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2502 14| will be suitable to the sections of the soul; for even the
2503 19| longs and hastens to be secure. Take also ivy-plants, never
2504 36| a community of gender is secured to them; so that the course
2505 10| of the suitable organs,--securing to them the power of sight,
2506 1 | author of all error, and the seducer from all truth. Now if Socrates
2507 27| that there are two kinds of seed--that of the body and that
2508 27| together into their appointed seed-plot, they fertilize with their
2509 58| suffering, does the soul seek out for itself some furtive
2510 34| Simon, to be so tardy in seeking her out, and so inconstant
2511 43| of things, that they may seemingly be accounted as beyond it;
2512 54| still the impurities of the seething mass.~
2513 35| heretics of this school seize with especial avidity the
2514 26| not yet breathed when he seized his brother's heel; and
2515 50| why (was such a font) so seldom in request, so obscure,
2516 33| various wild beasts, which are selected and trained even against
2517 20| Clinias to be careful in their selection of a site for building a
2518 46| previous to giving birth to Seleucus, his mother Laodice foresaw
2519 24| INCONSISTENCY. HE SUPPOSES THE SOUL SELF-EXISTENT, YET CAPABLE OF FORGETTING
2520 58| has been exaggeration and self-will in its researches.~
2521 36| position that the soul is seminally placed in man, and by human
2522 33| privileges, he to Whom the senate and the people vote even
2523 3 | made a mistake, too, in sending forth fishermen to preach,
2524 47| with grand impartiality, "sends His showers and sunshine
2525 29| comes the decrepitude of senility; nor that folly is born
2526 11| it spirit in a definitive sense--not because of its condition,
2527 15| sanguis circumcordialis est sensus."~"Man has his (supreme)
2528 50| According to the general sentiment of the human race, we declare
2529 53| however, must be deemed separable, because it is the last;
2530 31| must needs have returned separately to their several bodies.
2531 2 | the philosophers, and of separating, on the other hand, the
2532 56| since the souls of the sepulchred dead kept thrusting him
2533 57| lengthened visits to the sepulchres of their relatives, as one
2534 34| conceit, as a consistent sequel to the preceding opinions,
2535 46| Philochorus, Epi- charmus, Serapion, Cratippus, and Dionysius
2536 53| dissolution. Accordant with a series is its end, and the middle
2537 9 | or in the preaching of sermons, or in the offering up of
2538 21| instigation of the (old) serpent as far from being incidental
2539 16| from the instigation of the serpent--the very achievement of (
2540 33| is buried with condiments served in the most piquant styles
2541 18| provided of a much more serviceable character, even the powers
2542 43| in things. He accordingly sets before your view the human
2543 21| be able to establish and settle their threefold theory,
2544 30| remain still in their old settlements, and have also enriched
2545 54| of the world accumulates, settles, and exhales, and where
2546 4 | ORIGINATED AT BIRTH.~After settling the origin of the soul,
2547 37| accordance with an hebdomad sevenfold number, as an auspice of
2548 14| ultimately subdivided these into seventeen parts. Thus variously is
2549 37| also completed with the seventh month, I more readily recognize
2550 33| punishments and rewards, too severe in dealing out its vengeance,
2551 53| it is not by this process severed in fractions: it is slowly
2552 33| institute of religion when it severely avenges in defence of human
2553 17| is impugned with too much severity by the Platonists, and according
2554 32| sensation, and affection, and sexual intercourse, and procreation
2555 2 | and sometimes in the very shades of night, through blind
2556 43| of Christ, Adam's sleep shadowed out the death of Christ,
2557 43| pass without such types and shadows) to set before us, in a
2558 19| accept their challenge, (nor shah we find in it any detriment
2559 43| Accordingly, when the body shakes off its slumber, it asserts
2560 33| slaughter-house and the shambles, that it may itself be killed,
2561 28| falsehood, which was not only shameful, but also hazardous. Consider
2562 58| actions, should be also a sharer in its recompense. What,
2563 23| God in the heavens above, sharing His ideas with Him, and
2564 55| on soft beds, but in the sharp pains of martyrdom: you
2565 20| or one's health, tend to sharpen or to dull the intellect!
2566 25| West, and men's minds are sharper; whilst there is not a Sarmatian
2567 52| storms, without a billow to shatter them, with favouring gale,
2568 52| with unbroken timbers or shattered with storms, if the navigation
2569 3 | Christians to clear away, both by shattering to pieces the arguments
2570 39| to take out a hair, or to shave off the whole with a razor,
2571 15| off their heads; and of she-goats, and tortoises, and eels,
2572 19| their buds, and the graceful shedding of their blossom, and the
2573 37| state. Then, again, the sheen of the gold or the silver,
2574 13| or life), which the good Shepherd Himself lays down for His
2575 2 | his long ears, when the shepherds brought him to him; and
2576 31| very renown of the sacred shields. As for Pythagoras, however,
2577 9 | substance, because they shine with ruddy redness; nor
2578 37| but yet only obscurely, shines out in developed lustre.
2579 13| rescue so many souls from shipwreck, not so many minds; the
2580 52| Not dissimilar are the shipwrecks of life,--the issues of
2581 52| owing to some internal shock. Not dissimilar are the
2582 46| hero's tomb on the Rhoetean shore before Troy; and as he removes
2583 30| dreaded, nor their rocky shores feared; everywhere are houses,
2584 56| influence, then (I say) such shortening is of no validity, if they
2585 46| capture by the enemy, who shortly after took possession of
2586 24| he says. But this is a shortsighted answer. Length of time cannot
2587 34| her back--whether on his shoulders or loins I cannot tell--
2588 19| meeting Him with approving shouts, proved its ability to offer
2589 47| impartiality, "sends His showers and sunshine on the just
2590 31| and so unwarlike, that he shrank from the military exploits
2591 49| such as resorted to his shrine for inspiration, it must
2592 46| within the boundaries of shrines and temples: it roams abroad,
2593 19| if it be only a little shrub) with its own insignificant
2594 46| Dionysius' tyranny over Sicily. Euphorion has publicly
2595 12| father Bythus, and his mother Sige. How confused is the opinion
2596 26| womb, although she has no sign as yet of the twofold nation.
2597 31| the primeval creation is signally kept, by the production
2598 46| unable to conjecture their signification. Now, who is such a stranger
2599 35| or transmigration theory, signifies the recall of the soul which
2600 25| barren women and men keep silence),--the truth of your own
2601 2 | deference; and the Phrygian Silenus, to whom Midas lent his
2602 37| certain quantity of gold or of silver--a rough mass as yet: it
2603 33| full trial of her anxious sincerity, keeping her gaze ever fixed
2604 51| peacefully (in Jesus), after a singularly happy though brief married
2605 52| choice. Indeed, if he had not sinned, he certainly would not
2606 38| wild pruriency falls upon sins and unnatural incentives
2607 20| in their selection of a site for building a city. Empedocles,
2608 53| words, of the ends, the sites, and the functions of nature--
2609 55| where Christ is already sitting at the Father's right hand,
2610 38| and customs their local situations, and the influences of the
2611 14| Panaetius, into five or six; Soranus, into seven; Chrysippus,
2612 32| individual body of whatever size is filled up by the soul,
2613 28| DOCTRINE OF TRANSMIGRATION SKETCHED AND CENSURED.~What, then,
2614 28| are the resources of magic skill for exploring hidden secrets:
2615 25| torrid zone, scorching their skin into its swarthy hue? Whence
2616 1 | prison of Socrates they skirmished about the state of the soul.
2617 28| profound disgust for the mighty sky--what reckless effort would
2618 33| several characters, either slain in criminals destined to
2619 33| cattle destined for the slaughter-house and the shambles, that it
2620 33| punished by drudgery and slavery, how will they congratulate
2621 25| embruosqakths</greek>, the slayer of the infant, which was
2622 43| maladies which are inimical to sleep--maladies of the mind and
2623 44| STORY OF HERMOTIMUS, AND THE SLEEPLESSNESS OF THE EMPEROR NERO. NO
2624 23| clumsily formed), obtained a slender spark of life, this roused
2625 33| ill-fated victims whom it once slew in woods and lonely roads.
2626 10| snails and slugs, by their slimy crawl. Why should you not
2627 25| bath almost a babe will slip into life, and at once his
2628 53| being annihilated by the slow process of its departure.
2629 10| efforts; or as snails and slugs, by their slimy crawl. Why
2630 17| ointment which He afterwards smelled was different from that
2631 49| tremors, and nods, and bright smiles as they sleep, and from
2632 25| into cold water; for, being smitten by the cold air (into which
2633 17| is felt by the feet to be smooth enough; and in the baths
2634 17| however, of the roughness and smoothness of the pavement, it was
2635 17| their testimony, and always so--only in a different way.
2636 58| from the body's importunate society? I am mistaken if the soul
2637 32| salamanders, and what things soever are produced out of the
2638 38| his temporary abode, while sojourning in it; not with the view,
2639 38| and roof, but simply and solely with the view of being accommodated
2640 33| examine the justice, the solemnity, the majesty, and the dignity
2641 53| essential condition--bankrupt in solvency, not in substance--be-cause
2642 | somehow
2643 27| fluid is ejected, feel that somewhat of our soul has gone from
2644 33| like better than a good song. His transformation, therefore,
2645 34| pursuit of her; she is no sooner ravished than he begins
2646 46| from the breast of Socrates soothing men, is his disciple Plato.
2647 3 | the soul according to the sophistical doctrines of men which "
2648 46| Achilles in his dreams. Sophocles the tragic poet discovers,
2649 57| same spirit, both in the sorceress and in the apostate (king),
2650 57| LVII. MAGIC AND SORCERY ONLY APPARENT IN THEIR EFFECTS.
2651 57| pressure of divine grace, and sorely against his will confesses
2652 5 | bruises, and wounds, and sores: the body, too, suffers
2653 23| of their own AEons. I am sorry from my heart that Plato
2654 27| This, then, must be the soul-producing seed, which arises at once
2655 27| and redundance of men's souls--nature proving herself true
2656 15| with Heraclitus, that this sovereign faculty of which we are
2657 37| Now the entire process of sowing, forming, and completing
2658 23| formed), obtained a slender spark of life, this roused and
2659 52| his last for joy, like the Spartan Chilon, while embracing
2660 20| district of Colythus children speak--such is the precocity of
2661 16| inasmuch as the same Plato speaks of the rational element
2662 55| reception-room of mortality, specially altered and adapted to receive
2663 30| millennial exile. But such a spectacle would have become quite
2664 20| accomplished in wisdom and speech at Athens, where in the
2665 6 | sight, and to the tongue for speech--a sort of internal image
2666 33| that they may escape more speedily the world's stern sentence,--
2667 25| shape of) a copper needle or spike, by which the actual death
2668 34| in order to gratify his spleen by liberating them from
2669 16| tares, and the nocturnal spoiler of the crop of corn.~
2670 43| ate, nay, even before he spoke; in Order that men may see
2671 35| make our Lord's statement sponsor for their theory of transmigration,
2672 12| which it is capable of a spontaneity of motion within itself,
2673 39| are never seen in their spontaneous action, nor are they administered
2674 2 | alone, one finds access to a spot, or egress from it. In nature,
2675 34| possessed of this purpose she sprang forth from the Father and
2676 3 | divine doctrine lies in its springing from Judaea rather than
2677 38| appointment of nature, and springs from its vicious abuse.
2678 19| compared with the nascent sprout of a tree) has been derived
2679 19| transmission, and thus has sprouted into life with all its natural
2680 19| trees are yet but twigs and sprouts, and before they even reach
2681 22| soul, then, we define to be sprung from the breath of God,
2682 55| Master," would no doubt spurn to receive the comfort of
2683 33| crime is yet exacted by stabbing his throat and stomach,
2684 6 | even this ground has no stability in it, since Soranus, who
2685 2 | certainties she capriciously stamps the character of uncertainty;
2686 25| whether the question be started by the philosopher, by the
2687 14| two more than these: he starts with two leading faculties
2688 6 | and which although very starvelings in philosophy, without your
2689 39| is sacred to the goddess Statina. After this does any one
2690 46| little boy, and in a private station, who was also plain Julius
2691 33| for his virtues, images, statues, and titles are freely awarded
2692 47| his malignant efforts to steal over them as best he may
2693 39| then the infant's first step on the ground is sacred
2694 32| fatigued if it mounts many steps, and is suffocated if it
2695 9 | congealed in shape, (or stereotyped). Hence, by this densifying
2696 33| more speedily the world's stern sentence,--the latter that
2697 34| afterwards to the eyes of Stesichorus, whom, she blinded in revenge
2698 34| to withdraw her from the stews. Fie on you, Simon, to be
2699 25| thus by and by infants are still-born; but how so, unless they
2700 34| XXXIV. THESE VAGARIES STIMULATED SOME PROFANE CORRUPTIONS
2701 20| knowledge, but a spare form stimulates it; paralysis prostrates
2702 10| the noisy tube, but the stinging lance of that mouth of theirs.
2703 26| breath; or else, after the Stoic rule, had the earliest taste
2704 43| maladies of the mind and of the stomach--they have decided to be
2705 10| digestion, even without stomachs. Some animals also have
2706 32| But how indeed (shall it stoop to this), when it remembers
2707 2 | sometimes happens even in a storm, when the boundaries of
2708 20| the state of the health. Stoutness hinders knowledge, but a
2709 46| Asia. I find again from Strabo, that it was owing to a
2710 17| destroys the appearance of the straightness of a right line. In like
2711 11| For, inasmuch as Adam straightway predicted that "great mystery
2712 2 | use this language) with straining after that facility of language
2713 51| people for their comfort, to strangers for a testimony unto them.
2714 43| termination thereof; thus stretching out the hand to help our
2715 43| your view the human body stricken by the friendly power of
2716 8 | invisible, it is only in strict accordance with the condition
2717 38| its vicious abuse. But the strictly natural concupiscence is
2718 32| receiving it to an interminable strife; and then again by reason
2719 2 | hand, has possessed the stringent demands of her art and practice.
2720 40| He is beaten with more stripes who instigates and orders
2721 5 | hold themselves ready for stripping the soul of its corporeity,
2722 19| own natural business, and strives to cling to some support,
2723 8 | mass? How much truer and stronger, then, is the soul's corporeal
2724 26| mother's warmth, when he so strongly wished to be the first to
2725 9 | would be of a composite and structural formation. He, however,
2726 45| the fight, there is the struggle; but the effort is a vain
2727 32| Pythagoras, or if my foot could stumble against the "ideas" of Plato,
2728 2 | confusion, that some harbour is stumbled on (by the labouring ship)
2729 3 | equanimity of Aristotle, or the stupidity of Epicurus, or the sadness
2730 12| be calm, and repose, and stupor. There is therefore no alternative:
2731 16| brought in, who is himself styled the lord or "master" of
2732 33| served in the most piquant styles of an Apicius or a Lurco,
2733 14| greek>,--and ultimately subdivided these into seventeen parts.
2734 16| soul) to God alone, and subdivides it into two departments
2735 11| walk thereon,--that is, who subdue the works of the flesh;
2736 30| cultivated fields have subdued forests; flocks and herds
2737 33| servants of man; all are his subjects, all his dependants. If
2738 57| them, but by a power which subjugates them that we handle (their
2739 23| to have partaken of that sublime virtue which looks down
2740 32| and is suffocated if it is submerged in a fish-pond,--(how, I
2741 24| it to pass that the soul subsequently forgets, and then afterwards
2742 32| put them on a par;) their substantial qualities are not alike, (
2743 29| because it happens that death succeeds life.~
2744 43| our life, and health, and succour, there can be nothing pertaining
2745 43| and always active, never succumbs to rest,--a condition which
2746 21| not rendered multiform by suck various development, nor
2747 19| of the mouth of babes and sucklings," has declared that neither
2748 52| amidst entire security, suddenly, owing to some internal
2749 44| some fifty years or so. Suetonius, however, informs us that
2750 57| with the Biaeothanati, who suffered violent deaths. I may be
2751 24| This point I have discussed sufficienly with Hermogenes. But it
2752 32| mounts many steps, and is suffocated if it is submerged in a
2753 38| of fourteen years) sex is suffused and clothed with an especial
2754 40| is actively sinful, and suffuses even the flesh (by reason
2755 1 | injurious treatment would not suggest a craving for consolation,
2756 38| generally,--the former by the suggestion of the senses, and the latter
2757 8 | its own corporeality, and suitably to the property of its own
2758 23| and sometimes, when it suits their fancy, even give them
2759 53| and obscures the soul, and sullies it by the concretion of
2760 2 | is learned of God is the sum and substance of the whole
2761 48| calmer in spring, since summer relaxes, and winter somehow
2762 5 | CORPOREAL NATURE.~Suppose one summons a Eubulus to his assistance,
2763 52| two sister substances, is sundered and divided? For although
2764 47| sends His showers and sunshine on the just and on the unjust."
2765 47| that, as the mercy of God super-abounds to the heathen, so the temptation
2766 23| earthly baits down from their super-celestial abodes by a fiery angel,
2767 55| enclosed by the earth, and superimposed on the abysmal depths which
2768 23| fancy, even give them the superiority--deeming them, forsooth,
2769 54| the wise, so much their superiors. For where is the school
2770 43| sleep is certainly not a supernatural thing, as some philosophers
2771 43| between things natural and supernatural--so that what things he supposed
2772 39| be present in all those superstitious processes which accompany
2773 24| follows that its entire superstructure must fall with it,namely,
2774 36| They also who make the soul supervene after birth on the flesh
2775 41| besides the evil which supervenes on the soul from the intervention
2776 19| the stage of infancy is supported by the soul alone, simply
2777 38| possession, too, of its own supports, and the aliments which
2778 32| will cease to exist, on the supposition of its complete change.
2779 1 | even by its very efforts to suppress emotion; and his constancy
2780 12| carry his point when he suppresses all distinction between
2781 46| destined Augustus, and the suppressor and destroyer of (Rome's)
2782 6 | subtle eloquence, nor to surfeit them with the crumbs from
2783 10| Herophilus, the well-known surgeon, or (as I may almost call
2784 25| himself. Accordingly, among surgeons' tools there is a certain
2785 30| from the dead (in the way surmised in this philosophy).~
2786 38| impulse has by this time surpassed the appointment of nature,
2787 7 | them is ex abundanti--a surplusage of authority: in the Gospel
2788 6 | Well, (I shall be much surprised) if I do not at once cut
2789 6 | substances. Now, what first surprises us here, is the unsuitableness
2790 33| course of integrity, have surrendered their life to the Judge,
2791 24| forget his ferocity, if surrounded by the softening influence
2792 17| the uniform density of the surrounding air covering its angles
2793 32| unable without alarm to survey any great height, or any
2794 51| And yet even this partial survival of the soul finds a place
2795 28| slight breath of report which survived the now obsolete tradition;
2796 50| really see something to suspect in so rare an occurrence
2797 6 | understanding even its own opinions, suspects a failure of its own health.
2798 12| principle of all things, and suspending on its axis the balance
2799 5 | vigour which its companion sustains, whose shame and fear it
2800 57| that the verity of Moses swallowed up their lying deceit. Many
2801 32| men sheep, talkative ones swallows, and chaste men doves, as
2802 46| foreseen by his nurse. The swan from the breast of Socrates
2803 25| scorching their skin into its swarthy hue? Whence do they get
2804 6 | some other thing when it is swayed (from the outside, of course,
2805 19| formation of leaves, and the swelling of their buds, and the graceful
2806 57| salvation and our soul at one swoop. In this way, even by magic,
2807 18| we shall have to measure swords with the heretics on their
2808 33| most splendid dishes of a Sylla, finds its obsequies in
2809 18| five foolish virgins to symbolize the five bodily senses,
2810 9 | beautiful for its just symmetry and tuitions of philosophy,
2811 5 | But the soul certainly sympathizes with the body, and shares
2812 25| in the closeness of your sympathy,) would share together your
2813 27| Greek is a word which is synonymous with cold, how does it come
2814 2 | as it may), if you take t he philosophers, you would
2815 33| Lurco, is introduced to the tables of your exquisite Ciceros,
2816 33| fame to the graces of his tail! But never mind! let poets
2817 41| its brightness. It is also taker up (in its second birth)
2818 46| high honours and eminent talents; remedies are also discovered,
2819 32| panthers, good men sheep, talkative ones swallows, and chaste
2820 3 | huckstering wiseacres and talkers. In like manner is the treatment
2821 37| birth, shall in its number tally with the day on which God'
2822 35| To this effect does he tamper with the whole of that allegory
2823 5 | Accordingly Lucretius says:~"Tangere enim et tangi nisi corpus
2824 5 | Lucretius says:~"Tangere enim et tangi nisi corpus nulla potest
2825 33| latter that they may more tardily incur it. How well, (forsooth),
2826 16| of him as "the sewer of tares, and the nocturnal spoiler
2827 1 | the gods themselves. The teachings of the power of Christ had
2828 45| a charioteer without his team, but still gesticulating
2829 19| affliction in the prospect of our tearful life, whereby from the very
2830 1 | of natural duty, at the tears of her who was so soon to
2831 30| occasions complaint), is our teeming population: our numbers
2832 10| of eating, even without teeth; and of digestion, even
2833 34| shoulders or loins I cannot tell--cast an eye on the salvation
2834 46| truth in them. The people of Telmessus will not admit that dreams
2835 30| Scythians in Parthia, the Temenidae in Peloponnesus, the Athenians
2836 46| boundaries of shrines and temples: it roams abroad, it flies
2837 24| of time, is subject to no temporal criterion. And that which
2838 47| super-abounds to the heathen, so the temptation of the evil one encounters
2839 19| embrace with really greater tenacity and force by its own inclination
2840 20| s body or one's health, tend to sharpen or to dull the
2841 51| nature of the atmosphere tended to the preservation of the
2842 19| without a prop, whatever its tendrils catch, it will fondly cling
2843 34| SIMON MAGUS CONDEMNED.~No tenet, indeed, under cover of
2844 37| the commencement of the tenth month. They who theorize
2845 9 | consequence of the extreme tenuity and subtilty of its essence.
2846 42| that our subject-matter may terminate where the soul itself completes
2847 33| prisons and black-holes, terrible in their idle, do-nothing
2848 25| XXV. TERTULLIAN REFUTES, PHYSIOLOGICALLY,
2849 19| his infant cries, does not testify to his actual possession
2850 17| hear the Father's voice testifying of Himself; or that He was
2851 32| many words: "I once was Thamnus, and a fish." Why not rather
2852 32| beasts. Let (Empedocles') Thamnuses alone. Our slight notice
2853 20| brutish persons are born at Thebes; and the most accomplished
2854 46| remedies are also discovered, thefts brought to light, and treasures
2855 10| stinging lance of that mouth of theirs. Take any living thing whatever,
2856 50| hear them, let him handle them--and he is convinced.~
2857 24| does memory fail, as if thenceforth the soul were to be affected
2858 17| Delphic oracle; and in the Theoetetus he deprives himself of the
2859 44| that Nero never dreamt, and Theopompus says the same thing about
2860 10| men's artificial views and theories, and away with the fabrications
2861 37| the tenth month. They who theorize respecting numbers, honour
2862 55| permitted none to go in thereat, except those who had died
2863 2 | in their own commentaries thereon--what various schools of
2864 37| but not by any addition thereto, because it is extended
2865 50| men from death; although Thetis had, in spite of the preservative,
2866 2 | right, when, observing the thick darkness which obscured
2867 9 | effects all processes of thinking and all activity in dreams.
2868 40| is not of itself that it thinks anything or feels anything
2869 47| when they are awake. The third class of dreams will consist
2870 7 | suffering excruciating thirst, and imploring from the
2871 23| to procure belief in all this--that the soul had formerly
2872 19| its foreseeing instinct thoroughly been aware of from its:
2873 26| the first to be born was threatened with detention by him who
2874 13| it is the soul which He threatens to destroy in hell; it is
2875 33| exacted by stabbing his throat and stomach, and piercing
2876 25| shake, your entire womb throbs, and the burden which oppresses
2877 33| judgment has not too elevated a throne in it--exaggerated in both
2878 30| colonies, for the purpose of throwing off redundant population,
2879 35| own (nation), and you be thrown into prison, and be detained
2880 24| But then, again, Plato throws the blame upon the body,
2881 56| the sepulchred dead kept thrusting him away. We know that Homer
2882 17| the other way, when the thunder rolled at a distance, we
2883 9 | Pontus held it to be so). "Thunder-stones,"indeed, are not of igne-ous
2884 17| the Phoedrus he postpones till after death the posthumous
2885 52| body goes with unbroken timbers or shattered with storms,
2886 10| thing whatever, be it the tiniest you can find, it must needs
2887 35| will send you Elijah" the Tisbite? The fact, however, is,
2888 2 | condemned by us under the title of apocryphal, certain as
2889 13| instance inscribe on their title-page and table of contents, "
2890 33| virtues, images, statues, and titles are freely awarded as public
2891 56| actions at law, get married, toil and labour, undergo illnesses,
2892 57| stay away all night at the tombs of their brave chieftains,
2893 2 | have instructed the entire tone and aspect of the world
2894 20| is the precocity of their tongue--before they are a month
2895 15| against him--and philosophers too--Plato, Strato, Epicurus,
2896 25| Accordingly, among surgeons' tools there is a certain instrument,
2897 30| much more easily is its torch extinguished than rekindled.
2898 58| look also at Zeno's, as the torments of Dionysius pass over it.
2899 25| the broiling sun of the torrid zone, scorching their skin
2900 15| heads; and of she-goats, and tortoises, and eels, when you have
2901 44| to the soul--resembling a total eclipse of the sun or the
2902 51| if it once falls short of totality in operation, is not death.
2903 43| instance also we are led to trace even then the image of death
2904 30| farms have obliterated all traces of what were once dreary
2905 28| more divine, recounting and tracing out, as he does, the course
2906 56| and old age? Must it ply trade for profit, turn up the
2907 43| travels over land and sea, it trades, it is excited, it labours,
2908 28| survived the now obsolete tradition; suppose him to have come
2909 34| for the Holy Spirit,--a traffic worthy of the wretched man.
2910 33| which are selected and trained even against their nature
2911 35| lest such a man in any transaction of business be irritated
2912 56| Well, but how are all these transactions to be managed without one'
2913 57| bodies, as a proof of His own transcendent rights; but there must never
2914 57| know that "Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light"--
2915 16| achievement of (the first) transgression--which thenceforward became
2916 35| a fraudulent man, and a transgressor of your agreement, before
2917 35| of dying), but after his translation (or removal without dying);
2918 33| whose) souls are not to transmigrate into beasts, but are to
2919 31| merely to Greece, as if no transmigrations of souls and resumptions
2920 43| possess a constant motion; it travels over land and sea, it trades,
2921 2 | the soul, although he had traversed every road in her domains.
2922 17| reproach) as fallacious and treacherous tyrants! But is it not from
2923 11| appointed to the office of their treasurer; he was not yet the traitor,
2924 46| thefts brought to light, and treasures indicated. Thus Cicero's
2925 24| Cicero has designated the treasury of all the sciences. Now
2926 16| this point will have to be treated by us, owing to the facts
2927 25| with which your bowels tremble, your sides shake, your
2928 49| observe attentively their tremors, and nods, and bright smiles
2929 57| them) was no enchanter's trick. What novelty is there in
2930 28| the man who devised such a tricksty scheme, to the injury of
2931 58| concerning the soul, and tried its character by the teaching
2932 45| sleep, and as no slight or trifling excitements of the soul,
2933 44| like a person on a holiday trip. His wife betrayed the strange
2934 21| development, nor by the triple form predicated of it in "
2935 46| Mallus, of Sarpedon in the Troad, of Trophonius in Boeotia,
2936 19| creep on the ground and be trodden under by every foot that
2937 28| recognise any of his former Trojan comrades? For they, too,
2938 46| Sarpedon in the Troad, of Trophonius in Boeotia, of Mopsus in
2939 55| when as yet the archangel's trumpet has not been heard by the
2940 19| and hardens into its woody trunk, until its mature age completes
2941 3 | then be never required to try our strength in contests
2942 10| then, not only the noisy tube, but the stinging lance
2943 9 | for its just symmetry and tuitions of philosophy, but misshapen
2944 46| kind. From a dream Marcus Tullius (Cicero) had learnt how
2945 14| Stoics have found as many as twelve parts in the soul. Posidonius
2946 19| whilst trees are yet but twigs and sprouts, and before
2947 26| of (vital) air. Behold, a twin offspring chafes within
2948 21| must be determined to be twofold--there being the category
2949 57| opinions--with its Ostanes, and Typhon, and Dardanus, and Damigeron,
2950 43| as Eve was formed), be typified the church, the true mother
2951 46| beheld in a dream Dionysius' tyranny over Sicily. Euphorion has
2952 17| fallacious and treacherous tyrants! But is it not from these
2953 34| imposture, and purchased a Tyrian woman of the name of Helen
2954 58| RESURRECTION, ANTICIPATING THEIR ULTIMATE MISERY OR BLISS.~All souls,
2955 17| sees his mother; Ajax sees Ulysses in the slaughtered herd;
2956 11| must also be simple and un-compounded as regards its substance;
2957 45| were masters of ourselves, (unaffected by ecstasy.) In these dreams,
2958 18| purpose of acquiring an unalloyed insight into the nature
2959 52| result of an inflexible and unalterable condition. Consequently,
2960 56| residue to be fulfilled for unappointed periods. I have another
2961 57| hardly a human being who is unattended by a demon; and it is well
2962 2 | gain from it. Now I am not unaware what a vast mass of literature
2963 8 | young is determined by the unblinking strength of their gaze;
2964 52| the human body goes with unbroken timbers or shattered with
2965 58| mock us still more with uncertain expectation? or shall it
2966 2 | are men's inquiries into uncertainties; wider still are their disputes
2967 21| and therefore immortal and unchangeable), it is absolutely certain
2968 27| state, which is immodest and unchaste: the normal condition has
2969 10| other words uniform and uncompounded; simply that is to say in
2970 42| and composes us must be unconnected with us. If the deprivation
2971 58| fatigue, and very often unconsciously, even to itself? How often,
2972 21| sway over the faculty that underlies itself within us--even the
2973 57| of their art, that they undertake to bring up from Hades the
2974 20| our part we have already undertaken to treat of them, on the
2975 57| popular bit of writing, which undertakes to summon up from the abode
2976 50| extinguish Antichrist. Even John underwent death, although concerning
2977 51| being human, it is itself undeserving of an end which is also
2978 43| much heat to accelerate it unduly, or cold to retard it, if
2979 56| possible. It will love the undutiful heir, by whose means it
2980 50| even it unquestioned and unexamined, although it is itself the
2981 56| yet in the highest degree unfair, that should receive all
2982 57| actually invoked,--and not unfairly, if one grounds his faith
2983 25| dissected with anxious but unfaltering care; its last appendage
2984 57| night dead persons are not unfrequently seen, and that for a set
2985 32| have no respiration, being unfurnished with lungs and windpipes,
2986 50| him there had prevailed an ungrounded expectation that he would
2987 41| birth it is embraced by the unholy spirit. The flesh follows
2988 58| likes, though the body is unhurt; and when it likes it feels
2989 14| philosophers maintain the unity of the soul, as diffused
2990 54| brink of perdition by the universal fire? All other souls they
2991 12| moving principle of the universe--the god of Socrates, Valentinus' "
2992 43| follows pursuits lawful and unlawful; it shows what very great
2993 55| instructed you. The sole key to unlock Paradise is your own life'
2994 4 | the soul to be unborn and unmade. We, however, from the very
2995 38| pruriency falls upon sins and unnatural incentives to delinquency;
2996 33| voice, which is harsh and unpleasant; and there is nothing that
2997 50| we must not leave even it unquestioned and unexamined, although
2998 44| interposition, for it would not be unreasonable for a man to receive admonition
2999 51| soul remaining, as he says, unseparated from the body. To the same
3000 6 | incorporeal? How could an unsubstantial thing propel solid objects?
3001 6 | surprises us here, is the unsuitableness of a definition which appeals