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501 I | At once he put away the heavy cloak, his disburdening
502 XIII| horses; but we will seek our help in the name of the Lord
503 IV | agreeable to God, as is helpful to discipline, as promotes
504 | Hereupon
505 | hers
506 VII | really was a Pandora, whom Hesiod mentions as the first of
507 VIII| mentions that he ordered Hezekiah medicine when he was sick.
508 X | and how many thorns lie hid in it. Nothing must be given
509 XIII| and Carna from leaves and hinges; among the Greeks, too,
510 X | to idols, both from the history of its origin, and from
511 XI | to whom the gospel, too, holding them only of less account
512 XI | suffering, and to render the homage required. In fact, an excuse
513 XIII| indeed, that in the poems of Homer the heaven also is crowned
514 III | all a mixture of milk and honey, and from that day we refrain
515 XIV | after the gall He tasted the honeycomb and He was not greeted as
516 VIII| affords real assistance and honourable comfort, so that they may
517 VII | conquering the Titans, was honoured with this gift by the rest
518 I | now, purple-clad with the hope of his own blood, shod with
519 XII | an ox with gold-decorated horns." What does the utterance
520 XV | he goes forth on a white horse, conquering and to conquer,
521 XI | Shall he carry a flag, too, hostile to Christ? And shall he
522 VIII| article of furniture and each household vessel, you name some god
523 XIV | has the burden of her own humility to bear. If she ought not
524 XIV | which is of more use, with hundred-leaved roses too, culled from the
525 XIII| honours, festivals, popularity huntings, false vows, exhibitions
526 III | has made for us the state, i.e., of the question? If no
527 X | keep at a distance from idolatry--to have no close dealings
528 X | service of it, but from idols--that is, from any resemblance
529 II | II.~I affirm that not one of
530 III | III.~And how long shall we draw
531 XII | god of war, who, through Ilia and the Romuli is Roman.
532 I | of his brethren, who had imagined that they could serve two
533 XIII| returned to the slavery of man, imagining it to be freedom; you have
534 XI | there must be either an immediate abandonment of it, which
535 III | Hereupon we are thrice immersed, making a somewhat ampler
536 X | creatures of God without impurity, and in this their native
537 XI | was not permitted to burn incense to an idol, when to him
538 XI | possible also to maintain that inclination is a necessity, as involving
539 X | taken from one. If it is inconsistent with faith to recline in
540 VII | a garland of gold and of Indian gems, the gift of Vulcan,
541 VII | celebrated his triumph over the Indians, even the rabble acknowledge,
542 VII | use of which nature has indicated (as it does in the case
543 IV | modesty of a mere private individual could not have made a law,
544 XIV | lip, and dishonour, and infamy, and the ferocity involved
545 VII | Those who want additional information will find an ample exposition
546 XIII| which among them marriage is initiated. You have the law from the
547 XV | of Mithras, who, at his initiation in the gloomy cavern, in
548 IV | having positive Scripture injunction, you will find none. Tradition
549 IX | rejoicing or to gratify innate luxury: so they returned
550 V | outer man doing duty to the inner man, the enjoyments of the
551 I | that, on the one hand, the inquirers who are ignorant, but anxious,
552 II | which we are now chiefly inquiring got its authority. But when
553 IV | and other such rules, you insist upon having positive Scripture
554 IX | Yet even that crown of insolent ungodliness was not of any
555 VIII| have come from God's own inspiration, who first of all no doubt
556 | instead
557 I | ignorant, but anxious, may be instructed; and on the other, those
558 II | the real desire of getting instruction, bring forward, not a question
559 XI | the centurion whom Peter instructs; yet, at the same time,
560 III | which, without any written instrument, we maintain on the ground
561 VIII| other than these ordinary instrumentalities of human life. Well, let
562 V | speak, are their peculiar instruments. The sense of hearing he
563 IV | of this teacher, keeping intact your regard for tradition,
564 XII | matters in which both have an interest.~
565 IV | sanction, from the true interpretation of reason. This instances,
566 IV | that we may not want an interpreter; so that if reason too is
567 VII | custom of the crowned head, introduced as it was by, and thereafter
568 VIII| well as crowns have been invented by those whom the world
569 VIII| listening to David, that this invention has been in use with the
570 II | this account desirous to investigate it, that he may show that
571 I | may be made the subject of investigation. That it is neither sinless
572 VI | granted that He is good, and invoking Him as Judge. Is it a question
573 XI | offices, which we must hold to involve a transgression of God's
574 XI | inclination is a necessity, as involving in it, forsooth, a sort
575 IX | dishonour of the crown. Thus too Isaiah, as he says, "With timbrels,
576 VII | Egyptian Leo, you learn that Isis was the first who discovered
577 XI | should now to no purpose issue a challenge on the matter
578 IV | IV.~If, for these and other
579 IX | IX.~In short, what patriarch,
580 XIII| devil has attached to doors; Janus so-called from gate, Limentinus
581 I | all began to mark him out, jeering him at a distance, gnashing
582 IX | not of any decree of the Jewish people. It was a device
583 VIII| built a ship: I shall see Jonah and the apostles sailing.
584 XIII| have nothing to do with the joys of the world; nay, you are
585 XII | Christ for pieces of gold, as Judas did for pieces of silver.
586 VIII| challenging that this be judged in the light of the distinction
587 I | Christ. Thereafter adverse judgments began to be passed upon
588 IV | not merely in regard to a judicial sentence, but in regard
589 VII | has put a vine crown upon Juno. So too at Argos, her statue,
590 XV | crown the apostle · feels so justly confident has been laid
591 X | difference; for I, too, kill a cock for myself, just
592 VII | Apollo, too when he had killed the Delphic serpent, as
593 X | dealings with it of any kind. Even an earthly serpent
594 XV | Christ Jesus has made us even kings to God and His Father. What
595 XI | mother, and all nearest kinsfolk, whom even the law has commanded
596 III | honours. We count fasting or kneeling in worship on the Lord's
597 I | even by that peculiarity known to every one as a Christian--
598 XIV | which then disfigured and lacerated the temples of the Lord,
599 VI | got up belong to God, but lack the knowledge to perceive
600 III | table, when we light the lamps, on couch, on seat, in all
601 XIII| of gold, needing now the larger heads of images instead
602 I | I.~VERY lately it happened thus: while
603 | latter
604 VI | suggests both natural law and a law-revealing nature. Yes, and also in
605 V | Well, she is the first who lays it down that a crown does
606 VII | that is beautiful in the leafy branch, and every sod or
607 XI | flight by his exorcisms, leaning and resting on the spear
608 II | the rule, before it has learned the reason of it. An easy
609 IV | accepted as law, when positive legal enactment is wanting; and
610 VII | writings of the Egyptian Leo, you learn that Isis was
611 VIII| taught the knowledge of letters; I will own that they are
612 IX | patriarch, what prophet, what Levite, or priest, or ruler, or
613 VII | be gods. If the devil, a liar from the beginning, is even
614 X | is, and how many thorns lie hid in it. Nothing must
615 V | the ears; that of sight, lighted up in the eyes; that of
616 IX | of God, and altars, and lights, and sacred vessels), this
617 X | living God, should become the likeness of an idol and a dead man.
618 XIV | and with both kinds of lily, and with violets of all
619 XIII| Janus so-called from gate, Limentinus from threshold, Forcus and
620 III | to and fro through this line, when we have an ancient
621 VIII| He is girt about with a linen towel--a garment specially
622 VII | statue, vine-wreathed, with a lion's skin placed beneath her
623 I | too, their pastors are lions in peace, deer in the fight.
624 XIV | is contumely with ready lip, and dishonour, and infamy,
625 VIII| melody, I will not deny, when listening to David, that this invention
626 VII | need to turn to heathen literature, for things belonging to
627 VIII| ourselves or by those who lived before us, and alone befit
628 XII | also in the grounds of it. Lo the yearly public pronouncing
629 VII | first woman Eve having her loins more naturally girt about
630 IV | tradition when demonstrated by long-continued observance. But even in
631 XV | the actual manifestation? Look at those crowns. Inhale
632 V | when loose--things to be looked at and smelt. You count
633 V | they are when free, when loose--things to be looked at and
634 I | disburdening commenced; he loosed from his foot the military
635 XI | commanded us to honour and love next to God Himself, to
636 I | are making ready their luggage, are equipped for flight
637 VII | originated the thing, or shed lustre on it. Pherecydes relates
638 XIII| But your orders, and your magistracies, and your very place of
639 XIII| with laurel crowns; but the magistrates besides with golden ones,
640 VI | nature, when he asserts that males and females changed among
641 XIV | the Head of the Christian man--(for his head) is as free
642 VII | and thereafter constantly managed for the honour of, those
643 XV | realities in the actual manifestation? Look at those crowns. Inhale
644 VII | Nature, which we share with mankind in general, that we may
645 XIII| gold, they put on, with mantles having an embroidery of
646 XIII| price. How shall the world manumit the servant of another?
647 IV | when they are coming to be married, and not till they have
648 XIII| apostle enjoining people to marry in the Lord. You have a
649 XII | Venus is Roman as well as Mars, because of the vexation
650 XI | fall into acts of sin, or martyrdoms endured that we may get
651 II | catechumens to confessors and martyrs, or (as the case may be)
652 XI | under promise to another master after Christ, and to abjure
653 V | peculiar, at least the chief, material of crowns. Either smell,
654 VI | indeed perceive that all the materials of which shows are got up
655 | me
656 XV | fair colours)--a celestial meadow. In like manner, the elders
657 XI | renounced? And shall he take a meal where the apostle has forbidden
658 III | commanded to be eaten at meal-times, and enjoined to be taken
659 X | But the whole affair is meaningless, and is, in fact, a dead
660 V | senses by which they are meant to be enjoyed; use them
661 VIII| that he ordered Hezekiah medicine when he was sick. Paul,
662 VIII| Christ Himself, which to meet the necessities of human
663 XIII| and your very place of meeting, the church, are Christ'
664 VIII| the chord to give forth melody, I will not deny, when listening
665 X | besides, that while it is not mentioned as connected with the worship
666 VIII| origin of this things. Let Mercury have been the first who
667 VIII| are notwithstanding to be met with both in our present
668 XIV | culled from the garden of Midas, and with both kinds of
669 III | first of all a mixture of milk and honey, and from that
670 XV | presented to him, as though in mimicry of martyrdom, and thereupon
671 XIII| the root of Jesse. Never mind the state horses with their
672 X | the use of all; but the ministries to which in their use they
673 V | and the nose, if I am not mistaken. With sight and smell, then,
674 XII | mother of the AEneadae, the mistress also of the god of war,
675 III | we taste first of all a mixture of milk and honey, and from
676 V | deserves to be branded as monstrous among all men; but with
677 | moreover
678 VII | got her name Pandora. But Moses, a prophet, not a poet-shepherd,
679 XII | with the tears of wives and mothers? It may be of some Christians
680 III | At every forward step and movement, at every going in and out,
681 XIII| some custom belonging to municipal festivals. For luxury strives
682 XII | as belonging to the camp; Munificoe likewise, from the Caesarean
683 VII | flowers. Pandora, then, is a myth. And so we have to blush
684 | namely
685 VII | which was brought in by the nations in honour of the devil's
686 X | impurity, and in this their native state are free to the use
687 I | distance, gnashing on him near at hand. The murmur is wafted
688 XI | father, mother, and all nearest kinsfolk, whom even the
689 I | the sword, which was not necessary either for the protection
690 VIII| Himself, which to meet the necessities of human life supply what
691 VII | developments. For this we need to turn to heathen literature,
692 XIII| provincial crowns of gold, needing now the larger heads of
693 XIII| Olympian Jupiter, and the Nemean Hercules, and the wretched
694 XII | the peace she made with Neptune. In these respects, the
695 | nevertheless
696 III | when we are taken up (as new-born children), we taste first
697 | next
698 XI | he diligently protect by night those whom in the day-time
699 I | one as a Christian--was nobly conspicuous. Accordingly,
700 XIII| the world everything is nominal, and nothing real. For even
701 V | the ear, or sound with the nostril. But everything which is
702 XIV | of utter wantonness,--a notable casting away of modesty,
703 XV | has his crown. Let us take note of the devices of the devil,
704 VIII| gods, and that they are notwithstanding to be met with both in our
705 XIII| distinguished by their gems and oak leaves of gold, they put
706 XI | believe it lawful for a human oath to be superadded to one
707 I | as they forth also the objection--But where are we forbidden
708 VII | since they have escaped any objections of nature. I see, then,
709 XIV | even Christ is, under no obligation to wear a covernig, not
710 VII | of every sort. For we are obliged to turn from the rule of
711 IV | strengthener, and faith as their observer. That reason will support
712 XI | sacrament, removing even the obstacle to voluntary sins; for it
713 XIV | Christ which He afterwards obtained. For it was after the gall
714 XI | be held lawful to make an occupation of the sword, when the Lord
715 XV | those crowns. Inhale those odours. Why condemn you to a little
716 II | neither be regarded as no offence, or an uncertain one, which
717 XI | fire? Then how many other offences there are involved in the
718 XIV | with a crown on it will she offend those (elders) who perhaps
719 II | in accepting the crown he offended before in refusing it. This
720 I | to a higher tribunal; the offender was conducted to the prefects.
721 XI | resorted to in order to avoid offending God, and that is not allowed
722 X | smell of some place or other offends me, I burn the Arabian product
723 III | anniversary comes round, we make offerings for the dead as birthday
724 XI | which crowns connected with official position are vindicated,
725 | often
726 XII | tombs? Is it bedewed with ointments, or with the tears of wives
727 XIII| It only remains, that the Olympian Jupiter, and the Nemean
728 XIII| magistrates besides with golden ones, as at Athens, and at Rome.
729 XIII| you are called to the very opposite, for "the world shall rejoice,
730 XI | have to be resorted to in order to avoid offending God,
731 VIII| Esaias mentions that he ordered Hezekiah medicine when he
732 VI | completely bereft of its original character, first by vain,
733 IV | tradition, from whomsoever it originally sprang; nor have regard
734 IV | believer is entitled to originate and establish a law, if
735 VII | that certain persons either originated the thing, or shed lustre
736 X | sacrifice to idols, its originators, to whom its use is specially
737 X | when you allege that the ornaments of the heathen deities are
738 X | altogether different from each other--things, namely, agreeable,
739 | ours
740 | ourselves
741 V | means of these organs of the outer man doing duty to the inner
742 XI | that is not allowed even outside of military service; or,
743 II | not for the purpose of overthrowing it, but rather of building
744 XI | an excuse of this sort overturns the entire essence of our
745 XII | Jupiter, will then have an ox with gold-decorated horns."
746 III | Easter to Whitsunday. We feel pained should any wine or bread,
747 XIII| having an embroidery of palm branches, to conduct the
748 VII | sometimes wild-olive, sometimes parsley. You have the tragedy of
749 V | desire, (appreciate, become partaker of) the pleasures afforded
750 X | one in whose use we can participate, as even some others may
751 X | common, maintain the right of participation in all things. With reference
752 IV | was always veiled. In this particular case, too, or, in fact,
753 III | of the question? If no passage of Scripture has prescribed
754 I | adverse judgments began to be passed upon his conduct--whether
755 I | remember. I know, too, their pastors are lions in peace, deer
756 IX | IX.~In short, what patriarch, what prophet, what Levite,
757 XIII| You have the law from the patriarchs indeed; you have the apostle
758 VI | is unnatural, by way of penal retribution for their error.
759 V | your cup if they are so perfectly harmless. Have the pleasure
760 XII | Caesarean functions they perform. But even then you are still
761 XI | there are involved in the performances of camp offices, which we
762 VIII| commerce of life, and for performing our devotion to God. Nay,
763 V | colour, nor to inhale sweet perfumes, nor to appreciate softness?
764 IX | or ruler, or at a later period what apostle, or preacher
765 XI | who uses the sword shall perish by the sword? And shall
766 IX | as He was; you have full permission. Yet even that crown of
767 II | uncertain one, which is perpetrated against a practice which
768 I | to the tribune, when the person had just left the ranks.
769 VII | undoubted fact that certain persons either originated the thing,
770 VIII| fast in the meantime this persuasion, while I examine a question
771 XI | and the centurion whom Peter instructs; yet, at the same
772 VII | thing, or shed lustre on it. Pherecydes relates that Saturn was
773 XI | which Christ's side was pierced? Shall he carry a flag,
774 VII | tragedy of Cerberus; you have Pindar; and besides Callimachus,
775 VII | vine-wreathed, with a lion's skin placed beneath her feet, exhibits
776 V | sense of hearing he has planted in the ears; that of sight,
777 IX | uncrowned, they rose up to play. Neither would the account
778 VI | for the sake of our own play-lovers, sufficiently dealt, and
779 III | been handed down? Even in pleading tradition, written authority,
780 XI | necessity with reference to the pleas by which crowns connected
781 V | perfectly harmless. Have the pleasure of them in as many ways
782 III | making a somewhat ampler pledge than the Lord has appointed
783 XIII| preface, indeed, that in the poems of Homer the heaven also
784 VII | Moses, a prophet, not a poet-shepherd, shows us the first woman
785 XIII| determine not from the heaven of poetry alone, but from the traffickings
786 X | it," much more when it is polluted by the dress, and rites,
787 VII | upon his head sometimes poplar, sometimes wild-olive, sometimes
788 XIII| world, honours, festivals, popularity huntings, false vows, exhibitions
789 XI | connected with official position are vindicated, in support
790 VII | means of those whom they had possessed, while in a state of desire
791 IV | to dictate of himself as possessing the Spirit of God who guides
792 XI | voluntary sins; for it will be possible also to maintain that inclination
793 VIII| His disciples, and when He pours water into it from a ewer,
794 XIV | forth for us, but which the power of the cross removed, blunting,
795 II | inquiry always proceeds; and I praise the faith which has believed
796 XIII| of human servility, empty praises, base glories, and in them
797 XIV | sort of garland, however, I pray you, did He who is the Head
798 IX | period what apostle, or preacher of the gospel, or bishop,
799 III | of custom, affords us any precedent. To deal with this matter
800 X | abuse a thing, when the precipient nature with which he wishes
801 XIII| Claudius will tell us in his preface, indeed, that in the poems
802 I | offender was conducted to the prefects. At once he put away the
803 XIII| Rome. Even to those are preferred the Etruscan. This appellation
804 II | side from their own, men prejudge that the support of Scripture
805 II | of the thing; but without prejudice to the practice, not for
806 XI | comes later, and finds any preoccupied with military service, their
807 I | own blood, shod with the preparation of the gospel, girt with
808 III | passage of Scripture has prescribed it, assuredly custom, which
809 III | a little before, in the presence of the congregation and
810 VIII| on a couch, and when He presents a basin for the feet of
811 III | and under the hand of the president, we solemnly profess that
812 III | the hand of none but the presidents, the sacrament of the Eucharist,
813 XI | do not sin. For if one is pressed to the offering of sacrifice
814 II | transgressed previously in its presumptuous observance. If he has done
815 VI | you have that common one prevailing all over the world, engraven
816 V | extraordinary mode does not prevent the use of the thing in
817 II | nevertheless transgressed previously in its presumptuous observance.
818 VII | the rest of the gods. To Priapus also the same author assigns
819 XIII| Christ, and that at a great price. How shall the world manumit
820 IX | prophet, what Levite, or priest, or ruler, or at a later
821 XI | of offices. Touching this primary aspect of the question,
822 XIII| baths, and bakehouses, and prisons, and schools, and the very
823 IV | this modesty of a mere private individual could not have
824 II | reason. But what sort of procedure is it, for one to be bringing
825 II | that a true inquiry always proceeds; and I praise the faith
826 XI | the sword, when the Lord proclaims that he who uses the sword
827 X | offends me, I burn the Arabian product myself, but not with the
828 III | the president, we solemnly profess that we disown the devil,
829 VII | thought not to come Under the prohibition of our sect, since they
830 VIII| opposed to reason, because the promiscuous employment of them is deceptive,
831 XI | for a man to come under promise to another master after
832 IV | helpful to discipline, as promotes salvation, when the Lord
833 XV | good soldier, too, has got promotion in the heavenly ranks. Blush,
834 XII | it. Lo the yearly public pronouncing of vows, what does that
835 IV | had brought on herself, properly concealing her beauty, even
836 XV | XV.~Keep for God His own property untainted; He will crown
837 I | as they have rejected the prophecies of the Holy Spirit, they
838 I | necessary either for the protection of our Lord; from his hand
839 VII | belonging to the heathen must be proved from their own documents.
840 XIII| the circus. There are also provincial crowns of gold, needing
841 XIII| the Lord serves for your purple robe, and your broad stripe
842 I | the laurel crown; and now, purple-clad with the hope of his own
843 I | Holy Spirit, they are also purposing the refusal of martyrdom.
844 I | ranks. The tribune at once puts the question to him, Why
845 XI | to its place. Indeed, if, putting my strength to the question,
846 I | in the fight. As to the questions asked for extorting confessions
847 XI | with many; or all sorts of quibbling will have to be resorted
848 XI | endured that we may get quit of offices. Touching this
849 VI | had been made over to our race for certain uses, whence
850 VIII| shall find, has ordinary raiment; Paul, too, has his cloak.
851 XV | adorned with an encircling rainbow (as it were in its fair
852 II | But when the question is raised why it is observed, it is
853 I | if he were headstrong and rash, and too eager to die, because,
854 II | repute, and is sufficiently ratified by the support of general
855 VII | believe, be enough. If there really was a Pandora, whom Hesiod
856 X | and things contrary to reason--in answer to those who,
857 IV | put the apostle aside. If Rebecca at once drew down her veil,
858 XI | those whom John used to receive for baptism, and of those
859 XV | conquering and to conquer, receives a crown of victory; and
860 X | inconsistent with faith to recline in an idol temple, what
861 VIII| recognise Christ, both as He reclines on a couch, and when He
862 VIII| originator, well, I must recognise Christ, both as He reclines
863 VII | these dealers in crowns then recognize in the meantime the authority
864 XIII| disgusting to behold. We have recounted, as I think, all the various
865 XII | got a crown of the tree referred to, because of the peace
866 X | whole and entire he means. Reflect on what a thicket it is,
867 III | honey, and from that day we refrain from the daily bath for
868 I | they are also purposing the refusal of martyrdom. So they murmur
869 II | were forbidden? Or shall it refuse both, as if neither were
870 XI | reason offices must be either refused, that we may not fall into
871 II | crown he offended before in refusing it. This treatise, therefore,
872 I | the other, those may be refuted who try to vindicate the
873 XIII| heaven. You have your own registers, your own calendar; you
874 I | plain that as they have rejected the prophecies of the Holy
875 VII | lustre on it. Pherecydes relates that Saturn was the first
876 VII | Christian discipline, in relation also to other kinds of crowns
877 X | respects the demons to whom the religious rite belongs. "The idols
878 I | the gospel they care to remember. I know, too, their pastors
879 XIV | which the power of the cross removed, blunting, in its endurance
880 XI | essence of our sacrament, removing even the obstacle to voluntary
881 XI | Christ, has in like manner rendered honour? Shall it be held
882 XI | the temples which he has renounced? And shall he take a meal
883 XIV | owe your own head to Him, repay it if you can, such as He
884 II | on the ground even of its repute, and is sufficiently ratified
885 II | question for debate, but a request for advice. For it is from
886 VI | those things which the law requires, he suggests both natural
887 VIII| I will own that they are requisite both for the business and
888 VII | the matter both with more research, and more fully, from its
889 X | idols--that is, from any resemblance to them: for it is an unworthy
890 XV | his head, is admonished to resist and east it off, and, if
891 XI | quibbling will have to be resorted to in order to avoid offending
892 XII | the mouth, he makes his response by having the crown on his
893 XV | Spirit in all its fulness rested--a flower undefiled, unfading,
894 XI | his exorcisms, leaning and resting on the spear the while with
895 IX | second rejoicing for the restoration, crowning would have been
896 XI | secondary question may be restored to its place. Indeed, if,
897 XI | accidental, when that on which it rests is to be condemned? Do we
898 II | it, it will as validly be retorted that just on this ground
899 VI | unnatural, by way of penal retribution for their error. We first
900 IV | are ignorant, God shall reveal it unto you;" he himself,
901 XIII| in that Babylon of John's Revelation we are called away; much
902 IV | this very account we should revere, that we may not want an
903 XII | corpses? Is it adorned with ribbons, or with tombs? Is it bedewed
904 X | demons to whom the religious rite belongs. "The idols of the
905 XIII| Lord serves for your purple robe, and your broad stripe is
906 VI | teach you?"--as when to the Romans, affirming that the heathen
907 XIII| ones, as at Athens, and at Rome. Even to those are preferred
908 XII | who, through Ilia and the Romuli is Roman. But I do not believe
909 XIII| is the branch out of the root of Jesse. Never mind the
910 IX | drinking, uncrowned, they rose up to play. Neither would
911 XIV | use, with hundred-leaved roses too, culled from the garden
912 III | as the anniversary comes round, we make offerings for the
913 XII | of service belongs to the royal guards. And indeed crowns
914 IX | what Levite, or priest, or ruler, or at a later period what
915 IV | for these and other such rules, you insist upon having
916 V | tied together in thread and rush, be what they are when free,
917 V | to be condemned also as sacrilege against God, the Lord and
918 VIII| see Jonah and the apostles sailing. Nay, there is more than
919 IV | discipline, as promotes salvation, when the Lord says, "But
920 IV | authorization in) the apostle's sanction, from the true interpretation
921 II | observe it, when you are also satisfied as to its reason. But what
922 VII | Pherecydes relates that Saturn was the first who wore a
923 VII | the subject in Claudius Saturninus, a writer of distinguished
924 XI | acknowledges God,--who will save, too, the life which has
925 XI | which for gain has been saved to His dishonour. With Him
926 XV | transfer it to his shoulder, saying that Mithras is his crown.
927 XIII| bakehouses, and prisons, and schools, and the very amphitheatres,
928 I | turning their back on the Scriptures, are making ready their
929 XIII| be real, so that you even seal it with a crown, you have
930 XI | believer, and faith has been sealed, there must be either an
931 III | the lamps, on couch, on seat, in all the ordinary actions
932 XI | shall not add more, that the secondary question may be restored
933 VII | Under the prohibition of our sect, since they have escaped
934 XIII| heathen brides, lest they seduce us even to the idolatry
935 XIV | a woman, but beauty made seductive, but mark of utter wantonness,--
936 V | colour and smell? Those of seeing and smelling, I suppose.
937 XIII| these in horses; but we will seek our help in the name of
938 II | fallen from it, and to be seeking the explanation of his having
939 | seems
940 XV | appearances in the vision of the seer, of what sort will be the
941 XII | is not without its gain, selling, as it does, Christ for
942 IV | you not even of your own selves judge what is right?" And
943 IV | in regard to a judicial sentence, but in regard to every
944 V | them bound together in a series, that you may carry many
945 XIII| There the blood of the Lord serves for your purple robe, and
946 X | as well as festivals and services, it is found. In a word,
947 XIII| vows, exhibitions of human servility, empty praises, base glories,
948 XIV | casting away of modesty, a setting temptation on fire? Therefore
949 XIV | submit to in behalf of both sexes? Of thorns, I think, and
950 XV | his servants, to put us to shame, and to condemn us.~
951 I | the gospel, girt with the sharper word of God, completely
952 VII | originated the thing, or shed lustre on it. Pherecydes
953 XI | offering of sacrifice and the sheer denial of Christ by the
954 VIII| been the first who built a ship: I shall see Jonah and the
955 I | the hope of his own blood, shod with the preparation of
956 I | from his foot the military shoe, beginning to stand upon
957 III | put on our our clothes and shoes, when we bathe, when we
958 IX | IX.~In short, what patriarch, what prophet,
959 XV | like, transfer it to his shoulder, saying that Mithras is
960 V | the eyes; that of taste, shut up in the mouth; that of
961 VIII| Hezekiah medicine when he was sick. Paul, too, knows that a
962 III | trace upon the forehead the sign.~
963 IX | of the luxury have been silent touching the honour or dishonour
964 VIII| human life supply what is simply; useful and affords real
965 V | your bosom if they are so singularly pure, and strew them on
966 I | investigation. That it is neither sinless nor doubtful, I shall now,
967 VII | vine-wreathed, with a lion's skin placed beneath her feet,
968 XI | s law, you may see by a slight survey. The very carrying
969 V | smell? Those of seeing and smelling, I suppose. What members
970 V | things to be looked at and smelt. You count it a crown, let
971 XIII| attached to doors; Janus so-called from gate, Limentinus from
972 X | cock for myself, just as Socrates did for Aesculapius; and
973 VII | leafy branch, and every sod or vine-shoot has been dedicated
974 V | they are so exquisitely soft, and consign them to your
975 V | perfumes, nor to appreciate softness? It is as much against nature
976 XIV | figure of the sins which the soil of the flesh brought forth
977 I | alone brave among so many soldier-brethren, he alone a Christian. It
978 XIII| already once for all in the solemn declaration of the sacrament.
979 IX | certainly, both on that first solemnity of the dedication, and in
980 III | hand of the president, we solemnly profess that we disown the
981 III | thrice immersed, making a somewhat ampler pledge than the Lord
982 VII | connected with it; and, as will soon appear, on the ground no
983 VIII| have been the first who sought and discovered cures: Esaias
984 V | conveyed by the senses to the soul. What, then, in flowers
985 V | crave food with the ear, or sound with the nostril. But everything
986 V | through members, which, so to speak, are their peculiar instruments.
987 XI | leaning and resting on the spear the while with which Christ'
988 X | it now remains that the special grounds for wearing crowns
989 XIII| he himself may become a spectacle disgusting to behold. We
990 XIII| Thyraean Apollo, and the evil spirits, the Antelii.~
991 VII | stepmother exulting over the spoils of her two step-sons. Hercules
992 IV | whomsoever it originally sprang; nor have regard to the
993 VII | on through its successive stages Of growth to its more erratic
994 I | military shoe, beginning to stand upon holy ground; a he gave
995 VII | Juno. So too at Argos, her statue, vine-wreathed, with a lion'
996 I | more a soldier of God, more stedfast than the rest of his brethren,
997 III | ground. At every forward step and movement, at every going
998 VII | over the spoils of her two step-sons. Hercules displays upon
999 VII | beneath her feet, exhibits the stepmother exulting over the spoils
1000 XIV | our Lord, death's every sting. Yes, and besides the figure,