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# Ante-Nicene Fathers/Volume VIII/Pseudo-Clementine Literature/The Clementine Homilies/Homily V/Chapter 21

Chapter XXI.—Answer to Appion’s Letter.
“‘I wonder how, when you commend me for wisdom, you write to me as to a fool. For, wishing to persuade me to your passion, you make use of examples from the mythologies of the gods, that Eros is the eldest of all, as you say, and above all gods and men, not being afraid to blaspheme, that you might corrupt my soul and insult my body. For Eros is not the leader of the gods,—he, I mean, who has to do with lusts.  For if he lusts willingly, he is himself his own suffering and punishment; and he who should suffer willingly could not be a god. But if against his will he lust for copulation, and, pervading our souls as through the members of our bodies, is borne into intermeddling with our minds, then he that impels him to love is greater than he. And again, he who impels him, being himself impelled by another desire, another greater than he is found impelling him. And thus we come to an endless succession of lovers, which is impossible. Thus, neither is there an impeller nor an impelled; but it is the lustful passion of the lover himself, which is increased by hope and diminished by despair.

## Footnotes

* ↑ I suspect it should rather be impellers, reading φερόντων for ἐρώντων.
# Ante-Nicene Fathers/Volume VIII/Pseudo-Clementine Literature/The Clementine Homilies/Homily V/Chapter 23

Chapter XXIII.—The Gods No Gods.
“‘They were not gods, then, but representations of tyrants. For a certain tomb is shown among the Caucasian mountains, not in heaven, but in earth, as that of Kronos, a barbarous man and a devourer of children. Further, the tomb of the lascivious Zeus, so famed in story, who in like manner devoured his own daughter Metis, is to be seen in Crete, and those of Pluto and Poseidon in the Acherusian lake; and that of Helius in Astra, and of Selene in Carræ, of Hermes in Hermopolis, of Ares in Thrace, of Aphrodite in Cyprus, of Dionysus in Thebes, and of the rest in other places.  At all events, the tombs are shown of those that I have named; for they were men, and in respect of these things, wicked men and magicians. For else they should not have become despots—I mean Zeus, renowned in story, and Dionysus—but that by changing their forms they prevailed over whom they pleased, for whatever purpose they designed.

## Footnotes

* ↑ [Compare the different use of these details in Recognitions, x. 24; also in Homily VI. 21.—R.]
# Ante-Nicene Fathers/Volume VIII/Pseudo-Clementine Literature/The Clementine Homilies/Homily V/Chapter 25

Chapter XXV.—Better to Marry Than to Burn.
“‘Since, therefore, the erotic desire occurs for the sake of continuation and legitimate increasing, as I have said, it behoves parents providing for the chastity of their children to anticipate the desire, by imbuing them with instruction by means of chaste books, and to accustom them beforehand by excellent discourses; for custom is a second nature. And in addition to this, frequently to remind them of the punishments appointed by the laws, that, using fear as a bridle, they may not run on in wicked pleasures. And it behoves them also, before the springing of the desire, to satisfy the natural passion of puberty by marriage, first persuading them not to look upon the beauty of another woman.
# Ante-Nicene Fathers/Volume VIII/Pseudo-Clementine Literature/The Clementine Homilies/Homily V/Chapter 19

Chapter XIX.—Close of the Love-Letter.
“‘I know that to those uninitiated in the truth these things seem dreadful and most base; but not so to the gods and the philosophers of the Greeks, nor to those initiated in the mysteries of Dionysus and Demeter. But above all these, not to waste time in speaking of the lives of all the gods, and all the philosophers, let the two chief be your marks—Zeus the greatest of the gods, and Socrates of philosophic men. And the other things which I have mentioned in this letter, understand and attend to, that you may not grieve your lover; since, if you act contrarily to gods and heroes, you will be judged wicked, and will subject yourself to fitting punishment. But if you offer yourself to every lover, then, as an imitator of the gods, you shall receive benefits from them. For the rest, dearest one, remember what mysteries I have disclosed to you, and inform me by letter of your choice. Fare thee well.’
# Ante-Nicene Fathers/Volume VIII/Pseudo-Clementine Literature/The Clementine Homilies/Homily V/Chapter 20

Chapter XX.—The Use Made of It.
“I therefore, having received this billet from Appion, as though I were really going to send it to a beloved one, pretended as if she had written in answer to it; and the next day, when Appion came, I gave him the reply, as if from her, as follows:—
# Ante-Nicene Fathers/Volume VIII/Pseudo-Clementine Literature/The Clementine Homilies/Homily V/Chapter 22

Chapter XXII.—Lying Fables.
“‘But those who will not subdue base lusts belie the gods, that, by representing the gods as first doing the things which they do, they may be set free from blame. For if those who are called gods committed adulteries for the sake of begetting children, and not through lasciviousness, why did they also debauch males? But it is said they complimented their mistresses by making them stars. Therefore before this were there no stars, until such time as, by reason of wantonness, the heaven was adorned with stars by adulterers? And how is it that the children of those who have been made stars are punished in Hades,—Atlas loaded, Tantalus tortured with thirst, Sisyphus pushing a stone, Tityus thrust through the bowels, Ixion continually rolled round a wheel? How is it that these divine lovers made stars of the women whom they defiled, but gave no such grace to these?
# Ante-Nicene Fathers/Volume VIII/Pseudo-Clementine Literature/The Clementine Homilies/Homily V/Chapter 2

Chapter II.—Clement’s Previous Knowledge of Appion.
“Yesterday, when I left this, O friends, I confess that, through much anxiety about the discussion that was to take place with Appion, I was not able to get any sleep. And while I was unable to sleep, I remembered a trick that I played upon him in Rome. It was this. From my boyhood I Clement was a lover of truth, and a seeker of the things that are profitable for the soul, and spending my time in raising and refuting theories; but being unable to find anything perfect, through distress of mind I fell sick. And while I was confined to bed Appion came to Rome, and being my father’s friend, he lodged with me; and hearing that I was in bed, he came to me, as being not unacquainted with medicine, and inquired the cause of my being in bed. But I, being aware that the man exceedingly hated the Jews, as also that he had written many books against them, and that he had formed a friendship with this Simon, not through desire of learning, but because he knew that he was a Samaritan and a hater of the Jews, and that he had come forth in opposition to the Jews, therefore he had formed an alliance with him, that he might learn something from him against the Jews;—

## Footnotes

* ↑ [See Homily IV. 6, footnote.—R.]
# Ante-Nicene Fathers/Volume VIII/Pseudo-Clementine Literature/The Clementine Homilies/Homily V/Chapter 24

Chapter XXIV.—If a Principle Be Good, Carry It Out.
“‘But if we must emulate their lives, let us imitate not only their adulteries, but also their banquets. For Kronos devoured his own children, and Zeus in like manner his own daughter. And what must I say? Pelops served as a supper for all the gods. Wherefore let us also, before unhallowed marriages, perpetrate a supper like that of the gods; for thus the supper would be worthy of the marriages. But this you would never consent to; no more will I to adultery. Besides this, you threaten me with the anger of Eros as of a powerful god. Eros is not a god, as I conceive him, but a desire occurring from the temperament of the living creature in order to the perpetuation of life, according to the foresight of Him who worketh all things, that the whole race may not fail, but by reason of pleasure another may be produced out of the substance of one who shall die, springing forth by lawful marriage, that he may know to sustain his own father in old age. And this those born from adultery cannot do, not having the nature of affection towards those who have begotten them.
# Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography/Wheeler, William Adolphus

Edition of 1889.
​WHEELER, William Adolphus, philologist, b. in Leicester, Mass., 14 Nov., 1833; d. in Roxbury, Mass., 28 Oct., 1874. He was graduated at Bowdoin in 1853, taught for several years, and, removing to Cambridge, Mass., assisted Dr. Joseph E. Worcester in the preparation of his Dictionary. For several years afterward he engaged in similar work, contributed to the quarto edition of Noah Webster's Dictionary (Springfield, Mass., 1864), and prepared for it an “Explanatory and Pronouncing Vocabulary of the Names of Noted Fictitious Persons and Places, including Familiar Pseudonyms, Surnames, etc.,” which was also issued separately (Boston, 1865). He became connected with the Boston public library in 1866, and afterward ​superintendent of the catalogue department. He was a careful and laborious student of Shakespeare, and made collections for a cyclopaedia of Shakespearian literature. Among his other works are revisions of the school editions of Webster's Dictionary, an abridgment of that work, and editions of the Rev. Charles Hole's “Brief Biographical Dictionary” (New York, 1866); “Mother Goose's Melodies,” with antiquarian and philological notes (1869); and a “Dickens Dictionary” (1873). He left in manuscript an index to anonymous literature entitled “Who Wrote It?”
# Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography/Wheildon, William Willder

Edition of 1889.
​WHEILDON, William Willder, author, b. in Boston, Mass., 17 Oct., 1805. His father was a native of Birmingham, England. The son was apprenticed to Nathaniel Greene, a printer, at Haverhill, Mass., in 1820, and in the next year removed with Greene to Boston, where he became foreman in the office of his newspaper, the “American Statesman.” and its assistant editor. In May, 1827, he established at Charlestown the “Bunker Hill Aurora,” of which he continued as editor and publisher till September, 1870. Since 1850 he has resided in Concord, Mass. Mr. Wheildon has held ​various local public offices. His paper, the “Aurora,” was begun under the favor of Edward Everett, whose personal friend the editor was for many years. Besides occasional poems, Mr. Wheildon's publications include “Letters from Nahant” (Charlestown, 1848); “Memoir of Solomon Willard, Architect and Superintendent of the Bunker Hill Monument,” which he prepared as chairman of a committee of the Monument association (Boston, 1865); “Contributions to Thought,” a volume of lectures and essays (Concord, 1874); “New History of the Battle of Bunker Hill” (1875); “Siege and Evacuation of Boston and Charlestown” (1876); “Sentry or Beacon Hill: the Beacon and the Monument of 1635 and 1790” (Concord, 1877); “Paul Revere's Signal Lanterns” (1878); and “Curiosities of History” (1880). He made the climate of the arctic regions a subject of special study, and in 1860 read a paper before the American association for the advancement of science on an “Atmospheric Theory of the Open Polar Sea,” which was followed by others on the subject, the last being “Remarks on the Last Circular of Dr. Peterman” (Portland, 1873).
# Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography/White, Edward Douglas

Edition of 1889.
​WHITE, Edward Douglas, statesman, b. in Tennessee in March, 1795; d. in New Orleans, La., 18 April, 1847. He removed with his father, James, who was subsequently appointed judge of western Louisiana, to Attakapas parish, La., in 1799. He was educated at the University of Tennessee, studied law, was admitted to the bar, and began to practise at Donaldsonville, but, on being appointed to a judgeship in New Orleans, he removed thither. He was elected to congress for three consecutive terms, and served from 7 Dec., 1829, till 15 Nov., 1834, when, having been elected governor, he resigned. He was governor of Louisiana in 1834-'8, afterward removed to a sugar-plantation near Thibodeaux, and was again elected as a Whig to congress, serving from 2 Dec., 1839, till 3 March, 1843. He was on the steamer “Lioness” when she was set on fire by an explosion of gunpowder, 19 May, 1833, and narrowly escaped death. — His son, Edward Douglas, jurist, b. in Lafourche parish, La., 3 Nov., 1845, was educated at Mt. St. Mary's college, Emmitsburg, Md., and the Jesuit's college in New Orleans. During the civil war he served in the Confederate army. He then studied and practised law, was a state senator in 1874-'8, and judge of the Louisiana supreme court in 1878-'80, and on 29 May, 1888, was elected U. S. senator for the term beginning on 4 March, 1889.
# Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography/Wheeler, Thomas

Edition of 1889.
​WHEELER, Thomas, soldier, b. in England about 1620; d. in Concord, Mass., 16 Dec., 1686. He emigrated to this country in 1642, settled in Concord, Mass., and participated in King Philip's war, in which he was wounded. In July, 1675, he was appointed a military escort to Capt. Edward Hutchinson, of Boston, who was commissioned by the council to treat with the sachems in the Nipmuck country. His “Narrative” of this expedition, a pious and quaintly worded document, is preserved in the “Collections” of the New Hampshire historical society.
# Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography/Whitcomb, John

Edition of 1889.
​WHITCOMB, John, soldier, b. in Lancaster, Worcester co., Mass., about 1720; d. in 1812. He was colonel of Massachusetts troops in the campaign against Crown Point in 1755, in which he served with credit. At the beginning of the Revolution he was not called into service on account of his advanced age, but the soldiers of his regiment were so greatly attached to him that they resolved not to enlist under any other officer, and the veteran, failing to move them from their purpose by appeals to their patriotism, proposed, as an inducement to them to remain in the army, to join them in the ranks. Col. Brewer, however, who had been appointed Whitcomb's successor, relinquished the command, and the latter continued with the regiment at Boston until he was chosen brigadier-general on the Continental establishment, 5 June, 1776, having previously been promoted to the same rank by the Provincial congress. On the 13th of the same month he was made major-general in the Massachusetts service, but he was soon after permitted to retire from the army.
# Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography/White, Anthony Walton

Edition of 1889.
WHITE, Anthony Walton, soldier, b. in New Brunswick, N. J., 7 July, 1750; d. there, 10 Feb., 1803. He was descended from Anthony White, a royalist, who, after the execution of Charles I., removed to Bermuda and became Connected with the government of the islands, of which his son, Anthony, and grandson, Leonard, were chief justices. Leonard's son, Anthony, removed to this country and married Elizabeth, daughter of Gov. Lewis Morris, of New Jersey. Their son, Anthony Walton, received his education under the immediate direction of his father, who was a man of great wealth and the holder of several important offices. Until the age of twenty-five his time was employed in study and in assisting his father in the management of his large estates. In October. 1775, he obtained a commission as major and aide-de-camp to Gen. Washington. On 9 Feb., 1776, he was commissioned by congress as lieutenant-colonel of the 3d battalion of New Jersey troops, and he was actively engaged in the service at the north till 1780, being successively appointed lieutenant-colonel of the 4th regiment of light dragoons in the Continental army, 13 Feb., 1777, lieutenant-colonel commandant of the 1st regiment, 10 Dec, 1779, and colonel, 16 Feb., 1780. At this time he was ordered by Washington to take command of all the cavalry in the southern army, and upon his own personal credit equipped two regiments, with which to operate against Lord Cornwallis in South Carolina. On 6 May, 1780, with the remnant of Maj. Benjamin Huger's cavalry, he crossed Santee river and captured a small party of British ; but while waiting at Lanneau's ferry to recross the river he was surprised and defeated by Col. Bannastre Tarleton, and he and many of his troops were taken prisoners. In 1781 he was ordered to join the army under Lafayette in Virginia, and on his march to that state had several successful encounters with Col. Tarleton. He was present with Gen. Anthony Wayne in the movement of that commander before Savannah on 21 May, 1782 ; and, on the evacuation of that place, returned to Charleston, S. G, where he became security for the debts of the officers and men of his regiments, who were in want of almost all the necessaries of life. These debts he was subsequently obliged to pay at enormous sacrifices of his own property, and, on returning to the north at the close of the war, his financial ruin was completed by entering into speculation at the persuasion of military friends. In 1793 he removed from New, York, where he had resided for about ten years, to his native town, and in the following year was appointed by President Washington general of cavalry in the expedition against the western insurgents. Gen. White died at a comparatively early age, and was buried in the grounds of Christ church, in his native place. See " Memoir of Brig.-Gen. Anthony Walton White," by Anna M. W. Woodhull (Newark. 1882).
# Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography/Whiting, Henry

Edition of 1889.
​WHITING, Henry, soldier, b. in Lancaster, Mass., about 1790; d. in St. Louis, Mo., 16 Sept., 1851. His father, John (1759-1810), fought in the Revolution, and at his death was colonel of the 5th infantry. The son became a clerk in the dry-goods store of Amos Lawrence in Boston, but on 20 Oct., 1808, entered the U. S. army as a cornet of light dragoons. He rose to be 2d lieutenant in 1809 and 1st lieutenant in 1811, became aide to Gen. John P. Boyd, and served with credit in the capture of Fort George, Upper Canada, 27 May, 1813. He was afterward aide to Gen. Alexander Macomb in 1815, promoted captain in 1817, and in 1821 transferred to the 1st artillery. After 1835 he served in the quartermaster's department, and on 6 July, 1846, he joined the army of Gen. Zachary Taylor as chief quartermaster. He was brevetted brigadier-general, U. S. army, on 23 Feb., 1847, for gallant and meritorious conduct in the battle of Buena Vista. He was elected a regent of the University of Michigan in 1848. Gen. Whiting was the author of “Ontway, the Son of the Forest: a Poem” (New York, 1822); “Sannillac: a Poem,” with notes by Lewis Cass and Henry R. Schoolcraft (Boston, 1831); “The Age of Steam”; and “Life of Zebulon M. Pike” in Sparks's “American Biography.” He was co-author of “Historical and Scientific Sketches of Michigan” (Detroit, 1834), and edited George Washington's “Revolutionary Orders issued during the Years 1778, 1780, 1781 and 1782; selected from the MSS. ​of John Whiting,” his father (New York, 1844). His son, Henry Macomb (1821-'53), also served in the Mexican war in the artillery, receiving the brevet of 1st lieutenant for gallantry at Buena Vista.
# Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography/White, Horace

Edition of 1889.
​WHITE, Horace, journalist, b. in Colebrook, N. H., 10 Aug., 1834. He was graduated at Beloit college, Wisconsin, in 1853. In 1837 his father, who was a physician, removed to Beloit with his family. After his graduation he engaged in journalism. He was for many years connected with the Chicago “Tribune,” and from 1864 till 1874 was its editor and one of its chief proprietors. Conjointly with Edwin L. Godkin he has since 1883 edited the New York “Evening Post.” Mr. White has edited Frederic Bastiat's “Sophismes économiques” (Chicago, 1869), and Luigi Cossa's “Scienza delle finanze” (New York, 1888).
# Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography/Whiting, Nathan

Edition of 1889.
​WHITING, Nathan, soldier, b. in Windham, Conn., 4 May, 1724 : d. in New Haven, Conn., 9 April, 1771. His father, Samuel, who was first minister of Windham, died during the son's infancy, and the boy was brought up chiefly by his sister Mary and her husband, Rev. Thomas Clap, who became president of Yale in 1740. Nathan was graduated at that college in 1743, studied there for two years longer, and then became a merchant in New Haven, but accompanied the Connecticut troops to the siege of Louisburg in 1745 as an ensign, and in the same year was commissioned lieutenant. He then formed a business partnership with Thomas Darling, but at the beginning of the French war of 1755 he was appointed, in March of that year, lieutenant-colonel of the 2d Connecticut regiment. His command formed part of the garrison of Fort Edward, and on 8 Sept. he was with Col. Ephriam Williams when the latter was surprised by the French and Indians near Lake George. On the death of Williams the command devolved on Whiting, who led the retreat with much skill and coolness. He was promoted colonel in 1756, and served throughout the war. Col. Whiting was a representative in the Connecticut general assembly in 1769 and 1770, and at the time of his death was a candidate for the upper house. President Timothy Dwight says of him : " He was an exemplary professor of the Christian religion, and for refined and dignified manners and nobleness of mind has rarely been excelled." His portrait is in the rooms of the Connecticut historical society at Hartford. — His elder brother, John, soldier, b. in Windham, Conn., 20 Feb., 1706 ; d. there, 28 Aug., 1786, was graduated at Yale in 1726, and entered the minis- try, but, removing to Newport, R. I., entered the military service of that colony, became captain, and in 1761 had risen to the rank of colonel. He participated in several campaigns against the French, and was wounded at the battle of Lake George in 1758. He afterward returned to Windham, and was made judge of probate there in 1775.
# Bel and the Dragon

Bel and the Dragon forms chapter 14 of the extended book of Daniel. It is part of some canons of the Bible. It is sometimes published as a section of Additions to Daniel.
English-language translations of Bel and the Dragon include:

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