THE ATTIC NIGHTS O F AULUS GELLIUS: TRANSLATED INTO ENGLISH, BY THE REV, W. BE LO E, F. S. A. TRANSLATOR OF HERODOTUS, &c. IN THREE VOLUMES,. VOL. II. LONDON: PRINTED FOR J. JOHNSON, ST. PAUL'S CHURCH-YARD. The reply of Chryfippus to those who denied a Providence. 'THEY who think that the world was not produced on account of the Deity and of man, and deny that human affairs are governed by Providence, think • The beginning of this chapter was wanting in all the editions with which I am acquainted; but I have restored it from Lactantius's Epitome of his Divine Inftitutions, Chap. 29. It is a whimsical circumstance enough, that the greater part of this very Epitome should have lain hid till the prefent century. St. Jerome, in his Catalogue of Ecclefiaftical Writers, fpeaking of Lactantius, fays, "Habemus ejus Inftitutionum Divinarum adverfus gentes libros feptem et EpiVOL. II. B tome |