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1 7 | the flesh so incorporated abide and remain with that to
2 18| by me to the best of my ability, it will be well to prove
3 8 | a thing most hateful and abominable, and more detestable than
4 25| indeed entirely scattered abroad, even though the soul continue
5 4 | partaken of them, it is an absolute necessity, they say, that
6 23| not enjoined on souls to abstain from things which have no
7 20| lawless life, and the swarm of absurdities which follow from it, and
8 2 | adopted, and from what is acceptable to profligate men, but either
9 1 | even among those who have accepted the first principles some
10 6 | have taken, not even an accidental part of it, admits of being
11 1 | their discussion by this; to accommodate the order of their treatment
12 2 | consideration, he would not accomplish his purpose. But it is not
13 15| soul or of those which are accomplished by means of the body, the
14 1 | the truth with readiness. Accordingly it behoves those who wish
15 18| and that such man becomes accountable for all his actions, and
16 19| replying, then, to those who acknowledge a divine superintendence,
17 11| safety to those who become acquainted with it. The discourse in
18 18| nature and the life of men, acquire their credibility from the
19 21| are the motives for every acquisition of property, and especially
20 22| is called the independent action of the parts cannot be found
21 21| injustice, and the unjust acts arising out of these? For
22 | actually
23 23| the resurrection, and to adapt to the capacity of those
24 1 | those who in former times addicted themselves to such inquiries,
25 23| adultery," ever be properly addressed to souls, or even thought
26 4 | in the second place, they adduce another circumstance more
27 19| as those which have been adduced, and many more than these,
28 15| right not to shrink from adducing either of the proposed arguments,
29 19| could he endure a penalty adequate to these crimes, since death
30 3 | confounded some, even of those admired for wisdom, who, I cannot
31 19| somehow depart from their own admissions, one may use such arguments
32 6 | an accidental part of it, admits of being blended with the
33 1 | on such subjects should adopt two lines of argument, one
34 2 | any view they have hastily adopted, and from what is acceptable
35 3 | as shapeless matter, and adorn it, when destitute of form
36 17| pertain to adults, or in the adult period what belongs to those
37 17| appearance which pertain to adults, or in the adult period
38 25| of men, because they are affected too passionately and too
39 12| natural inclination and affection towards its production.
40 21| even if we hold that these affections do not pertain to the body
41 2 | into that with which it has affinity, although to men it may
42 10| person in his senses will affirm that his soul suffers wrong,
43 17| from the natural sequence, afford ground for believing in
44 18| by those also which come after--I mean by the reward or
45 11| and false opinions are an aftergrowth from another sowing and
46 15| proposed arguments, but, agreeably to what has been said, to
47 8 | suitable; for all men are agreed in their decision respecting
48 1 | inquiries, and their want of agreement with their predecessors
49 1 | opinion and doctrine which agrees with the truth of things,
50 23| we have not made it our aim to omit nothing that might
51 6 | follows that whatever is alien from the nourishment of
52 18| were dead, having been made alive by the resurrection, and
53 11| points and those which are allied to them. To the one kind
54 8 | like anything else that is allowed by nature, and nothing to
55 5 | sometimes also hinders and allows or forbids whatever He wishes,
56 9 | capabilities of things which are altogether different, or rather the
57 | am
58 21| exceeds the proper bounds is amenable to judgment, should be set
59 19| should he be disposed to amplify what has been said only
60 16| their origin from the same ancestors and fathers, but because
61 12| cause which shall utterly annihilate its existence. But since
62 19| lay down another principle antecedent to these, joining with them
63 2 | again. For He from whom, antecedently to the peculiar formation
64 | anywhere
65 18| in the language of the apostle, "this corruptible (and
66 1 | corrupt the truth. This is apparent, in the first place, from
67 1 | and not for the sake of appearing always to preserve the same
68 23| so as to appropriate the appellation of father or mother, but
69 18| for the principle which appertains to the matters before us,
70 6 | passed through the strainers appointed for the purpose, and been
71 1 | or stay that which was approaching. Neither surely can he who
72 5 | less, abundance, and is apt to corrupt or to turn into
73 23| not exist in them, nor any aptitude for sexual intercourse,
74 9 | IX. ABSURDITY OF ARGUING FROM MAN'S IMPOTENCY.~ As
75 14| nor to confound the things arranged by nature and distinguished
76 14| and which last. And in the arrangement of these they should place
77 15| their present existence, arrive at one common end, with
78 5 | the first change actually arrives at the parts to be nourished,
79 2 | principle involved in this article of belief, and from this
80 24| evident, and natural and artificial powers, and the actions
81 18| Maker of this universe, to ascribe to His wisdom and rectitude
82 2 | very easily refuted), or, ascribing the cause of all things
83 6 | since it bears no peaceful aspect towards what is natural,
84 23| manner to those who have assembled what ought to be thought
85 21| yet surely we shall not assert that these things belong
86 13| are content with a life associated with neediness and corruption,
87 20| summit of this lawlessness--atheism. But if the body were to
88 18| present existence, since many atheists and persons who practise
89 21| But if it is absurd to attach the passions to the soul
90 1 | free from their calumnious attacks--not the being of God, not
91 25| pass through life without attaining this object. For the large
92 11| foremost place, to the other to attend upon the first, and clear
93 17| and the maturity which attends growth, and after the maturity
94 14| or not, first to consider attentively the force of the arguments
95 21| carried off, at another attracted in some very violent manner,
96 22| any sense can equity be an attribute of souls, either in reference
97 13| according to the purpose of his Author, and the nature which he
98 24| discussion as may enable us to avoid the appearance of leaving
99 22| nor things to be chosen or avoided, or rather when there is
100 16| looking to this, we both await the dissolution of the body,
101 18| either in this life (for the award according to merit finds
102 18| if the righteous judgment awards to both together its retribution
103 7 | form; for we are very well aware that some brutes have human
104 4 | Median feast, and the tragic banquet of Thyestes; and they add,
105 4 | taken place among Greeks and barbarians: and from these things they
106 1 | mind of his hearers, and barring the entrance of his arguments.
107 23| those present the arguments bearing on this question.~
108 6 | doing much harm, since it bears no peaceful aspect towards
109 | became
110 25| this takes place, an end befitting the nature of men follows
111 9 | the inquiry before us, I beg to be excused from replying
112 | begin
113 | beginning
114 3 | if some suppose the first beginnings to be from matter, or the
115 21| deeds done, the toils on behalf of which it helped to bear
116 11| which each has regulated his behaviour,--a judgment which no one
117 15| its constitution; and the being-will be exactly the same, if
118 14| relates either to primary beliefs, and then all that is necessary
119 17| beforehand. Would any one have believed, unless taught by experience,
120 17| sequence, afford ground for believing in the resurrection, since
121 | below
122 15| and from all the gifts bestowed by Him, the conclusion is
123 7 | does blood, or phlegm, or bile, or breath, contribute anything
124 7 | parts which is adapted to bind together, or cover, or warm
125 12| creeping things, I suppose, and birds, and fishes, or, to speak
126 8 | stomach, owing to some most bitter mischance; but, removed
127 21| disease, or mutilation, or blemish, or fire, or sword, since
128 12| with understanding, and blessed with a rational judgment,
129 17| men, yet all who are not blinded in their judgment of these
130 7 | rise, since no longer does blood, or phlegm, or bile, or
131 21| because neither bodies nor bodily powers touch it at all.
132 10| themselves liberated from bondage, will they suffer no wrong.
133 17| consolidated--I mean of bones, and nerves, and cartilages,
134 1 | His operations, not those books which follow by a regular
135 12| which they have bravely borne their preceding life, although
136 12| since the cause itself is bound up with its nature, and
137 21| whatever exceeds the proper bounds is amenable to judgment,
138 6 | either passes off by the bowels before it produces some
139 19| commits outrage against boys and women alike, razes cities
140 12| qualifies with which they have bravely borne their preceding life,
141 14| distinguished from each other, or break up the natural order. Hence
142 19| despises divine things, breaks the laws, commits outrage
143 7 | or phlegm, or bile, or breath, contribute anything to
144 15| and guided by it as with a bridle; in vain is the understanding,
145 24| unmentioned any of the matters briefly referred to by us, and thus
146 19| of judgment a matter for broad laughter, indulgence in
147 16| suppose, some call sleep the brother of death, not as deriving
148 7 | other, and decreasing in bulk, from one or more of the
149 19| razes cities unjustly, burns houses with their inhabitants,
150 8 | whether they have been burnt up by fire, or rotted by
151 18| events, of whom it is now our business to speak, as being in want,
152 18| to the last, unvisited by calamity, whilst, on the contrary,
153 6 | in fact, which any one calling things by their right names
154 1 | no truth free from their calumnious attacks--not the being of
155 18| live in pain, in insult, in calumny and outrage, and suffering
156 12| use, but for cattle and camels and other animals of which
157 1 | the truth, for such as are candid and receive the truth with
158 9 | do, on the same level the capabilities of things which are altogether
159 23| resurrection, and to adapt to the capacity of those present the arguments
160 9 | the analogy of potters and carpenters attempt to show that God
161 17| of bones, and nerves, and cartilages, of muscles too, and flesh,
162 18| distinguish between the several cases, or mention in detail what
163 1 | farmer could not properly cast the seed into the ground,
164 12| something else, when that has ceased to be for the sake of which
165 4 | contrivance of enemies, and the celebrated Median feast, and the tragic
166 9 | would be not undeserving of censure, for it is really foolish
167 4 | of any animals which may chance to light upon them. Since,
168 10| against the Creator the charge of making them, contrary
169 7 | through ignorance and being cheated of their perception by some
170 24| THE RESURRECTION FROM THE CHIEF END OF MAN.~ The points
171 25| which the natural reason is chiefly and primaily adapted, and
172 14| good--namely, very young children--would not rise again; but
173 7 | arising from being heated or chilled, the humours which are changed
174 4 | place, they adduce another circumstance more difficult still. When
175 6 | animal there is a threefold cleansing and separation, it follows
176 11| because it removes and clears away beforehand the disbelief
177 12| comforting himself respecting the close of his own life, and hoping
178 18| have come into being, being closely connected with the nature
179 14| although they have the closest natural connection with
180 7 | moist or dry, or warm or cold, matters which the body
181 5 | shall enter into union and combination with every kind of body,
182 2 | impossible that what has again combined according to its nature
183 12| children and grandchildren comforting himself respecting the close
184 7 | grant that the nourishment coming from these things (let it
185 19| able to bear a punishment commensurate with the more numerous or
186 23| command, "Thou shalt not commit adultery," ever be properly
187 19| things, breaks the laws, commits outrage against boys and
188 16| which it is not proper to compare them. It ought not, therefore,
189 9 | those who use them, and comparing the works of art with those
190 10| justice there can be no complaint of injustice. Nor can it
191 6 | digestion, and undergone a complete change for union with a
192 17| seed, and that when this is completely organized in respect of
193 4 | and the members and parts composing them are broken up and distributed
194 2 | formation of each, was not concealed either the nature of the
195 7 | against our position be conceded, in neither case can it
196 7 | would gain nothing by the concession: for the bodies that rise
197 19| what has been said only concisely and in a cursory manner.
198 25| ARGUMENT CONTINUED AND CONCLUDED.~ Nor again is it the happiness
199 15| suitable to his nature,--may concur in one harmony and the same
200 21| violent manner, and sometimes concurring with it by way of kindness
201 23| been said, and that which concurs with this to guarantee the
202 12| continue in the natural condition in which he was created,
203 19| are still living who have conducted themselves virtuously or
204 15| of the men created, which conducts us to the same notion, and
205 14| to produce an unwavering confidence in what is said, must begin,
206 13| CONTINUATION OF THE ARGUMENT.~ Confident of these things, no less
207 14| certainty respecting it, nor to confound the things arranged by nature
208 3 | seems to have exceedingly confounded some, even of those admired
209 1 | not least, from the very confusion which marks the discussions
210 10| suffer wrong when living in conjunction with a body which is free
211 14| in making man; and then connect with this, as is suitable,
212 14| the primary reason, but in consequence of the purpose of God in
213 11| worthy of Him: for by these considerations the falsehood of the contrary
214 9 | has been dissolved,--not considering that by such reasoning they
215 18| both together I mean man, consisting of soul and body), and that
216 17| this way arise and become consolidated--I mean of bones, and nerves,
217 12| goodness and wisdom which are conspicuous throughout the creation,
218 2 | their elements, so as to constitute the same persons. If they
219 9 | works of men, and even the constructors of them, who are unable
220 7 | matters which the body contains, our opponents would gain
221 12| RESURRECTION. FROM THE PURPOSE CONTEMPLATED IN MAN'S CREATION.~ The
222 1 | with their predecessors and contemporaries, and then, not least, from
223 23| point more exactly, or to contend more earnestly with opponents.
224 13| on our own nature, we are content with a life associated with
225 25| XXV. ARGUMENT CONTINUED AND CONCLUDED.~ Nor again
226 15| and in which it adheres, continues. But that which has received
227 16| its parts interrupts the continuity of life, must we therefore
228 4 | own parents through the contrivance of enemies, and the celebrated
229 6 | is overcome by it, and is converted into hurtful humours and
230 4 | have been nourished by them convey the nutriment derived from
231 14| none the less can we gain conviction respecting it from the arguments
232 21| saying which we should speak correctly, because the life of man
233 11| should I speak of their correspondence each with each, and of their
234 19| inhabitants, and devastates a country, and at the same time destroys
235 22| have even the notion of courage or fortitude as existing
236 7 | adapted to bind together, or cover, or warm the flesh that
237 21| licentiousness, violence, covetousness, injustice, and the unjust
238 3 | III. HE WHO COULD CREATE, CAN ALSO RAISE UP THE DEAD.~
239 17| occurrences makes things credible which have no credibility
240 2 | resurrection is utterly unworthy of credit. This they will succeed
241 12| then extinguished. For to creeping things, I suppose, and birds,
242 19| penalty adequate to these crimes, since death prevents the
243 6 | produces some other humour, crude and corrupter; or, if it
244 18| the pleasure or food and culture of the body), or that the
245 6 | suffering or disease hard to cure, destroying at the same
246 19| only concisely and in a cursory manner. But in dealing with
247 3 | possible to Him. And it is no damage to the argument, if some
248 24| us, and thus indirectly damaging the subject or the division
249 8 | nothing to prohibit those who dare to say such things from
250 7 | brutes, such as the more daring of the poets are accustomed
251 19| overlooked, and a sort of dense darkness is poured down upon the
252 21| are judged, is the soul dealt fairly with, supposing it
253 19| would be that maxim, so dear to the intemperate and lewd, "
254 8 | with the bodies of their dearest friends as delicacies, as
255 8 | men are agreed in their decision respecting them,--those
256 7 | in some way or other, and decreasing in bulk, from one or more
257 25| of Him who is, and of His decrees, notwithstanding that the
258 14| the third argument alone, deeming that the cause of the resurrection
259 7 | want or madness, they have defiled themselves with the body
260 11| another sowing and from degeneration. But, notwithstanding all
261 8 | their dearest friends as delicacies, as being especially suited
262 1 | sequence from these, and delineate for us the doctrines of
263 2 | belief, and from this to demonstrate that the resurrection is
264 19| overlooked, and a sort of dense darkness is poured down
265 19| principles as we do, yet somehow depart from their own admissions,
266 18| ground, but their state depends more on God's superintendence.
267 17| all its parts there was deposited such a variety and number
268 17| there must be first the depositing of the seed, and that when
269 18| But while some of them derive their strength from the
270 16| brother of death, not as deriving their origin from the same
271 19| judgment according to men's deserts, nor after death.~
272 19| since death prevents the deserved punishment, and the mortal
273 2 | disbelieve things which are not deserving of disbelief, is the act
274 23| nature everything which is desired by the needy as useful is
275 21| anything of this sort, nor desires nor fears or suffers of
276 19| all outrage and blasphemy, despises divine things, breaks the
277 8 | food of any animal, and destined only for a burial in the
278 6 | or disease hard to cure, destroying at the same time the natural
279 6 | would tend to the utter destruction of the body to be nourished,
280 21| fears nothing whatever as destructive of itself: it has no dread
281 18| several cases, or mention in detail what is suitable to each
282 8 | and abominable, and more detestable than any other unlawful
283 19| with their inhabitants, and devastates a country, and at the same
284 24| common with beings utterly devoid of sensibility: nor can
285 4 | they tragically add the devouring of offspring perpetrated
286 14| rise again, those who have died in infancy as well as others,
287 4 | another circumstance more difficult still. When animals of the
288 5 | everything which has been digested in the stomach and received
289 11| it is accordant with the dignity of Him who wills it. That
290 1 | also we find some utterly disbelieving, and some others doubting,
291 15| not able of themselves to discern them, the arguments from
292 15| been given to men for the discernment of things which are perceived
293 12| in which it was made, and discharge its appropriate functions (
294 12| created. For reason cannot discover any use which might be deemed
295 15| MAN.~ But while the cause discoverable in the creation of men is
296 25| together, and this can be discovered neither while they are still
297 14| existence. For many, in discussing the subject of the resurrection,
298 23| murder, theft, rapine, dishonour to parents, and every desire
299 7 | changes,--at one time being dispersed by toil or care, at another
300 20| incapable of dissolution, of dispersion, of corruption, whilst the
301 11| beforehand the disbelief which disquiets some minds, and the doubt
302 1 | preserve the same method, to disregard fitness and the place which
303 16| not, therefore, to excite dissatisfaction, if some inequality appears
304 1 | natural order are concerned, dissertations concerning the truth always
305 18| this corruptible (and dissoluble) must put on incorruption,"
306 7 | trouble or disease, and by the distempers arising from being heated
307 19| about His own works, and the distinction is anywhere to be found
308 18| through the list now, or distinguish between the several cases,
309 14| things arranged by nature and distinguished from each other, or break
310 18| of itself is incapable of distinguishing law and justice), but man,
311 1 | concerning these things, and some distort it to suit their own views,
312 3 | and order, with many and diverse forms, and gather into one
313 3 | portions of the elements, and divide the seed which was one and
314 24| damaging the subject or the division of topics made at the outset.
315 15| nature, man's life, man's doings and sufferings, his course
316 1 | truth, for disbelievers and doubters; that concerning the truth,
317 3 | cannot tell why, think those doubts worthy of serious attention
318 22| when there is no desire drawing it to food or sexual intercourse,
319 21| solicited by the body and drawn away by it to its own appetites
320 21| sensible of, and in which it draws the soul away to sympathy
321 21| destructive of itself: it has no dread of famine, or disease, or
322 19| and lewd, "Let us eat and drink, for to-morrow we die."
323 10| the yoke and every kind of drudgery, they suffer no wrong, much
324 7 | some one of the moist or dry, or warm or cold, matters
325 23| would not be seasonable to dwell any longer upon them; for
326 10| also; for if now, while dwelling in a body subject to corruption
327 23| exactly, or to contend more earnestly with opponents. But, since
328 12| lived in corruptible and earthly bodies. For whatever has
329 3 | raise them again with equal ease: for this, too, is equally
330 2 | nature, and it is equally easy to know beforehand things
331 4 | madness, and the children eaten by their own parents through
332 20| particles to pass to its kindred element, yet the soul to remain
333 24| which indeed has already emerged m what has been said, and
334 2 | the act of men who do not employ a sound judgment about the
335 11| second in order, for it employs its strength against those
336 24| further discussion as may enable us to avoid the appearance
337 15| of every virtue, and the enactment and enforcement of laws,--
338 19| in a mortal body could he endure a penalty adequate to these
339 4 | through the contrivance of enemies, and the celebrated Median
340 15| virtue, and the enactment and enforcement of laws,--to say all in
341 23| itself, since God has not enjoined on souls to abstain from
342 24| nor can it consist in the enjoyment of things which nourish
343 22| or other pleasures and enjoyments, nor any other thing soliciting
344 5 | everything in nature shall enter into union and combination
345 8 | especially suited to them, and to entertain their living friends with
346 1 | hearers, and barring the entrance of his arguments. And, therefore,
347 4 | and from these things they establish, as they suppose, the impossibility
348 18| each nature. Man, at all events, of whom it is now our business
349 15| and has the same force as evidence of the resurrection. For
350 14| those who had done neither evil nor good--namely, very young
351 21| if the majority of such evils come from men's not having
352 15| from each of the truths evolved from the primary; and first
353 8 | occupy the same place for the exact construction and formation
354 24| investigated, it remains to examine the argument from the end
355 19| their opinions relate, and examining the matter along with them
356 3 | this which seems to have exceedingly confounded some, even of
357 21| sorrows, in which whatever exceeds the proper bounds is amenable
358 22| according to analogy, with the exception of the honour rendered to
359 16| ought not, therefore, to excite dissatisfaction, if some
360 22| soliciting it from within or exciting it from without? And what
361 15| But if vanity is utterly excluded from all the works of God,
362 18| have manifestly lived an exemplary life in respect of every
363 17| of the things I have said exhibit not at all, and others but
364 15| understanding, and not of existences only, but also of the goodness
365 8 | even entirely dissolved. To expatiate further, however, on these
366 6 | nourishment. But even though it be expelled at length, overcome by certain
367 18| think it would be a useless expenditure of trouble to go through
368 20| actions, nor sense of what it experienced in connection with the soul.
369 11| another, has been sufficiently explained in the remarks already made,
370 4 | deprived of burial, lie exposed to become the food of any
371 24| consideration having been to some extent investigated, it remains
372 10| that no one of the beings exterior to him, and that are reckoned
373 20| either death is the entire extinction of life, the soul being
374 1 | ground, unless he first extirpated the wild wood, and whatever
375 24| things that pass before our eyes. For do we not see that
376 25| large number of those who fail of the end that belongs
377 17| not at all, and others but faintly, the natural sequence and
378 14| handle the subject with fairness, and who wish to form an
379 21| the sins committed, should fall upon the soul alone, which
380 14| is the judgment. But the fallacy of this is very clearly
381 1 | those concerning it. For the farmer could not properly cast
382 16| from the same ancestors and fathers, but because those who are
383 21| with which, is seen what is faulty and what is not so), how
384 22| soul alone, when it has no fear of death, or wounds, or
385 4 | and the celebrated Median feast, and the tragic banquet
386 4 | for human food, which have fed on the bodies of men, pass
387 13| from the inventions of men, feeding ourselves on false hopes,
388 21| subsistence; nor can it feel any impulse towards any
389 21| which in its own nature it feels no appetite, no motion,
390 23| the difference of male and female does not exist in them,
391 6 | food introduced merely for filling the stomach and gratifying
392 1 | for their disbelief, or finding it possible to assign any
393 18| award according to merit finds no place in the present
394 12| created, will itself also fitly cease to be, and will not
395 1 | same method, to disregard fitness and the place which properly
396 8 | and power of Him who has fixed the nature of every animal,
397 13| cause of their creation is followed by the nature of the men
398 9 | censure, for it is really foolish to reply to superficial
399 5 | also hinders and allows or forbids whatever He wishes, and
400 6 | food, or by the natural forces, it is not got rid of without
401 6 | rejects everything that is foreign and hurtful to the constitution
402 14| of the purpose of God in forming men, and the nature of the
403 17| part and the progeny comes forth to the light, there comes
404 22| the notion of courage or fortitude as existing in the soul
405 3 | attention which are brought forward by the many.~
406 13| this we do not take without foundation from the inventions of men,
407 24| life and observe justice. Freedom from pain, therefore, cannot
408 11| remains, we should not make a fresh beginning from these same
409 6 | producing nothing akin or friendly to the body which is to
410 7 | according to nature, and fulfils the labours of that life.
411 16| of life the life of men full of such inequality from
412 23| is useless. But let the fuller discussion of these matters
413 12| discharge its appropriate functions (such as presiding over
414 1 | rise naturally from some fundamental principle, or from some
415 11| usefulness: in nature, as furnishing the knowledge of the subject;
416 14| SOLELY ON THE FACT OF A FUTURE JUDGMENT.~ The proof of
417 12| fishes, or, to speak more generally, all irrational creatures,
418 6 | purification, must become a most genuine addition to the substance,--
419 10| wrong. For if they had the gift of speech, they would not
420 15| of God, and from all the gifts bestowed by Him, the conclusion
421 15| wisdom and rectitude of their Giver, it necessarily follows
422 3 | recourse to such bodies, and glut their appetite upon them,--
423 2 | let them cease from this godless disbelief, and from this
424 1 | discussions that are now going on. For such men have left
425 23| steal or to rob, such as gold, or silver, or an animal,
426 14| had done neither evil nor good--namely, very young children--
427 6 | natural forces, it is not got rid of without doing much
428 12| succession of children and grandchildren comforting himself respecting
429 13| become a spectator of His grandeur, and of the wisdom which
430 7 | Nay, suppose we were to grant that the nourishment coming
431 5 | has been so united, but grants to the nature of each several
432 6 | filling the stomach and gratifying the appetite. This nourishment,
433 4 | which have taken place among Greeks and barbarians: and from
434 7 | another time being wasted by grief or trouble or disease, and
435 21| use; nor, again, can it be grieved at the want of money or
436 9 | reasoning they offer the grossest insult to God, putting,
437 2 | in some minds on strong grounds and accompanied by the certainty
438 7 | degree; now swelling out and growing fat by what it has received,
439 17| belongs to such as have grown old. But although some of
440 13| rests on a most infallible guarantee--the purpose of Him who fashioned
441 18| or in heaven is without guardianship or providence, but that;
442 15| the reins of the soul, and guided by it as with a bridle;
443 8 | those at least who are not half brutes.~
444 1 | peculiar to the matter in hand, but because it is invented
445 14| behoves those who desire to handle the subject with fairness,
446 18| reason does not find this happening either in this life (for
447 25| CONCLUDED.~ Nor again is it the happiness of soul separated from body:
448 6 | produces suffering or disease hard to cure, destroying at the
449 6 | rid of without doing much harm, since it bears no peaceful
450 2 | from any view they have hastily adopted, and from what is
451 8 | flesh of men is a thing most hateful and abominable, and more
452 1 | lurking in the mind of his hearers, and barring the entrance
453 7 | distempers arising from being heated or chilled, the humours
454 18| nothing either in earth or in heaven is without guardianship
455 12| want, and in need of no help from men in order to their
456 21| toils on behalf of which it helped to bear during life. Nor,
457 | HEREAFTER
458 19| poured down upon the earth, hiding in ignorance and silence
459 8 | there will be nothing to hinder its being according to nature
460 5 | to it, and sometimes also hinders and allows or forbids whatever
461 10| resurrection of men is no hindrance to their existing, nor is
462 14| what place each of them holds--which is first, which second,
463 13| feeding ourselves on false hopes, but our belief rests on
464 12| close of his own life, and hoping in this way to immortalize
465 11| whatever is obstructive or hostile. The discourse concerning
466 12| be clear), a man makes a house for his own use, but for
467 19| razes cities unjustly, burns houses with their inhabitants,
468 | however
469 6 | before it produces some other humour, crude and corrupter; or,
470 21| suffer from any of these any hurt or pain, because neither
471 24| For do we not see that husbandmen have one end, and physicians
472 2 | II. A RESURRECTION IS NOT IMPOSSIBLE.~
473 3 | III. HE WHO COULD CREATE, CAN
474 12| instance (to make use of an illustration, that our meaning may be
475 12| those who bear upon them the image of the Creator Himself,
476 12| view, but as regards the immediate object, from concern for
477 13| be to consider that which immediately follows, naturally or in
478 12| and hoping in this way to immortalize the mortal. Such is the
479 7 | or of their own accord, impelled by want or madness, they
480 9 | are many things of more importance to the inquiry before us,
481 11| refutation of falsehood is less important than the establishment of
482 23| thing of all is this: to impose properly sanctioned laws
483 4 | establish, as they suppose, the impossibility of the resurrection, on
484 9 | ABSURDITY OF ARGUING FROM MAN'S IMPOTENCY.~ As there are many things
485 12| such as presiding over the impulses of the body, and judging
486 10| nature of irrational or inanimate beings sustain wrong, for
487 17| death, and by the changes incident to each period of life,
488 2 | not arise from levity and inconsideration, but if it springs up in
489 18| order--namely, that it is incumbent on those who admit God to
490 22| therefore what is called the independent action of the parts cannot
491 2 | subject in the way I have indicated. If all disbelief does not
492 23| which, by reason of natural indigence or want, men are accustomed
493 24| referred to by us, and thus indirectly damaging the subject or
494 25| the examination relates to individuals, and the reward or punishment
495 19| matter for broad laughter, indulgence in every kind of pleasure
496 13| our belief rests on a most infallible guarantee--the purpose of
497 14| those who have died in infancy as well as others, they
498 17| to be seen, nor even in infants do any of those things make
499 10| is any loss or violence inflicted on them by it; nor, again,
500 8 | mischance; but, removed from the influence of the nourishing power,