[594] A translation of part of the Timæus, given in a little book of Cicero's, De Universo.
[595] Plato, in the Timæus, represents the Demiurgus as constructing the kosmos or universe to be a complete representation of the idea of animal. He planted in its centre a soul, spreading outwards so as to pervade the whole body of the kosmos; and then he introduced into it those various species of animals which were contained in the idea of animal. Among these animals stand first the celestial, the gods embodied in the stars; and of these the oldest is the earth, set in the centre of all, close packed round the great axis which traverses the centre of the kosmos.—See the Timæus and Grote's Plato, iii. 250 et seq.
[596] On these numbers see Grote's Plato, iii. 254.
[597] Virgil, Æneid, vi. 750, 751.
[599] A catena of passages, showing that this is the catholic Christian faith, will be found in Bull's State of Man before the Fall (Works, vol. ii.).
[600] 1 Cor. xv. 42.
[601] Prov. iii. 18.
[602] 1 Cor. x. 4.
[603] Cant. iv. 13.