Dialogue

 1 Intro|           the ruler is not man but God; and such a government existed
 2 Intro|         express?~THEODORUS: By the god Ammon, Socrates, you are
 3 Intro|          in the east, and that the god reversed their motion, as
 4 Intro|     narrate.~There was a time when God directed the revolutions
 5 Intro|           time in another; or that God has given the universe opposite
 6 Intro|          few only were reserved by God for another destiny. Such
 7 Intro|           previous state, in which God was the governor of the
 8 Intro| spontaneous, because in those days God ruled over man; and he was
 9 Intro|            the instructions of his God and Father, at first more
10 Intro|            choosing for our king a god, who belongs to the other
11 Intro|     necessity, both in relation to God and nature. For at first
12 Intro|            immediate providence of God,—this is the golden age,—
13 Intro|       nature of things,’ hindering God from continuing immanent
14 Intro|      existence. Though deprived of God’s help, he is not left wholly
15 Intro|            partial interference of God, and the natural growth
16 Intro|  conceiving the relation of man to God and nature, without expecting
17 Intro|           the distinctions between God causing and permitting evil,
18 Intro|           imaginary ruler, whether God or man, is above the law,
19 Intro|           sacred name, the gift of God, the bond of states. But
20 Intro|         intelligent ruler, whether God or man, who is able to adapt
21 Intro|          the Christian to think of God as wisdom, truth, holiness,
22 Intro|         rule of a philosopher or a God, the actual forms of government
23 Intro|            are equal in the eye of God and of the law, yet the
24 Intro|          out of the head either of God or man.~Plato and Aristotle
25 Intro|           time when the king was a god, but he now is pretty much
26 State|           THEODORUS: By Ammon, the god of Cyrene, Socrates, that
27 State|          in the east, and that the god reversed their motion, and
28 State|         then. There is a time when God himself guides and helps
29 State|            all made to go round by God in two opposite courses;
30 State|         the opposite order, unless God has carried any of them
31 State|         the previous one, in which God superintended the whole
32 State|          as follows: In those days God himself was their shepherd,
33 State|            the present order. From God, the constructor, the world
34 State|        contained in him. Wherefore God, the orderer of all, in
35 State|            Deprived of the care of God, who had possessed and tended
36 State|        cycle, and of one who was a god when he ought to have been
37 State|           and is among States what God is among men.~YOUNG SOCRATES: