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501 1, 34 | us, but wishes us rather to press on; and, instead of 502 1, 34 | instead of weakly clinging to temporal things, even though 503 1, 34 | by Him for our salvation, to pass over them quickly, 504 1, 34 | pass over them quickly, and to struggle to attain unto 505 1, 34 | quickly, and to struggle to attain unto Himself, who 506 1, 35 | love of an object which is to be enjoyed, and the love 507 1, 35 | know this truth and be able to act upon it; and we ought 508 1, 35 | act upon it; and we ought to use that dispensation, not 509 1, 35 | delight as if it were a good to rest in, but with a transient 510 1, 35 | express the idea that we are to love the things by which 511 1, 36 | upon them as does not tend to build up this twofold love 512 1, 36 | author whom he reads intended to express in that place, his 513 1, 36 | deception the intention to say what is false; and we 514 1, 36 | plenty of people who intend to deceive, but nobody who 515 1, 36 | deceive, but nobody who wishes to be deceived. Since, then, 516 1, 36 | seeing that it is better to suffer than to commit injustice. 517 1, 36 | is better to suffer than to commit injustice. Now every 518 1, 36 | of course, that the man to whom he lies should place 519 1, 36 | his confidence by lying to him. Now every man who breaks 520 1, 36 | Nevertheless, as I was going to say, if his mistaken interpretation 521 1, 36 | mistaken interpretation tends to build up love, which is 522 1, 36 | the fields the same place to which the road leads. He 523 1, 36 | which the road leads. He is to be corrected, however, and 524 1, 36 | corrected, however, and to be shown how much better 525 1, 36 | how much better it is not to quit the straight road, 526 1, 37 | true one: and so it comes to pass, one can hardly tell 527 1, 37 | his own opinion, he begins to feel more angry with Scripture 528 1, 37 | should once permit that evil to creep in, it will utterly 529 1, 37 | authority of Scripture begin to shake. And then, if faith 530 1, 37 | what he does not believe to exist. But if he both believes 531 1, 37 | through diligent attention to the precepts of morality, 532 1, 37 | precepts of morality, he comes to hope also that he shall 533 1, 37 | these are the three things to which all knowledge and 534 1, 38 | up in that perfect bliss to which we shall come: love, 535 1, 38 | we love it when we begin to see! And if we love by hope 536 1, 38 | we possess it, and begins to prove worthless the moment 537 1, 38 | on it than really belongs to it, so as to think it comparatively 538 1, 38 | really belongs to it, so as to think it comparatively worthless 539 1, 38 | it when he is on his way to possess it, he will find 540 1, 39 | up in them, that, holding to what is perfect, they do 541 1, 40 | understanding of Scripture to bear upon these three graces, 542 1, 40 | three graces, he may come to the interpretation of these 543 1, 40 | adds "out of a pure heart," to provide against anything 544 1, 40 | conscience," in reference to hope; for, if a man has 545 1, 40 | living uprightly we are able to indulge the hope that our 546 1, 40 | reasons I have been anxious to speak about the objects 547 2, arg | the author now proceeds to discuss the subject of signs. 548 2, arg | from ignorance of signs is to be removed by learning the 549 2, arg | translations, and by attending to the context. In the interpretation 550 2, arg | and useful, may be turned to account in removing our 551 2, arg | philosophy may be turned to a Christian use. And in 552 2, arg | spirit in which it behoves us to address ourselves to the 553 2, arg | us to address ourselves to the study and interpretation 554 2, 1 | warning against attending to anything but what they are 555 2, 1 | when I come in its turn to discuss the subject of signs, 556 2, 1 | down this direction, not to attend to what they are 557 2, 1 | direction, not to attend to what they are in themselves, 558 2, 1 | they are in themselves, but to the fact that they are signs, 559 2, 1 | they are signs, that is, to what they signify. For a 560 2, 1 | senses, causes something else to come into the mind as a 561 2, 1 | soldiers know that they are to advance or retreat, or do 562 2, 1 | them as signs, do yet lead to the knowledge of something 563 2, 1 | so, but through attention to experience we come to know 564 2, 1 | attention to experience we come to know that fire is beneath, 565 2, 1 | animal passing by belongs to this class of signs. And 566 2, 1 | is no part of my design to discuss at present. But 567 2, 1 | over. It will be enough to have noticed it thus far. ~ 568 2, 2 | own mind. We wish, then, to consider and discuss this 569 2, 2 | Scriptures, were made known to us through men those, namely, 570 2, 2 | with his voice for the hen to run to him, and the dove 571 2, 2 | voice for the hen to run to him, and the dove by cooing 572 2, 2 | question, and does not pertain to the matter in hand. And 573 2, 2 | this work as not necessary to my present object. ~ 574 2, 3 | communicate their thoughts to one another, some relate 575 2, 3 | one another, some relate to the sense of sight, some 576 2, 3 | the sense of sight, some to that of hearing, a very 577 2, 3 | that of hearing, a very few to the other senses. For, when 578 2, 3 | we give no sign except to the eyes of the man to whom 579 2, 3 | except to the eyes of the man to whom we wish by this sign 580 2, 3 | whom we wish by this sign to impart our desire. And some 581 2, 3 | limbs give certain signs to the initiated, and, so to 582 2, 3 | to the initiated, and, so to speak, address their conversation 583 2, 3 | address their conversation to the eyes: and the military 584 2, 3 | that address themselves to the ear are, as I have said, 585 2, 3 | words. For I have been able to put into words all those 586 2, 4 | the voice are made visible to the eye, not of course as 587 2, 4 | found impossible, however, to make those signs common 588 2, 4 | make those signs common to all nations owing to the 589 2, 4 | common to all nations owing to the sin of discord among 590 2, 4 | springs from every man trying to snatch the chief place for 591 2, 4 | celebrated tower which was built to reach to heaven was an indication 592 2, 4 | which was built to reach to heaven was an indication 593 2, 5 | wide, and thus became known to the nations for their salvation. 594 2, 5 | men seek nothing more than to find out the thought and 595 2, 5 | written, and through these to find out the will of God, 596 2, 5 | which they believe these men to have spoken. ~ 597 2, 6 | expressions are so obscure as to shroud the meaning in the 598 2, 6 | redeeming those who come to it from all kinds of superstitions, 599 2, 6 | servants of God, have come to the baptismal font laying 600 2, 6 | more than when he listens to the same thought expressed 601 2, 6 | and one very difficult to answer. Nobody, however, 602 2, 6 | pleasanter in some cases to have knowledge communicated 603 2, 6 | either of these causes is to be avoided. Accordingly 604 2, 6 | by the plainer passages to satisfy our hunger, and 605 2, 6 | and by the more obscure to stimulate our appetite. 606 2, 7 | chap. 7. Steps to wisdom: first, fear; second, 607 2, 7 | be led by the fear of God to seek the knowledge of His 608 2, 7 | will, what He commands us to desire and what to avoid. 609 2, 7 | commands us to desire and what to avoid. Now this fear will 610 2, 7 | if our flesh were nailed to the tree. Next it is necessary 611 2, 7 | tree. Next it is necessary to have our hearts subdued 612 2, 7 | subdued by piety, and not to run in the face of Holy 613 2, 7 | fear and piety, we come to the third step, knowledge, 614 2, 7 | which I have now undertaken to treat. For in this every 615 2, 7 | Scriptures exercises himself, to find nothing else in them 616 2, 7 | in them but that God is to be loved for His own sake, 617 2, 7 | s sake; and that God is to be loved with all the heart. 618 2, 7 | ourselves, should have reference to God. And on these two commandments 619 2, 7 | that fear which leads him to think of the judgment of 620 2, 7 | gives him no option but to believe in and submit to 621 2, 7 | to believe in and submit to the authority of Scripture, 622 2, 7 | of Scripture, compel him to bewail his condition. For 623 2, 7 | and so he gradually comes to the fourth step, that is, 624 2, 7 | affection on things eternal, to wit, the unchangeable Trinity 625 2, 7 | And when, to the extent of his power, 626 2, 7 | and has felt that owing to the weakness of his sight 627 2, 7 | unbroken in strength, he mounts to the sixth step, in which 628 2, 7 | who as far as possible die to this world. For men see 629 2, 7 | just so far as they die to this world; and so far as 630 2, 7 | and so far as they live to it they see Him not. But 631 2, 7 | although that light may begin to appear clearer, and not 632 2, 7 | darkly that we are said to see, because we walk by 633 2, 7 | sight, while we continue to wander as strangers in this 634 2, 7 | of his affections as not to place his neighbour before, 635 2, 7 | pleasing men or with a view to avoid any of the annoyances 636 2, 7 | life. Such a son ascends to wisdom which is the seventh 637 2, 8 | But let us now go back to consider the third step 638 2, 8 | it that I have set myself to speak and reason as the 639 2, 8 | it with prejudices averse to a sound understanding. Now, 640 2, 8 | understanding. Now, in regard to the canonical Scriptures, 641 2, 8 | high place must be given to such as have been thought 642 2, 8 | have been thought worthy to be the seat of an apostle 643 2, 8 | the seat of an apostle and to receive epistles. Accordingly, 644 2, 8 | he will judge according to the following standard: 645 2, 8 | the following standard: to prefer those that are received 646 2, 8 | all the catholic churches to those which some do not 647 2, 8 | those of greater authority, to such as are held by the 648 2, 8 | not a very likely thing to happen), I think that in 649 2, 8 | authority on the two sides is to be looked upon as equal. ~ 650 2, 8 | we say this judgment is to be exercised, is contained 651 2, 8 | Ruth, which seems rather to belong to the beginning 652 2, 8 | which seems rather to belong to the beginning of Kings; 653 2, 8 | but running parallel, so to speak, and going over the 654 2, 8 | are other books which seem to follow no regular order, 655 2, 8 | look more like a sequel to the continuous regular history 656 2, 8 | Ecclesiasticus, are ascribed to Solomon from a certain resemblance 657 2, 8 | of Sirach. Still they are to be reckoned among the prophetical 658 2, 8 | of the Gospel, according to Matthew, according to Mark, 659 2, 8 | according to Matthew, according to Mark, according to Luke, 660 2, 8 | according to Mark, according to Luke, according to John; 661 2, 8 | according to Luke, according to John; fourteen epistles 662 2, 8 | of the Apostle Paul one to the Romans, two to the Corinthians, 663 2, 8 | Paul one to the Romans, two to the Corinthians, one to 664 2, 8 | to the Corinthians, one to the Galatians, to the Ephesians, 665 2, 8 | Corinthians, one to the Galatians, to the Ephesians, to the Philippians, 666 2, 8 | Galatians, to the Ephesians, to the Philippians, two to 667 2, 8 | to the Philippians, two to the Thessalonians, one to 668 2, 8 | to the Thessalonians, one to the Colossians, two to Timothy, 669 2, 8 | one to the Colossians, two to Timothy, one to Titus, to 670 2, 8 | Colossians, two to Timothy, one to Titus, to Philemon, to the 671 2, 8 | to Timothy, one to Titus, to Philemon, to the Hebrews: 672 2, 8 | one to Titus, to Philemon, to the Hebrews: two of Peter; 673 2, 9 | this search the first rule to be observed is, as I said, 674 2, 9 | observed is, as I said, to know these books, if not 675 2, 9 | the understanding, still to read them so as to commit 676 2, 9 | still to read them so as to commit them to memory, or 677 2, 9 | them so as to commit them to memory, or at least so as 678 2, 9 | memory, or at least so as not to remain wholly ignorant of 679 2, 9 | life or rules of faith, are to be searched into more carefully 680 2, 9 | laid down in Scripture are to be found all matters that 681 2, 9 | and the manner of life, to wit, hope and love, of which 682 2, 9 | when we have made ourselves to a certain extent familiar 683 2, 9 | Scripture, we may proceed to open up and investigate 684 2, 9 | the plainer expressions to throw light upon the more 685 2, 9 | which there is no doubt to remove all hesitation in 686 2, 9 | all hesitation in regard to the doubtful passages. And 687 2, 10 | proper when they are used to point out the objects they 688 2, 10 | objects they were designed to point out, as we say bos 689 2, 10 | the proper names are used to signify something else, 690 2, 10 | Scripture signifies, according to the apostle's explanation, 691 2, 11 | Greek and Hebrew, necessary to remove ignorance of signs~ 692 2, 11 | those I have undertaken to instruct, need two other 693 2, 11 | that they may have recourse to the original texts if the 694 2, 11 | authority that attaches to it, as for example, Amen 695 2, 11 | of them, again, are said to be untranslatable into another 696 2, 11 | two given above are said to be of this kind, Racha expressing 697 2, 11 | these which it is very easy to mark and to ask about, but, 698 2, 11 | is very easy to mark and to ask about, but, as has been 699 2, 11 | faith every man who happened to get his hands upon a Greek 700 2, 12 | that he is admonished not to despise his own body; and " 701 2, 12 | that the command is not to despise our kinsmen, because 702 2, 12 | kinsmen most naturally occur to one's mind. Whence, I think, 703 2, 12 | any means I may provoke to emulation them which are 704 2, 12 | ascertained without reference to the text in the original 705 2, 12 | original tongue. And yet to those who read with knowledge, 706 2, 12 | knowledge, a great truth is to be found in each. For it 707 2, 12 | difficult for interpreters to differ so widely as not 708 2, 12 | differ so widely as not to touch at some point. Accordingly 709 2, 12 | faith, we shall not attain to sight, which does not pass 710 2, 12 | being purified by holding to the truth; for these reasons 711 2, 12 | very often a translator, to whom the meaning is not 712 2, 12 | construction that is wholly alien to the sense of the writer. 713 2, 12 | read: "Their feet are sharp to shed blood;" for the word " 714 2, 12 | translated: "Their feet are swift to shed blood." The other, 715 2, 12 | things. For we must learn not to interpret, but to correct 716 2, 12 | learn not to interpret, but to correct texts of this sort. 717 2, 13 | several translators endeavour to express, each according 718 2, 13 | express, each according to his own ability and judgment, 719 2, 13 | we must either endeavour to get a knowledge of those 720 2, 13 | those who keep rather close to the letter of the original, 721 2, 13 | because we may use them to correct the freedom or the 722 2, 13 | translations have chosen to follow the sense quite as 723 2, 13 | idiom by any one who wished to hold by the usage of the 724 2, 13 | yet they are offensive to those who feel greater delight 725 2, 13 | words together according to a different rule from that 726 2, 13 | hominibus, is of no consequence to a man who only wishes to 727 2, 13 | to a man who only wishes to know the facts. And in the 728 2, 13 | whether the word ignoscere (to pardon) should be pronounced 729 2, 13 | a matter of much concern to the man who is beseeching 730 2, 13 | he can get the words out, to pardon his sins. What then 731 2, 13 | proportion as they wish to seem learned, not in the 732 2, 13 | knowledge of things which tend to edification, but in that 733 2, 13 | by which it is hard not to be puffed up, seeing that 734 2, 13 | prevent our understanding it to have the following passage 735 2, 13 | And I am more disposed to think that this is simply 736 2, 13 | if a man do not choose to avoid them altogether, it 737 2, 13 | them altogether, it is easy to treat with indifference, 738 2, 13 | indeed by an effort attain to the true meaning, but still 739 2, 13 | appear, unless by reference to the meaning. It would be 740 2, 13 | It would be better then to say,"sapientius est quam 741 2, 14 | unknown words and idioms is to be discovered~ 742 2, 14 | is ignorant, brings him to a stop. Now if these belong 743 2, 14 | stop. Now if these belong to foreign tongues, we must 744 2, 14 | with, we gradually come to know them through being 745 2, 14 | through being accustomed to read or to hear them. There 746 2, 14 | being accustomed to read or to hear them. There is nothing 747 2, 14 | nothing that it is better to commit to memory than those 748 2, 14 | that it is better to commit to memory than those kinds 749 2, 14 | so that where we happen to meet either with a more 750 2, 14 | memory turn our attention to the matter and learn all 751 2, 14 | of custom, even in regard to learning, that those who 752 2, 14 | Scripture, but which are not to be found in Latin authors. 753 2, 14 | For those who are anxious to know the Scriptures ought 754 2, 14 | ought in the first place to use their skill in the correction 755 2, 14 | uncorrected ones should give way to the corrected, at least 756 2, 15 | versions a preference is given to the Septuagint and the Itala~ 757 2, 15 | themselves the Italian (Itala) is to be preferred to the others, 758 2, 15 | Itala) is to be preferred to the others, for it keeps 759 2, 15 | others, for it keeps closer to the words without prejudice 760 2, 15 | words without prejudice to clearness of expression. 761 2, 15 | clearness of expression. And to correct the Latin we must 762 2, 15 | authority like this, not to speak of preferring anything 763 2, 15 | speak of preferring anything to it? And even if they conferred 764 2, 15 | whatever his experience, to aspire to correct the unanimous 765 2, 15 | his experience, to aspire to correct the unanimous opinion 766 2, 15 | I think we must give way to the dispensation of Providence 767 2, 15 | Providence which used these men to bring it about, that books 768 2, 15 | scruple or from jealousy, to make known to other nations, 769 2, 15 | jealousy, to make known to other nations, were, with 770 2, 15 | known so long beforehand to the nations which in the 771 2, 15 | which in the future were to believe in the Lord. And 772 2, 15 | who have kept most closely to the words, is often not 773 2, 15 | without value as a help to the clearing up of the meaning. 774 2, 15 | Testament are, as I was about to say, to be corrected if 775 2, 15 | as I was about to say, to be corrected if necessary 776 2, 15 | seventy in number, are said to have translated as with 777 2, 15 | translated as with one voice. As to the books of the New Testament, 778 2, 15 | we must of course yield to the Greek, especially those 779 2, 16 | any of them should chance to bring the reader to a standstill, 780 2, 16 | chance to bring the reader to a standstill, their meaning 781 2, 16 | standstill, their meaning is to be traced partly by the 782 2, 16 | of spittle was commanded to wash, has a figurative significance, 783 2, 16 | words without reference to their place in Scripture, 784 2, 16 | are frequently referred to in Scripture by way of comparison. 785 2, 16 | serpent, for example, that to protect its head it will 786 2, 16 | will present its whole body to its assailants how much 787 2, 16 | wise as serpents; that is to say, that for the sake of 788 2, 16 | willingly offer our body to the persecutors, lest the 789 2, 16 | be destroyed in us, if to save the body we deny our 790 2, 16 | fits in with the direction to imitate the wisdom of the 791 2, 16 | wisdom of the serpent, and to put off the old man, as 792 2, 16 | may put on the new; and to put it off, too, by coming 793 2, 16 | narrow place, according to the saying of our Lord, " 794 2, 16 | Scripture is accustomed to draw from that animal, so 795 2, 16 | is a very great drawback to the reader. And so in regard 796 2, 16 | reader. And so in regard to minerals and plants: knowledge 797 2, 16 | reason why we find it easy to understand that perpetual 798 2, 16 | with it when it returned to the ark, is that we know 799 2, 16 | nor the power it is said to have of piercing rocks with 800 2, 16 | be anxious, for example, to ascertain what is meant 801 2, 16 | eternity in which we wish to live; although by the passage 802 2, 16 | parts, whence also God is to be loved with the whole 803 2, 16 | times, we are admonished to live unstained by, and not 804 2, 16 | delight in time, that is, to fast for forty days. Of 805 2, 16 | amazement. Next, we have to inquire in the same way, 806 2, 16 | ordinary sacredness attached to it on account of the Pentecost, 807 2, 16 | and above, has reference to the mystery of the most 808 2, 16 | Holy Church, and reaches to the number of the one hundred 809 2, 16 | in the sacred writings, to convey instruction under 810 2, 16 | of place for learned men to discuss, whether there is 811 2, 16 | the psalters of ten chords to have just so many strings; 812 2, 16 | that very account the more to be considered as of sacred 813 2, 16 | significance, either with reference to the ten commandments of 814 2, 16 | number, we can only refer it to the Creator and the creature), 815 2, 16 | creature), or with reference to the number ten itself as 816 2, 16 | sound, and when referred to the structure of our Lord' 817 2, 16 | Lord's body, in relation to which the temple was mentioned, 818 2, 16 | mentioned, compels many heretics to confess that our Lord put 819 2, 17 | For we must not listen to the falsities of heathen 820 2, 17 | of statues of the Muses, to be placed as an offering 821 2, 17 | and that all were bought to be dedicated in the temple 822 2, 17 | Hesiod the poet gave names to them all. It was not Jupiter, 823 2, 17 | themselves in that number to the eyes of any of the citizens, 824 2, 17 | but because it was obvious to remark that all sound, which 825 2, 18 | chap. 18. No help is to be despised even though 826 2, 18 | not so, still we ought not to give up music because of 827 2, 18 | instruments, that may help us to lay hold upon spiritual 828 2, 18 | things. For we ought not to refuse to learn letters 829 2, 18 | For we ought not to refuse to learn letters because they 830 2, 18 | they have dedicated temples to Justice and Virtue, and 831 2, 18 | Justice and Virtue, and prefer to worship in the form of stones 832 2, 18 | stones things that ought to have their place in the 833 2, 18 | ought we on that account to forsake justice and virtue. 834 2, 18 | may be found, it belongs to his Master; and while he 835 2, 18 | darkened. Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, 836 2, 18 | into an image made like to corruptible man, and to 837 2, 18 | to corruptible man, and to birds, and four-footed beasts, 838 2, 19 | But to explain more fully this 839 2, 20 | arrangements made by men to the making and worshipping 840 2, 20 | pertaining as they do either to the worship of what is created 841 2, 20 | some part of it as God, or to consultations and arrangements 842 2, 20 | are accustomed not so much to teach as to celebrate. And 843 2, 20 | not so much to teach as to celebrate. And to this class 844 2, 20 | teach as to celebrate. And to this class belong, but with 845 2, 20 | articles, not with reference to the condition of the body, 846 2, 20 | condition of the body, but to certain signs hidden or 847 2, 20 | offensive name of physica, so as to appear not to be engaged 848 2, 20 | physica, so as to appear not to be engaged in superstitious 849 2, 20 | superstitious observances, but to be taking advantage of the 850 2, 20 | telling you when you hiccup to hold your left thumb in 851 2, 20 | To these we may add thousands 852 2, 20 | frivolous practices, that are to be observed if any part 853 2, 20 | friends, does less harm than to cuff an innocent boy if 854 2, 20 | innocent boy if he happens to run between men who are 855 2, 20 | are so superstitious as to venture upon striking a 856 2, 20 | haste for a real surgeon. To this class, too, belong 857 2, 20 | belong the following rules: To tread upon the threshold 858 2, 20 | out in front of the house; to go back to bed if any one 859 2, 20 | of the house; to go back to bed if any one should sneeze 860 2, 20 | putting on your slippers; to return home if you stumble 861 2, 20 | if you stumble when going to a place; when your clothes 862 2, 20 | clothes are eaten by mice, to be more frightened at the 863 2, 21 | account of their attention to birthdays, but are now commonly 864 2, 21 | far as they attempt thence to predict our actions, or 865 2, 21 | For when any freeman goes to an astrologer of this kind, 866 2, 21 | perhaps, of all the stars to which those who first fell 867 2, 21 | error, and handed it on to posterity, have given the 868 2, 21 | account of their likeness to beasts, or of men with a 869 2, 21 | beasts, or of men with a view to confer honour on those men. 870 2, 21 | those men. And this is not to be wondered at, when we 871 2, 21 | the Romans made an attempt to dedicate the star which 872 2, 21 | star which we call Lucifer to the name and honour of Caesar. 873 2, 21 | and the name handed down to distant ages, only that 874 2, 21 | Venus had given her name to this star before him, and 875 2, 21 | not by any law transfer to her heirs what she had never 876 2, 21 | never possessed, nor sought to possess, in life. For where 877 2, 21 | months Quintilis and Sextilis to July and August, naming 878 2, 21 | impelled by human folly to honour, they seemed to think 879 2, 21 | folly to honour, they seemed to think that in putting their 880 2, 21 | the dead men themselves to heaven. But whatever they 881 2, 21 | one is born, it is easy to observe the point at which 882 2, 21 | For if they were able to know so much that they could 883 2, 22 | observing the stars in order to predict the events of a 884 2, 22 | But to desire to predict the characters, 885 2, 22 | But to desire to predict the characters, 886 2, 22 | which, indeed, are only fit to be unlearnt again), this 887 2, 22 | was born last, was found to have laid hold with his 888 2, 22 | now so widely spread as to be in the mouth of all nations. ~ 889 2, 22 | Nor is it to the point to say that the 890 2, 22 | Nor is it to the point to say that the very smallest 891 2, 22 | these that he professes to read the fates. If, then, 892 2, 22 | presumption of men, are to be referred to the same 893 2, 22 | men, are to be referred to the same class as if they 894 2, 23 | For in this way it comes to pass that men who lust after 895 2, 23 | judgment of God, delivered over to be mocked and deceived, 896 2, 23 | on by the false angels, to whom the lowest part of 897 2, 23 | things turn out agreeably to their observances, and ensnared 898 2, 23 | most pernicious error. And to our advantage, the Word 899 2, 23 | they tell you should come to pass, hearken not unto them." 900 2, 23 | Samuel foretold the truth to King Saul, that does not 901 2, 23 | Apostles bore true testimony to the apostles of the Lord, 902 2, 23 | men and devils, and are to be utterly repudiated and 903 2, 23 | sacrifice they sacrifice to devils and not to God; and 904 2, 23 | sacrifice to devils and not to God; and I would not that 905 2, 23 | their honour, that we ought to feel in regard to all fancied 906 2, 23 | ought to feel in regard to all fancied signs which 907 2, 23 | signs which lead either to the worship of idols, or 908 2, 23 | the worship of idols, or to worshipping creation or 909 2, 23 | connected with attention to medicinal charms and other 910 2, 23 | Accordingly, in regard to all these branches of knowledge, 911 2, 23 | their prince, strive only to shut and bar the door against 912 2, 23 | providence, if there chance only to be something unusual in 913 2, 23 | and have committed them to writing, as if they had 914 2, 24 | that they were attended to, but it was by attending 915 2, 24 | but it was by attending to and marking them that they 916 2, 24 | marking them that they came to have meaning. And so they 917 2, 24 | different people, according to their several notions and 918 2, 24 | upon deceiving, take care to provide for each person 919 2, 24 | already entangled him in. For, to take an illustration, the 920 2, 24 | agreement and prearrangement as to its signification; and so, 921 2, 24 | different sense when writing to a Greek from that in which 922 2, 24 | he uses it when writing to a Latin. And the same sound, 923 2, 24 | syllables mean one thing to a Greek and another to a 924 2, 24 | thing to a Greek and another to a Latin. Now, just as all 925 2, 24 | affect the mind according to the arrangements of the 926 2, 24 | meaning just in proportion to each man's observations. 927 2, 24 | observations, take pains not to see the flight or hear the 928 2, 25 | former times have announced to the people of Carthage, 929 2, 25 | dancing, what it was he meant to express, a thing still remembered 930 2, 25 | one who is unaccustomed to such follies goes into the 931 2, 25 | give his whole attention to them in vain. Yet all men 932 2, 25 | But in regard to pictures and statues, and 933 2, 25 | And this whole class are to be reckoned among the superfluous 934 2, 25 | is a matter of importance to inquire in regard to any 935 2, 25 | importance to inquire in regard to any of them, for what reason, 936 2, 25 | devices, and nothing is to be considered more peculiarly 937 2, 25 | arrangements of men with men are to be reckoned whatever differences 938 2, 25 | differences they choose to make in bodily dress and 939 2, 25 | and the arrangements as to weights and measures, and 940 2, 25 | coins, which are peculiar to each state and people,and 941 2, 25 | Christian is not by any means to neglect, but on the contrary 942 2, 25 | sufficient degree of attention to them, and keep them in memory. ~ 943 2, 26 | human contrivances we are to adopt, and what we are to 944 2, 26 | to adopt, and what we are to avoid~ 945 2, 26 | these, such as have relation to fellowship with devils must, 946 2, 26 | other hand, which relate to the mutual intercourse of 947 2, 26 | luxury and superfluity, to be adopted, especially the 948 2, 26 | I have spoken of above. To this class also belong shorthand 949 2, 26 | our minds so far as not to stand in the way of more 950 2, 26 | of more important objects to which they ought to be subservient. ~ 951 2, 26 | objects to which they ought to be subservient. ~ 952 2, 27 | But, coming to the next point, we are not 953 2, 27 | the next point, we are not to reckon among human institutions 954 2, 27 | which men have handed down to us, not as arrangements 955 2, 27 | And of these, some pertain to the bodily senses, some 956 2, 27 | the bodily senses, some to the intellect. Those which 957 2, 27 | when they are pointed out to us, or infer from experience. ~ 958 2, 28 | chap. 28. To what extent history is an 959 2, 28 | this cannot be referred to our Lord's age, it may be 960 2, 28 | age, it may be referred to the more secret formation 961 2, 28 | were made, condescended to put on. ~ 962 2, 28 | As to the utility of history, 963 2, 28 | Plato dared calumniously to assert that our Lord Jesus 964 2, 28 | which they are compelled to admire and praise, from 965 2, 28 | into our literature, so as to be able to teach and write 966 2, 28 | literature, so as to be able to teach and write those views 967 2, 28 | theology, lived at a date prior to the books of that Hebrew 968 2, 28 | it is the height of folly to believe. ~ 969 2, 28 | the history itself is not to be reckoned among human 970 2, 28 | and cannot be undone are to be reckoned as belonging 971 2, 28 | be reckoned as belonging to the course of time, of which 972 2, 28 | governor. For it is one thing to tell what has been done, 973 2, 28 | what has been done, another to show what ought to be done. 974 2, 28 | another to show what ought to be done. History narrates 975 2, 28 | aim at teaching what ought to be done or observed, using 976 2, 29 | chap. 29. To what extent natural science 977 2, 29 | of things is made known to those who are ignorant of 978 2, 29 | who are ignorant of it. To this species belongs all 979 2, 29 | not that these objects are to be used conformably to certain 980 2, 29 | are to be used conformably to certain signs as nostrums 981 2, 29 | of. For it is one thing to say: If you bruise down 982 2, 29 | your stomach; and another to say: If you hang this herb 983 2, 29 | tied or fixed in any way to the body to cure it, acts 984 2, 29 | fixed in any way to the body to cure it, acts by a natural 985 2, 29 | it becomes the Christian to avoid it the more carefully, 986 2, 29 | efficacious it may seem to be. But when the reason 987 2, 29 | regularly employed in reference to celebrating the anniversary 988 2, 29 | Lord's passion, is known to most people; so the rising 989 2, 29 | bodies are thoroughly known to very few. And this knowledge, 990 2, 29 | as it is closely related to the very pernicious error 991 2, 29 | convenient and becoming to neglect it. it involves, 992 2, 29 | involves, moreover, in addition to a description of the present 993 2, 29 | information from them as to our own acts and fates, 994 2, 29 | genethliaci, but only as to the motions of the heavenly 995 2, 29 | computations are accustomed to answer like questions about 996 2, 30 | mechanical arts contribute to exegetics~ 997 2, 30 | Further, as to the remaining arts, whether 998 2, 30 | kind; or those which, so to speak, assist God in His 999 2, 30 | arts experience teaches us to infer the future from the 1000 2, 30 | and cursory knowledge is to be acquired, not with a