Forerunners and rivals of Christianity : $b being studies in religious history from 330 B.C. to 330 A.D., Vol. 2 (of 2)Legge, Francis
Religion
Forerunners and rivals of Christianity : $b being studies in religious history from 330 B.C. to 330 A.D., Vol. 2 (of 2)
Legge, Francis
Christianity and other religions; Religions
_Ibid._ Bk V. c. 8, pp. 157-173, Cruice.
Footnote 198:
A verse:
Son of Saturn, son of Jove
Or born of mighty Rhea’s love.
Holy name, that sounds so dear
To that ancient Rhea’s ear.
Thee the old Assyrians [read Syrians] all
The thrice-wept Adonis call.
To thee for name has Egypt given
The holy horned moon of heaven [Osiris].
Thou the serpent-god of Greece
The all reverenced Adam thou of Samothrace.
Thee the Lydians, Phrygians thee,
Invoke, the Corybantic deity.
Thee Pappas now and now the dead,
Now lifting up reborn the god-like head.
Unfruitful now or barren desert brown,
Now the rich golden harvest mowing down.
Or whom the blossoming almond-tree
Brought forth on the free hills the piper wild to be.
Attis, old Rhea’s son I sing
Not with the wild bell’s clashing ring
Nor Ida’s fife, in whose shrill noise
The old Curetae still rejoice;
But with the mingling descant sweet
Of Phoebus’ harp, so soft, so sweet,
Evan! Evan! Pan, I call!
Evan the wild Bacchanal:
Or that bright Shepherd that on high
Folds the white stars up in the silent sky.
_Quarterly Review_, June, 1851.
Footnote 199:
πάνυ yὰp πικρῶς καὶ πεφυλαγμένως παραγγέλλουσιν ἀπέχεσθαι ὡς
ἀποκεκομμένοι τῆς πρὸς γυναῖκα ὁμιλίας. “For they very strictly enjoin
that their followers should abstain, as if they were castrated, from
companying with women,” Hippolytus, _op. cit._ Bk V. c. 9, p. 177,
Cruice.
Footnote 200:
Τουτέστι, φησίν, οὐδεὶς τούτων τῶν μυστηρίων ἀκροατὴς γέγονεν εἰ μὴ
μόνοι οἱ γνωστικοὶ τελειοι. “This he (the Naassene writer) says
signifies that none was a hearer of these mysteries save only the
perfect Gnostics,” Hippolytus, _op. cit._ Bk V. c. 8, p. 144, Cruice.
The “this” refers to the text: “He that hath ears to hear, let him
hear.”
Footnote 201:
ἐκ τῶν σωμάτων τῶν χοϊκῶν ἀναγεννηθέντες πνευματικοὶ οὐ σαρκικοί
“being born again from the earthly body, not as fleshly but as
spiritual men”.... Οἱ δὲ αὐτοί, φησί, Φρύγες τὸν αὐτὸν πάλιν ἐκ
μεταβολῆς λέγουσι θεόν. “Fοr the Phrygians themselves declare, he
says, that he who is thus reborn is by reason of the change a god,”
Hippolytus, _op. cit._ Bk V. c. 8, pp. 165, 166, Cruice. Cf. Berger,
_Études_, etc. p. 27.
Footnote 202:
τῶν ἐπουρανίων καὶ ἐπιγείων καὶ καταχθονίων.
Footnote 203:
τὴν ἀσυμφωνίαν τοῦ κόσμον.
Footnote 204:
Hippolytus, _op. et loc. cit._ p. 165, Cruice.
Footnote 205:
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