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1002 2 | their breasts,~ And his flaming thunderbolt sealed their
1003 2 | cakes, and globular and flat cakes, embossed all over,
1004 12| of your senses,~ With her flattering prattle seeking your hurt."~
1005 2 | skin, as if it had been the fleece of a sheep. Further, Aristotle
1006 10| evil? What, then, is he who flees from God to consort with
1007 11| and clothing Himself with flesh--O divine mystery!--vanquished
1008 2 | delusion, and speed your flight back to heaven. "For we
1009 4 | by their own weight, and flitting about graves and tombs,
1010 11| constant purpose to save the flock of men: for this end the
1011 3 | and rushing along in full flood, it became the originator
1012 2 | Pythian those that divine by flour, and those that divine by
1013 2 | the Corybantic blood that flowed forth; just as the women,
1014 11| and the fire, as a fading flower; but wisely cultivate the
1015 2 | Persephatta's gathering of flowers, her basket, and her seizure
1016 12| beguiles.~"Let not a woman with flowing train cheat you of your
1017 1 | harmony. It let loose the fluid ocean, and yet has prevented
1018 2 | worship. There is then the foam-born and Cyprus-born, the darling
1019 1 | with rubbing, some with fomentations; in one case cuts open with
1020 10| ignorance to knowledge, from foolishness to wisdom, from licentiousness
1021 10| With fans duly placed, fools that ye are"--~fashioners
1022 2 | the tragic occurrence, by forbidding parsley with the roots from
1023 10| violating life through the force of custom. "The earth is
1024 10| who is a son of perdition, foredoomed to be the slave of mammon,
1025 4 | and buried beneath the forementioned shrine. Others say that
1026 1 | of the LORD." John is the forerunner, and that voice the precursor
1027 12| of sobriety, shaded with forests of purity; and there revel
1028 4 | the ruin of the temple, foretelling that that of the Ephesian
1029 1 | fecundity the angel's voice foretold; and this voice was also
1030 1 | calmer of wrath, producing forgetfulness of all ills."~ Sweet and
1031 2 | the accursed likeness of fornication on them received from the
1032 4 | Why, let me ask, have you forsaken heaven to pay divine honour
1033 3 | sacrifice to the Tauric Artemis forthwith whatever strangers they
1034 | forty
1035 10| and unreasonable care, is fostered by vain opinion; and ignorance,
1036 1 | the world. But before the foundation of the world were we, who,
1037 10| our Saviour, the Word, the Fount of life, the Giver of peace,
1038 4 | waters, the rivers, and fountains, the Naiads; and in the
1039 4 | wanting, and there were fragments of sapphire, and hematite,
1040 1 | harmonized this universal frame of things, not according
1041 2 | For those two identical fratricides, having abstracted the box
1042 2 | of Demeter, paying thus a fraudulent penalty for his violent
1043 12| the cross, thou shalt be freed from destruction: the word
1044 12| double Thebes,"~said one frenzy-stricken in the worship of idols,
1045 4 | enough not to feel shy or frightened at either demons or idols,
1046 1 | intractable of animals; the frivolous among them answering to
1047 10| and the expenditure you frivolously lavish on matter. Your means
1048 10| spontaneously surmount the frivolousness of custom, as boys when
1049 2 | members so lewd a worthy fruit--Aphrodite--is born. In the
1050 12| mysteries, and come to the fruition of those things which are
1051 11| wickedness nourished for fuel to the flames), was as a
1052 9 | pass away," without being fulfilled; for the mouth of the Lord
1053 11| God, loves his neighbour, fulfils the commandment, seeks the
1054 10| S," it is said, "and the fulness thereof." Then why darest
1055 4 | being at once honoured and fumigated, they are blackened; no
1056 2 | are, in short, murders and funerals. And the priests of these
1057 10| be gods? For neither the Furies, nor the Fates, nor Destiny
1058 10| God, counselling him to furnish himself with what is his
1059 2 | I know not what for the future I shall call her, mother
1060 2 | of Zeus, and the drink of gall, the plucking out of the
1061 2 | spoken, she drew aside her garments,~ And showed all that shape
1062 11| to the ends of the earth, gather together His own soldiers,
1063 11| and by the word, He has gathered the bloodless host of peace,
1064 2 | the story of Persephatta's gathering of flowers, her basket,
1065 11| precious above gold and gems; it is to be desired above
1066 9 | I was grieved with that generation, and said, They do always
1067 9 | ye walk no longer as the Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their
1068 11| pious and good child gives gentle counsels, and commands what
1069 9 | a father, does the Lord gently admonish his children. Thus
1070 4 | nor speech, such as the genus of oysters, which yet live
1071 2 | the Dodonian copper. The Gerandryon, once regarded sacred in
1072 2 | insignificant seed, and becomes the germ of true wisdom. One of these
1073 2 | show him only a woman's girdle, and Zeus is exposed, and
1074 4 | of mares. They say that a girl became enamoured of an image,
1075 4 | the shape of images and girls' ornaments of wax or clay
1076 4 | and images, he will at a glance recognise your gods from
1077 2 | mind,~ And received the glancing cup in which was the draught."~
1078 2 | licentiousness; and the glare of torches reveals vicious
1079 2 | initiated is "the deity gliding over the breast,"--the deity
1080 2 | Pindar:--~"Him even the gold glittering in his hands,~ Amounting
1081 3 | the insanity of men, but gloating over human slaughter,--now
1082 2 | and pyramidal cakes, and globular and flat cakes, embossed
1083 4 | when they knew God, they glorified Him not as God, neither
1084 4 | senseless, are bound, nailed, glued,--are melted, filed, sawed,
1085 2 | indeed confess their own gluttony, saying:--~"For with drink-offerings
1086 2 | call Sminthoi, because they gnawed the strings of their enemies'
1087 11| him back to the truth--the goad that urges to salvation
1088 2 | Memphites Apis, the Mendesians a goat. And you, who are altogether
1089 12| been made the friend of God--then accordingly all things
1090 12| and man be the friend of God-for through the mediation of
1091 12| who are God-loving and God-like images of the Word. Let
1092 4 | phantasms? Such things are your gods--shades and shadows; and
1093 2 | Corybantes. And the story goes, that Zeus, having torn
1094 4 | yourselves gods of earth, and by going after those created objects,
1095 2 | was Apollo, who, like a good-for-nothing servant, was unable to obtain
1096 2 | Artemis Podagra (or, the gout)--in Laconica, as Sosibius
1097 2 | earth-born plants, called grain Demeter, as the Athenians,
1098 10| deadly poison, that it may be granted to you to divest yourselves
1099 2 | death's capture, from his grasp;~ But Saturnian Jove, having
1100 1 | summer time: it was when the grasshoppers, warmed by the sun, were
1101 3 | seemly, than the lust he had gratified; and the lewdness of vice
1102 2 | Wherefore Megaclo, as a token of gratitude to them, on her mother's
1103 11| reward of obedience something greater [than Paradise]--namely,
1104 10| the image of an image, greatly out of harmony with truth,
1105 2 | Athenians, and in the whole of Greece--I blush to say it--the shameful
1106 4 | images themselves, from base greed of gain. And if a Cambyses
1107 2 | gods. And the doctor was greedy of gold; Asclepius was his
1108 11| barbarian, nor Jew, nor Greek, neither male nor female,
1109 2 | dark, hook-nosed, with greyish eyes and long hair. This
1110 9 | IX. "THAT THOSE GRIEVOUSLY SIN WHO DESPISE OR NEGLECT
1111 4 | as gods by posterity. As grounds of your belief in these,
1112 10| immortality! Stop at length your grovelling reptile motions. "For the
1113 9 | round whom the world's growths have fastened, as the rocks
1114 2 | from running away that they guard us, O Ascraean, or perhaps
1115 10| insignificant prize, the guerdon of immortality which is
1116 11| chiefs of philosophy only guessed at, the disciples of Christ
1117 10| clear of us, who seek to guide the chariot of your life,
1118 4 | how shall you escape the guilt of impiety? Hear again the
1119 12| life: custom is a snare, a gulf, a pit, a mischievous winnowing
1120 2 | reverenced in Elis, of the guzzling Apollo. Then the Eleans
1121 4 | But I have been in the habit of walking on the earth,
1122 2 | eagerly desiring to descend to Hades, did not know the way; a
1123 11| in this hymn of praise: Hail, O light! For in us, buried
1124 1 | mysteries of deceit, are hallowed and celebrated in hymns.
1125 10| veritable Hermes himself? As the Halo is not a god, and as the
1126 3 | fame), led him across the Halys to the stake. The demons
1127 4 | Nymphs, and Oreads, and Hamadryads; and besides, in the waters,
1128 10| the whole tribe of you handicrafts-men,~ Who worship Jove's fierce-eyed
1129 10| that you men who are God's handiwork, who have received your
1130 1 | attended the Hebrews like a handmaid. By the fear which these
1131 4 | speak of as made without hands--I mean the Egyptian Serapis.
1132 10| from utter slavery. Oh, happier far the beasts than men
1133 1 | fruit in the person of the harbinger of Christ, that the Word,
1134 2 | that long night, who with hard toil accomplished the twelve
1135 9 | ye will hear His voice, harden not your hearts, as in the
1136 12| which are incapable of being harmed--God and life. Our helper
1137 1 | but truth, like the bee, harming nothing, delights only in
1138 10| way of truth. Be wise and harmless. Perchance the Lord will
1139 1 | discord of the elements to harmonious arrangement, so that the
1140 1 | by the embrace of fire, harmoniously arranging these the extreme
1141 1 | to the central part, has harmonized this universal frame of
1142 1 | and temple."--a harp for harmony--a pipe by reason of the
1143 1 | And David the king, the harper whom we mentioned a little
1144 10| curative and healing, and the harshness of medicines strengthens
1145 4 | sluggard, as a fountain thy harvest shall come," the "Word of
1146 12| chariot to immortality, hastening clearly to fulfil, by driving
1147 10| race, would never have been hated and rejected, had not you
1148 3 | deadly and wicked, plotters, haters of the human race, and destroyers,
1149 1 | malice and envy, hateful, hating one another." Thus speaks
1150 10| man is ineffable; and His hatred of evil is inconceivable.
1151 2 | Apollo to be interred. And he--for he did not disobey Zeus--
1152 4 | her calamity; Ino from her head-dress; Poseidon from his trident;
1153 12| as we would a dangerous headland, or the threatening Charybdis,
1154 3 | is this you suffer?~Your heads axe enveloped in the darkness
1155 2 | evil, and Asclepius the healer. These are the slippery
1156 10| palate are curative and healing, and the harshness of medicines
1157 10| seeks His creature, and heals his transgression, and pursues
1158 4 | Serapis, covered with a heap of white~stones,~Shalt lie
1159 9 | not thou afraid as thou hearest the voice of the Divine
1160 12| the ship, that thou mayest hears diviner voice."~She praises
1161 4 | them demons:-~ "She her heavenward course pursued~To join the
1162 12| all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you
1163 1 | divine love, attended the Hebrews like a handmaid. By the
1164 10| with outstretched head the heel of the righteous, and hindering
1165 2 | Lachesis, and Atropos, and Heimarmene, and Auxo, and Thallo, which
1166 9 | deemed worthy to be made His heir, then will he share the
1167 2 | taking and setting a seat for Helen opposite the adulterer,
1168 11| binding our brows with the helmet, of salvation; and the sword
1169 2 | gods! Furthermore, like the Helots among the Lacedemonians,
1170 2 | numberless, mortal men, all helpers of their fellow-men who
1171 4 | fragments of sapphire, and hematite, and emerald, and topaz.
1172 4 | swan; the pyre indicates Heracles; and if one sees a statue
1173 2 | his epithet of Sminthian. Heraclides, in his work, Regarding
1174 2 | their country. Again, the Heraclitopolites worship the ichneumon, the
1175 1 | fruitful. The two voices which heralded the Lord's--that of the
1176 2 | Eumolpidae and that of the Heralds--a race of Hierophants--who
1177 2 | Astrabacus; at Phalerus, a hero affixed to the prow of ships
1178 2 | Proserpine have become the heroines of a mystic drama; and their
1179 2 | Dioscuri; and, besides, proved Herucles to be a mere phantom:--~ "
1180 2 | birth is the theme of which Hesiod sings in his Theogony, and
1181 2 | apples from the clear-toned Hesperides."~And the useless symbols
1182 2 | the Athenians to Aphrodite Hetsera (the courtesan), and the
1183 2 | the Hebrew term, the name Hevia, aspirated, signifies a
1184 11| night fears the light, and hiding itself in terror, gives
1185 12| music for the common ear.~"Hie thee hither, far-famed Ulysses,
1186 2 | as only a mortal man. And Hieronymus the philosopher describes
1187 2 | of the Heralds--a race of Hierophants--who flourished at Athens.
1188 10| things, and prize them higher for the agreeableness of
1189 3 | either at the altar or on the highway to Artemis or Zeus, any
1190 1 | beneath the leaves along the hills; but they were singing not
1191 10| other creatures, we invite him--born, as he is, for the
1192 10| obscurity, nor want, can hinder him who eagerly strives
1193 10| heel of the righteous, and hindering the way of truth. Be wise
1194 10| to learn of Him; for no hindrance stands in the way of him
1195 10| they could sweep away those hindrances to salvation, pride, and
1196 2 | the hand by the sons of Hippocoon. And if there are wounds,
1197 2 | Alope, Melanippe, Alcyone, Hippothoe, Chione, and myriads of
1198 2 | museums, being handmaids, were hired by Megaclo, the daughter
1199 2 | account? Accordingly she hires those handmaids, being so
1200 4 | Brotos(man). In Rome, the historian Varro says that in ancient
1201 3 | in the ninth book of his Histories. What of Erichthonius? was
1202 2 | shameful legend about Demeter holds its ground? For Demeter,
1203 10| that you may leave your holes and dwell in heaven. Only
1204 2 | the Thessalians pay divine homage to storks, in accordance
1205 2 | be cooking something at home), said, "Come now, Hercules;
1206 2 | faculty of speech, than that Homeric and poetic one which proclaims
1207 10| very near us in our very homes; as Moses, endowed with
1208 3 | Anticlides shows in his Homeward Journeys; and that the Lesbians
1209 11| it is to be desired above honey and the honey-comb."~For
1210 11| desired above honey and the honey-comb."~For how can it be other
1211 2 | it to Etruria--dealers in honourable wares truly. They lived
1212 11| benefits we have received, and honouring God through the Divine Word. "
1213 2 | square-built, muscular, dark, hook-nosed, with greyish eyes and long
1214 2 | condemnation. These are dice, ball, hoop, apples, top, looking-glass,
1215 4 | wrong to entrust my spirit's hopes to things destitute of the
1216 4 | form by the addition of a horn. And not kings only, but
1217 4 | to have his statue made horned by the sculptors--eager
1218 2 | having received Demeter hospitably, reaches to her a refreshing
1219 2 | prophetic, the patron of hospitality, the protector of suppliants,
1220 11| has gathered the bloodless host of peace, and assigned to
1221 3 | what inhuman demons, and hostile to the human race, your
1222 2 | set before you in a vacant hour, I know will excite your
1223 11| and of piety, as a kind of house-rent for our dwelling here below.~"
1224 10| decorous place where the household maids and matrons dwell
1225 4 | colour, whence the darkish hue of the image; and having
1226 4 | white~stones,~Shalt lie a huge ruin in thrice-wretched
1227 1 | to be equal with God, but humbled Himself,"--He, the merciful
1228 2 | earth in the embrace of its humid arms."~And in these:--~"
1229 2 | another way, as mytheria (hunting fables), the letters of
1230 2 | Pollodorus says was killed in hunting--no matter, I don't grudge
1231 10| your last breath, you are hurried to destruction: "because
1232 2 | These are the slippery and hurtful deviations from the truth
1233 2 | having loved Hylas, another Hyacinthus, another Pelops, another
1234 2 | from boys, one having loved Hylas, another Hyacinthus, another
1235 3 | Hyperboreans? They were called Hyperoche and Laodice; they were buried
1236 1 | some venomous and false hypocrites, who plotted against righteousness,
1237 2 | Prothoe, nor Marpissa, nor Hypsipyle. For Daphne alone escaped
1238 2 | torches. That light exposes Iacchus; let thy mysteries be honoured,
1239 4 | The image of Artemis in Icarus was doubtless unwrought
1240 2 | Heraclitopolites worship the ichneumon, the inhab, itants of Sais
1241 2 | on the ground, from the idea that pomegranates sprang
1242 2 | Cabiric mystery. For those two identical fratricides, having abstracted
1243 2 | the shape of a dragon; his identity, however, was discovered.
1244 2 | the form of a bull, as an idolatrous poet says,--~"The bull The
1245 10| bounties of the Lord, to ignore the Sovereign Ruler? "Leave
1246 2 | II. THE ABSURDITY AND IMPIETY
1247 3 | III. THE CRUELTY OF THE SACRIFICES
1248 10| Lord? He remembers not our ill desert; He still pities,
1249 2 | Macar, and put a stop to his ill-temper. Wherefore Megaclo, as a
1250 1 | producing forgetfulness of all ills."~ Sweet and true is the
1251 11| known the Word, and been illuminated by Him; we should have been
1252 12| hierophant, and seals while illuminating him who is initiated, and
1253 10| layer, to salvation, to illumination, all but crying out and
1254 4 | but became vain in their imaginations, and changed the glory of
1255 3 | plot against their safety, imagining that they sacrifice with
1256 11| will any one be able to imitate God, and to serve and worship
1257 2 | one of his subjects who imitated among the Scythians the
1258 11| and worship Him only by imitating Him. The heavenly and truly
1259 11| it to become at once the imitator and the servant of the best
1260 3 | the temple of Polias? And Immarus, the son of Eumolpus and
1261 4 | indignation, then, at Hippo, who immortalized his own death. For this
1262 4 | course pursued~To join the immortals in the abode of Jove."~How,
1263 12| immortality. For I want, I want to impart to you this grace, bestowing
1264 4 | even from the first appear imperfect, as moles and the shrew-mouse,
1265 2 | deities, perhaps, that are impetuous in sexual indulgence.~ "
1266 3 | shame for these audacious impieties steals over you, it comes
1267 2 | always changing sides, and implacable, as Epicharmus says, was
1268 11| what is of the highest importance, salvation runs parallel
1269 11| here to heaven: with these important works of His hand, and benefits
1270 2 | Melampus the son of Amythaon imported the festivals of Ceres from
1271 10| difficult to approach, or impossible to attain, but is very near
1272 4 | than as a proof of the impotence of idols. But fire and earthquakes
1273 10| earth-born, are but a perishable impress of humanity, manifestly
1274 2 | And some will have it, not improbably, that for this reason Dionysus
1275 2 | of the body which it is improper to name,~ And with her own
1276 12| thoughtlessness, and idolatry. For not improperly the sons of the philosophers
1277 2 | the altars of Insult and Impudence. Other objects deified by
1278 11| truly great, divine, and inalienable inheritance of the Father,
1279 10| brought forward a witness inborn and competent, viz, faith,
1280 1 | heaven by their songs and incantations. But not such is my song,
1281 9 | straight and to prepare, God is incensed, and those He threatens.
1282 2 | mystic memorial of this incident, phalloi are raised aloft
1283 10| recovers the young one, and incites it to fly up to the nest.
1284 2 | refusing it, not having any inclination to drink (for she was very
1285 2 | the exposure by no means inclined to laugh. "I have eaten
1286 10| and His hatred of evil is inconceivable. His anger augments punishment
1287 4 | obtain for himself? The incorruptible being, as far as in you
1288 11| Word of truth, the Word of incorruption, that regenerates man by
1289 10| of our birth? Why do we increase or diminish our patrimony,
1290 4 | when art flourished, error increased. That of stones and stocks--
1291 2 | loves of your gods, and the incredible tales of their licentiousness,
1292 10| deliberately maintains his incredulity in his soul, the wiser he
1293 1 | disguised, and is looked on with incredulous eyes? And so Cithaeron,
1294 12| around the unbegotten and indestructible and the only true God, the
1295 4 | other bones--those of the Indian wild beast. I adduce as
1296 2 | sun,--as, for example, the Indians; and the moon, as the Phrygians.
1297 12| Accordingly this grace is indicated by the prophet, when he
1298 4 | from the swan; the pyre indicates Heracles; and if one sees
1299 4 | courtesan. There is no cause for indignation, then, at Hippo, who immortalized
1300 2 | initiated into these foul indignities, when among the Athenians,
1301 4 | from its proper nature, and induce men to worship it; and the
1302 2 | stretched him on the earth, by inducing him to cleave to earthly
1303 2 | as to lust after all, and indulge his lust on all, like the
1304 2 | torches reveals vicious indulgences. Quench the flame, O Hierophant;
1305 10| power, whose love to man is ineffable; and His hatred of evil
1306 4 | images, being motionless, inert, and senseless, are bound,
1307 9 | purchase salvation, though of inestimable value, with your own resources,
1308 10| let these be followed by Infamy, and Passion, and Beauty,
1309 10| the things for which, when infants, and nursed by our mothers,
1310 10| from the fire?" What an infatuated desire, then, for voluntary
1311 4 | then will show yourselves inferior to apes by cleaving to stone,
1312 1 | plagues men even till now; inflicting, as seems to me, such barbarous
1313 10| more grievous than other inflictions of the evil one; for the
1314 3 | as they are), Pythocles informs us in his third book, On
1315 3 | He whom you worship is an ingrate; he accepts your reward,
1316 4 | mixed together all these ingredients, he gave to the composition
1317 2 | worship the ichneumon, the inhab, itants of Sais and of Thebes
1318 4 | temple that has no longer an inhabitant."~She says also that the
1319 4 | the images. How peculiarly inherent deceit is in them, is manifest
1320 10| saints of the Lord shall inherit the glory of God and His
1321 10| righteousness, they try inhumanly to slay him, neither welcoming
1322 10| to demonstrate to you how inimical this insane and most wretched
1323 2 | his own. The symbols of initiation into these rites, when set
1324 12| thunderbolt, practising in their initiator rites unholy division of
1325 1 | mountains of the Odrysi, and the initiatory rites of the Thracians,
1326 1 | obedience to the apostolic injunction, therefore, let us flee
1327 2 | putative fathers. There was an innate original communion between
1328 11| and irradiate the hidden inner man, the disciple of the
1329 10| piety. God regards you as innocent children. Let, then, the
1330 4 | Demeter from her calamity; Ino from her head-dress; Poseidon
1331 10| yourselves in painfully inquiring whether what is best ought
1332 2 | nights were long to this insatiable monster. But, on the contrary,
1333 11| hearts. What laws does He inscribe? "That all shall know God,
1334 4 | a naked woman without an inscription, he understands it to be
1335 10| not turned into a state of insensibility? This woman we have heard,
1336 10| subsists. But those who are insensible to this are like men who
1337 2 | life, and had a clearer insight than the rest of the world
1338 4 | take and set before you for inspection these very images, you will,
1339 2 | at length has leapt forth instantaneously from the darkness, and shines
1340 2 | the gods, or Eetion, who instituted the orgies and mysteries
1341 12| ERRORS AND LISTEN TO THE INSTRUCTIONS OF CHRIST.~ Let us then
1342 10| did not fall in with good instructors? Then, if excesses in the
1343 1 | God. What, then, does this instrument--the Word of God, the Lord,
1344 1 | which are but lifeless instruments, and having tuned by the
1345 10| hold despotic sway over men insulting and violating life through
1346 1 | gates of the Word being intellectual, are opened by the key of
1347 2 | feeling towards us, but intent on your ruin, after the
1348 2 | letters of the two words being interchanged; for certainly fables of
1349 2 | according to the strict interpretation of the Hebrew term, the
1350 9 | Macedonians, becomes the interpreter of the divine voice, when
1351 2 | prodigies, the augurs, and the interpreters of dreams. And bring and
1352 1 | leaves of laurel fillets interwoven. with wool and purple; but
1353 1 | angel and that of John--intimate, as I think, the salvation
1354 1 | has tamed men, the most intractable of animals; the frivolous
1355 4 | cups, which your authors introduce, urge me to cry out, though
1356 4 | metal, and the poets--have introduced a motley crowd of divinities:
1357 1 | many tones; and to this intrument--I mean man--he sings accordant: "
1358 3 | beings. And now, like plagues invading cities and nations, they
1359 2 | of Nilus; the third the inventor of war, the daughter of
1360 4 | that attached to it, is invested with honour by fiction,
1361 10| eternal covenant of God invests us, conveying the everlasting
1362 9 | such a witness, and his invocation of God, what else remains
1363 11| commands. These are our invulnerable weapons: armed with these,
1364 11| the rest of Greece, and to Ionia. For if we have as our teacher
1365 1 | deceivers to reptiles, the irascible to lions, the voluptuous
1366 10| is not a god, and as the Iris is not a god, but are states
1367 11| knowledge arise to reveal and irradiate the hidden inner man, the
1368 4 | solemn pomp to Alexandria. Isidore alone says that it was brought
1369 12| forth fire: it is a wicked island, heaped with bones and corpses,
1370 2 | persuaded by that Cyprian Islander Cinyras, who dared to bring
1371 12| speak; the sound of music issues forth, they run and pursue
1372 9 | The union of many in one, issuing in the production of divine
1373 2 | the name Pythia. At the Isthmus the sea spit out a piece
1374 2 | of Greece--I blush to say it--the shameful legend about
1375 3 | relates in his first book of Italian Affairs. Philanthropic,
1376 2 | the ichneumon, the inhab, itants of Sais and of Thebes a
1377 9 | immortality, like the old man of Ithaca, eagerly longing to see,
1378 3 | human beings in honour of Ithometan Zeus thinking that hecatombs
1379 4 | IV. THE ABSURDITY AND SHAMEFULNESS
1380 9 | IX. "THAT THOSE GRIEVOUSLY
1381 10| voice by the raven and the jackdaw, but says nothing by man;
1382 2 | with Peleus, Demeter with Jason, Persephatta with Adonis.
1383 4 | earth by His power," as Jeremiah says, "has raised up the
1384 2 | have filled with unholy jesting the whole compass of your
1385 11| is neither barbarian, nor Jew, nor Greek, neither male
1386 1 | of the angel and that of John--intimate, as I think, the
1387 3 | Anticlides shows in his Homeward Journeys; and that the Lesbians offered
1388 2 | such as fear, and love, and joy, and hope; as, to be sure,
1389 1 | is like that invented by Jubal, but according to the paternal
1390 12| they run and pursue the jubilant band; those that are called
1391 11| refusing to obey, they might be judged. This is the proclamation
1392 2 | piacular deities, and the judges and avengers of crime, are
1393 2 | contended with the ox-eyed Juno; and the goddesses un-robed
1394 2 | are those who reckon three Jupiters: him of Aether in Arcadia,
1395 2 | Nicander has somewhere called Kalliglutos (with beautiful rump). I
1396 2 | Syracusans to Aphrodite Kallipygos, whom Nicander has somewhere
1397 11| buried in darkness, and given keenness to the "light-bringing eyes"
1398 2 | Chelytis, or the cougher, from keluttein, which in their speech signifies
1399 1 | intellectual, are opened by the key of faith. No one knows God
1400 10| the laws? "Thou shalt not kill; thou shalt not commit adultery;
1401 4 | Egyptian Apis, I laugh at him killing their god, while pained
1402 2 | they have any ardour of kindly feeling towards us, but
1403 10| instead of the rightful King--the evil one instead of
1404 2 | flies, nor loves boys, nor kisses, nor offers violence, although
1405 2 | his feet:--~"His tottering knees were bowed beneath his weight."~
1406 4 | and had one of his eyes knocked out. And again that of Demetrius,
1407 10| The ox," it is said, "knoweth his owner, and the ass his
1408 2 | accomplished the twelve labours in a long time, but in one
1409 4 | pyramids, and mausoleums, and labyrinths, which are temples of the
1410 2 | beneath the teeming earth,~ In Lacedaemon lay, their native land."~
1411 2 | as a Dike, a Clotho, and Lachesis, and Atropos, and Heimarmene,
1412 2 | Delians, Anius; among the Laconians, Astrabacus; at Phalerus,
1413 2 | Podagra (or, the gout)--in Laconica, as Sosibius says. Polemo
1414 12| that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.
1415 4 | do you command him to be lamented as a son? And why should
1416 4 | and Zeus being worsted, laments for Sarpedon. With reason,
1417 4 | and taking the courtesan Lamia, he ascended the Acropolis,
1418 1 | case cuts open with the lancet, in another cauterizes,
1419 3 | were called Hyperoche and Laodice; they were buried in the
1420 2 | Poseidon--was a drudge to Laomedon; and so was Apollo, who,
1421 3 | the temple of Athene in Larissa, on the Acropolis, is the
1422 9 | given themselves over to lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness
1423 2 | worse)., who never cease laughing every day of your lives
1424 2 | and their bonds, and their laughings, and their fights, their
1425 1 | worthy of Him, not leaves of laurel fillets interwoven. with
1426 10| expenditure you frivolously lavish on matter. Your means and
1427 10| is thy country, God thy lawgiver. And what are the laws? "
1428 2 | were once the children of lawlessness, have through the philanthropy
1429 10| money. He invites to the layer, to salvation, to illumination,
1430 11| seeking God. But since Thou leadest me to the light, O Lord,
1431 12| of the cross] on which to lean. Haste, Tiresias; believe,
1432 3 | temple of the Delian Apollo. Leandrius says that Clearchus was
1433 12| death.~ Come, O madman, not leaning on the thyrsus, not crowned
1434 2 | which now at length has leapt forth instantaneously from
1435 4 | colouring matter that was left over from the funeral of
1436 4 | broken, and he had a lame leg, and had one of his eyes
1437 2 | shown with their fabulous legends to have run dry. Recount
1438 11| salvation, beneficence, legislation, prophecy, teaching, we
1439 2 | threshold, having fallen on Lemnos, practised the art of working
1440 2 | magi, the bacchanals, the Lenaean revellers, the initiated."
1441 9 | voice." And that to-day is lengthened out day by day, while it
1442 2 | account is in Myrsilus of Lesbos. And now, then, hear the
1443 | less
1444 2 | demons, Apollo, Artemis, Leto, Demeter, Core, Pluto, Hercules,
1445 4 | Eupalamus, as Polemo says in a letter. There were also two other
1446 2 | Democrates, and Cyclaeus and Leuco while the Median war was
1447 3 | pass over the sepulchre of Leucophryne, who was buried in the temple
1448 2 | and of Thebes a sheep, the Leucopolites a wolf, the Cynopolites
1449 1 | God's name--the new, the Levitical song.~"Soother of pain,
1450 3 | he had gratified; and the lewdness of vice men called by the
1451 2 | and the eagle, and the libertine, and the serpent. And now
1452 2 | they are not adulterous or libidinous, and seek pleasure in nothing
1453 2 | these, he specifies the Libyan Apollo, the son of Ammon;
1454 10| says Scripture, "shall lick the dust." Raise your eyes
1455 2 | next the gods]. For if the lickerish and impure are demons, indigenous
1456 2 | the whole compass of your life--a life in reality devoid
1457 2 | on the contrary, a whole lifetime were short enough for his
1458 11| and given keenness to the "light-bringing eyes" of the soul? For just
1459 12| stainless light! My way is lighted with torches, and I survey
1460 4 | than the golden one, being lighter in summer and warmer in
1461 10| Enyo. Still further, if the lightnings, and thunderbolts, and rains
1462 | likely
1463 2 | one which proclaims their liking for savoury odours and cookery?
1464 2 | Cone, and spinning-top, and limb-moving rattles,~And fair golden
1465 3 | recoils in haste,--~His limbs all trembling, and his cheek
1466 2 | by one in the following lines:--~"See'st thou this lofty,
1467 3 | you fall in with a bear or lion?~" .....As when some traveller
1468 10| moulded soft flesh. Who liquefied the marrow? or who solidified
1469 9 | quaking and terror" while he listened to God speaking concerning
1470 1 | again, simply by becoming listeners to this song. It also composed
1471 4 | squinting divinities the Litae, daughters of Thersites
1472 10| chosen Jerusalem rebuke thee; lo, is not this a brand plucked
1473 4 | Beauty blighted by vice is loathsome. Do not play the tyrant,
1474 2 | lines:--~"See'st thou this lofty, this boundless ether,~
1475 2 | cast it into the fire as a log of wood. For the extremes
1476 10| that follow it the mark of long-continued death. Receive, then, the
1477 11| the ancients say, is "a long-lived exhortation, wooing the
1478 9 | old man of Ithaca, eagerly longing to see, not the truth, not
1479 2 | ball, hoop, apples, top, looking-glass, tuft of wool. Athene (Minerva),
1480 2 | Semele, and boys of better looks and manners than the Phrygian
1481 4 | than any animal. I am at a loss to conceive how objects
1482 1 | now, at His appearance, lost as we already were, He accomplished
1483 3 | unquenchable]. But O man, who lovest the human race better, and
1484 9 | that desireth life, that loveth to see good days?" It is
1485 10| rationally and instructs lovingly, alas, they persecute; and
1486 12| of Me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find
1487 2 | brazen fetters lay."~Good luck attend the Carians, who
1488 11| notwithstanding the other luminaries of heaven; so, had we nor
1489 10| sky in the track of the luminous cloud, behold, like Elias,
1490 2 | a symbol of her birth a lump of suit and the phallus
1491 2 | embossed all over, and lumps of salt, and a serpent the
1492 2 | that were cut off,--those lustful members, that, after being
1493 10| Then why darest thou, while luxuriating in the bounties of the Lord,
1494 4 | two of the stone called Lychnis, and Calos the one which
1495 4 | and Apollo at Patara, in Lycia, which Phidias executed,
1496 3 | Peleus and Chiron. That the Lyctii, who are a Cretan race,
1497 10| and the Spartan those of Lycurgus: but if thou enrol thyself
1498 10| say to vain opinion:--~"Lying dreams, farewell; you were
1499 10| deify men,--Alexander of Macedon, for example, whom they
1500 4 | There is the case of the Macedonian Philip of Pella, the son
1501 9 | the Lord, beseeching the Macedonians, becomes the interpreter