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1 Ana | We shall prove that your gods are no gods, for they once
2 Ana | prove that your gods are no gods, for they once were men (
3 Ana | to Heaven (ch. II). ~Your gods are nothing but names of
4 Ana | sacrilegiously towards your gods, whether private or public (
5 Ana | resembling some of your gods (ch. 16). ~We worship one
6 Ana | These daemons and your gods are identical, as their
7 Ana | religious duties towards gods that have no existence.
8 Ana | to Caesar (ch. 28). ~The gods are the creatures of Caesar,
9 Ana | supposed to provoke the gods to send calamities and disasters
10 Ana | Christianity. Your very gods, too, suffer in the calamities
11 II | every crime, hostile to the gods, to the emperors, to the
12 IV | commit a crime against the gods, or against the Caesars;
13 V(11) | 8. 19, 'Let no one have gods apart, and let not men worship
14 V(11) | in private new or strange gods, except they be publicly
15 VI | marriage. ~Even as regards your gods themselves, what your ancestors
16 VI | from the assembly of the gods, and rejected, having overthrown
17 VI | superstitions. Upon these gods, whom you restored, you
18 VI | zeal in the worship of the gods,—a matter on which antiquity
19 X | We shall prove that your gods are no gods; for they once
20 X | prove that your gods are no gods; for they once were men. ~'
21 X | You do not worship the gods,' you say to us, 'and you
22 X | our not worshipping the gods. Consequently we are judicially
23 X | We cease to worship your gods from that moment when we
24 X | demand,— that we prove these gods to have no existence, and
25 X | event of their being really gods. Then, too, it will of course
26 X | established fact that those gods do exist, whom they refused
27 X | you say, 'to us they are gods.' We protest, and appeal
28 X | can deny that all those gods of yours were men. But if
29 X | day, they consecrate as gods those whom a few days before
30 XI | assert that they were made gods after their death, let us
31 XI | divinity, who made them gods out of men. For neither
32 XI | is no one who made them gods, it is absurd for you to
33 XI | them as having been made gods, and at the same time to
34 XI | could have made themselves gods, they would never have been
35 XI | there is any one who makes gods, I turn back to examine
36 XI | examine the reasons for making gods out of men; nor do I find
37 XI | man himself. ~Lastly, the gods are said to have discovered
38 XI | electing men into the rank of gods; because the positions and
39 XI | had you not created those gods of yours. ~But you turn
40 XI | upon heaven. To please your gods you must deify all your
41 XI | eloquence! Which of those gods of yours was graver and
42 XI | called up into the rank of gods, especially as he must have
43 XII | CHAPTER XII. ~Your gods are nothing but names of
44 XII | truth indicate what your gods are not by shewing what
45 XII | are. ~With regard to your gods, then, I see merely names
46 XII | on account of these very gods, it may be some solace in
47 XII | with claws : but to your gods axes and planes and files
48 XII | surrender our necks: your gods are headless before the
49 XII | the fire: so, too, are the gods in their original mass.
50 XII | is from thence that your gods derive their origin. We
51 XII | of divinity. True, your gods do not feel the injuries
52 XIII | public. ~'BUT to us they are gods,' you say. How is it, then,
53 XIII | irreverently towards your gods; seeing that you neglect
54 XIII | condemned. ~Over your household gods, whom you call Lares, you
55 XIII | you profane your public gods by public right, by putting
56 XIII | the marks of serfdom. But gods are the more holy the more
57 XIII | get acquainted with the gods for nothing: they are on
58 XIII | even while living. Your gods will give you credit for
59 XIII | synod;—although your ancient gods were no nobler in character,
60 XIV | what travesties do I find! gods, engaged like pairs of gladiators,
61 XIV | be a culumniator of the gods on the authority of his
62 XIV | who, in contempt of the gods, used to swear by an oak,
63 XIV | because he overthrew the gods.' True, because then, as
64 XV | through the dishonour of the gods. Examine the choice farces
65 XV | it is the actors or your gods that you laugh at:—'the
66 XV | the theatre, where your gods in the same way dance over
67 XV | often impersonate your very gods. We have sometimes seen
68 XV | honour of the divinity of the gods, if they obliterate the
69 XV | the contempt in which the gods are held both by those who
70 XV | I know not whether your gods have not more reason to
71 XVI | resembling some of your gods. ~FOR you, as certain others
72 XVI | the earliest form of your gods is moulded by potters on
73 XVI | standards above all the gods 40. Yet all those crests
74 XVI | since they have received as gods creatures compounded of
75 XVII | although enslaved to false gods, yet, when it recovers its
76 XIX | the truth, just as your gods in their case did likewise 59.]
77 XIX(59) | passing themselves off as gods. Comp. ch. 22. ~
78 XIX | the mark), I say your very gods, temples and oracles and
79 XXI | astonished by the great number of gods to be propitiated, but so
80 XXII | which they commend these gods of yours to the enthralled
81 XXIII | These daemons and your gods are identical, as their
82 XXIII | to the same work as your gods, where in that case is the
83 XXIII | themselves who make themselves gods, since they exhibit the
84 XXIII | same credentials as the gods, rather than to set down
85 XXIII | rather than to set down the gods as merely the equals of
86 XXIII | that you regard those as gods from their temples whom
87 XXIII | another place you do not call gods; and it seems one sort of
88 XXIII | shew that the nature of gods and daemons is one, though
89 XXIII | one hand they are truly gods, why do they lie by saying
90 XXIII | themselves in the guise of gods? For just as they who are
91 XXIII | they who are regarded as gods would naturally refuse to
92 XXIII | dsemons, if they were truly gods, lest they should depose
93 XXIII | dare to elsewhere pose as gods, if those whose names they
94 XXIII | they usurp were any sort of gods at all, since they would
95 XXIII | daemons, nor denied by the gods. Since then each side competes
96 XXIII | must now look out for fresh gods, for those whom you assumed
97 XXIII | of ours, from these very gods of yours, whose disclosures
98 XXIII | themselves nor any others are gods, you gain this additional
99 XXIII | testimonies of your own gods, moreover, are wont to make
100 XXIV | religious duties towards gods that have no existence.
101 XXIV | certain that there are no gods, it is equally certain that
102 XXIV | there certainly being no gods, then certainly neither
103 XXIV | if the existence of these gods were granted, do you not
104 XXIV | heaven attended by a host of gods and of daemons alike. Consequently
105 XXIV(72)| by which the relation of gods and daemons to the One Supreme
106 XXIV | have not mentioned Roman gods as being worshipped in them;
107 XXIV | them; for at Rome these gods are no more worshipped than
108 XXIV | itself also are created gods by municipal consecration;
109 XXV | beings whom you believe to be gods; so that nothing now remains
110 XXV | the world; and that their gods really exist to such good
111 XXV | gratitude to the Romans by the gods: Sterculius and Mutinus
112 XXV | cannot think that foreign gods would have wished a foreign
113 XXV | along with their own native gods. And even if some of your
114 XXV | And even if some of your gods did not reign yet others
115 XXV | they were not yet accounted gods. Therefore it belongs to
116 XXV | exercised long before your gods were inscribed as such on
117 XXV | effected without injury of the gods. The destruction of fortifications
118 XXV | count as many triumphs over gods as over nations; their spoils
119 XXV | by the images of captive gods which remain to-day. These
120 XXV | remain to-day. These captive gods, then, tolerate the worship
121 XXVI | older than some of her own gods; she held sway before she
122 XXVIII | another to do honour to those gods whom he ought for his own
123 XXVIII | of impiety towards your gods, since you render more reverence
124 XXVIII | swears falsely by all the gods sooner than by the single
125 XXIX | CHAPTER XXIX. ~Yet the gods are Caesar's creatures,
126 XXIX | Caesar's nod. Moreover many gods have had Caesar unpropitious
127 XXX | before all and above all gods. Why not? since they are
128 XL | provoke the anger of the gods and to be the cause of disaster
129 XL | of Christianity. Your own gods, too, suffer in disasters
130 XL | Christian despisers of your gods, but your gods themselves,
131 XL | despisers of your gods, but your gods themselves, at the time
132 XL | plains only? For that your gods are later than the destruction
133 XL | he had caused. All your gods were universally worshipped
134 XL | disasters do not come from your gods, because they come upon
135 XL | quickly counterfeited other gods to worship : and in the
136 XL | experienced before they fashioned gods for themselves, and Whose
137 XLI | should be angry; or else the gods are most unjust if, on account
138 XLII | than in fumigating your gods. ~'Exactly;' you say, 'the
139 XLII | people and your begging gods too; nor do we think that
140 XLVI | Why, they even attack your gods openly, and blame your superstitions
141 XLVI | philosophers rank daemons next to gods? It is the expression of
142 XLVI | in that he denied your gods, nevertheless just before
143 XLVI | denied the existence of the gods. In the same proportion
144 App | dictation they invoked the gods, and offered incense and
145 App | along with the images of the gods, and in addition reviled
146 App | statue, and the images of the gods : they also reviled Christ.
147 App | fact by worshipping our gods, may obtain pardon in consequence
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