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  1        1, V       |          not consider those to be gods that are made with hands,
  2        1, V       |         men, can be (regarded as) gods. In what follows, however,
  3        1, V       |           images, as if they were gods, act in a similar manner
  4        1, XVI     |          by Orpheus, in which the gods are described as affected
  5        1, XVII    |         have it recorded that the gods should engage in such adventures
  6        1, XVII    |          of the father of men and gods, who had intercourse with
  7        1, XXIII   |          from the worship of many gods, he himself is able to establish
  8        1, XXIII   |         with bodies, are (really) gods. And why should the fables
  9        1, XXIII   |          the Greeks regarding the gods be true, any more than those
 10        1, XXV     |        the others that are called gods. But this charge does not
 11        1, XXV     |            about the names of the gods is no small one," seeing
 12        1, LXVI    |          the veins of the blessed gods." We now, believing Jesus
 13        2, XX      |           against the will of the gods. For if you beget a son,
 14        2, XXXVI   |        the bodies of the immortal gods?'" He puts this question
 15        2, LIII    |     saying, Let us go after other gods which thou hast not known,
 16        2, LXXIV   |           the calf, "These be thy gods, O Israel, who brought thee
 17        2, LXXVIII |   jealousy with those who are not gods; they have provoked Me to
 18        3, II      |         those whom they accounted gods, this people alone, who
 19        3, II      |         those who were considered gods by the heathen, as not being
 20        3, II      |         the heathen, as not being gods, but demons, according to
 21        3, II      |        the prophets, "For all the gods of the nations are demons,"
 22        3, XXII    |         the Greeks to have become gods after being men, and says
 23        3, XXII    |          bear to call such beings gods, because they were at first
 24        3, XXII    |        not regard these beings as gods, for he was afraid of the
 25        3, XXII    |         feigner to regard them as gods. Now to either of the allegations
 26        3, XXII    |         who do not regard them as gods reply as follows: These
 27        3, XXII    |       These beings, then, are not gods at all; but agreeably to
 28        3, XXII    |        immortal, and they are not gods but heroes,--or not even
 29        3, XXII    |           honour equally with the gods."~How, then, can they reasonably
 30        3, XXV     |        far from being regarded as gods. But they will not be able
 31        3, XXIX    |         those who deem them to be gods on that account, the demons
 32        3, XXIX    |          which are supposed to be gods by those who are not instructed
 33        3, XXXV    |    recognises demons nor worships gods as do the Greeks; and let
 34        3, XXXV    |        demons, or heroes, or even gods, let him notice that he
 35        3, XXXVII  |         learned also that all the gods of the heathen are greedy
 36        3, XXXVII  |         being deceived, call them gods or angels of God, or good
 37        3, XXXVII  |     reasons to declare themselves gods. And because it was impossible
 38        3, XL      |        the belief that images are gods, and that things made of
 39        3, XL      |          images that they are not gods, and of such creations (
 40        3, XL      |         for a time supposed to be gods, and resumes its natural
 41        3, XLII    |       make good their claim to be gods? For let us peruse the many
 42        3, XLII    |         their mortal body, became gods rather than Jesus?~
 43        3, LXXV    | themselves to the worship of many gods, and to whatever other opinions
 44        3, LXXX    |        make their abodes with the gods, are won over by vain hopes.
 45        4, XIV     |         change not ;" whereas the gods of Epicurus, being composed
 46        4, XX      |        this effect: "And when the gods overwhelm the earth, purifying
 47        4, XXIX    |   standeth in the congregation of gods," but of gods who are not
 48        4, XXIX    |     congregation of gods," but of gods who are not worshipped by
 49        4, XXIX    |         the nations, "for all the gods of the nations are idols."
 50        4, XXIX    |           the congregation of the gods, judgeth among the gods."
 51        4, XXIX    |           gods, judgeth among the gods." We know, moreover, that "
 52        4, XXIX    |          there be that are called gods, whether in heaven or in
 53        4, XXIX    |          or in earth (as there be gods many and lords many), but
 54        4, XXXI    |        character, were said to be gods, in conformity with an ancient
 55        4, XXXVIII |        Her did th' interpreter of gods proclaim,~And named the
 56        4, XXXVIII |     Pandora's name;~Since all the gods conferr'd their gifts, to
 57        4, XXXIX   |           Aphrodite was born, the gods held a banquet, and there
 58        4, XLII    |          stories about the twelve gods, they impart to them an
 59        4, XLVIII  |      Grecian? In these histories, gods who are sons castrate the
 60        4, XLVIII  |         who are sons castrate the gods who are their fathers, and
 61        4, XLVIII  |        who are their fathers, and gods who are parents devour their
 62        4, XLVIII  |           gives to the "father of gods and men" a stone to swallow
 63        4, XLVIII  |        the Greeks regarding their gods, which are most shameful
 64        4, XLVIII  |         for the very names of the gods." We verily entertain such
 65        4, LXII    |      become established among the gods," and so on. But he appears
 66        4, LXII    |       where it is said, "When the gods purify the earth with water,"
 67        4, LXVII   |           for introducing strange gods and for corrupting the youth.
 68        4, LXVIII  |         those whom they regard as gods. For after the conflagration
 69        4, LXXIX   |          seats,~Alike to immortal gods and mortal men."~
 70        4, LXXXVIII|         is from certain demons or gods of divination s that the
 71        4, LXXXIX  |         it is from demons or from gods that animals receive the
 72        4, XCIV    |           or, as Celsus says, the gods, it is clear that when we
 73        4, XCVI    |          any one would term them "gods" if their characters happened
 74        5, II      |           you call them? Are they gods, or some other race of beings?
 75        5, II      |        belief in the existence of gods upon the earth who had descended
 76        5, II      |       were, from the abode of the gods, or he might be one who
 77        5, II      |       share in the society of the gods in heaven; or else Apollo,
 78        5, II      |       acts on earth, would not be gods, but only certain demons,
 79        5, IV      |           he continues, "Are they gods, or some other race of beings?"
 80        5, V       |           different race from the gods," and adds that "in all
 81        5, V       |      excellence like that of "the gods," which is applied not to
 82        5, VI      |          Thou shall have no other gods before Me: thou shalt not
 83        5, VII     |           the riven and seas also gods? But even this the Greeks
 84        5, VII     |        and seas (either demons or gods, as they call them), they
 85        5, VII     |       call them), they would term gods. Now from this it follows
 86        5, X       |           refusal to recognise as gods, equally with angels, and
 87        5, XXVIII  |        when he worshipped his own gods, agreeably to his country'
 88        5, XXIX    |          who are considered to be gods are introduced as having
 89        5, XXIX    |         also, some who are called gods are represented as acknowledging
 90        5, XXXVII  |           all reverence Ethiopian gods in the Ethiopian manner;
 91        5, XXXVII  |         regard Osiris and Isis as gods; nor shall we enumerate
 92        5, XXXVIII |    inhabit Meroe know only of two gods, Jupiter and Bacchus, and
 93        5, XLVI    |         forbade the name of other gods to be pronounced by him
 94        6, X       |   language in the month of Zeus: "Gods of gods, whose creator and
 95        6, X       |           month of Zeus: "Gods of gods, whose creator and father
 96        6, XIV     |        that these objects are not gods, but only imitations and
 97        6, XXXIX   |     beings which are deemed to be gods. For how is it credible
 98        6, XXXIX   |      those who are by them deemed gods the names which they bear;
 99        6, XLII    |           a certain war among the gods, Heraclitus speaking thus
100        6, XLII    |         chain,~And all the raging gods opposed in vain?~Headlong
101        6, XLII    |           banishes any one of the gods who becomes disorderly.
102        6, LVIII   |         the expression: "When the gods purify the earth." And with
103        7, VI      |          be proved that these are gods, and not demons?~
104        7, XXVIII  |         Thus Homer says: 'But the gods shall send thee to the Elysian
105        7, XXXV    |           we would there "see the gods in human form, appearing
106        7, XXXV    |        Greeks call temples of the gods, but which we know are only
107        7, XXXV    |          adds, in regard to these gods which, according to him,
108        7, XXXV    |         their eyes; whereas these gods, as he calls them, in human
109        7, XXXV    |       place, like these so-called gods in human form, but making
110        7, XXXVI   |     others that are recognised as gods, treating them as idols,
111        7, XL      |       upon those other recognised gods, treating them as idols,
112        7, XLIV    |       address inanimate things as gods or images of the gods. For
113        7, XLIV    |          as gods or images of the gods. For what reasonable man
114        7, XLIV    |       sentiments about God or the gods, turns straightway to images
115        7, XLVIII  |   attached to the other so-called gods are a select number of virgins,
116        7, LIV     |          impious fables about the gods, he did not cast them aside
117        7, LIV     |           of those whom they call gods. Noble, indeed, it was in
118        7, LXII    |           the Greeks, suppose the gods to be of the nature of men.'
119        7, LXII    |           without knowing who the gods or the heroes are.' And
120        7, LXII    |       whilst he knows not who the gods and heroes are. This is
121        7, LXII    |    simpliCity, can take these for gods, and not for offerings consecrated
122        7, LXII    | consecrated to the service of the gods, or images representing
123        7, LXII    |        they are dedicated are not gods, but demons, and that a
124        7, LXIV    |          Thou shalt have no other gods before Me: thou shalt not
125        7, LXV     |       whilst he knows not who the gods and heroes are," we may
126        7, LXV     |       very different from all the gods of the nations which are
127        7, LXVI    |        notion that the images are gods. It is on this ground that
128        7, LXVI    |       admitting that they are not gods, yet, with the reputation
129        7, LXVI    |         fallen that they are true gods, and that those are not
130        7, LXVI    |        their worship are not true gods. Celsus, indeed, says that "
131        7, LXVI    |         they do not take them for gods, but only as offerings dedicated
132        7, LXVI    |        offerings dedicated to the gods." But he does not prove
133        7, LXVI    |        says, to the honour of the gods themselves; for it is clear
134        7, LXVII   |        they are dedicated are not gods, but demons, and that a
135        7, LXIX    |          the service of so-called gods, for "all the gods of the
136        7, LXIX    |      so-called gods, for "all the gods of the heathen are demons.''
137        7, LXIX    |          Greeks to be rendered to gods at the altars, and images,
138        8, II      |        guard against serving more gods, as though we had to do
139        8, II      |         also, "He who serves many gods does that which is pleasing
140        8, III     |         application of the words "gods" and "lords." Divine Scripture
141        8, III     |            a great Lord above all gods." And by this name "gods"
142        8, III     |          gods." And by this name "gods" we are not to understand
143        8, III     |         for we know that "all the gods of the heathen are demons"),
144        8, III     |     heathen are demons"), but the gods mentioned by the prophets
145        8, III     |   standeth in the assembly of the gods: He judgeth among the gods."
146        8, III     |        gods: He judgeth among the gods." For "God is Lord of gods,"
147        8, III     |        gods." For "God is Lord of gods," who by His Son "hath called
148        8, III     |         give thanks to the God of gods." Moreover, we are taught
149        8, IV      |         Give thanks to the God of gods, for His mercy endureth
150        8, IV      |       distinguishes between those gods which are such only in name
151        8, IV      |         and those which are truly gods, whether they are called
152        8, IV      |          there be that are called gods, whether in heaven or in
153        8, IV      |         or in earth, as there are gods many, and lords many." But
154        8, IV      |          many." But as the God of gods calls whom He pleases through
155        8, IV      |          up to the supreme God of gods and to the supreme Lord
156        8, IV      |             Him follows a host of gods and demons, arranged in
157        8, V       |        Whilst there are thus many gods and lords, whereof some
158        8, V       |           of the earth worship as gods, but also beyond those spoken
159        8, V       |         beyond those spoken of as gods in Scripture, of whom they
160        8, V       |         of those whom Paul calls "gods," if he is enabled, like
161        8, IX      |         those who are honoured as gods, as demons, or as heroes: "
162        8, XI      |       those who are worshipped as gods by the heathens are truly
163        8, XI      |         by the heathens are truly gods, and not merely evil spirits,
164        8, XI      |        teaches us to worship many gods, ought in consistency not
165        8, XI      |        but of "the kingdom of the gods." There are therefore no
166        8, XII     |      against the worship of other gods still continues valid. And
167        8, XX      |   senseless, like their senseless gods, that there is no comparison
168        8, XX      |          the temples of senseless gods, admired by senseless men,
169        8, XXX     |           offered to those called gods or heroes or demons, but
170        8, XXXVIII |         Thou shalt not revile the gods," and this is intended to
171        8, XXXVIII |      prevailing notions about the gods? For it is matter of observation
172        8, XL      |           this: "The mills of the gods grind slowly." Another describes
173        8, XLI     |         revile the statues of our gods; but if you had reviled
174        8, XLI     |           sides,--although these (gods) severely punish the scorner,
175        8, XLII    |         unawares. Those demons or gods whom he extolled a little
176        8, XLV     |        and prodigies? To some the gods have appeared in visible
177        8, XLVIII  |        the priests of the heathen gods produce many that are clear
178        8, LIV     |       avoid bestowing the name of gods on those earthly spirits
179        8, LV      |         render due service to the gods, and to respect those who
180        8, LVII    |         sacrifices to each of the gods recognised in the state;
181        8, LXII    |         as being the voice of the gods; but now he makes amends,
182        8, LXII    |       honour done to those called gods, some one might suspect
183        8, LXIX    |         their customary duties to gods and men, and were to worship
184        8, LXIX    |     duties paid to the recognised gods and to men, and to worship
185        8, LXXIII  |       those who attend on certain gods, as you account them, keep
186        8, LXXIII  |      appointed sacrifices to your gods; and even when war is upon
187        8, LXXIV   |   standeth in the assembly of the gods, and judgeth the gods in
188        8, LXXIV   |         the gods, and judgeth the gods in the midst;" and He reckons