1 Cf. notes on c. Gent. 10, and 12. 2.
1 On the following argument see Döllinger ii. 210 sqq. , and Bigg, Bampt. Lect. 248, note 1.
1 On the local character of ancient religions, see Döllinger i. 109, &c., and Coulanges, La Cité Antique, Book III. ch. vi., and V. iii. (the substance in Barker’s Aryan Civilisation ).
1 On these, see Döllinger, i. 216, &c., and Milton’s Ode on the Nativity, stanza xix.
1 i.e. that of Trophonius.
1 Patara.
1 Ammon.
1 See Döllinger, i. 73, 164–70: the Cabiri were pre-Hellenic deities, worshipped in many ancient sanctuaries, but principally in Samothrace and Lemnos.
1 Cf. Vit. Ant. xvi.-xliii., also Döllinger, ii. 212, and a curious catena of extracts from early Fathers, collected by Hurter in ‘Opuscula SS. Patrum Selecta,’ vol 1, appendix.
1 For this opinion, see note 1 on c. Gent. 12.
1 See Döllinger, ii. 210, and (on Julian) 215.
1 In Plato’s ideal Republic, the notion of any direct influence of the highest ideals upon the masses is quite absent. Their happiness is to be in passive obedience to the few whom those ideals inspire. (Contrast Isa. liv. 13, Jer. xxxi. 34.)
1 Cf. Hist. Arian. 25, Apol. Const. 33.
1 e.g. Iamblichus, &c., cf. Introd. to c. Gent.
1 Cf. Thucy. i. 5 6: ‘ pasa gar h {Ella" esidhroforei, ’ &c.
1 Isa. ii. 4.
1 St. Augustine, Civ. D. IV. xvi. commenting on the fact that the temple of ‘Repose’ (Quies) at Rome was not within the city walls, suggests ‘qui illam turbam colere perseveraret …doemoniorum, cure Quietem hahere non posse.’
1 1 Cor. ii. 8.
1 qeopoihqwmen . See Orat. ii. 70, note 1, and many other passages in those Discourses, as well as Letters 60. 4, 61 2. (Eucharistic reference), de Synodis 51, note 7. (Compare also Iren. IV. xxxviii. 4, ‘non ab initio dii facti sumus, sed primo quidem homines, tunc demum dii,’ cf. ib. praef. 4. fin. also V. ix. 2, ‘sublevat in vitam Dei.’ Origen Cels. iii. 28 fin. touches the same thought, but Ath. is here in closer affinity to the idea of Irenaeus than to that of Origen.) The New Test. reference is 2 Pet. i. 4, rather than Heb. ii. 9 sqq; the Old Test., Ps. lxxxii. 6, which seems to underlie Orat. iii. 25 (note 5). In spite of the last mentioned passage, ‘God’ is far preferable as a rendering, in most places, to ‘gods,’ which has heathenish associations. To us (1 Cor. viii. 6) there are no such things as ‘gods.’ (The best summary of patristic teaching on this subject is given by Harnack Dg. ii. p. 46 note.)
1 Cf. Matt. xxiv 42; Marc. xiii. 35.
1 2 Cor. v. 10; cf Rom. xiv. 10.
1 1 Cor. ii. 9.