This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1906 edition. Excerpt: ... moreover, knows of certain Words (Logoi), or Sermons, or Sacred Utterances of Ammon, which must have been circulating in Greek, otherwise it is difficult to see how Justin was acquainted with them. They were evidently of an apocalyptic nature, in the form of a self-revelation of Ammon or God. These " Words of ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1906 edition. Excerpt: ... moreover, knows of certain Words (Logoi), or Sermons, or Sacred Utterances of Ammon, which must have been circulating in Greek, otherwise it is difficult to see how Justin was acquainted with them. They were evidently of an apocalyptic nature, in the form of a self-revelation of Ammon or God. These " Words of Ammon" have clearly nothing to do with the Ammonian type of the surviving Trismegistic literature, where Ammon is a hearer and not an instructor, least of all the supreme instructor or Agathodaimon. In them we may see an intermediate stage of direct dependence of Hellenistic theological literature on Egyptian originals, for we have preserved to us certain Hymns from the El-Khargeh Oasis which bear the inscription " The Secret Words of Ammon' which were found on Tables of Mulberry-wood."1 The Ineffability Of God The sentence from Hermes is from a lost sermon, a fragment of which is preserved in an excerpt by Stobaeus. It was probably the opening words of what Stobaeus calls " The Sermon to Tat," 2 that is to say, probably one of the " Expository Sermons to Tat," as Lactantius calls them.3 The idea in the saying was a common place in 1 R. 138. The connection between this Ammon and Hermes was probably the same as that which is said to have existed between the king-god Thanms-Ammon and the god of invention Theuth-Hermes. Thamus-Ammon was a king philosopher, to whom Theuth brought all his inventions and discoveries for his (Amnion's) judgment, which was not invariably favourable. See the pleasant story told by Plato, Ph&drus, 274 c. Of also the notes on Kneph-Ammon, K. K., 19, Comment. 2 Stob, loc. infra cit. 3 See Fragg. xi., xii., xiii., xv., xx., xxii., xxiii., xxiv. (?). Hellenistic theological thought, and need not be always directly...
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