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thing nor do anything. For, oftentimes the Mind hath 

 departed out of (a) the Soul; and in that hour the Soul 

 neither discerns nor hears, but is like an irrational 

 animal. So great is the power of the Mind; but neither 

 does it endure an inert (6) Soul, but relinquishes the 

 Soul of such sort attached to the body, and by it drawn 

 downwards. The Soul of this sort, O Child! has not 

 Mind. Wherefore neither ought one to call such an 

 one Man. For Man is a Divine Animal, and is not com- 

 parable with the other animals, those upon earth, but 

 with those above in Heaven called Gods, 1 or rather, if 

 it behoveth one boldly to speak the truth, the Man really 

 is above them, or, they are altogether equipollent with 

 each other. 



25. For no one indeed of the heavenly Gods shall de- 

 scend unto earth, having left the boundary of Heaven, but 

 the Man ascends unto the Heaven, and measures it, and 

 knows what kind of things of it are on high, and what kind 

 below, and learns all other things accurately; and what is 

 greater than all, without leaving this earth he becomes on 

 high. So great is the grandeur to him of this (c) exten- 

 sion. Wherefore it is to be dared to say that the Man 

 upon earth is a mortal God, but the Heavenly God an ; 

 immortal Man. Wherefore through (d) these the Two are 

 all things administered, World and Man ; but by (c) The 1 

 One all things. 2 



(a) |g<rr>i. (b) varpx;. 



(c) exToursas; in Stobaeus the word is gx<rra<rwj. 

 (d) hoi (e) viro. 



1 " I have said, Ye are Gods ; and all of you are children of the Most 

 High" (Ps. Ixxxii. 6). They are equal with the Angels ; and are Sons 

 of God" (Luke xx. 36). "But are as Angels in Heaven" (Mark 

 xii.25). 



2 Five portions of this Chapter are extracted by Stobaous (Eclog. 

 Physica). See supra and Meineke, vol. i., and index. 



