Ploutarchou Peri Isidos kai Osiridos = Plutarchi de Iside et Osiride liber: Graece et Anglice / Graeca recensuit, emendavit, commentario auxit, versionem novam Anglicanam adjecit Samuel Squire ... Accesserunt Xylandri, Baxteri, Bentleii, Marklandi conjecturae et emendationes.

  • Isis and Osiris
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[1744]
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Credit: Ploutarchou Peri Isidos kai Osiridos = Plutarchi de Iside et Osiride liber: Graece et Anglice / Graeca recensuit, emendavit, commentario auxit, versionem novam Anglicanam adjecit Samuel Squire ... Accesserunt Xylandri, Baxteri, Bentleii, Marklandi conjecturae et emendationes. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    the name of ftrife and audacioufnefs, and to that of *Three, jufiice. For as doing an injury is an extreme on the one fide, and fuffering one is an extreme on the other, jufiice properly takes place in the middle be¬ tween them. In like manner the number thirty-fix, their 'Tetraktys or [acred ^uaternion^ being compofed of the four firil odd numbers added to the four firil even ones, as is commonly reported, is looked upon by them as the moil folemn oath they can take, and called Kofmus [or the world] — If therefore the moil ap¬ proved Philofophers did not think meet to overlook and contemn fuch expreffive fymbols of the Divinity,, which they might obferve even in thofe things which had neither foul nor life, much rather would they, I think, pay a regard to fuch refemblances of the divine nature, as are to be found in beings endued with fenfe and foul, and fufceptible of paflions and moral affec¬ tions. 77. Upon the whole then, their conduit we ought to approve, not who reverence thefe creatures for their own fakes, but who looking upon them as the moil lively and natural mirrors wherin to behold the divine perfections, and who, eiteeming them as his inilruments and workmanihip, are from them led to pay their worth ip and adoration to that God, who orders and direits all things—concluding however upon the whole, that whatever is endued with foul and fenfation is na¬ turally more excellent than that which does not enjoy thefe perfections, even than all the gold and precious ilones in the univerfe though collected into one mafs. For ’tis not in the beauty of a colour, in the elegance of a ihape, or in the neatnefs of a poliihed furface that the
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