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Theophilus
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Introductory Note to Theophilus of Antioch
[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.
Chapter VI.—Other Opinions of the Philosophers.
[642] Not in the first, but the fifth book of the Republic, p. 460.
[643] Minos.
[644] As this sentence cannot be intelligibly rendered without its original in Plato, we subjoin the latter: “As for those youths who excel either in war or other pursuits, they ought both to have other rewards and prizes given them; and specially this, of being allowed the freest intercourse with women, that, at the same time, under this pretext the greatest number of children may spring from such parents.”
[645] [This statement reflects light upon some passages of Hermas, and shows with what delicacy he has reproved the gross vices with which Christians could not escape familiarity.]
Chapter VII.—Varying Doctrine Concerning the Gods.
[646] αύτοματισμῶ.
Chapter IX.—Christian Doctrine of God and His Law.
[647] Or, right worship.
Chapter X.—Of Humanity to Strangers.
Chapter XII.—Of Righteousness.
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