Christian Ethics Eight Lectures Preached Before the University of Oxford in the
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At the same time there are very few whom God so graces as to keep them free from all evil, voluntary or involuntary l ; and therefore Philo is perhaps not inconsistent in making ^Tavoia the second of these states. The third of these states (typified by Noah) is somewhat oddly called Justice, a term which one would naturally have expected to find used only for the virtue. Very little is said upon the subject in De Praem. (c. 4), but the life and signi- ficance of Noah are treated at some length ...in De Abr. (cc. 5-8). Two different translations of the word Noah are given, Rest and Justice, and their fitness is explained by reference to the life of Noah. In contrast to the other two, Enos and Enoch, he is the person who has attained, and is perfect and well-pleasing to God. These three — Hope, Re- pentance, and Justice or Rest — are the first or lowest triad. Above them comes a higher triad, standing to the lower as the severer athletic trials of a man stand to those of a boy. It is typified by Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, who in another place 2 are said to represent three types of virtue, btbaa-Kakin-q,
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