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1 10| to those that have newly abandoned wickedness, "He pities them,
2 9 | the same truth, and crying Abba, Father. This, the true
3 11| faithful of our friends, abides with us till our last breath,
4 2 | forgetting his former abominable wickedness. Zeus is both
5 1 | to raise up children to Abraham;" and He, commiserating
6 10| I will set before you in abundance, materials of persuasion
7 10| Whither do I bear these abundant riches? and whither~ Do
8 3 | that they might be able abundantly to satiate themselves with
9 3 | raised an altar to him in Academia, --a thing more seemly,
10 2 | the Building of Temples in Acarnania, says that, at the place
11 10| benevolence to which we have ready access, the divine power, casting
12 10| pernicious and dangerous, yet are accompanied with pleasure, why do we
13 9 | concupiscence." After the accusation of such a witness, and his
14 10| has his own sense as his accuser for not having chosen the
15 10| milk, to which our nurses accustomed us from the time of our
16 12| Ulysses, great glory of the Achaeans;~ Moor the ship, that thou
17 3 | Pella, in Thessaly, a man of Achaia was slain in sacrifice to
18 4 | silent, on the sands of Acheron."~Then she proceeds:--~"
19 4 | unclean and impure spirits, acknowledged by all to be of an earthly
20 11| expostulations; let us become acquainted with Him, that He may be
21 10| albeit at the close of life, acquire the knowledge of God, that
22 2 | he had died. In order to acquit himself of his promise to
23 3 | Acropolis, is the grave of Acrisius; and at Athens, on the Acropolis,
24 | across
25 2 | plenty besides those who acted as servants, writing thus:--~"
26 4 | doors, as if capable of activity? They worship Hermes as
27 4 | such villany, looking on acts like these more as deeds
28 1 | branch; and the minstrel, adapting his strain to the grasshopper'
29 4 | Osirapis. Another new deity was added to the number with great
30 10| the serpent, like the deaf adder, which stoppeth her ear,
31 10| And those who are godless, addicted to impiety, hard-hearted
32 2 | it is to name them, give additional strangeness to the tragic
33 1 | He mourns over, others He addresses with the voice of song,
34 2 | furnished by yourselves are here adduced; and you do not seem to
35 12| images of old, but not all adequate. I desire to restore you
36 10| vain phantasies, and bid adieu to evil custom, say to vain
37 2 | under the yoke of slavery to Admetus in Pherae, Hercules to Omphale
38 4 | the other hand, apes are admired by those who feed and care
39 2 | The father who took no admonition admonishes his son."~ If
40 12| For us, yea us, He has adopted, and wishes to be called
41 1 | MYSTERIES OF IDOLATRY FOR THE ADORATION OF THE DIVINE WORD AND GOD
42 2 | wickedly killed her father, adorned herself with her father'
43 3 | coasts who have been east adrift on the sea. These sacrifices
44 2 | are beasts, they are not adulterous or libidinous, and seek
45 11| CONFERRED ON MAN THROUGH THE ADVENT OF~ Contemplate a little,
46 2 | holy prophet and a good adviser. But Sterope will not say
47 10| ceases not to save, and advises the best course: "Become
48 2 | with Endymion, Nereis with Aeacus, Thetis with Peleus, Demeter
49 2 | according to the dialect of the Aeolians. These she taught to sing
50 2 | reckon three Jupiters: him of Aether in Arcadia, and the other
51 4 | that of the Samian Here, as Aethlius says, was at first a plank,
52 2 | Sterope will not say that, nor Aethousa, nor Arsinoe, nor Zeuxippe,
53 4 | yet live and grow, and are affected by the changes of the moon.
54 2 | Astrabacus; at Phalerus, a hero affixed to the prow of ships is
55 12| Father. Come thou also, O aged man, leaving Thebes, and
56 3 | unquestionably, in succeeding ages men invented for themselves
57 3 | Further, Ptolemy the son of Agesarchus, in his first book about
58 2 | that savour which your gods agree to have assigned to them
59 11| Contemplate a little, if agreeable to you, the divine beneficence.
60 10| prize them higher for the agreeableness of the pleasure they yield,
61 4 | Hermes as a god, and place Aguieus as a doorkeeper. For if
62 2 | and her seizure by Pluto (Aidoneus), and the rent in the earth,
63 10| and instructs lovingly, alas, they persecute; and while
64 10| reached life's sunset; and albeit at the close of life, acquire
65 2 | As for the Muses, whom Alcander calls the daughters of Zeus
66 2 | nights in voluptuousness with Alcmene? For not even these nine
67 4 | transported with solemn pomp to Alexandria. Isidore alone says that
68 4 | Serapis, in the city of the Alexandrians. At Athens it demolished
69 4 | there for me to instance Alexarchus? He, having been by profession
70 4 | of the gods; and where he alighted from his horse on his entrance
71 4 | temple of Demetrius the Alighter; and altars were raised
72 2 | mysteries at Sagra and in Alimus of Attica were confined
73 10| by these three things in all--will, action, speech. And
74 1 | the celestial Word, is the all-harmonious, melodious, holy instrument
75 2 | thousand are there in the all-nourishing earth~ Of demons immortal,
76 1 | dead dragon, but to God All-wise,--a lay unfettered by rule,
77 12| as a species of madness, allege that the multitude are nothing
78 11| pleasure (for the serpent allegorically signifies pleasure crawling
79 12| is the better; nor is it allowable to compare life with destruction.~
80 2 | herdsman's hidden ox-goad,"--~alluding, as I believe, under the
81 4 | heaven be darkened; but the Almighty shall shine for ever: while
82 2 | Mars had his suffering; by Aloeus' sons,~ Otus and Ephialtes,
83 2 | incident, phalloi are raised aloft in honour of Dionysus through
84 2 | him, Amphitrite Amymone, Alope, Melanippe, Alcyone, Hippothoe,
85 4 | the second time after the Amazons. And the Capitol in Rome
86 3 | tells you this. It is not ambiguous oracles that Solon utters.
87 2 | on the immortal head the ambrosial locks,~ And all Olympus
88 10| Lord for ever and ever! Amen." You have, O men, the divine
89 2 | glittering in his hands,~ Amounting to a splendid fee, persuaded~
90 2 | the Didymaean, that of Amphiaraus, of Apollo, of Amphilochus;
91 2 | Amphiaraus, of Apollo, of Amphilochus; and if you will, couple
92 1 | WORD AND GOD THE FATHER.~AMPHION of Thebes and Arion of Methymna
93 1 | another cauterizes, in another amputates, in order if possible to
94 11| be bound on to you as an amulet, and, by trusting in God'
95 11| necromancers, receive from them amulets and charms, to ward off
96 11| temple; and pleasures and amusements abandon to the winds and
97 10| of Andocides, and that of Amyetus? Is it not evident to all
98 2 | deflowered by him, Amphitrite Amymone, Alope, Melanippe, Alcyone,
99 4 | Philip of Pella, the son of Amyntor, to whom they decreed divine
100 2 | that Melampus the son of Amythaon imported the festivals of
101 2 | of the Scythians, whoever Anacharsis was, who shot with an arrow
102 4 | or touching, or something analogous to smell or taste; while
103 4 | a statue of Osiris, his ancestor, to be executed in sumptuous
104 10| Word. But do you--for your ancestral customs, by which your minds
105 2 | over to Cinyra and married Anchises, and laid snares for Phaethon,
106 12| Spirit will bring thee to anchor in the haven of heaven.
107 4 | senseless works of men's hands. Anciently, then, the Scythians worshipped
108 10| Hermes of Typho, and that of Andocides, and that of Amyetus? Is
109 2 | Plataeans to sacrifice to Androcrates and Democrates, and Cyclaeus
110 4 | instruction, lest the Lord be angry, and ye perish from the
111 2 | Callistagoras; among the Delians, Anius; among the Laconians, Astrabacus;
112 2 | the ceremony itself they announce as the Cabiric mystery.
113 1 | hath an husband."~The angel announced to us the glad tidings of
114 10| with the brief terms of the announcement; which the Ninevites having
115 2 | and Baubo having become annoyed, thinking herself slighted,
116 12| may become also like Me. I anoint you with the ungent of faith,
117 2 | bewail Melicerta. At Nemea another--a little boy, Archemorus--
118 10| X. ANSWER TO THE OBJECTION OF THE
119 1 | the frivolous among them answering to the fowls of the air,
120 2 | Zeus in the likeness of an ant had intercourse with Eurymedusa,
121 3 | men in sacrifice to Zeus, Anticlides shows in his Homeward Journeys;
122 4 | from the Seleucians, near Antioch, who also had been visited
123 4 | then, that the dead men of antiquity, being reverenced through
124 2 | Thessalians reported to worship ants, since they have learned
125 4 | fifth part of his Cycle. And Apellas, in the Delphics, says that
126 10| and your Praxiteles and Apelles too, come, and all that
127 2 | opinion of Dionysus: it was an Aphrodisian favour that was asked of
128 2 | so lewd a worthy fruit--Aphrodite--is born. In the rites which
129 2 | off sacrificing asses, as Apollodorus and Callimachus relate:--~"
130 2 | Magnes. And now how many Apollos are there? They are numberless,
131 1 | prophetic choir, in a way appealing more to reason, He turns
132 2 | un-robed for the sake of the apple, and presented themselves
133 4 | artists not having yet applied themselves to this specious
134 3 | in sacrificing hecatombs, appointing solemn assemblies, setting
135 2 | Epimenides of old, who raised ar Athens the altars of Insult
136 4 | worshipped their sabres, the Arabs stones, the Persians rivers.
137 2 | Nemea another--a little boy, Archemorus--was buried; and the funeral
138 10| Mind, the Divine Word, the archetypal light of light; and the
139 4 | true beauty which is the archetype of all who are beautiful.
140 10| and nobly strive in the arena of truth, the holy Word
141 2 | Hellenes erected the temple of Argennian Aphrodite, in honour of
142 2 | Aphrodite, in honour of Argennus his friend. An Artemis,
143 10| the laws of Solon, and the Argive those of Phoroneus, and
144 4 | in the second book of his Argolics, writes of the image of
145 10| you rush away from the arguments addressed to you, in your
146 4 | pear-tree and the artist was Argus. Many, perhaps, may be surprised
147 1 | FATHER.~AMPHION of Thebes and Arion of Methymna were both minstrels,
148 3 | demanded cruel oblations. Thus Aristomenes the Messenian slew three
149 2 | fleece of a sheep. Further, Aristotle calls the first Apollo,
150 4 | character of the sun-god, as Aristus of Salamis relates. And
151 12| this the Word of God, the arm of the Lord, the power of
152 11| us array ourselves in the armour of peace, putting on the
153 2 | the embrace of its humid arms."~And in these:--~"O Thou,
154 1 | the elements to harmonious arrangement, so that the whole world
155 1 | embrace of fire, harmoniously arranging these the extreme tones
156 11| and we have heard. "Let us array ourselves in the armour
157 2 | Atheists; for if they did not arrive at the knowledge of the
158 2 | of Sol were struck by the arrows of Hercules; and the same
159 2 | that, nor Aethousa, nor Arsinoe, nor Zeuxippe, nor Prothoe,
160 2 | also the temple of another Artemis--Artemis Podagra (or, the
161 3 | they were buried in the Artemisium in Delos, which is in the
162 1 | possessed by a spirit of artful sorcery for purposes of
163 2 | immortal, the guardians of articulate-speaking men."~ Who these guardians
164 4 | the courtesan Lamia, he ascended the Acropolis, and lay with
165 11| the kind attendant on our ascent to heaven. What, then, is
166 2 | seems to me requisite to ascertain if those are really demons
167 2 | were I to mention the many Asclepiuses, or all the Mercuries that
168 2 | away that they guard us, O Ascraean, or perhaps it is from sinning,
169 2 | the nod which thou dost ascribe to him is most reverend.
170 4 | the door? The Romans, who ascribed their greatest successes
171 2 | Aphrodisian favour that was asked of Dionysus as a reward.
172 2 | Hebrew term, the name Hevia, aspirated, signifies a female serpent.
173 12| crowned with victory. Let us aspire, then, after what is good;
174 10| knoweth his owner, and the ass his master's crib; but Israel
175 2 | do away with those solemn assemblages at tombs, the Isthmian,
176 10| God. "Trust in Him, all ye assembled people; pour out all your
177 1 | grasshopper. A solemn Hellenic assembly had met at Pytho, to celebrate
178 9 | the Lord, with ceaseless assiduity, exhorts, terrifies, urges,
179 2 | on the lyre. And they, by assiduously playing the lyre, and singing
180 4 | privy, and erected it there, assigning to the goddess as a fitting
181 10| has to buy for money, He assigns to thee as thine own, even
182 9 | who alone can worthily assimilate man to God. This teaching
183 10| image and likeness of God," assimilated to the Divine Word in the
184 2 | Thebans to weasels, for their assistance at the birth of Hercules.
185 2 | place of the only real God, assumes many gods falsely so called,--
186 3 | Affairs. Philanthropic, assuredly, the demons appear, from
187 2 | Anius; among the Laconians, Astrabacus; at Phalerus, a hero affixed
188 3 | reasons those who first went astray were impelled to preach
189 2 | extremes of ignorance are atheism and superstition, from which
190 2 | are those that reckon five Athenes: the Athenian, the daughter
191 4 | been fed by Ptolemy. But Athenodorns the son of Sandon, while
192 1 | celestial Word, the true athlete crowned in the theatre of
193 10| comets, which are produced by atmospheric changes? He who calls Fortune
194 2 | Clotho, and Lachesis, and Atropos, and Heimarmene, and Auxo,
195 10| approach, or impossible to attain, but is very near us in
196 9 | who first of all other men attained to the knowledge of God,
197 10| undertaken to do, the task I now attempt is the noblest, viz., to
198 4 | other madman, has made such attempts, and if one has killed the
199 11| spirit of the soul the kind attendant on our ascent to heaven.
200 1 | the favour of divine love, attended the Hebrews like a handmaid.
201 1 | The grasshopper then was attracted by the song of Eunomos,
202 3 | And if no shame for these audacious impieties steals over you,
203 3 | checked, but having gone on augmenting and rushing along in full
204 10| inconceivable. His anger augments punishment against sin;
205 2 | expounders of prodigies, the augurs, and the interpreters of
206 3 | them, though called by the august name of temples; that is,
207 10| are not able to endure the austerity of salvation; but as we
208 2 | Atropos, and Heimarmene, and Auxo, and Thallo, which are Attic
209 2 | deities, and the judges and avengers of crime, are the creations
210 10| ears; do not block up the avenues of hearing, but lay to heart
211 2 | a fate they hope not for awaits after death." And in truth
212 9 | rouses, admonishes; He awakes from the sleep of darkness,
213 1 | needed signs and wonders. He awed men by the fire when He
214 3 | this you suffer?~Your heads axe enveloped in the darkness
215 10| thirteenth god, whose pretensions Babylon confuted, which showed him
216 2 | to frenzy, and play the bacchanal,--not so much, in my opinion,
217 2 | in which the phallus of Bacchus was deposited, took it to
218 2 | seat,~ Whoever Thou be, baffling our efforts to behold Thee."~
219 2 | of life! Is not Zeus the Baldhead worshipped in Argos; and
220 2 | condemnation. These are dice, ball, hoop, apples, top, looking-glass,
221 12| and pursue the jubilant band; those that are called make
222 2 | possible honour:--~"Mars, Mars, bane of men, blood-stained stormer
223 2 | servitudes too, and their banquets; and furthermore, their
224 11| in water, that, have been baptized by the Word, returning grateful
225 2 | when but a child, as the bard of this mystery, the Thracian
226 2 | and those that divine by barley, and the ventriloquists
227 4 | images themselves, from base greed of gain. And if a
228 2 | serpent the symbol of Dionysus Bassareus? And besides these, are
229 10| thankful enjoyment. What the bastard, who is a son of perdition,
230 10| clothes; who never come near a bath, and let their nails grow
231 4 | those of the Indian wild beast. I adduce as my authority
232 2 | inhabitants of Cyzicus, beating a drum and sounding a cymbal
233 4 | dissuading from all idolatry, beautifully exclaims, "Hear, O Israel,
234 2 | I have slipped into the bedroom." Are not these tokens a
235 1 | destruction; but truth, like the bee, harming nothing, delights
236 4 | shape. And when the Xoana began to be made in the likeness
237 4 | nuptials of the deities, their begetting and bringing forth of children
238 10| promiscuous rabble of creatures begotten and born, and attaches himself
239 12| help: pass by Pleasure, she beguiles.~"Let not a woman with flowing
240 1 | through whom alone God is beheld.~
241 4 | posterity. As grounds of your belief in these, there are your
242 1 | of fruits, the other of believers. But to the Unbelieving
243 12| presents to the Father him who believes, to be kept safe for ever.
244 9 | saved otherwise than by believing on Jesus. But the Lord,
245 11| pleasure crawling on its belly, earthly wickedness nourished
246 10| your souls from Him, and belong wholly to God, should be
247 10| deprived of the properties that belonged to it, is also deprived
248 4 | Persians rivers. And some, belonging to other races still more
249 12| fashion. This is the mountain beloved of God, not the subject
250 10| celerity unsurpassable, and a benevolence to which we have ready access,
251 9 | devil. And now the more benevolent God is, the more impious
252 2 | Phrygians. Others, plucking the benignant fruits of earth-born plants,
253 10| in the way of him who is bent on the knowledge of God.
254 1 | the herald of the Word, besought men to make themselves ready
255 4 | woe! that fate decrees my best-belov'd,~Sarpedon, by Patroclus'
256 12| impart to you this grace, bestowing on you the perfect boon
257 10| our fathers feel hurt, and betake ourselves to the truth,
258 10| by which those who have betaken themselves to the Father,
259 3 | not a lover of men. 'He betrayed his friend Croesus, and
260 10| these vain phantasies, and bid adieu to evil custom, say
261 2 | and punishes what it is bidden. Such are the mysteries
262 1 | as those who are said to bind the captives to corpses
263 4 | rather than of Zeus. So that Bion--wittily, as I think--says,
264 10| mouth to swallow the little bird, "the mother flutters round,
265 10| the reins, and take the bit between their teeth, you
266 4 | and fumigated, they are blackened; no more do they for honour
267 2 | herself under the breasts.~ Blandly then the goddess laughed
268 10| follows:--~"The mind a blank, useless ears, vain thoughts."~
269 1 | atmosphere, as the Dorian is blended with the Lydian strain;
270 1 | charm of persuasion which blends with this strain.~ To me,
271 10| against sin; His love bestows bless-rags on repentance. It is the
272 12| what is the greatest of blessings--salvation. For discourses
273 4 | enlarge on his beauty? Beauty blighted by vice is loathsome. Do
274 10| comes from God. Hence this blindness of eyes and dulness of hearing
275 10| having treasured up his bliss in nothing but himself and
276 4 | borders on the Spot; and that Blistichis the courtesan having died
277 10| not stop your ears; do not block up the avenues of hearing,
278 2 | Mars, Mars, bane of men, blood-stained stormer of walls,"--~this
279 11| word, He has gathered the bloodless host of peace, and assigned
280 2 | more comely than Leda, more blooming than Semele, and boys of
281 11| Christ is His Gospel. He hath blown it, and we have heard. "
282 4 | gave to the composition a blue colour, whence the darkish
283 2 | in the whole of Greece--I blush to say it--the shameful
284 2 | says Homer; the goddesses blushing, for modesty's sake, to
285 4 | Nereids. And now the Magi boast that the demons are the
286 2 | events, and are fashioned in bodily shape, such as a Dike, a
287 2 | members of Dionysus, first boiled them down, and then fixing
288 2 | Saturnian Jove, having shot his bolt through both,~ Quickly took
289 4 | the Olympian Jove of other bones--those of the Indian wild
290 4 | shows in the fourth of his books addressed to Timaeus. Nor
291 4 | and the sacred enclosure borders on the Spot; and that Blistichis
292 2 | he did not disobey Zeus--bore the dismembered corpse to
293 11| Minos the Cretan as the bosom friend of Zeus, will not
294 1 | and fixed the sea as its boundary. The violence of fire it
295 2 | st thou this lofty, this boundless ether,~ Holding the earth
296 10| while luxuriating in the bounties of the Lord, to ignore the
297 1 | saves, shields, and of His bounty promises us the kingdom
298 2 | Apollo too, of the silver bow,~ With a mortal man for
299 2 | His tottering knees were bowed beneath his weight."~You
300 2 | strings of their enemies' bows; and from those mice Apollo
301 2 | The Syenites worship the braize-fish; and the maiotes--this is
302 1 | and sang on it as on a branch; and the minstrel, adapting
303 2 | they not pomegranates, and branches, and rods, and ivy leaves?
304 2 | a doctor, and not only a brass-worker among the gods. And the
305 2 | Phanocles, in his book of the Brave and Fair, relates that Agamemnon
306 1 | becoming the Gospel, might break the mystic silence of the
307 1 | of Eunomos. The Locrian breaks a string. The grasshopper
308 11| of peace, putting on the breastplate of righteousness, and taking
309 10| eyes capable of seeing? Who breathed spirit into the lifeless
310 4 | men, they got the name of Brete,a term derived from Brotos(
311 11| will declare Thy name to my brethren; in the midst of the Church
312 2 | away~ Through thorns and briars. Why do ye wander?~ Cease,
313 12| will shed on thee a light brighter than the sun; night will
314 1 | with Wisdom in all its brightness, and the sacred prophetic
315 2 | it is that she is called Brimo, as is said; also the entreaties
316 2 | make of his body, as tall, bristling-haired, robust; and Dicaearchus
317 10| strait, despised on earth; broad, adored in heaven. Then,
318 2 | quest of her daughter Core, broke down with fatigue near Eleusis,
319 4 | although his collar-bone was broken, and he had a lame leg,
320 1 | righteousness, He once called "a brood of vipers." But if one of
321 11| existence, night would have brooded over the universe notwithstanding
322 4 | Brete,a term derived from Brotos(man). In Rome, the historian
323 2 | you, too, with regard to brute beasts? For of your number
324 4 | work was done by the artist Bryaxis, not the Athenian, but another
325 4 | say, they were the work of Bryxis, I do not dispute,--you
326 1 | entice men to idols; nay, to build up the stupidity of the
327 11| and pursues death--He who builds up the temple of God in
328 2 | time the walls of Troy were built by them for the Phrygian.
329 12| My yoke is easy, and My burden light."~ Let us haste, let
330 3 | Concord, offer a man as a burn-sacrifice to the Taurian Artemis.
331 1 | cheers. He spake by the burning bush, for the men of that
332 2 | rushes to his tomb, and burns with unnatural lust. Cutting
333 4 | represented in comedy, and bursts of laughter over their cups,
334 10| live. He who seeks God is busying himself about his own salvation.
335 2 | distribution of the parts of butchered victims, crowned with snakes,
336 3 | kind is murder and human butchery. Then why is it, O men,
337 10| too--for I will not stop calling--come. None of these ever
338 2 | Cythnians; among the Tenians, Callistagoras; among the Delians, Anius;
339 10| likewise to deem it the calm haven of salvation: wisdom,
340 1 | song.~"Soother of pain, calmer of wrath, producing forgetfulness
341 4 | stone called Lychnis, and Calos the one which they are reported
342 4 | greed of gain. And if a Cambyses or a Darius, or any other
343 10| for example, whom they canonized as the thirteenth god, whose
344 4 | courtesan having died in Canopus, Ptolemy had her conveyed
345 1 | of Terpander, nor that of Capito, nor the Phrygian, nor Lydian,
346 4 | after the Amazons. And the Capitol in Rome was often wrapped
347 1 | who are said to bind the captives to corpses till they rot
348 2 | rescue a man, already death's capture, from his grasp;~ But Saturnian
349 3 | the reward he had got(so careful was he of his fame), led
350 2 | lay."~Good luck attend the Carians, who sacrifice dogs to him!
351 4 | celebrated in song, their carousals represented in comedy, and
352 2 | purple cloth, crowned it, and carrying it on the point of a spear,
353 4 | were called Xoana, from the carving of the material of which
354 2 | fables. The fountain of Castalia is silent, and the other
355 2 | wrote the Cyprian poems says Castor was mortal, and death was
356 10| wild beasts; many of them castrated, who show the idol's temples
357 1 | some of his patients with cataplasms, some with rubbing, some
358 4 | the senses, as worms and caterpillars, and such as even from the
359 2 | of the Egyptians, such as cats and weasels, should receive
360 2 | Callimachus says in his Book of Causes; and at Methymna another
361 1 | with the lancet, in another cauterizes, in another amputates, in
362 2 | impiety, or the mouths of caverns full of monstrosity, or
363 9 | condemnation? And the Lord, with ceaseless assiduity, exhorts, terrifies,
364 1 | friends, that while God is ceaselessly exhorting us to virtue,
365 3 | the Acropolis, is that of Cecrops, as Antiochus says in the
366 10| aside their toys. For with a celerity unsurpassable, and a benevolence
367 3 | Acropolis; and the daughters of Celeus, were they not interred
368 4 | time from the temporary censure that attached to it, is
369 1 | from the extremities to the central part, has harmonized this
370 1 | all,--reaching from the centre to the circumference, and
371 2 | the sake of the shameless ceremonial practised. With reason,
372 2 | they call Cabiric; and the ceremony itself they announce as
373 2 | cymbal, I have carried the Cernos, I have slipped into the
374 10| earth. "For then," says a certain prophecy, "the affairs here
375 4 | they were made immortal. Ceux, the son of Eolus, was styled
376 1 | fast with the miserable chain of superstition whomsoever
377 2 | licentious, bound in the chains of adultery; Eos having
378 10| salvation: for He was a true champion and a fellow-champion with
379 2 | walls,"--~this deity, always changing sides, and implacable, as
380 10| who have had these divine characters impressed on them, ought,
381 2 | true wisdom. One of these charges the Egyptians thus: "If
382 1 | and supposed animals to be charmed by music while Truth's shining
383 10| feel the influence of the charming strains of sanctity, and
384 3 | worshipped by no one till Charmus took a little boy and raised
385 12| headland, or the threatening Charybdis, or the mythic sirens. It
386 9 | says, "my son, despise the chastening of the LORD, nor faint when
387 10| God, who croaks not, nor chatters, but speaks rationally and
388 12| woman with flowing train cheat you of your senses,~ With
389 3 | and not being subsequently checked, but having gone on augmenting
390 9 | price. This recompense God cheerfully accepts; "for we trust in
391 1 | by the voice of song He cheers. He spake by the burning
392 2 | Spartans reverence Artemis Chelytis, or the cougher, from keluttein,
393 3 | people who inhabit the Tauric Chersonese, sacrifice to the Tauric
394 2 | out of the basket into the chest. Fine sights truly, and
395 2 | rites. What are these mystic chests?--for I must expose their
396 11| wisdom; and that which the chiefs of philosophy only guessed
397 1 | has not had the pangs of childbirth utter her voice: for more
398 2 | having beguiled him with childish toys, these very Titans
399 10| knowledge of God. Neither childlessness, nor poverty, nor obscurity,
400 2 | Melanippe, Alcyone, Hippothoe, Chione, and myriads of others;
401 3 | sacrifice to Peleus and Chiron. That the Lyctii, who are
402 1 | warmed by the sun, were chirping beneath the leaves along
403 4 | Samos was formed by the chisel of Euclides, Olympichus
404 9 | one symphony following one choir-leader and teacher, the Word, reaching
405 2 | silence just now Dionysus Choiropsales. The Sicyonians reverence
406 12| or the mythic sirens. It chokes man, turns him away from
407 10| from its own resources, chooses at once what is best, instead
408 12| the Word, raising a sober choral dance. The righteous are
409 12| us to say that the pious Christian alone is rich and wise,
410 2 | another Pelops, another Chrysippus, and another Ganymede. Let
411 4 | the temple in Argos, with Chrysis the priestess; and that
412 9 | on all men." No one is a Cimmerian in respect to the word.
413 2 | with Ares, crossed over to Cinyra and married Anchises, and
414 1 | reaching from the centre to the circumference, and from the extremities
415 11| at all times and in all circumstances, tends to the highest end,
416 2 | Thesprotian caldron, or the Cirrhaean tripod, or the Dodonian
417 4 | unwrought wood, and that of the Cithaeronian Here was a felled tree-trunk;
418 1 | those who lived as free citizens under heaven by their songs
419 4 | temple of Serapis, in the city of the Alexandrians. At
420 2 | of his true father, may claim many putative fathers. There
421 2 | or rather madness, the Clarian, the Pythian, the Didymaean,
422 2 | danced around [his cradle] clashing their weapons, and the Titans
423 4 | girls' ornaments of wax or clay deceives them. You then
424 11| take up His abode in men. Cleanse the temple; and pleasures
425 2 | fair golden apples from the clear-toned Hesperides."~And the useless
426 3 | Apollo. Leandrius says that Clearchus was buried in Miletus, in
427 2 | a sober life, and had a clearer insight than the rest of
428 2 | earth, by inducing him to cleave to earthly objects. For
429 10| of sin, the Saviour, the clement, the Divine Word, He that
430 2 | Eurymedusa, the daughter of Cletor, and begot Myrmidon? Polemo,
431 10| are to evil custom, and, clinging to it voluntarily till your
432 2 | dead body with a purple cloth, crowned it, and carrying
433 10| with filthy and tattered clothes; who never come near a bath,
434 11| him from his bonds, and clothing Himself with flesh--O divine
435 2 | shape, such as a Dike, a Clotho, and Lachesis, and Atropos,
436 1 | burst from the pillar of cloud--a token at once of grace
437 10| the atmosphere and of the clouds; and as, likewise, a day
438 3 | they lay hands on on their coasts who have been east adrift
439 3 | when some traveller spies,~Coiled in his path upon the mountain
440 1 | Lydian strain; and the harsh cold of the air it has moderated
441 4 | Cynosargus, although his collar-bone was broken, and he had a
442 11| loud trumpet, when sounded, collects the soldiers, and proclaims
443 11| permitted you to conduct a colony from here to heaven: with
444 2 | and the other fountain of Colophon; and, in like manner, all
445 4 | to the composition a blue colour, whence the darkish hue
446 4 | mixed the whole with the colouring matter that was left over
447 12| love Christ. He led the colt with its parent; and having
448 2 | lamp, a sword, a woman's comb, which is a euphemism and
449 4 | carousals represented in comedy, and bursts of laughter
450 10| how can shooting stars and comets, which are produced by atmospheric
451 1 | themselves ready against the coming of the Christ Of God. And
452 9 | Lord's ways, which John commanded to make straight and to
453 10| military service? Listen to the commander, who orders what is right.
454 10| persuasions of those who commiserate you; enslaved as you are
455 1 | children to Abraham;" and He, commiserating their great ignorance and
456 1 | which had been in a state of commotion, it has established, and
457 2 | employing themselves in communicating the precious teaching of
458 2 | There was an innate original communion between men and heaven,
459 12| nor is it allowable to compare life with destruction.~
460 10| justice, then, have you been compared to those serpents who shut
461 2 | unholy jesting the whole compass of your life--a life in
462 10| God. As, then, we do not compel the horse to plough, or
463 4 | domestics, and by their charms compelling them to be their slaves.
464 10| forward a witness inborn and competent, viz, faith, which of itself,
465 10| the Lord thy God." And the complements of these are those laws.
466 12| the knowledge of God, My complete self. This am I, this God
467 3 | comes to this, that you are completely dead, putting, as really
468 4 | ingredients, he gave to the composition a blue colour, whence the
469 1 | are turned into dramatic compositions. But the dramas and the
470 2 | want of terms to make up compound names of impiety.~
471 4 | from funeral materials, compounded as it is of Osiris and Apis,
472 2 | Mars~ Underwent it at the compulsion of his father."~And so on.~
473 2 | for I must by no means conceal it) I cannot help wondering
474 4 | animal. I am at a loss to conceive how objects devoid of sense
475 9 | occupied with the Father's concerns, then shall he be deemed
476 12| To you still remains this conclusion, to choose which will profit
477 3 | us in his third book, On Concord, offer a man as a burn-sacrifice
478 9 | work all uncleanness and concupiscence." After the accusation of
479 2 | like a priest of Cybele, condemning him as having become effeminate
480 10| into the abyss, while truth conducts to heaven. Harsh it is at
481 2 | paid her, viz., Artemis Condylitis. There is also the temple
482 2 | Thracian Orpheus, says:--~"Cone, and spinning-top, and limb-moving
483 2 | men. Goats, too, have been confederates in this art of soothsaying,
484 12| boon of immortality; and I confer on you both the Word and
485 11| HOW GREAT ARE THE BENEFITS CONFERRED ON MAN THROUGH THE ADVENT
486 9 | down into destruction; He confers everlasting life, you wait
487 2 | demons themselves indeed confess their own gluttony, saying:--~"
488 9 | his children. Thus Moses confesses that "he was filled with
489 12| is the Word; let us put confidence in Him; and never let us
490 1 | of the demon crew, let us confine to Cithaeron and Helicon,
491 2 | in Alimus of Attica were confined to Athens. But those contests
492 2 | it should he return, and confirms his promise with an oath.
493 9 | us, by being made good, conformably follow after union, seeking
494 10| whose pretensions Babylon confuted, which showed him dead.
495 2 | harlot, should enter the congregation? By the two first he alludes
496 1 | a stop to corruption, to conquer death, to reconcile disobedient
497 10| nor does any one who has conquered by brass or iron the true
498 4 | nude. The Cyprian is made a conquest of by the mere shape, and
499 2 | as the Thebans. Others, considering the penalties of wickedness,
500 2 | with his thunderbolt, and consigns the members of Dionysus
501 9 | writings or volumes that consist of those holy letters and