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1 I, pref| since few make use of this heavenly benefit and gift, because
2 I, pref| rightly discuss respecting the heavenly precepts, by which we may
3 I, 1 | either of sex or of age, to heavenly pasture. For there is no
4 I, 11 | more avail than all the heavenly gods, and their ruler and
5 I, 11 | imagine, from the fervor of heavenly fire, or because he is the
6 I, 23 | worthy of the wisdom of heavenly training, who shall approach
7 II, 2 | earth, and destitute of heavenly things?"~Rather look to
8 II, 2 | is not befitting that the heavenly being should make himself
9 II, 2 | you deprive yourselves of heavenly benefits, and of your own
10 II, 3 | they should think only of heavenly things. False religious
11 II, 3 | inasmuch as they place heavenly things in things which are
12 II, 3 | of a divine mystery and a heavenly secret. And no man can know
13 II, 5 | AND NOT THE ELEMENTS OR HEAVENLY BODIES; AND THE OPINION
14 II, 5 | as to judge that all the heavenly bodies which have motion
15 II, 5 | they infer that all the heavenly bodies are gods, tends to
16 II, 6 | when they affirm that the heavenly fires and the other elements
17 II, 9 | incapable of perceiving heavenly things, because it is shut
18 II, 10 | man alone. For we, being a heavenly and immortal race, make
19 II, 13 | were, a vessel which this heavenly spirit may employ as a temporary
20 II, 14 | look up to and adore the heavenly bodies. And because they
21 II, 15 | lose the dignity of their heavenly nature. He plainly prohibited
22 II, 16 | being ignorant that from heavenly beings they were corrupted,
23 II, 17 | their true names, those heavenly names which are read in
24 II, 17 | feigned that there are many heavenly beings, and one king of
25 II, 18 | pour out His wrath with heavenly power and might, as~"Prophecies
26 II, 18 | downward, nor cast this heavenly countenance to the earth,
27 II, 18 | called forth to high and heavenly things. In the third place,
28 II, 19 | nothing divine except in heavenly things; it follows that
29 II, 19 | because there can be nothing heavenly in that which is made from
30 II, 19 | upon, that we may obtain heavenly things. For this is the
31 III, 6 | the causes and systems of heavenly things only, or natural
32 III, 10 | may know the nature of the heavenly objects. But we cannot by
33 III, 10 | means know the nature of the heavenly objects, because nothing
34 III, 12 | that it may effect some heavenly reward, since it treats
35 III, 12 | those who extinguish the heavenly souls together with the
36 III, 14 | bestowed wisdom also among His heavenly benefits), do you call her
37 III, 15 | in this the only true and heavenly wisdom, which had been unknown
38 III, 20 | into the secrets of that heavenly providence. We know that
39 III, 20 | secrets of the world and this heavenly temple with impious disputations,
40 III, 20 | to discuss the nature of heavenly things, he was unable even
41 III, 24 | accordance with the motion of the heavenly bodies; and thus that the
42 III, 26 | is open to all; and this heavenly light rises for all, as
43 IV, 3 | prove ungrateful for the heavenly benefits; and this is certainly
44 IV, 4 | is the inheritance of the heavenly kingdom, that is, the chief
45 IV, 5 | difficult it is to discuss heavenly subjects; but still the
46 IV, 7 | arrived, but that He sways a heavenly and eternal kingdom, concerning
47 IV, 8 | knowledge of God, and of the heavenly mystery to be revealed to
48 IV, 10 | might of an angel or with heavenly power, but in the form of
49 IV, 10 | were hungry, a shower of heavenly nourishment descended. Moreover,
50 IV, 10 | not only satisfied with heavenly bread, but also with more
51 IV, 11 | unwilling to send him with heavenly power and glory, that the
52 IV, 15 | though they were signs of heavenly power, the Jews esteemed
53 IV, 15 | and substantial, but by heavenly strength and power, which
54 IV, 15 | Word of God, relying upon heavenly strength and power. Nor
55 IV, 16 | can be judged a true and heavenly, and perpetual good, because
56 IV, 19 | things were done, even by the heavenly prodigies, they were not
57 IV, 20 | Since the inheritance is His heavenly kingdom, it is evident that
58 IV, 20 | divine race of the blessed, heavenly Jews."~But what that race
59 IV, 20 | to the inheritance of His heavenly kingdom.~
60 IV, 22 | in the true knowledge of heavenly learning. But, however,
61 IV, 22 | all would have obeyed the heavenly precepts, if the influence
62 IV, 24 | no difference between a heavenly and an earthly teacher.
63 IV, 24 | God, that he may by his heavenly authority impose upon men
64 IV, 25 | might appear that He was heavenly even in the form of man,
65 IV, 26 | something for the future. Heavenly influence opened the eyes
66 IV, 26 | truly blind who, not seeing heavenly things, and surrounded with
67 IV, 26 | hear the things which are heavenly and true, and worthy of
68 IV, 26 | were lately ignorant of heavenly things, having received
69 IV, 26 | might show the power of His heavenly majesty. Therefore, as His
70 IV, 27 | whom they shall see the heavenly mark, nor injure those whom
71 IV, 30 | them, and abandoning the heavenly road, have made for themselves
72 IV, 30 | sufficiently instructed in heavenly learning, when they were
73 V, 1 | cup be anointed with the heavenly honey of wisdom, that the
74 V, 9 | perfidy, have deserted the heavenly oath, and have consented
75 V, 15 | one is cut off from His heavenly benefits. For as He distributes
76 V, 16 | are altogether opposed to heavenly things. For as the wisdom
77 V, 20 | God, since it belongs to heavenly warfare, requires the greatest
78 V, 24 | await patiently that day of heavenly judgment, in which He Himself
79 VI, 1 | heaven, and have made that heavenly faculty the slave of the
80 VI, 2 | in their mind what those heavenly goods are, the greatness
81 VI, 2 | they would contemplate that heavenly light which we call the
82 VI, 2 | have no taste for anything heavenly, are recalled to the earth
83 VI, 2 | attribute to the gods a heavenly perception, but rather a
84 VI, 2 | altogether of the earth. For what heavenly influence can there be in
85 VI, 3 | age and race, into this heavenly path, because God, who is
86 VI, 4 | turns men away from the heavenly path, and leads them into
87 VI, 4 | eternal punishment. But that heavenly way is set forth as difficult
88 VI, 4 | has armed us with true and heavenly virtue, respecting which
89 VI, 6 | office, to call man away from heavenly things and sink him in earthly
90 VI, 6 | which is earnestly fixed on heavenly goods to be called away
91 VI, 6 | because it is not that heavenly principle, but is altogether
92 VI, 6 | God has instructed with heavenly precepts.~
93 VI, 8 | earthly images, but the heavenly God; not to measure all
94 VI, 8 | directed into the way; and that heavenly light, which is a much brighter
95 VI, 8 | path; that sacred, that heavenly law, which Marcus Tullius,
96 VI, 9 | speaks, who, in discussing heavenly things, relates the virtue
97 VI, 10 | we are all sprung from a heavenly seed; all have that same
98 VI, 17 | other hand, if it desires heavenly things, it is a virtue.
99 VI, 18 | receive the recompense of that heavenly and divine reward. The other
100 VI, 18 | widely removed not only front heavenly, but also from public and
101 VI, 21 | earthly things will not have heavenly things.~
102 VI, 24 | he says. A speech truly heavenly, had it not been preceded
103 VI, 24 | therefore, has obeyed all these heavenly precepts, he is a worshipper
104 VII, 1 | it, I say, to defend that heavenly justice? Of what avail to
105 VII, 1 | while he distrusts their heavenly reward, which God has appointed
106 VII, 1 | those which are present; heavenly things to earthly: and eternal
107 VII, 1 | as he was ignorant of the heavenly mystery, which is not learned
108 VII, 2 | knowledge of the truth and of heavenly things. And this knowledge,
109 VII, 3 | of the stars and of the heavenly bodies, which is harmonious
110 VII, 5 | below, He strengthened the heavenly things, and established
111 VII, 5 | one is earthly, the other heavenly, two lives have been assigned
112 VII, 5 | therefore has an end; but this heavenly one is as the soul, and
113 VII, 5 | when man, purified in the heavenly laver, lays aside his infancy
114 VII, 5 | that he may have divine and heavenly consolation. And he who
115 VII, 5 | has preferred earthly to heavenly goods. On this account,
116 VII, 6 | souls, which were born for heavenly pursuits. Let us now, in
117 VII, 8 | possess, appear divine and heavenly; because of the soul, which
118 VII, 9 | alone of all animals is heavenly and divine, whose body raised
119 VII, 9 | man alone makes use of the heavenly element. For, since the
120 VII, 9 | light, rising upward, and heavenly. But those things which
121 VII, 11 | frail goods, follow the heavenly religion of God, whose goods
122 VII, 12 | which is drawn out from heavenly fineness, when any violence
123 VII, 12 | earth; that which is of heavenly breath remains fixed, and
124 VII, 14 | future the formation of the heavenly people. For as, when all
125 VII, 14 | world, agreeing with the heavenly, announce the end and overthrow
126 VII, 15 | whole world, be beaten with heavenly stripes, that the righteous
127 VII, 16 | ascertain the courses of the heavenly bodies or the system of
128 VII, 20 | and happy, return to the heavenly abodes from which they had
129 VII, 23 | placed in the possession of heavenly goods, and enjoying the
130 VII, 24 | the thousand years of the heavenly rule in which righteousness
131 VII, 26 | away the worship of the heavenly and matchless God, that
132 VII, 27 | the eternal rewards of the heavenly treasure. And that we may
133 VII, 27 | those which are eternal and heavenly: with which reward the hardships
134 VII, 27 | the sun, with the other heavenly bodies, who by His power
135 VII, 27 | come, that being fed with heavenly food, they may lay aside