Menzogna e contraddizione. La polemica tra Celso e Origene sulla natura 'angelica' di Gesù e l'uso di I Enoc (Cels. 5,52-53).

In his stigmatization against believers in Christ, Celsus reminds that I Enoch was re-read like a very ‘living’ Christological tradition in such proto-Christian groups quoted in his work. With his response, Origen stresses that it is disagreement between this Christological interpretation and the ‘true’ faith. This article underlines that the ‘extremities’ involved in such polemical statements seem to implicate, on the one hand, the so-called ‘Judeo-Christian’ angelomorphic Christology, on the other hand, its re-readings carried out by the so-called ‘Gnostic’ groups of Third Century CE. Origen seems to connect the complex universe of the so-called ‘angelomorphic Christology’ to the polemical construct of ἰουδαϊσμός/ἰουδαΐζειν. A further conclusion can be drawn from the article: the references to Enochic literature carried out by Origen could be better explained as a ‘functional’ re-reading. In some cases, Origen seems to reject the authority of Enochic writings (for example, see Cels. 5, 53, Comm. Jo. VI 25, 217, Hom. II in Ps. 15); but in other cases, the Alexandrinian is impelled to confirm his exegetical statements on the basis of Enochic literature (for example, cfr. Princ. IV 4, 8).