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1 VII | imitate us if known, or not be able to condemn us.~
2 IV | Fever was dedicated, and Acca and Flora the harlots. These
3 XV | suffering. Therefore we accompany Him, we follow Him, we have
4 VIII| them by His wisdom, and accomplishes them by His power.~
5 XIII| Therefore when Christ Jesus, in accordance with what had been previously
6 I | were formerly kings, who on account of their royal memory subsequently
7 XIV | blind and ignorant for the acknowledgment of the truth.~
8 III | in the remarkable volume addressed to his mother, that through
9 VII | crime. These, however, when adjured by us through the true God,
10 II | Apollo fed the flocks of Admetus; Neptune founded walls for
11 IX | their mind and soul are admonished of their author and origin.
12 I | which at first had been adopted as a consolation. And now
13 I | subsequently began to be adored by their people even in
14 X | greatness of their race advanced. But subsequently becoming
15 IV | Penates whom the fugitive AEneas introduced thither. There
16 II | turns, that they may live. AEsculapius is struck by lightning,
17 V | makes a beginning of that affair of concord by discords.
18 VII | their prophets with their afflatus, animate the fibres of the
19 V | ships before the winter to Africa; yet so much the more easily
20 XI | would happen, that as the ages passed on, and the end of
21 VII | of the sufferer comes in aid, or the grace of the healer
22 III | Proving that this is so, Alexander the Great writes in the
23 VIII| earth. When ever did an alliance in royalty either begin
24 VII | glutted with the steam of the altars and the piles of cattle,
25 VII | prophets with their afflatus, animate the fibres of the entrails,
26 II | up in the fires of Oeta. Apollo fed the flocks of Admetus;
27 VII | what they had bound, and so appear to have effected a cure.
28 XIV | again from the dead. He appeared to His disciples like as
29 IX | appropriate characteristics of appellations. To God who alone is, belongs
30 IX | he distinguished by the appropriate characteristics of appellations.
31 V | dignity may increase by the approval of his wickedness. The Roman
32 IV | Cretan, and Juno either Argive or Samian or Carthaginian,
33 Arg | Argument.~THIS HEADING EMBRACES THE
34 Arg | THEM, INASMUCH AS IT HAD ARISEN BY A CERTAIN GOOD FORTUNE,
35 IV | opposition to the Roman arms? For we know that the gods
36 | around
37 Arg | CERTAIN GOOD FORTUNE, AND WAS ASHAMED OF ITS OWN ORIGIN.~
38 VIII| death in their disunited ashes. And one kingdom could not
39 IX | consecrated. Neither must you ask the name of God. God is
40 XIV | recognition of those that saw Him, associated together with Him; and being
41 IV | monsters, not deities, who assuredly, if they had had any power,
42 V | was formerly held by both Assyrians and Medes and Persians;
43 V | criminals, and by founding an asylum, impunity for crimes makes
44 Arg | THE ROMAN EMPIRE WAS TO ATTRIBUTED TO FATE RATHER THAN TO THEM,
45 XIII| Him as a sorcerer for the authority of His power. Their masters
46 XIV | race, with the force of an avenger and with the power of a
47 XII | the other which should avow Him as God--they did not
48 IV | There is also Venus the bald,--far more dishonoured by
49 IV | dishonoured by the fact of her baldness in Rome than by her having
50 III | too old, or the faculty of bearing has failed Juno.~
51 | because
52 | become
53 | becomes
54 | becoming
55 VIII| all nature consents. The bees have one king, and in the
56 | beginning
57 XIV | manner preceded Him, that it behoved Him to suffer, not that
58 XIII| to Him; the Jews, who had believed Him man only from the humility
59 IX | appellations. To God who alone is, belongs the whole name of God; therefore
60 XI | place, worshippers much better in obedience and stronger
61 | beyond
62 XIV | scattered over the world, at the bidding of their Master and God
63 VII | entrails, direct the flights of birds, rule the lots, give efficiency
64 XII | were so punished by their blindness of wisdom and intelligence,
65 VIII| good faith or end without bloodshed? Thus the brotherhood of
66 V | its origin, you must needs blush. A people is collected together
67 XIV | by the substance of His bodily existence, He delayed for
68 XIII| humility of His flesh and body, regarded Him as a sorcerer
69 VIII| they did not maintain the bond of their relationship in
70 VIII| power. Moreover, let us borrow an illustration for the
71 VII | may unloose what they had bound, and so appear to have effected
72 VII | minds, distort their limbs, break their health, excite diseases
73 IX | dedicated in our mind; in our breast He must be consecrated.
74 VII | images: these inspire the breasts of their prophets with their
75 IX | cannot be seen--He is too bright for vision; nor comprehended--
76 XIV | as a conqueror He might bring to the Father, Man whom
77 VIII| without bloodshed? Thus the brotherhood of the Thebans was broken,
78 XV | is the test of truth, is brought to bear, that Christ the
79 V | even as did the kingdom. Brutus puts his sons to death,
80 II | and received--unfortunate builder--no wages for his work. The
81 IX | majesty within one small building? He must be dedicated in
82 V | he was slain at Cannae. Caius Caesar despised the auguries
83 VII | any other desire than to call men away from God, and to
84 VI | and, maintaining one God, calls the rest angels or demons.
85 V | and yet he was slain at Cannae. Caius Caesar despised the
86 II | is painted as an old man carrying a sickle. Janus had received
87 IV | either Argive or Samian or Carthaginian, and Diana of Taurus, and
88 II | become sea-divinities. The Castors, die by turns, that they
89 VII | altars and the piles of cattle, they may unloose what they
90 II | wages for his work. The cave of Jupiter is to be seen
91 VI | contagion of earth, and do not cease, when ruined themselves,
92 VII | when their own mischief ceases; nor have they any other
93 VI | have departed from their celestial vigour by the contagion
94 Arg | INASMUCH AS IT HAD ARISEN BY A CERTAIN GOOD FORTUNE, AND WAS ASHAMED
95 IV | their people's kingdoms. Certainly there are also among the
96 V | merit, but are varied by chance. Empire was formerly held
97 III | of the gods is variously changed among individual nations
98 IX | distinguished by the appropriate characteristics of appellations. To God
99 V | under the yoke. Paulus had chickens that fed, and yet he was
100 VI | mockery, of whom, however, the chief Hostanes both says that
101 XV | believe. What Christ is, we Christians shall be, if we imitate
102 XIII| nerved up the paralytics, cleansed the leprous, enlightened
103 X | from their own soil and climate, they are thrown upon the
104 IV | and worshipped the goddess Cloacina; Hostilius, Fear and Paleness.
105 II | towards the commencing and the closing year. The Mauri, indeed,
106 XIV | were to teach. Then in a cloud spread around Him He was
107 V | needs blush. A people is collected together from profligates
108 VII | the faith of the sufferer comes in aid, or the grace of
109 XIII| by His word, and by the command of His voice nerved up the
110 VIII| Ruler of the world one; who commands all things, whatsoever they
111 II | look equally towards the commencing and the closing year. The
112 IX | and "God sees," and "I commend to God," and "God give you,"
113 V | sons to death, that the commendation of his dignity may increase
114 VII | to seek for themselves companions in punishment whom they
115 VIII| cannot possibly have any compeer, since it alone possesses
116 XIII| raised the dead again, compelled the elements to obey Him
117 IX | too bright for vision; nor comprehended--He is too pure for our discernment;
118 II | worship kings, and do not conceal their name by any disguise.~
119 V | beginning of that affair of concord by discords. They steal,
120 VI | also on the same principle concurs, and, maintaining one God,
121 VII | known, or not be able to condemn us.~
122 X | precepts, and lost the favour conferred upon them. But how profane
123 VI | Trismegistus speaks of one God, and confesses that He is incomprehensible,
124 VII | howling, groaning, entreating, confessing whence they came and when
125 XV | less substantial, and the confession of Christ might not be a
126 X | proud, and puffed up with confidence in their fathers, they despised
127 I | see whether this truth is confirmed in individual instances.~
128 XIV | death, but that He might conquer death, and that, when He
129 XIV | up into heaven, that as a conqueror He might bring to the Father,
130 VIII| since herein all nature consents. The bees have one king,
131 V | the state; their marriage consists of the broken covenants
132 I | first had been adopted as a consolation. And now let us see whether
133 VII | yield and confess, and are constrained to go out from the bodies
134 IV | Tiberinus, and Pilumnus, and Consus, whom as a god of treachery
135 VI | celestial vigour by the contagion of earth, and do not cease,
136 VIII| And one kingdom could not contain the Roman twins, although
137 X | their violated religion was contracted, even they themselves bear
138 IV | if he had been a god of counsels, when his perfidy resulted
139 I | sculptured to retain the countenances of the deceased by the likeness;
140 XIV | divine majesty. Therefore the course of events fulfilled the
141 V | marriage consists of the broken covenants of hospitality and cruel
142 VI | the truth, leads away a credulous and foolish rabble. They
143 VII | slumbers; their spirits creeping also into their bodies,
144 IV | Thracian, and Jupiter a Cretan, and Juno either Argive
145 II | Jupiter is to be seen in Crete, and his sepulchre is shown;
146 V | an asylum, impunity for crimes makes the number great;
147 V | together from profligates and criminals, and by founding an asylum,
148 XIV | fulfilled the promise. For when crucified, the office of the executioner
149 XIII| and obstinate urgency His crucifixion and death.~
150 XV | are tried by tortures, by crucifixions, by many kinds of punishments.
151 V | covenants of hospitality and cruel wars with their fathers-in-law.
152 II | Saturn. And he also was the cultivator of the rustic life, whence
153 VII | appear to have effected a cure. The only remedy from them
154 VI | deceives, and with tricks which darken the truth, leads away a
155 XIV | from their wandering in darkness to the way of light, and
156 XIV | spirit, and on the third day freely rose again from the
157 I | the countenances of the deceased by the likeness; and men
158 VII | truth, for they are both deceived and they deceive; they disturb
159 VI | same, which misleads and deceives, and with tricks which darken
160 VI | acknowledge, and Socrates declared that he was instructed and
161 VI | God cannot be seen, and declares that true angels stand round
162 V | appointed time within a definite limit. Moreover, Regulus
163 VI | others the error of their own degradation. These demons the poets
164 VI | ruin of others; and when degraded themselves, to infuse into
165 V | moreover, is the highest degree in Roman honours, yet we
166 IV | are Egyptian monsters, not deities, who assuredly, if they
167 XIV | His bodily existence, He delayed for forty days, that they
168 XIII| finally seized Him and delivered Him to Pontius Pilate, who
169 XIII| on behalf of the Romans, demanding with violent and obstinate
170 VI | and ruled at the will of a demon; and thence the Magi have
171 VII | whence they came and when depart, even in the hearing of
172 VI | steeped in earthly vices, have departed from their celestial vigour
173 XII | understand this, was the desert of their sins. They were
174 VII | nor have they any other desire than to call men away from
175 XI | had received and lost by despising their religious ordinances.
176 VII | urge the common people to detest our name, so that men begin
177 XIV | for the punishment of the devil and to the judgment of the
178 IV | Samian or Carthaginian, and Diana of Taurus, and the mother
179 II | sea-divinities. The Castors, die by turns, that they may
180 IX | His entirety is everywhere diffused. For even the common people
181 V | the commendation of his dignity may increase by the approval
182 VII | fibres of the entrails, direct the flights of birds, rule
183 IX | comprehended--He is too pure for our discernment; nor estimated--He is too
184 XII | twofold--the one which should discharge the office and example of
185 X | subsequently becoming neglectful of discipline, proud, and puffed up with
186 III | was kept secret, had been disclosed to him by a priest, that
187 VIII| Thebans was broken, and discord endured even in death in
188 V | that affair of concord by discords. They steal, they do violence,
189 VII | break their health, excite diseases to force them to worship
190 II | conceal their name by any disguise.~
191 IV | Venus the bald,--far more dishonoured by the fact of her baldness
192 XI | Son of God is sent as the dispenser and master, who by all the
193 VIII| they are, with His word, disposes them by His wisdom, and
194 VII | disturb their life, they disquiet their slumbers; their spirits
195 IX | where a multitude is to he distinguished by the appropriate characteristics
196 VII | secretly terrify their minds, distort their limbs, break their
197 VII | deceived and they deceive; they disturb their life, they disquiet
198 VIII| endured even in death in their disunited ashes. And one kingdom could
199 Arg | EMBRACES THE THREE LEADING DIVISIONS OF THIS TREATISE. THE WRITER
200 III | through fear of his power the doctrine of the gods being men, which
201 V | Greeks and Egyptians have had dominion. Thus, in the varying vicissitudes
202 XI | stronger in faith, who would draw from the divine gift that
203 XIII| foretold by the prophets, drove out from men the demons
204 IX | whole world? And while man dwells far and wide, shall I shut
205 | each
206 VI | after having been steeped in earthly vices, have departed from
207 V | Africa; yet so much the more easily he both sailed and conquered.~
208 VII | bound, and so appear to have effected a cure. The only remedy
209 VII | the grace of the healer effects. Hence they urge the common
210 VII | birds, rule the lots, give efficiency to oracles, are always mixing
211 IV | gods of Ida; and there are Egyptian monsters, not deities, who
212 V | too, that both Greeks and Egyptians have had dominion. Thus,
213 XIII| dead again, compelled the elements to obey Him as servants,
214 Arg | Argument.~THIS HEADING EMBRACES THE THREE LEADING DIVISIONS
215 XI | being the holy Spirit, He is endued with flesh; God is mingled
216 VIII| was broken, and discord endured even in death in their disunited
217 X | obedient to their religious engagements. Thence with them both the
218 XIII| paralytics, cleansed the leprous, enlightened the blind, gave power of
219 XI | old was announced as the enlightener and teacher of the human
220 XI | His wisdom and glory; He enters into a virgin; being the
221 IX | He is one, and He in His entirety is everywhere diffused.
222 VII | animate the fibres of the entrails, direct the flights of birds,
223 VII | punishment, howling, groaning, entreating, confessing whence they
224 VIII| their relationship in their envious power. Neither should you
225 II | middle, he seems to look equally towards the commencing and
226 VI | to infuse into others the error of their own degradation.
227 IX | for our discernment; nor estimated--He is too great for our
228 IX | therefore we are only worthily estimating Him when we say that He
229 VI | incomprehensible, and beyond our estimation.~
230 XIV | Therefore the course of events fulfilled the promise. For
231 | ever
232 | every
233 | everywhere
234 XIV | together with Him; and being evident by the substance of His
235 XII | discharge the office and example of a man, the other which
236 VII | limbs, break their health, excite diseases to force them to
237 XIV | crucified, the office of the executioner being forestalled, He Himself
238 XIV | substance of His bodily existence, He delayed for forty days,
239 II | himself is portrayed with two faces, because, placed in the
240 IV | more dishonoured by the fact of her baldness in Rome
241 III | has grown too old, or the faculty of bearing has failed Juno.~
242 III | the faculty of bearing has failed Juno.~
243 VII | oracles, are always mixing up falsehood with truth, for they are
244 Arg | EMPIRE WAS TO ATTRIBUTED TO FATE RATHER THAN TO THEM, INASMUCH
245 X | with confidence in their fathers, they despised the divine
246 V | and cruel wars with their fathers-in-law. The consulship, moreover,
247 XIV | suffer, not that He might feel death, but that He might
248 IV | by, I know not by whom, Fever was dedicated, and Acca
249 VII | their afflatus, animate the fibres of the entrails, direct
250 XIII| stimulated with indignation, finally seized Him and delivered
251 VII | with stripes, burnt with fire, stretched out with the
252 II | man, is burnt up in the fires of Oeta. Apollo fed the
253 VII | the entrails, direct the flights of birds, rule the lots,
254 IV | dedicated, and Acca and Flora the harlots. These are the
255 X | loftiness of their rule flourished, and the greatness of their
256 XV | Therefore we accompany Him, we follow Him, we have Him as the
257 VI | leads away a credulous and foolish rabble. They are impure
258 XIV | of the executioner being forestalled, He Himself of His own will
259 VI | Hostanes both says that the form of the true God cannot be
260 Arg | ARISEN BY A CERTAIN GOOD FORTUNE, AND WAS ASHAMED OF ITS
261 | forty
262 V | profligates and criminals, and by founding an asylum, impunity for
263 V | crime, Romulus becomes a fratricide; and in order to promote
264 XIV | spirit, and on the third day freely rose again from the dead.
265 IX | their author and origin. We frequently hear it said, "O God," and "
266 IV | conquered Penates whom the fugitive AEneas introduced thither.
267 XIV | Therefore the course of events fulfilled the promise. For when crucified,
268 XI | near at hand, God would gather to Himself from every nation,
269 XI | would draw from the divine gift that mercy which the Jews
270 I | celebrated festal days, by way of giving them honour. Thence to posterity
271 XI | reason, He is His wisdom and glory; He enters into a virgin;
272 VII | themselves, so that when glutted with the steam of the altars
273 VII | and are constrained to go out from the bodies possessed.
274 XII | which should avow Him as God--they did not understand
275 IV | invented and worshipped the goddess Cloacina; Hostilius, Fear
276 VIII| illustration for the divine government from the earth. When ever
277 VII | forth at once or vanishing gradually, even as the faith of the
278 IX | will," and "if God should grant;" and this is the very height
279 X | rule flourished, and the greatness of their race advanced.
280 V | we know, too, that both Greeks and Egyptians have had dominion.
281 VII | growing punishment, howling, groaning, entreating, confessing
282 V | kingdom, therefore, did not grow from the sanctities of religion,
283 VII | out with the increase of a growing punishment, howling, groaning,
284 XV | Him, we have Him as the Guide of our way, the Source of
285 XIV | precepts for salvation, guided men from their wandering
286 XI | of the world was near at hand, God would gather to Himself
287 XI | previously foretold that it would happen, that as the ages passed
288 IV | and Acca and Flora the harlots. These are the Roman gods.
289 VII | name, so that men begin to hate us before they know us,
290 Arg | Argument.~THIS HEADING EMBRACES THE THREE LEADING
291 VII | aid, or the grace of the healer effects. Hence they urge
292 VII | their limbs, break their health, excite diseases to force
293 IX | and origin. We frequently hear it said, "O God," and "God
294 VII | when depart, even in the hearing of those very persons who
295 IX | grant;" and this is the very height of sinfulness, to refuse
296 | Hence
297 XV | only be announced by the heralding of the voice, but by the
298 II | he may rise into a god. Hercules, that he may put off the
299 VIII| is one leader, and in the herds one ruler. Much rather is
300 | herein
301 VI | angels or demons. Moreover, Hermes Trismegistus speaks of one
302 V | consulship, moreover, is the highest degree in Roman honours,
303 XI | into a virgin; being the holy Spirit, He is endued with
304 IV | her having been wounded in Homer.~
305 V | highest degree in Roman honours, yet we see that the consulship
306 VI | whom, however, the chief Hostanes both says that the form
307 IV | worshipped the goddess Cloacina; Hostilius, Fear and Paleness. By and
308 | how
309 VII | of a growing punishment, howling, groaning, entreating, confessing
310 XIII| believed Him man only from the humility of His flesh and body, regarded
311 IV | the mother of the gods of Ida; and there are Egyptian
312 XIV | gave eyes to the blind and ignorant for the acknowledgment of
313 II | II.~Melicertes and Leucothea
314 III | III.~From this the religion
315 VIII| Moreover, let us borrow an illustration for the divine government
316 V | and by founding an asylum, impunity for crimes makes the number
317 VI | foolish rabble. They are impure and wandering spirits, who,
318 VI | and confesses that He is incomprehensible, and beyond our estimation.~
319 IX | Him when we say that He is inconceivable. But what temple can God
320 IV | the gods of the Romans are indigenous. Romulus was made a god
321 XIII| wrath and stimulated with indignation, finally seized Him and
322 XIII| by learning and wisdom--inflamed with wrath and stimulated
323 VI | degraded themselves, to infuse into others the error of
324 VII | consecrated images: these inspire the breasts of their prophets
325 I | confirmed in individual instances.~
326 XII | blindness of wisdom and intelligence, that they who were unworthy
327 IV | whom the fugitive AEneas introduced thither. There is also Venus
328 IV | Sabines. Tatius also both invented and worshipped the goddess
329 II | taught to stamp money in Italy, and thence the treasury
330 IV | IV.~But why do you think that
331 IX | IX.~He cannot be seen--He is
332 II | away, from whose name the Janiculum is so called, and the month
333 II | called, and the month of January is appointed. He himself
334 II | old man carrying a sickle. Janus had received him to hospitality
335 XIII| XIII.~Therefore when Christ Jesus, in accordance with what
336 XIV | and with the power of a judge; whilst the disciples, scattered
337 XIV | of the devil and to the judgment of the human race, with
338 IV | would have to be worshipped, just as if he had been a god
339 V | auspices and auguries, but it keeps its appointed time within
340 XV | by crucifixions, by many kinds of punishments. Pain, which
341 VIII| Pompey and Caesar were kinsmen, and yet they did not maintain
342 XII | XII.~And the Jews knew that Christ was to come,
343 XIII| power of movement to the lame, raised the dead again,
344 II | Neptune founded walls for Laomedon, and received--unfortunate
345 II | by him, and that from him Latium received its name, as being
346 XI | puts on man that He may lead them to the Father. What
347 VIII| the flocks there is one leader, and in the herds one ruler.
348 XIII| power. Their masters and leaders--that is, those whom He subdued
349 Arg | HEADING EMBRACES THE THREE LEADING DIVISIONS OF THIS TREATISE.
350 VI | which darken the truth, leads away a credulous and foolish
351 XIV | precepts of life, and might learn what they were to teach.
352 XIII| whom He subdued both by learning and wisdom--inflamed with
353 XIII| paralytics, cleansed the leprous, enlightened the blind,
354 | less
355 VII | us before they know us, lest they should either imitate
356 II | first that taught to print letters; he was the first that taught
357 II | II.~Melicertes and Leucothea are precipitated into the
358 XIV | spread around Him He was lifted up into heaven, that as
359 II | AEsculapius is struck by lightning, that he may rise into a
360 I | countenances of the deceased by the likeness; and men sacrificed victims,
361 VII | their minds, distort their limbs, break their health, excite
362 V | appointed time within a definite limit. Moreover, Regulus observed
363 II | by turns, that they may live. AEsculapius is struck by
364 X | Thence with them both the loftiness of their rule flourished,
365 II | the middle, he seems to look equally towards the commencing
366 VIII| VIII.~Therefore the one Lord of all is God. For that
367 VII | flights of birds, rule the lots, give efficiency to oracles,
368 XIV | the Father, Man whom He loved, whom He put on, whom He
369 XIII| the seas to obey Him, the lower regions to yield to Him;
370 VII | spirits, therefore, are lurking under the statues and consecrated
371 II | received its name, as being his lurking-place. He was the first that taught
372 | made
373 VI | a demon; and thence the Magi have a power either for
374 VIII| kinsmen, and yet they did not maintain the bond of their relationship
375 VI | principle concurs, and, maintaining one God, calls the rest
376 | make
377 V | was taken prisoner; and Mancinus observed their religious
378 II | year. The Mauri, indeed, manifestly worship kings, and do not
379 IV | are the Roman gods. But Mars is a Thracian, and Jupiter
380 VIII| power. Neither should you marvel at this in respect of man,
381 XIII| authority of His power. Their masters and leaders--that is, those
382 XV | of Christ might not be a matter of pleasure, they are tried
383 II | and the closing year. The Mauri, indeed, manifestly worship
384 X | after this manner is the means. First of all, favour with
385 V | held by both Assyrians and Medes and Persians; and we know,
386 XI | this is Christ, who, as the mediator of the two, puts on man
387 II | II.~Melicertes and Leucothea are precipitated
388 V | rise to supremacy through merit, but are varied by chance.
389 II | because, placed in the middle, he seems to look equally
390 VII | secretly terrify their minds, distort their limbs, break
391 XI | endued with flesh; God is mingled with man. This is our God,
392 VII | punishment whom they may by their misguidance make sharers in their crime.
393 VI | principle is the same, which misleads and deceives, and with tricks
394 VII | efficiency to oracles, are always mixing up falsehood with truth,
395 VI | either for mischief or for mockery, of whom, however, the chief
396 Arg | TEMPLES WERE FOUNDED, STATUES MODELLED, VICTIMS SACRIFICED, AND
397 II | first that taught to stamp money in Italy, and thence the
398 IV | and there are Egyptian monsters, not deities, who assuredly,
399 II | Janiculum is so called, and the month of January is appointed.
400 XIII| the blind, gave power of movement to the lame, raised the
401 IX | is need of names where a multitude is to he distinguished by
402 IX | Among those there is need of names where a multitude is to
403 XI | gather to Himself from every nation, and people, and place,
404 III | changed among individual nations and provinces, inasmuch
405 IX | common people in many things naturally confess God, when their
406 VIII| of man, since herein all nature consents. The bees have
407 XI | the end of the world was near at hand, God would gather
408 IX | name. Among those there is need of names where a multitude
409 V | to its origin, you must needs blush. A people is collected
410 X | But subsequently becoming neglectful of discipline, proud, and
411 II | fed the flocks of Admetus; Neptune founded walls for Laomedon,
412 XIII| the command of His voice nerved up the paralytics, cleansed
413 | nothing
414 | now
415 V | impunity for crimes makes the number great; and that their king
416 IX | frequently hear it said, "O God," and "God sees," and "
417 XI | worshippers much better in obedience and stronger in faith, who
418 X | thus their ancestors were obedient to their religious engagements.
419 V | observed their religious obligation, yet was sent under the
420 XIII| demanding with violent and obstinate urgency His crucifixion
421 II | burnt up in the fires of Oeta. Apollo fed the flocks of
422 | off
423 X | became their life, what offence to their violated religion
424 VII | at our voice, and by the operation of the hidden majesty, smitten
425 V | auguries and auspices that were opposed to his sending ships before
426 IV | their own worshipers in opposition to the Roman arms? For we
427 VII | lots, give efficiency to oracles, are always mixing up falsehood
428 XI | despising their religious ordinances. Therefore of this mercy
429 X | straggling, they wander about; outcasts from their own soil and
430 | over
431 XV | many kinds of punishments. Pain, which is the test of truth,
432 II | rustic life, whence he is painted as an old man carrying a
433 IV | Cloacina; Hostilius, Fear and Paleness. By and by, I know not by
434 XIII| His voice nerved up the paralytics, cleansed the leprous, enlightened
435 XI | happen, that as the ages passed on, and the end of the world
436 XII | as being hidden in His passion, but believe in the one
437 V | was sent under the yoke. Paulus had chickens that fed, and
438 III | its own ancestors is kept peculiar. Proving that this is so,
439 IV | the Romans the conquered Penates whom the fugitive AEneas
440 IX | He is too great for our perception; and therefore we are only
441 IV | god of counsels, when his perfidy resulted in the rape of
442 V | vicissitudes of power, the period of empire has also come
443 IV | Romulus was made a god by the perjury of Proculus, and Picus,
444 V | Assyrians and Medes and Persians; and we know, too, that
445 VII | the hearing of those very persons who worship them, and either
446 IV | perjury of Proculus, and Picus, and Tiberinus, and Pilumnus,
447 XIII| delivered Him to Pontius Pilate, who was then the procurator
448 VII | steam of the altars and the piles of cattle, they may unloose
449 IV | Picus, and Tiberinus, and Pilumnus, and Consus, whom as a god
450 XI | nation, and people, and place, worshippers much better
451 II | with two faces, because, placed in the middle, he seems
452 X | after this manner is the plan, after this manner is the
453 VI | about His throne. Wherein Plato also on the same principle
454 XV | might not be a matter of pleasure, they are tried by tortures,
455 VI | degradation. These demons the poets also acknowledge, and Socrates
456 VIII| one womb had held them. Pompey and Caesar were kinsmen,
457 XIII| Him and delivered Him to Pontius Pilate, who was then the
458 V | in order to increase the population of the state; their marriage
459 II | appointed. He himself is portrayed with two faces, because,
460 VII | to go out from the bodies possessed. You may see them at our
461 VIII| compeer, since it alone possesses all power. Moreover, let
462 I | giving them honour. Thence to posterity those rites became sacred
463 II | Melicertes and Leucothea are precipitated into the sea, and subsequently
464 IV | had any power, would have preserved their own and their people'
465 III | been disclosed to him by a priest, that it was the memory
466 II | the first that taught to print letters; he was the first
467 V | auspices, yet was taken prisoner; and Mancinus observed their
468 IV | a god by the perjury of Proculus, and Picus, and Tiberinus,
469 XIII| Pilate, who was then the procurator of Syria on behalf of the
470 X | conferred upon them. But how profane became their life, what
471 V | collected together from profligates and criminals, and by founding
472 XIV | of events fulfilled the promise. For when crucified, the
473 XV | the Author of salvation, promising as well the Father as heaven
474 V | fratricide; and in order to promote marriage, he makes a beginning
475 XV | XV.~And that the proof might not be the less substantial,
476 X | neglectful of discipline, proud, and puffed up with confidence
477 III | among individual nations and provinces, inasmuch as no one god
478 III | ancestors is kept peculiar. Proving that this is so, Alexander
479 X | of discipline, proud, and puffed up with confidence in their
480 XII | their sins. They were so punished by their blindness of wisdom
481 XV | crucifixions, by many kinds of punishments. Pain, which is the test
482 IX | comprehended--He is too pure for our discernment; nor
483 VI | a credulous and foolish rabble. They are impure and wandering
484 XIII| of movement to the lame, raised the dead again, compelled
485 IV | perfidy resulted in the rape of the Sabines. Tatius also
486 III | ancestors and kings that was (really) kept up, and that from
487 XI | power of God, He is the reason, He is His wisdom and glory;
488 II | walls for Laomedon, and received--unfortunate builder--no
489 XIV | He gave Himself to the recognition of those that saw Him, associated
490 V | to the others. But if you recur to its origin, you must
491 IX | height of sinfulness, to refuse to acknowledge Him whom
492 XIII| humility of His flesh and body, regarded Him as a sorcerer for the
493 XIII| seas to obey Him, the lower regions to yield to Him; the Jews,
494 V | definite limit. Moreover, Regulus observed the auspices, yet
495 VIII| maintain the bond of their relationship in their envious power.
496 III | the Great writes in the remarkable volume addressed to his
497 VII | effected a cure. The only remedy from them is when their
498 VI | maintaining one God, calls the rest angels or demons. Moreover,
499 IV | counsels, when his perfidy resulted in the rape of the Sabines.
500 I | images were sculptured to retain the countenances of the