. The life and Epistles of St. Paul. IV Kinds Antiqu The Epicureans, so called from their founder Epicurus, nu Athenian, supposedthe world to have been formed by a fortuitous concourse of atoms, and that the Deitywas a purely contemplative being, insensible to pain or pleasure, and taking nointerest in the affairs of mankind^-—that the soul was material and had no conscious-ness after death, but was dispersed into its primitive elements. Their axiom Iig. l:a.—/uytrait of Zem. Founder of tlie Sect 0/ tlie Stoics. Emm lidluriu Death is nothing to us ; for wliat is dissolved is iusensiblc,
. The life and Epistles of St. Paul. IV Kinds Antiqu The Epicureans, so called from their founder Epicurus, nu Athenian, supposedthe world to have been formed by a fortuitous concourse of atoms, and that the Deitywas a purely contemplative being, insensible to pain or pleasure, and taking nointerest in the affairs of mankind^-—that the soul was material and had no conscious-ness after death, but was dispersed into its primitive elements. Their axiom Iig. l:a.—/uytrait of Zem. Founder of tlie Sect 0/ tlie Stoics. Emm lidluriu Death is nothing to us ; for wliat is dissolved is iusensiblc, and what is insensibleis nothing to us.*- The Stoics, founded by Zeno, a native of Cyprus, but who taught at Athens, wereof a different and somewhat more rational school. They believed in one God, the - Diog. Laert. x. 1, 31. <a Diog. Laert. s. 1, 31. 260 [ 51] ST. PAUL AT ATHENS. [Chap. XII. Alpha and Omega, tte beginning and the end; that by him the world had beencreated and was sustained ; that under him were divine beings, called Demons, whosympathised with mankind and superintended all their actions f^ that the souls of thegood were exalted after death to superior intelligences called Heroes f^ but that thesouls of others on their separation from the body became amalgamated with thegeneral mass of animated matter, and ceased to have any distinct or personalconsciousness.^ Such were the Epicureans and Stoics.(the Sadducees and Pharise
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