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501 21 | halls, in which I have endured~ To praise the menial table,
502 18 | the fact, they adduce the eneregies possessed by certain images,
503 26 | Alexander who exert these energies in connection with the statues,
504 10 | forth to be the idea and energizing power of all material things,
505 25 | others still~Continue to enjoy prosperity."~Prosperity
506 1 | under your intelligent sway, enjoys profound peace. But for
507 18 | Heracles generated an egg of enormous size, which, on becoming
508 | enough
509 18 | children; whereupon Ge, being enraged, brought forth the Titans.~ "
510 31 | of sinning, through being enslaved to flesh and blood, or overmastered
511 29 | Pindar:--~"But even wisdom is ensnared by gain.~ The brilliant
512 29 | And by a bolt of fire ensured his doom.'~ Either, therefore,
513 18 | greatest of emperors, before I enter on this discussion, to be
514 31 | irreproachable before Him, will not entertain even the thought of the
515 36 | that those which a man has entombed in himself will not be demanded
516 2 | the outset of my defence entreat you, illustrious emperors,
517 37 | XXXVII. ENTREATY TO BE FAIRLY JUDGED.~ And
518 14 | Hamilcar. Time would fail me to enumerate the whole. When, therefore,
519 6 | unity, I have ventured on an enumeration of opinions. Plato, then,
520 31 | one from the city of the Ephesians, the other from Abdera,
521 17 | The image of Artemis at Ephesus, for example, and that of
522 17 | Praxiteles; Asclepius in Epidaurus is the work of Phidias.
523 23 | adds at the same time the epithet "Great," so as to distinguish
524 22 | changeable matter on an equality with the uncreated, and
525 25 | providence of God concerns itself equally with us below,-~"The earth,
526 29 | men,~ Which neither mother equals in delight,~ Nor children
527 22 | But as the ship, although equipped with everything, is of no
528 37 | that you may, as is most equitable, receive the kingdom, son
529 1 | The Athenian sacrifices to Erechtheus as Poseidon. The Athenians
530 23 | power, if those to whom we erect the statues are not gods?
531 26 | to whom the statues are erected, very strong evidence is
532 2 | you on your part will not err through ignorance, we also,
533 27 | ever ready to lead men into error, avail themselves of these
534 22 | account it was that he alone escaped from Kronos. But to the
535 26 | being perfectly good, is eternally doing good. That, moreover,
536 6 | thinking His body to be the etherial space and the planetary
537 11 | ambiguities, and explain etymologies, or of those who teach homonyms
538 33 | virginity and in the state of an eunuch brings nearer to God, while
539 34 | and paederasts defame the eunuchs and the once-married (while
540 22 | concerning them. What have Europa, and the bull, and the swan,
541 29 | of gold seen in the hand~ Ev'n him perverted: therefore
542 32 | laws, which a bad man can evade (at the outset I proved
543 20 | lowest brutes (since it is evident that the Deity must differ
544 17 | being delighted with the exactness of the resemblance (he was
545 23 | those Who have accurately examined his opinions report, divides[
546 14 | as the cities, it is an exceedingly silly one. Why, the very
547 6 | For the greatest number exceeds the next least by one. Then
548 | except
549 6 | the other that He is the excess of the greatest number beyond
550 32 | defilement of thought, it excludes us from eternal life."~
551 6 | have devoted themselves exclusively to any one. But, inasmuch
552 2 | great, we do not ask to be excused from punishment, but are
553 8 | above the world? Perhaps he exerts a providential care? [By
554 25 | well as justice, drives to exile some~Stripped of all means
555 19 | is conceived of as having existed from the first. For, if
556 27 | which has no knowledge or experience of sounder doctrines, and
557 11 | clear up ambiguities, and explain etymologies, or of those
558 22 | are by different persons explained of natural objects in different
559 22 | and there is some natural explanation of them, such as this by
560 22 | XXII. PRETENDED SYMBOLICAL EXPLANATIONS.~ But perhaps these things
561 18 | births, and narrated the exploits of each, and is believed
562 12 | our benevolence to such an extent, that we not only love our
563 2 | may feel grateful to you, exulting that we are no longer the
564 28 | even Herodotus as being a fabulist. But as Alexander and Hermes
565 34 | these gulp down whatever fails in their way, and the stronger
566 29 | after gold--~"O gold, the fairest prize to mortal men,~ Which
567 37 | XXXVII. ENTREATY TO BE FAIRLY JUDGED.~ And now do you,
568 2 | satisfaction, as regards its fairness, the sentence whether of
569 8 | argumentative grounds also of our faith. If there were from the
570 24 | them by you, and others faithless), so is it among the angels.
571 21 | Sarpedon, by Patroclus' hand to fall;"~and is not able while
572 18 | not my design to show the fallacy of idols, but, by disproving
573 25 | These angels, then, who have fallen from heaven, and haunt the
574 31 | as heavenly spirit), or, falling with the rest, a worse one
575 17 | are beyond all other men familiar with the ancients. I assert,
576 27 | from matter, and some they fashion and bring forth for themselves;
577 13 | kind, who made animals and fashioned man. When, holding God to
578 32 | we give the honour due to fathers and mothers. On behalf of
579 21 | coming to this laud, I cattle fed,~ For him that was my host,
580 34 | and, in fact, this is to feed upon human flesh, to do
581 2 | beneficence, we also may feel grateful to you, exulting
582 9 | earth is the footstool of My feet: what house win ye build
583 24 | by the prophets); these fell into impure love of virgins,
584 35 | slaves, some more and some fewer, by whom we could not help
585 10 | though the poets, in their fictions, represent the gods as no
586 20 | offspring, horrible and fierce,~ In sight a frightful viper,
587 21 | For goddess or for mortal, fill my soul;~ Not for Ixion'
588 1 | false accusers. For the fine imposed by our persecutors
589 24 | placed about this first firmament (you know that we say nothing
590 6 | atheists who acknowledge and firmly hold that He is God who
591 20 | Phanes himself, being a first-born god (for he it was that
592 34 | they themselves live like fishes; for these gulp down whatever
593 29 | from Olympus' top~ With flaming thunderbolt cast down and
594 20 | her monster of a child, fled from her, and did not give
595 21 | behold: a man~ I love in flight around the walls! My heart~
596 25 | produce, and thus sustain my flocks,"--~and addresses itself
597 27 | their thoughts, cause to flow into the mind empty visions
598 13 | burnt-offerings, nor the fragrance of flowers and incense, forasmuch as
599 10 | be an effluence of God, flowing from Him, and returning
600 23 | His nature, the good that flows forth from Him that is truth,
601 22 | ourselves putting perishable and fluctuating and changeable matter on
602 9 | flute-player breathes into a flute;--what, then, do these men
603 9 | making use of them as a flute-player breathes into a flute;--
604 35 | person to regard the very foetus in the womb as a created
605 23 | everything that begins to be is followed by an end, and (for this
606 18 | things, whom Homer himself follows in most matters, especially
607 8 | any one. Hand and eye and foot are parts of one body, making
608 26 | form, as Amasis treated the footpan, as told by Herodotus? And
609 9 | throne, and the earth is the footstool of My feet: what house win
610 13 | of flowers and incense, forasmuch as He is Himself perfect
611 11 | itself an evidence of no mean forbearance), to bless them; and to
612 3 | committed by us, for you forbid informations to be laid
613 28 | name a religious scruple forbids me to mention." If they
614 20 | natural order, and two in her forehead, and the face of an animal
615 21 | wise one, and who canst foresee for others the things that
616 12 | death as a deep sleep and forgetfulness ("sleep and death, twin-brothers"),
617 34 | have set up a market for fornication and established infamous
618 26 | Alexander are still in the forum. The other statues of Neryllinus,
619 18 | indulgent to me while I bring forward true considerations; for
620 20 | Ouranos also to his sons, and fought with the Titans for the
621 22 | bathes with tears~ The human founts."~If, then, Zeus is fire,
622 17 | and Homer preceded me by four hundred years, and no more;
623 24 | Just as with men, who have freedom of choice as to both virtue
624 18 | full, was, by the powerful friction of its generator, burst
625 12 | that we not only love our friends ("for if ye love them,"
626 20 | also horns, so that Rhea, frightened at her monster of a child,
627 20 | and fierce,~ In sight a frightful viper, on whose head~ Were
628 22 | turns about; if darkness, or frost, or the moist part of nature,
629 22 | we wish thee joy), the fruit of the vine Dionysus, the
630 22 | members of his body, or the fruits, Isis is thus addressed:
631 17 | their several honours and functions, and described their forms."
632 29 | deservedly did he light the funeral pile and burn himself to
633 30 | Whom men, of Ouranos and Gaia~ Proclaimed the noblest
634 18 | the Titans.~ "The godlike Gala bore to Ouranos~ Sons who
635 14 | committed murder at the Olympic games; the Samians Lysander, notwithstanding
636 13 | place like a centre, who gathered the water into seas and
637 18 | lower part that of earth (gê). The goddess Ge, moreover,
638 17 | and Hesiod who s gave both genealogies and names to those whom
639 1 | contempt, though to the generality they appear matters of great
640 12 | temperate and benovolent and generally despised method of life,
641 18 | and Kronos. This Heracles generated an egg of enormous size,
642 22 | casts it into the womb, and generates a human being, who has in
643 30 | mention, says:--~"It was the generation then the tenth,~ Of men
644 18 | powerful friction of its generator, burst into two, the part
645 1 | admiration of your mildness and gentleness, and your peaceful and benevolent
646 32 | wonderful that they should get up tales about us such as
647 27 | and Maker of all things, gets impressed with false opinions
648 10 | THE FATHER, SON, AND HOLY GHOST.~ That we are not atheists,
649 30 | Because of men endowed with gift of speech~ They were the
650 5 | of certain knowledge, he gives his opinion decidedly, and
651 35 | interest the contests of gladiators and wild beasts, especially
652 16 | residence, they bestow a passing glance of admiration on its beautiful
653 15 | made it, nor the vessels or glass and gold than him who wrought
654 18 | took on Ouranos,~ Majestic, glitt'ring with his starry crown."~
655 30 | For if detestable and god-hated men had the reputation of
656 28 | ruled over Egypt as its last god-king. Osiris is named Dionysus (
657 18 | forth the Titans.~ "The godlike Gala bore to Ouranos~ Sons
658 29 | and did not hanker after gold--~"O gold, the fairest prize
659 21 | No, nor for Ceres, golden-tressed queen;~ Nor for Latona bright;
660 10 | the things in it, and the goodly ordering of them all.~
661 30 | those through whom they have got to be considered gods, and
662 1 | the Deity and towards your government--you allow us to be harassed,
663 34 | enacted), so that not even the governors of the provinces sent by
664 2 | beneficence, we also may feel grateful to you, exulting that we
665 28 | of the Deity, partly from gratitude for their government, they
666 2 | may be arraigned on the gravest charges, have no fear, because
667 28 | names of the gods came into Greece from Egypt." Apollo was
668 27 | who hover about matter, greedy of sacrificial odours and
669 28 | resembling those of the Greek representations of Io."
670 21 | walls! My heart~ For Hector grieves."~For I call even men rude
671 10 | and an inactive earth, the grosser particles being mixed up
672 7 | God and the things of God, guided by the Spirit of God. And
673 35 | lest we should contract guilt and pollution, can we put
674 1 | of crimes of which we are guiltless even in thought, but which
675 34 | live like fishes; for these gulp down whatever fails in their
676 18 | the hundred-handed Cottys, Gyges, Briareus, and the Cyclopes
677 20 | viper, on whose head~ Were hairs: its face was comely; but
678 21 | servants of men:--~ "Admetus' halls, in which I have endured~
679 14 | Onesilus; the Carthaginians Hamilcar. Time would fail me to enumerate
680 26 | overlay it with gold, and hang chaplets upon it. But of
681 29 | they were gods and did not hanker after gold--~"O gold, the
682 27 | for themselves; and this happens to a soul especially when
683 11 | instructions to make them happy: who of them have so purged
684 18 | coming to them, for~ "'Tis hard for man~ To meet in presence
685 34 | example of the proverb, "The harlot reproves the chaste." For
686 23 | on the contrary, suffered harm, shall we deem those to
687 6 | containing all the arithmetic and harmonic principles, and the Nine
688 31 | or to render the rulers harsh and inexorable by the magnitude
689 33 | into the ground awaits the harvest, not sowing more upon it,
690 32 | promiscuous intercourse, to hate either Zeus, who begat children
691 2 | ourselves, that we shall not be hated and punished because we
692 11 | their souls as, instead of hating their enemies, to love them;
693 21 | Diomedes in her body: --~ "The haughty son of Tydeus, Diomed,~
694 25 | fallen from heaven, and haunt the air and the earth, and
695 18 | it, and between the two heads there was the face of a
696 26 | to utter oracles and to heal the sick, and on this account
697 27 | predicting the future or healing the present, the demons
698 34 | sent by you suffice for the hearing of the complaints against
699 1 | multitude, be led astray by hearsay--why is a mere name odious
700 22 | vine itself Semele, the heat of the sun the thunderbolt.
701 28 | XXVIII. THE HEATHEN GODS WERE SIMPLY MEN.~ But
702 13 | need has He further of a hecatomb?~ "For they, when mortals
703 7 | instruments, and to give heed to mere human opinions.~
704 22 | earth, and the air's gentle height,~ And harmony with these."~
705 1 | and pays divine honours to Helen, taking her for Adrasteia.
706 28 | conversed with the priests at Heliopolis, and Memphis, and Thebes),
707 35 | fewer, by whom we could not help being seen; but even of
708 31 | others, was burnt to death; Heraclitus and Democritus were banished,
709 25 | willingness move her or not,~Must herbs produce, and thus sustain
710 20 | with what is called the Herculean knot, and accomplished his
711 1 | and laws; and no one is hindered by law or fear of punishment
712 36 | intelligible; for nothing hinders, according to Pythagoras
713 21 | Nay, they are even the hired servants of men:--~ "Admetus'
714 28 | Egyptians spoke in their histories of the gods as of men, when
715 13 | and fashioned man. When, holding God to be this Framer of
716 6 | things by the Logos, and holds them in being by His Spirit.
717 13 | And what have I to do with holocausts, which God does not stand
718 19 | things. From simple and homogeneous elements what could be constituted?
719 11 | etymologies, or of those who teach homonyms and synonyms, and predicaments
720 12 | patience; for those who test honey and whey, judge by a small
721 22 | limbs, and finding them honoured them with a sepulchre, which
722 28 | lake at Delos called the Hoop. On this lake it is that
723 20 | begat~ Another offspring, horrible and fierce,~ In sight a
724 17 | Saurias, who sketched a horse in the sun, and painting
725 28 | rest. The last of these was Horus the son of Osiris, called
726 24 | in particular, which is hostile to God: not that anything
727 27 | itself, then the demons who hover about matter, greedy of
728 5 | thou on high him who, with humid arms,~ Clasps both the boundless
729 26 | He first inflicts some hurt upon his mind."~But God,
730 33 | having children. For as the husbandman throwing the seed into the
731 21 | brandishing his spear."~Hush! Homer, a god never rages.
732 21 | beings:--~ "AEneas, amid Ida's jutting peaks,~ Immortal
733 5 | popular preconception, are ignorantly called gods, says doubtingly:--~ "
734 2 | II. CLAIM TO BE TREATED AS
735 3 | III. CHARGES BROUGHT AGAINST
736 10 | impassible, incomprehensible, illimitable, who is apprehended by the
737 5 | ought not on the righteous ills to send."~But speaking of
738 29 | upon as gods, when they imagine even Ino after her madness
739 22 | the Deity is immortal, and immoveable, and unalterable: so that
740 2 | emperors, to listen to me impartially: not to be carried away
741 25 | demons his followers, he is impelled and moved in this direction
742 27 | Maker of all things, gets impressed with false opinions respecting
743 7 | they can say and write with impunity what they please concerning
744 2 | name stand free from all imputation. I must at the outset of
745 10 | without attributes, and an inactive earth, the grosser particles
746 22 | which destroys animate and inanimate things; and that the bonds
747 13 | fragrance of flowers and incense, forasmuch as He is Himself
748 4 | Diagoras, while we have such incentives to piety--in the established
749 32 | of their own gods, of the incidents of whose lives they make
750 26 | not the part of a god to incite to things against nature.~ "
751 6 | says that all things are included in God as in a stronghold,
752 10 | invisible, impassible, incomprehensible, illimitable, who is apprehended
753 14 | XIV. INCONSISTENCY OF THOSE WHO ACCUSE THE
754 37 | your empire may receive increase and addition, all men becoming
755 34 | like for like), but it is incumbent on us to be good and patient
756 2 | charges contained in the indictments if they should be false:
757 6 | Father of works which are indissoluble apart from my will; but
758 8 | uncreated, and, impassible, and indivisible--does not, therefore, consist
759 32 | is not lawful among us to indulge even a lustful look. "For,"
760 25 | the appetites they have indulged. But the prince of matter,
761 18 | on this discussion, to be indulgent to me while I bring forward
762 31 | render the rulers harsh and inexorable by the magnitude of the
763 34 | fornication and established infamous resorts for the young for
764 35 | it; and not to expose an infant, because those who expose
765 2 | sharpest and most merciless inflictions. But if the accusation relates
766 26 | against a man,~ He first inflicts some hurt upon his mind."~
767 2 | previous life, and not be influenced by names if they mean nothing,
768 3 | committed by us, for you forbid informations to be laid against us),
769 3 | yourselves witnesses that no such iniquities are committed by us, for
770 36 | we deceive ourselves we injure no one else. But that it
771 1 | I. INJUSTICE SHOWN TOWARDS THE CHRISTIANS.~
772 21 | Burning with rage and inly wroth with Jove;"~nor Hera
773 28 | attribute of eternity, and innumerable others, not to name them
774 29 | when they imagine even Ino after her madness and its
775 18 | Son, apprehended by us as inseparable from Him, all things are
776 9 | things with which they were inspired, the Spirit making use of
777 1 | to be slaughtered at the instigation of false accusers. For the
778 10 | Himself, being from eternity instinct with Logos [logikos]; but
779 2 | this, since you are well instructed in philosophy and all learning.
780 11 | disciples by these and such like instructions to make them happy: who
781 7 | the prophets like musical instruments, and to give heed to mere
782 1 | whole empire, under your intelligent sway, enjoys profound peace.
783 32 | formed the eyes, which were intended to be a light to us, and
784 11 | they never cease with evil intent to search out skilfully
785 28 | their religion it is not my intention to repeat, except only the
786 35 | among the things of greatest interest the contests of gladiators
787 1 | any other of our greater interests. These we hold in contempt,
788 36 | we should be thought to introduce topics irrelevant to the
789 32 | to wife, or Orpheus, the inventor of these tales, which made
790 2 | of the accused persons be investigated, but let the name stand
791 10 | God, uncreated, eternal, invisible, impassible, incomprehensible,
792 29 | August Palaemon, sailors will invoke."~
793 28 | Greek representations of Io." And who can be more deserving
794 29 | well-lov'd son--such was his ire."~And Pindar:--~"But even
795 36 | thought to introduce topics irrelevant to the matter in hand, either
796 31 | us may be blameless and irreproachable before Him, will not entertain
797 9 | writings either of Moses or of Isaiah and Jeremiah, and the other
798 4 | IV. THE CHRISTIANS ARE NOT
799 9 | IX. THE TESTIMONY OF THE PROPHETS.~
800 21 | fill my soul;~ Not for Ixion's beauteous wife, who bore~
801 30 | former times,~ And Kronos, Japetus, and Titan reigned,~ Whom
802 9 | of Moses or of Isaiah and Jeremiah, and the other prophets,
803 22 | the very name, if it be joined to itself, signifying this;
804 22 | have found, we wish thee joy), the fruit of the vine
805 2 | adduced on the trial, when the judges, instead of inquiring whether
806 21 | AEneas, amid Ida's jutting peaks,~ Immortal Venus to
807 10 | understanding and reason (nous kai logos) of the Father is
808 35 | death is much the same as killing him, have abjured such spectacles.
809 26 | attempt to describe all the kinds of demons; for it is not
810 28 | with their wives. "The male kine, if clean, and the male
811 26 | those who lacerate with knives and scourges of bones, and
812 20 | is called the Herculean knot, and accomplished his purpose,
813 16 | not worship them as gods, knowing that the law of dissolution
814 18 | are by the name of Titans known,~ Because they vengeance
815 17 | making figures in relief (koroplathikê) was invented by the damsel,
816 31 | bring. But they lose their labour with those who know that
817 1 | taking her for Adrasteia. The Lacedaemonian venerates Agamemnon as Zeus,
818 14 | Celeus and Metanira: the Lacedaemonians Menelaus; and they offer
819 26 | death. I pass over those who lacerate with knives and scourges
820 18 | begat females, Clotho, Lachesis, and Atropos; and males,
821 14 | temples, and make public lamentation. If, then, we are guilty
822 24 | we are, since we employ language which makes a distinction
823 30 | of Derceto, Semiramis, a lascivious and blood-stained woman,
824 21 | And coming to this laud, I cattle fed,~ For him
825 29 | Thus of Heracles:--~"That lawless wretch, that man of brutal
826 33 | carnal thought and desire leads away from Him, in those
827 9 | place of My rest?" But I leave it to you, when you meet
828 21 | her charms~ To that fair lecher, the strong god of arms."~ "
829 22 | bull, and the swan, and Leda, to do with the earth and
830 28 | declare the same], no room is left even for doubt that they,
831 28 | the son of Philip, in his letter to his mother (and each
832 29 | Sea-rovers will her name Leucothea."~And her son:--~"August
833 15 | dissoluble and perishable on a level with that which is eternal.~
834 20 | is made which is not also liable to dissolution, I might
835 13 | by sacrifice and pray'r,~ Libations and burnt-offerings, may
836 26 | blood of the sacrifices, and lick them; but the gods that
837 30 | examination.~ "The Cretans always lie; for they, O king,~ Have
838 9 | the other prophets, who, lifted in ecstasy above the natural
839 10 | being mixed up with the lighter. The prophetic Spirit also
840 22 | son Orus sought after his limbs, and finding them honoured
841 18 | dragon with the head of a lion growing to it, and between
842 2 | illustrious emperors, to listen to me impartially: not to
843 23 | thinks that those ought to be listened to who have spoken about
844 28 | already been adduced, to say a little about their names. Herodotus,
845 10 | eternity instinct with Logos [logikos]; but inasmuch as He came
846 17 | were not in use at all, so long as statuary, and painting,
847 32 | For," saith He, "he that looketh on a woman to lust after
848 27 | becomes mingled with it, looking not at heavenly things and
849 31 | charges they bring. But they lose their labour with those
850 21 | bonds:--~ "Then, nothing loth, th' enamour'd fair he led,~
851 11 | lift up my voice boldly in loud and audible outcry, pleading
852 21 | XXI. IMPURE LOVES ASCRIBED TO THE GODS.~ But
853 18 | heaven (ouranos), and the lower part that of earth (gê).
854 20 | differ in no respect from the lowest brutes (since it is evident
855 3 | life, our opinions, our loyalty and obedience to you and
856 dedic| Marcus Aurelius Anoninus and Lucius Aurelius Commodus, conquerors
857 32 | that looketh on a woman to lust after her, hath committed
858 32 | among us to indulge even a lustful look. "For," saith He, "
859 16 | adjudicators do not pass by the lute-players and crown the lutes. Whether,
860 16 | lute-players and crown the lutes. Whether, then, as Plato
861 14 | Olympic games; the Samians Lysander, notwithstanding all the
862 6 | He is superior to matter. Lysis and Opsimus thus define
863 27 | mind, by which it becomes madly set on idols. When, too,
864 16 | address themselves to the magnificence of your palace; but, if
865 21 | gods;~ Nor the neat-footed maiden Danae,~ A crisius' daughter,
866 18 | vengeance took on Ouranos,~ Majestic, glitt'ring with his starry
867 16 | gods of which I know the makers to be men? Attend, I beg,
868 dedic| DEDICATION.~To the Emperors Marcus Aurelius Anoninus and Lucius
869 34 | those who have set up a market for fornication and established
870 33 | her his wife whom he has married according to the laws laid
871 33 | his wife," says He, "and marries another, commits adultery;"
872 33 | brought to an end, nor to marry again. For he who deprives
873 22 | Some call Zeus twofold masculine-feminine air; others the season which
874 15 | asunder as the artist and the materials of his art--why are we called
875 14 | by him; Alcman and Hesiod Medea, and the Cilicians Niobe;
876 12 | shall there receive for our meek and benevolent and moderate
877 22 | mysteries, on the finding of the members of his body, or the fruits,
878 28 | priests at Heliopolis, and Memphis, and Thebes), affirm that
879 14 | Metanira: the Lacedaemonians Menelaus; and they offer sacrifices
880 21 | have endured~ To praise the menial table, though a god."~And
881 28 | whose name I refrain from mentioning, and this representation
882 2 | undergo the sharpest and most merciless inflictions. But if the
883 14 | set up as gods Celeus and Metanira: the Lacedaemonians Menelaus;
884 12 | benovolent and generally despised method of life, believing that
885 6 | artistic fire advancing methodically to the production of the
886 29 | Asklepius, Hesiod says:--~"The mighty father both of gods and
887 22 | season which brings about mild weather, on which account
888 1 | with admiration of your mildness and gentleness, and your
889 17 | Daedalus and Theodorus the Milesian further invented sculpture
890 9 | natural operations of their minds by the impulses of the Divine
891 21 | grief:--~"A woful sight mine eyes behold: a man~ I love
892 28 | in this same precinct of Minerva at Sais, is the burial-place
893 27 | material spirit and becomes mingled with it, looking not at
894 36 | even the body which has ministered to the irrational impulses
895 10 | multitude of angels and ministers, whom God the Maker and
896 11 | BROUGHT AGAINST THEM.~ If I go minutely into the particulars of
897 | miss
898 22 | of the earth and air? But missing to discover the greatness
899 10 | no better than men, our mode of thinking is not the same
900 28 | show the bearer various models of corpses made in wood,
901 22 | darkness, or frost, or the moist part of nature, none of
902 23 | not to be believed for a moment. But because he thought
903 29 | and overcome by love of money. What more need I say, or
904 20 | Rhea, frightened at her monster of a child, fled from her,
905 11 | XI. THE MORAL TEACHING OF THE CHRISTIANS
906 32 | XXXII. ELEVATED MORALITY OF THE CHRISTIANS.~ It is,
907 34 | THE VAST DIFFERENCE IN MORALS BETWEEN THE CHRISTIANS AND
908 9 | of the writings either of Moses or of Isaiah and Jeremiah,
909 32 | honour due to fathers and mothers. On behalf of those, then,
910 36 | that the body which has mouldered away, and been dissolved,
911 21 | And I believed Apollo's mouth divine~ Was full of truth,
912 7 | from God, who moved the mouths of the prophets like musical
913 23 | themselves do anything without a mover. That in various places,
914 27 | itself, as being immortal, moves comformably to reason, either
915 18 | all things, and from water mud was formed, and from both
916 6 | the Spirit of God, they multiply the Deity in name, yet in
917 20 | his chariot, and how he murdered his children, and swallowed
918 35 | our character, that we are murderers? For we cannot eat human
919 30 | births, the amours, the murders, the thefts, the castrations,
920 22 | offspring; and that the mutilation is the intercourse of the
921 | myself
922 20 | the breast (thêlê), whence mystically she is called Athela, but
923 29 | gold seen in the hand~ Ev'n him perverted: therefore
924 2 | accusation relates merely to our name--and it is undeniable, that
925 18 | recounted their births, and narrated the exploits of each, and
926 20 | of Dionysus. In face of narrations like these, I must say at
927 1 | box. In short, among every nation and people, men offer whatever
928 30 | believe, O Callimachus, in the nativity of Zeus, you do not believe
929 33 | state of an eunuch brings nearer to God, while the indulgence
930 6 | beyond that which comes nearest to it. So that since ten
931 21 | council as the gods;~ Nor the neat-footed maiden Danae,~ A crisius'
932 22 | conflagration, the names will necessarily perish along with the forms,
933 16 | not created because God needed it; for God is Himself everything
934 13 | Himself perfect fragrance, needing nothing either within or
935 25 | nothing out of order or neglected, but that each one of them
936 24 | the flesh, and he became negligent and wicked in the management
937 32 | consist in dealing with our neighbour as ourselves. On this account,
938 11 | of them, and love their neighbours as themselves.~
939 | Nine
940 14 | Medea, and the Cilicians Niobe; the Sicilians Philip the
941 36 | any one it appears sheer nonsense that the body which has
942 21 | regard such assertions as nonsensical and ridiculous; for there
943 16 | circle and those about the north, and also in its spherical
944 16 | harmony, and strikes its notes, and sings the accordant
945 6 | not alone in confining the notion of God to unity, I have
946 29 | the Deity is in want of nought, and is superior to carnal
947 28 | Isis; while Latona is their nurse and their preserver." These
948 3 | opinions, our loyalty and obedience to you and your house and
949 28 | are also some large stone obelisks in the enclosure, and there
950 35 | being, and therefore an object of God's care, and when
951 16 | parts, both those in the oblique circle and those about the
952 30 | and whilst you think to obscure the truth, you in fact proclaim
953 21 | her who Perseus bore,~ Th' observ'd of all; nor noble Phoenix
954 24 | Some, free agents, you will observe, such as they were created
955 30 | themselves[assumed it], obtained the name, some from fear,
956 22 | which pervades matter, obtains according to its variations
957 10 | several posts by His Logos, to occupy themselves about the elements,
958 10 | surpassing intelligence, it occurs to you to inquire what is
959 1 | hearsay--why is a mere name odious to you? Names are not deserving
960 13 | not need blood, nor the odour of burnt-offerings, nor
961 27 | matter, greedy of sacrificial odours and the blood of victims,
962 3 | atheism, Thyestean feasts, OEdipodean intercourse. But if these
963 | off
964 3 | deemed adequate to such offences? But, if these things are
965 26 | woman"--~sacrifices are offered and festivals are held at
966 24 | opposed. For this is the office of the angels,--to exercise
967 24 | of matter,--~"We know we oft speak lies that look like
968 25 | good that is in God:--~"Ofttimes this anxious thought has
969 34 | though such is our character (Oh! why should I speak of things
970 17 | by Crato, who painted in oil on a whitened tablet the
971 17 | ancient image made of the olive-tree called), and the sitting
972 26 | himself into the fire near Olympia), that of Proteus is likewise
973 14 | committed murder at the Olympic games; the Samians Lysander,
974 29 | filled with wrath, and from Olympus' top~ With flaming thunderbolt
975 34 | defame the eunuchs and the once-married (while they themselves live
976 14 | Butacides; the Amathusians Onesilus; the Carthaginians Hamilcar.
977 7 | towards the true God (to ontôs theion), that it would be
978 1 | deemed guilty of impiety for opening the box. In short, among
979 4 | to boil his turnips, but openly declared that there was
980 10 | Spirit Himself also, which operates in the prophets, we assert
981 24 | anything had placed itself in opposition to God, it would have ceased
982 6 | superior to matter. Lysis and Opsimus thus define God: the one
983 32 | daughter in pursuance of an oracle, and when he wanted to obtain
984 24 | made and over which He had ordained them; but some outraged
985 15 | glory and honour of the orderly arrangement of the world
986 3 | tales and empty slanders, originating in the fact that virtue
987 26 | Neryllinus, then, are a public ornament, if indeed a city can be
988 4 | he not only divulged the Orphic doctrine, and published
989 22 | brother Isis with her son Orus sought after his limbs,
990 | otherwise
991 11 | boldly in loud and audible outcry, pleading as I do before
992 17 | appeared, when drawing in outline was invented by Saurias,
993 17 | on a whitened tablet the outlines of a man and woman; and
994 24 | ordained them; but some outraged both the constitution of
995 34 | committing shocking abominations, outraging all the noblest and comeliest
996 29 | reason of ignorance, and overcome by love of money. What more
997 26 | sacrifices to this statue, and overlay it with gold, and hang chaplets
998 31 | enslaved to flesh and blood, or overmastered by gain or carnal desire;
999 20 | the gods were created, and owed their constitution to water,
1000 34 | gods. These adulterers and paederasts defame the eunuchs and the