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 1      II|           he says, first, that the gods were in the beginning generated
 2      II|           ocean, the origin of the gods, and their mother Tethys.~ ~
 3      II|          consider the first of the gods, and whom he often calls "
 4      II|         often calls "the father of gods and men;" for he said:~ ~
 5      II|       plotted against by the other gods, and at one time exclaiming
 6      II|            conspiracy of the other gods against Zeus, they know
 7      II|             And unless the blessed gods had feared him whom gods
 8      II|           gods had feared him whom gods call Briareus, Zeus would
 9      II|         work of Homer of the other gods, and what they suffered
10      II|          and of many others of the gods he relates the sufferings.
11      II|           you of the battle of the gods, opposed to one another,
12      II|            Such was the shock when gods in battle met;~ For there
13      II|            the genealogies of your gods, you must of necessity either
14      II|            either suppose that the gods are such beings as these,
15      II|          believe that there are no gods at all.~ ~
16     III|          way many things about the gods which are far from true,
17     III|            of your poets about the gods. Therefore, since it is
18      VI|             not ideas, but certain gods, who can be perceived by
19      IX|           of living in Egypt which gods and heroes are fabled to
20     XIV|           doctrines concerning the gods quite contrary to those
21    XVII|    regarding the plurality of t he gods, mentions, indeed, several
22    XVII|          mentions, indeed, several gods in a mythical style, lest
23    XVII|          all else the names of the gods. But shortly after he also
24   XVIII|            our woes~ Images of the gods in stone and wood,~ Or figures
25      XX|        busy, not acknowledging the gods recognised by the state; "
26      XX|           discourse concerning the gods, furnishing by his treatise
27      XX|         furnishing by his treatise gods to those who wish them,
28      XX|           afterwards says that the gods were made. If, then, he
29      XX|          necessary to say that the gods were made of matter; but
30      XX|            what kind of beings the gods should be thought who are
31      XX|            evil. And regarding the gods who were made by God, there
32      XX|            no doubt he said this: "Gods of gods, of whom I am the
33      XX|       doubt he said this: "Gods of gods, of whom I am the creator."
34     XXI| commandment of God, ye shall be as gods," calling those gods which
35     XXI|            as gods," calling those gods which had no being, in order
36     XXI|    supposing that there were other gods in existence, might believe
37     XXI|            themselves could become gods. On this account He said
38     XXI|            remembering the name of gods, but no longer being taught
39     XXI|            that there are no other gods. For it was not just that
40     XXI|       believed in the existence of gods which did not exist, they
41     XXI|       exist, they gave the name of gods even to the men who were
42     XXI|       fancy, therefore, concerning gods, had its origin with the
43     XXI|     opinion about the plurality of gods was burdening the soul of
44    XXII|           said of the same class, "gods of gods, of whom I am maker" --
45    XXII|           the same class, "gods of gods, of whom I am maker" --
46    XXII|       death and destruction of the gods that have been brought into
47    XXII|           but the fashioner of the gods, although, in the opinion
48   XXIII|            that to these fashioned gods the maker said, "Since ye
49    XXIV|      saying to Achilles, "Even the gods themselves are not inflexible,"
50    XXIV|          and Platonic maker of the gods, but of some of the multitude
51    XXIV|          whom the Greeks esteem as gods, as one can gather from
52    XXIV|       gather from Plato's saying, "gods of gods?" For Homer, by
53    XXIV|           Plato's saying, "gods of gods?" For Homer, by that golden
54    XXIV|           God. And the rest of the gods, he said, were so far distant
55    XXIV|         and values neither men nor gods." In this passage Homer
56     XXV|          Homer for saying that the gods are not inflexible, although,
57     XXV|        Homer for saying, "Even the gods themselves are not inflexible,"
58     XXV|         represent the maker of the gods as so easily turned, that
59     XXV|          he sometimes declares the gods to be mortal, and at other
60     XXV|         necessary that the created gods have been produced, he sometimes
61     XXV|         says that the maker of the gods is so easily turned, is
62     XXV|        concerning the maker of the gods. For he said that he spoke
63     XXV|       dissertations concerning the gods, for he feared those who
64  XXVIII|        more than mortal size,~ The gods they challenge, and affect
65   XXXIV|           who first fashioned your gods conceived that they had
66   XXXIV|        began thus to fashion their gods, supposing they would make
67   XXXVI|         doctrine of a plurality of gods being rejected by all, occasion
68 XXXVIII|       worship of those who were no gods. And if you still hesitate
69 XXXVIII|       concerning those that are no gods at a higher rate than your
70 XXXVIII|   concerning those that are called gods, that have no existence;