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Tatian
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Introductory Note to Taitian the Assyrian
[509] Chap. xxxi. [With what calm superiority he professes himself a barbarian! I honour the eye-witness who tells not only what he had seen, but what he felt amid such evidences of man’s degradation and impiety.]
[510] Solon. Bergh., Poetæ Græc. Lyr., fr. 18. [The interest and biographical importance of this chapter must be apparent.]
Chapter XXXVII.—Testimony of the Phœnicians.
[511] Called Hiram in our authorized translation.
Chapter XXXIX.—Catalogue of the Argive Kings.
[512] The words within brackets, though they occur in the mss. and in Eusebius, are supposed by some scholars to be a very old interpolation.
Chapter XL.—Moses More Ancient and Credible Than the Heathen Heroes.
[513] This expression admits of several meanings: “Without properly understanding them,”—Worth; “not with a proper sense of gratitude.”—Maranus.
[514] [There is increasing evidence of the obligations of the Greek sages to that “light shining in a dark place,” i.e., amid an idolatrous world.]
[515] [Let it be noted as the moral of our author’s review, that there is no self-degradation of which man is not capable when he rejects the true God. Rom. i. 28.]
Chapter XLII.—Concluding Statement as to the Author.
[516] [Comp. cap. xxix. p. 77, supra.]
[517] [Compare the boastful Rousseau: “Que la trompette du jugement sonne quand elle voudra, je viendrai ce livra a la main, me presenter devant le souverain Juge.” Confessions, livre i. p. 2.]
[518] [“Adhere immoveably.” Alas! “let him that thinketh he standeth”, etc. But I cannot part with Tatian nor think of Tertullian without recalling David’s threnode: “There the shield of the mighty is vilely cast away … . I am distressed for thee, my brother: … very pleasant hast thou been unto me … How are the mighty fallen, and the weapons of war perished!” Our own sad times have taught us similar lamentations for some who seemed for a time to be “burning and shining lights.” God be merciful to poor frail men.]
[519] From the lost works of Tatian. Ed. Otto.
[520] i.e., Justin Martyr.
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