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  1    I      |              BOOK I. OF THE FALSE WORSHIP OF THE GODS.~
  2    I, pref|           the minds of men to the worship of the true majesty. Nor
  3    I, 1   |           His religion and divine worship, to whom can I rather appeal,
  4    I, 5   |       deities which we separately worship and honour are dependent."
  5    I, 6   |         honour him with religious worship. And although he was a man,
  6    I, 6   |           to be worshipped:--~3. "Worship Him who is alone the ruler
  7    I, 7   |          the gods think that they worship those beings whom we call
  8    I, 8   |           great majesty, they who worship the gods sometimes appear
  9    I, 8   |   ignorant and foolish regard and worship as gods. Why, then, some
 10    I, 11  |          object of veneration and worship? But what is the meaning
 11    I, 11  |        feigned by the poets, they worship that of which they are ignorant.
 12    I, 11  |      against the objects of their worship, but that they may by variously
 13    I, 11  |       this, they affirm that they worship Him, but that it is their
 14    I, 11  |          without the accompanying worship of his wife and daughter.
 15    I, 16  |  existence of female deities, and worship them, are unconciously brought
 16    I, 17  |          and testifies that their worship consists of almost old-womanly
 17    I, 17  |            any claim to religious worship, on whose part more adulteries
 18    I, 18  |          Vulcan. Therefore let us worship those also who taught the
 19    I, 18  |          any one should leave the worship of Him who created the earth
 20    I, 19  |         IMPOSSIBLE FOR ANY ONE TO WORSHIP THE TRUE GOD TOGETHER WITH
 21    I, 19  |      entitled to their respective worship. First of all, it has never
 22    I, 20  |       only harlot whom the Romans worship, but also Faula, who was,
 23    I, 20  |         youth, and wished them to worship gods of profligacy, in those
 24    I, 20  |         for no other religion and worship is to be held but that of
 25    I, 20  |         establish priests for the worship of vain and senseless objects ?
 26    I, 20  |        deities. For they who thus worship the virtues--that is, who
 27    I, 20  |         however, do they cease to worship those things which they
 28    I, 20  |           from and hate. For they worship with incense and the tips
 29    I, 20  |      regarded these as objects of worship may be said to be more foolish
 30    I, 20  |           than the Egyptians, who worship certain monstrous and ridiculous
 31    I, 20  |          shall I say of those who worship a rude and shapeless stone
 32    I, 20  |          shall I say of those who worship such objects, unless--that
 33    I, 21  |         live like cattle, than to worship deities so impious. profane,
 34    I, 21  |           first to understand the worship of the deity, that therefore
 35    I, 21  |        who did not understand the worship of the deity, since all
 36    I, 22  |           the first author of the worship of the gods. Didymus, in
 37    I, 22  |       world the observance of his worship, and gave an example for
 38    I, 22  |          yet a boy, he taught the worship of the gods, namely, the
 39   II, 1   |           THE TRUE GOD, WHOM THEY WORSHIP IN ADVERSITY AND DESPISE
 40   II, 1   |      depravity, and undertake the worship of their true Parent. I
 41   II, 1   |          only befitting object of worship is, above all others, the
 42   II, 1   |        who do not acknowledge the worship of Him whom man cannot altogether
 43   II, 1   |        heaven-sprung being to the worship of earthly objects. For
 44   II, 2   |     LIKENESS OF GOD, AND THE TRUE WORSHIP OF HIM.~What madness is
 45   II, 2   |           who is so foolish as to worship them? If among the absent,
 46   II, 2   |         his moral treatises: They worship the images of the gods,
 47   II, 2   |          a lodging, is but earth. Worship a living being, that you
 48   II, 3   |       perverseness persist in the worship of those very objects which
 49   II, 3   |        same error? I see that you worship things of earth made by
 50   II, 3   |   character. They, therefore, who worship images are mere bodies without
 51   II, 3   |       prostrate themselves to the worship of earthly things; for he
 52   II, 3   |           that the ceremonies and worship of the gods is an unavailing
 53   II, 3   |          to possess something; or worship nothing at all, that they
 54   II, 4   |        god whom you would rightly worship:--~"Written law and the
 55   II, 4   |          man and spoiler of their worship should not die before he
 56   II, 5   |           see, began to adore and worship His works. Nor were they
 57   II, 5   |          rites and on what day to worship each, with what names and
 58   II, 5   |        unless perhaps we ought to worship gods so innumerable without
 59   II, 6   |      endurable; for the Egyptians worship even these. But the matter
 60   II, 7   |          are senseless, since you worship that which you have proved
 61   II, 14  |       receive from his father the worship of God, being cursed by
 62   II, 14  |          animals, that they might worship them; the authors of which
 63   II, 14  |   elements of the world, began to worship the heaven, the sun, the
 64   II, 14  |   therefore, who contend that the worship of the gods was from the
 65   II, 15  |        out libations of wine, and worship the wise demons as gods
 66   II, 17  |         the minds of men from the worship of the true God, cause the
 67   II, 17  |           themselves the name and worship of gods; not that they desire
 68   II, 17  |      strive to turn away from the worship and knowledge of the true
 69   II, 18  |         AND VENGEANCE OF GOD, THE WORSHIP OF DEMONS, AND FALSE RELIGIONS.~
 70   II, 18  |         and that we may adore and worship nothing except the single
 71   II, 19  |                       XIX. OF THE WORSHIP OF IMAGES AND EARTHLY OBJECTS.~
 72  III, 9   |           THE CHIEF GOOD, AND THE WORSHIP OF THE TRUE GOD, AND A REFUTATION
 73  III, 9   |          God is the reverence and worship of the common Parent of
 74  III, 10  |       PROPERTY OF MAN TO KNOW AND WORSHIP GOD.~Therefore the chief
 75  III, 12  |           existence either in the worship of the gods or in philosophy;
 76  III, 14  |          this god whose image you worship as he sits in the Capitol,
 77  III, 28  |           the religious and pious worship of Him; and since the philosophers
 78  III, 30  |          alone, the knowledge and worship of God: this is our tenet,
 79   IV, 1   |          all things, men began to worship the senseless works of their
 80   IV, 3   |          FATHER OF EVERY ONE.~The worship of the gods, as I have taught
 81   IV, 3   |       truth, but only the rite of worship, which does not consist
 82   IV, 3   |           be true; because in our worship we ought to be wise, that
 83   IV, 3   |         proper object and mode of worship, and in our wisdom to worship,
 84   IV, 3   |     worship, and in our wisdom to worship, that is, to complete our
 85   IV, 3   |           is nothing else but the worship of the true God with just
 86   IV, 3   |           adoration. But that the worship of many gods is not in accordance
 87   IV, 3   |          one only), therefore the worship of many gods is contrary
 88   IV, 3   |         each other? Therefore the worship of many gods is contrary
 89   IV, 3   |    Therefore there can be no true worship of many gods; just as that
 90   IV, 4   |           of God comes first, His worship is the result of knowledge.
 91   IV, 4   |       philosophers, and those who worship many gods, either resemble
 92   IV, 4   |           they did not render the worship due to Him as to the supreme
 93   IV, 4   |     Therefore it is not lawful to worship those by whom man was not
 94   IV, 10  |      wonderful deeds, and sow the worship of God throughout the whole
 95   IV, 11  |       going astray to the impious worship of false gods, then God
 96   IV, 14  |           all nations to the true worship of God. This is the faithful
 97   IV, 14  |           that wickedness and the worship of false gods had so prevailed
 98   IV, 14  |           and turned aside to the worship of images, and when rebuked
 99   IV, 14  |       from their impious and vain worship to the knowledge and worship
100   IV, 14  |      worship to the knowledge and worship of the true God; and also
101   IV, 16  |      teeth as a reproach: that we worship a man, and one who was visited
102   IV, 16  |          regarded as an object of worship even when alive and present
103   IV, 17  |           themselves with mud who worship gods, that is, who worship
104   IV, 17  |        worship gods, that is, who worship mud and earth. Thus all
105   IV, 25  |         the earth a true and holy worship. But, however, that it might
106   IV, 26  |        the darkness of ignorance, worship earthly and frail things.
107   IV, 26  |      together at once to know and worship Him. Lastly, no nation is
108   IV, 27  |           we unite the honour and worship of each kind? If, on the
109   IV, 27  |        founded various systems of worship for themselves through different
110   IV, 28  |       things which related to the worship of the gods, were called
111   IV, 28  |   superstition are engaged in the worship of the same gods, there
112   IV, 28  |        the things relating to the worship of the gods are called religious
113   IV, 28  |        entire difference what you worship, not how you worship, or
114   IV, 28  |          you worship, not how you worship, or what prayer you offer.
115   IV, 28  |        they are superstitious who worship many and false gods. We,
116   IV, 29  |          how, when we say that we worship one God only, we nevertheless
117   IV, 29  |       Father only, as he does not worship the Son, so he does not
118   IV, 29  |           the Son, so he does not worship even the Father. But he
119   IV, 30  |    carelessness lost the name and worship of God. For when they are
120   IV, 30  |          alone which retains true worship. This is the fountain of
121    V, 2   |         true way, that is, to the worship of the gods, by whose power
122    V, 2   |       mind, having undertaken the worship of the gods, but also that,
123    V, 3   |        senseless one, does no one worship Apollonius in the place
124    V, 5   |   Saturnus reigned, the religious worship of the gods not having yet
125    V, 5   |           corrupted and ceased to worship God, and had begun to esteem
126    V, 5   |           without reason. For the worship of God being taken away,
127    V, 6   |         them away from God to the worship of himself; and the terror
128    V, 6   |      consecrated as gods, and the worship of many deities undertaken,
129    V, 7   |           the pious and religious worship of the one God. But perhaps
130    V, 8   |         TEMPLE OF GOD, AND OF HIS WORSHIP,THAT ALL VICES MAY BE SUBDUED. ~
131    V, 8   |        means than by beginning to worship the true God. But you long
132    V, 8   |           on the earth, while the worship of false gods continues,
133    V, 8   |        deities whom you impiously worship were not yet produced, and
134    V, 8   |         not yet produced, and the worship of the one God must have
135    V, 8   |  Therefore the unjust and impious worship of the gods has introduced
136    V, 9   |     temples of the gods whom they worship; and, to speak of things
137    V, 10  |       depraved in their religious worship, punishes them with heavy
138    V, 10  |       innocence, yet because they worship gods whose impious and profane
139    V, 10  |         the shedding of blood who worship bloodthirsty deities, Mars
140    V, 10  |           spare their parents who worship Jupiter, who drove out his
141    V, 10  |       spare their own infants who worship Saturnus? how shall they
142    V, 10  |          they uphold chastity who worship a goddess who is naked,
143    V, 10  |          restrain their lusts who worship Jupiter, Hercules, Liber,
144    V, 10  |       propitiate the god whom you worship, there is need of those
145    V, 10  |          since the most religious worship is to imitate.~
146    V, 12  |          generally with those who worship gods, let us have your permission
147    V, 14  |           which I am unwilling to worship, or of abstaining from the
148    V, 14  |         or of abstaining from the worship of that which I wish to
149    V, 14  |           of that which I wish to worship? What further will now be
150    V, 15  |        this knowledge is that you worship Him, it is plain that he
151    V, 20  |        exhort us to undertake the worship of their gods; let them
152    V, 20  |          reward there is in their worship, and what punishment awaits
153    V, 20  |          for some truer object of worship. "Hence rites of mystic
154    V, 20  |     people may not know what they worship. But since we are acquainted
155    V, 20  |           the dead! Therefore the worship of God, since it belongs
156    V, 20  |          crimes how evil it is to worship, since, defiled by all crimes,
157    V, 21  |                       XXI. OF THE WORSHIP OF OTHER GODS AND THE TRUE
158    V, 21  |         the object or the mode of worship, blindly and unconsciously
159    V, 21  | irreligious than those who do not worship them at all. Cicero, in
160    V, 21  |       despair about God, whom you worship on this account, because
161    V, 21  |          willing or unwilling, to worship our God, who is the God
162    V, 21  |         angry if any one does not worship Him. For we trust in the
163    V, 21  |          against those who do not worship them. From which it may
164    V, 21  |  understood how it is not good to worship their gods, since men ought
165    V, 21  |      nation of the Egyptians, who worship the most disgraceful figures
166    V, 21  |           when they say that they worship the gods, yet publicly and
167    V, 21  |       angry with those who do not worship them. Moreover, when they
168    V, 22  |        short, are they who do not worship Him rich, and powerful,
169    V, 22  |          they both judge that the worship of God is worthless, in
170    V, 23  |          by the unjust causes the worship of their gods to be regarded
171    V, 23  |       numbers are driven from the worship of the false gods by their
172    V, 23  |           without reason that the worship of the gods is considered
173   VI      |                  BOOK VI. OF TRUE WORSHIP.~
174   VI, 1   |                         I. OF THE WORSHIP OF THE TRUE GOD, AND OF
175   VI, 1   |          OF INNOCENCY, AND OF THE WORSHIP OF FALSE GODS.~We have completed
176   VI, 1   |         pure and uncorrupted mind worship Him who made the sun and
177   VI, 1   |         elucidated by the mode of worship itself. For that sacred
178   VI, 1   |         not what constitutes true worship.~
179   VI, 2   |                        II. OF THE WORSHIP OF FALSE GODS AND THE TRUE
180   VI, 2   |           are dead, as from their worship itself, which is altogether
181   VI, 2   |         from heaven; this is true worship, in which the mind of the
182   VI, 5   |         to know God, virtue is to worship Him: the former implies
183   VI, 7   |           foolish; namely, in the worship of the gods, in which he
184   VI, 7   |          agreement, we follow and worship one God; and it is narrow,
185   VI, 9   |    Himself, to obey Him alone, to worship Him alone. For he cannot
186   VI, 9   |          in the acknowledging and worship of God; all the hope and
187   VI, 9   |           our true Father, and to worship Him alone with the piety
188   VI, 20  |          he has departed from the worship of God, and has be-taken
189   VI, 25  |    concerning justice: "Adore and worship this word, O son." But the
190   VI, 25  |        this word, O son." But the worship of God consists of one thing,
191   VI, 25  |           chief ceremonial in the worship of God is praise from the
192  VII, 1   |         Of what avail to hold the worship of God with great difficulties,
193  VII, 5   |         things is, that he should worship God. For he who understands
194  VII, 5   |         then," he says, "does the worship paid by man confer on God,
195  VII, 5   |      everlasting as He is, to the worship and contemplation of whom
196  VII, 5   |         which is comprised in the worship of God, since God raised
197  VII, 5   |          as we have shown, is the worship of the true God.~
198  VII, 6   |           HOW UNPROFITABLE IS THE WORSHIP OF FALSE GODS.~Now let us
199  VII, 6   |         for this end, that we may worship Him; we worship Him for
200  VII, 6   |       that we may worship Him; we worship Him for this end that we
201  VII, 6   |         of our labours, since the worship of God consists of the greatest
202  VII, 6   |        anything reasonable in the worship of these gods; for if they
203  VII, 6   |      principle is involved in the worship of the gods, or by whom
204  VII, 6   |          the gods obtain from the worship of those who after death
205  VII, 11  |           to the body desires the worship of God, which consists in
206  VII, 13  |           man was created for the worship of God. and for receiving
207  VII, 17  |         he shall turn many to the worship of God; and when his works
208  VII, 22  |         are driven to the impious worship of gods made with hands,
209  VII, 22  |          betake themselves to the worship and religion of the one
210  VII, 26  |        our wisdom, which they who worship frail objects, or maintain
211  VII, 26  |        the images of the dead, we worship the living and true God.
212  VII, 26  |           wished to take away the worship of the heavenly and matchless