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Chapter
II.—The Preface
Continued.
And I
am indeed amazed, when I consider that he who was but lately visible
and present with us in his mortal body, is still, even after death,
when the natural thought disclaims everything superfluous as
unsuitable, most marvelously endowed with the same imperial dwellings,
and honors, and praises as heretofore.3055
| 3055 Referring to special honors paid after death, as mentioned in Bk.
4. |
But farther, when I raise my thoughts even to the arch of heaven, and there
contemplate his thrice-blessed soul in communion with God himself,
freed from every mortal and earthly vesture, and shining in a refulgent
robe of light, and when I perceive that it is no more connected with
the fleeting periods and occupations of mortal life, but honored with
an ever-blooming crown, and an immortality of endless and blessed
existence, I stand as it were without power of speech or thought3056
| 3056 Here there is play on the word Logos. My logos stands voiceless
and a-logos, “un-logosed.” If the author meant both to
refer to expression, the first relates to the sound, and the second to
the power of construction or composition. The interchangeableness of
the weaving of consecutive thought in the mind, and the weaving it in
expressed words, is precisely the question of the “relation of
thought and language,” so warmly contested by modern philosophers
and philologians (cf. Müller, Science of Thought,
Shedd’s Essays, &c.). The old use of logos for both
operations of “binding together” various ideas into one
synthetical form has decided advantages. | and unable to utter a single phrase, but
condemning my own weakness, and imposing silence on myself, I resign
the task of speaking his praises worthily to one who is better able,
even to him who, being the immortal God and veritable Word, alone has
power to confirm his own sayings.3057
| 3057 Here there is again the play on the word Logos. For
Eusebius’ philosophy of the logos, and of Christ as the Logos or
Word, see the second half of his tricennial oration and
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