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Million Book Collection - The Fishers of Men Ministries

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xiv . CONTENTSPAGE<strong>The</strong> character given to him in its chief features . . 244i. Miraculous birtl 2442. His life dedicated to the knowledge <strong>of</strong> the divinity 2443. He has a knowledge <strong>of</strong> absent and future things . 2454. His power <strong>of</strong> working miracles . . . .2455. He is as great in doing as in teaching . . . 2466. He is the friend <strong>of</strong> 2467. He encounters suffering without fear . . . 247His miraculous departure f247Double imitation here practised by Philostratus . . 248Contrast on the other hand with the life <strong>of</strong> Christ . . 249i. Relationship <strong>of</strong> the human soul with the divinity . 249<strong>The</strong> task <strong>of</strong> Philosophy to restore the Kman3. Opposition to tyranny takes the place <strong>of</strong> oppositionto sin4. Suffering is either excluded or unreal . . .2545. <strong>The</strong> soul escaping from the body as from a prison . 255Attitude <strong>of</strong> Philostratus towards the Christian religion . 256Identical with that <strong>of</strong> the Emperor Alexander Severus . 257Results which we gain from the book <strong>of</strong> Philostratus . 258Seneca, Plutarch, Philostratus, three stages in heathenprogress259<strong>The</strong> work, not itself historical as regards its subject, containsimportant matter for history ..... 261250LECTUREXXTHE NEOPLATONIC PHILOSOPHY AND EPOCHI. Positive side <strong>of</strong> the doctrine <strong>of</strong> Philostratus . . . 263Its relative side turned to Christianity ....264Identity as to the former with Neoplatonism . . 265Ammonias Sakkas and Plotinus, their time and place . 265Plotinus in some respects a real Apollonius . . . 267His system brought out whuii Christianity was contestingthe world with heathenism268Analysis <strong>of</strong> the universe according to Plotinus . . 268I. His Primal Being, the Infinite, the One and Good,and the Cause ......269

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