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in the case of those Who are helpers; and steol and brass in the case of sarmers and other Workers. Whence, of neces-Si , some embraee and lovo those things to which knowledgo pertains; and others matters of opinion. Percliance he pr phesios of that eloci nature whicli is bent on knowledge; ii by the supposition he mahes os three natures he does notdescribe three polities, as some supposed: that os the JeWs,
tho silver; that of tho Groelis, tho third; and that of tho Christians, with Whom has been mingled the regal gold, the Holy Spirit, the goliten. Aiad exhibiting tho Christian ii se, ho writes in the Theop
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know that he does not know ali these things; but in realityliis body alone is siluated and d elis in the state, While thoman himself flies, according to Pindar, beneath the oarth andabove the sis, astronomiaing, and exploring ali nature on allsides. Again, with the Lord's saying, 0 Let yοur yea be yea, and your nay nu,' may be compared the following: But toadmit a falsehood, and destro a truth, is in nowise lawful. With tho prohibition, also, against sWearing agrees the svingin tho tonth book of the Laisa: μ Let pratse and an oath in everything be absent.'And in generat, Pythagoras, and Socrates, and Ρlato saythat thoy hear God's Volce While closely contemplating the fabric of the universe, made and preserved unceasingly by God. For they heard Moses say, He said, and it Was done, describing the word of God as an act. And founding on the formation of man from the dust, thephilosophers constantly term the bob earthy. Homer, to doos not hesitate to put the folio ing as an imprecation:
The Sisim, accordin*y, define naturo to M artificiat fre, adVancing systematicalty in generation. d God and His Word are by Scripture figuratively termed fre and light. But how Does not Homer himself, is not Homer himself, paraphrasing the reueat of the water hom tho land, and the
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In tho Phoenomena Aratus Writes thus :
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that is, of matter: and names the one creator os these things, whom ho calis Father, clites artificer, Who furnishes themeans os advancoment on to divini , according to merit. For I pras over Plato; he plainly, in the epistie to Erastus and Coriscus, is seon to Oxhibit the Father and Son somohowor other iroin tho Hebrow Scriptures, exhorting in these Words:
tions Eros tho sola of Armenius, Who is Zoroaster. Zor aster, then, Writes: These mere composed by Zoroaster,
the son os Armenius, a Pamphyllian by birth: having diod in batile, and been in Hades, I learned them os the gods. Τhis Zoroaster, Plato says, having been placed on the funerat
pyre, rose again to life in tWelve days. Ηe alludes perchanesto the resurrection, or perchance to the iaci that tho path
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godiac; and he himself says, that the descending pathWay to
I do not pras over Empedocles, Who spealis thus physi- catly os tho reneWal of ali things, as consisting in a tran mutation into the esseneo of sire, Whicli is to talio place. d most plainly of the samo opinion is Heraclitus os Ephesus, Who considered that there Was a Worid evertasting, and recognised one perishable-that is, in iis arrangement, notboing different frem the former, VieWed in a certain aspeet. But that ho know tho imperishablo World which consists of
tho universat essence in be evertastingly of a certain nature,
os tho continuance os our Souis.
Plato, again, in tho seventh book of the Republie, has
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It was ins aeventa mora, and they had ali iniuga done.
The aevonin is among the prime, and the foenin is perfeci.
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Let vi hear, then, the lyric poet Bacchylides speahing of the divine:
We are not, then, to think of God according to the opinion of tho multitude.
says Amphion to Antiope. And Sophocles plainb writes:
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Then ho delatis stili mors plainly tho licentio ness of the fabiod Zeus:
But let these bo resigned to the follies of tho theatre. Heraclitus plainly says : But of tho mord whicli is eternalmen are not able to underatand, both betare they have heardit, and on fidit hearing it.' And the lyrist Μelanippides says
And Parmenides tho great, as Plato says in the Sophist, Writes of God thus:
And Euripides on tho stage, in tragedy, SVS:
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d in the drama of Pirithous, the fame Writes those lines in tragic vein:
For thoro ho says that the creative mind is set spmng. What sol lows applies to the universe, in Which are the oppositos os light and dari ness. Eschylus also, the son os Euphorion, says With very great solemni of God :
Ether is Zeus, Zeus earin, and Zeus the heaven; The universe is Zeus, and ali a Ve.
I am amaro that Plato assenis to Heraclitus, Who Writes: Tho ono thing that is Wise alone Will not be expressed, and means the name of Zeus.' And again, μ Lam is in oboy the
says the Sibyl. Homer also manifestly mentions tho Faster and tho Son by a hapy hit os divination in tho sollowing worti :