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501 VIII | Satan and his angels have filled the whole world. It is not
502 XII | purple robes, the fasces, the fillets the crowns, the proclamations
503 XXIX | long for the goal of the final consummation, defend the
504 XVII | than at the play, which finally is done from his childhood
505 XXX | persecuted the Christian name, in fires more fierce than those with
506 XVIII | it of the serpent kind, firm to hold--tortures to clasp--
507 XXVI | to attack a believer, he firmly replied, "And in truth I
508 XXX | you struck with reed and fist, whom you contemptuously
509 XXIII | and the thick skin of his fists, and these growths upon
510 XXVI | strong disapproval--and five days after that woman was
511 XXV | again? And with his eye fixed on the bites of bears, and
512 VI | and Jupiter Latiaris, and Flora, all celebrated for a common
513 XV | with all bad things which flow from them--the whole entirely
514 XVI | accordingly is, that they fly into rages, and passions,
515 II | some knowledge also of His foe--who, in our discovery of
516 XVII | secular literature as being foolishness in God's eyes, our duty
517 XXIX | nobler than to tread under foot the gods of the nations--
518 X | escape censure, and got a footing in the world. For ofttimes
519 I | Christian Discipline, which forbid among other sins of the
520 X | all the rising theatres, foreseeing, as they did, that there
521 I | thing of human planning and foresight, than clearly laid down
522 XXV | gladiator's favour; to cry "forever" to any one else but God
523 II | the things His hand has formed; for you cannot know either
524 | formerly
525 III | III.~Fortified by this knowledge against
526 III | exhausted, in all directions it fortifies the practice of the religious
527 XXIV | looking on them or looking forward to them; but do we not abjure
528 X | the undertaker, those two foul masters of funeral rites
529 V | hatred, from a fratricidal founder, from a son of Mars. Even
530 X | dwell in the names of their founders; and that things cannot
531 VII | the sin of idolatry, their foundress, they must needs be like
532 V | ample information is to be fount in the pages of Suetonius
533 VII | which they are derived; the fountain from which they spring defiles
534 IX | Romulus first exhibited the four-horse chariot at Rome, he too,
535 V | violence, from hatred, from a fratricidal founder, from a son of Mars.
536 XX | falsehoods, adulteries, frauds, idolatries, and these same
537 XXV | charioteer? Wrought up into a frenzied excitement, will he learn
538 XXIV | is right in Christians to frequent the show. Why, the rejection
539 VIII | deity--load the pillars. In front of these you have three
540 IX | son of Vulcan and Minerva, fruit of unworthy passion upon
541 VIII | Tutulina, so called as the fruit-protecting deity--load the pillars.
542 XI | XI.~In fulfilment of our plan, let us now
543 XIX | than myself to set forth fully the whole subject, unless
544 XXIII | souls, rouses up so many furious passions, and creates so
545 XXX | insatiable on those whose fury vented itself against the
546 XVII | rank--their abode, their gains, their praises, are set
547 XXX | had risen again, or the gardener abstracted, that his lettuces
548 XXIII | attires himself in female garments, what must be His judgment
549 XX | boundaries? Outside the gates of the theatre are we bent
550 III | he so designate so vast a gathering of heathens! Are the heathens
551 XXV | greater temptation than that gay attiring of the men and
552 XXI | nature, in the amphitheatre gazes down with most patient eyes
553 III | understand a thing as spoken generally, even when it requires a
554 II | gluttony's ally, and the genitals for unchaste excesses, and
555 XV | enjoined us to deal calmly, gently, quietly, and peacefully
556 XVII | vileness which the Atellan gesticulates, which the buffoon in woman'
557 X | deities. That immodesty of gesture and attire which so specially
558 XVII | women, who by their own gestures destroy their modesty, dreading
559 II | regarding it as a precious gift--in fact, the one blessedness
560 X | bestowing on him the artistic gifts which the shows require.
561 XVI | another's sorrow, they are gladdened by another's joy. Whatever
562 XVIII | tortures to clasp--slippery to glide away. You have no need of
563 XXIX | courses of the world, the gliding seasons, reckon up the periods
564 IX | sacred to the winter with its glistening snows, the latter sacred
565 XVII | own darkness and their own gloomy caves, lest they should
566 XXX | upon the charioteer, all glowing in his chariot of fire;
567 VIII | under ground at the Murcian Goals. These two sprang from an
568 II | iniquity, is not only a work of God--he is His image, and yet
569 II | prowess of the corrupting and God-opposing angel overthrew in the beginning
570 VIII | three altars to these three gods--Great, Mighty, Victorious.
571 II | of the world, put in its gold, brass, silver, ivory, wood,
572 VII | arrayed or modestly rich and gorgeous, taints it in its origin.~
573 XV | who goes where nothing is gotten; in my view, even that is
574 XXX | witness of their exultation; governors of provinces, too, who persecuted
575 VII | Though there be few images to grace it, there is idolatry in
576 VII | of its origin. It may be grand or mean, no matter, any
577 V | were first consecrated by grateful peasants, in return for
578 XVIII | complacency in the athletes Greece, in the inactivity of peace,
579 IX | others to the Zephyrs, while green was given to Mother Earth,
580 II | man, but not to him, had grieved him, he might make man guilty
581 I | divine command. It were a grievous thing, forsooth, for Christians,
582 XXX | was publicly announced, groaning now in the lowest darkness
583 XXIII | pretended loves, and wraths, and groans, and tears. Then, too, as
584 IV | nursing-places they have grown to manhood; next the titles
585 XXIII | of his fists, and these growths upon his ears, at his creation!
586 XIX | dreadful. But who is my guarantee that it is always the guilty
587 II | and against which they guard themselves, come from the
588 XXI | who carefully protects and guards his virgin daughter's ears
589 XXVIII| as these let the devil's guests be feasted. The places and
590 VII | between, and follow. How many guilds, how many priesthoods, how
591 XIX | other doom, and that the guiltless never suffer from the revenge
592 XXX | wrestlers, not in their gymnasia, but tossing in the fiery
593 XI | festivals it celebrates. The gymnastic arts also originated with
594 V | to the statement Piso has handed down to us, called both
595 XVI | lots in his urn; then they hang all eager on the signal;
596 XXIII | should be condemned to a hapless lot of infamy, losing all
597 XXI | another good. So it strangely happens, that the same man who can
598 XXV | And when the athletes are hard at struggle, will he be
599 XVII | become an actor. The very harlots, too, victims of the public
600 XVI | even with a reason for our hating; for He commands us to love
601 XXVII | time the devil is working havoc in the church, do you doubt
602 XVI | likeness of the devil cast headlong from on high. And the result
603 VII | demon convention has its headquarters. If these things are done
604 XXX | dimly dawned upon the human heart? Whatever they are, they
605 XXX | whose reception into the heavens was publicly announced,
606 XXVII | if you are caught in that heaving tide of impious judgments?
607 XIX | a brother has sinned so heinously as to need a punishment
608 XXVII | dilutes poison with gall and hellebore: the accursed thing is put
609 | Hence
610 II | magical enchantments. Iron and herbs and demons are all equally
611 XI | Capitoline; Nemean, in honour of Hercules; Isthmian, in honour of
612 XI | with their Castors, and Herculeses, and Mercuries.~
613 | here
614 VIII | Samo-Thrace. The huge Obelisk, as Hermeteles affirms, is set up in public
615 XX | would that all crimes were hid from His eye, that we might
616 VIII | we have mentioned, lies hidden under ground at the Murcian
617 V | Feretrius on the Tarpeian Hill, according to the statement
618 II | have been brought nigh to Him--men cannot but be in ignorance
619 IX | deity, by the Greeks called Hippius. In regard to the team,
620 XXX | this is that carpenter's or hireling's son, that Sabbath-breaker,
621 X | whose names, and images, and histories they set up for their own
622 XXX | derision, when the world hoary with age, and all its many
623 XVIII | the serpent kind, firm to hold--tortures to clasp--slippery
624 VI | public successes in municipal holidays. There are also testamentary
625 VIII | God, if he has only some honest reason for it, unconnected
626 XXVII | taste, hold it but as the honey drop of a poisoned cake;
627 V | Romulus instituted games in honor of Jupiter Feretrius on
628 XXIV | guilty of denying it. What hope can you possibly retain
629 XXI | kind; and he who looks with horror on the corpse of one who
630 XII | dwelling on the place of horrors, which is too much even
631 II | public shows, such as the horse, the lion, bodily strength,
632 IX | practised in a simple way on horseback, and certainly its ordinary
633 V | goddess of rust); then Tullus Hostilius; then Ancus Martius; and
634 XXX | exultation of the angelic hosts! What the glory of the rising
635 X | of Venus is as well the house of Bacchus: for they properly
636 VIII | these of Samo-Thrace. The huge Obelisk, as Hermeteles affirms,
637 VII | these things are done in humbler style in the provinces,
638 XXIII | Condemning, therefore, as He does hypocrisy in every form, He never
639 XIV | manner, under the general idea of pleasures, you have as
640 XVII | licentiousness of speech, nay, every idle word, is condemned by God.
641 IV | had no connection with an idol-god, it will be held as free
642 XI | instituted in honour of the idol-gods of the nations or of the
643 VIII | in them to belong to the idol-patrons to whom the very places
644 XV | in them all the taint of idolatry--having sufficiently dealt
645 XXII | nay, they doom them to ignominy and the loss of their rights
646 II | II.~Then, again, every one
647 III | III.~Fortified by this knowledge
648 XV | not to vex Him with rage, ill-nature, anger, or grief. Well,
649 XXX | exultation?--as I see so many illustrious monarchs, whose reception
650 XXX | faith in the picturings of imagination. But what are the things
651 I | God. There are some who imagine that Christians, a sort
652 XIV | in them from which they imbibe impurity, and then spirt
653 V | this. Timaeus tells us that immigrants from Asia, under the leadership
654 XVII | to abominate all that is immodest, on what ground is it right
655 XII | wicked disposition, and immolating them in their funeral obsequies.
656 XX | things the truth of God is immutable.~
657 II | find not a few whom the imperilling of their pleasures rather
658 III | not clearly and in words imposed upon God's servants. Well,
659 VI | present day, in which it is imprinted as on their very face, for
660 XXIX | stricken by compassion, impudence thrown into the shade by
661 X | erected that citadel of all impurities, fearing some time or other
662 XVIII | athletes Greece, in the inactivity of peace, feeds up. And
663 X | that mournful profusion of incense and blood, with music of
664 XIV | of lusts, pleasures are included; in like manner, under the
665 XIX | I would rather withal be incomplete than set memory a-working.~
666 XXII | wonder is there in it? Such inconsistencies as these are just such as
667 XXII | of good and evil in their inconstancy of feeling and fickleness
668 XVII | the stage, their misery increased as being there in the presence
669 XXVII | pestilential, and the very super incumbent atmosphere all impure with
670 II | sorts of evils, which as indubitably evils even the heathens
671 XXIII | condemned to a hapless lot of infamy, losing all the advantages
672 VII | in accordance with their inferior means, still all circus
673 XXIII | the divine righteousness inflict punishment on those who
674 XIX | ignorant of the punishment inflicted on the wicked, lest I am
675 V | were established, ample information is to be fount in the pages
676 XV | Would that we did not even inhabit the same world with these
677 VII | set astir, is known to the inhabitants of the great city in which
678 II | of snares, and fraud, and injustice? I think not; for if God,
679 XV | unuttered movings of the inner man. No one partakes of
680 II | the righteous ex-actor of innocence, hates everything like malignity--
681 XXIX | errors, than pardon of the innumerable sins of our past life? What
682 XXX | wish rather to fix a gaze insatiable on those whose fury vented
683 XXI | sight of his face--with zest inspecting near at hand the man whom
684 VI | and this according to an institution of ancient times. For from
685 XXIX | ungrateful as to reckon insufficient, as not thankfully to recognize
686 XIX | Christians, I shall not insult them by adding another word
687 II | destruction? Nay, He puts His interdict on every sort of man-killing
688 III | is not far from a plain interdicting of the shows. If he called
689 XXV | men and women. The very intermingling of emotions, the very agreements
690 III | requires a certain special interpretation to be given to it. For some
691 II | its Maker. But having no intimate acquaintance with the Highest,
692 V | Robigo (for they have also invented a goddess of rust); then
693 V | known to many among us, our investigations must go back to a remote
694 XII | pomp of the devil, without invitation of demons. What need, then,
695 XXVIII| places and the times, the inviter too, are theirs. Our banquets,
696 XIV | the world there was not involved a sufficient declaration
697 XXIII | as possible to Saturn and Isis and Bacchus, but gives it
698 III | When God admonishes the Israelites of their duty, or sharply
699 XXX | judgment, with its everlasting issues; that day unlooked for by
700 XI | in honour of Hercules; Isthmian, in honour of Neptune; the
701 II | Nature herself is teacher of it--that God is the Maker of
702 IV | IV.~Lest any one think that
703 II | its gold, brass, silver, ivory, wood, and all the other
704 IX | IX.~Now as to the kind of performances
705 XXX | thereafter! What the city New Jerusalem! Yes, and there are other
706 XXVIII| troubled. "The world," says Jesus, "shall rejoice; ye shall
707 XXX | lowest darkness with great Jove himself, and those, too,
708 XXX | whom you purchased from Judas! This is He whom you struck
709 XXX | trembling not before the judgment-seat of Rhadamanthus or Minos,
710 XIX | the case of those who are judicially condemned to the amphitheatre,
711 V | sacrifice at it on the nones of July; the priest of Romulus and
712 IX | dedicated that work of his to Juno. If Romulus first exhibited
713 V | on the twelfth before the Kalends of September. In addition
714 XI | games (ludi). Hence they are kept as either sacred or funereal,
715 XVIII | look upon: the blows, and kicks, and cuffs, and all the
716 XII | they, on the funeral day, killed at the places of sepulture.
717 VI | birthdays and solemnities of kings, in public successes in
718 XXIII | than that they might be knocked out in fighting! I say nothing
719 II | acquaintance with the Highest, knowing Him only by natural revelation,
720 XXIX | Well, of these there is no lacking, and they are not of slight
721 VIII | world, however, that we lapse from God, but by touching
722 XX | such assemblies! I heard lately a novel defence of himself
723 VI | and Neptune, and Jupiter Latiaris, and Flora, all celebrated
724 | latter
725 XXII | reference to which they highly laud the charioteers, and actors,
726 I | reasons of the Truth, the laws of Christian Discipline,
727 IV | renunciatory testimony in the layer of baptism has reference
728 XXI | again, who in the streets lays hands on or covers with
729 V | immigrants from Asia, under the leadership of Tyrrhenus, who, in a
730 X | was great danger of their leading to a general profligacy;
731 XV | shows? For the show always leads to spiritual agitation,
732 XVIII | feats, and yet more foolish leapings; you will never find pleasure
733 XXVIII| wish but the apostle's, to leave the world, and be taken
734 XXX | which at death they had left, now covered with shame
735 XVI | causeless love perhaps more legitimate than a causeless hatred?
736 XXX | gardener abstracted, that his lettuces might come to no harm from
737 XX | are putting on the same level, O man, the criminal and
738 XX | the theatre are we bent on lewdness, outside the course on arrogance,
739 XXIII | desire is to make Christ a liar. And in regard to the wearing
740 XVII | wanton, the impious and licentious inventors of crimes and
741 XVII | must not speak? For all licentiousness of speech, nay, every idle
742 VIII | Consus, as we have mentioned, lies hidden under ground at the
743 XXI | who can scarcely in public lift up his tunic, even when
744 | likely
745 VII | the many images the long line of statues, the chariots
746 XXVI | night she saw in her sleep a linen cloth--the actor's name
747 XXVII | that there the cry "To the lions!" is daily raised against
748 XXVII | man, who speaks and who listens to the blaspheming word,
749 XII | the dead to honours of the living, I mean, to quaestorships
750 VIII | fruit-protecting deity--load the pillars. In front of
751 XXVIII| joys where you have your longings.~
752 XX | because they decline to lose a pleasure, hold out that
753 XXII | them to ignominy and the loss of their rights as citizens,
754 XVI | as though along with the lots in his urn; then they hang
755 XXVII | is either brave, noble, loud-sounding, melodious, or exquisite
756 XXX | hearing the tragedians, louder-voiced in their own calamity; of
757 XXIII | never will approve pretended loves, and wraths, and groans,
758 XXII | wrestlers, and those most loving gladiators, to whom men
759 XXX | announced, groaning now in the lowest darkness with great Jove
760 V | called the Luperci also Ludii, because they ran about
761 V | derives the name of Ludi from Ludus, that is, from play, as
762 V | play, as they called the Luperci also Ludii, because they
763 X | of voice, and song, and lute, and pipe, belong to Apollos,
764 IX | afterwards, in the progress of luxury as well as of superstition,
765 V | they are called Ludi, from Lydi. And though Varro derives
766 XX | set, then, on playing the madman outside the circus boundaries?
767 XVI | united shout of a common madness. Observe how "out of themselves"
768 XVI | fellow-citizens? If any of its madnesses are becoming elsewhere in
769 II | by iron, by poison, or by magical enchantments. Iron and herbs
770 XII | mean, to quaestorships and magistracies--to priestly offices of different
771 VIII | demon-gathering without their Mater Magna; and so she presides there
772 XXII | their approbation; they magnify the art and brand the artist.
773 II | innocence, hates everything like malignity--if He hates utterly such
774 II | interdict on every sort of man-killing by that one summary precept, "
775 XXII | judgment. Why, the authors and managers of the spectacles, in that
776 XXI | patient eyes on bodies all mangled and torn and smeared with
777 IV | nursing-places they have grown to manhood; next the titles of some
778 XXI | demands the lion for every manslayer of deeper dye, will have
779 XIX | advance to the criminality of manslayers! But I mean these remarks
780 II | other materials used in the manufacture of idols? Yet has He done
781 II | they are of rocks, stones, marbles, pillars, are things of
782 XXII | favour, are not without a mark of disgrace upon them!~
783 VIII | even the streets and the market-place, and the baths, and the
784 XXVII | looking down from above, and marking every man, who speaks and
785 V | Tullus Hostilius; then Ancus Martius; and various others in succession
786 XXIX | trump, glory in the palms of martyrdom. If the literature of the
787 XXIII | regard to the wearing of masks, I ask is that according
788 XVI | all this--not their own masters--to obtain of it for themselves?
789 XX | gives it its claims to full mastery, unchanging reverence, and
790 VIII | demon-gathering without their Mater Magna; and so she presides
791 II | wood, and all the other materials used in the manufacture
792 III | place in the curve where the matrons sit is called a chair. Therefore,
793 XVII | say nothing about other matters, which it were good to hide
794 VII | idolatry whatever, whether meanly arrayed or modestly rich
795 XXX | And yet even now we in a measure have them by faith in the
796 XXV | prophetic appeals? Amid the measures of the effeminate player,
797 XXIII | that the cheek is to be meekly offered to the smiter. In
798 XXV | the whole thing he will meet with no greater temptation
799 XXVII | brave, noble, loud-sounding, melodious, or exquisite in taste,
800 VI | honours are rendered to the memories of private persons; and
801 XXIX | spectacles that befit Christian men--holy, everlasting, free.
802 XVI | bless. But what is more merciless than the circus, where people
803 IX | us, horses were given by Mercury. And Neptune, too, is an
804 XVI | applause, with nothing to merit them. What are the partakers
805 XXII | very things which make him meritorious in their eyes! Nay, what
806 XXVIII| then, while the heathen are merry, that in the day of their
807 VIII | the goddess of sowing; of Messia, so called as the goddess
808 VIII | whose temple stands in the middle of it, and whose image shines
809 X | Apollos, and Muses, and Minervas, and Mercuries. You will
810 XXX | not care to attend to such ministers of sin, in my eager wish
811 XXX | judgment-seat of Rhadamanthus or Minos, but of the unexpected Christ!
812 XVII | very shame! Why, even these miserable women, who by their own
813 XVII | brought upon the stage, their misery increased as being there
814 II | condemnation, that the creature misuses the creation. We, therefore,
815 XXIII | contumelious blows, as if in mockery of our Lord? The devil,
816 XV | should enjoy the shows in a moderate way, as befits his rank,
817 XXV | excitement, will he learn to be modest? Nay, in the whole thing
818 VII | whether meanly arrayed or modestly rich and gorgeous, taints
819 XII | more refined, they somewhat modified its character. For formerly,
820 XXX | see so many illustrious monarchs, whose reception into the
821 XIV | For as there is a lust of money, or rank, or eating, or
822 XIII | the temples less than the monuments: we have nothing to do with
823 XXIII | creates so many various moods, either crowned like a priest
824 IX | chariot and pair to the moon. But, as the poet has it, "
825 X | censors, in the interests of morality, put down above all the
826 XI | honour of Neptune; the rest mortuarii, as belonging to the dead.
827 XXVIII| shall be sorrowful." Let us mourn, then, while the heathen
828 X | temples and altars, and that mournful profusion of incense and
829 XIX | s sufferings: he rather mourns that a brother has sinned
830 XXV | net-fighters, can he be moved by compassion? May God avert
831 XV | without some unuttered movings of the inner man. No one
832 VIII | which is tenanted by such multitudes of diabolic spirits. And
833 VI | in public successes in municipal holidays. There are also
834 XXX | quaestor or priest in his munificence will bestow on you the favour
835 VIII | For they will have it that Murcia is the goddess of love;
836 VIII | hidden under ground at the Murcian Goals. These two sprang
837 II | God. Take, for instance, murder, whether committed by iron,
838 XXIII | may not be too little of a murderer when he puts to death that
839 XXI | show, because he thinks murderers ought to suffer for their
840 XXI | unwilling gladiator to the murderous deed with rods and scourges;
841 XII | They alleviated death by murders. Such is the origin of the "
842 X | incense and blood, with music of pipes and trumpets, all
843 II | lion, bodily strength, and musical voice. It cannot, then,
844 | myself
845 | namely
846 XXIX | under foot the gods of the nations--to exorcise evil spirits--
847 V | in a contest about his native kingdom, had succumbed to
848 IX | inventors, the charioteers were naturally dressed, too, in the colours
849 II | has entirely changed man's nature--created, like his own, for
850 XXI | up his tunic, even when necessity of nature presses him, takes
851 VII | their foundress, they must needs be like each other in their
852 XVI | announce each one to his neighbour what all have seen. I have
853 XI | Rome as the Capitoline; Nemean, in honour of Hercules;
854 XXV | and the sponge-nets of the net-fighters, can he be moved by compassion?
855 II | those who have been brought nigh to Him--men cannot but be
856 XXVI | tragedian, and on the very night she saw in her sleep a linen
857 XXVII | then, that is either brave, noble, loud-sounding, melodious,
858 V | state sacrifice at it on the nones of July; the priest of Romulus
859 XII | examine the "spectacle" most noted of all, and in highest favour.
860 XX | assemblies! I heard lately a novel defence of himself by a
861 V | and Capitoline. After him Numa Pompilius instituted games
862 XII | consecrated to names more numerous and more dire than is the
863 XXVIII| theirs. Our banquets, our nuptial joys, are yet to come. We
864 IV | several origins, in what nursing-places they have grown to manhood;
865 XXIV | desert the standards and the oath of allegiance to your chief:
866 VIII | of Samo-Thrace. The huge Obelisk, as Hermeteles affirms,
867 XIII | and we make no funeral oblations to the departed; nay, we
868 XIX | on the wicked, lest I am obliged to know also of the good
869 V | origins, as these are somewhat obscure and but little known to
870 XII | immolating them in their funeral obsequies. Afterwards they thought
871 V | among other superstitious observances under the name of religion,
872 XVI | shout of a common madness. Observe how "out of themselves"
873 IV | what superstitions they are observed; (then their places, to
874 I | it were, even Christian obstinacy might well give all submission
875 II | knowledge of the Lord have obtained some knowledge also of His
876 VIII | places, this is the suitable occasion for some remarks in anticipation
877 XIII | demons, who are the real occupants of these consecrated images,
878 II | what nobody is ignorant of--for Nature herself is teacher
879 I | conscience; and That surely no offence is offered to God, in any
880 XII | to pieces by wild beasts. Offerings to propitiate the dead then
881 XII | munus), from its being an office, for it bears the name of "
882 VIII | their proper business and official duties. Why, even the streets
883 XII | for it bears the name of "officium" as well as "munus." The
884 | often
885 X | footing in the world. For ofttimes the censors, in the interests
886 XI | Thus, too, they are called Olympian in honour of Jupiter, known
887 XIII | dead and their deities are one--we abstain from both idolatries.
888 XXX | before the poor deluded ones, as one fire consumes them!
889 VIII | object they have itself in open space. Those who assert
890 XX | the truth from change of opinion and varying judgments which
891 XVIII | and you will have the very opposite of complacency in the athletes
892 II | may set up a worship in opposition to Himself? On the contrary
893 IX | horseback, and certainly its ordinary use had nothing sinful in
894 XIII | than that of our bodily organs, God has a right to claim
895 XI | The gymnastic arts also originated with their Castors, and
896 VIII | decoration of the place! Every ornament of the circus is a temple
897 XXVI | came back possessed. In the outcasting, accordingly, when the unclean
898 XXII | brand the artist. What an outrageous thing it is, to blacken
899 XXIX | account. Behold unchastity overcome by chastity, perfidy slain
900 II | corrupting and God-opposing angel overthrew in the beginning the virtue
901 XXIX | literature in abundance of our own--plenty of verses, sentences,
902 XXX | advent of our Lord, now owned by all, now highly exalted,
903 VII | they have common names, as owning the same parentage. So,
904 V | information is to be fount in the pages of Suetonius Tranquillus.
905 IX | the sun; the chariot and pair to the moon. But, as the
906 XXIX | angel's trump, glory in the palms of martyrdom. If the literature
907 XVII | hide themselves: they are paraded publicly before every age
908 XXIX | confession of our errors, than pardon of the innumerable sins
909 VII | names, as owning the same parentage. So, too, as they are equally
910 XVI | merit them. What are the partakers in all this--not their own
911 I | the opportunity of still partaking of them, it contrives to
912 VIII | this in the name of the parties whose priestess she was--
913 XIII | do we withhold our nobler parts, our ears and eyes, from
914 X | X.~Let us pass on now to theatrical exhibitions,
915 III | the amphitheatre, and the passages which separate the people
916 XVI | already tumultuous, already passion-blind, already agitated about
917 XXIX | innumerable sins of our past life? What greater pleasure
918 XVII | disreputable. So the best path to the highest favour of
919 XXI | amphitheatre gazes down with most patient eyes on bodies all mangled
920 X | theatre have the common patronage of these two deities. That
921 VIII | not thought it proper to pay sacred honours underneath
922 XV | calmly, gently, quietly, and peacefully with the Holy Spirit, because
923 V | consecrated by grateful peasants, in return for the boon
924 X | attire which so specially and peculiarly characterizes the stage
925 II | created, like his own, for perfect sinlessness--into his own
926 XX | judgments which constitutes its perfection, and gives it its claims
927 XXIX | unchastity overcome by chastity, perfidy slain by faithfulness, cruelty
928 XXIX | exorcise evil spirits--to perform cures--to seek divine revealings--
929 V | obtain from them skilled performers--the proper seasons--the
930 VIII | may be entered without any peril of his religion by the servant
931 XXIX | gliding seasons, reckon up the periods of time, long for the goal
932 XII | even for the tongue of the perjurer? For the amphitheatre is
933 XXX | governors of provinces, too, who persecuted the Christian name, in fires
934 XXVII | against us--that from thence persecuting decrees are wont to emanate,
935 XVII | from his childhood on the person of the pantomime, that he
936 XXII | certain distinctions. What perversity! They have pleasure in those
937 II | but by whom they have been perverted. We shall find out for what
938 II | which works against Him, and perverts to wrong uses the things
939 XXVII | that seat of all that is pestilential, and the very super incumbent
940 II | blessedness of life, whether to philosopher or fool. Now nobody denies
941 XXX | have them by faith in the picturings of imagination. But what
942 XXIII | wearing the colours of a pimp,decked out by the devil
943 X | and song, and lute, and pipe, belong to Apollos, and
944 X | and blood, with music of pipes and trumpets, all under
945 V | according to the statement Piso has handed down to us, called
946 V | counsel, forsooth, in which he planned the rape of the Sabine virgins
947 I | rather a thing of human planning and foresight, than clearly
948 XXX | calamity; of viewing the play-actors, much more "dissolute" in
949 XX | of himself by a certain play-lover. "The sun," said he, "nay,
950 XXV | measures of the effeminate player, will he call up to himself
951 II | own heaven. How skilful a pleader seems human wisdom to herself,
952 XXIII | taking off Elijah? Will He be pleased with him who applies the
953 XXIV | is not God's, or is not pleasing in His eyes, belongs to
954 XXIV | and rescind that baptismal pledge, when we cease to bear its
955 XXIX | in abundance of our own--plenty of verses, sentences, songs,
956 II | if He hates utterly such plotting of evil, it is clear beyond
957 IX | to the moon. But, as the poet has it, "Erichthonius first
958 XXX | one fire consumes them! Poets also, trembling not before
959 XXVII | but as the honey drop of a poisoned cake; nor make so much of
960 VIII | defiled. The polluted things pollute us. It is on this account
961 VIII | maintain, become defiled. The polluted things pollute us. It is
962 XI | wonder, then, if idolatry pollutes the combat-parade with profane
963 X | other evils of idolatry, the pollutions of the public shows, with
964 IX | as sacred to Castor and Pollux, to whom, Stesichorus tells
965 X | of our views. Accordingly Pompey the Great, less only than
966 V | Capitoline. After him Numa Pompilius instituted games to Mars
967 XX | cruelty, because outside the porticoes, the tiers and the curtains,
968 X | further argument by the position that the demons, predetermining
969 XXVI | the theatre, and came back possessed. In the outcasting, accordingly,
970 II | work and image of God, the possessor of the world, so he has
971 XXIII | with making it as like as possible to Saturn and Isis and Bacchus,
972 XXIV | denying it. What hope can you possibly retain in regard to a man
973 XX | Yes, and the sun, too, pours down his rays into the common
974 III | directions it fortifies the practice of the religious life, so
975 I | into the abstinence they practise, with no other object than
976 XVI | agitated about their bets. The praetor is too slow for them: their
977 XVII | abode, their gains, their praises, are set forth, and that
978 III | and Ethiopia, He surely pre-condemns every sinning nation, whatever.
979 VII | besides, what sacrifices precede, come between, and follow.
980 II | man-killing by that one summary precept, "Thou shalt not kill."
981 II | pleasure, regarding it as a precious gift--in fact, the one blessedness
982 III | expressed with the same precision, "Thou shalt not enter circus
983 X | position that the demons, predetermining in their own interests from
984 III | Though he seems to have predicted beforehand of that just
985 VII | But the more ambitious preliminary display of the circus games
986 X | have made provision and preparation for the objects they had
987 XXVII | deadly draught which he prepares, things of God most pleasant
988 XVII | increased as being there in the presence of their own sex, from whom
989 VI | which they bear even at the present day, in which it is imprinted
990 I | this matter are wont to press us with arguments, such
991 XXI | when necessity of nature presses him, takes it off in the
992 XIX | weakness of the defence, or the pressure of the rack? How much better,
993 X | homage rendered to them, and pretend to be divine--none other
994 XXIII | age; He never will approve pretended loves, and wraths, and groans,
995 X | held in reprobation, by pretending that it was a sacred place;
996 XXX | which in the days of their pride they raged against the followers
997 VIII | name of the parties whose priestess she was--I mean the demons
998 VII | How many guilds, how many priesthoods, how many offices are set
999 XII | quaestorships and magistracies--to priestly offices of different kinds;
1000 V | mighty tutelar deities." The priests of the state sacrifice at
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