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Introductory Notice to Methodius.
[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.]
[2762] St.John xiv. 16.
Chapter III.—How Each One Ought to Prepare Himself for the Future Resurrection.
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