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Theophilus
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Introductory Note to Theophilus of Antioch
[621] Cf. Deut. iv. 19.
[627] Ps. xiv. 1, 3.
[633] Od., xi. 222.
[634] Il., xvi. 856.
[635] xxiii. 71.
[637] We have adopted the reading of Wolf in the text. The reading of the mss. is, “He who desires to learn should desire to learn.” Perhaps the most satisfactory emendation is that of Heumann, who reads φιλομυθεῖν instead of φιλομαθεῖν: “He who desires to learn should also desire to discuss subjects, and hold conversations on them.” In this case, Theophilus most probably borrows his remark from Aristotle, Metaphysic. i. c. 2.
Chapter II.—Profane Authors Had No Means of Knowing the Truth.
[638] While in Egypt, Pythagoras was admitted to the penetralia of the temples and the arcana of religion.
Chapter III.—Their Contradictions.
[639] Viz., in the first book to Autolycus.
Chapter IV.—How Autolycus Had Been Misled by False Accusations Against the Christians.
[640] [The body of Christ is human flesh. If, then, it had been the primitive doctrine, that the bread and wine cease to exist in the Eucharist, and are changed into natural flesh and blood, our author could not have resented this charge as “most barbarous and impious.”]
Chapter V.—Philosophers Inculcate Cannibalism.
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