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| Chapter XIII.—How the Word has been in all men.
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Chapter XIII.—How the Word has been
in all men.
For I myself, when I
discovered the wicked disguise which the evil spirits had thrown around
the divine doctrines of the Christians, to turn aside others from joining
them, laughed both at those who framed these falsehoods, and at the
disguise itself and at popular opinion and I confess that I both boast
and with all my strength
strive to be found a Christian; not
because the teachings of Plato are different from those of Christ, but
because they are not in all respects similar, as neither are those of the
others, Stoics, and poets, and historians. For each man spoke well in
proportion to the share he had of the spermatic word,1944
| 1944 The word disseminated among men. [St.
Jas. i. 21.] | seeing what was related to
it. But they who contradict themselves on the more important points
appear not to have possessed the heavenly1945
| 1945 Literally, dimly seen at a distance. | wisdom,
and the knowledge which cannot be spoken against. Whatever things were
rightly said among all men, are the property of us Christians. For next to God, we worship and love the
Word who is from the unbegotten and ineffable God, since also He became
man for our sakes, that becoming a partaker of our sufferings, He might
also bring us healing. For all the writers were able to see realities
darkly through the sowing of the implanted word that was in them. For the
seed and imitation impacted according to capacity is one thing, and quite
another is the thing itself, of which there is the participation and
imitation according to the grace which is from Him.E.C.F. INDEX & SEARCH
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