Million Book Collection - The Fishers of Men Ministries

THE GOSPEL OF PHILOSOPHIC HEATHENI!The statue first shook and then fell, upon wpeople shouted with joy. The young man, havingrubbed his eves " as if he recovered from a dream,turned to his right mind, and followed henceforth therule and manner of life which Apollonius led.Apollonius visited all the temples of Greece, attendedby his disciples, and the priests whom heinstructed, and his biographer says, " His words werecollected as in goblets, out of which all who wouldquenched their thirst." When at Olympia he stoodupon the steps of the temple discoursing upon wisdomand fortitude and temperance and all virtues, strikingall men with wonder not at his thoughts only, but atthe forms of their expression. At Corinth he meetswith the famous Cynic philosopher, Demetrius, whofelt for him the reverence which Antisthenes felt forS tes. and he delivered ppus, a friend ofDemetrius, from a g wh ar d t b abeautiful worn Th nth was on h point ofm ymg h but Ap P him athe marriage-feast, the gold and silver vessels, thp-b d k h at h bidd in thereupon the phantom appeared as in t dbesought him not to torment h nor rce hfess who she was. But Apollonius was peremptory,d pelled 1 t f< t sh w a ghfeeding on human bodies, and Menippus, being dered from her, became his disciple, and followed inh i train.2From Sparta and Crete, which he visited, warnedoV1 Compare "Never man spoke as this Man ;" and John vii. 57," If any man thirst, let him come unto Me and drink."2 Book iv. p. 25. r6 d