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1001 XIII | between the augur and the embalmer? for an augur, too, is in
1002 XVII(45) | r i.e. 'order' or 'embellishment.' ~
1003 L | scourgings of the Spartans 128, embittered by the presence of relatives
1004 XXVI | course of this world, the embodiment of times and seasons and
1005 Int | moderation of rhe Church and to embrace the heresy of Montanus,—
1006 IX | companion; and your promiscuous embraces may easily anywhere beget
1007 XVIII | at that time the most eminent of philologists, to whom
1008 L | what a noble-spirited deed! Empedocles gave his whole person to
1009 VII | matter how strengthened by emphatic assertion. A tale which
1010 XXVII | and how by the alternate employment of cunning persuasions and
1011 II(8) | denial of Christ. Certain employments, too, such as idol-making,
1012 XLVIII | a deathlike vacuity and emptiness, and animated it with a
1013 XL | than Asia and Africa was en-gulphed by the Atlantic sea. An
1014 XXVI | constructed so large an enclosure of Capitol. The Babylonians,
1015 VII | first appearance the Truth encountered hostility from the prejudice
1016 XXXIX | on these holy words, we encourage our hope, we confirm our
1017 L | presence of relatives who encouraged them, conferred a reputation
1018 XVIII | literature, when he was endeavouring, I suppose, to excel Pisistratus 50,
1019 XLVIII | punishment. Mountains burn and endure : what of the guilty and
1020 L | soldier desires war. No one endures war willingly, since alarm
1021 II | incestuous person, or public enemy (to adopt our own indictments),
1022 IV | up before the Julian law enforced marriage,—laws whose antiquity
1023 XIV | travesties do I find! gods, engaged like pairs of gladiators,
1024 XXV | name, I will not evade an engagement with you upon the point,
1025 L | write inscriptions, and engrave titles, for all those men
1026 XXXV | would not be found to be engraven with the picture of a constant
1027 XX | up cities, that the sea engulphs islands, that foreign and
1028 XVII | bodies, and spirits, for the enhancing of His own majesty: and
1029 XLVI | continue amongst you to enjoy the reputation and honour
1030 XI | themselves the power of enjoying a nobler state of being.
1031 XVII | sleep or any infirmity, and enjoys its own proper sanity, names
1032 XXXIII | themselves. ~BUT why should I enlarge upon the scrupulous regard
1033 XXI | of the capacity of a more enlarged oeconomy. [He came therefore,
1034 Int | the Christian Church to enlighten and purify. ~The immediate
1035 XIX | answer about the Deity to the enquiring Croesus. Solon proclaimed
1036 XXXVIII | leniently, this sect ought to be enrolled amongst the legalized gilds 101,
1037 XVII | lusts and desires, although enslaved to false gods, yet, when
1038 XXXIX | strive for the glory of enslaving their liberty for their
1039 XIX | antiquity of these writings ensures their trustworthiness, for
1040 Int | of heathenism necessarily entails; yet it may prove a useful
1041 V | time the Christian name entered into the world, laid before
1042 XVI | worship the god whole and entire 39. We have mentioned that
1043 XLVII | the truth, or rather to entirely monopolize the claim to
1044 XVIII | philologists, to whom he had entrusted the superintendence of the
1045 XXV | spoils in war are to be enumerated by the images of captive
1046 XXI | was taken up into Heaven enveloped in a cloud, much more truly
1047 XXVII | separation from him, and is envious of us because of God's favour,
1048 XXII | certain chance events, they enviously ape a divinity by stealing
1049 XXXIII(83) | xxxiii. i. 11; Jerom., Ep. ad Paulam (iv. p. 55, Bened.), '
1050 XIX | Mendes, and Menander of Ephesus, and Demetrius of Phalerum;
1051 Int | the lash of his stinging epigrams and biting irony. ~The APOLOGY
1052 IX | too, who for the cure of epilepsy at the gladiatorial show
1053 App | religious sect 131. ~I. ~EPISTLE OF CAIUS PLINIUS SECUNDUS
1054 XXXIV | lord;' for this also is an epithet of God. I will indeed call
1055 XVI | their own protecting goddess Epona, are worshipped by you.
1056 XLVI | I argue on the point of equanimity, Lycurgus chose a death
1057 XVII | this universe with all its equipment of elements, bodies, and
1058 III | although it would be more equitable to form a judgement upon
1059 XX | and the lofty abased, that equity is diminishing and iniquity
1060 XXXIV | attached to so doing. It is equivalent to an imprecation to call
1061 XXII | ingeniously they framed their equivocations in the oracles to suit either
1062 IX | no crime is permanently eradicated, nor does any god change
1063 III | Academics? physicians too from Erasistratus, grammarians from Aristarchus,
1064 XVIII | at this day. For the most erudite of the Ptolemies, whom they
1065 VII | grasp? If we are always escaping detection, when was our
1066 App(138) | Christianity' (Wallon, Hist, de l'esclav. dans l'Ant. iii. 13, quoted
1067 VI | of gold, save on the one especial finger which her spouse
1068 XXXIII(83) | civium dicens : Hominem te esse memento! ' ~
1069 II | the recognized forms and essentials of legal trial,—nay, in
1070 XXV | was elaborated after the establishment of the empire, or call it
1071 XVIII | Providence, regarded with esteem on account of their agreement
1072 XXXIX | honourable one, you can estimate what the rest of our disciplinary
1073 III(9) | pronunciation vulgaire, en effet, était chrestiani.' See Lightfoot,
1074 III | Christian,' as far as its etymology goes, is derived from 'anointing.'
1075 XLVI(121) | pate/ra tou~de tou~ panto_j eu9rei~n te e1rgon, kai\ eu9ro&
1076 XLVI(121) | eu9rei~n te e1rgon, kai\ eu9ro&nta ei0j pa&ntaj a0du&naton
1077 XVII(46) | Sacraments. 'Per gratiam . . . eucharistias, ubi corpus Dei contrectamus.'
1078 III | driven into pronouncing a eulogium. 'What a woman! how wanton,
1079 XLII | man. I do not bathe on the eve of the Saturnalia, lest
1080 XIX | reckonings of the annals may be evident. We must thoroughly explore
1081 XLV | deeper knowledge, to forbid evil-doing or evil-speaking? Which
1082 XLV | to forbid evil-doing or evil-speaking? Which is the more acute
1083 II | or disgusted to give the exact names of our offences when
1084 XXI | close of this age, in the exaltation of manifested glory, —they,
1085 Int | best and most interesting examples of Western apologetic writings,
1086 XXI | convicted, they were so exasperated, especially when a vast
1087 L | yours, though each were to exceed the last in its exquisite
1088 XVI | of Arabia, where water is exceedingly scarce, they availed themselves
1089 XLV(118) | That pain which only just exceeds bodily pleasure does not
1090 XVIII | endeavouring, I suppose, to excel Pisistratus 50, in his eagerness
1091 XXIII | where in that case is the excellence of divinity, which surely
1092 VI | which were necessary and excellently adapted to secure propriety
1093 XXXVI | deeds we do not make any exception of persons; for we do them
1094 V(15) | Tertullian's ignorance of the exceptionally cruel sufferings of the
1095 App | more than a perverse and excessive superstition, and therefore
1096 L | life should be spared in exchange for many enemies: what a
1097 XLII | much is lost to the public exchequer by the fraud and lying returns
1098 XXXV(93) | s Popular sedition was excited against Commodus, A.D. 189,
1099 IX | incestuous king's grief, and exclaimed, h1laune th_n mhte/ra. Just
1100 II | not of justice. ~A man exclaims, 'I am a Christian.' He
1101 II | your efforts solely towards excluding us from the use of this
1102 IV | heard when I have means of exculpating myself? No law forbids the
1103 I | ignorance, which while it excuses their injustice, also condemns
1104 Int | led to the formulation of execrable charges which the Christian
1105 XXII | evil race, in their word of execration, just as if from an innate
1106 App | ordered them to be led away to execution. For I had no doubt, whatever
1107 XXV | since royal power was being exercised long before your gods were
1108 XLV | Which therefore is the more exhaustive injunction: 'Thou shalt
1109 XIX | arranged from the beginning exhibits the computation of the world'
1110 XXXIX | the same time we pronounce exhortations, chastisements, and the
1111 XXI | Scattered abroad, wanderers, exiles from their own sky and soil,
1112 XXIV | who transfers his toil and expectation from these to win the favour
1113 XXXV | it, or is hoping for and expecting something after his death?
1114 XLVI(120) | schemes based upon human expediency. Comp. ch. 45. ~
1115 XLIX | as foolish, which it is expedient should be presumed to be
1116 V(15) | of the year 174, in his expedition against the Quadi, M. Aurelius
1117 X | where Saturn, after many expeditions, and after partaking of
1118 VI | forbade the Capitol, that is, expelled from the assembly of the
1119 XLVI | found is with difficulty explained to the multitude. ~Moreover
1120 XLVIII(125)| Oehler prefers coetibus, and explains, 'they will not even give
1121 App | whose name did not need explanation; though it is probable that
1122 XIX | evident. We must thoroughly explore the histories and literature
1123 Int | disclosures which Tertullian's exposure of heathenism necessarily
1124 L | scourgings, continued to express his opinion up to the point
1125 XXXV | public rejoicing to be thus expressed by the public dishonour?
1126 XVI(41) | adopted by Christians as expressive of the coming of the Sun
1127 XXXI | prayer for emperors is even expressly and plainly enjoined upon
1128 L | to exceed the last in its exquisite refinement, profits you
1129 XVIII(54) | officer of Philadelphia. The extant letter of his printed by
1130 XLVIII | part, which we look for, extends into infinite Eternity.
1131 XLVI | employed to no purpose the extensions of time allowed him for
1132 XLVII | of the universe from an external position, like a potter
1133 I | not their power rather be extolled hereby, that they will condemn
1134 IV | infanticide; why do they not extort the details? I commit a
1135 VII | soldiers, from habits of extortion; even those of our own households 20,
1136 L | quantity of blood which they extracted. Here is a glory, licensed,
1137 XXII | the mind with sudden and extraordinary aberrations. Their wonderful
1138 VI | those laws which checked extravagance and ostentation 17? which
1139 I | to this sect, carried to extremes (as was recently the case)
1140 XLIX | only the blind populace exults and insults, but some of
1141 XIII(33) | ii. 13), Theodoret (haer. fab. i. 13), and Augustine (
1142 IX | Gauls. I dismiss the Tauric fables to the theatres where they
1143 Int | the whole groundwork and fabric of the Roman religion of
1144 XLIX | and which, though vain and fabulous, go unaccused and unpunished,
1145 XII | and cold images, the very facsimiles of their dead originals,
1146 L | call us then, if you like, 'faggot-men,' and 'half-axle-men,' because
1147 L | half-axle, and surrounded with faggots when we are burned. This
1148 XL | Him in part, they not only failed to seek Him out and approach
1149 XIV | prologues the troubles or the failings of the family of some god. ~
1150 II(8) | 30; and Pliny's letter). Failure under these trials constituted
1151 XLII | shops, workshops, inns, fairs, and other places of resort.
1152 XXIV | the Sutrini, Juno of the Falisci, in honour of her father
1153 XVI | a most loquacious man in falsehoods, relates in the same history
1154 XLVI | things 122, between the falsifier of error and the restorer
1155 XLVII | origin, so as to refrain from falsifying them, nor sufficiently understanding
1156 XLVI | disgracefully ousted his own familiar friend Hermias: a Christian
1157 Int | of Montanus,—a Phrygian fanatic, who claimed to be the recipient
1158 XLVII | of their own meddlesome fancy anything in the Holy Scriptures
1159 II | guilty of men, why do we fare at your hands otherwise
1160 XXV | to be shaken by the Roman fasces, forgetful of that Idaean
1161 XL | experienced before they fashioned gods for themselves, and
1162 XL | Heaven. But we, shrunken with fastings and worn out with every
1163 XIV | superfluous parts from the fat and sound beasts,—the heads
1164 XI | dead man; since he, who was fated to feel the want of a dead
1165 XXV | despatches, through whose fault Cybele did not know earlier
1166 XLI | whole of mankind, both in favouring and in chastising them:
1167 Int | Christianity. Tertullian's favourite weapon is sarcastic retort,
1168 XXV(75) | adorationes: adulationes, 'fawnings,' is the reading of some
1169 XLVI | Aristotle as disgracefully fawns upon Alexander, whom he
1170 II | have them enquired into, fearing that they should be proved
1171 I | if your authority either fears or is ashamed to enquire
1172 XXXIX | as becomes those who have feasted not so much off a supper
1173 IX | in your repasts from the feasts of the Christians? But do
1174 XXI | of a scaled or horned or feathered lover, or one transformed
1175 XLI | separation which is an essential feature of that judgement 111. In
1176 I | No one is ashamed; no one feels regret, except indeed that
1177 XLVI | look at Diogenes with muddy feet trampling, with a pride
1178 App(138) | gained for Pliny's letter the felicitous title of the 'First Apology
1179 XXXV(89) | the expression comp. Min. Felix, 38, 'in gladiatoriis homicidii
1180 IV | past ages, cut down and fell with the new axes of imperial
1181 XIX | likewise summon to our aid the fellow-countrymen of those from whom our knowledge
1182 XVI | the Cross will also be our fellow-worshipper. As long as it is some piece
1183 Int | typical African temperament,—fervid, impatient, impetuous, and
1184 XXXV | modesty? Do we not on a festal day refuse to either overshadow
1185 IX | unlawful even to destroy the fetus in the womb whilst the blood
1186 XXXVII | with you. For now you have fewer enemies by reason of the
1187 XI(29) | Tertullian glances at the fickleness which sometimes derided,
1188 XXIV | another to the altar of Fides; let one (if you so regard
1189 XXII | and foul madness, or with fierce lusts bringing various errors
1190 XXVI | and the Medes before your Fifteen, the Egyptians before the
1191 XVI | this suspicion. For in the fifth book of his "Histories,"
1192 XLII | places of resort. We sail and fight with you; we till the ground
1193 XIV | like pairs of gladiators, fighting one another on account of
1194 XVI(41) | speaks of the East as a 'figure of Christ,' adv. Valent.
1195 XIX | contemporary occurrences, the figures of future events. And in
1196 XII | gods axes and planes and files are more vigorously applied
1197 XV | priests, under the self-same fillets and sacred caps and purple
1198 XXXVII | suppose, than one which fills the whole world! We are
1199 IX | the less consecrated to filth by human blood because they
1200 VI | save on the one especial finger which her spouse had pledged
1201 XIII | sometimes from a Minerva into a fire-pan,—as each god has become
1202 XXXIX | caused by Serapaean feast the firemen will be aroused. The feast
1203 XXI | reward, should not stand firm without difficulty. But
1204 XXI | is, the Primordial Word, First-begotten, attended by Power and Reason
1205 XLI | not really injured at all: firstly, because we have no concern
1206 XV | body impure and rendered fit for the part by emasculation
1207 XVI(39) | man's redemption, finds a fitting mention in a treatise addressed
1208 XIX | and Homer by, I might say, five hundred more, following
1209 L(128) | f On these flagellations (diamasti/gwsij), see Plutarch,
1210 XVI | necklaces of crosses, and those flags on your ensigns and banners
1211 VII | tongues and ears. And a flaw in the insignificant source
1212 XLIX | philosophers and poets sublime flights of knowledge and important
1213 XLIV | gladiatorial shows provide their flocks of criminals. No Christian
1214 XL | than the destruction of the Flood is proved by the cities
1215 VII | spread falsehood, and it only flourishes so long as it offers no
1216 XLII | make to you how I use the flowers which I do undoubtedly purchase?
1217 IX | greedy thirst the fresh blood flowing from the throats of the
1218 XLVIII | reckoned from the Creation, flows on to its end in the age
1219 IV | confiscation of goods, the flush of shame rather than the
1220 XII | Yes, gnash your teeth and foam with rage! You are the same
1221 App(139) | victimarum, 'there is a sale for fodder for the victims.' ~
1222 XLVI | does not injure even his foe. The same Aristotle as disgracefully
1223 IX | into error. Moreover, what folly it is for you to credit
1224 XI | and his race. Men would be fools if they were not quite convinced
1225 XLVI | much placed on the same footing with them in respect of
1226 XXXIX(105) | heathen, Tertullian naturally forbears to use the technical terms
1227 VII | if you believe them, or forego belief if you have not brought
1228 XI | especially as he must have had foreknowledge of these nobler characters!
1229 XX | all these things have been foreknown and written of. Whilst we
1230 XLV | the Scrutinizer of all, foreseeing eternal penalties at His
1231 IV | of that old and tangled forest of laws? Did not Severus,
1232 Int | the reader may, happily, forget the subsequent lapse of
1233 XXV | shaken by the Roman fasces, forgetful of that Idaean cave, and
1234 X | the part of those who have forgotten. ~Previous to Saturn there
1235 IX | one which is in process of formation. That also is a human being,
1236 IX | whilst the blood is still forming into a human being. Prevention
1237 Int | Christian religion, led to the formulation of execrable charges which
1238 XVIII | which you either know not or forsake; Who hath appointed rewards
1239 XLIII | magicians, and also the fortune-tellers, soothsayers, and astrologers.
1240 XIV | Sarpedon, and at another foully lusting after his sister,
1241 XV | stage depicts all their foulness. The Sun mourns for his
1242 VI | six hundred years from the foundation of the city took action
1243 L | strength of mind! Some virgin foundress of Carthage wedded the funeral
1244 XLVII | who did not drink at the fountain of the prophets? It was
1245 XIX | antiquity amongst you, by four hundred years nearly, for
1246 VI | supper, nor more than one fowl, and that not specially
1247 XIX(56) | e This fragment has either been interpolated
1248 XLVI(120) | penalties, philosophers only frame superficial schemes based
1249 IV | nor the dignity of their framers, but their intrinsic justice
1250 IV | either that man should err in framing a law, or that he should
1251 Int | Christians together in a true fraternity, and to the care with which
1252 XXIII | number of miracles through fraudulent delusions; if they also
1253 XII | transformed by the capricious freak of skilled handicraft, the
1254 XIV | rest of the celestials, freed by the aid of some monster;
1255 VI | for senators, and not for freedmen, or those still in slavery.
1256 XXXIV(84) | de coron. 13. Personal freedom seemed to the Christian
1257 VIII | soak your bread in it; feed freely upon it. Meantime reclining
1258 II | nature of the deed, its frequency, the place, the method,
1259 App | are now beginning to be frequented; and the sacred festivals,
1260 XXXV | decked out their doors with freshest and leafiest laurels! how
1261 XLVI | ousted his own familiar friend Hermias: a Christian does
1262 L | country, territory, empire, or friendship, as it is forbidden to be
1263 XXVIII | me angrily with whichever front he likes : what business
1264 XXV | or temples. Religion was frugal and its rites needy, and
1265 XLVIII | not spring up in greater fruitfulness : all things are preserved
1266 V | which Trajan partially frustrated by forbidding Christians
1267 IX(23) | Patriae nostrae : Codex Fuld. patris nostri, 'my father'
1268 XX | parts while it is being fulfilled, while the present is being
1269 V(15) | Thundering Legion" (Legio fulminata), of which the historical
1270 XLV | both with respect to the fulness of our knowledge of the
1271 XLII | burials of Christians, than in fumigating your gods. ~'Exactly;' you
1272 XVIII(53) | i.e. with himself on the fundamental question of a Providence.
1273 V | that Nero was the first to furiously attack with the imperial
1274 XXXVIII | unambitious association. ~FURTHERMORE, and not less leniently,
1275 XXII | corruption also of the mind with fury and foul madness, or with
1276 VI | dog-headed Anubis, Piso and Gabinius the consuls, who at any
1277 XXXV | rejoicing than with wanton gaiety. A noble ceremony it is
1278 XXI | certain of His disciples in Galilee, a region of Judaea, teaching
1279 XXX | his triumph, let him send garrisons there, and lay taxes on
1280 XXIII | to mutilate oneself or to gash one's arms, and quite another
1281 XXV | libation of impure blood by gashing his arms, and issued just
1282 XXII | the prophets; and now they gather them while their writings
1283 IX | sacrificed to Mercury amongst the Gauls. I dismiss the Tauric fables
1284 XLVIII | indeed with stones, than with gauntlets 125? As if any argument
1285 III | a woman! how wanton, how gay! What a youth! how profligate,
1286 XVI | to enter there, and the gaze of all others was cut off
1287 XLVII | lower world. If we threaten gehenna, which is a subterranean
1288 XLVI(121) | ei0j pa&ntaj a0du&naton le/gein. Comp. Cicero, de nat. deor.
1289 XVIII(50) | sixth century B.C. Aul. Gell., vi. 17. ~
1290 XII(30) | represented on coins and gems seated on a lion. ~
1291 IX(22) | second century (Döllinger, Gent. and Jew, i. 488). ~
1292 XVIII(54) | Hody (Oxon. 1705) is not genuine. ~
1293 V | testifies that the well-known Germanic drought was dispelled by
1294 XII | and stake? It is on the gibbet that the body of your god
1295 Ana | and sovereignty are in the gift of the One God Who is above
1296 Int | severe. The lapse of so gifted a champion of the faith
1297 XXVI | sacrifices, whose temple with gifts, whose nation with treaties
1298 App | the light of a political gild or club than as a new religious
1299 XXII | ship drawn forward with a girdle, and the beard turned red
1300 XXXIX | destitute orphan boys and girls, and infirm old men, or
1301 XLIV | your own people that the givers of gladiatorial shows provide
1302 Pre | Christianity who may be glad to possess this famous apologetic
1303 IX | wallowed in the blood of a gladiator. The paunches of the very
1304 XXXV(89) | comp. Min. Felix, 38, 'in gladiatoriis homicidii disciplinam' a
1305 XLV | private indulgence of a sinful glance? Which shews the deeper
1306 XI | the sky and the stars have gleamed, and the sun and moon have
1307 XXXIII | rejoices the more at his glittering with such great glory that
1308 I | sooner. If he is censured, he glories in it; if accused, he pleads
1309 XXI | numerous race and their glorious kingdom flourished, and
1310 XII | application of solder and glue and nails. We are cast to
1311 XXXIX | amidst insults begotten of gluttony; but amongst us, as with
1312 XII | sacrilegious abuse!' Yes, gnash your teeth and foam with
1313 XL | neighbouring regions of Sodom and Go-morrha. The land smells of the
1314 XI | of course grant that that god-making Deity is conspicuous for
1315 Int | Divinity of Christ, the God-Man, and His earthly life (ch.
1316 XXXIX | much off a supper as off a godly instruction. ~This assembly
1317 XXIII | and denying its claim to godship, you must draw the conclusion
1318 XIV | accusers, and placed a golden statue of him in a temple,
1319 XLII | so that if the matter be gone into as to how much is lost
1320 XLVI | convicted on the point of the goodness of our sect, which is now
1321 IV | appointment of a confiscation of goods, the flush of shame rather
1322 Int(4) | we should, I think, read 'Gospels.' So Westcott in the passage
1323 XLVII | remained in that which He governs, like a pilot in the ship
1324 XVII(46) | s In His gracious revelation of Himself through
1325 XXII | hastens forward any fruit or grain in blossom, nips it in the
1326 III | physicians too from Erasistratus, grammarians from Aristarchus, and even
1327 XXV | vain is it to attribute the grandeur of the Roman name to the
1328 XIV | unnaturally towards his grandson, and jealously towards the
1329 VIII | consciousness of guilt. But granting that they are afraid; why
1330 XXX | Himself is the One Who Alone grants them, and I am one to whom
1331 Int | Christianity, and from the graphic picture which it portrays
1332 XVII(46) | in the Sacraments. 'Per gratiam . . . eucharistias, ubi
1333 XXXVII | the Christians, partly in gratification of your own private feelings,
1334 XLVI | also that the harlot Phryne gratified the lust of Diogenes. I
1335 XXIII | they are daemons? Is it to gratify us? If so, then in that
1336 XXI | in the sepulchre but the grave-clothes. Yet none the less the rulers,
1337 XI | those gods of yours was graver and wiser than Cato, juster
1338 XXXIX | sight of God; and it is the gravest anticipation of future judgement,
1339 L | Anaxarchus himself:' what a great-souled philosopher, to even jest
1340 XI | you must deify all your greatest criminals; for the deification
1341 IX | in the arena drink with greedy thirst the fresh blood flowing
1342 XLVI | without lusting for them, and grieving if he could not possess
1343 XXII | the body diseases and many grievous mishaps, and violently visit
1344 V(12) | sole authority, is probably groundless.—See Merivale, Hist. Rom,,
1345 Int | them by attacking the whole groundwork and fabric of the Roman
1346 XXXV(93) | palace amongst the laurel groves in the suburbs of Rome,
1347 XXI | Divine Nature is nourished, groweth up, speaketh, teacheth,
1348 XXV | reminded you, have either grown in power by insulting religion,
1349 XX | all wholesome discipline grows lax, that even the functions
1350 XLVI | truth's despoiler and its guardian? ~
1351 XLVI | return the deposit of his guests: a Christian is called faithful
1352 XI | furnished and ordered under the guidance of an all-embracing plan.
1353 L(128) | flagellations (diamasti/gwsij), see Plutarch, de Lac.
1354 XLII | not Brachmans or Indian gymnosophists, dwellers in the woods,
1355 IX | s grief, and exclaimed, h1laune th_n mhte/ra. Just consider
1356 XXIII | disciples? is He in fact now in Hades?' Is He not rather in Heaven,
1357 V | be enquired for; which no Hadrian, although a keen investigator
1358 XLVIII | thou wouldst remember it hadst thou been anything. Since
1359 XLVII(124) | Apology, De Praescriptione Haereticorum. ~
1360 XII | deified, and tortures must be hailed as tokens of divinity. True,
1361 XLII | people smell with their hair. We do not attend your public
1362 L | bound to the stock of a half-axle, and surrounded with faggots
1363 L | like, 'faggot-men,' and 'half-axle-men,' because we are bound to
1364 XXXIX | Lord is listening. After hand-washing, the lights are brought
1365 XII | capricious freak of skilled handicraft, the very process of transformation
1366 Int | which seized anything as a handle against a section of society
1367 XL | the True God at Rome, when Hannibal at Cannae measured out by
1368 Int | conversion, and the reader may, happily, forget the subsequent lapse
1369 XL | could not happen without harm to the inhabitants. But
1370 XLIX | foolish, they can in no way be harmful; for they resemble many
1371 VI | Italy. Serapis and Isis and Harpocrates with his dog-headed Anubis,
1372 XXVII | cunning persuasions and harsh threats he labours to dislodge
1373 XIX | we should either in our haste not follow it out far enough,
1374 XLI | prematurely, before the end, hasten that separation which is
1375 App | investigation of it, and hastened to consult you 138. ~For
1376 XXII | the breeze unseasonably hastens forward any fruit or grain
1377 XXI | ears 66. And when they had hastily decided from His humility
1378 XLVIII(125)| caestibus : So Rig. and Haverc. Oehler prefers coetibus,
1379 V(15) | lxxi. 8 ff). Tertullian hazards a conjecture that among
1380 XVI(40) | a small chapel near the head-quarters, in which the statues of
1381 XIV | fat and sound beasts,—the heads and hoofs, which at home
1382 XLII | I bathe at a proper and healthy hour, and preserve my warmth
1383 Ana | same indignities that you heap upon us (ch. 12). In fact,
1384 XVIII | them every sabbath. He who hears them will find God; and
1385 XXXV | is forsooth to drag out hearths and couches in public, to
1386 XXX | polluted priests, why the hearts of the sacrificers themselves
1387 V(15) | these. During the intense heat of the summer of the year
1388 Int | Tertullian's exposure of heathenism necessarily entails; yet
1389 XLIV | people that your prisons heave; it is with your own people
1390 XXII | clouds, to know what the heavens are about to prepare, so
1391 VI | case of women every limb is heavy with gold, no kiss is free
1392 XVIII | are now Jews were formerly Hebrews: consequently their literature
1393 XVI | legs; others winged on the heel or the back. ~We have treated
1394 Pre | this translation may be helpful to Theological students
1395 VIII | harmless, innocent, and helpless; or if this be the duty
1396 XLVII | fire, as was the opinion of Heraclitus : the Platonists, too, regard
1397 | hereby
1398 | herein
1399 XLVI | his own familiar friend Hermias: a Christian does not injure
1400 XIX | hundred years the oldest hero you have, Danaus, who came
1401 IX | somewhere related (it is in Herodotus 25, I think) that certain
1402 | herself
1403 XXXIX | united heart and soul, never hesitate to communicate our substance
1404 App | able either to guide my hesitation, or to inform my ignorance?
1405 XXI | on this ground,—as if it hid something of its own presumption
1406 Int | have been prepared for the hideous disclosures which Tertullian'
1407 XL | We read that the islands Hiera, Anaphe, Delos, Rhodes,
1408 XIX | and memorials, and in fact hieroglyphics themselves, the witnesses
1409 XXI | concerning Christ as God. So highly were the Jews favoured by
1410 Int | his approved writings' (Hil. in Matt. 5). ~Tertullian
1411 V(16) | this emperor referred to by Hilary of Poitiers, contr. Arian,
1412 XXXV | native populace of the seven hills, I judicially charge to
1413 II | defence of the truth, or in hindrance of a miscarriage of justice :
1414 XLVI | appearance of gravity; and Hippias is slain whilst plotting
1415 XXXVIII | as a matter for sale or hire. But we, who are dead to
1416 XIV | feed his cattle : another hires out the architectural services
1417 XIX | sages and law-givers and historians. ~For us to explain on what
1418 XXXIX | into groups for running hither and thither, nor into outbursts
1419 XXI | humane feelings men rude and hitherto barbarous, astonished by
1420 XVIII(54) | letter of his printed by Hody (Oxon. 1705) is not genuine. ~
1421 XIII | to tribute; nay, they are holier in proportion to the amount
1422 XXXIX | drunk of the One Spirit of holiness 106; who from the one womb
1423 III | only they can rid their homes of the objects of their
1424 II | strict rule, forbidding homicide, adultery, fraud, perfidy,
1425 XXXV(89) | Felix, 38, 'in gladiatoriis homicidii disciplinam' a school of
1426 XXXIII(83) | acclamationes civium dicens : Hominem te esse memento! ' ~
1427 IV(10) | f Suffundere maluit hominis sanguinem quam effundere. ~
1428 XLII(113) | o The scrupulous honesty of the Christians in this
1429 XXXV | nor false, nor ill-advised honours, and because as men of true
1430 XVI | It had ass's ears, was hoofed in one foot, carried a book,
1431 XIV | sound beasts,—the heads and hoofs, which at home you would
1432 Pre | the Clarendon Press. It is hoped that this translation may
1433 XXVII | inspires hatred; besides, their hopeless condition, arising from
1434 XXXV | something adverse to it, or is hoping for and expecting something
1435 XVI(42) | Ovid, Ars Amator. i. 415; Hor., Sat. i. 9. 69; Pers.,
1436 XXI | the form of a scaled or horned or feathered lover, or one
1437 XVI | head; others having the horns of a goat and a ram; others
1438 X | after partaking of Attic hospitality, settled, being received
1439 XXIV | in heaven attended by a host of gods and of daemons alike.
1440 XXXVII(100)| citizens who were really hostes. ~
1441 XXIV | Valentia of the Ocriculani, Hostia of the Sutrini, Juno of
1442 XV | farces of your Lentuli and Hostilii, and see whether in the
1443 XXXIII(83) | Bened.), 'Monitor quidam humanas imbecillitatis apponetur
1444 XXI | might, like Numa, win to humane feelings men rude and hitherto
1445 XVII(47) | appeal to the instinct of humanity, evidenced by the innate
1446 XX | waste many places, that the humble are exalted and the lofty
1447 VI | centenarian' from the 'hundreds' of pounds spent upon them 18;
1448 XXXIX | a chastity, which their husbands so readily gave away? A
1449 XXIII | daemons. Indeed on either hypothesis you must now look out for
1450 XXV | fasces, forgetful of that Idaean cave, and the Corybantian
1451 XIII | vegetable-market are bid for in identically the same way; under the
1452 VI | the vices of shameful and idle superstitions. Upon these
1453 XVI | set apart Saturn's day for idleness and feasting, and who themselves
1454 II(8) | employments, too, such as idol-making, astrology, &c., were held
1455 XXXVII(99) | de mort. pers. I. On the ignis divinus, see ch. xlviii. ~
1456 XV | mask of your god clothes an ignominious and infamous head : a body
1457 II | lenient and merciless; it ignores while it punishes. How strangely
1458 XXXIV | let it at least fear the ill-luck attached to so doing. It
1459 XXXVII | merely in disunion, by the ill-will of separation only. For
1460 XXXV | of outrages, insults, and illicit lusts 87. Is the public
1461 XXI | from God to establish and illuminate it.] The Son of God, therefore,
1462 XXI | grace and dispensation, the Illuminator and Guide of the human race;
1463 IV | day, in your attempts to illumine the darkness of past ages,
1464 XLVI(119) | u qua et illusores et contemptores. Mimice, &
1465 Int | mentioned by Jerome (de vir. illustr. 53), and his death may
1466 VII | happens either from a jealous imagination or whimsical suspicion,
1467 XXXIX | for no other reason, I imagine, than that amongst themselves
1468 XXXIII(83) | Monitor quidam humanas imbecillitatis apponetur in similitudinem
1469 XLVII | whilst they endeavour to imitate our doctrines, yet, being
1470 XLVI | in mimicry, and in their imitation corrupt it, being seekers
1471 VIII | newly-entered soul; catch the immature blood; soak your bread in
1472 XVII | discovered. But that which is immeasurable is known to itself alone.
1473 XXXVIII | madness of the circus, the immodesty of the theatre, the atrocity
1474 XXXV | loyalty grant a licence for immorality, shall religion be regarded
1475 App | imply, that stubbornness and immoveable obstinacy certainly ought
1476 XXVII | we are condemned for the immoveableness of our faith. ~
1477 Int | case, and pleading with an impassioned earnestness born of deep
1478 Int | African temperament,—fervid, impatient, impetuous, and with a considerable
1479 App | if they are accused and impeached, they must be punished;
1480 XX | note them, the same Spirit impels them. To prophecy foretelling
1481 VII | since the duty of secrecy is imperatively demanded in all mysteries.
1482 XI | plan. That could not be imperfect which perfectly discharged
1483 XV | criminals themselves often impersonate your very gods. We have
1484 Int | temperament,—fervid, impatient, impetuous, and with a considerable
1485 XXVIII | herein you are convicted of impiety towards your gods, since
1486 XIII | are convicted of acting impiously and sacrilegiously and irreverently
1487 XXXIV | occasion for very great and implacable offence to him whom you
1488 XXII(68) | r Not verbally, but implicitly, in the vulgar objurgation '
1489 App | whatever their confession might imply, that stubbornness and immoveable
1490 XL | Heaven to shame with our importunity, we touch God, and when
1491 XXVIII | danger by our refusal is imposed upon us. ~We come, then,
1492 VIII | may say that deceit and imposition are practised upon the ignorant
1493 XXI | this, since it is of course impossible to lie about one's religion.
1494 XXXIV | It is equivalent to an imprecation to call Caesar a god before
1495 XVIII | approach more fully and impressively both to Himself and His
1496 XIX(58) | Read, omnia quae supersunt improbata, probata sunt nobis. ~
1497 III | becomes offensive. The improvement counts for nothing in comparison
1498 Int | It was this unrestrained impulsiveness of nature that soon beguiled
1499 I | recount their deeds, but impute to fate or the stars the
1500 XIX | contemporary with the Argive Inachus; he precedes Danaus, himself
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