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1001 VIII|          that a little wine does the stomach good. Let Minerva have been
1002 X   |            thus crowned, as they too straightway become idols, both by their
1003 XI  |               Indeed, if, putting my strength to the question, I banish
1004 IV  |             of them, custom as their strengthener, and faith as their observer.
1005 V   |              so singularly pure, and strew them on your couch if they
1006 XIII|          purple robe, and your broad stripe is His own cross; there
1007 XIII|       chambers where the clothes are stripped from dead gladiators, and
1008 XIII|      municipal festivals. For luxury strives to make her own every occasion
1009 V   |            practices becomes all the stronger, when also nature, which
1010 VIII|           God. Nay, if he also first strung the chord to give forth
1011 X   |           who use anything after the style of idol adornings. "To the
1012 IV  |              is some reason to which submission is due. I add still one
1013 XIV |           the Husband of the church, submit to in behalf of both sexes?
1014 XIII|              great rejoicing for the success of the emperors; at another,
1015 VII |            beginnings on through its successive stages Of growth to its
1016 X   |              Even an earthly serpent sucks in men at some distance
1017 XI  |          does not become him even to sue at law? And shall he apply
1018 XI  |       martyrdom, than to escape from suffering, and to render the homage
1019 VI  |           which the law requires, he suggests both natural law and a law-revealing
1020 IX  |         flutes, and psalteries, more suitably than with crowns; and after
1021 VII |          upon her head--a thing more suited to the belly. Those who
1022 XI  |        lawful for a human oath to be superadded to one divine, for a man
1023 XII |               In these respects, the superstition of the military garland
1024 VII |            the Delphic serpent, as a suppliant, put on a laurel garland;
1025 VII |               for among the ancients suppliants were wont to be crowned.
1026 V   |            is the first rule of all, supports them. Well, she is the first
1027 XI  |              you may see by a slight survey. The very carrying of the
1028 IV  |           their destined husband. If Susanna also, who was subjected
1029 V   |    distinguish colour, nor to inhale sweet perfumes, nor to appreciate
1030 VII |         matter working for his false system of godhead (idolatry), he
1031 IX  |            of the testament, nor the tabernacle of witness, nor the altar,
1032 III |             we bathe, when we sit at table, when we light the lamps,
1033 VI  |              engraven on the natural tables to which the apostle too
1034 XII |           bear on its face to be? It takes place first in the part
1035 VII |              writer of distinguished talent who treats this question
1036 I   |           because, in being taken to task about a mere matter of dress,
1037 XIV |             it was after the gall He tasted the honeycomb and He was
1038 IV  |        Earnestly now inquire of this teacher, keeping intact your regard
1039 VI  |              know God Himself by the teaching of Nature, calling Him God
1040 XII |          with ointments, or with the tears of wives and mothers? It
1041 XIII|              wreathed. Claudius will tell us in his preface, indeed,
1042 XII |            Claudius teaches; when he tells us that soldiers are wont
1043 XIV |           away of modesty, a setting temptation on fire? Therefore a woman,
1044 XII |             camp where the general's tent is, and then in the temples.
1045 IX  |           neither was the ark of the testament, nor the tabernacle of witness,
1046 X   |          then, the sense, it will be theirs to use the thing for which
1047 XV  |            Mithras is his crown. And thenceforth he is never crowned; and
1048     | thereby
1049     | thereupon
1050 X   |             means. Reflect on what a thicket it is, and how many thorns
1051 XIV |              Of thorns, I think, and thistles,--a figure of the sins which
1052 VII |             one itself), they may be thought not to come Under the prohibition
1053 V   |           other and tied together in thread and rush, be what they are
1054 XIII|           from gate, Limentinus from threshold, Forcus and Carna from leaves
1055 III |              angels. Hereupon we are thrice immersed, making a somewhat
1056 XV  |             soldier of Mithras if he throws the crown away--if he say
1057 XIII|           among the Greeks, too, the Thyraean Apollo, and the evil spirits,
1058 I   |       Christian. O soldier! boasting thyself in God. Then the case was
1059 V   |         fastened into each other and tied together in thread and rush,
1060 V   |          that of touch, fixed in the tips of the fingers. By means
1061 VII |        Jupiter, after conquering the Titans, was honoured with this
1062 II  |              If he has done no wrong to-day in accepting the crown he
1063 XII |        adorned with ribbons, or with tombs? Is it bedewed with ointments,
1064 IV  |           was her aim to please, she took walks with a veil on in
1065 VI  |             the devil. But with this topic we have, for the sake of
1066 VIII|              girt about with a linen towel--a garment specially sacred
1067 III |            actions of daily life, we trace upon the forehead the sign.~
1068 XIII|           poetry alone, but from the traffickings of the whole world. But
1069 VII |      sometimes parsley. You have the tragedy of Cerberus; you have Pindar;
1070 XV  |            it off, and, if you like, transfer it to his shoulder, saying
1071 II  |         evident that he nevertheless transgressed previously in its presumptuous
1072 XI  |            we must hold to involve a transgression of God's law, you may see
1073 I   |               as more suitable to be treated of here, being the essence,
1074 II  |          before in refusing it. This treatise, therefore, will not be
1075 VII |             distinguished talent who treats this question also, for
1076 I   |             be regarded as either no trespass at all, or at least a doubtful
1077 I   |             was remitted to a higher tribunal; the offender was conducted
1078 XII |             the latter as the god of triumphs. In like manner Claudius
1079 I   |          matter of dress, he brought trouble on the bearers of the Name,--
1080 XI  |            be aroused by the angel's trump? And shall the Christian
1081 XI  |            disturbed in death by the trumpet of the trumpeter, who expects
1082 XI  |          death by the trumpet of the trumpeter, who expects to be aroused
1083 XIII|           axe is already laid to the trunk of the tree; there is the
1084 XIII|            His own. These (put their trust) in chariots, and these
1085 IV  |              God who guides into all truth. Therefore his advice has,
1086 I   |             those may be refuted who try to vindicate the sin, especially
1087 VII |            Bacchus, and subsequently turned into a constellation. Callimachus
1088 I   |          doubt that some are already turning their back on the Scriptures,
1089 XV  |            to a little chaplet, or a twisted headband, the brow which
1090 II  |        regarded as no offence, or an uncertain one, which is perpetrated
1091 IX  |           after eating and drinking, uncrowned, they rose up to play. Neither
1092 XV  |             fulness rested--a flower undefiled, unfading, everlasting,
1093 XI  |              to dread denying and to undergo martyrdom, than to escape
1094 XV  |          rested--a flower undefiled, unfading, everlasting, by choosing
1095 IX  |          even that crown of insolent ungodliness was not of any decree of
1096 VI  |            by base, unrighteous, and ungodly uses? It is thus, accordingly,
1097 XIII|               all are foreign to us, unholy, unlawful, having been abjured
1098 XI  |              the question, as to the unlawfulness even of a military life
1099 VI  |          creature into that which is unnatural, by way of penal retribution
1100 VI  |         first by vain, then by base, unrighteous, and ungodly uses? It is
1101 XV  |             for God His own property untainted; He will crown it if He
1102 IV  |           also, who was subjected to unveiling on her trial, furnishes
1103 VI  |             apostle says that it too unwillingly became subject to vanity,
1104 IV  |        vindicate the keeping of even unwritten tradition established by
1105 VIII|             with both in our present usages and in those of early saints,
1106 VIII|          life supply what is simply; useful and affords real assistance
1107 I   |            head alone uncovered, the useless crown in his hand--already
1108     | using
1109 IV  |             also. Among the Jews, so usual is it for their women to
1110 XIV |          made seductive, but mark of utter wantonness,--a notable casting
1111 XII | gold-decorated horns." What does the utterance mean? Without a doubt the
1112 V   |                                      V.~The argument for Christian
1113 VI  |         original character, first by vain, then by base, unrighteous,
1114 II  |            not forbid it, it will as validly be retorted that just on
1115 IV  |        furnishes an argument for the veiling of women, I can say here
1116 XIII|             How sacred and holy, how venerable and pure is this article
1117 VIII|         furniture and each household vessel, you name some god of the
1118 IX  |               and lights, and sacred vessels), this too they in figure
1119 XII |              as Mars, because of the vexation the concubine gave her.
1120 VI  |                                      VI.~Demanding then a law of
1121 X   |             the very doors, the very victims and altars, the very servants
1122 XV  |         conquer, receives a crown of victory; and another is adorned
1123 VII |                                      VII.~Let these dealers in crowns
1124 VIII|                                      VIII.~Hold fast in the meantime
1125 VII | constellation. Callimachus has put a vine crown upon Juno. So too
1126 VII |             branch, and every sod or vine-shoot has been dedicated to some
1127 VII |            too at Argos, her statue, vine-wreathed, with a lion's skin placed
1128 XI  |            the camp of darkness is a violation of it. Of course, if faith
1129 XIV |              kinds of lily, and with violets of all sorts, perhaps also
1130 IV  |            reason which she had. Let virgins alone be veiled, and this
1131 XV  |           are the appearances in the vision of the seer, of what sort
1132 I   |              case was considered and voted on; the matter was remitted
1133 XII |          observe the words also: "We vow that you, O Jupiter, will
1134 VII |             Indian gems, the gift of Vulcan, afterwards of Bacchus,
1135 IV  |              aim to please, she took walks with a veil on in her husband'
1136 XIV |         seductive, but mark of utter wantonness,--a notable casting away
1137 XII |          mistress also of the god of war, who, through Ilia and the
1138 XI  |           must first inquire whether warfare is proper at all for Christians.
1139 XI  |            he, forsooth, either keep watch-service for others more than for
1140 XI  |           Christ? And shall he ask a watchword from the emperor who has
1141 IX  |         bishop, do you ever find the wearer of a crown? I think not
1142 III |           the daily bath for a whole week. We take also, in congregations
1143 X   |              with us as with others. Wherefore the apostle exclaims, "Flee
1144 III |        privilege also from Easter to Whitsunday. We feel pained should any
1145     | whoever
1146 IV  |           regard for tradition, from whomsoever it originally sprang; nor
1147 VII |          sometimes poplar, sometimes wild-olive, sometimes parsley. You
1148 II  |               Since, although he may wish to seem on this account
1149 X   |         possession of the sense they wished to abuse it. When there
1150 X   |      precipient nature with which he wishes to carry out his purpose
1151 XII |      ointments, or with the tears of wives and mothers? It may be of
1152 XII |              the places, observe the words also: "We vow that you,
1153 VII |               is even in this matter working for his false system of
1154 VII |       according to the last chapter, worshippers of the God of nature; and,
1155 I   |             armour, and crowned more worthily with the white crown of
1156 XIII|             Nemean Hercules, and the wretched little Archemorus, and the
1157 VII |            in Claudius Saturninus, a writer of distinguished talent
1158 IV  |          thing whether it depends on writing or on reason, since reason
1159 VII |              If you open, again, the writings of the Egyptian Leo, you
1160 XI  |              avenger even of his own wrongs? Shall he, forsooth, either
1161 X   |                                      X.~So, when you allege that
1162 XI  |                                      XI.~To begin with the real
1163 XII |                                      XII.~But I first say a word
1164 XIII|                                      XIII.~For state reasons, the
1165 XIV |                                      XIV.~Much less may the Christian
1166 XV  |                                      XV.~Keep for God His own property
1167 XII |            the grounds of it. Lo the yearly public pronouncing of vows,
1168     | yours
1169     | yourselves