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Chapter LIX.—Plato’s obligation to
Moses.
And that you may learn that it was from our
teachers—we mean the account given through the prophets—
that Plato borrowed his statement that God, having altered matter which
was shapeless, made the world, hear the very words spoken through Moses,
who, as above shown, was the first prophet, and of greater antiquity than
the Greek writers; and through whom the Spirit of prophecy, signifying
how and from what materials God at first formed the world, spake thus:
“In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. And the
earth was invisible and unfurnished, and darkness was upon the face of
the deep; and the Spirit of God moved over the waters. And God said, Let
there be light; and it was so.” So that both Plato and they who
agree with him, and we ourselves, have learned, and you also can be
convinced, that by the word of God the whole world was made out of the
substance spoken of before by Moses. And that which the poets call
Erebus, we know was spoken of formerly by Moses.1888
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