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Theodotus

Section 33

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Author: Theodotus

XXXIII. Lighting, then, our torch at the source of

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that

light

,

by

the

passionate

desire

which

has

it

for

its

object

,

and

striving

as

much

as

possible

to

be

assimilated

to

it

,

we

become

men

full

of

light

,

Israelites

indeed

.

For

He

called

those

friends

and

brethren

who

by

desire

and

pursuit

aimed

after

likeness

to

the

Divinity

.

Notes

54
[Compare Tatian’s use of a like figure, vol. ii. note 2, p. 67, this series.]
55
φῶτες.
56
φωτὸς.