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1001 VI, 18 | practise those things which God who enlightens us commands:
1002 VI, 18 | aim at glory from it. For God admonishes us that the doer
1003 VI, 18 | which the worshipper of God ought to observe are easy,
1004 VI, 18 | reserve it for the judgment of God. He must at all times and
1005 VI, 18 | will not endeavour to obey God; and he would prefer to
1006 VI, 18 | just man might obtain this, God willed, as has been before
1007 VI, 18 | let it be calmed in time. God has enjoined us not to let
1008 VI, 19 | what virtue is, nor why God gave anger to man. And if
1009 VI, 19 | than that animal which God formed for communion and
1010 VI, 19 | lust for pleasures. But God has appointed fixed limits
1011 VI, 19 | understood from the precepts of God Himself, who commands that
1012 VI, 19 | they who are ignorant of God cannot do, he is patient,
1013 VI, 20 | And since nature or some God has given to man nothing
1014 VI, 20 | But, on the other hand, God gave virtue on this account,
1015 VI, 20 | public homicide. For when God forbids us to kill, He not
1016 VI, 20 | regard to this precept of God, there ought to be no exception
1017 VI, 20 | put to death a man, whom God willed to be a sacred animal.
1018 VI, 20 | the greatest impiety; for God breathes into their souls
1019 VI, 20 | those who possess them, or God did not daily make the rich
1020 VI, 20 | hands to mar the work of God. If, then, it is in no way
1021 VI, 20 | and turn us aside from God and from good works. For
1022 VI, 20 | departed from the worship of God, and has be-taken himself
1023 VI, 21 | themselves to the religion of God, unless they have been instructed
1024 VI, 21 | deeply within the breast. Is God, therefore, the contriver
1025 VI, 21 | might gain the knowledge of God. Therefore, if it be a pleasure
1026 VI, 21 | and hear the praises of God. This is true pleasure,
1027 VI, 22 | might overpower. Therefore God made all things to supply
1028 VI, 22 | contriver of death. For as God calls man to life only through
1029 VI, 24 | PARDON, AND THE COMMANDS OF GOD.~Nor, however, let any one
1030 VI, 24 | things, makes satisfaction to God. Cicero, indeed. thought
1031 VI, 24 | despair that the mercy of God our Father may again be
1032 VI, 24 | time to slip; and therefore God, knowing our weakness, of
1033 VI, 24 | we cannot conceal it from God, to whom nothing can be
1034 VI, 24 | lie open to the sight of God." What can be spoken with
1035 VI, 24 | greater truth by him who knew God, than has been said by a
1036 VI, 24 | expressed the majesty of God, by saying that it is too
1037 VI, 24 | their endeavour to live to God, if indeed they live with
1038 VI, 24 | been a true worshipper of God, if any one had pointed
1039 VI, 24 | one had pointed out to him God; and he might assuredly
1040 VI, 24 | lie open to the sight of God. There is then no room for
1041 VI, 24 | but the divine power of God cannot be removed by the
1042 VI, 24 | concerning conscience and God: "Let him remember," he
1043 VI, 24 | he says, "that he has God as a witness, that is, as
1044 VI, 24 | his own mind, than which God has given nothing more divine
1045 VI, 24 | which is open to the eyes of God; and, as the same writer
1046 VI, 24 | a worshipper of the true God, whose sacrifices are gentleness
1047 VI, 24 | good and pious action. For God does not desire the sacrifice
1048 VI, 24 | Therefore, upon the altar of God, which is truly very great,
1049 VI, 24 | ceremony, this is that law of God, as it is called by Cicero,
1050 VI, 25 | OF AN OFFERING WORTHY OF GOD, AND OF THE FORM OF PRAISING
1051 VI, 25 | OF THE FORM OF PRAISING GOD.~Now let us speak briefly
1052 VI, 25 | is not a pure offering to God." What then? Are embroidered
1053 VI, 25 | nothing is a pure offering to God which can be corrupted or
1054 VI, 25 | speak: "Will you think of God as great and placid, and
1055 VI, 25 | precious, are valued by God, he is altogether ignorant
1056 VI, 25 | altogether ignorant of what God is, since he thinks that
1057 VI, 25 | pure, what is worthy of God, but that which He Himself
1058 VI, 25 | burnt upon the altar. But God does not make use either
1059 VI, 25 | incorporeal must be offered to God, for He accepts this. His
1060 VI, 25 | praise and a hymn. For if God is not seen, He ought therefore
1061 VI, 25 | justice. But in what manner God deals with the justice of
1062 VI, 25 | immortality, he will serve God for ever. But that men are
1063 VI, 25 | hold forth I and offer to God that alone for the receiving
1064 VI, 25 | son." But the worship of God consists of one thing, not
1065 VI, 25 | we ought to sacrifice to God in word; inasmuch as God
1066 VI, 25 | God in word; inasmuch as God is the Word, as He Himself
1067 VI, 25 | ceremonial in the worship of God is praise from the mouth
1068 VI, 25 | just man directed towards God. That this, however, may
1069 VI, 25 | however, may be accepted by God, there is need of humility,
1070 VI, 25 | may obtain the favour of God, and be free from every
1071 VI, 25 | always implore the mercy of God, and pray for nothing else
1072 VI, 25 | short, let him always have God with himself, consecrated
1073 VI, 25 | he himself is a temple of God. But if he has served God,
1074 VI, 25 | God. But if he has served God, his Father and Lord, with
1075 VI, 25 | before testified, has obeyed God, and has satisfied the obligations
1076 VII, 1 | avail to hold the worship of God with great difficulties,
1077 VII, 1 | their heavenly reward, which God has appointed for him who
1078 VII, 1 | when and how it was made by God; which Plato, who discoursed
1079 VII, 1 | teaching of prophets and God; and therefore he said that
1080 VII, 1 | be destroyed. But since God has revealed this to us,
1081 VII, 1 | unencumbered, more readily believe God than the rich, who are entangled
1082 VII, 1 | sway. The precepts which God gives for justice, and the
1083 VII, 1 | forward under the teaching of God respecting virtue and the
1084 VII, 1 | treat of the judgment of God, which will then be established
1085 VII, 1 | power as a conqueror; and, God requiting them, they will
1086 VII, 2 | arrangement of the Most High God, that this unrighteous age,
1087 VII, 2 | flourish, under the rule of God Himself. This was especially
1088 VII, 2 | derived from the teaching of God. For if a man is able to
1089 VII, 2 | able to do the things which God does, because he is clothed
1090 VII, 2 | understand those things which God does. And whether this is
1091 VII, 2 | understand how much the work of God surpasses the works of men.
1092 VII, 2 | distance between the wisdom of God and man. For because God
1093 VII, 2 | God and man. For because God is incorruptible and immortal,
1094 VII, 2 | anything oppose it, because God Himself is subject to nothing.
1095 VII, 2 | For His works are known to God alone. But man cannot attain
1096 VII, 3 | are most widely different, God and the world, the Maker
1097 VII, 3 | without the other, as though God were mixed up in nature
1098 VII, 3 | mix them together, that God Himself is the mind of the
1099 VII, 3 | the world is the body of God; as though the world and
1100 VII, 3 | as though the world and God began to exist at the same
1101 VII, 3 | exist at the same time, and God did not Himself make the
1102 VII, 3 | the sake of men, and that God could, if He willed it,
1103 VII, 3 | without the world, inasmuch as God is the divine and l eternal
1104 VII, 3 | which we see are members of God, then God is rendered insensible
1105 VII, 3 | are members of God, then God is rendered insensible by
1106 VII, 3 | And this is not enough, if God does not spare His own members,
1107 VII, 3 | some power over the body of God. Seas are built up, mountains
1108 VII, 3 | violence to the members of God. Does God, then, suffer
1109 VII, 3 | the members of God. Does God, then, suffer His body to
1110 VII, 3 | however in such a manner that God, who is incorruptible, should
1111 VII, 3 | that the world was made by God, and is also governed by
1112 VII, 3 | created or established by God. It is our business to set
1113 VII, 3 | that the world was made by God, and was made for the sake
1114 VII, 3 | might not make the work of God weak and subject to ruin,
1115 VII, 3 | perpetual succession? Doubtless God wished us to be seen, and
1116 VII, 3 | providence of the Supreme God is manifest from the disposition
1117 VII, 4 | one man only was made by God, and they think that men
1118 VII, 4 | that man was both made by God and after the likeness of
1119 VII, 4 | and after the likeness of God. But I return to my subject.
1120 VII, 4 | that the world was made by God, not on account of the world
1121 VII, 4 | cannot even be said that God made the world for His own
1122 VII, 4 | before it was made; and God Himself does not make use
1123 VII, 4 | Cicero, who says: "Why should God, when He made all things
1124 VII, 4 | power of man, for whose sake God made the world itself and
1125 VII, 4 | could admire the works of God. Most excellently, therefore,
1126 VII, 4 | providence of the Supreme God in that book which he wrote
1127 VII, 4 | Therefore the Supreme God did not arrange these things
1128 VII, 5 | philosophy.As, therefore, God did not make the world for
1129 VII, 5 | What advantage is there to God in man, says Epicurus, that
1130 VII, 5 | that he should worship God. For he who understands
1131 VII, 5 | be brought forward that God both made the world for
1132 VII, 5 | his face looking towards God, his countenance is in fellowship
1133 VII, 5 | with his Parent, so that God appears, as it were, with
1134 VII, 5 | worship paid by man confer on God, who is blessed, and in
1135 VII, 5 | though closely connected with God, and everlasting as He is,
1136 VII, 5 | the arrangement made by God, and His work and will,
1137 VII, 5 | not to nature, because God wished that we should procure
1138 VII, 5 | unless it is given to man by God. For otherwise there would
1139 VII, 5 | conformity with the will of God, that is, to follow righteousness,
1140 VII, 5 | comprised in the worship of God, since God raised man to
1141 VII, 5 | the worship of God, since God raised man to a view of
1142 VII, 5 | man. ~Therefore, because God has set forth virtue before
1143 VII, 5 | condemned by the sentence of God to eternal punishment, be
1144 VII, 5 | this account, therefore, God seeks to be worshipped,
1145 VII, 5 | with which he has honoured God, this reward, to be blessed
1146 VII, 5 | ever in the presence of God and in the society of God.
1147 VII, 5 | God and in the society of God. Nor can any one shelter
1148 VII, 5 | partisanship in the spectacle. Thus God, when He was fixing that
1149 VII, 5 | before he had offended God, the first man lived in
1150 VII, 5 | wise and free from evil, as God is. He, therefore, who wishes
1151 VII, 5 | and a body to perceive, God willed that both should
1152 VII, 5 | faith and deny the true God, and to sacrifice to dead
1153 VII, 5 | gods. This is the cause why God made man mortal, and made
1154 VII, 5 | the worship of the true God.~
1155 VII, 6 | world and of ourselves--God; we acknowledge Him for
1156 VII, 6 | labours, since the worship of God consists of the greatest
1157 VII, 6 | all eternity a kingdom to God. This is the sum of all
1158 VII, 6 | things, this the secret of God, this the mystery of the
1159 VII, 6 | of greater advantage to God? But if it is unlawful to
1160 VII, 7 | only who has been taught by God. For he cannot in any other
1161 VII, 7 | that the world was made by God: the prophets speak the
1162 VII, 8 | is true," he said, "some God may see." And again he says
1163 VII, 9 | relate the great judgment of God, which will be celebrated
1164 VII, 9 | Before all things, since God cannot be seen by man, lest
1165 VII, 9 | from this circumstance that God does not exist, because
1166 VII, 9 | things we might perceive God from His power and operation
1167 VII, 9 | the body. In like manner, God is not to be perceived by
1168 VII, 9 | denied the existence of God, I should not only refuse
1169 VII, 9 | sentiment. But if there is a God who is incorporeal, invisible,
1170 VII, 9 | is contained. What about God? Is it easy to comprehend
1171 VII, 9 | certain resemblance in man and God. Finally, that proof which
1172 VII, 9 | which has any knowledge of God; and religion is almost
1173 VII, 9 | providence of the Supreme God has made abject, with bodies
1174 VII, 9 | of his condition in which God made him illustrious, looks
1175 VII, 9 | looking a contemplation of God, which has no existence
1176 VII, 9 | else but the knowledge of God, it is evident that the
1177 VII, 9 | it seeks after and loves God, who is everlasting, by
1178 VII, 11 | Therefore, when the times which God has appointed for death
1179 VII, 11 | gods and neglect the true God. In the next place, they
1180 VII, 11 | the heavenly religion of God, whose goods are everlasting,
1181 VII, 11 | body desires the worship of God, which consists in abstinence
1182 VII, 12 | soul, although inspired by God, yet, because it is shut
1183 VII, 12 | origin from the Spirit of God, which is eternal. The soul,
1184 VII, 13 | created for the worship of God. and for receiving immortality
1185 VII, 13 | show how he was made by God, introduced this statement: "
1186 VII, 13 | first-born providence of God made this disposition."~
1187 VII, 13 | the time Will come when God will judge the living and
1188 VII, 14 | eternal life, and that it is God alone who bestows the reward
1189 VII, 14 | matter itself may be plain. God completed the world and
1190 VII, 14 | since all the works of God were completed in six days,
1191 VII, 14 | years. For the great day of God is limited by a circle of
1192 VII, 14 | are as one day." And as God laboured during those six
1193 VII, 14 | bears rule. And again, since God, having finished His works,
1194 VII, 14 | being formed by the word of God, that is, a holy people
1195 VII, 14 | doctrine and precepts of God. And as then a mortal and
1196 VII, 14 | that being quickened by God, he may bear rule in this
1197 VII, 15 | intolerable yoke of slavery, God smote Egypt with an incurable
1198 VII, 15 | displayed to men the power of God, was also a foreshadowing
1199 VII, 15 | greater deed, which the same God was about to perform at
1200 VII, 15 | that time the people of God were one, and in one nation
1201 VII, 15 | now, because the people of God are collected out of all
1202 VII, 15 | who are worshippers of God, may be set free. And as
1203 VII, 15 | indeed by the judgment of God, because it held His name
1204 VII, 16 | then, through the anger of God against the men who have
1205 VII, 16 | Then they shall call upon God, but He will not hear them;
1206 VII, 16 | forth. Of the worshippers of God also, two parts will perish;
1207 VII, 17 | prophet shall be sent from God to turn men to the knowledge
1208 VII, 17 | men to the knowledge of God, and he shall receive the
1209 VII, 17 | turn many to the worship of God; and when his works shall
1210 VII, 17 | fight against the prophet of God, and shall overcome, and
1211 VII, 17 | constitute and call himself God, and will order himself
1212 VII, 17 | worshipped as the Son of God; and power will be given
1213 VII, 17 | to destroy the temple of God, and persecute the righteous
1214 VII, 17 | besieged, will call upon God with a loud voice, and implore
1215 VII, 17 | implore the aid of heaven; and God shall hear them, and send
1216 VII, 18 | from the inspiration of God, and also the soothsayers
1217 VII, 18 | Jupiter those things which God will do. But that also was
1218 VII, 18 | demons, viz., that the Son of God would then be sent, who,
1219 VII, 18 | is Lord, and Father, and God, and the Creator of the
1220 VII, 18 | Creator of the first and one God, looking upon what is done,
1221 VII, 18 | otherwise than that the Son of God should be sent by His supreme
1222 VII, 18 | another Sibyl:--~"And then God shall send a king from the
1223 VII, 19 | divine assistance. Therefore God, being aroused both by the
1224 VII, 19 | light of the descending God may be manifest in all the
1225 VII, 19 | the coming of our King and God: of which night there is
1226 VII, 19 | and Avenger, and King, and God, whom we call Christ, who
1227 VII, 20 | on whom the same King and God shall pass judgment, to
1228 VII, 20 | judgment of the immortal God shall now come to mortals,
1229 VII, 20 | to the judgment-seat of God."~And in another place in
1230 VII, 20 | shall then be judged by God, but those only who have
1231 VII, 20 | exercised in the religion of God. For they who have not known
1232 VII, 20 | they who have not known God, since sentence cannot be
1233 VII, 20 | Therefore they who have known God shall be judged, and their
1234 VII, 20 | inasmuch as they are from God, nevertheless they become
1235 VII, 20 | capable of being perceived by God, since it belongs to Him
1236 VII, 21 | we say that the power of God is so great, that He perceives
1237 VII, 21 | will. For even angels fear God, because they can be chastised
1238 VII, 21 | suffering at the hand of God? For since they have nothing
1239 VII, 21 | capable of being handled by God alone, whose energy and
1240 VII, 21 | be that flesh with which God clothed man, like this our
1241 VII, 21 | for they have something of God in themselves which repels
1242 VII, 21 | which has received from God this power, that it burns
1243 VII, 22 | announcements that the Son of God was about to judge the dead,
1244 VII, 22 | life, they may reign with God a thousand years. For God
1245 VII, 22 | God a thousand years. For God will come, that, having
1246 VII, 22 | that all who wish to follow God are not only held in hatred,
1247 VII, 22 | and religion of the one God. Therefore it is necessary
1248 VII, 23 | again, and be clothed by God with bodies, and will remember
1249 VII, 23 | they will give thanks to God in His immediate presence,
1250 VII, 23 | live again on the earth, God giving them at the same
1251 VII, 23 | but if from the beginning God formed man in some unspeakable
1252 VII, 24 | the most high and mighty God shall come to judge the
1253 VII, 24 | be holy, and beloved by God; but they who shall be raised
1254 VII, 24 | be left as a victory for God, that they may be the occasion
1255 VII, 24 | evil against the people of God. After His coming the righteous
1256 VII, 24 | middle of the earth, in which God Himself the builder may
1257 VII, 24 | says:--~"And the city which God made this He made more brilliant
1258 VII, 24 | earth shall be subject to God,--~"The sailor himself also
1259 VII, 24 | things:--~"And then shall God give great joy to men; for
1260 VII, 24 | will reign together with God; and the kings of the nations
1261 VII, 25 | sustains all things; and the God of heaven is to be entreated
1262 VII, 26 | devils will be bound by God. But he also, when the thousand
1263 VII, 26 | Then the last anger of God shall come upon the nations,
1264 VII, 26 | all cities shall fall, and God shall cause the sun to stand,
1265 VII, 26 | bones; but the people of God during those three days
1266 VII, 26 | earth, until the anger of God against the nations and
1267 VII, 26 | world, but the nation of God alone. Then for seven continuous
1268 VII, 26 | world shall be renewed by God, and the heavens shall be
1269 VII, 26 | earth shall be changed, and God shall transform men into
1270 VII, 26 | assert it in public, since God orders us in quietness and
1271 VII, 26 | and who rigorously assail God and His religion not for
1272 VII, 26 | the time when the great God raised thee up for the restoration
1273 VII, 26 | state, we worshippers of God are no more regarded as
1274 VII, 26 | reproaches us with the name of God. None of us, who are alone
1275 VII, 26 | worship the living and true God. The providence of the supreme
1276 VII, 26 | down by pre-eminent piety, God has delivered into your
1277 VII, 26 | the heavenly and matchless God, that they might defend
1278 VII, 26 | The powerful right hand of God protects thee from all dangers;
1279 VII, 26 | For he who is ignorant of God, the Ruler of the universe,
1280 VII, 26 | acknowledgment of the truth and of God in every action, dost fully
1281 VII, 27 | life, to deserve to have God as their comforter. For
1282 VII, 27 | let him turn himself to God with his whole mind, that
1283 VII, 27 | await that day, in which God, the Ruler and Lord of the
1284 VII, 27 | That man will appear before God with abundant resources,
1285 VII, 27 | inseparable companion, lead us to God; and "while a spirit rules
1286 VII, 27 | these limbs," let us serve God with unwearied service,