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en dis vered in be corrupi and unWorthy os credit, and deerises borrowers of the garb os truth; and havo thus inoeasily exposta us as men Who are ridiculo ly deludia, and .ho Mar stela Minem inconsiderately to things Whicli oughtis no means is havs Won it. And, on the contrarn otherinings Whicli ars reatly honourabis and tho reverso os impositions, but Which have not been expressed in plausibio Maismenis, and thus have the appearance of Ming par dorical and most incredibi' and which havo been rejectinas falso on stela omn aho ing, and held up undeservedj toridicule, havo astematas, on caretes investigation and ex mination, Men dimovered in bo the truest os ali inings, and .hesty incontest te, though for a time spumed and rechonin
Prominent, Which ars somelimes delusive and sophisticia, butiam is Maching us to Marcii into inings Wistin us, and topnt them ali individually to the test, test any of them inouldgivo bach a hollo. Mund, and by instructing us in mari sumof theso inward things fidit os ali, lis tralaed us to ovo our
η βάρβαρον ἐστι πιν φωνη)-sor theire is a disciplino os lituo
value and no nocessi : but in accordanee missi that Whiin ismost needies for ali, whether Greek or barbarim, Whethermiso or illiterato, ani in fine, not in malis a long statomentis Ming over svery profession and purauit separates' in a cordaneo .ith that Whicli is most indispensabis for ali me Whateor manner of lito thoy have tamen, is it is indoin thecam and interest os ali .ho have to converse on any subjectWhateor missi eata oster, to bo protected against deception.
VLLI. Noe did ho eonfino his efforis mereb to that formol tho tand wHin it is the tot os dialecties is regulate e but
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60 GREGORY THAUMATURGUS lio also took in hand that hvmble capacity of mind, whichshows itselo in Our amazomeni at the magnitude, and the wondrousness, and the magnificent and absolutely Wise construotion of the worid, and in our marvelling in a reasontess Way, and in our Ming overpo ered With fear, and in our knowingnot, liho the irrational creatures, What conclusion to come to.
That, too, he aroused and corrected by other studies in naturalscience, illustrating and distinguishing the various divisions os created objecis, and with admirabie clearness reducing themto their pristine elemenis, taking them ali up perspicuoustyin his discourse, and going over the nature of the whole, and of each severat section, and discussing the multiform revolution and mutation of things in tho Worid, untii ho carrised us
rational instead os an irrational Wonder at tho sacred oec nomy of the universe, and the irreproveabio constitution of
wholo in family of the philosophical laboum, gathering themithe good fruita produced by the varied growllis of ali tho
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the divino Viriues that concern the morat nature, by Whichthe impulses of tho mind have their equabie and stabie su sistenc'-through these, ino, lis almed at mahing us trulyproos against Miei and disquietudo under the pressuro ofali ilis, and at imparting to us a Woludisciplinod and sted astand religious spirit, so that we might be in ali things veri-
tably bl sed. And this lis tolled at effecting is pertinent
dis urses, os a Wise and wOthing tenden , and very ostenatio by the most cogent addresses touching our moria dispositio , and our modes of lite. Nor Was it only by Words, but also is Meds, that he regulated in somo measure our inclinations,-is Wit, by that very contemplation and observation os the impulses and affections of tho mind, by the issueos .hich more especialty the mind is mont to be reducedis a right estate frem one os discord, and to be restoredio a condition of judment and order out of one os confu
perance, or hinder and chohe them through depression,-suchthings as pie ures and lusis, or palns and fears, and the wholearrv of ills that accompany these different species of evit: bat thus, I say, it might cast them oui and mari a V
and only just commencing their groWth, and not learing themto in strennii even is a stiori delu, but destruing and moting them out at once; Whilo, at the samo time, it might sester ali those things which aro reatly good, and which springsrom the nobier pari, and might preserve them by nursing
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of thoso very motions in the mind at onco fram tho thingsthemsolves, and by the knowledge .hich accruos in it olthings ouiside of us, Whatever such iners may be, both modand evit; and temperance, the poWer that maris tho right selection among these things in their beginnings; and righ,
eousness, Which assigns What is just in each; and that virtus whicli is the conserver of them ad ortitude. And ther foro ho did not accustom us to a mere profession in Woria,
observation. Nor, again, did ho content himsoli missi thomere assertion that temperanco is simply tho is ledgo ofWhat ought to bo chosen and what ought not; though thoother schooti os philosophere do not Data even so muta rathat, and eapecialty the more recent, Who are so forcibis and vigoreus in morda so that Ι have osten Men astonishod atthem, When they sought to demonstrate that there is the samo
viriue in God and in men, and that Mon earin, in particular, the wiso man is eques' in God), and yet ars incapabis os desivering the truth as to prudence, so that one inali do thethings whieli aro dictaled by prudence, or the truth M totemperance, so that one shali choose tho thium ho has leaminis it; and the samo holds good also of their ueriment of righteoum s and fortitude. Not thus, ho-ver, in more Worci oesy did this inacher go over ius uuius concerning
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tho virines missi us; but he incited us muta more to the pra tim os virtus, and stimulatin us by the deeti he did mors than by tho doctrines he tau LX. No. Ι beg of the philosophers of this present time, in thoso Whom I havo known personalty myself, and those of whom I havs heard by repori hom othera, and I beg also os ali other men, that they tahe in Mod pari tho statementa I havs just made. Αnd let no ons supposo that I have e pressed myself thus, euher throuo simple friendinip toWardinat man, or throno haued toWard tho rest of the phil sophers ; for is there is any ono inclined in bo an admiror of them for their discourses, and wiinful in speis .ess of them, and pleased at hearing tho most honourabie mention made of them is othere, I myself am the man. Neverthelas' those facts to .hich Ι havo referres are of such a natum M tobring Mon the very name of philosophy tho last deg e of ridiculo almost hom the meat mare of men; and I mightalmost say that I Would choom to M altogether unversed in it, rather than learn any of the things Which these menprofess, With vhom I thought it good no longer is associalemysias in this li&,-though in that, it may bo, I formed an
incorreet judgmenti But I say that no one inould suppomthat Ι maho theso starementa at the mere prompting os a Malous regard sor the presse of this man, or under ineatimulus of any existing animosity toWatas other phil sophere. But tot ali bo assured that I say even lem than his de s merit, tost 1 inould seom in be indulging in ades tion ; and that Ι do not Meh out studied morti and phrases, and cunning means os laudation Who could never of myown Will, even hen I Waa a youth, and learning the populara te M addrem under a professor of the ari os public spea
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64 GREGORY THAUMATURGUS the cost of tho reprobation os others. And, in Mod moth, I should speah onj to the man's injury, is, With the viow of having something grander to say os him, Ι should comparo his biossed liso with the fallings os others. are no
has come Within my oWn experience, apari from ali ill udgod comparisons and tricheries in mords. XI. He was also the firsi and only man stat urged me tostudy the philosophy of the Greelis, and persuaded me is his
k me tot is, ἡ κακων αν ελεγον, etc. The Grea ε and the Latin autare found wmetimes thus With a force hordering on that os alioqui.' ἀφραίνομεν. The Paris editor mould read ἀφραίνω μέν.3 The tot is, ἀλλ' επεὶ ἀληλιαν ἡμῖν, οὐ κομψδείαν ἐπηγγει λατο ὀ λόγος ἀνωθεν. The Latin rendering is, sed quia veritatem nobis, non pompam et Ornatum promisit oratio in Gordio. Disjtjgsd by OOOle
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of him as a perfeci patiem, but as one Who vehemently destres to imitate the perfeci patiem, and strives after itmith geal and earnesiness, even beyond the capaciu osmen, ii I may so express myseli; and Who laboura, mor OVer, alio to maho us, Who are so disserent, of liko charactor illi himself, not mere masters and apprehenders of the bald doctrines concerning the impulses of the foui, but mastersand apprehendere of theso impulses themselves. For he
delicate expression os dissereum, or it may perhapa bo an elegant redun- ney, liho the French h noua autres. Othera read, καὶ ἡμας καὶ σέρους. The reading in tho texi inves, οὐ λόγων ἐγκρατεῖς καἰ ἐπιστήμονας των περι όρμων, των δὲ ὀρμων αὐτων' ἐπὶ τα εργα καὶ λόγους αγχων, etc. Othera Would arrange the whole pamage differently, thus: περὶ ὀρμων,των δε ὀρμων αυτων επὶ τα εργα καὶ τοὐς λόγους ἄγχων. Καὶ, etc. Hence Simondus rendera it, a motibus ipsis ad opera etiam sermones, re ingalso ἄγων apparently. Rhodomanus oves, impulsionum ip3arum ad opera
et rerba ignavi et negligentes, re ing evidently ἀργων. Benges solves thodisseulty is inhing the firat clause as equivalent to ου λόγων ἐγκρατεῖς
καὶ ἐπωτήμονας . . . αυτων των όρμων ἐγκραπῶς καὶ επιστήμονας. We
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mising us to the nobier vocation os i Eng into ourseives, and dealing With tho things that concern o selves in truth. that this is to practim righteousness, and that this is the true righteo nes' some also of our ancient philosophers have asserted expressing it M the personat aetion, I thinh), and havo inmed that this is more profitable for blessednem,
both to the men themselves and to those who are missi them --οις τε καὶ τοῖς προσιοῖσιν), is indeed it belongs to this virtve to recompense according to deseri, and to assim toeach his o n. For What else could bo supposed in bo soproper to tho Mul l Or What could be so worthy of it, asto exercise a caro oVer iraeli, not gazing out ards, or bus
achievement of philosophy, tho thing that is ascribed also totho most prophetic os spirita ' δη καὶ δαι-νων - μαντι--τάτν ανατίθεται) as the highest argument of wisd--tho precepi, Know thyset . And that this is the genuine functionos prudence, and that such is the heavenly prudence, is assi ed Wolt by the anciendi; for in this there is one virtuo common to God and to man; While the foui is exercised in belloiding iraeli as in a minor, and reflecti tho divino mindin itsols, ii it is Worthy of such a relation, and traces out a certain inexpressibio method for the attaining of a hind of
apotheosis. And in correspondence With this come also tho viriues of temperance and fortitudo: temperance, inde , in conserving this very prudenco Which must be in the foui
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have been spolien os, Without falling aWay imm them, either voluntarily or under any iorce, and in keeping and holding byali stat has been laid dom. For he teaches that this virtus acta also as a Lind of preserver, maintainer, and guardian. XLI. It is truo, indeed, that in consequenco of our dulland flumish nature, he has not yet succe ed in mahing us righteous, and prudent, and temperate, or manly, although
ho aspiro after What is nobtest, and aim at What is perfeci. - are not yet theresore either righteous or temperate, oren .ed with any of the other virtuos. But this admirabieman, this friend and advocate of the virium, has long ago dono for us pectus ali that it lay in his pomer to do sor us, in mining us lovers of Viriue, Who fhould lovo it with thomost ardent affection. And is his own virtve lis created in us a lovo at onm for the beauty os righteo ness, themiden face of Which in truth Was shown to us is him; and
sor the truo Wisdom, Whicli is most delectable ; and for tem- Perance, the heavenly virtuo Whicli forms the found constutution os tho sota, and brings peace to ali Who possess it; and sor manliness, that most admirabie grace; and forpatience, that virtuo peculiarly oura; 3 and, above est, for
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68 GREGORY THAUMATURGUS piety, Whicli men rightly designate When they cali it tho
virtuo and wisdom as our best conductors and most sagacious
mVest draW near to Him, and abide in Him. XIII. And bosidos ali his other patient and laborious es oris, hoW shali I in Words give any account of What hed id ior us, in instructing us in theology and the devout character and hoW shali I enter into the real dispositionos the man, and shoW With What judiciousness and caresul preparation he would havo us familiarigod With ali discourse
written, both by the philosophers and by the poeta os old, rejecting nothing,' and repudiating nothing ior, indeed, me
ἐξομοιωθητι προσελθεῖν. Othera read εξομοιωθέντα προσι θεῖν.. μκβεν εκποιουμένους. Casaubon maris this as a phraae t en hom