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501 62 | produces danger and generates disgrace, and that which is especially
502 9 | IX. OF THE DISGRACEFUL DEEDS OF THE GODS.~Whence
503 pref| their length may not produce disgust, nor their copiousness be
504 48 | Now that the Jews were disinherited, because they rejected Christ,
505 48 | XLVIII. OF THE DISINHERITING OF THE JEWS, AND THE ADOPTION
506 42 | heaven at the end of this dispensation to judge the world, and,
507 56 | refuted by Carneades, whose disputation was to this effect, that
508 62 | harmonious poems, or skilful disputations) is easily led aside to
509 36 | about anything. Therefore He disregards not only the affairs of
510 63 | with which they imitate disreputable women, teach the lusts,
511 59 | these things were added dissensions, and wars, and mutual depredations;
512 64 | deceitfully, nothing with dissimulation; he will not refuse that
513 53 | gods, except that their distrust is more apparent from this.
514 62 | inmost senses that they even disturb with madness a settled state
515 60 | ourselves, whom impiety had disunited from Him, and we might choose
516 70 | is given. Since fixed and divinely ap- pointed times have begun
517 36 | and angular, then they are divisible; for hooks and angles project,
518 49 | worship of the two, that the division itself may be bound by an
519 39 | Diogenes with his company of dogs, who professes that great
520 40 | innumerable sayings and doings of the philosophers, by
521 58 | do victims bestow? What dotes incense? What do garments?
522 33 | without us, because this double good extends even to the
523 73 | same things, it cannot be doubted that all hope of life and
524 8 | AEsculapius was born of doubtful parents, and that on this
525 52 | powerful cause of this fury? Doubtless, because they cannot contend
526 1 | world? That there is, no one doubts, since of almost all the
527 72 | feed with the lion, the dove shall be united with the
528 62 | danger, that they are able to draw us to luxury. For he who
529 28 | by their frauds they have drawn darkness over the human
530 70 | is alarmed at exile, nor dreads imprisonment, nor shrinks
531 71 | for food, or wholesome for drinking. To these evils will also
532 72 | labour of men. Honey shall drop from rocks, fountains of
533 27 | be for ever. Therefore He drove out the sinner from the
534 23 | because the Corybantes then drowned the cry of the boy by the
535 23 | instead of helmets, and drums instead of shields, that
536 57 | most foolish, and blind and dull, and like sheep; who do
537 38 | peculiar love? Who will he dutiful towards a father, when he
538 52 | God; and having undertaken e true wisdom, that is, religion,
539 62 | children. For a too great eagerness for pleasure both produces
540 25 | indeed was the inventor of earthenware images. But posterity, following
541 71 | at another by repeated earthquakes; now by inundation of waters,
542 7 | himself alive. Thus it is effected, that although on account
543 26 | winter. But if men admire the effects of these, if they admire
544 8 | mutilated, and rendered him effeminate: on which account even now
545 5 | seventh the Cumaean, the eighth the Hellespontian, the ninth
546 42 | Trojan war by a hundred and eighty years --testify that He
547 62 | state of the mind by certain elaborately composed speeches and harmonious
548 70 | makes use of the heavenly element, which is fire, For if light
549 3 | in speech. For He is too elevated and great to be conceived
550 30 | the greatest learning and eloquence, but far removed from the
551 pref| and examples, on which the elucidation of the proofs depends, must
552 59 | just walk, does not lead to Elysium, but to heaven, for they
553 51 | Him both in fact and in emblem, so that His majesty and
554 11 | XI. THE VARIOUS EMBLEMS UNDER WHICH THE POETS VEILED
555 70 | foresees the future, and embraces the knowledge of many subjects
556 46 | For after a short time the Emperor Vespasian subdued the Jews,
557 21 | boundaries of the Roman empire.~
558 61 | so the passions, if you employ them to good purposes, will
559 35 | philosophy is found to be empty and useless, which was unable
560 62 | strongly to resist, lest, en-snared by these attractions, the
561 38 | senate house to women, and en-trusted to them warfare, magistracies,
562 8 | though a widow, and aged, was enamoured of a beautiful youth; and
563 53 | cases seen, the miserable ends of all those who have dared
564 38 | be common to all. This is endurable concerning property, though
565 34 | endued. For virtue is the enduring of evils. He will avoid
566 53 | extorted by injury, which is enforced by pain. But if it is done
567 72 | shall for the fourth time engage in battle, in which, being
568 60 | fruits of immortality, being engendered by the word of God, may
569 20 | besieged by the Gauls, made engines for throwing weapons of
570 13 | Gnossus, and that upon it is engraved in ancient Greek letters
571 66 | temple of God, which is enlightened not by the gleam of gold
572 13 | sepulchres. And this history Ennius translated into Latin, whose
573 21 | who first showed men to enrich the ground with manure;
574 55 | ourselves of liberty, and become enslaved to the errors of others,
575 25 | raised aloft. But he who enslaves himself to earthly and humble
576 71 | these prodigies he shall entice many to worship him, and
577 27 | because he was made immortal, enticed him by stratagem to transgress
578 28 | so persuaded men by their enticements and deceits, that they believed
579 61 | rightly, because they cannot entirely be taken away, since they
580 5 | others, but that they are entitled, as though by one name,
581 37 | at the point of death, he entreated his friends to perform the
582 40 | since we are unable to enumerate them all, a few will be
583 14 | of perfect learning, he enumerated among them Iris relatives,
584 8 | instruction. He lived at Epidaurus, and was buried at Cynosurae,
585 66 | and undefiled. For he is equally an adulterer in the sight
586 61 | limits are angry with their equals, or even with their superiors.
587 73 | himself for the contest, equip himself for virtue, that
588 9 | chaste? Whence, then, did Erichthonius arise? Did Vulcan shed his
589 59 | of the unjust; but they err in this, that they say that
590 11 | she swim across, but she escaped the anger of Juno in a ship
591 48 | whom they denied. Therefore Esdras thus speaks: "This passover
592 64 | it is not just that the estates of the wealthy should be
593 52 | those made from the ground esteem as nothing philosophy, which
594 3 | the human mind can neither estimate in thought nor mortal tongue
595 26 | Himself, even God. But they estimated the Divinity by objects
596 49 | ignorant of Him is always estranged from the truth and from
597 7 | a funeral pile on Mount (Eta, and burnt himself alive.
598 36 | that he himself had been Euphorbus in the Trojan war, and that,
599 11 | of the legion. He carried Europa across the sea on a bull.
600 59 | secretly. Justice also was evaded by stealth, since they who
601 72 | from God at morning and evening, and the earth shall bring
602 71 | tyrant. Then there will be ever-flowing tears, perpetual wailings
603 | everywhere
604 54 | upon the innocent, they evidently consider themselves pious,
605 62 | pleasure only, quae capitur ex foeminei corporis copulatione,
606 67 | just man who confesses, and exalt him in His heavenly kingdom
607 51 | lifted up. Thus the cross exalted Him both in fact and in
608 45 | end he shall have; let us examine him with rebukes and torments,
609 53 | AGAINST THE CHRISTIANS ARE EXAMINED AND REFUTED.~But they say
610 5 | one name, Sibylline books, excepting that the Erythraean, who
611 62 | beauty of precious objects excites avarice, which ought to
612 50 | frailty of the flesh as an excuse.~
613 21 | consecrated, but rather to be execrated; than Fornax, together with
614 7 | he received his task to execute. He afterwards, in a transport
615 45 | from His lips. Then the executioners, having cast lots over His
616 38 | inasmuch as no one can be exempt from fault, many citizens
617 28 | all sacrifices; and by the exhibition of some deceitful prodigies,
618 63 | honours of the gods. For the exhibitions of shows are festivals of
619 70 | want, nor is alarmed at exile, nor dreads imprisonment,
620 7 | with the Argonauts on their expedition, and having stormed Troy,
621 51 | all the host of demons is expelled and put to flight by this
622 62 | shall have any, he will expend it, and afterwards live
623 23 | the Sicilians, to make an expiation, they immolated two hundred
624 45 | same moment in which He expired, there was a great earthquake,
625 24 | which are inscribed Of the Explanation of Pindar, relates that
626 13 | origin of Jupiter, and his exploits, and all his posterity,
627 64 | nor to put to death or expose an infant, nor to condemn
628 8 | that on this account he was exposed; and being taken up by hunters,
629 63 | teach the lusts, which they express by dancing. For the pantomime
630 3 | conceived by the thought, or expressed by the language of man.
631 21 | immoveable, and preserve and extend the boundaries of the Roman
632 51 | passion. For in that He extended His hands on the cross,
633 33 | because this double good extends even to the cattle, which
634 27 | years, and that was the extent of human life even to the
635 36 | also makes souls capable of extinction? who is refuted not only
636 57 | they suppose the soul to be extinguished together with the body;
637 55 | about justice, asserting and extolling that virtue with the greatest
638 53 | displeasing to them, which is extorted by injury, which is enforced
639 34 | however, although pressed by extreme hunger, nevertheless refrain
640 54 | incredible alacrity insolently exult, and rejoice, as though
641 14 | of this rejects it as a fable. That Uranus was the father
642 42 | the excellent and wondrous fabric of this world. In fine,
643 11 | in such a manner that you fabricate the whole, but so that you
644 3 | all things, sometimes the fabricator of the world. ~
645 13 | by the credibility of the facts and by the antiquity of
646 67 | when we have happened to fail either in deed or in word,
647 38 | was ignorant of God, he so failed in many things, that no
648 49 | things to Him, and the Son faithfully obeys the Father, and wills
649 57 | however strive to exhibit faithfulness towards God by all virtue
650 pref| your name may be rendered famous by my work, such as it is.
651 73 | depressed to the earth, may hold fast innocency, may be of service
652 5 | alone which contain the fates of the Romans, and are accounted
653 43 | after the manner of their fathers, observed the worship handed
654 22 | worshipped as a god, and placed Fatua Fauna his wife and sister
655 20 | the form of a wild beast. Faula also and Flora were harlots,
656 22 | a god, and placed Fatua Fauna his wife and sister among
657 22 | INTRODUCED BY FAUNUS AND NUMA.~Faunas was the first in Latium
658 20 | not know that the wife of Faustulus, the nurse of Romulus and
659 43 | call all nations to the favour of God. Nor, however, did
660 63 | to have slain, who both favoured the slayer and asked a reward
661 70 | justice, virtue neither fears want, nor is alarmed at
662 46 | dark; and I will turn your feasts into mourning, and your
663 60 | of another that which you feel respecting yourself, and
664 11 | the usage of the poets, to feign in such a manner that you
665 11 | say that these things are feigned by the poets. This is not
666 59 | compact was destroyed, the fellowship of human justice was destroyed.
667 46 | they were scattered, yet felt no remorse: they tempted
668 12 | they make them male and female, and confess that some are
669 27 | the garden itself with a fence of fire, that none of men
670 72 | beasts shall lay aside their ferocity and become mild, the wolf
671 45 | Passover, that is, their festival. Which crime was followed
672 21 | worshipped, rather than Blight or Fever, which ought not to be consecrated,
673 71 | to solitude, certainly to fewness of men. Then also the impious
674 60 | before you begin to sow, the fields must be cleansed by tearing
675 22 | that he might call off the fierce spirits of the people from
676 34 | produced to exercise their fierceness; for they are unable to
677 7 | that time rather more than fifteen hundred years are reckoned.
678 5 | fourth the Cimmerian, the fifth the Erythraean, the sixth
679 61 | And as bravery, if you fight in defence of your country,
680 63 | shameful are acted by a figurative representation, that the
681 36 | slain, he passed into other figures of animals, and at last
682 71 | laughing-stock. No one will exhibit filial affection to parents, no
683 45 | himself from our ways, as from filthiness; he commendeth greatly the
684 40 | says that the paths for finding out the truth of the senses
685 63 | are detestable. Yet custom finds how a man may commit homicide
686 23 | found, the whole rite is finished with congratulations and
687 72 | and delivered to eternal fires, they may suffer the punishments
688 50 | which are given may have firmness, and if any one shall prove
689 65 | we ought to be an animal fitted for companionship and society,
690 61 | children; but they who do not fix its limits in the mind use
691 64 | for him to flatter, for flattery is pernicious and deceitful;
692 43 | spirit, so in His second and fleshly birth, being born of a mother
693 70 | itself, and because it is flexible for reflection, subtle for
694 8 | take charge of another's flock that he might receive a
695 27 | the deluge. For after the flood the life of men was gradually
696 20 | wild beast. Faula also and Flora were harlots, of whom the
697 20 | account the games called Floralia are celebrated in her honour.
698 72 | torrents of blood shall flow, and the leader himself
699 68 | been inactive, or they both flowed from one source. For it
700 8 | his own lamentations on a flower. Mars, a man of the greatest
701 62 | pleasure only, quae capitur ex foeminei corporis copulatione, but
702 22 | Latium who introduced these follies, who both instituted bloody
703 57 | who shall be wise? But the fool acts badly, because he is
704 57 | it is plain that he acts foolishly who spares the life of another
705 57 | matters nothing to us what fools may judge, what trifling
706 47 | I make Thine enemies Thy footstool."~
707 64 | God is above all laws; it forbids even those things which
708 8 | shore, whom Theseus had forced and deserted. Then, being
709 71 | his sign in their hand or forehead. And he who shall not worship
710 36 | His peculiar province to foresee. But Epicurus says He takes
711 70 | comprehends the present, foresees the future, and embraces
712 29 | acted with the greatest foresight in placing the subject-matter
713 48 | unto me as a lion in the forest; it hath given forth its
714 25 | ensnared by beauty, and forgetful of true majesty, sensible
715 28 | and matchless God might be forgotten.~
716 21 | rather to be execrated; than Fornax, together with her sacred
717 48 | Jeremiah thus speaks: "I have forsaken mine house, I have given
718 46 | shall say, Because they forsook the Lord their God, and
719 37 | vow after his death, lest forsooth he should be detained as
720 47 | and then at length, on the fortieth day, He returned to His
721 36 | nor touched, and from the fortuitous meeting of these all things
722 63 | is so dreadful, what so foul, as the slaughter of man?
723 46 | not away my face from the foulness of spitting." The same prophet
724 72 | shake the earth froth its foundations, and the cities shall be
725 72 | Honey shall drop from rocks, fountains of milk and wine shall abound.
726 24 | the Trojan war, and it is fourteen hundred and seventy years
727 27 | His excellent majesty, had framed the world out of nothing,
728 71 | desolate solitudes. But he, frantic and raging with implacable
729 7 | afterwards, in a transport of frenzy, killed his little children
730 71 | vices and frauds will become frequent; justice will perish; faith,
731 71 | causing fear. Comets will frequently appear. The sun will be
732 54 | while the scars are yet fresh, a repetition of the torture
733 24 | was the contemporary and friend of Saturnus, was three hundred
734 24 | the people to himself in friendship and the right of hospitality;
735 54 | But if any one, neither frightened by threats nor by tortures,
736 72 | He will shake the earth froth its foundations, and the
737 27 | planted with every kind of fruit-bearing tree, and commanded him
738 7 | constructed for himself a funeral pile on Mount (Eta, and
739 9 | man born from that as a fungus? Or why did Diana banish
740 61 | or, so to speak, three furies, which excite such great
741 54 | who will hear, when men of furious and unbridled spirit think
742 52 | so powerful cause of this fury? Doubtless, because they
743 70 | the present, foresees the future, and embraces the knowledge
744 33 | anything by hearing, or has gained the knowledge of it by a
745 33 | may be to us the means of gaining support, or a source of
746 2 | they will contend until one gains the mastery. If there are
747 47 | resurrection He went into Galilee, and again assembled His
748 22 | heart. It is a painter's gallery; nothing is real, everything
749 8 | now she delights in the Galli as her priests.~
750 48 | thus speaks: "I come to gather all nations and tongues:
751 29 | is not thus caused. Aulus Gellius has interpreted his sentiment
752 43 | down to them by successive generations, even until the time when
753 28 | houses under the name of Genii or Penates. To these temples
754 63 | parricide? The immodest gestures also of players, with which
755 41 | alone of all animals the gift of reason, that he might
756 65 | mutually protect ourselves by giving and receiving assistance.
757 33 | cease to be in pain, are glad. What distinction, then,
758 63 | then in these slaughters of gladiators, he who is a spectator is
759 23 | mournfuI rites are ended with gladness. The mystery of Ceres also
760 46 | remorse: they tempted me, and gnashed upon me with their teeth."
761 13 | in Crete, in the town of Gnossus, and that upon it is engraved
762 23 | father, or brought up. The goat is beside him, by the teats
763 24 | who nourished Jupiter with goats' milk and honey; that he
764 37 | derided, in swearing by a goose and a dog, as if in truth
765 47 | for the preaching of the Gospel throughout the whole world,
766 28 | the authors of evils, so govern and regulate them that they
767 13 | world, and had distributed governments to his friends and relatives,
768 4 | who is God by nature, the governor of the whole system. It
769 1 | providence which made or governs the world? That there is,
770 69 | not descend by the regular gradations to that opinion. For the
771 27 | flood the life of men was gradually shortened, and was reduced
772 30 | pursuit of medicine, or grammar, or oratory, may be said
773 30 | said to be a physician, a grammarian, or an orator. Thus also
774 22 | bloody sacrifices to his grandfather Saturnus, and wished that
775 31 | they belong to man. let us grant that it is possible for
776 64 | hatred, as the poet says, but gratitude.~
777 47 | Him from the hand of the grave. Where is thy judgment,
778 45 | filthiness; he commendeth greatly the latter end of the just,
779 10 | was not of perfect virtue, greatness, and power, since he feared
780 25 | plunder and deride the gods of Greece when he had taken possession
781 51 | What therefore can the Greeks expect from their superstitions
782 45 | reprove our thoughts: it grieveth us even to look upon him;
783 21 | respecting which it is grievous to speak! I do not, however,
784 51 | the resurrection. To these grounds it was also added, that
785 9 | in solitude among unknown groves, and having now changed
786 63 | wise, and to be altogether guarded against, because it is said
787 28 | that he had a demon as the guardian and director of his life
788 28 | poems, whom Hesiod calls the guardians of men. For they so persuaded
789 66 | should turn us aside from guarding the faith delivered to us.
790 39 | put himself to death is guilty of murder, according to
791 64 | by necessity or through habit, he should fall into perjury.
792 39 | who gave us the temporary habitation of the body, that we should
793 72 | fire with brimstone and hail, and they shall be on fire,
794 20 | throwing weapons of the hair of women; and on this account
795 53 | from his hand, or cut the halter, or drag him away from the
796 25 | which detestable and foolish handicraft Prometheus was the author,
797 71 | every sex and age will handle arms. The dignity of government
798 46 | Deuteronomy: " And thy life shall hang in doubt before thine eyes,
799 33 | assistance for the completion of happiness, they are plainly weak.
800 72 | receive peace, and the earth, harassed through so many years, may
801 51 | yield themselves to God, who harasses them. What therefore can
802 20 | Larentinalia were instituted, was a harlot? And for this reason she
803 20 | Faula also and Flora were harlots, of whom the one was the
804 72 | supply to all abundant and harmless food. But when the thousand
805 73 | arc true and certain, in harmony with the predicted announcement
806 52 | those whom they unreasonably hate should die by a speedy and
807 48 | against me: therefore have I hated it." Also Malachi: "I have
808 67 | than the just man who is haughty, how much more will He receive
809 72 | shall be united with the hawk, the serpent shall have
810 2 | that the same may be the head and source of all things.
811 44 | and with judgment shall He heal them." Also Moses himself
812 42 | account, because He is the health and safety of all who believe
813 61 | boundaries strive insatiably to heap up riches. Hence poisoning,
814 72 | bodies of the dead shall be heaped together, and its name shall
815 62 | madness is it to labour in heaping up those things which must
816 71 | through excessive cold or heat. All water will be partly
817 1 | providence, when he sees that the heavens and the earth have been
818 43 | of God remained with the Hebrews alone, who, not by any law,
819 3 | that God permeates the heights of heaven, the tracts of
820 20 | person, made the people her heir, and on this account the
821 47 | wilt not leave my soul in hell, neither wilt Thou suffer
822 5 | Cumaean, the eighth the Hellespontian, the ninth the Phrygian,
823 66 | our heart, by whose inward help we may overcome the pain
824 65 | who are in poverty. If the helpless or strangers die, we should
825 2 | are several leaders in a herd, they will contend until
826 38 | and indiscriminate, as in herds of cattle? Shall there be
827 33 | be united with baseness. Herillus the Pyrrhonist made knowledge
828 45 | Roman judge, he sent Him to Herod the Tetrarch, and permitted
829 | herself
830 28 | speak in their poems, whom Hesiod calls the guardians of men.
831 55 | concerned for itself only, nor hidden, but altogether shows itself
832 33 | beast. The chief good of Hieronymus is to be without pain, that
833 12 | East, which is, as it were, higher, because the light arises
834 9 | Or why did Diana banish Hippolytus either to a retired place,
835 13 | JUPITER ARE RELATED FROM THE HISTORIAN EUHEMERUS.~But let us leave
836 27 | usually happens, as we read in histories, that the gods appear to
837 8 | to whose death and burial Homer bears witness, not with
838 6 | deserved to obtain divine hon-ours after death; and temples
839 39 | rather than to seek it by honest labour, or to have any property.
840 7 | not even to have been born honourably, but to have been sprung
841 36 | cannot cohere: if they are hooked and angular, then they are
842 36 | they are divisible; for hooks and angles project, and
843 48 | after these things we have hoped in Him."~Now that the Jews
844 56 | may find a wounded man on horseback: will he thrust the one
845 47 | see corruption." Likewise Hosea: This my Son is wise, therefore
846 71 | will arise an impious king, hostile not only to mankind, but
847 20 | abandoned the siege. Tullus Hostilius made Fear and Pallor gods.
848 8 | and fed by the teats of a hound, was given to Chiron for
849 28 | individuals, and occupy houses under the name of Genii
850 23 | and beating their breasts, howl, lament, and search, imitating
851 38 | Although he calls this humanity and piety, he does not change
852 2 | interests according to his humours. Thus, in this commonwealth
853 8 | exposed; and being taken up by hunters, and fed by the teats of
854 10 | with violence as he was hunting and meditating manly things,
855 62 | the appearance of woman hurries a man to another pleasure,
856 63 | of mind. We must renounce hurtful pleasures, lest, charmed
857 42 | father, the writer of divine hymns--both most renowned kings,
858 73 | since Trismegistus and Hystaspes and the Sibyls have foretold
859 25 | author, who was born from Iapetus the uncle of Jupiter. For
860 36 | can form no intelligible idea of God, for it is His peculiar
861 30 | even thus is philosophy identical with wisdom. For wisdom
862 64 | inflicting injury, speaks in idle discourse. Nor indeed is
863 59 | of industry, the other of idleness; but in this respect they
864 25 | earthly things, worshipping idols of wood, and brass, and
865 2 | II. THAT THERE IS BUT ONE GOD,
866 3 | III. THE TESTIMONIES OF THE
867 pref| wrote a long time since to illustrate the truth and religion,
868 44 | and ye shall call His name Immanuel;" which, being interpreted,
869 62 | may be suppressed which is imminent from a contest, and that
870 63 | incest and parricide? The immodest gestures also of players,
871 21 | the stone of the Capitol immoveable, and preserve and extend
872 4 | cannot be comprehended by the imperfect, nor the invisible by the
873 71 | frantic and raging with implacable anger, will lead an army
874 63 | to be present at homicide implies a consciousness of guilt,
875 71 | themselves besieged, they will implore the aid of God with a loud
876 65 | being placed in evils, implores your aid. If any one is
877 39 | things, truly, are of small importance, but they arise from the
878 54 | others, nor can necessity be imposed upon any, so as to worship
879 44 | conceived: and a virgin was impregned, and became a mother in
880 72 | with fiery chains, shall be imprisoned, that the world may receive
881 70 | alarmed at exile, nor dreads imprisonment, nor shrinks from pain,
882 29 | there were the contrary, imprudence? On the same principle,
883 27 | in this world, under the impulse of envy, to the murder of
884 9 | these things signify but impurity, which the poets do not
885 11 | assuredly the daughter of Inachus was not turned into a cow,
886 68 | existed, and God has been inactive, or they both flowed from
887 3 | eternal, incorruptible, incapable of suffering, subject to
888 58 | victims bestow? What dotes incense? What do garments? What
889 63 | debaucheries and amours, tragedy of incest and parricide? The immodest
890 45 | writings which they read, they incited the people as though against
891 53 | undertaken by my judgment and inclination. If it is evil, why do you
892 58 | not an image, since He is incomprehensible both to the eyes and to
893 59 | his own advantages by the inconvenience of others, did not spare
894 65 | liable to many accidents and inconveniences. Expect that that which
895 8 | Bacchus, after subduing India as a conqueror, having by
896 38 | all things confused and indiscriminate, as in herds of cattle?
897 54 | understanding, if they have induced any man of spirit to sacrifice
898 10 | self-restraint had he, who indulged every kind of lust? For
899 65 | sees to be merciful; He is inexorable to him whom He sees to be
900 52 | they abominate them as some inexpiable wickedness. But they do
901 70 | can exist. But why do we infer from arguments that souls
902 10 | part of one who is weak and inferior?~
903 24 | they lived can easily be inferred. For Thallus writes in his
904 59 | the ways with the sword, infested the seas, gave the rein
905 4 | majesty of the one God with infinite praises, calls Him Lord
906 65 | only to abstain from the infliction of injury, but not even
907 21 | infants; than Caca, who gave information to Hercules respecting the
908 27 | devil, that is, accuser or informer, did not cease to persecute
909 3 | says that it, as though infused into limbs, puts in motion
910 27 | he cease upon this from infusing the venom of malice into
911 54 | cruelty puts forth all its ingenuity against him, plans dreadful
912 39 | the body, that we should inhabit it as long as He pleased.
913 68 | may receive and shelter an inhabitant. Likewise a ship is built
914 39 | another earth, which is inhabited by men and animals of every
915 69 | all the works of God? Who inhabits the earth? who receives
916 38 | equal, proceeds from that inhumanity with which also be assails
917 64 | falsehood always deceives or injures. Therefore he is not a just
918 56 | advantage upon another, and injuring himself. But it is easy
919 62 | which often so charm the inmost senses that they even disturb
920 61 | of lust is implanted and innate in us for the procreation
921 61 | with its boundaries strive insatiably to heap up riches. Hence
922 13 | gathered from the sacred inscriptions of ancient temples; he also
923 33 | of riches; some to entire insensibility to pain, others to the endurance
924 49 | itself may be bound by an inseparable bond of union. He will leave
925 51 | unclean spirits, having insinuated themselves into the bodies
926 54 | with incredible alacrity insolently exult, and rejoice, as though
927 66 | who cannot be deceived, inspects it. The breast must be cleared
928 42 | prophets, filled with the inspiration of the Divine Spirit, proclaimed;
929 3 | also, and philosophers, and inspired women, utter their testimony
930 27 | with such crimes, that an instance of justice was now rare,
931 45 | any healing remedy, but instantaneously, by the force and power
932 72 | King and Conqueror will institute a great judgment on the
933 24 | mankind fell into error by the institution of new forms of divine worship.~
934 27 | this, He sent His angels to instruct the race of men, and to
935 8 | was given to Chiron for instruction. He lived at Epidaurus,
936 50 | carried out in practice, the instructor may refute him by actual
937 68 | at what time, or by whose instrumentality they attain to immortality,
938 70 | this appears to any one insufficient, let him read the poems
939 53 | one had it in his power to insult God with impunity; but he
940 52 | assail them with the most insulting words; and also, if they
941 67 | not hold the truth in its integrity, must be done by us, who
942 40 | though sought by so many intellects through so many ages, philosophy
943 57 | wisdom. But as that malice is intelligent and shrewd in preserving
944 36 | otherwise we can form no intelligible idea of God, for it is His
945 29 | of self-control except by intemperance. Likewise, in what manner
946 34 | united with man both in the interchange of language and in communion
947 64 | public laws. But by the intervention of this command, it will
948 71 | neighbouring states, but also intestine wars. States will carry
949 70 | closely connected, this is intimately related to Him without whom
950 54 | him, plans dreadful and intolerable things; and because they
951 8 | father of Androgynus by his intrigue with Venus, deserved to
952 68 | transmigration. In my opinion, he introduces some sport resembling a
953 71 | repeated earthquakes; now by inundation of waters, now by pestilence
954 25 | breathe. And he indeed was the inventor of earthenware images. But
955 53 | you call me, why do you invite me with evil? why with blows,
956 28 | that they themselves may be invoked, or the issues of which
957 63 | guilt, and the spectator is involved in the same guilt as the
958 66 | in our heart, by whose inward help we may overcome the
959 14 | he enumerated among them Iris relatives, Uranus, Saturnus.
960 25 | objects, rational beings that irrational objects, living beings that
961 12 | maritime coast, with all the islands. Many things are thus coloured
962 4 | IV. THE TESTIMONIES OF THE
963 9 | IX. OF THE DISGRACEFUL DEEDS
964 11 | to signify a multitude of javelins. He carried off his catamite
965 42 | Himself and the Father, as John teaches in the Revelation.
966 11 | she escaped the anger of Juno in a ship which had the
967 58 | lights, for He was able to kindle the light of the sun, with
968 13 | written, so is the origin and kindred of Jupiter and his brothers;
969 12 | did also respecting their kingdoms. For when they say that
970 71 | depredation and devastation. Kingly power will be multiplied,
971 50 | L. WHY GOD ASSUMED A MORTAL
972 52 | and simple death; but they lacerate them with refined tortures,
973 39 | might please his mistress Lais, instituted the Cyrenaic
974 46 | the slaughter, and as a lamb before its shearers is dumb,
975 45 | restored the weak, He made the lame to walk, He gave sight to
976 23 | beating their breasts, howl, lament, and search, imitating the
977 22 | verses:--~"Those bugbears the Lamiae, which Faunus and Numa Pompilius
978 23 | of torches. The people of Lampsacus, offer an ass to Priapus
979 47 | all people, tribes, and languages shall serve Him; and His
980 45 | to the sick, and to those languishing under various diseases,
981 7 | having stormed Troy, slew Laomedon, the father of Priam, on
982 20 | Remus, in honour of whom the Larentinalia were instituted, was a harlot?
983 pref| been treated of in seven large volumes. For the whole matter
984 39 | the moon is eighteen times larger than this earth of ours;
985 66 | who has done this obtains lasting memory and praise, how much
986 23 | strangers to Diana; the Latian Jupiter also was propitiated
987 13 | history Ennius translated into Latin, whose words are these:--~"
988 22 | Faunas was the first in Latium who introduced these follies,
989 9 | from debauchery? Whence did Latona bring forth her twins, except
990 71 | esteemed as a prey and a laughing-stock. No one will exhibit filial
991 72 | blood shall flow, and the leader himself shall escape, and
992 2 | commotion."~If there are several leaders in a herd, they will contend
993 43 | out of Egypt trader the leadership of Moses, the first of all
994 32 | originated. For when the leading men of that sect saw that
995 24 | connected with him in a league of hospitality. Thus he
996 | least
997 43 | worship of strange gods, and, leaving the worship of their father,
998 10 | For he made Alemena and Leda, the wives of great men,
999 45 | Pontius Pilate, who then as legate had authority in Syria,
1000 64 | however, will he refuse to lend, if necessity shall compel
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