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Million Book Collection - The Fishers of Men Ministries

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484 THE CHURCH AND GREEK PHILOSOPHY.and operation, why did they not conceive howmuch more powerful He who made them was?For from the greatness and the beauty <strong>of</strong> creaturesthe parent <strong>of</strong> them is by the force <strong>of</strong> reason discerned.70From their capital error in this-which the^_same writer declares to be inexcusable'1-proceededtheir other errors concerning man, hisnature, his supreme good, and his final end. Itis here sufficient to note that down to the age<strong>of</strong> Claudius there is no appearance that either <strong>of</strong>these great errors would be corrected : and stillless any appearance <strong>of</strong> the rise <strong>of</strong> a great religionwhich would cause the multitudinous altars <strong>of</strong>heathenism to disappear before the altar <strong>of</strong> theunknown God, and would construct a City <strong>of</strong> Godin the midst <strong>of</strong> that population in the thinkinminds <strong>of</strong> which divergent systems <strong>of</strong> philosophyhad eaten out belief in the babel <strong>of</strong> false godswithout implanting belief in a personal Creator,the author and the end <strong>of</strong> man.0 Reading with. S. Chrys. and S. Gregory fa ptyeQovs Kal K7)j> ©eov wyvwvioC ». . TraAty5e ouS' aurot (ruTYj/ccaroi. &z/?. xiii. 1, 8.

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