us
to dishonour mammon by the transgression of the law of mammon
in order to pay honour to God by keeping God's law . . ."e
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