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| Chapter XXXI.—Further proof of Plato’s acquaintance with Scripture.
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Chapter XXXI.—Further proof of
Plato’s acquaintance with Scripture.
For from what other source, if not from his
reading the writings of the prophets, could Plato have derived the
information he gives us, that Jupiter drives a winged chariot in heaven?
For he knew this from the following expressions of the prophet about the
cherubim: “And the glory of the Lord went out from the house and
rested on the cherubim; and the cherubim lift up their wings, and the
wheels beside them; and the glory of the Lord God of Israel was over them
above.”2582
And borrowing this idea,
the magniloquent Plato shouts aloud with vast assurance, “The great
Jove, indeed, driving his winged chariot in heaven.” For from what
other source, if not from Moses and the prophets, did he learn this and
so write? And whence did he receive the suggestion of his saying that God
exists in a fiery substance? Was it not from the third book of the
history of the Kings, where it is written, “The Lord was not in the
wind; and after the wind an earthquake, but the Lord was not in the
earthquake; and after the earthquake a fire, but the Lord was not in the
fire; and after the fire a still small voice?”2583
But these things pious men must understand in a higher sense
with profound and meditative insight. But Plato, not attending to the
words with the suitable insight, said that God exists in a fiery
substance.E.C.F. INDEX & SEARCH
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