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1501 20 | What that is becoming or useful is there in such a history,
1502 5 | existences, to which a name is usually assigned, underlying them ("
1503 23 | and who they are that, usurping their names, produce the
1504 13 | is, and are doltish and utterly unacquainted with natural
1505 5 | V. TESTIMONY OF THE POETS
1506 22 | these things are poetic vagary, and there is some natural
1507 22 | those bodies, of which the variation according to matter is allied
1508 22 | obtains according to its variations a diversity of names the
1509 34 | XXXIV. THE VAST DIFFERENCE IN MORALS BETWEEN
1510 13 | know who stretched out and vaulted the heavens, and fixed the
1511 1 | Adrasteia. The Lacedaemonian venerates Agamemnon as Zeus, and Phylonoe
1512 30 | in order to gain greater veneration for them? For surely those
1513 18 | Titans known,~ Because they vengeance took on Ouranos,~ Majestic,
1514 2 | have committed any crime, vent their insults on the name,
1515 18 | disproving the calumnies vented against us, to offer a reason
1516 1 | us for our name alone. We venture, therefore, to lay a statement
1517 6 | of God to unity, I have ventured on an enumeration of opinions.
1518 21 | jutting peaks,~ Immortal Venus to Anchises bore."~Are they
1519 21 | Do they not suffer? Nay, verily, they are gods, and desire
1520 17 | these matters, since you are versed in all departments of knowledge,
1521 6 | VI. OPINIONS OF THE PHILOSOPHERS
1522 23 | difficult) to change the views of the multitude, who receive
1523 7 | VII. SUPERIORITY OF THE CHRISTIAN
1524 8 | VIII. ABSURDITIES OF POLYTHEISM.~
1525 34 | young for every kind of vile pleasure,--who do not abstain
1526 20 | symbol; and again, how he violated his daughter Phersephone,
1527 34 | upon human flesh, to do violence in contravention of the
1528 18 | man~ To meet in presence visible a God;"~and whereas, in
1529 29 | hands quickly stopp'd his vital breath,~ And by a bolt of
1530 9 | as human. But, since the voices of the prophets confirm
1531 5 | philosophers have not been voted atheists for inquiring concerning
1532 21 | love in flight around the walls! My heart~ For Hector grieves."~
1533 29 | dear"--~for the Deity is in want of nought, and is superior
1534 32 | of an oracle, and when he wanted to obtain the kingdom and
1535 32 | light to us, and to whom a wanton look is adultery, the eyes
1536 3 | season, not from simple wantonness; they also recognise those
1537 16 | descend "to the poor and weak elements," adoring in the
1538 21 | strong god of arms."~ "The weapon pierced the flesh."~He who
1539 22 | which brings about mild weather, on which account it was
1540 20 | Rhea when she refused to wed him, and, she becoming a
1541 29 | down and slew~ Latona's well-lov'd son--such was his ire."~
1542 16 | instrument in tune, and moving in well-measured time, I adore the Being
1543 | whereas
1544 | whereupon
1545 12 | those who test honey and whey, judge by a small quantity
1546 17 | who painted in oil on a whitened tablet the outlines of a
1547 1 | and souls, pouring upon us wholesale charges of crimes of which
1548 27 | downwards to earthly things, wholly at the earth, as being now
1549 33 | specious adultery. "For whosoever puts away his wife," says
1550 1 | kept from wrong-doing. But why--for do not, like the multitude,
1551 4 | they are separated by a wide interval (for that the Deity
1552 35 | contests of gladiators and wild beasts, especially those
1553 25 | below,-~"The earth, let willingness move her or not,~Must herbs
1554 9 | footstool of My feet: what house win ye build for Me, or what
1555 23 | heaven, Zeus, driving a winged car, advances first, ordering
1556 6 | said about God, as if I wished to exhibit a complete summary
1557 23 | worthless. Plato again, while withholding his assent on other points,
1558 31 | since we know that God is witness to what we think and what
1559 21 | superior to grief:--~"A woful sight mine eyes behold:
1560 32 | It is, however, nothing wonderful that they should get up
1561 28 | models of corpses made in wood, and painted so as to resemble
1562 4 | Cabiri, and chopped up the wooden statue of Hercules to boil
1563 17 | the work of Phidias. In a word, of not one of these statues
1564 11 | art, and are ever bent on working some ill, making the art
1565 34 | so dishonouring the fair workmanship of God (for beauty on earth
1566 4 | the arrangement of the world--with reason might our reputation
1567 24 | be not surprised at this: worldly Wisdom and divine differ
1568 1 | and the man of Tenedos worships Tennes. The Athenian sacrifices
1569 23 | good souls, and the bad the worthless. Plato again, while withholding
1570 26 | castrate, as Rhea; others wound and slaughter, as Artemis;
1571 29 | Heracles:--~"That lawless wretch, that man of brutal strength,~
1572 26 | to that of Alexander--~"Wretched Paris, though in form so
1573 7 | it that they can say and write with impunity what they
1574 22 | nature, or what various writers have thought concerning
1575 9 | cannot be ignorant of the writings either of Moses or of Isaiah
1576 30 | others, when the poets have written their stories in order to
1577 2 | doctrines), but for the wrong which has been done. It
1578 1 | but although we commit no wrong--nay, as will appear in the
1579 21 | Burning with rage and inly wroth with Jove;"~nor Hera appear
1580 15 | glass and gold than him who wrought them; but if there is anything
1581 10 | X. THE CHRISTIANS WORSHIP
1582 11 | XI. THE MORAL TEACHING OF THE
1583 12 | XII. CONSEQUENT ABSURDITY OF
1584 13 | XIII. WHY THE CHRISTIANS DO NOT
1585 14 | XIV. INCONSISTENCY OF THOSE
1586 19 | XIX. THE PHILOSOPHERS AGREE
1587 15 | XV. THE CHRISTIANS DISTINGUISH
1588 16 | XVI. THE CHRISTIANS DO NOT WORSHIP
1589 17 | XVII. THE NAMES OF THE GODS AND
1590 18 | XVIII. THE GODS THEMSELVES HAVE
1591 20 | XX. ABSURD REPRESENTATIONS
1592 21 | XXI. IMPURE LOVES ASCRIBED TO
1593 22 | XXII. PRETENDED SYMBOLICAL EXPLANATIONS.~
1594 23 | XXIII. OPINIONS OF THALES AND
1595 24 | XXIV. CONCERNING THE ANGELS AND
1596 29 | XXIX. PROOF OF THE SAME FROM
1597 25 | XXV. THE POETS AND PHILOSOPHERS
1598 26 | XXVI. THE DEMONS ALLURE MEN TO
1599 27 | XXVII. ARTIFICES OF THE DEMONS.~
1600 28 | XXVIII. THE HEATHEN GODS WERE SIMPLY
1601 30 | XXX. REASONS WHY DIVINITY HAS
1602 31 | XXXI. CONFUTATION OF THE OTHER
1603 32 | XXXII. ELEVATED MORALITY OF THE
1604 33 | XXXIII. CHASTITY OF THE CHRISTIANS
1605 34 | XXXIV. THE VAST DIFFERENCE IN
1606 35 | XXXV. THE CHRISTIANS CONDEMN
1607 36 | XXXVI. BEARING OF THE DOCTRINE
1608 37 | XXXVII. ENTREATY TO BE FAIRLY JUDGED.~
1609 21 | revolt; Styx dies in battle: yea, they even represent them
1610 17 | preceded me by four hundred years, and no more; and it was
1611 24 | is natural for fire to be yellow and the ether dark blue),--
1612 17 | they are, so to say, but of yesterday. You yourselves, however,
1613 25 | There is a race of gods, or yield to laws?"~The same thing
1614 21 | awkward me, she scorns; and yields her charms~ To that fair
1615 1 | statement of our case before you--and you will team from this
1616 34 | infamous resorts for the young for every kind of vile pleasure,--
1617 9 | you also, with your great zeal for knowledge, and your
1618 6 | respect of the fervid part (to zeon) of matter, and Hera in
1619 6 | compound living creature (zôon), speak of God as consisting