[13] See further, on this, in Chapter VII., p.168
[14] E.g., in his essay on "Mirabeau": "The real quantity of our insight … depends on our patience, our fairness, lovingness"; and in "Biography": "A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge."
[15] Cf. Deissmann, Light from the Ancient East, p. 154. I have omitted one or two less relevant clauses—e.g. greetings to friends.
[16] Horace, "Epistles", i. 16, 48.
[17] Homer, "Odyssey", xvii. 322.
[18] It is only about four times that personal immortality comes with any clearness in the Old Testament: Psalms 72 and 139; Isaiah 26; and Job 16:26.
[19] Cf. A. E. J. Rawlinson, Dogma, Fact and Experience, p. 16. "All the virtues in the Aristotelian canon are self-contained states of the virtuous man himself …. In the last resort they are entirely self-centred adornments or accomplishments of the good man; and it is significant of this self-centredness of the entire conception that the qualities of display (megaloprepeia) and highmindedness, or proper pride (megalopsychia), are insisted on as integral elements of the ideal character. On the other hand, the three characteristic Christian virtues—faith, hope and charity—all postulate Another."
[20] Cf. Chapter II
[21] A French mystic is quoted as saying, "Le Dieu défini est le Dieu fini."
[22] Peabody, Jesus Christ and Christian Character, p. 97.