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Introductory Notice to Methodius.
[2738] Methodius is not the first or the last who has sought to explore the mystery of numbers. An interesting and profound examination of the subject will be found in Bähr’s Symbolik; also in Delitzsch’s Bib. Psychology.—Tr. [On the Six Days’ Work, p. 71, translation, Edinburgh, 1875.]
[2739] i.e., in a regular arithmetical progression.
[2740] i.e., its divisors or dividends.
[2741] “Make Himself of no reputation.”—E. T., Phil. ii. 7.
[2744] Hom., Il., vi. 181.
[2746] Hom., Od., i. 7.
[2748] [“As they think.” Had Methodius any leaning to Pythagoras and his school? To “science” the world owes its rejection of the true theory of the universe for two thousand years, till Copernicus, a Christian priest, broke that spell. Could the Christian Fathers know more than science taught them? Methodius hints it.]
[2749] Castor and Pollux.
[2750] We cannot preserve the play upon words of the original. There it is—μαθηματικὴν and καταθεματικήν.—Tr.
[2751] Gen. i. 14, etc.
Chapter XVI.—Several Other Things Turned Against the Same Mathematicians.
[2752] γένεσις = birth, i.e., our life is not controlled by the star of our nativity.—Tr. [See Hippolytus, vol. v. p. 27, this series.]
[2753] Hom., Od., i. 7.
[2754] γένεσις = birth, h. the star of man’s nativity, h. destiny.
Chapter XVII.—The Lust of the Flesh and Spirit: Vice and Virtue.
[2756] The LXX. adds “And of the Agnos.” See note on this tree at the beginning of the treatise, p. 310, note 2.]
[2758] [Methodius did not adopt the errors of the Chiliasts, but he kept up the succession of witnesses to this primitive idea. Coleridge’s remarks on Jeremy Taylor, touching this point, may be worth consulting. Notes on Old English Divines, vol. i. p. 218.]
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