Orthodox Study
Various Church Fathers

Tatian

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¶1

Albigenses, 62.

¶2

Alexander, flattered by his preceptor, Aristotle, 65.

¶3

Alphabet, 65.

¶4

Anitus and Miletus, 66.

¶5

Anaxagoras, 73.

¶6

Apion, the grammarian, 80.

¶7

Apollo and Daphne, 73.

¶8

Argives, their kings, 80.

¶9

Aristippus, 65.

¶10

Aristotle, 65.

¶11

Astronomy, 65, 68.

¶12

Baptism, the renunciation of, 73.

¶13

Beausobre, 72.

¶14

Berosus, 80.

¶15

Busiris, 66.

¶16

Catholics, early, 62.

¶17

Chaldeans, 80.

¶18

witness to Moses, 80.

¶19

Christianity, Western, effect of Montanism on, 62.

¶20

Christians, two classes of, 62.

¶21

worship God only, 66.

¶22

their doctrine of Creation, 67.

¶23

belief in the resurrection, 67.

¶24

unjustly hated, 76.

¶25

philosophy of, 77.

¶26

older than that of Greece, 77.

¶27

doctrines of, 78.

¶28

opposed to dissensions, 78.

¶29

fitted for all men, 78.

¶30

free schools of, 78.

¶31

hymns of, 79.

¶32

Chronology, 78, 81.

¶33

Chrysostom, 69, 79.

¶34

Coliseum, 75.

¶35

Constellations, origin of, 69.

¶36

Corates, 66.

¶37

Creation, 67.

¶38

Crescens, loathsome character of, 73.

¶39

persecutes Justin, 73.

¶40

Cretans, always liars, 76.

¶41

Cross, mystery of, 71.

¶42

Democritus, 72.

¶43

Demons, 68.

¶44

turned into gods, 68.

¶45

teach the doctrine of fate, 68.

¶46

economize astronomy, 68.

¶47

to be punished, 78.

¶48

vain display of, 72.

¶49

false promises of, 72.

¶50

deceptions of, 73.

¶51

Demon worship, depravity of, 73.

¶52

Diogenes, 65.

¶53

Doctrines of the Greeks and Christians compared, 74.

¶54

Egyptians, 80.

¶55

Elijah, 62.

¶56

Empedocles, 66.

¶57

Encratites, the, 63.

¶58

Euripides, 66.

¶59

Eusebius, reference to, 61, 62.

¶60

Eventide, hymn of, 79.

¶61

Free-will, 69.

¶62

Geometry, 65.

¶63

Gladiators, 75.

¶64

God only to be feared, 66.

¶65

a spirit, 66.

¶66

Greek notions of, 74.

¶67

compared with Christian ideas, 74.

¶68

Gods of the heathen, 68.

¶69

absurdities concerning, 69.

¶70

Gospels, the four, testimony of the Diatessaron to, 61.

¶71

Greeks, not the inventors of the arts, 65.

¶72

foolish solemnities of, 74.

¶73

their play-actors, 75.

¶74

other amusements, 75.

¶75

idols of, 76.

¶76

studies of, 76.

¶77

legislation, 77.

¶78

Greek studies, ridiculed, 76.

¶79

Hellebore, 72.

¶80

Hercules, 66, 69.

¶81

Heraclitus, 66.

¶82

Herodotus, 79.

¶83

Holy Ghost, 62.

¶84

Homer, 77.

¶85

his period, 78.

¶86

Hus, reference to, 62.

¶87

Idioms, communication of, 71.

¶88

Irenæus, reference to Tatian, 61.

¶89

John the Baptist, 62.

¶90

Judaism, 61.

¶91

Justin Martyr, Tatian’s relation to, 61.

¶92

Kaye, Bishop, reference to, 70.

¶93

Latin Church, sophistries of, 62.

¶94

Life, human shortening of, 71.

¶95

Logos, 67, 68.

¶96

Magic, 65.

¶97

Man, fall of, 67.

¶98

Marriage, 62.

¶99

Marsyas, 65.

¶100

Matter, not eternal, 67.

¶101

Mill, reference to, 61.

¶102

Modern science anticipated, 67.

¶103

Montanism, 62.

¶104

Moses, his antiquity, 80.

¶105

his time, 80.

¶106

compared with heathen heroes, 81.

¶107

superior antiquity of, 81.

¶108

Mythology, 68.

¶109

Orpheus, 65.

¶110

Paganism, 61.

¶111

Pherecydes, 66.

¶112

Philosophers, their vices, 65.

¶113

and absurdities, 66.

¶114

ridicule of, 66.

¶115

boastings and quarrels, 75.

¶116

Philosophy, Grecian and Christian, compared, 77.

¶117

Phœnicians, 80.

¶118

Phrygians, reference to, 62.

¶119

Pindar, quoted, 74.

¶120

Plato, 65, 66.

¶121

Psychic natures, 71.

¶122

Pugilists, 75.

¶123

Pythagoras, 66.

¶124

Resurrection, 67.

¶125

Rousseau quoted, 82.

¶126

Socrates, 66.

¶127

Solon, 80.

¶128

Soul, immortal, 70.

¶129

Southey, Robert, his remarks concerning John Wesley, 62.

¶130

Spirit, the Holy, 71.

¶131

Spirits, two kinds, 70.

¶132

St. Jerome, 61, 62.

¶133

St. Paul, 62.

¶134

Tatian, Introductory Note, 61.

¶135

equivocal position of, 61.

¶136

influenced by Justin, 61.

¶137

his falling away, 61.

¶138

possible mental decline, 61.

¶139

Tatian an Assyrian, 61, 62.

¶140

some of his works very valuable, 61.

¶141

some have perished, 61.

¶142

his Diatessaron, 61.

¶143

his encraty, 62.

¶144

his Address to the Greeks, sole surviving work, 62.

¶145

Epiphanius describes him as from Mesopotamia, 62.

¶146

embraced Christianity at Rome, 63.

¶147

Address to the Greeks, 65.

¶148

his conversion, 77.

¶149

visit to Rome, 79.

¶150

disgusted with the multiplicity of statues, 79.

¶151

concluding words of, 82.

¶152

Fragments of, 82, 83.

¶153

Terence, 66. (See Theophilus.)

¶154

Tertullian, reference to, 62.

¶155

Theodoret, reference to, 61.

¶156

Virgin, hymn of, 79.

¶157

Wiclif, reference to, 62.

¶158

Women, Christian, 78.

¶159

heathen, 78, 79.

¶160

Zeno, 66.

¶161

Zodiac, 69.

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