NOTICES IN THE FATHERS. 139 



Ibid., Apologia, i., sees. 21, 22. 



" When we say that The Word, Who is the First be- 

 gotten of God, was born, &c., we introduce nothing different 

 from what you say of those whom you call sons of Jupiter. 

 For you are aware how many sons the writers of repute 

 among you assign to him. Hermes the interpreting Word 

 and teacher of all." " If we affirm that The Word Who is 

 of God was begotten of God even in a peculiar manner, 

 and beyond the ordinary generation as I have already said, 

 let this be common to you who affirm Hermes to be the 

 Messenger Word from God." Translated Library of the 

 Fathers, Oxford, 1861. 



Ibid., Apologia, ii., sec. 6. 



" But proper name for The Father of all things Who is 

 unbegotten there is none. For who ever is called by a 

 name, has the person older than himself who gives him 

 the name. But these terms ' Father,' ' God,' and 'Creator/ 

 and 'Lord' and 'Master,' are not names, but terms of address 

 derived from His benefits and His works." 1 Translated 

 Library of the Fathers, Oxford, 1861. 



ii. 



TERTULLIAN (born, according to Tillemont, A.D. 136; ac- 

 cording to others 160; died very old, AJX 216-1). 

 Contra Valentinianos, ch. xv. 



" Now the Pythagoreans may learn, the Stoics may 

 know, Plato himself, whence Matter, which they will have 

 to be unborn, derived both its origin and substance for all 

 this pile of the World, which not even the renowned Mer- 



extract from " The things to Tat," Stobseus, Florilegium, 78; Meineke, 

 iii. 134. Quoted also by Lactantius. See post. 



1 Quoted also by Lactantius (Divin. Instit., i., vi.). See a nearly 

 identical passage in Poemandres, ch. v. sec. 10. 



