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3003 8, LXIV | pray with them, they bring succour to our mortal race, and 3004 7, LXI | if any man be minded to sue thee at the law, and take 3005 4, XV | objects in order to cure the sufferers, that he passes from "good 3006 4, IX | forth to sow, the doctrine sufficed to sow the word everywhere. 3007 7, XLIII | Show us the Father, and it sufficeth us." He, then, who perceives 3008 6, LXX | when Paul says, "But our sufficiency is of God; who hath also 3009 2, I | God appeared to Cornelius, suggesting to him "to send to Joppa, 3010 1, XXV | that Apollo immediately suggests the son of Leto and Zeus, 3011 4, XCIV | when she said regarding the suitors:--~"For the very last time, 3012 5, XXXVI | inquiring for how great a sum of money they would be willing 3013 8, XLV | how many have met with summary punishment for showing want 3014 4, LXXXVII | prepare their meat in the summer; the conies are but a feeble 3015 5, XLIV | Persians, who ascend the summits of their mountains, which 3016 8, IV | their several provinces, and summoning men out of them to be subject 3017 3, LXI | by saying that a robber summons around him individuals of 3018 2, XXXV | heaven--the eclipse of the sun--but also the other miracles, 3019 4, XXXIX | imagine; but is withered, and sunburnt, and unshod, and without 3020 1, XLVIII | in movement, and split in sunder the compact and mighty body 3021 2, XXI | XXI.~Observe also the superficiality and manifest falsity of 3022 2, IV | the Jews, who treat them superficially, and as if they were in 3023 2, LII | greater undertaking, and superinduced upon the pre-existing constitution, 3024 5, XXVII | administered by those who superintend them; but let him tell us 3025 5, XXV | nation which inhabits it, are superintended by one or more beings, who, 3026 5, XXXIII | causeth it to rain." Our Superintendent, then, and Teacher, having 3027 4, LXXXVI | serpents and eagles their superiors in wisdom; for they are 3028 3, XXXIII | show with what object this supernatural power made him, through 3029 2, VII | styled arrogant, who after supper laid aside His garments 3030 4, XXXVIII | life and form began,~The supple vigour, and the voice of 3031 7, XLI | of their lives which is supplied by his instructions in regard 3032 4, XXXIX | nature of his father. But the supplies furnished to him are always 3033 6, XXI | descending upon it, and the Lord supported upon its top,--obscurely 3034 8, XIV | lies between him and the supporters of such an opinion. Jesus 3035 1, X | condemning one system and for supporting another, he in this way 3036 3, XXV | Cleomedes--the boxer, I suppose--should be honoured with 3037 6, LVI | upon or cauterized by the surgeons in order to effect a cure, 3038 6, XXX | possessed made him to be Suriel, the bull-like. Further, 3039 1, XXX | his complete success in surmounting by his reputation all causes 3040 6, XIV | that they were found to surpass in tenfold degree all the 3041 4, LI | Numenius the Pythagorean--a surpassingly excellent expounder of Plato, 3042 1, LII | more easily than he will surrender his opinions. Nay, even 3043 6, LXXII | the spirit which He had surrendered after it had been stained 3044 3, LXXIII | utility, caused them to be surrounded with appropriate guidance 3045 3, XXXVIII | up of many has been amid surroundings of such a kind, that they 3046 1, XVI | whether any of their histories survive; but the Hebrews alone, 3047 4, XCI | the monster slew:~Nor long survived: to marble turned, he stands~ 3048 4, LXXXIV | that, "when ants die, the survivors set apart a special place ( 3049 1, LXV | diseases, among whom also was Susanna, who from their own possessions 3050 6, LXXVII | matter, which is by nature susceptible of being altered and changed, 3051 8, LIII | Christianity, at any rate to suspend their judgment, and not 3052 2, LXIX | who had resolved to endure suspension upon the cross, to maintain 3053 6, XXXIX | the slightest degree to suspicions of such a nature.~ 3054 2, XLVIII | they tread upon it, they sustain no injury, for they also 3055 4, XLI | and rendered capable of sustaining a tempest which caused a 3056 1, LI | where He was wrapped in swaddling-clothes. And this sight is greatly 3057 4, XLVIII | gods and men" a stone to swallow instead of his own son, 3058 4, XXIII | a flight of bats or to a swarm of ants issuing out of their 3059 4, XXXVIII | who rules the earth, and sways the pole,~Had said, and 3060 5, XLV | either in an invocation or in swearing an oath, were to use the 3061 7, XXVIII | of paradise; and in the sweat of his face every man eats 3062 4, LXIX | determined beforehand that He sweeps wickedness away, so as to 3063 8, XVII | is truly and spiritually sweet-smelling, namely, the prayers ascending 3064 3, LXX | possesses the property of sweetening other things through its 3065 4, XCI | the hawk is called the "swift messenger of Apollo."~ 3066 8, XLIV | the oath, the mind has not sworn.", And this may serve as 3067 2, XXXIX | indeed, at that time some symptoms of human weakness arising 3068 2, XLVIII | daughter of the ruler of the synagogue (of whom I know not why 3069 6, XXIII | which are read in their synagogues, and adopted by Christians, 3070 7, LX | understood only Egyptian or Syriac, the first thing that he 3071 2, IV | absurdity should there be in our system--that is, the Gospel--having 3072 1, Pref | and subsequently to make a systematic treatise of the whole discourse. 3073 5, XX | present occasion (for we have systematically examined the subject in 3074 4, LXVIII | endeavouring to parry, I don't know how, the objections 3075 6, XXXIX | Aphrodite, Argimpasan; Hestia, Tabiti." Now, he who has the capacity 3076 2, LVI | Thessalian Protesilaus, and the Taenarian Hercules, and Theseus also,-- 3077 2, LV | Thessaly, and Hercules at Cape Taenarus, and Theseus. But the question 3078 3, XXXVIII | in the case of the most talented, to their appearing to be 3079 7, XXXVI | Aristophanes as a frivolous talker, often putting into the 3080 3, XLVIII | stop the mouths of foolish talkers and deceivers. And as he 3081 7, XLIX | speaketh wisdom, and his tongue talketh of judgment; the law of 3082 4, XCI | serpent of enormous size,~His talons twined; alive, and curling 3083 1, XX | body of brute beasts, both tame and savage! And if the Egyptians 3084 4, XCVIII | that, after their apparent tameness, they have broken out against 3085 8, XV | persuasion, but as one who tames and subdues lions and beasts 3086 6, LXVI | and the life," and has tasted, in the course of the journey, 3087 1, XLVIII | this divine manner, and tasting likewise, and smelling, 3088 1, XVI | Discourse to the Greeks of Tatian the younger, in which with 3089 1, LXVI | fables of Homer; and with a taunt also at the blood of Jesus 3090 5, XXVII | example, prevail in the Tauric Chersonese, regarding the 3091 2, XXXII | lest, in replying to the tautologies of Celsus, we ourselves 3092 1, XXXI | for certain mysterious tea-sons which are difficult to be 3093 1, XLVI | their new doctrines and new teachings to abandon their national 3094 1, XXXVII | disputing with Jesus, and tearing in pieces, as he imagines, 3095 1, LVI | prophecies at length would be tedious; and I deem it sufficient 3096 8, LXVI | blue-eyed maid,~ But from the teeming furrow took his birth,~ 3097 7, XXXVI | Ulysses, Diomede, Agamemnon, Telemachus, Penelope, and the rest. 3098 4, XXXVIII | bashful maid~Rose from the temper'd earth, by Jove's behest,~ 3099 4, XXXVIII | best obey,~And mould with tempering waters ductile clay:~Infuse, 3100 4, XXII | period from their venerable temple-worship and service, and enslaved 3101 8, XLV | want of reverence to the temples--some being instantly seized 3102 1, XXXIV | not ask, neither will I tempt the LORD. And he said, Hear 3103 8, LXX | words, When God gives to the tempter permission to persecute 3104 1, XXX | reputation all causes that tended to bring him into disrepute, 3105 4, LXXXI | exemplify certain virtuous tendencies and workings, or they are 3106 3, LVIII | each of the young men what tends to his profit), we are not, 3107 8, LXIV | when they pray to God, tens of thousands of sacred powers 3108 6, VII | assertion, that Paul the tentmaker, and Peter the fisherman, 3109 3, XVII | temples, and magnificent tents around them, and ceremonies 3110 4, XLI | thirty cubits of its height terminated in a top one cubit long 3111 3, XLII | impurities," and in so terming them, speaks unlike a philosopher? 3112 5, XV | and gloomy, in order to terrify those who cannot by any 3113 2, LI | divine, why shall we not test those who profess to perform 3114 1, XX | Celsus is entangled into testifying that the world is comparatively 3115 1, LVIII | this known to Herod the tetrarch; and that the latter sent 3116 5, XLVIII | according to the Hebrew text, "A bloody husband art thou 3117 6, XXXIX | the Scythians; Poseidon, Thagimasada; Aphrodite, Argimpasan; 3118 8, LVII | recognising the duty of thankfulness, maintain that we show no 3119 6, XXX | of an ass, and was named Thaphabaoth or Onoel;" whereas we discovered 3120 6, XXX | diagram he is called Onoel, or Thartharaoth, being somewhat asinine 3121 3, LXXV | let it also be admitted that-we turn away from physicians 3122 6, XXX | according to the diagram, was Thauthabaoth, the bear-like. Celsus continues 3123 3, LVI | from all mad desires after theatres and dancing, and from superstition; 3124 3, XXXV | with Trophonius, nor in Thebes with the temple of Amphiaraus, 3125 4, XXXVIII | as a retribution for the theft of "the fire;" while that 3126 3, XX | meaning of each expression in them--say, in those to the Ephesians, 3127 4, XXXIII | with demons. These facts, then--adduced by Jews and Christians 3128 6, LXXIV | combats, saying that the Theomachies of the Fathers are like 3129 7, XV | of argument called "the theorem of two propositions," to 3130 2, XXXVI | His side, and there came there-out blood and water. And he 3131 3, XXXVI | live by the gain derived therefrom; while others, deceived 3132 5, XLIII | concerned, to pride themselves thereon, and to keep aloof from 3133 | thereupon 3134 2, XVII | dying with his followers at Thermopylae, did not make any effort 3135 5, XXXV | the sake of defending the thesis which he has proposed to 3136 2, LVI | Odrysian Orpheus, and the Thessalian Protesilaus, and the Taenarian 3137 2, LV | Odrysians, and Protesilaus in Thessaly, and Hercules at Cape Taenarus, 3138 1, XLII | the son of a sea-goddess Thetis and of a man Peleus, or 3139 6, XXV | diagram was "divided by a thick black line, and this line 3140 7, LXX | ever came before Me are thieves and robbers: but the sheep 3141 7, VI | a few garlands and the 'thighs of bulls and goats, obtained 3142 6, VIII | to witness the God of all things--the ruler both of things 3143 2, X | shall perish by the sword. Thinkest thou that I cannot even 3144 8, LVIII | body of man is divided into thirty-six parts, and as many demons 3145 6, XXII | Comanian Diana, or those of the Thracians, or even those of the Romans 3146 1, XVII | to me to act somewhat as Thrasymachns the Platonic philosopher 3147 5, XLVI | hold Ammon before us under threat of death, we would rather 3148 4, XLVI | her allurements and her threats--he does not even mention 3149 4, XLIX | plough in hope, and he that thresheth in hope of partaking." And 3150 1, XLIII | the everywhere existing threshing-floors and Churches of God.~ 3151 2, XVII | if he could; whereas he threw himself headlong into those 3152 2, XV | crow, thou shall deny Me thrice," which was followed by 3153 4, LXXXI | more industrious and more thrifty in the management of their 3154 4, XXXVIII | perfidious lies,~And speech that thrills the blood, and lulls the 3155 4, XCI | He stung the bird, whose throat received the wound.~Mad 3156 7, XXIII | these words. Celsus next throws in an expression in regard 3157 3, XXII | Zeus struck him dead by a thunderbolt. And of the Dioscuri, it 3158 4, XXXVIII | of the counsels of deep thundering Jove,~Wrought artful manners, 3159 4, XLV | worse than the crimes of Thyestes." The figurative signification 3160 2, XXXIII | the eclipse in the time of Tiberius Caesar, in whose reign Jesus 3161 1, LXIII | ambitious to carry the glad tidings where he needed not to build 3162 5, I | needing not to be ashamed, tightly dividing the word of truth." 3163 1, XI | he who sails the sea, or tills the ground, or marries a 3164 7, XLII | following passage from the Timaeus: "It is a hard matter to 3165 3, LV | father himself, the more timid among them become afraid, 3166 1, LXIII | says in his Epistle to Timothy, "This is a faithful saying, 3167 3, I | until we finished with the tirade of this Jew of his, feigned. 3168 6, VI | speech. And if it were not tiresome to repeat the truth regarding 3169 2, XIII | of Vespasian, whose son Titus destroyed Jerusalem, on 3170 5, XIX | is written in the book of Tobit: "It is good to keep close 3171 4, LXXXIII | see one of their number toiling under them?" For he who 3172 4, LXXXIII | and from sharing their toils, when he says of the ants, 3173 7, LXII | another point. They cannot tolerate temples, altars, or images. 3174 6, LII | great God, and which were tolerated by the Supreme Divinity, 3175 4, LXXVI | of which were formed the tools required for the arts which 3176 4, XCI | many a winding fold.~The topmost branch a mother-bird possessed;~ 3177 6, V | preserved the light of the torches of the five wise virgins.~ 3178 8, LXVI | must encounter all kinds of torment, or submit to any kind of 3179 8, LIV | bodies to be beaten and tortured; for surely it is not in 3180 5, XVIII | who are still "children, tossed to and fro, and carried 3181 8, LXXII | in the prophecies on the total destruction of evil, and 3182 2, VII | after girding Himself with a towel, and pouring water into 3183 6, XXXIV | he had heard a few words traceable to some existing heresy, 3184 7, III | other hand, they may be traced to wicked demons--to spirits 3185 1, LIII | shall be in all the beaten tracks."~ 3186 2, XX | calamities described in the tragedies relating to (Edipus and 3187 6, XLIV | universe, and to appoint a training-school of virtue, wherein those 3188 1, LXVIII | reform their manners, or trains those to the fear of God 3189 1, XLVIII | it may be observed as a trait of the character of Jesus, 3190 6, LXIII | into his virtuous soul the traits of God's image. The body, 3191 2, I | made ready he fell into a trance, and saw heaven opened, 3192 3, LXVII | with all fearlessness and tranquillity of mind treated of subjects 3193 5, LXII | countries with words which transform the soul from all that is 3194 4, XVI | understand the changes or transformations of Jesus, as related in 3195 8, IV | prince of this world, who "transforms himself into an angel of 3196 6, LIX | having removed him hence, and transported him to the heavenly regions, 3197 6, XXV | it was the soul which had travelled through all things! We observed, 3198 6, II | Grecian philosophy, yet traversed many countries of the world, 3199 8, LXV | than swear by a wicked and treacherous demon, that ofttimes sins 3200 4, LXXII | How, then, can any one treasure up for himself "wrath" against 3201 7, XXI | works, may not out of these treasures of utterance, of wisdom, 3202 4, LXXII | hardness and impenitent heart, treasurest up unto thyself wrath against 3203 6, XLII | spangled sky,~I hung thee trembling in a golden chain,~And all 3204 4, XXXI | duty of presiding over the tribunals, and who, on account of 3205 8, LV | dispense, to pay them no tribute in return." To this we reply, 3206 3, III | dedicated to him, such as Tricca, and Epidaurus, and Cos, 3207 2, LVI | again, made a juggler's trick s of the resurrection from 3208 2, XXVII | against those who dared so to trifle with the Gospels. And as 3209 8, LXII | had considered that the tritest profit lies in virtue and 3210 8, LXVI | sun, or to sing a joyful triumphal song in praise of Minerva, 3211 7, XLIV | God. But he prays for no trivial blessings, for he has learnt 3212 1, XLII | Ilium between Greeks and Trojans? And suppose, also, that 3213 3, XXIII | to the members of His own troop--for I will take the word 3214 7, LXX | scattered as it were in troops in different parts of the 3215 1, XVII | with those who give it a tropical and allegorical signification. 3216 6, XLVI | soon shaken in mind, or be troubled, neither by word, nor by 3217 7, XXII | signifies confusion) are those troublesome sinful thoughts which arise 3218 8, LXX | enjoy a wonderful peace, trusting in the protection of Him 3219 1, XLVII | his will, not far from the truth--that these disasters happened 3220 7, LV | men, who, while giving a truthful account of all the wonders 3221 3, XXVIII | which His disciples have so truthfully and candidly recorded, without 3222 2, XLI | poverty, came to live in a tub; and yet, in the opinion 3223 4, XL | their being clothed with tunics of skins (which God, because 3224 5, XVII | changed, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump; 3225 7, LIII | who, when his master was twisting his leg, said, smiling and. 3226 5, LII | but according to others, two--who answered the women that 3227 6, XLI | philosopher Apollonius of Tyana, in which this individual, 3228 6, XXXI | life in the character of a type, and opening to the world 3229 2, II | which, being to you but types, ye believed to constitute 3230 6, XLII | the Egyptian mysteries of Typhon, and Horus, and Osiris." 3231 8, LXV | rulers as reign cruelly and tyrannically, and such as make the kingly 3232 1, I | so Christians also, when tyrannized over by him who is called 3233 3, XXXVIII | of licentious men or of tyrants, or in some other wretched 3234 3, LXXXI | is pure and sincere, and un-mingled with any created thing whatever. 3235 6, LXXIII | the pure and virgin birth, unaccompanied by any corruption, of that 3236 1, XVIII | are to peruse them at once unaided, but have composed their 3237 1, XXI | preserves the immutability and unalterableness of the divine nature, is 3238 7, VII | leading a life of almost unapproachable excellence, intrepid, noble, 3239 6, XVII | relate to God, and which is unattainable by those who do not possess 3240 8, XLII | enough, Celsus has fallen unawares. Those demons or gods whom 3241 3, XXXII | presence foretold to the unbelieving Jews, "Destroy this temple, 3242 4, XXXVIII | detained,~Hope still within th' unbroken cell remained,~Nor fled 3243 4, XXXVIII | signification? But is it not uncandid, not to ridicule the former 3244 8, XXII | Lord's day. He also who is unceasingly preparing himself for the 3245 5, XXIII | they hold regarding the unchangeableness of things after a certain 3246 7, III | marvellous sayings, and unchangeably true." In regard to the 3247 3, LVII | them to superstition and to unchaste spectacles, and those, moreover, 3248 7, XXXII | not for that they would be unclothed, but clothed upon." Celsus 3249 4, XIV | incorruptible and simple, and uncompounded and indivisible.~ 3250 2, LV | powerful defence, you will unconsciously, in your support of Moses, 3251 8, LXX | together as long as the salt is uncorrupted: for "if the salt have lost 3252 2, LXII | the appearance of a soul uncovered by such a body. And hence 3253 8, L | its pale the coarse and uncultivated, as it does the irrational 3254 2, LI | the truth, although really undermining it, while denying that truth 3255 5, XIX | from place to place, yet it understands--as having meditated on the 3256 1, XLII | one of the most difficult undertakings that can be attempted, and 3257 6, XLV | is not most becoming, and undeserving of being treated with even 3258 8, L | all mankind. It is not an undignified thing, therefore, to reason 3259 1, XXIX | native of a very small and undistinguished island, but even, so to 3260 6, XXII | metals, it is varied and unequal; the sixth, of silver, to 3261 8, LII | constant revolution of the unerring stars, the converse motion 3262 7, VII | that of Isaiah, who with unexampled austerity walked naked and 3263 5, X | practice this brilliant and unfading wisdom, or who had secured 3264 3, XLIII | discuss these topics, by the unfair manner in which he deals 3265 8, LXIX | not to be ascribed to the unfaithfulness of God. But He had made 3266 8, XXIII | the lust of the flesh is unfit to keep it along with the 3267 5, XLVI | divine, but that some demon, unfriendly to men and to the true God, 3268 6, III | from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, 3269 4, VI | free the possessor from unhappiness. Nay, not even with the 3270 4, XXII | possessions, and performed unhindered the observances of their 3271 8, XXXI | preserve their piety pure and unimpaired, show their true character 3272 1, LXI | to confer no ordinary and unimportant blessings, so to speak, 3273 4, LXV | that piety is preserved uninjured amid the laws that are established 3274 8, LXXV | and Righteousness, who unites to God all who are resolved 3275 6, XVII | of God are invisible and unknowable, because God conceals Himself 3276 8, XXIII | bread of affliction," or "unleavened with bitter herbs," or why 3277 | unlikely 3278 2, XXXIV | able by incantations to unloose chains and to open doors, 3279 3, LXVIII | a state of cowardice or unmanliness to one of such high-toned 3280 4, XXXVIII | the cloud-gatherer: 'Oh, unmatched in art!~Exultest thou in 3281 5, LI | Jesus Christ is pure and unmixed with error, we are not commending 3282 3, XXXVI | did not abstain even from unnatural lusts, and that of the venerable 3283 1, LXVI | in a very miraculous and unnecessarily public manner, would not 3284 8, XXXII | expressed: therefore by unnurtured souls" they are not in any 3285 2, XL | is, moreover, in a very unphilosophical spirit that Celsus imagines 3286 5, XXXV | philosopher, acting very unphilosophically. In the same way, then, 3287 4, LIII | entertain even a thought unpleasing to Him, seeing that not 3288 3, LXXVIII | many would term them, the "unpolished." For such individuals, 3289 7, LIX | expressed in the more humble and unpretending language used by Jews and 3290 4, LXIV | invariably productive nor unproductive seasons, nor yet periods 3291 3, LVIII | of philosophy an idle and unprofitable occupation for their sons, 3292 6, VII | passage, that "instruction unquestioned goes astray;" and Jesus 3293 5, LVII | does it appear to me at all unreasonable, that those who believe 3294 8, L | even with the coarse and unrefined, and to try to bring them 3295 5, XV | might not appear to leave unrefuted the accusation of Celsus, 3296 4, XCI | terror, mark its spires unrolled,~And Jove's portent with 3297 5, XVI | that only those who are unscathed by the fire and the punishments 3298 4, XXXIX | withered, and sunburnt, and unshod, and without a home, sleeping 3299 3, LIII | every one that useth milk is unskilful in the word of righteousness; 3300 4, LXIX | workmanship, and executed it unskilfully, that God administers correction 3301 4, L | because I wished to show the unsoundness of the assertion of Celsus, 3302 1, XLIX | but the little faith of unstable and temporary believers. 3303 5, L | extermination, they were unsuccessful; for there was a divine 3304 6, XLII | continues, that a motherless and unsullied demon has the mastery over 3305 8, XV | Nevertheless, he leaves no means untried to persuade even those who 3306 2, XXVI | not guilty of inventing untruths, but such were their real 3307 5, LX | beholds, as in a mirror with unveiled face, the glory of the Lord" 3308 7, VI | where his prophets have ever unwashed feet, and sleep upon the 3309 2, XXI | Iambic poet of Paros, when upbraiding Lycambes with having violated 3310 1, XXVIII | birth from a virgin," and upbraids Him with being "born in 3311 4, V | the world, and that which upholdeth all things hath knowledge 3312 3, XL | all, and who created, and upholds, and governs the universe. 3313 7, XLI | superstition, that they may look upward through the Word of God 3314 1, XVII | crimes as Kronos did against Uranus, or Zeus against his father, 3315 8, VI | them to do so, and should urge them to set at nought a 3316 2, LIII | signs and wonders?" And urging more to the same effect, 3317 3, LIX | more appropriate term to use--to blessedness. And when 3318 3, LIII | meat. For every one that useth milk is unskilful in the 3319 7, VI | poets, who describes what usually took place, when, wishing 3320 6, LXV | mind, or the word that is uttered--I, too, admit that God is 3321 3, II | prophets, and reject others as utterers of false predictions, without 3322 4, V | does not give His place or vacate His own seat, so that one 3323 2, XXXVIII | the wandering life of a vagabond, and passing an anxious 3324 5, VIII | which he hath not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly 3325 8, LXXIII | And as we by our prayers vanquish all demons who stir up war, 3326 3, LVI | life, and from being at variance with those with whom they 3327 4, XCVIII | among living things, the variety of constitution which prevails 3328 3, LXXX | nature to ascend to the vaults of heaven, and in the super-celestial 3329 5, XLI | paying the penalty of its vaunting, not having a knowledge 3330 4, XXXIX | courageous, and hasty, and vehement; a keen hunter, perpet-ually 3331 3, XXVI | his way to Cyzicus, and he vehemently disputed the truth of the 3332 1, LXVI | Ichor, such as flows in the veins of the blessed gods." We 3333 1, XXXVI | omens, or by birds, or by ventriloquists, or by those who profess 3334 3, LV | and rustic character, not venturing to utter a word in the presence 3335 6, XXII | this star; the second to Venus, comparing her to the splendour 3336 5, LVII | express their opinion of the veracity or falsehood of this or 3337 1, XXV | beings to greater, and vice versa. And I do not dwell on this, 3338 2, XIII | lasted till the government of Vespasian, whose son Titus destroyed 3339 4, XXXVIII | forming god; the zone and vest~Were clasp'd and folded 3340 7, XXXII | which are, as it were, vestments which will not suffer those 3341 4, LVI | old as a garment; and as a vesture shall Thou fold them up, 3342 5, XLVI | Pappaeus the supreme God, vet we will not yield our assent 3343 4, XI | of time, agreeably to the vicissitude of all things, requires 3344 8, XXVIII | are looking upon a slain victim; for when they eat bread, 3345 4, LXXXI | occur among them wars and victories, and slaughterings of the 3346 1, XXVII | the people,--yet it proved victorious, as being the Word of God, 3347 8, XLIV | that those who meet death victoriously for the sake of religion 3348 3, XXVIII | recommendations of Apollo (viewed by us as a demon who has 3349 2, XX | converting them into traitors and villains!" Now, since you wish me 3350 3, LXI | order to make use of their villany against the men whom they 3351 1, XL | no order, but angry and vindictive men slander those whom they 3352 8, LXXII | all the gleanings of their vineyards are destroyed. Therefore 3353 2, XLVIII | stronger than all the poison of vipers. And these lame who have 3354 7, XLVIII | who maintain a perpetual virginity do so for no human honours, 3355 3, XXV | manifest the possession of virtue--you must show that they 3356 4, V | of him who wishes to live virtuously, or of him who is making 3357 5, XVII | remain at the time of the visitation which is to come upon the 3358 6, XLVIII | believers; since, as a soul vivifies and moves the body, which 3359 3, LXI | them to a very different vocation, viz. to bind up these wounds 3360 3, XXXIX | the kind of rhetoric in vogue in the courts of justice, 3361 7, VI | answer to the wishes of their votaries, introduces Chryses, who, 3362 6, XVII | knowledge of God has rarely been vouch-safed to men, and has been found 3363 1, XI | them? For who enters on a voyage, or contracts a marriage, 3364 1, XXVII | vulgar, and on account of its vulgarity and its want of reasoning 3365 2, XX | all your household shall wade in blood." Now from this 3366 8, XIV | not men of God, who would wage war against us, he added, " 3367 4, LXXXII | necessity for them, should be waged in a just and orderly way 3368 4, XCI | moan,~The drooping mother wailed her children gone.~The mother 3369 1, IX | of mere faith, but have waited) until they could give themselves 3370 3, LXIII | the good and virtuous man walketh humbly and orderly;" and 3371 6, XV | the one hand, because "he walks in things great and wonderful," 3372 3, LXIII | of flattery and piteous walling are contained in the Holy 3373 7, LXII | like those who speak to the walls, without knowing who the 3374 7, V | even to breathe upwards, wander hither and thither, at some 3375 8, IX | folly of men who in their wanderings have fallen away from Him 3376 4, LXIII | themselves to those who wanted them; that subsequently, 3377 5, LVIII | again, that of the angel to warn the parents "to take up 3378 2, XVIII | of denial, as having been warned of the consequences of these 3379 2, XLIX | disciples did not need to be so warned--but from such as gave themselves 3380 1, LXIV | towards man appeared, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing 3381 4, LVII | spring from an ox, and a wasp from a horse, and a beetle 3382 4, LIX | or of an ass, and to the wasps which come from a horse, 3383 7, LXIII | risk at the outset, while watching for the departure from the 3384 4, LVI | remainest: and they all shall wax old as a garment; and as 3385 6, LXVII | thrown themselves down by the wayside, and who were healed by 3386 6, XI | his own maxims would be weakened by the teaching of Simon. 3387 2, XVI | his objection instead of weakening it. For he is not acquainted 3388 1, XVI | described as affected by human weaknesses and passions.~ 3389 4, LXXV | aid, far superior to any weapon which wild beasts may seem 3390 2, LXVII | and great; so that they wearied themselves to find the door." 3391 4, XCIII | even assume the bodies of weasels in order to reveal the future! 3392 4, XCVI | the signs (of good or bad weather), and the approach of violent 3393 3, XVI | he should reply that "we weave together erroneous opinions 3394 6, LXXI | spiritually discerned"), weaves together (such a web) as 3395 2, LXX | towards the first day of the week, came Mary Magdalene, and 3396 2, XVII | reproaching those who were weeping around him, and endeavouring 3397 3, XLIII | Jupiter, some say that thou weft born on the mountains of 3398 8, XII | are two persons, let him weigh that passage, "And the multitude 3399 3, LXIX | time numerous and heavy weights, been able by practice and 3400 5, LX | from those who have not welcomed the way which is by Jesus 3401 3, LVIII | turns away from vice, and welcomes what is better, then know, 3402 4, LXXXI | men, with many arts and well-arranged laws; while constitutions, 3403 8, XXVII | if demons should not be well-disposed to them; for they are protected 3404 8, LXII | forth by Christians were well-founded, when they see the above 3405 2, II | see if there is not some well-grounded reason for such a statement 3406 7, LIV | Homer, to be excluded from a well-ordered state. For, indeed, Orpheus 3407 4, XXXVII | man became a living soul." Whereon Celsus, wishing maliciously 3408 8, X | the blood of the covenant, wherewith he was sanctified, an unholy 3409 6, XLII | between them, to the end that whichever party should fall into the 3410 4, XXXVIII | laughter; for example:--~"Whilome on earth the sons of men 3411 4, IX | need to employ against men whips, and chains, and tortures, 3412 6, XLII | Olympian hall,~Stunn'd in the whirl, and breathless with the 3413 3, LV | children to throw off the yoke, whispering that in the presence of 3414 6, XLVIII | this body--considered as a whole--to consist of those who 3415 1, LXII | notorious character, the very wickedest of tax-gatherers and sailors, 3416 2, XLVIII | Naaman the Syrian, and many widows in the days of Elijah the 3417 8, XXXIV | strength to "withstand the wiles of the devil," and who are 3418 1, XLIX | XLIX.~After this he wilfully sets aside, I know not why, 3419 2, XXV | number, manifesting the willingness of the spirit. For the expression, " 3420 4, XCI | curled around in many a winding fold.~The topmost branch 3421 4, XCI | painful way,~Floats on the winds, and rends the heaven with 3422 4, XCI | flew,~Seized by the beating wing, the monster slew:~Nor long 3423 4, XXXI | earth, or a likeness of any winged fowl that flieth under the 3424 4, LXXXIII | which makes provision for winter, as being nothing higher 3425 7, VI | Jupiter, "who rules over wintry Dodona, where his prophets 3426 8, LXVIII | governs all things, and who wisely arranges whatever belongs 3427 5, LVII | virtuous life, and their withdrawal from the flood of evils, 3428 3, LVII | you had charged us with withdrawing from the study of philosophy 3429 4, XLIII | persuaded that He never withdraws His providence from those 3430 4, XXXIX | persons imagine; but is withered, and sunburnt, and unshod, 3431 1, XLII | what statements he will withhold his belief, as having been 3432 2, LXXVIII | rise superior to all who withstood the progress of his doctrine-- 3433 2, XX | argument the following may be wittily compared: "If it is decreed 3434 4, XCII | serpents, and even foxes and wolves. For it has been observed 3435 6, XV | those thoughts that are wonderful--"humbles himself under the 3436 2, LI | its voice, nor a common wood-pigeon the same as a dove, so there 3437 4, LXXVI | which followed that of wool-carding and spinning; and again, 3438 2, L | is called God, or that is wor-shipped; so that he sitteth in the 3439 5, I | because we seek after many words--a thing which is forbidden, 3440 5, XXXIII | our hostile and insolent 'wordy' swords into ploughshares, 3441 3, XXVI | fuller, having closed his workshop, went to acquaint the relatives 3442 4, XXIII | his representation, the worms--that is, we ourselves--say 3443 6, L | world is, and of man, have woven together a web of sheer 3444 4, XXIII | subjoins the remark, that "such wranglings would be more endurable 3445 1, LI | in the cave where He was wrapped in swaddling-clothes. And 3446 4, XXXVIII | Son of Iapetus!' with wrathful heart~Spake the cloud-gatherer: ' 3447 8, XXXIV | with them, knowing that "we wrestle not against flesh and blood, 3448 1, LXIX | that He was also a great wrestler; having, on account of His 3449 8, LXXIII | keeping their hands pure, and wrestling in prayers to God on behalf 3450 4, VI | liberate from all their wretchedness those who do believe upon 3451 6, XXVIII | Cynic; while these impious wretches, as not being human beings, 3452 4, XXX | investigation of truth, to the wrigglings of worms or any other such 3453 4, XXXVI | older than Moses and his writings--that very Moses who is shown 3454 5, LV | heard, or had anywhere found written--whether held to be of divine 3455 4, LXX | and find a pretence of wrongdoing, as if his wickedness were 3456 8, IX | And the wonders which He wrought--through no magical art, 3457 4, LXVIII | marry a wife exactly like Xanthippe, and will be accused by 3458 4, XC | XC.~But we have a few remarks 3459 4, XCI | XCI.~But besides, if birds of 3460 4, XCII | XCII.~In my opinion, however, 3461 4, XCIII | XCIII.~For which reason, whatever 3462 4, XCIV | XCIV.~But if the soul of birds 3463 4, XCIX | XCIX.~In addition to all that 3464 4, XCV | XCV.~The true God, however, 3465 4, XCVI | XCVI.~We ought to take note, 3466 4, XCVII | XCVII.~How impious, indeed, is 3467 4, XCVIII | XCVIII.~I do not know, moreover, 3468 8, XXXII | eat or drink, or whatever y.e do, do all to the glory 3469 6, XXXVIII | the outer one of which was yellow, and the inner blue,--a 3470 | Yes 3471 3, XVI | from probable reason. And yet--for truth is precious--Celsus 3472 6, XXXIX | into the Greek language, yields the same etymology as Apollo; 3473 3, LXXIII | example, or to Lycurgus, or Zaleucus, or any other legislator, 3474 7, LIII | chosen as the object of your zealous homage some one of those 3475 1, LXII | their ship and their father Zebedee, and followed Jesus; for 3476 6, XXVI | iniquity is represented in Zechariah as sitting upon a "talent 3477 8, LXXII | the following passage from Zephaniah: "Prepare and rise early; 3478 8, XVII | Polycleitus, and among painters, Zeuxis and Apelles, whilst others 3479 5, XLVIII | was circumcised. And when Zipporah had learned this, she took 3480 4, XXXVIII | Under the forming god; the zone and vest~Were clasp'd and 3481 1, XXXIII | physiognomists, whether Zopyrus, or Loxus, or Polemon, or 3482 1, XVI | Pherecydes, and the Persian Zoroaster, and Pythagoras, discussed