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 1 1 |         every nation and people, men offer whatever sacrifices
 2 1 |       through fear of the deity, men may be kept from wrong-doing.
 3 1 |       this discourse, are of all men most piously and righteously
 4 2 |         to do with our being bad men?), but be tried on any charges
 5 6 |      know that, as you excel all men in intelligence and in the
 6 7 | apprehend and believe, prophets, men who have pronounced concerning
 7 9 |     flute;--what, then, do these men say? The LORD is our God;
 8 10|       the gods as no better than men, our mode of thinking is
 9 10|        not be astonished to hear men who speak of God the Father,
10 12|        be accounted pious; while men who reckon the present life
11 14|         silly one. Why, the very men who charge us with atheism
12 14|      festivals to him, while the men of Ilium cannot endure the
13 16|          I know the makers to be men? Attend, I beg, to a few
14 17|         and are beyond all other men familiar with the ancients.
15 17|         did they need the aid of men and art? They are nothing
16 21|        grieves."~For I call even men rude and stupid who give
17 21|          But when the "father of men and gods" mourns for his
18 21|       even the hired servants of men:--~ "Admetus' halls, in
19 23|     however, since you excel all men in understanding, How comes
20 23|    heroes the separated souls of men, the good being the good
21 23|          discourse of God to all men as fully as one might; and
22 24|       others that they once were men,there might be some show
23 24|          over them. Just as with men, who have freedom of choice
24 25|       rules~The small affairs of men; and, spite of hope~As well
25 25|       sallies, and moreover move men, some in one way and some
26 26|          XXVI. THE DEMONS ALLURE MEN TO THE WORSHIP OF IMAGES,~
27 26|        OF IMAGES,~ They who draw men to idols, then, are the
28 26|        given to the images, were men, as may be learned from
29 27|           and ever ready to lead men into error, avail themselves
30 28|         HEATHEN GODS WERE SIMPLY MEN.~ But it is perhaps necessary,
31 28|      them that the gods had been men. Herodotus speaks thus: "
32 28|        dwelt upon the earth with men, one being always supreme
33 28|          to commend the idols to men's reverence, would assert
34 28|    assert falsely that they were men. If Herodotus alone had
35 28|      histories of the gods as of men, when he says, "What they
36 28|    esteemed gods. That they were men, the most learned of the
37 28|        regard the rest as mortal men, and the temples as their
38 28|         whole multitude, both of men and women, many thousands
39 28|          are mysteries, they are men, as Herodotus himself says: "
40 29|          father both of gods and men~ Was filled with wrath,
41 29|          fairest prize to mortal men,~ Which neither mother equals
42 29|        die; or, having been born men, they were wicked by reason
43 29|       speak, only the other day, men of men, are looked upon
44 29|       only the other day, men of men, are looked upon as gods,
45 30|    DIVINITY HAS BEEN ASCRIBED TO MEN.~ For if detestable and
46 30|         detestable and god-hated men had the reputation of being
47 30|   generation then the tenth,~ Of men endow'd with speech, since
48 30|        flood~ Had burst upon the men of former times,~ And Kronos,
49 30|         and Titan reigned,~ Whom men, of Ouranos and Gaia~ Proclaimed
50 30|       named them so,~ Because of men endowed with gift of speech~
51 31|        you. For as you excel all men in intelligence, you know
52 33|         find many among us, both men and women, growing old unmarried,
53 34|         and will of God),--these men, I say, revile us for the
54 37|       increase and addition, all men becoming subject to your