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For instance, in Col. i, 17, we have, " By Him all things 

 consist." Aristides says, " Through Him all things consist." 



In Komans i, 25, we find the expression, " served the creature 

 rather than the Creator." Aristides says the heathen " began 

 to worship created things instead of their Creator." 



James iii, 17, describes Christian "wisdom'* as "gentle and 

 easy to be entreated." Aristides says, Christians " are gentle and 

 easy to be entreated." 



In Eomans ix, 3, we find, " My brethren, my kinsmen accord- 

 ing to the flesh," and in viii, 5, " not after the flesh but after 

 the Spirit." Aristides has, " Brethren not after the flesh, but 

 after the Spirit." 



Peter, speaking of the Epistles of Paul (ii Peter iii, 16), says, 

 " As also in all his Epistles .... in which are some things 

 hard to be understood." Aristides, luiviug told the Emperor of 

 "the Holy Gospel Writing," says, "There are found in their 

 other ivritings things which are hard to utter and difficult for 

 one to narrate." 



In Hebrews ii, 5 ; vi, 5, we have the words " the world to 

 come." Aristides speaks of those who seek " the world to come." 



John in Eev. i, 1, speaks of " the things which must come to 

 pass hereafter," and (i, 19) received the command from the Lord, 

 " Write .... the tilings which shall come to pass hereafter." 

 Aristides tells the Emperor, " Since I read in their writings, I 

 was fully assured of these things, as also of things which are to 

 come." 



Paul repeats God's promise (Heb. x, 16) : " I will put my laws 

 in their heart, and in their mind will I write them." Aristides 

 says of the Christians that they " have the commands of the Lord 

 Jesus Christ Himself graven upon their hearts." 



Paul exhorts Christians (ii Cor. ix, 7) to give " not grudgingly." 

 Aristides says, the Christians give " ungrudgingly." 



In I Pet. i, 23, we find the regenerate described as " born 

 again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word 

 of God which liveth and abideth for ever." Aristides says, 

 " Let all that are without the knowledge of God, draw near 

 thereto [i.e./ to their doctrine' — 'the gateway of light'] and 

 they will receive incorruptible words." 



John, the beloved disciple, says, " Let us love one another." 

 Aristides says of the Christians, " And they love one another." 



When we find these expressions, all, or nearly all, of them 

 occurring in a small part of the Apology, the far larger part 

 being occupied with descriptions of opposing religious systems, 

 we are impressed with the fact that the thought of Aristides 



