r, he does not mean the
Augustinian: "o felix culpa."]

[Footnote 257: The relation of this Church to theology, what theology
she required and what she rejected, and, moreover, to what extent she
rejected the kind that she accepted may be seen by reference to chap. 5
ff. We may here also direct attention to the peculiar position of Origen
in the Church as well as to that of Lucian the Martyr, concerning whom
Alexander of Alexandria (Theoderet, H. E. I. 3) remarks that he was a
[Greek: aposunagogos] in Antioch for a long time, namely, during the
rule of three successive bishops.]

[Footnote 258: We have already referred to the passage above. On account
of its importance we may quote it here:

"According to Celsus Apollo required the Metapontines to regard Aristeas
as a god; but in their eyes the latter was but a man and perhaps not a
virtuous one ... They would therefore not obey Apollo, and thus it
happened that no one believed in the divinity of Aristeas. But with
regard to Jesus we may say that it proved a blessing to the human race
to acknowledge him as the Son of God, as God who appeared on earth
united with body and soul." Origen then says that the demons
counterworked this belief, and continues: "But God who had sent Jesus on
earth brought to nought all the snares and plots of the demons and aided
in the victory of the Gospel of Jesus throughout the whole earth in
order to promote the conversion and amelioration of men; and everywhere
brought about the establishment of Churches which are ruled by other
laws than those that regulate the Churches of the superstitious, the
dissolute and the unbelieving. For of such people the civil population
([Greek: politeuomena en tais ekklesiais ton poleon plethe]) of the
towns almost everywhere consists." [Greek: Hai de tou Theou Christo
matheteuthesai ekklesiai, sunezetazomenai tais on paroikousi demon
ekklesiais, hos photeres eisin en kosmo. tis gar ouk an homologesai, kai
tous cheirous ton apo tes ekklesias kai sugkrisei beltionon elattous
pollo kreittous tugxhanein ton en tois demois ekklesion; ekklesia men
gar tou theou, pher' eipein, he Athenaesi praeia tis kai eustathes, hate
Theo areskein to epi pasi boulomene; he d' Athenaion ekklesia stasiodes
kai oudamos paraballomene te ekei ekklesia tou Theou; to d' auto ereis,
peri ekklesias tou Theou tes en Korintho kai tes ekklesias tou demon
Korinthion; kai, pher' eipein, peri ekklesias tou Theou tes en
Alexandreia, kai ekkle