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Theophilus
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Introductory Note to Theophilus of Antioch
[569] That is, the first principle, whom he has just shown to be the Word.
[570] In the Greek version of Gen. i. 1, the word “created” stands before “God.”
[571] Theophilus, therefore, understands that when in the first verse it is said that God created the earth, it is meant that he created the matter of which the earth is formed.
Chapter XI.—The Six Days’ Work Described.
[572] The words, “and light was; and God saw the light, that it was good,” are omitted in the two best mss. and in some editions; but they seem to be necessary, and to have fallen out by the mistake of transcribers.
Chapter XIII.—Remarks on the Creation of the World.
[574] [See book i. cap. v., supra, note 4; also, the important remark of Kaye, Justin Martyr, p. 179.]
[575] This follows the Benedicting reading. Other editors, as Humphrey, read [φωτὸς] τὼπον, “resembling light.”
[577] Following Wolf’s rendering.
[578] Or, suitably arranged and appointed it.
Chapter XIV.—The World Compared to the Sea.
[579] Literally, synagogues.
[580] [The ports and happy havens beautifully contrasted with rocks and shoals and barren or inhospitable isles.]
[581] [The ports and happy havens beautifully contrasted with rocks and shoals and barren or inhospitable isles.]
[582] That is, as the Benedictine edition suggests, when they have filled them with unsuspecting passengers.
Chapter XV.—Of the Fourth Day.
[583] Following Wolf’s reading.
[584] Τριάδος. [The earliest use of this word “Trinity.” It seems to have been used by this writer in his lost works, also; and, as a learned friends suggests, the use he makes of it is familiar. He does not lug it in as something novel: “types of the Trinity,” he says, illustrating an accepted word, not introducing a new one.]
[585] [An eminent authority says, “It is certain, that, according to the notions of Theophilus, God, His Word, and His wisdom constitute a Trinity; and it should seem a Trinity of persons.” He notes that the title σοφία, is here assigned to the Holy Spirit, although he himself elsewhere gives this title to the Son (book ii. cap. x., supra), as is more usual with the Fathers.” Consult Kaye’s Justin Martyr, p. 157. Ed. 1853.]
[586] i.e., wandering stars.
Chapter XVII.—Of the Sixth Day.
[587] [Note the solid truth that God is not the author of evil, and the probable suggestion that all nature sympathized with man’s transgression. Rom. viii. 22.]
Chapter XIX.—Man is Placed in Paradise.
[589] Gen. ii. 7. [The Hebrew must not be overlooked: “the breath of lives,” spiraculum vitarum; on which see Bartholinus, in Delitzsch, System of Bib. Psychol., p. 27. Also, Luther’s Trichotomy, ibid., p. 460. With another work of similar character I am only slightly acquainted, but, recall with great satisfaction a partial examination of it when it first appeared. I refer to The Tripartite Nature of Man, by the Rev J. B. Heard, M.A. 3d ed. Edinburgh, 1871, T. & T. Clark.]
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