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Athenagoras
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Introductory Note to the Writings of Athenagoras
[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.
[733] [Kaye, pp. 212–217.]
[734] The meaning is here doubtful; but the probably reference is to the practices of the Sophists.
Chapter XII.—Consequent Absurdity of the Charge of Atheism.
[735] Hom., Il., xvi. 672.
[736] Luke vi. 32, 34; Matt. v. 46.
Chapter XIII.—Why the Christians Do Not Offer Sacrifices.
[737] [Harmless as flowers and incense may be, the Fathers disown them in this way continually.]
[738] [This brilliant condensation of the Benedicite (Song of the Three Children) affords Kaye occasion to observe that our author is silent as to the sacraments. p. 195.]
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