Christian Mysticism by William Ralph Inge
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to have used the same argument in an exposition of the Pentateuch
addressed to Ptolemy Philometor.] [Footnote 115: Compare Philo's own account (_in Flaceum_) of the anti-Semitic outrages at Alexandria.] [Footnote 116: There is a very explicit identification of Christ with [Greek: Nous] in the second book of the _Miscellanies_: "He says, Whoso hath ears to hear, let him hear. And who is 'He'? Let Epicharmus answer: [Greek: Nous hora]," etc.] [Footnote 117: See Bigg, _Christian Platonists of Alexandria_, especially pp. 92, 93.] [Footnote 118: [Greek: Pistis] is here used in the familiar sense (which falls far short of the Johannine) of assent to particular dogmas. [Greek: Gnôsis] welds these together into a consistent whole, and at the same time confers a more immediate apprehension of truth.] [Footnote 119: [Greek: askêsis] or [Greek: praxis].] [Footnote 120: _Strom_, v. 10. 63.] [Footnote 121: See, further, Appendices B and C.] [Footnote 122: In Origen, [Greek: sophia] is a higher term than [Greek: gnôsis].] [Footnote 123: The Greek word is [Greek: ainigmata] "riddles." On the |
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