Oci rane Crkve o ratovanju i nasilju

[Viktor Ljvovic]

Then Celsus next exhorts us to help the emperor with all our power;

and cooperate with him in what is right, and fight for him, and be fellow-soldiers

if he presses for this, and fellow-generals with him.1 We may reply to this

that at appropriate times we render to the emperors divine help, if I may

so say, by taking up even the whole armour of God.2 And this we do in

obedience to the apostolic utterance which says: 'I exhort you, therefore,

first to make prayers, supplications, intercessions, and thanksgivings for

all men, for emperors, and all that are in authority.'3 Indeed, the more

pious a man is, the more effective he is in helping the emperors—more so

than the soldiers who go out into the lines and kill all the enemy troops

that they can.

We would also say this to those who are alien to our faith and ask us

to fight for the community and to kill men: that it is also your opinion

that the priests of certain images and wardens of the temples of the gods,

as you think them to be, should keep their right hand undefiled for the

sake of the sacrifices, that they may offer the customary sacrifices to those

who you say are gods with hands unstained by blood and pure from

murders. And in fact when war comes you do not enlist the priests.4 If,

then, this is reasonable, how much more reasonable is it that, while

others fight, Christians also should be fighting as priests and worshippers

of God, keeping their right hands pure and by their prayers to God

striving for those who fight in a righteous cause and for the emperor who

reigns righteously, in order that everything which is opposed and hostile

to those who act rightly may be destroyed? Moreover, we who by our

prayers destroy all daemons which stir up wars, violate oaths, and disturb

the peace, are of more help to the emperors than those who seem to be

doing the fighting. We who offer prayers with righteousness, together

with ascetic practices and exercises which teach us to despise pleasures and

not to be led by them, are cooperating in the tasks of the community.

Even more do we fight on behalf of the emperor. And though we do not

become fellow-soldiers with him, even if he presses for this, yet we are

fighting for him and composing a special army of piety through our intercessions

to God.

Origen Origen Contra Celsus Book 8: LXXIII

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