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Chapter XXI.
The Scriptures which are current in the
Churches4391
| 4391 [Bishop Pearson,
in his Exposition of the Creed, Art. IX., notes that
“Origen for the most part speaks of the Church in the plural
number, αι
ἐκκλησίαι.”
S.] | of God do not speak
of “seven” heavens, or of any definite number at
all,4392
but they do appear to teach the existence of
“heavens,” whether that means the “spheres” of
those bodies which the Greeks call “planets,” or something
more mysterious. Celsus, too, agreeably to the opinion of
Plato,4393
| 4393 Cf. Plato in
Timæo, p. 42. | asserts that souls
can make their way to and from the earth through the planets; while
Moses, our most ancient prophet, says that a divine vision was
presented to the view of our prophet Jacob,4394
—a ladder stretching to heaven, and the
angels of God ascending and descending upon it, and the Lord
supported4395
upon its
top,—obscurely pointing, by this matter of the ladder, either to
the same truths which Plato had in view, or to something greater than
these. On this subject Philo has composed a treatise which
deserves the thoughtful and intelligent investigation of all lovers of
truth.E.C.F. INDEX & SEARCH
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