Page:Aratus The Phenomena and Diosemeia.pdf/91



5.

5.And we his offspring are.

The ancient philosophers considered the proœmium of Aratus, of which this passage forms a part, as applicable either to Jove,  the Creator, or  to Jove,  the air.

"" (Scholiast.)

From these words, which St Paul quoted to the philosophers of Athens to prove the unity of the godhead, Manillius deduces an argument for the immortality of the soul

16.

"Vide Scholiasten, qui heroes, Perseum, Oriona, aliosque intelligit. Nonnulli ad Jovem ipsum referunt, et explicant, qui et ipse es et prima propago: cui quidem