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treacherous garments and treacherous unguenis; since netineris that mode of preparing laod right where there is more of
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not over them the eicient cause, nor apprehends the Creator. Tho Stoics also, Whom lie mentions iso, say not Weli that
tions are puerile. But virtus is no lover of bys,' saysthe philosopher Plato: And our strumle, according to Gorgias
onigma. For tho Word, liho the olympian proclamation,
wo aro influenced astor the elements of tho Worid, and notaster Christy si For tho toaching Whicli is agroe te to Christ isses tho Creator, and traces providence in particular eVenis, and knows tho nature of tho elements to be capabis of changeand production, and teaches that M o ought to aim at risingup to the poWer Which assimilates in God, and to preser tho di pensation holding tho sint rank and superior in ali trianing.
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The elementa aro morshipped, he ala by Diogenes, thowater by Thales, the fim is Hippasus; and by thom Whos pose atoms to the firat principies of things, arrogatingine name os philosophere, Ming Wretched creatures devotedio pleasum. Whereiore I pray,' says the apostle, thatyο- love may abound yet more and more, in knowledge and in ali ju ment, ibat ye may approve things that are excellent.' Since, When we were children,' mys the fame aposti ewere hept in bondam under the rudiments of the morid. And tho child, though heir, differeth nothing iram a servant, tili tho time appotnted of tho father. Philosophera, then, are children, untem they have been mado men is Christ. For ii tho son of the bond woman shali not be heir Mintho son of the free,'' at least he is the seed of Abraham, though not of promise, receiving What belonga in him by Deo gist. But strong meat belongetli to those stat are os full
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since this tradition is not published Hone forta iaου him who perceives the magnificence of the word ;s it is requisite, thereiore, to hide in a mystery the Nisdom spolien, whicli tho Son os God taught. NoW, thereiore, Isaiah ths prophet has his longue purified by fire, so that he may be ablo to teli the vision. And Ro
bo more ludicrous than these to the multitude; nor any subjecis on the other hand more admirabie or more inspiring tolliose of nobio nature. But the naturat man receiveth not tho
But the wise do not ulter With their mouth What they reason in councit. But what ye hear in the ear,' says the Lord, proclaim upon the ho es ; ' bidding them receive the secret traditions of the true knowledge, and expound them Hostand conspicuously; and as Wo have heard in the ear, so todeliver them to whom it is requisite; but not enjoining usto communicate to ali Without distinction, What is said tothem in parabies. But there is only a delineation in the memoranda, Which have the truth sowed sparse and broa Gcast, that it may escape the notice of those Who pich up seeds
one of them Wili germinate and produce corn.
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ALL SECTS OF PHILOSOPHY CONTAIN A GERII OF TRUTH. lINCE, therelare, truth is Ono sor falsehood liasten thousand b paths); iust M tho Bacchantes toro Munder the limbs of Pentheus, so the fecisboth os barbarian and Hellenic philosophy havo dono vitii truth, and each Vaunia af the wholo truth thoportion which has fallon to ita tot. But ait, in my opinion, aro illuminated by tho dawn of Light.' Let ali, therefore,
both Groelis and barbarians, who have aspired after thetruth,-both those Who possem not a littio, and thoso wholiave any portion,-produce Whatever they have of the wordos truth. Eterni , sor instance, presenis in an instant the futuroand the present, also the past os timo. But truth, muchmore pomersul than limitiess duration, can collect iis propernerms, though they have salien on foreim soli. For me stiali find that very many of the dogmas that aro hold by such secisns havo not beeomo ulterly sensetess, and aro not cui out Domitio ordor of naturo by cutting ofi Christ, as the women oftho fabio dismombered the man),' though appearing unlihoone another, correspond in their origin and with tho truth as a wholo. For they coincide in one, either as a pari, or a species, or a genus. For instance, though tho hi est noto is different smm the lo est note, yet both compose ono harmony. And in numbere an even number differa fram an odd number; but both fuit in arithmetic; as also is the case With figure, thecircle, and the triangle, and the square, and Whatever figures differ from one another. Also. in the whole universe, ali the
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paris, though differing one from another, preserve their relation to the whole. So, then, tho barbarian and Hellenic
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SUCCESSION OF PHILOSOPHERS IN GREΕcΕ. ΗΕ Greas sari stat after orpheus and Linus, and the more ancient of the poeta that appeared among them, the seven, called Wiso, Were the fidit that mere admired sor their misdom. Os Whom four mors of Asia Thales of Μiletus, and Bias os Priene, Pittacusos Μityleno, and Cleobulus of Lindos; and tWo of Europe, Solon tho Athenian, and Chilon the Lacedaemonian; and the Month, some say, Was Periander of Corinth; othera, Anacharsis tho Scythian; othera, Epimenides the Cretan, Whom Paul knem as a Greeli prophet, Whom ho mentions in the Epistis to Titus, Where he spe s thus: μο- of themselves, a prophet of their om, siad, The Cretana areatious liars, evit Maala, alo. bellies. And this mitnem istrue.' λ You seo hoW even to the propheis of tho Greelislio attributes something of the truth, and is not ashamed, hen dis ursing for the edification os some and the shamingos othem, to mise me of Greeli poems. Accordin*y to the Corinthians sor this is not the only instance), While discour ing on the resurrection of the dead, he maris use of a tragicIambic lino, whon ho said, What advantageth it mo u thodead are nes misia' Lot us eat and drin for t moreoπ- die. Bo not deceived;
others havo enumeratia Acusilaus tho Argive among the Seven Wi- men ; and othors, Pherecydes of Syros. AndPlato substitutes mso the Chenian sor Periander, Whom
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he decmed unWoethy of wisdom, on account of his havingreigned as a tyrant. That the wise men among the Greelis flourished aster tho age of Moses, Will, a litue alter, M sho n. But the sule os philosophy among them, as Hebraic and enigmatical, is noW to be considered. They adopted brevi , as suiled for exhortation, and most Mesul. Even Plato says, that of old this mode was purposely in vo o among Hl the Greelis, especialty the Lacedaemonians and Cretans, Whoenjoyed the best la s. The expression, Κnoπ thyseis,' somo supposed in beChilon's. But Chamaeleon, in his book About the Gori, ascribes it to Thales; Aristotio to the 'thim. It may bean injunction to the pursuit of knowledge. For it is notpossibio to know the paris Without the essetace of the whole; and one must study the genesis os the universe, that there we may be able to learn the nature os man. Again, to Chilon the Lacedaemonian they attribute, se Lot nothing betoo much.V- Strato, in his book of Inventiona, ascribes the apophthegm to Stratodemus os Tegea. Didymus assignfit to Solon; as also to Cleobulus the sving, A middie course is best.' And the expression, Come under a pledge, and mischies is at hand,' Cleomenes sus, in his book Con- eerning Hesiod, Was ultered besoro by Homer in the lines:
Tho Aristotelians judgo it to bo Chilon's; but Didymus
says the advice Was that os Thales. Then, nexi in order, thesaying, Ni men are bad,' or, Tho most of men aro bad ' for the fame apophthegm is expressed in imo Ways), Sotades the Byzantian says that it was Bias's. And the aphorism, Practice conquera everything, y they will have it in boPoriander's; and like ise the advice, μKnow the opportuni ,' to have bees a saying of Pittacus. Solon made lawssor the Athonians, Pittacus for tho Mitylenians. Aud at a late date, Pythagoras, the pupit os Pherecydes, fini called himseli a philosophor. Accordingly, aster the sor mentioned three men, there mere three schools of philosophy, named