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2002 10| do injury with the utmost readiness. The only thing you make
2003 1 | appearance of this Word we should reap, as the fruit of this productiveness,
2004 1 | and the only advantage He reaps is, that we are saved. For
2005 10| Therefore Sleep and Death cannot reasonably any more be regarded as
2006 3 | wondering, by what plausible reasons those who first went astray
2007 10| that hath chosen Jerusalem rebuke thee; lo, is not this a
2008 9 | nor faint when thou art rebuked of Him." O surpassing love
2009 1 | and loving yoke of piety, recalls to heaven those that had
2010 | recent
2011 2 | shall not refrain from the recital), Baubo having received
2012 4 | ministers of their impiety, reckoning them among the number of
2013 4 | as well as the lions that recline with them; and if, as some
2014 3 | A deadly snake, back he recoils in haste,--~His limbs all
2015 1 | corruption, to conquer death, to reconcile disobedient children to
2016 10| Herald of the Covenant, the Reconciler, our Saviour, the Word,
2017 2 | to have taken place, are recorded of vile men who lived licentious
2018 4 | forth of children that are recounted, their adulteries celebrated
2019 12| whom the eyes of the blind recover sight, will shed on thee
2020 10| pursues the serpent, and recovers the young one, and incites
2021 10| servants, those who have been redeemed from utter slavery. Oh,
2022 2 | herdsman's ox-goad, to the reed wielded by bacchanals. Do
2023 2 | Well, then (for I shall not refrain from the recital), Baubo
2024 2 | hospitably, reaches to her a refreshing draught; and on her refusing
2025 10| the practice of piety. God regards you as innocent children.
2026 11| Word of incorruption, that regenerates man by bringing him back
2027 9 | us haste to salvation, to regeneration; let us who are many haste
2028 2 | struck with lightning in the regions of Cynosuris. Philochorus
2029 2 | daughter of Macar. This Macar reigned over the Lesbians, and was
2030 10| unmanageable horses throw off the reins, and take the bit between
2031 10| never have been hated and rejected, had not you been carried
2032 10| who is truly our Father, rejecting custom as a deleterious
2033 10| who seek Thee be glad and rejoice in Thee; and let them say
2034 2 | nefarious wickedness (musos) relating to Dionysus; but if from
2035 9 | one to stand to him in the relation of father, then will he
2036 11| The Lord then wished to release him from his bonds, and
2037 4 | supercelestial region, dragged religion to the ground, by fashioning
2038 2 | reward. The god was not reluctant to grant the request made
2039 2 | superstitious seem, although reluctantly, yet truly, to have come
2040 4 | beauty, not its tyrant. Remain free, and then I shall acknowledge
2041 4 | clothed in a woollen one, remarking facetiously that the latter
2042 10| What, then, of the Lord? He remembers not our ill desert; He still
2043 10| on the sinner unavailing remorse with punishment. By sad
2044 11| truth, viz., ignorance; and removing the darkness which obstructs,
2045 11| friend of Christ may be rendered worthy of the kingdom, and
2046 1 | minstrels, and both were renowned in story. They are celebrated
2047 2 | Pluto (Aidoneus), and the rent in the earth, and the swine
2048 4 | engulphed by earthquakes and rents in the ground, as follows:--~"
2049 10| pride, and wealth, and fear, repeating this poetic utterance:--~"
2050 11| of salvation, that either repenting they might be saved, or
2051 4 | holy apostle of the Lord, reprehending the Greeks, will show thee: "
2052 10| last [as Plutus] painters represent as blind. But if you deify
2053 9 | profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction
2054 2 | name. Wherefore the apostle reproves us, saying, "And ye were
2055 1 | of the air, deceivers to reptiles, the irascible to lions,
2056 2 | ichor of the poets is more repulsive than blood; for the putrefaction
2057 2 | not reluctant to grant the request made to him, and promises
2058 10| followed: and this you think requires deliberation and doubt,
2059 2 | splendid fee, persuaded~ To rescue a man, already death's capture,
2060 10| righteous; and nothing more resembles God than one of us when
2061 2 | honour. I publish without reserve what has been involved in
2062 10| of simplicity (for He has resolved to give wings to those that
2063 10| But ye, thus maimed as respects the truth, blind in mind,
2064 2 | the darkness, and shines resplendent; as has been expressed by
2065 2 | by men to give oracular responses to men. And what if I go
2066 9 | the Word, reaching and resting in the same truth, and crying
2067 12| all adequate. I desire to restore you according to the original
2068 2 | rescued from error, and restored to the truth, are no longer
2069 4 | for lust is not easily restrained, destitute as it is of fear;
2070 2 | wool. Athene (Minerva), to resume our account, having abstracted
2071 2 | way, he departed and again returned: he did not find Prosymnus,
2072 11| been baptized by the Word, returning grateful thanks for the
2073 10| thy Father; God shall be revealed to thee without price; the
2074 2 | and the glare of torches reveals vicious indulgences. Quench
2075 12| forests of purity; and there revel on it not the Maenades,
2076 1 | from the beginning gave revelations by prophecy, but now plainly
2077 2 | bacchanals, the Lenaean revellers, the initiated." These he
2078 2 | dost ascribe to him is most reverend. But show him only a woman'
2079 12| safe for ever. Such are the reveries of my mysteries. If it is
2080 11| in such numbers, He has rewarded your little faith. Then,
2081 10| do I bear these abundant riches? and whither~ Do I myself
2082 10| horses that have thrown their riders, come to their master's
2083 10| respecting the gods, to ridicule before his fellow-citizens,
2084 12| shadowed forth before by riding into Jerusalem. A spectacle
2085 1 | we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present
2086 10| the tyrant instead of the rightful King--the evil one instead
2087 9 | by whom we behold God. Rightly, then, to those that have
2088 2 | Callimachus relate:--~"Phoebus rises propitious to the Hyperboreans,~
2089 2 | useless symbols of this mystic rite it will not be useless to
2090 9 | of Pactolus, the fabulous river of gold, he would not have
2091 1 | form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God, but
2092 4 | have buried in the grave, robbing the divine of its true nature.
2093 4 | forms: Dionysus from his robe; Hephaestus from his art;
2094 10| heavenly vision, the other robs them of divine instruction.
2095 2 | tall, bristling-haired, robust; and Dicaearchus says that
2096 2 | ancient oak, nor from a rock,~ But from men, is thy descent."~
2097 9 | growths have fastened, as the rocks on the sea-shore are covered
2098 2 | pomegranates, and branches, and rods, and ivy leaves? and besides,
2099 4 | drawn together shall be rolled as a parchment-skin (for
2100 3 | of Attica and Marius the Roman sacrificed their daughters,--
2101 10| voluntary death is this, rooted in men's minds! Why do they
2102 11| Lord was laid low, and man rose up; and he that fell from
2103 1 | captives to corpses till they rot together. This wicked tyrant
2104 9 | exhorts, terrifies, urges, rouses, admonishes; He awakes from
2105 11| the favourable signs and rousing the nations~ To good works,
2106 1 | with cataplasms, some with rubbing, some with fomentations;
2107 2 | life that seed of evil and ruin--the mysteries. And now,
2108 2 | Kalliglutos (with beautiful rump). I pass over in silence
2109 2 | himself?~ But it is from running away that they guard us,
2110 11| highest importance, salvation runs parallel with sincere willingness--
2111 10| between their teeth, you rush away from the arguments
2112 2 | promise to his lover, he rushes to his tomb, and burns with
2113 3 | having gone on augmenting and rushing along in full flood, it
2114 1 | which heralded the Lord's--that of the angel and that
2115 2 | discovered. The token of the Sabazian mysteries to the initiated
2116 4 | Scythians worshipped their sabres, the Arabs stones, the Persians
2117 3 | Attica and Marius the Roman sacrificed their daughters,--the former
2118 2 | mysteries, they celebrate sacrilegiously. Law, then, and opinion,
2119 12| who believes, to be kept safe for ever. Such are the reveries
2120 10| dwell together, and the sage council-chamber. Nor is
2121 2 | public. But the mysteries at Sagra and in Alimus of Attica
2122 2 | ichneumon, the inhab, itants of Sais and of Thebes a sheep, the
2123 9 | children, and be born again, as saith the Scripture, you shall
2124 4 | the sun-god, as Aristus of Salamis relates. And why mention
2125 2 | embossed all over, and lumps of salt, and a serpent the symbol
2126 11| counsels, and commands what is salutary for His child. He who obeys
2127 1 | helper, too, is one and the same--the Lord, who from the beginning
2128 4 | Olympichus relates in his Samiaca. Do not, then, entertain
2129 4 | tree-trunk; and that of the Samian Here, as Aethlius says,
2130 4 | that the image of Here in Samos was formed by the chisel
2131 2 | orgies and mysteries of the Samothracians, or that Phrygian Midas
2132 9 | holy are those letters that sanctify and deify; and the writings
2133 4 | But Athenodorns the son of Sandon, while wishing to make out
2134 2 | marriage was wounded in sandy Pylos. Sosibius, too, relates
2135 12| whether it is better to be sane or insane; but holding on
2136 4 | there were fragments of sapphire, and hematite, and emerald,
2137 2 | Hercules to Omphale in Sardis. Poseidon--was a drudge
2138 2 | a place in Attica, and sat down on a well overwhelmed
2139 3 | might be able abundantly to satiate themselves with the murder
2140 2 | capture, from his grasp;~ But Saturnian Jove, having shot his bolt
2141 1 | by his music. Thus, when Saul was plagued with a demon,
2142 4 | glued,--are melted, filed, sawed, polished, carved. The senseless
2143 9 | days?" It is we, we shall say--we who are the devotees
2144 10| out their master by the scent; and horses that have thrown
2145 2 | called Thesmophoria and Scirophoria; dramatizing in many forms
2146 4 | called at Athens venerable, Scopas made two of the stone called
2147 9 | become sons, while they scorn to become sons. O the prodigious
2148 2 | cruel wretch and a nefarious scoundrel. It were tedious to recount
2149 9 | could adduce ten thousand Scriptures of which not "one tittle
2150 4 | statue made horned by the sculptors--eager to disgrace the beauty
2151 4 | think: they were called Scyles and Dipoenus; and these
2152 9 | fastened, as the rocks on the sea-shore are covered over with sea-weed,
2153 9 | sea-shore are covered over with sea-weed, make light of immortality,
2154 2 | his flaming thunderbolt sealed their doom."~And Euripides:--~"
2155 12| Lord is the hierophant, and seals while illuminating him who
2156 11| I reckon, go any more in search of human learning to Athens
2157 2 | what has been involved in secrecy, not ashamed to tell what
2158 10| adultery; thou shalt not seduce boys; thou shalt not steal;
2159 11| flames), was as a child seduced by lusts, and grew old in
2160 10| does great harm to men, and seduces them from salvation. Let
2161 4 | powerful is art to delude, by seducing amorous men into the pit.
2162 2 | escaped the prophet and seduction. And, above all, let the
2163 3 | Academia, --a thing more seemly, than the lust he had gratified;
2164 10| One, which "eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, nor hath
2165 3 | the tomb of Telmisseus the seer. Further, Ptolemy the son
2166 4 | indicates Heracles; and if one sees a statue of a naked woman
2167 2 | stars, straightway were seized with admiration, and deified
2168 2 | disgraced herself with Tithonus, Selene with Endymion, Nereis with
2169 4 | it was brought from the Seleucians, near Antioch, who also
2170 12| knowledge of God, My complete self. This am I, this God wills,
2171 11| cultivate the fruits of self-command, and present thyself to
2172 4 | inhabitants, sinking into self-flattery, treat the myths about the
2173 10| from licentiousness to self-restraint, from unrighteousness to
2174 4 | who won their favour by sending them corn from Egypt when
2175 9 | truth, and for this end sends the Paraclete. What, then,
2176 1 | raised up a seed of piety, sensitive to virtue, of those stones--
2177 2 | before you those amatory and sensuous deities of yours, as in
2178 2 | of the poets sing.~ But sentiments erroneous, and deviating
2179 4 | but what is past, being separated through the obscurity of
2180 4 | points to its connection with sepulture and its construction from
2181 1 | disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures,
2182 2 | Aphrodite, like a wanton serving-wench, taking and setting a seat
2183 2 | thus:--~"Demeter underwent servitude, and so did the famous lame
2184 2 | and their fights, their servitudes too, and their banquets;
2185 2 | for speech. Are they not sesame cakes, and pyramidal cakes,
2186 4 | human hands. He says that Sesostris the Egyptian king, having
2187 2 | in Tenos; and that Kronos settled in Sicily, and there was
2188 2 | mode remains (for there are seven in all)--that which takes
2189 9 | away from our sins, first severed from the devil. And now
2190 12| truth,--a mount of sobriety, shaded with forests of purity;
2191 11| darkness, shut up in the shadow of death, light has shone
2192 12| now into heaven, what He shadowed forth before by riding into
2193 4 | are your gods--shades and shadows; and to these add those
2194 10| in your eager desire to shake yourselves clear of us,
2195 4 | of the heavens shall be shaken, and the heavens stretched
2196 4 | IV. THE ABSURDITY AND SHAMEFULNESS OF THE IMAGES BY WHICH THE
2197 2 | muliebria. O unblushing shamelessness! Once on a time night was
2198 1 | clearly speaks to thee, Shaming thy unbelief; yea, I say,
2199 10| images, has, by devising many shapes of demons, stamped on all
2200 9 | made His heir, then will he share the kingdom of the Father
2201 11| the word of God," let us sharpen. So the apostle in the spirit
2202 12| blind recover sight, will shed on thee a light brighter
2203 1 | calls wolves, clothed in sheep-skins, meaning thereby monsters
2204 11| righteousness, and taking the shield of faith, and binding our
2205 1 | exhorts, admonishes, saves, shields, and of His bounty promises
2206 2 | the bull the dragon,~On shill the herdsman's hidden ox-goad,"--~
2207 1 | charmed by music while Truth's shining face alone, as would seem
2208 2 | hero affixed to the prow of ships is worshipped; and the Pythian
2209 11| shadow of death, light has shone forth from heaven, purer
2210 10| and water be gods? how can shooting stars and comets, which
2211 2 | men, is thy descent."~But shortly after this, they will be
2212 4 | Well done, Hippo! thou showest to us the delusion of men.
2213 4 | imperfect, as moles and the shrew-mouse, which Nicander says is
2214 4 | fire and earthquakes are shrewd enough not to feel shy or
2215 2 | victims, crowned with snakes, shrieking out the name of that Eva
2216 2 | Aphrodite uttering loud and shrill cries on account of her
2217 4 | beneath the forementioned shrine. Others say that the Serapis
2218 2 | better than the Egyptians (I shrink from saying worse)., who
2219 4 | shrewd enough not to feel shy or frightened at either
2220 4 | the Munychian Artemis in Sicyon. Why should I linger over
2221 2 | Dionysus Choiropsales. The Sicyonians reverence this deity, whom
2222 2 | this deity, always changing sides, and implacable, as Epicharmus
2223 2 | basket into the chest. Fine sights truly, and becoming a goddess;
2224 10| they looked for, obtained a signal deliverance. How, then,
2225 1 | And it was this which was signified by the dumbness of Zacharias,
2226 2 | the Arcadian, the son of Silenus (this one is called by the
2227 2 | formed of them by showing the similarity of names. For there are
2228 2 | of their fellow-men who similarly with those already mentioned
2229 4 | Phellata, and was the work of Simon the son of Eupalamus, as
2230 1 | have come to life again, simply by becoming listeners to
2231 11| salvation runs parallel with sincere willingness--choice and
2232 10| the birds worship not a single image; only they look with
2233 4 | and the other divinities sinister honour, has styled them
2234 2 | Ascraean, or perhaps it is from sinning, as forsooth they have never
2235 4 | present by the people of Sinope to Ptolemy Philadelphus,
2236 12| Charybdis, or the mythic sirens. It chokes man, turns him
2237 12| it not the Maenades, the sisters of Semele, who was struck
2238 4 | blocks of wood in conspicuous situations, and erected pillars of
2239 10| cleaving his way through the sky in the track of the luminous
2240 4 | counterfeit of piety, and slandered the truth, is now as clear
2241 3 | but gloating over human slaughter,--now in the armed contests
2242 10| perdition, foredoomed to be the slave of mammon, has to buy for
2243 10| righteousness, they try inhumanly to slay him, neither welcoming the
2244 3 | that they themselves are slaying men. For a murder does not
2245 3 | sacred sacrifice, if one slays a man either at the altar
2246 9 | Awake," He says, "thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead,
2247 11| to the day of the Lord. Sleepless light is now over all, and
2248 2 | annoyed, thinking herself slighted, uncovered her shame, and
2249 2 | the healer. These are the slippery and hurtful deviations from
2250 4 | men, how long will ye be slow of heart? Why do you love
2251 4 | turned heaven into a stage; sluggard, as a fountain thy harvest
2252 10| at length awake from this slumber, and know God; and that
2253 11| all shall know God, from small to great;" and, "I will
2254 4 | or something analogous to smell or taste; while images do
2255 2 | received his epithet of Sminthian. Heraclides, in his work,
2256 2 | country, which they call Sminthoi, because they gnawed the
2257 3 | mountain side,~A deadly snake, back he recoils in haste,--~
2258 2 | butchered victims, crowned with snakes, shrieking out the name
2259 12| away from life: custom is a snare, a gulf, a pit, a mischievous
2260 2 | married Anchises, and laid snares for Phaethon, and loved
2261 2 | hidden in them; and those so-called gods of yours, whose are
2262 1 | worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly,
2263 10| hard-hearted and foolish are Sodomites. Believe that these utterances
2264 10| into stone for her love of Sodore. And those who are godless,
2265 10| or out of earth moulded soft flesh. Who liquefied the
2266 1 | violence of fire it has softened by the atmosphere, as the
2267 2 | relates that the beams of Sol were struck by the arrows
2268 10| liquefied the marrow? or who solidified the bones? Who stretched
2269 4 | the ~streams of the Nile;~Solitary, frenzied, silent, on the
2270 | sometime
2271 1 | of God, the Lord, the New Song--desire? To open the eyes
2272 10| as you see the gods dying sooner than men." And, truly, he
2273 2 | and singing sweetly to it, soothed Macar, and put a stop to
2274 1 | new, the Levitical song.~"Soother of pain, calmer of wrath,
2275 2 | confederates in this art of soothsaying, trained to divination;
2276 10| admire, therefore, the divine sophist. Theocritus was his name.
2277 2 | recount his adulteries of all sorts, and debauching of boys.
2278 10| choice on salvation, have sought to hear the Creator of the
2279 11| The loud trumpet, when sounded, collects the soldiers,
2280 9 | harmony out of a medley of sounds and division, becomes one
2281 10| the Lord, to ignore the Sovereign Ruler? "Leave my earth,"
2282 2 | deadly superstition, who sowed in human life that seed
2283 10| accomplished in so brief a space by the Lord, who, though
2284 1 | voice of song He cheers. He spake by the burning bush, for
2285 4 | flames; nor did the fire spare the temple of Serapis, in
2286 11| when in the soul itself the spark of true goodness, kindled
2287 2 | worshipped as a Jupiter in Sparta; and Phanocles, in his book
2288 2 | graves.) The Argives and Spartans reverence Artemis Chelytis,
2289 10| who pursue eternal life, specially those things to which God
2290 12| describing ignorance itself as a species of madness, allege that
2291 2 | in addition to these, he specifies the Libyan Apollo, the son
2292 4 | applied themselves to this specious pernicious art; but when
2293 2 | abandon your delusion, and speed your flight back to heaven. "
2294 4 | with a different kind of spell that art deludes you, if
2295 11| doing nothing but eat, you spend your lives in darkness,
2296 3 | As when some traveller spies,~Coiled in his path upon
2297 2 | Orpheus, says:--~"Cone, and spinning-top, and limb-moving rattles,~
2298 1 | a pipe by reason of the Spirit- a temple by reason of the
2299 2 | At the Isthmus the sea spit out a piece of miserable
2300 2 | and then fixing them on spits, "held them over the fire."
2301 2 | his hands,~ Amounting to a splendid fee, persuaded~ To rescue
2302 2 | more worthy of credit, who spoke as above of both the Dioscuri;
2303 10| wisdom. You yourself will spontaneously surmount the frivolousness
2304 11| first man, when in Paradise, sported free, because he was the
2305 10| blood into them? Or who spread the skin? Who ever could
2306 2 | manner, all the rest of the springs of divination are dead,
2307 10| yourselves from custom, by sprinkling yourselves with the drops
2308 2 | of the virilia, because sprung from them, even from those
2309 1 | us to virtue, we should spurn His kindness and reject
2310 10| means and substance you squander on ignorance, even as you
2311 2 | Dicaearchus says that he was square-built, muscular, dark, hook-nosed,
2312 4 | those maimed, wrinkled, squinting divinities the Litae, daughters
2313 2 | following lines:--~"See'st thou this lofty, this boundless
2314 3 | contests for superiority in the stadia, and now in the numberless
2315 12| the truth. I give thee the staff [of the cross] on which
2316 12| truly sacred mysteries! O stainless light! My way is lighted
2317 3 | across the Halys to the stake. The demons love men in
2318 2 | One Agamemnon is said by Staphylus to be worshipped as a Jupiter
2319 2 | indulgence.~ "The female deities stayed each in the house, for shame,"
2320 9 | or Paul, who in Christ's stead thus entreats: "Taste and
2321 10| seduce boys; thou shalt not steal; thou shalt not bear false
2322 3 | these audacious impieties steals over you, it comes to this,
2323 2 | having come upon them by stealth, and having beguiled him
2324 4 | else is gold, or silver, or steel, or iron, or brass, or ivory,
2325 1 | than stones is a man who is steeped in ignorance. As our witness,
2326 2 | and a good adviser. But Sterope will not say that, nor Aethousa,
2327 4 | increased. That of stones and stocks--and, to speak briefly, of
2328 1 | sensitive to virtue, of those stones--of the nations, that is,
2329 10| like the deaf adder, which stoppeth her ear, and will not hear
2330 1 | think, the salvation in store for us to be, that on the
2331 2 | Thessalians pay divine homage to storks, in accordance with ancient
2332 4 | Apollo at Delphi, first a storm assailed it, and then the
2333 2 | bane of men, blood-stained stormer of walls,"--~this deity,
2334 2 | the motions of the stars, straightway were seized with admiration,
2335 10| influence of the charming strains of sanctity, and receive
2336 2 | name them, give additional strangeness to the tragic occurrence,
2337 9 | heaven. For in what way is a stranger permitted to enter? Well,
2338 2 | friend. An Artemis, named the Strangled, is worshipped by the Arcadians,
2339 10| nest. Thus dogs that have strayed, track out their master
2340 3 | his first book on Tragic Streets; the latter to the evil-averting
2341 10| the harshness of medicines strengthens people of weak stomach,
2342 1 | deliver men from delusion, stretching out her very strong right
2343 2 | Moreover, according to the strict interpretation of the Hebrew
2344 10| Fates goddesses. And if Strife and Battle be not gods,
2345 12| the universe. The maidens strike the lyre, the angels praise,
2346 10| neighbour as thyself; to him who strikes thee on the cheek, present
2347 2 | because they gnawed the strings of their enemies' bows;
2348 10| salvation. Let us then openly strip for the contest, and nobly
2349 10| creatures? You were boys, then striplings, then youths, then men,
2350 2 | enjoins them on us too, stripping the crowd of deities of
2351 10| for the contest, and nobly strive in the arena of truth, the
2352 10| can hinder him who eagerly strives after the knowledge of God;
2353 9 | wrath, loving grace, eagerly striving after the hope set before
2354 1 | stretching out her very strong right hand, which is wisdom,
2355 2 | sons,~ Otus and Ephialtes, strongly bound,~ He thirteen months
2356 2 | his eagerness to deify a strumpet of his own country. Others
2357 2 | drum and sounding a cymbal strung from his neck like a priest
2358 1 | idols; nay, to build up the stupidity of the nations with blocks
2359 4 | be executed in sumptuous style; and the work was done by
2360 1 | is, statues and images,--subjecting to the yoke of extremest
2361 4 | the Egyptian king, having subjugated the most of the Hellenic
2362 3 | wickedness; and not being subsequently checked, but having gone
2363 10| truly God, only truly is and subsists. But those who are insensible
2364 10| it is not creditable to subvert the customs handed down
2365 3 | But, unquestionably, in succeeding ages men invented for themselves
2366 4 | ascribed their greatest successes to Fortune, and regarded
2367 9 | till, having followed the successor of Moses, they learned by
2368 11| child of God; but when he succumbed to pleasure (for the serpent
2369 10| man, the living God, who suffered and is adored. Believe,
2370 2 | as they have been already sufficiently exposed? Furthermore, the
2371 2 | symbol of her birth a lump of suit and the phallus are handed
2372 4 | ancestor, to be executed in sumptuous style; and the work was
2373 4 | assumed the character of the sun-god, as Aristus of Salamis relates.
2374 4 | the uncreated Deity, have sunk into deepest darkness? The
2375 11| hath changed sunset into sunrise, and through the cross brought
2376 12| sooth methinks I see two suns,~And a double Thebes,"~said
2377 9 | believed and obey, grace will superabound; while with those that have
2378 4 | have you, defaming the supercelestial region, dragged religion
2379 3 | in the armed contests for superiority in the stadia, and now in
2380 2 | hospitality, the protector of suppliants, the benign, the author
2381 1 | this deathless strain,the support of the whole and the harmony
2382 1 | believe the prophets, but supposest both the men and the fire
2383 1 | also, surely, who is the supramundane Wisdom, the celestial Word,
2384 10| yourself will spontaneously surmount the frivolousness of custom,
2385 4 | Argus. Many, perhaps, may be surprised to learn that the Palladium
2386 2 | was mutilated. And what is surprising at the Tyrrhenians, who
2387 12| lighted with torches, and I survey the heavens and God; I become
2388 2 | the truth, they certainly suspected the error of the common
2389 2 | the common opinion; which suspicion is no insignificant seed,
2390 10| serpent open its mouth to swallow the little bird, "the mother
2391 2 | swine of Eubouleus that were swallowed up with the two goddesses;
2392 4 | in place of it. And the swallows and most birds fly to these
2393 9 | not known My ways. So I sware in my wrath, they shall
2394 10| stone, that hold despotic sway over men insulting and violating
2395 10| light," while they could sweep away those hindrances to
2396 11| heaven, purer than the sun, sweeter than life here below. That
2397 2 | playing the lyre, and singing sweetly to it, soothed Macar, and
2398 10| all creatures that fly and swim, and those on the land.
2399 2 | shepherd, and Eubouleus a swineherd; from whom came the race
2400 11| let us quench with the sword-points dipped in water, that, have
2401 2 | objects of worship. The Syenites worship the braize-fish;
2402 9 | of those holy letters and syllables, the same apostle consequently
2403 2 | the courtesan), and the Syracusans to Aphrodite Kallipygos,
2404 2 | Nor shall I forget the Syrians, who inhabit Phoenicia,
2405 2 | Accordingly mention is made of tables, and potations, and laughter,
2406 2 | gods, and the incredible tales of their licentiousness,
2407 4 | result as if one were to talk to the Walls of his house."
2408 2 | the make of his body, as tall, bristling-haired, robust;
2409 10| have undertaken to do, the task I now attempt is the noblest,
2410 10| disgraced with filthy and tattered clothes; who never come
2411 3 | a burn-sacrifice to the Taurian Artemis. Erechtheus of Attica
2412 3 | Lacedemonians, a noble victim. The Taurians, the people who inhabit
2413 11| utterances save; Thy hymn teaches that hitherto I have wandered
2414 12| parent; and having yoked the team of humanity to God, directs
2415 2 | furthermore, their embraces, and tears, and sufferings, and lewd
2416 2 | nefarious scoundrel. It were tedious to recount his adulteries
2417 2 | but they beneath the teeming earth,~ In Lacedaemon lay,
2418 4 | in Tenos are the work of Telesius the Athenian, as we are
2419 2 | initiated, the holy night is the tell-tale of the rites of licentiousness;
2420 3 | or the altar of Apollo in Telmessus, which is reported to be
2421 3 | reported to be the tomb of Telmisseus the seer. Further, Ptolemy
2422 1 | them with the leaves of temperance, set thyself earnestly to
2423 4 | the goddess as a fitting temple--the necessary. But senseless
2424 4 | obscurity of time from the temporary censure that attached to
2425 9 | provocation, in the day of temptation in the wilderness, when
2426 11| and in all circumstances, tends to the highest end, viz.,
2427 2 | the Cythnians; among the Tenians, Callistagoras; among the
2428 4 | called God, and falsely termed~Prophet;~But the oracles
2429 1 | sings is not the measure of Terpander, nor that of Capito, nor
2430 9 | ceaseless assiduity, exhorts, terrifies, urges, rouses, admonishes;
2431 2 | crowd of deities of those terrifying and threatening masks of
2432 4 | of Hermes, as he himself testifies. And whilst whole nations,
2433 9 | blessed apostle says: "I testify in the Lord, that ye walk
2434 2 | Heimarmene, and Auxo, and Thallo, which are Attic goddesses.
2435 11| Word, returning grateful thanks for the benefits we have
2436 1 | true athlete crowned in the theatre of the whole universe. What
2437 1 | that Thracian Orpheus, that Theban, and that Methymnaean,--
2438 2 | their motion (theos from thein); and worshipped the sun,--
2439 2 | gods, whose birth is the theme of which Hesiod sings in
2440 2 | unmentionable symbols of Themis, marjoram, a lamp, a sword,
2441 | Thence
2442 2 | Cyrenian of the name of Theodorus, and numbers of others,
2443 2 | which Hesiod sings in his Theogony, and of whom Homer speaks
2444 3 | good omens; among whom was Theopompos, king of the Lacedemonians,
2445 2 | gods from their motion (theos from thein); and worshipped
2446 | thereby
2447 | thereof
2448 4 | the Litae, daughters of Thersites rather than of Zeus. So
2449 4 | Phryne the courtesan, the Thespian, was in her bloom, all the
2450 2 | full of monstrosity, or the Thesprotian caldron, or the Cirrhaean
2451 3 | marvels, that at Pella, in Thessaly, a man of Achaia was slain
2452 2 | deflowered the fifty daughters of Thestius, and thus was at once the
2453 2 | Endymion, Nereis with Aeacus, Thetis with Peleus, Demeter with
2454 4 | that Bion--wittily, as I think--says, How in reason could
2455 1 | down to death, now brings thither the rest of mankind. Our
2456 2 | all, like the goats of the Thmuitae. And thy poems, O Homer,
2457 2 | have gone away~ Through thorns and briars. Why do ye wander?~
2458 3 | over in silence, but make a thorough exposure of them, though
2459 12| folly, and ignorance, and thoughtlessness, and idolatry. For not improperly
2460 10| blank, useless ears, vain thoughts."~And you know not that,
2461 9 | you may shun the judgment threatened? Come, come, O my young
2462 2 | Olympus, from its divine threshold, having fallen on Lemnos,
2463 | throughout
2464 2 | caldron on a tripod, and throwing into it the members of Dionysus,
2465 10| scent; and horses that have thrown their riders, come to their
2466 2 | the Megaric tongue, they thrust out swine? This mythological
2467 10| if the lightnings, and thunderbolts, and rains are not gods,
2468 2 | was buried. Patroclus the Thurian, and Sophocles the younger,
2469 12| madman, not leaning on the thyrsus, not crowned with ivy; throw
2470 10| thus custom pleases and, tickles; but custom pushes into
2471 4 | of his books addressed to Timaeus. Nor need you doubt respecting
2472 9 | as truly divine. "Thou, O Timothy," he says, "from a child
2473 4 | and lead, and in addition, tin; and of Egyptian stones
2474 12| on which to lean. Haste, Tiresias; believe, and thou wilt
2475 10| prescribing the contest. For 'tis no insignificant prize,
2476 2 | the daughter of Pallas and Titanis, the daughter of Oceanus,
2477 2 | having disgraced herself with Tithonus, Selene with Endymion, Nereis
2478 9 | Scriptures of which not "one tittle shall pass away," without
2479 2 | long night, who with hard toil accomplished the twelve
2480 2 | bedroom." Are not these tokens a disgrace? Are not the
2481 2 | Thesmophoria, speaking the Megaric tongue, they thrust out swine?
2482 10| Let the meaner artists, too--for I will not stop calling--
2483 2 | dice, ball, hoop, apples, top, looking-glass, tuft of
2484 4 | hematite, and emerald, and topaz. Having ground down and
2485 2 | Hierophant; reverence, O Torch-bearer, the torches. That light
2486 2 | grief, Eleusis celebrates by torchlight processions. I think that
2487 2 | toys, these very Titans tore him limb from limb when
2488 10| For the author of evil, torment has been prepared; and so
2489 2 | maimed in his feet:--~"His tottering knees were bowed beneath
2490 10| Lord will say to thee. "Touch not the water which I bestow.
2491 4 | for example, hearing, or touching, or something analogous
2492 4 | debauched boy is the temple and town of Antinous. For just as
2493 2 | Egyptians, who in their towns and villages pay divine
2494 4 | makers of such mischievous toys-- the sculptors and makers
2495 2 | and mysteries ought to be traced, the former to the wrath (
2496 1 | song has transformed into tractable men. "For even we ourselves
2497 1 | as form the subjects of tragedy, though but myths; but by
2498 10| creature, and heals his transgression, and pursues the serpent,
2499 11| mortality into immortality, and translating earth to heaven--He, the
2500 1 | mere might of song; and transplanted trees--oaks--by music. I
2501 11| raised him to the skies, transplanting mortality into immortality,
2502 4 | was a Pontic idol, and was transported with solemn pomp to Alexandria.