Note 211 — Chapter II · THE CONTRIBUTION OF WESTERN CHRISTENDOM BEFORE 1100 A. D.
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ibid., p. 414. The similarities between the accounts of the Creation in the Timaeus and in Genesis were explained by ascribing to Plato knowledge of the Bible. Augustine was particularly struck by the resemblance of the Platonic and Scriptural doctrines. Peter Comestor in our period actually believed “that Plato read the Mosaic books in Egypt and confounded the spirit of God (Gen. i, 2) with the World Soul” (Robbins, Hexaemeral Lit., 1912, pp. 12–13).