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501 IV, 8 | shows that it is the Word of God, and no other, by whose
502 IV, 8 | Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The
503 IV, 8 | with God, and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning
504 IV, 8 | was in the beginning with God. All things were made by
505 IV, 9 | IX. OF THE WORD OF GOD.~But the Greeks speak of
506 IV, 9 | voice and the wisdom of God. And of this divine speech
507 IV, 9 | necessity of things, and God, and the soul of Jupiter,
508 IV, 9 | wont to regard Jupiter as God. But the words are no obstacle,
509 IV, 9 | For it is the spirit of God which he named the soul
510 IV, 10 | arrangements of the Most High God have so advanced from the
511 IV, 10 | approached, that the Son of God should descend to the earth,
512 IV, 10 | might build a temple for God, and teach righteousness;
513 IV, 10 | at length that the Son of God should be born as a man,
514 IV, 10 | and sow the worship of God throughout the whole earth,
515 IV, 10 | treated with violence their God who had assumed a mortal
516 IV, 10 | intolerable yoke of slavery. Then God pitied them, and led them
517 IV, 10 | afterwards given to them by God; and in this leading out
518 IV, 10 | and in this leading out God displayed the power of His
519 IV, 10 | they did not pay honour to God; but when slavery had been
520 IV, 10 | With which sin and crime God was offended, and justly
521 IV, 10 | corrupt religious rites; and God, offended by them, as often
522 IV, 11 | worship of false gods, then God filled just and chosen men
523 IV, 11 | vanities, return to their God, it would come to pass that
524 IV, 11 | very jealous for the Lord God of hosts, because the children
525 IV, 11 | transfer the sacred religion of God to the Gentiles, that is,
526 IV, 11 | those who were ignorant of God, and might teach them righteousness,
527 IV, 11 | Gentiles." Therefore, when God wished to send to the earth
528 IV, 11 | been ungrateful towards God might be led into the greatest
529 IV, 11 | received their Lord and God, as the prophets had before
530 IV, 11 | had begun to say), when God had determined to send to
531 IV, 11 | and teacher. But since God is kind and merciful to
532 IV, 11 | opportunity of following God, that they might both gain
533 IV, 12 | Therefore the Holy Spirit of God, descending from heaven,
534 IV, 12 | fruitful by the Spirit of God, to whom whatever He may
535 IV, 12 | words are these: "Therefore God Himself shall give you a
536 IV, 12 | the prophet declared that God incarnate was about to come
537 IV, 12 | For Emmanuel signifies God with us; because when He
538 IV, 12 | men ought to confess that God was with them, that is,
539 IV, 12 | out of the earth;" because God, in whom is truth, hath
540 IV, 12 | this account He was sent by God the Father, that He might
541 IV, 12 | mystery of the only true God, which was taken away from
542 IV, 12 | ofttimes sinned against God. Daniel also foretold similar
543 IV, 12 | and expect the Christ of God? who rejected Him on this
544 IV, 12 | since it is so arranged by God that the same Christ should
545 IV, 12 | announce to the nations the one God, then again to reign, why
546 IV, 12 | not say, like the Son of God, but the Son of man, that
547 IV, 12 | completed the commands of God, He had revealed the truth
548 IV, 12 | He called the Most High God the Ancient of days, whose
549 IV, 12 | was about to ascend to God the Father, David bore witness
550 IV, 12 | sat at the right hand of God, but Christ the Son of God,
551 IV, 12 | God, but Christ the Son of God, who is King of kings and
552 IV, 12 | says: "Thus saith the Lord God to my Lord Christ, whose
553 IV, 12 | know that I am the Lord God, which call Thee by Thy
554 IV, 12 | call Thee by Thy name, the God of Israel." Lastly, on account
555 IV, 12 | which He displayed towards God on earth, there was given
556 IV, 13 | XIII. OF JESUS, GOD AND MAN; AND THE TESTIMONIES
557 IV, 13 | Therefore the Most High God, and Parent of all, when
558 IV, 13 | His supreme Father· For God the Father Himself, who
559 IV, 13 | because He was begotten by God the Father alone, without
560 IV, 13 | middle substance between God and man, He might be able,
561 IV, 13 | He became both the Son of God through the Spirit, and
562 IV, 13 | the flesh,--that is, both God and man. The power of God
563 IV, 13 | God and man. The power of God was displayed in Him, from
564 IV, 13 | prophets that He was both God and man-- composed of both
565 IV, 13 | Isaiah testifies that He was God in these words: "Egypt is
566 IV, 13 | supplication unto Thee, Since God is in Thee, and there is
567 IV, 13 | Thee, and there is no other God besides Thee. For Thou art
568 IV, 13 | besides Thee. For Thou art God, and we knew Thee not, the
569 IV, 13 | and we knew Thee not, the God of lsrael, the Savour. They
570 IV, 13 | thus speaks: "This is our God, and there shall none other
571 IV, 13 | forty-fourth Psalm: "Thy throne, O God, is for ever and ever; a
572 IV, 13 | hated wickedness l therefore God, Thy God, hath anointed
573 IV, 13 | wickedness l therefore God, Thy God, hath anointed Thee with
574 IV, 13 | Him?" Also Isaiah: "And God shall send to them a man,
575 IV, 13 | being asked whether He was God or man, replied in this
576 IV, 13 | have denied that He was God. But when he acknowledges
577 IV, 13 | as to the spirit He was God, which we affirm. For why
578 IV, 13 | to be) of the Most High God, entertained the same opinion,
579 IV, 13 | that He whom they saw was God? On this account, David,
580 IV, 13 | root; and the Spirit of God shall rest upon Him, the
581 IV, 13 | wished to build a temple for God; and this was the word of
582 IV, 13 | David built a temple for God, and the city which he called
583 IV, 13 | never called the son of God, but the son of David; and
584 IV, 13 | which is the true temple of God, which does not consist
585 IV, 14 | eternal temple in honour of God, which is called the Church,
586 IV, 14 | nations to the true worship of God. This is the faithful house,
587 IV, 14 | temple, and to the sight of God, except through Him who
588 IV, 14 | was about to be, to whom God promised an everlasting
589 IV, 14 | His name: "And the Lord God showed me Jesus the great
590 IV, 14 | impious hands upon their God? But from the time in which
591 IV, 14 | stand in the presence of God and the angels; nor did
592 IV, 14 | therefore, of Jesus the Son of God, to show that He would first
593 IV, 14 | might prepare a temple for God, and might be scorched as
594 IV, 14 | commands He was sent by God to the earth, the Spirit
595 IV, 14 | the earth, the Spirit of God declared through the prophet,
596 IV, 14 | house. What these ways of God were, and what His precepts,
597 IV, 14 | doubtful nor obscure. For God, when He saw that wickedness
598 IV, 14 | entrusted with the secret of God, had deserted the living
599 IV, 14 | had deserted the living God, and, ensared by the deceits
600 IV, 14 | not choose to return to God), He sent His Son as an
601 IV, 14 | and worship of the true God; and also that He might
602 IV, 14 | righteousness. These are the ways of God, in which He enjoined Him
603 IV, 14 | exhibited faith towards God. For He taught that there
604 IV, 14 | taught that there is but one God, and that He alone ought
605 IV, 14 | say that He Himself was God; for He would not have maintained
606 IV, 14 | the existence of the one God, He had introduced another
607 IV, 14 | been not to proclaim one God, nor to do the work of Him
608 IV, 14 | of Judge, and the name of God.~
609 IV, 15 | David. And the Spirit of God descended upon Him, formed
610 IV, 15 | Himself was the Word of God, relying upon heavenly strength
611 IV, 15 | prophetess of the great God, am mad."~Therefore they
612 IV, 16 | have believed Him to be a God, or judged Him worthy of
613 IV, 16 | office and embassy from God, on account of this very
614 IV, 16 | was able, to be believed a God by all nations. Therefore,
615 IV, 16 | believed that He was sent by God, and that He was the Son
616 IV, 16 | and that He was the Son of God, then the rulers and priests
617 IV, 16 | he has the knowledge of God; and he calleth himself
618 IV, 16 | calleth himself the Son of God. He is made to reprove our
619 IV, 16 | and boasteth that he has God for his Father. Let us see,
620 IV, 16 | understand the mysteries of God." Does he not describe that
621 IV, 16 | into by the wicked against God, so that he clearly appears
622 IV, 16 | power and glory the Son of God was about to descend from
623 IV, 16 | believe that He was the Son of God, being ignorant that two
624 IV, 16 | sheep have gone astray, and God hath delivered Him up for
625 IV, 16 | did not recognise their God, and entered into the detestable
626 IV, 17 | obligation of the law of God, though He did this not
627 IV, 17 | according to the will of God, and after the predictions
628 IV, 17 | destroyed by the Son of God:--~"But when all these things
629 IV, 17 | they have fallen away from God, and have not acknowledged
630 IV, 17 | and have not acknowledged God, had foretold that it would
631 IV, 17 | prophet would be sent by God, who should be above the
632 IV, 17 | a bearer of the will of God to men. In Deuteronomy he
633 IV, 17 | yourselves to the Lord your God, and take away the foreskins
634 IV, 17 | heart to love the Lord thy God." Also Jesus the son of
635 IV, 17 | that he might show that God was not speaking of him,
636 IV, 17 | but of Christ, to whom God was then speaking. For that
637 IV, 17 | plainly irrational; since, if God had so willed it, He might
638 IV, 17 | reverence. On this account God ordered that it should be
639 IV, 17 | the prophets speak, which God transferred from the mortal
640 IV, 17 | and make satisfaction to God,--we shall obtain pardon,
641 IV, 17 | same intention; for when God commanded them to abstain
642 IV, 18 | fulfilled these things which God would have done, and which
643 IV, 18 | together to condemn their God. And though He knew that
644 IV, 18 | up to the Jews the Son of God. But they took and brought
645 IV, 18 | said that He was the Son of God, the King of the Jews; also
646 IV, 18 | Himself was the true temple of God. They inveighed against
647 IV, 18 | cross, on which the Son of God was suspended and nailed?
648 IV, 18 | and they shall inflict on God blows with impure hands,
649 IV, 18 | would lay hands upon their God, and put Him to death, these
650 IV, 18 | for ever, saith the Lord God of hosts. If you will not
651 IV, 18 | same again in Numbers: "God is not in doubt as a suffer
652 IV, 18 | sufferings; but the Spirit of God, who was about to suffer
653 IV, 18 | and shall say, Why hath God done these evils to this
654 IV, 18 | they forsook the Lord their God, and persecuted their King
655 IV, 18 | their King most beloved by God, and crucified Him with
656 IV, 18 | degradation, therefore hath God brought upon them these
657 IV, 20 | that is, the mystery of God could not have been unveiled
658 IV, 20 | addresses His Son: "I the Lord God have called Thee in righteousness,
659 IV, 20 | in darkness, ignorant of God and of the truth, we have
660 IV, 21 | that after a short time God would send against them
661 IV, 21 | and most approved Son of God. And so, after their decease,
662 IV, 22 | that it was unworthy of God to be willing to become
663 IV, 22 | acknowledged Himself to be God. For in that case all would
664 IV, 22 | the influence and power of God enjoining them had been
665 IV, 22 | say), did He not come as God to teach men? Why did He
666 IV, 22 | only cease to wonder that God was tortured by men, but
667 IV, 22 | been believed that he was God if those very things which
668 IV, 23 | inconsistent: if it shall be God, He will be met with the
669 IV, 24 | they deny to have come from God. Let us suppose that some
670 IV, 24 | He should come to men as God, not to mention that mortal
671 IV, 24 | His own person, assuredly God will not be able to teach
672 IV, 24 | far that I prefer man to God; but to show that man cannot
673 IV, 24 | teacher unless he is also God, that he may by his heavenly
674 IV, 24 | necessity of obedience; nor God, unless he is clothed with
675 IV, 25 | MIGHT BE MEDIATOR BETWEEN GOD AND MAN.~Let men therefore
676 IV, 25 | understand why the Most High God, when He sent His ambassador
677 IV, 25 | certain that He was sent by God, it was befitting that He
678 IV, 25 | had a spiritual Father, God; and as God was the Father
679 IV, 25 | spiritual Father, God; and as God was the Father of His spirit
680 IV, 25 | father. He was therefore both God and man, being placed in
681 IV, 25 | placed in the middle between God and man. From which the
682 IV, 25 | immortality: for if He had been God only (as we have before
683 IV, 25 | the spirit from following God. For it is frail, and liable
684 IV, 25 | mediator came--that is, God in the flesh--that the flesh
685 IV, 25 | able to overcome these, God has opened and displayed
686 IV, 26 | frailty, and suffering--why God thought fit to undergo them.
687 IV, 26 | nations which were ignorant of God, He might enlighten the
688 IV, 26 | understand the divine words of God. For you may truly call
689 IV, 26 | might speak respecting God and the truth. For he who
690 IV, 26 | to attain the favour of God. For He is truly to be considered
691 IV, 26 | What is more suitable to God, what more worthy of the
692 IV, 26 | which were estranged from God and subject to death, being
693 IV, 26 | be dead, who, not knowing God the giver of life, and depressing
694 IV, 26 | who before that we knew God were unjust, were thorns--
695 IV, 26 | surround the sacred head of God; for, being called by Himself,
696 IV, 26 | around Him, we stand beside God, who is our Master and Teacher,
697 IV, 26 | now endeavour to show. For God (as I have before explained),
698 IV, 26 | perchance say: Why, if He was God, and chose to die, did He
699 IV, 26 | was a principal cause why God chose the cross, because
700 IV, 26 | on it, and the passion of God become known to all nations.
701 IV, 26 | blood of a lamb. For when God was about to smite the Egyptians,
702 IV, 26 | figure of the passion, which God, foreknowing the future,
703 IV, 26 | have for the protection of God's people in the extreme
704 IV, 27 | attacked the temple of the god, and contaminated themselves
705 IV, 27 | either, in the name of his god, command the wicked spirit
706 IV, 27 | by the name of the true God, immediately flee. What
707 IV, 27 | manner dread the name of God; and Apollo will as quickly
708 IV, 27 | demon from the man; and his god being adjured and put to
709 IV, 27 | the knowledge of the true God, by which alone eternal
710 IV, 27 | respecting themselves and God. After these things let
711 IV, 27 | spoke many things respecting God the Son which are contained
712 IV, 28 | wretched error, he should know God, and serve God; except he
713 IV, 28 | should know God, and serve God; except he renounce this
714 IV, 28 | just and due obedience to God who created us, that we
715 IV, 28 | We are bound and tied to God by this chain of piety;
716 IV, 28 | the bond of piety, because God has tied man to Himself,
717 IV, 28 | supplications to the one true God.~
718 IV, 29 | say that we worship one God only, we nevertheless assert
719 IV, 29 | assert that there are two, God the Father and God the Son:
720 IV, 29 | two, God the Father and God the Son: which assertion
721 IV, 29 | confess that there is another God, and that He is mortal.
722 IV, 29 | unity. When we speak of God the Father and God the Son,
723 IV, 29 | speak of God the Father and God the Son, we do not speak
724 IV, 29 | and strength, and word of God, there is plainly no separation;
725 IV, 29 | world is the one house of God; and the Son and the Father,
726 IV, 29 | inhabit the world, are one God, for the one is as two,
727 IV, 29 | and the Son are but one God, Isaiah showed in that passage
728 IV, 29 | supplication unto Thee, since God is in Thee, and there is
729 IV, 29 | Thee, and there is no other God besides Thee." And he also
730 IV, 29 | another place: "Thus saith God the King of Israel, and
731 IV, 29 | Redeemer, the everlasting God; I am the first, and I am
732 IV, 29 | and beside me there is no God." When he had set forth
733 IV, 29 | forth two persons, one of God the King, that is, Christ,
734 IV, 29 | Christ, and the other of God the Father, who after His
735 IV, 29 | and beside me there is no God," when he might have said "
736 IV, 29 | number. For there is one God alone, free, most high,
737 IV, 29 | both are justly called one God; for whatever is in the
738 IV, 29 | that highest and matchless God cannot be worshipped except
739 IV, 30 | existed, and the people of God have been rent into divisions
740 IV, 30 | the abundant fountain of God, watered by which he may
741 IV, 30 | adversary of ours, with whom God has willed that we should
742 IV, 30 | they knew and worshipped God aiming at the increase of
743 IV, 30 | impossible or inconsistent that God should be shut up in the
744 IV, 30 | away from the knowledge of God, and left the true tradition.
745 IV, 30 | the name and worship of God. For when they are called
746 IV, 30 | faith, this is the temple of God; into which if any one shall
747 V, 1 | worshippers of the Most High God, that is, the righteous;
748 V, 1 | violence souls dedicated to God from the lacerated bodies.
749 V, 2 | same time the temple of God was overthrown, there were
750 V, 3 | called, I will not say a God, but a man? But you perchance
751 V, 3 | consecrated the homicide Mars as a god, though you would not have
752 V, 3 | Apollonius in the place of God? unless by chance you alone
753 V, 3 | worthy forsooth of that god, with whom the true God
754 V, 3 | god, with whom the true God will punish you everlastingly.
755 V, 3 | in that He made Himself God, that the other may appear
756 V, 3 | both adored by some as a god, and that his image was
757 V, 3 | death be believed to be a god, because it was evident
758 V, 3 | both be believed to be a god, because he was not a magician,
759 V, 3 | Apollonius was not accounted a god, because he did not wish
760 V, 3 | wonders believed that he was a god. It is not wonderful if
761 V, 3 | removed from the wisdom of God, understand nothing at all
762 V, 3 | and to whom the mystery of God had been assigned, were
763 V, 3 | not believed by us to be God on this account, because
764 V, 3 | Therefore we believe Him to be God, not more from His wonderful
765 V, 3 | impious and the enemies of God the title of "truth-loving."
766 V, 3 | the praises of the Supreme God, whom you confessed to be
767 V, 3 | and enslave them to that God whose religion you attempt
768 V, 4 | itself, and (as I think) by God, I have undertaken this
769 V, 4 | undertaken, with the favour of God, to do this, and at the
770 V, 5 | belief of its divinity, God was manifestly worshipped.
771 V, 5 | things in common;" since God had given the earth in common
772 V, 5 | corrupted and ceased to worship God, and had begun to esteem
773 V, 5 | righteous and faithful towards God, and give to judges the
774 V, 5 | reason. For the worship of God being taken away, men lost
775 V, 6 | he turned them away from God to the worship of himself;
776 V, 6 | tie of brotherhood, since God is alike a Father to all,
777 V, 6 | the bounties of the common God and Father with those who
778 V, 7 | AND VICES OF THAT AGE.~But God, as a most indulgent parent,
779 V, 7 | religious worship of the one God. But perhaps some may be
780 V, 7 | difference was retained by God when He gave justice to
781 V, 7 | exercised by adversity. For God designed that there should
782 V, 7 | the other is taken away. God therefore did not exclude
783 V, 7 | could faith devoted to its God deserve praise, unless there
784 V, 7 | wished to turn us away from God? For on this account He
785 V, 7 | perfected virtue; and that God might render this complete
786 V, 7 | golden age exists; because God has not taken away evil,
787 V, 8 | EMBRACED; OF THE TRUE TEMPLE OF GOD, AND OF HIS WORSHIP,THAT
788 V, 8 | beginning to worship the true God. But you long for justice
789 V, 8 | and the worship of the one God must have prevailed throughout
790 V, 8 | throughout the earth; of that God, I say, who hates wickedness
791 V, 8 | who bears the image of God. And this temple is adorned
792 V, 8 | on this account, because God the Maker and Governor of
793 V, 8 | because you do not permit God to be worshipped even by
794 V, 8 | worshipped even by a few.~But if God only were worshipped, there
795 V, 8 | they are the sons of one God; and,~therefore, among those
796 V, 8 | what kind of punishments God~prepared for the destroyers
797 V, 8 | through the instruction of God, to be content with that
798 V, 8 | procreation is condemned by God. Nor would necessity, compel
799 V, 8 | observance of the law of God, if those things were done
800 V, 8 | rule men, since the law of God alone would be sufficient
801 V, 9 | the most gentle flock of God,--~"Like gaunt wolves rushing
802 V, 9 | hope, and not ignorant of God, rose up against God Himself;
803 V, 9 | of God, rose up against God Himself; and the same necessity
804 V, 9 | they are worshippers of God, they fall with all the
805 V, 10 | abomination to the true God, are estranged from justice
806 V, 10 | that you may propitiate the god whom you worship, there
807 V, 10 | it comes to pass that the god fashions the life of his
808 V, 11 | though they who confess God aimed at this, that their
809 V, 11 | may reach the presence of God. What brutality is it, what
810 V, 11 | everlasting punishment of God. But it is impossible to
811 V, 11 | themselves to be worshippers of God.~
812 V, 12 | conscience and the judgment of God? Or shall any prosperity
813 V, 13 | cannot be turned away from God, for the truth prevails
814 V, 13 | overthrown the religion of God if they have corrupted men,
815 V, 13 | make satisfaction also to God; and there is no worshipper
816 V, 13 | there is no worshipper of God so evil who does not, when
817 V, 13 | given him, return to appease God, and that, too, with greater
818 V, 13 | they should imagine our God to be so unmerciful and
819 V, 13 | tortures without the aid of God. Robbers and men of robust
820 V, 13 | they put their trust in God.~
821 V, 14 | fail to understand the true God; and these the Erythraean
822 V, 15 | else but the conception of God, as Trismegistus most truly
823 V, 15 | therefore, it is piety to know God, and the sum of this knowledge
824 V, 15 | possess the knowledge of God. For how can he know justice
825 V, 15 | things respecting the one God, by whom he said that the
826 V, 15 | religion: for he had dreamed of God, but had not known Him.
827 V, 15 | justice, and to serve the only God. The other part of justice,
828 V, 15 | Cicero calls equability. For God, who produces and gives
829 V, 15 | is poor in the sight of God, but he who is without justice;
830 V, 16 | nevertheless in the sight of God we are distinguished by
831 V, 16 | dignity in the judgment of God For assuredly, since all
832 V, 16 | greatest foolishness with God, and foolishness is (as
833 V, 16 | and abject in the sight of God who shall have been conspicuous
834 V, 16 | resources, what power, since God is able to make kings themselves
835 V, 16 | the lowest? And therefore God has consulted our interest
836 V, 16 | illustrious in the sight of God. For the sentiment is not
837 V, 18 | required from me, to show why God wished to enclose justice
838 V, 18 | since we are taught of God. For they represented justice
839 V, 18 | superfluous, and so despised by God, that it has no power and
840 V, 18 | deserves all things from God. Flaccus therefore rightly
841 V, 18 | we are willing to die for God, when they themselves extol
842 V, 18 | alone he bears a relation to God.~
843 V, 19 | receive its reward from God the Judge, and it will live,
844 V, 19 | reward is appointed for it by God. But on this account God
845 V, 19 | God. But on this account God willed that virtue itself
846 V, 19 | adore any other object than God, who made heaven and earth,
847 V, 19 | so does he who forsakes God, in whom the two names entitled
848 V, 19 | Father, but those which God Himself has appointed? who
849 V, 20 | most abandoned demons, whom God has condemned to everlasting
850 V, 20 | because they do not permit God to be worshipped by others,
851 V, 20 | violence (for the religion of God is increased the more it
852 V, 20 | for he is unserviceable to God who is destitute of faith
853 V, 20 | faith is both pleasing to God Himself, and adds authority
854 V, 20 | faith to be kept towards God, the Ruler of all, who is
855 V, 20 | Therefore the worship of God, since it belongs to heavenly
856 V, 20 | and fidelity. For how will God either love the worshipper,
857 V, 20 | conscience, he hears what threats God denounces against him: that
858 V, 20 | denounces against him: that God, I say, who sees the secret
859 V, 21 | OTHER GODS AND THE TRUE GOD, AND OF THE ANIMALS WHICH
860 V, 21 | one shall act otherwise, God Himself will be the avenger."
861 V, 21 | not right to despair about God, whom you worship on this
862 V, 21 | unwilling, to worship our God, who is the God of all men;
863 V, 21 | worship our God, who is the God of all men; nor are we angry
864 V, 21 | but we remit vengeance to God, not as they act who would
865 V, 22 | peace among the people of God, flee from the righteous,
866 V, 22 | at the name of the true God are put to flight. For when
867 V, 22 | side. Why, then, does that God of surpassing power, that
868 V, 22 | religion has not the power of God, because men are influenced
869 V, 22 | judge that the worship of God is worthless, in which they
870 V, 23 | those who are ignorant of God, abound with riches, and
871 V, 23 | are produced by the same God, and in the same condition,
872 V, 23 | wish to know more fully why God permits the wicked and the
873 V, 23 | with divine inspiration. "God," he says, "regards men
874 V, 23 | we are often chastised by God for our faults. Yea, rather,
875 V, 23 | are an object of regard to God, since He is angry when
876 V, 23 | despise the precepts of God; as those ancestors of ours,
877 V, 23 | be conquered; but because God cannot be opposed, He Himself
878 V, 23 | name, not to fight against God Himself, but against His
879 V, 23 | against us, that the people of God may be increased. Nor is
880 V, 23 | of man, but to the living God, who is in heaven: many
881 V, 23 | over a great multitude to God.~
882 V, 24 | princes plan against us, God Himself permits to be done.
883 V, 24 | persecutors, to whom the name of God was a subject of reproach
884 V, 24 | punished with the judgment of God, who, having received power,
885 V, 24 | and have even insulted God in their arrogance, and
886 V, 24 | deserve at the hands of God the avenging of our suffering
887 VI, 1 | THE WORSHIP OF THE TRUE GOD, AND OF INNOCENCY, AND OF
888 VI, 1 | manner or by what sacrifice God must be worshipped. For
889 VI, 1 | one has presented this to God, he has sacrificed with
890 VI, 1 | do they understand that God is in no want of earthly
891 VI, 1 | know not who is the true God, so they know not what constitutes
892 VI, 2 | FALSE GODS AND THE TRUE GOD.~Therefore they sacrifice
893 VI, 2 | fine and fat victims to God, as though He were hungry;
894 VI, 2 | will at once perceive how God has no need of their candles,
895 VI, 2 | suppose that there is in God, with whom there is no night?
896 VI, 2 | exhibit unless he has known God. But their gods, because
897 VI, 2 | an undefiled offering to God. But how this is to be obtained,
898 VI, 2 | taught and enlightened by God? Nor, however, shall we
899 VI, 3 | reward awaits them from God: but this we will show in
900 VI, 3 | this heavenly path, because God, who is the guide of that
901 VI, 4 | shall have turned aside from God; he truly will be cast down
902 VI, 4 | and he will be rewarded by God with immortality for the
903 VI, 4 | These are the ways which God has assigned to human life,
904 VI, 4 | whole of this life, because God has provided an adversary
905 VI, 4 | the more readily because God our commander has appointed
906 VI, 4 | can in no way be lost. For God, who created men to this
907 VI, 4 | from the contemplation of God. He plunges others into
908 VI, 4 | author of evils himself, God has enlightened us, and
909 VI, 5 | this who is ignorant of God, since ignorance of Him
910 VI, 5 | subject, knowledge is to know God, virtue is to worship Him:
911 VI, 6 | source of good things is God; but of evils, he who is
912 VI, 6 | Those which proceed from God have this object, to procure
913 VI, 6 | and evil, who neither knew God nor the adversary of God?
914 VI, 6 | God nor the adversary of God? Therefore they referred
915 VI, 6 | placed at the disposal of God, not in your own power.
916 VI, 6 | just and wise but he whom God has instructed with heavenly
917 VI, 7 | NARROW, AND STEEP, AND HAS GOD FOR ITS GUIDE.~For all those
918 VI, 7 | secret might be hidden, God placed in his way things
919 VI, 7 | we follow and worship one God; and it is narrow, because
920 VI, 8 | ought not to follow man, but God; not to serve these earthly
921 VI, 8 | images, but the heavenly God; not to measure all things
922 VI, 8 | virtue. Therefore the law of God must be undertaken, which
923 VI, 8 | Master and Ruler of all, even God, the framer, arbitrator,
924 VI, 8 | acquainted with the mystery of God could so significantly relate
925 VI, 8 | significantly relate the law of God, as a man far removed from
926 VI, 8 | Master and Ruler of all, God.~
927 VI, 9 | OF THE LAW AND PRECEPT OF GOD; OF MERCY, AND THE ERROR
928 VI, 9 | of this law is, to know God Himself, to obey Him alone,
929 VI, 9 | a man who is ignorant of God, the parent of his soul:
930 VI, 9 | of the chief good; since God, from the knowledge of whom
931 VI, 9 | to follow the justice of God, yet, being ignorant of
932 VI, 9 | is another thing, which God has set forth to all as
933 VI, 9 | and he who is ignorant of God must also be ignorant of
934 VI, 9 | without the knowledge of God, but yet lives unjustly.
935 VI, 9 | sensation, both the knowledge of God is necessary, as it were
936 VI, 9 | be alive, as he who knows God and yet sins in some respect.
937 VI, 9 | sins in some respect. For God pardons sins. And thus it
938 VI, 9 | because they are ignorant of God, who is the Head of virtue
939 VI, 9 | mind the truth in which God is, or God in whom the truth
940 VI, 9 | truth in which God is, or God in whom the truth is; he
941 VI, 9 | majesty of the surpassing God. Therefore he is undoubtedly
942 VI, 9 | who does not acknowledge God; and all his virtues, which
943 VI, 9 | immortality is taken away, which God promises to those who continue
944 VI, 9 | can bestow these except God, who has proposed to us
945 VI, 9 | acknowledging and worship of God; all the hope and safety
946 VI, 10 | X. OF RELIGION TOWARDS GOD, AND MERCY TOWARDS MEN;
947 VI, 10 | have said what is due to God, I will now say what is
948 VI, 10 | give to man is given to God, for man is the image of
949 VI, 10 | for man is the image of God. But, how ever, the first
950 VI, 10 | justice is to be united with God, the second with man. But
951 VI, 10 | and to the worshippers of God, because this alone comprises
952 VI, 10 | principle of common life. For God, who has not given wisdom
953 VI, 10 | origin from one man, whom God created, we are plainly
954 VI, 10 | guilty. On which account God has enjoined that enmities
955 VI, 10 | inspired and animated by one God, what else are we than brothers?
956 VI, 10 | relationship of brotherhood, God teaches us never to do evil,
957 VI, 10 | those who are destitute. For God, since He is kind, wished
958 VI, 10 | but one man was formed by God, and from that one man all
959 VI, 11 | they are serviceable to God, who retains them in life,
960 VI, 12 | duty must be expected from God alone; for if you should
961 VI, 12 | will receive a reward from God. God has also enjoined,
962 VI, 12 | receive a reward from God. God has also enjoined, that
963 VI, 12 | with his neighbours. But God has made known to us what
964 VI, 12 | relates to man, the other to God. Therefore hospitality is
965 VI, 12 | the law, and the words of God Himself giving us instructions.
966 VI, 12 | perceive why it is so. For God, to whom everlasting mercy
967 VI, 12 | beloved ones to the care of God, and that they will never
968 VI, 12 | gain a living sacrifice to God, and that which he has given
969 VI, 12 | will himself receive from God for eternity. The last and
970 VI, 12 | image and workmanship of God to lie exposed as a prey
971 VI, 12 | who is insensible, but to God alone, to whom a just work
972 VI, 12 | entrust your treasures to God as their preserver, in which
973 VI, 12 | He who is rich towards God can never be poor. If you
974 VI, 12 | chains, that you may run to God without any impedient. It
975 VI, 12 | riches upon the altar of God, in order that you may provide
976 VI, 12 | an everlasting gift from God. Mercy has a great reward;
977 VI, 12 | has a great reward; for God promises it, that He will
978 VI, 13 | believe that you are tried by God, that it may be seen whether
979 VI, 13 | if you are bountiful to God because you have sinned;
980 VI, 13 | not done away with. For God especially desires that
981 VI, 13 | attained the likeness of God. For it is almost beyond
982 VI, 13 | reverence the living images of God, that you may gain the favour
983 VI, 13 | the favour of the living God! For as these make use of
984 VI, 13 | received, and give thanks, so God, in whose sight you shall
985 VI, 15 | providently and how necessarily God, or nature (for so they
986 VI, 15 | virtues spring up. Therefore God, when He first made man,
987 VI, 17 | fortitude. But he who fears God is free from the fear of
988 VI, 17 | inflicted on the worshippers of God have been witnessed at all
989 VI, 17 | nothing else than the fear of God. Therefore (as I said) fear
990 VI, 17 | desires to obtain justice, God, perpetual life, everlasting
991 VI, 17 | and all those things which God promises to man, will despise
992 VI, 17 | you bestow it on piety and God; whether you expend it upon
993 VI, 17 | opposition to the law of God, and in opposition to justice,
994 VI, 17 | preferring the command of God to the command of man. Likewise
995 VI, 17 | when compelled to desert God, and to betray our faith,
996 VI, 17 | able to turn us away from God. Therefore that is a true
997 VI, 17 | well." But he who worships God suffers these things without
998 VI, 17 | the religion of the one God.~
999 VI, 18 | XVIII. OF SOME COMMANDS OF GOD, AND OF PATIENCE.~But let
1000 VI, 18 | truth has been revealed by God, and wisdom has been sent