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1 III, 16| said that already 153, 075 years had passed. This is
2 III, 29| lived somewhere about 900 or 1000 years before the sack of
3 III, 28| forefather begat a son, 1036 years. And from Isaac, Abraham'
4 III, 22| and 8 months. And in the 12th year of the reign of Hiram
5 III, 24| 130. And his son Reu, when 132 And his son Serug, when
6 III, 24| And his son Eber, when 134. And from him the Hebrews
7 III, 24| Arphaxad. And Arphaxad, when 135 years old, begat Salah.
8 III, 16| created, said that already 153, 075 years had passed. This
9 III, 22| of Carthage, amounts to 155 years and 8 months. And
10 III, 24| 165. And his son Jared, 162. And his son Enoch, 165.
11 III, 24| And his son Methuselah, 167. And his son Lamech, 188.
12 III, 24| 190. And his son Cainan, 170. And his son Mahaleel, 165.
13 III, 24| 167. And his son Lamech, 188. And Lamech's son was Noah,
14 III, 24| 205. And his son Enos, 190. And his son Cainan, 170.
15 III, 29| e.g., 50 or 100, or even 200 years, yet not of thousands
16 III, 24| years. And his son Seth, 205. And his son Enos, 190.
17 III, 20| after him his sister Amessa, 21 years 1 month. And after
18 III, 27| the 7th Olympiad, on the 21st day of April, the year being
19 III, 27| Olympiad, this date falls 220 A.V.C., in which year also
20 III, 27| months 7 days; Claudius, 23 years 8 months 24 days;
21 III, 24| lived till he begat a son, 230 years. And his son Seth,
22 III, 27| of the Emperor Verus is 237 years 5 days. From the death
23 III, 27| Claudius, 23 years 8 months 24 days; Nero, 13 years 6 months
24 III, 24| rule, and governed them 27 years. And after Jesus,
25 III, 27| Adrian, 20 years 10 months 28 days; Antoninus, 22 years
26 III, 25| years; and after him Josiah, 31 years; and after him Jehoahaz,
27 III, 21| country now called Judaea, 313 years before Danaus came
28 III, 22| Metten succeeded, who lived 32 years, and reigned 29. Pygmalion,
29 III, 29| Thallus, Belus is found to be 322 years prior to the Trojan
30 III, 24| Abraham, therefore, there are 3278 years. The fore-mentioned
31 III, 20| months. And after him Orus, 35 years 5 months. And after
32 III, 26| years; nor yet 15 times 10,375 years, as we have already
33 III, 25| and after him Amaziah, 39 years; and after him Uzziah,
34 III, 25| years; and after him Asa, 41 years; and after him Jehoshaphat,
35 III, 22| succeeded him, who lived 43, and reigned 17 years. And
36 III, 22| his son Bazorus, who lived 45 years, and reigned 7. And
37 III, 25| there are therefore, in all, 4954 years 6 months and 10 days.
38 III, 25| reign of David [from Isaac] 496 years. And after these kings
39 III, 28| of the patriarch David, 498 years. And from the death
40 III, 24| above, who begat Shem when 500 years old. During Noah's
41 III, 28| in the land of Babylon, 518 years 6 months 10 days.
42 III, 22| to the kingdom. He lived 53 years. And Bazorus succeeded
43 III, 22| Methuastartus, who lived 54 years, and reigned 12. And
44 III, 22| which Solomon the king built 566 years after the exodus of
45 III, 28| world amount to a total of 5698 years, and the odd months
46 III, 24| lived until he begat a son, 60 years, and begat Jacob.
47 III, 24| During Noah's life, in his 600th year, the flood came. The
48 III, 28| with Moses in the desert, 660 years. And from the death
49 III, 24| And his son Nahor, when 75. And his son Terah, when
50 III, 24| therefore, amount to 3,938. And at that time, Moses
51 II, 34 | of the universe did not abandon mankind, but gave a law,
52 II, 15 | have wandered from God, abandoning His law and commandments.~
53 III, 7 | Critias and Protagoras of Abdera say, "For whether the gods
54 III, 24| years; Ailon, 10 years; Abdon, 8 years. Then strangers
55 III, 15| we become partakers and abettors of murders. But neither
56 III, 25| 17 years; and after him Abias, 7 years; and after him
57 II, 37 | based on sand: his race abideth not;~And time proclaims
58 III, 29| Babylonians, whom he calls Abobassor, and who is called by the
59 III, 21| where also they afterwards abode, it is well known how their
60 III, 7 | to be worshipped, and who abolish providence? Concerning God
61 II, 14 | wickedness and sin which abound in it. And as in the sea
62 II, 31 | High God; and from him the above-named city Hierosolyma was called
63 II, 37 | you sleep or wake;~And if abroad your way you take,~Its still,
64 II, 12 | since even men of temperance abstain from all base pleasure and
65 I, 10 | X. ABSURDITIES OF IDOLATRY.~Why should
66 I, 14 | everlasting, joy, peace, rest, and abundance of good things, which neither
67 III, 11| find mercy, for He will abundantly pardon." And another prophet,
68 I, 4 | heaven, and the depths of the abysses, and the ends of the earth,
69 III, 7 | opinions Clitomachus the academician introduced, [I need not
70 II, 31 | Babylon, and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, in the land
71 III, 21| Moses and the Hebrews who accompanied him with being banished
72 III, 17| the world. For the very accomplishment of predicted and already
73 III, 10| these things befell them in accordance with a prediction of God,--
74 II, 21 | hast done this, thou art accursed above all the beasts of
75 III, 4 | HAD BEEN MISLED BY FALSE ACCUSATIONS AGAINST THE CHRISTIANS.~
76 III, 4 | wherewith godless lips falsely accuse us, who are worshippers
77 I, 9 | fearing and fleeing from Achilles, and falling in love with
78 II, 18 | from seeds, and herbs, and acorns, having at the same time
79 II, 7 | him Thestrus, and from him Acous, and from him Aristomidas,
80 III, 15| as you have been fond of acquiring information, you may still
81 I, 10 | Athens the Minerva of the Acropolis. And I will inquire of you,
82 III, 29| country, which then was called Acte, but now is named Attica.
83 III, 7 | governed by self-regulated action. And Plato, who spoke so
84 I, 4 | running, and moving, and being active, and nourishing, and foreseeing,
85 I, 3 | Power, I am mentioning His activity; if Providence, I but mention
86 II, 30 | wives, whose names were Adah and Zillah. At that time
87 III, 11| unwilling to destroy them, in addition to His giving them the law,
88 II, 1 | then having bid one another adieu, we went with much mutual
89 III, 15| righteousness exercised, law administered, worship performed, God
90 II, 6 | a certain way he indeed admits matter [as self-existent]
91 I, 14 | they shall be accomplished. Admitting, therefore, the proof which
92 I, 9 | of Atys mutilated, or of Adonis wandering in the wood, and
93 II, 12 | ebdomas), a name which is adopted by every nation, although
94 II, 13 | God therefore formed and adorned it with all kinds of herbs,
95 II, 31 | Shalmaneser, then Sennacherib; and Adrammelech the Ethiopian, who also
96 III, 27| years 6 months 16 days; Adrian, 20 years 10 months 28 days;
97 I, 2 | whether you are not an adulterer, or a fornicator, or a thief,
98 I, 14 | shall have been filled with adulteries and fornications, and filthiness,
99 II, 25 | the increment of years, it advances to solid food. Thus, too,
100 III, 7 | on faithful men,~Say what advantage goodness offers then.~'Tis
101 II, 38 | also of providence; and the advocates of impunity confessed there
102 II, 7 | him Philip, and from him AEropus, and from him Alcetas, and
103 II, 28 | but also that their mutual affection might be greater. Therefore
104 III, 26| present time, as Plato said, affirming that there had been so many
105 III, 10| law, saying, "Ye shall not afflict a stranger; for ye know
106 I, 4 | all things on security afforded by Himself; and on account
107 II, 37 | between,~But even sleep affords no screen.~"'Tis with you
108 II, 23 | the things which were said aforetime?~
109 II, 21 | in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked, and
110 II, 25 | being yet an infant in age, was on this account as
111 II, 4 | produced without external agency, and that the world is uncreated,
112 II, 10 | and existing before the ages, willed to make man by whom
113 II, 8 | And Homer, again, does not agree with this, for he says that
114 III, 25| 16 years; and after him Ahaz, 17 years; and after him
115 III, 25| 8 years; and after him Ahaziah, 1 year; and after him Athaliah,
116 II, 5 | all hail! Grant me your aid~That I in numbers sweet
117 III, 24| 6 years; Esbon, 7 years; Ailon, 10 years; Abdon, 8 years.
118 III, 7 | own advancement is their aim,~Oft in this present life
119 II, 7 | him AEropus, and from him Alcetas, and from him Amyntas, and
120 III, 26| Peloponnesian war, or of Alcibiades and Thrasybulus? For my
121 I, 9 | Serapis chased from Sinope to Alexandria; or of the Scythian Diana,
122 II, 36 | snow-storms, and the ice,~And alI the woes that visit our
123 II, 6 | beauteous still,~Who comes all-conquering, bending mind and will,~
124 II, 36 | uncreated God,~Who reigns alone, all-powerfuL very great,~From whom is
125 II, 36 | there is only Once, the All-Supreme,~Who made the heavens, with
126 III, 4 | that we have nothing to allege in proof of what we receive
127 III, 29| the so-called gods in his alliance; and on this occasion he
128 II, 6 | shape? Did matter itself alter its own form and arrange
129 II, 4 | is created is mutable and alterable, but that which is uncreated
130 II, 7 | are distinct families: the Althean from Althea, who was the
131 II, 24 | neither wholly mortal, nor altogether immortal, but capable of
132 III, 20| Pharaoh, whose name was Amasis, and who, they say, reigned
133 III, 25| 40 years; and after him Amaziah, 39 years; and after him
134 III, 20| And after him his sister Amessa, 21 years 1 month. And after
135 III, 24| Then the Philistines and Ammonites ruled them 18 years. After
136 III, 25| 55 years; and after him Amon, 2 years; and after him
137 | amongst
138 II, 7 | him Alcetas, and from him Amyntas, and from him Bocrus, and
139 II, 31 | Ludim, and those called Anamim, and Lehabim, and Naphtuhim,
140 III, 20| Hebrews, who also are our ancestors, and from whom we have those
141 II, 14 | island-harbours of good anchorage; and into these run those
142 III, 29| which of the two is more ancient--Saturn or Bel. So far as
143 II, 28 | For at first he was an angel. And concerning his history
144 I, 14 | and wrath, tribulation and anguish, and at the last everlasting
145 II, 29 | no, nor the blood of any animal; by which it appears that
146 II, 13 | that which God gave for animating the creation, as he gave
147 III, 27| the Emperor Verus. The annual magistrates ruled the Romans,
148 I, 9 | mysteries are celebrated annually, as if he had perished,
149 II, 29 | Abel thy brother?" But Cain answered God contumaciously, saying, "
150 III, 8 | silent about the temples of Antinous, and of the others whom
151 III, 27| years 10 months 28 days; Antoninus, 22 years 7 months 6 days;
152 III, 24| years; Eglon, 18 years; Aoth, 8 years. Then having sinned,
153 II, 28 | dragon," on account of his [apodedrakenai] revolting from God. For
154 II, 7 | Heraclidae from Hercules, and the Apollonidae from Apollo, and the Poseidonii
155 II, 6 | or, rather, vain men, as Apollonides, surnamed Horapius, mentions
156 II, 2 | with much devotion, and apparatus of sacrifice, and libations,
157 III, 14| may be glorified, and be apparent in their joy." And the Gospel
158 II, 11 | place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so. And the
159 II, 11 | places, and the dry land appeared. And God called the dry
160 II, 12 | know not the reason of the appellation. And as for what the poet
161 I, 13 | has swallowed a seed of apple or fig, or something else,
162 I, 8 | one learn, unless he first apply and entrust himself to the
163 III, 27| Olympiad, on the 21st day of April, the year being then reckoned
164 II, 21 | together, and made themselves aprons. And they heard the voice
165 II, 32 | were few men in the land of Arabia and Chaldaea, yet, after
166 III, 19| this day to be seen in the Arabian mountains. This, then, is
167 II, 37 | raced."~And, similarly, Archilochus:--~"One thing I know, I
168 III, 22| was built; and in their archives writings have been preserved,
169 II, 32 | as far as Britain, in the Arctic regions. And others went
170 I, 6 | Pleiades, and Orion, and Arcturus, and the orbit of the other
171 II, 31 | Chaldaeans, the first king was Arioch, and next after him Ellasar,
172 II, 35 | Awake; and to the wood, Arise." Likewise spoke the other
173 II, 7 | Cleodemus, and from him Aristomachus, and from him Temenus, and
174 II, 7 | him Acous, and from him Aristomidas, and from him Caranus, and
175 III, 7 | Concerning God and providence, Ariston said:--~"Be of good courage:
176 II, 10 | called "governing principle" [arkê], because He rules, and
177 III, 12| the children that are in arms; let the bridegroom go forth
178 III, 21| the Hebrews, he and his army were engulphed in the Red
179 II, 6 | lofty mountains by her power arose,~For the wood-nymphs she
180 II, 6 | itself alter its own form and arrange itself into a world (for
181 III, 9 | know that all things are arranged by His providence, but by
182 II, 8 | recount further the vast array of such names and genealogies?
183 II, 2 | they are produced by the artificers, are reckoned of no value;
184 II, 4 | materials? For even a human artist, when he gets material from
185 III, 25| 7 years; and after him Asa, 41 years; and after him
186 III, 2 | or should accurately have ascertained them from those who had
187 II, 32 | sea, and Pamphylia, and Asia, and Greece, and Macedonia,
188 III, 12| in the ways, and see, and ask which is the good way of
189 III, 7 | a wolf, or a dog, or an ass, or some other irrational
190 III, 12| sanctify the congregation, assemble the elders, gather the children
191 II, 14 | tempest-tossed by sins, assemblies--we mean holy churches--in
192 II, 38 | unity of God, and those who asserted chance spoke also of providence;
193 II, 31 | Nimrod]. From these came Asshur, from whom also the Assyrians
194 III, 20| and 4 months, as Manetho assumes. And after him [reigned]
195 II, 22 | His power and His wisdom, assuming the person of the Father
196 II, 31 | There were these kings of Assyria: Tiglath-Pileser, and after
197 III, 22| by Juthobalus, priest of Astarte, who lived 40 years, and
198 III, 25| Ahaziah, 1 year; and after him Athaliah, 6 years; and after her
199 III, 22| him succeeded his brother Atharymus, who lived 58 years, and
200 III, 7 | nothing for men. And how many atheistic opinions Clitomachus the
201 III, 7 | the opinions of the most atheistical, Euhemerus, is superfluous,
202 III, 23| were to mention Solon the Athenian, he lived in the days of
203 III, 26| Hippias, or of the wars of the Athenians and Lacedaemonians, or the
204 I, 10 | Olympian Jupiter, and at Athens the Minerva of the Acropolis.
205 II, 19 | brilliant with a very bright atmosphere, [abundant] in the finest
206 II, 31 | contrary to the will of God, to attempt a grand work, God destroyed
207 III, 16| should promise us, that if we attempted to make a survey of legislation,
208 III, 29| called Acte, but now is named Attica. And whence the other countries
209 III, 8 | blood, or the castrated Attis; or of Jupiter, surnamed
210 II, 3 | eastern. But this is the attribute of God, the Highest and
211 III, 8 | VIII. WICKEDNESS ATTRIBUTED TO THE GODS BY HEATHEN WRITERS.~
212 I, 4 | IV. ATTRIBUTES OF GOD.~And He is without
213 I, 9 | And why should I speak of Atys mutilated, or of Adonis
214 III, 27| years 4 months 6 days; then Augustus, 56 years 4 months 1 day;
215 II, 28 | serpent, and become the author of sin, the wicked demon,
216 II, 34 | murder, fornication, theft, avarice, false swearing, wrath,
217 II, 37 | hath~To hide you from th' Avenger's wrath.~"To show the ill
218 II, 4 | as God is uncreated, and aver that it is coeval with God.
219 I, 1 | to bear, I, for my part, avow that I am a Christian, and
220 III, 7 | have affirmed God, and have avowed that all things are governed
221 III, 21| particulars of the truth: first, avowing that they were shepherds;
222 I, 14 | judgment, rendering merited awards to each. To those who by
223 I, 2 | symmetrical or disproportioned and awkward, or monstrous or mutilated;
224 II, 36 | regarding those [gods] that axe said to have been born,
225 II, 6 | the immortals dwell for aye,~Who in the snowy-peak'd
226 III, 25| Solomon had built. And in the Babylonian banishment the people passed
227 III, 29| Jews under the king of the Babylonians, whom he calls Abobassor,
228 II, 17 | shall have made his way back to his natural condition,
229 III, 7 | fitting punishment for each bad deed."~And one can see how
230 III, 29| Saturn, and call him Bel or Bal, especially the inhabitants
231 II, 31 | Gomorrah, Admah, Zeboiim, and Balah, which was also called Zoar.
232 III, 12| prophet said: "Loose every band of wickedness, dissolve
233 III, 3 | adultery, and in monstrous banquets. For who does not sing Saturn
234 III, 26| spoke of Darius and Cyrus, barbarian kings, or of the Greeks
235 III, 4 | what is most impious and barbarous of all, that we eat human
236 II, 14 | rocky and without water, and barren, and infested by wild beasts,
237 II, 12 | temperance abstain from all base pleasure and wicked lust.~
238 II, 37 | proud man's prosperity~Is based on sand: his race abideth
239 III, 11| a grape-gatherer to his basket, and ye shall find mercy."
240 II, 20 | land is good, and there is bdellium and the onyx stone. And
241 II, 36 | which Shun the noontide beams,~Look upon Him who dwells
242 II, 11 | have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the
243 III, 8 | promiscuous intercourse and beastly concubinage, are themselves
244 III, 2 | of things unascertained beat the air. For what did it
245 II, 6 | Love, ev'n among gods most beauteous still,~Who comes all-conquering,
246 III, 10| sojourned; and these things befell them in accordance with
247 II, 13 | below. For man, being below, begins to build from the earth,
248 II, 21 | woman said, The serpent beguiled me, and I did eat. And the
249 I, 5 | seen by human eyes, but is beheld and perceived through His
250 | behind
251 I, 2 | the eyes prevents one from beholding the light of the sun: thus
252 III, 17| INFORMATION OF THE CHRISTIANS.~It behoved, therefore, that he should
253 II, 31 | Shemeber, king of Zeboiim; Bela, king of Zoar, which is
254 III, 7 | blinds himself with this belief;~But be ye sure, of all
255 I, 5 | again, an earthly king is believed to exist, even though he
256 I, 14 | do you also submit to, believing Him, lest if now you continue
257 II, 30 | that the writings which belong to us godly people are more
258 I, 1 | Christian, and bear this name beloved of God, hoping to be serviceable
259 II, 8 | to save, all things He'll bend~To serve as instruments
260 II, 6 | Who comes all-conquering, bending mind and will,~Delivering
261 III, 2 | culture profit him? Or what benefit did the rest of the philosophers
262 II, 8 | offspring and the seed of Jove.~Benevolent, he warns mankind to good,~
263 II, 31 | of their kings are these: Bera, king of Sodom; Birsha,
264 II, 7 | Euergetes, and from him and Berenice, daughter of Maga, king
265 III, 29| we are corroborated by Berosus, the Chaldaean philosopher,
266 III, 30| not only so, but they even bestow prizes and honours on those
267 II, 4 | He pleases; just as the bestowal of life and motion is the
268 II, 35 | they were in sore travail, bewailing the godless race of men,
269 II, 1 | religion; and then having bid one another adieu, we went
270 II, 31 | these: Bera, king of Sodom; Birsha, king of Gomorrah; Shinab,
271 II, 2 | For when you read of their births, you think of them as men,
272 II, 16 | keeping the law of God, bite and injure none, but live
273 II, 7 | A windy egg was laid by black-winged night~At first."~But Satyrus,
274 III, 3 | say that Vulcan, a lame blacksmith, did the waiting; and how
275 III, 30| only omit to mention, but blaspheme; yes, and they persecuted,
276 III, 7 | destiny we're led:~It is not blinded chance that rules the world,~
277 III, 6 | conduct, those who have blindly wandered into the choir
278 I, 7 | condition, because of the blindness of your soul, and the hardness
279 III, 7 | onward hurled.~The wicked blinds himself with this belief;~
280 II, 36 | Inhabiting the blooming realms of bliss,~And feasting on sweet food
281 II, 36 | revenge, and wrath, and bloody wars,~And pestilence, and
282 II, 36 | everlasting life,~Inhabiting the blooming realms of bliss,~And feasting
283 III, 12| have mercy upon you, and blot out your sins." In like
284 I, 9 | the wood, and wounded by a boar while hunting; or of AEsculapius
285 III, 14| do good it teaches not to boast, lest they become men-pleasers.
286 I, 1 | assailed me with empty words, boasting of your gods of wood and
287 II, 7 | him Amyntas, and from him Bocrus, and from him Meleager,
288 III, 25| gave orders to his own bodyguards, Sabessar and Mithridates,
289 III, 12| tear up every unrighteous bond. Deal out thy bread to the
290 II, 24 | and Euphrates--for these border on our own regions. And
291 II, 13 | And by the Spirit which is borne above the waters, he means
292 III, 13| Can a man take fire in his bosom, and his clothes not be
293 III, 3 | Bacchus and Hercules, of the bosom-loving Minerva, and the shameless
294 II, 5 | gave,~And rivers, and the boundless sea whose wave~Unwearied
295 I, 6 | treasure-houses of the deep, and the bounds of the seas, and the treasuries
296 II, 10 | internal within His own bowels, begat Him, emitting Him
297 III, 6 | libraries, so that from boyhood this lawless intercourse
298 I, 2 | whether you do not corrupt boys; whether you are not insolent,
299 I, 2 | supercilious; whether you are not a brawler, or covetous, or disobedient
300 I, 7 | heaven, and established the breadth of the earth under it; who
301 III, 19| the fountains of the deep breaking up, so that the water overtopped
302 II, 21 | beasts of the earth; on thy breast and belly shalt thou go,
303 I, 7 | speak, O man; His breath you breathe yet Him you know not. And
304 II, 19 | the dust of the earth, and breathed into his face the breath
305 III, 12| of his chamber, and the bride out of her closet, and pray
306 III, 12| that are in arms; let the bridegroom go forth of his chamber,
307 II, 15 | hold the second place in brightness, are types of the people
308 I, 6 | darkness in His treasures, and bringing forth the sweet, and desirable,
309 II, 5 | night at first,~Were by the briny ocean reared and nursed.~
310 II, 32 | so as to extend as far as Britain, in the Arctic regions.
311 II, 6 | was chaos made, and next~Broad-bosom'd earth's foundations firm
312 II, 6 | birth~In the recesses of broad-pathwayed earth,~And Love, ev'n among
313 III, 7 | or some other irrational brute? Pythagoras, too, is found
314 II, 35 | indeed, said: "Every man is brutishly gone astray from the knowledge
315 III, 9 | his ox, nor his beast of burden, nor any of his cattle,
316 I, 9 | of his sons? How Hercules burnt himself; and about the drunk
317 II, 38 | through Hades' gates,~Me bury."~And as regards the others
318 III, 10| to Egypt for the sake of buying food there, I where also
319 II, 18 | having reckoned them all mere bye-works, reckons the creation of
320 III, 27| this date falls 220 A.V.C., in which year also Tarquinius,
321 III, 27| The time therefore of the Caesars to the death of the Emperor
322 III, 24| son Enos, 190. And his son Cainan, 170. And his son Mahaleel,
323 II, 31 | and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.
324 III, 5 | historian Herodotus narrate that Cambyses, when he had slaughtered
325 III, 7 | For some have absolutely cancelled God and providence; and
326 II, 5 | was spread yon glittering canopy~Of glistening stars that
327 I, 7 | holily, and righteously, thou canst see God. But before all
328 I, 10 | Jupiter Poliuchus, and Jupiter Capitolinus; and that Jupiter, the son
329 III, 25| the people should be led captive to Babylon, in like manner
330 III, 25| XXV. FROM SAUL TO THE CAPTIVITY.~And after the judges they
331 II, 7 | Aristomidas, and from him Caranus, and from him Coenus, and
332 II, 15 | to place, which also are cared planets, they too are a
333 III, 30| then, study these things carefully, that you may have a compendium
334 III, 4 | of all things, give but a careless hearing to us. For, if it
335 II, 27 | brought upon himself through carelessness and disobedience, this God
336 II, 9 | HOLY GHOST.~But men of God carrying in them a holy spirit and
337 II, 2 | both design and paint, and carve, and mould, and prepare
338 I, 1 | stone, hammered and cast, carved and graven, which neither
339 II, 2 | absurd that statuaries and carvers, or painters, or moulders,
340 II, 31 | Naphtuhim, and Pathrusim, and Casluhim, out of whom came Philistin.
341 I, 10 | Jupiter Latiaris, and Jupiter Cassius, and Jupiter Tonans, and
342 I, 12 | caulked [anointed]? Or what castle or house is beautiful and
343 III, 8 | for human blood, or the castrated Attis; or of Jupiter, surnamed
344 II, 36 | worship serpents, dogs, and cats,~Birds, and the creeping
345 I, 12 | seaworthy, unless it be first caulked [anointed]? Or what castle
346 II, 25 | obviously not the law which causes punishment, but the disobedience
347 III, 20| it is said, had a large cavalry force and naval equipment.
348 II, 6 | wood-nymphs she made the pleasant caves,~Begot the sterile sea with
349 II, 36 | wander thus, O foolish men?~Cease your vain wanderings in
350 II, 3 | until now, and men have not ceased to be born, so that cities
351 II, 7 | him Temenus, and from him Ceisus, and from him Maron, and
352 I, 9 | limb, whose mysteries are celebrated annually, as if he had perished,
353 I, 5 | containing it, has within it many cells and compartments which are
354 I, 6 | treasures, and formed the chambers of the south wind, and the
355 I, 6 | of the seasons, and the changes of temperature; the regular
356 II, 35 | heavens." And in another chapter, "This is your God, who
357 III, 21| nonsense, and even impiously charged Moses and the Hebrews who
358 I, 9 | of the fugitive Serapis chased from Sinope to Alexandria;
359 I, 7 | these things, O man, living chastely, and holily, and righteously,
360 I, 3 | and fear Him; for He is a chastener of the godly, and father
361 III, 20| And after him [reigned] Chebron, 13 years. And after him
362 III, 7 | sure, of all rewards, the chief~Is still reserved for those
363 II, 23 | pains which women suffer in childbed, and the oblivion of their
364 II, 29 | living, but also begetting children--being carried away with
365 II, 19 | the formation of man, God chose out for him a region among
366 III, 29| XXIX. ANTIQUITY OF CHRISTIANITY.~These periods, then, and
367 III, 27| them from the tables which Chryserus the nomenclator compiled:
368 II, 14 | assemblies--we mean holy churches--in which survive the doctrines
369 III, 24| of Mesopotamia, by name Chusarathon, 8 years. Then, on the repentance
370 III, 18| from the stones; from which circumstance they say that men in the
371 III, 27| and made eunuchs of the citizens, and, moreover, first defiled
372 III, 7 | present life have all they claim.~But we must look beyond,
373 III, 27| 3 years 8 months 7 days; Claudius, 23 years 8 months 24 days;
374 I, 2 | unless they have first cleansed themselves from all impurity.
375 III, 5 | Zeno, and Diogenes, and Cleanthes, which their books contain,
376 II, 36 | blessed light?~Lo, He is clear--in Him there is no spot.~
377 II, 36 | forth at morn their tender, clear-voiced song.~Within the deep glades
378 II, 28 | and all his household, cleaving to and becoming one with
379 II, 7 | suppose, Hyllus; and from him Cleodemus, and from him Aristomachus,
380 II, 31 | wished to rise~Even till they climbed unto the starry heaven,~
381 II, 5 | many-nooked Olympus' sunny clime.~These things, ye Muses,
382 III, 7 | many atheistic opinions Clitomachus the academician introduced, [
383 II, 13 | matter which was like a clod. And so another prophet,
384 II, 20 | took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof.
385 III, 12| and the bride out of her closet, and pray to the LORD thy
386 III, 13| fire in his bosom, and his clothes not be burned? Or can one
387 III, 13| Or can one walk upon hot coals, and his feet not be burned?
388 I, 9 | flayed it, he made himself a coat of the hide. And his other
389 II, 7 | him Caranus, and from him Coenus, and from him Tyrimmas,
390 II, 13 | caused the waters to be collected into one collection, and
391 I, 6 | of snows and hail-storms, collecting the waters in the storehouses
392 II, 13 | to be collected into one collection, and the dry land to become
393 III, 29| above-mentioned facts, being viewed collectively, one can see the antiquity
394 II, 2 | stone, or brass, or wood, or colour, or some other material.
395 III, 2 | Aristophanes, and the other comedians? Or their histories to Herodotus
396 III, 2 | other tragedians? Or their comedies to Menander and Aristophanes,
397 II, 38 | foretold: "The day of the Lord cometh as a burning oven, and shall
398 III, 6 | worn with toil might be comforted by such intercourse. And
399 III, 15| live indifferently, and be commingled in unlawful intercourse,
400 III, 13| divorced from her husband, committeth adultery; and whosoever
401 III, 3 | their gods took the lead in committing unutterable acts of adultery,
402 II, 13 | darkness might not in any way communicate with the heaven, which was
403 II, 32 | shaped like a sphere, and to compare it to a cube. But how can
404 II, 14 | XIV. THE WORLD COMPARED TO THE SEA.~Consider, further,
405 II, 34 | prophets--in order that, by comparing what is said by us with
406 II, 31 | though these things, in comparison with our books, are quite
407 I, 5 | within it many cells and compartments which are separated by tissues,
408 II, 31 | genealogy, we have given a compendious register in the above-mentioned
409 III, 1 | not grudge the labour of compendiously setting forth to you, God
410 III, 30| carefully, that you may have a compendium and pledge of the truth.~
411 III, 25| demolished. Moreover, Cyrus, in compliance with the instructions of
412 III, 1 | that writers are fond of composing a multitude of books for
413 II, 13 | a dome-shaped covering, comprehended matter which was like a
414 II, 29 | Adam knew Eve his wife, she conceived and bare a son, whose name
415 I, 2 | earthly objects and what concerns this life, and discriminate
416 III, 8 | intercourse and beastly concubinage, are themselves condemned
417 III, 26| foundation of the world, and to condemn the empty labour and trifling
418 I, 9 | hear also his deeds and conduct--first, how he was suckled
419 III, 2 | sphaerography of the world's circle confer on Aratus, or those who
420 I, 8 | physician, will you not place confidence in God, even when you hold
421 II, 3 | all, and by no means to be confined in a place; for if He were,
422 II, 37 | predicted. And concerning the conflagration of the world, they have,
423 II, 37 | or unwillingly, spoken in Conformity with the prophets, though
424 III, 12| the people, sanctify the congregation, assemble the elders, gather
425 III, 16| he has said these things conjecturally. For he says, "If then,
426 II, 8 | that it was created. For by conjecture and human conception they
427 III, 16| XVI. UNCERTAIN CONJECTURES OF THE PHILOSOPHERS.~But
428 II, 28 | father, and his whole family connection, and all his household,
429 II, 12 | is not meet that God be conquered by pleasure; since even
430 II, 4 | that God is only each man's conscience. And others again maintain
431 II, 10 | they taught us with one consent that God made all things
432 I, 14 | taken these things into consideration, I believe. At the same
433 II, 14 | which is to be. For who that considers it will not marvel that
434 II, 9 | they all have spoken things consistent and harmonious with each
435 III, 27| year being then reckoned as consisting of ten months. Cyrus, then,
436 I, 6 | perfect luminary; and the constellation of Pleiades, and Orion,
437 III, 27| years. After him yearly consuls were introduced, tribunes
438 III, 17| of predicted and already consummated events should demonstrate
439 III, 7 | and wait the end,~That consummation to which all things tend.~'
440 III, 23| was called Zechariah, was contemporary with the reign of Darius.
441 I, 12 | serviceable, and far from contemptible. For what ship can be serviceable
442 III, 11| teach and remind them of the contents of the law, and to turn
443 II, 32 | to the parts of the great continent, and others northwards,
444 III, 22| possessed by Solomon. For they continually engaged with each other
445 I, 14 | To those who by patient continuance in well-doing seek immortality,
446 I, 14 | believing Him, lest if now you continue unbelieving, you be convinced
447 III, 21| the appointment of God, continued in the temple, and there
448 III, 25| these kings, the people, continuing in their sins, and not repenting,
449 III, 12| dissolve every oppressive contract, let the oppressed go free,
450 II, 6 | to talk nonsense, and to contradict himself. For when he mentions
451 III, 3 | III. THEIR CONTRADICTIONS.~For all these, having fallen
452 II, 8 | the world, they uttered contradictory and absurd opinions. First,
453 III, 26| XXVI. CONTRAST BETWEEN HEBREW AND GREEK
454 II, 29 | But Cain answered God contumaciously, saying, "I know not; am
455 II, 1 | WHEN we had formerly some conversation, my very good friend Autolycus,
456 II, 22 | begotten Reason, and always conversing with His Reason. And hence
457 I, 14 | THEOPHILUS AN EXAMPLE OF CONVERSION.~Therefore, do not be sceptical,
458 III, 3 | which they said themselves convict them of speaking inconsistently;
459 II, 21 | walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and Adam and
460 I, 13 | and becomes a stalk of corn. And the nature of trees
461 III, 22| of this exists in their correspondence, which to this day is preserved
462 II, 37 | the prophets. The poets corroborate the testimony of the prophets.~
463 III, 29| periods we speak of, we are corroborated by Berosus, the Chaldaean
464 I, 7 | the Physician, and He will couch the eyes of your soul and
465 II, 22 | into being He had Him as a counsellor, being His own mind and
466 II, 36 | everlasting still abide.~Of evil counsels ye shall reap the fruit,~
467 II, 16 | these things; for who could count their multitude and very
468 III, 7 | Ariston said:--~"Be of good courage: God will still preserve~
469 III, 12| When thou seest the naked, cover him, and hide not thyself
470 II, 13 | the heaven which God made coveting the waters and the earth
471 I, 14 | fornications, and filthiness, and covetousness, and unlawful idolatries,
472 II, 23 | serpent,--how hatefully he crawls on his belly and eats the
473 II, 11 | the creeping things that creep upon the earth. And God
474 II, 15 | it is born again, and is crescent, for a pattern of the future
475 II, 5 | Unwearied sinks, then rears its crest on high;~And how was spread
476 II, 29 | voice of thy brother's blood crieth to me from the earth, which
477 II, 29 | XXIX. CAIN'S CRIME.~When, then, Adam knew Eve
478 III, 7 | not recount.] And did not Critias and Protagoras of Abdera
479 III, 7 | and consider what is said, critically inquiring into what has
480 II, 6 | and the Cyclopes, and a crowd of giants, and of the Egyptian
481 II, 32 | and to compare it to a cube. But how can they say what
482 III, 19| overtopped every high hill 15 cubits. And thus the race of all
483 III, 2 | What did Plato's system of culture profit him? Or what benefit
484 III, 21| every disease, so that they cured lepers and every unsoundness.
485 II, 21 | Thou shalt not eat of it; cursed is the ground in thy works:
486 II, 37 | unseen;~You draw night's curtain in between,~But even sleep
487 III, 7 | Simylus said: "It is the custom of the poets to name by
488 II, 6 | race of the Titans and the Cyclopes, and a crowd of giants,
489 III, 2 | Hercules to Pythagoras, or the Cynic philosophy to Diogenes?
490 II, 7 | daughter of Maga, king of Cyrene, Ptolemy Philopator. Thus,
491 I, 1 | Christian, as if this were a damning name to bear, I, for my
492 III, 20| 8 months. And after him Damphenophis, 30 years 10 months. And
493 III, 29| the prophets Jeremiah and Daniel also, he spoke in a measure
494 I, 9 | and falling in love with Daphne, and being unaware of the
495 III, 7 | superfluous, For having made many daring assertions concerning the
496 II, 36 | wanderings in the black, dark night;~Why follow darkness
497 II, 36 | From whose mouth streams of deadly poison flow.~But unto Him
498 III, 24| strangers for 20 years. Then Deborah judged them 40 years. Then
499 II, 34 | vain doctrines through the deceitfulness of the senseless tradition
500 II, 8 | the Muses,--spoke from a deceptive fancy, and not with a pure