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2503 3 | lion?~" .....As when some traveller spies,~Coiled in his path
2504 10| worldly wealth; but it is that treasure of salvation to which we
2505 10| himself but little, having treasured up his bliss in nothing
2506 4 | sinking into self-flattery, treat the myths about the gods
2507 3 | Monimus relates, in his treatise on marvels, that at Pella,
2508 1 | just as a good physician treats some of his patients with
2509 4 | Cithaeronian Here was a felled tree-trunk; and that of the Samian
2510 1 | of song; and transplanted trees--oaks--by music. I might
2511 2 | locks,~ And all Olympus trembled at his nod."~ Thou makest
2512 3 | in haste,--~His limbs all trembling, and his cheek all pale,"~
2513 2 | when we were now dead in trespasses, quickened us together with
2514 9 | your fathers proved Me by trial." And what was the trim?
2515 10| into the way, the whole tribe of you handicrafts-men,~
2516 4 | head-dress; Poseidon from his trident; Zeus from the swan; the
2517 2 | forsooth they have never tried their hand at sin themselves!
2518 9 | trial." And what was the trim? If you wish to learn, the
2519 2 | the people who inhabit the Troad worship the mice of the
2520 2 | Call me Poseidon, and the troop of damsels deflowered by
2521 3 | human race better, and art truer than Apollo, pity him that
2522 10| all truths, this is the truest, that the good and godly
2523 1 | the nations, that is, who trusted in stones. Again, therefore,
2524 10| acknowledging the conspicuous trustworthiness of the virtues, you wish
2525 11| bringing him back to the truth--the goad that urges to salvation
2526 10| you know not that, of all truths, this is the truest, that
2527 10| cultivate righteousness, they try inhumanly to slay him, neither
2528 2 | apples, top, looking-glass, tuft of wool. Athene (Minerva),
2529 2 | evidence for this piece of turpitude:-~"Having thus spoken, she
2530 10| any more be regarded as twin deities, being merely changes
2531 10| O men, is the Hermes of Typho, and that of Andocides,
2532 9 | wanderers in the desert received typically the end of the threatening;
2533 1 | speedily, the bitter bondage of tyrannizing demons; and leading us back
2534 2 | Juno; and the goddesses un-robed for the sake of the apple,
2535 10| world, brings on the sinner unavailing remorse with punishment.
2536 12| along with angels around the unbegotten and indestructible and the
2537 2 | expression for the muliebria. O unblushing shamelessness! Once on a
2538 4 | fables, the ancient kings unblushingly proclaimed themselves gods,
2539 4 | reckoned gods, being in reality unclean and impure spirits, acknowledged
2540 4 | Nicander says is blind and uncouth; yet are they superior to
2541 2 | thinking herself slighted, uncovered her shame, and exhibited
2542 4 | objects, instead of the uncreated Deity, have sunk into deepest
2543 2 | Hercules; now is the time to undergo for us this thirteenth labour,
2544 4 | without an inscription, he understands it to be the golden Aphrodite.
2545 10| For of all that I have undertaken to do, the task I now attempt
2546 1 | to God All-wise,--a lay unfettered by rule, better than the
2547 11| Shepherd. And the Word, having unfolded the truth, showed to men
2548 10| the affairs here turn out unfortunately, when men put their trust
2549 12| Me. I anoint you with the ungent of faith, by which you throw
2550 1 | teaching us, that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should
2551 11| counsels and precepts are unimportant, and respect particular
2552 10| heaven. Then, he that is uninstructed in the word, has ignorance
2553 9 | the union of the essential unity; and let us, by being made
2554 2 | avenger of wrongs; rather the unjust, the violater of right and
2555 10| preached, nor altogether unknown when, assuming the character
2556 10| human race the cause of unlawful rites and delusive shows,
2557 11| corruption, had his hands unloosed, and was set free. O mystic
2558 10| against us; and just as unmanageable horses throw off the reins,
2559 2 | And further, there are the unmentionable symbols of Themis, marjoram,
2560 2 | his tomb, and burns with unnatural lust. Cutting a fig-branch
2561 3 | to bring them to the fire[unquenchable]. But O man, who lovest
2562 3 | sacrifices to them. But, unquestionably, in succeeding ages men
2563 10| made you taste bondage and unreasonable care, is fostered by vain
2564 10| is by no manner of means unrighteous, as the demons are, but
2565 10| to self-restraint, from unrighteousness to righteousness, from godlessness
2566 1 | the eyes of the blind, and unstop the ears of the deaf, and
2567 3 | the Myndian Zeno, it were unsuitable in this connection to pass
2568 10| toys. For with a celerity unsurpassable, and a benevolence to which
2569 | unto
2570 10| ye obey Me not, and are unwilling, the sword and fire shall
2571 1 | Methymnaean,--men,~and yet unworthy of the name,--seem to have
2572 4 | in Icarus was doubtless unwrought wood, and that of the Cithaeronian
2573 4 | doorkeeper. For if people upbraid them with being devoid of
2574 1 | ears to hear. Sometimes He upbraids, and sometimes He threatens.
2575 2 | them, even from those of Uranus, that were cut off,--those
2576 10| conduct of life abandon that usage which is evil, and provocative
2577 10| why, then, do we not still use our first nourishment, milk,
2578 | used
2579 | using
2580 10| but you do injury with the utmost readiness. The only thing
2581 2 | when set before you in a vacant hour, I know will excite
2582 4 | and one like it, of less valuable material, plated with gold,
2583 11| flesh--O divine mystery!--vanquished the serpent, and enslaved
2584 2 | story the women celebrate variously in different cities in the
2585 4 | In Rome, the historian Varro says that in ancient times
2586 10| to exchange it, for it is vastly preferred to everything
2587 2 | time night was silent, a veil for the pleasure of temperate
2588 10| nerves? who distended the veins? Who poured the blood into
2589 1 | seems to me, such barbarous vengeance on them as those who are
2590 1 | Again, therefore, some venomous and false hypocrites, who
2591 2 | divine by barley, and the ventriloquists still held in honour by
2592 10| deify Modesty, and Love, and Venus, let these be followed by
2593 10| they are stones, as is the veritable Hermes himself? As the Halo
2594 1 | salvation to be new, as a vessel or a house is new. For "
2595 2 | his wife; and Megaclo was vexed for her mother's sake. What
2596 2 | called Pallas, from the vibrating of the heart; and the Titans
2597 2 | glare of torches reveals vicious indulgences. Quench the
2598 3 | the Lacedemonians, a noble victim. The Taurians, the people
2599 12| eternal Son crowned with victory. Let us aspire, then, after
2600 4 | gods and demons, but in my view earth and art, which go
2601 4 | so that the present is viewed with distrust, the past
2602 2 | taken place, are recorded of vile men who lived licentious
2603 2 | who in their towns and villages pay divine honours to the
2604 4 | therefore willingly forget such villany, looking on acts like these
2605 2 | as the Athenians, and the vine Dionysus, as the Thebans.
2606 2 | rather the unjust, the violater of right and of law, the
2607 10| sway over men insulting and violating life through the force of
2608 1 | once called "a brood of vipers." But if one of those serpents
2609 2 | the bridegroom of so many virgins. It is not, then, without
2610 2 | Aphrodite, lover of the virilia, because sprung from them,
2611 2 | divine energy and of their virility; and by the third, to him
2612 10| conspicuous trustworthiness of the virtues, you wish to trust them,
2613 10| deprives them of heavenly vision, the other robs them of
2614 4 | fly to these statues, and void their excrement on them,
2615 9 | deify; and the writings or volumes that consist of those holy
2616 10| custom, and, clinging to it voluntarily till your last breath, you
2617 10| infatuated desire, then, for voluntary death is this, rooted in
2618 1 | irascible to lions, the voluptuous to swine, the rapacious
2619 2 | spent so many nights in voluptuousness with Alcmene? For not even
2620 10| it? Why do we not still vomit on our parents' breasts,
2621 12| us shun this billow; it vomits forth fire: it is a wicked
2622 4 | puffed up with vainglory, vote themselves extravagant honours.
2623 4 | plundered them of their votive gifts, and melted even the
2624 2 | are reckoned up, or the Vulcans of fable? Shall I not appear
2625 4 | the ground Ephesus shall wail, weeping~by the shore,~And
2626 9 | confers everlasting life, you wait for punishment, and prefer
2627 1 | dumbness of Zacharias, which waited for fruit in the person
2628 4 | have been in the habit of walking on the earth, not of worshipping
2629 10| there are, who, like worms wallowing in marshes and mud in the
2630 9 | indeed, the old Hebrew wanderers in the desert received typically
2631 2 | mystic drama; and their wanderings, and seizure, and grief,
2632 4 | Egyptian stones not one was wanting, and there were fragments
2633 2 | were immortal, and had no wants, and never grew old. Jupiter
2634 11| them amulets and charms, to ward off evil forsooth; and will
2635 2 | Etruria--dealers in honourable wares truly. They lived there
2636 2 | and describing the most warlike Ares himself as wounded
2637 1 | was when the grasshoppers, warmed by the sun, were chirping
2638 4 | being lighter in summer and warmer in winter. And Antiochus
2639 3 | contests for renown in the wars providing for themselves
2640 10| the water of the word; wash, ye polluted ones; purify
2641 10| admire the sight, cease watching with outstretched head the
2642 4 | Hamadryads; and besides, in the waters, the rivers, and fountains,
2643 4 | to be of an earthly and watery nature, sinking downwards
2644 2 | with his shadowy brows;~ Waved on the immortal head the
2645 4 | and girls' ornaments of wax or clay deceives them. You
2646 10| medicines strengthens people of weak stomach, thus custom pleases
2647 11| fellow-heir," since Thou "weft not ashamed of me as Thy
2648 9 | God accepts with gracious welcome--the first-fruits He receives
2649 12| salvation; for the Lord welcomes a sinner's repentance, and
2650 10| inhumanly to slay him, neither welcoming the grace which, comes from
2651 1 | He was in God) and of our well-being, this very Word has now
2652 4 | and horses have neighed to well-executed pictures of mares. They
2653 3 | reasons those who first went astray were impelled to
2654 11| is now over all, and the west has given credence to the
2655 2 | mercy, for the great love wherewith He loved us, when we were
2656 4 | another maker of images. Whichever of these you like, write
2657 4 | and rich gold, care not a whir for either savoury odour,
2658 10| master's call if he but whistle. "The ox," it is said, "
2659 4 | covered with a heap of white~stones,~Shalt lie a huge
2660 1 | miserable chain of superstition whomsoever he can draw to his side
2661 2 | of Oceanus, who, having wickedly killed her father, adorned
2662 2 | herdsman's ox-goad, to the reed wielded by bacchanals. Do you wish
2663 4 | of gain. I will therefore willingly forget such villany, looking
2664 11| runs parallel with sincere willingness--choice and life being, so
2665 12| self. This am I, this God wills, this is symphony, this
2666 12| Tiresias; believe, and thou wilt see. Christ, by whom the
2667 12| and the courtesan tries to win to herself the glory of
2668 11| amusements abandon to the winds and the fire, as a fading
2669 10| He has resolved to give wings to those that are earth-born),
2670 12| gulf, a pit, a mischievous winnowing fan.~"Urge the ship beyond
2671 4 | in summer and warmer in winter. And Antiochus of Cyzicus,
2672 11| as a fading flower; but wisely cultivate the fruits of
2673 10| incredulity in his soul, the wiser he appears to be, the more
2674 3 | Then why is it, O men, wisest of all creatures, that you
2675 10| objects which rise before you withdraw you from wisdom. You yourself
2676 2 | writers, whom I call as witnesses against your unbelief. Poor
2677 4 | than of Zeus. So that Bion--wittily, as I think--says, How in
2678 2 | sheep, the Leucopolites a wolf, the Cynopolites a dog,
2679 2 | mother, Core is reared up to womanhood. And, in course of time,
2680 4 | king of the Egyptians, who won their favour by sending
2681 11| and was set free. O mystic wonder! The Lord was laid low,
2682 4 | For are they not to be wondered at who worship stones, and
2683 4 | somehow, what is present is wont to be despised through familiarity;
2684 4 | Satyrs and Pans; in the woods, Nymphs, and Oreads, and
2685 11| long-lived exhortation, wooing the eternal love of wisdom;"
2686 4 | ordered him to be clothed in a woollen one, remarking facetiously
2687 9 | nothing but this, is His only work--the salvation of man. Therefore
2688 1 | air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience,"
2689 2 | Egyptians (I shrink from saying worse)., who never cease laughing
2690 4 | the idol by which he was worshipped--was a spear, artists not
2691 10| men." And, truly, he who worships gods that are visible, and
2692 4 | overruled; and Zeus being worsted, laments for Sarpedon. With
2693 9 | suitable teacher, who alone can worthily assimilate man to God. This
2694 4 | And these images are more worthless than any animal. I am at
2695 2 | cries on account of her wound; and describing the most
2696 4 | Capitol in Rome was often wrapped in flames; nor did the fire
2697 1 | with wool and purple; but wreathing thy brows with righteousness,
2698 2 | the poets call him a cruel wretch and a nefarious scoundrel.
2699 10| repentance. It is the height of wretchedness to be deprived of the help
2700 4 | these add those maimed, wrinkled, squinting divinities the
2701 2 | seem to recognise your own writers, whom I call as witnesses
2702 4 | second book of his Argolics, writes of the image of Here in
2703 9 | sanctify and deify; and the writings or volumes that consist
2704 2 | of omens, the avenger of wrongs; rather the unjust, the
2705 2 | And, in addition, he who wrote the Cyprian poems says Castor
2706 10| X. ANSWER TO THE OBJECTION
2707 11| XI. HOW GREAT ARE THE BENEFITS
2708 12| XII. EXHORTATION TO ABANDON
2709 4 | that in ancient times the Xoaron of Mars--the idol by which
2710 2 | Polemo tells of an image of a yawning Apollo; and again of another
2711 10| agreeableness of the pleasure they yield, while, on the other hand,
2712 10| choose life." He counsels yon as a father to obey God. "
2713 10| respecting the Word. But do you--for your ancestral customs,
2714 | yourself
2715 10| boys, then striplings, then youths, then men, but never as
2716 1 | signified by the dumbness of Zacharias, which waited for fruit
2717 1 | of God, which fired the zeal of David. And He who is
2718 10| prepared; and so the prophet Zecharias threatens him: "He that
2719 4 | Nicagorus? He was a native of Zela[in Pontus], and lived in
2720 3 | Didymaeum. Following the Myndian Zeno, it were unsuitable in this
2721 2 | Aethousa, nor Arsinoe, nor Zeuxippe, nor Prothoe, nor Marpissa,