Chap. VI. ANTIENT METAPHYSICS. 3^3 



and without him nothhig ivas made. The third perron of Plato's 

 Trinity is the -^vyri rov Kofffji^ou, that is, the animating fpirit of the 

 Univerfe, called, in our Scripture language, the Ylvivf^a. '"a.yio*, and 

 which, in our tranflation, we call the Ho/y GhoJI, a flrange name for 

 the Ho/y Spirit ; by which all things in the Univerfe, formed by intel- 

 ligence, that is, the fecond perfon of the Trinity, have life and aftion, 

 and without which the whole creation vv'ould be an inanimate mafs. 



That this Platonic dodlrine of the Trinity is the fame, with the 

 Chriftian, I think is evident, and fuch was the opinion of the fa- 

 thers of the church *. 



Dr Warburton, in his fecond volume of the Divine Legation, 

 maintains, that the Greek philofophers did not believe in tJiofe 

 religious dodlrines I have mentioned, communicated to the initiated 

 in the myfteries, particularly not in a ftate of future rewards and 

 punilhments, which they confidercd as a doctrine very ufeful in 

 fociety, and, therefore, were at pains to inculcate it, though they 

 did not believe it. But, though all the philofophers of Greece did 

 not believe in a future ftate of rewards and punilliments, particular- 

 ly the Epicureans, who entirely denied the providence of God, and 

 whofe Gods they faid took no concern in human affairs; and though 

 fome of the other philofophers do not appear to have had a firm be- 

 lief upon that point, yet I cannot be perfuaded, that the initiated 

 in the myfteries did not believe the dodrines they learned in thofe 

 myfteries; and much lefs can I be perfuaded, that the 'Egyptian 

 Priefts, from whom the Greeks got thofe myfteries, did not them- 

 felves believe in them, but meant to impofe upon the creduiiry 

 of the Greeks, for what purpofe is not eafy to lay. The Egyp- 



tiahs, 

 * See St Cyrillus iri his 3d book agaiii/J iJk' Emperor JuDan; arid Eufebius,' Prneparnth- 

 Evatigeltca, Cap. 14.— 20 See alio what I have further written upon the fubjeft of the 

 Trinity, Vol. I. Origin of Language, p. 7. 2d edition.— Vol. V. p. 338. and 344. and 

 Vol. III. c-5 tills work, p. 22. 



