Inde, opinor, et a quibusdam philosophia quoque eiecta est, a Thebaeis dico, et a Spartiatis et Argivis, dum ad nostra conantur, et homines gloriae, ut diximus, et eloquentiae solius libidinosi, si quid in sanctis [scripturis] offenderunt digestis, ex proprio instituto curiositatis ad propria opera verterunt, neque satis credentes divina esse, quo minus interpolarent, neque satis intellegentes, ut adhuc tunc subnubila, etiam ipsis Iudaeis obumbrata, quorum propria videbantur.
Hence, I opine, some have driven out philosophy'the Thebans I mean, the Spartans and Argives. In rivalry with our authors, and being men with a passion (as I said) for vainglory and eloquence and nothing else,'whatever they stumbled on in the sacred digests they took it, they recast it to match the plan of their fancy, turned it to their own purposes. They had not enough belief in these passages being divine to abstain from interpolation, nor enough intelligence of what at that timea was still rather cloudy,'full of darkness, even for the Jews themselves, whose own the scriptures seemed to be.
final_alignments\Tertullian_Apology.json