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1 I, 32(1)| Testament of Joseph, page 260.
2 V, 227 | 59 We six youths have overthrown
3 V, 228 | 60 Thy fire is cool for us,
4 V, 229 | 61 For the guards have been
5 IV, 158 | by their right Reason did abase his tyranny.~
6 VIII, 341 | prophets. He read to us of Abel who was slain by Cain, and
7 I, 44 | angered against Dathan and Abiram did not give free course
8 II, 83 | eat unclean meats and thus abjure the Jewish religion.~
9 II, 78 | fathers, but he actually abolished the service of the temple.~
10 II, 87 | upon us, and why should you abominate it? Truly it is folly not
11 VII, 278 | they bear the more do they abound in love for them.~
12 VII, 279 | mothers, she of the seven sons abounded in love beyond the rest,
13 II, 66 | account of the people, he fled abroad with intent to betray his
14 I, 45 | some, while crushing others absolutely.~
15 I, 29 | to us under the Law, we abstain through the predominance
16 II, 57 | intense thirst, though he had abundance of water, was unable to
17 VI, 260 | loved one another the more abundantly. Their common zeal for moral
18 II, 92 | We, O Antiochus, having accepted the Divine Law as the Law
19 I | Civilization has never achieved higher thought. A discussion
20 I, 15 | I take to be the culture acquired under the Law, through which
21 II, 65 | precisely then, certain men, acting factiously against the general
22 I, 37 | Law, if he is miserly he acts contrary to his nature,
23 VII, 308 | though she had a soul of adamant and were bringing forth
24 IV, 149 | to each one of you, and admire your beauty, and honour
25 VIII, 329 | himself and his whole council admired their endurance, whereby
26 IV, 139 | righteousness' sake it must be admitted that the Inspired Reason
27 II, 89 | of your calculations and, adopting another frame of mind befitting
28 III, 108 | unclothed the old man, who was adorned with the beauty of holiness.~
29 IV, 150 | orders, so am I able to advance those who do obey me.~
30 VIII, 327 | 11 The tyrant was their adversary and the world and the life
31 IV, 149 | brothers; so not only do I advise you not to persist in the
32 VII, 294 | even as it had been cunning advocates in a council-chamber, nature,
33 VIII, 345 | psalmist, "Many are the afflictions of the just."~
34 I, 42 | extend through the more aggressive passions or vices, ambition,
35 VI, 247 | who shrank not before the agonies of burning?~
36 II, 52 | the Reason to come to his aid against anger.~
37 VI, 265 | 37 O all-holy sevenfold companionship
38 II, 86 | on him, said: 'Before I allow the tortures to~begin for
39 II, 53 | Reason can be his powerful ally against being swayed by
40 | always
41 VIII, 329 | 13 Who were not amazed at them? The tyrant himself
42 I, 42 | aggressive passions or vices, ambition, vanity, ostentation, pride,
43 I, 48 | set the mind on a throne amidst the senses to be his sacred
44 | amongst
45 VII, 313 | sacrifice his son Isaac, the ancestor of our nation; and Isaac,
46 IV, 151 | service if you will reject the ancestral law of your polity.~
47 IV, 136 | congregation against the fiery angel and overcame him, so the
48 II, 71 | there appeared from heaven~angels, riding upon horses, with
49 II, 87 | excellent is the meat of this animal which Nature has graciously
50 II, 68 | very powerful army, and announced that he was there by the
51 II, 69 | were deeply angered by this announcement, and protested strongly,
52 V, 196 | 28 But he answered in a loud voice, 'Are ye
53 II, 54 | the passions, but their antagonist.~
54 | anything
55 Int | gentler things it strikes appallingly. The detail's of the successive
56 VI, 232 | 4 And while thus appealing to him he sent for the boy'
57 IV, 160 | the king invites us and appeals to us on terms of kind treatment
58 II, 71 | seize the moneys, there appeared from heaven~angels, riding
59 IV, 142 | contradictory in certain persons appearing to be slaves to passion
60 V, 198 | have any engine of torment, apply it to this body of mine;
61 II, 77 | 29 So he appointed Jason high-priest and made
62 II, 76 | being that in return for the appointment Jason should pay him three
63 VI, 273 | with a sword, those who approach their brood, and do battle
64 VII, 288 | quivering nostrils the signs of approaching death.~
65 VI, 261 | disposition increased the ardour of their brotherly love,
66 Int | so devastating are its arguments; so unfaltering is its logic;
67 VII, 297 | 23 For as the Ark of Noah, with the whole
68 VI, 256 | 28 Let us then arm ourselves with divine Reason'
69 Int | Christian martyrs, who were aroused to the pitch of martyrdom
70 IV, 158 | showed no fear but actually arrayed their philosophy in opposition
71 V, 193 | in seeing thy tyranny's arrogant intention overcome by my
72 VIII, 323 | to paint, as might some artist, the tale of thy piety,
73 II, 65 | Seleucus Nicanor, the king of Asia, sanctioned the tax for
74 II, 89 | philosophy? Will you not fling aside the nonsense of your calculations
75 II, 91 | of unclean meat, Eleazar asked permission to speak; and
76 V, 216 | thou didst understand human aspirations and hadst hope of salvation
77 VII, 297 | weather the storms that assailed thee for religion's sake.~
78 VI, 248 | harbour-moles repulse the assaults of the waves and offer a
79 I, 17 | through it, in truth, Reason asserts its authority over the passions.~
80 Int | is a challenge to such an assumption. We find a writer who probably
81 IV, 151 | 23 Be assured then that you~shall be given
82 IV, 139 | 11 Assuredly, then, if an old man despised
83 VI, 251 | the Three Children at the Assyrian court who despised this
84 II, 75 | accordingly, after his astonishing deliverance departed to
85 III, 112 | torments, and like a brave athlete taking punishment, the old
86 IV, 130 | when his sacred soul was attacked with scourge and rack and
87 I, 8 | on the honours they have attained.~
88 IV, 146 | notably defeated in his first attempt, and impotent to compel
89 II | ancient history. Savage attempts to make the Jews eat swine.
90 I, 1 | seriously entreat your earnest attention.~
91 IV, 147 | well-born,--and generally attractive.~
92 III, 126 | his passions, we properly attribute to it the power of commanding
93 I, 9 | executioners, made them the authors of the downfall of the tyranny
94 II, 82 | found all his decrees of no avail to break down the constancy
95 V, 226 | add in myself one strong avenger more to punish thee, O deviser
96 VI, 255 | struggle and peril of the soul awaits in eternal torment those
97 II, 89 | 41 Will you not awake from your preposterous philosophy?
98 V, 185 | rent flesh ran round the axles of the machine.~
99 VII, 280 | 6 Ay, and more than that, through
100 V, 207 | utterly abominable Antiochus bade them cut out his tongue.~
101 IV, 149 | honour highly so large a band of brothers; so not only
102 II | references to an ancient bank (Verse 21.)~
103 VIII, 348 | the fire blazing for his barbarous braziers, and with his passions
104 Int | tyranny. It is a chapter based on persecution by Antiochus,
105 III, 110 | the scourges till he was bathed in blood and his sides became
106 IV, 148 | noble and distinguished bearing he smiled at them, and calling
107 VI, 237 | with the heart of a wild beast, to take men of like feelings
108 VII, 297 | the keeper of the Law, beaten upon every side by the surging
109 VII, 307 | 33 Ah me, that had many beautiful children, and am a widow
110 | became
111 VI, 273 | irrational animals, when even the bees, about the season of the
112 IV, 131 | setting his mind film as a beetling sea-cliff, broke the mad
113 II, 75 | king the things that had befallen him.~
114 II, 89 | adopting another frame of mind befitting your mature years, learn
115 V, 175 | yea, until they died, more befittingly will we young men die despising
116 | beforehand
117 IV, 132 | holy teeth, nor didst thou befoul with unclean meat thy belly
118 II, 91 | speak; and receiving it, he began his speech before the court
119 V, 196 | ignorant that the same father begat me and my brothers that
120 | begin
121 Int | is -- Courage. The writer begins with an impassioned statement
122 VIII, 339 | corrupted me; nor did the false, beguiling Serpent sully the purity
123 I, 10 | discuss this, after we have begun with the general theory,
124 VII, 288 | didst thou weep when thou beheldest the eyes of each amid the
125 II, 92 | Law of our country, do not believe any stronger necessity is
126 II, 94 | divine, while we vainly believed it to be divine, not even
127 IV, 132 | befoul with unclean meat thy belly that had room only for piety
128 Int | find a writer who probably belonged to the first century before
129 II, 67 | of private deposits, not belonging to the temple account, and
130 I, 18 | pleasure and pain, and either belongs essentially also to the
131 II, 104 | will not desert thee, O beloved self-control; I will not
132 | beside
133 | besides
134 IV, 130 | 2 No city besieged with many and cunning engines
135 VIII, 332 | battle and in the labours of besieging, so that he plundered and
136 V, 185 | 17 And all the wheel was besmeared with his blood, and the
137 I, 6 | over the passions, but the best instance by far that I can
138 II, 87 | which Nature has graciously bestowed upon us, and why should
139 V, 219 | are the boons that thou bestowest on me, enabling me to show
140 II, 66 | fled abroad with intent to betray his country.~
141 IV, 157 | 29 'You had better feel fear, my lads, and
142 | between
143 I, 46 | did our wise father Jacob blame the houses of Simeon and
144 VII, 297 | strained as with strong blasts by the tortures of thy sons,
145 VIII, 348 | the Greeks set the fire blazing for his barbarous braziers,
146 I, 21 | is a passion in which are blended both pleasure and pain.~
147 VI, 235 | not ashamed to take thy blessings and thy kingship at the
148 VIII, 348 | daughter of Abraham, and blinded the eyeballs of their eyes,
149 V, 207 | 39 When he heard this the bloodthirsty, murderous, and~utterly
150 V, 182 | the justice of heaven and bloody-minded, thou dost torment me in
151 II, 103 | twist hard your racks and blow your furnace hotter. I do
152 II, 59 | 11 Then when his body-guard murmured against the craving
153 VIII, 348 | braziers, and with his passions boiling brought to the catapult
154 V, 199 | were greatly angered at the bold speech of the man, and they
155 V, 197 | do not forswear the noble bond of brotherhood.~
156 IV, 156 | joint-dislocators, and racks, and bone-crushers, and catapults, and cauldrons,
157 V, 219 | against thy will are the boons that thou bestowest on me,
158 IV, 145 | by this means even young boys, being philosophers by virtue
159 IV, 161 | empty vaunts and this fatal bragging?~
160 I, 2 | generally necessary as a branch of knowledge, but it includes
161 VI, 271 | holes of trees, and in the branches, and hatch their young there,
162 IV, 156 | iron claws, and wedges, and branding irons, the tyrant spoke
163 VII, 296 | to resist than men, and braver than warriors to endure!~
164 V, 173 | our life in return for a breach of the Law, a thing harder
165 VI, 259 | together in arms at the breast; and they are knit yet closer
166 VII, 287 | tortures, nor thy third, breathing out his spirit.~
167 I, 30 | movements of the body obey the bridle of Reason.~
168 VI, 254 | together, looking at each other brightly and very boldly, said, '
169 Int | other, Caligula, the Second Brilliant Madman.~The form of this
170 VII, 308 | soul of adamant and were bringing forth the number of her
171 I, 24 | directing it hither and thither, brings the thicket of dispositions
172 VI, 239 | And then standing on the brink of death he said, 'I am
173 IV, 131 | as a beetling sea-cliff, broke the mad onset of the surges
174 VI, 273 | those who approach their brood, and do battle against them
175 III, 121 | devices, and they poured broth of evil odour into his nostrils.~
176 III, 113 | 7 The sweat stood on his brow, and he drew his breath
177 IV, 129 | of the passions, though buffeted by the threats of the tyrant
178 VIII, 338 | guard over the rib that was builded into Eve.~
179 II, 101 | you tear out mine eyes and bum out mine entrails.~
180 V, 183 | Reason. Cut off my limbs, and burn my flesh, and twist my joints;
181 VIII, 341 | Isaac who was offered as a burnt-offering, and of Joseph in the prison.~
182 VII, 307 | will there be any son to bury me when I am dead!'~
183 II, 91 | 43 bus urged by the tyrant to the
184 VI, 231 | advanced to high office in the business of the kingdom.'~
185 VIII, 341 | of Abel who was slain by Cain, and of Isaac who was offered
186 II, 65 | involved us in many and various calamities.~
187 II, 89 | aside the nonsense of your calculations and, adopting another frame
188 Int | such tyrants -- the other, Caligula, the Second Brilliant Madman.~
189 VI, 240 | 12 And I call upon the God of my fathers
190 II, 64 | 16 And now the occasion calls us to set forth the story
191 VI, 248 | of the waves and offer a calm entrance to those entering
192 VI, 245 | 17 But in this cam it was not so; on the contrary
193 II, 59 | through all the enemy's camp.~
194 I, 37 | the seventh-year periods cancels the debt.~
195 | cannot
196 I, 35 | argument that the Reason is capable of controlling covetous
197 V, 183 | not strong enough to lead captive my Reason. Cut off my limbs,
198 VIII, 334 | Law in our country hath captured the city from the enemy.~
199 V, 222 | him to the wheel, and with care they stretched him out and
200 VII, 305 | and the more difficult cares of your upbringing.~
201 I, 32 | mental effort, he checked the carnal impulse.1 For he, a young
202 II, 80 | 32 For when. be was carrying on war with Ptolemy in Egypt
203 IV, 156 | and bone-crushers, and catapults, and cauldrons, and braziers,
204 VI, 230 | death, being cast into the cauldron, the seventh son, the youngest
205 IV, 156 | bone-crushers, and catapults, and cauldrons, and braziers, and thumb-screws,
206 I, 14 | and human, and of their causes.~
207 I, 8 | Mother, dying on this day we celebrate for the love of moral beauty
208 IV, 136 | father Aaron, armed with the censer, ran through the massed
209 VI, 270 | her offspring becomes the centre of her whole world; and
210 Int | writing such as this is a challenge to such an assumption. We
211 Int | observations in the torture chambers is unrelenting. On our modern
212 VI, 238 | thy unjust slaying of the champions of virtue.'~
213 II | David's thirst. Stirring chapters of ancient history. Savage
214 II, 66 | Onias, a man of the highest character, being then high priest
215 Int | emergence of the stoical characters of the Old man, the Seven
216 II, 89 | expediency, and how to my charitable counsel, and have pity on
217 VII, 290 | swans with sweet sound do so charm the hearer's ears, as sounded
218 VI, 253 | said, 'Brother, be of good cheer,' and another, 'Bear it
219 VI, 249 | of righteousness as they cheered one another on, saying:~
220 II, 77 | high-priest and made him chief ruler over the people.~
221 VIII, 322 | 6 For thy child-bearing was from the son of Abraham.~
222 VII, 279 | seeing that, having in seven child-bearings felt maternal tenderness
223 VII, 303 | have I borne and am left childless!~
224 VII, 294 | the mother, having the choice between two votes in the
225 VII, 276 | 2 The mother, having two choices before her, religion and
226 VI, 266 | religion, so did the youths choir-like enring their sevenfold companionship,
227 V, 221 | the same cause; so if thou chooseth to torture us for not eating
228 Int | Fathers of the Christian Church carefully preserved this
229 II, 67 | Syria and Phoenicia and Cilicia, and said, 'Being loyal
230 II, 82 | so that even women for circumcising their sons, though they
231 I | concerning Inspired Reason. Civilization has never achieved higher
232 I, 40 | them, and it controls the claims of friendship, so that a
233 V, 218 | fastening them there with iron clamps, they wrenched his loins
234 II, 105 | lifelong constancy to the Law. Clean shall my fathers receive
235 I, 13 | the mind preferring with clear deliberation the life of
236 Int | Christian Era stating a clear-cut philosophy of Reason that
237 II, 55 | serve at least to make this clearer.~
238 VI, 271 | mountain tops, and in the rock clefts, and in the holes of trees,
239 II, 86 | long a time, and still to cling to the Jewish religion,
240 VII, 279 | which she bore each to a close affection, she nevertheless
241 VI, 259 | breast; and they are knit yet closer through a common nurture
242 VI, 273 | season of the making of the comb, fend off intruders, and
243 II, 68 | was there by the king's command to take possession of the
244 II, 99 | 51 He has commanded us to eat the things that
245 III, 126 | attribute to it the power of commanding them.~
246 V, 170 | rather than transgress the commandments of our fathers.~
247 VI, 245 | their Reason, which was commended in the sight of God, they
248 II, 85 | man first from among the company was brought before Antiochus,
249 VII | CHAP. VII.~A comparison of a mother's and father'
250 IV, 162 | on our own youth and have compassion on our mother's age; and
251 IV, 163 | will have mercy on us, if compelled by necessity we yield to
252 V, 224 | have been entered for a competition in torments, and have not
253 V, 218 | rolling 'wedge' so that he was completely curled back like a scorpion
254 I, 18 | the passions there are two comprehensive sources, namely, pleasure
255 I | philosophy from ancient times concerning Inspired Reason. Civilization
256 V, 169 | no sooner did the tyrant conclude his urging of them to eat
257 IV, 165 | itself does not willingly condemn us to death, we being in
258 II, 76 | high-priest instead, the condition being that in return for
259 I, 6 | I can give is the noble conduct of those who died for the
260 VII, 298 | the Inspired Reason must confessedly be supreme ruler over the
261 IV, 133 | 5 O confessor of the Law and philosopher
262 IV, 164 | necessity nor with vain confidence invite our torture.~
263 VIII, 347 | 31 He confirmed the words of Ezekiel, "Shall
264 IV, 136 | ran through the massed congregation against the fiery angel
265 VI, 260 | their mutual concord, for in conjunction with their piety it rendered
266 Int | ferocity with which this orator conjures Courage.~The ancient Fathers
267 VI, 254 | With a whole heart will we consecrate ourselves unto God who gave
268 V, 183 | the guards said to him, 'Consent to eat, that so you may
269 IV, 142 | be slaves to passion in consequence of the weakness of their
270 II, 69 | and protested strongly, considering it, an outrageous thing
271 II, 78 | new way of life and a new constitution in utter defiance of the
272 VIII, 336 | when he failed utterly to constrain the people of Jerusalem
273 VII, 279 | her womb, and having been constrained because of the many pangs
274 II, 83 | decrees continued to be contemned by the mass of the people,
275 I, 7 | 7 For these all by their contempt of pains, yea, even unto
276 V, 224 | his tortures exclaimed, 'O contest worthy of saints, wherein
277 II, 83 | When therefore his decrees continued to be contemned by the mass
278 IV, 142 | Therefore there is - nothing contradictory in certain persons appearing
279 Int | as the Age of Reason and contrast it with the Age of Myths --
280 I, 27 | and both kinds are clearly controlled by Reason; when we are tempted
281 I, 35 | the Reason is capable of controlling covetous desires, even as
282 I, 40 | should punish them, and it controls the claims of friendship,
283 II, 99 | the things that will be convenient for our souls, and he has
284 VIII, 339 | no deceiver in the field, corrupted me; nor did the false, beguiling
285 IV, 161 | disobedience that is to cost us our lives? Shall we not,
286 VIII, 329 | tyrant himself and his whole council admired their endurance,
287 VII, 294 | been cunning advocates in a council-chamber, nature, and parenthood,
288 II, 84 | Antiochus, accompanied by his councillors, sat in judgement on a certain
289 V, 172 | 4 O tyrant that counsellest us to transgress the Law,
290 V, 171 | Law and take Moses as our counsellor.~
291 III, 116 | thought as with faint heart to counterfeit a part unseemly to us.~
292 III, 114 | his courage, some of the courtiers of the king went tip to
293 III, 128 | 22 And my proof covers not only the superiority
294 I, 33 | desire, but of all sorts of covetings.~
295 I, 35 | is capable of controlling covetous desires, even as it does
296 I, 23 | soul as ostentation, and covetousness, and vain-glory, and contentiousness,
297 III, 118 | being mocked of all men for cowardice, and while despised by the
298 IV, 159 | have been faint-hearted and cowardly, what sort of language would
299 VI, 252 | 24 Let us not turn cravens before the proof of righteousness.'~
300 II, 59 | body-guard murmured against the craving of the king, two youths,
301 I, 48 | For in the day when God created man, he implanted in him
302 VI, 266 | as the seven days of the creation of the world do enring religion,
303 IV, 160 | 32 'Alas! miserable creatures that we are and foolish
304 III, 125 | his Reason we should have credited them with this evidence
305 V, 214 | and enemy of man, for what crime dost thou destroy us in
306 VII, 289 | upon corpse, and the place crowded with spectators on account
307 VIII, 328 | the victor and gave the crown to her athletes. Who but
308 III, 121 | on it, burning him with cruelly cunning devices, and they
309 V, 202 | for thy impiety and thy cruelty shall endure torments without
310 III, 111 | his foot then one of the cruet guards as he fell kicked
311 I, 45 | passions, modifying some, while crushing others absolutely.~
312 VI, 238 | deaths, thou shalt miserably cry "Woe is met" for thy unjust
313 I, 15 | 15 This I take to be the culture acquired under the Law,
314 V, 218 | so that he was completely curled back like a scorpion and
315 VIII, 336 | Gentiles and abandon the customs of our fathers, he thereupon
316 V, 211 | pursue after thee; for thou cuttest out the tongue that sang
317 I, 41 | that a man refrains from cutting down the enemy's orchards,
318 VI, 259 | through a common nurture and daily companionship and other
319 II, 61 | to blood, was a grievous danger to his soul.~
320 IV, 161 | ourselves with vain desires and dare a disobedience that is to
321 I, 44 | when he was angered against Dathan and Abiram did not give
322 II, 68 | after receiving authority to deal with the matter, he promptly
323 IV, 163 | we cast away from us this dear life and rob ourselves of
324 VII, 275 | passions! O religion, that wast dearer to the mother than her children!~
325 VI, 238 | towards God in their noble deaths, thou shalt miserably cry "
326 I, 43 | temperate mind repels all these debased passions, even as it does
327 I, 22 | also, comes that moral debasement which~exhibits the widest
328 I, 37 | seventh-year periods cancels the debt.~
329 VIII, 339 | seducer of the desert, no deceiver in the field, corrupted
330 VIII, 317 | SOME of the guards declared that when she also was about
331 II, 81 | plundered the city he made a decree denouncing the penalty of
332 II, 93 | 45 Therefore we do surely deem it right not. in any way
333 VIII, 333 | admiration of mankind, but were deemed worthy of a divine inheritance.~
334 Int | unfaltering is its logic; so deep its thrusts; so cool its
335 VII, 277 | with her children being deeper than the father's.~
336 II, 69 | 21 Our people were deeply angered by this announcement,
337 VII, 309 | a woman, thou didst both defeat the tyrant by thy endurance,
338 IV, 146 | tyrant found himself notably defeated in his first attempt, and
339 I, 9 | which our nation lay, they defeating the tyrant by their endurance,
340 VII, 295 | vindicator of our Law, defender of our religion, and winner
341 V, 182 | nor for impiety but for defending the Law of God.'~
342 II, 78 | new constitution in utter defiance of the Law; so that not
343 II, 100 | that you may mock at' this defilement so utterly abominable to
344 I, 12 | 12 But we must define just what the Reason is
345 I, 1 | PHILOSOPHICAL in the highest degree is the question I propose
346 V, 170 | 2 'Why dost thou delay, O tyrant? We are ready
347 I, 13 | mind preferring with clear deliberation the life of wisdom.~
348 II, 75 | accordingly, after his astonishing deliverance departed to report to the
349 VIII, 331 | death, the divine Providence delivered Israel that before was evil
350 VIII, 333 | by which means those men, delivering up their bodies to the torture
351 VI, 236 | things the divine justice delivers thee unto a more rapid and
352 VII, 297 | burden in the world-whelming Deluge, did withstand the mighty
353 V, 212 | shrink not, O tyrant, from demanding the torture for virtue's
354 VIII, 343 | glorified also Daniel in the den of lions, and blessed him;
355 V, 181 | after joint gave way, he denounced the tyrant in these words:~
356 II, 81 | the city he made a decree denouncing the penalty of death upon
357 II, 75 | astonishing deliverance departed to report to the king the
358 I, 27 | relinquish the pleasures to be derived from them?~
359 I, 29 | beasts and meats of every description forbidden to us under the
360 VIII, 324 | THE VIOLENCE OF A TYRANT~DESIRING TO DESTROY THE HEBREW NATION.~
361 VII, 307 | children, and am a widow and desolate in my woe! Neither will
362 VI, 261 | agony, so as not only to despise their own tortures, but
363 IV, 168 | 40 For they were despisers of the passions and masters
364 V, 175 | befittingly will we young men die despising the torments of thy compulsion,
365 VII, 293 | And although she saw the destruction of her seven children and
366 Int | strikes appallingly. The detail's of the successive tortures (
367 II, 68 | having made inquiry into the details of the matter, praised Simon
368 Int | fallings of the speech; so devastating are its arguments; so unfaltering
369 II, 74 | been overthrown by a human device and not by divine justice.~
370 V, 226 | avenger more to punish thee, O deviser of the tortures and enemy
371 II, 63 | mind is able to conquer the dictates of the passions, and to
372 VII, 305 | of labour, and the more difficult cares of your upbringing.~
373 Int | thunder echoing out of the dim horrors of ancient tyranny.
374 I, 24 | turning on the water and directing it hither and thither, brings
375 VI, 259 | education, and through our discipline under the Law of God.~
376 VI, 260 | trained in the same Law, and disciplined in the same virtues, and
377 II, 68 | to the court of Seleucus, disclosed to him the valuable treasure;
378 I | achieved higher thought. A discussion of "Repressions." Verse
379 VI, 258 | yet to come said, 'Do not disgrace us, brother, nor be false
380 V, 218 | scorpion and every joint was disjointed.~
381 V, 199 | and his feet with their dislocating engines, and wrenched his
382 II, 76 | overweening terrible man; who dismissed Onias from his sacred office,
383 IV, 148 | struck by their noble and distinguished bearing he smiled at them,
384 VI, 269 | soul despised a yet greater diversity of pains; for the mother
385 V, 196 | us birth, and in the same doctrines was I brought up?~
386 I, 10 | as I am in the habit of doing, and I will then proceed
387 I, 24 | dispositions and passions under domestication.~
388 I, 17 | self-control is the one that dominates them all, for through it,
389 II, 63 | defy with scorn all the domination of the passions.~
390 | done
391 V, 205 | brethren, by the eternal doom of the tyrant, and by the
392 I, 9 | them the authors of the downfall of the tyranny under which
393 II, 84 | he ordered his guards to drag there every single man of
394 VI, 259 | the same space, and they draw milk from the same founts,
395 IV, 161 | men my brothers, fear the dread instruments and weigh well
396 III, 110 | were being tormented in a dream; yea, the old man keeping
397 V, 185 | the humours of his body dropping down, and the rent flesh
398 I, 36 | gormandizing and greedy and drunken, be taught to change his
399 VIII, 347 | of Ezekiel, "Shall these dry bones live?" For he forgat
400 VI, 259 | womb; wherein brethren do dwell the like period, and take
401 Int | familiar to many of the early Christian martyrs, who were
402 I, 1 | would seriously entreat your earnest attention.~
403 V, 195 | brought forward and was earnestly entreated by many to taste
404 VIII, 335 | the tyrant Antiochus upon earth, and in death he suffers
405 VIII, 319 | sons as pillars, and the earthquake of the torments shook thee
406 VI, 244 | passions or sufferings and eaten unclean meat we should have
407 Int | fearful peal of thunder echoing out of the dim horrors of
408 VI, 259 | companionship and other education, and through our discipline
409 IV, 159 | it not have been to this effect?~
410 I, 32 | his Reason, with a mental effort, he checked the carnal impulse.1
411 II, 80 | carrying on war with Ptolemy in Egypt and heard that the people
412 Int | Inquisition centuries later) are elaborated in a way shocking to our
413 V, 199 | arms, and his legs, and his elbow-joints.~
414 IV, 135 | 7 O reverend elder that wast tenser-strung
415 V, 179 | scourgers brought forward the eldest of them and stripped him
416 VI, 237 | thyself, made from the same elements, and tear out their tongues,
417 III, 107 | when Eleazar replied thus eloquently to the exhortations of the
418 Int | shocking to our taste. Even the emergence of the stoical characters
419 IV, 161 | tortures, and abandon these empty vaunts and this fatal bragging?~
420 V, 219 | that thou bestowest on me, enabling me to show my fidelity to
421 II, 56 | royal tent, around which was encamped the whole army of our ancestors.~
422 VIII | of Righteousness." Here ends the story of courage called
423 VIII, 332 | plundered and overthrew all his enemies.~
424 V, 198 | Therefore if ye have any engine of torment, apply it to
425 I, 8 | 8 I might enlarge here in praise of their
426 IV, 140 | all men have their Reason enlightened.~
427 | enough
428 I, 11 | 11 Our enquiry, then, is whether the Reason
429 IV, 167 | torture, nor did such thoughts enter into their minds.~
430 V, 224 | righteousness, have been entered for a competition in torments,
431 VI, 248 | a calm entrance to those entering the haven, so the seven-towered
432 VI, 248 | the waves and offer a calm entrance to those entering the haven,
433 V, 177 | we through this our evil entreatment and our endurance of it
434 II, 69 | thing for those who had entrusted their deposits to the temple
435 II, 61 | such a draught, reckoned as equivalent to blood, was a grievous
436 Int | century before the Christian Era stating a clear-cut philosophy
437 III, 110 | he still kept his Reason erect and inflexible.~
438 IV, 167 | 39 But no such words escaped these young men at the prospect
439 I, 18 | pain, and either belongs essentially also to the soul as well
440 V, 173 | 5 For we esteem thy mercy, giving. us our
441 VI, 236 | leave hold on thee to all eternity.~
442 VIII, 338 | rib that was builded into Eve.~
443 II, 57 | all the host fell to their evening meal; but the king,~being
444 II, 56 | many of them, he came at eventide, all fordone with sweat
445 VIII, 325 | victory in incorruption in everlasting life.~
446 III, 125 | credited them with this evidence of their superior power.~
447 VII, 292 | passion of suffering, and exalted her to make no account of
448 VI, 231 | tyrant, although fiercely exasperated by his brethren, felt pity
449 II, 80 | of Jerusalem had rejoiced exceedingly over a report of his death,
450 II, 87 | 39 For most excellent is the meat of this animal
451 I, 22 | that moral debasement which~exhibits the widest variety of the
452 III, 107 | replied thus eloquently to the exhortations of the tyrants, the guards
453 II, 89 | learn the true philosophy of expediency, and how to my charitable
454 VII, 277 | 3 O how may I express the passionate love of parents
455 I, 42 | Reason is likewise proved to extend through the more aggressive
456 III, 113 | till his nobility of soul extorted the admiration of his tormentors
457 VII, 285 | consumed in the fire, and the extremities of their hands and feet
458 II, 90 | there be some Power whose eye is upon this religion of
459 VIII, 348 | Abraham, and blinded the eyeballs of their eyes, and cut out
460 VIII, 347 | He confirmed the words of Ezekiel, "Shall these dry bones
461 II, 66 | a certain Simon raised a faction against him, but since despite
462 II, 65 | then, certain men, acting factiously against the general concord,
463 III, 118 | tyrant as unmanly should fail to defend the Divine Law
464 III, 116 | so evil a thought as with faint heart to counterfeit a part
465 IV, 159 | amongst them to have been faint-hearted and cowardly, what sort
466 II, 97 | various dispositions we act fairly, and it teaches righteousness,
467 IV, 138 | reverend grey head, O life faithful to the Law and perfected
468 Int | timed are the risings and fallings of the speech; so devastating
469 Int | and it was undoubtedly familiar to many of the early Christian
470 VIII | CHAP. VIII.~The famous "Athletes of Righteousness."
471 I, 6 | but the best instance by far that I can give is the noble
472 V, 190 | sharp-clawed hands of iron they fastened him to the engines and the
473 V, 218 | thereto on his knees, and, fastening them there with iron clamps,
474 II, 82 | beforehand what would be their fate, were flung, together with
475 VI, 253 | stock ye are, and at whose fatherly hand Isaac for righteousness'
476 IV, 166 | and a fatal obstinacy find favour with us, when we might have
477 II, 87 | wrong to reject Nature's favours.~
478 Int | MACCABEES~THIS book is like a fearful peal of thunder echoing
479 II, 98 | the world, as a Lawgiver, feels for us according to our
480 III, 115 | seethed meats, but do thou feign only to partake of the swine'
481 I, 8 | goodness, but rather would I felicitate them on the honours they
482 VI, 273 | the making of the comb, fend off intruders, and stab
483 Int | does nothing to soften the ferocity with which this orator conjures
484 VI, 260 | their brotherly love more fervent.~
485 IV, 148 | standing as if they were a festal choir with their mother
486 VII, 300 | 26 And not so fierce were the lions around Daniel,
487 VI, 231 | But the tyrant, although fiercely exasperated by his brethren,
488 V, 212 | agony with the tortures, the fifth sprang forward saying, '
489 IV, 131 | Eleazar, setting his mind film as a beetling sea-cliff,
490 IV, 129 | our father Eleazar, like a fine steersman steering the ship
491 II, 63 | passions, and to quench the fires of desire, and to wrestle
492 VII, 287 | 13 Thy firstborn, giving up the ghost, did
493 VIII, 324 | 8 And indeed it were fitting to inscribe these words
494 II, 71 | upon horses, with lightning flashing from their arms, and cast
495 VII, 289 | and head after head being flayed, and corpse cast upon corpse,
496 II, 66 | account of the people, he fled abroad with intent to betray
497 VII, 285 | scattered on the ground, and the flesh-covering, torn off from their heads
498 II, 89 | philosophy? Will you not fling aside the nonsense of your
499 VI, 272 | to drive him away, they flutter around the nestlings in
500 V, 187 | 19 'Follow my example, O brothers.
501 VI, 235 | servants and torture the followers of righteousness?~
502 IV, 143 | that being a philosopher following righteously the whole rule
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