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501 XXII | the knowledge of certain chance events, they enviously ape
502 VII | Yet who even thus ever chanced on a squalling infant? Who
503 XXVI | He Who has ordained the changes of empires with the periods
504 XIII | pawning them, selling them, changing them, — sometimes from a
505 VII | itself into the propagating channels of tongues and ears. And
506 XVI(40) | Roman camp there was a small chapel near the head-quarters,
507 XXIX(77) | Religiosi, ironically. In these chapters which deal with the charge
508 XVII(47) | every man's conscience, is characteristic of Tertullian. See his special
509 XXXIV(84) | service of God. The idea is characteristically Pauline: see I Cor. vii.
510 I | which lacks the essential characteristics of evil,— fear, shame, prevarication,
511 XI | foreknowledge of these nobler characters! He was hasty, I suppose,
512 XLIV | who balance the criminal charge-sheet by the infliction of appropriate
513 XXXIX | pronounce exhortations, chastisements, and the divine censures
514 XLI | both in favouring and in chastising them: He has willed that
515 App | still seems possible to check and correct it. It is certainly
516 VI | become of those laws which checked extravagance and ostentation 17?
517 XIX | testimony than the daily checking off and fulfilment of some
518 L | banner of valour. Mucius cheerfully left his right hand upon
519 XI | who first introduced the cherry into Italy from Pontus,
520 Int | Church. He was married, but childless. His character reflects
521 VI | immodest pleasure should be chilled, particularly in winter,
522 XXIII | who are bent double with choking, and prophesy panting. That
523 XLVI | of equanimity, Lycurgus chose a death by starvation because
524 XXXIII | as one whom our God has chosen. And I might with justice
525 III | incorrectly pronounced by you 'Chrestian 9' (for not even is your
526 III(9) | vulgaire, en effet, était chrestiani.' See Lightfoot, Philippians,
527 L(130) | h Semen est sanguis Christianorum. Comp, ch. 21. ~
528 II(7) | c Christo ut Deo. On the reading,
529 V(16) | 3; comp. Sulp. Sever., Chron. ii. 30; Lightfoot. Ignatius,
530 XIX | materials, antiquities, chronicles, and series of each of your
531 VII | no matter how wide the circuit of its diffusion, no matter
532 XXI | interest it was both to circulate a lie, and to recal the
533 XXI(60) | i i.e. circumcision. ~
534 IV | tyrrany from out of your citadel if you therefore say it
535 XXXI(79) | Tertullian here, as often, cites loosely. ~
536 IV | been committed. Nor can any citizen loyally obey the law, if
537 II | and public enemies every civilian is in arms; the enquiry
538 XVI(43) | p Read, in ista proxime civitate. ~
539 XXXIII(83) | per singulas acclamationes civium dicens : Hominem te esse
540 Int | a Phrygian fanatic, who claimed to be the recipient of a
541 XIX | very high antiquity, then, claims the first authority for
542 XXXV | nor are there any greater clamourers for the punishment of the
543 XII | its first shape in plastic clay fixed on a cross and stake?
544 XXXV(93) | consequence of the tyranny of Cleander, and an attack was made
545 XXI | their sight to blind men, cleansed lepers, reinvigorated paralytics,
546 XXI | Necessity. These titles Cleanthes accumulates on the Spirit
547 I | ignorance, both aggravates and clenches it. For what ran be more
548 XXI | every nation and people and clime, choose for Himself other
549 I | surmise; they do not welcome a closer investigation. Respecting
550 XXXIX | drunk. Prayer in like manner closes the feast. The meeting then
551 XV | actually the mask of your god clothes an ignominious and infamous
552 XXI | into Heaven enveloped in a cloud, much more truly than your
553 App | light of a political gild or club than as a new religious
554 App | mandate136, I had prohibited clubs. And from this I judged
555 I | in public concerning the clue exercise of justice in respect
556 XVI | in the same history that Cnaeus Pompeius, after his capture
557 XXXVIII | honour, have no need of coalitions, nor is anything more foreign
558 XLVI | before his death bade a cock be sacrificed to Aesculapius;
559 IX(23) | s Patriae nostrae : Codex Fuld. patris nostri, 'my
560 XXVIII | emperor; and the necessity of coercing us is just as much laid
561 XLVIII(125)| and Haverc. Oehler prefers coetibus, and explains, 'they will
562 Int | both on account of the cogency and brilliance of its defensive
563 XIX(56) | treatise "Ad Nationes," or some cognate work. It is found in only
564 I | existence of the hatred but from cognizance of the case? When, however,
565 II | for to this day, although cognizant of what constitutes murder,
566 XXIV | whence she received her cognomen 73. It is only we who are
567 IX | relates that the Persians cohabit with their own mothers.
568 X | introduced, and a stamped coinage, and for that reason he
569 XII(30) | Africa, is represented on coins and gems seated on a lion. ~
570 V(15) | to Jupiter Pluvius (Ant. Col.), or to the incantations
571 XVIII | in his eagerness to collect books, amongst other records
572 XVIII | the superintendence of the collection. They were writings which
573 II | you to do so. You are in collusion to defeat the laws. You
574 XLII | and preserve my warmth and colour; I shall be pale and stiff
575 XV | cruelties of the noon-day combats, at Mercury examining the
576 XIV | again, do the tragic or comic writers spare them, so as
577 XLV | and we faithfully keep His commandments, as delivered by an Observer
578 II | decrees of the senate, by the commands of emperors, and by the
579 XVI(42) | unlucky day on which to commence any work. This idea arose
580 L | second nuptials : what a commendation of chastity! Regulus suffered
581 IV | intrinsic justice alone commends; and therefore when proved
582 XXXIX | alone is made a subject of comment. Our feast shews its principle
583 XXXIV(84) | vii. 22, note in Speaker's Commentary. ~
584 XXI | teach. Afterwards having commissioned them to the duty of preaching
585 II | murderer, why not also a committer of incest, or anything else
586 IV | which we are detected in committing openly; those in which we
587 XLIV | attention to that loss to the commonwealth which is as great as it
588 XXXI | too, though strangers to commotions, are to be found in some
589 XXXIX | soul, never hesitate to communicate our substance to one another.
590 XXXV | arts which, since they were communicated by fallen angels and are
591 XXXIX | to be banished from the communion of prayer, and assembly,
592 IX | over the sea, lust is your companion; and your promiscuous embraces
593 XL | ungrateful. ~And yet if we compare earlier disasters with the
594 XXXVII | thinking of giving us any compensation in return for so great a
595 XXIII | gods. Since then each side competes in making the same confession,
596 XLII | arrived at that the loss complained of from us in one particular 114,
597 L | every nerve; and he who complains of it, yet rejoices in it
598 XLV | your innocence, is neither complete nor so awe-inspiring as
599 XVIII(52) | at different times, and completed about B.C. 130. ~
600 IX | Some, far less troubled, completely withstand the attack of
601 XIX | of each of your ancient compositions, most nations likewise,
602 XVI | received as gods creatures compounded of a dog's and a lion's
603 XVII | seen, that which can be comprehended by touch, that which can
604 XLVIII | animate and inanimate, comprehensible and incomprehensible, light
605 XXXIX(103) | d in compulsationibus : inculcationibus is a preferable
606 II | wish it; and therefore no compulsion is put upon any one to deny.
607 XIX | the beginning exhibits the computation of the world's time. He
608 I | numbers are as great as we are computed to be. The cry is that the
609 XVI | The god of the Christians conceived of an ass 44." It had ass'
610 XLI | firstly, because we have no concern in this world except how
611 X | but I will deal with them concisely; and this, not that you
612 XVI | having also drawn what conclusions he wished respecting both
613 IX | blood at your trials and condemnations of prisoners. ~Similarly
614 V | it by the addition of a condemnatory sentence on the accusers,
615 I | I. 1. The injustice of condemning the Christian Religion unheard
616 VIII | up under the shock, and condone it. They fear, you say,
617 XXXV(87) | m Comp. Augustine, Conf. iii. 3; Inge, Social Life
618 II | extended further to their confederates and accomplices. The Christian
619 XXV | they possess the power of conferring empire, who gave them their
620 XXIX | him propitious, when he confers upon them some bounty or
621 I | interrogated, he even voluntarily confesses; if condemned, he gives
622 IX | very people on whom you confidently rely to shrink with horror
623 XVI(40) | excellent institution, which confirmed discipline by the sanction
624 XIX | antiquities, who either confirms their accounts or convicts
625 IV | by the appointment of a confiscation of goods, the flush of shame
626 XL | The land smells of the conflagration to this day; and if any
627 XXXVIII | even shows, by the rival conflicts of partizanship; especially
628 XLVII | faith, waver, and thereby confuse into obscurity even what
629 XIII(33) | possibility of Justin having confused Semo Sancus, a Sabine deity, (
630 XLVI | powers. Who will dare to confute us on the point of truth,
631 XXXIX | together in an assembly and congregation that we may besiege God
632 V(15) | ff). Tertullian hazards a conjecture that among the state-papers
633 XLIX | knowledge and important conjectures. They are the wise, we the
634 VI | their breath. Where is that conjugal happiness, so successful
635 XXI | no mother from any impure connexion; nay, even she whom He seems
636 L | our cause; therefore we conquer, when we are slain; and
637 X | at the present day, they consecrate as gods those whom a few
638 XXVII | labours to dislodge our constancy from its position. It is
639 II | although cognizant of what constitutes murder, you nevertheless
640 II | authority vested in you is a constitutional, not a despotic one. For
641 XI | once for all in its very construction arranged and furnished and
642 XXXV | something after his death? For consultations are not made with the same
643 XLII | know that their spices are consumed in greater quantities and
644 XLVIII | through mountain-tops; for it consumes not what it burns, but renews
645 XV | the altars, that lust is consummated generally in the very abodes
646 V(15) | l.c.), and that it would contain a reference to the Christians.
647 XXI | authoritatively speaking, the Word is contained; with which, when ordering,
648 App | accusation was presented to me, containing the names of many persons
649 Int | The APOLOGY naturally contains but few references to the
650 XLI | it is you, by whom God is contemned and statues worshipped,
651 XIX | end of a long life must be contemplated, in no very different language
652 XIX | short time, or was at least contemporaneous with, your sages and lawgivers.
653 XLV | pronouncing slight ones contemptible, and severe ones short-lived 118.
654 XLVI(119) | u qua et illusores et contemptores. Mimice, &c. So most edd.
655 XLVI | contend on the point of contentment, look at Pythagoras at Thurii,
656 X | were men. But if it itself contest the point, it shall be convicted
657 IX | of this sin by a virgin continence,—old men in years, children
658 XLV(118) | 140, 'Pain does not last continuously in the flesh, but the severest
659 V(16) | to by Hilary of Poitiers, contr. Arian, 3; comp. Sulp. Sever.,
660 VIII | no mistake. For you will contract pollution unless you commit
661 IX | opportunities there are for the contraction of incestuous unions, the
662 XXXVII(100)| really such, loyal subjects, contrasted with citizens who were really
663 XVII(46) | eucharistias, ubi corpus Dei contrectamus.' La Cerda. ~
664 XXXIX | one places there a small contribution on a certain day of the
665 XLII | how few now pay their contributions!' Well, we cannot afford
666 XXVII | slaves, they sometimes unite contumacy with their dread, and eagerly
667 XXXIV | lord,' but only in the conventional acceptation of the word,
668 Int | earnestness born of deep personal conviction. ~Tertullian's conversion
669 XXXIX(107) | h convivatur : conviolatur is a better attested reading. '
670 XXXIX(107) | h convivatur : conviolatur is a better
671 XL | the name of Sicily. These convulsions at all events could not
672 XXII | that a tortoise was being cooked with the flesh of a lamb;
673 XIII | sometimes from a Saturn into a cooking-pot, sometimes from a Minerva
674 XLVII | precede substance, or the copy its original. ~
675 XL | earthquake likewise drained the Corinthian sea, and the violence of
676 XXXVII | themselves away from you to some corner of the remote earth, the
677 XXXIV(84) | the Christian a natural corollary of his spiritual liberty
678 XVI(39) | addressed to believers : see de Corona, 3. ~
679 XLVII | He is incorporeal, others corporeal, as the Platonists and the
680 XXXIX | besiege God like a marshalled corps with our prayers. This violence
681 XV | Jupiter dragging off the corpses of the gladiators with his
682 XVII(46) | eucharistias, ubi corpus Dei contrectamus.' La Cerda. ~
683 App(136) | coron. 3). If Pliny was correctly informed, the agape (not
684 XIX | and the state of the times correspond in every particular with
685 XVI(42) | o Saturn's day, which corresponded with the Jewish Sabbath,
686 Corr | CORRIGENDA.~---- ~Page 4, line 5 from
687 XLVII | antagonism. By them the corruptions of this kind of wholesome
688 XLVI | Socrates adjudged him to be a corruptor of youths. The Christian
689 XLVI(119) | read Quam inlusores et corruptores inimice, &c. ~
690 XI | ravishers of virgins, and corruptors of boys, and the passionate,
691 XXV | that Idaean cave, and the Corybantian cymbals, and the delicious
692 XL | Anaphe, Delos, Rhodes, and Cos went to the bottom with
693 XXXVIII | disturbance at your elections, councils, courts, meetings, and even
694 XXXV | than any worthy reason has counselled, I wish to demonstrate your
695 XIX | the pretence to it has counted as poetic foresight. Men
696 XLVI | princes with your support and countenance. And they are more readily
697 XLIII | religion, it is certainly counterbalanced by some gain. How many persons
698 III | offensive. The improvement counts for nothing in comparison
699 XXX | to the True God, and is coupled with devotion to Him.
700 XXXVII | who are so united and so courageous even to death, when even
701 XXI | the fact that in the last courses of the world God would,
702 XIII | when you make some vicious court-page or other a god of the sacred
703 II | had been committed under cover of the darkness, who were
704 XIV | by a thunderbolt for his covetousness, which induced him to practise
705 XIII | dead man has his age, his craft, his occupation, so has
706 XLII | you do; similarly we join crafts, and throw our workmanship
707 XI | than Sulla, wealthier than Crassus, more eloquent than Cicero?
708 I | evil. Lastly, evil-doers crave concealment, they shun publicity,
709 I | Heaven. One boon meantime she craves, that she be not condemned
710 XI | Polycrates in happiness, some Crcesus in wealth, some Demosthenes
711 XXIII | since they exhibit the same credentials as the gods, rather than
712 XLVIII | will find that this fact is credible. Reflect what thou wast,
713 III | Christians.' Thus the name is credited with their reform. Some
714 XLVII | purposes, neither sufficiently crediting their divine origin, so
715 IV | be cut in pieces by their creditors, yet by common consent this
716 II | are not so accommodatingly credulous in the case of others who
717 IX | go on, progeny and crime creeping on together. Secondly, wherever
718 XVI | the gods 40. Yet all those crests of images on the standards
719 XXV | at once allowed his own Crete to be shaken by the Roman
720 XIII | under the same voice of the crier, under the same hammer,
721 XXXI | SUPPOSE that this is mere cringing to the emperor, and that
722 XIX | and Thallus; and their critic, Josephus the Jew, the native
723 I | experienced,—than the unmusical criticizing the musical! They prefer
724 II | immediate credence. Let this crooked dealing of yours lead you
725 II | opportunity of rejoinder and cross-examination is open to them, since it
726 L | rivalries of tortures are crowned by you. An Athenian harlot,
727 XXI | same. And yet when He was crucified He spontaneously yielded
728 XXI | surrendered to them for crucifixion. He Himself had predicted
729 L | Christians to their wishes. Crucify, torture, condemn, crush
730 XV | too, amidst the sportive cruelties of the noon-day combats,
731 XL | for the eye only, since it crumbles to ashes on being touched.
732 IX | Jupiter himself has taught? Ctesias relates that the Persians
733 II | must be pronounced : the culprit must be discharged from
734 XVI | witnesses, however foolish the cult. For it was only lawful
735 XIV | who is not found to be a culumniator of the gods on the authority
736 XXVII | alternate employment of cunning persuasions and harsh threats
737 XXII | truly, in respect of the cures of diseases. For they first
738 I | subject alone the natural curiosity of men lies dormant: they
739 V | investigator of all things curious; no Vespasian 16, although
740 XVIII | either their antiquity or curiousness rendered famous, demanded
741 XXIV | in honour of her father Curis, whence she received her
742 XXIV(73) | x Curitis. ~
743 XXII | pours forth its poisonous currents; then by the same obscure
744 XXXIII(83) | triumphantium, quibus in curru retro comes adhaerebat per
745 XXII | often make use of them in cursing; for they name also Satan 68,
746 XLVIII | which is spread like a curtain before the system of Eternity;
747 VIII | occurs to me that it is customary for those who are desirous
748 XLIV | by you; what assassin or cutpurse or sacrilegious person or
749 VII | bloody as he found them, like Cyclops and Sirens? Who ever detected
750 XXV | cave, and the Corybantian cymbals, and the delicious odour
751 XIV | Hercules, and Varro, the Roman Cynic, introduces three hundred
752 VIII | nature—monstrosities like the Cynopse or Sciapodes! with different
753 XIX | Zacharias lived in the reign of Cyrus and Darius, at which time
754 XXXII | aware that genii are called 'daemones,' and thence, by a diminutive, '
755 XXXII | thence, by a diminutive, 'daemonia?' In the emperors we look
756 XV | your gods in the same way dance over human blood, the stains
757 App(138) | Wallon, Hist, de l'esclav. dans l'Ant. iii. 13, quoted by
758 XXIII | themselves daemons, not daring to lie to a Christian, you
759 XIX | in the reign of Cyrus and Darius, at which time Thales, the
760 XLVII | semi-obscurity; being, as they are, dark even to the Jews themselves,
761 XV | through all your farces up to date one by one? If they destroy
762 Int | Tertullian's conversion may be dated in 196 1, and he was ordained
763 App(132) | b Dating their apostasy, perhaps,
764 XXI | from a sister's incest or a daughter's violation, or from adultery
765 XXI | pointing to midday, the daylight was withdrawn. Those who
766 XV | your temples even in the daytime. They, too, might perchance
767 App | slaves, who were called deaconesses 137, and whom I even put
768 II | credence. Let this crooked dealing of yours lead you to suspect
769 App | followed the right course, my dear Secundus, in investigating
770 XLVIII | thereafter for the payment of its debt throughout the measureless
771 XXX | fires burn us, your swords decapitate us, your wild beasts spring
772 XLVIII | very seeds, unless they decay and dissolve, do not spring
773 XXV | earlier of the emperor's decease, and then the Christians
774 XXI | stealthily remove the body and deceive the suspicious rulers. But
775 XI | murderers, and thieves, and deceivers, and whosoever resemble
776 XXII | the True Divinity by the deceptions of false divination. ~And
777 XXXVIII | allowed the Epicuraeans to decide one view of the true nature
778 XXI | of the universe. For Zeno decides that he is the maker who
779 XXXV | of traitors 97,—how they decked out their doors with freshest
780 XVI | I now turn to the clear declaration of what our religion is. ~
781 XLVI | you please both finds and declares what God is, and thence
782 XXIV | of the ceiling; let one dedicate his own soul to his own
783 IX | worshippers, seals those dedicated to Bellona. What about those,
784 XV | about it have been rebutted, deduce the whole system of our
785 XLV | glance? Which shews the deeper knowledge, to forbid evil-doing
786 XVIII | name Philadelphus 49, a man deeply read in all literature,
787 XXXIX | kill each other. And they defame us also, because we call
788 II | You are in collusion to defeat the laws. You wish him to
789 XLVII | account of the variety of its defences. But we at once lodge this
790 I | it sweeps along dare to defend as being good. There is
791 I | the justice of the hatred defended, which ought to be proved
792 XIX | Josephus the Jew, the native defender of Jewish antiquities, who
793 Int | cogency and brilliance of its defensive pleading for Christianity,
794 X | respect and honour, or in deference to that general custom by
795 IX | we are safe from carnal defilements and all post-nuptial infidelity,
796 XLII | faithfully as we abstain from defrauding another; so that if the
797 IX | the Christians alone who defy you; no crime is permanently
798 XIX | also happens to fruits to degenerate from the seed. ~I might
799 II | some Christians and the degradation of others, being distressed
800 XXV | been exalted to such a high degree of dignity as to govern
801 XXXII | threatens terrible woes, is delayed by the respite granted to
802 Pre | annotated edition for the Delegates of the Clarendon Press.
803 XLVI | of time allowed him for deliberation? Yet any Christian working-man
804 XXV | Corybantian cymbals, and the delicious odour of his own nurse there.
805 XXXVII | race. ~Now who else would deliver you from those secret enemies
806 XL | the islands Hiera, Anaphe, Delos, Rhodes, and Cos went to
807 XLVIII(127)| e The Delphic inscription, 'Know Thyself.'
808 XXIII | miracles through fraudulent delusions; if they also send dreams,
809 XXIV | municipal consecration; such as Delventinus, the god of the Casinienses,
810 XLVI | husband to his own wife only. Democritus blinded himself, because
811 XXVII | against us is incited by demoniacal agency. ~THIS is a sufficient
812 XXII | assert the existence of demons, spiritual beings of malefic
813 XXIII | now we come to an actual demonstration of fact, and by it we shall
814 XI | Crcesus in wealth, some Demosthenes in eloquence! Which of those
815 XXXIV | pleasing than that which denotes authority; even of a family
816 XXXIX | suppers as criminal, you also denounce them as extravagant. It
817 II(7) | c Christo ut Deo. On the reading, see Lightfoot,
818 XLVI(121) | gein. Comp. Cicero, de nat. deor. i. 12. 30. ~
819 XLVI(122) | rerum. Neander suggests deorum, which would preserve the
820 VI | which it is clear that, in departing from the virtuous regulations
821 XXIX | whole temples, as such, depend on Caesar's nod. Moreover
822 XIII | touched upon before 31, depended upon the judgement of the
823 XXIX | s power, and are wholly dependent on him, have Caesar's welfare
824 XV | literature of the stage depicts all their foulness. The
825 I | and in the islands; it is deplored as a public calamity that
826 XXIII | truly gods, lest they should depose themselves from their own
827 XXXIX | These are as it were the deposits of piety. For afterwards
828 XXIX | daemons, spirits of a most depraved nature act at all beneficently,
829 XXI | written,— that they have been deprived of their wisdom and understanding
830 XI(29) | fickleness which sometimes derided, and sometimes dreaded the
831 XXIII | ours and power over them derives its force from the Naming
832 I | is there in this request derogatory to the laws, supreme in
833 IX | religious city of the pious descendants of Aeneas there is a certain
834 XXI | foretold in times past 65, descending into a certain Virgin, and
835 XXI | name of 'Son,' or of His descent from His Father; not born,
836 XLIV | amongst them, who is also described as a Christian? Or when
837 XXIV | discharged by many; like Plato describes the great Jupiter in heaven
838 XXXIX(107) | wonder, if Christian love be desecrated? ' ~
839 App | temples, which had been nearly deserted, are now beginning to be
840 XXXVII | would have lain in the very desertion itself. You would undoubtedly
841 XL | The human race has ever deserved ill of the Deity: in the
842 XXXVI | rigorously as a cloak for its own designs, but in those practices
843 IX | the very bears are eagerly desired, loaded with as yet undigested
844 XXXVII | quaked with fear at your desolation, at the silence of things,
845 L | nor to the persuasion of despair, in its contempt of death
846 X | to be the judge, the one despairing of, and the other rejecting
847 XXV | messengers, how sleepy the despatches, through whose fault Cybele
848 L | reckless men. But this very desperation and recklessness, with you,
849 XLI | while you on the other hand despise both: and it follows that
850 XXVI | their kingdoms, Judaea, a despiser of those common divinities
851 XLVII | restlessness of human perversity, despising faith, waver, and thereby
852 XV | They, too, might perchance despoil them, if they, too, reverenced
853 XLVI | of truth, between truth's despoiler and its guardian? ~
854 II | a constitutional, not a despotic one. For with despots torture
855 II | a despotic one. For with despots torture is made use of as
856 XII | as if they changed their destination by consecration, and were
857 XXI | and in order that faith, destined to receive no mean reward,
858 XXXIX | needy, and in relieving destitute orphan boys and girls, and
859 XLVI | between the builder and destroyer of things 122, between the
860 IV | why do they not extort the details? I commit a crime against
861 VI | as they sprang up to the deterioration of morals; which allowed
862 IV | alone,—deeds which it is determined in other cases must be proved
863 VII | the taint of falsehood,—detracting from, adding to, altering
864 XXI(62) | but Christianity is a developement of that theanthropism which
865 VI | have not broken away or deviated from any of them, or if
866 XXII | analyze their other ingenious devices, or even their powers of
867 XXII(69) | spirits, the agents of the Devil, as almost invariably in
868 XI | man; for nothing that was devised for the preservation and
869 IX | human bodies, because they devour what is alive? Are they
870 L(128) | On these flagellations (diamasti/gwsij), see Plutarch, de
871 XIII | your Junos and Ceres and Dianas; when you invest Simon Magus
872 XXXV(89) | murder; and for the popular dicacity at the emperor's expense
873 XXXIII(83) | singulas acclamationes civium dicens : Hominem te esse memento! ' ~
874 II | laws, to morals, to all the dictates of nature; and yet you compel
875 App | Christians. When at my dictation they invoked the gods, and
876 XLVIII | a man—a name so noble, didst thou but understand thyself,
877 XLVII | concerning the world itself they differed as to whether it was created
878 XLVII | remark lest the well-known differences in our sect should seem
879 XIX | proved is not so much a difficult as it would be a vast task;
880 VII | wide the circuit of its diffusion, no matter how strengthened
881 XXX | hands to God, let your claws dig into us, your crosses suspend
882 XIX | or in following it out digress too far. ~
883 XXV | reward for their extreme diligence in religious matters that
884 VIII | and sister; observe them diligently, so that when the darkness
885 XXXII | daemones,' and thence, by a diminutive, 'daemonia?' In the emperors
886 X | literature teaches, neither Diodorus the Greek, nor Thallus,
887 XLV(118) | t Diog. Laert. x. 140, 'Pain does
888 XIV | nearly killed by the same Diomede: Mars in chains for thirteen
889 XXXIX | Hercules: for the Apaturian, Dionysian, and Attic mysteries a levy
890 XXIII | those whom you know with direct knowledge to be daemons
891 II | with other criminals, by directing your efforts solely towards
892 XXV | as before the accustomed directions on behalf of the health
893 VIII | initiated to go first to the director of the sacred ritual and
894 IV | and it is unjust if, when disapproved, it tyrannizes.
895 Int | Sufficient is related to disarm the suspicions of the heathen,
896 XXI | on whose account you now disbelieve them. Meantime this is the
897 XVII | the eyes by which it is discerned, than the hands by which
898 XLVI | the Christian, between the disciple of Greece and of Heaven,
899 XXXV(89) | in gladiatoriis homicidii disciplinam' a school of murder; and
900 XXXIX | estimate what the rest of our disciplinary regulations are with respect
901 VII | more, then, such as, if disclosed, would at once provoke human
902 I | confess. They are undoubtedly disconsolate when condemned; in their
903 App(136) | an essential) had been discontinued in Bithynia in obedience
904 XI | a new fruit, because its discoverer and notifier. ~Wherefore,
905 XLVII | but proceeded rather to discuss His quality, His nature,
906 App(131) | a See a full discussion of this correspondence in
907 XIV | slay all your worn-out and diseased and scurfy animals; to cut
908 XXXV | efface the city under the disguise of a tavern, to thicken
909 II | are too much ashamed or disgusted to give the exact names
910 III | father, formerly patient, disinherits his son now dutiful: the
911 Int | mere popular irrational dislike, which seized anything as
912 XXVII | harsh threats he labours to dislodge our constancy from its position.
913 IX | Mercury amongst the Gauls. I dismiss the Tauric fables to the
914 V | well-known Germanic drought was dispelled by the shower obtained through
915 XI | unworthily nor prodigally dispense so great a reward. ~I want
916 II | Christian criminality might be dispensed with on the ground that
917 XXVI | whether it is not He Who dispenses kingdoms, Whose is both
918 XLII | the meantime our pity is dispensing more in the streets than
919 XXIII | transparently and openly displayed? If on the one hand they
920 L | Naturally, therefore, we displease those whom we vanquish;
921 XLVIII | source. If we wished to disport ourselves on this point
922 XIX | events of history, when the disposal of kingdoms, the fall of
923 L | Cicero in the 'Tusculan Disputations,' Seneca in his book 'On
924 XLVII | at first clear. For they disputed about God, Whose existence
925 App | sacred festivals, so long disregarded, to be observed anew; and
926 VII | even though rumour has not disseminated it. ~Justly, therefore,
927 Int | a standing rebuke to the dissolute morals of the age. ~The
928 XLVIII | again presented after its dissolution?' Consider thyself, O man:
929 XLVII | eternal, others that it can be dissolved: as each one thought, so
930 XXII | attended him from boyhood as a dissuader,—doubtless from good. The
931 XXVII | whom they assail, when at a distance. Consequently when, after
932 XX | learnt by slow processes and distant proofs; your instructors,—
933 XLI | because if any affliction does distress us, it is attributable to
934 II | degradation of others, being distressed at their very number notwithstanding,
935 App | the previous year, was a district of the empire in which the
936 XXXI | For when the empire is disturbed, in the disturbance of its
937 XXXVII | rebellion, but merely in disunion, by the ill-will of separation
938 VI | sobriety have fallen into disuse; when no woman knew aught
939 XLVIII | constructed the universe out of diversity, so that the whole consists
940 XXXVII(99) | mort. pers. I. On the ignis divinus, see ch. xlviii. ~
941 VII | nay, by whom could it be divulged? Certainly not by the criminals
942 XVIII | He gave in addition the document 48 of Scripture, in case
943 IX(22) | Africa in the second century (Döllinger, Gent. and Jew, i. 488). ~
944 VI | and Harpocrates with his dog-headed Anubis, Piso and Gabinius
945 XIII | the house has found his domestic necessity more sacred. ~
946 XXIII | and Asclepiodotus, men doomed to die again the next day,—
947 I | natural curiosity of men lies dormant: they love to remain ignorant,
948 XXIII | the fumes, who are bent double with choking, and prophesy
949 XIX(56) | interpolated from the first draft or from a second edition
950 XV | seen the brother of Jupiter dragging off the corpses of the gladiators
951 XL | An earthquake likewise drained the Corinthian sea, and
952 XI(29) | sometimes derided, and sometimes dreaded the idea (Oehler). ~
953 XXIII | through Christ the Judge. Dreading Christ in God and God in
954 XVI | certain others have done, have dreamed that our God is an ass's
955 XXIII | delusions; if they also send dreams, possessing, when once invited,
956 XXXIX | not spent in feasting or drinking or in repulsive eating-houses,
957 XXXII | wont to adjure, that we may drive them out of men, not to
958 XXVIII | The same evil influence drives you to force us to sacrifice
959 X | appearing are said to have dropped from the sky. Just so it
960 XXX | an Arabian tree, nor two drops of wine, nor the blood of
961 V | the well-known Germanic drought was dispelled by the shower
962 XL | with God. ~Lastly, when the dry season of summer delays
963 XLVII | philosophers watered the dryness of their own intellect;
964 XXIII | refuse to call themselves dsemons, if they were truly gods,
965 XXIV | Syria has Atargatis, Arabia Dusares, the Norici have Belenus,
966 XI | honour to them. ~But not to dwell upon the question of their
967 XLII | or Indian gymnosophists, dwellers in the woods, or outlaws
968 XLVI(121) | tou~ panto_j eu9rei~n te e1rgon, kai\ eu9ro&nta ei0j pa&
969 XXIII | more would that power be eager of its own accord and for
970 XVIII | excel Pisistratus 50, in his eagerness to collect books, amongst
971 XVI(40) | and we may remark that the eagles and other military ensigns
972 Int | pleading with an impassioned earnestness born of deep personal conviction. ~
973 Int | Christ, the God-Man, and His earthly life (ch. 17—21), and of
974 XXXIX | drinking or in repulsive eating-houses, but in supporting and burying
975 XXI | thought that it was merely an eclipse [but no reason being found
976 XLVI(119) | contemptores. Mimice, &c. So most edd. The MSS. read Quam inlusores
977 IV | of imperial rescripts and edicts the whole of that old and
978 XVIII(48) | Canon of N. T., p. 253 (5th edit.). ~
979 Int | should receive an excellent education in the celebrated schools
980 XXXV | throughout the streets, to efface the city under the disguise
981 III(9) | pronunciation vulgaire, en effet, était chrestiani.' See
982 XXI | beings that you adore are efficient witnesses to Christ. It
983 XXII | fumes and blood offered to effigies and images, and (what is
984 II | criminals, by directing your efforts solely towards excluding
985 IV(10) | maluit hominis sanguinem quam effundere. ~
986 XIX | knowledge is gained, some Egyptian Manetho, some Chaldaean
987 XXVI | before your Fifteen, the Egyptians before the Salii, the Assyrians
988 XLVI(121) | te e1rgon, kai\ eu9ro&nta ei0j pa&ntaj a0du&naton le/gein.
989 XXV | when your religion was elaborated after the establishment
990 XXXIX | intercourse 104. ~Certain approved elders preside 105, who have obtained
991 L | and wish to do so. Zeno Eleates, when consulted by Dionysius
992 XI | from this point of view for electing men into the rank of gods;
993 XXXVIII | cause disturbance at your elections, councils, courts, meetings,
994 XXXV | amongst themselves with most elegant and most splendid couches!—
995 VII | mysteries. The Samothracian and Eleusinian mysteries are kept secret;
996 XL | touch God, and when we have elicited His mercy, then Jupiter
997 XXXI(80) | e inquit: the ellipse may be Apostolus, as in
998 XI | wealthier than Crassus, more eloquent than Cicero? How much more
999 XLVII | by that fiery zone, the Elysian fields have already anticipated
1000 XV | rendered fit for the part by emasculation represents a Minerva or
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