CHAPTER XV.
SENECA'S RESEMBLANCES TO SCRIPTURE.
And yet in a very high sense of the word Seneca may be called, as he is called in the title of this book, a Seeker after God; and the resemblances to the sacred writings which may be found in the pages of his works are numerous and striking.

A few of these will probably interest our readers, and will put them in a better position for understanding how large a measure of truth and enlightenment had rewarded the honest search of the ancient philosophers.

We will place a few such passages side by side with the texts of Scripture which they resemble or recall.
1.

_God's Indwelling Presence_.
"Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you ?" asks St.Paul (1 Cor.iii.

16).
"_God is near you, is with you, is within you_," writes Seneca to his friend Lucilius, in the 41st of those _Letters_ which abound in his most valuable moral reflections; "_a sacred Spirit dwells within us, the observer and guardian of all our evil and our good ...