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  1 1 |           of Ilium calls Hector a god, and pays divine honours
  2 1 |       hand, that to believe in no god at all is impious and wicked,
  3 4 |          BUT ACKNOWLEDGE ONE ONLY GOD.~ As regards, first of all,
  4 4 |        declared that there was no God at all. But to us, who distinguish
  5 4 |        But to us, who distinguish God from matter, and teach that
  6 4 |           matter is one thing and God another, and that they are
  7 4 |         doctrine acknowledges one God, the Maker of this universe,
  8 5 |         THE POETS TO THE UNITY OF GOD.~ Poets and philosophers
  9 5 |          for inquiring concerning God. Euripides, speaking of
 10 5 |           Zeus, and him regard as God."~For, as to these so-called
 11 5 |      governed, he concluded to be God; and Sophocles agrees with
 12 5 |         he says:--~ "There is one God, in truth there is but one,~
 13 5 |        speaking] of the nature of God, which fills His works with
 14 5 |           and teaching both where God must be, and that He must
 15 6 |        PHILOSOPHERS AS TO THE ONE GOD.~ Philolaus, too, when he
 16 6 |        all things are included in God as in a stronghold, teaches
 17 6 |           and Opsimus thus define God: the one says that He is
 18 6 |           Nine stands next to it, God is a unit--that is, one.
 19 6 |      philosophers have said about God, as if I wished to exhibit
 20 6 |           confining the notion of God to unity, I have ventured
 21 6 |         one uncreated and eternal God. And if he recognises others
 22 6 |       conceiving of one uncreated God, the Framer of the universe,
 23 6 |        and firmly hold that He is God who has framed all things
 24 6 |         creature (zôon), speak of God as consisting of soul and
 25 6 |        permeated by the Spirit of God, they multiply the Deity
 26 6 |          in reality they consider God to be one. For, if God is
 27 6 |   consider God to be one. For, if God is an artistic fire advancing
 28 6 |    pervades the whole world, then God is one according to them,
 29 7 |     CHRISTIAN DOCTRINE RESPECTING GOD.~ Since, therefore, the
 30 7 |         arranged this universe is God,--why is it that they can
 31 7 |          namely that there is one God, with proofs and reason
 32 7 |   affinity with the afflatus from God, each one by his own soul,
 33 7 |    thought fit to learn, not from God concerning God, but each
 34 7 |           not from God concerning God, but each one from himself;
 35 7 |         own conclusion respecting God, and matter, and forms,
 36 7 |        have pronounced concerning God and the things of God, guided
 37 7 |  concerning God and the things of God, guided by the Spirit of
 38 7 |           guided by the Spirit of God. And you too will admit,
 39 7 |         in piety towards the true God (to ontôs theion), that
 40 7 |        believe in the Spirit from God, who moved the mouths of
 41 8 |        was from the beginning one God, the Maker of this universe,
 42 8 |           up together one man: is God in this sense one? And indeed
 43 8 |       created and perishable; but God is uncreated, and, impassible,
 44 8 |           is there for the second god, or for the other gods?
 45 8 |          nor about the world, for God the Maker of the world is
 46 8 |         the world and [the first] God? In another world, or about
 47 8 |           where he can stand? But God, and what belongs to God,
 48 8 |          God, and what belongs to God, are above him. And what,
 49 8 |          whom we speak is the one God from the beginning, and
 50 9 |          men say? The LORD is our God; no other can be compared
 51 9 |       with Him." And again: "I am God, the first and the last,
 52 9 |        and besides Me there is no God." In like manner: "Before
 53 9 |      Before Me there was no other God, and after Me there shall
 54 9 |         there shall be none; I am God, and there is none besides
 55 10|           that we acknowledge one God, uncreated, eternal, invisible,
 56 10|         acknowledge also a Son of God. Nor let any one think it
 57 10|          think it ridiculous that God should have a Son. For though
 58 10|         theirs, concerning either God the Father or the Son. But
 59 10|           the Son. But the Son of God is the Logos of the Father,
 60 10|          the Father is the Son of God. But if, in your surpassing
 61 10|           for from the beginning, God, who is the eternal mind [
 62 10|      assert to be an effluence of God, flowing from Him, and returning
 63 10|          to hear men who speak of God the Father, and of God the
 64 10|         of God the Father, and of God the Son, and of the Holy
 65 10|        angels and ministers, whom God the Maker and Framer of
 66 11|         but uttered and taught by God, we shall be able to persuade
 67 12|         unless we believed that a God presides over the human
 68 12| everything in the present life to God, who made us and the world,
 69 12|        not escape the judgment of God. Are, then, those who consider
 70 12|       thing alone, that they know God and His Logos, what is the
 71 13|      dreamiest conception of what God is, and are doltish and
 72 13|      fashioned man. When, holding God to be this Framer of all
 73 13|         do with holocausts, which God does not stand in need of?--
 74 15|        THE CHRISTIANS DISTINGUISH GOD FROM MATTER.~ But grant
 75 15|    distinguish between matter and God, or see how great is the
 76 15|            If, indeed, matter and God are the same, two names
 77 15|         artist the potter), so is God, the Framer of the world,
 78 15|        forms, receive, apart from God the Framer, distinction
 79 15|           even so with matter and God --the glory and honour of
 80 15|       right not to matter, but to God, the Framer of matter. So
 81 15|     without any sense of the true God, because we should be putting
 82 16|           was not created because God needed it; for God is Himself
 83 16|        because God needed it; for God is Himself everything to
 84 16|           do not neglect to adore God, who is the cause of the
 85 16|         the world to be powers of God, we do not approach and
 86 16|          not to give, nor passing God by do I pay homage to the
 87 17|         artist of each particular god. The image of Artemis at
 88 17|          of Daedalus; the Pythian god was the work of Theodorus
 89 17|          Telecles; and the Delian god and Artemis are due to the
 90 18|        meet in presence visible a God;"~and whereas, in proof
 91 18|          s soul is in the hand of God," saith the prophetic Spirit),
 92 18|  prophetic Spirit), so to the one God and the Logos proceeding
 93 18|           there was the face of a god, named Heracles and Kronos.
 94 19|       matter should be older than God; for the efficient cause
 95 20|      Hercules, for instance, as a god in the shape of a dragon
 96 20|           viper was begotten by a god (thus Orpheus:--~ "But from
 97 20|       himself, being a first-born god (for he it was that was
 98 21|          rather, live without any god? Let them have fleshly forms,
 99 21|           fair lecher, the strong god of arms."~ "The weapon pierced
100 21|        his spear."~Hush! Homer, a god never rages. But you describe
101 21|       rages. But you describe the god to me as blood-stained,
102 21|         touch them! Even though a god assume flesh in pursuance
103 21|    perishable, with no trace of a god in him. Nay, they are even
104 21|        the menial table, though a god."~And they tend cattle:--~ "
105 21|    therefore, was superior to the god. O prophet and wise one,
106 22|            air--none of them is a god, neither Zeus, nor Hera,
107 22|           separated into parts by God is their constitution and
108 22|           and ever self-accordant God. Zeus is, according to the
109 22|            If you acknowledge one God, the supreme and uncreated
110 22|        and say that the Spirit of God, which pervades matter,
111 22|           will become the body of God; but when the elements are
112 22|          the forms, the Spirit of God alone remaining. Who, then,
113 22|           is Kronos nor his image God. As regards Zeus again:
114 22|     matter, they miss to find the God who can only be beheld by
115 22|         discover the greatness of God, and not being able to rise
116 22|      apart from the providence of God. For the ship will not sail
117 23|     divides[superior beings] into God, demons, and heroes. God
118 23|          God, demons, and heroes. God he recognises as the Intelligence (
119 23|        beings] into the uncreated God and those produced by' the
120 23|          eternal Intelligence and God who is apprehended by reason,
121 23|          name, not as peculiar to God, but for distinctness, because
122 23|          possible to discourse of God to all men as fully as one
123 24|     acknowledge that there is one God, and concerning these gods
124 24|       makes a distinction between God and matter, and the natures
125 24|          For, as we acknowledge a God, and a Son his Logos, and
126 24|   particular, which is hostile to God: not that anything is really
127 24|     anything is really opposed to God, like strife to friendship,
128 24|           itself in opposition to God, it would have ceased to
129 24|         by-the power and might of God), but that to the good that
130 24|       that to the good that is in God, which belongs of necessity
131 24|            to the good that is in God, I say, the spirit which
132 24|        matter, who was created by God; just as the other angels
133 24|           exercise providence for God over the things created
134 24|           ordered by Him; so that God may have the universal and
135 24|           as they were created by God, continued in those things
136 24|         in those things for which God had made and over which
137 25|   contrary to the good that is in God:--~"Ofttimes this anxious
138 25|         the eternal providence of God concerns itself equally
139 26|           it is not the part of a god to incite to things against
140 26|          hurt upon his mind."~But God, being perfectly good, is
141 26|          the public cost, as to a god who can hear. Is it, then,
142 28|          sacrifice in honour of a god whose name a religious scruple
143 30|          came to be regarded as a god. But those who came after
144 30|   considering that the unbegotten God alone is eternal. For either
145 30|            acknowledging as we do God the Maker of this universe
146 31|       rectitude of life, for with God we stand in good repute.
147 31|          life is directed towards God as its rule, so that each
148 31|            but since we know that God is witness to what we think
149 31|         since we shall abide near God, and with God, free from
150 31|          abide near God, and with God, free from all change or
151 31|        worse one and in fire; for God has not made us as sheep
152 32|          more than that for which God formed the eyes, which were
153 32|           is from the teaching of God), but we have a law which
154 33|          in closer communion with God. But if the remaining in
155 33|           eunuch brings nearer to God, while the indulgence of
156 33|  adulterer, resisting the hand of God, because in the beginning
157 33|          because in the beginning God made one man and one woman,
158 34|           the fair workmanship of God (for beauty on earth is
159 34|           by the hand and will of God),--these men, I say, revile
160 35|        have to give an account to God s for the abortion, on what
161 35|        and therefore an object of God's care, and when it has
162 36|       will escape the scrutiny of God, but that even the body