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 501 V      |      corrupted boys, and showed such fearful sights to men, that those
 502 XLIV   |           effect. For not only do we fearlessly read them, but, as you see,
 503 XXXIV  |          forth a Governor, who shall feed My people." Now there is
 504 XV     |              and the beasts? And God feedeth them. Take no thought, therefore,
 505 LXIV   |            manner also they craftily feigned that Minerva was the daughter
 506 XVI    |          they have observed in their fellow-travellers when defrauded, or by the
 507 X      |        worthy of incorruption and of fellowship with Him. For the coming
 508 LXIV   |          form of the conception in a female shape. And in like manner
 509 XXVII  |             pollution a multitude of females and hermaphrodites, and
 510 XXII   |              with what you accept of Ferseus. And in that we say that
 511 XXIII  |              happened, which, having fictitiously devised, they narrated,
 512 LXVIII |              Supreme Pontiff, in the fifteenth year of his tribuneship,
 513 XLVI   |             was born one hundred and fifty years ago under Cyrenius,
 514 XLIX   |            them the prophecies, were filled with joy and faith, and
 515 XXXI   |           called, the Son of God. We find it also predicted that certain
 516 XXXVII |            of blood; and if ye bring fine flour, incense, it is abomination
 517 LV     |             for our part is done and finished. ~
 518 XXXVIII|               but I set My face as a firm rock; and I knew that I
 519 XVIII  |            us, who not less but more firmly than they believe in God;
 520 XXI    |            that the Word, who is the first-birth of God, was produced without
 521 XXIII  |              become evident to you--(firstly) that whatever we assert
 522 LXVIII |        thirst and famine. For during five days we had got no water,
 523 XXI    |             committed himself to the flames to escape his toils; and
 524 II     |             For we have come, not to flatter you by this writing, nor
 525 II     |         searching investigation, not flattered by prejudice or by a desire
 526 I      |              of Bacchius, natives of Flavia Neapolis in Palestine, present
 527 XXVI   |        intercourse, and eating human flesh--we know not; but we do know
 528 XII    |       impossible to put ignorance to flight by presenting the truth. ~
 529 LXII   |             while he was tending the flocks of his maternal uncle in
 530 XXXVII |          blood; and if ye bring fine flour, incense, it is abomination
 531 IV     |               and the poets who have flourished among you raise a laugh
 532 IX     |           sacrifices and garlands of flowers such deities as men have
 533 XXXI   |           what is said, but count us foes and enemies; and, like yourselves,
 534 VIII   |             by their works that they followed Him, and loved to abide
 535 IX     |                        CHAPTER IX -- FOLLY OF IDOL, WORSHIP. ~And neither
 536 XII    |            But if you also, like the foolish, prefer custom to truth,
 537 LIII   |            many other prophecies, we forbear, judging these sufficient
 538 XVI    |              or by the extraordinary forbearance they have observed in their
 539 XVI    |              away thy cloak or coat, forbid not. And whosoever shall
 540 XXIX   |            there said that they were forbidden to do this without the permission
 541 XXVIII |           for the human race. For He fore-knows that some are to be saved
 542 LV     |              face extending from the forehead what is called the nose,
 543 XLIV   |             fatal necessity; but God foreknowing all that shall be done by
 544        | former
 545 XIV    |            who formerly delighted in fornication, but now embrace chastity
 546 XV     |            new thing do ye? for even fornicators do this. But I say unto
 547 XXXVII |           are transgressors, ye have forsaken the Lord." And again elsewhere,
 548 L      |           even all His acquaintances forsook Him, having denied Him;
 549 LXVIII |         edict to be published in the Forum of Trajan, in order that
 550 LXVIII |    unconquerable and indestructible. Founding upon this, then, let us
 551 LII    |         prophet: "I will command the four winds to gather the scattered
 552 XVII   |            regard to our prayers and frank explanations, we shall suffer
 553 XLIV   |            to do wickedly become the fuel. Wherefore He says, "The
 554 LII    |               CHAPTER LII -- CERTAIN FULFILMENT OF PROPHECY. ~Since, then,
 555 XX     |              and on other points are fuller and more divine in our teaching,
 556 XXI    |              rise to heaven from the funeral pyre? And what kind of deeds
 557 XXIV   |               In the first place [we furnish proof], because, though
 558 LXVIII |            makes the accusation, and furnishes proof that the said men
 559 IV     |              assume the name and the garb who do nothing worthy of
 560 IX     |             with many sacrifices and garlands of flowers such deities
 561 LII    |            they shall rend not their garments, but their hearts. Tribe
 562 LI     |            thus spoken: "Lift up the gates of heaven; be ye opened,
 563 LXVIII |           pointed out to us, and our general Pompeianus showed us that
 564 XXVI   |           they say is the first idea generated by him. And a man, Meander,
 565 XXXI   |             for in the succession of generations prophets after prophets
 566 LXV    |            in the Hebrew language to genoito [so be it]. And when the
 567 XLIX   |            the same Isaiah, that the Gentile nations who were not looking
 568 XVI    |             all men, by patience and gentleness, from shame and the love
 569 LXVIII |           Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, Germanicus, Parthicus, Sarmaticus,
 570 IX     |       ineffable glory and form, thus gets His name attached to things
 571 XII    |             he might obtain the good gifts of God, and escape the punishments.
 572 XXVI   |         native of the village called Gitto, who in the reign of Claudius
 573 XIV    |            consider it right, before giving you the promised explanation,
 574 XVII   |               but in other things we gladly serve you, acknowledging
 575 XVI    |          that they, seeing them, may glorify your Father which is in
 576 XLVII  |            up with fire, and all its glorious things are laid waste: and
 577 XLI    |        before His face, strength and glorying are in the habitation of
 578 XVI    |           shall there be wailing and gnashing of teeth, when the righteous
 579 XXV    |          persuaded that never was he goaded by lust of Antiope, or such
 580 XXVII  |             reared herds of oxen, or goats, or sheep, or grazing horses,
 581 XXVII  |            such persons, besides the godless and infamous and impure
 582 LVIII  |           life, they drive them into godlessness. ~
 583 XXV    |              of those who are called gods--have now, through Jesus
 584 XVIII  |            insensibility, would be a godsend to all the wicked. But since
 585 X      |             the beginning did of His goodness, for man's sake, create
 586 LXVI   |            by them, which are called Gospels, have thus delivered unto
 587 LXVIII |              during five days we had got no water, because there
 588 LIII   |              their opinions, nor are governed by their passions. ~
 589 LXVIII |              some others also of the governors of provinces wrote to my
 590 XLI    |          Father everlasting. Receive grace, and enter His presence,
 591 LXVIII |      greeting: I explained to you my grand design, and what advantages
 592 I      |               the son of Priscus and grandson of Bacchius, natives of
 593 LXVIII |            your predecessor Serenius Granianus, a most illustrious man;
 594 XIII   |             those who need, and with gratitude to Him to offer thanks by
 595 XXVII  |               or goats, or sheep, or grazing horses, so now we see you
 596 XXXV   |         notice of other men until He grew to man's estate, which also
 597 LI     |             to deliver His soul from grief, to show Him light, and
 598 LII    |             to bone, and flesh shall grow again; and every knee shall
 599 XXXI   |            coming, born of a virgin, growing up to man's estate, and
 600 VI     |         truth, and declaring without grudging to every one who wishes
 601 XLVII  |             therein." And that it is guarded by you lest any one dwell
 602 II     |              direct us to refuse the guidance of those who did or taught
 603 XXVII  |                     CHAPTER XXVII -- GUILT OF EXPOSING CHILDREN. ~But
 604 XLI    |              and glorying are in the habitation of His holiness. Give Glory
 605 LXVIII |          enemies of Rome a withering hail. And immediately we recognised
 606 IX     |             and cutting, casting and hammering, fashion the materials?
 607 LX     |             serpents died, and it is handed down that the people thus
 608 XLV    |             from the womb of morning hare I begotten Thee." That which
 609 XLVIII |            the lame shall leap as an hart, and the tongue of the stammerer
 610 VIII   |              and Creator of all, and hasten to confess our faith, persuaded
 611 LXVIII |              for such preparation is hateful to them, on account of the
 612 XXXVII |            and your sabbaths My soul hateth; and the great day of the
 613 XXXVIII|          their lips, they wagged the head, saying, Let Him deliver
 614 XXXVIII|            the lip, and wagged their heads, saying, "Let Him who raised
 615 L      |           Him, by His stripes we are healed. All we, like sheep, have
 616 XXXI   |              up to man's estate, and healing every disease and every
 617 XIII   |             and for all the means of health, and for the various qualities
 618 LIV    |             believed in; but that in hearing what was said by the prophets
 619 II     |        learning, give good heed, and hearken to my address; and if ye
 620 LII    |            their garments, but their hearts. Tribe by tribe they shall
 621 LXV    |              order that we may offer hearty prayers in common for ourselves
 622 XLVII  |            at these things, and hast held Thy peace, and hast humbled
 623 XXVI   |              first god; and a woman, Helena, who went about with him
 624 LXVII  |             And the wealthy among us help the needy; and we always
 625 XXXVIII|       spittings; and the Lord was My helper: therefore was I not confounded:
 626 XII    |            all other men are we your helpers and allies in promoting
 627 XLVI   |             the Greeks, Socrates and Heraclitus, and men like them; and
 628 XL     |           Thy possession. Thou shall herd them with a rod of iron;
 629 XXVII  |              are said to have reared herds of oxen, or goats, or sheep,
 630        | hereby
 631        | herein
 632 XXVI   |             treatise against all the heresies that have existed already
 633 LVIII  |        CHAPTER LVIII -- AND RAISE UP HERETICS. ~And, as we said before,
 634 XXVII  |             multitude of females and hermaphrodites, and those who commit unmentionable
 635        | herself
 636 XVI    |             not forth good fruit, is hewn down and cast into the fire."
 637 XXXIII |             be called the Son of the Highest, and thou shalt call His
 638 XL     |              a King on Zion His holy hill, declaring the decree of
 639 LXVIII |           use of or to possess it be hindered from obtaining a copy from
 640 XXVII  |          nation. And you receive the hire of these, and duty and taxes
 641 XXI    |              XXI -- ANALOGIES TO THE HISTORY OF CHRIST. ~And when we
 642 XIII   |            the true God Himself, and holding Him in the second place,
 643 XVIII  |             Socrates, and the pit of Homer, and the descent of Ulysses
 644 XVI    |            when defrauded, or by the honesty of those with whom they
 645 XXI    |       scholars; for all reckon it an honourable thing to imitate the gods.
 646 XLVIII |       prophecy that He and those who hoped in Him should be slain,
 647 LXI    |              a name, he raves with a hopeless madness. And this washing
 648 XXVII  |          goats, or sheep, or grazing horses, so now we see you rear
 649 XXXVII |         violent contracts, cover the houseless and naked deal thy bread
 650        | however
 651 XLVII  |             held Thy peace, and hast humbled us very sore." And ye are
 652 XLVI   |             that Christ was born one hundred and fifty years ago under
 653 XXV    |              nor was rescued by that hundred-handed giant whose aid was obtained
 654 XXXVII |          naked deal thy bread to the hungry." What kind of things are
 655 II     |           you, you can kill, but not hurt us. ~
 656 XLIV   |             very great; for, as good husbandmen, we shall receive the reward
 657 XIII   |            thanks by invocations and hymns for our creation, and for
 658 XIX    |             For let this now be said hypothetically: if you yourselves were
 659 IX     |               CHAPTER IX -- FOLLY OF IDOL, WORSHIP. ~And neither do
 660 LXVIII |        indeed, seem at such times to ignore the gods, and you neglect
 661 II     |                              CHAPTER II -- JUSTICE DEMANDED. ~Reason
 662 III    |                              CHAPTER III -- CLAIM OF JUDICIAL INVESTIGATION. ~
 663 XXXIX  |          twelve in number, and these illiterate, of no ability in speaking:
 664 LXI    |           And this washing is called illumination, because they who learn
 665 XVI    |              has He desired us to be imitators of wicked men, but He has
 666 XVIII  |          divinations you practise by immaculate children, and the evoking
 667 LXVIII |           Rome a withering hail. And immediately we recognised the presence
 668 VIII   |          live by telling a lie. For, impelled by the desire of the eternal
 669 IV     |               apart from the actions implied in the name; and indeed,
 670 XII    |             laws and punishments you impose, endeavour to escape detection
 671 XIV    |             and sometimes by magical impositions, they subdue all who make
 672 II     |            nor induced by irrational impulse or evil rumours which have
 673 XXVII  |             godless and infamous and impure intercourse, may possibly
 674 VI     |        virtues, who is free from all impurity. But both Him, and the Son (
 675 X      |          could not effect, the Word, inasmuch as He is divine, would have
 676 LXVI   |              are placed with certain incantations in the mystic rites of one
 677 XXXIX  |           you can offer them nothing incorruptible, it were verily ridiculous
 678 XIX    |          same way, then, you are now incredulous because you have never seen
 679 II     |            anything wrong, but it is incumbent on the lover of truth, by
 680 III    |            of our affairs, we should incur the penalty due to them
 681 IV     |           earnestly to guard against incurring just punishment, by unjustly
 682 LXVIII |              a God unconquerable and indestructible. Founding upon this, then,
 683 II     |      pleasing superstitious men, nor induced by irrational impulse or
 684 XLIII  |    wickedness. But this we assert is inevitable fate, that they who choose
 685 IX     |              them they corrupt. What infatuation! that dissolute men should
 686 XXII   |        sufferings does He seem to be inferior to them; but, on the contrary,
 687 L      |              and knowing how to bear infirmity, because His face was turned
 688 LXIII  |     instigated the senseless Jews to inflict upon Him; who, though they
 689 XXIII  |        became a man among men, some, influenced by the demons before mentioned,
 690 LXVIII |             occasion be given to the informers for practising villany.
 691 XLVII  |           one should be permitted to inhabit it, there was the following
 692 LI     |       iniquities. Therefore He shall inherit many, and He shall divide
 693 XL     |           Thee the heathen for Thine inheritance, and the uttermost parts
 694 LVII   |         themselves to be wicked, and inhuman, and bigoted. For they kill
 695 LXVI   |            rites of one who is being initiated, you either know or can
 696 XVI    |      concerning our being patient of injuries, and ready to serve all,
 697 XXVII  |              we should do any one an injury, and lest we should sin
 698 LXVIII |              if you continue in your injustice; and we ourselves will invite
 699 LXVIII |           pass over in silence, lest innocent persons be disturbed, and
 700 VII    |             many, many a time, after inquiring into the life of each of
 701 XXVI   |           two bridges, and bore this inscription, in the language of Rome:-- ~"
 702 LV     |            and you name them gods by inscriptions. Since, therefore, we have
 703 LV     |             made, using these as the insignia of your power and government,
 704 XXVIII |               he will thereby either insinuate that God does not exist,
 705 XVIII  |            the descent of Ulysses to inspect these things, and all that
 706 III    |             to all an opportunity of inspecting our life and teachings,
 707 XLIV   |             see, bring them for your inspection, knowing that their contents
 708 LX     |               and that Moses, by the inspiration and influence of God, took
 709 LV     |             OF THE CROSS. ~But in no instance, not even in any of those
 710 V      |      unreasoning passion, and to the instigation of evil demons, you punish
 711 LXVII  |               the president verbally instructs, and exhorts to the imitation
 712 XXIII  |              beforehand, through the instrumentality of the poets, those circumstances
 713 IV     |          upon those who euphoniously insult the gods. ~
 714 IX     |            senseless, but to be even insulting to God, who, having ineffable
 715 XLVI   |             ascended into heaven, an intelligent man will be able to comprehend
 716 XII    |           possessed by ignorance, we intend to add a few things, for
 717 XII    |        whether actually done or only intended, can escape the knowledge
 718 LVII   |             For they kill us with no intention of delivering us, but cut
 719 L      |              of many, and shall make intercession for the transgressors. For,
 720 XLIV   |       enabled them to understand and interpret these things. And hence
 721 XXXII  |           Christ, who taught us, and interpreted the prophecies which were
 722 XXI    |             to Jupiter: Mercury, the interpreting word and teacher of all;
 723 LXVIII |             to myself many have sent intimations regarding such persons,
 724 XXV    |        things we pity, and those who invented them we know to be devils. ~
 725 III    |            against the Christians be investigated, and that, if these be substantiated,
 726 LIX    |             earth. And the earth was invisible and unfurnished, and darkness
 727 LXVIII |     injustice; and we ourselves will invite you to do that which is
 728 XIII   |            to Him to offer thanks by invocations and hymns for our creation,
 729 XVI    |             in sheep's clothing, but inwardly being ravening wolves. By
 730 XL     |              herd them with a rod of iron; as the vessels of a potter
 731 XLVI   |            were born before Him were irresponsible--let us anticipate and solve
 732 XVIII  |          common to all, which, if it issued in insensibility, would
 733 IV     |                              CHAPTER IV -- CHRISTIANS UNJUSTLY CONDEMNED
 734 IX     |                              CHAPTER IX -- FOLLY OF IDOL, WORSHIP. ~
 735 LXVIII |            of God. And hence you are jealous of those who do serve Him,
 736 LI     |     reference to this by the prophet Jeremiah. His words are: "Behold,
 737 XXXII  |              sprung from the root of Jesse--this Christ. For by the
 738 XLVII  |           death is decreed against a Jew apprehended entering it,
 739 LII    |            was said: "Joint shall be joined to joint, and bone to bone,
 740 LIV    |         Hercules was strong, and had journeyed over the whole earth. And
 741 XIV    |       par-takers with us of the same joyful hope of a reward from God
 742 VII    |            who are accused to you be judged, in order that each one
 743 XXXV   |              Him, and set Him on the judgment-seat, and said, Judge us. And
 744 III    |              CHAPTER III -- CLAIM OF JUDICIAL INVESTIGATION. ~But lest
 745 LXII   |            these things. For at that juncture, when Moses was ordered
 746 XXXVIII|         ashamed, for He is near that justifieth Me." And again, when He
 747 LI     |          form Him with knowledge, to justify the righteous who richly
 748 I      |             People of the Romans, I, Justin, the son of Priscus and
 749 LXIII  |          both Angel and Apostle, are justly charged, both by the Spirit
 750 LXV    |              found good citizens and keepers of the commandments, so
 751 XL     |              wrath has been suddenly kindled. Blessed are all they that
 752 XXXIX  |        parents, and country, and all kindred, though you can offer them
 753 XIII   |           qualities of the different kinds of things, and for the changes
 754 LXV    |            salute one another with a kiss. There is then brought to
 755 LII    |          shall grow again; and every knee shall bow to the Lord, and
 756 XXXVII |               tear asunder the tight knots of violent contracts, cover
 757 XLIII  |            because it is foretold as known beforehand, this too we
 758 XLII   |           things which He absolutely knows will take place, He predicts
 759 LXIV   |             of her under the name of Kore [Cora, i.e., the maiden
 760 L      |                              CHAPTER L -- HIS HUMILIATION PREDICTED. ~
 761 L      |              the slaughter, and as a lamb before his shearer is dumb,
 762 XXVI   |          deeds--the upsetting of the lamp, and promiscuous intercourse,
 763 XLVI   |             what has been already so largely said. And we, since the
 764 XXV    |        Semele, and Apollo the son of Latona (who in their loves with
 765        | latter
 766 LXVIII |            they conquer you by being lavish of their lives rather than
 767 LXI    |        universe; he who leads to the layer the person that is to be
 768 XLVIII |      righteous perisheth, and no man layeth it to heart; and just men
 769 XXXI   |             raged, Barchochebas, the leader of the revolt of the Jews,
 770 XL     |         fruit in his season; and his leaf shall not wither, and whatsoever
 771 XLVIII |            His coming the lame shall leap as an hart, and the tongue
 772 XXI    |           his toils; and the sons of Leda, and Dioscuri; and Perseus,
 773 LIII   |         person: "Except the Lord had left us a seed, we should have
 774 LXVIII |             tenth, double and marine legions. Having then examined my
 775 XV     |             turn not away; for if ye lend to them of whom ye hope
 776 LXV    |        offers thanks at considerable length for our being counted worthy
 777 XLVIII |             blind shall see, and the lepers shall be cleansed; and the
 778 LX     |           even know the forms of the letters, who are uneducated and
 779 LI     |                              CHAPTER LI -- THE MAJESTY OF CHRIST. ~
 780 XXXI   |       Ptolemy king of Egypt formed a library, and endeavoured to collect
 781 XV     |             but the ungodly, and the licentious, and the unjust; His words
 782 LVII   |    irrationally, and were brought up licentiously in wicked customs, and are
 783 LII    |                              CHAPTER LII -- CERTAIN FULFILMENT OF
 784 LIII   |                              CHAPTER LIII -- SUMMARY OF THE PROPHECIES. ~
 785 XXXII  |         Jacob and Judah according to lineal descent. ~
 786 XII    |         choose wickedness even for a little, knowing that he goes to
 787 LIV    |                              CHAPTER LIV -- ORIGIN OF HEATHEN MYTHOLOGY. ~
 788 LIX    |                              CHAPTER LIX -- PLATO'S OBLIGATION TO
 789 XV     |      sentiments as these: "Whosoever looketh upon a woman to lust after
 790 XXXVII |              this at your hands? But loose every bond of wickedness,
 791 XV     |            gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? or what shall
 792 LXVIII |          that you remind us of them, losing heart whenever they occur,
 793 XVII   |     explanations, we shall suffer no loss, since we believe (or rather,
 794 LIII   |             by birth, whose name was Lot; with whom also his daughters
 795 VIII   |          that they followed Him, and loved to abide with Him where
 796 II     |             guardians of justice and lovers of learning, give good heed,
 797 XXV    |              of Latona (who in their loves with men did such things
 798 XXXV   |           thy King cometh unto thee; lowly, and riding upon an ass,
 799 I      |              the Philosopher, and to Lucius the Philosopher, the natural
 800 LV     |                              CHAPTER LV -- SYMBOLS OF THE CROSS. ~
 801 LVI    |                              CHAPTER LVI -- THE DEMONS STILL MISLEAD
 802 LVII   |                              CHAPTER LVII -- AND CAUSE PERSECUTION. ~
 803 LVIII  |                              CHAPTER LVIII -- AND RAISE UP HERETICS. ~
 804 LX     |                              CHAPTER LX -- PLATO'S DOCTRINE OF THE
 805 LXI    |                              CHAPTER LXI -- CHRISTIAN BAPTISM. ~I
 806 LXII   |                              CHAPTER LXII -- ITS IMITATION BY DEMONS. ~
 807 LXIII  |                              CHAPTER LXIII -- HOW GOD APPEARED TO MOSES. ~
 808 LXIV   |                              CHAPTER LXIV -- FURTHER MISREPRESENTATIONS
 809 LXV    |                              CHAPTER LXV -- ADMINISTRATION OF THE
 810 LXVI   |                              CHAPTER LXVI -- OF THE EUCHARIST. ~And
 811 LXVII  |                              CHAPTER LXVII -- WEEKLY WORSHIP OF THE
 812 LXVIII |                              CHAPTER LXVIII -- CONCLUSION. ~And if these
 813 XXV    |       Proserpine and Venus (who were maddened with love of Adonis, and
 814 XVIII  |          whom all call daemoniacs or madmen; and what you repute as
 815 XVIII  |             who are called among the magi, Dream-senders and Assistant-spirits (
 816 XXX    |              XXX -- WAS CHRIST NOT A MAGICIAN? ~But lest any one should
 817 XXVI   |                      CHAPTER XXVI -- MAGICIANS NOT TRUSTED BY CHRISTIANS. ~
 818 LXIV   |             of Kore [Cora, i.e., the maiden or daughter] at the spring-heads.
 819 LX     |             mind; some, indeed, even maimed and deprived of eyesight;
 820 LI     |                    CHAPTER LI -- THE MAJESTY OF CHRIST. ~And that the
 821        | makes
 822 XV     |            is kind and merciful, and maketh His sun to rise on sinners,
 823 XXVII  |              the girls, but also the males) are brought up to prostitution.
 824 II     |              indeed such, it will be manifested. For we have come, not to
 825 XIV    |           account of their different manners would not live with men
 826 LXVIII |             first, tenth, double and marine legions. Having then examined
 827 XXIX   |      children; or whether we decline marriage, we live continently. And
 828 XV     |              by human law, are twice married, are in the eye of our Master
 829 XXIX   |            murderers. But whether we marry, it is only that we may
 830 X      |           that God does not need the material offerings which men can
 831 LXII   |            tending the flocks of his maternal uncle in the land of Arabia,
 832 XVIII  |              who are skilled in such matters--let these persuade you that
 833 XXVI   |         generated by him. And a man, Meander, also a Samaritan, of the
 834 LV     |              without it: diggers and mechanics do not their work, except
 835 XL     |               and in His law will he meditate day and night. And he shall
 836 LVI    |              be arbiters of this our memorial, in order that if any one
 837 III    |              penalty due to them for mental blindness; and it is your
 838 XLIII  |              the opposite have their merited awards. For not like other
 839 XLIII  |          evil, neither is the former meritorious nor the latter to be blamed.
 840 XXXIV  |              in, as another prophet, Micah, foretold. He spoke thus: "
 841 XXIV   |    worshipping trees and rivers, and mice and cats and crocodiles,
 842 XVI    |     compelleth thee to go with him a mile, follow him two. And let
 843 LXVIII |           seventy-four cohorts, nine miles off. And the enemy being
 844 XXXIX  |               and who have taken the military oath, prefer their allegiance
 845 VIII   |            say that Rhadamanthus and Minos would punish the wicked
 846 XLVI   |            Ananias, and Azarias, and Misael, and Elias, and many others
 847 XLIX   |           ancient customs, should be miserable, hear what was briefly said
 848 XLII   |            no excuse to readers [for misinterpreting them], we will make even
 849 LVI    |              LVI -- THE DEMONS STILL MISLEAD MEN. ~But the evil spirits
 850 XIV    |            CHAPTER XIV -- THE DEMONS MISREPRESENT CHRISTIAN DOCTRINE. ~For
 851 LXIV   |              CHAPTER LXIV -- FURTHER MISREPRESENTATIONS OF THE TRUTH. ~From what
 852 LXVI   |         imitated in the mysteries of Mithras, commanding the same thing
 853 XXXVI  |           CHAPTER XXXVI -- DIFFERENT MODES OF PROPHECY. ~But when you
 854 XXXVII |             another place, "Your new moons and your sabbaths My soul
 855        | Moreover
 856 XLV    |             saints: from the womb of morning hare I begotten Thee." That
 857 XXI    |              who, though sprung from mortals, rose to heaven on the horse
 858 XXVII  |         refer these mysteries to the mother of the gods, and along with
 859 LXI    |             born to enter into their mothers' wombs, is manifest to all.
 860 XXXII  |              when it was brought, He mounted and sat upon it, and entered
 861 LII    |            Tribe by tribe they shall mourn, and then they shall look
 862 XXXVI  |           but by the Divine Word who moves them. For sometimes He declares
 863 LXIV   |            said of the Spirit of God moving on the waters, they said
 864 XXXIX  |              we who formerly used to murder one another do not only
 865 XXIX   |               but die, and we become murderers. But whether we marry, it
 866 XXVII  |           wives, and some are openly mutilated for the purpose of sodomy;
 867 LXVI   |          certain incantations in the mystic rites of one who is being
 868 LIV    |             LIV -- ORIGIN OF HEATHEN MYTHOLOGY. ~But those who hand down
 869 LIV    |              those who hand down the myths which the poets have made,
 870 XXXV   |             used in reference to the nails of the cross which were
 871 XXXVII |              cover the houseless and naked deal thy bread to the hungry."
 872 XLVI   |             virgin as a man, and was named Jesus, and was crucified,
 873 LXIII  |              even now teach that the nameless God spake to Moses; whence
 874        | namely
 875 IV     |         either in the matter of thus naming ourselves, or of our conduct
 876 XXIII  |           fictitiously devised, they narrated, in the same manner as they
 877 XXVI   |            was a Samaritan, Simon, a native of the village called Gitto,
 878 I      |            and grandson of Bacchius, natives of Flavia Neapolis in Palestine,
 879 I      |          Lucius the Philosopher, the natural son of Caesar, and the adopted
 880 XIX    |             is impossible to our own nature and to men, than to be unbelieving
 881 I      |          Bacchius, natives of Flavia Neapolis in Palestine, present this
 882 LII    |           they came to pass, we must necessarily believe also that those
 883 LVII   |             free from sufferings and necessities of this life, and prove
 884 XVIII  |        things are true. For let even necromancy, and the divinations you
 885 XLVI   |              of this subject is less needful now, will pass for the present
 886 XXI    |       reputed sons of Jupiter, it is needless to tell to those who already
 887 XVI    |              have witnessed in their neighbours' lives, or by the extraordinary
 888 XXVII  |           been taught that to expose newly-born children is the part of
 889 XXXIII |           that time brought her good news, saying, "Behold, thou shalt
 890        | next
 891        | nine
 892 LXVIII |         nonsensical, despise them as nonsense, and do not decree death
 893 LXVIII |        honour them; but if they seem nonsensical, despise them as nonsense,
 894 LII    |         children; I will command the north wind to bring them, and
 895 LV     |          forehead what is called the nose, through which there is
 896 LXIII  |            endured both to be set at nought and to suffer, that by dying
 897 LXVI   |           flesh by transmutation are nourished, is the flesh and blood
 898 XLIV   |                  CHAPTER XLIV -- NOT NULLIFIED BY PROPHECY. ~And the holy
 899 LIII   |           the Gentiles are both more numerous and more true than those
 900 XXXIX  |              have taken the military oath, prefer their allegiance
 901 LIX    |               CHAPTER LIX -- PLATO'S OBLIGATION TO MOSES. ~And that you
 902 XII    |             poverty or sufferings or obscurity of their fathers, so whatever
 903 LV     |          things which fall under our observation. For consider all the things
 904 XXV    |   hundred-handed giant whose aid was obtained through Thetis, nor was
 905 LXVIII |          possess it be hindered from obtaining a copy from the document
 906 LXVIII |           losing heart whenever they occur, and thus set your conduct
 907 LXVIII |         already happened and are now occurring, it is not seemly that you
 908 IV     |           found to have committed no offence, either in the matter of
 909 LXVIII |     punishments in proportion to the offences. And this, by Hercules;
 910 LXVIII |            would see to it that such offenders should not escape. For if
 911 X      |           does not need the material offerings which men can give, seeing,
 912        | often
 913 LXI    |          through Christ; lest, if we omit this, we seem to be unfair
 914 XV     |           but also our thoughts, are open before God. And many, both
 915 L      |           his shearer is dumb, so He openeth not His mouth. In His humiliation,
 916 XXVI   |             of the art of the devils operating in him. He was considered
 917 III    |       therefore, to afford to all an opportunity of inspecting our life and
 918 XIV    |        subdue all who make no strong opposing effort for their own salvation.
 919 XLIII  |             been capable of both the opposites, nor of so many transitions.
 920 XLIII  |             exhibit her as acting in opposition to herself; or that which
 921 XXXII  |          forefather according to the oracle, and He was the son of Jacob
 922 XVIII  |               and what you repute as oracles, both of Amphilochus, Dodana,
 923 XXXI   |             revolt of the Jews, gave orders that Christians alone should
 924 XLIV   |          learn to do well; judge the orphan, and plead for the widow:
 925 LXVII  |          president, who succours the orphans and widows and those who,
 926        | otherwise
 927 LXVIII |           use of mere entreaties and outcries. For it is far more just,
 928 XVI    |             come in My name, clothed outwardly in sheep's clothing, but
 929 LVII   |            of things; and if satiety overtakes those who enjoy even one
 930 LIII   |              fire and brimstone, and overthrew, no one of their inhabitants
 931 XXVII  |             if the divine light were overturned and extinguished, these
 932 XXVII  |              to have reared herds of oxen, or goats, or sheep, or
 933 XI     |          which must at all events be paid. ~
 934 XXVII  |             you esteem gods there is painted a serpent, a great symbol
 935 I      |        natives of Flavia Neapolis in Palestine, present this address and
 936 XXII   |              in this also He is on a par with those reputed sons
 937 XIV    |             end that they may become par-takers with us of the same joyful
 938 XXII   |             made whole the lame, the paralytic, and those born blind, we
 939 LXVIII |              upon this, then, let us pardon such as are Christians,
 940 XLVI   |          whom every race of men were partakers; and those who lived reasonably
 941 XXXV   |              they that crucified Him parted it among them. And that
 942 LXVIII |      Aurelius Antoninus, Germanicus, Parthicus, Sarmaticus, to the People
 943 LXVII  |          distribution to each, and a participation of that over which thanks
 944 IX     |               and, not to enter into particulars, are practised in every
 945 XL     |       inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth as Thy possession.
 946 XLII   |              be observed even in the passages already cited by me,--that
 947 LVIII  |     sober-mindedness, and a pure and passionless life, they drive them into
 948 LIII   |            nor are governed by their passions. ~
 949 XVI    |             And concerning our being patient of injuries, and ready to
 950 XII    |       happening. It were possible to pause here and add no more, reckoning
 951 XXII   |              so that not even by the peculiarity of His sufferings does He
 952 XII    |           decently on account of the penalties threatened, as even you
 953 III    |         affairs, we should incur the penalty due to them for mental blindness;
 954 XXX    |             being a man born of men, performed what we call His mighty
 955        | perhaps
 956 VIII   |           only, as Plato said, for a period of a thousand years. And
 957 XLVIII |             Behold now the righteous perisheth, and no man layeth it to
 958 LXVII  |            are read, as long as time permits; then, when the reader has
 959 XLVII  |            and that no one should be permitted to inhabit it, there was
 960 XXVI   |            to them. And whether they perpetrate those fabulous and shameful
 961 XXI    |            said above, wicked devils perpetrated these things. And we have
 962 LXVIII |          those who do serve Him, and persecute them to the death. Concerning
 963 LVII   |            CHAPTER LVII -- AND CAUSE PERSECUTION. ~Nor can the devils persuade
 964 XXXVI  |           prophets spoken as it were personally, you must not suppose that
 965 X      |             endowed us with, He both persuades us and leads us to faith.
 966 XII    |              things, for the sake of persuading those who love the truth,
 967 XLVI   |          without reason, and for the perversion of what we teach, maintain
 968 XIII   |            and to present before Him petitions for our existing again in
 969 X      |         temperance, and justice, and philanthropy, and as many virtues as
 970 II     |              who are truly pious and philosophical to honour and love only
 971 III    |         Unless both rulers and ruled philosophize, it is impossible to make
 972 XXI    |           who, though he was a great physician, was struck by a thunderbolt,
 973 LX     |      DOCTRINE OF THE CROSS. ~And the physiological discussion concerning the
 974 XXIX   |             lest some of them be not picked up, but die, and we become
 975 XIX    |            show you human seed and a picture of a man, and were to say
 976 XXIV   |          sinners; other men in other places worshipping trees and rivers,
 977 LX     |         cross, but taking it to be a placing crosswise, he said that
 978 XL     |              he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of waters,
 979 LVII   |              be deprived of life and pleasure. ~
 980 XXI    |            love of base and shameful pleasures, he came in to Ganymede
 981 V      |            this be? In our case, who pledge ourselves to do no wickedness,
 982 LV     |           ship; and the earth is not ploughed without it: diggers and
 983 XXXIX  |         shall beat their swords into ploughshares, and their spears into pruning-hooks:
 984 XX     |          have been said by the comic poet Menander, and other similar
 985 LXVIII |            being at hand, the scouts pointed out to us, and our general
 986 LX     |        wilderness, they fell in with poisonous beasts, both vipers and
 987 LXVIII |          read. The prefect Vitrasius Pollio will see that it be transmitted
 988 XXVII  |           shameful use; and for this pollution a multitude of females and
 989 LXVIII |           out to us, and our general Pompeianus showed us that there was
 990 LXVIII |     Antoninus Augustus Pius, Supreme Pontiff, in the fifteenth year of
 991 LXVIII |          Having then examined my own position, and my host, with respect
 992 XXVII  |              impure intercourse, may possibly be having intercourse with
 993 XL     |            iron; as the vessels of a potter shalt Thou dash them in
 994 LXVIII |           whom I am ignorant), water poured from heaven, upon us most
 995 XII    |        shrink from succeeding to the poverty or sufferings or obscurity
 996 XIV    |         Himself. And be it yours, as powerful rulers, to inquire whether
 997 XVIII  |              and the divinations you practise by immaculate children,
 998 IX     |          enter into particulars, are practised in every vice, you very
 999 LXVIII |           given to the informers for practising villany. Accordingly, if
1000 XLI    |              Lord, and greatly to be praised, to be feared above all