Although you lied you were not able to conceal plausibly your fictitious tale.

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as quoted by Origen in Contra Celsum, Book II, Ch. 26 (tr. Henry Chadwick). Quoted by R. Joseph Hoffmann as: "It is clear to me that the writings of the christians are a lie, and that your fables are not well-enough constructed to conceal this monstrous fiction." in Celsus: On The True Doctrine (Oxford University Press, 1987), p. 37.

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