Origen

“ Or do Herodotus and Pindar appear to you to speak the truth, while they who have made it their concern to die for the doctrine of Jesus, and who have left to their successors writings so remarkable on the truths which they believed, entered for the sake of “fictions” (as you consider them) , and “myths,” and “juggleries,” upon a struggle which entails a life of danger and a death of violence? ”