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 1 I      |               and the other rational creatures, both those more Divine
 2 II     |        bodies of the smallest living creatures are not scornfully treated
 3 II     |         basilisks and other venomous creatures were created. In the contemplation
 4 XIV    |            rational food of rational creatures. And consider whether Plato
 5 XVIII  |            the worship of irrational creatures, and in the arguments to
 6 XVIII  |          only of rational and mortal creatures, but of irrational creatures,
 7 XVIII  |         creatures, but of irrational creatures, thus going beyond the fabulous
 8 XVIII  |           and descends to irrational creatures, not only such as are tamed,
 9 XX     |               but for the irrational creatures; for the irrational creatures
10 XX     |        creatures; for the irrational creatures live with less toil than
11 XX     |           the sake of the irrational creatures. Here he seems to me to
12 XX     |             everything. And rational creatures, inasmuch as they are the
13 XX     |              irrational and lifeless creatures are like the after-birth.391
14 XX     |            dogs and other irrational creatures enjoy the abundance as well:
15 XX     |            provides for the rational creatures, but it follows also that
16 XX     |             also that the irrational creatures enjoy what exists for the
17 XX     |            provides for the rational creatures; for they pretend to ask. "
18 XX     |            of the wildest irrational creatures?" I wish Celsus would tell
19 XX     |      necessitous than the irrational creatures. For the irrational creatures
20 XX     |        creatures. For the irrational creatures have their food prepared
21 XX     |           object that the irrational creatures were created for man's sake. "
22 XX     |          hunt and feast on the other creatures, we will ask in return,
23 XX     |      superiority over the irrational creatures, he says, "In reply to your
24 XX     |             the sake of the rational creatures, does his best to destroy 401
25 XX     |              to excel the irrational creatures, inasmuch as they dwell
26 XX     |       original gift of reason in the creatures accounts for these doings,
27 XX     |             lack of reason helps the creatures not deemed worthy of reason.
28 XX     |           found among the irrational creatures, though Celsus may transfer
29 XX     |             as it does to irrational creatures what I may call the imitation
30 XX     |              perhaps to put rational creatures to the blush; so that when
31 XX(402)|            Admit them among rational creatures? ~
32 XX     |            since they are irrational creatures, would not be puffed up
33 XX     |          constituted even irrational creatures as not to leave even the
34 XX     |              not what, in irrational creatures. ~11. And since Celsus says
35 XX     |            he praises the irrational creatures, so much the more, in spite
36 XX     |         advantages of the irrational creatures. Why do I say "irrational,"
37 XX     |          that Celsus thinks that the creatures so named by the general
38 XX     |           discover in the irrational creatures, whatever their size, no
39 XX     | irrationality; while in the rational creatures he will see reason, the
40 XX     |            all related of irrational creatures which shows their dignity,
41 XX     |             and so on with the other creatures; the discoveries would have
42 XX     |          that some of the irrational creatures have thoughts of God, concerning
43 XX     |         birds, or any other oracular creatures gifted by God with foreknowledge,
44 XX     |              ways of birds and other creatures, from which they are said
45 XX     |        foregoing that the irrational creatures have a Divine nature and
46 XX     |       whether the soul of irrational creatures is more Divine than that
47 XX     |        statement that the irrational creatures are wiser than men, and
48 XX     |           birds and other irrational creatures which he considers to have
49 XX     |           who worship the irrational creatures as gods, and places himself,
50 XX     |               beneath the irrational creatures, for he believes that men
51 XX     |        divination, lest the rational creatures should forsake the oracles
52 XX     |              man over the irrational creatures, and over the very creatures
53 XX     |         creatures, and over the very creatures with powers of divination,
54 XX     |              must suppose that these creatures would much sooner know their
55 XX     |             and the other irrational creatures having a Divine nature and
56 XX     |             turn the fancies of such creatures to such and such nights
57 XX     |           which is in the irrational creatures, may not seek Him Who embraceth
58 XX     |        future are given through such creatures as these; it may be because
59 XX     |            impel the birds and other creatures for divination, or that
60 XX     |           employs neither irrational creatures nor ordinary men, but the
61 XX     |           false that "the irrational creatures have a closer intimacy with
62 XX     |             say that "the irrational creatures are not only wiser than
63 XX     |          have to admit that if these creatures are dearer to God than men,
64 XX     |             God than men, these same creatures are obviously dearer to
65 XX     |           Celsus, and say, "If these creatures are dearer to God than men,
66 XX     |           you come to resemble those creatures which, according to you,
67 XX     |         assemblies of the irrational creatures are more sacred than ours,
68 XX     |         Intelligent men say that the creatures have their assemblies, obviously
69 XX     |         assemblies of the irrational creatures are more sacred than those
70 XX     |         assemblies of the irrational creatures are more sacred than those
71 XX     |             an example in irrational creatures strong enough to shame men
72 XX     |              the piety of irrational creatures, Celsus adduces the fable
73 XX     |              constitutions of living creatures given proof to man of the
74 XX     |           nor does He threaten these creatures, each of which has in its
75 XX     |           for the lion, or the other creatures which he mentions; hut we
76 XXI    |             in certain of the living creatures the phantastic nature not
77 XXI    |         begin,471but to the rational creatures and themselves, may afterwards
78 XXI    |          from God that we are living creatures and men, so also it is from
79 XXI    |           virtue of our being living creatures we have the power of motion
80 XXI    |            which stamps us as living creatures, we have received from God,
81 XXIII  |          what befalls the irrational creatures, through the relation of
82 XXIII  |              some men are effeminate creatures and lead lascivious lives
83 XXIV   |          from Himself, and as living creatures are in the air, that He