Book, Chapter

 1        1, XXVI  |         God with greater purity, abstain even from the permitted
 2        2, I     | consistent that those should not abstain from the observance of Jewish
 3        2, VII   |       forward. Was it impious to abstain from corporeal circumcision,
 4        2, XVIII |          possible for the one to abstain from the act of betrayal,
 5        3, XXXVI |       Adrian, by one who did not abstain even from unnatural lusts,
 6        3, LXXXI |       that it would be better to abstain? For if it be not arrogant
 7        5, XXXIV |        respective laws. And some abstain from the flesh of sheep,
 8        5, XXXIX |     sheep, or goats, or kine; to abstain from which is an act of
 9        5, XLI   |    before them; nor because they abstain from swine's flesh, for
10        5, XLIX  |        that the Egyptian priests abstain not only from the flesh
11        5, XLIX  |     followers of Pythagoras, who abstain from all things that contain
12        5, XLIX  |         ascetics. For the former abstain on account of the fable
13        5, XLIX  |          We, however, when we do abstain, do so because "we keep
14        5, LXIV  |         marry, and commanding to abstain from meats, which God hath
15        7, LXIII |        who follow Zeno of Citium abstain from committing adultery,
16        7, LXIII |         in this way; but if they abstain from adultery, it is because,
17        7, LXVI  |       Another reason also why we abstain from doing honour to images,
18        8, XXVIII| traditions of their fathers they abstain from such victims, they
19        8, XXVIII|          victims, they must also abstain from all animal food, in
20        8, XXVIII|        But if, as they say, they abstain that they may not eat along
21        8, XXVIII|        are consequently bound to abstain from the flesh of all animals.
22        8, XXIX  |         are accounted clean, and abstain from those that are unclean.
23        8, XXIX  |      they say it is necessary to abstain, namely, "things offered
24        8, XXX   |          of indifference; but to abstain from them is more agreeable
25        8, XXX   |          however, that we are to abstain from the flesh of animals
26        8, XXX   |      same way as we are bound to abstain from all race and wickedness:
27        8, XXX   |     wickedness: we are indeed to abstain not only from the flesh
28        8, XXX   |      bodies of the brutes. If we abstain at times from eating the
29        8, XLI   |        how much more ought we to abstain from reviling others, when
30        8, LXIII |        but in whatever we do, or abstain from doing." That is, as