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Athenagoras
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Introductory Note to the Writings of Athenagoras
[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.
[754] [See Kaye’s very important note, refuting Gibbon’s cavil, and illustrating the purpose of Bishop Bull, in his quotation. On the περιχώρησις, see Bull, Fid. Nicænæ, iv. cap. 4.]
[756] Hom., Il., xiv. 201, 302.
[757] Hom., Il., xiv. 246.
[758] τισάσθην.
[759] Orpheus, Fragments.
Chapter XIX.—The Philosophers Agree with the Poets Respecting the Gods.
[760] Plat., Tim., p. 27, D.
[761] Literally, “by nature.”
Chapter XX.—Absurd Representations of the Gods.
[762] i.e., Minerva.
[763] Or, “have accurately described.”
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