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502 10| he who flees from God to consort with demons? Who, that may
503 4 | who he was,--whom indeed, conspicuously above all, we hear to have
504 11| has been God's fixed and constant purpose to save the flock
505 10| three departments of our constitution--in the hands, the mouth,
506 4 | connection with sepulture and its construction from funeral materials,
507 4 | myths about the gods with contempt, at the same time men themselves,
508 2 | Phaethon, and loved Adonis. She contended with the ox-eyed Juno; and
509 2 | exploits, nor is he taught continence. The fable is exposed before
510 10| in Thee; and let them say continually, God be magnified." A noble
511 4 | Canopus, Ptolemy had her conveyed there, and buried beneath
512 10| covenant of God invests us, conveying the everlasting gift of
513 2 | liking for savoury odours and cookery? Such are your demons and
514 2 | happened most likely to be cooking something at home), said, "
515 4 | their pictures of Aphrodite copies of the beauty of Phryne;
516 2 | tripod, or the Dodonian copper. The Gerandryon, once regarded
517 2 | Zeus--bore the dismembered corpse to Parnassus, and there
518 10| were laughed at, but have corrected ourselves, even if we did
519 3 | revere the demons not be correspondingly pious? The former are called
520 4 | God into the likeness of corruptible man, and worshipped and
521 1 | under the pretence of poetry corrupting human life, possessed by
522 2 | that parsley grew from the Corybantic blood that flowed forth;
523 2 | that in Crete, the son of Corybas; the third, the son Zeus;
524 2 | the Messenians have named Coryphasia, from her mother; above
525 4 | and lay with her on the couch of Athene, showing to the
526 2 | their speech signifies to cough. Do you imagine from what
527 2 | Artemis Chelytis, or the cougher, from keluttein, which in
528 10| dwell together, and the sage council-chamber. Nor is it difficult to
529 10| to the knowledge of God, counselling him to furnish himself with
530 10| that I should be your good counsellor? Well, do you hear. I, if
531 11| worthy of the kingdom, and be counted worthy of the kingdom.~
532 2 | At any rate, the native countries of your gods, and their
533 2 | Amphilochus; and if you will, couple with them the expounders
534 4 | whether you ought to worship cour-tesans. Moved, as I believe, by
535 2 | of Core, and shamefully courts her in the shape of a dragon;
536 2 | ye were strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope,
537 4 | wing is motionless. But the cow of Daedalus, made of wood,
538 2 | Curetes danced around [his cradle] clashing their weapons,
539 4 | dead matter shaped by the craftsman's hand. But we have no sensible
540 4 | Egypt brought a number of craftsmen with him. Accordingly he
541 4 | made it like the form of Cratine, of whom he was enamoured,
542 12| us be visited with such a craving for silver and gold, and
543 2 | avengers of crime, are the creations of the tragic poets. And
544 11| and the west has given credence to the east. For this was
545 10| But you say it is not creditable to subvert the customs handed
546 2 | For thy tomb, O king,~ The Cretans fashioned!"~For Zeus is
547 1 | and the rest of the demon crew, let us confine to Cithaeron
548 10| and the ass his master's crib; but Israel hath not known
549 1 | in the wilderness." What criest thou, O voice? Tell us also. "
550 2 | the judges and avengers of crime, are the creations of the
551 1 | destruction, celebrating crimes in their orgies, and making
552 10| But the man of God, who croaks not, nor chatters, but speaks
553 2 | disgraced herself with Ares, crossed over to Cinyra and married
554 2 | honours may be discovered in crowds throughout your cities:
555 1 | quite intoxicated, let us crown with ivy; and distracted
556 2 | trained to divination; and crows taught by men to give oracular
557 3 | III. THE CRUELTY OF THE SACRIFICES TO THE
558 1 | bewailing those who are crushed in ignorance and folly: "
559 4 | authors introduce, urge me to cry out, though I would fain
560 4 | bursts of laughter over their cups, which your authors introduce,
561 10| distasteful to the palate are curative and healing, and the harshness
562 1 | in order if possible to cure the patient's diseased part
563 1 | plagued with a demon, he cured him by merely playing. A
564 2 | called ichor. Wherefore cures and means of sustenance
565 2 | while still a child, and the Curetes danced around [his cradle]
566 4 | capable of exposing and curing superstition. If thou art
567 2 | GODS.~ Explore not then too curiously the shrines of impiety,
568 1 | fomentations; in one case cuts open with the lancet, in
569 2 | burns with unnatural lust. Cutting a fig-branch that came to
570 2 | Androcrates and Democrates, and Cyclaeus and Leuco while the Median
571 4 | in the fifth part of his Cycle. And Apellas, in the Delphics,
572 2 | Leucopolites a wolf, the Cynopolites a dog, the Memphites Apis,
573 4 | decreed divine worship in Cynosargus, although his collar-bone
574 2 | lightning in the regions of Cynosuris. Philochorus also says,
575 2 | is then the foam-born and Cyprus-born, the darling of Cinyras,--
576 2 | and besides these, that Cyrenian of the name of Theodorus,
577 2 | effeminacy to the rest of the Cythians. Wherefore (for I must by
578 2 | cities: Menedemus among the Cythnians; among the Tenians, Callistagoras;
579 4 | fate decrees my best-belov'd,~Sarpedon, by Patroclus'
580 4 | motionless. But the cow of Daedalus, made of wood, allured the
581 3 | the son of Eumolpus and Daira, were they not buried in
582 2 | Poseidon, and the troop of damsels deflowered by him, Amphitrite
583 2 | a child, and the Curetes danced around [his cradle] clashing
584 4 | gods, as this involved no danger from men, and thus taught
585 2 | Marpissa, nor Hypsipyle. For Daphne alone escaped the prophet
586 2 | imposture among men, be he Dardanus, who taught the mysteries
587 2 | sacrifices, and deeds that we dare not name. Such rites the
588 10| fulness thereof." Then why darest thou, while luxuriating
589 10| is an enterprise of noble daring to take our way to God;
590 4 | And if a Cambyses or a Darius, or any other madman, has
591 2 | square-built, muscular, dark, hook-nosed, with greyish
592 4 | blue colour, whence the darkish hue of the image; and having
593 2 | foam-born and Cyprus-born, the darling of Cinyras,--I mean Aphrodite,
594 1 | mount of God; and let Truth, darting her light to the most distant
595 11| the evil one; "the fiery darts of the evil one" let us
596 10| impelled by your folly, dash towards the precipices of
597 10| speedily to men, having dawned from His Father's counsel
598 10| the robber, whose eye is dazzled by worldly wealth; but it
599 2 | deposited, took it to Etruria--dealers in honourable wares truly.
600 4 | had been visited with a dearth of corn, and had been fed
601 11| destruction and pursues death--He who builds up the temple
602 1 | of the universe. And this deathless strain,the support of the
603 4 | beautiful. Now the grave of the debauched boy is the temple and town
604 2 | and thus was at once the debaucher and the bridegroom of so
605 2 | adulteries of all sorts, and debauching of boys. For your gods did
606 2 | the oracle there gone to decay with the oak itself, consigned
607 4 | ornaments of wax or clay deceives them. You then will show
608 2 | shepherd, that he might decide which was the fairest. But
609 4 | point may demand must not be declined. That the statue of Zeus
610 10| youth; and it is at once the decorous place where the household
611 4 | deities.~"Woe, woe! that fate decrees my best-belov'd,~Sarpedon,
612 10| they turn; and likewise to deem it the calm haven of salvation:
613 4 | uncreated Deity, have sunk into deepest darkness? The Parian stone
614 4 | will repeat it), have you, defaming the supercelestial region,
615 10| fear and grace. Why do we delay? Why do we not shun the
616 10| Father, rejecting custom as a deleterious drug? For of all that I
617 3 | is in the temple of the Delian Apollo. Leandrius says that
618 2 | Callistagoras; among the Delians, Anius; among the Laconians,
619 10| has been poured, and who deliberately maintains his incredulity
620 10| this you think requires deliberation and doubt, and know not
621 2 | the goddess. Demeter is delighted at the sight, and takes,
622 10| feed on foolish and useless delights--swinish men. For swine,
623 1 | involved in darkness, and deliver men from delusion, stretching
624 10| looked for, obtained a signal deliverance. How, then, may I ascend
625 11| trusting in God's own charm, be delivered from passions which are
626 3 | buried in the Artemisium in Delos, which is in the temple
627 4 | the temple of Apollo at Delphi, first a storm assailed
628 4 | Cycle. And Apellas, in the Delphics, says that there were two
629 4 | Cnidus. So powerful is art to delude, by seducing amorous men
630 4 | different kind of spell that art deludes you, if it leads you not
631 2 | not appear extravagant, deluging your ears with these numerous
632 10| cause of unlawful rites and delusive shows, and also of deadly
633 4 | such proof as the point may demand must not be declined. That
634 3 | cities and nations, they demanded cruel oblations. Thus Aristomenes
635 3 | former to Pherephatta, as Demaratus mentions in his first book
636 2 | so called, as there are demi-asses(mules); for you have no
637 2 | your demons and gods, and demigods, if there are any so called,
638 2 | sacrifice to Androcrates and Democrates, and Cyclaeus and Leuco
639 10| water; and, according to Democritus, "doat upon dirt."~ Let
640 4 | from Troy and deposited at Demophoon, was made of the bones of
641 1 | will not say Elias. He will deny that he is Christ, but will
642 1 | men, teaching us, that, denying ungodliness and worldly
643 2 | Having learned the way, he departed and again returned: he did
644 10| it has its abode in three departments of our constitution--in
645 10| but evil custom, after our departure from this world, brings
646 10| the evil one; for the one deprives them of heavenly vision,
647 2 | processions. I think that the derivation of orgies and mysteries
648 4 | the name of Brete,a term derived from Brotos(man). In Rome,
649 3 | says that Cinyras and the descendants of Cinyras were interred
650 2 | rock,~ But from men, is thy descent."~But shortly after this,
651 1 | Arcadians by the poets, who describe them as older than the moon;
652 10| your choice, therefore, as described by Sophocles, follows:--~"
653 2 | Hieronymus the philosopher describes the make of his body, as
654 11| the poetical fable which designated Minos the Cretan as the
655 9 | far as can be like God, designates God as our suitable teacher,
656 11| gold and gems; it is to be desired above honey and the honey-comb."~
657 1 | prophetic enigmas. But if thou desirest truly to see God, take to
658 9 | adds, "What man is he that desireth life, that loveth to see
659 10| wood and stone, that hold despotic sway over men insulting
660 4 | discerning fire utterly destroyed it. This is told as the
661 3 | haters of the human race, and destroyers, why do you not turn out
662 10| child knows how superstition destroys and piety saves. Let any
663 2 | imagine from what source these details have been quoted? Only such
664 10| those mentioned above is determined. Who, then, in his right
665 2 | sentiments erroneous, and deviating from what is right, and
666 2 | the slippery and hurtful deviations from the truth which draw
667 2 | consigned to darkness. Insane devices truly are they all of unbelieving
668 10| hateful images, has, by devising many shapes of demons, stamped
669 2 | intercourse; for men would not devote themselves to love, or beget
670 10| Sail the sea, you who are devoted to navigation, yet call
671 9 | shall say--we who are the devotees of good, we who eagerly
672 10| the sword and fire shall devour you:" this is the penalty
673 11| and distils on them the dew of the truth. He hath changed
674 2 | Mysae, according to the dialect of the Aeolians. These she
675 2 | bristling-haired, robust; and Dicaearchus says that he was square-built,
676 2 | condemnation. These are dice, ball, hoop, apples, top,
677 2 | Clarian, the Pythian, the Didymaean, that of Amphiaraus, of
678 3 | buried in Miletus, in the Didymaeum. Following the Myndian Zeno,
679 2 | son of Ammon; and to these Didymus the grammarian adds a sixth,
680 10| council-chamber. Nor is it difficult to approach, or impossible
681 4 | Antiochus of Cyzicus, being in difficulties for money, ordered the golden
682 2 | and takes, though with difficulty, the draught--~pleased,
683 10| life, the Giver of peace, diffused over the whole face of the
684 4 | only, but private persons dignified themselves with the names
685 2 | bodily shape, such as a Dike, a Clotho, and Lachesis,
686 10| birth? Why do we increase or diminish our patrimony, and not keep
687 4 | about which they appear dimly, being but shadowy phantasms?
688 11| darkness which obstructs, as dimness of sight, let us contemplate
689 4 | Palladium which is called the Diopetes--that is, fallen from heaven--
690 4 | they were called Scyles and Dipoenus; and these executed the
691 11| quench with the sword-points dipped in water, that, have been
692 12| team of humanity to God, directs His chariot to immortality,
693 1 | praise of the serpent, or a dirge, I am not able to say. But
694 10| to Democritus, "doat upon dirt."~ Let us not then be enslaved
695 10| the Word was in God, not disbelieved in by all when He was first
696 4 | assailed it, and then the discerning fire utterly destroyed it.
697 11| the hidden inner man, the disciple of the Light, the familiar
698 12| brought to the end of their disclosures. To you still remains this
699 1 | melodious order, and tuned the discord of the elements to harmonious
700 12| blessings--salvation. For discourses concerning the life which
701 4 | by the Athenians. But he disdained the goddess, as he could
702 1 | possible to cure the patient's diseased part or member. The Saviour
703 11| from passions which are the diseases of the mind, and rescued
704 2 | reward. The reward was a disgraceful one, though not so in the
705 1 | would seem appears to you disguised, and is looked on with incredulous
706 2 | not disobey Zeus--bore the dismembered corpse to Parnassus, and
707 11| in disobedience; and by disobeying his Father, dishonoured
708 2 | the mystic rites, I shall display, as it were, on the stage
709 3 | of many demons, and was displayed in sacrificing hecatombs,
710 2 | threatening masks of theirs, disproving the rash opinions formed
711 4 | work of Bryxis, I do not dispute,--you have in him another
712 2 | night and darkness. The fire dissembles not; it exposes and punishes
713 1 | exhorted to the truth and dissuaded from idols, was so far from
714 4 | Whence Moses, the man of God, dissuading from all idolatry, beautifully
715 1 | darting her light to the most distant points, cast her rays all
716 10| bitter things which are distasteful to the palate are curative
717 10| stretched the nerves? who distended the veins? Who poured the
718 11| to rise on all men," and distils on them the dew of the truth.
719 2 | body."~ This Homer most distinctly shows, by introducing Aphrodite
720 10| what is man's peculiar and distinguishing characteristic above other
721 2 | the Titans, and a woman in distress, and to parts of the body
722 2 | flesh, and go through the distribution of the parts of butchered
723 4 | the present is viewed with distrust, the past with admiration.
724 1 | disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living
725 10| your minds are preoccupied, divert you from the truth,--do
726 10| may be granted to you to divest yourselves as much as possible
727 10| destruction, as they s have been divested of old age. Hear me, and
728 12| that thou mayest hears diviner voice."~She praises thee,
729 10| according to Democritus, "doat upon dirt."~ Let us not
730 9 | God, being profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction,
731 2 | Cirrhaean tripod, or the Dodonian copper. The Gerandryon,
732 2 | wolf, the Cynopolites a dog, the Memphites Apis, the
733 11| blind, and, like moles, doing nothing but eat, you spend
734 11| has already become the domain of the Word. For you, who
735 2 | in hunting--no matter, I don't grudge your mysteries
736 2 | thunderbolt sealed their doom."~And Euripides:--~"For
737 4 | and place Aguieus as a doorkeeper. For if people upbraid them
738 4 | and place them before the doors, as if capable of activity?
739 3 | evil-averting deities, as Dorotheus relates in his first book
740 3 | to Dionysus, is said by Dosidas. The Phocaeans also(for
741 4 | of Artemis in Icarus was doubtless unwrought wood, and that
742 4 | horse stands quiet; the dove flutters not, its wing is
743 4 | and watery nature, sinking downwards by their own weight, and
744 4 | the supercelestial region, dragged religion to the ground,
745 1 | miseries are turned into dramatic compositions. But the dramas
746 2 | Thesmophoria and Scirophoria; dramatizing in many forms the rape of
747 2 | though with difficulty, the draught--~pleased, I repeat, at the
748 4 | heavens stretched out and drawn together shall be rolled
749 9 | that is, to salvation,--dreading wrath, loving grace, eagerly
750 1 | the Egyptians by those who dream that this land first gave
751 4 | styled Hermes, and used the dress of Hermes, as he himself
752 2 | Having thus spoken, she drew aside her garments,~ And
753 2 | gluttony, saying:--~"For with drink-offerings due, and fat of lambs,~My
754 11| Sun of Righteousness," who drives His chariot over all, pervades
755 12| hastening clearly to fulfil, by driving now into heaven, what He
756 2 | Sardis. Poseidon--was a drudge to Laomedon; and so was
757 2 | fabulous legends to have run dry. Recount to us also the
758 11| eternal death. Surely utterly dull and blind, and, like moles,
759 10| this blindness of eyes and dulness of hearing are more grievous
760 10| working goddess,~ With fans duly placed, fools that ye are"--~
761 4 | made~by men's hands,~Like dumb idols of Sculptured stone."~
762 1 | which was signified by the dumbness of Zacharias, which waited
763 10| you not escape from those dungeons, and flee to the mercy that
764 | during
765 2 | their names were Baubo, and Dusaules, and Triptolemus; and besides,
766 10| Scripture, "shall lick the dust." Raise your eyes from earth
767 11| kind of house-rent for our dwelling here below.~"Gold for brass,~
768 10| long as you see the gods dying sooner than men." And, truly,
769 2 | orgies of Aphrodite in his eagerness to deify a strumpet of his
770 10| spurious, as the sun does the eagles. Let us therefore repent,
771 1 | temperance, set thyself earnestly to find Christ. "For I am,"
772 10| is occupied with so much earnestness about matter, seems to me
773 12| your souls. For My yoke is easy, and My burden light."~
774 2 | inclined to laugh. "I have eaten out of the drum, I have
775 4 | The sun, shall suffer eclipse, and the heaven be darkened;
776 2 | the mother of the gods, or Eetion, who instituted the orgies
777 2 | teacher of the disease of effeminacy to the rest of the Cythians.
778 2 | condemning him as having become effeminate among the Greeks, and a
779 10| therefore rational; but effigies sculptured in human form,
780 4 | Hercules in Tiryns, and the effigy of the Munychian Artemis
781 2 | Whoever Thou be, baffling our efforts to behold Thee."~And whatever
782 12| O mariner, and calls the eillustrious; and the courtesan tries
783 4 | Hippo ordered the following elegy to be inscribed on his tomb:--~"
784 4 | abandon this folly, the element of fire shall light thy
785 1 | tuned the discord of the elements to harmonious arrangement,
786 2 | worshipped by those who inhabit Elephantine: the Oxyrinchites likewise
787 2 | following is the token of the Eleusinian mysteries: I have fasted,
788 4 | demolished the temple of the Eleutherian Dionysus; and as to the
789 2 | another image, reverenced in Elis, of the guzzling Apollo.
790 3 | in the precincts of the Elusinium, which is under the Acropolis;
791 2 | enjoining that no eunuch, or emasculated man, or son of a harlot,
792 10| as a fair port whence to embark, to whatever lot in life
793 10| mouth, and the heart: a meet emblem this of truth, which is
794 2 | globular and flat cakes, embossed all over, and lumps of salt,
795 4 | sapphire, and hematite, and emerald, and topaz. Having ground
796 2 | you a poet of your own, Empedocles of Agrigentum, comes and
797 4 | another of the same name, who employed in its execution a mixture
798 2 | They lived there as exiles, employing themselves in communicating
799 9 | that ye be not apprehended empty." But are ye so devoid of
800 2 | these--so temperate; that, emulating them in the same practices,
801 10| fashioning Himself in flesh, He enacted the drama of human salvation:
802 1 | reptile monster, by his enchantments, enslaves and plagues men
803 1 | with righteousness, and encircling them with the leaves of
804 4 | in honour, and the sacred enclosure borders on the Spot; and
805 1 | yet has prevented it from encroaching on the land. The earth,
806 2 | superstition, from which we must endeavour to keep. And do you not
807 10| Perchance the Lord will endow you with the wing of simplicity (
808 10| But ye are not able to endure the austerity of salvation;
809 2 | with Tithonus, Selene with Endymion, Nereis with Aeacus, Thetis
810 11| the universe with His holy energies in creation, salvation,
811 2 | deprived both of divine energy and of their virility; and
812 10| the oracles of truth are engraved. For where but in a soul
813 10| still continue in your sins, engrossed with pleasures? To whom
814 4 | Ephesian Artemis would be engulphed by earthquakes and rents
815 1 | silence of the prophetic enigmas. But if thou desirest truly
816 2 | and the Pythian priestess enjoined the Plataeans to sacrifice
817 2 | hierophant of the truth, enjoining that no eunuch, or emasculated
818 4 | son? And why should you enlarge on his beauty? Beauty blighted
819 11| the Lord is far-shining, "enlightening the eyes." Receive Christ,
820 12| estimation the manifest enormities and the utter impiety of
821 10| of Lycurgus: but if thou enrol thyself as one of God's
822 1 | monster, by his enchantments, enslaves and plagues men even till
823 10| godlessness to God. It is an enterprise of noble daring to take
824 10| holding up the vain opinions entertained by men respecting the gods,
825 2 | Lycaon the Arcadian, his entertainer, had slain his son (his
826 2 | prey on your substance, enticed by, the smoke. These demons
827 1 | salvation, and is he not entirely a voice of exhortation?
828 4 | have embraced a goddess, or entombed himself with a lifeless
829 4 | alighted from his horse on his entrance into Athens is the temple
830 1 | tidings of a husband. John entreated us to recognise the husbandman,
831 2 | Brimo, as is said; also the entreaties of Zeus, and the drink of
832 9 | who in Christ's stead thus entreats: "Taste and see that Christ
833 4 | For I hold it wrong to entrust my spirit's hopes to things
834 3 | in Eleusis? Why should I enumerate to you the wives of the
835 3 | you suffer?~Your heads axe enveloped in the darkness of night."~
836 1 | pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, hating one another."
837 10| gods, no more are Ares and Enyo. Still further, if the lightnings,
838 4 | immortal. Ceux, the son of Eolus, was styled Zeus by his
839 2 | the chains of adultery; Eos having disgraced herself
840 2 | Aloeus' sons,~ Otus and Ephialtes, strongly bound,~ He thirteen
841 2 | sides, and implacable, as Epicharmus says, was a Spartan; Sophocles
842 4 | either to Olympian Zeus, or Epidaurian Asclepius, or even to Athene
843 2 | and hope; as, to be sure, Epimenides of old, who raised ar Athens
844 1 | Eunomos sang the reptile's epitaph. Whether his ode was a hymn
845 2 | Apollo has received his epithet of Sminthian. Heraclides,
846 4 | themselves, assuming the air of equality with the gods, and being
847 11| chariot over all, pervades equally all humanity, like "His
848 9 | have reckoned up a price equivalent to salvation. Do not, however,
849 10| that pursues his way to Erebus, when it is in his power
850 3 | to the Taurian Artemis. Erechtheus of Attica and Marius the
851 2 | rather silly people of the Erechthidae, and the other Greeks besides, "
852 3 | of his Histories. What of Erichthonius? was he not buried in the
853 2 | and calamity. Hence the Erinnyes, and the Eumenides, and
854 1 | to lead the lame or the erring to righteousness, to exhibit
855 2 | poets sing.~ But sentiments erroneous, and deviating from what
856 12| EXHORTATION TO ABANDON THEIR OLD ERRORS AND LISTEN TO THE INSTRUCTIONS
857 2 | Hypsipyle. For Daphne alone escaped the prophet and seduction.
858 4 | and that pure and holy essence you have buried in the grave,
859 9 | according to the union of the essential unity; and let us, by being
860 10| they held goodness in high esteem; while, on the other hand,
861 9 | purchase it? Were one to estimate the value of the whole of
862 12| and hold in the highest estimation the manifest enormities
863 2 | this lofty, this boundless ether,~ Holding the earth in the
864 2 | a human table among the Ethiopians--a table rather inhuman and
865 2 | was deposited, took it to Etruria--dealers in honourable wares
866 2 | the necromancies of the Etruscans be consigned to darkness.
867 4 | formed by the chisel of Euclides, Olympichus relates in his
868 2 | cannot help wondering how Euhemerus of Agrigentum, and Nicanor
869 2 | Hence the Erinnyes, and the Eumenides, and the piacular deities,
870 2 | whom came the race of the Eumolpidae and that of the Heralds--
871 2 | truth, enjoining that no eunuch, or emasculated man, or
872 4 | work of Simon the son of Eupalamus, as Polemo says in a letter.
873 2 | woman's comb, which is a euphemism and mystic expression for
874 2 | Samians: the Samians, as Euphorion says, reverence the sheep.
875 2 | ant had intercourse with Eurymedusa, the daughter of Cletor,
876 2 | as you did the twelve for Eurystheus, and make this ready for
877 2 | shrieking out the name of that Eva by whom error came into
878 1 | at the beginning brought Eve down to death, now brings
879 4 | they have learned by the event that senseless matter is
880 2 | men take their rise from events, and are fashioned in bodily
881 4 | by Phidias, is known by everybody; and that the image of Here
882 | everything
883 | everywhere
884 2 | the mysteries himself, as evidence for this piece of turpitude:-~"
885 10| that of Amyetus? Is it not evident to all that they are stones,
886 10| providence exercised about us is evidently the result of a divine power,
887 2 | distracted with grievous evils,~ You will never ease your
888 2 | been buried with Christ, is exalted with God. But those who
889 3 | demons appear, from these examples; and how shall those who
890 10| good instructors? Then, if excesses in the indulgence of the
891 2 | and others fishes, with as excessive veneration as the Eleans
892 2 | vacant hour, I know will excite your laughter, although
893 4 | all idolatry, beautifully exclaims, "Hear, O Israel, the LORD
894 4 | statues, and void their excrement on them, paying no respect
895 10| word, has ignorance as the excuse of his error; but as for
896 4 | name, who employed in its execution a mixture of various materials.
897 12| might follow God, and in the exercise of wisdom regard all things
898 10| God, while a providence exercised about us is evidently the
899 12| the song; it works death. Exert your will only, and you
900 1 | He, the merciful God, exerting Himself to save man. And
901 9 | will be so impressed by the exhortations of any of the saints, as
902 1 | while God is ceaselessly exhorting us to virtue, we should
903 2 | truly. They lived there as exiles, employing themselves in
904 2 | error of regarding those who exist not, as existing and calling
905 9 | shall not receive the truly existent Father, nor shall you ever
906 2 | those who exist not, as existing and calling those gods that
907 11| urges to salvation t He who expels destruction and pursues
908 10| which you worship, and the expenditure you frivolously lavish on
909 2 | phantom:--~ "The man Hercules, expert in mighty deeds."~Hercules,
910 10| was in reality adored, the expiator of sin, the Saviour, the
911 10| hear. I, if possible, will explain. You ought, O men, when
912 2 | not repent of his amatory exploits, nor is he taught continence.
913 2 | AND DEATH OF THEIR GODS.~ Explore not then too curiously the
914 4 | know fire to be capable of exposing and curing superstition.
915 11| let us comply with God's expostulations; let us become acquainted
916 2 | will, couple with them the expounders of prodigies, the augurs,
917 12| the mysteries of the Word, expounding them after thine own fashion.
918 10| fashion of Niobe, or, to express myself more mystically,
919 2 | resplendent; as has been expressed by one in the following
920 2 | is a euphemism and mystic expression for the muliebria. O unblushing
921 4 | these are the prophetic expressions), and the earth shall flee
922 9 | never-ending day of God, extends over eternity. Let us then
923 11| you the earth of so great extent to till, water to drink
924 3 | command the fire to be extinguished. Be wise, then, at last,
925 10| let their nails grow to an extraordinary length, like wild beasts;
926 1 | harmoniously arranging these the extreme tones of the universe. And
927 2 | as a log of wood. For the extremes of ignorance are atheism
928 1 | subjecting to the yoke of extremest bondage the truly noble
929 1 | circumference, and from the extremities to the central part, has
930 4 | a woollen one, remarking facetiously that the latter was better
931 4 | Moved, as I believe, by such facts, and despising such fables,
932 2 | weasels, should receive the faculty of speech, than that Homeric
933 11| winds and the fire, as a fading flower; but wisely cultivate
934 4 | cry out, though I would fain be silent. Oh the godlessness!
935 2 | might decide which was the fairest. But come, let us briefly
936 11| truth alone, like the most faithful of our friends, abides with
937 3 | so careful was he of his fame), led him across the Halys
938 11| disciple of the Light, the familiar friend and fellow-heir of
939 4 | wont to be despised through familiarity; but what is past, being
940 4 | they were perishing with famine; and that this idol was
941 2 | servitude, and so did the famous lame god;~ Poseidon underwent
942 12| a mischievous winnowing fan.~"Urge the ship beyond that
943 10| the working goddess,~ With fans duly placed, fools that
944 12| common ear.~"Hie thee hither, far-famed Ulysses, great glory of
945 11| commandment of the Lord is far-shining, "enlightening the eyes."
946 10| opinion:--~"Lying dreams, farewell; you were then nothing."~
947 10| placed, fools that ye are"--~fashioners of stones, and worshippers
948 2 | Eleusinian mysteries: I have fasted, I have drunk the cup; I
949 9 | the world's growths have fastened, as the rocks on the sea-shore
950 10| Why do they flee to this fatal brand, with which they shall
951 9 | not the truth, not the fatherland in heaven, not the true
952 2 | daughter Core, broke down with fatigue near Eleusis, a place in
953 11| fowls that are being fed, fattened in darkness, and nourished
954 4 | neglect them, are found fault with by those gods by whose
955 11| of God,~"Pointing out the favourable signs and rousing the nations~
956 12| the mitre, throw away the fawn-skin; come to thy senses. I will
957 10| which, comes from above, nor fearing the penalty. For they believe
958 11| partakes of it lives. But night fears the light, and hiding itself
959 2 | He has grown old with his feathers; for as yet he does not
960 1 | childless no more. This fecundity the angel's voice foretold;
961 2 | Amounting to a splendid fee, persuaded~ To rescue a
962 1 | are saved. For wickedness feeds on men's destruction; but
963 2 | every respect having human feelings.~"For theirs was a mortal
964 2 | in brass, maimed in his feet:--~"His tottering knees
965 11| man rose up; and he that fell from Paradise receives as
966 4 | Cithaeronian Here was a felled tree-trunk; and that of
967 10| was a true champion and a fellow-champion with the creature. And being
968 10| to ridicule before his fellow-citizens, said: "Men, keep up your
969 12| and billow."~Let us shun, fellow-mariners, let us shun this billow;
970 2 | men, all helpers of their fellow-men who similarly with those
971 12| us haste, let us run, my fellowmen--us, who are God-loving and
972 9 | in heaven, who hold high festival with so many myriads of
973 2 | dragon is worshipped, and the festival-assemblage of the serpent is called
974 11| of simplicity, was found fettered to sins. The Lord then wished
975 2 | thirteen months in brazen fetters lay."~Good luck attend the
976 2 | averter of flies; and to Fever, and to Terror, whom also
977 4 | invested with honour by fiction, so that the present is
978 2 | mortal man for a year. And fierce Mars~ Underwent it at the
979 10| handicrafts-men,~ Who worship Jove's fierce-eyed daughter, the working goddess,~
980 11| face the evil one; "the fiery darts of the evil one" let
981 4 | the golden statue of Zeus, fifteen cubits in height, to be
982 4 | who relates this in the fifth part of his Cycle. And Apellas,
983 2 | one night deflowered the fifty daughters of Thestius, and
984 2 | accordingly, after living fifty-two years, came to his end,
985 2 | unnatural lust. Cutting a fig-branch that came to his hand, he
986 2 | their laughings, and their fights, their servitudes too, and
987 1 | a man of God. Others he figuratively calls wolves, clothed in
988 4 | nailed, glued,--are melted, filed, sawed, polished, carved.
989 4 | various materials. For he had filings of gold, and silver, and
990 2 | And thy poems, O Homer, fill me with admiration!~"He
991 1 | Him, not leaves of laurel fillets interwoven. with wool and
992 10| wickedness, "He pities them, and fills them with righteousness."
993 2 | muliebria--the patron of filthiness--and religiously honour as
994 10| their persons disgraced with filthy and tattered clothes; who
995 2 | Oxyrinchites likewise worship a fish which takes its name from
996 2 | maiotes--this is another fish--is worshipped by those who
997 2 | and divulge things not fit for speech. Are they not
998 2 | case verily the proverb may fitly be uttered:--~ "The father
999 10| for which it is by nature fitted; so, placing our finger
1000 4 | assigning to the goddess as a fitting temple--the necessary. But
1001 2 | there are those that reckon five Athenes: the Athenian, the