(2nd Edition, 1831)
Introductory Aphorisms, No. xii., p. 7.:
"Tertullian had good reason for his assertation, that the
simplest Christian (if indeed a Christian) knows more than the
most accomplished irreligious philosopher."
The passage referred to is in the Apology, c. 46:
"Deum quilibet opifex Christianus et invenit et ostendit et
exinde totum, quod in Deo quæritur, re quoque assignat; licet
Plato affirmet factitatorem universitatis neque inveniri facilem
et inventum enarrari in omnes difficilem."
Note to Aphorism xxxi., p. 30.:
"To which he [Plato] may possibly have referred in his phrase
[Greek: theoparadotos sophia]."
Possibly Coleridge may have borrowed this from Berkeley's _Siris_, §
301., where [Greek: theoparadotos philosophia] is cited from "a heathen
writer." The word [Greek: theoparadotos] occurs in Proclus and Marinus
(see Valpy's _Stephani Thesaurus_), but not in Plato.
The motto from Seneca, prefixed to the Aphorisms on Spiritual Religion,
is from the fourty-first Epistle of that writer.
The question from Tertullian in the Comment on the eight of those
Aphorisms,
"Certum est quia impossibile est."--p. 199.
is from the _De Carne Christi_, cap. v.
Aphorism iv., p. 227.:
"In wonder all philosophy began."
See Plato's _Theætetus_ § 32., p. 155. Gataker on Antonin, i. 15.
Plutarch _de EI Delph_. cap. 2. p. 385 B. Sympos, v. 7., p. 680 C.
Aristot. _Metaph_. 1. 2. 9.
In the "Sequelæ" annexed to this Aphorism, it is said of Simonides (p.
230.), that
"_In the fortieth day_ of his mediation the sage and philosophic
poet abandoned the problem [of the nature of God] in despair."
Cicero (_de nat. Deor._ i. 22. § 60.) and Minucius Felix (_Octav._ 13.)
do not specify the number of days during which Simonides deferred his
answer to Hiero.
Aphorism x. On Original Sin. (note, p. 252.) [Greek: sunetois phonun],
&c., from Pindar, _Olymp._ ii. 85. (152.)
Conclusion, p. 399.:
"_Evidences_ of Christianity! I am weary of this word," &c.
See the remarks on this passage in Archbishop Whately's _Logic_,
Appendix III., near the end.
The quotation from Apuleius, at the end of the book (p. 403.), is from
the _Metamorphos._, i. 3.