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[82] _Ibid._ 63, 5.

[83] _Protr._ 66, 3.

[84] _Ibid._ 66, 5.

[85] _Ibid._ 68, 1.

[86] _Protr._ 70, 1; in _Strom._ i, 150, 4, he quotes a description of Plato as _Mouses attikixon_. Cf. Tertullian, _Apol._ 47.

[87] _Protr._ 76. He quotes _Orestes_, 591 f.; _Alcestis_, 760; and concludes (antic.i.p.ating Dr Verrall) that in the _Ion gymne te kephale ekkuklei to theatro tous theous_, quoting _Ion_, 442-447.

[88] _Protr._ 82, 1.

[89] _Ibid._ 84, 2.

[90] _Ibid._ 85, 4.

[91] _Ibid._ 86, 1.

[92] _Protr._ 86, 2. The reference is to _Odyssey_, i, 57. One feels that, with more justice to Odysseus, more might have been made of his craving for a sight of the smoke of his island home.

[93] _Protr._ 88, 2, 3.

[94] Elsewhere, he says G.o.d is beyond the Monad, _Paed._ i, 71, 1, _epekein tou hens ka hyper auten ten monada_. See p. 290.

[95] _Protr._ 94, 1, 2. On G.o.d making the Christian his child, cf.

Tert. _adv. Marc._ iv, 17.

[96] _Protr._ 100, 3, 4.

[97] _Ibid._ 107, 1.

[98] _Ibid._ 108, 5.

[99] _Protr._ 116, 1, _hypsos_ (height) is the word used in literature for "sublimity," and that may be the thought here. Cf. Tert. _de Bapt._ 2, _simplicitas divinorum operum ... et magnificentia_. See p.

328.

[100] _Protr._ 117, 4.

[101] _Strom._ ii, 9, 6.

[102] _Ibid._ vii, 49.

[103] _Psalm_ 63, 1.

[104] See Caird, _Evolution of Theology in the Greek Philosophers_, ii, pp. 183 ff; de Faye, _Clement_, pp. 231-8.

[105] _Paed._ i, 71, 1; cf. Philo, _Leg. Alleg._ ii, -- 1, 67 M.

_tattetai oun ho thes kata t en ka ten monada, mallon de ka he monas kata tn hena theon_. Cf. de Faye, p. 218.

[106] Expressions taken from Aristotle, _a.n.a.l. Post._ i, 2, p. 71 b, 20.

[107] _Strom._ v, 81, 5-82, 3.

[108] _Strom._ ii, 74, 1-75, 2; cf. Plutarch, _de def. or._ 414 F, 416 F (quoted on p. 97), on involving G.o.d inhuman affairs; and also _adv.

Sto._ 33, and _de Sto. repugn._ 33, 34, on the Stoic doctrine making G.o.d responsible for human sin. Cf. further statements in the same vein in _Strom._ ii, 6, 1; v 71, 5; vii, 2.

[109] _Strom._ v. 65, 2.

[110] _Strom._ ii, 72, 1-4.

[111] _Strom._ iv, 151, 1.

[112] See _Strom._ ii, 103, 1; iv, 138, 1; vi, 71-73; _Paed._ i, 4, 1.

[113] _Strom._ vii, 37, Mayor's translation. The "expressions" are said to go back to Xenophanes (cited by s.e.xt. Empir. ix, 144) _oulos gar hora, oulos de noei, oulos de t' akouei_. Cf. Pliny, _N. H._ ii, 7, 14, _quisquis est deus, si modo est alius, et quac.u.mque in parte, totus est sensuus, totus visuus, totus audituus, totus animae, totus animae, totus sui_.

[114] Cf. _Strom._ ii, 30, 1, _ei gar anthropinon en t epitedeuma, hos h.e.l.lenes epelabon, kan apesbe_. _he de auxei_ (_sc._ _he pistis_).

_Protr._ 110, 1, _ou gar an outos en oligo chrono tosouton ergon aneu theias komides exenusen ho kurios_.

[115] _Strom._ vii, 5, J. B. Mayor's translation.

[116] _Paed._ i, 6, 6, _t de soma kallei ka eurythmia synekerasato_.

[117] Phrases mostly from Strom, vii, 6-9. _ennoian enestachtai theou_. See criticism of Celsus, p. 244.

[118] _Paed._ iii, 99, 2-100, 1. The quotation is from Homer's description of Hephaistos making the s.h.i.+eld for Achilles, _Il._ 18, 483.

[119] All parts of the universe.

[120] _Strom._ vii, 9. Mayor's translation, modified to keep the double use of _pneuma_. For the magnet see Plato, _Ion._ 533 D, E.

[121] _Strom._ vii, 12.

[122] _Strom._ v, 16, 3 (no article with Logos).

[123] _Strom._ vii, 7

[124] _Strom._ vii, 9.

[125] _Strom._ v, 38, 6, _ho kurios hyperano tou kosmon, mallon de epekeino tou noetou_.

[126] _Protr._ 110, 1.

[127] _Protr._ 63, 5; 84, 2; 68, 4.

[128] _Paed._ i, 6, 2, _olou kedetai tou plasmatos, ka soma ka psychen akeitai autou no panarkes tes anthropotetos iatros_.

[129] _Protr._ 110, 2, 3. Cf. also _Paed._ i, 4, 1-2.