[341] Philostr. i. 2, and Olear. ad loc. note 3, iv. 44, v. 12, vii. 39, viii. 7; Apollon. Epist. 8 and 52; Philostr. Proœm. vit. Sophist.; Euseb. in Hier. 2; Mosheim, de Simone Mago, Sec. 13. Yet it must be confessed that the views both of the Pythagoreans and Eclectics were very inconsistent on this subject. Eusebius notices several instances of γοητεἱα in Apollonius's miracles; in Hierocl. 10, 28, 29, and 31. See Brucker, vol. ii. p. 447. At Eleusis, and the Cave of Triphonius, Apollonius was, as we have seen, accounted a magician, and so also by Euphrates, Mœragenes, Apuleius, etc. See Olear. Præf. ad vit. p. 33; and Brucker, vol. ii. p. 136, note k.
[342] See Mosheim, Dissertat. de turbatâ Ecclesiâ, etc., Sec. 27.
[343] See Quæst. ad Orthodox 24 as quoted by Olearius, in his Preface, p. 34.
[344] Eusebius calls it θεἱα τις αρρἡτος σοφἱα in Hierocl. 2. In iii. 41, Philostratus speaks of the κλἡσεις αις θεοἱ χαἱρουσι, the spells for evoking them, which Apollonius brought from India; Cf. iv. 16, and in iv. 20 of the τεκμἡριον used for casting out an Evil Spirit.
[345] Ει τε σπωθἡρα της ψυχης εὑρεν εν αὑτη, etc.
[346] Douglas (Criterion, p. 387, note), observes that some heretics affirmed that our Lord rose from the dead φαντασἱωδως, only in appearance, from an idea of the impossibility of a resurrection.
[347] Apollon. Epist. 17.
[348] Vid. Rom. xv. 69; 1 Cor. ii. 4; 2 Cor. xii. 2, and Acts passim.
[349] See Epist. 1, 2, etc., 11, 44; the last-mentioned addressed to his brother begins, "What wonder, that, while the rest of mankind think me godlike, and some even a god, my own country alone hitherto ignores me, for whose sake especially I wished to distinguish myself, when not even to you, my brother, as I perceive, has it become clear how much I excel this race of men in my doctrine and my life?"—Epist. ii. 44, vid. also i. 2. He does not say "in supernatural power." Cf. John xii. 37: "But though He had done so many miracles before them, yet they believed not in Him."
[350] Epist. 68. Claudius, in a message to the Tyanæans, Epist. 53, praises him merely as a benefactor to youth.