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1 I, pref| secret of the Most High God, who created all things,
2 I, pref| be no difference between God and man, if human thought.
3 I, pref| man by his own efforts, God did not suffer man any longer
4 I, 1 | of immortality, and of God, that we may put an end
5 I, 1 | of the one and only true God. For when that most happy
6 I, 1 | in which the Most High God raised you to the prosperous
7 I, 1 | return for which action God will grant to you happiness,
8 I, 1 | religion, and since we follow God, the teacher of wisdom and
9 I, 2 | by the providence of what God all this visible universe
10 I, 3 | GOVERNED BY THE POWER OF ONE GOD OR OF MANY.~Let the commencement
11 I, 3 | governed by the power of one God or of many. There is no
12 I, 3 | government of so vast a mass. But God, who is the Eternal Mind,
13 I, 3 | small part of the whole. But God, if He is perfect, as He
14 I, 3 | destruction is far removed from God, because He is incorruptible
15 I, 3 | incapable of division. Therefore God is one, if that which admits
16 I, 3 | if he thinks that the one God, who had power to create
17 I, 3 | the power and wisdom of God it was made out of nothing--
18 I, 3 | such as we hold the one God to be. But this cannot possibly
19 I, 3 | cannot be the same. For if God is a title of the highest
20 I, 3 | to obey the one greatest God. But because they who hold
21 I, 4 | IV. THAT THE ONE GOD WAS FORETOLD EVEN BY THE
22 I, 4 | proclaim and declare the one God; for, being filled with
23 I, 4 | the inspiration of the one God, they predicted things to
24 I, 4 | because they proclaim one God, they were either madmen
25 I, 4 | this end were they sent by God, that they should both be
26 I, 4 | the unstored food which God had supplied; and these
27 I, 4 | they proclaimed the one God with the same prophetic
28 I, 5 | in proving the unity of God; not that they had ascertained
29 I, 5 | speaks of the true and great God as the first-born because
30 I, 5 | the heaven as the primeval god, because he saw that it
31 I, 5 | led him to that first-born god, to whom he assigns and
32 I, 5 | his commencement not from God the Creator, but from chaos,
33 I, 5 | Who, then, made it except God, to whose power all things
34 I, 5 | speaks respecting the highest God, whom he calls Mind and
35 I, 5 | universe was arranged by God, whom he calls the Framer
36 I, 5 | were produced, and that God was the mind which formed
37 I, 5 | cause of their production in God. Pythagoras thus defined
38 I, 5 | thus defined the being of God, "as a soul passing to and
39 I, 5 | life." Anaxagoras said that God was an infinite mind, which
40 I, 5 | were many, but that the God of nature was one only;
41 I, 5 | offspring." Chrysippus speaks of God as a natural power endowed
42 I, 5 | same which is called by us God. Nor does the diversity
43 I, 5 | maintains the rule of one God; nor does he name Him Aether,
44 I, 5 | Nature, but, as He truly is, God, and that this universe,
45 I, 5 | frequently acknowledges God, and calls Him supreme,
46 I, 5 | Nothing is superior to God: the world must therefore
47 I, 5 | governed by Him. Therefore God is obedient or subject to
48 I, 5 | governs all nature." But what God Himself is he defines in
49 I, 5 | his Consolation: "Nor can God Himself, as He is comprehended
50 I, 5 | Ruler of the world, and the God or heaven and of all gods,
51 I, 5 | speak on the subject of God! But these things I put
52 I, 5 | that those things which God made for the use of man,
53 I, 6 | of the supreme and only God, and makes mention of Him
54 I, 6 | These are his own words: "God is one, but He who is one
55 I, 6 | self-existent is without a name." God, therefore, has no name,
56 I, 6 | mark and appellation. But God, because He is always one,
57 I, 6 | Sibyls, then, proclaim one God, and especially the Erythraean,
58 I, 6 | testimonies respecting the one God:--~1. "One God, who is alone,
59 I, 6 | respecting the one God:--~1. "One God, who is alone, most mighty,
60 I, 6 | This is the only supreme God, who made the heaven, and
61 I, 6 | But there is one only God of pre-eminent power, who
62 I, 6 | she conveyed the voice of God to men, thus spoke:--~4. "
63 I, 6 | 4. "I am the one only God, and there is no other God."~
64 I, 6 | God, and there is no other God."~I would now follow up
65 I, 7 | asked who He was, or what God was at all, replied in twenty-one
66 I, 7 | dwelling in fire,~This is God; and we His messengers are
67 I, 7 | are a slight portion of God."~Can any one suspect that
68 I, 7 | above, not only speaks of God as "without a mother," as
69 I, 7 | universe, one Father, one God.~But perchance some one
70 I, 7 | Hortensius asks in Cicero: If God is one only, what solitude
71 I, 7 | in his Exhortations that God produced ministers of His
72 I, 7 | the command and will of God. Nor, however, are they
73 I, 7 | ministers of the Supreme God, there is no reason why
74 I, 7 | who say that there is one God, and deny that there are
75 I, 7 | they do injury to the true God, whose name they set forth,
76 I, 7 | shows that the ministers of God ought not to be called gods,
77 I, 7 | himself among the angels of God, and then in other responses
78 I, 7 | the scourge of the true God and to everlasting punishment?
79 I, 7 | subdued beneath the scourge of God."~We speak on the subject
80 I, 7 | who always stand beside God.~Therefore let men withdraw
81 I, 7 | another formed us; but God of His own power made Himself.~
82 I, 8 | VIII. THAT GOD IS WITHOUT A BODY, NOR DOES
83 I, 8 | power and providence of one God, whose energy and majesty
84 I, 8 | difficult or impossible for God, who by His providence designed,
85 I, 8 | It is impossible for a God to be fashioned from the
86 I, 8 | removed from the nature of God as that operation which
87 I, 8 | by mutual succession. But God, who is immortal, has no
88 I, 8 | of the female sex, since God, who is almighty, is able
89 I, 8 | think it impossible for God Himself to have offspring
90 I, 9 | him to be most like to a god. I could wish that he had
91 I, 9 | he judged to be like to a god. For he is not to be thought
92 I, 9 | considers what the works of God are, he will at once judge
93 I, 9 | this he whom men consider a god? But his heir Philoctetes
94 I, 10 | struck with lightning by a god. Tarquitius, in a dissertation
95 I, 11 | Rhea. How can he appear a god, or be believed, as the
96 I, 11 | Jupiter? I see that one god was king in the earliest
97 I, 11 | foreknowledge not befitting a god; for had not Themis related
98 I, 11 | divine, he is not indeed a god; for the name of divinity
99 I, 11 | divinity is derived from god, as humanity is from man.
100 I, 11 | which power belongs to God alone; for how can he impart
101 I, 11 | might have had another god as their ruler, if Saturn
102 I, 11 | who spoke about him as a god, that they might not weaken
103 I, 11 | Jupiter who is called by you a god, if it is not he who was
104 I, 11 | unsuited to the character of a god, they introduced two Jupiters,
105 I, 11 | transferred the name of a man to God, who, as we have already
106 I, 11 | of Jupiter to the Supreme God. For some are in the habit
107 I, 11 | convinced of the unity of God, since they cannot deny
108 I, 11 | which is ill adapted to God: for to help is the part
109 I, 11 | is small. No one implores God to help him, but to preserve
110 I, 11 | more unsuitable is it to God, who is our true Father,
111 I, 11 | that he is only aided by God. Therefore he is not only
112 I, 11 | island. How, therefore, can a god be alive in one place, and
113 I, 11 | there was in him worthy of a god, especially that he is related
114 I, 11 | befitting the character of a god, as a just government and
115 I, 11 | consider him as the Supreme God; for I see that there is
116 I, 11 | But I am in search of a God beyond whom nothing has
117 I, 11 | how can he be the chief God, since he owes his origin
118 I, 12 | circumstance he is not now a god, inasmuch as he has ceased
119 I, 13 | any one esteems him as a god who feared a co-heir; whereas,
120 I, 13 | explained. The scythe-bearing god came to the Tuscan river
121 I, 13 | arrival of the stranger god."~Not only therefore all
122 I, 13 | one imagine him to be a god, who was driven into banishment,
123 I, 15 | the presence of the mighty God,~And make these offerings?"~
124 I, 15 | Romans, Julius was made a god, because it pleased a guilty
125 I, 15 | Antony; Quirinus was made a god, because it seemed good
126 I, 15 | his honour, that he was a god, and was called by the name
127 I, 16 | the existence of the true God and refute false deities.
128 I, 16 | cannot be the case with a God. But let the matter be as
129 I, 16 | females more feeble. But a god is not liable to feebleness;
130 I, 18 | guilt, and become enemies to God, in contempt of whom they
131 I, 18 | corn itself, or the vine? God, indeed, may have left these
132 I, 19 | ONE TO WORSHIP THE TRUE GOD TOGETHER WITH FALSE DEITIES.~
133 I, 19 | also been a worshipper of God. Nor can this possibly happen.
134 I, 19 | that He is the one and only God. The excellent poet exclaims,
135 I, 19 | with themselves: Because God cannot be struck with lightning,
136 I, 19 | question was a man, and not a god. For the falsehood of the
137 I, 20 | held but that of the one God. To what purport is it,
138 I, 20 | supplications to him, as to the god who is the guardian of boundaries;
139 I, 21 | they imagined that the god was angry with them; and
140 I, 21 | excellently in his Fanatic: "If a god compels this, he does it
141 I, 21 | be offered to the swift god;" so in this case no more
142 I, 21 | and the memory of the true God was taken away. They ought
143 II, 1 | MEN IGNORANT OF THE TRUE GOD, WHOM THEY WORSHIP IN ADVERSITY
144 II, 1 | assert the majesty of the one God, undertaking the more useful
145 II, 1 | that we are a care to no God, or that we are about to
146 II, 1 | that the majesty of the one God, which keeps together and
147 II, 1 | dead to the true and living God, and those who are of the
148 II, 1 | acknowledge the Supreme God, what pardon can they hope
149 II, 1 | or a number of gods, but God; so entirely does the truth
150 II, 1 | For then most of all does God escape the memory of men,
151 II, 1 | them, then they remember God. If the terror of war shall
152 II, 1 | they betake themselves to God, aid is implored from God,
153 II, 1 | God, aid is implored from God, God is entreated to suc-cour
154 II, 1 | aid is implored from God, God is entreated to suc-cour
155 II, 1 | being furious, it is this God whom he invokes. If any
156 II, 1 | for food, he appeals to God alone, and by His divine
157 II, 1 | Thus they never remember God, unless it be while they
158 II, 1 | them with garlands. But to God, whom they called upon in
159 II, 1 | there arises impiety towards God. From what cause can we
160 II, 1 | given to us by the Creator God, it is evident that these
161 II, 1 | to man without any cause. God willed that we should look
162 II, 1 | that since we cannot see God with our eyes, we may with
163 II, 2 | OF THE TRUE LIKENESS OF GOD, AND THE TRUE WORSHIP OF
164 II, 2 | hand. But in the case of God, whose spirit and influence
165 II, 2 | image of the ever-living God ought to be living and endued
166 II, 2 | that these images resemble God, which have neither perception
167 II, 2 | Therefore the image of God is not that which is fashioned
168 II, 2 | anything in the image of a god, in which there is nothing
169 II, 2 | heaven, to the sight of which God your Creator raised you.
170 II, 3 | surprise if they do I not see God, when they themselves do
171 II, 3 | unless he is taught by God. Thus philosophers have
172 II, 3 | assigned to us, to whom God has delivered the knowledge
173 II, 4 | decided that it should be a god. Accordingly I am a god,
174 II, 4 | god. Accordingly I am a god, a very greatterror to thieves
175 II, 4 | to offer as a gift to the god whom you would rightly worship:--~"
176 II, 5 | V. THAT GOD ONLY, THE CREATOR OF ALL
177 II, 5 | dwelling-place of the true God; who suspended the earth
178 II, 5 | better world," who is called God, whose beginning cannot
179 II, 5 | understands the existence of God: the force and sum of which
180 II, 5 | they admired the works of God, that is, the heaven with
181 II, 5 | to their most indulgent God and Father. But what wonder
182 II, 5 | regularity? Undoubtedly God, the framer of the universe,
183 II, 5 | Was it then impossible for God to plan and create the originals,
184 II, 5 | but it is the design of God, who both made and governs
185 II, 5 | does not understand why God contrived them? Doubtless
186 II, 5 | lights were appointed by God to remove the gloom of darkness!
187 II, 5 | number, and of such a figure, God placed in theheaven; and
188 II, 6 | UNIVERSE NOR THE ELEMENTS ARE GOD, NOR ARE THEY POSSESSED
189 II, 6 | cultivate for food, is not a god, then the plains and mountains
190 II, 6 | earth cannot appear to be God. In like manner, if the
191 II, 6 | drinking and bathing, is not a god, neither are the fountains
192 II, 6 | cannot be considered as God. But if neither the heaven,
193 II, 6 | world altogether is not God; whereas the same Stoics
194 II, 6 | and wise, and therefore God. But in this they are so
195 II, 6 | the world. For the same God who created the world, also
196 II, 6 | possessed of sensibility, and is God, did not perceive the consequences
197 II, 6 | contrary, if the world is God, its parts also are plainly
198 II, 6 | immortal: therefore man also is God, because he is, as you say,
199 II, 6 | Therefore the world is neither god, nor living, if it has been
200 II, 6 | builder of the world, even God; and the world which has
201 II, 6 | that the world itself is God! How is it possible that
202 II, 6 | a great heap of gods one God can be made up? If the stars
203 II, 6 | follows that the world is not God, but the dwelling-place
204 II, 6 | gods. But if the world is God, it follows that all the
205 II, 6 | not gods, but members of God, which clearly cannot by
206 II, 6 | themselves take the name of God. For no one can rightly
207 II, 6 | abode, it is neither itself God, nor are the elements which
208 II, 6 | of itself, is subject to God its Maker, who made it for
209 II, 7 | VII. OF GOD, AND THE RELIGIOUS RITES
210 II, 7 | elements, that is, the works of God, to God Himself; secondly,
211 II, 7 | is, the works of God, to God Himself; secondly, in worshipping
212 II, 8 | were without understanding. God has given wisdom to all
213 II, 9 | OF THE DEVIL, THE WORLD,GOD, PROVIDENCE, MAN, AND HIS
214 II, 9 | whole human race. Since God was possessed of the greatest
215 II, 9 | with the perfections of God the Father. But how He willed
216 II, 9 | had been given to him by God unfettered, he acquired
217 II, 9 | is acceptable and dear to God the Father. This being,
218 II, 9 | accuser, because he reports to God the faults to which he himself
219 II, 9 | which he himself entices us. God, therefore, when He began
220 II, 9 | inquire of what materials God made these works so great
221 II, 9 | and the elements; but that God afterwards divided all that
222 II, 9 | understand the power of God: for they believe that He
223 II, 9 | if matter was not made by God, then neither was the earth,
224 II, 9 | and air, and fire, made by God." Oh, how many faults there
225 II, 9 | that matter was made by God. By what arguments do you
226 II, 9 | there is something more in God, whom you verily reduce
227 II, 9 | power differ from man, if God also, as man does, stands
228 II, 9 | he be called who excels God in power?--since it is greater
229 II, 9 | should be more powerful than God, who must necessarily be
230 II, 9 | without the exercise of God's power, or against His
231 II, 9 | it, unless it were from God? Moreover, if it had a nature,
232 II, 9 | derived its existence, except God? For nature, from which
233 II, 9 | understanding, and must be God. For that force can be called
234 II, 9 | nature was nothing else but God." Therefore he says, "Shall
235 II, 9 | says, "Shall we not praise God, who possesses natural excellence?"
236 II, 9 | gave it to Himself, since God Himself is nature. When,
237 II, 9 | nature, and take it from God, you are in the same difficulty:--~"
238 II, 9 | rather it ought not; for God will have less power if
239 II, 9 | part of human weakness. But God Himself makes the materials
240 II, 9 | power is the property of God; for if He is not able,
241 II, 9 | He is not able, He is not God. Man produces his works
242 II, 9 | limited and moderate; but God produces His works out of
243 II, 9 | Himself. What wonder, then, if God, when He was about to make
244 II, 9 | Because it is impossible for God to borrow anything from
245 II, 9 | the power and the name of God. But it may be said matter
246 II, 9 | matter was never made, like God, who out of matter made
247 II, 9 | fountain. Therefore either God proceeded from matter, or
248 II, 9 | from matter, or matter from God. Which of these is more
249 II, 9 | itself, but the Spirit of God, without which nothing is
250 II, 9 | nothing is produced. Therefore God did not arise from matter,
251 II, 9 | but matter is rather from God. For whatever consists of
252 II, 9 | and that no other than God. And since He is possessed
253 II, 9 | beginning have been, except from God? God, therefore, is the
254 II, 9 | have been, except from God? God, therefore, is the only
255 II, 9 | he says, "was not made by God, the earth indeed, and water,
256 II, 9 | and fire, were not made by God." How skilfully he avoided
257 II, 9 | he says, was not made by God, the world was not made
258 II, 9 | the world was not made by God. He preferred to draw a
259 II, 9 | it was the workmanship of God), even the philosophers
260 II, 9 | that matter was made by God, because He is all-powerful,
261 II, 9 | the world was not made by God, because nothing can be
262 II, 9 | providence, which is in the one God, because he had begun to
263 II, 9 | contend that nature itself is God. For no one can make wonderful
264 II, 9 | will come to be seen that God made all things, and that
265 II, 9 | not derive its origin from God. But the same, as often
266 II, 9 | that the world was made by God, is wont to inquire by what
267 II, 9 | lived at that time in which God made it. But, that man might
268 II, 9 | not look into the works of God, He was unwilling to bring
269 II, 9 | man was the last work of God, and that he was brought
270 II, 9 | into those things which God wished to be kept secret!
271 II, 9 | things were not made by God, because it cannot be plainly
272 II, 9 | that the world was made by God, in whom, since He is perfect,
273 II, 9 | approach. In short, when God revealed the truth to man,
274 II, 9 | knows that there is but one God, and that all things were
275 II, 10 | respecting the world and God its Maker, let us return
276 II, 10 | Therefore, first of all, God made the heaven, and suspended
277 II, 10 | it might be the seat of God Himself, the Creator. Then
278 II, 10 | the east is assigned to God, because He Himself is the
279 II, 10 | supplies, must belong to God, as all things do, which
280 II, 10 | said to be the rival of God. And even in the making
281 II, 10 | even in the making of these God had regard to the future;
282 II, 10 | brightest splendour; so God, although He is one only,
283 II, 10 | that depraved adversary of God, shows by a resemblance
284 II, 10 | heat and moisture, which God wonderfully designed for
285 II, 10 | For since the power of God consists in heat and fire,
286 II, 10 | source or in what manner God lighted up or caused to
287 II, 11 | the seas were filled. And God gave nourishment to all
288 II, 11 | contained in the sacred book of God; those things collected
289 II, 11 | said to have been made by God began also to be ascribed
290 II, 11 | from clay is the work of God. And this also is related
291 II, 11 | says that man was made by God, after the image of God,
292 II, 11 | God, after the image of God, but he even tried to explain
293 II, 11 | race are in the power of God. And if it is possible for
294 II, 12 | DIVINE ARRANGEMENT, OF WHICH GOD WOULD HAVE GIVEN US THE
295 II, 12 | make this provision except God? Let us, however, see whether
296 II, 12 | peculiarly belongs. Therefore God, the Contriver of all things,
297 II, 12 | not be produced except by God? But, however, there is
298 II, 12 | that man is the work of God:--~"He who is the only God
299 II, 12 | God:--~"He who is the only God being the invincible Creator,
300 II, 12 | the same effect. Therefore God discharged the office of
301 II, 13 | were, out of heaven from God, the body out of the earth,
302 II, 13 | of these four elements by God, for he said that they contained
303 II, 13 | which has its origin from God, gains the mastery, it is
304 II, 13 | spirits, not being composed of God, but of the common air,
305 II, 13 | those things which belong to God occupy the higher part,
306 II, 13 | is from heaven and from God, to command; but for the
307 II, 13 | life. After these things, God, having made man in the
308 II, 13 | entirely to the service of God his Father. Then He gave
309 II, 13 | accuser, envying the works of God, applied all his deceits
310 II, 13 | to transgress the law of God. Therefore, having obtained
311 II, 13 | himself from the face of God, which he was not before
312 II, 13 | before accustomed to do. Then God drove out the man from the
313 II, 13 | they who honour the true God inherit everlasting life,
314 II, 13 | according to the sentence of God, which even the Sibyl teaches
315 II, 13 | made by the very hands of God, whom the serpent treacherously
316 II, 14 | RELIGIONS.~But afterwards God, when He saw the earth filled
317 II, 14 | years old, built an ark, as God had commanded him, in which
318 II, 14 | when the earth was dry, God, execrating the wickedness
319 II, 14 | nation which was ignorant of God, since its prince and founder
320 II, 14 | his father the worship of God, being cursed by him; and
321 II, 14 | the religion of the true God was established. But from
322 II, 14 | wandering from the knowledge of God, they began to be heathens.
323 II, 14 | prior to the religion of God: for they think that this
324 II, 15 | men had begun to increase, God in His forethought, lest
325 II, 15 | entirely to know the counsel of God; and therefore they are
326 II, 15 | for this purpose, because God had sent them as guardians
327 II, 15 | themselves may be worshipped, and God may not be worshipped. The
328 II, 16 | powerful and lofty hand of God does not protect, who are
329 II, 16 | that is, the worshippers of God, adjured by whose name they
330 II, 16 | cannot speak falsely to God, by whom they are adjured,
331 II, 16 | power has the knowledge of God, and righteousness! Whom,
332 II, 16 | that those who have known God are not only safe from the
333 II, 16 | fate has any power: for God rescues the pious man from
334 II, 16 | piety is the knowledge of God." Asclepius also, his disciple,
335 II, 17 | the worship of the true God, cause the countenances
336 II, 17 | Parent and Lord of all, God. But they have concealed
337 II, 17 | withdrawn it from sight. For God, as I have shown in the
338 II, 17 | to submit to the will of God, and not to do anything
339 II, 17 | world is so governed by God, as a province is by its
340 II, 17 | since all their hononr is in God. But they who have revolted
341 II, 17 | revolted from the service of God, because they are enemies
342 II, 17 | truth, and betrayers of God attempt to claim for themselves
343 II, 17 | nor that they may injure God, who cannot be injured,
344 II, 17 | presentiment of the arrangements of God, inasmuch as they have been
345 II, 17 | course of accomplishment by God, they themselves may especially
346 II, 17 | according to the purpose of God, either by prodigies, or
347 II, 17 | knowledge of the true and only God to fail among all nations.
348 II, 18 | PATIENCE AND VENGEANCE OF GOD, THE WORSHIP OF DEMONS,
349 II, 18 | will say, Why then does God permit these things to be
350 II, 18 | Whence some imagine, that God is altogether free from
351 II, 18 | discussing the anger of God be laid aside for the present;
352 II, 18 | nor the light, which are God's; but will fall into those
353 II, 18 | worshipped by the image of God, for that which worships
354 II, 18 | and that there is no other God but one, to whose judgment
355 II, 18 | condemned and cast off by God, wallow over the earth,
356 II, 18 | darkness, that the true God may not be sought by them.
357 II, 18 | lie under the sentence of God. For it is a very great
358 II, 18 | who, rebelling against God, the Father of the human
359 II, 19 | heaven: let him not seek God under his feet, nor dig
360 II, 19 | which is above man. But God is greater than man: therefore
361 II, 20 | that, under the guidance of God and the truth, these also
362 III, 1 | place confidence. But since God has willed this to be the
363 III, 1 | with the assistance of God, whose office this is. For
364 III, 1 | know the truth, because God has made the nature of man
365 III, 1 | not befitting that, when God was speaking to man, He
366 III, 1 | sentence. He Himself, as God, is truth. But we, since
367 III, 3 | not belong to man, but to God. But the nature of mortals
368 III, 3 | they are not refuted; for God refutes them to whom alone
369 III, 6 | which is the property of God; nor that you are ignorant
370 III, 6 | something in common with God, and with the animal creation.
371 III, 8 | they have no knowledge of God. Why, therefore, does he
372 III, 9 | THE WORSHIP OF THE TRUE GOD, AND A REFUTATION OF ANAXAGORAS.~
373 III, 9 | Therefore confess that God is the Creator of all things,
374 III, 9 | the purpose of worshipping God, who brought us into being
375 III, 9 | serve Him. But to serve God is nothing else than to
376 III, 9 | excels the body, so much does God excel the world, for God
377 III, 9 | God excel the world, for God made and governs the world.
378 III, 9 | each is a body; but it is God who is to be contemplated
379 III, 9 | contemplated by the soul: for God, being Himself immortal,
380 III, 9 | But the contemplation of God is the reverence and worship
381 III, 9 | than the recognition of God as a parent.~
382 III, 10 | MAN TO KNOW AND WORSHIP GOD.~Therefore the chief good
383 III, 10 | which has any knowledge of God; and among men themselves,
384 III, 10 | effected, that he acknowledges God, who, as it were, calls
385 III, 10 | connected with man, because God, who made all living creatures
386 III, 11 | committed on this subject. God willed this to be the nature
387 III, 11 | religion of the Supreme God, who might have instructed
388 III, 12 | the body. Epicurus calls God happy and incorruptible,
389 III, 12 | without the knowledge of God and justice. And how true
390 III, 12 | victorious, may return to God, that is, to their original
391 III, 12 | longs for and acknowledges God, who is immortal.~Therefore,
392 III, 12 | highest but heaven, and God, from whom the soul has
393 III, 14 | inventor of wisdom as a god,--for thus he speaks:--~"
394 III, 14 | itself demands, he was a god, he was a god, most noble
395 III, 14 | he was a god, he was a god, most noble Memmius,"--~
396 III, 14 | most noble Memmius,"--~yet God ought not to have been praised
397 III, 14 | have been esteemed as a God on this very account, because
398 III, 14 | impiously ungrateful towards God (not this god whose image
399 III, 14 | ungrateful towards God (not this god whose image you worship
400 III, 15 | and ruler of the world, God, and as truth is one; so
401 III, 17 | when he says respecting the god:--~"Then he may hurl lightnings,
402 III, 17 | would never say that the god throws down his own temples,
403 III, 17 | and majesty of the true God, but they even increased
404 III, 17 | especially if there is no God who regards the actions
405 III, 17 | safe; since, if there is a God in heaven, He is not angry
406 III, 18 | punishment of which belongs to God alone. For as we did not
407 III, 19 | passed in the service of God, death is not an evil, for
408 III, 19 | us by fortune, and not by God, or as though the course
409 III, 20 | esteem a most base animal as God! For who can dare to find
410 III, 22 | nothing but reverence towards God can produce this result.
411 III, 26 | WHAT EFFICACY THE LAW OF GOD IS.~That, therefore, which
412 III, 26 | of men by the precepts of God, because of their simplicity
413 III, 26 | with a very few words of God,~"I will render him as gentle
414 III, 26 | reward. The fountain of God, most abundant and most
415 III, 26 | vices. But a few precepts of God so entirely change the whole
416 III, 27 | justice, or on account of God, that endurance of pain
417 III, 27 | him most happy. For it is God alone who can honour virtue,
418 III, 27 | any one understands that God is to be worshipped, or
419 III, 27 | raised aloft he discerns God, and his thoughts are altogether
420 III, 28 | depend but the knowledge of God who created us, and the
421 III, 28 | nothing. But if they call God nature, what perverseness
422 III, 28 | of nature rather than of God! But if nature is the plan,
423 III, 28 | is created. nature is not God, but the work of God. By
424 III, 28 | not God, but the work of God. By a similar error they
425 III, 29 | generally believed, but a god. Sometimes, however, they
426 III, 29 | however, they call this god nature, sometimes fortune, "
427 III, 29 | them not envy us, to whom God has revealed the truth:
428 III, 29 | who acts in opposition to God; the cause of whose enmity
429 III, 29 | those who are ignorant of God he hinders by error, he
430 III, 29 | the other hand, who know God, he assails with wiles and
431 III, 29 | not at once thrust down by God to punishment at the original
432 III, 30 | THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE TRUE GOD, IN WHICH ALONE ARE VIRTUE
433 III, 30 | knowledge and worship of God: this is our tenet, this
434 III, 30 | happy hear the voice of God, learn righteousness, understand
435 IV, 1 | the religion of the true God was not observed, nor the
436 IV, 1 | changed. For, having left God, the parent and founder
437 IV, 2 | under the covering of which God hides the treasury of wisdom
438 IV, 2 | the religion of the true God and righteousness to become
439 IV, 2 | men of other nations. For God had determined, as the last
440 IV, 3 | There, indeed, where the one God is worshipped, where life
441 IV, 3 | are also the priests of God. Nor, however, let it affect
442 IV, 3 | the worship of the true God with just and pious adoration.
443 IV, 3 | this argument: that every god who is worshipped by man
444 IV, 4 | lord. But with respect to God, who is one only, inasmuch
445 IV, 4 | because it is the same God, who ought to be understood,
446 IV, 4 | follows; for the knowledge of God comes first, His worship
447 IV, 4 | of wisdom and religion is God; and if these two streams
448 IV, 4 | majesty and name. But that God is Father and also Lord
449 IV, 4 | and power of the Supreme God (as Plato, who says that
450 IV, 4 | who says that there is one God, Creator of the world, and
451 IV, 4 | produced by the Supreme God in an excellent condition),
452 IV, 4 | and so none of them can be God. Therefore it is not lawful
453 IV, 4 | Therefore the one and only God ought to be worshipped,
454 IV, 5 | before I begin to speak of God and His works, I must first
455 IV, 6 | VI. ALMIGHTY GOD BEGAT HIS SON; AND THE TESTIMONIES
456 IV, 6 | TRISMEGISTUS CONCERNING HIM.~God, therefore, the contriver
457 IV, 6 | is a Son of the Most High God, who is possessed of the
458 IV, 6 | have thought right to call God, since He made the second
459 IV, 6 | since He made the second God visible and sensible. But
460 IV, 6 | commenced with the Supreme God, proclaims the Son of God
461 IV, 6 | God, proclaims the Son of God as the leader and commander
462 IV, 6 | breath in all, and made God the leader of all."~And
463 IV, 6 | the same poem:--~"But whom God gave for faithful men to
464 IV, 6 | known:--~"Know Him as your God, who is the Son of God."~
465 IV, 6 | your God, who is the Son of God."~Assuredly He is the very
466 IV, 6 | Assuredly He is the very Son of God, who by that most wise King
467 IV, 6 | things which we have added: "God founded me in the beginning
468 IV, 6 | Him as "the artificer of God," and the Sibyl calls Him "
469 IV, 6 | because He is endowed by God the Father with such wisdom
470 IV, 6 | wisdom and strength, that God employed both His wisdom
471 IV, 7 | powerful, so beloved by God, and what name He has, who
472 IV, 7 | to Himself only, and to God the Father; nor will that
473 IV, 7 | before that the purpose of God shall be fulfilled. In the
474 IV, 7 | divine good which produced God, whose name cannot be uttered
475 IV, 7 | Lord of all things, and the God first perceived by the mind,
476 IV, 8 | though He was the Son of God from the beginning, He was
477 IV, 8 | He who hears the Son of God mentioned ought not to conceive
478 IV, 8 | impiety as to think that God begat Him by marriage and
479 IV, 8 | death. But with whom could God unite Himself, since He
480 IV, 8 | as Orpheus supposed, that God is both male and female,
481 IV, 8 | laid down that this Son of God is the speech, or even the
482 IV, 8 | speech, or even the reason of God, and also that the other
483 IV, 8 | other angels are spirits of God. For speech is breath sent
484 IV, 8 | difference between the Son of God and the other angels is
485 IV, 8 | For they proceeded from God as silent spirits, because
486 IV, 8 | to teach the knowledge of God, but for His service. But
487 IV, 8 | proceeded from the mouth of God with voice and sound, as
488 IV, 8 | teacher of the knowledge of God, and of the heavenly mystery
489 IV, 8 | to man: which word also God Himself first spoke, that
490 IV, 8 | us the voice and will of God. With good reason, therefore,
491 IV, 8 | the Speech and the Word of God, because God, by a certain
492 IV, 8 | the Word of God, because God, by a certain incomprehensible
493 IV, 8 | mortal: but the spirits of God both live, and are lasting,
494 IV, 8 | believe that the voice of God both remains for ever, and
495 IV, 8 | which it has derived from God the Father, as a stream
496 IV, 8 | if any one wonders that God could be produced from God
497 IV, 8 | God could be produced from God by a putting forth of the
498 IV, 8 | thirty-second Psalm: "By the word of God we, re the heavens made
499 IV, 8 | truth, that the works of God are known to no other than
500 IV, 8 | alone, who is the Word of God, and who must reign for