[668] Cf. Celsus’ idea of faith: Orig. c. Cels. 3. 39; Keim, p. 39.
[669] Philo’s view of faith is well expressed in two striking passages, Quis rer. div. Heres, 18, i. 485; and de Abrah. 46, ii. 39.
[670] Cf. “He that cometh to God must believe that He is, and that He is a rewarder of them that seek Him,” Heb. xi. 6; and “He that is of God heareth God’s words,” John viii. 47.
[671] It was one of Celsus’ objections to Christianity that its preachers laid more stress on belief than on the intellectual grounds of belief: Orig. c. Cels. 1. 9. Origen’s answer, which is characteristic rather of his own time than expressive of the belief of the apostolic age, is that this was necessary for the mass of men, who have no leisure or inclination for deep investigation (1. 10), and in order not to leave men altogether without help (1. 12).
[672] E.g. Rom. vi. 17, εἰς ὃν παρεδόθητε τύπον διδαχῆς; 2 John, 9, ἐν τῇ διδαχῇ τοῦ Χριστοῦ; 2 Tim. i. 13, ὑποτύπωσιν ἔχε ὑγιαινόντων λόγων ὧν παρ’ ἐμοῦ ἤκουσας; 1 Tim. vi. 12, ὡμολόγησας τὴν καλὴν ὁμολογίαν; Jude 3, ἡ ἅπαξ παραδοθεῖσα τοῖς ἁγίοις πίστις. Polycrates, ap. Eus. H. E. 5. 24, ὁ κανὼν τῆς πίστεως: see passages collected in Gebhardt and Harnack’s Patres Apost. Bd. i. th. 2 (Barnabas), p. 133.
[673] Cf. Schmid, Dogmeng. p. 14, Das Taufsymbol.
[674] c. 7. 4.
[675] See Acts viii. 16, xix. 5, with which compare Rom. vi. 1-11, Acts xxii. 16. Didaché, 9. 5, οἱ βαπτισθέντες εἰς ὄνομα Κυρίου; and Apost. Const. Bk. ii. 7, p. 20, οἱ βαπτισθέντες εἰς τὸν θάνατον τοῦ Κυρίου Ἰησοῦ οὐκ ὀφείλουσιν ἁμαρτάνειν οἱ τοιοῦτοι· ὡς γὰρ οἱ ἀποθανόντες ἀνενέργητοι πρὸς ἁμαρτίαν ὑπάρχουσιν, οὕτως καὶ οἱ συναποθανόντες τῷ Χριστῷ ἄπρακτοι πρὸς ἁμαρτίαν; cf. 148, 7, and elsewhere, in composite form. Against this Cyprian wrote, in Ep. 73, ad Jubaianum, 16-18; cf. Harnack, Dogmeng. 176.
[676] Cf. von Engelhardt, Das Christenthum Justins, p. 107.
[677] Cf. Harnack, Dogmeng. p. 130 ff.