NOTES ON COLERIDGE'S AIDS TO REFLECTION
(2nd Edition, 1831)
Introductory Aphorisms, No. xii., p. 7.:
"Tertullian had good reason for his assertation, that the simplest Christian (if indeed a Christian) knows more than the most accomplished irreligious philosopher."
The passage referred to is in the Apology, c. 46:
"Deum quilibet opifex Christianus et invenit et ostendit et exinde totum, quod in Deo quæritur, re quoque assignat; licet Plato affirmet factitatorem universitatis neque inveniri facilem et inventum enarrari in omnes difficilem."
Note to Aphorism xxxi., p. 30.:
"To which he [Plato] may possibly have referred in his phrase [Greek: theoparadotos sophia]."
Possibly Coleridge may have borrowed this from Berkeley's Siris, § 301., where [Greek: theoparadotos philosophia] is cited from "a heathen writer." The word [Greek: theoparadotos] occurs in Proclus and Marinus (see Valpy's Stephani Thesaurus), but not in Plato.