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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