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Chapter IV.—Providence
Seen in the Events of the Life of Faustus and His Family.
“But I maintain, from what has happened to
you,1224
1224 [The
recapitulation of Peter in Recognitions, ix. 26, is in
explanation to the sons, and not for a doctrinal
purpose.—R.] | that all things are managed by the
providence of God, and that your separation from your family for so
many years was providential;1225
1225 We have
adopted a reading suggested by the second Epitome. | for since, if
they had been with you, they perhaps would not have listened to the
doctrines of the true religion, it was arranged that your children
should travel with their mother, should be shipwrecked, should be
supposed to have perished, and should be sold;1226
1226 The word
ἀπρασίαι is
corrupt. We have adopted the emendation πρᾶσις. The
word is not given in the ms. O, nor in the
Epitomes. |
moreover, that they should be educated in the learning of the Greeks,
especially in the atheistic doctrines, in order that, as being
acquainted with them, they might be the better able to refute them; and
in addition to this, that they should become attached to the true
religion, and be enabled to be united with me, so as to help me in my
preaching; furthermore, that their brother Clement should meet in the
same place, and that thus his mother should be recognised, and through
her cure1227
1227 ὑπὸ
θεραπείας, which
Cotelerius translates recuperata sanitate. | should be fully
convinced of the right worship of God;1228
1228 Lit.,
“convinced of the Godhead.” “Godhead” is
omitted in the Epitomes. | that after no long interval the twins
should recognise and be recognised, and the other day should fall in
with you, and that you should receive back your own. I do not
think, then, that such a speedy filling in of circumstances, coming as
it were from all quarters, so as to accomplish one design, could have
happened without the direction of Providence.”
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