194
See Schwane, Dogmengeschichte, i. 557.
195
Panegyric of the Martyrs by the Deacon Constantine.
196
Clement of Alex., Cohortatio, sec. 10, p. 85. It might be fruitful to compare the view of the world taken by the Christian Clement with that taken by the pessimist Schopenhauer.
197
The words inserted seem here to have fallen out of the text.
198
Clement of Alex., Strom. vi., at the end.
199
Tertullian, Apology, 50; Edinburgh translation.
200
Cont. Cels., 1, 67; 2, 48; 2, 79; 1, 46; 8, 47; Edinburgh translation.
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Irenæus, 2, 32.
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Athanasius, De Incarnatione Verbi Dei, c. 46-48.
203
Gieseler, i. 208.
204
As admitted by Friedländer, Sittengeschichte Roms., iii. 458, 459, and see the argument of Celsus in Origen, 8, 45.
205
On Psalm xxxvi. 3.
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St. Thomas, Cont. Gent., 3, 99.
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St. Cyprian, Ep. 8.
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Sermon 281.
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St. Thomas, Contra Gent., 1, 6.
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Constantine’s letter to the Church of Alexandria, recorded by Socrates, Hist. 1, 9.