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501 6, LV | Jerusalem, the noise of chariots and horsemen,"--passages
502 4, LXXII | in Thine anger, neither chasten me in Thy hot displeasure;"
503 2, VI | Jews, and have our minds chastened and educated by the mystical
504 7, LI | all things, wherefore God chasteneth them by little and little
505 2, XXXVIII | them their duty, nor to chastise the wicked and save the
506 5, XXX | others to a country which chastises its inhabitants by its cold;
507 6, XLII | chains; and that by way of chastising the demons who create disorder
508 1, XXVI | from a desire of exceeding chastity, and a wish to worship God
509 6, XXXVII | woman would be ashamed to chaunt or whisper to an infant,
510 4, XXIV | them as men, while you hold cheap Christians and Jews, because
511 7, XLVIII | for himself, determined to check them at their seat by the
512 1, LXIV | the flood of wickedness checked, and savage manners softened,
513 2, XXIV | Thou wilt." Nay, even the cheerful obedience of Jesus to the
514 5, XXVII | example, prevail in the Tauric Chersonese, regarding the offering
515 7, XXIII | Whoever of you will be the chiefest, shall be servant of all;" "
516 2, XII | soldiers, and of robber chiefs who were captured through
517 8, XLVI | unhappy because they were childless, but who, after offering
518 8, XLV | many who mourned over their childlessness, have obtained the blessing
519 7, III | profane and impure nature, by choosing to enter the soul of the
520 8, LXVII | these all form a divine chorus, and unite with the just
521 8, XXXVI | punishment from them. But the Christian--the true Christian, I mean--
522 4, XXXVI | of his knowledge of the chronology of the respective historians,
523 7, VI | prayers for his daughter Chryseis, so that the Greeks were
524 8, LXXV | divine nation--that is, the Church--rule well, they rule in
525 3, XXXV | with Amphilochus, nor in Cilicia with Mopsus? Or is there
526 3, XXXIV | worship Zamolxis, and the Cilicians who worship Mopsus, and
527 5, LXIII | who had fallen into error Circes and flattering deceivers.~
528 6, XXXVIII | there are between the upper circles--those that are above the
529 5, LIV | name Enoch do not at all circulate in the Churches as divine,
530 2, IX | we believe the prophecies circulated among the Jews, in which
531 5, XLVIII | disciples are forbidden to circumcise themselves, and are reminded (
532 6, XXV | inscribed this leviathan at its circumference and centre, thus placing
533 4, IX | coming which will necessarily circumscribe the duration of the world,
534 2, IX | life," to have been of so circumscribed a nature? as to have an
535 4, XLIV | righteous do not construct cisterns, but dig wells, seeking
536 7, XIII | foretold. He ought to have cited from the prophets the passages
537 4, XXIII | great earth, he becomes a citizen among us alone, and to us
538 2, I | impression. But probably this claimant to universal knowledge does
539 6, XI | as if there were many claimants able to draw us after them
540 4, LXXXVIII| that this capacity will be claimed by many of the other animals;
541 3, XVI | as the priests of Cybele clash their cymbals in the ears
542 4, XXXVIII | the zone and vest~Were clasp'd and folded by Minerva'
543 2, II | require to be explained and cleared up in a spiritual sense,
544 6, LXVIII | the sake of those who had cleaved to the flesh, and had become
545 3, XXV | it gave commandment that Cleomedes--the boxer, I suppose--should
546 7, LXI | thy coat, let him have thy cloak also," He expressed Himself
547 6, XXXIX | poison (to be found) in clothes, or in numbers, or stones,
548 7, XXIV | anxieties about our food and clothing, but, while living in plainness,
549 4, XLII | assert that they are fables, clumsily invented for infant children!~
550 6, XV | God a thing to be eagerly clung to, but made Himself of
551 5, XXV | whether they were one or more, co-operated with Moses, and enacted
552 4, LXXXII | admiring all things (as co-operating with Providence), and who
553 7, LXI | evident, that when Jesus said "coarsely," as Celsus terms it, "To
554 7, LVIII | have only reported in a coarser way. For Plato introduces
555 4, XLI | that kind, but was securely coated with bitumen. And is it
556 4, LXVI | which (by the grace of Cod enlightening the mind) may
557 3, L | the universe, and to the cognate virtues, and turn them away
558 6, XXXV | unlikely that these were coined by Celsus out of his own
559 1, XV | tested many opinions, and collected together from many sources
560 2, XVII | those who are interested in collecting stories of this kind will
561 4, XLVI | hatred and falsehood Celsus collects together the statements
562 8, XLVI | Jewish race went out as a colony from Egypt to Palestine,
563 6, XIX | the essence, which is both colourless and formless, and which
564 6, XXII | Cappadocians regarding the Comanian Diana, or those of the Thracians,
565 6, LXXII | his efforts, what kind of combatant he has been, to consume
566 6, LXXIV | he portrays their single combats, saying that the Theomachies
567 8, V | one cannot be induced to combine with the service of God
568 3, V | whole nation for having combined against an entire people,
569 7, XV | supposition is absurd, for it combines two lines of reasoning which
570 2, XII | wicked captain of robbers and commander of very wicked men, who
571 1, XVIII | discourses with laws and commandments--and see which of the two
572 8, XXI | when occasion offered to commemorate some human events, or to
573 5, LI | unmixed with error, we are not commending ourselves, but our Teacher,
574 3, XXXI | who brought this to pass, commends in this way the Teacher
575 7, XI | according to our ability, in our commentaries on Isaiah, Ezekiel, and
576 7, XXXI | consideration of it for our Commentary on the Prophets, having
577 7, XL | on which we have already commented, come others which he addresses
578 7, XXVIII | better than this." On this he comments as follows: "The divine
579 4, LXXXVII | as exceedingly simple and commonplace, and imagines that those
580 5, LVIII | one by help of a string of commonplaces. And, as if he had discovered
581 1, LIX | circumstances as may cause commotions upon the earth. But we have
582 6, LXIV | power, to those to whom He communicates Himself by His Word, as
583 6, LXIV | God is beyond" substance," communicating of His "substance," by means
584 2, LXII | unto them, What manner of communications are these that ye have one
585 4, XLV | take place in established communities. And for the sake of hypothesis,
586 1, XLVIII | and split in sunder the compact and mighty body of the whole
587 5, XXX | when they had hardened and compacted these materials of clay
588 4, XLI | evinced in having it so compactly built, and rendered capable
589 4, XCVIII | disposition, and its observance of compacts, so to speak, when once
590 8, LIV | himself the brother and companion of those who accounted Jesus
591 2, XIII | when ye shall see Jerusalem compassed about with armies, then
592 7, VI | who for a paltry reward compete upon the stage, and who
593 7, XXXI | Accordingly, God in Isaiah complains of men, that "they regard
594 8, I | I.~Having completed seven books, I now propose
595 6, LXI | of God, which follows the completion of the world's creation,
596 8, XLIX | there is nothing in our complex nature better or more precious
597 2, XL | sake of religion, and to comport themselves boldly through
598 1, LXVI | occasion for discussing the composite nature of the incarnate
599 6, LXXI | that are its objects, and comprehends them all, but not as a containing
600 8, XLIII | the world." It was not by compulsion, therefore, but willingly,
601 2, XX | neither of these courses was compulsory. And the consequence of
602 3, XXVI | Aristeas, as I discovered by computation in Proconnesus and Metapontium.
603 2, I | A True Discourse, which con-eluded with the representation
604 2, LXXVIII | of no inherent excellence con-yen so vast a multitude? For
605 6, XLII | d on high,~From the vast concave of the spangled sky,~I hung
606 2, XX | that was given to Laius, conceding for the present its truth,
607 7, XIX | the speaker, whether it is conceivable that, after having in the
608 7, III | consult the oracle about the concerns of natural or civil life,
609 2, LXIII | fashion. And Paul also, in the concluding portions of the first Epistle
610 7, XV | together, you arrive at the conclusion--"you do not know that you
611 2, X | show how they who sought to concoct false witness against Him
612 7, XV | the first is not true. The concrete example which the Stoics
613 5, XLIX | inordinate affection, evil concupiscence;" and we use every effort
614 7, LXII | different form, as the Persians concur with them in saying, then
615 4, LXXV | that a certain fortuitous concurrence of atoms gave birth to qualities
616 4, XII | men to say that teachers "condescend" to children, and wise men
617 4, XV | the body or the soul; but, condescending occasionally to (the weakness
618 8, LXIX | they had received these conditional promises, the entire blame
619 1, III | progress), overcoming it by a confederacy of so powerful a nature,
620 4, XXXVIII | name;~Since all the gods conferr'd their gifts, to charm,~
621 3, XXXIII | purpose worthy of God in conferring such a power on Cleomedes,
622 7, XI | on being pressed by him, confessed their true motives, and
623 4, V | or who is already living conform-ably thereto, is filled with
624 5, V | contrary to reason. But, conformably to our hypothesis, let this
625 8, XVIII | abode in the soul which is conformed to the image of the Creator.
626 5, XXIX | wicked conspiracy being confounded, she found out the righteous,
627 7, XL | religion, he thus continues, confounding us with them: "otherwise
628 6, XXXIV | Celsus appears to me to confuse together matters which he
629 6, XXXV | symbol; so that Celsus, who confuses together all sorts of opinions--
630 4, LXIII | of Celsus concerning evil confuted, by those philosophers who
631 1, XXVIII | disputing with Jesus, and confuting Him, as he thinks, on many
632 2, XXXVI | other dead bodies the blood congeals, and pure water does not
633 1, Pref | And therefore I do not congratulate that believer in Christ
634 7, XXXV | whole world, in drawing and congregating together all who are found
635 3, XLIII | tomb, that it was quite congruous with his birth in Arcadia
636 4, LXXXVII | meat in the summer; the conies are but a feeble folk, yet
637 1, LX | will not be near," they conjectured that the man whose appearance
638 1, LX | reason of their failure, conjecturing the cause to be a great
639 4, LIII | know, indeed, how he could conjoin things that do not admit
640 4, LXXXV | by impulse and fancy, in conjunction with a certain natural apparatus?
641 4, XI | time, and the returns and conjunctions of planets, conflagrations
642 1, XXII | themselves to the practice of the conjuration of evil spirits, employ
643 7, LXVII | whether led on to them by the conjurations of those who are skilled
644 4, LIII | the writers, and of their consciences and disposition of mind;
645 1, XLVI | But God is witness of our conscientious desire, not by false statements,
646 3, XXXIX | observing their piety and conscientiousness, manifested in their writings,
647 7, XVII | in which they were held, consecrate themselves to God, and earnestly
648 8, LVI | to the laws of God, never consenting to obey the laws of sin.
649 4, XII | of wickedness, and its (consequent) removal by a deluge or
650 6, LXXI | body. The Stoics, then, may consign all things to destruction
651 3, XIX | nevertheless do not act consistently in accusing us as if you
652 2, LVI | contributed to His dying a conspicuous death upon the cross, that
653 2, XXXIV | who endured them with all constancy and long-suffering. For
654 4, LXXV | The Creator, then, has constituted all things the servants
655 8, LXXV | ruling we reject; but we constrain those who, through excess
656 8, LXXV | over us well are under the constraining influence of the great King,
657 7, III | enjoyed by the persons who consult the oracle about the concerns
658 8, XLV | have been made to those who consulted the sacrificial victims?--
659 3, LXXV | but who prevents them from consulting skilled physicians, by whom
660 8, LXXII | of God, to every man. The consummation of all things is the destruction
661 7, IV | inspiration; and by the contact--if I may so say--of the
662 4, XLVIII | noble works of creation, not contaminating even in word the things
663 5, XXXVII | it would be absurd to contemn those acts by means of which
664 3, L | and turn them away from contemning Deity, and from all things
665 4, XCV | imaginations, and lead them to contemplate the things of God; for "
666 1, XI | not only believes, but who contemplates things with the eye of reason,
667 4, LXXXI | the former: for it was by contemplating these that the most successful
668 3, XI | Epistles of Paul, who was contemporary with those who had seen
669 5, XXIV | it is from no spirit of contention that we answer the assertions
670 3, LXXX | him then come forth to the contest, no longer concealing the
671 3, XLIV | if, while Jesus teaches continence, and says, "Whosoever looketh
672 5, XXI | admits of the occurrence of contingent events (for it is incapable
673 5, XXIII | actions that he desires (the continuance of His help).~
674 7, II | defence of the prophets, in continuation of what we have said on
675 4, LXIV | seasons, nor yet periods of continuous rain or of drought. And
676 6, XLI | Gospel, using night and day, continuously and becomingly, the prescribed
677 4, XLI | the fifty of its breadth contracted, until the thirty cubits
678 1, XI | who enters on a voyage, or contracts a marriage, or becomes the
679 2, XXIII | that here he was at once contradicting himself. For if he granted
680 3, LXIII | efforts to accuse us, he contradicts himself; appearing at one
681 6, XXXV | the world; or perhaps, in contradistinction to a "dead" soul, the "living"
682 3, XXIX | by Christ, when carefully contrasted with the assemblies of the
683 4, LVI | despised by Celsus, will contravene it, seeing we are required
684 2, LI | is "a certain Satan who contrives such devices;" although
685 4, LXXXV | rather have regard to the controlling reason which is called into
686 3, XX | comprehended it, or try to controvert and confute what he only
687 6, X | and very recently was most contumeliously treated before the eyes
688 3, LXXXI | with them, we shall more conveniently establish our position,
689 3, XXX | no quality worthy of the conventional superiority which they appear
690 3, XXXV | the above, to make in a conversational way some such remarks as
691 2, LXXIII | the parables, and in His conversations with the scribes and Pharisees.
692 3, II | predictions, without any conviction of the soundness of the
693 3, XXIV | manifest the honesty of their convictions (because we see their guilelessness,
694 5, LIV | of Enoch. No one, then, convicts us of falsehood, or of making
695 6, LXIV | walking in the garden in the cool of the day," we must understand
696 8, LIV | asunder, and cast their cords from us." If Celsus, and
697 3, XXX | of the Church of God at Corinth, and of the assembly of
698 3, XXX | and of the assembly of the Corinthian people; and also of the
699 2, I | great sheet knit at the four corners, and let down to the earth;
700 8, XIX | our Lord being the chief cornerstone." And there is a similar
701 2, XLVIII | making the bearers of the corpse to stand still; and the
702 4, XIX | produce upon such characters a corrective effect (like the similar
703 8, IX | if feeling his error, he corrects the words, "If thou worship
704 2, XIV | testified that the result corresponded to His predictions. So that
705 5, LXV | place, let us mention the corruptions which they have made through
706 3, III | Tricca, and Epidaurus, and Cos, and Pergamus; and along
707 1, XI | part of the world, at the cost of great danger, and of
708 8, LIV | narratives, they would not have counselled us to put our confidence
709 6, LII | a wicked creator who was counter-working his purposes?"~
710 6, XLII | good upon men, has yet one counterworking Him, and is helpless. The
711 2, XXXIX | to the exhibition of full courage--but who by no means abandoned
712 4, XXXIX | beautiful and the good, being courageous, and hasty, and vehement;
713 2, XX | so that neither of these courses was compulsory. And the
714 4, XXXVIII | nameless grace around her courteous head;~Instil the wish that
715 7, XXXII | not suffer those who are covered with them to come to corruption
716 4, XXXII | the divine power, neither coveting like the most of mankind
717 3, XV | makes war upon us, to become cowards, and apostatize from the
718 5, XVIII | sleight of men, and cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait
719 4, XCI | Stretched his black jaws, and crashed the dying young;~While hovering
720 3, XL | are not gods, and of such creations (of art) that they are not
721 6, XLVII | the first-born of every creature--are no longer two, (but
722 7, XL | with believing in fabulous creatures--in the lion, the amphibious
723 7, LXX | and other officers with creel but needful duties to discharge;
724 6, XXIV | men who, as Paul says, "creep into houses, and lead captive
725 4, XXXI | any creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth, or a likeness
726 7, LXIV | where they may pursue their criminal pleasures, in partaking
727 8, LIII | sects of philosophers as criteria of truth.~
728 7, XVI | however little versed in critical studies, who would say that
729 6, XVI | its physical structure, is crooked--was chosen as an object
730 4, XXVII | character escapes notice in the crowd. We, then, are not worms
731 8, LVI | heart." For "no one will be crowned," unless here upon earth,
732 6, XLVI | destruction of many, and shall crush them as eggs in his hand."
733 6, IX | Jesus as the voice of one crying in the wilderness, so as
734 8, XX | others jaspers, and others crystals, and thus there is among
735 4, LXXVI | should altogether neglect the cul-tivation of their minds, because
736 3, XLV | around the king in Babylon cultivated, that they were shown to
737 4, XCI | sanguine spires he rolled,~And curled around in many a winding
738 4, XCI | talons twined; alive, and curling round,~He stung the bird,
739 2, IX | in other respects, as was currently reported, performed none
740 8, XLVIII | and are not content with a cursory perusal of the predictions
741 2, XXIV | words of a physician, who cuts bodies asunder, and inflicts
742 1, XVII | their own fathers, and of cutting off their secret parts,
743 2, XX | the argument. Now, in Ps. cviii., Judas is spoken of by
744 3, XVI | before men, as the priests of Cybele clash their cymbals in the
745 3, XVI | priests of Cybele clash their cymbals in the ears of those who
746 6, XXVIII | nothing, termed himself a Cynic; while these impious wretches,
747 3, L | practice which certain of the Cynics especially have followed,
748 7, LIV | to Aristocreon, tyrant of Cyprus, "Beat on, beat the shell
749 3, XLIII | reply that Callimachus the Cyrenian, who had read innumerable
750 6, V | generations before the reign of Cyrus (for he was older than he
751 3, XXVI | Aristeas was dead, a certain Cyzi-cenian, arriving from Artace, fell
752 1, LXVIII | tables, and dishes, and dainties having no real existence,
753 7, LIX | those only who are rich and dainty in their tastes. Suppose,
754 1, XXXVII | comparing the Greek fables about Danae, and Melanippe, and Auge,
755 3, LVI | desires after theatres and dancing, and from superstition;
756 7, XVIII | writings of Moses, he would, I daresay, have supposed that when
757 6, LV | aware that those who would daringly assert that these evils
758 6, LXVI | the people that sat in darkness--the Gentiles--saw a great
759 5, I | work, and to extract each dart which wounds him who is
760 3, VII | originally) Egyptians, dated the commencement (of their
761 3, VI | become a nation, which, dating its origin from the said
762 4, XLI | a deluge? For it was not daubed with pitch, or any material
763 2, LXX | Sabbath, as it began to dawn towards the first day of
764 2, XXXIII | darkness prevailed in the day-time, the sun failing to give
765 4, XXXIX | a terrible sorcerer, and dealer in drugs, and a sophist
766 1, LXVIII | them, if Jesus, like the dealers in magical arts, had performed
767 4, XXXIII | it by these men in their dealings with demons. These facts,
768 4, LXXIV | are accusing their very dearest friends by the means through
769 2, XVI | being, who was to suffer death--was not immortal. For no
770 8, XXIII | leads to drunkenness and debauchery. It would be too long for
771 3, LIV | sufficiently declare that they are debtors to Greeks and Barbarians,
772 2, LXXIV | light, but also when the Decalogue was announced to the whole
773 5, XXIII | gain of wheat which has decayed returns to its former condition.
774 2, XVI | even the Jesus before His decease--the compound being, who
775 1, XXIII | minds deluded by vulgar deceits, and so supposed that there
776 1, XXX | condemnation upon their deceiver.~
777 4, XVIII | to imagine so, and thus deceives them, and is guilty of falsehood.
778 3, XXXIX | nothing that is spurious, or deceptive, or false, or cunning; for
779 2, XXIII | done agreeably to his own decision were neither painful nor
780 4, XXXVIII | graces, and persuasion bland~Deck'd her round limbs with chains
781 4, LII | every one who heard Celsus declaiming and asserting that the treatise
782 6, XIV | impositions, while we seek to decoy those who are more rustic."
783 4, LXIII | evils both increase and decrease, viz., that those individuals
784 7, LXIX | appears from the fact that the dedication of the most famous of the
785 4, IX | but also by inferences deducible from them; while the more
786 2, XLI | wicked work in Him. But if he deems poverty and the cross to
787 2, XLIV | silliness: "If, after inventing defences which are absurd, and by
788 6, XXXI | realm, powerful Sabaoth, defender of the law of thy creatures,
789 7, XXXI | true light." As Celsus has deferred to another opportunity the
790 8, XXXVI | free from all harm, and bid defiance to such spirits; although
791 3, LXIV | alone is able to supply our deficiencies, what is wanting to our (
792 7, XLIX | to those who, either from deficiency or knowledge or want of
793 1, LIV | was without honour, and deficient more than that of all men.
794 8, XXIX | which goeth into the mouth defileth a man, but that which cometh
795 7, XLVIII | Jesus, than, so far from defiling themselves by licentious
796 4, LVIII | but even without clearly defining his meaning; for he did
797 8, LVIII | this way, Celsus seeks to degrade our souls to the worship
798 3, XLII | admitting that there are degrees of corruptibility, we can
799 4, LIX | indeed, has led some to deify the bodies of distinguished
800 8, LI | of passion, lest, if we delay too long for the purpose
801 3, LXIX | deeds done during life. For deliberate choice and practice avail
802 3, XXIX | odours in which they greedily delighted were being swept away by
803 2, LX | and under the influence of delirium or hypochondria, is incredible.
804 7, V | pleasures are found. If the Delphian Apollo were a god, as the
805 5, XXXIV | that they dwelt outside the Delta, that there was no community
806 6, XLII | manifestly the words of a deluder, planning and manoeuvring
807 6, XXXII | with the opinions of these deluders, and that we disown them,
808 1, XXIX | multitudes, and play the demagogue, and attract to himself
809 6, LII | mark of a needy person to demand back (what he has given),
810 6, LII | anything with the intention of demanding it back? For it is the mark
811 8, XLIV | feeling may be seen in the demeanour of the judges; for they
812 8, II | though we had to do with demi-gods, or other spirits of that
813 6, L | we should have tried to demolish the arguments which appeared
814 8, XXXIX | to the stake, whilst your demon--or, as you call him, 'the
815 8, V | That man rises above all demon-worship who does nothing that is
816 3, XXXIII | or we shall say that some demoniac power, casting a glamour
817 4, XXV | man may be an orator like Demosthenes, yet, if stained with wickedness
818 6, LXX | expressions, employed to denote the nature of "intelligent
819 4, XCII | from it, and who haunt the denser parts of bodies, and frequent
820 1, Pref | men, but has long since departed--or by any apparent plausibility
821 6, LIV | spiritual kind; since he who departs from such evils, and performs
822 1, XIII | but by such foolishness as depended on preaching. For the preaching
823 6, XXXIII | Paradise. The flaming sword was depicted as the diameter of a flaming
824 7, VII | Divine Spirit, and to be the depositaries of His holy oracles, on
825 4, XCVIII | in a ball of myrrh, and deposits its body in the Temple of
826 1, XVI | as far as in him lies, he deprives of the honour both of antiquity
827 8, VI | ourselves should suffer harm by depriving ourselves of our portion
828 8, LIV | had been able to sound the depths of the Gospel narratives,
829 6, VIII | multitude. Such persons will deride as a fiction even the demon
830 6, XLIII | spoken of by Pherecydes is derived--having become the cause
831 5, III | is convicted of being a deserter to that sect. And now is
832 7, XXII | the city of Jehovah" he designates his own soul, in which was
833 6, XIV | XIV.~In designating others by the epithets of "
834 7, VI | As, then, he gives the designation "wise" to the tragic poets,
835 3, VIII | because in every language the designations (of persons and things)
836 6, LIV | LORD. What man is he that desireth life, and loveth many days,
837 6, XLVI | shall be the abomination of desolations, and at the end of the time
838 6, LXXVIII | Jupiter, after awakening, despatched Mercury to the Athenians
839 6, LXXVIII | in the play, on awaking, despatches Mercury (on an errand)!
840 6, LXXIX | awaking from slumber, and despatching Mercury to the Greeks; but
841 1, Pref | answer to it at all, but who despises all its contents, since
842 4, LXXII | further statement of Paul: "Or despisest thou the riches of His goodness,
843 8, X | unholy thing, and hath done despite unto the Spirit of grace?"
844 8, XXXV | and pray for them which despitefully use you, that ye may be
845 1, I | it were, "Scythian," and despotic.~
846 4, XVIII | descending to the level of human destinies for the benefit of our race.
847 1, XXXII | those who can understand and detect such inventions. Is it at
848 4, LXXXVII | it is manifest from the determinate inclination of the nature
849 8, LXXII | for a testimony; for My determination is to gather the nations,
850 6, XXVII | heretics. In the next place, he determines even the number mentioned
851 4, XLV | full meaning), saw fire devastating their city and country,
852 3, XIV | His origin or subsequent development not from human wisdom, but
853 5, LIII | only as an empty rhetorical device. That we are not refuted,
854 4, XXXIX | keen hunter, perpet-ually devising contrivances; both much
855 4, XCVIII | oaths, and of their great devotedness to our God, and of the knowledge
856 7, LIV | by force, and afterwards devours it, amusing himself meanwhile
857 6, XXVI | pictures of animals and diagrams, as if the truth were represented
858 6, XXXIX | or that Apollo, in the dialect of the Scythians, has the
859 1, XIX | he should put forward the dialogues of Plato (as evidence) on
860 6, XLV | pre-eminence; and the other, who is diametrically opposite, be termed the
861 2, VII | the appearance of language dictated by arrogance and proceeding
862 7, XVIII | which indeed he himself did--as Moses says--threatening
863 4, LXXII | prescriptions, and regulate your diet and mode of life in such
864 2, XVI | being raised from the dead, dieth no more: death hath no more
865 2, LI | men, or a dialectic which differed from sophistry. But if we
866 7, LXIII | adultery--is not the same, but differs in different men according
867 4, XLIV | construct cisterns, but dig wells, seeking to discover
868 5, LIII | can meet either of these dilemmas at great length, although
869 4, XCV | Keep thy heart with all diligence," that nothing of a demoniacal
870 6, LXXX | riches of the world, and the diminishing of them the riches of the
871 4, XXXIX | Metis. And after they had dined, Penia came to beg for something (
872 7, XXXVI | as in Nestor, Ulysses, Diomede, Agamemnon, Telemachus,
873 6, XLI | become acquainted with one Dionysius, an Egyptian musician, the
874 3, LXV | sinning, being constantly dipped, and, as it were, dyed in
875 2, XX | utterance to this also: "He that dippeth his hand with Me in the
876 4, XCI | A mighty dragon shot, of dire portent;~From Jove himself
877 3, LXXVI | second illustration to our disadvantage, saying that "our teacher
878 1, XXI | with opinions which either disallow or enfeeble the action of
879 8, LI | good of man, all passion is disallowed." And Celsus, in like manner,
880 4, XXXIX | him are always gradually disappearing, so that he is never at
881 6, XXXVIII | things, even although we also disapprove of them. Moreover, if those
882 5, LXI | monstrous inventions, which are disapproved of by those who are the
883 1, XLVII | from the truth--that these disasters happened to the Jews as
884 1, XIII | folly with the Stoics, who discard this opinion; and with the
885 8, LXVI | be allowed by no one who discards fables and seeks after truth.~
886 6, LXXI | because they are spiritually discerned"), weaves together (such
887 2, XXXIV | Pentheus, viz., madness or discerption." And yet he does not know
888 8, LVII | For we say that he truly discharges the duties of life who is
889 5, XXXIV | some who deem themselves discharging a holy duty in eating their
890 1, XXXI | how it happened that the disciples--if, as the calumniators
891 4, LIV | that Celsus either does not disclose his Epicurean opinions,
892 8, LXIX | enemies than those who were discomfited by the prayer of Moses when
893 8, XIV | they would not consent to discontinue their worship of him who
894 1, XXII | began with Abraham, and was discontinued by Jesus, who desired that
895 4, LXXXVII | For if reason were the discoverer, this one thing (or, if
896 7, XLII | need help from Him, who discovers Himself to those whom He
897 2, LIX | Who beheld this?" And discrediting the narrative of Mary Magdalene,
898 5, LIV | other angels, seeing Apelles discredits, as we have already mentioned,
899 6, XXXII | understanding magic, nor discriminating the meaning of holy Scripture,
900 1, Pref | done this, but should have disdained such a procedure, and in
901 2, XX | his hand with Me in the dish, the same shall betray Me."~
902 1, LXVIII | banquets, and tables, and dishes, and dainties having no
903 7, XVI | comeliness; but His form was dishonoured and marred more than the
904 8, X | through breaking the law dishonourest thou God?" and also, "Of
905 2, XXXIX | although stricken with dismay on account of what had happened
906 4, LXXXII | purposes, both for cure of disordered bodies, and as a pure article
907 2, V | place, as this Jew of his disparages the doctrine regarding the
908 1, LXVIII | expel demons from men, and dispel diseases, and invoke the
909 2, LXXVI | before men who are under the dispensation and leading of His word,
910 2, LXXV | the commencement of both dispensations? For the beginning of the
911 8, LV | the good things which they dispense, to pay them no tribute
912 6, LXVII | of the light of the Word, disperse the darkness of their impious
913 3, VIII | on behalf of believers, dispersing by an act of His will alone
914 4, XCVIII | divine providence freely displaying to human beings, by the
915 4, I | of arrogance which Celsus displays against us. And in the next
916 4, LXXII | neither chasten me in Thy hot displeasure;" and also in jeremiah. "
917 1, LXII | they manifest both by their dispositions and their lives, and by
918 1, XXXIII | fashioned, which has the head disproportioned to the other parts, and
919 7, XIV | have seen whether he fairly disproved all that we bring from the
920 5, LXIV | assail each other in their disputes with the most shameless
921 6, XXII | the words of Plato; but, dissatisfied even with these, he adduced
922 8, L | bent upon creating needless dissensions. But surely he ought, as
923 4, LI | in the third book of his dissertation on The Good, he quotes also
924 5, LVI | another things that are dissimilar, and incapable of being
925 3, XXIX | But the God who sent Jesus dissipated all the conspiracies of
926 7, X | ingeniously designed to dissuade readers from attempting
927 7, LX | expression they should produce a distaste for their teaching. Indeed,
928 4, XXIV | because their opinions are distasteful to you, and compare them
929 8, XVII | among us as the badge or distinctive mark of a secret and forbidden
930 7, XLVI | order the whole soul. They distinguish--and to them the distinction
931 8, IV | of lords." For Scripture distinguishes between those gods which
932 8, LI | passions which oppress and distract the human spirit, after
933 1, Pref | Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine,
934 1, XIV | of truth, why should we distrust the prophets of the Jews
935 4, XV | and through benevolence, divested Himself (of His glory),
936 3, XLI | with, and which frequently divests itself of those which it
937 6, XVI | viz., that it does not divide the hoof. He would have
938 8, XI | speaks impiously, for he divides the kingdom of God, and
939 5, I | not to be ashamed, tightly dividing the word of truth." And
940 2, L | magicians was not similar to the divinely-bestowed grace of Moses, but the
941 6, LXXX | term the Chaldeans a most divinely-inspired nation from the very earliest
942 1, XXXVI | observers of times, and diviners; " but to that people it
943 1, XXXI | were not persuaded of His divinity--were not afraid to endure
944 4, VIII | upon the narrative of the divisions (of the nations), and to
945 8, XLIX | much of the body as you do--to expect that the same
946 2, LXXVIII | withstood the progress of his doctrine--kings and rulers, and the
947 5, LI | the river-horse, or the dog-faced baboon, or the cat, he can
948 3, LVII | far as we can, from the dogmas of philosophy to our worship
949 3, LXXII | call any one whatever who dogmatizes with sophistical opinions
950 8, XIV | as Celsus accuses us of doing--to the Son of God.~
951 5, XXXVIII | that each one reveres his domestic and native institutions.
952 4, LXVIII | endeavouring to parry, I don't know how, the objections
953 6, XI | the teaching of Simon. The Dositheans, again, even in former times,
954 6, LXXIV | and falling into their dotage do not meddle at all with
955 1, XLVI | sentence, as the meaning is doubtful--viz., whether the Father
956 6, XLII | matchless might,~Hurled headlong downward from the ethereal height."~
957 4, XXXI | of foolish men, and which drags down the eyes of the soul
958 7, LXIII | does so generally from dread of the law and its penalties,
959 6, XXVIII | most hostile to and greatly dreaded by man, and boast of one
960 8, LX | is to lead to magic, and dreading that harm may arise from
961 5, VI | some crooked sorcery, or dreaming dreams through the influence
962 6, LXXIV | betaken himself to such drivelling."~
963 7, XXII | wicked of the land," and drives out of that city of the
964 1, VI | frequently been the means of driving demons out of men, especially
965 4, XCI | with miserable moan,~The drooping mother wailed her children
966 4, XXXVIII | Jove:~The woman's hand had dropp'd the lid above."~Now, to
967 5, XV | refine, as it were, (the dross of) those who are intermingled
968 4, LXIV | of continuous rain or of drought. And so in the same way,
969 6, XLII | relates a myth of one army drown up in hostile array against
970 4, XXXIV | Hebrews," and "the God who drowned in the Red Sea the king
971 1, XVI | Galactophagi of Homer, and the Druids of the Gauls, and the Getae,
972 3, LXXVI | who, entering a company of drunkards, should accuse those who
973 6, XLVII | things also, which, although "dual" in their own nature, are
974 4, XXXVIII | mould with tempering waters ductile clay:~Infuse, as breathing
975 5, XXXIII | law came forth from the dwellers in Sion, and settled among
976 2, LXXVI | says to the prophet, "Thou dwellest in the midst of scorpions?''
977 8, XXX | it is not right that the dwelling-place of the rational soul should
978 3, LXV | dipped, and, as it were, dyed in wickedness, and possessing
979 4, XXXVIII | Minerva teach the skill that dyes~The web with colours, as
980 8, XXXII | or drink, or whatever y.e do, do all to the glory
981 6, XXX | representing him as Gabriel, the eagle-like. Again, the "fifth," according
982 4, LXXXVI | nest, carry thither the eagle-stone when they have discovered
983 1, VIII | whom were Epicureans; the earlier of the two having lived
984 1, LXII | disciples, by which they earned their livelihood before
985 8, LX | who say that most of the earth-demons are taken up with carnal
986 2, XXXIII | crucified, and the great earthquakes which then took place, Phlegon
987 2, XXII | refute with the greatest ease.~
988 5, XXXI | of the east, and of their eastern language. And let him notice,
989 6, LXXX | preceding, he mentioned as eaters of human flesh. To the Jews,
990 2, I | acceptation of the word; for Ebion signifies "poor" among the
991 6, XXVII | regarding what is called by ecclesiastical writers the "seal," statements
992 5, XLV | the chosen father of the echo, and the god of laughter,
993 1, Pref | suggested to me that I should be economical of my time, and that, satisfied
994 7, III | prophetess into such a state of ecstasy and madness that she loses
995 4, XXXIX | said to have planted it in Eden towards the east, and that
996 2, XX | the tragedies relating to (Edipus and Jocasta and their sons.
997 1, XXX | crucifixion, which was enough to efface his previously acquired
998 1, VI | been instances where it was effectual, when it was pronounced
999 1, XXIV | the Egyptian tongue, are efficacious against certain demons who
1000 1, XLVIII | faith, so that a healing effluence from it comes upon them,
1001 6, XXXV | earth was called by some an effluent from a heavenly church and