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 1 6 |   changes of matter, which they say is permeated by the Spirit
 2 7 |         why is it that they can say and write with impunity
 3 9 |        what, then, do these men say? The LORD is our God; no
 4 10|   sufficiently demonstrated. [I say "His Logos"], for we acknowledge
 5 11|     which we are brought up? "I say unto you, Love your enemies;
 6 12|       punish the wicked; but we say that, even if a man be Minos
 7 12|        ye have?"),--shall we, I say, when such is our character,
 8 17|       show that they are, so to say, but of yesterday. You yourselves,
 9 19|      had no existence, as those say who treat of the gods, they
10 19|         manner, the Stoics also say that all things will be
11 20|   narrations like these, I must say at least this much, What
12 22|    strife: how then can any one say that they are gods? Friendship,
13 22|      are changes of matter, and say that the Spirit of God,
14 22|      are gods? But to those who say that Kronos is time, and
15 22| disappears;--to such persons we say, If Kronos is time, he changes;
16 22| concerning nature, or what they say concerning Athena, whom
17 22|    instance, Osiris (hence they say, that in the mysteries,
18 23|      THALES AND PLATO.~ You may say, however, since you excel
19 24|         kind? Let it suffice to say thus much. If the poets
20 24|      the good that is in God, I say, the spirit which is about
21 24|     firmament (you know that we say nothing without witnesses,
22 25|     impossible for Euripides to say to whom belongs the administration
23 25|      such a kind that one might say of it:--~"How then, while
24 25|     seeing these things, can we say There is a race of gods,
25 25|     same thing led Aristotle to say that the things below the
26 28|        already been adduced, to say a little about their names.
27 29|   eminent in poetry and history say the same thing. Thus of
28 29|         money. What more need I say, or refer to Castor, or
29 31|       what we think and what we say both by night and by day,
30 34|     will of God),--these men, I say, revile us for the very
31 35|     would be so barefaced as to say that he had. And yet we
32 35|    people to death? And when we say that those women who use