Origen 248AD responding to Celsus (a skeptic of Christianity)

From this remark, it would seem that Celsus supposes that the appearance of Christ to His disciples after His resurrection was like that of a spectre flitting before their eyes; whereas these gods, as he calls them, in human shape always present themselves to those who desire it. But how is it possible that a phantom which, as he describes it, flew past to deceive the beholders, could produce such effects after it had passed away, and could so turn the hearts of men as to lead them to regulate their actions according to the will of God

Origen. 1885. “Origen against Celsus.” In Fathers of the Third Century: Tertullian, Part Fourth; Minucius Felix; Commodian; Origen, Parts First and Second, edited by Alexander Roberts, James Donaldson, and A. Cleveland Coxe, translated by Frederick Crombie, 4:625. The Ante-Nicene Fathers. Buffalo, NY: Christian Literature Company.

“Thus you shall say to them: “The gods that have not made the heavens and the earth shall perish from the earth and from under these heavens.” – Jeremiah 10:11