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Athenagoras
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Introductory Note to the Writings of Athenagoras
[836] The common reading is “excessive.”
Chapter XIII.—Continuation of the Argument.
[837] [The calm sublimity of this paragraph excels all that ever came from an Athenian before. In the Phœdon we have conjectures: here is certain hope and patient submission as our reasonable service.]
[838] [Kaye, p. 199. Compare Embassy, cap. xxvii., supra, p. 143.]
Chapter XIV.—The Resurrection Does Not Rest Solely on the Fact of a Future Judgment.
[839] [This chapter of itself establishes the fact that Christians have a right to demand the evidence for what they are required to believe. It refutes the idea that what any single bishop or saint has said or thought is doctrine, for that reason only; but it leaves the fact that concurrent testimony is evidence, on certain conditions, in all its force.]
[840] [Not strong enough for the force of the original: ουδ᾽ ἐκ τῶν τισί δοκοὐντων ῆ δεδογμένων.]
[841] [From the natural common sense of the thing.]
[842] [A beautiful and cogent argument for his proposition, and a precious testimony to the innocence of babes falling asleep in Christ. See Kaye, 190.]
Chapter XVI—Analogy of Death and Sleep, and Consequent Argument for the Resurrection.
[843] [Job xix. 25. On which see St. Jerome, Ad Paulinum, cap. 10, tom. iv. 569, ed. Bened. And, on the text itself, see Pusey on Daniel, p. 504, London, 1864. A fine passage in Calvin, ad locum: “En igitur qualis debate esse nostra Fides,” etc. Opp., tom. ii. p. 260, ed. Amsterdam, 1676.]
[844] [Homer, Iliad, b. xiv. 231, and Virgil, Æn., vi. 278.]
[845] [Noble testimony to a minute and particular Providence. Kaye, p. 191.]
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