 | Nathanael Culverwel - 1857 - 372 lehte
...persuasion.' 3 TraJitio lampadis 4 NoinoS ypairTfa. ' Intellectus agens. Averroes and Avicenna, did not look upon the spirit of a man as ' the candle of the Lord,' but must needs have an angel to hold the candle to enlighten men in their choicest operations. Nay,... | |
 | John Tulloch - 1872 - 530 lehte
...seminal principles in the eye of the mind." The Platonists were right in exalting reason, and looking upon the spirit of a man as " the candle of the Lord," but " they were deceived in the time when it was lighted." Man has only to reflect to be convinced... | |
 | Mattoon Monroe Curtis - 1890 - 168 lehte
...fundamental principle of the Scottish philosophy. Culverwel thinks the Platonists were right in regarding the spirit of a man as the "Candle of the Lord" "though they were deceived in the time when it was lighted". (132). Culverwel holds that without sensation the mind could never rise to any knowledge... | |
 | Benjamin Whichcote - 1901 - 388 lehte
...but nakedly receiving, and faithfully returning all such colours, as fall upon it. Yet the Platonists in this were commendable, that they look'd upon the...a Man as the Candle of the Lord; though they were deceiv'd in the time when 'twas lighted. Nor is this Candle lighted out of the Essence of God himself.... | |
 | Meyer Howard Abrams - 1971 - 420 lehte
...faithjully returning all such colours, as fall upon it. Yet the Platonists in this were commendable, that look'd upon the Spirit of a Man as the Candle of the Lord; though they were decciv'd in the time when 'twas lighted.'" For an unqualified commitment to an absolute idealism, expressed... | |
 | Tod E. Jones - 2005 - 180 lehte
...be aroused from sleep. 130 Thus, although "the Platonists in this were commendable, that they lookt upon the spirit of a man as the Candle of the Lord, . . . they were deceived in the time when 'twas lighted." 131 Consistent with its epistemology, the... | |
| |
Platonists in this were commendable, that look'd upon the Spirit of a Man as the Candle of the Lord; though they were deceiv'd in the time when 'twas lighted. 