3/74 167 and following; also Farrar's Life of Christ, chap.xvii.For this idea in Greece and elsewhere, see Maury, La Magie, etc., vol.iii, p. 276, giving, among other citations, one from book v of the Odyssey. On the influence of Platonism, see Esquirol and others, as above--the main passage cited is from the Phaedo. For the devotion of the early fathers and doctors to this idea, see citations from Eusebius, Lactantius, St. 369; also Jacob (i.e., Paul Lecroix), Croyances Populaires, p.183.For St.Augustine, see also his De Civitate Dei, lib. |