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501 5, LIV | one that came from God to men, it would be in vain for 502 5, LIV | being that ever came to men, and yet that many others 503 5, LIV | the visits of angels to men, what he has derived, without 504 5, LV | seeing the daughters of men, that they were fair, took 505 5, LV | for the corporeal life of men, and this in metaphorical 506 5, LV | was termed "daughters of men." But whatever may be the 507 5, LV | possess the daughters of men," it will not at all contribute 508 5, LVII | case that neither do all men show themselves worthy of 509 5, LVII | that they are relating to men only fictions and fables. 510 5, LVIII | death, and to show to all men that He was dead and non-existent, 511 5, LVIII | world for the salvation of men, with the help of another 512 5, LXII | become as powerful among men as Jesus was amongst the 513 6, I | side, through their love to men, every one without exception-- 514 6, I | and to gain over to them men of every sort. Those, on 515 6, II | who profess to be literary men; while Epictetus is admired 516 6, II | for the great world of men has found even him useful), 517 6, II | not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God." 518 6, II | and disposing the souls of men to follow them. And therefore 519 6, II | the disciples of Jesus, men ignorant so far as regards 520 6, III | it is God who revealed to men these as well as all other 521 6, III | ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness; 522 6, IV | assembly held by ignorant men; and after giving utterance 523 6, IV | presence of God." Our wise men, however,--Moses, the most 524 6, V | the life was the light of men;" which "true light lighteneth 525 6, V | Jesus, who was to turn away men from the worship of idols, 526 6, VI | to lead the nature of all men onwards to the light?"-- 527 6, X | treated before the eyes of all men;" neither do we add, "Believe 528 6, XI | mastery over the minds of men, were convicted of being 529 6, XII | the wisdom that is among men to be foolishness with God;" 530 6, XII | was the author: "For I, O men of Athens, have obtained 531 6, XIII | if one among the sons of men be perfect, while the wisdom 532 6, XIII | corruption when he beholds wise men dying." Divine wisdom, accordingly, 533 6, XIII | the more simple class of men who adhere to the service 534 6, XIV | very beginning our wise men were trained in the external 535 6, XIV | tenfold degree all the wise men of that country. At the 536 6, XIV | believers), a few "wise" men, who have come over to them 537 6, XVI | declaration of Jesus against rich men, when He said, "It is easier 538 6, XVI | expressed regarding rich men, to the effect that "it 539 6, XVI | Logos concerning the rich men. Nor would he have left 540 6, XVII | rarely been vouch-safed to men, and has been found in very 541 6, XXIV | it the representations of men who, as Paul says, "creep 542 6, XXIV | the most rustic class of men, nor those who were ready 543 6, XXVII | believe that Christians are men of such a character; and 544 6, XXIX | however; that God will raise men from the dead with the same 545 6, XXXI | which they desire to lead men away by their teaching ( 546 6, XXXVII | charge, in thus calumniating men whom he professed to convert 547 6, XLI | over the uneducated and men of corrupt morals that they 548 6, XLII | desire to confer good upon men, has yet one counterworking 549 6, XLII | Satan, after appearing to men as He Himself had done, 550 6, XLIV | of Solomon, the wisest of men, concerning the truly rich 551 6, XLV | faces," so also neither do men's "hearts" resemble one 552 6, XLV | diversities amongst the hearts of men,--those which are inclined 553 6, XLV | holding that there exist among men, so to speak, two extremes,-- 554 6, XLV | to jugglers (who deceive men for the basest of purposes), 555 6, XLVI | and shall destroy mighty men, and the holy people. And 556 6, XLVII | should call him 'Son of God.' Men of ancient times termed 557 6, XLVII | before the Greeks and those men of ancient time of whom 558 6, XLIX | book of the generation of men," where we have tried to 559 6, LIII | the very offscourings (of men), and who is unable to capture 560 6, LIII | cannot persuade and admonish (men)? And how is it that he 561 6, LIII | ingratitude and wickedness of men? He finds fault, moreover, 562 6, LIII | cannot persuade and admonish men?" It is indeed the greatest 563 6, LIV | persuading and admonishing men?" Now, according to holy 564 6, LVI | God is said to bring upon men such evils for the conversion 565 6, LVII | persuading and admonishing men?" it has been already stated 566 6, LVII | incapable of admonishing men; for He conveys His admonitions 567 6, LVII | incapable of persuading men that they are not persuaded, 568 6, LVII | apply this expression to men who are the "artificers 569 6, LVIII | it that he repents when men become ungrateful and wicked; 570 6, LVIII | seeing that the wickedness of men upon the earth was increasing, 571 6, LVIII | while the destruction of men by the flood is a purification 572 6, LIX | defend the destruction of men by the deluge, continues: " 573 6, LXX | by these words He taught men that God must be worshipped 574 6, LXXI | made by the Word, not to men only, but to what are deemed 575 6, LXXIII | knew already how to form men, He could also have fashioned 576 6, LXXIII | minister to the salvation of men. For, quoting the sayings 577 6, LXXV | inferior to that of the sons of men." These passages, then, 578 6, LXXVI | inferior to that of the sons of men," it might be said that 579 6, LXXVII | the words given forth by men, which are figuratively 580 6, LXXVII | figuratively termed "sons of men." For we might say that 581 6, LXXVII | philosophers--who are "sons of men"--appear far more beautiful 582 6, LXXVIII | ever been performed amongst men, where the divine Word did 583 6, LXXIX | that the whole world of men might be enlightened by 584 6, LXXIX | ministering to the salvation of men everywhere, let him take 585 6, LXXX | has spread abroad among men. Nay, he ranks the Magi 586 6, LXXXI | sending His Son amongst wicked men, who were both to be guilty 587 6, LXXXI | amongst wicked and sinful men, who were also to inflict 588 7, III | the utterances of false men who pretended to a divine 589 7, IV | the bodies and souls of men, do not require the power 590 7, V | the purpose of deceiving men, and thus turn them away 591 7, V | resembling those depraved men who despise the purity of 592 7, VI | Perhaps the better class of men were too good to become 593 7, VI | with which he might draw men to a change of life, and 594 7, VI | Socrates the wisest of all men, it takes from the value 595 7, VI | wiser,~ But wiser than all men is Socrates."~As, then, 596 7, VI | say that he prefers him to men who for a paltry reward 597 7, VI | Socrates the wisest of all men, as on account of the victims 598 7, VII | some of them were wise men before they became divinely 599 7, VII | and devout lives of these men were worthy of the inspiration 600 7, IX | is perishing, and you, O men, are perishing for your 601 7, X | those words which urged men to forsake their sins, which 602 7, X | recorded and preserved by men living at the time, that 603 7, X | the Spirit of God, bind men to the practice of piety 604 7, XI | says that he has heard such men prophesy; for no prophets 605 7, XIV | although it seemed that all men in the world had foretold 606 7, XVI | marred more than the sons of men; He was a man of sorrows, 607 7, XVI | man as He appeared among men there was something divine, 608 7, XVII | distinguished beyond all other men by an intimate communion 609 7, XVIII | or riches, or glory; that men ought not to be more careful 610 7, XVIII | observation that the best of men have lived in extreme poverty. 611 7, XXI | worldly riches, which blind men; but we say that it refers 612 7, XXI | gave place by subjection to men, no, not for an hour, as 613 7, XXII | therefore have commanded men to destroy all their vices 614 7, XXVI | teaching, all the devices of men against Christians have 615 7, XXVIII | as follows: "The divine men of a former age have spoken 616 7, XXVIII | in like manner by other men. For there are in different 617 7, XXXI | are in common use among men, have other things corresponding 618 7, XXXI | God in Isaiah complains of men, that "they regard not the 619 7, XXXII | eternal in the heavens." The men of God say also that "the 620 7, XXXV | like him who has deceived men, but they are ever open 621 7, XXXV | could so turn the hearts of men as to lead them to regulate 622 7, XXXVII | perused only by a few wise men, but in such as are most 623 7, XXXVII | be inferred, that though men who live upon the earth 624 7, XXXIX | stigmatizes as "a cowardly race" men who would rather die than 625 7, XL | impostors and jugglers, leading men away to idols and phantoms;" 626 7, XLI | as he calls them, to wise men and philosophers, without 627 7, XLI | divinely inspired poets, wise men, and philosophers. If he 628 7, XLI | wished to give us as guides men who were blinded to the 629 7, XLI | Who, then, are those wise men and philosophers from whom 630 7, XLI | abounding love which He had for men, that He gave to the more 631 7, XLI | weaker capacities of ignorant men, of simple women, of slaves, 632 7, XLII | perceive, then, how divine men seek after the way of truth, 633 7, XLII | it was impossible for all men to walk in it. But as wise 634 7, XLII | walk in it. But as wise men have found it for the express 635 7, XLII | that He might reveal to all men truths which, according 636 7, XLII | impossible to make known to all men, even after he had found 637 7, XLIII | to make Him known to all men," he does not speak of Him 638 7, XLIII | He says: "since the wise men have found out this way, 639 7, XLIV | the many errors into which men have fallen in their views 640 7, XLV | announce divine things to men, it is doubtless this same 641 7, XLV | the same influence that men of old made known many important 642 7, XLVI | Priest who has set before men the nature of pure religion. 643 7, XLVI | vile accusations against men' who desire to be God's 644 7, XLVI | that God, in His love to men, has "manifested" His truth, 645 7, XLVIII | Christians may be found men who have no need of hemlock 646 7, XLVIII | virgins, who are guarded by men, or it may be not guarded ( 647 7, XLIX | been said by those divine men, the prophets of God and 648 7, XLIX | sodomy, in lawless lust, "men with men working that which 649 7, XLIX | lawless lust, "men with men working that which is unseemly."~ 650 7, L | lies." Besides, our wise men have such a contempt for 651 7, LI | announce divine things to men, it is doubtless this same 652 7, LI | the same influence that men of old made known many important 653 7, LIV | the most enlightened of men.~ 654 7, LV | sincerity by trustworthy men, who, while giving a truthful 655 7, LVII | to death for the sake of men, He to whom God bore testimony 656 7, LVII | Jesus suffered death for men after He had given the instructions 657 7, LVIII | they were held by divine men before his time. But let 658 7, LIX | Plato or any of the wise men of Greece, or whether it 659 7, LIX | health of great multitudes of men, which shall we esteem as 660 7, LX | then, if Plato and the wise men among the Greeks, in the 661 7, LX | Scripture "the wisdom of men," "the wisdom according 662 7, LXII | gods to be of the nature of men.' Heraclitus also says in 663 7, LXIII | but differs in different men according to the motives 664 7, LXIV | wrought by the hands of men. Neither do they object 665 7, LXVI | reputation of being wise men, render to them what passes 666 7, LXVI | not rather dedicated to men than, as he says, to the 667 7, LXVI | they are the offerings of men who were in error in their 668 7, LXVII | them out of the souls of men, out of places where they 669 7, LXVIII | extends to sins not only in men, but also in demons and 670 7, LXVIII | that it is not only wicked men who are transgressors, but 671 7, LXX | and pillage the souls of men. To explain this fully, 672 8, I | ambassadors for Christ to men, even as the Word of God 673 8, II | It does hold true among men, that he who is in the service 674 8, IV | provinces, and summoning men out of them to be subject 675 8, VII | regard to service among men, that" the first master 676 8, VII | injured in the same way as men are injured when they who 677 8, VII | regard to his statement, that men suffer injury when the servant 678 8, VIII | one man serving two wise men in different places. If 679 8, IX | the ignorance and folly of men who in their wanderings 680 8, XII | but lately appeared among men, and they think it no offence 681 8, XIII | and serve those whom other men worship, for the reason 682 8, XIV | He knew that it would be men of the world, and not men 683 8, XIV | men of the world, and not men of God, who would wage war 684 8, XV | wicked beings--not only men, but also angels, and all 685 8, XVI | tread other paths from us,--men who deny the Creator, and 686 8, XIX | When He knew that wicked men might aim at the destruction 687 8, XX | gods, admired by senseless men, who have no divine faculty 688 8, XXI | to have been devised by men when occasion offered to 689 8, XXI | feast," as one of the wise men of Greece has well said, " 690 8, XXII | sin and its fruits among men, and worthy of having some 691 8, XXV | Accordingly, it is not all men who bear the name of "men 692 8, XXV | men who bear the name of "men of God," but only those 693 8, XXV | the devil," just as bad men are called "men of sin," " 694 8, XXV | just as bad men are called "men of sin," "sons of perdition," 695 8, XXV | iniquity." Since, then, among men some are good and others 696 8, XXV | and bad among angels and men has no foundation, or else 697 8, XXVI | that seek the injury of men. Besides, what are the laws 698 8, XXVI | the enactments of wicked men; and these we must not obey, 699 8, XXVI | must obey God rather than men." Away, then, with this 700 8, XXVI | enjoy the favour of those men who wish us to follow their 701 8, XXVI | with those who have such men for their friends,--in the 702 8, XXIX | Jesus, wishing to lead all men by His teaching to the pure 703 8, XXXI | trees, pestilence among men and beasts: all these are 704 8, XXXII | inflict calamities upon men: "He cast upon them the 705 8, XXXII | from demons, then, that men receive any of those things 706 8, XXXV | as, after the manner of men, inflicting injury upon 707 8, XXXVIII | observation that there are men who utterly deny the existence 708 8, XXXIX | evil, He who turns so many men to God is in our view no 709 8, XLI | your God when present among men, suffered nothing for it, 710 8, XLI | learnt that no one among men or demons is to be reviled, 711 8, XLIII | of God," by dying for all men, might "take away the sin 712 8, XLIII | the bodies and souls of men. And here, although Celsus 713 8, XLIV | frustrate their designs against men. Wherefore I imagine, that 714 8, XLV | wall as by others, whether men or women, who were under 715 8, XLV | that has been conveyed to men by other signs and prodigies? 716 8, XLVI | prophets cities were founded, men were cured, and plagues 717 8, XLVII | Christ, who were unlettered men of humble life, could have 718 8, XLVII | preach Christian truth to men by anything else than the 719 8, XLVIII | the enthusiasm with which men will contend unto death 720 8, XLVIII | their hearers to live as men who are convinced of the 721 8, XLVIII | punishments, and to strike men with terror of them, but 722 8, XLVIII | Spirit of God was in those men, and that with their writings 723 8, XLIX | though it were worthless? But men who hold such notions, and 724 8, L | calls them gross and impure men, bent upon creating needless 725 8, LII | especially anxious to bring all men as far as possible to receive 726 8, LII | of good and evil. Let all men, therefore, when they look 727 8, LII | able to give. And let all men know that the good shall 728 8, LIII | statement of Celsus: "Since men are born united to a body, 729 8, LIV | must therefore believe that men are entrusted to certain 730 8, LV | allotted sorrows to all men; for sorrows must exist, 731 8, LVII | LVII.~Celsus supposes that men "discharge the duties of 732 8, LIX | principles of holiness among all men throughout the world; yea, 733 8, LX | the opinion of those wise men who say that most of the 734 8, LX | foretell the fortunes of men and cities, and do other 735 8, LX | common methods adopted by men, he must rise to the higher 736 8, LXI | nature of demons than of men, and will be given over 737 8, LXII | foretell the fortunes of men and cities, and concern 738 8, LXII | demoniacal powers, to draw men away to carnal indulgence. 739 8, LXII | whatever but the well-being of men and of all rational creatures, 740 8, LXIII | and compares demons with men who rigorously discharge 741 8, LXIV | indeed boldly say, that men who aspire after better 742 8, LXV | with kings or any other men, not only if their favour 743 8, LXV | brave and high-principled men, who aim at joining with 744 8, LXVII | unite with the just among men in celebrating the praises 745 8, LXVIII | would no longer remain among men any of the glory of your 746 8, LXVIII | possession of the minds of men more and more every day.~ 747 8, LXIX | customary duties to gods and men, and were to worship the 748 8, LXIX | the recognised gods and to men, and to worship the Most 749 8, LXX | fifty just persons. For men of God are assuredly the 750 8, LXX | and trodden under foot of men. He that hath ears, let 751 8, LXXIII | thanks, be made for all men; for kings, and for all 752 8, LXXIII | commonwealth, and to slay men, we can reply: "Do not those 753 8, LXXIV | purpose of being seen by men, or of vainglory. For "in 754 8, LXXV | God--for the salvation of men. And this service is at 755 8, LXXVI | of that truth which leads men by sound doctrines to the