Chapter LXIV.—Further
misrepresentations of the truth.
From what has been already said, you can
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understand how the devils, in imitation of what was said by
Moses, asserted that Proserpine was the daughter of Jupiter, and
instigated the people to set up an image of her under the name of Kore
[Cora, i.e., the maiden or daughter] at the spring-heads. For, as we
wrote above,19061906 Moses said, “In the beginning God made the heaven
and the earth. And the earth was without form and unfurnished: and the
Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.” In imitation,
therefore, of what is here said of the Spirit of God moving on the
waters, they said that Proserpine [or Cora] was the daughter of
Jupiter.19071907 And in like
manner also they craftily feigned that Minerva was the daughter of
Jupiter, not by sexual union, but, knowing that God conceived and made
the world by the Word, they say that Minerva is the first conception
[ἔννοια]; which we
consider to be very absurd, bringing forward the form of the conception
in a female shape. And in like manner the actions of those others who are
called sons of Jupiter sufficiently condemn them.
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