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1001 LXVIII |       themselves on the ground, they prayed not only for me, but also
1002 LXVIII |              of God following on the prayer--a God unconquerable and
1003 LVIII  |             prophets is His Son, and preaches another god besides the
1004 XXIII  |              and by the prophets who preceded Him, are alone true, and
1005 LXVIII |              addressed to me by your predecessor Serenius Granianus, a most
1006 XXXIX  |         Spirit of prophecy speaks as predicting things that are to come
1007 XXXIII |              faith, because of their prediction. But lest some, not understanding
1008 XLII   |            knows will take place, He predicts as if already they had taken
1009 LXVIII |             that it may be read. The prefect Vitrasius Pollio will see
1010 II     |      investigation, not flattered by prejudice or by a desire of pleasing
1011 LVII   |              wicked customs, and are prejudiced in their own opinions, should
1012 LXVIII |           arms, nor bugles; for such preparation is hateful to them, on account
1013 LXVIII |             began the battle, not by preparing weapons, nor arms, nor bugles;
1014 XXIX   |              number a short time ago presented to Felix the governor in
1015 XII    |           put ignorance to flight by presenting the truth. ~
1016 XLIX   |             said that it was well to preserve the ancient customs, should
1017 XXXI   |              several times carefully preserved in their possession, when
1018 XII    |     unreasonably; but as for you, we presume that you who aim at [a reputation
1019 LIV    |             ascend into heaven, they pretended that Perseus was spoken
1020 V      |            Greeks did reason (Logos) prevail to condemn these things
1021 II     |         rumours which have long been prevalent, to give a decision which
1022 LVIII  |            by a wolf, and become the prey of atheistical doctrines,
1023 LXII   |           command, too, given by the priests to those who enter and worship
1024 I      |        Romans, I, Justin, the son of Priscus and grandson of Bacchius,
1025 IV     |             the contrary, you bestow prizes and honours upon those who
1026 IV     |              the question, so in all probability do those who lead wicked
1027 LXVIII |          conscience. Therefore it is probable that those whom we suppose
1028 LIV    |        youths who learn them; and we proceed to demonstrate that they
1029 XIII   |              we will prove. For they proclaim our madness to consist in
1030 XIX    |            before you saw the actual production? No one will dare to deny [
1031 XXVIII |             And this is the greatest profanity and wickedness. ~
1032 XVI    |         Christians, even though they profess with the lip the precepts
1033 XV     |           corrupt. For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole
1034 LII    |           shall they repent, when it profits them not. And what the people
1035 LXVIII |          some court of law, I do not prohibit them from doing so. But
1036 LI     |              soul shall see His seed prolonged in days. And the Lord is
1037 XII    |           your helpers and allies in promoting peace, seeing that we hold
1038 XXIX   |            lately, and whom all were prompt, through fear, to worship
1039 XII    |      persuaded that these things are prompted by evil spirits, who demand
1040 XXIII  |         there is neither witness nor proof--we shall bring forward the
1041 VII    |            accumulated is the common property of those who are and those
1042 XXX    |     necessity persuaded by those who prophesied [of Him] before these things
1043 LIX    |            account given through the prophets--that Plato borrowed his
1044 XXI    |             ascended into heaven, we propound nothing different from what
1045 XL     |            whatsoever he doeth shall prosper. The ungodly are not so,
1046 XXVII  |             males) are brought up to prostitution. And as the ancients are
1047 X      |               that He Himself is the provider of all things. And we have
1048 XLIV   |            showing that He cares and provides for men. But by the agency
1049 LXIII  |              written for the sake of proving that Jesus the Christ is
1050 XLIX   |              own sins; a people that provoketh Me to anger to My face."
1051 L      |        behold, My Servant shall deal prudently, and shall be exalted, and
1052 XXXIX  |  ploughshares, and their spears into pruning-hooks: nation shall not lift up
1053 XXXI   |            Hebrew language. And when Ptolemy king of Egypt formed a library,
1054 XII    |              would be the concern of public executioners, but not of
1055 XV     |            new thing do ye? even the publicans do this. Lay not up for
1056 IV     |              punishment, by unjustly punishing those who are not convicted.
1057 LXVIII |            to whom I also replied in pursuance of my father's judgment.
1058 XVI    |             those who are not living pursuant to these His teachings,
1059 XXI    |              heaven from the funeral pyre? And what kind of deeds
1060 XVIII  |              authors, Empedocles and Pythagoras, Plato and Socrates, and
1061 XVIII  |              of Amphilochus, Dodana, Pytho, and as many other such
1062 XLIII  |           other things, as trees and quadrupeds, which cannot act by choice,
1063 XIII   |          health, and for the various qualities of the different kinds of
1064 LII    |              their fire shall not be quenched;" and then shall they repent,
1065 LXVIII |       barbarians and of the enemy, I quickly betook myself to prayer
1066 XL     |           perish. Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine
1067 XXXI   |              and every sickness, and raising the dead, and being hated,
1068 LIII   |      Samaritans, we will produce: it ran thus: "Rejoice, O barren,
1069 XIII   |                 CHRISTIANS SERVE GOD RATIONALLY. ~What sober-minded man,
1070 XVI    |         clothing, but inwardly being ravening wolves. By their works ye
1071 LXI    |             that there is a name, he raves with a hopeless madness.
1072 LXVII  |              permits; then, when the reader has ceased, the president
1073 XLII   |              may afford no excuse to readers [for misinterpreting them],
1074 XVII   |              And everywhere we, more readily than all men, endeavour
1075 XVI    |             patient of injuries, and ready to serve all, and free from
1076 XXIII  |              circumstances as having really happened, which, having
1077 XXVII  |             to exterminate from your realm. And any one who uses such
1078 III    |          would both rulers and ruled reap benefit. For even one of
1079 XXVII  |            horses, so now we see you rear children only for this shameful
1080 XXVII  |            ancients are said to have reared herds of oxen, or goats,
1081 LXVIII |             things seem to you to be reasonable and true, honour them; but
1082 XIV    |            lest we should seem to be reasoning sophistically, we consider
1083 LXI    |           snow. But if ye refuse and rebel, the sword shall devour
1084 XXXIX  |         among the nations, and shall rebuke many people; and they shall
1085 LXIII  |          also the Spirit of prophecy rebukes them, and says, "Israel
1086 X      |        deemed worthy, and so we have received--of reigning in company with
1087 XLIV   |       prevent men who read them from receiving the knowledge of the good,
1088 III    |          this is an unreasonable and reckless utterance, we demand that
1089 XII    |          pause here and add no more, reckoning that we demand what is just
1090 LXVIII |             hail. And immediately we recognised the presence of God following
1091 IX     |              they are enshrined; not recognising that it is unlawful even
1092 LXVIII |             the temples, and make no recognition of the worship of God. And
1093 XLIX   |              expected Him should not recognize Him when He came. And the
1094 XLIV   |             human race to effort and recollection, showing that He cares and
1095 XLIV   |          actions of men shall all be recompensed according to their several
1096 XLVI   |              names we now decline to recount, because we know it would
1097 XLIV   |              as wool; and if they be red like as crimson, I will
1098 XXVII  |          purpose of sodomy; and they refer these mysteries to the mother
1099 XVIII  |           AND THE RESURRECTION. ~For reflect upon the end of each of
1100 XV     |          multitude of those who have reformed intemperate habits, and
1101 XXXIX  |              another do not only now refrain from making war upon our
1102 XLVII  |             are laid waste: and Thou refrainest Thyself at these things,
1103 LXVIII |            from heaven, upon us most refreshingly cool, but upon the enemies
1104 XXIX   |            And when Felix absolutely refused to sign such a permission,
1105 VI     |              VI -- CHARGE OF ATHEISM REFUTED. ~Hence are we called atheists.
1106 LXVI   |          remission of sins, and unto regeneration, and who is so living as
1107 XXXIV  |              ascertain also from the registers of the taxing made under
1108 XV     |              act commits adultery is rejected by Him, but also he who
1109 LIII   |            through the apostles, and rejecting their old habits, in which,
1110 XLIX   |                  CHAPTER XLIX -- HIS REJECTION BY THE JEWS FORE- TOLD. ~
1111 V      |      themselves, by means of men who rejoiced in iniquity, compassed his
1112 XXVII  |   intercourse with his own child, or relative, or brother. And there are
1113 XL     |            have thought it right and relevant to mention some other prophetic
1114 LIII   |             desolate and burned, and remaining barren. And to show how
1115 XVIII  |          wicked. But since sensation remains to all who have ever lived,
1116 LXVI   |         thanks, said, "This do ye in remembrance of Me, this is My body;"
1117 LII    |            the heart; and they shall rend not their garments, but
1118 XLIII  | chastisements, and good rewards, are rendered according to the merit of
1119 LXI    |            to be born again, and has repented of his sins, the name of
1120 L      |          Lord, who hath believed our report? and to whom is the arm
1121 XXIII  |            fabricated the scandalous reports against us of infamous and
1122 XVIII  |              or madmen; and what you repute as oracles, both of Amphilochus,
1123 XXXI   |         Egyptians, he again sent and requested that men be commissioned
1124 XXXI   |          that time king of the Jews, requesting that the books of the prophets
1125 IV     |              acknowledgment. Justice requires that you inquire into the
1126 IX     |           and making an image of the requisite shape, they make what they
1127 X      |        imitate the excellences which reside in Him, temperance, and
1128 LV     |               through which there is respiration for the living creature;
1129 XLIII  |                       CHAPTER XLIII--RESPONSIBILITY ASSERTED. ~But lest some
1130 XXIII  |        things for the conversion and restoration of the human race: and (
1131 XII    |               but would by all means restrain himself, and adorn himself
1132 X      |          even urged thereto. For the restraint which human laws could not
1133 XLIV   |       knowledge of the good, and may retain them in slavery to themselves;
1134 LXVIII |          certifies such a matter, to retract; neither shall he commit
1135 XIX    |             who say, that each thing returns to that from which it was
1136 LXIII  |           those to whom the Son will reveal Him." The Jews, accordingly,
1137 LXIII  |             and they to whom the Son revealeth Him." Now the Word of God
1138 XXIV   |           against us, that we do not reverence the same gods as you do,
1139 XXXI   |      Barchochebas, the leader of the revolt of the Jews, gave orders
1140 XX     |            to be formed anew by this revolution; but we understand that
1141 VIII   |             manner, used to say that Rhadamanthus and Minos would punish the
1142 LI     |              for His burial, and the rich for His death; because He
1143 LI     |            justify the righteous who richly serveth many. And He shall
1144 XXXIX  |        incorruptible, it were verily ridiculous if we, who earnestly long
1145 VI     |              true God, the Father of righteousness and temperance and the other
1146 L      |              afterwards, when He had risen from the dead and appeared
1147 LXI    |           spoken it." ~And for this [rite] we have learned from the
1148 LXVI   |           incantations in the mystic rites of one who is being initiated,
1149 XXVI   |            statue was erected on the river Tiber, between the two bridges,
1150 LVIII  |             have riveted, and do now rivet, to things earthly, and
1151 LVIII  |            above the earth they have riveted, and do now rivet, to things
1152 XXXVIII|              I set My face as a firm rock; and I knew that I should
1153 LV     |              symbol of His power and role; as is also proved by the
1154 LXVIII |      attempting anything against the Roman government. And to myself
1155 LXVIII |     transmitted to all the provinces round about, and that no one who
1156 LI     |             an ineffable origin, and rules His enemies, He spake thus: "
1157 LXVIII |          atheists, have God as their ruling power entrenched in their
1158 III    |             for the sake of a wicked rumour, to wrong blameless men,
1159 II     |           irrational impulse or evil rumours which have long been prevalent,
1160 XXXVII |              Your new moons and your sabbaths My soul hateth; and the
1161 LXV    |                ADMINISTRATION OF THE SACRAMENTS. ~But we, after we have
1162 LXII   |             as they depart [from the sacrifice], before they enter into
1163 XXIV   |              beasts, and with others sacrificial victims. ~
1164 LV     |         which is called a sail abide safe in the ship; and the earth
1165 LV     |             trophy which is called a sail abide safe in the ship;
1166 XLV    |               in the beauties of Thy saints: from the womb of morning
1167 LXV    |         Having ended the prayers, we salute one another with a kiss.
1168 XXVI   |              of Rome:-- ~"Simoni Deo Sancto," ~"To Simon the holy God."
1169 XLVII  |         desolation. The house of our sanctuary has become a curse, and
1170 LXVIII |               Germanicus, Parthicus, Sarmaticus, to the People of Rome,
1171 XXVIII |              called the serpent, and Satan, and the devil, as you can
1172 LVII   |     administration of things; and if satiety overtakes those who enjoy
1173 LXVII  |           day before that of Saturn (Saturday); and on the day after that
1174 XXIV   |           the dead libations and the savour of fat, and crowns for their
1175 XVI    |             heareth Me, and doeth My sayings, heareth Him that sent Me.
1176 XXIII  |          caused to be fabricated the scandalous reports against us of infamous
1177 XXXII  |            in these very words: "The sceptre shall not depart from Judah,
1178 XXI    |            encouragement of youthful scholars; for all reckon it an honourable
1179 XL     |           nor sat in the seat of the scornful: but his delight is in the
1180 XXXVIII|                I gave My back to the scourges, and My cheeks to the buffetings;
1181 LXVIII |             enemy being at hand, the scouts pointed out to us, and our
1182 LV     |          have any community. For the sea is not traversed except
1183 LXIII  |            to busy themselves in the search after God; Abraham being
1184 II     |      judgment, after an accurate and searching investigation, not flattered
1185 XL     |          shall give his fruit in his season; and his leaf shall not
1186 XIII   |           and for the changes of the seasons; and to present before Him
1187 XL     |              sinners, nor sat in the seat of the scornful: but his
1188 LVIII  | contemplation of things divine, they secretly beat back; and if they have
1189 LVIII  |         attempt nothing else than to seduce men from God who made them,
1190        | seemed
1191 LXVIII |             now occurring, it is not seemly that you remind us of them,
1192 XVIII  |         sensation; and those who are seized and cast about by the spirits
1193 XXV    |           worship Bacchus the son of Semele, and Apollo the son of Latona (
1194 LII    |          wicked, endued with eternal sensibility, into everlasting fire with
1195 XII    |            forbids us to choose, the sensible man will not choose. That
1196 XV     |            chastity, He uttered such sentiments as these: "Whosoever looketh
1197 LXVIII |            to me by your predecessor Serenius Granianus, a most illustrious
1198 LX     |              it is recorded that the serpents died, and it is handed down
1199 L      |       transgressors. For, behold, My Servant shall deal prudently, and
1200 XIV    |            hold you their slaves and servants; and sometimes by appearances
1201 X      |        CHAPTER X -- HOW GOD IS TO BE SERVED. ~But we have received by
1202 LI     |             the righteous who richly serveth many. And He shall bear
1203 LIII   |           desolate" of the true God, serving the works of their hands;
1204 XLV    |              CHAPTER XLV -- CHRIST'S SESSION IN HEAVEN FORETOLD. ~And
1205 XV     |          pure at the age of sixty or seventy years; and I boast that
1206 LXVIII |              shut up in Carnuntum by seventy-four cohorts, nine miles off.
1207 VII    |          life of each of the accused severally, but not on account of those
1208 LXVIII |              shall award to him more severe punishments in proportion
1209 XLI    |              be established, and not shaken. Let them rejoice among
1210 XLIX   |             so, but even treated Him shamefully. But the Gentiles, who had
1211 LIX    |             altered matter which was shapeless, made the world, hear the
1212 L      |             and as a lamb before his shearer is dumb, so He openeth not
1213 LV     |             a sail abide safe in the ship; and the earth is not ploughed
1214 XXXVIII|              was crucified, they did shoot out the lip, and wagged
1215 XXIX   |       mysteries, one of our number a short time ago presented to Felix
1216 VIII   |         things. This, then, to speak shortly, is what we expect and have
1217 XL     |         speech, and night unto night showeth knowledge. There is no speech
1218 XLIV   |             effort and recollection, showing that He cares and provides
1219 V      |              and showed such fearful sights to men, that those who did
1220 LI     |             Spirit of prophecy might signify to us that He who suffers
1221 LIX    |              the Spirit of prophecy, signifying how and from what materials
1222 LXVIII |            unwilling to pass over in silence, lest innocent persons be
1223 XXVI   |            the language of Rome:-- ~"Simoni Deo Sancto," ~"To Simon
1224 LXVIII |           the enemy's territory. And simultaneously with their casting themselves
1225 XIX    |              of human seed bones and sinews and flesh be formed into
1226 XXXVII |            hath not understood. Woe, sinful nation, a people full of
1227 XLI    |               and spoke as follows: "Sing to the Lord, all the earth,
1228 XXIX   |       permission, the youth remained single, and was satisfied with
1229 LXI    |               And how those who have sinned and repent shall escape
1230 XV     |           than the punishment of the sinner. And of our love to all,
1231 XLVII  |           happened. They are these: "Sion is a wilderness, Jerusalem
1232 XV     |            remain pure at the age of sixty or seventy years; and I
1233 XVIII  |             is done by those who are skilled in such matters--let these
1234 XLIX   |           Christ, and that those who slandered Him, and said that it was
1235 L      |            brought as a sheep to the slaughter, and as a lamb before his
1236 XLIV   |               and may retain them in slavery to themselves; which, however,
1237 XIV    |             strive to hold you their slaves and servants; and sometimes
1238 XXXVIII|             feet. And I lay down and slept, and rose again, because
1239 XVI    |           what He said: "To him that smiteth thee on the one cheek, offer
1240 L      |            us; yet we did esteem Him smitten, stricken, and afflicted.
1241 XXII   |             already proved Him to be so--for the superior is revealed
1242 LIII   |          fables that are told of the so-called sons of Jupiter. For with
1243 LVIII  |              if they have not a wise sober-mindedness, and a pure and passionless
1244 XXVII  |         mutilated for the purpose of sodomy; and they refer these mysteries
1245 LXVII  |              bonds and the strangers sojourning among us, and in a word
1246 XXIV   |             objects. And this is the sole accusation you bring against
1247 XLVI   | irresponsible--let us anticipate and solve the difficulty. We have
1248        | something
1249        | somewhere
1250 XIV    |           unbegotten God through His Son--we who formerly delighted
1251 XXII   |             XXII -- ANALOGIES TO THE SONSHIP OF CHRIST. ~Moreover, the
1252 XIV    |              from Him, for He was no sophist, but His word was the power
1253 XIV    |          should seem to be reasoning sophistically, we consider it right, before
1254 XLIX   |             I was found of them that sought Me not: I said, Behold Me,
1255 IX     |          since we see that these are soulless and dead, and have not the
1256 LII    |          wind to bring them, and the south wind, that it keep not back.
1257 XXXIX  |              ploughshares, and their spears into pruning-hooks: nation
1258 LXVIII |             Hercules; you shall give special heed to, that if any man
1259 LIV    |        foretelling that Christ would specially be believed in; but that
1260 XX     |            delivered from punishment spend a blessed existence, we
1261 XXXVIII|            My face from the shame of spittings; and the Lord was My helper:
1262 LXIV   |           maiden or daughter] at the spring-heads. For, as we wrote above,
1263 LXII   |             burnt-offerings, also to sprinkle themselves; and they cause
1264 XXXIV  |             of the Jews, thirty-five stadia from Jerusalem, in which
1265 XLVIII |          hart, and the tongue of the stammerer shall be clear speaking:
1266 XXI    |         declared to be set among the stars? And what of the emperors
1267 XLIII  |          that which has been already stated would seem to be true, that
1268 III    |             it is impossible to make states blessed." It is our task,
1269 XXIV   |            fat, and crowns for their statues, and sacrifices. For you
1270 XIV    |           what we have into a common stock, and communicate to every
1271 XXVIII |            in vice, or exists like a stone, and that neither virtue
1272 XXXII  |             crucifixion the land was straightway surrendered to you as spoil
1273 LIII   |         being saved except a certain stranger, a Chaldaean by birth, whose
1274 LXVII  |             who are in bonds and the strangers sojourning among us, and
1275 XIII   |               that He has no need of streams of blood and libations and
1276 XXXV   |            of them; but Jesus Christ stretched forth His hands, being crucified
1277 L      |              did esteem Him smitten, stricken, and afflicted. But He was
1278 LI     |              to cleanse Him from the stripe. If He be given for sin,
1279 L      |           peace was upon Him, by His stripes we are healed. All we, like
1280 L      |              of men. A man under the stroke, and knowing how to bear
1281 XXX    |         think appear even to you the strongest and truest evidence. ~
1282 XLIII  |              both walk uprightly and stumble, we thus demonstrate. We
1283 XLV    |          keep Him there until He has subdued His enemies the devils,
1284 XLVI   |              since the proof of this subject is less needful now, will
1285 III    |         adjustment, namely, that the subjects render an unexceptional
1286 LXVIII |             ask is just. And we have subjoined the copy of Adrian's epistle,
1287 LXVII  |          these things, which we have submitted to you also for your consideration. ~
1288 XLVI   |              ago under Cyrenius, and subsequently, in the time of Pontius
1289 III    |  investigated, and that, if these be substantiated, they be punished as they
1290 XII    |        desert. And that you will not succeed is declared by the Word,
1291 XII    |               For as all shrink from succeeding to the poverty or sufferings
1292 XXXI   |            yet again 800; for in the succession of generations prophets
1293 LXVII  |              with the president, who succours the orphans and widows and
1294 LI     |            signify to us that He who suffers these things has an ineffable
1295 LIII   |            we forbear, judging these sufficient for the persuasion of those
1296 XLIV   |              they have received such suggestions from the prophets as have
1297 LIII   |                      CHAPTER LIII -- SUMMARY OF THE PROPHECIES. ~Though
1298 LXVIII |         being disregarded by them, I summoned those who among us go by
1299 XXII   |     discourse, we will now prove Him superior--or rather have already proved
1300 II     |              by a desire of pleasing superstitious men, nor induced by irrational
1301 LXVIII |             Antoninus Augustus Pius, Supreme Pontiff, in the fifteenth
1302 LVII   |              is acknowledged we must surely die; and there is nothing
1303 XXIX   |       permission might be given to a surgeon to make him an eunuch. For
1304 XXIX   |          make him an eunuch. For the surgeons there said that they were
1305 XIX    |          that such a statement would surpass belief]. In the same way,
1306 XXXII  |             the land was straightway surrendered to you as spoil of war.
1307 LXVIII |              circumstance that I was surrounded by the enemy; I myself being
1308 LXVIII |            your province will so far sustain this petition of theirs
1309 XXXVIII|              again, because the Lord sustained Me." And again, when He
1310 XIII   |           brought into being for our sustenance, but to use it for ourselves
1311 XVI    |             He enjoined as follows: "Swear not at all; but let your
1312 XXI    |             you produce some one who swears he has seen the burning
1313 XXXIX  |            and they shall beat their swords into ploughshares, and their
1314 XXXIX  |              saying, "The tongue has sworn but the mind is unsworn,"
1315 XXXIII |            the Hebrew language means Swthr (Saviour) in the Greek tongue.
1316 LV     |           said of it having been put symbolically. And this, as the prophet
1317 LXVII  |              among us, and in a word takes care of all who are in need.
1318 XVI    |              the other; and him that taketh away thy cloak or coat,
1319 LIV    |          Christ were mere marvellous tales, like the things which were
1320 III    |           states blessed." It is our task, therefore, to afford to
1321 XXXIV  |            from the registers of the taxing made under Cyrenius, your
1322 LIX    |           learn that it was from our teachers--we mean the account given
1323 XXXVII |            every bond of wickedness, tear asunder the tight knots
1324 XLVI   |          because we know it would be tedious. So that even they who lived
1325 XVI    |              wailing and gnashing of teeth, when the righteous shall
1326 XXXII  |        Jerusalem, where was the vast temple of the Jews which was afterwards
1327 LXII   |              there, and while he was tending the flocks of his maternal
1328 XLII   |              PROPHECY USING THE PAST TENSE. ~But when the Spirit of
1329 LXVIII |     battalion composed of the first, tenth, double and marine legions.
1330 V      |          were done, were struck with terror; and being carried away
1331 LXVIII |              THE SENATE, IN WHICH HE TESTIFIES THAT THE CHRISTIANS WERE
1332 LIII   |            race, unless we had found testimonies concerning Him published
1333 LXVIII |             sustain this petition of theirs as to accuse the Christians
1334        | thence
1335 VII    |          Greeks those who teach such theories as please themselves are
1336        | therein
1337 X      |           things, but are even urged thereto. For the restraint which
1338 XXV    |             aid was obtained through Thetis, nor was anxious on this
1339 XVI    |             once were of your way of thinking, but have changed their
1340 LXVII  |              willing, give what each thinks fit; and what is collected
1341 LXVIII |           delivered from the present thirst and famine. For during five
1342 XXXIV  |             in the land of the Jews, thirty-five stadia from Jerusalem, in
1343 XIX    |   RESURRECTION POSSIBLE. ~And to any thoughtful person would anything appear
1344 VIII   |              said, for a period of a thousand years. And if any one say
1345 XXXVII |           the Lord. The heaven is My throne, and the earth is My footstool."
1346 XXI    |           physician, was struck by a thunderbolt, and so ascended to heaven;
1347 XLVII  |           waste: and Thou refrainest Thyself at these things, and hast
1348 LXVII  |         WEEKLY WORSHIP OF THE CHRIS- TIANS. ~And we afterwards continually
1349 XXVI   |             was erected on the river Tiber, between the two bridges,
1350 XIII   |              Judaea, in the times of Tiberius Caesar; and that we reasonably
1351 XXXVII |         wickedness, tear asunder the tight knots of violent contracts,
1352 LX     |     concerning the Son of God in the Timoeus of Plato, where he says, "
1353 XLV    |         brings eternal punishment by tire. ~
1354 XXI    |             the flames to escape his toils; and the sons of Leda, and
1355 LV     |              their work, except with tools which have this shape. And
1356 XXXV   |              the prophet spoke, they tormented Him, and set Him on the
1357        | towards
1358 XXVI   |             also a Samaritan, of the town Capparetaea, a disciple
1359 X      |              But we have received by tradition that God does not need the
1360 II     |            true, declining to follow traditional opinions, if these be worthless.
1361 LXI    |             in bad habits and wicked training; in order that we may not
1362 LXVIII |            published in the Forum of Trajan, in order that it may be
1363 XVI    |            those with whom they have transacted business. ~And with regard
1364 XLIII  |            see the same man making a transition to opposite things. Now,
1365 XLIII  |            opposites, nor of so many transitions. But not even would some
1366 XXXI   |          that men be commissioned to translate them into the Greek language.
1367 LXVIII |           Pollio will see that it be transmitted to all the provinces round
1368 LXVI   |         which our blood and flesh by transmutation are nourished, is the flesh
1369 LIII   |            shout, thou that dost not travail, because many more are the
1370 LV     |        community. For the sea is not traversed except that trophy which
1371 XLIX   |            and not only so, but even treated Him shamefully. But the
1372 XXVI   |         their opinions. But I have a treatise against all the heresies
1373 XL     |          with fear, and rejoice with trembling. Embrace instruction, lest
1374 LXVIII |            the fifteenth year of his tribuneship, Consul for the third time,
1375 XVII   |             Him, if one ought to pay tribute to Caesar; and He answered, "
1376 VII    |               EACH CHRISTIAN MUST BE TRIED BY HIS OWN LIFE. ~But some
1377 LV     |               vexilla" [banners] and trophies, with which all your state
1378 LV     |            not traversed except that trophy which is called a sail abide
1379 LXVIII |              but it is you who bring trouble on these persons, and accuse
1380 XXX    |             to you the strongest and truest evidence. ~
1381 XXVI   |        CHAPTER XXVI -- MAGICIANS NOT TRUSTED BY CHRISTIANS. ~And, thirdly,
1382 XXX    |            will now offer proof, not trusting mere assertions, but being
1383 XXXIII |           women through lust, let us try to explain the words. This,
1384 XV     |           from him that would borrow turn not away; for if ye lend
1385 XXXIX  |             out into the world, men, twelve in number, and these illiterate,
1386 XV     |           all who, by human law, are twice married, are in the eye
1387 XVI    |            changed their violent and tyrannical disposition, being overcome
1388 III    |       obedience, not to violence and tyranny, but to piety and philosophy.
1389 XVIII  |            Homer, and the descent of Ulysses to inspect these things,
1390 XXXIII |              pass, there might be no unbelief, but faith, because of their
1391 XIX    |        nature and to men, than to be unbelieving like the rest of the world,
1392 XIII   |            man a place second to the unchangeable and eternal God, the Creator
1393 LXII   |           the flocks of his maternal uncle in the land of Arabia, our
1394 IV     |             raise a laugh out of the uncleanness of Jupiter with his own
1395 LXVIII |       following on the prayer--a God unconquerable and indestructible. Founding
1396 VIII   |             spirits which are now to undergo everlasting punishment;
1397 LXI    |             are illuminated in their understandings. And in the name of Jesus
1398 LXI    |           teach and say is true, and undertake to be able to live accordingly,
1399 LX     |              of the letters, who are uneducated and barbarous in speech,
1400 III    |          that the subjects render an unexceptional account of their own life
1401 LXI    |             omit this, we seem to be unfair in the explanation we are
1402 X      |             create all things out of unformed matter; and if men by their
1403 XXXI   |            contents were found to be unintelligible to the Egyptians, he again
1404 VIII   |            wicked in the same bodies united again to their spirits which
1405 IX     |           not recognising that it is unlawful even to think or say that
1406 XXVII  | hermaphrodites, and those who commit unmentionable iniquities, are found in
1407 XII    |             even from those who live unreasonably; but as for you, we presume
1408 V      |         against us; but, yielding to unreasoning passion, and to the instigation
1409 XXXI   |           dead, and being hated, and unrecognised, and crucified, and dying,
1410 XXXIX  |            has sworn but the mind is unsworn," might be imitated by us
1411 LXVIII |              this communication I am unwilling to pass over in silence,
1412 LV     |    government, even though you do so unwittingly. And with this form you
1413 XLIII  |           free choice they both walk uprightly and stumble, we thus demonstrate.
1414 XXVI   |              and shameful deeds--the upsetting of the lamp, and promiscuous
1415 XLVI   |            of those things which are urgent. ~
1416 XLIV   |             the actions done, always urging the human race to effort
1417 XXVII  |          your realm. And any one who uses such persons, besides the
1418 XL     |            of prophecy "Day unto day uttereth speech, and night unto night
1419 XL     |           Thine inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth as Thy
1420 V      |                              CHAPTER V -- CHRISTIANS CHARGED WITH
1421 XIV    |           and unbegotten God; we who valued above all things the acquisition
1422 XXIV   |                      CHAPTER XXIV -- VARIETIES OF HEATHEN WORSHIP. ~In
1423 XIII   |         means of health, and for the various qualities of the different
1424 X      |           every man, and which draws variously to all manner of vice, scattered
1425 XXV    |         mention), and Proserpine and Venus (who were maddened with
1426 LXVII  |            has ceased, the president verbally instructs, and exhorts to
1427 XXXIX  |       nothing incorruptible, it were verily ridiculous if we, who earnestly
1428 I      |      Augustus Caesar, and to his son Verissimus the Philosopher, and to
1429 XL     |            to them in His wrath, and vex them in His sore displeasure.
1430 LV     |          symbols on what are called "vexilla" [banners] and trophies,
1431 VI     |                              CHAPTER VI -- CHARGE OF ATHEISM REFUTED. ~
1432 XXIV   |              with others sacrificial victims. ~
1433 LXVIII |     CHRISTIANS WERE THE CAUSE OF HIS VICTORY. ~The Emperor Caesar Marcus
1434 XII    |             seeing that we hold this view, that it is alike impossible
1435 VII    |                              CHAPTER VII -- EACH CHRISTIAN MUST BE
1436 VIII   |                              CHAPTER VIII -- CHRISTIANS CONFESS THEIR
1437 LXVIII |             informers for practising villany. Accordingly, if the inhabitants
1438 XXI    |         those many women whom he had violated and that his sons did like
1439 LX     |          with poisonous beasts, both vipers and asps, and every kind
1440 LXVIII |             may be read. The prefect Vitrasius Pollio will see that it
1441 XVI    |        iniquity. Then shall there be wailing and gnashing of teeth, when
1442 L      |           gone astray; every man has wandered in his own way. And He delivered
1443 I      |           who are unjustly hated and wantonly abused, myself being one
1444 XXV    |               And, secondly, because we--who, out of every race of
1445 XIV    |            things the acquisition of wealth and possessions, now bring
1446 LXVII  |             of these things. And the wealthy among us help the needy;
1447 LXVIII |           pray for and obtain such a weapon against ourselves. And I
1448 LXVIII |             battle, not by preparing weapons, nor arms, nor bugles; for
1449 LXVII  |                     CHAPTER LXVII -- WEEKLY WORSHIP OF THE CHRIS- TIANS. ~
1450 XXI    |       concerning the gods from every well-conditioned soul, as to believe that
1451        | whereas
1452 LXVII  |             succours the orphans and widows and those who, through sickness
1453 XXIV   |           esteemed gods, with others wild beasts, and with others
1454 XXXIX  |           nor deceive our examiners, willingly die confessing Christ. For
1455 LII    |              I will command the four winds to gather the scattered
1456 XL     |               and his leaf shall not wither, and whatsoever he doeth
1457 LXVIII |           upon the enemies of Rome a withering hail. And immediately we
1458 XVI    |            constancy which they have witnessed in their neighbours' lives,
1459 XXVII  |          even their own children and wives, and some are openly mutilated
1460 LVIII  |           irrationally as lambs by a wolf, and become the prey of
1461 XVI    |              inwardly being ravening wolves. By their works ye shall
1462 XLV    |              of Thy saints: from the womb of morning hare I begotten
1463 LXI    |            enter into their mothers' wombs, is manifest to all. And
1464 L      |         glory; so shall many nations wonder, and the kings shall shut
1465 XLVII  |             the person of the people wondering at what had happened. They
1466 XVI    |          drunk in Thy name, and done wonders? And then will I say unto
1467 XVI    |             them, Depart from Me, ye workers of iniquity. Then shall
1468 XX     |          they have declared that the workman is greater than the work. ~
1469 LII    |             it is as follows: "Their worm shall not rest, and their
1470 XXIV   |              but in one place one is worshipped, and another in another,
1471 II     |    traditional opinions, if these be worthless. For not only does sound
1472 L      |            and afflicted. But He was wounded for our transgressions,
1473 XXXVI  |           writers, one man being the writer of the whole, but introducing
1474 II     |           not to flatter you by this writing, nor please you by our address,
1475 IV     |            evidence against him as a wrong-doer; but if any one acknowledge
1476 LXVII  |             day on which God, having wrought a change in the darkness
1477 X      |                              CHAPTER X -- HOW GOD IS TO BE SERVED. ~
1478 XI     |                              CHAPTER XI -- WHAT KINGDOM CHRISTIANS
1479 XII    |                              CHAPTER XII -- CHRISTIANS LIVE AS UNDER
1480 XIII   |                              CHAPTER XIII -- CHRISTIANS SERVE GOD
1481 XIV    |                              CHAPTER XIV -- THE DEMONS MISREPRESENT
1482 XIX    |                              CHAPTER XIX -- THE RESURRECTION POSSIBLE. ~
1483 XL     |                              CHAPTER XL -- CHRIST'S ADVENT FORETOLD, ~
1484 XLI    |                              CHAPTER XLI -- THE CRUCIFIXION PREDICTED. ~
1485 XLII   |                              CHAPTER XLII -- PROPHECY USING THE PAST
1486 XLIII  |                              CHAPTER XLIII--RESPONSIBILITY ASSERTED. ~
1487 XLIV   |                              CHAPTER XLIV -- NOT NULLIFIED BY PROPHECY. ~
1488 XLIX   |                              CHAPTER XLIX -- HIS REJECTION BY THE
1489 XLV    |                              CHAPTER XLV -- CHRIST'S SESSION IN HEAVEN
1490 XLVI   |                              CHAPTER XLVI -- THE WORD IN THE WORLD
1491 XLVII  |                              CHAPTER XLVII -- DESOLATION OF JUDAEA
1492 XLVIII |                              CHAPTER XLVIII -- CHRIST'S WORK AND DEATH
1493 XV     |                              CHAPTER XV -- WHAT CHRIST HIMSELF TAUGHT. ~
1494 XVI    |                              CHAPTER XVI -- CONCERNING PATIENCE AND
1495 XVII   |                              CHAPTER XVII -- CHRIST TAUGHT CIVIL OBEDIENCE. ~
1496 XVIII  |                              CHAPTER XVIII -- PROOF OF IMMORTALITY
1497 XX     |                              CHAPTER XX -- HEATHEN ANALOGIES TO
1498 XXI    |                              CHAPTER XXI -- ANALOGIES TO THE HISTORY
1499 XXII   |                              CHAPTER XXII -- ANALOGIES TO THE SONSHIP
1500 XXIII  |                              CHAPTER XXIII -- THE ARGUMENT. ~And that