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Tatian
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Introductory Note to Taitian the Assyrian
[424] περὶ φύσεως
[425] He was called δ σκοτεινός for his obscurity.
Chapter IV.—The Christians Worship God Alone.
[426] [Dear Christians of those times; so Justin and all the rest appeal against this odium. Their name an offence, “cast out as evil,” but fragrant with unrequited love.Matt. x. 22-39.]
[427] [1 Pet. ii. 17. This claim for man as man is the inspiration of Christianity. Terence breathes it from his wounded soul in slavery; and his immortal line, “Homo sum: humani nihil a me alienum puto” (Hæuntontimor., act. i. sc. 1, verse 25), looks as if it had been written in the second century of illumination.]
[428] [Kaye’s Justin, pp. 56, 158.]
[430] [Over again Tatian asserts spirits to be material, though not fleshly; and I think with reference to 1 Cor. xv. 44.]
[432] [Over again Tatian asserts spirits to be material, though not fleshly; and I think with reference to 1 Cor. xv. 44.]
Chapter V.—The Doctrine of the Christians as to the Creation of the World.
[433] [See Kaye’s Justin Martyr, p. 161, note; and observe his stricture on Bull and Waterland.]
[434] κατὰ μερισμόν. Some translate, “by division,” but the above is preferable. The sense, according to Otto, is that the Logos, having received a peculiar nature, shares in the rational power of the Father as a lighted torch partakes of the light of the torch from which it is kindled. Comp. Just. Mar., Dial. c. T., chap. lxi.
[435] οἰκονομίας τὴν αἲρεσιν προσλαβόν. The above seems the simplest rendering of this difficult passage, but several others have been proposed. [See note 4, cap. ix., infra, p. 69.]
[436] [Matter not eternal. He seems to have understood Gen. i. 1, of the creation of matter; and verse 2, as beginning the history of our planet and the visible universe.]
[437] [Supposed to be a personal reference to his conversion and baptism. As to “confused matter,” it should be kindred matter, and must be set over “kindred spirit.” See p. 71, cap. xiii., infra.]
Chapter VI.—Christians’ Belief in the Resurrection.
[438] [Comp. cap. xvii., infra, note 5, p. 72. ἐν ἡμέρα συντελείας.]
[439] [A supposed discovery of modern science. See Religion and Chemistry, by Professor Cook of Harvard, pp. 79, 101. Revised Edition, Scribners, 1880.]
Chapter VII.—Concerning the Fall of Man.
[440] [Kaye’s rendering of this passage should be compared. See his Justin, p. 182.]
[441] Gen. iii. 1 [First-born. ἄγγελος πρωτόγονος.]
Chapter VIII.—The Demons Sin Among Mankind.
[442] Il., i. 599; Od., viii. 326.
[443] On fleeing from Apollo, she became a bay-tree.
[444] It is uncertain from whom this line is quoted.
Chapter IX.—They Give Rise to Superstitions.
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