Against Celsus 2.74

And to all this the Jew of Celsus adds: “These things, then, we have set before you from your own writings, for which we need no other witness; for you fall foul of yourselves.” But we have shown that the Jew's speeches, whether against Jesus or against us, contain much nonsense contrary to our writings, the Gospels. And I do not think he has shown how we fall foul of ourselves; he only thinks so. And since his Jew adds to this: “In short, O most high and heavenly one, what god, being present among human beings, is disbelieved?”, it must be said to him that, even according to the law of Moses, God, recorded as having come most clearly to the Hebrews, not only in the signs and wonders in Egypt, and further the passage through the Red Sea, the pillar “of fire,” and the cloud of light, but also when the Ten Commandments were proclaimed to the whole people, was disbelieved by those who knew. For if they had believed what they saw and heard, they would not have made a calf, nor would they have “exchanged their glory for the likeness of a calf that eats grass,” nor would they have said to one another about the calf: “These are your gods, O Israel, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt.” And see whether it is not characteristic of the same people both formerly to disbelieve, through the whole wilderness, such great wonders and such manifestations of God, as is written in the law of the Jews, and at the marvelous coming of Jesus not to be won over by the words he spoke with authority and the marvelous deeds he did in the sight of all the people.