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IX. THE PLATONISTS.
“That the Word was God, I read in those Platonic books,
but that the Word was made flesh and dwelt among us, I read
not there.”
Aug. Confess., lib. vii. cap. 9.
Divine philosophy, that could afford
Such light to wandering men, and with its lore
Lead upward! yet in all their wisdom's store
Eye saw not, heart conceiv'd not, nor ear heard
Humiliations of the Incarnate Word,
Hid from the wise, reveal'd unto the poor;
Therefore they nothing knew of Christ the Door,
The Way, the Truth, the Life; a dying Lord
They knew not, Who descending from above
Emptied Himself in His eternal love,
That He might to Him gather those that mourn,
The “Man of Sorrows.” Like the moon, heavenborn
Their light, but dim and powerless; on them springs
No Sun of Righteousness with healing wings.
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