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501 2, 3 | when by touching the hem of His garment the woman was 502 2, 3 | the countless multitude of the signs through which 503 2, 3 | express their thoughts consist of words. For I have been able 504 2, 3 | signs, the various classes of which I have briefly touched 505 2, 3 | effort express words in terms of those signs. ~ 506 2, 4 | chap. 4. Origin of writing~ 507 2, 4 | sound, men have by means of letters formed signs of 508 2, 4 | of letters formed signs of words. Thus the sounds of 509 2, 4 | of words. Thus the sounds of the voice are made visible 510 2, 4 | visible to the eye, not of course as sounds, but by 511 2, 4 | as sounds, but by means of certain signs. It has been 512 2, 4 | nations owing to the sin of discord among men, which 513 2, 4 | heaven was an indication of this arrogance of spirit; 514 2, 4 | indication of this arrogance of spirit; and the ungodly 515 2, 4 | justly earned the punishment of having not their minds only, 516 2, 5 | for the terrible diseases of the human will, being at 517 2, 5 | in one language, by means of which it could at the fit 518 2, 5 | out the thought and will of those by whom it was written, 519 2, 5 | these to find out the will of God, in accordance with 520 2, 6 | chap. 6. Use of the obscurities in Scripture 521 2, 6 | fair interpretation. Some of the expressions are so obscure 522 2, 6 | arranged for the purpose of subduing pride by toil, 523 2, 6 | subduing pride by toil, and of preventing a feeling of 524 2, 6 | of preventing a feeling of satiety in the intellect, 525 2, 6 | conversation the Church of Christ uses as a means of 526 2, 6 | of Christ uses as a means of redeeming those who come 527 2, 6 | come to it from all kinds of superstitions, and making 528 2, 6 | through their imitation of good men members of its 529 2, 6 | imitation of good men members of its own body; men who, as 530 2, 6 | as good and true servants of God, have come to the baptismal 531 2, 6 | laying down the burdens of the world, and who rising 532 2, 6 | through the implanting of the Holy Spirit, yield the 533 2, 6 | Spirit, yield the fruit of a twofold love, a love, 534 2, 6 | twofold love, a love, that is, of God and their neighbour; 535 2, 6 | Canticles, where it is said of the Church, when it is being 536 2, 6 | praised under the figure of a beautiful woman, "Thy 537 2, 6 | Thy teeth are like a flock of sheep that are shorn, which 538 2, 6 | language, without the help of this figure? And yet, I 539 2, 6 | I view them as the teeth of the Church, tearing men 540 2, 6 | recognize them under the figure of sheep that have been shorn, 541 2, 6 | laying down the burthens of the world like fleeces, 542 2, 6 | i.e., the twin commandments of love, and none among them 543 2, 6 | Now weakness from either of these causes is to be avoided. 544 2, 6 | almost nothing is dug out of those obscure passages which 545 2, 7 | counsel; sixth, purification of heart; seventh, stop or 546 2, 7 | First of all, then, it is necessary 547 2, 7 | should be led by the fear of God to seek the knowledge 548 2, 7 | God to seek the knowledge of His will, what He commands 549 2, 7 | avoid. Now this fear will of necessity excite in us the 550 2, 7 | excite in us the thought of our mortality and of the 551 2, 7 | thought of our mortality and of the death that is before 552 2, 7 | crucify all the motions of pride as if our flesh were 553 2, 7 | and not to run in the face of Holy Scripture, whether 554 2, 7 | understood it strikes at some of our sins, or, when not understood, 555 2, 7 | After these two steps of fear and piety, we come 556 2, 7 | the third step, knowledge, of which I have now undertaken 557 2, 7 | this every earnest student of the Holy Scriptures exercises 558 2, 7 | that each man should first of all find in the Scriptures 559 2, 7 | being entangled in the love of this world i.e., of temporal 560 2, 7 | love of this world i.e., of temporal things has been 561 2, 7 | which leads him to think of the judgment of God, and 562 2, 7 | to think of the judgment of God, and that piety which 563 2, 7 | submit to the authority of Scripture, compel him to 564 2, 7 | condition. For the knowledge of a good hope makes a man 565 2, 7 | sorrowful. And in this frame of mind he implores with unremitting 566 2, 7 | unremitting prayers the comfort of the Divine help that he 567 2, 7 | righteousness. For in this frame of mind he extricates himself 568 2, 7 | himself from every form of fatal joy in transitory 569 2, 7 | And when, to the extent of his power, he has gazed 570 2, 7 | that owing to the weakness of his sight he cannot endure 571 2, 7 | that is, in the counsel of compassion he cleanses his 572 2, 7 | himself diligently in the love of his neighbour; and when 573 2, 7 | he has reached the point of loving his enemy, full of 574 2, 7 | of loving his enemy, full of hopes and unbroken in strength, 575 2, 7 | a man so purges the eye of his affections as not to 576 2, 7 | truth, either for the sake of pleasing men or with a view 577 2, 7 | with a view to avoid any of the annoyances which beset 578 2, 7 | tranquility. For the fear of God is the beginning of 579 2, 7 | of God is the beginning of wisdom. From that beginning, 580 2, 8 | most skilful interpreter of the sacred writings, then, 581 2, 8 | as reading gives, those of them, at least, that are 582 2, 8 | when built up in the belief of the truth, so that they 583 2, 8 | not take first possession of a weak mind, nor, cheating 584 2, 8 | must follow the judgment of the greater number of catholic 585 2, 8 | judgment of the greater number of catholic churches; and among 586 2, 8 | churches; and among these, of course, a high place must 587 2, 8 | thought worthy to be the seat of an apostle and to receive 588 2, 8 | such as have the sanction of the greater number and those 589 2, 8 | greater number and those of greater authority, to such 590 2, 8 | smaller number and those of less authority. If, however, 591 2, 8 | held by the greater number of churches, and others by 592 2, 8 | and others by the churches of greater authority (though 593 2, 8 | Now the whole canon of Scripture on which we say 594 2, 8 | following books: Five books of Moses, that is, Genesis, 595 2, 8 | Numbers, Deuteronomy; one book of Joshua the son of Nun; one 596 2, 8 | one book of Joshua the son of Nun; one of Judges; one 597 2, 8 | Joshua the son of Nun; one of Judges; one short book called 598 2, 8 | belong to the beginning of Kings; next, four books 599 2, 8 | Kings; next, four books of Kings, and two of Chronicles, 600 2, 8 | books of Kings, and two of Chronicles, these last not 601 2, 8 | contains a connected narrative of the times, and follows the 602 2, 8 | times, and follows the order of the events. There are other 603 2, 8 | connected neither with the order of the preceding books nor 604 2, 8 | Judith, and the two books of Maccabees, and the two of 605 2, 8 | of Maccabees, and the two of Ezra, which last look more 606 2, 8 | terminates with the books of Kings and Chronicles. Next 607 2, 8 | which there is one book of the Psalms of David; and 608 2, 8 | is one book of the Psalms of David; and three books of 609 2, 8 | of David; and three books of Solomon, viz., Proverbs, 610 2, 8 | Solomon, viz., Proverbs, Song of Songs, and Ecclesiastes. 611 2, 8 | from a certain resemblance of style, but the most likely 612 2, 8 | written by Jesus the son of Sirach. Still they are to 613 2, 8 | Prophets: twelve separate books of the prophets which are connected 614 2, 8 | reckoned as one book; the names of these prophets are as follows: 615 2, 8 | Ezekiel. The authority of the Old Testament is contained 616 2, 8 | contained within the limits of these forty-four books. 617 2, 8 | these forty-four books. That of the New Testament, again, 618 2, 8 | the following: Four books of the Gospel, according to 619 2, 8 | John; fourteen epistles of the Apostle Paul one to 620 2, 8 | Philemon, to the Hebrews: two of Peter; three of John; one 621 2, 8 | Hebrews: two of Peter; three of John; one of Jude; and one 622 2, 8 | Peter; three of John; one of Jude; and one of James; 623 2, 8 | John; one of Jude; and one of James; one book of the Acts 624 2, 8 | and one of James; one book of the Acts of the Apostles; 625 2, 8 | James; one book of the Acts of the Apostles; and one of 626 2, 8 | of the Apostles; and one of the Revelation of John. ~ 627 2, 8 | and one of the Revelation of John. ~ 628 2, 9 | those who fear God and are of a meek and pious disposition 629 2, 9 | disposition seek the will of God. And in pursuing this 630 2, 9 | to remain wholly ignorant of them. Next, those matters 631 2, 9 | down in them, whether rules of life or rules of faith, 632 2, 9 | whether rules of life or rules of faith, are to be searched 633 2, 9 | diligently; and the more of these a man discovers, the 634 2, 9 | concern faith and the manner of life, to wit, hope and love, 635 2, 9 | to wit, hope and love, of which I have spoken in the 636 2, 9 | familiar with the language of Scripture, we may proceed 637 2, 9 | obscure, and use the evidence of passages about which there 638 2, 10 | ox understand a preacher of the gospel, as Scripture 639 2, 11 | chap. 11. Knowledge of languages especially of 640 2, 11 | of languages especially of Greek and Hebrew, necessary 641 2, 11 | necessary to remove ignorance of signs~ 642 2, 11 | great remedy for ignorance of proper signs is knowledge 643 2, 11 | proper signs is knowledge of languages. And men who speak 644 2, 11 | speak the Latin tongue, of whom are those I have undertaken 645 2, 11 | languages for the knowledge of Scripture, Hebrew and Greek, 646 2, 11 | if the endless diversity of the Latin translators throw 647 2, 11 | Racha, Hosanna, and others of the same kind. Some of these, 648 2, 11 | others of the same kind. Some of these, although they could 649 2, 11 | original form on account of the more sacred authority 650 2, 11 | Amen and Hallelujah. Some of them, again, are said to 651 2, 11 | untranslatable into another tongue, of which the other two I have 652 2, 11 | translated into the idiom of another language. And this 653 2, 11 | happens chiefly in the case of interjections, which are 654 2, 11 | express rather an emotion of the mind than any part of 655 2, 11 | of the mind than any part of a thought we have in our 656 2, 11 | given above are said to be of this kind, Racha expressing 657 2, 11 | Racha expressing the cry of an angry man, Hosanna that 658 2, 11 | angry man, Hosanna that of a joyful man. But the knowledge 659 2, 11 | joyful man. But the knowledge of these languages is necessary, 660 2, 11 | necessary, not for the sake of a few words like these which 661 2, 11 | has been said, on account of the diversities among translators. 662 2, 11 | translators. For the translations of the Scriptures from Hebrew 663 2, 11 | Latin translators are out of all number. For in the early 664 2, 11 | number. For in the early days of the faith every man who 665 2, 11 | were it ever so little, of the two languages, ventured 666 2, 11 | ventured upon the work of translation. ~ 667 2, 12 | chap. 12. A diversity of interpretations is useful. 668 2, 12 | hinder the understanding of Scripture, if only readers 669 2, 12 | careless. For the examination of a number of texts has often 670 2, 12 | examination of a number of texts has often thrown light 671 2, 12 | often thrown light upon some of the more obscure passages; 672 2, 12 | example, in that passage of the prophet Isaiah, one 673 2, 12 | not despise the domestics of thy seed;" another reads: " 674 2, 12 | despise thine own flesh." Each of these in turn confirms the 675 2, 12 | body; and "the domestics of thy seed" may be understood 676 2, 12 | understood figuratively of Christians, because they 677 2, 12 | they are spiritually born of the same seed as ourselves, 678 2, 12 | Word. When now the meaning of the two translators is compared, 679 2, 12 | compared, a more likely sense of the words suggests itself, 680 2, 12 | the expression "domestics of thy seed " into relation 681 2, 12 | I think, that expression of the apostle, when he says, " 682 2, 12 | flesh, and might save some of them;" that is, that through 683 2, 12 | that through emulation of those who had believed, 684 2, 12 | those who had believed, some of them might believe too. 685 2, 12 | his "flesh," on account of the relationship of blood. 686 2, 12 | account of the relationship of blood. Again, that passage 687 2, 12 | shall not abide." Now which of these is the literal translation 688 2, 12 | upon milk, in the cradles of temporal things (for now 689 2, 12 | wholly alien to the sense of the writer. As for example, 690 2, 12 | taking the wrong sense of an ambiguous word, fell 691 2, 12 | interpret, but to correct texts of this sort. For the same 692 2, 12 | moscheumata" are shoots of trees, and have translated 693 2, 12 | follow. For "the plantings of an adulterer will not take 694 2, 12 | is a more suitable form of expression than the "calves;" 695 2, 12 | passage, indeed, the rest of the context also justifies 696 2, 13 | departs from the meaning of his author, we must either 697 2, 13 | endeavour to get a knowledge of those languages from which 698 2, 13 | Latin, or we must get hold of the translations of those 699 2, 13 | hold of the translations of those who keep rather close 700 2, 13 | rather close to the letter of the original, not because 701 2, 13 | the freedom or the error of others, who in their translations 702 2, 13 | wished to hold by the usage of the ancients who spoke Latin. 703 2, 13 | interfere with the understanding of the passage, yet they are 704 2, 13 | things when even the signs of those things are kept in 705 2, 13 | nothing else than the putting of words together according 706 2, 13 | rule from that which those of our predecessors who spoke 707 2, 13 | or inter hominibus, is of no consequence to a man 708 2, 13 | barbarism but the pronouncing of a word in a different way 709 2, 13 | or short, is not a matter of much concern to the man 710 2, 13 | sins. What then is purity of speech, except the preserving 711 2, 13 | speech, except the preserving of the custom of language established 712 2, 13 | preserving of the custom of language established by 713 2, 13 | established by the authority of former speakers? ~ 714 2, 13 | easily offended in a matter of this kind, just in proportion 715 2, 13 | learned, not in the knowledge of things which tend to edification, 716 2, 13 | edification, but in that of signs, by which it is hard 717 2, 13 | seeing that the knowledge of things even would often 718 2, 13 | not held down by the yoke of our Master. For how does 719 2, 13 | this is simply the idiom of another language than that 720 2, 13 | take away from the lips of the people who sing it: " 721 2, 13 | anything stand in the way of the correction being made, 722 2, 13 | being made, except the usage of the singers. Mistakes of 723 2, 13 | of the singers. Mistakes of this kind, then, if a man 724 2, 13 | the other hand, the saying of the apostle: "Quod stultum 725 2, 13 | Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and 726 2, 13 | than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men 727 2, 13 | hominum" (What is foolish of God is wiser of men, and 728 2, 13 | foolish of God is wiser of men, and what is weak of 729 2, 13 | of men, and what is weak of God is stronger of men), 730 2, 13 | weak of God is stronger of men), a quick and careful 731 2, 13 | meaning, but still a man of slower intelligence either 732 2, 13 | not only is such a form of speech faulty in the Latin 733 2, 13 | might be, that the folly of men or the weakness of men 734 2, 13 | folly of men or the weakness of men is wiser or stronger 735 2, 13 | wiser or stronger than that of God. But indeed even the 736 2, 13 | hominibus" is put as the plural of the dative or as the plural 737 2, 13 | dative or as the plural of the ablative, does not appear, 738 2, 14 | chap. 14. How the meaning of unknown words and idioms 739 2, 14 | I am treating at present of unknown signs, of which, 740 2, 14 | present of unknown signs, of which, as far as the words 741 2, 14 | either a word or an idiom, of which the reader is ignorant, 742 2, 14 | memory than those kinds of words and phrases whose 743 2, 14 | with a more learned man of whom we can inquire, or 744 2, 14 | the force and significance of the phrase we are ignorant 745 2, 14 | the phrase we are ignorant of, we can easily by the help 746 2, 14 | we can easily by the help of our memory turn our attention 747 2, 14 | great, however, is the force of custom, even in regard to 748 2, 14 | who have been in a sort of way nurtured and brought 749 2, 14 | brought up on the study of Holy Scripture, are surprised 750 2, 14 | surprised at other forms of speech, and think them less 751 2, 14 | matter, too, the great number of the translators proves a 752 2, 14 | with a careful comparison of their texts. Only all positive 753 2, 14 | skill in the correction of the texts, so that the uncorrected 754 2, 14 | least when they are copies of the same translation. ~ 755 2, 15 | without prejudice to clearness of expression. And to correct 756 2, 15 | among which the authority of the Septuagint is preeminent 757 2, 15 | translators enjoyed so much of the presence and power of 758 2, 15 | of the presence and power of the Holy Spirit in their 759 2, 15 | Holy Spirit in their work of translation, that among 760 2, 15 | that among that number of men there was but one voice. 761 2, 15 | and as many not unworthy of confidence assert, they 762 2, 15 | separated during the work of translation, each man being 763 2, 15 | found in the manuscript of any one of them that was 764 2, 15 | the manuscript of any one of them that was not found 765 2, 15 | words and in the same order of words in all the rest, who 766 2, 15 | like this, not to speak of preferring anything to it? 767 2, 15 | unanimous agreement sprang out of the common labour and judgment 768 2, 15 | common labour and judgment of them all; even so, it would 769 2, 15 | correct the unanimous opinion of many venerable and learned 770 2, 15 | way to the dispensation of Providence which used these 771 2, 15 | were, with the assistance of the power of King Ptolemy, 772 2, 15 | assistance of the power of King Ptolemy, made known 773 2, 15 | said above, a comparison of those translators also who 774 2, 15 | help to the clearing up of the meaning. The Latin texts, 775 2, 15 | Latin texts, therefore, of the Old Testament are, as 776 2, 15 | necessary by the authority of the Greeks, and especially 777 2, 15 | and especially by that of those who, though they were 778 2, 15 | one voice. As to the books of the New Testament, again, 779 2, 15 | arises from the diversities of the Latin texts, we must 780 2, 15 | the Latin texts, we must of course yield to the Greek, 781 2, 15 | are found in the churches of greater learning and research. ~ 782 2, 16 | 16. The knowledge both of language and things is helpful 783 2, 16 | helpful for the understanding of figurative expressions~ 784 2, 16 | In the case of figurative signs, again, 785 2, 16 | signs, again, if ignorance of any of them should chance 786 2, 16 | again, if ignorance of any of them should chance to bring 787 2, 16 | partly by the knowledge of languages, partly by the 788 2, 16 | partly by the knowledge of things. The pool of Siloam, 789 2, 16 | knowledge of things. The pool of Siloam, for example, where 790 2, 16 | anointed with clay made out of spittle was commanded to 791 2, 16 | interpreted by the writers of those books, would, if any 792 2, 16 | could interpret them, be of great value and service 793 2, 16 | service in solving the enigmas of Scripture. And a number 794 2, 16 | Scripture. And a number of men skilled in that language 795 2, 16 | Moses, and also the names of places, what Jerusalem signifies, 796 2, 16 | Ignorance of things, too, renders figurative 797 2, 16 | we do not know the nature of the animals, or minerals, 798 2, 16 | referred to in Scripture by way of comparison. The fact so 799 2, 16 | throws upon the meaning of our Lord's command, that 800 2, 16 | to say, that for the sake of our head, which is Christ, 801 2, 16 | that the serpent gets rid of its old skin by squeezing 802 2, 16 | direction to imitate the wisdom of the serpent, and to put 803 2, 16 | according to the saying of our Lord, "Enter ye in at 804 2, 16 | gate!" As, then, knowledge of the nature of the serpent 805 2, 16 | knowledge of the nature of the serpent throws light 806 2, 16 | that animal, so ignorance of other animals, which are 807 2, 16 | frequently mentioned by way of comparison, is a very great 808 2, 16 | minerals and plants: knowledge of the carbuncle, for instance, 809 2, 16 | throws light upon many of the dark places in books 810 2, 16 | metaphorically; and ignorance of the beryl or the adamant 811 2, 16 | adamant often shuts the doors of knowledge. And the only 812 2, 16 | both that the smooth touch of olive oil is not easily 813 2, 16 | easily spoiled by a fluid of another kind, and that the 814 2, 16 | Many, again, by reason of their ignorance of hyssop, 815 2, 16 | reason of their ignorance of hyssop, not knowing the 816 2, 16 | power it is said to have of piercing rocks with its 817 2, 16 | Ignorance of numbers, too, prevents us 818 2, 16 | And except by knowledge of and reflection upon the 819 2, 16 | the number, the difficulty of explaining the figure involved 820 2, 16 | indicating the knowledge of all things, and that knowledge 821 2, 16 | the diurnal in the hours of the morning, the noontime, 822 2, 16 | joy in time, for the sake of that eternity in which we 823 2, 16 | although by the passage of time we are taught this 824 2, 16 | taught this very lesson of despising time and seeking 825 2, 16 | signifies the knowledge of the Creator and the creature, 826 2, 16 | indicates the creature, because of the life and the body. For 827 2, 16 | body. For the life consists of three parts, whence also 828 2, 16 | there are four elements of which it is made up. In 829 2, 16 | unstained by, and not partaking of, any delight in time, that 830 2, 16 | to fast for forty days. Of this we are admonished by 831 2, 16 | receiving the witness both of the law and the prophets, 832 2, 16 | in the same way, how out of the number forty springs 833 2, 16 | attached to it on account of the Pentecost, and how this 834 2, 16 | taken thrice on account of the three divisions of time, 835 2, 16 | account of the three divisions of time, before the law, under 836 2, 16 | grace, or perhaps on account of the name of the Father, 837 2, 16 | perhaps on account of the name of the Father, Son, and Holy 838 2, 16 | reference to the mystery of the most Holy Church, and 839 2, 16 | and reaches to the number of the one hundred and fifty-three 840 2, 16 | taken after the resurrection of our Lord, when the nets 841 2, 16 | out on the right-hand side of the boat. And in the same 842 2, 16 | numbers and combinations of numbers are used in the 843 2, 16 | figurative guise, and ignorance of numbers often shuts out 844 2, 16 | and obscured by ignorance of music. One man, for example, 845 2, 16 | question which it is not out of place for learned men to 846 2, 16 | that compels the psalters of ten chords to have just 847 2, 16 | more to be considered as of sacred significance, either 848 2, 16 | to the ten commandments of the law (and if again any 849 2, 16 | interpreted above. And the number of years the temple was in 850 2, 16 | referred to the structure of our Lord's body, in relation 851 2, 17 | chap. 17. Origin of the legend of the nine Muses~ 852 2, 17 | 17. Origin of the legend of the nine Muses~ 853 2, 17 | listen to the falsities of heathen superstition, which 854 2, 17 | nine Muses as daughters of Jupiter and Mercury. Varro 855 2, 17 | name) ordered from each of three artists a set of statues 856 2, 17 | each of three artists a set of statues of the Muses, to 857 2, 17 | artists a set of statues of the Muses, to be placed 858 2, 17 | an offering in the temple of Apollo, intending that whichever 859 2, 17 | intending that whichever of the artists produced the 860 2, 17 | dedicated in the temple of Apollo; and he says that 861 2, 17 | that number to the eyes of any of the citizens, but 862 2, 17 | number to the eyes of any of the citizens, but because 863 2, 17 | sound, which is the material of song, is by nature of three 864 2, 17 | material of song, is by nature of three kinds. For it is either 865 2, 17 | the voice, as in the case of those who sing with the 866 2, 17 | blowing, as in the case of trumpets and flutes; or 867 2, 17 | striking, as in the case of harps and drums, and all 868 2, 18 | to give up music because of the superstition of the 869 2, 18 | because of the superstition of the heathen, if we can derive 870 2, 18 | anything from it that is of use for the understanding 871 2, 18 | use for the understanding of Holy Scripture; nor does 872 2, 18 | prefer to worship in the form of stones things that ought 873 2, 18 | him reject the figments of superstition, and let him 874 2, 18 | fools, and changed the glory of the incorruptible God into 875 2, 19 | chap. 19. Two kinds of heathen knowledge~ 876 2, 19 | omitted), there are two kinds of knowledge which are in vogue 877 2, 19 | heathen. One is the knowledge of things instituted by men, 878 2, 19 | instituted by men, the other of things which they have noted, 879 2, 20 | The superstitious nature of human institutions~ 880 2, 20 | the making and worshipping of idols are superstitious, 881 2, 20 | do either to the worship of what is created or of some 882 2, 20 | worship of what is created or of some part of it as God, 883 2, 20 | created or of some part of it as God, or to consultations 884 2, 20 | but with a bolder reach of deception, the books of 885 2, 20 | of deception, the books of the haruspices and augurs. 886 2, 20 | reference to the condition of the body, but to certain 887 2, 20 | the less offensive name of physica, so as to appear 888 2, 20 | but to be taking advantage of the forces of nature. Examples 889 2, 20 | advantage of the forces of nature. Examples of these 890 2, 20 | forces of nature. Examples of these are the earrings on 891 2, 20 | the earrings on the top of each ear, or the rings of 892 2, 20 | of each ear, or the rings of ostrich bone on the fingers, 893 2, 20 | these we may add thousands of the most frivolous practices, 894 2, 20 | be observed if any part of the body should jump, or 895 2, 20 | between them. And the kicking of a stone, as if it were a 896 2, 20 | as if it were a divider of friends, does less harm 897 2, 20 | impunity however, for instead of a superstitious remedy, 898 2, 20 | when you go out in front of the house; to go back to 899 2, 20 | frightened at the prospect of coming misfortune than grieved 900 2, 20 | Whence that witty saying of Cato, who, when consulted 901 2, 21 | chap. 21. Superstition of astrologers~ 902 2, 21 | we exclude from this kind of superstition those who were 903 2, 21 | genethliaci, on account of their attention to birthdays, 904 2, 21 | pains for the true position of the stars at the time of 905 2, 21 | of the stars at the time of our birth, and may sometimes 906 2, 21 | actions, or the consequences of our actions, grievously 907 2, 21 | freeman goes to an astrologer of this kind, he gives money 908 2, 21 | come away the slave either of Mars or of Venus, or rather, 909 2, 21 | slave either of Mars or of Venus, or rather, perhaps, 910 2, 21 | Venus, or rather, perhaps, of all the stars to which those 911 2, 21 | have given the names either of beasts on account of their 912 2, 21 | either of beasts on account of their likeness to beasts, 913 2, 21 | their likeness to beasts, or of men with a view to confer 914 2, 21 | Lucifer to the name and honour of Caesar. And this would, 915 2, 21 | vacant, or not held in honour of any of the dead of former 916 2, 21 | not held in honour of any of the dead of former times, 917 2, 21 | honour of any of the dead of former times, the usual 918 2, 21 | we have changed the names of the months Quintilis and 919 2, 21 | August, naming them in honour of the men Julius Caesar and 920 2, 21 | see that the stars spoken of above formerly wandered 921 2, 21 | movement has arrived, by use of the rules discovered and 922 2, 22 | Chap. 22. The folly of observing the stars in order 923 2, 22 | order to predict the events of a life~ 924 2, 22 | the acts, and the fate of those who are born from 925 2, 22 | least who have any sort of acquaintance with matters 926 2, 22 | acquaintance with matters of this kind (which, indeed, 927 2, 22 | refuted beyond the reach of doubt. For the observation 928 2, 22 | For the observation is of the position of the stars, 929 2, 22 | observation is of the position of the stars, which they call 930 2, 22 | happen that, in the case of twins, one follows the other 931 2, 22 | one follows the other out of the womb so closely that 932 2, 22 | that there is no interval of time between them that can 933 2, 22 | and marked in the position of the constellations. Whence 934 2, 22 | fates so different that one of them has a most fortunate 935 2, 22 | with his hand upon the heel of his brother, who preceded 936 2, 22 | assuredly, the day and hour of the birth of these two could 937 2, 22 | day and hour of the birth of these two could not be marked 938 2, 22 | labours, and the fortunes of these two, the Scriptures 939 2, 22 | spread as to be in the mouth of all nations. ~ 940 2, 22 | smallest and briefest moment of time that separates the 941 2, 22 | that separates the birth of twins, produces great effects 942 2, 22 | the extremely rapid motion of the heavenly bodies. For, 943 2, 22 | constellations, which must, of course, be the same whether 944 2, 22 | origin in certain signs of things being arbitrarily 945 2, 22 | upon by the presumption of men, are to be referred 946 2, 23 | 23. Why we repudiate arts of divination~ 947 2, 23 | are, by a secret judgment of God, delivered over to be 948 2, 23 | deceived, as the just reward of their evil desires. For 949 2, 23 | to whom the lowest part of the world has been put in 950 2, 23 | in subjection by the law of God's providence, and in 951 2, 23 | most admirable arrangement of things. And the result of 952 2, 23 | of things. And the result of these delusions and deceptions 953 2, 23 | superstitious and baneful modes of divination, many things 954 2, 23 | foretold; and in the case of those who practice superstitious 955 2, 23 | and further in a labyrinth of most pernicious error. And 956 2, 23 | our advantage, the Word of God is not silent about 957 2, 23 | silent about this species of fornication of the soul; 958 2, 23 | this species of fornication of the soul; and it does not 959 2, 23 | them." For though the ghost of the dead Samuel foretold 960 2, 23 | ventriloquist woman in the Acts of the Apostles bore true testimony 961 2, 23 | testimony to the apostles of the Lord, the Apostle Paul 962 2, 23 | All arts of this sort, therefore, are 963 2, 23 | either nullities, or are part of a guilty superstition, springing 964 2, 23 | superstition, springing out of a baleful fellowship between 965 2, 23 | Christian as the covenants of a false and treacherous 966 2, 23 | lead either to the worship of idols, or to worshipping 967 2, 23 | creation or its parts instead of God, or which are connected 968 2, 23 | God as the public means of promoting love towards God 969 2, 23 | but they waste the hearts of wretched men in private 970 2, 23 | regard to all these branches of knowledge, we must fear 971 2, 23 | and shun the fellowship of demons, who, with the Devil 972 2, 23 | men have drawn lying omens of their own fancy, so also 973 2, 23 | existence under the government of God's providence, if there 974 2, 23 | drawn omens by conjectures of their own, and have committed 975 2, 24 | And all these omens are of force just so far as has 976 2, 24 | language, but they are all full of hurtful curiosity, torturing 977 2, 24 | each person the same sort of omens as they see his own 978 2, 24 | illustration, the same figure of the letter X, which is made 979 2, 24 | which is made in the shape of a cross, means one thing 980 2, 24 | beta, which is the name of a letter among the Greeks, 981 2, 24 | the Greeks, is the name of a vegetable among the Latins; 982 2, 24 | according to the arrangements of the community in which each 983 2, 24 | quite plainly in the rites of the augurs; for they, both 984 2, 24 | flight or hear the cries of birds, because these omens 985 2, 24 | because these omens are of no significance apart from 986 2, 24 | arrangement in the mind of the observer. ~ 987 2, 25 | cut away and rooted out of the mind of the Christian, 988 2, 25 | and rooted out of the mind of the Christian, we must then 989 2, 25 | human institutions; and of these, some are matters 990 2, 25 | these, some are matters of superfluity and luxury, 991 2, 25 | superfluity and luxury, some of convenience and necessity. 992 2, 25 | actors make in dancing were of force by nature, and not 993 2, 25 | arrangement and agreement of men, the public crier would 994 2, 25 | announced to the people of Carthage, while the pantomime 995 2, 25 | aim at a certain degree of likeness in their choice 996 2, 25 | likeness in their choice of signs, that the signs may 997 2, 25 | such signs are not always of the same significance among 998 2, 25 | statues, and other works of this kind, which are intended 999 2, 25 | intended as representations of things, nobody makes a mistake, 1000 2, 25 | things they are likenesses of. And this whole class are