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1502 12| multitude are nothing but madmen. There is therefore no room
1503 12| there revel on it not the Maenades, the sisters of Semele,
1504 2 | night, and flame, and the magnanimous or rather silly people of
1505 2 | adds a sixth, the son of Magnes. And now how many Apollos
1506 3 | the temple of Artemis in Magnesia; or the altar of Apollo
1507 10| say continually, God be magnified." A noble hymn of God is
1508 12| King of the universe. The maidens strike the lyre, the angels
1509 10| place where the household maids and matrons dwell together,
1510 10| poured, and who deliberately maintains his incredulity in his soul,
1511 2 | the braize-fish; and the maiotes--this is another fish--is
1512 1 | and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, hating
1513 10| foredoomed to be the slave of mammon, has to buy for money, He
1514 10| like men who have drunk mandrake or some other drug. May
1515 1 | This is the New Song, the manifestation of the Word that was in
1516 10| He taught and exhibited, manifesting Himself as the Herald of
1517 10| perishable impress of humanity, manifestly wide of the truth. That
1518 2 | boys of better looks and manners than the Phrygian herdsman.
1519 4 | stripped off the golden mantle from the statue of Jupiter
1520 2 | introducing error and of manufacturing gods, according to which
1521 4 | sounding like a battle march, "Sons of men, how long
1522 4 | well-executed pictures of mares. They say that a girl became
1523 12| voice."~She praises thee, O mariner, and calls the eillustrious;
1524 3 | Erechtheus of Attica and Marius the Roman sacrificed their
1525 2 | unmentionable symbols of Themis, marjoram, a lamp, a sword, a woman'
1526 10| on all that follow it the mark of long-continued death.
1527 2 | Zeuxippe, nor Prothoe, nor Marpissa, nor Hypsipyle. For Daphne
1528 2 | Hercules Hera the goddess of marriage was wounded in sandy Pylos.
1529 2 | crossed over to Cinyra and married Anchises, and laid snares
1530 10| flesh. Who liquefied the marrow? or who solidified the bones?
1531 4 | ancient times the Xoaron of Mars--the idol by which he was
1532 10| like worms wallowing in marshes and mud in the streams of
1533 11| tyrant death; and, most marvellous of all, man that had been
1534 3 | relates, in his treatise on marvels, that at Pella, in Thessaly,
1535 2 | terrifying and threatening masks of theirs, disproving the
1536 10| the Bridegroom; and good masters to their servants, those
1537 10| the household maids and matrons dwell together, and the
1538 4 | to speak briefly, of dead matte--you have made images of
1539 10| before the idols, their hair matted, their persons disgraced
1540 4 | sepulchres, and pyramids, and mausoleums, and labyrinths, which are
1541 4 | those that wander in the mazes of this folly: for if some
1542 10| trust in images." Let the meaner artists, too--for I will
1543 1 | clothed in sheep-skins, meaning thereby monsters of rapacity
1544 10| all that are engaged in mechanical arts, who, being themselves
1545 2 | Cyclaeus and Leuco while the Median war was at its height. Other
1546 12| friend of God-for through the mediation of the Word has he been
1547 10| is said. Excellent is the medicine of immortality! Stop at
1548 10| healing, and the harshness of medicines strengthens people of weak
1549 9 | divine harmony out of a medley of sounds and division,
1550 4 | good! Let art receive its meed of praise, but let it not
1551 12| and learn of Me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and
1552 10| where reverence? where meekness? Those who have had these
1553 2 | Thesmophoria, speaking the Megaric tongue, they thrust out
1554 2 | country. Others say that Melampus the son of Amythaon imported
1555 2 | Amphitrite Amymone, Alope, Melanippe, Alcyone, Hippothoe, Chione,
1556 2 | the Isthmian games bewail Melicerta. At Nemea another--a little
1557 2 | the olden time, and play melodiously on the lyre. And they, by
1558 1 | universe in miniature,makes melody to God on this instrument
1559 2 | and Diagoras, and Hippo of Melos, and besides these, that
1560 1 | patient's diseased part or member. The Saviour has many tones
1561 2 | the dead man. As a mystic memorial of this incident, phalloi
1562 2 | the Cynopolites a dog, the Memphites Apis, the Mendesians a goat.
1563 2 | the Memphites Apis, the Mendesians a goat. And you, who are
1564 4 | the names of deities, as Menecrates the physician, who took
1565 2 | throughout your cities: Menedemus among the Cythnians; among
1566 3 | Pherephatta, as Demaratus mentions in his first book on Tragic
1567 10| price; the truth is not made merchandise of. He gives thee all creatures
1568 3 | whether it was Phoroneus or Merops, or whoever else that raised
1569 10| and honour the raven as a messenger of God. But the man of God,
1570 3 | oblations. Thus Aristomenes the Messenian slew three hundred human
1571 2 | daughter of Zeus, whom the Messenians have named Coryphasia, from
1572 1 | solemn Hellenic assembly had met at Pytho, to celebrate the
1573 4 | painters and workers in metal, and the poets--have introduced
1574 1 | tones of voice, and many methods for the salvation of men;
1575 1 | Orpheus, that Theban, and that Methymnaean,--men,~and yet unworthy
1576 2 | Samothracians, or that Phrygian Midas who, having learned the
1577 2 | man Hercules, expert in mighty deeds."~Hercules, therefore,
1578 3 | Clearchus was buried in Miletus, in the Didymaeum. Following
1579 10| of you while engaged in military service? Listen to the commander,
1580 10| use our first nourishment, milk, to which our nurses accustomed
1581 2 | lest they should appear to mimic the weeping goddess. The
1582 10| For the whole land is mine;" and it is thine too, if
1583 2 | looking-glass, tuft of wool. Athene (Minerva), to resume our account,
1584 1 | and soul, is a universe in miniature,makes melody to God on this
1585 10| of you look at those who minister before the idols, their
1586 4 | that the demons are the ministers of their impiety, reckoning
1587 11| poetical fable which designated Minos the Cretan as the bosom
1588 1 | as on a branch; and the minstrel, adapting his strain to
1589 1 | subject of a myth, and a minstrel--Eunomos the Locrian and
1590 1 | Arion of Methymna were both minstrels, and both were renowned
1591 4 | passion. Such frenzy have mischief--working arts created in
1592 4 | But it has happened that miscreants or enemies have assailed
1593 1 | but by you the records of miseries are turned into dramatic
1594 3 | dead. "~Poor wretches, what misery is this you suffer?~Your
1595 4 | yielding to the pressure of misfortune, become the victims of their
1596 1 | made up for the want of the missing string. The grasshopper
1597 4 | somehow slipped into the mistake of proving it to be an image
1598 4 | was called Dionysus; and Mithridates of Pontus was also called
1599 12| with ivy; throw away the mitre, throw away the fawn-skin;
1600 4 | employed in its execution a mixture of various materials. For
1601 2 | the daughters of Zeus and Mnemosyne, and the rest of the poets
1602 2 | mockery of the gods, or rather mock and insult themselves. How
1603 12| according to the original model, that ye may become also
1604 1 | harsh cold of the air it has moderated by the embrace of fire,
1605 9 | seeking after the good Monad. The union of many in one,
1606 3 | tragedies on the stage. Monimus relates, in his treatise
1607 1 | sheep-skins, meaning thereby monsters of rapacity in human form.
1608 2 | mouths of caverns full of monstrosity, or the Thesprotian caldron,
1609 12| glory of the Achaeans;~ Moor the ship, that thou mayest
1610 11| the skies, transplanting mortality into immortality, and translating
1611 4 | that the image of Dionysus Morychus at Athens was made of the
1612 12| choose which will profit you most--judgment or grace. For I
1613 4 | look on the progeny of one mother--the earth? Why, then, foolish
1614 10| the help of man, as the mother-bird flies to one of her young
1615 2 | the stars gods from their motion (theos from thein); and
1616 4 | poets--have introduced a motley crowd of divinities: in
1617 1 | Cithaeron, and Helicon, and the mountains of the Odrysi, and the initiatory
1618 1 | He threatens. Some men He mourns over, others He addresses
1619 2 | shrines of impiety, or the mouths of caverns full of monstrosity,
1620 4 | to worship cour-tesans. Moved, as I believe, by such facts,
1621 2 | as there are demi-asses(mules); for you have no want of
1622 2 | mystic expression for the muliebria. O unblushing shamelessness!
1623 2 | constituted the god of the muliebria--the patron of filthiness--
1624 4 | Tiryns, and the effigy of the Munychian Artemis in Sicyon. Why should
1625 2 | mysteries are, in short, murders and funerals. And the priests
1626 2 | that he was square-built, muscular, dark, hook-nosed, with
1627 2 | states have already erected museums, being handmaids, were hired
1628 1 | regarded by the Greeks as a musical performer. How, let me ask,
1629 2 | the nefarious wickedness (musos) relating to Dionysus; but
1630 2 | called Attis, because he was mutilated. And what is surprising
1631 3 | Didymaeum. Following the Myndian Zeno, it were unsuitable
1632 12| exhorts men.~ "Hear, ye myriad tribes, rather whoever among
1633 2 | daughter of Cletor, and begot Myrmidon? Polemo, too, relates that
1634 2 | Muses. This account is in Myrsilus of Lesbos. And now, then,
1635 2 | in number, and calls them Mysae, according to the dialect
1636 2 | honours. You may understand mysteria in another way, as mytheria (
1637 10| to express myself more mystically, like the Hebrew woman called
1638 2 | mysteria in another way, as mytheria (hunting fables), the letters
1639 12| threatening Charybdis, or the mythic sirens. It chokes man, turns
1640 2 | they thrust out swine? This mythological story the women celebrate
1641 2 | to Dionysus; but if from Myus of Attica, who Pollodorus
1642 4 | rivers, and fountains, the Naiads; and in the sea the Nereids.
1643 4 | and senseless, are bound, nailed, glued,--are melted, filed,
1644 10| near a bath, and let their nails grow to an extraordinary
1645 1 | harmony which bears God's name--the new, the Levitical song.~"
1646 10| changes which take place naturally in living creatures; no
1647 10| you who are devoted to navigation, yet call the whilst on
1648 11| those who have put faith in necromancers, receive from them amulets
1649 2 | of the Egyptians and the necromancies of the Etruscans be consigned
1650 1 | for the men of that day needed signs and wonders. He awed
1651 4 | to them; and horses have neighed to well-executed pictures
1652 2 | at tombs, the Isthmian, Nemean, and Pythian, and finally
1653 4 | Naiads; and in the sea the Nereids. And now the Magi boast
1654 2 | Tithonus, Selene with Endymion, Nereis with Aeacus, Thetis with
1655 10| bones? Who stretched the nerves? who distended the veins?
1656 9 | then the true to-day, the never-ending day of God, extends over
1657 10| says to those that have newly abandoned wickedness, "He
1658 10| expected, proclaims good news to those who have believed. "
1659 | next
1660 2 | Euhemerus of Agrigentum, and Nicanor of Cyprus, and Diagoras,
1661 2 | Ephesian prophesies, as "the night-walkers, the magi, the bacchanals,
1662 4 | linger by the ~streams of the Nile;~Solitary, frenzied, silent,
1663 2 | Egyptian, the daughter of Nilus; the third the inventor
1664 10| announcement; which the Ninevites having obeyed, instead of
1665 3 | as Antiochus says in the ninth book of his Histories. What
1666 10| For, after the fashion of Niobe, or, to express myself more
1667 1 | but. since humanity is nobler than the pillar or the bush,
1668 10| task I now attempt is the noblest, viz., to demonstrate to
1669 2 | admiration!~"He said, and nodded with his shadowy brows;~
1670 2 | called by the Arcadians Nomius); and in addition to these,
1671 11| brooded over the universe notwithstanding the other luminaries of
1672 10| not still use our first nourishment, milk, to which our nurses
1673 11| Him; we should have been nowise different from fowls that
1674 4 | was Aphrodite, and it was nude. The Cyprian is made a conquest
1675 2 | shame, and exhibited her nudity to the goddess. Demeter
1676 2 | then, and opinion, are nugatory. And the mysteries of the
1677 2 | deluging your ears with these numerous names? At any rate, the
1678 10| is at first, but a good nurse of youth; and it is at once
1679 10| which, when infants, and nursed by our mothers, we were
1680 10| nourishment, milk, to which our nurses accustomed us from the time
1681 2 | truth, are no longer the nurslings of wrath. Thus, therefore,
1682 2 | slain his son (his name was Nyctimus), and served him up cooked
1683 4 | and Pans; in the woods, Nymphs, and Oreads, and Hamadryads;
1684 2 | will be found to be but oaks and stones. One Agamemnon
1685 1 | and transplanted trees--oaks--by music. I might tell you
1686 2 | confirms his promise with an oath. Having learned the way,
1687 10| which the Ninevites having obeyed, instead of the destruction
1688 10| is a far more wretched object than the very demons. For
1689 10| X. ANSWER TO THE OBJECTION OF THE HEATHEN, THAT IT
1690 3 | nations, they demanded cruel oblations. Thus Aristomenes the Messenian
1691 11| away, then, let us put away oblivion of the truth, viz., ignorance;
1692 2 | between men and heaven, obscured through ignorance, but which
1693 4 | is of fear; and men now observe the sacred nights of Antinous,
1694 2 | no mysteries at all, and observes with a spurious piety profane
1695 11| removing the darkness which obstructs, as dimness of sight, let
1696 10| what is best, instead of occupying yourselves in painfully
1697 2 | strangeness to the tragic occurrence, by forbidding parsley with
1698 2 | Titanis, the daughter of Oceanus, who, having wickedly killed
1699 1 | reptile's epitaph. Whether his ode was a hymn in praise of
1700 4 | whir for either savoury odour, or blood, or smoke, by
1701 2 | their liking for savoury odours and cookery? Such are your
1702 1 | and the mountains of the Odrysi, and the initiatory rites
1703 2 | the cunning imposture from Odrysus, communicated it to his
1704 2 | burned in a funeral pyre in OEta. As for the Muses, whom
1705 11| present thyself to God as an offering of first-fruits, that there
1706 2 | true son of Zeus--was the offspring of that long night, who
1707 2 | taught to sing deeds of the olden time, and play melodiously
1708 1 | poets, who describe them as older than the moon; or, finally,
1709 3 | is said to be among the oldest of the gods, was worshipped
1710 4 | That the statue of Zeus at Olympia, and that of Polias at Athens,
1711 4 | the chisel of Euclides, Olympichus relates in his Samiaca.
1712 2 | Admetus in Pherae, Hercules to Omphale in Sardis. Poseidon--was
1713 10| word; wash, ye polluted ones; purify yourselves from
1714 2 | who worshipped Aphrodite, opener of graves.) The Argives
1715 10| from salvation. Let us then openly strip for the contest, and
1716 2 | setting a seat for Helen opposite the adulterer, in order
1717 2 | Zeus, having torn away the orchites of a ram, brought them out
1718 10| Listen to the commander, who orders what is right. As those,
1719 4 | in the woods, Nymphs, and Oreads, and Hamadryads; and besides,
1720 2 | the former to the wrath (orgê) of Demeter against Zeus,
1721 3 | full flood, it became the originator of many demons, and was
1722 4 | shape of images and girls' ornaments of wax or clay deceives
1723 2 | that Athene was wounded by Ornytus; nay, Homer says that Pluto
1724 4 | Apis, which together make Osirapis. Another new deity was added
1725 10| most common to thee and others--seek Him who created thee;
1726 2 | suffering; by Aloeus' sons,~ Otus and Ephialtes, strongly
1727 | ours
1728 4 | god, while pained at the outrage being perpetrated for the
1729 1 | with ivy; and distracted outright as they are, in Bacchic
1730 10| sight, cease watching with outstretched head the heel of the righteous,
1731 12| will only, and you have overcome ruin; bound to the wood
1732 10| those, then, who have been overpowered with sleep and drunkenness,
1733 4 | The will of Zeus was overruled; and Zeus being worsted,
1734 2 | and sat down on a well overwhelmed with grief. This is even
1735 10| it is said, "knoweth his owner, and the ass his master'
1736 2 | She contended with the ox-eyed Juno; and the goddesses
1737 11| Gold for brass,~A hundred oxen's worth for that of nine;"~
1738 2 | inhabit Elephantine: the Oxyrinchites likewise worship a fish
1739 4 | speech, such as the genus of oysters, which yet live and grow,
1740 9 | the value of the whole of Pactolus, the fabulous river of gold,
1741 1 | Levitical song.~"Soother of pain, calmer of wrath, producing
1742 10| occupying yourselves in painfully inquiring whether what is
1743 4 | represented so to the life by the painter's art, that the pigeons
1744 10| which are distasteful to the palate are curative and healing,
1745 3 | trembling, and his cheek all pale,"~But though you perceive
1746 4 | says that there were two Palladia, and that both were fashioned
1747 4 | surprised to learn that the Palladium which is called the Diopetes--
1748 3 | Athenians, again, knew not who Pan was till Philippides told
1749 1 | her who has not had the pangs of childbirth utter her
1750 4 | in the fields, Satyrs and Pans; in the woods, Nymphs, and
1751 4 | finger of the Olympian Jove, Pantarkes is beautiful. It was not
1752 3 | the temple of Aphrodite in Paphos. But all time would not
1753 9 | and for this end sends the Paraclete. What, then, is this knowledge?
1754 11| importance, salvation runs parallel with sincere willingness--
1755 2 | to her, as a courtesan's paramours do to her, Then there are
1756 4 | together shall be rolled as a parchment-skin (for these are the prophetic
1757 12| He led the colt with its parent; and having yoked the team
1758 4 | into deepest darkness? The Parian stone is beautiful, but
1759 2 | the dismembered corpse to Parnassus, and there deposited it.
1760 1 | you have His love: become partaker of His grace. And do not
1761 1 | were as dead, not being partakers of the true life, have come
1762 11| eternal life; and whatever partakes of it lives. But night fears
1763 2 | of Lycaon the Arcadian, partook of a human table among the
1764 4 | may suppose that I have passed over them through ignorance,
1765 4 | let it not deceive man by passing itself off for truth. The
1766 2 | adultery. But these are more passionately licentious, bound in the
1767 4 | images of Zeus and Apollo at Patara, in Lycia, which Phidias
1768 1 | Jubal, but according to the paternal counsel of God, which fired
1769 1 | also. "Make straight the paths of the LORD." John is the
1770 1 | if possible to cure the patient's diseased part or member.
1771 1 | physician treats some of his patients with cataplasms, some with
1772 10| increase or diminish our patrimony, and not keep it exactly
1773 4 | both that the material was pear-tree and the artist was Argus.
1774 4 | idols, any more than at pebbles heaped by the waves on the
1775 4 | possible to the images. How peculiarly inherent deceit is in them,
1776 2 | Others, considering the penalties of wickedness, deified them,
1777 3 | all pale,"~But though you perceive and understand demons to
1778 10| truth. Be wise and harmless. Perchance the Lord will endow you
1779 10| bastard, who is a son of perdition, foredoomed to be the slave
1780 2 | Such rites the Phrygians perform in honour of Attis and Cybele
1781 2 | shaped the phallus, and so performed his promise to the dead
1782 1 | the Greeks as a musical performer. How, let me ask, have you
1783 2 | Argives sacrifice to Aphrodite Peribaso (the protectress), and the
1784 10| for living through so many periods of life in impiety, making
1785 10| and earth-born, are but a perishable impress of humanity, manifestly
1786 4 | from Egypt when they were perishing with famine; and that this
1787 4 | pained at the outrage being perpetrated for the sake of gain. I
1788 10| land shall not be sold in perpetuity," for it is not destined
1789 2 | assigned to them as their perquisite,assails the Titans with
1790 10| instructs lovingly, alas, they persecute; and while he is inviting
1791 4 | sabres, the Arabs stones, the Persians rivers. And some, belonging
1792 10| even of yielding to the persuasions of those who commiserate
1793 11| drives His chariot over all, pervades equally all humanity, like "
1794 2 | Dionysus were a world's shame, pervading life with their deadly influence.
1795 1 | hardness of heart who are petrified against the truth, has raised
1796 2 | Anchises, and laid snares for Phaethon, and loved Adonis. She contended
1797 2 | Laconians, Astrabacus; at Phalerus, a hero affixed to the prow
1798 2 | superstition, and presenting phallic symbols and the box for
1799 2 | a Jupiter in Sparta; and Phanocles, in his book of the Brave
1800 10| to cast aside these vain phantasies, and bid adieu to evil custom,
1801 4 | dimly, being but shadowy phantasms? Such things are your gods--
1802 2 | proved Herucles to be a mere phantom:--~ "The man Hercules, expert
1803 4 | made of the stones called Phellata, and was the work of Simon
1804 2 | of slavery to Admetus in Pherae, Hercules to Omphale in
1805 4 | people of Sinope to Ptolemy Philadelphus, king of the Egyptians,
1806 3 | book of Italian Affairs. Philanthropic, assuredly, the demons appear,
1807 2 | lawlessness, have through the philanthropy of the Word now become the
1808 4 | the case of the Macedonian Philip of Pella, the son of Amyntor,
1809 3 | knew not who Pan was till Philippides told them. Superstition,
1810 3 | in his first book about Philopator, says that Cinyras and the
1811 4 | image. This is related by Philostephanus. A different Aphrodite in
1812 3 | is said by Dosidas. The Phocaeans also(for I will not pass
1813 2 | the Syrians, who inhabit Phoenicia, of whom some revere doves,
1814 2 | and the Eumenides, and the piacular deities, and the judges
1815 4 | painter's art, that the pigeons flew to them; and horses
1816 2 | your own poet, the Boeotian Pindar:--~"Him even the gold glittering
1817 10| neither moth, robber, nor pirate, but the eternal Giver of
1818 2 | child are called Nemea. Pisa is the grave of the Phrygian
1819 2 | are dishonoured. To what a pitch of licentiousness did that
1820 1 | us for our error; but He pitied us from the first, from
1821 10| is by nature fitted; so, placing our finger on what is man'
1822 1 | music. Thus, when Saul was plagued with a demon, he cured him
1823 4 | Aethlius says, was at first a plank, and was afterwards during
1824 10| he is, a truly heavenly plant--to the knowledge of God,
1825 2 | benignant fruits of earth-born plants, called grain Demeter, as
1826 2 | Pythian priestess enjoined the Plataeans to sacrifice to Androcrates
1827 4 | less valuable material, plated with gold, to be erected
1828 3 | help wondering, by what plausible reasons those who first
1829 3 | and after taking the gold plays false. "Look again to the
1830 2 | difficulty, the draught--~pleased, I repeat, at the spectacle.
1831 10| weak stomach, thus custom pleases and, tickles; but custom
1832 3 | for safety from those who plot against their safety, imagining
1833 1 | and false hypocrites, who plotted against righteousness, He
1834 3 | to be deadly and wicked, plotters, haters of the human race,
1835 10| not compel the horse to plough, or the bull to hunt, but
1836 10| lo, is not this a brand plucked from the fire?" What an
1837 4 | set fire to temples, and plundered them of their votive gifts,
1838 10| are gods, which last [as Plutus] painters represent as blind.
1839 2 | another Artemis--Artemis Podagra (or, the gout)--in Laconica,
1840 11| For you, who believed the poetical fable which designated Minos
1841 2 | progeny of Mars. This he has poetically fabled. But Homer is more
1842 1 | who, under the pretence of poetry corrupting human life, possessed
1843 4 | workers in metal, and the poets--have introduced a motley
1844 11| the husbandman of God,~"Pointing out the favourable signs
1845 10| ours, and reject the deadly poison, that it may be granted
1846 4 | placed between them, as Polemon shows in the fourth of his
1847 4 | are melted, filed, sawed, polished, carved. The senseless earth
1848 2 | from Myus of Attica, who Pollodorus says was killed in hunting--
1849 10| water of the word; wash, ye polluted ones; purify yourselves
1850 2 | decreed to him by fate; but Pollux was immortal, being the
1851 10| them. Let your Phidias, and Polycletus, and your Praxiteles and
1852 2 | eating the seeds of the pomegranate which have fallen on the
1853 4 | say that the Serapis was a Pontic idol, and was transported
1854 2 | besides, round cakes and poppy seeds? And further, there
1855 10| regard wisdom as a fair port whence to embark, to whatever
1856 2 | Hercules to Omphale in Sardis. Poseidon--was a drudge to Laomedon;
1857 12| unbelieving. Such is then our position who are the attendants of
1858 4 | taste; while images do not possess even one sense. There are
1859 1 | poetry corrupting human life, possessed by a spirit of artful sorcery
1860 12| irrational creatures in the possession of reason; for to you of
1861 12| the most excellent of His possessions, let us commit ourselves
1862 4 | are regarded as gods by posterity. As grounds of your belief
1863 4 | showing to the old virgin the postures of the young courtesan.
1864 2 | mention is made of tables, and potations, and laughter, and intercourse;
1865 10| Neither childlessness, nor poverty, nor obscurity, nor want,
1866 4 | shine for ever: while the powers of the heavens shall be
1867 10| as young, enter on the practice of piety. God regards you
1868 2 | emulating them in the same practices, they may be like the gods.
1869 10| eternity, namely piety. Practise husbandry, we say, if you
1870 12| struck by the thunderbolt, practising in their initiator rites
1871 10| lovers of the Word. Thence praise-worthy works descend to us, and
1872 12| hears diviner voice."~She praises thee, O mariner, and calls
1873 12| senses,~ With her flattering prattle seeking your hurt."~Sail
1874 12| God, and of His Father, prays for and exhorts men.~ "Hear,
1875 1 | because destined to be in Him, pre-existed in the eye of God before,--
1876 3 | astray were impelled to preach superstition to men, when
1877 10| by all when He was first preached, nor altogether unknown
1878 1 | the precursor of the Lord preaching glad tidings to the barren
1879 11| the other counsels and precepts are unimportant, and respect
1880 3 | were they not buried in the precincts of the Elusinium, which
1881 4 | its shape; and while the preciousness of the material makes it
1882 10| folly, dash towards the precipices of destruction, and regard
1883 4 | it. This is told as the preface of what the fire promises.
1884 10| exchange it, for it is vastly preferred to everything else. Christ
1885 10| may become a son of God, prefers to be in bondage? Or who
1886 10| by which your minds are preoccupied, divert you from the truth,--
1887 10| not any shame of this name preoccupy you, which does great harm
1888 9 | to make straight and to prepare, God is incensed, and those
1889 1 | Word; an inviting voice, preparing for salvation,--a voice
1890 10| that which is thy peculiar prerogative--acknowledge thy Father.
1891 4 | you, have you assigned the prerogatives of God to what are no gods?
1892 10| the Lord of the universe prescribing the contest. For 'tis no
1893 2 | the sake of the apple, and presented themselves naked before
1894 2 | their superstition, and presenting phallic symbols and the
1895 12| him who is initiated, and presents to the Father him who believes,
1896 4 | worshipped, yet, yielding to the pressure of misfortune, become the
1897 1 | deceivers, who, under the pretence of poetry corrupting human
1898 2 | for his violent embrace, pretending to have cut out his own.
1899 10| the thirteenth god, whose pretensions Babylon confuted, which
1900 2 | rest of the world into the prevailing error respecting those gods,
1901 4 | reverenced through the long prevalence of delusion respecting them,
1902 1 | fluid ocean, and yet has prevented it from encroaching on the
1903 2 | murders and funerals. And the priests of these rites, who are
1904 2 | I would instance as the prime authors of evil, the parents
1905 1 | therefore, let us flee from "the prince of the power of the air,
1906 10| be in reality graves or prisons. These appear to me to bewail
1907 4 | And not kings only, but private persons dignified themselves
1908 4 | took her statue to the privy, and erected it there, assigning
1909 2 | mysteries were then, as is probable, games held in honour of
1910 2 | licentiousness did that Zeus of yours proceed, who spent so many nights
1911 4 | sands of Acheron."~Then she proceeds:--~"And thou, Serapis, covered
1912 4 | worship were once men, and in process of time died; and fable
1913 2 | For did they not make a procession in honour of Dionysus, and
1914 2 | celebrates by torchlight processions. I think that the derivation
1915 11| might be judged. This is the proclamation of righteousness: to those
1916 4 | during the government of Proclus carved into human shape.
1917 2 | with them the expounders of prodigies, the augurs, and the interpreters
1918 9 | scorn to become sons. O the prodigious folly of being ashamed of
1919 1 | of pain, calmer of wrath, producing forgetfulness of all ills."~
1920 9 | many in one, issuing in the production of divine harmony out of
1921 1 | reap, as the fruit of this productiveness, eternal life. The Scripture
1922 2 | observes with a spurious piety profane rites. What are these mystic
1923 12| the foolish are guilty of profanity and impiety in whatever
1924 1 | that he is Christ, but will profess himself to be "a voice crying
1925 4 | Alexarchus? He, having been by profession a grammarian, assumed the
1926 12| conclusion, to choose which will profit you most--judgment or grace.
1927 2 | grief. This is even now prohibited to those who are initiated,
1928 10| that are visible, and the promiscuous rabble of creatures begotten
1929 4 | it by their art from its proper nature, and induce men to
1930 10| alienated, being deprived of the properties that belonged to it, is
1931 2 | Heraclitus the Ephesian prophesies, as "the night-walkers,
1932 2 | relate:--~"Phoebus rises propitious to the Hyperboreans,~ Then
1933 9 | how much, O men, would you propose to purchase it? Were one
1934 10| creatures; no more will you with propriety call Fortune, or Destiny,
1935 2 | patron of hospitality, the protector of suppliants, the benign,
1936 2 | Aphrodite Peribaso (the protectress), and the Athenians to Aphrodite
1937 2 | Arsinoe, nor Zeuxippe, nor Prothoe, nor Marpissa, nor Hypsipyle.
1938 2 | In that case verily the proverb may fitly be uttered:--~ "
1939 10| held to be a God, while a providence exercised about us is evidently
1940 3 | contests for renown in the wars providing for themselves the means
1941 4 | slipped into the mistake of proving it to be an image fashioned
1942 10| with what is his sufficient provision for eternity, namely piety.
1943 9 | not your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of temptation
1944 10| usage which is evil, and provocative of passion, and godless,
1945 2 | Phalerus, a hero affixed to the prow of ships is worshipped;
1946 4 | according to that blessed psalmist David; "lay hold on instruction,
1947 2 | have been held in honour. I publish without reserve what has
1948 2 | shameless songs in honour of the pudenda, all would go wrong," says
1949 4 | with the gods, and being puffed up with vainglory, vote
1950 2 | dissembles not; it exposes and punishes what it is bidden. Such
1951 9 | teacher speaking to his pupils, not as a master to his
1952 11| shone forth from heaven, purer than the sun, sweeter than
1953 1 | take to thyself means of purification worthy of Him, not leaves
1954 10| wash, ye polluted ones; purify yourselves from custom,
1955 12| shaded with forests of purity; and there revel on it not
1956 11| God's fixed and constant purpose to save the flock of men:
1957 1 | spirit of artful sorcery for purposes of destruction, celebrating
1958 4 | She her heavenward course pursued~To join the immortals in
1959 10| and, tickles; but custom pushes into the abyss, while truth
1960 2 | true father, may claim many putative fathers. There was an innate
1961 2 | repulsive than blood; for the putrefaction of blood is called ichor.
1962 4 | Aphrodite. Thus that Cyprian Pygmalion became enamoured of an image
1963 2 | marriage was wounded in sandy Pylos. Sosibius, too, relates
1964 2 | they not sesame cakes, and pyramidal cakes, and globular and
1965 4 | also are sepulchres, and pyramids, and mausoleums, and labyrinths,
1966 2 | serpent is called by the name Pythia. At the Isthmus the sea
1967 3 | over such as they are), Pythocles informs us in his third
1968 2 | be full of imposture and quackery. And if you have been initiated,
1969 9 | that "he was filled with quaking and terror" while he listened
1970 3 | hecatombs of such a number and quality would give good omens; among
1971 2 | Lesbians, and was always quarrelling with his wife; and Megaclo
1972 2 | For Demeter, wandering in quest of her daughter Core, broke
1973 10| you make the subject of question is, whether God should be
1974 2 | now dead in trespasses, quickened us together with Christ."
1975 10| from His Father's counsel quicker than the sun, with the most
1976 4 | truth. The horse stands quiet; the dove flutters not,
1977 2 | these details have been quoted? Only such as are furnished
1978 4 | promontory which is now called Racotis; where the temple of Serapis
1979 10| divine power, casting its radiance on the earth, hath filled
1980 10| not gold, not silver, not raiment, which the moth assails,
1981 10| behold, like Elias, the rain of salvation? Some there
1982 10| lightnings, and thunderbolts, and rains are not gods, how can fire
1983 2 | torn away the orchites of a ram, brought them out and cast
1984 2 | are really demons who are ranked, as you say, in this second
1985 2 | dead. Seek your Jupiter. Ransack not heaven, but earth. The
1986 1 | voluptuous to swine, the rapacious to wolves. The silly are
1987 1 | meaning thereby monsters of rapacity in human form. And so all
1988 2 | dramatizing in many forms the rape of Pherephatta or Persephatta (
1989 4 | whose beauty was of a very rare order: for lust is not easily
1990 2 | of theirs, disproving the rash opinions formed of them
1991 2 | these numerous names? At any rate, the native countries of
1992 10| regard, then, if you are rated by some of the low rabble
1993 10| nor chatters, but speaks rationally and instructs lovingly,
1994 2 | spinning-top, and limb-moving rattles,~And fair golden apples
1995 1 | But the dramas and the raving poets, now quite intoxicated,
1996 2 | frenzy by the eating of raw flesh, and go through the
1997 1 | distant points, cast her rays all around on those that
1998 10| good things is within the reach of the lovers of righteousness,
1999 10| wise, now that you have reached life's sunset; and albeit
2000 2 | received Demeter hospitably, reaches to her a refreshing draught;
2001 2 | lamp in her hand. And we read of Aphrodite, like a wanton