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501 2, 6 | whereof every one bears twins, and none is barren among them?" 502 2, 6 | the help of this figure? And yet, I don't know why, I 503 2, 6 | away from their errors, and bringing them into the church' 504 2, 6 | if they had been torn off and masticated by the teeth. 505 2, 6 | the world like fleeces, and coming up from the washing, 506 2, 6 | washing, i.e., from baptism, and all bearing twins, i.e., 507 2, 6 | twin commandments of love, and none among them barren in 508 2, 6 | fact would remain the same and the knowledge the same, 509 2, 6 | same, is another question, and one very difficult to answer. 510 2, 6 | communicated through figures and that what is attended with 511 2, 6 | has, with admirable wisdom and care for our welfare, so 512 2, 6 | passages to satisfy our hunger, and by the more obscure to stimulate 513 2, 7 | He commands us to desire and what to avoid. Now this 514 2, 7 | thought of our mortality and of the death that is before 515 2, 7 | death that is before us, and crucify all the motions 516 2, 7 | hearts subdued by piety, and not to run in the face of 517 2, 7 | as if we could be wiser and give better commands ourselves. 518 2, 7 | ourselves. We must rather think and believe that whatever is 519 2, 7 | it be hidden, is better and truer than anything we could 520 2, 7 | these two steps of fear and piety, we come to the third 521 2, 7 | loved for His own sake, and our neighbour for God's 522 2, 7 | neighbour for God's sake; and that God is to be loved 523 2, 7 | loved with all the heart. and with all the soul, and with 524 2, 7 | and with all the soul, and with all the mind, and one' 525 2, 7 | and with all the mind, and one's neighbour as one's 526 2, 7 | should have reference to God. And on these two commandments 527 2, 7 | from such a love for God and such a love for his neighbour 528 2, 7 | of the judgment of God, and that piety which gives him 529 2, 7 | option but to believe in and submit to the authority 530 2, 7 | boastful, but sorrowful. And in this frame of mind he 531 2, 7 | overwhelmed in despair, and so he gradually comes to 532 2, 7 | step, that is, strength and resolution, in which he 533 2, 7 | resolution, in which he hungers and thirsts after righteousness. 534 2, 7 | joy in transitory things, and turning away from these, 535 2, 7 | And when, to the extent of his 536 2, 7 | object shining from afar, and has felt that owing to the 537 2, 7 | which is violently agitated, and disturbs him with base desires, 538 2, 7 | filth it has contracted. And at this stage he exercises 539 2, 7 | the love of his neighbour; and when he has reached the 540 2, 7 | his enemy, full of hopes and unbroken in strength, he 541 2, 7 | they die to this world; and so far as they live to it 542 2, 7 | begin to appear clearer, and not only more tolerable, 543 2, 7 | conversation be in heaven. And at this stage, too, a man 544 2, 7 | comparison with, the truth, and therefore not himself, because 545 2, 7 | holy man will be so single and so pure in heart, that he 546 2, 7 | wisdom which is the seventh and last step, and which he 547 2, 7 | the seventh and last step, and which he enjoys in peace 548 2, 7 | which he enjoys in peace and tranquility. For the fear 549 2, 8 | have set myself to speak and reason as the Lord shall 550 2, 8 | place has read them all and retained them in his knowledge, 551 2, 8 | with dangerous falsehoods and delusions, fill it with 552 2, 8 | number of catholic churches; and among these, of course, 553 2, 8 | be the seat of an apostle and to receive epistles. Accordingly, 554 2, 8 | sanction of the greater number and those of greater authority, 555 2, 8 | held by the smaller number and those of less authority. 556 2, 8 | greater number of churches, and others by the churches of 557 2, 8 | next, four books of Kings, and two of Chronicles, these 558 2, 8 | running parallel, so to speak, and going over the same ground. 559 2, 8 | narrative of the times, and follows the order of the 560 2, 8 | follow no regular order, and are connected neither with 561 2, 8 | one another, such as Job, and Tobias, and Esther, and 562 2, 8 | such as Job, and Tobias, and Esther, and Judith, and 563 2, 8 | and Tobias, and Esther, and Judith, and the two books 564 2, 8 | and Esther, and Judith, and the two books of Maccabees, 565 2, 8 | two books of Maccabees, and the two of Ezra, which last 566 2, 8 | with the books of Kings and Chronicles. Next are the 567 2, 8 | of the Psalms of David; and three books of Solomon, 568 2, 8 | Proverbs, Song of Songs, and Ecclesiastes. For two books, 569 2, 8 | books, one called Wisdom and the other Ecclesiasticus, 570 2, 8 | connected with one another, and having never been disjoined, 571 2, 8 | three of John; one of Jude; and one of James; one book of 572 2, 8 | the Acts of the Apostles; and one of the Revelation of 573 2, 9 | books those who fear God and are of a meek and pious 574 2, 9 | fear God and are of a meek and pious disposition seek the 575 2, 9 | disposition seek the will of God. And in pursuing this search 576 2, 9 | searched into more carefully and more diligently; and the 577 2, 9 | carefully and more diligently; and the more of these a man 578 2, 9 | matters that concern faith and the manner of life, to wit, 579 2, 9 | manner of life, to wit, hope and love, of which I have spoken 580 2, 9 | we may proceed to open up and investigate the obscure 581 2, 9 | investigate the obscure passages, and in doing so draw examples 582 2, 9 | light upon the more obscure, and use the evidence of passages 583 2, 9 | to the doubtful passages. And in this matter memory counts 584 2, 10 | something else, as we say bos, and understand by that syllable 585 2, 11 | languages especially of Greek and Hebrew, necessary to remove 586 2, 11 | knowledge of languages. And men who speak the Latin 587 2, 11 | knowledge of Scripture, Hebrew and Greek, that they may have 588 2, 11 | Hallelujah, Racha, Hosanna, and others of the same kind. 589 2, 11 | it, as for example, Amen and Hallelujah. Some of them, 590 2, 11 | idiom of another language. And this happens chiefly in 591 2, 11 | thought we have in our mind. And the two given above are 592 2, 11 | it is very easy to mark and to ask about, but, as has 593 2, 11 | upon a Greek manuscript, and who thought he had any knowledge, 594 2, 12 | And this circumstance would 595 2, 12 | one translator reads: "And do not despise the domestics 596 2, 12 | thy seed;" another reads: "And do not despise thine own 597 2, 12 | to despise his own body; and "the domestics of thy seed" 598 2, 12 | them which are my flesh, and might save some of them;" 599 2, 12 | them might believe too. And he calls the Jews his "flesh," 600 2, 12 | in the original tongue. And yet to those who read with 601 2, 12 | understanding consists in sight, and is abiding, but faith feeds 602 2, 12 | And very often a translator, 603 2, 12 | in the original language, and puts upon the passage a 604 2, 12 | Greeks means both sharp and swift. And so he saw the 605 2, 12 | means both sharp and swift. And so he saw the true meaning 606 2, 12 | not obscure, but false; and there is a wide difference 607 2, 12 | moscheumata" are shoots of trees, and have translated the word " 608 2, 12 | translated the word "calves;" and this error has crept into 609 2, 12 | written in any other way. And yet the meaning is very 610 2, 12 | ground with their feet, and are not fixed in the earth 611 2, 13 | according to his own ability and judgment, unless we examine 612 2, 13 | language which they translate; and since the translator, if 613 2, 13 | ancients who spoke Latin. And though these sometimes do 614 2, 13 | wishes to know the facts. And in the same way, what is 615 2, 13 | And men are easily offended 616 2, 13 | proportion as they are weak; and they are weak just in proportion 617 2, 13 | ipsi inhabitant in ipsis?" (And what the land is that they 618 2, 13 | whether it be good or bad: and what cities they be that 619 2, 13 | they dwell in. Num. 13:19) And I am more disposed to think 620 2, 13 | this should be corrected, and that we should say, not 621 2, 13 | of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger 622 2, 13 | passage the Greek idiom, and say,"Quod stultum est Dei, 623 2, 13 | of God is wiser of men, and what is weak of God is stronger 624 2, 13 | stronger of men), a quick and careful reader would indeed 625 2, 13 | sapientius est quam homines", and "fortius est quam homines". ~ 626 2, 14 | meaning of unknown words and idioms is to be discovered~ 627 2, 14 | ourselves, or we must consult and compare several translators. 628 2, 14 | than those kinds of words and phrases whose meaning we 629 2, 14 | context, or by both, the force and significance of the phrase 630 2, 14 | attention to the matter and learn all about it. So great, 631 2, 14 | in a sort of way nurtured and brought up on the study 632 2, 14 | at other forms of speech, and think them less pure Latin 633 2, 14 | assistance, if they are examined and discussed with a careful 634 2, 15 | given to the Septuagint and the Itala~ 635 2, 15 | clearness of expression. And to correct the Latin we 636 2, 15 | so much of the presence and power of the Holy Spirit 637 2, 15 | there was but one voice. And if, as is reported, and 638 2, 15 | And if, as is reported, and as many not unworthy of 639 2, 15 | being in a cell by himself, and yet nothing was found in 640 2, 15 | found in the same words and in the same order of words 641 2, 15 | preferring anything to it? And even if they conferred together 642 2, 15 | out of the common labour and judgment of them all; even 643 2, 15 | opinion of many venerable and learned men. Wherefore, 644 2, 15 | to believe in the Lord. And thus it is possible that 645 2, 15 | Spirit, who worked in them and had given them all one voice, 646 2, 15 | authority of the Greeks, and especially by that of those 647 2, 15 | churches of greater learning and research. ~ 648 2, 16 | knowledge both of language and things is helpful for the 649 2, 16 | figurative significance, and undoubtedly conveys a secret 650 2, 16 | important would lie unnoticed. And we cannot doubt that, in 651 2, 16 | them, be of great value and service in solving the enigmas 652 2, 16 | the enigmas of Scripture. And a number of men skilled 653 2, 16 | their place in Scripture, and telling us what Adam means, 654 2, 16 | what Abraham, what Moses, and also the names of places, 655 2, 16 | or Lebanon, or Jordan, and whatever other names in 656 2, 16 | are not acquainted with. And when these names have been 657 2, 16 | names have been investigated and explained, many figurative 658 2, 16 | itself through a narrow hole, and thus acquires new strength 659 2, 16 | the wisdom of the serpent, and to put off the old man, 660 2, 16 | that we may put on the new; and to put it off, too, by coming 661 2, 16 | drawback to the reader. And so in regard to minerals 662 2, 16 | so in regard to minerals and plants: knowledge of the 663 2, 16 | is used metaphorically; and ignorance of the beryl or 664 2, 16 | the doors of knowledge. And the only reason why we find 665 2, 16 | a fluid of another kind, and that the tree itself is 666 2, 16 | although it is a small and insignificant plant, cannot 667 2, 16 | said, Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean". ~ 668 2, 16 | Scripture in a figurative and mystical way. A candid mind, 669 2, 16 | meant by the fact that Moses and Elijah, and our Lord Himself, 670 2, 16 | fact that Moses and Elijah, and our Lord Himself, all fasted 671 2, 16 | all fasted for forty days. And except by knowledge of and 672 2, 16 | And except by knowledge of and reflection upon the number, 673 2, 16 | knowledge of all things, and that knowledge interwoven 674 2, 16 | time. For both the diurnal and the annual revolutions are 675 2, 16 | the noontime, the evening, and the night; the annual in 676 2, 16 | spring, summer, autumn, and winter months. Now while 677 2, 16 | in time, we must abstain and fast from all joy in time, 678 2, 16 | lesson of despising time and seeking eternity. Further, 679 2, 16 | knowledge of the Creator and the creature, for there 680 2, 16 | trinity in the Creator; and the number seven indicates 681 2, 16 | creature, because of the life and the body. For the life consists 682 2, 16 | whole heart, the whole soul, and the whole mind; and it is 683 2, 16 | soul, and the whole mind; and it is very clear that in 684 2, 16 | admonished to live unstained by, and not partaking of, any delight 685 2, 16 | prophecy personified in Elijah, and by our Lord Himself, who, 686 2, 16 | witness both of the law and the prophets, appeared on 687 2, 16 | account of the Pentecost, and how this number taken thrice 688 2, 16 | the law, under the law, and under grace, or perhaps 689 2, 16 | name of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, and the Trinity 690 2, 16 | Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, and the Trinity itself being 691 2, 16 | itself being added over and above, has reference to 692 2, 16 | of the most Holy Church, and reaches to the number of 693 2, 16 | number of the one hundred and fifty-three fishes which 694 2, 16 | right-hand side of the boat. And in the same way, many other 695 2, 16 | way, many other numbers and combinations of numbers 696 2, 16 | under a figurative guise, and ignorance of numbers often 697 2, 16 | too, are closed against us and obscured by ignorance of 698 2, 16 | difference between the psalters and the harp. And it is a question 699 2, 16 | the psalters and the harp. And it is a question which it 700 2, 16 | commandments of the law (and if again any question is 701 2, 16 | refer it to the Creator and the creature), or with reference 702 2, 16 | itself as interpreted above. And the number of years the 703 2, 16 | undefinable musical sound, and when referred to the structure 704 2, 16 | not a false, but a true and human body. And in several 705 2, 16 | but a true and human body. And in several places in the 706 2, 16 | Scriptures we find both numbers and music mentioned with honour. ~ 707 2, 17 | as daughters of Jupiter and Mercury. Varro refutes these, 708 2, 17 | Mercury. Varro refutes these, and I doubt whether any one 709 2, 17 | statues, they should select and purchase from him. It so 710 2, 17 | nine pleased the state, and that all were bought to 711 2, 17 | in the temple of Apollo; and he says that afterwards 712 2, 17 | artists created three each. And the state had originally 713 2, 17 | in the case of trumpets and flutes; or by striking, 714 2, 17 | as in the case of harps and drums, and all other instruments 715 2, 17 | case of harps and drums, and all other instruments that 716 2, 18 | investigation about harps and other instruments, that 717 2, 18 | dedicated temples to Justice and Virtue, and prefer to worship 718 2, 18 | temples to Justice and Virtue, and prefer to worship in the 719 2, 18 | account to forsake justice and virtue. Nay, but let every 720 2, 18 | Nay, but let every good and true Christian understand 721 2, 18 | it belongs to his Master; and while he recognizes and 722 2, 18 | and while he recognizes and acknowledges the truth, 723 2, 18 | figments of superstition, and let him grieve over and 724 2, 18 | and let him grieve over and avoid men who, "when they 725 2, 18 | vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was 726 2, 18 | wise, they became fools, and changed the glory of the 727 2, 18 | like to corruptible man, and to birds, and four-footed 728 2, 18 | corruptible man, and to birds, and four-footed beasts, and 729 2, 18 | and four-footed beasts, and creeping things." ~ 730 2, 20 | made by men to the making and worshipping of idols are 731 2, 20 | God, or to consultations and arrangements about signs 732 2, 20 | arrangements about signs and leagues with devils, such, 733 2, 20 | employed in the magical arts, and which the poets are accustomed 734 2, 20 | to teach as to celebrate. And to this class belong, but 735 2, 20 | books of the haruspices and augurs. In this class we 736 2, 20 | must place also all amulets and cures which the medical 737 2, 20 | signs hidden or manifest; and these remedies they call 738 2, 20 | should come between them. And the kicking of a stone, 739 2, 21 | at the time of our birth, and may sometimes even find 740 2, 21 | actions, grievously err, and sell inexperienced men into 741 2, 21 | first fell into this error, and handed it on to posterity, 742 2, 21 | confer honour on those men. And this is not to be wondered 743 2, 21 | even in times more recent and nearer our own, the Romans 744 2, 21 | call Lucifer to the name and honour of Caesar. And this 745 2, 21 | name and honour of Caesar. And this would, perhaps, have 746 2, 21 | perhaps, have been done, and the name handed down to 747 2, 21 | to this star before him, and could not by any law transfer 748 2, 21 | of the months Quintilis and Sextilis to July and August, 749 2, 21 | Quintilis and Sextilis to July and August, naming them in honour 750 2, 21 | of the men Julius Caesar and Augustus Caesar; and from 751 2, 21 | Caesar and Augustus Caesar; and from this instance any one 752 2, 21 | stars which God has made and set in order after His own 753 2, 21 | after His own pleasure, and they have a fixed movement, 754 2, 21 | seasons are distinguished and varied. And when any one 755 2, 21 | distinguished and varied. And when any one is born, it 756 2, 21 | of the rules discovered and laid down by those who are 757 2, 22 | the characters, the acts, and the fate of those who are 758 2, 22 | observation, is a great delusion and great madness. And among 759 2, 22 | delusion and great madness. And among those at least who 760 2, 22 | that can be apprehended and marked in the position of 761 2, 22 | example, we are told that Esau and Jacob were born twins, and 762 2, 22 | and Jacob were born twins, and in such close succession, 763 2, 22 | Now, assuredly, the day and hour of the birth of these 764 2, 22 | the actions, the labours, and the fortunes of these two, 765 2, 22 | say that the very smallest and briefest moment of time 766 2, 22 | great effects in nature, and in the extremely rapid motion 767 2, 22 | this in the constellations, and it is by looking into these 768 2, 22 | heavens, which he rashly and carelessly brings into disrepute, 769 2, 22 | into anxiously but in vain? And so these notions also, which 770 2, 22 | as if they were leagues and covenants with devils. ~ 771 2, 23 | delivered over to be mocked and deceived, as the just reward 772 2, 23 | desires. For they are deluded and imposed on by the false 773 2, 23 | law of God's providence, and in accordance with His most 774 2, 23 | admirable arrangement of things. And the result of these delusions 775 2, 23 | result of these delusions and deceptions is, that through 776 2, 23 | through these superstitious and baneful modes of divination, 777 2, 23 | many things in the past and future are made known, and 778 2, 23 | and future are made known, and turn out just as they are 779 2, 23 | just as they are foretold; and in the case of those who 780 2, 23 | agreeably to their observances, and ensnared by these successes, 781 2, 23 | more eagerly inquisitive, and involve themselves further 782 2, 23 | involve themselves further and further in a labyrinth of 783 2, 23 | of most pernicious error. And to our advantage, the Word 784 2, 23 | fornication of the soul; and it does not warn the soul 785 2, 23 | up the less detestable; and though the ventriloquist 786 2, 23 | that account, but rebuked and cast it out, and so made 787 2, 23 | rebuked and cast it out, and so made the woman clean. ~ 788 2, 23 | baleful fellowship between men and devils, and are to be utterly 789 2, 23 | between men and devils, and are to be utterly repudiated 790 2, 23 | to be utterly repudiated and avoided by the Christian 791 2, 23 | the covenants of a false and treacherous friendship. 792 2, 23 | they sacrifice to devils and not to God; and I would 793 2, 23 | to devils and not to God; and I would not that ye should 794 2, 23 | apostle has said about idols and the sacrifices offered in 795 2, 23 | attention to medicinal charms and other observances; for these 796 2, 23 | promoting love towards God and our neighbour, but they 797 2, 23 | wretched men in private and selfish strivings after 798 2, 23 | knowledge, we must fear and shun the fellowship of demons, 799 2, 23 | prince, strive only to shut and bar the door against our 800 2, 23 | stars which God created and ordained, men have drawn 801 2, 23 | conjectures of their own, and have committed them to writing, 802 2, 24 | chap. 24. The intercourse and agreement with demons which 803 2, 24 | And all these omens are of force 804 2, 24 | curiosity, torturing anxiety, and deadly slavery. For it was 805 2, 24 | but it was by attending to and marking them that they came 806 2, 24 | they came to have meaning. And so they are made different 807 2, 24 | to their several notions and prejudices. For those spirits 808 2, 24 | see his own conjectures and preconceptions have already 809 2, 24 | one thing among the Greeks and another among the Latins, 810 2, 24 | nature, but by agreement and prearrangement as to its 811 2, 24 | as to its signification; and so, any one who knows both 812 2, 24 | when writing to a Latin. And the same sound, beta, which 813 2, 24 | vegetable among the Latins; and when I say, lege, these 814 2, 24 | mean one thing to a Greek and another to a Latin. Now, 815 2, 24 | in which each man lives, and affect different men's minds 816 2, 24 | arrangements are different; and as, further, men did not 817 2, 24 | each man's observations. And this appears quite plainly 818 2, 24 | before they observe the omens and after they have completed 819 2, 25 | some things superfluous and some convenient and necessary~ 820 2, 25 | superfluous and some convenient and necessary~ 821 2, 25 | these have been cut away and rooted out of the mind of 822 2, 25 | are human institutions; and of these, some are matters 823 2, 25 | are matters of superfluity and luxury, some of convenience 824 2, 25 | luxury, some of convenience and necessity. For if those 825 2, 25 | were of force by nature, and not by the arrangement and 826 2, 25 | and not by the arrangement and agreement of men, the public 827 2, 25 | have frequently heard it. And we may well believe this, 828 2, 25 | But in regard to pictures and statues, and other works 829 2, 25 | to pictures and statues, and other works of this kind, 830 2, 25 | they are likenesses of. And this whole class are to 831 2, 25 | what reason, where, when, and by whose authority it was 832 2, 25 | the thousands of fables and fictions, in whose lies 833 2, 25 | delight, are human devices, and nothing is to be considered 834 2, 25 | more peculiarly man's own and derived from himself than, 835 2, 25 | anything that is false and lying. Among the convenient 836 2, 25 | lying. Among the convenient and necessary arrangements of 837 2, 25 | to make in bodily dress and ornament for the purpose 838 2, 25 | distinguishing sex or rank; and the countless varieties 839 2, 25 | at great inconvenience; and the arrangements as to weights 840 2, 25 | arrangements as to weights and measures, and the stamping 841 2, 25 | to weights and measures, and the stamping and weighing 842 2, 25 | measures, and the stamping and weighing of coins, which 843 2, 25 | are peculiar to each state and people,and other things 844 2, 25 | to each state and people,and other things of the same 845 2, 25 | different in different nations, and could not be changed among 846 2, 25 | degree of attention to them, and keep them in memory. ~ 847 2, 26 | contrivances we are to adopt, and what we are to avoid~ 848 2, 26 | sort of way representations and likenesses of natural objects. 849 2, 26 | likenesses of natural objects. And of these, such as have relation 850 2, 26 | said, be utterly rejected and held in detestation; those, 851 2, 26 | are not matters of luxury and superfluity, to be adopted, 852 2, 26 | are necessary for reading, and the various languages as 853 2, 26 | writers. All these are useful, and there is nothing unlawful 854 2, 27 | occurrences of the past, and into the arrangements of 855 2, 27 | arrangements of God's providence. And of these, some pertain to 856 2, 28 | by use of the Olympiads, and the names of the consuls; 857 2, 28 | the names of the consuls; and ignorance of the consulship 858 2, 28 | which our Lord was born, and that in which He suffered, 859 2, 28 | ascertained more clearly and more certainly from a comparison 860 2, 28 | that the temple was forty and six years in building; so 861 2, 28 | rest! For, when the readers and admirers of Plato dared 862 2, 28 | are compelled to admire and praise, from the books of 863 2, 28 | so as to be able to teach and write those views of his 864 2, 28 | worship of one God sprang up, and of whom as concerning the 865 2, 28 | the flesh our Lord came. And thus, when we reflect upon 866 2, 28 | they said that was good and true from our literature, 867 2, 28 | And even when in the course 868 2, 28 | because things that are past and gone and cannot be undone 869 2, 28 | things that are past and gone and cannot be undone are to 870 2, 28 | which God is the author and governor. For it is one 871 2, 28 | has been done, faithfully and with advantage; but the 872 2, 28 | books of the haruspices, and all writings of the same 873 2, 29 | the situation of places, and the nature of animals, trees, 874 2, 29 | animals, trees, herbs, stones, and other bodies. And of this 875 2, 29 | stones, and other bodies. And of this species I have treated 876 2, 29 | species I have treated above, and have shown that this kind 877 2, 29 | distinct from the lawful and free kind now spoken of. 878 2, 29 | you bruise down this herb and drink it, it will remove 879 2, 29 | pain from your stomach; and another to say: If you hang 880 2, 29 | indeed, where incantations and invocations and marks are 881 2, 29 | incantations and invocations and marks are not used, it is 882 2, 29 | mentioned in Scripture. And as the course of the moon, 883 2, 29 | most people; so the rising and setting and other movements 884 2, 29 | so the rising and setting and other movements of the rest 885 2, 29 | thoroughly known to very few. And this knowledge, although 886 2, 29 | interpretation of Holy Scripture, and by engaging the attention 887 2, 29 | unprofitably is a hindrance rather; and as it is closely related 888 2, 29 | fates, it is more convenient and becoming to neglect it. 889 2, 29 | from the present position and motion of the stars, and 890 2, 29 | and motion of the stars, and trace by rule their past 891 2, 29 | in the way of forebodings and omens, but by way of sure 892 2, 29 | them as to our own acts and fates, in the absurd fashion 893 2, 29 | of the heavenly bodies. And I have stated what my views 894 2, 30 | house, a bench, a dish, and other things of that kind; 895 2, 30 | operations, as medicine, and agriculture, and navigation: 896 2, 30 | medicine, and agriculture, and navigation: or those whose 897 2, 30 | is an action, as dancing, and racing, and wrestling; in 898 2, 30 | as dancing, and racing, and wrestling; in all these 899 2, 30 | arts a very superficial and cursory knowledge is to 900 2, 31 | the science of reasoning and that of number are the chief. 901 2, 31 | service in searching into and unravelling all sorts of 902 2, 31 | against the love of wrangling, and the childish vanity of entrapping 903 2, 31 | reasoning that are false, and yet so close an imitation 904 2, 31 | the one man being cunning and the other simple. Then the 905 2, 31 | speaker adds: "I am a man;" and when the other has given 906 2, 31 | showeth wisdom in words, and is hated;" although, indeed, 907 2, 31 | with whom one is arguing; and these conclusions are sometimes 908 2, 31 | sometimes drawn by a good and learned man, with the object 909 2, 31 | result, feel ashamed of them, and of thus leading him to give 910 2, 31 | Then is Christ not risen," and again, "Then is our preaching 911 2, 31 | Then is our preaching vain, and your faith is also vain;" 912 2, 31 | your faith is also vain;" and further on drew other inferences 913 2, 32 | And yet the validity of logical 914 2, 32 | by men, but is observed and noted by them that they 915 2, 32 | they may be able to learn and teach it; for it exists 916 2, 32 | in the reason of things, and has its origin with God. 917 2, 32 | himself create that order; and as he who describes the 918 2, 32 | describe arrangements of man; and as he who points out the 919 2, 32 | who points out the stars and their movements does not 920 2, 32 | points out that it is so. And it is upon this rule that 921 2, 32 | only pointed out by him. And this rule has reference 922 2, 33 | drawn from valid seasonings, and vice versa~ 923 2, 33 | the inference is valid, and the conclusion arrived at 924 2, 33 | false, but it is a true and valid inference from the 925 2, 33 | with whom one is arguing. And thus, as I said above, a 926 2, 33 | consequences are utterly untenable. And hence it is easy to understand 927 2, 33 | man is just, he is good," and we admit its truth. Then 928 2, 33 | adds, "But he is not just;" and when we admit this too, 929 2, 34 | know the laws of inference, and another to know the truth 930 2, 34 | consequent, what is inconsequent, and what is incompatible. An 931 2, 34 | they stand by themselves, and not in their connection 932 2, 34 | propositions that are true and certain, they themselves, 933 2, 35 | definition, of division, and of partition, although it 934 2, 35 | applied it to their fictions, and false philosophers, or even 935 2, 35 | as we declare it to be; and this definition is true, 936 2, 35 | man who says that seven and three are eleven, says what 937 2, 35 | have been. The definition and division, therefore, of 938 2, 36 | which is called eloquence, and these rules are not the 939 2, 36 | narrative, when it is short and clear, is effective, and 940 2, 36 | and clear, is effective, and that variety arrests men' 941 2, 36 | attention without wearying them. And it is the same with other 942 2, 36 | moving men's minds to desire and aversion. And men rather 943 2, 36 | to desire and aversion. And men rather found out that 944 2, 37 | chap. 37. Use of rhetoric and dialectic~ 945 2, 37 | which deals with inferences, and definitions, and divisions, 946 2, 37 | inferences, and definitions, and divisions, is of the greatest 947 2, 37 | through the very intricate and thorny discipline of such 948 2, 37 | set down the front one, and then should describe minutely 949 2, 37 | the hinges of the joints and knees. For what he says 950 2, 37 | For what he says is true, and one cannot walk in any other 951 2, 37 | by making trial of them. And in the same way a clever 952 2, 37 | does he grasp the rules. And in regard to all these laws, 953 2, 37 | astray by plausible speech and catching questions, or make 954 2, 37 | advantage over the good and innocent. ~ 955 2, 38 | triple of three, nor one and a half times the number 956 2, 38 | himself one of the learned, and who does not rather inquire 957 2, 38 | true derive their truth, and from which those others 958 2, 38 | also derive their truth and unchangeableness, and who, 959 2, 38 | truth and unchangeableness, and who, mounting up from bodily 960 2, 38 | appearances to the mind of man, and finding that it too is changeable ( 961 2, 38 | unchangeable truth above it and the changeable things beneath 962 2, 38 | things redound to the praise and love of the one God from 963 2, 39 | attention should be given, and in what spirit~ 964 2, 39 | is well to warn studious and able young men, who fear 965 2, 39 | young men, who fear God and are seeking for happiness 966 2, 39 | happiness they seek; but soberly and carefully to discriminate 967 2, 39 | discriminate among them. And if they find any of those 968 2, 39 | pleasure of their founders, and unknown by reason of erroneous 969 2, 39 | devils by means of leagues and covenants about signs, let 970 2, 39 | these he utterly rejected and held in detestation. Let 971 2, 39 | of men as are unnecessary and luxurious. But for the sake 972 2, 39 | included also the experiments and conclusions of the useful 973 2, 39 | the sciences of reasoning and of number. And in regard 974 2, 39 | reasoning and of number. And in regard to all these we 975 2, 39 | to the relations of space and time. ~ 976 2, 39 | done in regard to all words and names found in Scripture, 977 2, 39 | Scripture, in the Hebrew, and Syrian, and Egyptian, and 978 2, 39 | the Hebrew, and Syrian, and Egyptian, and other tongues, 979 2, 39 | and Syrian, and Egyptian, and other tongues, taking up 980 2, 39 | other tongues, taking up and interpreting separately 981 2, 39 | without interpretation; and what Eusebius has done in 982 2, 39 | in their several classes, and give an account of the unknown 983 2, 39 | account of the unknown places, and animals, and plants, and 984 2, 39 | unknown places, and animals, and plants, and trees, and stones, 985 2, 39 | and animals, and plants, and trees, and stones, and metals, 986 2, 39 | and plants, and trees, and stones, and metals, and 987 2, 39 | and trees, and stones, and metals, and other species 988 2, 39 | and stones, and metals, and other species of things 989 2, 39 | Scripture, taking up these only, and committing his account to 990 2, 39 | theory of those numbers, and those only, which are mentioned 991 2, 39 | Scripture, might be explained and written down. And it may 992 2, 39 | explained and written down. And it may happen that some 993 2, 39 | of have been worked out and committed to writing by 994 2, 39 | committed to writing by good and learned Christians), but 995 2, 39 | of sight by the envious. And I am not sure whether the 996 2, 39 | structure of Scripture, and on that account is of more 997 2, 39 | reader in disentangling and explaining ambiguous passages, 998 2, 40 | are called philosophers, and especially the Platonists, 999 2, 40 | said aught that is true and in harmony with our faith, 1000 2, 40 | Egyptians had not only the idols and heavy burdens which the