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The influence of Greek ideas and usages upon the Christian church

Note 475 — Lecture IX. GREEK AND CHRISTIAN THEOLOGY. III. God as the Supreme Being.

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Cf. Hesiod in Sext. Emp. ix. 86. Similarly, Thales, τὸ πᾶν ἔμψυχον ἅμα καὶ δαιμόνων πλῆρες (Diels, 301); Pythagoras, Empedocles in Hippolytus, διοικοῦντες τὰ κατὰ τὴν γῆν (Diels, 558); Plato and the Stoics (Diels, 307), e.g. Plutarch, Epictetus, 1. 14. 12; 3. 13. 15 (Diels, 1307); Athenagoras, 23; Philo, ii. 635; Frag. ap. Eus. Præp. Evan. 8. 13; see references in Keim’s Celsus, p. 120; cf. Wachsmuth, Die Ansichten der Stoiker über Mantik u. Dämonen, Berlin, 1860.

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