Book, Chapter

 1        1, XXIV  |      is considered to be noble birth.~
 2        1, XXVIII|        of having "invented his birth from a virgin," and upbraids
 3        1, XXVIII|         she disgracefully gave birth to Jesus, an illegitimate
 4        1, XXIX  |                      XXIX.~For birth is an aid towards an individual'
 5        1, XXIX  |      when the country of one's birth is great and illustrious;
 6        1, XXXII |     not believe the miraculous birth of Jesus would invent some
 7        1, XXXII |      not have had a miraculous birth, but one the vilest and
 8        1, XXXII |  wickedness in the world, to a birth more disgraceful than any
 9        1, XXXIV |      fact, showing that at His birth God was to be with man.
10        1, XXXIV |      star that appeared at the birth of Christ, and other miraculous
11        1, XXXV  |       a virgin, because at his birth these words, "God with us,"
12        1, XXXV  |        was not a virgin giving birth to a child ? And which of
13        1, XXXV  |       produce a being at whose birth it is said, "God with us."
14        1, XXXV  |       Ahaz bore a son at whose birth the expression is made use
15        1, XXXVII|      who do not believe in the birth of Jesus from a virgin,
16        1, XXXVII|        regards the half of his birth. And there is no absurdity
17        1, XXXVII|       wife until she had given birth to him with whom she was
18        1, XXXVII|   imagines, the fiction of His birth from a virgin, comparing
19        1, XL    |        the story of our Lord's birth from a virgin, he does not
20        1, XL    |     others. But now, after the birth from a virgin, this Celsus,
21        1, XL    |   follows the narrative of the birth of Jesus--the account of
22        1, L     |       neither the place of His birth, nor the sufferings which
23        1, LI    |    people. With respect to the birth of Jesus in Bethlehem, if
24        1, LI    |       the Gospel regarding His birth, there is shown at Bethlehem
25        1, LI    |   belief that the place of His birth had been the subject of
26        1, LVII  |      among the Jews before the birth of Christ, who gave himself
27        1, LVIII |  induced to come to him at his birth, and to worship him while
28        1, LIX   |   matter of wonder that at the birth of Him who was to introduce
29        1, LIX   |    appearance of a star at the birth of Jesus there is a prophecy
30        1, LIX   |  appearance of the star at the birth of Jesus, the following
31        1, LX    |   therefore, that since at the birth of Jesus "a multitude of
32        1, LX    |      regions on account of the birth of Jesus, but also by the
33        1, LX    |       also of the place of his birth. bringing gifts, which they
34        1, LX    |       learned the place of His birth. But since He was a God,
35        2, XXIII |    when Jesus had once, by His birth, assumed a body, He assumed
36        2, XXX   |        its commencement at His birth, God preparing the nations
37        2, LXIX  |    tomb, in order that, as His birth was purer than any other (
38        3, XXVI  |        none of the citizens by birth, entering into a fuller'
39        3, XXVIII|        prophets--not after the birth of Jesus, but before He
40        3, XL    |      implanted in our minds at birth, do not produce a change
41        3, XLIII |        beginning of death. But birth upon earth is the beginning
42        3, XLIII |         after denying that the birth of Jupiter took place in
43        3, XLIII |       quite congruous with his birth in Arcadia that he who was
44        3, LXXX  |        with his opinions--give birth to no hope at all, on account
45        4, VIII  |       state the reason why the birth of each man took place within
46        4, XXXVI |  insipid stories regarding the birth of man from the earth, but
47        4, LXXV  |      concurrence of atoms gave birth to qualities so diverse,
48        5, XLII  |   instructed almost from their birth, and as soon as they could
49        5, XLV   |        who was called from his birth by a certain appellation
50        6, LXXIII|     before, and ridiculing the birth of God from a virgin,--to
51        6, LXXIII|        not the pure and virgin birth, unaccompanied by any corruption,
52        6, LXXVI | prophecy many years before His birth. But if another prophet
53        6, LXXVII|  others who have derived their birth from impressive preaching,
54        7, XXII  |   vices utterly, even at their birth, without having enjoined
55        7, XXXII |        comes into the world at birth, it casts off the integuments
56        8, IX    |  prophecies which preceded His birth were preparations for His
57        8, XXXIV |     that the human soul at its birth is placed under the charge
58        8, LVII  |        the earth, and over the birth of animals, it is the latter
59        8, LXVI  |        teeming furrow took his birth,~ The mighty offspring of