Chapter

  1 1 |           in darkness, and deliver men from delusion, stretching
  2 1 |             and that Methymnaean,--men,~and yet unworthy of the
  3 1 |           were the first to entice men to idols; nay, to build
  4 1 |          earth. It alone has tamed men, the most intractable of
  5 1 |         transformed into tractable men. "For even we ourselves
  6 1 |          the new song! It has made men out of stones, men out of
  7 1 |            made men out of stones, men out of beasts. Those, moreover,
  8 1 |            For wickedness feeds on men's destruction; but truth,
  9 1 |           only in the salvation of men. You have, then, God's promise;
 10 1 |       first gave birth to gods and men: yet none of these at least
 11 1 |     salvation hath appeared to all men, teaching us, that, denying
 12 1 | enchantments, enslaves and plagues men even till now; inflicting,
 13 1 |            taken and buried living men with those dead idols, till
 14 1 |       sometimes He threatens. Some men He mourns over, others He
 15 1 |       methods for the salvation of men; by threatening He admonishes,
 16 1 |          the burning bush, for the men of that day needed signs
 17 1 |         signs and wonders. He awed men by the fire when He made
 18 1 |             but supposest both the men and the fire a myth, the
 19 1 |           us then ask him, "Who of men art thou, and whence?" He
 20 1 |         salvation,--a voice urging men on to the inheritance of
 21 1 |       herald of the Word, besought men to make themselves ready
 22 2 |            they all of unbelieving men. Goats, too, have been confederates
 23 2 |    divination; and crows taught by men to give oracular responses
 24 2 |         give oracular responses to men. And what if I go over the
 25 2 |            of this imposture among men, be he Dardanus, who taught
 26 2 |            what are regarded among men as mysteries, they celebrate
 27 2 |          the pleasure of temperate men; but now for the initiated,
 28 2 |            impious custom by which men were deprived both of divine
 29 2 |         original communion between men and heaven, obscured through
 30 2 |           Other objects deified by men take their rise from events,
 31 2 |         divine beneficence towards men. For, not understanding
 32 2 |        place, are recorded of vile men who lived licentious lives:--~"
 33 2 |            wander?~ Cease, foolish men, from mortals;~ Leave the
 34 2 |        They are numberless, mortal men, all helpers of their fellow-men
 35 2 |      demonstrate them to have been men. Mars, accordingly, who
 36 2 |                Mars, Mars, bane of men, blood-stained stormer of
 37 2 |         let the father of gods and men, according to you, himself
 38 2 |        that they may grow up to be men with the accursed likeness
 39 2 |     laughter, and intercourse; for men would not devote themselves
 40 2 |         nor from a rock,~ But from men, is thy descent."~But shortly
 41 2 |   guardians of articulate-speaking men."~ Who these guardians are,
 42 3 |      delighting in the insanity of men, but gloating over human
 43 3 |            are a Cretan race, slew men in sacrifice to Zeus, Anticlides
 44 3 |        they themselves are slaying men. For a murder does not become
 45 3 |        butchery. Then why is it, O men, wisest of all creatures,
 46 3 |          gifts, but not a lover of men. 'He betrayed his friend
 47 3 |         the stake. The demons love men in such a way as to bring
 48 3 |          to preach superstition to men, when they exhorted them
 49 3 | unquestionably, in succeeding ages men invented for themselves
 50 3 |           and the lewdness of vice men called by the name of Eros,
 51 4 | worshipping the senseless works of men's hands. Anciently, then,
 52 4 |            made in the likeness of men, they got the name of Brete,
 53 4 |        that both were fashioned by men. But that one may suppose
 54 4 |    destitute as it is of fear; and men now observe the sacred nights
 55 4 |         lie of Phoebus,~Whom silly men called God, and falsely
 56 4 |           God, who was not made~by men's hands,~Like dumb idols
 57 4 |          proper nature, and induce men to worship it; and the makers
 58 4 |            involved no danger from men, and thus taught that on
 59 4 |         contempt, at the same time men themselves, assuming the
 60 4 |      showest to us the delusion of men. If they did not believe
 61 4 |          of your worship were once men, and in process of time
 62 4 |            it, then, that the dead men of antiquity, being reverenced
 63 4 |          says, How in reason could men pray Zeus for a beautiful
 64 4 |            then, foolish and silly men(for I will repeat it), have
 65 4 |        delude, by seducing amorous men into the pit. Art is powerful,
 66 4 |           Now therefore be wise, O men," according to that blessed
 67 4 |           a battle march, "Sons of men, how long will ye be slow
 68 9 |           domestics, nor as God to men, but as a father, does the
 69 9 |             who first of all other men attained to the knowledge
 70 9 |           God is, the more impious men are; for He desires us from
 71 9 |            light; and the light of men is the Word, by whom we
 72 9 |           love to man, invites all men to the knowledge of the
 73 9 |           be sold, for how much, O men, would you propose to purchase
 74 9 |          who is the Saviour of all men, especially of those who
 75 9 |          heaven is at hand." Those men that draw near through fear,
 76 9 |          common, it shines "on all men." No one is a Cimmerian
 77 10|           death is this, rooted in men's minds! Why do they flee
 78 10|            you monstrous, that you men who are God's handiwork,
 79 10|          useless delights--swinish men. For swine, it is said,
 80 10|           ever! Amen." You have, O men, the divine promise of grace;
 81 10|           the Lord saves, teaching men by fear and grace. Why do
 82 10|         will explain. You ought, O men, when reflecting on the
 83 10|           which does great harm to men, and seduces them from salvation.
 84 10|          these have dared to deify men,--Alexander of Macedon,
 85 10|            opinions entertained by men respecting the gods, to
 86 10|            fellow-citizens, said: "Men, keep up your hearts as
 87 10|         the gods dying sooner than men." And, truly, he who worships
 88 10|            out unfortunately, when men put their trust in images."
 89 10|           come into the world, and men have loved the darkness
 90 10|             For what, think you, O men, is the Hermes of Typho,
 91 10|        insensible to this are like men who have drunk mandrake
 92 10|            hold despotic sway over men insulting and violating
 93 10|    serpents are sacred things, and men are not; but, on the contrary,
 94 10|            on the contrary, regard men as truly sacred, and take
 95 10|            who alone is God of all men. Believe, and receive salvation
 96 10|        happier far the beasts than men involved in error! who live
 97 10|      striplings, then youths, then men, but never as yet were you
 98 10|    sanctity which are inscribed on men's hearts: "Thou shalt love
 99 10|       better, therefore, is it for men from the beginning not to
100 10|         boys when they have become men throw aside their toys.
101 10|      communicated most speedily to men, having dawned from His
102 11|       makes His sun to rise on all men," and distils on them the
103 11|       purpose to save the flock of men: for this end the good God
104 11|      unfolded the truth, showed to men the height of salvation,
105 11|            God has fellowship with men! Better far, then, is it
106 11|         truly divine love comes to men thus, when in the soul itself
107 11|            up the temple of God in men, that He may cause God to
108 11|            to take up His abode in men. Cleanse the temple; and
109 12|      Father, prays for and exhorts men.~ "Hear, ye myriad tribes,
110 12|       tribes, rather whoever among men are endowed with reason,
111 12|          call on the whole race of men, whose Creator I am, by
112 12|             the good charioteer of men. Let us love Christ. He
113 12|           let us become God-loving men, and obtain the greatest
114 12|      attendants of Christ.~"As are men's wishes, so are their words;~