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 1    I, pref|           respecting the heavenly precepts, by which we may be able
 2    I, 4   |       torments and death. For the precepts of righteousness are distasteful
 3  III, 8   |          them? Shall we then seek precepts of living from these men,
 4  III, 14  |           you advise him that the precepts of philosophy ought to be
 5  III, 14  |          so contradictory? If the precepts of philosophy ought to be
 6  III, 15  |        since the diversity of its precepts hinders the right way and
 7  III, 15  |           who give most elaborate precepts in their school respect-modesty
 8  III, 16  |          good rather than to give precepts about duty to those shut
 9  III, 16  |         shut up in corners, which precepts are not observed even by
10  III, 16  |           the weight of their own precepts; for who would obey, when
11  III, 16  |            when they who give the precepts themselves teach disobedience?
12  III, 16  |         give right and honourable precepts; but unless you also practise
13  III, 21  |     instructed his hearers in the precepts of justice. Therefore, under
14  III, 22  |                      XXII. OF THE PRECEPTS OF PLATO, AND CENSURES OF
15  III, 26  |           the souls of men by the precepts of God, because of their
16  III, 26  |         but hide vices. But a few precepts of God so entirely change
17  III, 27  |             XXVII. HOW LITTLE THE PRECEPTS OF PHILOSOPHERS CONTRIBUTE
18  III, 27  |     approach the truth. But those precepts have no weight, because
19  III, 27  |          be willing to obey their precepts. since it is doubted whether
20  III, 27  |     reason why no one obeys their precepts; inasmuch as they either
21  III, 28  |        others? Or why do you give precepts of wisdom at all, if no
22  III, 29  |          he was giving to his son precepts of life drawn from philosophy,
23   IV, 3   |  instructs and improves men by no precepts of righteousness and virtue.
24   IV, 11  |          often resisted wholesome precepts, and departed from the divine
25   IV, 12  |      tribes of the earth obey His precepts. And also, when He shall
26   IV, 14  |           in my ways, and keep my precepts, Thou shalt judge my house,
27   IV, 14  |           in my ways, and keep my precepts, then Thou shalt judge my
28   IV, 14  |         of God were, and what His precepts, is neither doubtful nor
29   IV, 14  |        Him to walk. These are the precepts which He ordered to be observed.
30   IV, 16  |          He worked, and heard His precepts, and believed that He was
31   IV, 17  |           and earth. Thus all the precepts of the Jewish law have for
32   IV, 22  |          have obeyed the heavenly precepts, if the influence and power
33   IV, 23  |                  XXIII. OF GIVING PRECEPTS, AND ACTING.~If any one
34   IV, 23  |           If any one gives to men precepts for living, and moulds the
35   IV, 23  |           he shall not do so, his precepts are annulled. For if the
36   IV, 23  |          should disparage his own precepts, and make his instruction
37   IV, 23  |           he hears another giving precepts, is unwilling that the necessity
38   IV, 23  |       pass, that no one obeys the precepts of the philosophers. For
39   IV, 23  |           well! But they who give precepts, without carrying them out
40   IV, 24  |        practice. For he who gives precepts for the life, ought to remove
41   IV, 24  |          that by carrying out his precepts to their completion in actions,
42   IV, 25  |         instruct mortals with the precepts of His righteousness, willed
43   IV, 26  |        who might both by salutary precepts train men to innocence,
44    V, 3   |         inasmuch as both by their precepts and in reality they followed
45    V, 5   |       they are accustomed to give precepts by circumlocutions), they
46    V, 8   |       wholesomeness of the divine precepts infused into the breasts
47    V, 16  |       particular among the divine precepts: "He that exalteth himself
48    V, 23  |       into luxury and despise the precepts of God; as those ancestors
49    V, 23  |          if they did not obey His precepts. Therefore, lest they should
50   VI, 2   |           profitable than to give precepts for living. But if this
51   VI, 2   |         who are able to give true precepts, being taught and enlightened
52   VI, 2   |          perfect. For while their precepts remain, which they are accustomed
53   VI, 6   |    advance further. But all their precepts, and all the things which
54   VI, 6   |       philosophers, who even give precepts for injustice, test folly
55   VI, 6   |          instructed with heavenly precepts.~
56   VI, 8   |      explained this also, in what precepts the law itself consisted,
57   VI, 9   |      divine words and life-giving precepts; he speaks, who, in discussing
58   VI, 10  |           render it. There are no precepts of philosophers to this
59   VI, 12  |   testified that he does not give precepts with reference to true justice,
60   VI, 12  |         so much of those who give precepts, as of those who suggest
61   VI, 12  |          you from fear. All these precepts are not given to you alone,
62   VI, 18  |          he desired to obey these precepts of the philosophers, destroyed
63   VI, 19  |        may be understood from the precepts of God Himself, who commands
64   VI, 24  |         obeyed all these heavenly precepts, he is a worshipper of the
65  VII, 1   |           incredible; because the precepts about self-restraint wound
66  VII, 1   |           with extended sway. The precepts which God gives for justice,
67  VII, 14  | righteousness by the doctrine and precepts of God. And as then a mortal
68  VII, 27  |        breasts with truth-telling precepts, and fixed a limit to lust