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501 I  |              that very thing of the road, the street, the work-shop,
502 II |           Saturn, wearing the white robe of the goddess Isis, thou
503 I  |              I address thee simple, rude, uncultured and untaught,
504 II |            is neither Searcher, nor Ruler, nor Judge; treating with
505 II |      goodness, "Blessing" is a most sacred act in our religion and
506 I  |          far be reckoned a wise and sagacious man who has gone the length
507 IV |          felt. For though it may be said that death is dreadful not
508 IV |             adulate those for whose sake thou art feasting it so
509 III|            or abhorrence, thou hast Satan constantly upon thy lips;
510 VI |            avoid them; thou hadst a savour of Christianity, and withal
511 VI |              or learned them as our scholar? Regard with suspicion this
512 I  |           not as when, fashioned in schools, trained in libraries, fed
513 II |           knowledge, nobody casting scorn upon thee, and no one preventing,
514 II |           withal that He is neither Searcher, nor Ruler, nor Judge; treating
515 V  |           congenital nature and the secret deposit of an inborn knowledge,
516 III|          Christians, or to whatever sect confesses the Lord, yet,
517 V  |          much more ancient than any secular literature, (or, let us
518 VI |   Christians she neither desires to see nor hear? Why has she either
519 VI |            soul, but thou didst not seek to know Him: evil spirits
520 I  |            and from which it may be seen at once that we have embraced
521 II |        preventing, to exclaim, "God sees all," and "I commend thee
522 III| transmitting his condemnation. Thou seest, then, thy destroyer; and
523 IV |             endowed again with that sensitive bodily organization, and
524 I  |         gone the length of uttering sentiments that are almost Christian;
525 VI |     earthwards? Why does she render service in one place, in another
526 I  |             judgment and wisdom, he sets himself to reject their
527 IV |            remains,--if, in a word, severance from the body is the annihilation
528 I  |             that they may be put to shame before thee, for hating
529 V  |            earlier date, as we have shown in its proper place when
530 IV |           is to be dreaded. If thou shrinkest from giving up life because
531 IV |     inevitable. I take up the other side, and argue on the ground
532 I  |             of his power to utter a single word of reproach. For all
533 V  |        itself and of its foe. Is it singular then, if, divine in its
534 I  |           human heart leads them to slight even their own teachers,
535 I  |          inexperience, since in thy small experience no one feels
536 IV |             of wine. But I want thy sober opinion. Thou callest the
537    | somehow
538    | something
539    | sometimes
540 V  |           let us only say, are of a somewhat earlier date, as we have
541 VI |              one spirit and various sounds; every country has its own
542 II |            to him to whose will, as Sovereign, thou dost look. At the
543 V  |              so to say, the vice of speaking in this way has been acquired
544 V  |           forth from the mere human speculations of your literature, and
545 IV |           of his virtues, or by the splendour even of his tomb? How is
546 V  |           of published books widely spread among men. Unquestionably
547 I  |            received from heaven, or sprung from earth; whether thou
548 I  |          art put into it at a later stage; from whatever source, and
549 IV |          the graves again, thou art staggering under the effects of wine.
550 II |         thou invokest God as judge? Standing under the statue of AEsculapius,
551 IV |           couldst suffer in another state? Nay, why dost thou fear
552 II |           judge? Standing under the statue of AEsculapius, adorning
553 IV |         comes back on thee with the sting in it of some old injury?
554 I  |             with human passions and stories; then the philosophers are
555 V  |         divine? Is it anything very strange, if it knows the God by
556 I  |         very thing of the road, the street, the work-shop, wholly.
557 I  |          its truth. We shall lay no stress on it, if some of their
558 II |       temples to a foreign god. Oh, striking testimony to truth, which
559 II |          and bestowed on us by God, stumble against a testimony of the
560 IV |         thyself, as if thou couldst suffer in another state? Nay, why
561 IV |             very person to whom the sufferings of judgment were due. That
562 III|             the lip. Yet thy curses sufficiently attest that there are such
563 V  |             which are now so easily suggested, that cling to us so constantly,
564 II |            art wont to say; plainly suggesting further, "But man is evil."
565 IV |             thou art feasting it so sumptuously. Dost thou then speak of
566 V  |            Speech went a-begging, I suppose; nay,(the subjects being
567 IV |             one of our presumptuous suppositions. But it is also the doctrine
568 II |            from power? To whom does supreme authority and power belong,
569 IV |           of him, "Poor man"--poor, surely, not because he has been
570 IV |       perhaps thou thinkest thyself surer, after thy exit from the
571 II |              gets angry, then He is susceptible of corruption and passion;
572 VI |            our scholar? Regard with suspicion this accordance in words,
573 IV |           experience of it has been sweet, at any rate there is no
574 V  |            divine as natural. I don't think they can appear frivolous
575 III|              the entire human race, tainted in their descent from him,
576 IV |          fear what is inevitable. I take up the other side, and argue
577    | taking
578 I  |            to slight even their own teachers, otherwise approved and
579 II |        honour to be rendered in thy temples to a foreign god. Oh, striking
580 I  |         case there will be the less temptation for thee to speak falsely
581 IV |            a joyful hope beyond our term of earthly life; for desire
582 IV |             evil, and so a thing of terror. Let us leave unnoted at
583 IV |          far more numerous, death's terrors are mitigated by a gain
584 VI |              in the measure that it testifies for truth, the guilt of
585 I  |            thing, as Epicurus alone thinks--in that case there will
586 I  |           highest degree capable of thought and knowledge,--stand forth
587 IV |             thou speakest thine own thoughts, when thou art at a distance
588 IV |        dreadful not for anything it threatens afterwards, but because
589 V  |             no existence in ancient times, before letters had any
590 IV |           the splendour even of his tomb? How is it the nature of
591 V  |         mind had ever conceived, or tongue put forth, or ear taken
592 VI |          there is one soul and many tongues, one spirit and various
593 I  |          high renown, whenever they touch upon arguments which are
594    | towards
595 I  |          nature and origin of their traditions, and the grounds on which
596 I  |         when, fashioned in schools, trained in libraries, fed in Attic
597 IV |         Pythagorean, as it does not tranfser thee into beasts; though
598 III|             were made a channel for transmitting his condemnation. Thou seest,
599 II |     Searcher, nor Ruler, nor Judge; treating with especial disdain those
600 V  |           to Jews, into whose olive tree we have been grafted--are
601 IV |          there is no occasion to be troubled about a loss of good things,
602 II |            deniest any others to be truly gods, in calling them by
603 V  |            place when proving their trustworthiness); if the soul have taken
604 II |          bless thee;" and when thou turnest the blessing of God into
605 I  |    admitting truth into it. But the unbelieving hardness of the human heart
606 I  |          address thee simple, rude, uncultured and untaught, such as they
607 II |             and if it knows Him, it undoubtedly fears Him too, and especially
608 II |            who is Lord of the whole universe. Bear thy testimony, if
609    | unless
610 IV |             of terror. Let us leave unnoted at this time that natural
611 V  |            widely spread among men. Unquestionably the soul existed before
612 I  |        simple, rude, uncultured and untaught, such as they have thee
613 I  |          the crime of at once being untrue to themselves and doing
614    | used
615 II |           others gods, thou plainly usest the designation as one which
616 I  |          who has gone the length of uttering sentiments that are almost
617 V  |                                     V.~These testimonies of the
618 VI |             yourself. Certainly you value the soul as giving you your
619 IV |           is held to be nothing but vanity and folly, and, as it is
620 VI |             tongues, one spirit and various sounds; every country has
621 III|         evil spirits. In expressing vexation, contempt, or abhorrence,
622 VI |                                     VI.~Believe, then, your own
623 V  |           Even fallen as it is, the victim of the great adversary's
624 II |          affords an answer to these views. For if either divine or
625 IV |             the simple glory of his virtues, or by the splendour even
626 V  |          works. Which latter indeed waited for their own instruction
627 II |           from the cares of keeping watch, and the trouble of taking
628 II |         what is done? What leads to watchful oversight, but judgment
629 II |             purple cloak of Saturn, wearing the white robe of the goddess
630 IV |          fear of it at all--if thou weft not sure that after it there
631 IV |            it bears on thy personal well-being, we maintain that after
632 I  |             support of ordinary and well-known writings, whether in ejecting
633 V  |          nobody of the dead? Speech went a-begging, I suppose; nay,(
634    | whenever
635    | where
636 II |        cloak of Saturn, wearing the white robe of the goddess Isis,
637    | whoever
638 I  |          the street, the work-shop, wholly. I want thine inexperience,
639 II |            reproachest man with his wickedness in departing from a God
640 V  |         opinions of published books widely spread among men. Unquestionably
641 IV |     staggering under the effects of wine. But I want thy sober opinion.
642    | within
643 V  |           of coming events. Is it a wonderful thing, if, being the gift
644 I  |           the road, the street, the work-shop, wholly. I want thine inexperience,
645 V  |            had any existence in the world--before there was a Mercury,
646 VI |          the question. Why does she worship another? why name the name
647 IV |            with a body; though more worthy of honour than the Epicurean,
648 II |       garland of Ceres on the brow, wrapped in the purple cloak of Saturn,
649 I  |         there is nothing in heathen writers which a Christian approves,
650 V  |         books, and ideas before the writing of them, and man himself
651 I  |            call in a new testimony, yea, one which is better known
652    | yours
653    | yourself