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 | Margaret Edwards Clark - 1927 - 140 pages
...(compose) until he has been inspired and put out of his senses, and his mind is no longer in him .......... God takes away the mind of these men and uses them as ministers.... in order that we may know that. ...it is God himself who speaks and addresses us through them. "32 She poet is an interpreter... | |
 | Arthur Hilary Armstrong - Philosophy - 1967 - 750 pages
...compares the inspiration of poets with that of oracles and seers and with the frenzy of the Corybantes. ' God takes away the mind of these men and uses them as. ministers.'? For Philo it is congruous with his favourite theme of the nothingness of man before God that he can... | |
 | Willem Jacob Verdenius - Aesthetics - 1949 - 60 pages
...most radical form. In his masterly picture of poetic inspiration which is given in the lo Plato says: "God takes away the mind of these men, and uses them as his ministers, just as he does soothsayers and godly seers, in order that we who hear them may know... | |
 | Fred E. H. Schroeder - Social Science - 1980 - 350 pages
...odes, another dance-songs, another epic or else iambic verse, but each is at fault in any other kind. For not by art do they utter these things, but by divine influence.14 The madness of love, possession by Eros or Aphrodite, is a central theme of the Phaedrus,... | |
 | Sandra Hack-Polaski - Religion - 1999 - 160 pages
...divinely inspired speaker speaks a divine message, it is manifestly not a message of his or her own. For not by art do they utter these things, but by divine influence . . . God takes away the mind of these men and uses them as his ministers [xpfrtoci], just as he does... | |
 | Nicholas D. Smith, Paul Woodruff - Philosophy - 2000 - 241 pages
...divine power {theiai dunameie], since if they knew by means of craft how to compose in fine fashion on one kind of theme, they would know how to speak on all. That's why the god takes their intellect away from them when he uses them as his servants, as he does... | |
 | Peter Kivy - Music - 2001 - 316 pages
...odes, another dance-songs, another epic or else iambic verse; but each is at fault at any other kind. For not by art do they utter these things, but by...takes away the mind of these men and uses them as his ministers.10 Here then, in brief (to summarize), is the straightforward part of Socrates' argument.... | |
 | Siglind Bruhn - Music - 2002 - 330 pages
...(poiein) until he has been inspired and put out of his senses, and his mind is no longer in him. [...] For not by art do they utter these things, but by divine influence. [...] It is God himself who speaks and addresses us through them [...] We should not waver or doubt... | |
 | Nils Holger Petersen, Claus Clüver, Nicolas Bell - Christian art and symbolism - 2004 - 532 pages
...be frantic, and it is under possession . . . that the soul of the lyric poets does the same thing. For not by art do they utter these things, but by divine influence ... it is God himself who speaks and addresses us through them. . . . We should not waver or doubt... | |
 | 790 pages
...filled with the spirit of his daimon or personal deity or with the spirit of the Muses. Said Socrates, "for not by art do they utter these things, but by divine influence And for this reason God takes away the mind of these men and uses them as his ministers, just as he... | |
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