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1001 28 | made, not that they might lessen the honour of God, or increase
1002 61 | not to be taken away nor lessened. For they are not evil of
1003 36 | the condition of man on a level with the flocks and beasts.
1004 51 | LI. OF THE DEATH OF CHRIST
1005 28 | temples are built, to these libations are daily offered as to
1006 63 | stage belongs to Father Liber; but the Circensian games
1007 34 | if he has them, he will liberally bestow them, to preserve
1008 5 | Persians, the second the Libyan, the third the Delphian,
1009 11 | variegated veil. Poetic licence has this limit, not that
1010 10 | X. OF JUPITER, AND HIS LICENTIOUS LIFE.~But respecting the
1011 65 | should not permit them to lie unburied. These are the
1012 40 | Democritus asserts that truth lies sunk in a deep well; and
1013 25 | objects, living beings that lifeless objects, were to be worshipped
1014 51 | befitting that He should be lifted up. Thus the cross exalted
1015 23 | these, in which torches are lighted, and Proserpine is sought
1016 38 | the greatest crimes are lightly punished, the boldness of
1017 8 | when he had been killed by lightning. But Apollo, his father,
1018 52 | LII. THE HOPE OF THE SALVATION
1019 53 | LIII. THE REASONS OF THE HATRED
1020 27 | the resemblance of His own likeness, and breathed into him that
1021 25 | ivory, so that not only the likenesses, but also the gleam itself,
1022 23 | as an appropriate victim. Lindus is a town of Rhodes, where
1023 45 | was heard to fall from His lips. Then the executioners,
1024 54 | LIV. OF THE FREEDOM OF RELIGION
1025 59 | LIX. OF THE WAYS OF LIFE,AND
1026 23 | shoulders, they sprinkle the loathsome altars with their own blood.
1027 45 | five thousand men with five loaves and two fishes. He also
1028 73 | attractions of which the lofty soul is depressed to the
1029 46 | bones: they themselves have looked and stared upon me; they
1030 72 | the prince of the demons loosed, the nations will rebel
1031 57 | life of another to his own loss, or who consults the gain
1032 71 | implore the aid of God with a loud voice, and God shall hear
1033 67 | For humility is dear and lovely in the sight of God; for
1034 34 | necessarily live in poverty and lowliness, and in insults, or even
1035 22 | pursuits of arms. Therefore Lucilius, in deriding the folly of
1036 25 | earthly things, whose folly Lucretius severely rebukes, saying: ~"
1037 21 | many other monstrous and ludicrous fictions there are, respecting
1038 20 | this reason she was called Lupa, and represented in the
1039 33 | the soul for the most part luxuriates, and unbends itself either
1040 62 | they are able to draw us to luxury. For he who shall be given
1041 55 | LV. THE HEATHENS CHARGE JUSTICE
1042 56 | LVI. OF JUSTICE, WHICH IS THE
1043 57 | LVII. OF WISDOM AND FOOLISHNESS.~
1044 58 | LVIII. OF THE TRUE WORSHIP OF
1045 60 | LX. OF THE DUTIES OF JUSTICE.~
1046 61 | LXI. OF THE PASSIONS.~There
1047 62 | LXII. OF RESTRAINING THE PLEASURES
1048 63 | LXIII. THAT SHOWS ARE MOST POWERFUL
1049 64 | LXIV. THE PASSIONS ARE TO BE
1050 69 | LXIX. THAT THE WORLD WAS MADE
1051 65 | LXV. PRECEPTS ABOUT THOSE THINGS
1052 66 | LXVI. OF FAITH IN RELIGION, AND
1053 67 | LXVII. OF REPENTANCE, THE IMMORTALITY
1054 68 | LXVIII. OF THE WORLD, MAN, AND
1055 46 | respecting food and drink in the lxviiith Psalm: "They gave me also
1056 70 | LXX. THE IMMORTALITY OF THE
1057 71 | LXXI. OF THE LAST TIMES.~These
1058 72 | LXXII. OF CHRIST DESCENDING FROM
1059 73 | LXXIII. THE HOPE OF SAFETY IS IN
1060 28 | delude the minds of men with lying divination by means of ambiguous
1061 25 | he therefore appear to be m possession of his senses,
1062 45 | right mind to those who were maddened with the attack of demons,
1063 38 | en-trusted to them warfare, magistracies, and commands. But how great
1064 55 | each its due, because it maintains equity in all things; and
1065 45 | offences against the law. He maketh his boast that he has the
1066 68 | consider what was the plan of making this so great and so immense
1067 48 | therefore have I hated it." Also Malachi: "I have no pleasure in
1068 12 | that when they make them male and female, and confess
1069 7 | abstained from women, or males, and traversed the whole
1070 62 | reference to the sight is manifold. For that which is derived
1071 10 | was hunting and meditating manly things, that he might treat
1072 45 | lots over His tunic and mantle, suspended Him on the cross,
1073 21 | to enrich the ground with manure; than the goddess Muta,
1074 25 | both carved them out of marble, and moulded them out of
1075 20 | ought to be worshipped. Marcellus originated Honour and Virtue.~
1076 12 | Neptune, because he had the maritime coast, with all the islands.
1077 33 | good which the philosophers mark out be such that it has
1078 3 | and the seas. Also our own Maro calls the Supreme God at
1079 12 | and confess that some are married, some parents, and some
1080 2 | its founder, either this mass would be dissolved, or it
1081 56 | Romans themselves, who are masters of the whole world, were
1082 2 | contend until one gains the mastery. If there are many commanders
1083 28 | name of the supreme and matchless God might be forgotten.~
1084 57 | this is perfect justice. It matters nothing to us what fools
1085 42 | sensible. But by sensible I mean, not that He Himself receives
1086 | meanwhile
1087 60 | unwilling to suffer, but should measure the feelings of another
1088 46 | gave me also gall for my meat, and in my thirst they gave
1089 44 | flesh, that, becoming a mediator between God and man, having
1090 10 | violence as he was hunting and meditating manly things, that he might
1091 36 | with what mind do they meet together to effect anything?
1092 65 | us bestow it; if any one meets us who is naked, let us
1093 7 | little children and his wife Megara. At last, having put on
1094 24 | daughters were Amalthea and Melissa, who nourished Jupiter with
1095 24 | of Pindar, relates that Melisseus was king of the Cretans,
1096 39 | and impious, whom I have mentioned above, who even taught what
1097 12 | kingdom of Coelus, they either menu Mount Olympus, on which
1098 65 | to him whom He sees to be merciful; He is inexorable to him
1099 2 | Minerva with fruits; nor will Mercury lay claim to arms, nor Mars
1100 13 | the times. Euhemerus was a Messenian, a very ancient writer,
1101 71 | change the world. But in the midst of these evils there will
1102 70 | weigh the answers of the Milesian Apollo, that he may understand
1103 71 | will not be preserved, nor military discipline; but after the
1104 72 | GENERAL JUDGMENT, AND OF THE MILLENARIAN REIGN. ~Then the heaven
1105 27 | angels. Thus, having become ministers of the devil, that they
1106 53 | in other cases seen, the miserable ends of all those who have
1107 56 | a man who was through a mistake offering for sale gold as
1108 64 | perjury, lest he should mock God; but he will not even
1109 55 | proceeded, and what was its mode of operation, they assigned
1110 61 | restrained and used with moderation; if they are good, we ought
1111 45 | committed; for at the same moment in which He expired, there
1112 4 | poets. Plato asserts His monarchy, saying that there is but
1113 21 | brother. How many other monstrous and ludicrous fictions there
1114 71 | Then both the year, and the month, and the day will be shortened.
1115 72 | shall descend from God at morning and evening, and the earth
1116 26 | all have fixed and regular motions, by which they most constantly
1117 71 | an army and besiege the mountain to which the righteous shall
1118 56 | offering for sale gold as mountain-brass, or silver as lead, and
1119 72 | be an earthquake, and the mountains shall be rent, and valleys
1120 23 | by Cynocephalus. Thus the mournfuI rites are ended with gladness.
1121 46 | will turn your feasts into mourning, and your songs into lamentation."
1122 71 | devastation. Kingly power will be multiplied, and ten men will occupy,
1123 21 | manure; than the goddess Muta, who brought forth the Lares;
1124 23 | with their own blood; when, mutilating themselves, they cease to
1125 | myself
1126 65 | any one meets us who is naked, let us clothe him; if any
1127 22 | sister among the gods, and named her the good goddess. Then
1128 57 | them. For the imitation of names causes it thus to appear.
1129 42 | men He is called by two names--Jesus, which is Saviour,
1130 46 | ever returning to their native land. And these things were
1131 36 | providence and care, it would naturally follow that you should altogether
1132 47 | stood beside Him brought Him near before Him. And there was
1133 38 | philosophy that he approached nearer to the truth; and yet, because
1134 61 | desire and seek for the necessaries of life. But they who are
1135 28 | They themselves invented necromancies, responses, and oracles,
1136 39 | are ridiculous. Democritus neglected his land which was left
1137 56 | advantages of others and neglects its own, is to be called
1138 71 | only between foreign and neighbouring states, but also intestine
1139 63 | supposed to be dedicated to Neptunus: so that now he who takes
1140 5 | eighth the Hellespontian, the ninth the Phrygian, the tenth
1141 23 | immolated two hundred sons of nobles. And not more mild than
1142 46 | the sun shall go down at noon, and the clear day shall
1143 62 | pleasant sounds, that of the nostrils from pleasant odour, that
1144 21 | not, however, wish to omit notice of Terminus, since it is
1145 70 | dumb animals there is no notion of religion, because they
1146 59 | us with vital breath, who nourishes and preserves us, has over
1147 25 | close resemblance, that the novelty and cleverness of the art
1148 | nowhere
1149 46 | hands and my feet, they numbered all my bones: they themselves
1150 70 | or that there would be numberless thousands of years from
1151 20 | the wife of Faustulus, the nurse of Romulus and Remus, in
1152 49 | and the Son faithfully obeys the Father, and wills nothing
1153 46 | Amos thus speaks of the obscuring of the sun: "In that day,
1154 33 | the philosophers do not observe the rule even in moral philosophy,
1155 66 | if he who has done this obtains lasting memory and praise,
1156 62 | the nostrils from pleasant odour, that of taste from sweet
1157 58 | should think that victims, or odours, or precious gifts, are
1158 61 | sometimes compel them to offend in such a manner, as to
1159 67 | and confess that we have offended, and entreat pardon from
1160 6 | preserved by a succession of offspring. But what need have the
1161 12 | they either menu Mount Olympus, on which ancient stories
1162 2 | therefore, of them can be called omnipotent, which is the true title
1163 7 | he was triumphed over by Omphale alone, to whom he gave up
1164 | once
1165 71 | appoint new laws, abrogate old ones; he will make the state
1166 67 | because it is a correction of oneself; that when we have happened
1167 59 | things which before were done openly began to be done secretly.
1168 55 | and what was its mode of operation, they assigned to a few
1169 29 | this account, because it opposes virtue, and virtue is on
1170 32 | by philosophers mutually opposing each other, they undertook
1171 28 | race, that truth might be oppressed, and the name of the supreme
1172 30 | physician, a grammarian, or an orator. Thus also those who are
1173 30 | medicine, or grammar, or oratory, may be said to be studious
1174 39 | Xenophanes said that the orb of the moon is eighteen
1175 23 | appointed priest, it was ordained that he himself, and other
1176 4 | completed with wonderful order. Aristotle, his disciple,
1177 71 | dedicated to God, and will give orders that he himself shall be
1178 67 | But how could there be original seeds, since both the seeds
1179 25 | then in process of time ornament was added of gold and ivory,
1180 3 | testimony to the unity of God. Orpheus speaks of the surpassing
1181 23 | little son, who is called Osiris. For first her priests and
1182 | otherwise
1183 21 | together with her sacred ovens; than Stercutus, who first
1184 40 | proclaims that all things are over-spread with darkness. Empedocles
1185 71 | appear. The sun will be overshadowed with perpetual paleness.
1186 55 | refute their speech, and overthrow the justice, which had no
1187 29 | account a good, because it overthrows vice, it follows that virtue
1188 27 | depraving them; in short, from overwhelm-inn them with such crimes, that
1189 3 | their life from Him. Even Ovid was not ignorant that the
1190 34 | bound up in two duties. He owes the one to God as to a father,
1191 23 | Hercules had taken away his oxen from a ploughman, and had
1192 54 | of the flesh may yield to pains, and if it does not yield,
1193 22 | contain a heart. It is a painter's gallery; nothing is real,
1194 71 | overshadowed with perpetual paleness. The moon will be stained
1195 20 | Hostilius made Fear and Pallor gods. Mind is also worshipped;
1196 8 | invented the lyre and the paloestra. Father Bacchus, after subduing
1197 63 | express by dancing. For the pantomime is a school of corruption,
1198 46 | and stared upon me; they parted my garments among them,
1199 71 | will destroy nearly two parts, the third will flee into
1200 70 | and because it retains the past, comprehends the present,
1201 40 | Empedocles says that the paths for finding out the truth
1202 33 | next place, that it belong peculiarly to the mind; lastly, that
1203 28 | under the name of Genii or Penates. To these temples are built,
1204 55 | the greatest talent and penetration, to refute their speech,
1205 pref| nevertheless you desire, O brother Pentadius, that an epitome of them
1206 2 | among themselves, but also peoples and nations. But he who
1207 1 | also by the testimonies and perceptions of all mortals. For who
1208 46 | And Israel shall be for perdition and a reproach to the people,
1209 50 | teacher of virtue, for the perfection of His teaching it was plainly
1210 41 | Neither are sacred rites performed in philosophy, nor is philosophy
1211 7 | wife Deianyra, when he was perishing through ulcers, being unable
1212 68 | which always existed will be permanent. Therefore evils are preferable.
1213 3 | whole world; also, that God permeates the heights of heaven, the
1214 53 | which be desired, and in not permitting him to reach the end and
1215 63 | in the same guilt as the perpetrator, then in these slaughters
1216 46 | the Lord their God, and persecuted their. King, who was dearly
1217 5 | Sibyls, --the first of the Persians, the second the Libyan,
1218 67 | deny, except to those who persist in their error. Great is
1219 61 | reputation nor for their personal safety: these are anger,
1220 61 | which excite such great perturbations in the souls of men, and
1221 68 | the system of nature. Some perverse person may stand forth,
1222 54 | impious and desperate. What perversity is this, that he who is
1223 71 | inundation of waters, now by pestilence and famine. The earth will
1224 63 | pleasures, lest, charmed by pestilential sweetness, we fall into
1225 8 | herself, while she lived in Phrygia after the banishment and
1226 5 | Hellespontian, the ninth the Phrygian, the tenth the Tiburtine,
1227 30 | he is now said to be a physician, a grammarian, or an orator.
1228 22 | and wished that his father Picus should be worshipped as
1229 66 | limbs should be torn in pieces, or burnt, we shall easily
1230 45 | fulfilled. And when Pontius Pilate, who then as legate had
1231 7 | constructed for himself a funeral pile on Mount (Eta, and burnt
1232 24 | inscribed Of the Explanation of Pindar, relates that Melisseus
1233 20 | Venus Calva: also to Jupiter Pistor, because he had advised
1234 72 | come forth, and see the plains covered with carcases. Then
1235 54 | its ingenuity against him, plans dreadful and intolerable
1236 27 | in a garden which He had planted with every kind of fruit-bearing
1237 63 | immodest gestures also of players, with which they imitate
1238 39 | inhabit it as long as He pleased. Therefore it is to be considered
1239 55 | truth. But, however, if it pleases them to defend the folly
1240 65 | these things, which are pleasing to God, money is to be despised,
1241 67 | upon the altar of God the pledges of his own mind. That supreme
1242 64 | benefits of God are more plenteously bestowed. He will not steal,
1243 23 | taken away his oxen from a ploughman, and had slain them, he
1244 34 | take vengeance upon one who plunders his property. For he will
1245 68 | that the souls which have plunged themselves into crimes are
1246 12 | therefore they say that Pluto obtained the lower regions;
1247 11 | with a variegated veil. Poetic licence has this limit,
1248 8 | bears witness, not with poetical, but simple faith. Mercurius,
1249 70 | Since fixed and divinely ap- pointed times have begun to be filled
1250 59 | children, or parents, prepared poisoned cups for the destruction
1251 61 | to heap up riches. Hence poisoning, hence defraudings, hence
1252 29 | to the other at opposite poles, as Plato says, if you take
1253 54 | then does he accomplish who pollutes the body, since he cannot
1254 64 | not only prohibited from polluting the marriage of another,
1255 72 | its name shall be called Polyandrion. After these things God
1256 22 | Lamiae, which Faunus and Numa Pompilius and others instituted, at
1257 45 | but fulfilled. And when Pontius Pilate, who then as legate
1258 71 | and ten men will occupy, portion out, and devour the world.
1259 3 | circumstance or power, Himself possessing all things, ruling all things,
1260 64 | himself and with his own possessions; nor will he take away from,
1261 55 | and those placed in any post of authority, and not in
1262 53 | away from the precipice, or pour out the poison, boast yourself
1263 63 | bloodshed who wished it to be poured out, or appear not to have
1264 11 | great quantity of which, and pouring them into her bosom, he
1265 65 | account God commands us to pray always even for our enemies.
1266 3 | speak of the prophets, the preachers of the one God, poets also,
1267 47 | having arranged for the preaching of the Gospel throughout
1268 36 | answers of bards, by the predictions of the Sibyls, and lastly,
1269 pref| THE PREFACE. THE PLAN AND PURPORT OF
1270 12 | all things, and that they prefigured some things, that, when
1271 2 | own duties and their own prerogatives. No one, therefore, of them
1272 53 | poison, boast yourself as the preserver of the man, when be, whom
1273 59 | breath, who nourishes and preserves us, has over us, not only
1274 57 | intelligent and shrewd in preserving its own interests, it is
1275 59 | since they who themselves presided over the administration
1276 25 | the gods, and weigh and press them down to the earth."~
1277 34 | These, however, although pressed by extreme hunger, nevertheless
1278 53 | will! If any one, under the pressure of evils, attempts to have
1279 54 | worship. Some one may perhaps pretend, he cannot wish it. In short,
1280 68 | for the most part, even prevail over those which are good?
1281 57 | pain subdue us, so as to prevent the vigour of our mind and
1282 68 | about to become immortal are previously born mortal, and then, having
1283 7 | Laomedon, the father of Priam, on account of his perjury?
1284 23 | Lampsacus, offer an ass to Priapus as an appropriate victim.
1285 22 | superstitions, instituted priesthoods, and distributed the gods
1286 20 | which had been found in the principal sewer, and called it by
1287 29 | imprudence? On the same principle, he says, why do the foolish
1288 48 | out the prisoners from the prison, and them that sit in darkness
1289 48 | sit in darkness out of the prison-house."~
1290 48 | blind, to bring out the prisoners from the prison, and them
1291 56 | considered foolish, who proceed to injure themselves for
1292 55 | was, from what source it proceeded, and what was its mode of
1293 38 | that all faults are equal, proceeds from that inhumanity with
1294 25 | them out of bronze; then in process of time ornament was added
1295 43 | them with their sins and proclaim repentance, to threaten
1296 40 | is well known. Anaxagoras proclaims that all things are over-spread
1297 62 | eagerness for pleasure both produces danger and generates disgrace,
1298 39 | his company of dogs, who professes that great and perfect virtue
1299 38 | own industry; or to be a profit to any one, if through his
1300 72 | valleys shall sink down to a profound depth, and into this the
1301 36 | divisible; for hooks and angles project, and can be cut off. But
1302 64 | has promised, nor will he promise that which he is unable
1303 59 | instituted laws for themselves to promote the public advantage, that
1304 56 | therefore that justice, if it promotes the advantages of others
1305 70 | But that is the greatest proof of immortality, that man
1306 pref| which the elucidation of the proofs depends, must of necessity
1307 23 | Latian Jupiter also was propitiated with human blood. Also before
1308 67 | His heavenly kingdom in proportion to his humility! These are
1309 35 | attainment of this. Therefore God proposes to us virtue and justice,
1310 62 | robbery, or theft, or by proscription, or by death? Let lust not
1311 29 | together good and evil things, prosperity and trouble, pleasure and
1312 25 | returned to Sicily with a prosperous voyage, and held the kingdom
1313 64 | to abstain from those who prostitute their persons. For the law
1314 37 | He often made use of this proverb, that that which is above
1315 56 | appear wise, because he will provide for his own interests; but
1316 65 | other animals, which God has provided with means of inflicting
1317 36 | for it is His peculiar province to foresee. But Epicurus
1318 29 | what manner would there be prudence, unless there were the contrary,
1319 45 | having received the power of punishing His guilt, sentenced Him
1320 pref| THE PREFACE. THE PLAN AND PURPORT OF THE WHOLE EPITOME, AND
1321 61 | you employ them to good purposes, will be virtues, if to
1322 30 | unless by chance they who pursue wisdom even to the end of
1323 10 | Saturnus from his kingdom, and pursued him with arms when he fled?
1324 22 | spirits of the people from the pursuits of arms. Therefore Lucilius,
1325 33 | with baseness. Herillus the Pyrrhonist made knowledge the chief
1326 37 | Socrates was most wise, as the Pythian god proclaimed. He often
1327 69 | winged creatures, who the quadrupeds, except man? Therefore God
1328 62 | from this pleasure only, quae capitur ex foeminei corporis
1329 42 | excellent, and full of all good qualities." The Sibyl also says that
1330 53 | weighed according to the quality of the action, but according
1331 11 | coins, by offering a great quantity of which, and pouring them
1332 5 | Cumaean, whom none but the Quindecemviri are allowed to read, bear
1333 51 | men, are driven out, when racked and tormented, and confessing
1334 71 | solitudes. But he, frantic and raging with implacable anger, will
1335 69 | see this, does not differ ranch from a beast. Who but man
1336 27 | instance of justice was now rare, but men lived after the
1337 31 | which you are ignorant, is rashness and folly. Supposition,
1338 25 | that insensible objects, rational beings that irrational objects,
1339 70 | Epicurus, and Dicaearchus raved, who alone of all mortals
1340 39 | feet opposite to ours. The ravings of Anaxagoras are more tolerable,
1341 pref| and mould the minds of the readers, that their length may not
1342 33 | knowledge of it by a little reading; nor is it a definition
1343 55 | shows itself abroad, and is ready for conferring a benefit,
1344 22 | painter's gallery; nothing is real, everything fictitious."~
1345 36 | left Him in name, but in reality you have taken Him away.
1346 51 | though there is in it great reasonableness and power, For since He
1347 61 | themselves, since God has reasonably implanted them in us; but
1348 53 | against their will, what reasoning they have with themselves,
1349 72 | loosed, the nations will rebel against the righteous, and
1350 45 | the attack of demons, He recalled to life and light those
1351 65 | ourselves by giving and receiving assistance. For our frailty
1352 52 | the eyes of their mind and recognise God, in whom alone is the
1353 4 | would be a long task to recount the statements which have
1354 57 | and evil, depravity and rectitude, but he who shall be wise?
1355 73 | is about to send for our redemption, unless he shall have known
1356 20 | despairing of being able to reduce the Romans by famine, had
1357 38 | who removes this affection reduces us to the life of the beasts.
1358 57 | and for this reason they refer all advantage to this life.
1359 70 | because it is flexible for reflection, subtle for discovery, easy
1360 57 | that those who have neither refused tortures nor death for the
1361 70 | nor shrinks from pain, nor refuses death; and because these
1362 53 | me willing, but drag me refusing. What folly is it to wish
1363 12 | light arises thence; but the region of the West is lower, and
1364 28 | of evils, so govern and regulate them that they are believed
1365 1 | all things have been so regulated, that they might be most
1366 59 | infested the seas, gave the rein to his lust, wherever passion
1367 2 | rudder, unless one guide the reins, and, as it were, one mind
1368 62 | soothe the cars. Thus they reject the truth, while they are
1369 14 | who is ignorant of this rejects it as a fable. That Uranus
1370 54 | alacrity insolently exult, and rejoice, as though they had sent
1371 67 | mind. That supreme Majesty rejoices in such a worshipper as
1372 12 | to the poets; for these relations cannot exist without intercourse
1373 38 | be neither families, nor relationships, nor affinities, but all
1374 33 | satisfied with pasture, relax themselves to joy and wantonness.
1375 27 | command of God he would remain immortal. Then the serpent,
1376 43 | then the religion of God remained with the Hebrews alone,
1377 5 | Now let us follow up the remaining subjects.~
1378 64 | towards a slave: he must remember that he himself has a Father
1379 46 | were scattered, yet felt no remorse: they tempted me, and gnashed
1380 29 | else is justice, but the removal of injustice? In like manner,
1381 38 | our weakness; and he who removes this affection reduces us
1382 20 | the nurse of Romulus and Remus, in honour of whom the Larentinalia
1383 72 | After these things God will renew the world, and transform
1384 63 | tranquil state of mind. We must renounce hurtful pleasures, lest,
1385 42 | divine hymns--both most renowned kings, who preceded the
1386 72 | and the mountains shall be rent, and valleys shall sink
1387 71 | with blood, nor will it repair the losses of its light
1388 65 | violence, and with defences for repelling it, He has given to us the
1389 54 | with prayers and tears, repenting not of the will, which they
1390 54 | the scars are yet fresh, a repetition of the torture may inflict
1391 51 | world might assemble and repose. But of what great weight
1392 20 | she was called Lupa, and represented in the form of a wild beast.
1393 23 | mystery of the Cretan Jupiter represents the manner in which he was
1394 46 | shall be for perdition and a reproach to the people, and this
1395 52 | do they now refrain from reproaches, but assail them with the
1396 68 | thus far, that they may be reproduced in the lower animals, and
1397 45 | Son of God. He is made to reprove our thoughts: it grieveth
1398 45 | excited with anger, because He reproved their sins and injustice,
1399 61 | regard neither for their reputation nor for their personal safety:
1400 58 | is justice only which God requires. In this is sacrifice; in
1401 65 | powerful than himself, let us rescue him. Let our house be open
1402 23 | The mystery of Ceres also resembles these, in which torches
1403 51 | cross was preferred, which reserved the body with the bones
1404 46 | confounded and reviled, and the residue of them will I deliver to
1405 45 | When a great multitude resorted to Him on account of these
1406 64 | from those who have less resources than himself; for it is
1407 36 | existence of gods. In both respects he acts contrary to reason.
1408 71 | from fear, no sleep for a respite. The day will always increase
1409 28 | themselves invented necromancies, responses, and oracles, to delude
1410 29 | each other, and must stand resting, as it were, on mutual and
1411 56 | to follow justice, and to restore to every one his property
1412 6 | to them, their memory was retained and celebrated as that of
1413 70 | learning, and because it retains the past, comprehends the
1414 34 | shall suffer, he will not retaliate; and he will not take vengeance
1415 71 | descend from heaven, the sun retire from his course, and the
1416 9 | banish Hippolytus either to a retired place, or give him up to
1417 53 | from whom we expect that retribution will hereafter follow. Nor
1418 46 | who were left from ever returning to their native land. And
1419 42 | as John teaches in the Revelation. Hermes says that His name
1420 56 | acknowledge God as a parent, to reverence Him as Lord, and to obey
1421 64 | of truth: he will never revile, who shall hope for a blessing
1422 46 | hath been confounded and reviled, and the residue of them
1423 47 | After two days He will revive us on the third day."~Therefore,
1424 23 | victim. Lindus is a town of Rhodes, where sacred rites in honour
1425 39 | but the deeds, of some are ridiculous. Democritus neglected his
1426 48 | Lord have called Thee in righteousness, and will hold Thine hand,
1427 48 | your hand. For from the rising of the sun even unto the
1428 23 | has been found, the whole rite is finished with congratulations
1429 72 | become mild, the wolf shall roam among the flocks without
1430 72 | men. Honey shall drop from rocks, fountains of milk and wine
1431 22 | the good goddess. Then at Rome, Numa, who burthened those
1432 20 | Faustulus, the nurse of Romulus and Remus, in honour of
1433 60 | rendered to God. But the root of justice, and the entire
1434 61 | vices: these trunks must be rooted up, that virtues may be
1435 13 | when he had five times gone round the world, and had distributed
1436 2 | person, unless one hold the rudder, unless one guide the reins,
1437 22 | Numa, who burthened those rude and rustic then with new
1438 27 | might have a solace of their ruin, they betook themselves
1439 27 | betook themselves to the ruining of men, for whose protection
1440 4 | affirmed that the world is ruled by Him alone, and that He
1441 45 | from God, the priests and rulers of the Jews, filled with
1442 55 | providence at all, which rules the world? But they alone
1443 3 | Himself possessing all things, ruling all things, whom the human
1444 61 | their superiors. Hence they rush to deeds of cruelty, hence
1445 65 | thief can break through, nor rust corrupt, nor tyrant take
1446 22 | burthened those rude and rustic then with new superstitions,
1447 45 | and that by healing on the Sabbath He broke the law, which
1448 27 | those who had committed sacrilege, I may show what cause produced
1449 68 | that men may be able to sail in it. Vessels also are
1450 7 | Hercules lived, since he both sailed with the Argonauts on their
1451 72 | to storm the city of the saints. Then the last judgment
1452 56 | through a mistake offering for sale gold as mountain-brass,
1453 5 | Erythraean, the sixth the Samian, the seventh the Cumaean,
1454 54 | denied to those who make satisfaction. What then does he accomplish
1455 52 | tortures, that they may satisfy their hatred, which is not
1456 44 | send them a man who shall save them, and with judgment
1457 54 | the wounds, that while the scars are yet fresh, a repetition
1458 73 | earthly things must be scorned, that we may be honoured
1459 46 | oppose: I gave my back to the scourge, and my cheeks to the hand:
1460 45 | to the cross, but first scourged and struck him with their
1461 71 | will fall, nor will the seasons preserve their regularity,
1462 71 | will change the name and seat of the government. Then
1463 45 | them among men, the Jews, seeing them to be great and wonderful,
1464 25 | to found temples, and was seeking for some one who was able
1465 | seem
1466 | seems
1467 42 | a philosopher, but as a seer, spoke concerning the first
1468 71 | by the prophets, but as seers, to be about to happen.
1469 64 | infant, nor to condemn one's self by a voluntary death. We
1470 29 | cowardice, or the nature of self-control except by intemperance.
1471 39 | of guilt that they were self-murderers, unless they instructed
1472 56 | will he rather inform the seller of its value? If he shall
1473 47 | RESURRECTION OF JESUS CHRIST, THE SENDING OF THE APOSTLES, AND THE
1474 4 | or of our countrymen, by Seneca following the Stoics, and
1475 26 | plainly not by their own sense, but by the workmanship
1476 59 | made a traffic of their sentences, either to the escape of
1477 29 | Gellius has interpreted his sentiment in his books of Attic Nights;
1478 5 | are commonly regarded as separate, books of almost all the
1479 13 | and deaths, and even their sepulchres. And this history Ennius
1480 39 | is asserted as something serious, that we should believe
1481 44 | given it unto Jacob His servant, and to Israel His beloved.
1482 27 | serpent, who was one of the servants of God, envying man because
1483 43 | called Jews. Therefore they served God, being bound by the
1484 pref| have been treated of in seven large volumes. For the whole
1485 5 | the sixth the Samian, the seventh the Cumaean, the eighth
1486 24 | is fourteen hundred and seventy years since the taking of
1487 | several
1488 25 | things, whose folly Lucretius severely rebukes, saying: ~"And they
1489 38 | punishment of too great severity is inflicted for slight
1490 20 | been found in the principal sewer, and called it by the name
1491 6 | born of marriage, since the sexes themselves, and the intercourse
1492 59 | in this life, but in the shades below. We manifestly speak
1493 72 | the nations. For He will shake the earth froth its foundations,
1494 63 | true may be done without shame. These spectacles are viewed
1495 11 | tutelary image fashioned in the shape of a bull. So assuredly
1496 23 | priests and attendants, having shaved all their limbs, and beating
1497 46 | and as a lamb before its shearers is dumb, so He opened not
1498 9 | Erichthonius arise? Did Vulcan shed his seed upon the ground,
1499 63 | sprinkled with blood than he who sheds it; nor can he be free from
1500 56 | happen that, having suffered shipwreck, he may find some feeble
1501 57 | who has not thrust off a shipwrecked man from a plank, nor a
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