An Exegetical Note on Plutarch, Isis and Osiris 351E
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Plutarch, Isis and Osiris, divine knowledge, divine blessednessAbstract
In this article, I deal with a short but complex sentence at the end of the first chapter of Plutarch’s Isis and Osiris. Plutarch there says that «the happiness of even the eternal life, which God has obtained as his portion, consists in the fact that the things that come to be do not, through knowledge, fail in advance» (351E). This obscure phrase implies, so I argue, that Plutarch’s providential God has a knowledge of particular contingencies and that this knowledge indeed contributes to his eternal blessedness without affecting His essence.
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