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1001 III, 5 | or reject a part of this infamous food, he himself be devoured
1002 II, 25 | unseemly that children in infancy be wise beyond their years;
1003 I, 5 | the harbour, will no doubt infer that there is a pilot in
1004 II, 14 | without water, and barren, and infested by wild beasts, and uninhabitable,
1005 III, 16| was uncreated, went into infinity; and others, asserting that
1006 II, 14 | sea, if it had not had the influx and supply of the rivers
1007 II, 29 | World," can more accurately inform those who are anxious to
1008 II, 36 | inherit everlasting life,~Inhabiting the blooming realms of bliss,~
1009 I, 3 | unrivalled, in goodness inimitable, in kindness unutterable.
1010 II, 12 | in vain; yea, rather an injurious thing to those who credit
1011 III, 15| XV. THE INNOCENCE OF THE CHRISTIANS DEFENDED.~
1012 I, 10 | the Acropolis. And I will inquire of you, my friend, how many
1013 II, 1 | Autolycus, and when you inquired who was my God, and for
1014 III, 7 | what is said, critically inquiring into what has been uttered
1015 II, 37 | bear."~That God will make inquiry both concerning false swearing
1016 I, 5 | the pomegranate, dwelling inside, cannot see what is outside
1017 I, 2 | boys; whether you are not insolent, or a slanderer, or passionate,
1018 II, 19 | should not seem to be an insoluble problem existing among men,
1019 II, 8 | them, they spoke at their instance whatever they said. For
1020 II, 31 | judgment. and not at the instigation of God, to build a city,
1021 I, 6 | the sea; or consider the instinct implanted in these animals
1022 II, 10 | Word of God by him as by an instrument, says, "In the beginning
1023 III, 30| who in harmonious language insult God; but of those who are
1024 III, 7 | governed by providence. The intelligent hearer and reader must therefore
1025 II, 24 | made in respect of beauty intermediate between earth and heaven.
1026 II, 10 | then, having His own Word internal within His own bowels, begat
1027 II, 31 | the Assyrians, during an interval of many years, have been
1028 II, 18 | Our likeness," He first intimates the dignity of man. For
1029 II, 5 | distributed to each.~Then he introduces in his poem the daughters
1030 II, 33 | being much later born, and introducing a multitude of gods, who
1031 III, 30| alleging that letters were invented, some say among the Chaldaeans,
1032 II, 30 | CAIN'S FAMILY AND THEIR INVENTIONS.~Cain also himself had a
1033 II, 30 | fabled that Apollo was the inventor, and others say that Orpheus
1034 II, 30 | empty and vain, for these inventors lived many years after the
1035 II, 34 | kindly spirit you would investigate divine things--I mean the
1036 III, 2 | and the demons whom he invoked? And why did he willingly
1037 II, 28 | that are possessed by him, invokes as Eve. And he is called "
1038 III, 29| the observance dates from Iphitus, but according to others
1039 II, 30 | smith, a forger in brass and iron. So far the seed of Cain
1040 II, 14 | of the truth, as in the island-harbours of good anchorage; and into
1041 II, 32 | Macedonia, and, besides, to Italy, and the whole country called
1042 III, 24| years; Thola, 22 years; Jair, 22 years. Then the Philistines
1043 III, 19| were Shem, and Ham, and Japhet; and these had three wives,
1044 III, 24| Mahaleel, 165. And his son Jared, 162. And his son Enoch,
1045 III, 25| 31 years; and after him Jehoahaz, 3 months; and after him
1046 III, 25| 41 years; and after him Jehoshaphat, 25 years; and after him
1047 III, 24| them 18 years. After that Jephthah judged them 6 years; Esbon,
1048 III, 23| Josephus, who wrote the Jewish war, which they waged with
1049 III, 12| the earth." And another, Joel, spoke in agreement with
1050 II, 22 | inspired] men, one of whom, John, says, "In the beginning
1051 III, 25| 25 years; and after him Joram, 8 years; and after him
1052 III, 28| of Moses and the rule of Joshua the son of Nun, to the death
1053 III, 25| 52 years; and after him Jotham, 16 years; and after him
1054 II, 37 | until the time when He is to judge-concerning this, too, Dionysius said:--~"
1055 III, 7 | those at least who have any judgment--that he who was once a man
1056 III, 27| this order: first, Caius Julius, who reigned 3 years 4 months
1057 I, 10 | you, my friend, how many Jupiters exist. For there is, firstly,
1058 II, 25 | XXV. GOD WAS JUSTIFIED IN FORBIDDING MAN TO EAT
1059 III, 9 | not slay; thou shalt not justify the wicked; and thou shalt
1060 I, 11 | worshipped, but to judge justly. For in a kind of way his
1061 III, 22| months. He was killed by Juthobalus, priest of Astarte, who
1062 II, 31 | they destroyed the giants Karnaim, and the strong nations
1063 II, 3 | poets, but now is beyond ken? And why was he found only
1064 II, 31 | Zoar, which is also called Kephalac. These served Chedorlaomer,
1065 III, 22| reigned 8 months. He was killed by Juthobalus, priest of
1066 III, 11| into subjection to all the kingdoms of the earth; and that this
1067 II, 36 | high?~Your Overseer, the Knower, Seer of all,~Who ever keeps
1068 II, 36 | all these things?~He only knows who made them at the first,~
1069 III, 26| wars of the Athenians and Lacedaemonians, or the deeds of Xerxes
1070 II, 7 | Arsinoe, and from her and Lagus Ptolemy Soter, and from
1071 III, 3 | they say that Vulcan, a lame blacksmith, did the waiting;
1072 II, 13 | His Word, shining as a lamp in an enclosed chamber,
1073 III, 3 | teach the perpetration of lasciviousness, and fornication, and adultery;
1074 II, 37 | feels its stern hand soon or late.~"'Tis with you, though
1075 I, 14 | foretold by the prophets, the later-born poets and philosophers stole
1076 I, 12 | CHRISTIAN.~And about your laughing at me and calling me "Christian,"
1077 III, 8 | sensible persons, they excite laughter. They who elaborated such
1078 II, 16 | sins, through the water and laver of regeneration,--as many
1079 III, 20| And Moses, becoming the leader of the Jews, as we have
1080 II, 21 | naked; and they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves
1081 II, 36 | pride ye have your walk;~And leaving the right way, ye wander
1082 III, 6 | expressly, as it were, legislates in his first book, entitled
1083 II, 31 | those called Anamim, and Lehabim, and Naphtuhim, and Pathrusim,
1084 II, 38 | multiplicity of gods came at length to the doctrine of the unity
1085 III, 21| from Egypt on account of leprosy, could give no accurate
1086 | less
1087 II, 11 | to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night:
1088 II, 2 | apparatus of sacrifice, and libations, to worship them; and they
1089 II, 30 | you wish it, you are at liberty to read.~
1090 II, 13 | waters and the earth like a lid. And by the Spirit which
1091 II, 3 | inhabited by the gods, but now lies deserted? Or why did Jupiter,
1092 II, 36 | are ye still so quickly lifted up,~And how so thoughtless
1093 II, 10 | introduced God; for not lightly and on slight occasion is
1094 | likely
1095 II, 30 | the rest, the seed of his line has sunk into oblivion,
1096 III, 29| according to others from Linus, who is also called Ilius.
1097 II, 13 | in an enclosed chamber, lit up all that was under heaven,
1098 III, 29| acquainted with the Chaldaean literature, and uttered some things
1099 I, 13 | Hercules, who burned himself, lives; and that AEsculapius, who
1100 II, 8 | wills to save, all things He'll bend~To serve as instruments
1101 II, 36 | for you the blessed light?~Lo, He is clear--in Him there
1102 II, 6 | might there repose.~The lofty mountains by her power arose,~
1103 III, 13| chastity, saying: "Whosoever looketh on a woman who is not his
1104 II, 36 | know your God and King, who looks on all:~Therefore, upon
1105 III, 12| the same prophet said: "Loose every band of wickedness,
1106 II, 12 | the earth and love which lords it over his [Hesiod's] gods
1107 II, 36 | way, ye wander wide,~And lose yourselves in pitfalls and
1108 II, 6 | sea with all his waves,~Loveless; but when by heaven her
1109 II, 24 | were made of a superior loveliness and beauty, since in it
1110 II, 32 | Hence, therefore, may the loves of learning and of antiquity
1111 I, 11 | him, and pray for him with loyal mind; for if you do this,
1112 III, 27| Verus, who composed a very lucid record of all things, both
1113 II, 31 | by name Mizraim, begat Ludim, and those called Anamim,
1114 I, 6 | approach of the perfect luminary; and the constellation of
1115 III, 23| you mention the lawgivers Lycurgus, or Draco, or Minos, Josephus
1116 II, 35 | that he has graven it a lying image? Woe to him that saith
1117 III, 27| CHRONOLOGY TO THE DEATH OF M. AURELIUS.~When Cyrus, then,
1118 II, 32 | and Asia, and Greece, and Macedonia, and, besides, to Italy,
1119 II, 36 | demons offer sacrifice.~In madness and in pride ye have your
1120 II, 7 | and Berenice, daughter of Maga, king of Cyrene, Ptolemy
1121 III, 27| Emperor Verus. The annual magistrates ruled the Romans, as we
1122 III, 24| Cainan, 170. And his son Mahaleel, 165. And his son Jared,
1123 III, 9 | his man-servant, nor his maid-servant, nor his ox, nor his beast
1124 III, 28| thus traced, so far as its main epochs are concerned. From
1125 II, 8 | as we before explained, main-mined that the world is uncreated.
1126 II, 8 | affirmed a Providence they maintained in opposition that there
1127 III, 7 | others, and indeed almost the majority, have said about God and
1128 I, 6 | the ends of the earth: He maketh lightnings for the rain;"
1129 II, 38 | burning up of the world, Malachi the prophet foretold: "The
1130 II, 11 | image of God created He him; male and female created He them.
1131 III, 9 | house, nor his land, nor his man-servant, nor his maid-servant, nor
1132 III, 25| 29 years; and after him Manasseh, 55 years; and after him
1133 II, 4 | But the power of God is manifested in this, that out of things
1134 II, 11 | creation is light; since light manifests the things that are created.
1135 II, 5 | from the remotest time~In many-nooked Olympus' sunny clime.~These
1136 I, 6 | temperature; the regular march of the stars; the well-ordered
1137 II, 27 | Not even this hits the mark. He was by nature neither
1138 II, 7 | Eunous, son of Dionysus; the Maronian, from Maron, son of Ariadne
1139 III, 27| virgins, and then gave them in marriage. On this account he was
1140 II, 28 | ourselves. For who that marries lawfully does not despise
1141 III, 13| his heart." "And he that marrieth," says [the Gospel], "her
1142 II, 14 | that considers it will not marvel that a fig-tree is produced
1143 III, 9 | mindful of them, and doing marvellous and strange miracles by
1144 III, 27| Tomyris in the country of the Massagetae, this being in the 62d Olympiad,
1145 II, 36 | justice quite unmixed, pure, mastering, strong;~And ye will not
1146 II, 8 | sailing in mid-ocean on a mat."~And saying numberless
1147 II, 4 | the world out of existent materials? For even a human artist,
1148 II, 24 | advancement, in order that, maturing and becoming perfect, and
1149 II, 20 | that is in the garden thou mayest freely eat; but of the tree
1150 III, 5 | also, and set them as a meal before their father? And,
1151 III, 29| Daniel also, he spoke in a measure of agreement. For he mentioned
1152 I, 13 | But you will say, "From meats and drinks changed into
1153 III, 7 | just reward which is their meed,~And fitting punishment
1154 II, 7 | beneath the sea, and embracing Melanippe and begetting a cannibal
1155 II, 31 | a righteous king called Melchisedek, in the city of Salem, which
1156 II, 7 | him Bocrus, and from him Meleager, and from him Arsinoe, and
1157 III, 9 | righteous seed of godly and holy men--Abraham, and Isaac, and
1158 III, 14| boast, lest they become men-pleasers. For it says: "Let not your
1159 III, 29| and Apollonius and other mendacious authors have hitherto written.
1160 III, 17| manifest the ridiculous mendacity of your authors, and show
1161 III, 7 | or those whom we have mentioned--Euhemerus, and Epicurus,
1162 I, 3 | if I call Him Power, I am mentioning His activity; if Providence,
1163 III, 20| years 1 month. And after her Mephres, 12 years 9 months. And
1164 III, 20| years 3 months. After her Mercheres, 12 years 3 months. And
1165 I, 3 | He is good, and kind, and merciful, to those who love and fear
1166 III, 7 | senseless man who sits and merely hears is a troublesome feature;
1167 I, 14 | righteous judgment, rendering merited awards to each. To those
1168 III, 24| they served the king of Mesopotamia, by name Chusarathon, 8
1169 III, 20| years 1 month. After him Messes, son of Miammus, 6 years,
1170 I, 14 | believe. At the same time, I met with the sacred Scriptures
1171 III, 20| 9 months. And after him Methramuthosis, 20 years and 10 months.
1172 III, 22| And after him followed Methuastartus, who lived 54 years, and
1173 III, 24| Enoch, 165. And his son Methuselah, 167. And his son Lamech,
1174 III, 3 | Jove his son gulping down Metis, and preparing for the gods
1175 III, 22| reigned 7. And to him his son Metten succeeded, who lived 32
1176 III, 20| After him Messes, son of Miammus, 6 years, 2 months. After
1177 II, 8 | you are,~Though sailing in mid-ocean on a mat."~And saying numberless
1178 II, 24 | For man had been made a middle nature, neither wholly mortal,
1179 III, 24| years. Then they served the Midianites 7 years. Then Gideon judged
1180 III, 10| famine, they were obliged to migrate to Egypt for the sake of
1181 III, 20| history, having at that time migrated into the land of Egypt,
1182 III, 24| begat Jacob. Jacob, till the migration into Egypt, of which we
1183 I, 9 | And these, indeed, are the milder kinds of legends; since
1184 II, 25 | is nourished first with milk, and then, with the increment
1185 III, 9 | Isaac, and Jacob. God, being mindful of them, and doing marvellous
1186 III, 9 | s servant, was made the minister both to all the world, and
1187 III, 7 | reader must therefore give minute attention to their expressions;
1188 III, 9 | doing marvellous and strange miracles by the hand of Moses, delivered
1189 III, 18| to so little purpose are miserable, and very profane and senseless
1190 III, 4 | HOW AUTOLYCUS HAD BEEN MISLED BY FALSE ACCUSATIONS AGAINST
1191 | miss
1192 III, 25| bodyguards, Sabessar and Mithridates, that the vessels which
1193 II, 12 | a deleterious drug, when mixed with honey or wine, or some
1194 II, 13 | as he gave life to man, mixing what is fine with what is
1195 II, 31 | the son of Noah, by name Mizraim, begat Ludim, and those
1196 I, 6 | sudden shock; and who so moderates the violence of the lightning
1197 III, 7 | had made such a toil and moil about the gods, and travelled
1198 I, 8 | formed you out of a small and moist substance, even out of the
1199 II, 35 | the silversmith makes his molten images; there is no breath
1200 II, 5 | by might o'ercame,~And 'mong th' immortals ruled with
1201 III, 15| self-restraint is practised, monogamy is observed, chastity is
1202 III, 7 | fail to seem dreadful and monstrous--to those at least who have
1203 II, 12 | very great; and not a stray morsel of truth is found in them.
1204 III, 6 | along with it incest with mothers and sisters, and this in
1205 II, 2 | and paint, and carve, and mould, and prepare gods, who,
1206 II, 2 | carvers, or painters, or moulders, should both design and
1207 II, 12 | tongues and ten thousand mouths; nay, though he were to
1208 II, 8 | being hangs; in thee we move;~All are thy offspring and
1209 I, 6 | and rains; the manifold movement of the heavenly bodies,
1210 I, 4 | theein means running, and moving, and being active, and nourishing,
1211 II, 38 | the writers who spoke of a multiplicity of gods came at length to
1212 II, 32 | increasing in number and multiplying on the earth, as we have
1213 II, 34 | idolatry, and adultery, and murder, fornication, theft, avarice,
1214 III, 15| partakers and abettors of murders. But neither may we see
1215 II, 5 | Who, springing from the murky night at first,~Were by
1216 II, 4 | that which is created is mutable and alterable, but that
1217 I, 9 | tom limb from limb, whose mysteries are celebrated annually,
1218 II, 26 | formed in this world, it is mystically written in Genesis, as if
1219 III, 29| not recent, nor our tenets mythical and false, as some think;
1220 II, 6 | broad-pathwayed earth,~And Love, ev'n among gods most beauteous
1221 III, 24| Serug, when 130. And his son Nahor, when 75. And his son Terah,
1222 | namely
1223 II, 31 | Anamim, and Lehabim, and Naphtuhim, and Pathrusim, and Casluhim,
1224 III, 5 | the historian Herodotus narrate that Cambyses, when he had
1225 II, 12 | the six days' work above narrated. Many writers indeed have
1226 III, 5 | And, still further, he narrates that among the Indians the
1227 II, 12 | which is adopted by every nation, although they know not
1228 III, 20| large cavalry force and naval equipment. The Hebrews,
1229 II, 14 | and serving only to injure navigators and the storm-tossed, on
1230 II, 12 | and ten thousand mouths; nay, though he were to live
1231 II, 13 | with the heaven, which was nearer God, before God said, "Let
1232 II, 31 | And their king was called Nebroth [Nimrod]. From these came
1233 II, 31 | Egyptians was also called Nechaoth, was first king of Egypt,
1234 II, 18 | Moreover, God is found, as if needing help, to say, "Let Us make
1235 II, 10 | that is created is also needy; but he that is uncreated
1236 III, 26| the time of Cyrus, and to neglect the subsequent periods,
1237 II, 3 | everywhere? For either he neglected the other parts, or was
1238 III, 27| years 8 months 24 days; Nero, 13 years 6 months 58 days;
1239 III, 27| 15 years 5 months 6 days; Nerva, 1 year 4 months 10 days;
1240 I, 6 | flowing of sweet fountains and never-failing rivers, and the seasonable
1241 II, 24 | Egypt under the name of Nile. And the other two rivers
1242 I, 10 | wash-pots and disgraceful noises? But if you cite the Greeks
1243 II, 36 | And hosts of creatures noisome and unclean.~O fools! ye
1244 III, 27| tables which Chryserus the nomenclator compiled: he was a freedman
1245 II, 13 | had not he received the nomenclature from God, who made the things
1246 III, 8 | philosophy regarding either the non-existence of God, or promiscuous intercourse
1247 II, 12 | because the multitude of their nonsensical frivolities is very great;
1248 II, 36 | fleshly eyes, which Shun the noontide beams,~Look upon Him who
1249 II, 32 | great continent, and others northwards, so as to extend as far
1250 II, 37 | that nothing escapes His notice, but that, being long-suffering,
1251 II, 25 | able to eat bread, but is nourished first with milk, and then,
1252 II, 34 | fashioner of all things and the nourisher of all breath of life, giving
1253 I, 4 | moving, and being active, and nourishing, and foreseeing, and governing,
1254 I, 6 | with which God provides nourishment for all flesh, or the subjection
1255 II, 5 | Who of the starry heav'ns were born, and earth;~Who,
1256 II, 8 | mid-ocean on a mat."~And saying numberless things of a like kind, they
1257 II, 5 | Grant me your aid~That I in numbers sweet and well-arrayed,~
1258 II, 5 | the briny ocean reared and nursed.~Tell, too, who form unto
1259 II, 18 | first that he should find nutriment from the fruits of the earth,
1260 II, 37 | the Deity,~But sees when oaths are struck unrighteously,~
1261 II, 25 | anything, and some one has not obeyed, it is obviously not the
1262 II, 27 | death upon himself; so, obeying the will of God, he who
1263 I, 2 | the body perceive earthly objects and what concerns this life,
1264 III, 10| being a famine, they were obliged to migrate to Egypt for
1265 III, 15| is practised, monogamy is observed, chastity is guarded, iniquity
1266 II, 25 | one has not obeyed, it is obviously not the law which causes
1267 II, 32 | inhabitants. Since then the occupation of the world by men was
1268 I, 14 | pass, and the things now occurring as they are now happening,
1269 I, 13 | resurrection of the moon, which occurs monthly; how it wanes, dies,
1270 II, 5 | somewhere:--~"Father of Gods, Oceanus, and she~Who bare the gods,
1271 | off
1272 II, 36 | make gifts,~And unto demons offer sacrifice.~In madness and
1273 II, 36 | honoured the true God,~Nor offered to Him sacred hecatombs.~
1274 III, 7 | advancement is their aim,~Oft in this present life have
1275 II, 36 | things else He gives,~Ruling omnipotent in heaven and earth,~And
1276 III, 7 | uncontrolled are all things onward hurled.~The wicked blinds
1277 II, 20 | there is bdellium and the onyx stone. And the name of the
1278 I, 13 | the work of God, who thus operates, and not of any other.~
1279 II, 8 | Providence they maintained in opposition that there was no Providence.
1280 III, 12| man to his brother; and oppress not the widow, nor the fatherless,
1281 III, 12| wickedness, dissolve every oppressive contract, let the oppressed
1282 II, 37 | already been, as it were, oracularly uttered by some of the poets,
1283 I, 6 | Orion, and Arcturus, and the orbit of the other stars that
1284 I, 6 | subjection in which He has ordained that all things subserve
1285 II, 25 | stature one increases in an orderly progress, so also in wisdom.
1286 III, 25| instructions of God, gave orders to his own bodyguards, Sabessar
1287 II, 17 | shall be restored to their original gentleness.~
1288 II, 7 | many other names were thus originated, and exist to this day;
1289 I, 6 | constellation of Pleiades, and Orion, and Arcturus, and the orbit
1290 I, 12 | And what work has either ornament or beauty unless it be anointed
1291 I, 1 | truth does not give heed to ornamented speeches, but examines the
1292 III, 20| 10 months. And after him Orus, 35 years 5 months. And
1293 I, 9 | since the god who is called Osiris is found to have been tom
1294 | Otherwise
1295 III, 27| 2 years 7 months 6 days; Otho, 3 months 5 days; Vitellius,
1296 | ourselves
1297 II, 10 | Scripture teaches at the outset, to show that matter, from
1298 I, 5 | inside, cannot see what is outside the rind, itself being within;
1299 II, 38 | Lord cometh as a burning oven, and shall consume all the
1300 II, 36 | fear God most high?~Your Overseer, the Knower, Seer of all,~
1301 II, 37 | that evils will suddenly overtake the wicked,--this, too,
1302 II, 31 | destroyed their city, and overthrew their tower. From that time
1303 I, 6 | all its power, it would overthrow all the works that are therein.~
1304 III, 19| breaking up, so that the water overtopped every high hill 15 cubits.
1305 III, 14| tribute to whom tribute; to owe no man anything, but to
1306 II, 8 | from God, there's nothing owned by men."~And Menander:--~"
1307 III, 16| settlements, and the nations, he owns that he has said these things
1308 III, 9 | his maid-servant, nor his ox, nor his beast of burden,
1309 II, 1 | my God, and for a little paid attention to my discourse,
1310 II, 23 | one miss seeing that the pains which women suffer in childbed,
1311 II, 2 | should both design and paint, and carve, and mould, and
1312 II, 2 | statuaries and carvers, or painters, or moulders, should both
1313 III, 16| by Orpheus, and some by Palamedes." And when he says that
1314 II, 32 | to places by the sea, and Pamphylia, and Asia, and Greece, and
1315 I, 10 | Jupiter Propator, and Jupiter Pannychius, and Jupiter Poliuchus,
1316 II, 31 | as far as the plain of Paran, which is by the wilderness.
1317 II, 14 | would long since have been parched by reason of its saltness;
1318 III, 11| for He will abundantly pardon." And another prophet, Ezekiel,
1319 III, 6 | order that from a married parent children might lawfully
1320 II, 16 | creeping things, though partaking of God's blessing, received
1321 II, 20 | the garden; thence it is parted into four heads. The name
1322 III, 15| eyes and ears be defiled, participating in the utterances there
1323 III, 21| by his own writings, two particulars of the truth: first, avowing
1324 II, 30 | genealogy of man, has been partly handled by us in another
1325 II, 15 | fixed, not declining, nor passing from place to place. And
1326 II, 33 | announced not only things past or present, but also those
1327 II, 25 | when he does not obey the paternal order, he is flogged and
1328 II, 37 | follow you, or cross your path;~And even night no virtue
1329 II, 31 | Lehabim, and Naphtuhim, and Pathrusim, and Casluhim, out of whom
1330 III, 13| before thee: make straight paths for your feet." And the
1331 I, 14 | to each. To those who by patient continuance in well-doing
1332 III, 27| to the death of his own patron, the Emperor Verus. The
1333 III, 26| the deeds of Xerxes or of Pausanias, who ran the risk of starving
1334 III, 14| we may lead a quiet and peaceable life." And it teaches us
1335 I, 6 | foretells by the lightning the peal of the thunder, that no
1336 II, 7 | sons of Jupiter, and whose pedigree they register because they
1337 III, 20| built for him strong cities, Peitho, and Rameses, and On, which
1338 III, 26| of Themistocles and the Peloponnesian war, or of Alcibiades and
1339 II, 13 | the water, and the water penetrating everywhere along with the
1340 I, 7 | out their dews. If thou perceivest these things, O man, living
1341 II, 7 | him Tyrimmas, and from him Perdiccas, and from him Philip, and
1342 III, 15| law administered, worship performed, God acknowledged: truth
1343 III, 3 | honourable conduct, teach the perpetration of lasciviousness, and fornication,
1344 II, 36 | Why follow darkness and perpetual gloom~When, see, there shines
1345 III, 30| persecuted, and do daily persecute, those who worship Him.
1346 III, 30| blaspheme; yes, and they persecuted, and do daily persecute,
1347 III, 25| Cyrus becomes king of the Persians, who, according to the prophecy
1348 III, 11| sin no more. But if they persisted in their wicked deeds, He
1349 II, 9 | own day: wherefore we are persuaded also concerning the future
1350 II, 4 | maintain that the spirit which pervades all things is God. But Plato
1351 III, 9 | eyes of them that see and pervert righteous words." Of this
1352 I, 9 | wounded, and of Mars, the pest of mortals; and of the ichor
1353 II, 36 | wrath, and bloody wars,~And pestilence, and many a tearful grief.~
1354 II, 9 | For they predicted also pestilences, and famines, and wars.
1355 III, 24| their race. And his son Phaleg begat a son when 130. And
1356 II, 27 | as a gift through His own philanthropy and pity, when men obey
1357 II, 7 | Perdiccas, and from him Philip, and from him AEropus, and
1358 II, 31 | Casluhim, out of whom came Philistin. Of the three sons of Noah,
1359 III, 24| Jair, 22 years. Then the Philistines and Ammonites ruled them
1360 II, 32 | which is called Judaea, and Phoenicia, and the region of Ethiopia,
1361 I, 13 | God mercy and healing, you picked up again in flesh and appearance,
1362 III, 9 | do good. And concerning piety He says, "Thou shalt have
1363 III, 2 | Or the shrines and the pillars of Hercules to Pythagoras,
1364 II, 37 | done must also suffer."~And Pindar himself said:--~"It is fit
1365 II, 36 | with wings, and with shrill pipe~Trill forth at morn their
1366 II, 14 | the word of truth; but as pirates, when they have filled their
1367 II, 36 | And lose yourselves in pitfalls and in thorns.~Why do ye
1368 II, 38 | Timocles:--~"The dead are pitied by the loving God."~And
1369 II, 27 | His own philanthropy and pity, when men obey Him. For
1370 II, 36 | the lightnings, and the plagues,~The famines, and the snow-storms,
1371 I, 14 | they will make your way plainer for escaping the eternal
1372 II, 19 | His creation was not yet plainly related, Scripture teaches
1373 III, 2 | and the goose, and the plane-tree, and AEsculapius struck
1374 II, 15 | place, which also are cared planets, they too are a type of
1375 II, 8 | time the husbandman should plant or sow,~'Tis his to tell,'
1376 II, 4 | longer, according to the Platonists, the Creator of all things,
1377 II, 7 | poet Aristophanes, in the play called "The Birds," having
1378 III, 12| oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow." And again
1379 II, 38 | wisdom of God, and is well pleasing to Him through faith and
1380 III, 30| may have a compendium and pledge of the truth.~
1381 I, 8 | even when you hold so many pledges at His hand? For first He
1382 I, 6 | and the constellation of Pleiades, and Orion, and Arcturus,
1383 II, 8 | give heed to them. For they plentifully composed fables and foolish
1384 II, 5 | Then he introduces in his poem the daughters of Jupiter,
1385 III, 29| the deluge, and many other points of history, in agreement
1386 II, 36 | mouth streams of deadly poison flow.~But unto Him in whom
1387 I, 10 | Pannychius, and Jupiter Poliuchus, and Jupiter Capitolinus;
1388 II, 30 | was made a beginning of polygamy, and also of music. For
1389 II, 32 | creation of the world and its population? Men gradually increasing
1390 II, 4 | the philosophers of the Porch say that there is no God
1391 II, 7 | and the Poseidonii from Poseidon, and from Zeus the Dii and
1392 II, 7 | Apollonidae from Apollo, and the Poseidonii from Poseidon, and from
1393 II, 15 | again,, which change their position, and flee from place to
1394 II, 8 | providence, and destroyed the positions of the former writers. Aratus,
1395 I, 14 | last everlasting fire shall possess such men. Since you said, "
1396 II, 15 | were made; because God, who possesses foreknowledge, knew the
1397 II, 24 | thus ascend into heaven in possession of immortality. For man
1398 II, 15 | heavenly bodies, for what is posterior cannot produce that which
1399 I, 7 | broken up, and the clouds poured out their dews. If thou
1400 III, 19| and forty nights, torrents pouring from heaven, and from the
1401 II, 36 | everlasting light;~Who pours into man's cup of life a~
1402 II, 4 | these respects God is more powerful than man, so also in this;
1403 III, 14| subjection to authorities and powers, and prayer for them, the
1404 III, 29| the godlessness of your practices, and of the whole number
1405 III, 30| the pursuit of virtue and practise a holy life, some they stoned,
1406 III, 15| dwells, self-restraint is practised, monogamy is observed, chastity
1407 III, 14| authorities and powers, and prayer for them, the divine word
1408 I, 11 | indeed, worshipping him, but praying for him. But God, the living
1409 III, 23| that the sacred books take precedence of them in antiquity, since
1410 III, 6 | all be common, using the precedent of the son s of Jupiter
1411 III, 10| them in accordance with a prediction of God,--having sojourned,
1412 II, 28 | with his own wife, fondly preferring her? So that often, for
1413 II, 2 | and carve, and mould, and prepare gods, who, when they are
1414 III, 3 | gulping down Metis, and preparing for the gods a horrible
1415 II, 4 | of life and motion is the prerogative of no other than God alone.
1416 II, 28 | of gods. And having this prescience, and knowing that through
1417 II, 21 | hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God amongst
1418 III, 7 | courage: God will still preserve~And greatly help all those
1419 II, 17 | are called men, yet being pressed down with sins, they mind
1420 III, 6 | in order that under this pretext there might be an abundant
1421 III, 4 | and to give credit to the prevalent rumor wherewith godless
1422 III, 7 | there are many things would prevent me"? And to speak of the
1423 I, 2 | filmy defluxion on the eyes prevents one from beholding the light
1424 II, 6 | sort, being uncreated, was previously existing, who was it that
1425 II, 36 | sacrifice.~In madness and in pride ye have your walk;~And leaving
1426 II, 19 | seem to be an insoluble problem existing among men, since
1427 III, 22| in discussing difficult problems. And proof of this exists
1428 II, 16 | kinds? Moreover, the things proceeding from the waters were blessed
1429 II, 30 | remainder of the human race proceeds until now. And to those
1430 III, 3 | unutterable wickedness? And they proclaim that their gods took the
1431 II, 37 | race abideth not;~And time proclaims the wickedness of men."~
1432 II, 27 | he who desires is able to procure for himself life everlasting.
1433 II, 25 | first man, disobedience procured his expulsion from Paradise.
1434 II, 25 | stripes, but the disobedience procures punishment for him who disobeys;--
1435 III, 26| nor is there a spontaneous production of all things, as Pythagoras
1436 II, 36 | upper air eternally;~Who proffers to the good most rich rewards,~
1437 II, 36 | and useful, and just, and profitable to all men, is obvious.
1438 II, 35 | So also Habakkuk: "What profiteth the graven image that he
1439 II, 7 | out that Bacchus was his progenitor; wherefore also Ptolemy
1440 III, 17| there were prophets and prognosticators, and that those wrote accurately:
1441 II, 25 | increases in an orderly progress, so also in wisdom. But
1442 III, 6 | the Romans and Greeks also prohibit. Why, then, do Epicurus
1443 II, 3 | generation was sufficiently prolific. But now, where is their
1444 III, 16| friend, some god should promise us, that if we attempted
1445 III, 7 | those who so deserve.~If no promotion waits on faithful men,~Say
1446 II, 8 | good,~Urges to toil and prompts the hope of food.~He tells
1447 I, 13 | indeed exhibits to you many proofs that you may believe Him.
1448 I, 10 | Jupiter Tonans, and Jupiter Propator, and Jupiter Pannychius,
1449 II, 36 | XXXVI. PROPHECIES OF THE SIBYL.~And the Sibyl,
1450 II, 36 | And the Sibyl, who was a prophetess among the Greeks and the
1451 III, 29| see the antiquity of the prophetical writings and the divinity
1452 II, 34 | things that are spoken by the prophets--in order that, by comparing
1453 II, 37 | necessarily be punished in proportion to their deeds, has already
1454 II, 37 | The wicked and proud man's prosperity~Is based on sand: his race
1455 III, 7 | And did not Critias and Protagoras of Abdera say, "For whether
1456 III, 19| and those only who were protected in the ark were saved; and
1457 I, 13 | wonderful sight, which may prove a resurrection not only
1458 II, 23 | is true, the fact itself proves. For how can one miss seeing
1459 II, 3 | be present everywhere and provide for all. For if he were,
1460 II, 30 | is he who made known the psaltery and the harp; and Tubal
1461 III, 14| also the robbers and the publicans." And those that do good
1462 I, 9 | Endymion? Now, it is not we who publish these things, but your own
1463 III, 8 | nonsense, is he not found publishing that Juno had the foulest
1464 II, 8 | being inspired by demons and puffed up by them, they spoke at
1465 I, 3 | righteous; but he is a judge and punisher of the impious.~
1466 II, 2 | but as soon as they are purchased by some and placed in some
1467 I, 2 | EYES OF THE SOUL MUST BE PURGED ERE GOD CAN BE SEEN.~But
1468 I, 2 | thief, or a robber, or a purloiner; whether you do not corrupt
1469 III, 21| known how their priests, in pursuance of the appointment of God,
1470 III, 21| longer ruled them. For having pursued the Hebrews, he and his
1471 III, 30| those who are zealous in the pursuit of virtue and practise a
1472 II, 36 | whom His hand first made,~Puts His sweet Spirit into all
1473 III, 13| adultery; and whosoever putteth away his wife, saving for
1474 III, 22| 32 years, and reigned 29. Pygmalion, son of Pygmalius succeeded
1475 III, 22| reigned 29. Pygmalion, son of Pygmalius succeeded him, who lived
1476 III, 14| order that "we may lead a quiet and peaceable life." And
1477 II, 8 | believe: Aratus as here quoted, or Sophocles, when he says:--~"
1478 II, 37 | foe's pain is the hero's raced."~And, similarly, Archilochus:--~"
1479 I, 9 | and about the drunk and raging Bacchus; and of Apollo fearing
1480 I, 7 | God worthily. For God will raise thy flesh immortal with
1481 I, 13 | denying that the dead are raised--for you say, "Show me even
1482 III, 26| Xerxes or of Pausanias, who ran the risk of starving to
1483 II, 8 | none;~'Tis best to live at random, as one can"?~And Homer,
1484 II, 36 | turned aside,~And, in your raving folly, drained the cup~Of
1485 III, 7 | an unbridled destiny we're led:~It is not blinded chance
1486 II, 31 | a tower whose top might reach into heaven, that they might
1487 III, 7 | The intelligent hearer and reader must therefore give minute
1488 III, 23| that you and every one who reads this work may be guided
1489 I, 1 | speeches, but examines the real matter of the speech, what
1490 II, 36 | Inhabiting the blooming realms of bliss,~And feasting on
1491 II, 24 | Ethiopia, and which, they say, reappears in Egypt under the name
1492 I, 6 | these animals to beget and rear offspring, not for their
1493 II, 5 | Were by the briny ocean reared and nursed.~Tell, too, who
1494 II, 5 | wave~Unwearied sinks, then rears its crest on high;~And how
1495 III, 25| to their own country, and rebuild their temple to God, which
1496 II, 9 | were also deemed worthy of receiving this reward, that they should
1497 II, 18 | them all mere bye-works, reckons the creation of man to be
1498 II, 24 | two rivers are manifestly recognisable by us--those called Tigris
1499 III, 1 | labour of reading it, but may recognise the folly of the other authors.~
1500 I, 9 | and lust,-- will be better recounted by Homer and the rest of