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Chapter
XVIII.
I thought it right to quote these few instances
from a much larger number of passages, in which our sacred writers
express their ideas regarding God, in order to show that, to those who
have eyes to behold the venerable character of Scripture, the sacred
writings of the prophets contain things more worthy of reverence than
those sayings of Plato which Celsus admires. Now the declaration
of Plato, quoted by Celsus, runs as follows: “All things
are around the King of all, and all things exist for his sake, and he
is the cause of all good things. With things of the second rank
he is second, and with those of the third rank he is third. The
human soul, accordingly, is eager to learn what these things are,
looking to such things as are kindred to itself, none of which is
perfect. But as regards the King and those things which I
mentioned, there is nothing which resembles them.”4379
| 4379 Cf. Plato,
Epist., ii., ad Dionys. | I might have mentioned, moreover, what
is said of those beings which are called seraphim by the Hebrews, and
described in Isaiah,4380
who cover the face
and feet of God, and of those called cherubim, whom Ezekiel4381
has described, and the postures of these,
and of the manner in which God is said to be borne upon the
cherubim. But since they are mentioned in a very mysterious
manner, on account of the unworthy and the indecent, who are unable to
enter into the great
thoughts and venerable nature of theology, I have not deemed it
becoming to discourse of them in this treatise.E.C.F. INDEX & SEARCH
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