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1001 II | corrupted state and that of primal purity, just because there
1002 XV | said, in regard to that principal argument, that there is
1003 VI | rendered to the memories of private persons; and this according
1004 XXV | struggle, will he be ready to proclaim that there must be no striking
1005 X | and summoning by public proclamation the people to its consecration,
1006 XII | fillets the crowns, the proclamations too, and edicts, the sacred
1007 VIII | to profess faith in their production from the egg of a swan,
1008 XXX | with age, and all its many products, shall be consumed in one
1009 XI | pollutes the combat-parade with profane crowns, with sacerdotal
1010 VIII | men who are not ashamed to profess faith in their production
1011 IV | entering the water, we make profession of the Christian faith in
1012 X | their leading to a general profligacy; so that already, from this
1013 X | altars, and that mournful profusion of incense and blood, with
1014 IX | but afterwards, in the progress of luxury as well as of
1015 II | evils even the heathens prohibit, and against which they
1016 I | of them, it contrives to prolong swilling ignorance, and
1017 XV | foreign to us. Moreover, a man pronounces his own condemnation in
1018 VII | belongs, is in itself the proof to whom the whole thing
1019 XXVI | How many other undoubted proofs we have had in the case
1020 XXV | one be giving thought to prophetic appeals? Amid the measures
1021 XII | wild beasts. Offerings to propitiate the dead then were regarded
1022 XXII | gladiators, to whom men prostitute their souls, women too their
1023 XXI | the father who carefully protects and guards his virgin daughter'
1024 XXIX | verses, sentences, songs, proverbs; and these not fabulous,
1025 X | themselves would have made provision and preparation for the
1026 II | nor to doubt that, as the prowess of the corrupting and God-opposing
1027 XXV | he call up to himself a psalm? And when the athletes are
1028 V | authors are extant who have published works on the subject. The
1029 XXI | reproaches the brawling pugilist, in the arena gives all
1030 XXII | pleasure in those whom yet they punish; they put all slights on
1031 XIX | doubt, to have the guilty punished. Who but the criminal himself
1032 XXX | devil-possessed! This is He whom you purchased from Judas! This is He whom
1033 XII | honours themselves; for the purple robes, the fasces, the fillets
1034 X | service, carried out their purpose by bestowing on him the
1035 XXX | crowds of visitants!" What quaestor or priest in his munificence
1036 XII | of the living, I mean, to quaestorships and magistracies--to priestly
1037 I | They regard it as an art of quenching all desire for that which,
1038 XXVIII| have you answer me this question: Can we not live without
1039 XXVIII| the name of pleasure to quietness and repose; in that they
1040 IX | idols, at least if he and Quirinus are the same. But as chariots
1041 XXX | both theatres, and every race-course.~
1042 XVIII | But if you argue that the racecourse is mentioned in Scripture,
1043 XVIII | approval to those foolish racing and throwing feats, and
1044 XIX | or the pressure of the rack? How much better, then,
1045 XXX | days of their pride they raged against the followers of
1046 XVI | accordingly is, that they fly into rages, and passions, and discords,
1047 XXVII | To the lions!" is daily raised against us--that from thence
1048 V | also Ludii, because they ran about making sport; still
1049 IV | as not coming within the range of our baptismal abjuration.~
1050 XVII | before every age and every rank--their abode, their gains,
1051 XVII | Let the Senate, let all ranks, blush for very shame! Why,
1052 V | in which he planned the rape of the Sabine virgins for
1053 XIX | the case at all! At any rate, gladiators not chargeable
1054 XX | sun, too, pours down his rays into the common sewer without
1055 XXIII | with him who applies the razor to himself, and completely
1056 XVII | so that they blush more readily at home than at the play,
1057 XXIX | tricks of art, but plain realities. Would you have also fightings
1058 XV | though that wish cannot be realized, yet even now we are separate
1059 VIII | called as the goddess of reaping; of Tutulina, so called
1060 III | rather turn to the unworthy reasonings of our own people; for the
1061 I | condition of faith, the reasons of the Truth, the laws of
1062 XXIII | unpunished? I suppose he received these caestus-scars, and
1063 II | with, and ears to be the receptacle of evil speech, and the
1064 XXX | illustrious monarchs, whose reception into the heavens was publicly
1065 XVIII | and cuffs, and all the recklessness of hand, and everything
1066 V | truly; and still I suppose reckoned just and righteous by the
1067 XXIX | insufficient, as not thankfully to recognize the many and exquisite pleasures
1068 XXX | He whom you struck with reed and fist, whom you contemptuously
1069 XII | the images of the dead. To refer also to the matter of names,
1070 XII | period, with a cruelty more refined, they somewhat modified
1071 XII | Munus." But by degrees their refinement came up to their cruelty;
1072 XXIII | Seeing, then, man's own reflections, even in spite of the sweetness
1073 XVIII | at once. But you will not refuse to admit that the things
1074 XIX | we are said to be, let us regale ourselves there with human
1075 II | with contempt on pleasure, regarding it as a precious gift--in
1076 XVII | atrocious or the vile. What you reject in deed, you are not to
1077 XXIV | frequent the show. Why, the rejection of these amusements is the
1078 XII | XII.~It remains for us to examine the "spectacle"
1079 XVII | should be any calling to remembrance the atrocious or the vile.
1080 V | investigations must go back to a remote antiquity, and our authorities
1081 XIII | but that the homage they render is to demons, who are the
1082 VI | our part the same solemn renunciation of all idolatry.~
1083 IV | the conclusion that our renunciatory testimony in the layer of
1084 XXVI | attack a believer, he firmly replied, "And in truth I did it
1085 XXVIII| pleasure to quietness and repose; in that they have their
1086 XXII | guilty of the deeds they reprobate; nay, they doom them to
1087 X | which is ever to be held in reprobation, by pretending that it was
1088 III | of their duty, or sharply reproves them, He has surely a reference
1089 XVII | abode, where nothing is in repute but what elsewhere is disreputable.
1090 V | The Romans, at their own request, obtain from them skilled
1091 X | artistic gifts which the shows require. For none but themselves
1092 III | generally, even when it requires a certain special interpretation
1093 XXIV | but do we not abjure and rescind that baptismal pledge, when
1094 X | minister to idols. They resemble each other also in their
1095 XI | in honour of Neptune; the rest mortuarii, as belonging
1096 XVI | headlong from on high. And the result accordingly is, that they
1097 XXIX | perform cures--to seek divine revealings--to live to God? These are
1098 XIX | guiltless never suffer from the revenge of the judge, or the weakness
1099 I | you have done so already, review the subject, that there
1100 XXI | the savage swordsman, and rewards him with the cap of liberty.
1101 XXX | before the judgment-seat of Rhadamanthus or Minos, but of the unexpected
1102 VII | meanly arrayed or modestly rich and gorgeous, taints it
1103 IX | horses to the chariot, and to ride upon its wheels with victorious
1104 XXVI | And in truth I did it most righteously, for I found her in my domain."
1105 XXIII | much more does the divine righteousness inflict punishment on those
1106 XXII | ignominy and the loss of their rights as citizens, excluding them
1107 XXX | it might be said He had risen again, or the gardener abstracted,
1108 XXIV | eyes, belongs to His wicked rival), this simply means that
1109 XX | judgment! But He looks on robberies too; He looks on falsehoods,
1110 XII | themselves; for the purple robes, the fasces, the fillets
1111 V | instituted games to Mars and Robigo (for they have also invented
1112 II | composed as they are of rocks, stones, marbles, pillars,
1113 XXI | the murderous deed with rods and scourges; and one who
1114 XVI | them: their eyes are ever rolling as though along with the
1115 VIII | sacred honours underneath a roof to an object they have itself
1116 XXII | from the Curia, and the rostra, from senatorial and equestrian
1117 III | between the seats going round the amphitheatre, and the
1118 XXIX | startled at God's signal, be roused up at the angel's trump,
1119 IX | sacred to the summer with its ruddy sun: but afterwards, in
1120 XVI | do not spare even their rulers and fellow-citizens? If
1121 XXVII | pleasures, as of the danger you run from its attractions.~
1122 III | which separate the people running down, ways. The place in
1123 V | also invented a goddess of rust); then Tullus Hostilius;
1124 XXX | or hireling's son, that Sabbath-breaker, that Samaritan and devil-possessed!
1125 V | planned the rape of the Sabine virgins for wives to his
1126 XI | with profane crowns, with sacerdotal chiefs, with attendants
1127 XVI | not their own: they are saddened by another's sorrow, they
1128 XXI | wished torn in pieces at safe distance from him: so much
1129 XXII | on them, though for their sakes they are guilty of the deeds
1130 XIX | with crime are offered in sale for the games, that they
1131 XXX | that Sabbath-breaker, that Samaritan and devil-possessed! This
1132 VIII | Victorious. They reckon these of Samo-Thrace. The huge Obelisk, as Hermeteles
1133 XXIII | it as like as possible to Saturn and Isis and Bacchus, but
1134 XXI | will have the staff for the savage swordsman, and rewards him
1135 XXVI | and on the very night she saw in her sleep a linen cloth--
1136 XV | with those who do. "If thou sawest a thief," says the Scripture, "
1137 XXV | passion. And then there is scarce any other object in going
1138 XXI | that the same man who can scarcely in public lift up his tunic,
1139 X | the same procession to the scene of their display from temples
1140 II | embellishment; nay, the very scenes are enacted under God's
1141 XXI | murderous deed with rods and scourges; and one who demands the
1142 XIX | We shall now see how the Scriptures condemn the amphitheatre.
1143 III | either too simple or too scrupulous, demands direct authority
1144 IX | and azure to the sky and sea, or autumn. But as idolatry
1145 XXVII | put into condiments well seasoned and of sweetest taste. So,
1146 XXIX | of the world, the gliding seasons, reckon up the periods of
1147 V | skilled performers--the proper seasons--the name too, for it is
1148 XXV | XXV.~Seated where there is nothing of
1149 XXX | is He whom His disciples secretly stole away, that it might
1150 XVII | despise the teaching of secular literature as being foolishness
1151 I | due honour and reverence secured to Him. But this is precisely
1152 XVI | saints of God, they will be seemly in the circus too; but if
1153 XX | who is a Judge because He sees. Are we set, then, on playing
1154 XXI | evil and good as it suits self-will and passion, making that
1155 XVII | the light of day. Let the Senate, let all ranks, blush for
1156 XXII | Curia, and the rostra, from senatorial and equestrian rank, and
1157 III | applications: after the immediate sense has been exhausted, in all
1158 XV | with His tenderness and sensitiveness, and not to vex Him with
1159 XXVII | emanate, and temptations are sent forth. What will you do
1160 XXIX | our own--plenty of verses, sentences, songs, proverbs; and these
1161 V | twelfth before the Kalends of September. In addition to this, Romulus
1162 XII | killed at the places of sepulture. They alleviated death by
1163 VIII | Capitol or the temple of Serapis to sacrifice or adore, as
1164 XVIII | attitude has power in it of the serpent kind, firm to hold--tortures
1165 VIII | peril of his religion by the servant of God, if he has only some
1166 XVII | can never be pure whose servants-in-waiting are impure? You have the
1167 X | by his drapery; while its services of voice, and song, and
1168 VIII | honour of Neptune. Images of Sessia, so called as the goddess
1169 V | succumbed to his brother, settled down in Etruria. Well, among
1170 | several
1171 XX | his rays into the common sewer without being defiled. As
1172 XXIX | impudence thrown into the shade by modesty: these are the
1173 V | has sprung from sin, from shamelessness, from violence, from hatred,
1174 XXVIII| now in their gladness, we share then also in their grief.
1175 IX | that form of it surely shares the condemnation which is
1176 XXVIII| sorrow we may rejoice; lest, sharing now in their gladness, we
1177 III | Israelites of their duty, or sharply reproves them, He has surely
1178 VIII | middle of it, and whose image shines forth from its temple summit;
1179 XXIII | same way, with their high shoes, he has made the tragic
1180 XVI | signal; there is the united shout of a common madness. Observe
1181 VIII | not only the places for show-gatherings, but even the temples, may
1182 XIII | carried out our plan of showing in how many different ways
1183 X | exhibitions, which we have already shown have a common origin with
1184 XXVII | God? Shall you not then shun those tiers where the enemies
1185 XXX | Yes, and there are other sights: that last day of judgment,
1186 XXIV | amusements is the chief sign to them that a man has adopted
1187 II | put in its gold, brass, silver, ivory, wood, and all the
1188 XXIV | His wicked rival), this simply means that in them you have
1189 II | like his own, for perfect sinlessness--into his own state of wicked
1190 XIX | mourns that a brother has sinned so heinously as to need
1191 II | under God's own heaven. How skilful a pleader seems human wisdom
1192 V | request, obtain from them skilled performers--the proper seasons--
1193 XXIII | caestus-scars, and the thick skin of his fists, and these
1194 XXIX | overcome by chastity, perfidy slain by faithfulness, cruelty
1195 XII | habit of buying captives or slaves of wicked disposition, and
1196 III | taking counsel about the slaying of our Lord, yet divine
1197 XXVI | very night she saw in her sleep a linen cloth--the actor'
1198 XXII | they punish; they put all slights on those to whom, at the
1199 XVIII | hold--tortures to clasp--slippery to glide away. You have
1200 XVI | bets. The praetor is too slow for them: their eyes are
1201 XXI | all mangled and torn and smeared with their own blood; nay,
1202 XXIII | be meekly offered to the smiter. In the same way, with their
1203 IX | devil himself, and no mere snake. But if Trochilus the Argive
1204 II | a thought-manufactory of snares, and fraud, and injustice?
1205 IX | winter with its glistening snows, the latter sacred to the
1206 XXIX | consummation, defend the societies of the churches, be startled
1207 V | virgins for wives to his soldiers. An excellent counsel truly;
1208 VI | origin in the birthdays and solemnities of kings, in public successes
1209 XII | ancients thought that in this solemnity they rendered offices to
1210 X | its services of voice, and song, and lute, and pipe, belong
1211 XXIX | plenty of verses, sentences, songs, proverbs; and these not
1212 VI | were regarded as of two sons, sacred and funereal, that
1213 X | under the direction of the soothsayer and the undertaker, those
1214 XXVIII| shall rejoice; ye shall be sorrowful." Let us mourn, then, while
1215 XI | Mars, they with contest and sound of trumpet emulate the circus
1216 XIII | because they have a common source--for their dead and their
1217 VIII | called as the goddess of sowing; of Messia, so called as
1218 VIII | they have itself in open space. Those who assert that the
1219 III | the way. For they call the spaces between the seats going
1220 XVI | circus, where people do not spare even their rulers and fellow-citizens?
1221 XXV | close communion, blow up the sparks of passion. And then there
1222 XXX | whom you contemptuously spat upon, to whom you gave gall
1223 XXVII | and marking every man, who speaks and who listens to the blaspheming
1224 VIII | shall also do by going as a spectator to the circus and the theatre.
1225 XVI | they are by their foolish speeches. "He has thrown it!" they
1226 XXIX | are, if your thought is to spend this period of existence
1227 XVII | immediate attendants on the spirit--and that can never be pure
1228 XXIX | nations--to exorcise evil spirits--to perform cures--to seek
1229 XV | the show always leads to spiritual agitation, since where there
1230 XIV | imbibe impurity, and then spirt it again on others.~
1231 XXIII | own reflections, even in spite of the sweetness of pleasure,
1232 XXV | bites of bears, and the sponge-nets of the net-fighters, can
1233 V | because they ran about making sport; still that sporting of
1234 V | making sport; still that sporting of young men belongs, in
1235 VIII | love; and to her, at that spot, they have consecrated a
1236 VIII | Murcian Goals. These two sprang from an idol. For they will
1237 VII | streamlet from its very spring-head, the little twig from its
1238 V | is certain that the thing springs from idolatry. The Liberalia,
1239 V | that to be good which has sprung from sin, from shamelessness,
1240 XXI | deeper dye, will have the staff for the savage swordsman,
1241 XVII | caves, lest they should stain the light of day. Let the
1242 III | For at the shows they also stand in the way. For they call
1243 XXIV | down your arms, desert the standards and the oath of allegiance
1244 VIII | to the Sun, whose temple stands in the middle of it, and
1245 XXIX | societies of the churches, be startled at God's signal, be roused
1246 V | Tarpeian Hill, according to the statement Piso has handed down to
1247 VII | images the long line of statues, the chariots of all sorts,
1248 XXIII | none can add a cubit to his stature." His desire is to make
1249 IX | Castor and Pollux, to whom, Stesichorus tells us, horses were given
1250 XXX | whom His disciples secretly stole away, that it might be said
1251 II | composed as they are of rocks, stones, marbles, pillars, are things
1252 XXI | place in another good. So it strangely happens, that the same man
1253 VII | spring defiles them. The tiny streamlet from its very spring-head,
1254 XXIX | by faithfulness, cruelty stricken by compassion, impudence
1255 XXV | soul when there is eager strife there for a charioteer?
1256 XXV | proclaim that there must be no striking again? And with his eye
1257 XVIII | need of crowns; why do you strive to get pleasures from crowns?~
1258 XXX | Judas! This is He whom you struck with reed and fist, whom
1259 X | So he threw a veil over a structure on which condemnation had
1260 XXV | the athletes are hard at struggle, will he be ready to proclaim
1261 XXV | devil's—from the sky to the stye, as they say; to raise your
1262 VII | things are done in humbler style in the provinces, in accordance
1263 XXX | concern in ought that is sublunary, and were wont to assure
1264 I | obstinacy might well give all submission to a plan so suitable, to
1265 V | in the circus, there is a subterranean altar to this same Consus,
1266 IV | dealing in mere argumentative subtleties, I shall turn to that highest
1267 XXIV | God's servants? If we have succeeded in making it plain that
1268 VI | solemnities of kings, in public successes in municipal holidays. There
1269 V | Martius; and various others in succession did the like. As to the
1270 V | his native kingdom, had succumbed to his brother, settled
1271 V | be fount in the pages of Suetonius Tranquillus. But we need
1272 XIX | no pleasure in another's sufferings: he rather mourns that a
1273 XIV | there was not involved a sufficient declaration against all
1274 XXI | thing evil and good as it suits self-will and passion, making
1275 II | man-killing by that one summary precept, "Thou shalt not
1276 IX | the latter sacred to the summer with its ruddy sun: but
1277 VIII | shines forth from its temple summit; for they have not thought
1278 X | it a temple of Venus; and summoning by public proclamation the
1279 XXVII | pestilential, and the very super incumbent atmosphere all
1280 X | condemnation of his memory, superposed on it a temple of Venus;
1281 IV | their apparatus, with what superstitions they are observed; (then
1282 V | Etruria. Well, among other superstitious observances under the name
1283 II | eyes, and set up his own supremacy.~
1284 XVIII | artificial body which aim at surpassing the Creator's work; and
1285 VIII | production from the egg of a swan, which was no other than
1286 II | her delights--any of the sweet enjoyments of worldly existence!
1287 XXVII | condiments well seasoned and of sweetest taste. So, too, the devil
1288 XXIII | reflections, even in spite of the sweetness of pleasure, lead him to
1289 IX | its wheels with victorious swiftness." Erichthonius, the son
1290 I | it contrives to prolong swilling ignorance, and bribes knowledge
1291 XXI | the staff for the savage swordsman, and rewards him with the
1292 X | two evil spirits are in sworn confederacy with each other,
1293 XV | he confesses he has no sympathy. It is not enough that we
1294 VII | too, as they are equally tainted with the sin of idolatry,
1295 VIII | God, but by touching and tainting ourselves with the world'
1296 VII | modestly rich and gorgeous, taints it in its origin.~
1297 II | come from the works of God. Take, for instance, murder, whether
1298 XXIII | has made the tragic actors taller, because "none can add a
1299 VIII | and the baths, and the taverns, and our very dwelling-places,
1300 II | argument that all things, as we teach, were created by God, and
1301 II | of--for Nature herself is teacher of it--that God is the Maker
1302 IX | Hippius. In regard to the team, they have consecrated the
1303 XXIII | wraths, and groans, and tears. Then, too, as in His law
1304 XXIV | heathen themselves. Let them tell us, then, whether it is
1305 XI | the arena, which is a real temple--I mean of the god whose
1306 XXV | will meet with no greater temptation than that gay attiring of
1307 VIII | a sacred place which is tenanted by such multitudes of diabolic
1308 XV | of His nature, with His tenderness and sensitiveness, and not
1309 VI | holidays. There are also testamentary exhibitions, in which funeral
1310 I | public shows. Ye who have testified and confessed that you have
1311 XXIX | reckon insufficient, as not thankfully to recognize the many and
1312 XXVIII| times, the inviter too, are theirs. Our banquets, our nuptial
1313 XXX | for by the nations, the theme of their derision, when
1314 XX | XX.~How vain, then--nay, how desperate--is the
1315 XXIII | these caestus-scars, and the thick skin of his fists, and these
1316 XV | who do. "If thou sawest a thief," says the Scripture, "thou
1317 XXVIII| a fool thou art, if thou thinkest this life's pleasures to
1318 XXV | nothing of God, will one be thinking of his Maker? Will there
1319 XXI | to the show, because he thinks murderers ought to suffer
1320 XVI | are the partakers in all this--not their own masters--to
1321 II | body that it might become a thought-manufactory of snares, and fraud, and
1322 III | reference to all men; when He threatens destruction to Egypt and
1323 X | viewing the shows." So he threw a veil over a structure
1324 VII | chariots of all sorts, the thrones, the crowns, the dresses.
1325 XVIII | those foolish racing and throwing feats, and yet more foolish
1326 XXIII | him who, to save himself, thrusts another in the lion's way,
1327 | Thus
1328 XXVII | are caught in that heaving tide of impious judgments? Not
1329 V | as given by them is this. Timaeus tells us that immigrants
1330 VII | spring defiles them. The tiny streamlet from its very
1331 VI | with us under what name or title it is practised, while it
1332 III | of that just man, that he took no part in the meetings
1333 XVIII | serpent kind, firm to hold--tortures to clasp--slippery to glide
1334 XXX | not in their gymnasia, but tossing in the fiery billows; unless
1335 VIII | we lapse from God, but by touching and tainting ourselves with
1336 IV | to what authors they are traced. If any of these shall be
1337 XXVI | woman had been hearing a tragedian, and on the very night she
1338 XXX | opportunity then of hearing the tragedians, louder-voiced in their
1339 XVII | tragic or comic play. If tragedies and comedies are the bloody
1340 XXII | their bodies, slight and trample on them, though for their
1341 V | in the pages of Suetonius Tranquillus. But we need say no more
1342 XXIX | death? What nobler than to tread under foot the gods of the
1343 XXX | consumes them! Poets also, trembling not before the judgment-seat
1344 XXIX | fabulous, but true; not tricks of art, but plain realities.
1345 XV | and he is chargeable with trifling who goes where nothing is
1346 XXX | now highly exalted, now a triumphant One! What that exultation
1347 IX | and no mere snake. But if Trochilus the Argive is maker of the
1348 XXVIII| have gladness and we are troubled. "The world," says Jesus, "
1349 V | soldiers. An excellent counsel truly; and still I suppose reckoned
1350 XXIX | roused up at the angel's trump, glory in the palms of martyrdom.
1351 XI | with contest and sound of trumpet emulate the circus in the
1352 X | with music of pipes and trumpets, all under the direction
1353 V | a goddess of rust); then Tullus Hostilius; then Ancus Martius;
1354 XVI | strong emotion, already tumultuous, already passion-blind,
1355 XXI | scarcely in public lift up his tunic, even when necessity of
1356 V | Even now, at the first turning-post in the circus, there is
1357 XXVIII| this matter go by their turns. Now they have gladness
1358 V | Mars, in battle mighty tutelar deities." The priests of
1359 VIII | the goddess of reaping; of Tutulina, so called as the fruit-protecting
1360 V | Romulus and the Vestals on the twelfth before the Kalends of September.
1361 XIII | doubt, that for us who have twice renounced all idols, they
1362 VII | spring-head, the little twig from its very budding, contains
1363 V | under the leadership of Tyrrhenus, who, in a contest about
1364 III | the contrary, it holds, unblessed is he who has entered any
1365 XX | claims to full mastery, unchanging reverence, and faithful
1366 II | ally, and the genitals for unchaste excesses, and hands for
1367 XXIX | of slight account. Behold unchastity overcome by chastity, perfidy
1368 VIII | some honest reason for it, unconnected with their proper business
1369 XIX | monstrous thing it is, that, in undergoing their punishment, they,
1370 VIII | proper to pay sacred honours underneath a roof to an object they
1371 X | of the soothsayer and the undertaker, those two foul masters
1372 XV | nature, still he is not undisturbed in mind, without some unuttered
1373 XXVI | no more. How many other undoubted proofs we have had in the
1374 XXX | Rhadamanthus or Minos, but of the unexpected Christ! I shall have a better
1375 XXIX | enjoyments, how are you so ungrateful as to reckon insufficient,
1376 XVI | the signal; there is the united shout of a common madness.
1377 II | God is the Maker of the universe, and that it is good, and
1378 XVI | useless thing, and hatred is unjust. Or is a causeless love
1379 XXX | everlasting issues; that day unlooked for by the nations, the
1380 XXIII | And will the boxer go unpunished? I suppose he received these
1381 XXIII | as adultery all that is unreal. Condemning, therefore,
1382 XIII | idols, they are utterly unsuitable. "Not that an idol is anything,"
1383 XIX | also of the good coming to untimely ends--if I may speak of
1384 XV | undisturbed in mind, without some unuttered movings of the inner man.
1385 XXI | their crime, drives the unwilling gladiator to the murderous
1386 XXVI | the unclean creature was upbraided with having dared to attack
1387 XIV | thought that the abstinence we urge is not in so many words
1388 XVI | along with the lots in his urn; then they hang all eager
1389 XXVII | is daily raised against us--that from thence persecuting
1390 | used
1391 II | Him, and perverts to wrong uses the things His hand has
1392 X | must be the objects of your utter detestation. So we would
1393 III | that here also you have an utterance which is not far from a
1394 XXV | the mouth, from which you uttered Amen over the Holy Thing,
1395 V | V.~In the matter of their
1396 XX | XX.~How vain, then--nay, how desperate--
1397 V | Ludi, from Lydi. And though Varro derives the name of Ludi
1398 XX | from change of opinion and varying judgments which constitutes
1399 V | and objects of religious veneration. However, it is of little
1400 XXX | insatiable on those whose fury vented itself against the Lord. "
1401 XXIX | abundance of our own--plenty of verses, sentences, songs, proverbs;
1402 V | priest of Romulus and the Vestals on the twelfth before the
1403 XV | sensitiveness, and not to vex Him with rage, ill-nature,
1404 VI | VI.~To the testimony of antiquity
1405 II | the throat to serve the vice of gluttony, and the belly
1406 XXI | and he must have the poor victim back again, that he may
1407 VII | VII.~The two kinds of public
1408 VIII | VIII.~To follow out my plan in
1409 XVII | favour of its god is the vileness which the Atellan gesticulates,
1410 XXX | to whom you gave gall and vinegar to drink! This is He whom
1411 XXI | protects and guards his virgin daughter's ears from every
1412 V | planned the rape of the Sabine virgins for wives to his soldiers.
1413 II | overthrew in the beginning the virtue of man, the work and image
1414 X | he blinded the eyes of a virtuous discipline. But Venus and
1415 XXX | harm from the crowds of visitants!" What quaestor or priest
1416 VIII | Jupiter himself. The Dolphins vomit forth in honour of Neptune.
1417 IX | Erichthonius, the son of Vulcan and Minerva, fruit of unworthy
1418 VIII | parties whose priestess she was--I mean the demons and spirits
1419 IV | itself. When entering the water, we make profession of the
1420 II | back from us. For even the weakling has no strong dread of death
1421 XIX | revenge of the judge, or the weakness of the defence, or the pressure
1422 XXV | hands to God, and then to weary them in the applause of
1423 XVII | deed, you are not to bid welcome to in word.~
1424 IX | chariot, and to ride upon its wheels with victorious swiftness."
1425 XXIII | the devil that he may be whirled away in his chariot, as
1426 I | whether through real or wilful ignorance. For such is the
1427 XXIX | among us, and in these we win our crowns. Would you have
1428 V | making known the pleasures of wine. Then the Consualia were
1429 IX | the former sacred to the winter with its glistening snows,
1430 II | skilful a pleader seems human wisdom to herself, especially if
1431 XXI | at hand the man whom he wished torn in pieces at safe distance
1432 XIII | defilements, how much more do we withhold our nobler parts, our ears
1433 | within
1434 XXVI | woman--the Lord Himself is witness--who went to the theatre,
1435 V | of the Sabine virgins for wives to his soldiers. An excellent
1436 XXVI | We have the case of the woman--the Lord Himself is witness--
1437 II | gold, brass, silver, ivory, wood, and all the other materials
1438 XXVII | the very time the devil is working havoc in the church, do
1439 II | regarded as injurious to His worshippers, as certainly it is not
1440 XXVIII| dainty, Christian, if thou wouldst have pleasure in this life
1441 XV | you have rage, bitterness, wrath and grief, with all bad
1442 XXIII | approve pretended loves, and wraths, and groans, and tears.
1443 XVIII | devil's thing. The devil wrestled with, and crushed to death,
1444 XVIII | peace, feeds up. And the wrestler's art is a devil's thing.
1445 XXIX | have also fightings and wrestlings? Well, of these there is
1446 II | against Him, and perverts to wrong uses the things His hand
1447 XXV | there for a charioteer? Wrought up into a frenzied excitement,
1448 X | X.~Let us pass on now to theatrical
1449 XI | XI.~In fulfilment of our plan,
1450 XII | XII.~It remains for us to examine
1451 XIII | XIII.~We have, I think, faithfully
1452 XIV | XIV.~Having sufficiently established
1453 XIX | XIX.~We shall now see how the
1454 XV | XV.~Having done enough, then,
1455 XVI | XVI.~Since, then, all passionate
1456 XVII | XVII.~Are we not, in like manner,
1457 XVIII | XVIII.~But if you argue that the
1458 XX | XX.~How vain, then--nay, how
1459 XXI | XXI.~The heathen, who have not
1460 XXII | XXII.~What wonder is there in
1461 XXIII | XXIII.~Seeing, then, man's own
1462 XXIV | XXIV.~In how many other ways
1463 XXIX | XXIX.~Even as things are, if
1464 XXV | XXV.~Seated where there is nothing
1465 XXVI | XXVI.~Why may not those who go
1466 XXVII | XXVII.~We ought to detest these
1467 XXVIII| XXVIII.~With such dainties as these
1468 XXX | XXX.~But what a spectacle is
1469 XVII | of shame at least once a year. But if we ought to abominate
1470 IX | Erichthonius first dared to yoke four horses to the chariot,
1471 V | still that sporting of young men belongs, in his view,
1472 | yourselves
1473 IX | and white by others to the Zephyrs, while green was given to
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