Between Heathenism and Christianity - College of Stoic Philosophers

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