Dionysius the Areopagite: ‘Deus naturæ patitur’ (‘The God of Nature suffers’). This is intended for the individual of whom Luke speaks (Acts 17:34): ‘Howbeit, certain men clave unto Him (Paul): among the which was Dionysius the Areopagite.’ It is related of him that, being in Heliopolis at the time of the Crucifixion, he beheld the eclipse of the sun, which took place contrary to the laws of such phenomena, and exclaimed to a friend, ‘The God of Nature suffers.’ Scholastic theology adds, that the Athenians, in consequence, erected the altar mentioned by St. Paul ‘to the unknown God.’ Dionysius is hence admitted in Art as one of the witnesses of Christ. - A. B. JAMESON & E. R. EASTLAKE