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Chapter
XXV.—Simon’s Deceit.
“But Simon is going about in company with
Helena, and even till now, as you see, is stirring up the people.
And he says that he has brought down this Helena from the highest
heavens to the world; being queen, as the all-bearing being, and
wisdom, for whose sake, says he, the Greeks and barbarians fought,
having before their eyes but an image of truth;938
| 938 We have here an
allusion to the tradition that it was only an image of Helen that was
taken to Troy, and not the real Helen herself. |
for she, who really is the truth, was then with the chiefest god.
Moreover, by cunningly explaining certain things of this sort, made up
from Grecian myths, he deceives many; especially as he performs many
signal marvels, so that if we did not know that he does these things by
magic, we ourselves should also have been deceived. But whereas
we were his fellow-labourers at the first, so long as he did such
things without doing wrong to the interests of religion; now that he
has madly begun to attempt to deceive those who are religious, we have
withdrawn from him.
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