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2002 XXVII | and angelic nature, who opposes us because of our separation
2003 XXIII | trances for the purposes of oracular response; if they palm off
2004 XLVI | his father, because Apollo oracularly declared that Socrates was
2005 XXI | contained; with which, when ordering, the Reason is present;
2006 XXXV | Shall they who observe orderly quietness out of respect
2007 XXXV | vulgar. Of course the other orders in proportion to their rank
2008 VI | have offered your phrenzied orgies to the now Italian Bacchus,—
2009 XXXIII(83) | h Comp. Isidor. Orig. xviii. 3. 6; Plin. H. N.
2010 XII | facsimiles of their dead originals, which the kites and mice
2011 VII | whether the first lips did not originate a falsehood, as often happens
2012 XXII | sometimes to be thought the originators of those events of which
2013 XXXVIII | your public shows as their origins, which we know to have been
2014 XIII | dress is the same, and the ornaments on their statues. Just as
2015 XXXIX | and in relieving destitute orphan boys and girls, and infirm
2016 XXI | Moses; to meet the Greeks,—Orpheus in Pieria, Musseus in Athens,
2017 L(128) | Brauronian Artemis (Diana Orthia), before whose altar they
2018 XLVI(121) | Plato, Tim. 9, to_n me\n ou]n poihth_n lai\ pate/ra
2019 XLVI | Aristotle disgracefully ousted his own familiar friend
2020 XXXIX | hither and thither, nor into outbursts of wantonness, but with
2021 XL | and honest, who join in outcries against the life of innocent
2022 XLII | dwellers in the woods, or outlaws from life. We remember the
2023 XV | Hercules! Is not their majesty outraged and their divinity prostituted,
2024 XXXV | groups for the committal of outrages, insults, and illicit lusts 87.
2025 XXX | Christians look up with hands outstretched because guiltless, with
2026 XLVIII | even if not into the same outward form 126. Yet, as the very
2027 XL | Avails, if the Nile does not overflow the fields, if the heaven
2028 II | strangely does this judgement overreach itself! If it condemns,
2029 App | contagion of this superstition overrun the towns only, but even
2030 XXXV | festal day refuse to either overshadow our doors with laurels,
2031 IX | themselves on the very trees that overshadowed their own temple of crimes,
2032 XIV | you may say, 'because he overthrew the gods.' True, because
2033 XXV | consist in the capture and overthrow of very many cities; and
2034 VI | gods, and rejected, having overthrown their altars; thus restraining
2035 XVI(42) | Comp. Tibullus, i. 3. 18; Ovid, Ars Amator. i. 415; Hor.,
2036 XLII | remember the gratitude that we owe to God our Lord and Creator;
2037 Pre | Clarendon Press edition (Oxford : 1889). ~T. H. B. ~Ixworth, ~
2038 XVIII(54) | of his printed by Hody (Oxon. 1705) is not genuine. ~
2039 XLVI(121) | e1rgon, kai\ eu9ro&nta ei0j pa&ntaj a0du&naton le/gein.
2040 V(15) | their own prayers : by the pagans to the prayers of Aurelius (
2041 Int | in this picture which is painful; few English readers will
2042 XVI | although we do not adore it painted on linen, since we everywhere
2043 XIV | find! gods, engaged like pairs of gladiators, fighting
2044 IX | have found the former more palateable. And indeed this also ought
2045 XLII | warmth and colour; I shall be pale and stiff enough after my
2046 XVI | how far is the Athenian Pallas to be distinguished from
2047 XXIII | oracular response; if they palm off a number of miracles
2048 XV | in the temples, that the pander's trade is carried on amidst
2049 XLIII | these will be the pimps and panders and attendants of prostitutes;
2050 XXIV | as he prays, another the panels of the ceiling; let one
2051 Int | laws, and persecuted by a panic-stricken populace, whose unreasoning
2052 XLVII(123) | Stoics, whose tenets were pantheistic. ~
2053 XLVI(121) | lai\ pate/ra tou~de tou~ panto_j eu9rei~n te e1rgon, kai\
2054 XXI(67) | the record in the state papers : but, like Justin Mart.,
2055 IV | repeal those ridiculous Papian laws which bade children
2056 Int | a new Revelation of the Paraclete, and whose system of discipline
2057 XLVII | dead. If, again, we mention Paradise, a place of celestial delight,
2058 XLVI(122) | which would preserve the parallelism (Antignosticus, Bohn, ii.
2059 XXI | cleansed lepers, reinvigorated paralytics, and even at a word restored
2060 XXXIX | not in the same way as parasites amongst you eagerly strive
2061 L | blood? For all sins are pardoned by this act. Hence it is
2062 XXI | from light. The original parent matter remains whole and
2063 XLVII(124) | b Tertullian parenthetically indicates here the true
2064 XV(36) | h Paris. ~
2065 App | meet together again, to partake in common of a harmless
2066 X | many expeditions, and after partaking of Attic hospitality, settled,
2067 XXXV | bolder than all Sigerii or Parthenii 96? From amongst Romans,
2068 XXXV(96) | v Parthenius and Sigerius were participators
2069 XXXVII | Moors, the Marcomanni, the Parthians themselves, or any nations
2070 V | against us; which Trajan partially frustrated by forbidding
2071 XXXV(96) | Parthenius and Sigerius were participators in the murder of Domitian,
2072 XIX | brought together all the particulars of the Jewish religion,
2073 IX | drawn from the arms of both parties, for the ratification of
2074 XLVII | in general by a kind of partition formed by that fiery zone,
2075 XXXV(97) | x Partizans of Albinus in the West,
2076 XXXVIII | by the rival conflicts of partizanship; especially at a time when
2077 Int | their faith. Hence those passages are the more valuable and
2078 App(139) | i Passimque venire victimas. See Lightfoot,
2079 XI | corruptors of boys, and the passionate, and murderers, and thieves,
2080 App(139) | See Lightfoot, who reads, pastumque venire victimarum, 'there
2081 XLVI(121) | me\n ou]n poihth_n lai\ pate/ra tou~de tou~ panto_j eu9rei~
2082 XLVII | many oblique and intricate paths away from the one way. I
2083 XLVI | things, —innocence, justice, patience, sobriety, modesty.' Why,
2084 III | chaste : the father, formerly patient, disinherits his son now
2085 XXXIX | their friends, but even most patiently let their own wives subserve
2086 IX(23) | s Patriae nostrae : Codex Fuld. patris
2087 XVIII | favour shewn towards the patriarchs. Those who are now Jews
2088 VI | charge of ostentation a patrician who possessed ten pounds
2089 IX(23) | Patriae nostrae : Codex Fuld. patris nostri, 'my father's own
2090 XXXII(81) | f S. Paul, in one of his earliest
2091 XXXIII(83) | xxxiii. i. 11; Jerom., Ep. ad Paulam (iv. p. 55, Bened.), 'Monitor
2092 XXXIV(84) | idea is characteristically Pauline: see I Cor. vii. 22, note
2093 IX | blood of a gladiator. The paunches of the very bears are eagerly
2094 XIII | exercise a household authority, pawning them, selling them, changing
2095 XXVII | or mines or that kind of penal servitude, they break forth
2096 VI | not more than one hundred pence should be allowed for a
2097 XXXIX | religion, who thus become pensioners of their own confession. ~
2098 XXV | would have surrendered to peoples who came from over the seas
2099 XXI | in virtue of which, when perfecting, the Power presides. We
2100 II | homicide, adultery, fraud, perfidy, and all other crimes. Then
2101 XXIX | because we do not play at the performances of a ceremony for their
2102 XXXV | bursting forth, were both performing sacred rites for the emperor'
2103 XXIII | that same work which it performs to serve the business of
2104 XXVI | changes of empires with the periods of their duration in the
2105 XLVIII | things are preserved by perishing, all things are restored
2106 IX | who defy you; no crime is permanently eradicated, nor does any
2107 XXXVII | without waiting for your permission or instigation? Nay, with
2108 IV | which we are accused of perpetrating in secret, and those which
2109 XXXIX | not into bands for the perpetration of acts of violence, nor
2110 XVIII | profane to fire equally perpetual and lasting;—all who have
2111 XLVIII | throughout the measureless perpetuity of Eternity. ~There is therefore
2112 XXIX | power it is! Moreover you persecute those who know how to ask
2113 XXI | things at the hands of the persecuting Jews, suffering willingly
2114 V(15) | systematic records of the persecutions will explain Tertullian'
2115 V | produce if you can one persecutor of the Christians. We, however,
2116 App | punishment; and if they still persevered, I ordered them to be led
2117 IX | a consequence by a most persevering and most constant chastity;
2118 IX | his own sons, he naturally persisted in not sparing the children
2119 II | be torn in pieces if he persists in confessing it! If, then,
2120 XLVIII | held this view would be persuaded to abstain on the ground
2121 L | recklessness, nor to the persuasion of despair, in its contempt
2122 XXVII | alternate employment of cunning persuasions and harsh threats he labours
2123 XXXV(95) | u The assassination of Pertinax, A.D. 193, by the praetorian
2124 XXI | Spirit which, he affirms, pervades the universe. And we, too,
2125 App | discovered nothing more than a perverse and excessive superstition,
2126 II | deed : whence, still more perversely, having assumed our guilt
2127 XLVII | the restlessness of human perversity, despising faith, waver,
2128 XLVII | of the philosophers has perverted the Old Testament, for certain
2129 XV | seen Atys, that god from Pessinus, mutilated 37; and one burnt
2130 L | Anaxarchus, when brayed with a pestle like barley, kept saying, '
2131 XXXI(78) | v. 44; i Cor. iv. 12; I Pet. iii. 9. ~
2132 XVIII | suggestion of Demetrius Phalereus 51, at that time the most
2133 XIX | Ephesus, and Demetrius of Phalerum; and king Juba, and Appion,
2134 XVI | stock of a cross; or the Pharian Ceres, who stands forth
2135 XVIII(54) | c An officer of Philadelphia. The extant letter of his
2136 XVIII | Ptolemies, whom they name Philadelphus 49, a man deeply read in
2137 XVIII | time the most eminent of philologists, to whom he had entrusted
2138 XIX | Chaldaean Berosus, some Phoenician Iromus, king of Tyre; their
2139 XIX | Aegyptians, the Chaldaeans, the Phoenicians; we must likewise summon
2140 Int | constant recurrence of legal phraseology in his writings bears out
2141 VI | you may have offered your phrenzied orgies to the now Italian
2142 XXV | Greece, the vanquisher of Phrygia. And it is quite in keeping
2143 Int | the heresy of Montanus,—a Phrygian fanatic, who claimed to
2144 XXXVII | ruining both your mental and physical powers in every way? I refer
2145 XIV | jealously towards the skilful physician. These things, amongst such
2146 III | resort, Stoics, Academics? physicians too from Erasistratus, grammarians
2147 XXII | God, too, they formerly picked up from the addresses of
2148 XXI | meet the Greeks,—Orpheus in Pieria, Musseus in Athens, Melampus
2149 L | Carthage wedded the funeral pile for her second nuptials :
2150 XLVII | which He governs, like a pilot in the ship which he steers. ~
2151 XIV | celebrated lyric poet (I mean Pindar) who sings that Aesculapius
2152 XVIII | endeavouring, I suppose, to excel Pisistratus 50, in his eagerness to
2153 VI | with his dog-headed Anubis, Piso and Gabinius the consuls,
2154 V | vanquisher of the Jews; no Pius, no Verus, sanctioned? It
2155 XLI | it follows that all the plagues of this world come from
2156 XIX | fought with Jupiter, it is plain that that war preceded the
2157 XXIII | Christian. What could be plainer than a fact like this? What
2158 XXXI | emperors is even expressly and plainly enjoined upon us 79 : 'Pray,'
2159 XL | or, as Plato thought, the plains only? For that your gods
2160 XII | but to your gods axes and planes and files are more vigorously
2161 XI | furnished and ordered on fixed plans for the discharge of its
2162 XII | take its first shape in plastic clay fixed on a cross and
2163 VI | possessed ten pounds weight of plate; which immediately suppressed
2164 XXIX | creatures, and because we do not play at the performances of a
2165 XXVII | secret instigation, are played upon and incited to all
2166 XV | performed. ~'But these are stage plays,' you say. If, however,
2167 XVIII | their nation, and had ever pleaded with the Jews, as being
2168 V | Unless a god shall have pleased man, he shall not be a god;
2169 XXXVIII | We however reject what pleases you, nor do our pleasures
2170 VI | finger which her spouse had pledged to himself with the wedding-ring;
2171 XLVI | Hippias is slain whilst plotting intrigues against the state.
2172 Int(1) | and others : see, however, Plummer, Church of the Early Fathers,
2173 V(15) | Ant. Phil. 24), to Jupiter Pluvius (Ant. Col.), or to the incantations
2174 XLVI(121) | Tim. 9, to_n me\n ou]n poihth_n lai\ pate/ra tou~de tou~
2175 XI | be a god because he first pointed out the use of the vine,
2176 XLIII | assassins, professional poisoners, magicians, and also the
2177 XXII | unseen way, pours forth its poisonous currents; then by the same
2178 V(16) | referred to by Hilary of Poitiers, contr. Arian, 3; comp.
2179 App | body more in the light of a political gild or club than as a new
2180 XIII | subject to assessment for a poll-tax are less noble; for these
2181 XXX | your presence by your most polluted priests, why the hearts
2182 VIII | mistake. For you will contract pollution unless you commit incest.
2183 XI | Alexander in magnanimity, some Polycrates in happiness, some Crcesus
2184 XVI | same history that Cnaeus Pompeius, after his capture of Jerusalem
2185 XI | was more magnanimous than Pompey, more successful than Sulla,
2186 XXI | masters of the world,—Numa Pompilius was a man, who burdened
2187 XXVI | too, reigned before your Pontiffs, and the Medes before your
2188 XXI | they brought Him up before Pontius Pilate, at that time the
2189 XI | the cherry into Italy from Pontus, has been unfairly treated,
2190 XXXV | how they lighted up their porches with tallest and brightest
2191 Int | graphic picture which it portrays of paganism as it existed
2192 XXIII | would not dare to elsewhere pose as gods, if those whose
2193 IV | they are the worst of men posing as accusers of the best,
2194 XXXIX | we are brethren in family possessions, which with you generally
2195 XIX(56) | edition of the Apology; it may possibly, however, have formed part
2196 XVI | piece of wood. Every wooden post which is fixed in an upright
2197 IX | carnal defilements and all post-nuptial infidelity, so are we also
2198 XIX | possible. But it is better to postpone doing this, lest we should
2199 App | superstition, and therefore I postponed a legal investigation of
2200 XXXII | so whilst we pray for the postponement of those things which we
2201 XXX | spring upon us : the very posture of a praying Christian is
2202 L(129) | g ad lenonem potius quam ad leonem. ~
2203 XLVII | external position, like a potter that of his wheel; but the
2204 XVI | your gods is moulded by potters on a cross. But you also
2205 XL | Christians in that day when fire poured over Volsinii from heaven
2206 XXII | infected in some unseen way, pours forth its poisonous currents;
2207 XXXVI | own designs, but in those practices which necessarily compel
2208 IX(26) | under each dispensation, prae-Mosaic, Mosaic, and Christian,
2209 XXIV | Consequently procurators and praefects and provincial governors
2210 XLVII(124) | soon after the Apology, De Praescriptione Haereticorum. ~
2211 XXXV(95) | Pertinax, A.D. 193, by the praetorian guards. — Gibbon, i. 239. ~
2212 VI | progenitors. You are ever praising the past, yet you live day
2213 XXIV | count the clouds as he prays, another the panels of the
2214 III | they knew formerly in their pre-Christian days as vagabonds, worthless,
2215 III | attack, and a single word pre-condemns the sect and its Founder,
2216 IV | does it not surely by that pre-decision lose the power to forbid
2217 XXV | Jupiter should hold the pre-eminence in the world? Would Juno
2218 XVIII | and not born so. ~Those preachers whom we have spoken of are
2219 XXI | commissioned them to the duty of preaching throughout the world, He
2220 VII | are always excluded, and precautions are taken against witnesses,—
2221 App | For they form the worst precedents, and are not in keeping
2222 XXXIX | enforce the teaching of their precepts none the less during attacks
2223 I | such as, if known, would preclude their hatred; since if no
2224 IV | AND so, having as it were prefaced thus much for the purpose
2225 XXXIX(103) | compulsationibus : inculcationibus is a preferable reading. ~
2226 I | by this preference they prejudge that of which they are ignorant
2227 VIII | you like, that all these preliminaries have been prepared for neophytes
2228 IX | Prevention of birth is premature murder; nor does it alter
2229 XLI | end of the world, does not prematurely, before the end, hasten
2230 VIII | take down the requisite preparations. He of course would say: '
2231 XXI(62) | became flesh, Judaism, as a preparatory religion, had done its work.' ~
2232 XXII | the heavens are about to prepare, so that they can promise
2233 Pre | APOLOGETICUS of Tertullian when preparing an annotated edition for
2234 XXII | it seem like a miracle, prescribe remedies which are either
2235 App | they were Christians, but presently denied it; others said they
2236 XVII | the force of His greatness presents Him to men at once as known
2237 XI | that was devised for the preservation and support of man could
2238 XV | you applaud? ~You are, I presume, more religious in the theatre,
2239 II | to confess. Nor could you pretend that an investigation of
2240 I | Christian name. And the very pretext which seems to excuse this
2241 XXII | of which that is the most prevailing by which they commend these
2242 XXX | strength of their own empire prevails, and so they have a correct
2243 I | characteristics of evil,— fear, shame, prevarication, regret, sorrow? What kind
2244 I | hatred, what is there to prevent it really being of a nature
2245 IX | forming into a human being. Prevention of birth is premature murder;
2246 I | the many. What numbers are previously disposed to evil! How many
2247 IX | severe against us, shall I prick in their consciences, who
2248 XLVI | Pythagoras at Thurii, and Zeno at Priene, eagerly striving for the
2249 II | malevolent agency which aims primarily at making men refuse to
2250 XLVII(124) | Church. The presentation of primitive truth at once convicts heresy
2251 XXI | goj of God, that is, the Primordial Word, First-begotten, attended
2252 XXXV | the name of a different prince! The same acts of homage
2253 Ana | II. REFUTATION OF THE PRINCIPAL ACCUSATIONS. ~i. Secret
2254 VI | pronounce the Christians principally guilty of transgression,
2255 XVIII(54) | The extant letter of his printed by Hody (Oxon. 1705) is
2256 XI | many 29, affirm to be the prison house of infernal punishments.
2257 XVII | although limited by the prison-house of the body, although hindered
2258 XXI | madness by reliance on the privileges of their forefathers, turning
2259 App | explanation; though it is probable that both he and Trajan
2260 XIX(58) | quae supersunt improbata, probata sunt nobis. ~
2261 II | according to your ordinary procedure in judging criminals; for
2262 XXV | and the murder of priests proceed simultaneously : nor is
2263 XXX | which He commanded, prayer proceeding from a pure body, from an
2264 V | feelings, he soon stopped the proceedings, and those whom he had banished
2265 XX | have to be learnt by slow processes and distant proofs; your
2266 XXI | and was generated by that procession, and therefore is called
2267 XL | people bare-foot religious processions, seek Heaven on the Capitol,
2268 XXXIX | because no tragedy noisily proclaims our brotherhood, or because
2269 IX | sacrificed to Saturn down to the proconsulate of Tiberius 22, who exposed
2270 IX(22) | r Usque ad proconsulatum Tiberii. This Tiberius was
2271 XXI | much more truly than your Proculi are wont to assert of Romulus.
2272 XXI | Pilate, at that time the procurator of Syria under the Roman
2273 XXIV | daemons alike. Consequently procurators and praefects and provincial
2274 XXII | of men, that so they may procure for themselves their own
2275 XLIV | or sacrilegious person or procurer or thief is there amongst
2276 XI | rashly nor unworthily nor prodigally dispense so great a reward. ~
2277 XX | distorted by monstrosities and prodigies,—all these things have been
2278 XXII | rather than in their mode of producing it. If some hidden blight
2279 II | any other purpose than the production before the magistrates!
2280 XLVI | possess them; and thus he professed his incontinence by the
2281 XLIII | then come the assassins, professional poisoners, magicians, and
2282 XXV | keeping with this that she has proffered even in our own day a splendid
2283 L | its exquisite refinement, profits you in the least; but forms
2284 IX | promiscuousness of your profligacy supplying the occasions.
2285 XIV | refrain from relating in their prologues the troubles or the failings
2286 XLV | may, it can in no case be prolonged beyond death? So Epicurus
2287 XVIII | ground (for He is the true Prometheus); Who ordered the course
2288 IX | your companion; and your promiscuous embraces may easily anywhere
2289 IX | of incestuous unions, the promiscuousness of your profligacy supplying
2290 XXII | prepare, so that they can promise the rain of which they are
2291 VIII | atrocities; Eternal Life is promised in return. Believe it for
2292 XXIII | virgin Caelestis 71, the promiser of rains; that very Aesculapius
2293 XXX | not ashamed, and without a prompter because our prayers are
2294 I | to fate or the stars the promptings of an evil mind; for they
2295 XLVII | certain stories have been promulgated in order, from their similarity
2296 VII | insinuate itself into the propagating channels of tongues and
2297 IX | mistake once occur, thence the propagation of the incest will still
2298 XLIX | theories are false, and properly termed presumptions, yet
2299 XVII | the senses by which its properties are discovered. But that
2300 XLI | recognition of the divine prophecies, which confirm the assurance
2301 XIX | things. For even he who prophesied last, either preceded by
2302 XXVIII | own sake voluntarily to propitiate, lest there should be a
2303 V | itself approve, rejected the proposal. Caesar maintained his own
2304 App | History') had been made propraetor in the previous year, was
2305 XIII(32) | publicae; instituebantur, proprie, ubi proscriptorum bona
2306 XI | superior God, and absolute proprietor of divinity, who made them
2307 XIII(32) | instituebantur, proprie, ubi proscriptorum bona vendebantur.' (Oehler.) ~
2308 Int | ordinary criminals. They were prosecuted under the laws, and persecuted
2309 XXV | good purpose that those prosper above all others who above
2310 XVI | mules, along with their own protecting goddess Epona, are worshipped
2311 V | the other side produce a protector, if the letters of the most
2312 VII | that according to your own proverbs and maxims, 'time reveals
2313 XLIV | givers of gladiatorial shows provide their flocks of criminals.
2314 XXIV | named, I believe, Roman provinces, and yet I have not mentioned
2315 XXIII | a Christian desirous of proving to you the truth. ~
2316 XXV | upon the point, since it is provoked by the presumption involved
2317 XLI | mankind, it is you who are the provokers of public calamities and
2318 XVI(43) | p Read, in ista proxime civitate. ~
2319 XXII | inhabiting the air and from their proximity to the stars and from their
2320 XIV | you derive instruction in prudence and the honourable duties
2321 XIX(57) | f Ps. xxxix. 5 f. Solon's interview
2322 XVIII | the most erudite of the Ptolemies, whom they name Philadelphus 49,
2323 XIII(32) | venditiones et locationes publicae; instituebantur, proprie,
2324 I | crave concealment, they shun publicity, they quake when detected,
2325 XVI | representation of our God has been published in the very next city 43,
2326 XXI | notwithstanding they transgressed, puffed up even to madness by reliance
2327 IV | ignorant of the nature of punishable offences. No law is bound
2328 II | merciless; it ignores while it punishes. How strangely does this
2329 App | on sale 139, for which a purchaser could till lately only very
2330 Int | Church to enlighten and purify. ~The immediate purpose
2331 Int | considerable vein of latent puritanism. It was this unrestrained
2332 XLVII(124) | method Tertullian himself pursued in his tract, written soon
2333 XXXVIII | time when men have begun in pursuit of gain to regard the help
2334 Int(1) | a So Pusey and others : see, however,
2335 XLVII | too, is there the river Pyriphlegethon for the dead. If, again,
2336 L | On Chances,' Diogenes, Pyrrho, and Callinicus. Yet they
2337 XXII | such men as Croesus and Pyrrhus are well aware. But it was
2338 III | Platonists, Epicuraeans, Pythagoreans? and even from their places
2339 XLVI(119) | u qua et illusores et contemptores.
2340 V(15) | his expedition against the Quadi, M. Aurelius was surprised
2341 XIX(58) | g Read, omnia quae supersunt improbata, probata
2342 XIII | booking of the bids by the quaestor, divinity is taken on lease,
2343 I | they shun publicity, they quake when detected, they deny
2344 XXXVII | You would undoubtedly have quaked with fear at your desolation,
2345 XXIII | whole universe, and the quaking of the world, and the lamentation
2346 XXI | off-shoots transmitting its qualities: so also That Which has
2347 XLII | are consumed in greater quantities and at higher cost for the
2348 L | endurance, in proportion to the quantity of blood which they extracted.
2349 XXXIII(83) | similitudinem triumphantium, quibus in curru retro comes adhaerebat
2350 XXXIII(83) | p. 55, Bened.), 'Monitor quidam humanas imbecillitatis apponetur
2351 XXX | faithful senate, loyal people, quiet world, and whatever his
2352 XXXV | they who observe orderly quietness out of respect for Caesar
2353 XXXIX | of the world, for general quietude, and for the delay of the
2354 XXXV | Christians. You yourselves, O Quirites, the native populace of
2355 XVI(39) | overlooked. A sarcastic tu quoque was quite sufficient to
2356 Ana | condemn them to Tartarus than raise them to Heaven (ch. II). ~
2357 XVI | the horns of a goat and a ram; others formed like goats
2358 I | and clenches it. For what ran be more unjust than for
2359 Ana | whether in the lower or higher ranks of society (ch. 35). We
2360 App | could till lately only very rarely be found. And from this
2361 VII | exists. For would any but a rash man believe Rumour? A wise
2362 IX | of both parties, for the ratification of a treaty. Some such tasting
2363 XI | sisters, and adulterers, and ravishers of virgins, and corruptors
2364 XLVIII | that holds good for the re-entrance of human souls into bodies
2365 XLVIII | assurance that a man will be re-formed out of a man, and Caius
2366 XLVIII | to know how thou wilt be re-made. And yet surely thou shalt
2367 I | its defence;—let the truth reach your ears at all events
2368 App(139) | victimas. See Lightfoot, who reads, pastumque venire victimarum, '
2369 XI | with indignation in the realm below.
2370 Int | different base. They were reasonable enough from the heathen
2371 XXV | holds good, not only from reasonings and arguments, but also
2372 XXXVII | you, not in arms nor in rebellion, but merely in disunion,
2373 XXVII | when, after the manner of rebellious convicts in the prisons
2374 VI | erred,—although you may have rebuilt the altars of the now Roman
2375 Int | of life were a standing rebuke to the dissolute morals
2376 XV | notions about it have been rebutted, deduce the whole system
2377 | recent
2378 XLVII | delight, appointed for the reception of the spirits of the saints,
2379 Int | fanatic, who claimed to be the recipient of a new Revelation of the
2380 XXIII | over the altars, become the recipients of the divine influence
2381 XV | the scourged Diana;' the recital of 'the will of the deceased
2382 L | are deemed desperate and reckless men. But this very desperation
2383 IX | of Christians, who do not reckon the blood even of animals
2384 XLVIII | in which we are living, reckoned from the Creation, flows
2385 XIX | may be shewn, by which the reckonings of the annals may be evident.
2386 XLII | bath when dead. I do not recline in public at the feast of
2387 XXXIX | immodest is admissible; no one reclines at the feast without first
2388 VIII | freely upon it. Meantime reclining at the feast, note the positions
2389 XIX(59) | true prophetess he also recognizes ad Nat. ii. 12, led to the
2390 XXIV | contrary, the reproach will recoil upon yourselves who, as
2391 XLI | This argument,' you say, 'recoils upon your own God also,
2392 XXXVI | from God Who requires and recompenses an impartial beneficence.
2393 XVII | false gods, yet, when it recovers its senses, as if from intoxication
2394 Int | law-courts; and the constant recurrence of legal phraseology in
2395 XLVIII | neither death absolute nor recurring resurrections; but we shall
2396 XXII | girdle, and the beard turned red at a touch,—so that stones
2397 XVI(39) | the great symbol of man's redemption, finds a fitting mention
2398 XXXIII | it, but also that I, by reducing the majesty of Caesar below
2399 XXII | turn mankind aside from reflecting upon the True Divinity by
2400 Int | childless. His character reflects the typical African temperament,—
2401 III | name is credited with their reform. Some even strike a bargain
2402 XLVI | experience and intercourse, refuses to regard it as at all a
2403 I | unconscious that they are refusing to hear that which, if they
2404 XL | burnt up the neighbouring regions of Sodom and Go-morrha.
2405 XXI | event that befel the world registered in your archives 67. After
2406 XIV | Yet, when the Athenians, regretting their decision, afterwards
2407 XXI | formed everything in its regular order, and that he be called
2408 XXXIX | the night: conversation is regulated by the knowledge that the
2409 L | commendation of chastity! Regulus suffered tortures in his
2410 XLVIII | same kind of soul may be reinstated in the same mode of existence,
2411 XXI | blind men, cleansed lepers, reinvigorated paralytics, and even at
2412 X | despairing of, and the other rejecting the truth. We cease to worship
2413 XXXV | perform our prayers and rejoicings for the Caesars in purity
2414 II | innocence. The opportunity of rejoinder and cross-examination is
2415 XIV | them, so as to refrain from relating in their prologues the troubles
2416 XXIV(72) | this simile, by which the relation of gods and daemons to the
2417 II | undergoing it, and must not be released from it. No one, in fact,
2418 V(15) | juncture an opportune storm relieved the wants of his soldiers,
2419 XXXIX | burying the needy, and in relieving destitute orphan boys and
2420 XXIX(77) | b Religiosi, ironically. In these chapters
2421 XXIII | they depart unwillingly and reluctantly at our command out of the
2422 IX | on whom you confidently rely to shrink with horror from
2423 XXVII | sacrifice with opposition, relying on our knowledge, whereby
2424 XLVIII | will not be themselves; or, remaining identical, they will not
2425 XXII | like a miracle, prescribe remedies which are either new or
2426 XLVI | his incontinence by the remedy he adopted. But a Christian
2427 App(138) | Christians,—borne, be it remembered, by a heathen governor,
2428 XXXIII | such great glory that the reminder of his real lot is necessary. [
2429 XLVII | forth a fresh opinion, or remodelled an old one. ~Nor can one
2430 XXXVII | you to some corner of the remote earth, the loss of so many
2431 XIX | Danaus, himself also of remotest antiquity amongst you, by
2432 App | citizens, I set aside for removal to Rome. But soon, under
2433 XXI | disciples should stealthily remove the body and deceive the
2434 III(9) | e Renan, Les Apôtres, p. 235, 'La
2435 XX | that foreign and civil wars rend states, that kingdoms press
2436 XLVIII | consumes not what it burns, but renews even whilst it destroys.
2437 XXXVIII | republic, the world. ~We renounce, too, in like manner as
2438 VI | language itself, you have renounced your progenitors. You are
2439 IV | no question ought to be reopened after the laws have once
2440 XVII | it to God,' and 'God will repay me.' O testimony of the
2441 IV | princes, only the other day repeal those ridiculous Papian
2442 IV | become sensible again in repealing it? Were not the laws of
2443 XLVI | Divinity, although he had repeatedly employed to no purpose the
2444 L | gained from philosophy, replied 'A contempt of death;' and
2445 XXXVII | but drag them out from the repose of their sepulture, from
2446 XV | the part by emasculation represents a Minerva or a Hercules!
2447 XXXVIII | recognize one universal republic, the world. ~We renounce,
2448 XII | than punishment for our repudiation of a recognized error? For
2449 XXXIX | feasting or drinking or in repulsive eating-houses, but in supporting
2450 I | unknown. What is there in this request derogatory to the laws,
2451 II | given to that only which is required by the public hatred,— namely,
2452 VIII | ritual and to take down the requisite preparations. He of course
2453 XLVI(122) | z rerum. Neander suggests deorum,
2454 VI | most obsequious sons, have rescinded. Father Bacchus with his
2455 XIV | hands, because she wished to rescue her own son Aeneas, who
2456 XXXIX | deservedly made illegal, if it resembled illegal meetings; and it
2457 XXI | story for the time being (it resembles your own), whilst we shew
2458 Int | not to be looked for. This reserve, which is maintained by
2459 VII | which Divine wrath would be reserved? If then they are not themselves
2460 XXVII | match for us, we unwillingly resist them as though they were
2461 XLVIII | substance thou shalt have been resolved, whatever material means
2462 XLII | I do sup, and from your resources. I buy no crown for my head;
2463 XXXV | with lamps? It is a note of respectability when a public festival demands
2464 IX | sacrifice; and in other respects they would have to be put
2465 XXXII | woes, is delayed by the respite granted to the Roman Empire 81.
2466 XXIII | the purposes of oracular response; if they palm off a number
2467 XLVIII | into the same bodies; since restitution consists in being what one
2468 XLVII | there the more did the restlessness of human perversity, despising
2469 XLVIII | the very reason for the restoration is to be found in the appointed
2470 XLVI | falsifier of error and the restorer of truth, between truth'
2471 XLV | to forbid adultery, or to restrain even the private indulgence
2472 XV | human blood, the stains resulting from penalties undergone,
2473 XLVIII | death absolute nor recurring resurrections; but we shall be the same
2474 VI | regulations of your ancestors, you retain and preserve customs which
2475 XXVII | and get off unhurt, while retaining our own private opinions,
2476 XXXV(93) | whither the emperor had retired for the benefit of his health.—
2477 IV | starved himself to death in retirement? Do not you yourselves,
2478 II | compel us under torture to retract our confession, so that
2479 XXXIII(83) | triumphantium, quibus in curru retro comes adhaerebat per singulas
2480 XLVIII | shall they be said to have returned, when they will not in that
2481 XVIII | blamelessness to know God and to reveal Him, in order that they
2482 VII | proverbs and maxims, 'time reveals all things,' in the order
2483 XIII | auction-catalogue 32 as sources of revenue. The Capitol and the vegetable-market
2484 XLII | temples. But your other revenues will be grateful to us Christians,
2485 XV | despoil them, if they, too, reverenced them. What then do they
2486 XXV | 17th of March, her most reverend chief priest, seven days
2487 XIV | of him in a temple, the reversion of the condemnation restored
2488 II(8) | genius of the emperor, or reviling Christ (comp. ch. 9, 30;
2489 IV | laws of Lycurgus himself revised by the Spartans, and did
2490 IV | Spartans, and did not this revision inflict such grief upon
2491 XLVI | And they are more readily rewarded with statues and salaries
2492 XXIII | tribunal that Minos and Rhadamanthus, if it be: so, have been
2493 Int | from the wise moderation of rhe Church and to embrace the
2494 Int | well versed in the art of rhetoric, the reader of the APOLOGY
2495 XL | islands Hiera, Anaphe, Delos, Rhodes, and Cos went to the bottom
2496 XXX | death, who offer to Him that rich and noble sacrifice which
2497 XXI | favour, and that, indeed, in richer abundance on account of
2498 III | provided only they can rid their homes of the objects
2499 XLVIII(125)| c caestibus : So Rig. and Haverc. Oehler prefers
2500 XL | measured out by the bushel the rings of Romans who had fallen
2501 XL | popular calamity. If the Tiber rises up to the Avails, if the
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