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Chapter XXXIII.—Allegory of Jupiter, Etc.
“Now this Jupiter the Greeks would have to
be called from his living, or giving life, but our people from his
giving succour.872
| 872 [Comp. Homily VI.
7.—R.] | They say,
therefore, that this is the living substance, which, placed in the
upper regions, and drawing all things to itself by the influence of
heat, as by the convolution of the brain, and arranging them by the
moderation of a certain tempering, is said from his head to have
produced wisdom, whom they call Minerva, who was called
᾽Αθήνη by the Greeks on
account of her immortality; who, because the father of all created all
things by his wisdom, is also said to have been produced from his head,
and from the principal place of all, and is represented as having
formed and adorned the whole world by the regulated admixture of the
elements.873
| 873 [With chaps. 33,
34, compare Homily VI. 8–10.—R.] |
Therefore the forms which were impressed upon matter, that the world
might be made, because they are constrained by the force of heat, are
said to be held together by the energy of Jupiter. And since
there are enough of these, and they do not need anything new to be
added to them, but each thing is repaired by the produce of its own
seed, the hands of Saturn are said to be bound by Jupiter; because, as
I have said, time now produces from matter nothing new: but the
warmth of seeds restores all things according to their kinds; and no
birth of Rhea—that is, no increase of flowing
matter—ascends further. And therefore they call that first
division of the elements the mutilation of Saturn, because he cannot
any more produce a world.
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