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 1      II|           of gods and men;" for he said:~ ~Zeus, who is the dispenser
 2      II|          very words he used.For he said that Zeus spake thus to
 3      II|    consoling her daughter; for she said to her:~ ~Have patience,
 4     III|        came from the same Miletus, said that the infinite was the
 5     III|           Anaxagoras of Clazomenae said that the homogeneous parts
 6      IV|        valuable. These things were said by them. How then, ye men
 7       V|          Aristotle himself, having said that God and matter are
 8      VI|        manifest from what has been said by each of them concerning
 9     VII|         again, when he has already said that matter is eternal,
10      IX|          in the first book, having said that he bad learned from
11      IX|            power of those who were said to have invented the laws.
12      IX|           man. And after him it is said that Amasis the king acceded
13       X|          of our religion; and they said that they learned all these
14      XI|          For, as I have frequently said, it is impossible that those
15     XII|          on his return from Egypt, said to Critias that he had heard
16     XII|          aged Egyptian priest, who said to him, "0 Solon, Solon,
17     XII|            is none." Then again he said, "You are all youths in
18      XV|            names it "Word." For he said:~ ~Take thou the Word divine
19    XVII|          beginning of his poem had said, "0 goddess, sing the wrath
20      XX|            matter, out of which he said that evil also had its origin,
21      XX|          God, there is no doubt he said this: "Gods of gods, of
22      XX|        heard in Egypt that God had said to Moses, when He was about
23     XXI|         account, then, as I before said, God did not, when He sent
24     XXI|            to deceive them when he said to them, "If ye obey me
25     XXI|           gods. On this account He said to Moses, "I am the Being,"
26     XXI|       appeared first to Moses, and said to him, "I am He who is."
27     XXI|         God to appear to a man, He said to him, "I am He who is;"
28    XXII|        greatly taken with what was said about one God, did indeed
29    XXII|     correspondence with what Moses said regarding God, though he
30    XXII|            his own opinion. For he said, "In my opinion, then, we
31    XXII|          of the article? For Moses said, "He who is," and Plato, "
32    XXII|     ever-existent, and of which he said, "And what that is which
33    XXII|      generated and perish -- as he said of the same class, "gods
34   XXIII|           fashioned gods the maker said, "Since ye have been produced,
35   XXIII|            formerly stated that he said that everything which is
36   XXIII|      uttered what is false when he said that everything which is
37   XXIII|            to what he had formerly said. For if, according to his
38    XXIV|          inflexible," though Homer said this not of the king and
39    XXIV|           the rest of the gods, he said, were so far distant from
40    XXIV|         God, concerning whom Plato said, "What that is which always
41     XXV|            expressions used, Homer said this for a useful purpose?
42     XXV|         blames Homer, though Homer said the very opposite concerning
43     XXV|          maker of the gods. For he said that he spoke thus of himself:~ ~
44     XXV|            eternity, and therefore said, "I am the really existing;"
45   XXVII|           his every words: "For he said that he was present when
46   XXVII|         deeds, as was reported. He said, then that the person who
47   XXVII|           the person who was asked said: He neither comes nor ever
48   XXVII|            into Tartams. Hence, he said, that amidst all their various
49  XXVIII|            enlightenment in Egypt, said that Tityus was in like
50  XXVIII|          enough teaches us. For he said that when he was in Egypt
51  XXVIII|            it to Sparta. And Homer said that by making use of that
52  XXVIII|            the first prophet Moses said about Paradise? And if any
53     XXX|          earth was," because Moses said, "And the earth was invisible
54     XXX|         other of which the prophet said, "The heaven of heavens
55    XXXI|         with the suitable insight, said that God exists in a fiery
56   XXXII|         allegory what the prophets said of the Holy Spirit. For
57   XXXVI|      things heavenly? For Socrates said that he was on this account
58   XXXVI|            he knew nothing. For he said, "I seem to myself to be
59   XXXVI|            did not exist, as Plato said, in the fiery substance (
60   XXXVI| recantation -- I mean Orpheus, who said what I quoted a little before;
61   XXXVI|   testimony that what the prophets said regarding one God was true,
62  XXXVII|            filled with water, they said that she washed, and having
63  XXXVII|         remembrance of all she had said. And this indeed was the
64  XXXVII|        made of brass in which they said that her remains were preserved.
65  XXXVII|           from their fathers, they said also that they who then
66  XXXVII|         the metres; and this, they said, was the cause of the want
67  XXXVII|        remembrance of what she had said, after the possession and
68  XXXVII|    prophecies of the Sibyl when he said this about prophets, for
69  XXXVII|        this about prophets, for he said, "When they correctly speak
70 XXXVIII|           salvation, believe, as I said, the most ancient and time-honoured