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1 8, LIII | abodes of the blessed for 30,000 periods of time,--we must 2 2, XI | Psalms, the whole of the 108th contains a prophecy about 3 7, XXII | understand the language of the 137th Psalm: "O daughter of Babylon, 4 1, XLVII | John and Jesus. For in the 18th book of his Antiquities 5 8, LIII | abodes of the blessed for 30,000 periods of time,--we 6 3, XXVI | the Metapontines in Italy 340 years after the second disappearance 7 6, LIV | occasion some verses from the 34th Psalm, to the following 8 6, LXXV | attention to the words of the 45th Psalm, and why it is then 9 6, LXXIX | the head to the beard of Aaron,--the symbols of the perfect 10 4, LX | properties perish, stir abides according to the opinion 11 8, XLIII | into the ground and die, it abideth by itself alone: but if 12 7, XLVIII | and set down as fools and abject slaves, no sooner commit 13 2, XIII | customs; and after the oath of abjuration, to return to their homes, 14 1, XL | whom we shall find to be abler speakers than himself. This 15 6, XLVI | the temple shall be the abomination of desolations, and at the 16 4, XLVIII | as committing unspeakable abominations with Jupiter. This reverend 17 2, LII | careful observers of the Abrahamic usages, and led them out 18 4, XLIII | Isaac on account of the absence of Jacob, and perhaps also 19 8, XLII | sometimes present, and sometimes absent?" and, "What is the business 20 7, VII | his companions, how they abstained from flesh, and lived on 21 7, LXIII | philosophical system, again, who abstains from adultery when the opportunity 22 4, LXVI | and this is evil (in the abstract); while the actions which 23 8, XXXVII | notions with theirs, he absurdly attributes them all to Christians. " 24 7, XVIII | temporal riches should be so abundant, that he would be able to 25 1, LII | even those things which are abundantly clear; so that they who 26 7, XXXIX | instructing us as he ought, he abuses us; and while he should 27 3, XXXV | temple of Amphiaraus, nor in Acarnania with Amphilochus, nor in 28 3, XXXIV | worship Mopsus, and the Acarnanians who pay divine honours to 29 6, XVI | having one element of acceptability, viz. that it ruminates, 30 6, LVII | to the persuader, or the acceptance of what is said by him. 31 3, XII | that, taking in different acceptations those discourses which were 32 3, XLVI | from ancient writings not accessible to the multitude. For he 33 7, LX | also the rest of mankind, accommodated itself to the capacities 34 7, L | not explained how error accompanies the "becoming," or product 35 6, XLV | lying miracles found to accompany evil, through the co-operation 36 2, LXXVIII | accomplished, and still accomplishes, such results, although 37 8, XXXII | nature will allow, how it accords with the divine justice, 38 4, XX | as he represents the Jews accounting in a way peculiar to themselves 39 6, XIII | distinguish such things accurately--is what is called "knowledge;" 40 1, XLII | therewith, about a certain Achilles being the son of a sea-goddess 41 1, LXIV | public good, to make a public acknowledgement of their thanks to that 42 2, XI | innocent blood," was a public acknowledgment of his crime. Observe, also, 43 3, XXVI | closed his workshop, went to acquaint the relatives of the deceased. 44 3, XIII | philosophy is he who, after acquainting himself experimentally with 45 6, XXVII | appears to me, indeed, to have acted like those Jews who, when 46 4, LXXXVIII| receive their impulses to action--the birds to flights and 47 4, XLV | the history. The nature of actions--good, bad, and indifferent-- 48 7, LXIII | according to the motives which actuate it: one man refraining for 49 2, XXIV | the love of truth which actuates the writers of the Gospels ( 50 4, LXXI | announced to such as are of acuter understanding, both meanings 51 3, XIV | by those who possess the acutest spiritual vision to be most 52 8, LII | the atmosphere, and its adaptation to the necessities of the 53 4, LXXI | power of eloquence, but, adapting ourselves to the weakness 54 7, LXX | tread upon the lion and adder: the young lion and the 55 1, XXXI | friend no human being who adhered to the former opinions and 56 5, XXXVIII | the Ethiopians; and if, adjudged guilty of impiety, they 57 7, IV | merely by prayer and simple adjurations which the plainest person 58 4, XCIX | reason all things have been adjusted, not with reference to each 59 5, XXXVII | please God (and those who administer laws of the kind referred 60 1, XXXVI | severely rebuked by the administrators of the law among the Jews?-- 61 7, LVIII | ancient saying, which had been admirably expressed long before, and 62 6, XVIII | sayings of Plato which Celsus admires. Now the declaration of 63 8, XXXIX | evil-doer?" This answer would be admissible if we employed such language 64 6, LVII | into the mind of the person admonished, and to make him hear the 65 6, LVII | addressed to him by one who admonishes, and may become deserving 66 4, XXVIII | time Thou rebukest, and admonishest, reminding them of their 67 5, LXIII | after the first and second admonition, reject, knowing that he 68 4, LXXXIV | and which is capable of adorning by its reason even the gifts 69 4, XIII | impure materials, which adulterate the natural gold or silver, 70 6, XVII | For he ought not to have adulterated or polluted this worship 71 7, LXIII | namely, abstinence from adultery--is not the same, but differs 72 4, XXV | capabilities of virtue. For these adumbrations towards virtue do not allow 73 7, XVII | themselves day by day to advancement in a life of piety.~ 74 1, XVII | gods should engage in such adventures as are described by your 75 6, XXVIII | serpent, because he gave good advice to the first human beings, 76 7, XL | support of those wonderful advisers, and those wonderful words 77 7, LVII | the size of his book, he advises us "to choose Jonah rather 78 1, VIII | indeed, that he appears to advocate the cause of those who bear 79 4, XXXV | the first place, to have advocated his cause with such arguments 80 1, LXVII | Perseus, and Amphion, and AEacus, and Minos, were not believed 81 6, XXII | Eleusis, or than those in AEgina, where individuals are initiated 82 1, XLII | Ialmenus the sons of Ares, or AEneas that of Aphrodite, how should 83 5, XII | God nigh at hand, and not afar off, saith the LORD" to 84 6, XVI | even moderate attention to affairs--not merely among the believers 85 6, XXXVIII | the other hand, make no affirmation about it, seeing we never 86 6, XLIII | children, and the second in afflicting the whole body of Job with 87 8, XXIII | feast with his spirit and afflicts the body, which through 88 6, XLV | which the devil himself affords in order to deceive the 89 2, LXX | clearly meaning the afore-mentioned Marys -"saying, All hail. 90 6, XXXV | the expression) from the aforementioned heresy, which includes in 91 8, LIV | by Jesus Christ, and that aforetime inspired the prophets: And 92 3, LXXXI | treated of the immortality or after-duration of the soul; for, holding 93 7, XXXVI | Nestor, Ulysses, Diomede, Agamemnon, Telemachus, Penelope, and 94 4, XLIV | gendereth to bondage, which is Agar." And a little after, "But 95 8, XXXI | deny that those invisible agents are demons. And if we might 96 1, LXI | kill Him, his mind being agitated by contending passions on 97 1, XXVI | prior existence a few years ago--we have to remark as follows. 98 6, XLII | struggles, and mentions that agreements were entered into between 99 6, IX | him, is Jesus, with whom agrees the statement, "The Word 100 4, LXXV | purposes we need oxen, as for agriculture; and for others, again, 101 2, LXXVI | threats of which he speaks: "Ah sinful nation, a people 102 1, XXXVI | Elijah is found rebuking Ahaziah, and saying, "Is it because 103 4, XXXII | of the word of God, which aids those who look upwards to 104 2, LXX | upon him, he preached to ail without intermission; but 105 3, XII | heresies; nor would he who aimed at that which is seemly 106 4, XCI | drops the fatal prey,~In airy circles wings his painful 107 1, X | human life. And some also, alarmed at first sight about the 108 3, XXXVI | may have the appearance of alarming the uneducated multitude. 109 3, LXIX | so after giving in their alIegiance to the saving word. And 110 6, XXX | those who are altogether alienated from salvation, and who 111 1, XLI | appearance of a bird from the air alighted upon you." And then this 112 1, XL | the account of the dove alighting upon our Saviour at His 113 8, LXXV | right. They take charge of all--of those that are within, 114 3, XLVII | and regarding these as all-important, they are wise men of the 115 3, LXIX | when they gave in their allegiance. For, apart from the aid 116 4, XLIV | maid-servants," have been allegorized; the Scripture desiring 117 6, XLII | continues: "The ancients allude obscurely to a certain war 118 8, XXXIX | a demon, when he nowhere alludes to the existence of any 119 6, LIII | and deceit? Why does he allure those who, as ye assert, 120 4, XLVI | mistress, refusing alike her allurements and her threats--he does 121 8, XIX | there is a similar hidden allusion in this passage in Isaiah, 122 6, XXIII | from those of Christians alone--let him peruse, at the end 123 3, XVI | sources, and trumpet them aloud, and sound them before men, 124 7, XLVII | proofs of great folly, when, alter such grand arguments delivered 125 3, XXII | often--~"At one time live on alternate days, and at another~Die, 126 8, LV | lives, place before us the alternative either to live in violation 127 8, LV | their choice between two alternatives. If they refuse to render 128 2, IX | disciples: "Lo, I am with you alway, even to the end of the 129 1, XXX | these facts, be struck with amazement at this man's victory?-- 130 4, XXXV | they do not s convey any ambiguity, I am at a loss to know 131 4, LIII | the same time converts and ameliorates, not merely one or two individuals, 132 8, XLII | incurably averse to any amendment, and were daily sinking 133 8, LXII | the gods; but now he makes amends, and confesses that "those 134 4, XLV | accursed nations--Moab and Ammon--have sprung from that unhallowed 135 1, LXVII | divine origin to Perseus, and Amphion, and AEacus, and Minos, 136 4, XC | who take them for their amusement, or for any other useful 137 7, LIV | and afterwards devours it, amusing himself meanwhile with the 138 6, XLII | under laws,~which may be analogically compared to chains; and 139 3, XVII | Jesus Christ crucified, the analogue to the worship of the irrational 140 6, XIV | the Egyptians; Daniel, and Ananias, and Azariah, and Mishael, 141 5, XLVIII | latter was derived from their ancestor Abraham, the father of Ishmael, 142 1, LXII | for Peter and his brother Andrew, who employed a net to gain 143 2, XXIX | keeping with their bitter animosity, and baseless and even improbable 144 4, LXIII | were, a fixed number; thus annihilating the beautiful doctrine regarding 145 6, LXXIX | the first-fruits of His anointing, and, if we must so term 146 4, VIII | advent of Christ should be answered--viz., that, "after so long 147 1, Pref | arose, and said to Him, Answerest thou nothing to what these 148 4, XXXV | never, during the long antecedent period, has there been any 149 8, XIII | who strengthens it in us; anti Celsus can never show that 150 5, XXXIII | superintending spirits, but anticipate in some measure what he 151 3, XXXII | He gave up the ghost," anticipating the public executioners 152 6, XXXIX | or the various sorts of antidotes against poison (to be found) 153 3, XXXVI | considered to be a god in Antinoopolis in Egypt, whose (reputed) 154 8, XXIX | elders assembled together at Antioch, and also, as they themselves 155 3, III | Persia, and at another under Antiochus, is it not in keeping with 156 1, XXXVII | Melanippe, and Auge, and Antiope, our answer is, that such 157 3, XII | heresies as a pretext for his antipathy. And so neither are the 158 4, XXV | from a wicked nature; or an Antiphon, who was also considered 159 7, VII | with which the firmness of Antisthenes, Crates, and Diogenes will 160 2, LXI | in a body, which was the antitype of the former. And therefore 161 7, XXIV | not to be disturbed with anxieties about our food and clothing, 162 3, LV | playfellows to the women's apartments, or to the leather shop, 163 3, XVII | seen to be a cat, or an ape, or a crocodile, or a goat, 164 6, XXIII | him peruse also, from the Apocalypse of John, what is related 165 2, I | the Jews that he was no apostate from their law. Now, if 166 2, IV | who deluded you, ye became apostates from the law of your fathers;" 167 2, XIII | released from punishment if he apostatizes, but will be led away to 168 1, XXXVI | the law was concerned, for apostatizing to the polytheism of the 169 2, XLV | apostle, the brother of an apostle--was slain with the sword 170 6, LXXVI | neither the Gospels nor the apostolic writings indicate that " 171 4, LXXXV | conjunction with a certain natural apparatus? But it is absurd to suppose 172 7, V | where they appear as the apparitions of shadowy spirits, at others 173 8, LXI | what incantations he shall appease them, will be condemned 174 4, XXXVII | understood, attribute such appendages to God. The subject before 175 3, XXIX | advantageous to the gluttonous appetites of the demons which love 176 1, LV | influence of the Holy Spirit, appiled these words to a person. 177 3, LXI | plasters, and other healing appliances which belong to the art 178 8, LXV | length, and with various applications; but for the present we 179 6, XLIV | of the universe, and to appoint a training-school of virtue, 180 7, XI | grace in the time that He appoints for us, to advance in the 181 5, XI | downwards to themselves, or apportion our power of prayer between 182 8, LIII | by what the Stoics call" apprehensive perception," or by any other 183 6, VIII | but of a phantom, which approached Amphictione in the guise 184 5, XLV | of the charms which are appropriated by the inventors of the 185 4, LXXI | receive, the standard of the appropriateness of its announcements (regarding 186 3, XLVIII | office of a bishop should be apt to teach, and able to convince 187 6, LX | upon the fourth, and of aquatic animals upon the fifth, 188 3, XLV | Emad, and Chalcadi, and Aradab, the sons of Madi. And he 189 2, LXI | portions of which Celsus arbitrarily accepts, in order to find 190 1, XIV | Observe at once, then, the arbitrary procedure of this individual, 191 4, XXXVI | Athenians, and Egyptians, and Arcadians, and Phrygians, who assert 192 5, XVII | shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God." 193 8, XIII | and the other angels and archangels,and if he had said of these 194 4, XC | to catch them, or where archers took aim and shot at them 195 6, IV | things" of God and of the "'archetypal forms" of things from the 196 2, LXXVII | life; and the example and archetype of this will be He who is 197 6, LV | shavings and sawdust, or as architects might appear to be the cause 198 4, LXXVI | ascended even to the art of architecture. The want of necessaries 199 6, XXXV | Leviathan) the seven circles of archontic demons, or perhaps it arises 200 1, XLII | and Ialmenus the sons of Ares, or AEneas that of Aphrodite, 201 6, XXXIX | Thagimasada; Aphrodite, Argimpasan; Hestia, Tabiti." Now, he 202 1, XXXI | men," not only among the Argives, but among all the Greeks 203 7, XXXVII | objects of the reason?" To argue in this way, they would 204 1, Pref | if you still desire an argumentative solution of the objections 205 3, XXVI | the Greeks are now called Arimaspian, and having composed them, 206 6, VIII | with regard to Plato, it is Aristander, I think, who has related 207 4, LI | still older writers, such as Aristobulus. But I conjecture that Celsus 208 7, LIV | in Anaxarchus to say to Aristocreon, tyrant of Cyprus, "Beat 209 7, XXXVI | assailed in the comedies of Aristophanes as a frivolous talker, often 210 2, XVI | Plato, that Erus the son of Armenius rose from the funeral pile 211 8, LXXIII | behalf, forming a special army--an army of piety--by offering 212 3, LXXVIII | that are threatened, which arouses and exhorts them to refrain 213 6, XLVIII | living being, so the Word, arousing and moving the whole body, 214 6, LI | contrary, distinctly to arraign the statements of these 215 5, L | had beheld an individual arrayed in this fashion, who announced 216 4, I | are true predictions. For, arraying himself at the same time 217 2, I | the Jews, ceased upon the arrival of James to eat with the 218 3, XXVI | a certain Cyzi-cenian, arriving from Artace, fell into a 219 1, IX | is, not to speak at all arrogantly, at least as much of investigation 220 4, LXXXVI | themselves, nor wish to arrogate a superiority over irrational 221 4, XXXV | Jews to have so shamelessly arrogated, in boasting of Abraham 222 1, LVI | Thee marvellously. Thine arrows are pointed, O mighty One; 223 3, XXVI | Cyzi-cenian, arriving from Artace, fell into a dispute with 224 2, LXXVII | resurrection, whether he has an articulate understanding of such a 225 6, LXXVII | the qualities which the Artificer desires, should at one time 226 6, LVII | expression to men who are the "artificers of persuasion," he would 227 4, XXXVIII | secret soul.~He bade the artist-god his best obey,~And mould 228 8, XVII | inferior to the second-rate artists,--so that, taking all together, 229 4, XLIX | and that Rock was Christ." Asaph, moreover, who, in showing 230 1, XLII | being the son of Zeus, or Ascalaphus and Ialmenus the sons of 231 4, XLIV | wells which are shown at Ascalon, and which are deserving 232 6, LXXVII | attend Him even when He ascends to the "lofty mount," He 233 7, VIII | ministry, and after His ascension He gave still more; but 234 6, XLIV | may appear deserving of an ascent to divine things, and may 235 4, VII | into those souls which it ascertains to be holy, converts them 236 5, XLIX | the Pythagoreans and our ascetics. For the former abstain 237 4, LXXIX | of men. And the poet of Ascra, perceiving this, sings:--~" 238 6, XXX | Thartharaoth, being somewhat asinine in appearance. We have thought 239 4, XXXVIII | and the voice of man:~Her aspect fair as goddesses above,~ 240 4, IX | comprehend the many varied aspects of the divine wisdom, must 241 1, XVI | statements, his object being to asperse the origin of Christianity, 242 4, XXIV | of those who accept such aspersions as are scattered against 243 8, LXIV | boldly say, that men who aspire after better things have, 244 6, XXXVII | fictions of lion-like, and ass-headed, and serpent-like ruling 245 1, XIX | uncreated. But let this assailant of the Christian faith tell 246 1, LXIV | their dominion;" whereas the assailants of Christianity do not see 247 1, IX | rational guide, since he who assents to opinions without following 248 3, LXX | good, and wise. But Celsus asserts--not comprehending the meaning 249 6, XXII | gold. The first gate they assign to Saturn, indicating by 250 2, XLIX | But Celsus, wishing to assimilate the miracles of Jesus to 251 2, LV | of Moses, be an unwilling assistant in establishing the greater 252 1, IX | be devised with a view of assisting the multitude, than that 253 1, I | should enter into a secret association in order to put to death 254 7, XXXV | which Celsus would send us, assuring us that we would there " 255 3, III | treated, at one time in Assyria, at another in Persia, and 256 6, XIV | Azariah, and Mishael, in all Assyrian learning, so that they were 257 6, LXXX | whom the delusive system of astrology has spread abroad among 258 3, XXXIII | produced, in the case of the Astypalaean, a result like that which 259 4, LXXII | it is something which is asumed in order to discipline by 260 2, LXXVI | whom all of those who have at-rained great reputation for their 261 3, XXII | might suppose him to be an atheist; whereas, if he had paid 262 3, LXXIII | but have fallen into an atheistic polytheism, since "professing 263 1, I | relate to images, and an atheistical polytheism, are "Scythian" 264 8, LII | the constitution of the atmosphere, and its adaptation to the 265 4, XCVI | violent tempests of wind, and atmospheric changes, because they gather 266 5, XXXI | punished, and having made atonement, they returned, as if they 267 5, L | desired to perpetrate many atrocities against the Christians, 268 1, XVII | relates deeds of far less atrocity regarding men (for in his 269 7, XLIV | never swerve from a faithful attachment to His service, although 270 1, XL | acquainted with all our history, attacks the account of the appearance 271 6, XLV | characterized by its diffusion, and attains its greatest height when 272 2, XI | apostasy, even after his attempts against his Master, are 273 4, XXIX | who, after a three days' attendance upon the lectures of a philosopher, 274 7, LX | physicians who confine their attentions to what are called the better 275 4, XXXVIII | spring flowers.~The whole attire Minerva's curious care~Form' 276 1, XXIX | play the demagogue, and attract to himself many hearers, 277 4, XLVII | present so much that is attractive. He relates, further, that " 278 4, XXXI | of images,--an art which attracts the attention of foolish 279 3, LVII | showing forth its excellence aud purity. But as Celsus, by 280 3, LII | import when we see that our audience is composed of simpler minds, 281 1, XXXI | all places and before all audiences, and who could retain as 282 1, XXXVII | Danae, and Melanippe, and Auge, and Antiope, our answer 283 4, XCI | also is made use of by the augurs) not? But as this distinction 284 4, XCI | stands~A lasting prodigy on Aulis' sands.~Such was the will 285 2, XIV | of divination, either by auspices, or auguries, or sacrifices, 286 7, VII | Isaiah, who with unexampled austerity walked naked and barefooted 287 1, XIV | There is," he says, "an authoritative account from the very beginning, 288 6, LIII | inference regarding God's authorship of evil, which he thinks 289 1, XLIX | might not have the least available influence in shaking, I 290 6, XV | by justice, which is the avenger of all breaches of the divine 291 5, XXXI | also with good reason, as avenging himself, having obtained 292 7, LIX | truth of what we say, but avers that the same things were 293 8, XLII | that they were incurably averse to any amendment, and were 294 3, LV | seeing they turn away with aversion from the silliness and stupidity 295 1, LIV | because His countenance was averted, He was treated with disrespect, 296 6, XXXIX | expiatory hymns, or spells for averting evil, or (the making of) 297 7, XVIII | would treat them as his avowed enemies; whilst, on the 298 7, IX | not the punishments which await. them shall repent and grieve 299 8, LI | His warnings of punishment awaiting the wicked, he must see 300 4, LXXII | and again: "Then the Lord awaked as one out of sleep, and 301 6, XLVIII | Church, to befitting action, awakens, moreover, each individual 302 3, XXV | Socrates the honours which it awarded to pugilism; and also when 303 8, XXIV | nothing, nevertheless it is an awful thing to join in idol festivals. 304 6, XIV | Daniel, and Ananias, and Azariah, and Mishael, in all Assyrian 305 6, XLIII | Hebrew language is named Azazel, was none other than this; 306 1, XXXVI | that ye go to inquire of Baalzebub, god of Ekron?"~ 307 1, I | any oaths. Since, then, he babbles about the public law, alleging 308 6, VII | his views), as if he were babbling forth something new in addition 309 3, XI | avoid profane and vain babblings, and oppositions of science 310 3, LIII | righteousness; for he is a babe. But strong meat belongeth 311 4, XXI | overturning of the tower (of Babel) to have happened with a 312 5, LI | river-horse, or the dog-faced baboon, or the cat, he can ascertain 313 5, XXXI | character--to Assyrians and Babylonians, as the Scriptures would 314 2, XXXIV | being acquainted with the Bacchae of Euripides, in which Dionysus 315 4, X | us to those who "in the Bacchic mysteries introduce phantoms 316 2, X | them, "I am He," they went backwards and fell to the ground. 317 2, XI | the money placed in the bag for the relief of the poor, 318 7, VI | his prophetic power as a bait, so to speak, with which 319 4, XLVII | the chief butler and chief baker, and of Pharaoh, and of 320 4, XCVIII | when dead and buried in a ball of myrrh, and deposits its 321 4, XXXVIII | all embrace it, and their bane desire.'~The sire, who rules 322 6, XLII | Boreas, and to which Zeus banishes any one of the gods who 323 1, XLVIII | but He that sent me to baptize with water, the same said 324 1, XLVIII | Him, the same is He that baptizeth with the Holy Ghost And 325 1, XLVII | existence of John the Baptist, baptizing for the remission of sins, 326 1, Pref | should release unto you, Barabbas or Jesus, who is called 327 4, XXXIV | history--whether Greek or Barbarian--or, if not a history, yet 328 4, LXXXVIII| acute of mankind--Greeks and Barbarians--he continues: "If, because 329 7, LIII | mortar, and beaten most barbarously, showed a noble contempt 330 6, LVII | to submit himself to the barber, there is for this reason 331 7, VII | austerity walked naked and barefooted for the space of three years. 332 2, XII | those who did not keep their bargains with them. But grant that 333 6, XXXVIII | and the inner blue,--a barrier inscribed in the shape of 334 6, XLV | who deceive men for the basest of purposes), is the aid 335 4, XXXVIII | The fictile likeness of a bashful maid~Rose from the temper' 336 4, LIV | dragons, and of asps, and of basilisks, and others of each plant 337 2, VII | and pouring water into a basin, proceeded to wash the feet 338 1, XLI | Lord Jesus: "When you were bathing," says the Jew, "beside 339 6, LXXIV | the Fathers are like the battles between quails; or that 340 6, LXXI | lowest of mankind, would be--did it not appear to them 341 4, XII | those youths who have just be-taken themselves to philosophy, 342 3, XXIX | they are situated, are as beacons in the world; for who would 343 1, LVIII | those meteors which resemble beams of wood, or beards, or wine 344 5, XLI | his disciples do not eat beans, nor anything that contains 345 6, XXX | diagram, was Thauthabaoth, the bear-like. Celsus continues his account, 346 1, LVIII | resemble beams of wood, or beards, or wine jars, or any of 347 4, XXXVIII | man's inventive race, this beauteous harm."~Moreover, what is 348 6, XLVII | pages, concerning Him who so beautifully arranged this world, as 349 1, XXXV | sign, then, would that have been--a young woman who was not 350 4, LVII | wasp from a horse, and a beetle from an ass, and, generally, 351 4, LIX | come from a horse, and the beetles which proceed from an ass); 352 3, LXV | with such punishment as befits those who have sinned so 353 1, XLIX | which it would have better befitted a Samaritan or a Sadducee 354 4, XXXIX | had dined, Penia came to beg for something (seeing there 355 6, XVII | nature like the Father who begat Him, nor any one the Father 356 4, XLIX | difficulties and parables, begins in the following manner, 357 2, LI | such devices;" although he begs the question s when he asserts 358 5, VIII | Colossians: "Let no man beguile you of your reward in a 359 6, XXV | diagram, the being named "Behemoth," placed as it were under 360 4, XXXVIII | temper'd earth, by Jove's behest,~Under the forming god; 361 6, XXXI | let me pass, seeing thou beholdest the symbol of thine own 362 5, LII | to the tomb of this said being--according to some, indeed, 363 8, XV | there are still wicked beings--not only men, but also angels, 364 6, XLIII | with respect to the sons of Belial in the book of Judges, whose 365 5, XX | bull will pour forth its bellowings from the voices of victims 366 8, I | even as the Word of God beseeches them to the love of Himself, 367 6, XXVI | counted. And as it does not beseem those who profess the doctrines 368 7, LV | said by the Greeks when beset by calamity. Perhaps Celsus 369 2, XIII | encompassing and enclosing and besieging it; for the siege began 370 6, LXXIV | serious argument aside, and betakes himself to jesting and buffoonery, 371 1, LI | Ruler was to come forth from Bethlehem--in the following manner: " 372 5, XLVI | be pronounced by him who bethought himself of praying to the 373 1, LXIV | second, and one Polemo, who betook themselves to philosophy, 374 2, XII | His disciples became His betrayer? And since Celsus makes 375 5, XLII | divination, as that which bewitches men to no purpose, and which 376 1, IV | obscurely alluded to by the Bible in what the Greeks regard 377 4, XLII | throw contempt upon our biblical narratives, they assert 378 5, XL | its prescriptions, having bidden a long farewell to those 379 2, XXIV | He maketh sore, and again bindeth up;" but only this part, " 380 4, XLVIII | his daughter, and a wife binds her own husband, having 381 8, LVIII | Chnachoumen, Cnat, Sicat, Biou, Erou, Erebiou, Ramanor, 382 4, XCI | regarding the second--the bird--the poet says:--~"Jove's 383 1, LI | the place of the Saviour's birth--that the Ruler was to come 384 3, II | should have predicted the birth-place of Him who was to be the 385 4, XXXIX | having been begotten on her birthday feast, and being at the 386 2, XI | shown by the words: "And his bishopric let another take." But suppose 387 3, XLVIII | of those who are termed "bishops," Paul, in describing what 388 4, XLV | passing sentence upon it as blameworthy. Nevertheless, whatever 389 6, LVIII | repentance of God, nor of His blaming and hating His own handwork. 390 4, XXXVIII | heaven-born graces, and persuasion bland~Deck'd her round limbs with 391 8, XXXI | to them belong famine, blasting of the vine and fruit trees, 392 4, XCI | pinions beat the skies;~A bleeding serpent of enormous size,~ 393 7, XXVIII | designated it 'the isles of the blest,' and others 'the Elysian 394 4, LXXIV | instance referred to, hatred blinds these persons from seeing 395 8, XXI | offering up continually bloodless sacrifices in prayer to 396 4, XXXVII | and was inflated by breath blown into him," in order that, 397 6, XXXVIII | was yellow, and the inner blue,--a barrier inscribed in 398 8, LXVI | owed his nurture to the blue-eyed maid,~ But from the teeming 399 4, LXXV | and leopards, and wild boars, and such like, has been 400 4, X | and let Celsus and his boon-companions listen. But we defend our 401 6, XLII | and Tempest, daughters of Boreas, and to which Zeus banishes 402 2, LXXI | only-begotten Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, He hath declared 403 2, XXXIII | rent in twain from top to bottom, and that darkness prevailed 404 3, LXXIV | help and cure them. If, bow-ever, by "unintelligent" you 405 3, XXV | commandment that Cleomedes--the boxer, I suppose--should be honoured 406 6, XII | listens to a demon, as a boy does to a man." He quotes, 407 1, XXIV | Indian philosophers called Brahmans, or by the Samanaeans, and 408 7, LXII | mean that the stone, wood, brass, or gold which has been 409 8, LXV | which things are unworthy of brave and high-principled men, 410 4, XXXV | and in the next to have bravely refuted, by means of what 411 5, XX | play the tyrant, and his brazen bull will pour forth its 412 6, XV | which is the avenger of all breaches of the divine law: he who 413 2, XVII | companions, "Let us go to breakfast, as we shall sup in Hades." 414 8, LXXVI | to judge which of the two breathes most of the Spirit of the 415 4, XXXVIII | ductile clay:~Infuse, as breathing life and form began,~The 416 6, XLII | Stunn'd in the whirl, and breathless with the fall."~Interpreting, 417 5, XXXVI | is by the female that the breed is increased, the account 418 8, XLVI | influenced in her answers by bribes; but our prophets were admired 419 5, XXX | shown their desire to make brick into stone, and clay into 420 7, XXVIII | brings forth thorns and briers all the days of the life 421 2, XII | be manifested towards a brigand chief." Now one might find 422 7, IV | souls were filled with a brighter light. And the body no longer 423 8, XLIII | alone: but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit." Jesus, 424 4, XLI | cubit long and one cubit broad? Why should we not rather 425 3, LXVII | when he placed him in a brothel, that he might allow himself 426 4, XXXVIII | virgin's likeness, with the brows of love.~He bade Minerva 427 8, XXX | enter the bodies of the brutes. If we abstain at times 428 4, LXXXIII | they may not swell into bud, but may continue throughout 429 6, LXXIV | betakes himself to jesting and buffoonery, imagining that he is writing 430 1, V | holy, which is the work of builders and of mean men." It is 431 4, XIII | the wicked man literally builds up "wood, or hay, or stubble," 432 6, XXX | made him to be Suriel, the bull-like. Further, Celsus termed 433 8, XXIX | through the imposition of a burdensome code of rules in regard 434 5, XLIV | and one altar of whole burnt-offerings, and one censer for incense, 435 3, LXVII | will not agree that he who burst, accompanied with a flute-player 436 6, III | produced by long habit, and bursts forth suddenly as a light 437 4, LIX | Anytus and Socrates, think of burying the bodies of both with 438 1, LI | Lord's coming, those who busied themselves with overthrowing 439 3, XLVII | and eternal; but that in busying themselves about things 440 4, XLVII | the dreams of the chief butler and chief baker, and of 441 6, XVI | of whom lead most wicked byes. But on this point we have 442 6, XXIII | from the Persians or the Cabiri.~ 443 2, XXXIII | in the time of Tiberius Caesar, in whose reign Jesus appears 444 3, XIII | sects called Ophites and Cainites, or some others of a similar 445 6, XL | no good, but all that was calculated to injure human beings." 446 5, XI | His own Father, said, "Why callest thou Me good? There is none 447 6, LVII | persuasion cometh not of him that calleth you." Such also is the view 448 4, XCI | mother-bird possessed;~Eight callow infants filled the mossy 449 6, XLII | those human beings who are calumniated by him ought not to be threatened 450 6, XVI | attention to the point why a camel--that one of animals which, 451 4, XLIII | with asses, and sheep, and camels," and did not see that " 452 4, XXV | worm, because it possesses capabilities of virtue. For these adumbrations 453 2, LXVII | according to the measure of His capability. And I do not suppose that 454 6, XV | things," which are above his capacity--viz., those doctrines that 455 2, LV | Thessaly, and Hercules at Cape Taenarus, and Theseus. But 456 6, XXII | by many, or those of the Cappadocians regarding the Comanian Diana, 457 1, XXVII | the times, and their chief captains and generals, and all, to 458 4, LI | philosophers would have been captivated by their explanations; for 459 8, XXX | without honour, like the carcases of brute beasts; and so 460 2, LI | investigate (without being carded away by the miracles themselves) 461 8, XXXVII | nothing of any other, and caring nothing for those who speak 462 2, XXXII | when he adds, that "the carpenters wife could not have been 463 4, LXXVI | gardening, and the arts of carpentry and smithwork, by means 464 7, LIV | like a highway robber, carries off a farmer's ox by force, 465 7, III | down at the mouth of the Castalian cave, the prophetic Spirit 466 2, IX | Beelzebub, in the words "He casteth out devils through Beelzebub, 467 4, XLVIII | histories, gods who are sons castrate the gods who are their fathers, 468 1, XIX | conflagrations and many cataclysms, and that the flood which 469 6, LVIII | appearance of God threatening the catastrophe of the deluge, and thus 470 3, XXI | the Church of God to the cats, and apes, and crocodiles, 471 4, LXXV | the grass to grow for the cattle, and herb for the service 472 4, LXXV | our sheep-folds, or of our cattle-yards, or goat-pastures, or of 473 6, VIII | lord both of the ruler and cause--whom, if we are philosophers 474 4, LXXII | use the knife, and apply cauteries, if you do not obey my prescriptions, 475 4, LXX | with a certain degree of caution; and it hints that the nature 476 5, LVII | of a subject, slowly and cautiously express their opinion of 477 1, XVII | were, he prevents by his cavils those who are able to show 478 7, XXVIII | different parts of the earth cavities, varying in form and in 479 3, XLV | spake of trees, from the cedar that is in Lebanon even 480 8, XXI | duty;" and that man truly celebrates a feast who does his duty 481 4, XXXVIII | still within th' unbroken cell remained,~Nor fled abroad; 482 4, LXXXII | their hives and hexagonal cells, and succession of labours, 483 3, LI | Pythagoreans used to erect a cenotaph to those who had apostatized 484 2, XII | the Pythagoreans erected cenotaphs to those who, after betaking 485 5, XLIV | burnt-offerings, and one censer for incense, and one high 486 5, XXXV | to the philosophers, be censured for so doing? But if, for 487 1, LVII | him, in the days of the census, when Jesus appears to have 488 6, XXV | at its circumference and centre, thus placing its name in 489 2, XXXVI | Gospel, and see that even the centurion, and they who with him kept 490 1, LIX | the Treatise an Comets by Chaeremon the Stoic, that on some 491 5, LVII | treatise of Plutarch of Chaeronea "on the Soul," and in the 492 3, XLV | Ezrahite, and Emad, and Chalcadi, and Aradab, the sons of 493 1, LXV | and fixed his school in Chalcis, defending his course of 494 1, XXXVI | art of sacrifice, or by Chaldean genealogists--all which 495 1, XVIII | XVIII.~And challenging a comparison of book with 496 8, XXII | when going up to the upper chamber, like the apostles of Jesus, 497 2, XLIX | behold, he is in the secret chambers, believe it not. For as 498 5, XXXI | over to rulers of a severer character--to Assyrians and Babylonians, 499 6, LXIII | observing to which of the characteristics of humanity the expression " 500 7, LI | ignorance, or forbidden us to characterize as "blind" those who believe