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 1       I|    hortatory address to you, ye men of Greece, I pray God that
 2      II|      TEACHERS.~ ~Whom, then, ye men of Greece, do ye call your
 3      II|      cause no good to say so to men who know the poets; for
 4      II|          the father of gods and men;" for he said:~ ~Zeus, who
 5      II|         the dispenser of war to men.~ ~Indeed, he says that
 6      II|       falls, my most beloved of men!~ Sarpedon, vanquished by
 7      II|        suffered at the hands of men. For he says that Mars and
 8      IV|        by you to have been wise men, whom you assert to be your
 9      IV|      said by them. How then, ye men of Greece, can it be safe
10       V|        whom they say that these men have learned this knowledge;
11       V|       for it is impossible that men who have not learned these
12    VIII|   conception is it possible for men to know things so great
13    VIII|        from above upon the holy men, who had no need of rhetorical
14    VIII|     heaven, and using righteous men as an instrument like a
15      IX|       to benefit a multitude of men, or because they were of
16       X|       MOSES.~ ~These things, ye men of Greece, have been recorded
17       X|         descended upon the holy men, and him also did He first
18      XI|         story -- what religious men had at any time happened
19     XII|         of Aristotle. Now these men flourished in the time of
20     XII|          the wisest of the wise men, on his return from Egypt,
21    XIII|        he sent for seventy wise men from Jerusalem, who were
22    XIII|    ascertained that the seventy men had not only given the same
23    XIII|          and perceived that the men were worthy of all honour,
24    XIII|       library. These things, ye men of Greece, are no fable,
25    XIII|         those wise and esteemed men who have written of these
26    XIII|      which were written by holy men. for instruction pertain
27      XV|   divine prophecies of the holy men teach us; and these he himself
28     XVI|      images and figures of dead men.~ ~And again somewhere else:~ ~
29     XVI|          Blessed shall be those men upon the earth~ Who shall
30     XXI|         God knew that the first men remembered the old delusion
31     XXI|         no being, in order that men, supposing that there were
32     XXI|       is and those who are not. Men, therefore, having been
33     XXI|        name of gods even to the men who were afterwards born
34    XXII|   really is." Does not this, ye men of Greece, seem to those
35    XXIV|       name them even along with men. At least he introduces
36    XXIV|        Zeus, and values neither men nor gods." In this passage
37    XXIV|     when some one inquired what men had ever lived godly, you
38    XXVI|      knows, and whosoever among men is beloved of Him." And
39    XXVI|       beloved of Him." And what men does he think beloved of
40   XXVII|       full penalty. Then fierce men, fiery to look at, stood
41  XXVIII|       of the tower by which the men of that day fancied they
42  XXVIII|      mingling with all works of men,~ Caused many a pang to
43     XXX|        given to the children of men." And so also concerning
44    XXXI|          But these things pious men must understand in a higher
45   XXXII|   descends from God on the holy men, -- which gift the sacred
46   XXXII|       but was a natural gift in men, or whether it comes in
47   XXXII|     kind of way virtue comes to men, when, as a first step,
48   XXXIV|        CHAPTER XXXIV. -- WHENCE MEN ATTRIBUTED TO GOD HUMAN
49   XXXIV|      that they had the forms of men, he will find that this
50   XXXIV| impression that this meant that men were like God in form, began
51   XXXIV|         a likeness. But why, ye men of Greece, am I now induced
52    XXXV|    GREEKS.~ ~The time, then, ye men of Greece, is now come,
53   XXXVI|         the wisest of your wise men, to whom even your oracle,
54   XXXVI|        witness, saying, "Of all men Socrates is the wisest" --
55   XXXVI|      wise, because, while other men pretended to know what they
56   XXXVI|        elegant diction of these men to his own salvation, but
57   XXXVI|         For the above-mentioned men, presenting their elegant
58   XXXVI|        dared to teach the first men polytheism. Be not persuaded
59   XXXVI|      the prophecies of the holy men through which you can be
60 XXXVIII|         APPEAL.~ ~But since, ye men of Greece, the matters of
61 XXXVIII|  ancient forefathers, which the men who lived after them abandoned
62 XXXVIII|         Who formed the first of men, and called him Adam." And
63 XXXVIII|    witness to. If therefore, ye men of Greece, ye do not esteem
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