50 Odyss., xx. 351.

51 Vulg., Sibyllini, p. 253.

52 [The Trent Creed makes the saints and their images objects of worship. It is evident that Clement never imagined the existence of an image among Christians. See p. 188, infra.]

53 [The Trent Creed makes the saints and their images objects of worship. It is evident that Clement never imagined the existence of an image among Christians. See p. 188, infra.]

54 Pantarkes is said to have been the name of a boy loved by Phidias: but as the word signifies "all-assisting," "all-powerful," it might also be made to apply to Zeus.

55 Illiad, xvi. 433.

56 Illiad, i. 221; meta\ dai/monaj allouj.

57 Odyss., viii. 266.

58 [Is not this a rebuke to many of the figures and pictures which vulgarize abodes of wealth in America?]

59 Sibyl. Justin Martyr, Cohort. ad Graecos, p. 81. See p. 280, vol. i of this series.

60 Ex. xx. 4. [Clement even regards the art of painters and sculptors as unlawful for Christians.]

61 Ps. xcvi. 5.

62 Ps. xxxiii. 6.

63 Ps. viii. 3.

64 Gal. iv. 9.

65 Timaeus.

66 Deut. xxv. 13, 15.

67 [This great truth comes forcibly from an Attic scholar. Let me refer to a very fine passage in another Christian scholar, William Cowper (Task, book ii.): "All truth is from the sempiternal source," etc.]


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