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1 I, 3 | CHRISTIANS LIES IN THEIR VERY NAME. THE NAME VINDICATED.~Since,
2 I, 3 | IN THEIR VERY NAME. THE NAME VINDICATED.~Since, therefore,
3 I, 3 | but lies wholly in our name. If, indeed, any real crimes
4 I, 3 | himself a Christian. No name of a crime stands against
5 I, 3 | but only the crime of a name. Now this in very deed is
6 I, 3 | is felt against us. The name is the cause: some mysterious
7 I, 3 | inquiry, so that the odious name is punished under the presumption
8 I, 3 | withdrawn from the offensive name, we are compelled to deny
9 I, 3 | because we have lost that name. But since this point is
10 I, 3 | why you are pursuing this name even to extirpation? What
11 I, 3 | what fault is there in a name? For you are barred by the
12 I, 3 | Concerning, then, the merit of a name, whatever offence names
13 I, 3 | complaint is due to a word or a name, unless indeed it has a
14 I, 3 | absurdity of figure. The name Christian, however, so far
15 I, 3 | the sound of this noted name), you in fact lisp out the
16 I, 3 | harmless men even the harmless name we bear, which is not inconvenient
17 I, 4 | say, is punished in the name of its founder. Now in the
18 I, 4 | should be marked out by the name of its founder, since philosophers
19 I, 4 | traditional bearer of a bad name. But this would be indulging
20 I, 4 | you fasten merely on the name, just as if you vilified
21 I, 4 | and bearing its founder's name as their own; and nobody
22 I, 4 | your gods. Although the name of Christian was not at
23 I, 4 | wicked before they bore this name, have been suddenly converted
24 I, 4 | intercourse with that hated name. I know more than one husband,
25 I, 5 | sufficient testimonial for our name, that this cannot be said
26 I, 5 | between an imputation and a name, between an opinion and
27 I, 5 | philosophy? All bear the name in respect of their profession;
28 I, 5 | shallow pretence of its name. Men are not straightway
29 I, 5 | who attach reality to a name, when it is its consistency
30 I, 5 | condition implied in the name. And yet persons of this
31 I, 5 | Christians themselves deny that name, and who have not learned
32 I, 7 | and it passes under that name. No one, then, says, to
33 I, 7 | to our acceptance. This name of ours took its rise in
34 I, 7 | by the same (offensive) name, and we are supposed to
35 I, 10 | venom; fling against this name of ours all your shafts
36 I, 10 | hatred of the Christian name derives all its life--I
37 I, 10 | forefathers, if not the name, at all events the procedure,
38 I, 11 | both the origin and the name of their religion. He relates
39 I, 17 | not compromise the Roman name. But I will grapple with
40 II, 4 | DERIVATION OF THE WORD THEOS. THE NAME INDICATIVE OF THE TRUE DEITY.
41 II, 4 | God; so that you gave the name <greek>qeoi</greek> to the
42 II, 4 | motion. But if that sacred name be peculiarly significant
43 II, 4 | why do you combine them in name with the purpose of combining
44 II, 8 | at his side Pharia, whose name shows her to have been the
45 II, 11 | Then, again, they give his name to Peragenor, from his teaching
46 II, 12 | was sleeping. We read this name Coelus as of the masculine
47 II, 12 | also the witness of his name; for they say that he is
48 II, 12 | kronos</greek>. His Latin name also they derive from seed-sowing;
49 II, 12 | which he settled had the name Saturnius, whilst the city
50 II, 12 | rounded still bears the name Saturnia; in short, the
51 II, 15 | about Ascensus, who gets his name for his climbing propensity,
52 app, frag| honour them with a deific name. As for him whom they call
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