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Chapter VIII.—All have been hated in
whom the Word has dwelt.
And those of the Stoic
school—since, so far as their moral teaching went, they were
admirable, as were also the poets in some particulars, on account of the
seed of reason [the Logos] implanted in every race of men—were,
we know, hated and put to death,—Heraclitus for instance, and,
among those of our own time, Musonius and others. For, as we intimated,
the devils have always effected, that all those who anyhow live a
reasonable and earnest life, and shun vice, be hated. world" title="191" id="viii.iii.viii-p1.3"/>And it is
nothing wonderful; if the devils are proved to cause those to be much
worse hated who live not according to a part only of the word diffused
[among men] but by the knowledge and contemplation of the whole Word,
which is Christ. And they, having been shut up in eternal fire, shall
suffer their just punishment and penalty. For if they are even now
overthrown by men through the name of Jesus Christ, this is an intimation
of the punishment in eternal fire which is to be inflicted on themselves
and those who serve them. For thus did both all the prophets foretell,
and our own teacher Jesus teach.1935
1935 [Here, in Grabe’s text, comes in the passage about
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