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The Apology
Part
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~ >
Charmides
Part
29 Text | our king, who is also a god, says further, ‘that as
30 Text | of salutation which the god addresses to those who enter
31 Text | as I believe, that the god speaks to those who enter
32 Text | piece of advice which the god gave, and not his salutation
33 Text | knowledge of shoemaking?~God forbid.~Or of working in
Cratylus
Part
34 Intro| the verse about the river God who fought with Hephaestus, ‘
35 Intro| with an eta): ‘the sons of God saw the daughters of men
36 Intro| polleidon, meaning, that the God knew many things (polla
37 Intro| tou aeidous, because the God is concerned with the invisible.
38 Intro| they could, is that the God enchains them by the strongest
39 Intro| with them, and the wise God Hades consorts with her—
40 Intro| Euthyphro prance. ‘Only one more God; tell me about my godfather
41 Intro| ex machina, and say that God gave the first names, and
42 Intro| let us imagine that some God makes them perfectly alike,
43 Intro| the secondary cause; and God is assumed to have worked
44 Intro| their priest, almost their God...But these are conjectures
45 Intro| unknown or over-ruling law of God or nature which gives order
46 Text | called Theophilus (beloved of God) or Mnesitheus (mindful
47 Text | or Mnesitheus (mindful of God), or any of these names:
48 Text | signify the nature of the God, and the business of a name,
49 Text | although divided, meaning the God through whom all creatures
50 Text | Theophilus (the beloved of God), and others. But I think
51 Text | either from the love of a God for a mortal woman, or of
52 Text | sigma, meaning that the God knew many things (Polla
53 Text | their fears to call the God Pluto instead.~HERMOGENES:
54 Text | the office and name of the God really correspond.~HERMOGENES:
55 Text | charm, as I imagine, is the God able to infuse into his
56 Text | expressive of the power of the God.~HERMOGENES: How so?~SOCRATES:
57 Text | express the attributes of the God, embracing and in a manner
58 Text | harmonious name, as beseems the God of Harmony. In the first
59 Text | ingeniously declare. And he is the God who presides over harmony,
60 Text | to all the powers of the God, who is the single one,
61 Text | she who has the mind of God (Theonoa);—using alpha as
62 Text | every way appropriate to the God of war.~HERMOGENES: Very
63 Text | HERMOGENES: Only one more God! I should like to know about
64 Text | legislator formed the name of the God who invented language and
65 Text | the end I now dedicate to God, not, however, until I have
66 Text | suppose, further, that some God makes not only a representation
67 Text | was an inspired being or God, to contradict himself?
Critias
Part
68 Intro| may be acceptable to the God whom he has revealed, and
69 Intro| Within was an image of the god standing in a chariot drawn
70 Intro| passage that Poseidon, being a God, found no difficulty in
71 Text | yet. He himself, being a god, found no difficulty in
72 Text | in the habitation of the god and of their ancestors,
73 Text | statues of gold: there was the god himself standing in a chariot—
74 Text | had offered prayers to the god that they might capture
75 Text | drank in the temple of the god; and after they had supped
76 Text | the vast power which the god settled in the lost island
77 Text | well-affectioned towards the god, whose seed they were; for
78 Text | unrighteous power. Zeus, the god of gods, who rules according
Crito
Part
79 Text | if such is the will of God, I am willing; but my belief
80 Text | Crito, to fulfil the will of God, and to follow whither he
Euthydemus
Part
81 Text | quicker than any man.~My God! I said, and where did you
82 Text | Dionysodorus is present with you?~God forbid, I replied.~But how,
83 Text | give and sacrifice to any god whom you pleased, to be
Euthyphro
Part
84 Intro| what may be dear to one god may not be dear to another,
85 Intro| that what is hated by one god may be liked by another?
86 Text | them. For surely neither God nor man will ever venture
87 Text | that which is holy loved of God, as you affirm; but they
88 Text | acknowledged by us to be loved of God because it is holy, not
89 Text | with that which is dear to God, and is loved because it
90 Text | then that which is dear to God would have been loved as
91 Text | been loved as being dear to God; but if that which is dear
92 Text | if that which is dear to God is dear to him because loved
The First Alcibiades
Part
93 Text | that at this moment some God came to you and said: Alcibiades,
94 Text | continent with us. And if the God were then to say to you
95 Text | to be the reason why the God has hitherto forbidden me
96 Text | you desire, but I only, God being my helper. When you
97 Text | therefore, as I conceive, the God forbade me to converse with
98 Text | you by Zeus, who is the God of our common friendship,
99 Text | he, Socrates?~SOCRATES: God, Alcibiades, who up to this
100 Text | process which, by the grace of God, if I may put any faith
101 Text | according to the will of God?~ALCIBIADES: Certainly.~
102 Text | SOCRATES: By the help of God.~ALCIBIADES: I agree; and
Gorgias
Part
103 Intro| conclusion, that if ‘the ways of God’ to man are to be ‘justified,’
104 Intro| affirms in the Republic, that ‘God is the author of evil only
105 Intro| oracles of the Delphian God; they half conceal, half
106 Intro| we leave the result with God.’ Plato does not say that
107 Intro| Plato does not say that God will order all things for
108 Intro| himself may be ready to thank God that he was thought worthy
109 Intro| of right, and trust in God will be sufficient, and
110 Intro| hand, will he suppose that God has forsaken him or that
111 Intro| May not the service of God, which is the more disinterested,
112 Intro| such a noble conception of God and of the human soul, yet
113 Intro| followed the company of some god, and seen truth in the form
114 Intro| under the government of God; it was a state of innocence
115 Intro| things spontaneously, and God was to man what man now
116 Intro| life is once more reversed, God withdraws his guiding hand,
117 Text | unrefuted, by the dog the god of Egypt, I declare, O Callicles,
118 Text | the good. And now, by the god of friendship, I must beg
119 Text | is the friend neither of God nor man, for he is incapable
120 Text | he leaves all that with God, and considers in what way
121 Text | But I adjure you by the god of friendship, my good sir,
Ion
Part
122 Intro| manner, is inspired by the God. The poets and their interpreters
123 Intro| inspired interpreter of the God, and this is the reason
124 Text | but of all; and therefore God takes away the minds of
125 Text | unconsciousness, but that God himself is the speaker,
126 Text | says. For in this way the God would seem to indicate to
127 Text | but divine and the work of God; and that the poets are
128 Text | this the lesson which the God intended to teach when by
129 Text | them. Through all these the God sways the souls of men in
130 Text | which is appropriated to the God by whom they are possessed,
131 Text | every art is appointed by God to have knowledge of a certain
Laches
Part
132 Intro| either a soothsayer or a god.~Again, (2) in Nicias’ way
133 Text | means to say that he is a god. My opinion is that he does
134 Text | Lysimachus, as you propose, God willing.~THE END~ >
Laws
Book
135 1 | Tell me, Strangers, is a God or some man supposed to
136 1 | of your laws?~Cleinias. A God, Stranger; in very truth
137 1 | Stranger; in very truth a, God: among us Cretans he is
138 1 | is wealth, not the blind god [Pluto], but one who is
139 1 | will show, by the grace of God, that the institutions of
140 1 | good, for they came from God; and any one who says the
141 1 | pleasures by the practice of the god whom they believe to have
142 1 | certain sacrifices which the God commanded. The Athenians
143 1 | must travel onwards to the God Dionysus.~Cleinias. Let
144 1 | receiving the same from some god or from one who has knowledge
145 1 | Athenian. Suppose that some God had given a fear–potion
146 2 | however, must be the work of God, or of a divine person;
147 2 | who will call upon the God Paean to testify to the
148 3 | require any use of iron: and God has given these two arts
149 3 | he speaks the words of God and nature; for poets are
150 3 | discussion.~Megillus. If some God, Stranger, would promise
151 3 | Megillus. What?~Athenian. A God, who watched over Sparta,
152 3 | into a tyranny. Now that God has instructed us what sort
153 3 | when they rebelled against God, leading a life of endless
154 4 | What is it?~Athenian. That God governs all things, and
155 4 | this has been accomplished, God has done all that he ever
156 4 | Athenian. Then let us invoke God at the settlement of our
157 4 | called by the name of the God who rules over wise men.~
158 4 | Cleinias. And who is this God?~Athenian. May I still make
159 4 | over them. In like manner God, in his love of mankind,
160 4 | some mortal man and not God is the ruler, have no escape
161 4 | Friends,” we say to them,—”God, as the old tradition declares,
162 4 | say, is left deserted of God; and being thus deserted,
163 4 | one of the followers of God; there can be no doubt of
164 4 | what life is agreeable to God, and becoming in his followers?
165 4 | the things which have. Now God ought to be to us the measure
166 4 | he who would be dear to God must, as far as is possible,
167 4 | temperate man is the friend of God, for he is like him; and
168 4 | polluted, neither good man nor God can without impropriety
169 5 | also is second [or next to God] in honour; and third, as
170 5 | dependent on the protection of God, than wrongs done to citizens;
171 5 | able is the genius and the god of the stranger, who follow
172 5 | in the train of Zeus, the god of strangers. And for this
173 5 | is the greatest. For the god who witnessed to the agreement
174 5 | befall them in the future God will lessen, and that present
175 5 | settled. But that they to whom God has given, as he has to
176 5 | Delphi, or Dodona, or the God Ammon, or any ancient tradition
177 5 | the several districts some God, or demi–god, or hero, and,
178 5 | districts some God, or demi–god, or hero, and, in the distribution
179 5 | after that, by the grace of God, we will complete the third
180 5 | can be avoided; but even God is said not to be able to
181 5 | For then neither will the God who gave you the lot be
182 5 | against the law and the God. How great is the benefit
183 5 | names, and dedicate to each God their several portions,
184 6 | we will, by the grace of God, if old age will only permit
185 6 | permit us.~Cleinias. But God will be gracious.~Athenian.
186 6 | vote to the altar of the God, writing down on a tablet
187 6 | people; and so we invoke God and fortune in our prayers,
188 6 | election will be committed to God, that he may do what is
189 6 | Delphi, in order that the God may return one out of each
190 6 | some temple, and calling God to witness, shall dedicate
191 6 | assigning to each portion some God or son of a God, let us
192 6 | portion some God or son of a God, let us give them altars
193 6 | when chastened by a soberer God, receives a fair associate
194 6 | children to be the servants of God in his place for ever. All
195 6 | at the festivals of the God who gave wine; and peculiarly
196 6 | beginning, which is also a God dwelling in man, preserves
197 6 | precede the marriage if God so will, and afterwards
198 7 | inspiration rightly ascribe to God. Now, I say, he among men,
199 7 | order; for very possibly, if God will, the exposition of
200 7 | not be, serious; and that God is the natural and worthy
201 7 | made to be the plaything of God, and this, truly considered,
202 7 | heart, but other things God will suggest; for I deem
203 7 | things their Genius and God will suggest to them—he
204 7 | who made the proverb about God originally had this in view
205 7 | he said, that “not even God himself can fight against
206 7 | knowledge at all cannot be a God, or demi–god, or hero to
207 7 | cannot be a God, or demi–god, or hero to mankind, or
208 7 | against which we say that no God contends, or ever will contend.~
209 7 | enquire into the supreme God and the nature of the universe,
210 7 | every way acceptable to God, he cannot abstain from
211 8 | sacrifice daily to some God or demi–god on behalf of
212 8 | daily to some God or demi–god on behalf of the city, and
213 8 | difficulty, concerning which God should legislate, if there
214 8 | they are unholy, hated of God, and most infamous; and
215 8 | realized in all states, and, God willing, in the matter of
216 8 | be the law of Zeus, the god of boundaries. Let no one
217 8 | neighbours; for Zeus, the god of kindred, is the witness
218 8 | the citizen, and Zeus, the god of strangers, of the stranger,
219 8 | everywhere together with the God who presides in each of
220 9 | selected, and him whom the God chooses they shall establish
221 9 | the result be good, and if God be gracious, it will be
222 9 | ours, like an oracle of God, be only spoken, and get
223 9 | the interpreters whom the God appoints shall be authorized
224 9 | and any others which the God commands in cases of this
225 9 | and the prophets, and the God, shall determine, and when
226 9 | purification and burial God knows, and about these the
227 9 | forgetting their duty to the God of Strangers, and in case
228 9 | under the curse of Zeus, the God of kindred and of ancestors,
229 10 | as they say, or of any God, or from art, but as I was
230 10 | every man to be deemed a God.~Cleinias. Yes, by every
231 10 | just one.~Athenian. Surely God must not be supposed to
232 10 | this way, whether he be God or man, must act from one
233 10 | great or small, which a God or some inferior being might
234 10 | and carelessness is any God ever negligent; for there
235 10 | Let us not, then, deem God inferior to human workmen,
236 10 | and the same art; or that God, the wisest of beings, who
237 10 | say of the Gods, then will God help you; but should you
238 10 | they can propitiate the God secretly with sacrifices
239 10 | is deserved. Assuredly God will not blame the legislator,
240 11 | at the hands of the Gods, God only knows; but I would
241 11 | Delphi, and, whatever the God answers about the money
242 11 | without any respect for God or man. Certainly, it is
243 11 | Magnetes, whose city the God is restoring and resettling—
244 11 | time, not reverencing the God who gives him the means
245 11 | fellow, that he is his own God and will let him off easily,
246 11 | suffer at the hands of the God, and in the second place,
247 11 | and its mother.~Neither God, nor a man who has understanding,
248 11 | honours, the heart of the God rejoices, and he is ready
249 11 | shall be dedicated to the God who presides over the contests.
250 12 | the law, is never either a God or the son of a God; of
251 12 | either a God or the son of a God; of this the legislator
252 12 | up the temple of any war–god whom he likes, adding an
253 12 | Thessalian, was changed by a God from a woman into a man;
254 12 | and shall present to the God three men out of their own
255 12 | showing respect to Zeus, the God of hospitality, not forbidding
256 12 | must not, Stranger, by the God of strangers I swear that
257 12 | along the road in which God is guiding us; and how we
258 12 | Magnetes, or whatever name God may give it, you will obtain
Lysis
Part
259 Intro| the poets, who affirm that God brings like to like (Homer),
260 Text | light or trivial manner, but God himself, as they say, makes
261 Text | in the following words:—~‘God is ever drawing like towards
Meno
Part
262 Intro| have a place in the mind of God, or in some far-off heaven.
263 Intro| or spirits by whose help God made the world. And the
264 Intro| existing in nature of which God is the author. Of the latter
265 Intro| conception of a personal God, who works according to
266 Intro| is not the existence of God or the idea of good which
267 Intro| one or two. The being of God in a personal or impersonal
268 Intro| am;’ and this thought is God thinking in me, who has
269 Intro| imparted to him because God is true (compare Republic).
270 Intro| like Plato, insists that God is true and incapable of
271 Intro| with the idea of Being or God. The greatness of both philosophies
272 Intro| expressions under which God or substance is unfolded
273 Intro| of the human mind towards God and nature; they remain
274 Intro| knowledge, whether relating to God or man or nature, will become
275 Text | inspired and possessed of God, in which condition they
276 Text | but an instinct given by God to the virtuous. Nor is
277 Text | virtuous by the gift of God. But we shall never know
Parmenides
Part
278 Intro| must therefore attribute to God. But then see what follows:
279 Intro| But then see what follows: God, having this exact knowledge,
280 Intro| Yet, surely, to deprive God of knowledge is monstrous.’—‘
281 Intro| ourselves. For conceiving of God more under the attribute
282 Intro| an ancient Eleatic. ‘If God is, what follows? If God
283 Intro| God is, what follows? If God is not, what follows?’ Or
284 Intro| what follows?’ Or again: If God is or is not the world;
285 Intro| is not the world; or if God is or is not many, or has
286 Intro| divisible. Or again: if God is or is not identical with
287 Intro| almost taking the place of God. Theology, again, is full
288 Intro| suspect that under the name of God even Christians have included
289 Intro| makes the reflection that God is not a person like ourselves—
290 Intro| the two alternatives, that God is or that He is not. Yet
291 Intro| philosophy takes us away from God; a great deal brings us
292 Text | one is more likely than God to have this most exact
293 Text | Certainly.~But then, will God, having absolute knowledge,
294 Text | has been admitted.~And if God has this perfect authority,
295 Text | said Socrates, to deprive God of knowledge is monstrous.~
Phaedo
Part
296 Intro| way to the good and wise God! She has been gathered into
297 Intro| for it in the nature of God and in the first principles
298 Intro| and upon the justice of God. We cannot think of the
299 Intro| state from the attributes of God, or from texts of Scripture (‘
300 Intro| old commonplace, ‘Is not God the author of evil, if he
301 Intro| the love and justice of God. And so we arrive at the
302 Intro| with the existence of a God—also in a less degree on
303 Intro| are singing the praises of God, during a period longer
304 Intro| And does the worship of God consist only of praise,
305 Intro| of nature and the will of God. They are not thinking of
306 Intro| lead us to suppose that God governs us vindictively
307 Intro| is the consciousness of God. And the soul becoming more
308 Intro| fact of the existence of God does not tend to show the
309 Intro| existence of man. An evil God or an indifferent God might
310 Intro| evil God or an indifferent God might have had the power,
311 Intro| perfection, we mean to say that God is just and true and loving,
312 Intro| order of nature, there is God. We might still see him
313 Intro| at last on the belief in God. If there is a good and
314 Intro| there is a good and wise God, then there is a progress
315 Intro| there is no good and wise God. We cannot suppose that
316 Intro| the moral government of God of which we see the beginnings
317 Intro| than that they trust in God, and that they leave all
318 Intro| leave them in the hands of God and to be assured that ‘
319 Intro| Eccles.~12. When we think of God and of man in his relation
320 Intro| of man in his relation to God; of the imperfection of
321 Intro| partake of the very nature of God Himself; when we consider
322 Intro| expression of the kingdom of God which is within us. Neither
323 Intro| saw into the purposes of God. Thirdly, we may think of
324 Intro| possessed by a great love of God and man, working out His
325 Intro| selves, in which the will of God has superseded our wills,
326 Intro| but, like the unity of God, had a foundation in the
327 Intro| and the sensible, and of God to the world, supplied an
328 Intro| eternal too. As the unity of God was more distinctly acknowledged,
329 Intro| Like the personality of God, the personality of man
330 Intro| notion of the good to that of God, he also passes almost imperceptibly
331 Intro| argument from the existence of God to immortality among ourselves. ‘
332 Intro| immortality among ourselves. ‘If God exists, then the soul exists
333 Intro| death; and if there is no God, there is no existence of
334 Intro| certain of the existence of God than we are of the immortality
335 Intro| are of the existence of God, and are led on in the order
336 Intro| truth is the existence of God, and can never for a moment
337 Intro| or priest of Apollo the God of the festival, in whose
338 Intro| to fly away and be with God—‘and to fly to him is to
339 Text | have made a fable about God trying to reconcile their
340 Text | a hymn in honour of the god of the festival, and then
341 Text | take his own life until God summons him, as he is now
342 Text | seemingly true belief that God is our guardian and we his
343 Text | pure until the hour when God himself is pleased to release
344 Text | know in a little while, if God will, when I myself arrive
345 Text | way to the good and wise God, whither, if God will, my
346 Text | and wise God, whither, if God will, my soul is also soon
347 Text | about to go away to the god whose ministers they are.
348 Text | consecrated servant of the same God, and the fellow-servant
349 Text | cannot find some word of God which will more surely and
350 Text | all men will agree that God, and the essential form
351 Text | libation out of this cup to any god? May I, or not? The man
Phaedrus
Part
352 Intro| and the other things of God by which the soul is nourished.
353 Intro| followed in the train of her god and once beheld truth she
354 Intro| of lovers depend upon the god whom they followed in the
355 Intro| manner the followers of every god seek a love who is like
356 Intro| a love who is like their god; and to him they communicate
357 Intro| have received from their god. The manner in which they
358 Intro| showing his invention to the god Thamus, who told him that
359 Intro| higher love of duty and of God, which united them. And
360 Intro| together in the service of God and man; how their characters
361 Intro| how they saw each other in God; how in a figure they grew
362 Intro| employed in the service of God, every soul fulfilling his
363 Intro| blasphemous towards the god Love, and as worthy only
364 Intro| did I call this “love”? O God, forgive my blasphemy. This
365 Intro| following in the train of some god, from whom she derived her
366 Intro| idealism, or communion with God, which cannot be reduced
367 Intro| bears the character of a god? He may have had no other
368 Intro| essentially moral nature of God; (4) Again, there is the
369 Intro| from an attachment to some god in a former world. The singular
370 Intro| self-motive is to be attributed to God only; and on the other hand
371 Intro| back to the nature of the God whom they served in a former
372 Intro| in the habit of praising God ‘without regard to truth
373 Intro| and not for the truth or ‘God’s judgment.’ What would
374 Intro| great name which belongs to God alone;’ or ‘the saying of
375 Intro| reverence to find out what God in this or in another life
376 Text | adjure you, by Zeus, the god of friendship, to tell me
377 Text | or rather swear’—but what god will be witness of my oath?—‘
378 Text | son of Aphrodite, and a god?~PHAEDRUS: So men say.~SOCRATES:
379 Text | surely known the nature of God, may imagine an immortal
380 Text | Let that, however, be as God wills, and be spoken of
381 Text | souls, that which follows God best and is likest to him
382 Text | truth in company with a god is preserved from harm until
383 Text | once saw while following God—when regardless of that
384 Text | to those things in which God abides, and in beholding
385 Text | face of his beloved as of a god he reverences him, and if
386 Text | beloved as to the image of a god; then while he gazes on
387 Text | able to bear the winged god, and can endure a heavier
388 Text | in the train of any other god, while he is unspoiled and
389 Text | after the manner of his God he behaves in his intercourse
390 Text | character, and this he makes his god, and fashions and adorns
391 Text | the nature of their own god in themselves, because they
392 Text | as man can participate in God. The qualities of their
393 Text | The qualities of their god they attribute to the beloved,
394 Text | as possible to their own god. But those who are the followers
395 Text | Apollo, and of every other god walking in the ways of their
396 Text | walking in the ways of their god, seek a love who is to be
397 Text | themselves imitate their god, and persuade their love
398 Text | manner and nature of the god as far as they each can;
399 Text | of themselves and of the god whom they honour. Thus fair
400 Text | the beloved who, like a god, has received every true
401 Text | he is yet alive, to be a god?~PHAEDRUS: Very true.~SOCRATES:
402 Text | footsteps as if he were a god.’ And those who have this
403 Text | calling dialecticians; but God knows whether the name is
404 Text | say what is acceptable to God and always to act acceptably
405 Text | which will be acceptable to God?~PHAEDRUS: No, indeed. Do
406 Text | there was a famous old god, whose name was Theuth;
407 Text | letters. Now in those days the god Thamus was the king of the
408 Text | Egyptian Thebes, and the god himself is called by them
409 Text | great name which belongs to God alone,—lovers of wisdom
Philebus
Part
410 Intro| difficulty as the conception of God existing both in and out
411 Intro| reality, which we attribute to God, he had no conception.~The
412 Intro| modern mode of conceiving God.~a. To Plato, the idea of
413 Intro| a. To Plato, the idea of God or mind is both personal
414 Intro| him, and in speaking of God both in the masculine and
415 Intro| he speaks at one time of God or Gods, and at another
416 Intro| identify a first cause with God, and the final cause with
417 Intro| very far from confounding God with the world, tends to
418 Intro| parents,’ ‘thou shalt fear God.’ What more does he want?~
419 Intro| more reasonable than that God should will the happiness
420 Intro| of faith or the spirit of God. The difficulties of ethics
421 Intro| sacred to us,—‘the word of God’ written on the human heart:
422 Intro| is not ‘doing the will of God for the sake of eternal
423 Intro| but doing the will of God because it is best, whether
424 Intro| resting on the will of God, says another; based upon
425 Intro| man is also the will of God. This is an easy test to
426 Intro| the good of men is not of God. And the ideal of the greatest
427 Intro| believed to be the will of God, when compared with the
428 Intro| and to understand that God wills the happiness, not
429 Intro| principles of morals:—the will of God revealed in Scripture and
430 Intro| we must ask What will of God? how revealed to us, and
431 Intro| wisdom, truth; these are to God, in whom they are personified,
432 Intro| consciousness of the will of God that all men should be as
433 Intro| which combines the will of God with our highest ideas of
434 Intro| First, the eternal will of God in this world and in another,—
435 Intro| fulfilment of the will of God in this world, and co-operation
436 Intro| Anaxagoras has become the Mind of God and of the World. The great
437 Text | you mean?~SOCRATES: Some god or divine man, who in the
438 Text | my fear; and, moreover, a god seems to have recalled something
439 Text | Were we not saying that God revealed a finite element
440 Text | me that.~SOCRATES: Rather God will tell you, if there
441 Text | tell you, if there be any God who will listen to my prayers.~
442 Text | and I believe that some God has befriended us.~PROTARCHUS:
443 Text | importance of your favourite god.~SOCRATES: And you, my friend,
444 Text | Hephaestus, or whoever is the god who presides over the ceremony
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445 Text | context, in which he says that God only has this gift. Now
446 Text | afterwards proceeds to say that God only has this gift, and
447 Text | and is not granted to man; God only has this blessing; ‘
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448 2 | in all respects be like a god among men. Then the actions
449 2 | blameless king who, like a god, Maintains justice; to whom
450 2 | of this kind, I replied: God is always to be represented
451 2 | only? ~Assuredly. ~Then God, if he be good, is not the
452 2 | good is to be attributed to God alone; of the evils the
453 2 | words of AEschylus, that ~"God plants guilt among men when
454 2 | that these are the works of God, or if they are of God,
455 2 | of God, or if they are of God, he must devise some explanation
456 2 | seeking: he must say that God did what was just and right,
457 2 | are miserable, and that God is the author of their misery-the
458 2 | receiving punishment from God; but that God being good
459 2 | punishment from God; but that God being good is the author
460 2 | expected to conform-that God is not the author of all
461 2 | Shall I ask you whether God is a magician, and of a
462 2 | without? ~True. ~But surely God and the things of God are
463 2 | surely God and the things of God are in every way perfect? ~
464 2 | then, would anyone, whether God or man, desire to make himself
465 2 | Then it is impossible that God should ever be willing to
466 2 | that is conceivable, every God remains absolutely and forever
467 2 | but can you imagine that God will be willing to lie,
468 2 | of these reasons apply to God? Can we suppose that he
469 2 | no place in our idea of God? ~I should say not. ~Or
470 2 | person can be a friend of God. ~Then no motive can be
471 2 | motive can be imagined why God should lie? ~None whatever. ~
472 2 | falsehood? ~Yes. ~Then is God perfectly simple and true
473 3 | any other hero or son of a god daring to do such impious
474 3 | they were not the sons of God; both in the same breath
475 3 | invoked the anger of the god against the Achaeans. Now
476 3 | brought, and respect the god. Thus he spoke, and the
477 3 | staff and chaplets of the god should be of no avail to
478 3 | tears by the arrows of the god"-and so on. In this way
479 3 | he is seeking to persuade God by prayer, or man by instruction
480 3 | if he was the son of a god, we maintain that he was
481 3 | he was not the son of a god. ~All that, Socrates, is
482 3 | the philosophical, some god, as I should say, has given
483 3 | tale, you are brothers, yet God has framed you differently.
484 3 | parent a golden son. And God proclaims as a first principle
485 3 | them that they have from God; the diviner metal is within
486 4 | Yes, I said, my friend, if God will only preserve to them
487 4 | replied; but to Apollo, the god of Delphi, there remains
488 4 | ancestral deity. He is the god who sits in the centre,
489 5 | good either at the hands of God or of man? Are these to
490 5 | authority. ~We must learn of the god how we are to order the
491 5 | unless commanded by the god himself? ~Very true. ~Again,
492 6 | who are his kindred? ~The god of jealousy himself, he
493 6 | is saved by the power of God, as we may truly say. ~I
494 6 | the form and likeness of God. ~Very true, he said. ~And
495 6 | agreeable to the ways of God? ~Indeed, he said, in no
496 6 | that pleasure is the good? ~God forbid, I replied; but may
497 7 | expressed-whether rightly or wrongly, God knows. But, whether true
498 8 | Just so, Socrates. ~And God has made the flying drones,
499 8 | never have made a blind god director of his chorus,
500 9 | slaves, carried off by a god into the wilderness, where