Dialogue

 1  Gorg| conclusion, that if ‘the ways of God’ to man are to be ‘justified,’
 2  Gorg|   affirms in the Republic, that ‘God is the author of evil only
 3  Gorg|          oracles of the Delphian God; they half conceal, half
 4  Gorg|         we leave the result with God.’ Plato does not say that
 5  Gorg|          Plato does not say that God will order all things for
 6  Gorg|    himself may be ready to thank God that he was thought worthy
 7  Gorg|           of right, and trust in God will be sufficient, and
 8  Gorg|       hand, will he suppose that God has forsaken him or that
 9  Gorg|           May not the service of God, which is the more disinterested,
10  Gorg|       such a noble conception of God and of the human soul, yet
11  Gorg|     followed the company of some god, and seen truth in the form
12  Gorg|          under the government of God; it was a state of innocence
13  Gorg|        things spontaneously, and God was to man what man now
14  Gorg|      life is once more reversed, God withdraws his guiding hand,
15  Gorg|        unrefuted, by the dog the god of Egypt, I declare, O Callicles,
16  Gorg|        the good. And now, by the god of friendship, I must beg
17  Gorg|         is the friend neither of God nor man, for he is incapable
18  Gorg|          he leaves all that with God, and considers in what way
19  Gorg|          But I adjure you by the god of friendship, my good sir,