II. Athenagoras
II. Athenagoras
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II. Athenagoras

II.

ATHENAGORAS

Libellus pro Christianis, 1 xxviii.; Schwartz (E.), p. 57, 24 (Leipzig, 1891). 2

Athenagoras was acquainted with a Greek literature circulated under the name of Hermes Trismegistus, to whom he refers as authority for his euhemeristic contention that the gods were once simply men. 3

Footnotes
  1. 220:1

    Written probably about 176-177 A.D.

  2. 220:2

    In Texte u. Untersuchungen (von Gebhardt and Harnack), Bd. iv.

  3. 220:3

    Cf. R, pp. 2 and 160.

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