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Athenagoras
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Introductory Note to the Writings of Athenagoras
[786] [Comp. cap. xxvii., infra.]
[787] [Kaye, 192. And see cap. x., supra, p. 133. Divine Providence does not exclude the ministry of angels by divine appointment. Resurrection, cap. xviii., infra.]
[788] [The Paris editors caution us against yielding to this interpretation of Gen. vi. 1-4. It was the Rabbinical interpretation. See Josephus, book i. cap. 3.]
[789] Hesiod, Theog., 27. [Traces of the Nephilim are found in all mythologies.]
Chapter XXV.—The Poets and Philosophers Have Denied a Divine Providence.
[790] Eurip.; from an unknown play.
[791] Ibid.
[792] Eurip., Cycl., 332 sq.
[793] [Kaye, p. 190.]
[794] Or, “powers of reasoning” (λογισμός).
Chapter XXVI.—The Demons Allure Men to the Worship of Images.
[795] From an unknown tragedian. [A passage which I cannot but apply to the lapse of Tatian.]
[796] Hom., Il., iii. 39.
[797] [see note to Theophilus, cap. x., supra, p. 92.]
Chapter XXVII.—Artifices of the Demons.
[798] [Kaye, p. 191; and comp. cap. xxiv., supra, p. 142.]
[799] [Comp. On the Resurrection, cap. xiii., infra., p. 439 of ed. Edinburgh. Also Kaye, p. 199.]
[800] [Kaye, p. 190.]
Chapter XXVIII.—The Heathen Gods Were Simply Men.
[801] ii. 144. Mr. Rawlinson’s translation is used in the extracts from Herodotus.
[802] ii. 50.
[803] ii. 156.
[804] ii. 41.
[805] ii. 3. The text is here uncertain, and differs from that of Herodotus. [Herodotus, initiated in Egyptian mysteries, was doubtless sworn to maintain certain secrets of the priests of Osiris.]
[806] ii. 61. [The name of Osiris.]
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