contain a germ of truth, 389; schools of, 392; the Grecian, derived in great part from the Barbarian, 395; prepares the way for higher teaching, 405; a true spark of divine fire in, 409; how it contributes to the comprehension of divine truth, 418; the Jewish laws of higher antiquity than, 421, etc.; given by God, 339–344; the study of, 366; an imperfect knowledge of God conveyed by, 395, etc.; absurdity of those who say it is not from God, 397–399; given to the Greeks as the law was to the Jews, 399; use of, to the Gnostic, 402, etc.
Philosophy, the true, ii. 335–339.
Philydeus, the comic poet, quoted, ii. 248, 249.
Phocylides quoted, ii. 294.
Phœbus, i. 149.
Phœnix, i. 150.
Phoronis, The, quoted, i. 458.
Φῶς and φώς, i. 133.
Φρένωσις, i. 168.
Phryne, the courtesan, i, 58.
Piety, i. 185.
Pigeons to be offered to God, i. 124.
Pilferers, the Greeks, of the Barbarian philosophy, ii. 1; and of each other, 304, etc.
Pillar of fire, the, i. 458.
Pindar quoted, i. 37, 323, 383, 420, 424, 470; ii. 162, 282, 295, 299.
Pit, opening a, ii. 253.
Pitch plasters to eradicate hair, censured, ii. 284, 285, 287.
Pittacus, king of Miletus, i. 311.
Plagiarisms, the, of the Greeks, from the Hebrews, ii. 274, etc.; from one another, 304, etc.
Plants and animals, ii. 497.
Plasters of pitch to eradicate hair, i. 284, 285, 287.
Plato an imitator of Moses, i. 459.
Plato, his view of the chief good, ii. 74–78; respecting marriage, 89–94; variously quoted or referred to, i. 69, 70, 71, 198, 248, 254, 314, 378, 382, 385, 395, 396, 397, 414, 443, 469; ii. 13, 14, 58, 91, 92, 93, 147, 151, 163, 226, 230, 231, 252, 260, 266, 267, 271, 275, 276, 279, 282, 283, 284, 285, 297, 299.
Plato, the comic poet, quoted, ii. 429.
Pleasure, ii. 61, 62, 63; not a necessity, 67, 68.
Plutus, i. 280.
Poets, the, their testimony to the truth, i, 73–75; their employment of the symbolic style, ii. 247.
Polemo, the disciple of Xenocrates, cited, i. 76.
Poseidon, i. 66.
Pot, the mark of, not to be left on the ashes, according to Pythagoras, ii. 237.
Praise to God, ii. 216, 217; and prayer, 426.
Praise and blame, i. 177.
Prayer to the Pædagogus, i. 342.
Prayer, such as employed by the Gnostic, and how it is heard by God, ii. 431, etc.; the right sort of, 434; hours of, 435; the false doctrine of certain heretics respecting, ibid.
Prayer and praise the best sacrifices, ii. 426, etc.
Praxiphanes, i. 404.
Praxiteles, i. 50.
Preaching, the, of Peter, referred to or quoted, i. 470; ii. 326, 379, 380.
Presbyter, who is a true? ii. 365.
Procreatione liberorum, de, i. 244, etc.
Prodicus, the Ceian sophist, his delineation of vice and virtue, i. 260.
Prophecy, ii. 34; is full knowledge, 343; why it employs figurative forms of expression, 380.
Prophet, the, like unto Moses, i. 35.
Prophets, the, the truth to be found in, 76–79; their knowledge, 380; the antiquity of, 425, 435, 439.
Propriety of conduct, i. 293.
Proserpine, i. 27.
Prosymnus, i. 41.
Proteus, i. 273.
Pruning-hook, the, ii, 341.
Ptolemy Philadelphus, i. 448.
Ptolemy, the priest, referred to, i. 421.
Punishment, the reason and end of divine, ii. 210, 211.
Punishment after death, ii. 275.
Punishment and love reconciled, i. 156, 157; aims at the good of men, 464.
Punishments and threatenings, i. 306, 307.
Πῦρ, i. 443.
Pure in heart, the, ii. 157.
Purification, i. 91, ii. 263; a sufficient, 205.
