Bad Advertisement? Are you a Christian? Online Store: | PREVIOUS SECTION - NEXT SECTION - HELP Referring to the passage in the Phædon
of Plato, Celsus says: “It is not easy for every one to
understand the meaning of Plato’s words, when he says that on
account of our weakness and slowness we are unable to reach the highest
region of the air; but that if our nature were capable of so sublime a
contemplation, we would then be able to understand that that is the
true heaven, and that the true light.” As Celsus has
deferred to another opportunity the explanation of Plato’s idea,
we also think that it does not fall within our purpose at present to
enter into any full description of that holy and good land, and of the
city of God which is in it; but reserve the consideration of it for our
Commentary on the Prophets, having already in part, according to our
power, treated of the city of God in our remarks on the
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