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| Chapter XL. Moses More Ancient and Credible Than the Heathen Heroes.
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Chapter XL.—Moses More Ancient and Credible Than the Heathen Heroes.
Therefore, from what has been said it is
evident that Moses was older than the ancient heroes, wars, and
demons. And we ought rather to believe him, who stands before
them in point of age, than the Greeks, who, without being aware of
it,513
| 513 This expression
admits of several meanings: “Without properly understanding
them,”—Worth;
“not with a proper sense of gratitude.”—Maranus. | drew his doctrines [as] from
a fountain. For many of the sophists among them, stimulated by curiosity,
endeavoured to adulterate whatever they learned from Moses,514
| 514 [There is increasing evidence of
the obligations of the Greek sages to that “light shining in a dark
place,” i.e., amid an idolatrous world.] | and from those
who have philosophized like him, first that they might be considered
as having something of their own, and secondly, that covering up by a
certain rhetorical artifice whatever things they did not understand,
they might misrepresent the truth as if it were a fable. But what the
learned among the Greeks have said concerning our polity and the history
of our laws, and how many and what kind of men have written of these
things, will be shown in the treatise against those who have discoursed
of divine things.515
| 515 [Let it
be noted as the moral of our author’s review, that there is no
self-degradation of which man is not capable when he rejects the true
God. Rom. i. 28.] | E.C.F. INDEX & SEARCH
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