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Athenagoras
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Introductory Note to the Writings of Athenagoras
[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.]
[739] Hom., Il., ix. 499 sq., Lord Derby’s translation, which version the translator has for the most part used.
[740] Comp. Rom. xii. 1. [Mal. i.. “A pure Mincha” (Lev. ii. 1) was the unbloody sacrifice of the Jews. This was to be the Christian oblation: hence to offering of Christ’s natural blood, as the Latins now teach, was unknown to Athenagoras.]
Chapter XV.—The Christians Distinguish God from Matter.
[741] [Kaye, p. 172.]
Chapter XVI.—The Christians Do Not Worship the Universe.
[742] Thus Otto; others render “comprising.”
[743] [The Ptolemaic universe is conceived of as a sort of hollow ball, or bubble, within which are the spheres moving about the earth. Milton adopts from Homer the idea of such a globe, or bubble, hanging by a chain from heaven (Paradise Lost, ii. 10, 51). The oblique circle is the zodiac. The Septentriones are referred to also. See Paradise Lost, viii. 65–168.]
[744] Some refer this to the human spirit.
[745] Polit., p. 269, D.
Chapter XVII.—The Names of the Gods and Their Images are But of Recent Date.
[746] We here follow the text of Otto; others place the clause in the following sentence.
[747] ii. 53.
[748] Or, Koré. It is doubtful whether or not this should be regarded as a proper name.
[749] Or, Koré. It is doubtful whether or not this should be regarded as a proper name.
[750] The reading is here doubtful.
[751] [There were no images or pictures, therefore, in the earliest Christian places of prayer.]
Chapter XVIII.—The Gods Themselves Have Been Created, as the Poets Confess.
[752] [This was a heathen justification of image-worship, and entirely foreign to the Christian mind. Leighton, Works, vol. v. p. 323.]
[753] Hom., Il., xx. 131.
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