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Athenagoras
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Introductory Note to the Writings of Athenagoras
[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.]
[807] ii. 170.
[808] ii. 86.
Chapter XXIX.—Proof of the Same from the Poets.
[809] Hom., Od., xxi. 28. sq.
[810] Hesiod, Frag.
[811] i.e., Æsculapius.
[812] Pyth., iii. 96 sq.
[813] Ascribed by Seneca to the Bellerophon of Eurip.
[814] From the Ino, a lost play of Eurip.
Chapter XXX.—Reasons Why Divinity Has Been Ascribed to Men.
[815] i.e., after Gaïa and Ouranos, Earth and Heaven.
[816] Oracc., Sibyll., iii. 108–113. [Kaye, p. 220, and compare cap. vii., supra. The inspiration of Balaam, and likewise that of the ass, must, in my opinion, illustrate that of the Sibyls.]
[817] Callim., Hym. Jov., 8 sq. [Tit. i. 12. But St. Paul’s quotation is from Epimenides.]
Chapter XXXI.—Confutation of the Other Charges Brought Against the Christians.
[818] [“Thyestian feasts” (p. 130, supra); a charge which the Christian Fathers perpetually repel. Of course the sacrament of the Lord’s Supper lent colour to this charge; but it could not have been repelled, had they believed the material body and blood of the “man Christ Jesus,” present in this sacrament. See cap. iii., note.]
[819] [1 Cor. xv. 44. A very clear representation of the apostle’s doctrine. See Kaye, 199; and compare On the Resurrection, cap. xiii.]
Chapter XXXII.—Elevated Morality of the Christians.
[821] Otto translates: “which has made us and our neighbours attain the highest degree of rectitude.” The text is obscure, but the above seems the probably meaning; comp. Matt. xxii. 39, etc.
[822] [Hermas, p. 47, note, and p. 57, this volume; Elucidation, ii.]
[823] [The Logos never said, “it excludes us from eternal life:” that is sure; and the passage, though ambiguous, is not so interpreted in the Latin of Gesner. Jones remarks that Athenagoras never introduces a saying of our Lord in this way. Compare Clem. Alexandrin. (Pædagogue, b. iii. cap. v. p. 297, Edinburgh Series), where he quotes Matt. v. 28, with variation. Lardner (cap. xviii. sec. 20) gives a probable explanation. Jones on The Canon (vol. i. p. 436) is noteworthy. Kaye (p. 221) does not solve the puzzle.]
[824] Probably from some apocryphal writing. [Come from what source it may, it suggests a caution of the utmost importance to Americans. In the newer parts of the country, the practice, here corrected, as cropped out among “brothers and sisters” of divers religious names, and consequent scandals have arisen. To all Christians comes, the apostolic appeal, “Let it not be once named among you.”]
Chapter XXXIII.—Chastity of the Christians with Respect to Marriage.
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