Historical Sketches, Volume I (of 3): The Turks in Their Relation to Europe; Marcus Tullius Cicero; Apollonius of Tyana; Primitive ChristianityNewman, John Henry
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Historical Sketches, Volume I (of 3): The Turks in Their Relation to Europe; Marcus Tullius Cicero; Apollonius of Tyana; Primitive Christianity
Newman, John Henry
Apollonius, of Tyana; Church history -- Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600; Cicero, Marcus Tullius; Turkey -- History
[330] See Philostr. i. 4, 5, viii. 30, 31. He insinuates (Cf. viii. 29
with 31), that Apollonius was taken up alive. See Euseb. 8.
[331] Philostr. iv. 3, 16, 20, 25, 44, v. 42, vi. 43, vii. 38.
[332] Ibid. i. 12, iv. 24, 43, 11-13, 18, 30, vi. 3, 32.
[333] Ibid. iv. 10.
[334] Vit. iv. 45; Cf. Mark v. 29, etc.; Luke vii. 16; also John xi.
41-43; Acts iii. 4-6. In the sequel, the parents offer him money, which
he gives as a portion to the damsel. See 2 Kings v. 15, 16 [4 Kings],
and other passages in Scripture.
[335] Lib. 67.
[336] Hist. 67.
[337] Vit. viii. 26.
[338] Philostr. v. 12; in i. 2, he associates Democritus, a natural
philosopher, with Pythagoras and Empedocies. See viii. 7, Sec. 8, and
Brucker, vol. i. p. 1108, etc., and p. 1184.
[339] In his apology before Domitian, he expressly attributes his
removal of the Ephesian pestilence to Hercules, and makes this
ascription the test of a divine philosopher as distinguished from a
magician, viii. 7, Sec. 9, _ubi vid._ Olear.
[340] Vid. viii, 7, Sec. 9. See also ii. 37, vi. 11, viii. 5.
[341] Philostr. i. 2, and Olear. _ad loc._ note 3, iv. 44, v. 12, vii.
39, viii. 7; Apollon. Epist. 8 and 52; Philostr. Prooem. vit.
Sophist.; Euseb. in Hier. 2; Mosheim, de Simone Mago, Sec. 13. Yet it
must be confessed that the views both of the Pythagoreans and Eclectics
were very inconsistent on this subject. Eusebius notices several
instances of [Greek: goeteia] in Apollonius's miracles; in Hierocl. 10,
28, 29, and 31. See Brucker, vol. ii. p. 447. At Eleusis, and the Cave
of Triphonius, Apollonius was, as we have seen, accounted a magician,
and so also by Euphrates, Moeragenes, Apuleius, etc. See Olear. Praef.
ad vit. p. 33; and Brucker, vol. ii. p. 136, note _k_.
[342] See Mosheim, Dissertat. de turbata Ecclesia, etc., Sec. 27.
[343] See Quaest. ad Orthodox 24 as quoted by Olearius, in his Preface,
p. 34.
[344] Eusebius calls it [Greek: theia tis kai arretos sophia] in
Hierocl. 2. In iii. 41, Philostratus speaks of the [Greek: kleseis ais
theoi chairousi], the _spells_ for evoking them, which Apollonius
brought from India; Cf. iv. 16, and in iv. 20 of the [Greek: tekmerion]
used for casting out an Evil Spirit.
[345] [Greek: Ei te spinthera tes psyches euren en aute], etc.
[346] Douglas (Criterion, p. 387, note), observes that some heretics
affirmed that our Lord rose from the dead [Greek: phantasiodos], only in
appearance, _from an idea of the impossibility of a resurrection_.
[347] Apollon. Epist. 17.
[348] Vid. Rom. xv. 69; 1 Cor. ii. 4; 2 Cor. xii. 2, and Acts _passim_.
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