Blue-grass blade. [volume] (Lexington, Ky.) 188?-19??, 1908-06-07

performances was at least made president of
fthe school at Alexandria where he set forth
the treasures of the divine principles both by
word of mouth, and writing" There appears
to be no difference between what was taught
this Neoplatonist school, and the then chris
tanity. st. jerome says, "Pantaenus of the
Stole sect, according to ancient custom
of the city of Alexandria was at the request
of ambassadors from India, sent into that
country by Demetrius. bishop OF Alexandria,
where he found that Bartholomew, of the
twelve apostles, had preached the coming of
our Lord Jesus Christ according to the gospel
Of Matthew, which he brought back with him
to Alexandria, written in Hebrew letters" A
missionary from that Neoplatinist mystic
heather school, bringing back from India the
gospel of Matthew to Alexandria"
Clement AleXandrius was u church father
in 1874 y. ID. He succeeded Pantaenus
president of this Neoplatonist school at Alex
andria. 1 cite TINS father he was a church
father, and also president of this school, and
there does not appear to be any friction or
discord in the combination Origen was one
of the most learned of the church fathers.
lie was a Neoplatonst having studied under
Ammonius Saccas at Alexandria, who taught,
in the second century, that christianity and
Nepolatonism when rightly understood, diff
fered in no essential points but had common
origin, and really one and the same
himself his imitation of his predecessor Pan
taenus, in the study of profane learning. He
admits that there some state secrets
which are not fit TO be communicated to the
vulgar, and justifes the fact from the secret
doctrines of the Pagan philosophy" Again he
says Il say christian cergy) who are
so well advised do professedly teach men to
believe with out severe examination" ORR
gen was church father in $50 A. d. and
it appears that even then, christianity would
not bear inspection. lie so imbued with
the Essensm of Jesus Matt. 1912, that he
suffered mutilation. Yet notwithstanding all
his great attachments, before he died he re-
lapsed back to Neoplatonism, a slur, if there
was any difference in the two, the cause,
he for "A time was so great exponent, Prof.
Harnack says "origen could not have been
what he was, unless two generations before
him had labored at the problem of finding
intellectual expression, and a philosophic basis
for christianity, among which are Pantaenus
and Clement 1t was his deepest and most
solemn conviction, that the sacred oraces of
chrstendom embraced all the ideals of
tiquity."
In Alexandria whose school was found
ed in the days of the Plotemes chris
tian ideas houdled in a free and specu-
latve fashion, and worked out with the help
of Neoplatonism But the science of faith"
chow can such "A scholar the professor
think there can be a science of faithas) as
eXpounded by Origen bear Enthusiastically the
stamp both of Neoplatonism and Gnosticsm.
AS theologian Origen speculative phil
osopher of Neoplatonc tendencies. His Stro-
mata, in which Orgen compared the teachings
of the christians, with that of the PHILOSOPHERS
and corroborated all the christian dogmas
from Plato, Aristotle and Numenius have
been destroyed. These books shared the same
fate as Putarchs Lives, and for the same
reason. The church destroyed all books
(Writings) which said too much and aIao