NOTICES IN THE FATHERS. 143 



Ibid., Divin. Instit., ii. ch. 11. 



" But the making of the true and living Man from clay 

 is the work of God. And this also is related by Hermes, 

 who not only says that Man was made by God after the 

 image of God, but he even tried to explain in how skilful 

 a manner he formed each limb in the human body, since 

 there is none of them which is not available for the neces- 

 sity of use as well as for beauty." x 



Ibid. ch. 13. J 



"Empedocles and Lucretius and Varro among the Romans 

 determined that there were four Elements, that is Fire, Air, 

 Water, and Earth, perhaps following Trismegistus, who 

 said that ' our bodies were composed of these four Elements 

 by God, for ' (he said) ' they contained in themselves 

 something of fire, something of air, something of water, 

 and something of earth; and yet that they were neither 

 fire, nor air, nor water, nor earth.' " 2 



Ibid. ch. 15. 



" Thus there came to be two kinds of demons, one of 

 heaven the other of earth. The latter are the wicked 

 Spirits, the authors of all the evils which are done, and 

 the same Devil is their prince, whence Trismegistus calls 

 him the ruler (a) of the demons." 3 



Ibid. ch. xvi 



" In short, Hermes affirms that those who have known 

 God are not only safe from the attacks of demons, but 

 that they are not even bound by Fate. ' The only pro- 



1 Poemandres, ch. {.passim, ch.v.; Parthey,44, ch. xiii.; ibid. 116. 



2 Poemandres, ch. ii. 11, and note there. See also the extract from 

 Hermes, "Of the things to Ammon to Tat," Stobaeus, Physica; 

 Meineke, Edit. i. 204, and more expressly the extract in the Flori- 

 legium, xi. ; Meineke, i. 248. 



3 See Poemandres, ch. ix. 3. 



