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Chapter
III.—Noetianism an Offshoot from the Heraclitic
Philosophy.
But since we have exhibited the succession of
their genealogy, it seems expedient next that we should also explain
the depraved teaching involved in their doctrines. For this
purpose we shall first adduce the opinions advanced by Heraclitus
“the Obscure,”968
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[῾Ο Σκοτεινός, because he maintained the darkest system of sensual philosophy
that ever shed night over the human intellect.—T. Lewis in
Plato against the Atheists, p. 156; Elucidation VII.] |
and we shall next make manifest what are the portions of these opinions
that are of Heraclitean origin. Such parts of their system
its present champions are not aware belong to the “Obscure”
philosopher, but they imagine969
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[Note the use of this phrase, “imagine themselves,
etc.,” as a specialty of our author’s style. See cap.
ii. supra; Elucidation VIII.] | them to belong to Christ. But if
they might happen to fall in with the following observations, perhaps
they thus might be put out of countenance, and induced to desist from
this godless blasphemy of theirs. Now, even though the opinion of
Heraclitus has been expounded by us previously in the
Philosophumena, it nevertheless seems expedient now also to set
down side by side in contrast the two systems, in order that by
this closer refutation they may be evidently instructed. I
mean the followers of this (heretic), who imagine970
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[Note the use of this phrase, “imagine themselves,
etc.,” as a specialty of our author’s style. See cap.
ii. supra; Elucidation VIII.] | themselves to be disciples of Christ, when
in reality they are not so, but of “the
Obscure.”E.C.F. INDEX & SEARCH
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