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Athenagoras
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Introductory Note to the Writings of Athenagoras
[707] Thus Otto; others read, “if any one of men.”
Chapter IV.—The Christians are Not Atheists, But Acknowledge One Only God.
[708] [Kaye, p. 7.]
Chapter V.—Testimony of the Poets to the Unity of God.
[709] [De Maistre, who talks nothing but sophistry when he rides his hobby, and who shocked the pope himself by his fanatical effort to demonstrate the papal system, is, nevertheless, very suggestive and interesting when he condescends to talk simply as a Christian. See his citations showing the heathen consciousness of one Supreme Being. Soirées de St. Pétersbourg, vol. i. pp. 225, 280; vol. ii. pp. 379, 380.]
[710] From an unknown play.
[711] From an unknown play; the original is ambiguous; comp. Cic. De Nat Deorum, ii. c. 25, where the words are translated—“Seest thou this boundless ether on high which embraces the earth in its moist arms? Reckon this Zeus.” Athenagoras cannot so have understood Euripides.
[712] Not found in his extant works.
Chapter VI.—Opinions of the Philosophers as to the One God.
[713] Common text has ὂψει; we follow the text of Otto. [Gesner notes this corruption, and conjectures that it should be the name of some philosopher.]
[714] One, two, three, and four together forming ten.
[715] Timæus, p. 28, C.
[716] Timæus, p. 41, A.
[717] [We must not wonder at the scant praise accorded by the Apologists to the truths embedded everywhere in Plato and other heathen writers. They felt intensely, that “the world, by wisdom, knew not God; and that it was their own mission to lead men to the only source of true philosophy.]
Chapter VII.—Superiority of the Christian Doctrine Respecting God.
[718] [See cap. xxx., infra. Important, as showing the degree of value attributed by the Fathers to the Sibylline and Orphic sayings. Comp. Kaye, p. 177.]
Chapter VIII.—Absurdities of Polytheism.
[719] i.e., Do several gods make up one God?—Otto. Others read affirmatively, “God is one.”
[720] i.e., the world.
[721] i.e., the Creator, or first God.
Chapter IX.—The Testimony of the Prophets.
[722] [Kaye, 179. An important comment; comp. cap. vii., supra.]
[723] Isa. xli. 4; Ex. xx. 2, 3 (as to sense).
Chapter X.—The Christians Worship the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost.
[727] “Or, by Him and through Him.” [Kaye, pp. 155, 175.]
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