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[536] The former opinion was held by Democritus and his disciple Epicurus; the latter by Heraclitus, who supposed that "God amused Himself" by thus renewing worlds.

[537] The Alexandrian Neo-Platonists endeavoured in this way to escape from the obvious meaning of the _Timæus_.

[538] Antoninus says (ii. 14), "All things from eternity are of like forms, and come round in a circle." Cf. also ix. 28, and the references to more ancient philosophical writers in Gataker's notes on these passages.

[539] Eccles. i. 9, 10. So Origen, _de Prin._ iii. 5, and ii. 3.

[540] Rom. vi. 9.

[541] 1 Thess. iv. 16.

[542] Ps. xii. 7.

[543] Cf. _de Trin._ v. 17.

[544] Wisdom ix. 13-15.

[545] Gen. i. 1.

[546] Gen. i. 14.

[547] Rom. xii. 3.

[548] Titus i. 2, 3. Augustine here follows the version of Jerome, and not the Vulgate. Comp. _Contra Priscill._ 6, and _de Gen. c. Man._ iv. 4.

[549] 2 Cor. x. 12. Here, and in _Enar. in_ Ps. xxxiv., and also in _Cont. Faust._ xxii. 47, Augustine follows the Greek, and not the Vulgate.

[550] _i.e._ indefinite, or an indefinite succession of things.

[551] Again in the _Timæus_.

[552] Wisdom xi. 20.

[553] Isa. xl. 26.

[554] Matt. x. 30.

[555] Ps. cxlvii. 5.

[556] De sæculis sæculorum.

[557] Ps. cxlviii. 4.

[558] Cicero has the same (_de Amicitia_, 16): "Quonam modo quisquam amicus esse poterit, cui se putabit inimicum esse posse?" He also quotes Scipio to the effect that no sentiment is more unfriendly to friendship than this, that we should love as if some day we were to hate.

[559] C. 30.

[560] Coquæus remarks that this is levelled against the Pelagians.

[561]

"Quando leoni Fortior eripuit vitam leo? quo nemore unquam Exspiravit aper majoris dentibus apri? Indica tigris agit rabida cum tigride pacem Perpetuam; sævis inter se convenit ursis. Ast homini," etc. JUVENAL, _Sat._ xv. 160-5.

--See also the very striking lines which precede these.

[562] See this further discussed in _Gen. ad Lit._ vii. 35, and in Delitzsch's _Bibl. Psychology_.

[563] Jer. xxiii. 24.

[564] Wisdom viii. 1.

[565] 1 Cor. iii. 7.

[566] 1 Cor. xv. 38.

[567] Jer. i. 5.

[568] Compare _de Trin._ iii. 13-16.

[569] See