Paganism Surviving in ChristianityLewis, Abram Herbert
Religion
Paganism Surviving in Christianity
Lewis, Abram Herbert
Christianity and other religions; Paganism
“Besides, in addition to these ten human parts, the law appears to
give its injunctions to sight and hearing, and smell and touch and
taste, and to the organs subservient to these, which are double the
hands and the feet. For such is the formation of man. And the soul
is introduced, and previous to it the ruling faculty, by which we
reason, not produced in procreation; so that without it there is made
up the number ten, of the faculties by which all the activity of man
is carried out....
“Is not man, then rightly said ‘to have been made in the image of
God’?--not in the form of his [corporeal] structure; but inasmuch
as God creates all things by the Word (λόγῳ) and the man who has
become a Gnostic performs good actions by the faculty of reason (τῷ
λογικῷ) properly therefore the two tables are also said to mean
the commandments that were given to the twofold spirits--those
communicated before the law to that which was created, and to the
ruling faculty; and the movements of the senses are both copied in
the mind, and manifested in the activity which proceeds from the
body.”[57]
Even TERTULLIAN, who inveighed so strongly against certain phases of
gnosticism, as represented in the Alexandrian schools, has given
interpretations which are no less unreliable and fanciful than those
which he condemns.
Hear him on “Types.”
“_Types of the Death of Christ: Isaac, Joseph; Jacob against Simeon
and Levi; Moses praying against Amalek; the Brazen Serpent._
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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