Bible studies, contributions chiefly from papyri and ... - Predestination

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28 BIBLE STUDIES. [219, 220
or two unauthentic letters with a dozen of genuine ones ;
and, again, a whole book of forged "letters " may be, so to
speak, the chaff in which good grains of wheat may hide
the son of
themselves from the eyes of the servants : when
the house comes to the threshing-floor, he will discover them,
for he cannot sulfer that anything be lost.—The letters of
the much-misunderstood Epicurus (f 270 B.C.) were collected
with great care by the Epicureans, and joined together with
those of his most distinguished pupils, Metrodorus, Polyaenus,
and Hermarchus, with additions from among the letters
which these had received from other friends,^ and have in
part come down to us. The author cannot refrain from
giving here ^ the fragment of a letter of the philosopher to
his child (made known to us by the rolls of Herculaneum)
not, indeed, as being a monument of his philosophy, but be-
cause it is part of a letter which is as simple and affectionate,
as much a true letter, as that of Luther to his little son
Hans :
. . . [a](^et7/U.e^a c-t? Ad/juylraKov vyiaivovTe^ eyco fcai Uvdo-
kX?]^ Ka\l'' KpiJb\ap')(^o'^ /cal K[Tj;]cri7r7ros\ Kal e'/cet KareiXijcfiafjiev
vylL^aii'ovra^ Qe/xlaTav Kal rov