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Athenagoras
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Introductory Note to the Writings of Athenagoras
[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.]
[728] [Kaye, p. 166.]
[730] [Compare Theophilus, supra, p. 101, and Kaye’s note, p. 156.]
[731] [Heb. i. 14, the express doctrine of St. Paul. They are ministers to men, not objects of any sort of worship. “Let no man beguile you,” etc. Col. ii. 4, 18.]
Chapter XI.—The Moral Teaching of the Christians Repels the Charge Brought Against Them.
[732] Luke vi. 27, 28;Matt. v. 44, 45.
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