Between Heathenism and Christianity - College of Stoic Philosophers
Between Heathenism and Christianity - College of Stoic Philosophers
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The Delay <strong>of</strong> the Deity<br />
(you have Been). And as she was about to apply to<br />
him a little red hot iron rod such as the painters<br />
in encaustic are wont to use. another woman inter<br />
fered. But he himself was carried away<br />
all at once<br />
by a sudden <strong>and</strong> very violent gust <strong>of</strong> wind, as if<br />
blown through a tube, <strong>and</strong> so lighting again in his<br />
own body, he was restored to life, as it were, 071 the<br />
very brink <strong>of</strong> the grave.<br />
NOTES.<br />
A few notes <strong>of</strong> general character are here ap<br />
pended. Biographical <strong>and</strong> mythological details may<br />
be found in classical dictionaries. They are, however,<br />
rarely necessary to make clear the object <strong>of</strong> tinauthor<br />
s allusions. A word or a phrase not in the<br />
original<br />
has. in a few cases, been inserted in the<br />
translation to preclude the necessity <strong>of</strong> a note.<br />
Too 6zi&lt;&gt;o<br />
<strong>of</strong> the title. It is not clear from the writings <strong>of</strong><br />
Plutarch to what extent he was a monotheist. He uses ffsd?<br />
both with <strong>and</strong> without the article. In some cases his mean<br />
ing is perfectly clear: in others not. The New Testament<br />
writers, whose monotheism is beyond question, frequeutly use<br />
the article before the name <strong>of</strong> God. In like manner proper<br />
names sometimes have the article <strong>and</strong> sometimes are without<br />
&lt;&lt;<br />
it. Thus we have //<br />
~&gt;/s" <strong>and</strong> //"&gt;/?, n&gt;./.a-&lt;&gt;?<br />
usually has<br />
the article while /Yrc never has it, etc.<br />
CHAP. 3. The thought here expressed regarding the mills <strong>of</strong><br />
the pods has been put into the form <strong>of</strong> a couplet by Longfel<br />
low in his Poetic Aphorisms, thus:<br />
"Though the mills <strong>of</strong> God grind slowly<br />
yet they grind exceeding small;<br />
Though with patience He st<strong>and</strong>s waiting,<br />
with exactness grinds He all."<br />
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