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St. Justin Martyr Hortatory address to the Greeks Concordances (Hapax - words occurring once) |
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1001 V| principle, is moist; and secondly, because all plants grow 1002 IV| themselves as to prevent sectarian wrangling with one another, 1003 XXXV| having been persuaded by the secular histories that Moses and 1004 XXXVI| of bait, have sought to seduce many from the right religion, 1005 V| from the fact that the seed of all living creatures, 1006 XXVIII| in his own poem:~ ~And, seizing by her glossy locks~ The 1007 II| she bore,~ Great Pluto's self the stinging arrow felt,~ 1008 XXIII| CHAPTER XXIII. -- PLATO'S SELF-CONTRADICTION.~ ~But, perhaps, some who 1009 VII| and has asserted for its self-subsistence, he afterwards says that 1010 XV| mortals evil out of good,~ Sending both chilling wars and tearful 1011 XVI| worship with a dull and senseless mind~ Idols, the workmanship 1012 XXIX| that form had some kind of separate existence before that which 1013 IV| of union, the latter of separation. You see, then, the confusion 1014 XIII| XIII. -- HISTORY OF THE SEPTUAGINT.~ ~But if any one says that 1015 XXXVI| the prison, proves that in seriousness and truth he was confessing 1016 IX| the third, they say, was Sesonchosis the king, who not only performed 1017 XV| none.~ The clouds for ever settle round His throne,~ And mortal 1018 | several 1019 XXVIII| recounting his divination by the shades of the dead:~ ~There Tityus, 1020 II| Groaning, he came; the bitter shaft remain'd~ Deep in his shoulder 1021 I| say to you, and that you, shaking off your habitual love of 1022 XXXV| then laid aside all false shame, and the inveterate error 1023 XXVIII| that Vulcan had made in the shield of Achilles a kind of representation 1024 II| saying:~ ~Such was the shock when gods in battle met;~ 1025 XII| is very recent, and also short. For thus you will be able 1026 XVII| the names of the gods. But shortly after he also clearly and 1027 II| shaft remain'd~ Deep in his shoulder fix'd, and griev'd his soul."~ ~ 1028 XXXI| the magniloquent Plato shouts aloud with vast assurance, " 1029 XXXVII| place, in which we were shown a very large basilica cut 1030 XVI| alone.~ Who shall abjure all shrines which they may see,~ All 1031 XXXVI| ignorant of, he himself did not shrink from confessing that he 1032 XXVIII| discoloured on the sunny side,~ And there in autumn's 1033 XXVII| saw, among other terrible sights, this also. When we were 1034 XXVII| ascended, since if it were silent each one would most gladly 1035 XXVIII| Homer also, having received similar enlightenment in Egypt, 1036 XXXV| the truth -- but use with simplicity the words and expressions 1037 XXX| accepting Hector's challenge to single combat with becoming alacrity -- ~ ~ 1038 XXVII| there were also some private sinners who had committed great 1039 XXXVI| the sweet hurt which these sirens would inflict upon him. 1040 II| Dian, heav'nly archeress,~ Sister of Phoebus, golden-shafted 1041 XXVIII| manner he has described both Sisyphus and Tantalus as enduring 1042 XV| Jove reigning over all.~ He sits established in the brazen 1043 XXXVII| part of the one stone; and sitting in the middle of the chamber 1044 XXXVII| in a city called Cumae, six miles from Baiae, where 1045 IX| father of Xerxes, was the sixth who legislated for the Egyptians.~ ~ 1046 XXVIII| strength, and more than mortal size,~ The gods they challenge, 1047 IX| a wise and surpassingly skilful man. And after him it is 1048 XXVII| from a man who has been slain in battle -- for this story 1049 XIII| occasion to those who wish to slander us to charge us with fraud, 1050 XXVI| continually starts from his sleep as children do, lives in 1051 XXXVI| sacred writers. And if any slothfulness or old hereditary superstition 1052 XXXI| and after the fire a still small voice?" But these things 1053 II| Homer only, but also Hesiod. So-that if you believe your most 1054 IX| and of great faculty in social matters." Then, having proceeded 1055 XVIII| heart,~ And set up for a solace in our woes~ Images of the 1056 | something 1057 II| his suff'rings; by Aloeus sons,~ Otus and Ephialtes, strongly 1058 XXVIII| Polydamna, a drug, "lulling all sorrow and melancholy, and causing 1059 I| excellent are of quite another sort. Since, then, we propose 1060 XXXVI| as a kind of bait, have sought to seduce many from the 1061 XXXVI| not any one, therefore, of sound judgment prefer the elegant 1062 II| used.For he said that Zeus spake thus to Juno:~ ~For never 1063 XXVIII| all ills," brought it to Sparta. And Homer said that by 1064 XXXV| artful discourses, nor speak speciously and plausibly -- for this 1065 XIII| disturbance they might the more speedily complete the translation, 1066 VI| highest heavens, and in fixed sphere, Aristotle says that, next 1067 XXXII| spirit is divided into seven spirits, so he also, naming it one 1068 II| Acrisian Danae, from whom~ Sprang Perseus, noblest of the 1069 XXXVII| from Baiae, where the hot springs of Campania are found. And 1070 XV| first He uttered when He stablished~ The whole world by His 1071 XIII| the city itself, but seven stadia off(where the Pharos was 1072 XVI| dumb stones,~ Worthless and stained with blood of animals,~ 1073 XXVIII| swore~ That never to the starry skies again,~ And the Olympian 1074 IV| succession from another starting-point, Pythagoras the Samian, 1075 XXVI| iniquities, and who continually starts from his sleep as children 1076 XXIII| himself. For having formerly stated that he said that everything 1077 XX| readily be seen from his own statements. For when he has laid down 1078 VII| is mortal? he afterwards states that some of the things 1079 II| Great Pluto's self the stinging arrow felt,~ When that same 1080 XVI| and vain figures of dumb stones,~ Worthless and stained 1081 | stop 1082 XXVI| entered his head. And those stories about what goes on in Hades, 1083 II| golden-shafted queen.~ Stout Hermes, helpful god, Latona 1084 XV| And walking well in the straight certain path,~ Look to the 1085 XVII| seem to sing in a different strain from the poem of Orpheus, 1086 XXV| unwillingly entered not these strange dissertations concerning 1087 XVI| elsewhere thus:~ ~But we have strayed from the Immortal's ways,~ 1088 XV| mountain ranges and the streams,~ The depths, too, of the 1089 XXVIII| wrote thus:~ ~Proud of their strength, and more than mortal size,~ 1090 XV| He treads the earth, and stretches His right hand~ To all the 1091 XXVII| bound hand and foot, and striking their heads down, and flaying, 1092 II| sons,~ Otus and Ephialtes, strongly bound,~ He thirteen months 1093 XIII| the same things, he was struck with amazement, and believed 1094 XXII| CHAPTER XXII. -- STUDIED AMBIGUITY PLATO.~ ~Plato 1095 XXI| out and distinguish their subject-matters, because these are many 1096 IX| in these very words: "For subsequent to the ancient manner of 1097 XXIII| shall ye not perish nor succumb to the fatality of death, 1098 XXVII| suffered everything else, we suddenly beheld both him and others 1099 XXVII| present the cause of their suffering these things, and that they 1100 II| the gods he relates the sufferings. For thus we can gather 1101 VIII| have furnished you with sufficient proof of their own ignorance, 1102 XXVIII| grapes discoloured on the sunny side,~ And there in autumn' 1103 XXXVI| slothfulness or old hereditary superstition prevents you from reading 1104 XXVIII| dropping pear a following pear supplies,~ On apples, figs on figs 1105 IX| Bocchoris the king, a wise and surpassingly skilful man. And after him 1106 XII| But lest, by a complete survey of the periods, and by the 1107 XXVI| heart, for she powerfully sways the changeful mind of mortals.'~ ~ 1108 XV| me speak.~ ~And when he swears he says:~ ~Now I adjure 1109 II| perceive~ O'erwhelm'd with sweetness of intense desire.~ ~It 1110 XXVIII| goddess Ate, in his wrath he swore~ That never to the starry 1111 XIX| mystically by means of symbols, as those who have written 1112 XIII| they be produced from the synagogue of the Jews, that from the 1113 XII| remote tradition, nor any system of instruction hoary with 1114 XXVIII| fruits. For thus he wrote:~ ~Tall thriving trees confess'd 1115 XXVIII| described both Sisyphus and Tantalus as enduring punishment with 1116 XXVII| them away to cast them into Tartams. Hence, he said, that amidst 1117 XV| Sending both chilling wars and tearful griefs;~ And other than 1118 XXVII| dragged to the road outside, tearing them with thorns, and signifying 1119 XXVIII| caused by the presence of Telemachus. And he also called Venus " 1120 XII| language themselves prove, telling us that Cadmus first brought 1121 V| spoke truth, many of his tenets would be proved untrue. 1122 XXVII| JUDGEMENT.~ ~And in the tenth book he plainly and mani 1123 III| and in fire do all things terminate. Anaxagoras of Clazomenae 1124 XXXVII| prophets in the following terms: "Those whom we now call 1125 XXIV| Achilles, "He is raging terribly, trusting in Zeus, and values 1126 XXVI| as children do, lives in terror, and with a forlorn prospect. 1127 XXXII| of God "the Holy Ghost," test he should seem, by following 1128 XI| CHAPTER XI. -- HEATHEN ORACLES TESTIFY OF MOSES.~ ~But as you do 1129 II| the gods, and their mother Tethys.~ ~And then we must also 1130 IX| Attic History), Castor and Thallus and Alexander Polyhistor, 1131 II| Nor yet Alcmene, who in Thebes produced~ The valiant Hercules; 1132 II| know how very ridiculous a theogony they have composed, -- as 1133 III| ridiculous as it is than the theology of the poets. For Thales 1134 XXVIII| Helen, having received from Theon's wife, Polydamna, a drug, " 1135 | thereof 1136 XXV| polytheism. And whatever he thinks fit to tell of all that 1137 III| into this do all decay. Thirdly, Anaximenes -- and he too 1138 II| Ephialtes, strongly bound,~ He thirteen months in brazen fetters 1139 IX| historian Diodorus, who employed thirty whole years in epitomizing 1140 XXVII| outside, tearing them with thorns, and signifying to those 1141 II| Thro'her right breast a three-barb'd arrow sent:~ Dire, and 1142 XXVIII| For thus he wrote:~ ~Tall thriving trees confess'd the fruitful 1143 II| when Amphitryon's son~ Thro'her right breast a three-barb' 1144 II| in the skies; no -- nor thyself~ As now I love thee, and 1145 II| nor woman yet,~ So full a tide of love into my breast;~ 1146 IX| desiring to signify even by the title of his work the antiquity 1147 VIII| if with one mouth and one tongue, they have in succession, 1148 XXVI| formerly ridiculed, now torment his soul with apprehensions 1149 XXVII| that the punishments and torments were such as these, and 1150 XXVIII| skies.~ Heav'd on Olympus tottering Ossa stood;~ On Ossa, Pelion 1151 | towards 1152 XXVIII| something of the building of the tower by which the men of that 1153 XXI| them, "If ye obey me in transgressing the commandment of God, 1154 XIII| language, and appointed them to translate the books; and that in freedom 1155 XIII| little cots as there were translators, so that each by himself 1156 XIV| been in error, and have transmitted it to you, that this which 1157 IX| who, as he himself wrote, travelled over both Asia and Europe 1158 XXVIII| clusters in the sun,~ Others to tread the liquid harvest join.~ 1159 XV| throne; under His feet~ He treads the earth, and stretches 1160 VI| unworthy of credit when they treat of things heavenly. And 1161 XXVIII| he wrote:~ ~Tall thriving trees confess'd the fruitful mould;~ 1162 XV| ends of ocean, and around~ Tremble the mountain ranges and 1163 XVI| sacrifice of the four-fooled tribes,~ Beholding the great glory 1164 II| cause of perjury to the Trojans, by means of his daughter; 1165 XXIV| declare this, that he who trusts in the really existent God 1166 V| he cites Homer as a most trustworthy testimony, who speaks thus:~ ~ 1167 XXXVII| her oracular predictions, truths which seem to be much akin 1168 XXVII| about to be buried on the twelfth day, and was lying on t 1169 VI| and form, which is the type of each of the things produced, -- 1170 XXVII| likewise, most of whom were tyrants. But there were also some 1171 XXII| perception of the senses unaided by reason, since it never 1172 V| some kind of aetherial and unchangeable body, says that God exists 1173 XXVII| Ardiaeus and the rest have undergone such punishment in Hades, 1174 XXXV| not requiring from them unexceptionable diction (for the matters 1175 II| CHAPTER II -- THE POETS ARE UNFIT TO BE RELIGIOUS TEACHERS.~ ~ 1176 XXVII| brother, and done many other unhallowed deeds, as was reported. 1177 II| d arrow sent:~ Dire, and unheard of, were the pangs she bore,~ 1178 XXV| were, to interpret to the uninitiated what had been mystically 1179 IV| the former is a power of union, the latter of separation. 1180 XXI| seeing that He is one and unique, as He Himself also by His 1181 XXVIII| ranks appear,~ With all th' united labours of the year.~ Some 1182 XXVI| the man who has here been unjust must there be punished, 1183 | unlike 1184 XXVIII| labours of the year.~ Some to unload the fertile branches run,~ 1185 II| of whom were born~ Minos, unmatch'd but by the powers above,~ 1186 XXII| did indeed consider it unsafe to mention the name of Moses, 1187 XV| His works, though still unseen,~ He gives to mortals evil 1188 XXVIII| Eternal breathes on fruits, untaught to fail;~ Each dropping 1189 V| his tenets would be proved untrue. For Thales of Miletus, 1190 V| to ours, you think Homer untruthful?"~ ~ 1191 VII| themselves? Manifestly, their unwillingness to learn from those who 1192 XXVII| were about to return to the upper air, and had suffered everything 1193 XXV| which never really is," he uses the verb "is" of time indefinite. 1194 V| CHAPTER V. -- OPINIONS OF PLATO AND 1195 IV| by reason, admitting no vacuity, unbegotten, indestructible, 1196 II| in Thebes produced~ The valiant Hercules; and though my 1197 XXIV| terribly, trusting in Zeus, and values neither men nor gods." In 1198 II| beloved of men!~ Sarpedon, vanquished by Patroclus, falls. So 1199 VI| matters, but also, being at variance among themselves regarding 1200 XXV| really is," he uses the verb "is" of time indefinite. 1201 XXVIII| beneath the weighty pear,~ And verdant olives flourish round the 1202 XXXVII| increasing the accuracy of their verse, she was filled indeed with 1203 VI| CHAPTER VI. -- FURTHER DISAGREEMENTS 1204 XXXVIII| others." From every point of view, therefore, it must be seen 1205 XXVI| things of the other world, views them more attentively. He 1206 VII| CHAPTER VII. -- INCONSISTENCIES OF PLATO' 1207 VIII| CHAPTER VIII. -- ANTIQUITY, INSPIRATION, 1208 XVII| it seems to me, even to violate the poetical metre in his 1209 XXIII| affirm that God cannot suffer violence."~ ~ 1210 XXX| resolving them in his violent rage into their original 1211 XXXII| this is divided into four virtues; wishing by all means to 1212 X| conception, but from the gift vouchsafed to them by God from above.~ ~ 1213 XXVIII| the world, he fabled that Vulcan had made in the shield of 1214 XXVIII| infernal ground;~ Two ravenous vultures, furious for their food,~ 1215 XV| to guide thy steps,~ And walking well in the straight certain 1216 III| them, as to a fortified wall, you are wont to flee, when 1217 II| warrior dear to me~ Around the walls of Ilium driven, and grieve 1218 XXXVII| said, was the cause of the want of metre in some of the 1219 IX| but also consolidated that warlike race by legislation. And 1220 XIV| CHAPTER XIV. -- A WARNING APPEAL TO THE GREEKS.~ ~ 1221 II| Hector:~ ~Ah! I behold a warrior dear to me~ Around the walls 1222 XXXVII| water, they said that she washed, and having put on her robe 1223 XVIII| earth beneath,~ The glancing waves of ocean and the winds~ 1224 XXXVI| story, stop his ears with wax, and flee the sweet hurt 1225 XV| in mere mortal eyes~ Are weak, to see Jove reigning over 1226 XXVIII| branch here bends beneath the weighty pear,~ And verdant olives 1227 XXVIII| The balmy spirit of the western gale~ Eternal breathes on 1228 XXXI| up their wings, and the wheels beside them; and the glory 1229 | whereby 1230 XXVIII| mischief to return.~ Then, whirling her around, he cast her 1231 | whoever 1232 | whose 1233 XXVI| again God above knows, and whosoever among men is beloved of 1234 XXVII| those who were so incurably wicked attempted to ascend, unless 1235 XXVIII| gives him a name from his wickedest action. For the poet, calling 1236 V| And Zeus obtained the wide heaven in the air and the 1237 XIX| that unity and one differ widely from one another. For he 1238 XXVIII| having received from Theon's wife, Polydamna, a drug, "lulling 1239 XVIII| glancing waves of ocean and the winds~ But many of us mortals 1240 XXVIII| presses foam with floods of wine.~ Here are the vines in 1241 XXXI| the cherubim lift up their wings, and the wheels beside them; 1242 V| when deprived of moisture, wither. Then, as if not satisfied 1243 XVIII| set up for a solace in our woes~ Images of the gods in stone 1244 II| never goddess pour'd, nor woman yet,~ So full a tide of 1245 XXXIV| those subjects by which they won the admiration of the heathen, 1246 VI| ARISTOTLE.~ ~And that these very wonderful sages of yours do not even 1247 XXV| those who desired to be worshippers of God might have an inkling 1248 XXIV| the Hebrews found wisdom, Worshipping God Himself, the unbegotten 1249 XI| godly line, and who lived worthily of the godliness of his 1250 XVI| figures of dumb stones,~ Worthless and stained with blood of 1251 II| that Mars and Venus were wounded by Diomed, and of many others 1252 VII| themselves, they thought fit to wrangle and dispute with one another 1253 XXVI| him who is conscious of no wrong-doing, sweet hope is the constant 1254 II| very gates of hell,~ And wrought him keenest anguish; pierced 1255 X| CHAPTER X -- TRAINING AND INSPIRATION 1256 IX| that Darius, the father of Xerxes, was the sixth who legislated 1257 XI| CHAPTER XI. -- HEATHEN ORACLES TESTIFY 1258 XII| CHAPTER XII. -- ANTIQUITY OF MOSES PROVED.~ ~ 1259 XIII| CHAPTER XIII. -- HISTORY OF THE SEPTUAGINT.~ ~ 1260 XIV| CHAPTER XIV. -- A WARNING APPEAL TO 1261 XIX| CHAPTER XIX. -- TESTIMONY OF PYTHAGORAS.~ ~ 1262 XV| CHAPTER XV. -- TESTIMONY OF ORPHEUS 1263 XVI| CHAPTER XVI. -- TESTIMONY OF THE SIBYL.~ ~ 1264 XVII| CHAPTER XVII -- TESTIMONY OF HOMER.~ ~ 1265 XVIII| CHAPTER XVIII. -- TESTIMONY OF SOPHOCLES.~ ~ 1266 XX| CHAPTER XX. -- TESTIMONY OF PLATO.~ ~ 1267 XXI| CHAPTER XXI. -- THE NAMELESSNESS OF 1268 XXII| CHAPTER XXII. -- STUDIED AMBIGUITY PLATO.~ ~ 1269 XXIII| CHAPTER XXIII. -- PLATO'S SELF-CONTRADICTION.~ ~ 1270 XXIV| CHAPTER XXIV. -- AGREEMENT OF PLATO AND 1271 XXIX| CHAPTER XXIX. -- ORIGIN OF PLATO'S DOCTRINE 1272 XXV| CHAPTER XXV. -- PLATO'S KNOWLEDGE OF 1273 XXVI| CHAPTER XXVI. -- PLATO INDEBTED TO THE 1274 XXVII| CHAPTER XXVII. -- PLATO'S KNOWLEDGE OF 1275 XXVIII| CHAPTER XXVIII. -- HOMER'S OBLIGATIONS 1276 XXX| CHAPTER XXX. -- HOMER'S KNOWLEDGE OF 1277 XXXI| CHAPTER XXXI. -- FURTHER PROOF OF PLATO' 1278 XXXII| CHAPTER XXXII. -- PLATO'S DOCTRINE OF 1279 XXXIII| CHAPTER XXXIII. -- PLATO'S IDEA OF THE 1280 XXXIV| CHAPTER XXXIV. -- WHENCE MEN ATTRIBUTED 1281 XXXV| CHAPTER XXXV. -- APPEAL TO THE GREEKS.~ ~ 1282 XXXVI| CHAPTER XXXVI. -- TRUE KNOWLEDGE NOT HELD 1283 XXXVII| CHAPTER XXXVII. -- OF THE SIBYL.~ ~And 1284 XXXVIII| CHAPTER XXXVIII. -- CONCLUDING APPEAL.~ ~ 1285 XII| again he said, "You are all youths in soul, for you hold no