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CHAPTERXIII.THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH AND THE GREEK PHILOSOPHYPAETI.Socrates. It is, then, necessary to wait until we learn how we ought*»mAlcil)iades. But when, Socrates, will that time arrive? and who shallteach us it ? For it seems to me that I should with the greatest pleasuremSocrates. It is he who cares for thee.1 Second Alcib. § 22.IN the three preceding chapters we have witnesseda great spectacle, a spectacle in all history uniqueand withouta rival, the UXJL \^f encounter, V^-J-l-V^V-/ I^L
THE GREEK PHILOSOPHY.375the earth's bosom and silently fills its expanse. Attentionmust now be called to another aspect of thesame encounter. Koine, as we have said, preeminentlywielded power; not the power of her legionsonly, immense as that was, but the power of herlaws, and the power of that many-sided and as itseemed triumphant all-embracing civilisation, ofwhich she was the golden head. The mind however,the thought of the world which she ruled, belongedto the great o Hellenic race: and it remains to con-sider what contest this mind waged with the truthwhich the Christian Church sustained and sufferedfor. The sword hews away limbs; the fire destroysbodies; and the martyrs offered freely their limbsand their bodies to sword and flame. But the martyrswere inspired with a mind; they carried Christin them; and a mind too was opposed to theirs; themind which animated that ancient civilisation; themind which had erected such shrines as Diana ofEphesus and the Parthenon at Athens; the mindwhich dictated the laws of Solon and Lycurgus; thed which taught in the Academus, the Ly mthe Portico, and the Garden; the mind which builtAlexandria for the world's emporium and univer-, and raised Antioch to be the gorgeous thronef eastern magnificence. We have to conhow this heathen mind encountered the Christin short, how, "after that in the wisdom of God thworld by wisdom knew not God, it pleased Himthrough the folly of Christian preaching to save
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THE GREEK PHILOSOPHY.375the earth's bosom and silently fills its expanse. Attentionmust now be called to another aspect <strong>of</strong> thesame encounter. Koine, as we have said, preeminentlywielded power; not the power <strong>of</strong> her legionsonly, immense as that was, but the power <strong>of</strong> herlaws, and the power <strong>of</strong> that many-sided and as itseemed triumphant all-embracing civilisation, <strong>of</strong>which she was the golden head. <strong>The</strong> mind however,the thought <strong>of</strong> the world which she ruled, belongedto the great o Hellenic race: and it remains to con-sider what contest this mind waged with the truthwhich the Christian Church sustained and sufferedfor. <strong>The</strong> sword hews away limbs; the fire destroysbodies; and the martyrs <strong>of</strong>fered freely their limbsand their bodies to sword and flame. But the martyrswere inspired with a mind; they carried Christin them; and a mind too was opposed to theirs; themind which animated that ancient civilisation; themind which had erected such shrines as Diana <strong>of</strong>Ephesus and the Parthenon at Athens; the mindwhich dictated the laws <strong>of</strong> Solon and Lycurgus; thed which taught in the Academus, the Ly mthe Portico, and the Garden; the mind which builtAlexandria for the world's emporium and univer-, and raised Antioch to be the gorgeous thronef eastern magnificence. We have to conhow this heathen mind encountered the Christin short, how, "after that in the wisdom <strong>of</strong> God thworld by wisdom knew not God, it pleased Himthrough the folly <strong>of</strong> Christian preaching to save
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