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1 XI | must be either an immediate abandonment of it, which has been the
2 XI | master after Christ, and to abjure father, mother, and all
3 XIII| unholy, unlawful, having been abjured already once for all in
4 V | you in the head, which is able neither to distinguish colour,
5 VII | head or other; making it abundantly clear how foreign to us
6 X | distinction between using and abusing. Who can abuse a thing,
7 II | by the support of general acceptance. It is undoubted, so that
8 IV | civil matters custom is accepted as law, when positive legal
9 II | done no wrong to-day in accepting the crown he offended before
10 XI | in discussing the merely accidental, when that on which it rests
11 IV | voluntary thing. She had come accused, ashamed of the disgrace
12 IV | he himself, too, being accustomed to afford counsel though
13 XI | acknowledge every one who acknowledges God,--who will save, too,
14 VII | The little of this I have acquired, will, I believe, be enough.
15 V | him with certain senses, (acting) through members, which,
16 III | seat, in all the ordinary actions of daily life, we trace
17 XI | that we may not fall into acts of sin, or martyrdoms endured
18 XV | be the realities in the actual manifestation? Look at those
19 | actually
20 XII | then in the temples. In addition to the places, observe the
21 VII | the belly. Those who want additional information will find an
22 XI | citizen. A state of faith admits no plea of necessity; they
23 VIII| I reply upon the point, admitting indeed that we use along
24 XV | thereupon put upon his head, is admonished to resist and east it off,
25 XIV | will not too elaborately adorn herself, that she may not
26 X | after the style of idol adornings. "To the pure all things
27 I | largess of Christ. Thereafter adverse judgments began to be passed
28 XII | Venus, the mother of the AEneadae, the mistress also of the
29 X | use of them. But the whole affair is meaningless, and is,
30 VI | as when to the Romans, affirming that the heathen do by nature
31 XIII| mourn." And I think the Lord affirms, that those who mourn are
32 IV | too, being accustomed to afford counsel though he had not
33 V | partaker of) the pleasures afforded by His creatures, endowed
34 IV | suppose that, when it was her aim to please, she took walks
35 XII | the denial (of Christ). Albeit the Christian says nothing
36 III | enjoined to be taken by all alike. As often as the anniversary
37 VII | by idols and in idols yet alive? Not as if an idol were
38 XII | be everywhere defiled and all-defiling. And it is further defiled,
39 XI | fact, disposed of this very allegation of necessity with reference
40 X | X.~So, when you allege that the ornaments of the
41 V | members have had these senses allotted to them? The eyes and the
42 IX | tabernacle of witness, nor the altar, nor the candlestick crowned
43 | although
44 X | distinction between things altogether different from each other--
45 XIII| and schools, and the very amphitheatres, and the chambers where
46 VII | information will find an ample exposition of the subject
47 III | immersed, making a somewhat ampler pledge than the Lord has
48 III | this line, when we have an ancient practice, which by anticipation
49 III | all alike. As often as the anniversary comes round, we make offerings
50 X | things contrary to reason--in answer to those who, because there
51 I | asked for his reasons, he answered, I am a Christian. O soldier!
52 XIII| and the evil spirits, the Antelii.~
53 III | ancient practice, which by anticipation has made for us the state,
54 XIII| Archemorus, and the hapless Antinous, should be crowned in a
55 X | given over to those in whose antiquities, as well as festivals and
56 I | inquirers who are ignorant, but anxious, may be instructed; and
57 | anywhere
58 VII | candidates, and was set apart from the beginning to no
59 XV | the devil, who is wont to ape some of God's things with
60 XV | clouds. If such are the appearances in the vision of the seer,
61 XIII| preferred the Etruscan. This appellation is given to the crowns which,
62 XI | sue at law? And shall he apply the chain, and the prison,
63 III | pledge than the Lord has appointed in the Gospel. Then when
64 I | soldiers, laurel-crowned, were approaching. One of them, more a soldier
65 XI | the centurion whom Christ approves, and the centurion whom
66 X | other offends me, I burn the Arabian product myself, but not
67 XIII| and the wretched little Archemorus, and the hapless Antinous,
68 XII | the former as the god of archery, to the latter as the god
69 VII | crown upon Juno. So too at Argos, her statue, vine-wreathed,
70 VII | be crowned. Harpocration argues that Bacchus the same as
71 VII | assigns fillets; and to Ariadne a garland of gold and of
72 IX | crowned; as neither was the ark of the testament, nor the
73 I | equipped in the apostles' armour, and crowned more worthily
74 XII | is equally the goddess of arms--but got a crown of the tree
75 | around
76 XI | trumpeter, who expects to be aroused by the angel's trump? And
77 XIV | crowned with any exquisite arrangement of her hair. What sort of
78 VIII| along with others these articles, but challenging that this
79 IV | thing. She had come accused, ashamed of the disgrace she had
80 IV | the law. I put the apostle aside. If Rebecca at once drew
81 XI | offices. Touching this primary aspect of the question, as to the
82 XIII| triumph, had not even an ass of His own. These (put their
83 X | a dead man. Thus far we assert, that this attire belongs
84 VI | authenticates nature, when he asserts that males and females changed
85 VII | Priapus also the same author assigns fillets; and to Ariadne
86 VIII| useful and affords real assistance and honourable comfort,
87 XIII| with golden ones, as at Athens, and at Rome. Even to those
88 XIII| many gods the devil has attached to doors; Janus so-called
89 VI | chapter of the epistle he authenticates nature, when he asserts
90 IV | to find subsequently (its authorization in) the apostle's sanction,
91 XI | punishment, who is not the avenger even of his own wrongs?
92 IV | veil on in her husband's avenue. Grant, now, that she was
93 XI | resorted to in order to avoid offending God, and that
94 I | white crown of martyrdom, he awaits in prison the largess of
95 XV | Mithras if he throws the crown away--if he say that in his god
96 XIII| His own cross; there the axe is already laid to the trunk
97 XIII| much as a dwelling in that Babylon of John's Revelation we
98 IX | so they returned from the Babylonish captivity with timbrels,
99 XII | one is sacred to Apollo or Bacchus--to the former as the god
100 XIII| brothels, and baths, and bakehouses, and prisons, and schools,
101 XI | strength to the question, I banish from us the military life,
102 XII | Christ is also among the barbarians. Has not he who has carried (
103 VIII| and when He presents a basin for the feet of His disciples,
104 III | we refrain from the daily bath for a whole week. We take
105 III | clothes and shoes, when we bathe, when we sit at table, when
106 XIII| world crowns brothels, and baths, and bakehouses, and prisons,
107 XI | of peace take part in the battle when it does not become
108 I | he brought trouble on the bearers of the Name,--he, forsooth,
109 VII | the flower, all that is beautiful in the leafy branch, and
110 | became
111 | becomes
112 XII | ribbons, or with tombs? Is it bedewed with ointments, or with
113 VIII| lived before us, and alone befit the service of God and Christ
114 XIV | the church, submit to in behalf of both sexes? Of thorns,
115 XIII| spectacle disgusting to behold. We have recounted, as I
116 VII | a common sense as human beings, and the certifications
117 X | communion have Christ and Belial? Therefore flee from it;
118 VIII| by those whom the world believes to be gods, and that they
119 VII | thing more suited to the belly. Those who want additional
120 VII | with a lion's skin placed beneath her feet, exhibits the stepmother
121 VI | subject to vanity, completely bereft of its original character,
122 IV | the distance she saw her betrothed, this modesty of a mere
123 XIII| gladiators, and the very biers of the dead. How sacred
124 III | offerings for the dead as birthday honours. We count fasting
125 IX | preacher of the gospel, or bishop, do you ever find the wearer
126 XIV | power of the cross removed, blunting, in its endurance by the
127 I | a Christian. O soldier! boasting thyself in God. Then the
128 VII | question also, for he has a book on crowns, so explaining
129 XIII| have been enrolled in the books of life. There the blood
130 V | Well, lay them in your bosom if they are so singularly
131 I | happened thus: while the bounty of our most excellent emperors
132 VII | nature of ivy to protect the brain against drowsiness. But
133 XIII| having an embroidery of palm branches, to conduct the chariots
134 V | against nature deserves to be branded as monstrous among all men;
135 I | Name,--he, forsooth, alone brave among so many soldier-brethren,
136 III | pained should any wine or bread, even though our own, be
137 X | at some distance with its breath. Going still further, John
138 I | stedfast than the rest of his brethren, who had imagined that they
139 XIII| Marriage, too, decks the bridegroom with its crown; and therefore
140 XIII| we will not have heathen brides, lest they seduce us even
141 IX | to that you will get the brief reply: Be you too crowned,
142 III | To deal with this matter briefly, I shall begin with baptism.
143 II | of getting instruction, bring forward, not a question
144 II | procedure is it, for one to be bringing into debate a practice,
145 IV | be counted law, whoever brings it forward, which shall
146 XIII| your purple robe, and your broad stripe is His own cross;
147 XIII| God. But the world crowns brothels, and baths, and bakehouses,
148 XV | a twisted headband, the brow which has been destined
149 II | overthrowing it, but rather of building it up, that you may all
150 VIII| have been the first who built a ship: I shall see Jonah
151 V | us say, when you have a bunch of them bound together in
152 XIV | also to a band. She has the burden of her own humility to bear.
153 XI | And shall the Christian be burned according to camp rule,
154 VIII| are requisite both for the business and commerce of life, and
155 XII | Munificoe likewise, from the Caesarean functions they perform.
156 XIII| own registers, your own calendar; you have nothing to do
157 VII | rabble acknowledge, when they call the days dedicated to him
158 VI | the teaching of Nature, calling Him God of gods, taking
159 XV | He does even choose. He calls us to it. To him who conquers
160 VII | in honour of the devil's candidates, and was set apart from
161 IX | nor the altar, nor the candlestick crowned though certainly,
162 II | against a practice which is capable of defence, on the ground
163 IX | returned from the Babylonish captivity with timbrels, and flutes,
164 I | is all of the gospel they care to remember. I know, too,
165 II | that you may all the more carefully observe it, when you are
166 XIII| from threshold, Forcus and Carna from leaves and hinges;
167 XI | slight survey. The very carrying of the name over from the
168 III | not to be admitted, if no cases of other practices which,
169 XIV | utter wantonness,--a notable casting away of modesty, a setting
170 XII | indeed crowns are called (Castrenses), as belonging to the camp;
171 II | the case with all, from catechumens to confessors and martyrs,
172 XV | initiation in the gloomy cavern, in the camp, it may well
173 X | to abuse it. When there ceases to be any reality in the
174 VII | the crown) in which he celebrated his triumph over the Indians,
175 XV | in its fair colours)--a celestial meadow. In like manner,
176 XI | and of those most faithful centurions, I mean the centurion whom
177 VII | You have the tragedy of Cerberus; you have Pindar; and besides
178 VII | as human beings, and the certifications of their peculiar religion,
179 XI | And shall he apply the chain, and the prison, and the
180 XI | now to no purpose issue a challenge on the matter of the military
181 VIII| others these articles, but challenging that this be judged in the
182 XIII| very amphitheatres, and the chambers where the clothes are stripped
183 XI | Nowhere does the Christian change his character. There is
184 XV | condemn you to a little chaplet, or a twisted headband,
185 VII | that you find all that is charming in the flower, all that
186 V | the peculiar, at least the chief, material of crowns. Either
187 XV | unfading, everlasting, by choosing which the good soldier,
188 VIII| he also first strung the chord to give forth melody, I
189 I | known to every one as a Christian--was nobly conspicuous. Accordingly,
190 XIII| images of the gods to the circus. There are also provincial
191 XI | must be endured which a citizen-faith has been no less ready to
192 XIII| the various orders of the citizens also are crowned with laurel
193 XIII| Jerusalem, the city above. Our citizenship, the apostle says, is in
194 IV | observance. But even in civil matters custom is accepted
195 X | God, with the object of claiming among these for general
196 XII | to God, as having higher claims, I should think, even in
197 VIII| things which are out of this class, they are not fit to be
198 VII | other; making it abundantly clear how foreign to us we should
199 X | from idolatry--to have no close dealings with it of any
200 XV | Himself flashes out above the clouds. If such are the appearances
201 X | difference; for I, too, kill a cock for myself, just as Socrates
202 X | crowns of all the various colleges of priests. We have added
203 XV | as it were in its fair colours)--a celestial meadow. In
204 VIII| assistance and honourable comfort, so that they may be well
205 IV | and this when they are coming to be married, and not till
206 I | cloak, his disburdening commenced; he loosed from his foot
207 VIII| both for the business and commerce of life, and for performing
208 X | appear in an idol dress? What communion have Christ and Belial?
209 II | believed in the duty of complying with the rule, before it
210 VII | different uses, as being composed of different substances,
211 XI | it, forsooth, a sort of compulsion. I have, in fact, disposed
212 XI | the plea for the crown is concerned.~
213 X | fact, a dead work so far as concerns the idols; though, without
214 XII | because of the vexation the concubine gave her. When military
215 XIII| their own reason at once condemns? It only remains, that the
216 II | those who not in a proper condition for inquiry, but for those
217 XIII| embroidery of palm branches, to conduct the chariots containing
218 I | began to be passed upon his conduct--whether on the part of Christians
219 I | tribunal; the offender was conducted to the prefects. At once
220 I | questions asked for extorting confessions from us, we shall teach
221 II | all, from catechumens to confessors and martyrs, or (as the
222 XV | apostle · feels so justly confident has been laid up for him.
223 III | flowed from tradition, has confirmed it. For how can anything
224 III | in the presence of the congregation and under the hand of the
225 III | whole week. We take also, in congregations before daybreak, and from
226 XI | yet discipline does not connive even at that necessity;
227 XV | horse, conquering and to conquer, receives a crown of victory;
228 XV | calls us to it. To him who conquers He says, "I will give a
229 VII | which even then received its consecration to idolatry by idols and
230 I | in God. Then the case was considered and voted on; the matter
231 V | so exquisitely soft, and consign them to your cup if they
232 VII | lest, because they do not consist of flowers, the use of which
233 I | as a Christian--was nobly conspicuous. Accordingly, all began
234 VII | it was by, and thereafter constantly managed for the honour of,
235 VII | subsequently turned into a constellation. Callimachus has put a vine
236 XIII| heaven also is crowned with constellations, and that no doubt by God,
237 XIII| to conduct the chariots containing the images of the gods to
238 I | in fact, of the present contention. So that, on the one hand,
239 XIII| of crown-wearing, which contests in the games in their turn
240 X | namely, agreeable, and things contrary to reason--in answer to
241 XIV | besides the figure, there is contumely with ready lip, and dishonour,
242 V | of the divine gifts are conveyed by the senses to the soul.
243 VII | discovered and wore ears of corn upon her head--a thing more
244 XII | triumph made of leaves, or of corpses? Is it adorned with ribbons,
245 IX | The reality must always correspond with the image. If, perhaps,
246 VI | which the rival of God has corrupted, along with man himself,
247 VIII| deceptive, concealing the corruption of the creature, by which
248 III | tradition alone, and the countenance thereafter of custom, affords
249 XIV | no obligation to wear a covernig, not to say a band. But
250 V | with the head, as it is to crave food with the ear, or sound
251 VII | in a state of desire and craving, before provision had been
252 VI | man himself, the entire creation which had been made over
253 V | against God, the Lord and Creator of nature.~
254 XIII| dispute as to the cause of crown-wearing, which contests in the games
255 XIV | ferocity involved in the cruel things which then disfigured
256 XIV | hundred-leaved roses too, culled from the garden of Midas,
257 V | and consign them to your cup if they are so perfectly
258 VIII| who sought and discovered cures: Esaias mentions that he
259 XI | night those whom in the day-time he has put to flight by
260 III | in congregations before daybreak, and from the hand of none
261 VII | acknowledge, when they call the days dedicated to him the "great
262 III | affords us any precedent. To deal with this matter briefly,
263 VII | VII.~Let these dealers in crowns then recognize
264 X | idolatry--to have no close dealings with it of any kind. Even
265 VI | play-lovers, sufficiently dealt, and that, too, in a work
266 VIII| promiscuous employment of them is deceptive, concealing the corruption
267 IV | but in regard to every decision in matters we are called
268 XIII| crowned. Marriage, too, decks the bridegroom with its
269 XIII| once for all in the solemn declaration of the sacrament. For they
270 I | different in your attire? He declared that he had no liberty to
271 X | enjoy flowers; but if he declares that those who make idols
272 IX | ungodliness was not of any decree of the Jewish people. It
273 IX | that first solemnity of the dedication, and in that second rejoicing
274 I | pastors are lions in peace, deer in the fight. As to the
275 II | practice which is capable of defence, on the ground even of its
276 X | ornaments of the heathen deities are found no less with God,
277 VII | too when he had killed the Delphic serpent, as a suppliant,
278 III | authority, you say, must be demanded. Let us inquire, therefore,
279 X | Christian discipline, we may demonstrate that none of them have any
280 IV | witness for tradition when demonstrated by long-continued observance.
281 XII | God, but even to take the denarius from Caesar? Is the laurel
282 II | or (as the case may be) deniers. Consider, then, whence
283 XI | one day deny every one who denies, and acknowledge every one
284 XI | higher necessity to dread denying and to undergo martyrdom,
285 XII | energies to mammon, and to depart from God? Will it be "Render
286 IV | the same thing whether it depends on writing or on reason,
287 V | which is against nature deserves to be branded as monstrous
288 XV | God's things with no other design than, by the faithfulness
289 VII | among the Egyptians, was designedly crowned with ivy, because
290 II | to seem on this account desirous to investigate it, that
291 XI | but, on the other hand, destroy that which for gain has
292 XIII| is this article of dress, determine not from the heaven of poetry
293 VII | growth to its more erratic developments. For this we need to turn
294 IX | Jewish people. It was a device of the Roman soldiers, taken
295 XV | Let us take note of the devices of the devil, who is wont
296 XII | serve God and mammon" to devote your energies to mammon,
297 X | which in their use they are devoted, makes all the difference;
298 VIII| and for performing our devotion to God. Nay, if he also
299 XV | has been destined for a diadem? For Christ Jesus has made
300 IV | command of the Lord, and to dictate of himself as possessing
301 X | are devoted, makes all the difference; for I, too, kill a cock
302 I | those of the heathen are not different--as if he were headstrong
303 XI | forbidden him? And shall he diligently protect by night those whom
304 VII | first who wore a crown; Diodorus, that Jupiter, after conquering
305 VI | not be carried away in the direction in which the rival of God
306 I | away the heavy cloak, his disburdening commenced; he loosed from
307 VIII| basin for the feet of His disciples, and when He pours water
308 XI | What sense is there in discussing the merely accidental, when
309 XIV | cruel things which then disfigured and lacerated the temples
310 IV | accused, ashamed of the disgrace she had brought on herself,
311 XIII| himself may become a spectacle disgusting to behold. We have recounted,
312 VI | shows, that the creature is dishonoured by those who by nature indeed
313 III | solemnly profess that we disown the devil, and his pomp,
314 I | most excellent emperors was dispensed in the camp, the soldiers,
315 VII | two step-sons. Hercules displays upon his head sometimes
316 XI | compulsion. I have, in fact, disposed of this very allegation
317 XIII| slavery. Will there be any dispute as to the cause of crown-wearing,
318 V | which is able neither to distinguish colour, nor to inhale sweet
319 XII | commanded (to be used) at the distribution of the largess. So you see
320 XI | one from God? Shall he be disturbed in death by the trumpet
321 VII | be proved from their own documents. The little of this I have
322 V | organs of the outer man doing duty to the inner man, the
323 VII | The demons themselves, doubtless, had made provision for
324 III | III.~And how long shall we draw the saw to and fro through
325 XI | is a higher necessity to dread denying and to undergo martyrdom,
326 IV | any other, I demand the dress-law. If I nowhere find a law,
327 IV | aside. If Rebecca at once drew down her veil, when in the
328 IX | psalteries, and flutes they drink wine," would have added "
329 IX | crowns; and after eating and drinking, uncrowned, they rose up
330 I | from his hand likewise dropped the laurel crown; and now,
331 VII | protect the brain against drowsiness. But that in another way
332 IV | reason to which submission is due. I add still one case more,
333 XIII| our God. From so much as a dwelling in that Babylon of John'
334 I | headstrong and rash, and too eager to die, because, in being
335 V | is to crave food with the ear, or sound with the nostril.
336 VIII| present usages and in those of early saints, and in the service
337 IV | less than a divine command. Earnestly now inquire of this teacher,
338 X | it of any kind. Even an earthly serpent sucks in men at
339 XV | admonished to resist and east it off, and, if you like,
340 III | same privilege also from Easter to Whitsunday. We feel pained
341 II | learned the reason of it. An easy thing it is at once to demand
342 III | Lord both commanded to be eaten at meal-times, and enjoined
343 IX | than with crowns; and after eating and drinking, uncrowned,
344 VII | again, the writings of the Egyptian Leo, you learn that Isis
345 VII | same as Osiris among the Egyptians, was designedly crowned
346 XIV | foresight, will not too elaborately adorn herself, that she
347 | elsewhere
348 XIII| with mantles having an embroidery of palm branches, to conduct
349 XI | ask a watchword from the emperor who has already received
350 VIII| because the promiscuous employment of them is deceptive, concealing
351 XIII| exhibitions of human servility, empty praises, base glories, and
352 IV | law, when positive legal enactment is wanting; and it is the
353 XV | another is adorned with an encircling rainbow (as it were in its
354 I | peace so good and long is endangered for them. Nor do I doubt
355 V | afforded by His creatures, endowed him with certain senses, (
356 XIV | removed, blunting, in its endurance by the head of our Lord,
357 XII | and mammon" to devote your energies to mammon, and to depart
358 VI | prevailing all over the world, engraven on the natural tables to
359 II | because the Scripture does not enjoin it. What shall discipline
360 XIII| indeed; you have the apostle enjoining people to marry in the Lord.
361 X | Therefore flee from it; for he enjoins us to keep at a distance
362 V | which they are meant to be enjoyed; use them by means of the
363 V | duty to the inner man, the enjoyments of the divine gifts are
364 | enough
365 XIII| to Him, for you have been enrolled in the books of life. There
366 IV | think that every believer is entitled to originate and establish
367 VI | the first chapter of the epistle he authenticates nature,
368 XII | respect to Minerva, who is equally the goddess of arms--but
369 IV | of divine reason, become equivalent to nothing less than a divine
370 VII | stages Of growth to its more erratic developments. For this we
371 VI | penal retribution for their error. We first of all indeed
372 VIII| sought and discovered cures: Esaias mentions that he ordered
373 VII | our sect, since they have escaped any objections of nature.
374 IV | entitled to originate and establish a law, if only it be such
375 IV | even unwritten tradition established by custom; the proper witness
376 XIII| those are preferred the Etruscan. This appellation is given
377 III | presidents, the sacrament of the Eucharist, which the Lord both commanded
378 VII | shows us the first woman Eve having her loins more naturally
379 XV | flower undefiled, unfading, everlasting, by choosing which the good
380 | everywhere
381 XIII| Thyraean Apollo, and the evil spirits, the Antelii.~
382 VIII| pours water into it from a ewer, and when He is girt about
383 VIII| this persuasion, while I examine a question which comes in
384 X | wearing crowns should be examined, that while we show these
385 I | while the bounty of our most excellent emperors was dispensed in
386 | except
387 X | others. Wherefore the apostle exclaims, "Flee idolatry:" certainly
388 XI | homage required. In fact, an excuse of this sort overturns the
389 XI | from punishment of sins, or exemption from martyrdom. Nowhere
390 XIII| popularity huntings, false vows, exhibitions of human servility, empty
391 VII | placed beneath her feet, exhibits the stepmother exulting
392 XI | has put to flight by his exorcisms, leaning and resting on
393 XI | trumpet of the trumpeter, who expects to be aroused by the angel'
394 VII | has a book on crowns, so explaining their beginnings as well
395 II | it, and to be seeking the explanation of his having ever had it,
396 VII | information will find an ample exposition of the subject in Claudius
397 IX | of the rejoicing nor the exposure of the luxury have been
398 XIV | either be crowned with any exquisite arrangement of her hair.
399 V | your couch if they are so exquisitely soft, and consign them to
400 I | the questions asked for extorting confessions from us, we
401 V | it from the world; but an extraordinary mode does not prevent the
402 VII | exhibits the stepmother exulting over the spoils of her two
403 XII | what does that bear on its face to be? It takes place first
404 XV | rainbow (as it were in its fair colours)--a celestial meadow.
405 XV | other design than, by the faithfulness of his servants, to put
406 XI | refused, that we may not fall into acts of sin, or martyrdoms
407 II | a practice, when he has fallen from it, and to be seeking
408 VII | even on the ground of the falsehood connected with it; and,
409 XIV | myrtle, and olive, and any famous branch, and which is of
410 XIII| lost the freedom of Christ, fancying it is slavery. Will there
411 IV | tradition has given the fashion in question to custom, to
412 V | is the God of nature, who fashioned man; and, that he might
413 VIII| VIII.~Hold fast in the meantime this persuasion,
414 V | flowers, then, both when fastened into each other and tied
415 III | birthday honours. We count fasting or kneeling in worship on
416 XI | last of all, for God the fate must be endured which a
417 IV | beauty, even because now she feared to please. But I should
418 III | Easter to Whitsunday. We feel pained should any wine or
419 XV | whose crown the apostle · feels so justly confident has
420 XV | heavenly ranks. Blush, ye fellow-soldiers of his, henceforth not to
421 VI | he asserts that males and females changed among themselves
422 XIV | dishonour, and infamy, and the ferocity involved in the cruel things
423 V | it is the flowers of the field which are the peculiar,
424 IX | But if these things were figures of us (for we are temples
425 VII | the same author assigns fillets; and to Ariadne a garland
426 XI | if faith comes later, and finds any preoccupied with military
427 V | fixed in the tips of the fingers. By means of these organs
428 VIII| this class, they are not fit to be used among us, especially
429 V | the nose; that of touch, fixed in the tips of the fingers.
430 XI | pierced? Shall he carry a flag, too, hostile to Christ?
431 XV | and the Son of Man Himself flashes out above the clouds. If
432 XIV | sins which the soil of the flesh brought forth for us, but
433 III | custom, which without doubt flowed from tradition, has confirmed
434 IV | whether custom has to be followed by you, but why.~
435 IV | I nowhere find a law, it follows that tradition has given
436 V | head, as it is to crave food with the ear, or sound with
437 I | commenced; he loosed from his foot the military shoe, beginning
438 X | The apostle, moreover, forbids us to abuse, while he would
439 XIII| Limentinus from threshold, Forcus and Carna from leaves and
440 III | life, we trace upon the forehead the sign.~
441 XIII| But as for you, you are a foreigner in this world, a citizen
442 XIV | counsel from the apostles' foresight, will not too elaborately
443 | former
444 XII | this cause on his head, fought even against himself? Another
445 XIII| also on the making of a freeman; but you have been already
446 III | shall we draw the saw to and fro through this line, when
447 VII | more research, and more fully, from its beginnings on
448 XV | Divine Spirit in all its fulness rested--a flower undefiled,
449 XII | likewise, from the Caesarean functions they perform. But even then
450 IV | unveiling on her trial, furnishes an argument for the veiling
451 VIII| once, of every article of furniture and each household vessel,
452 VII | received gifts from all the gads whence she got her name
453 XIV | obtained. For it was after the gall He tasted the honeycomb
454 XIII| crown-wearing, which contests in the games in their turn supply, and
455 XIV | roses too, culled from the garden of Midas, and with both
456 VIII| about with a linen towel--a garment specially sacred to Osiris.
457 II | with the real desire of getting instruction, bring forward,
458 II | he has not done wrong in giving it up, it is evident that
459 XIII| clothes are stripped from dead gladiators, and the very biers of the
460 XIII| every occasion of public gladness. But as for you, you are
461 XV | at his initiation in the gloomy cavern, in the camp, it
462 XIII| servility, empty praises, base glories, and in them all idolatry,
463 I | jeering him at a distance, gnashing on him near at hand. The
464 VII | see, then, that we must go into the matter both with
465 VII | without doubt provided for his god-lie being carried out. What
466 XII | Minerva, who is equally the goddess of arms--but got a crown
467 VII | for his false system of godhead (idolatry), he had himself
468 XV | him. The angel also, as he goes forth on a white horse,
469 XII | will then have an ox with gold-decorated horns." What does the utterance
470 XIII| magistrates besides with golden ones, as at Athens, and
471 XV | of Jesse, upon which the grace of the Divine Spirit in
472 VII | hers was the first head the graces crowned, for she received
473 IV | in her husband's avenue. Grant, now, that she was always
474 VI | God of gods, taking for granted that He is good, and invoking
475 IX | of public rejoicing or to gratify innate luxury: so they returned
476 VI | that, too, in a work in Greek.~
477 XIII| leaves and hinges; among the Greeks, too, the Thyraean Apollo,
478 XIV | honeycomb and He was not greeted as King of Glory in heavenly
479 VII | its successive stages Of growth to its more erratic developments.
480 XI | Himself? And shall he keep guard before the temples which
481 XII | service belongs to the royal guards. And indeed crowns are called (
482 VI | creatures, Nature should be our guide, that we may not be carried
483 IV | possessing the Spirit of God who guides into all truth. Therefore
484 XIV | exquisite arrangement of her hair. What sort of garland, however,
485 I | the useless crown in his hand--already even by that peculiarity
486 III | if it has not first been handed down? Even in pleading tradition,
487 X | hands, and they will not handle." By means of these organs,
488 X | a nose, and smell not; hands, and they will not handle."
489 XIII| little Archemorus, and the hapless Antinous, should be crowned
490 I | I.~VERY lately it happened thus: while the bounty of
491 X | those who, because there happens to be the use of some things
492 XIII| that those who mourn are happy, not those who are crowned.
493 V | if they are so perfectly harmless. Have the pleasure of them
494 VII | were wont to be crowned. Harpocration argues that Bacchus the
495 X | these for general use the head-crown, you already lay it down
496 XV | little chaplet, or a twisted headband, the brow which has been
497 XIII| needing now the larger heads of images instead of those
498 I | different--as if he were headstrong and rash, and too eager
499 VIII| in our way. For I already hear it is said, that many other
500 V | instruments. The sense of hearing he has planted in the ears;