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1 Intro| remain at his post where the god has placed him, as he remained
2 Intro| For he will certainly obey God rather than man; and will
3 Intro| follow in obedience to the god, even if a thousand deaths
4 Text | so leaving the event with God, in obedience to the law
5 Text | that witness shall be the God of Delphi—he will tell you
6 Text | to myself, What can the god mean? and what is the interpretation
7 Text | of men? And yet he is a god, and cannot lie; that would
8 Text | then I might go to the god with a refutation in my
9 Text | laid upon me,—the word of God, I thought, ought to be
10 Text | is, O men of Athens, that God only is wise; and by his
11 Text | the world, obedient to the god, and search and make enquiry
12 Text | reason of my devotion to the god.~There is another thing:—
13 Text | I do not believe in any god?~I swear by Zeus that you
14 Text | I conceive and imagine, God orders me to fulfil the
15 Text | disobedience to a better, whether God or man, is evil and dishonourable,
16 Text | love you; but I shall obey God rather than you, and while
17 Text | that this is the command of God; and I believe that no greater
18 Text | state than my service to the God. For I do nothing but go
19 Text | may not sin against the God by condemning me, who am
20 Text | gadfly, given to the state by God; and the state is a great
21 Text | I am that gadfly which God has attached to the state,
22 Text | remainder of your lives, unless God in his care of you sent
23 Text | that I am given to you by God, the proof of my mission
24 Text | been imposed upon me by God; and has been signified
25 Text | them. And to you and to God I commit my cause, to be
26 Text | be a disobedience to the God, and therefore that I cannot
27 Text | Triptolemus, and other sons of God who were righteous in their
28 Text | to live. Which is better God only knows.~THE END~
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