[61] In Chapter XII, § iv, I shall show reason for strongly suspecting that Catherine possessed some knowledge, probably derived from an intermediate Christian source, of certain passages in Plato’s Dialogues. But the influence of these passages can, in any case, only be traced in her Purgatorial doctrine, and had better be discussed together with this doctrine itself.
[62] My chief obligations are here to Prof. H. J. Holtzmann’s Lehrbuch der Neutestamentlichen Theologie, 1897, Vol. II, pp. 1-225: “Der Paulinismus”; but I have also learnt from Estius and Dr. Lightfoot, and from my own direct studies in St. Paul, Philo, and Plato.
[63] Symposium, 216e.
[64] 1 Cor. xv, 35-53.
[65] E. Grafe, “Verhältniss der paulinischen Schriften zur Sapientia Salomonis,” in Theol. Abhandlungen Carl von Weizsäcker Gewidmet, 1892, pp. 274-276.
[66] “The love of Christ,” Rom. viii, 35, is identical with “the love of God which is in Christ Jesus,” Rom. viii, 39. “The Spirit of God dwelleth in you,” Rom. viii, 9; 1 Cor. iii, 16. “I live, not I: but Christ dwelleth in me,” Gal. ii, 20.
[67] H. J. Holtzmann, op. cit. Vol. II, p. 145.
[68] Holtzmann, op. cit. Vol. II, pp. 151, 152.
[69] My chief obligations are here again to Dr. H. J. Holtzmann’s Neutestamentliche Theologie, 1897, Vol. II, pp. 354-390; 394-396; 399-401; 426-430; 447-466; 466-521.
[70] I am much indebted to the thorough and convincing monograph of the Catholic Priest and Professor Dr. Hugo Koch, Pseudo-Dionysius Areopagita in seinen Beziehungen sum Neo-Platonismus und Mysterienwesen, Mainz, 1900, for a fuller understanding of the relations between Dionysius, Proclus, and Plotinus. I have also found much help in H. F. Müller’s admirable German translation of Plotinus, a translation greatly superior to Thomas Taylor’s English or to Bouillet’s French translation. And I have greatly benefited by the admirable study of Plotinus in Dr. Edward Caird’s Evolution of Theology in the Greek Philosophers, 1904, Vol. II, pp. 210-346.