Published online by Cambridge University Press: 20 November 2009
For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made.
Romans 1.20I think that He who made all things in wisdom so created all the species of visible things upon the earth, that He placed in some of them some teaching and knowledge of things invisible and heavenly, whereby the human mind might mount to spiritual understanding and seek the grounds of things in heaven.
Origen, Commentary on the Song of Songs… after many generations and many conflicts there is strained out at last, I should say, one system of really true philosophy. For that philosophy is not of this world – such a philosophy our sacred mysteries most justly detest – but of the other, intelligible world.
Augustine, Against the AcademicsThe Wisdom Of The World
Visitors to modern Athens, if they were to approach the ancient monuments of the Acropolis from the Pláka area, might notice before the final ascent to the ruins of the temple of Athene Nike a set of steps cut into the side of a large granite outcrop which lies below and to the West of the Acropolis. The site is the Areopagus – literally ‘Mars Hill’ – where for the first time in their own city Athenians encountered the new faith of the Christians. To the right of the worn steps is a large brass plaque which bears in Greek the words of the seventeenth chapter of the book of Acts, which recount the events which took place there, probably in the autumn of the year AD 50.
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