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1 I, II, 11| 11. In the third place, wisdom 2 I, II, 12| 12. But wisdom is also called 3 I, II, 13| 13. It remains that we inquire 4 II, VIII, 1| hateth." And in the Psalms 22, regarding Christ-for it 5 I, I, 1| as is said in the Psalms 36, "In Thy light we shall 6 I, III, 2| as by David in the Psalms 51, when he says, "And take 7 II, V, 3| is related in the Psalms 78, which bears the superscription 8 I, I, 6| Mona/j, and, so to speak, 9Ena/j, and is the mind and source 9 I, VII, 3| and those which are termed a0planei=j are different. Now it 10 I, VIII, 4| resurrection, or who have abandoned the darkness, and have loved 11 II, V, 2| do this, He undoubtedly abandons to destruction those whom 12 I, VIII, 4| descend to such a pitch of abasement that they forget their rational 13 Pre, 0, 4| of all just men, of Adam, Abel, Seth, Enos, Enoch, Noe, 14 I, IV, 1| knowledge of his profession abides with him; but if he withdraw 15 I, V, 3| wickedness, but with the power of abiding only in a state of happiness, 16 II, IX, 6| occur to us, so far as our abilities enable us. We have frequently 17 II, IX, 3| i.e., placed in happier abodes, and clothed with heavenly 18 II, VIII, 3| that, "because iniquity has abounded, the love of many will grow 19 II, V, 2| than those for which the above-mentioned persons were destroyed, 20 II, X, 3| corrupted, and are scattered abroad, yet by the word of God, 21 I, III, 4| they are not to be taken absolutely, but with due allowance; 22 II, VII, 3| and ruin of many, and to abstain from meats, that by an ostentatious 23 II, II, 2| may be discovered in their abstruse and mysterious language, 24 I, II, 6| careful not to fall into the absurdities of those who picture to 25 II, IV, 1| the heretics suppose, He absurdly declares Him to be His Father 26 I, III, 2| the New Testament we have abundant testimonies, as when the 27 II, VIII, 1| and great days, I will not accept; your fasts, and holidays, 28 I, VIII, 4| Apostle Paul, "there is no acceptance of persons with Him," who 29 Pre, 0, 2| preserved, that alone is to be accepted as truth which differs in 30 I, IV, 2| subject of the soul, which accidentally came before us, should be 31 I, IV, 1| or to notice here those accidents which are occasioned by 32 II, VIII, 3| occurs, on the contrary, accompanied with expressions of censure, 33 Pre, 0, 10| which are His servants in accomplishing the salvation of men. When 34 I, VIII, 4| free-will, and may of their own accord admit either of good or 35 II, VI, 2| brought to that death which is accounted the most shameful among 36 I, V, 5| forth on the mountains, accursed with the many dead who have 37 I, VII, 2| were the meaning, then the accusation of a want of cleanness in 38 II, I, 4| administration of the world, and accuse them of impiety for thinking 39 I, VIII, 1| view the Creator should be accused of partiality; but it is 40 II, X, 4| its own goads, becomes an accuser and a witness against itself. 41 II, X, 4| Their thoughts mutually accusing or excusing them in the 42 I, II, 7| training, as it were, and accustoming them to bear the brightness 43 II, IV, 1| besides Me there is no God, acknowledges that very one to be His 44 I, III, 1| been entertained, in their acknowledging that all things were created 45 I, I, 5| lamp, and were desirous to acquaint such a one, whose vision 46 I, I, 2| 2. If, then, they acquiesce in our assertion, which 47 I, VII, 2| diligent efforts, either to acquire for themselves a body of 48 I, IV, 1| similitude employed, what is the acquisition of knowledge, or what is 49 I, VIII, 2| therefore, Paul is found to have acted contrary to religion, in 50 I, I, 7| respect of its being mind, and acting as an intelligent existence. 51 II, VIII, 4| their lives to be of more active intellect, others again 52 II, XI, 4| investigation to the mind, while the actual work itself is unfolded 53 II, III, 4| reasoning, if souls are actuated by freedom of will, and 54 II, III, 3| operate, while the mental acumen of those who are in the 55 II, X, 4| causes either of a more acute or more lingering disease); 56 I, I, 7| formed by God, have some adaptation, even from the very quality 57 II, I, 2| be suitably and usefully adapted to the harmony of one world, 58 I, I, 9| will our position derive additional strength; for what else 59 II, X, 6| which in the threatenings addressed to sinners are called by 60 I, III, 4| yet able to receive, thus addresses them: "I have yet many things 61 II, VI, 4| virtues, listen to the prophet addressing it thus: "Thou hast loved 62 I, VIII, 4| powers of judging and ruling, administer their powers unless by merit; 63 I, III, 7| there are diversities of administrations, but the same Lord; and 64 II, IV, 1| creation? Further, do not those admirable principles which He lays 65 II, III, 6| the reason that it has not admired any causes of corruption, 66 II, X, 7| faithfully observed the admonitions of the angel allotted it 67 II, III, 7| them can be approved and adopted. For it has been said that 68 II, XI, 2| labour of thinking, and adopting a superficial view of the 69 II, II, 2| of celestial bodies, and adorns either the angels of God 70 I, III, 8| sanctification, makes progress, and advances to higher degrees of perfection; 71 I, VI, 3| a higher grade, and thus advancing through each stage to a 72 I, V, 4| prophet Ezekiel refers to an adverse power, and by it it is most 73 II, VIII, 4| suffering or perturbation affecting Him, it indicates it under 74 II, VI, 2| suspicions than any clear affirmations.~ 75 II, VI, 3| other can the statement be affirmed, "They shall both be in 76 II, V, 4| celebrated question of theirs, affirming that it is written, "A bad 77 II, V, 3| punishment, does He not afflict them for their good?-who 78 II, V, 3| condition." But why, in afflicting those who are deserving 79 II, III, 6| that there might not be afforded to any an occasion of entertaining 80 II, IV, 2| God, which He had promised afore by His prophets in the holy 81 I, V, 4| gold and silver, and with agate, amethyst, and chrysolite, 82 I, II, 12| their spiritual essence, agree with the declarations of 83 I, VI, 2| availing themselves of the aid of these, and being remoulded 84 II, III, 4| freedom of their own will aims, thither do they direct 85 II, VII, 4| feeling of sorrow; nor is he alarmed by anything, since, clinging 86 II, III, 6| ideas: "for it is certainly alien to our (writers) to speak 87 II, X, 6| feebleness of vision, and alienation of mind and paralysis, and 88 II, IV, 1| they were holy, and were alive) the God of the living, 89 II, IX, 6| is good, and just, and all-powerful. When He in the beginning 90 I, III, 3| rejected which are falsely alleged by some respecting the existence 91 II, X, 7| admonitions of the angel allotted it by God.~ 92 I, II, 6| maintained by those who allow nothing to be unbegotten, 93 I, III, 4| absolutely, but with due allowance; for while the significations 94 I, II, 9| beginning, which he has allowed; and in this way, ever demanding 95 II, III, 6| world to which He desires to allude be far separated and divided 96 | almost 97 I, VI, 4| attribute of the divine nature alone-i.e., of the Father, Son, 98 I, I, 2| the law was publicly read aloud. But if we turn to the Lord, 99 II, IX, 1| introduced in terms somewhat ambiguous, when he says, "In the beginning 100 II, X, 5| been unable to procure any amelioration for themselves, and have 101 II, III, 1| system of) preservation and amendment, severe indeed, and attended 102 II, I, 3| that its end must be sought amid much diversity and variety; 103 II, X, 6| the severe process of the amputating knife; and if the virulence 104 II, IV, 1| attribute authority to the ancients. The injunction also of 105 II, IV, 4| as when God is said to be angry or to repent, or when any 106 II, VIII, 2| that there is a kind of animal-man who, he says, cannot receive 107 II, VI, 3| one shall take my life (animam) from me," inhering, from 108 II, V, 1| well to the bad, but to be animated by a kind of hatred against 109 II, III, 3| that, if bodily nature be annihilated, it must be again restored 110 I, VI, 4| away, it is by no means an annihilation or destruction of their 111 II, III, 3| will altogether escape the annoyance arising from a disturbance 112 I, VIII, 4| the dumb beast of burden, answering with human voice, reproved 113 II, IX, 7| diversity in himself, and antecedent to his bodily birth. For 114 II, II, 1| Son or Holy Spirit, and no anteriority or posteriority can be understood 115 II, III, 6| whom the Greeks called 'Anti/xqonej, and other parts 116 II, VIII, 1| respect to bees, wasps, and ants, and those other things 117 I, II, 10| which John speaks in the Apocalypse: "Thus saith the Lord God, 118 Pre, 0, 5| these points, also, the apostolic teaching is that the soul, 119 Pre, 0, 2| from ecclesiastical and apostolical tradition.~ 120 Pre, 0, 8| meaning, not such only as is apparent at first sight, but also 121 II, VI, 2| the illusions of imaginary appearances. To utter these things in 122 II, V, 3| remedies, and because He applies to them those measures which, 123 I, II, 9| He is strong; by which He appoints, restrains, and governs 124 II, VII, 3| as there are many ways of apprehending Christ, who, although He 125 II, III, 6| no one of our people can approach, nor can any one of those 126 I, VI, 3| you yourself, reader, may approve of, if neither in these 127 I, VIII, 1| to act under this or that archangel, or that leader or head 128 I, VIII, 1| afterwards in the order of archangels, this or that office was 129 II, I, 4| world could exist without an architect or overseer; while they 130 II, V, 3| the days of Noah, when the ark was preparing, in which 131 I, VII, 1| being said to be created in 'Arka/j, i.e., for the government 132 II, VIII, 5| as fingers, or hands, or arms, or eyes, or feet, or mouth, 133 | around 134 I, IV, 1| as yet, he may, if he be aroused and return speedily to his 135 II, IX, 6| God, who deemed it just to arrange His creatures according 136 II, IX, 8| the power of His wisdom, arranges all things by His controlling 137 I, V, 3| power, or whether their arriving at that power and dignity 138 II, IV, 1| and Jacob. For in this article of faith, first of all, 139 II, XI, 4| beholds the products of an artist's labour, the mind, immediately 140 II, XI, 4| perceiving anything of unusual artistic excellence, burns to know 141 II, V, 3| bears the superscription of Asaph; for he says, "When He slew 142 II, I, 4| discussion, it has been ascertained that these things are so, 143 I, III, 4| Holy Spirit, and yet to ascribe to Him ignorance. For even 144 II, IX, 6| that world presents the aspect of diversity, while Divine 145 I, VIII, 4| the speaking of Balaam's ass, when God opened its mouth, 146 I, V, 5| fallen from heaven! He who assailed all nations is broken and 147 II, X, 4| a suitable time all that assembly of evils boils up to punishment, 148 I, VIII, 2| the maid-servant, to have asserted with an oath that he did 149 I, II, 3| God." Let him, then, who assigns a beginning to the Word 150 I, VI, 3| and instructed with the assistance of the heavenly powers; 151 II, IX, 8| as each one ought to be assisted or cared for in conformity 152 II, VIII, 2| spiritual things, conjoins and associates with the Holy Spirit an 153 Pre, 0, 1| All who believe and are assured that grace and truth were 154 II, I, 4| result of chance. And I am astonished that they should find fault 155 I, V, 5| as light before he went astray, and fell to this place, 156 II, X, 5| dissolution and rending asunder of soul shall have been 157 II, I, 3| Paul, in his address to the Athenians, when he says, "In Him we 158 II, X, 8| not so much of some dark atmosphere without any light, as of 159 I, I, 6| before, in consequence of the attack of disease, the blame is 160 I, IV, 1| principles and practice, so as to attain a complete mastery over 161 Pre, 0, 1| within the limits of all attainable brevity, it would not be 162 II, III, 1| as to become capable of attaining divine wisdom; and after 163 II, VIII, 3| for salvation? or when it attains to blessedness, shall it 164 I, VII, 3| there seems no absurdity in attempting an investigation of the 165 II, I, 4| to exist, and to be the attendant and slave of the Creator 166 I, VIII, 1| to Michael, the duty of attending to the prayers and supplications 167 I, VIII, 3| worthy of Him, incites and attracts all to that blissful end, 168 I, II, 9| each one of them certain attributes which belong to the Wisdom 169 Pre, 0, 8| intended by Greek and Gentile authors when incorporeal nature 170 I, VI, 2| we have described; and by availing themselves of the aid of 171 II, IX, 2| preserving what is good, and an aversion to and a neglect of better 172 II, V, 3| were unbelievers, when they awaited the long-suffering of God 173 I, IV, 1| of his skill, he should awake in a state of ignorance. 174 II, VIII, 5| affliction." Finally, I am aware that certain critics, in 175 I, V, 3| have always been holy, and axe holy still, and will be 176 I, VIII, 2| according to the goodness or badness of their nature, and not 177 I, I, 8| nature, and merely escaped or baffled the view of a frailer creature, 178 I, VIII, 4| or even the speaking of Balaam's ass, when God opened its 179 II, III, 6| golden head, thou wilt have baldness on account of thy works," 180 II, V, 2| guests reclining at the banquet, he beheld a certain individual 181 II, X, 3| sowing in the ground of a "bare grain of corn, or of any 182 I, VIII, 4| forth as from bolts and barriers, some of them walk slowly 183 II, III, 6| they summon the book of Baruch the prophet to bear witness 184 I, VIII, 2| assertions will be proved to be baseless.~ 185 II, IX, 5| Marcion, and Valentinus, and Basilides, have heard that there are 186 II, XI, 2| constructed of jasper, and its battlements of crystal; that it is to 187 I, II, 7| precept," Cast forth the beam out of thine eye," renders 188 I, V, 5| all nations is broken and beaten to the ground. Thou indeed 189 II, VIII, 1| be said with respect to bees, wasps, and ants, and those 190 II, X, 5| passions which are wont to befall some souls, as when a soul 191 II, XI, 2| will be marriages, and the begetting of children, imagining to 192 I, VI, 2| prayer to God the Father on behalf of His disciples: "I do 193 Pre, 0, 4| called all things into being-God from the first creation 194 I, VIII, 2| we speak, were spiritual beings-should fall into sins of such a 195 I, II, 6| the child in no respect belie their resemblance to the 196 II, X, 7| this viz., that as each believer, although the humblest in 197 II, VI, 5| of all, this soul which belonged to Christ elected to love 198 | below 199 I, VI, 2| beginning: all those, viz., who, bending the knee at the name of 200 I, II, 10| earth. And if every knee is bent to Jesus, then, without 201 I, V, 4| amethyst, and chrysolite, and beryl, and onyx: with gold aim 202 | beside 203 II, IV, 1| maker of heaven and the bestower of the rain. Again, what 204 II, I, 4| that by which, through the bestowing and implanting of qualities, 205 II, III, 4| will also a second time betray the Lord; Paul will a second 206 II, VIII, 3| from growing cold out of a betterand more divine condition, and 207 II, XI, 5| said, "I am in a strait betwixt two, having a desire to 208 II, V, 2| then ordered his servants, "Bind him hand and foot, and cast 209 II, III, 4| with the same amount of births, and deaths, and actions; 210 II, VIII, 3| the serpent, and it shall bite them." In the book of Job 211 I, VIII, 2| why did Peter weep most bitterly, if it were another than 212 II, X, 8| be clothed with dark and black bodies after the resurrection, 213 II, X, 6| mind and paralysis, and blindness, and weakness of the reins. 214 I, VIII, 3| and attracts all to that blissful end, where all pain, and 215 II, X, 6| The Lord sitting will blow, and purify, and will pour 216 I, III, 4| He will: "For the Spirit bloweth where He listeth." We are 217 II, V, 4| some time be put to the blush.~ 218 II, X, 4| all that assembly of evils boils up to punishment, and is 219 I, VII, 3| may seem to be somewhat bold, yet, as we are incited 220 I, VIII, 4| been sent forth as from bolts and barriers, some of them 221 II, VI, 1| and as His heavenly Father bore Him witness, and as is confessed 222 I, VIII, 2| heavenly beings, let us borrow an illustration from what 223 II, III, 6| That universe which is bounded by heaven and earth is also 224 II, VI, 4| Him, he says, "Before the boy could have knowledge to 225 I, I, 6| receive immediately from boyhood, or from birth, because 226 Pre, 0, 8| say that the air which we breathe was incorporeal, because 227 II, X, 4| contrary kind and amount, breed fevers in the body, and 228 II, VII, 3| of no small extent among brethren; whereas the Gospel shows 229 I, I, 5| understanding, even the purest and brightest?~ 230 I, II, 4| eternal and everlasting as the brilliancy which is produced from the 231 II, V, 4| the words of Scripture, by bringing forward that celebrated 232 II, II, 1| generates an uncreated Son, and brings forth a Holy Spirit, not 233 I, V, 5| assailed all nations is broken and beaten to the ground. 234 I, V, 4| that we may not appear to build our assertions on subjects 235 II, XI, 2| tillers of the field or builders of walls, and by whom their 236 II, III, 6| were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made 237 I, VIII, 4| to be stoned; or that a bull which strikes with its horn, 238 II, X, 7| administered, i.e., either buried in the earth or tied up 239 II, XI, 4| comparison, does the mind burn with an inexpressible desire 240 II, XI, 4| unusual artistic excellence, burns to know of what nature it 241 II, VIII, 3| in a flame of fire in the bush." We have, moreover, received 242 I, III, 8| with Him, Who is, it is the business of wisdom to instruct and 243 I, II, 2| possessed the power indeed, but-what cannot be said of God without 244 II, V, 1| visited with any suffering or calamity. Justice, on the other hand, 245 II, V, 1| exception of Joshua and Caleb. Whereas from the New Testament 246 I, II, 4| unchangeable and unalterable in the calm and moderate enjoyment of 247 II, XI, 2| their riches; that even the camels of Midian and Kedar will 248 II, V, 2| said. to him, "Friend, how camest thou in hither, not having 249 II, VIII, 3| name. Finally, see if you caneasily find a place in holy Scripture 250 I, V, 4| topaz, and emerald, and carbuncle, and sapphire, and jasper, 251 I, IV, 1| those who conduct themselves carelessly, it will not appear out 252 II, III, 2| it is endowed (now indeed carnal, but by and by more refined 253 I, II, 13| all these are so termed catachrestically, having in them an accidental, 254 II, VIII, 1| That beasts of burden or cattle of smaller size are endowed 255 I, VI, 1| with great solicitude and caution, in the manner rather of 256 Pre, 0, 2| other points. For as we ceased to seek for truth (notwithstanding 257 I, III, 8| then, by the renewal of the ceaseless working of Father, Son, 258 II, III, 3| bodies will cease. And if it ceases, bodily matter returns to 259 II, III, 4| to be poured out without ceasing for many ages. So therefore 260 II, V, 4| by bringing forward that celebrated question of theirs, affirming 261 II, VIII, 3| associated with the soul what is censurable, and has been silent as 262 I, V, 5| unloose those who were in chains. All the kings of the nations 263 II, XI, 2| jasper, and sapphire, and chalcedony, and emerald, and sardonyx, 264 II, V, 3| their good?-who also says to Chaldea, "Thou hast coals of fire, 265 II, X, 6| spirit of burning." Of the Chaldeans he thus speaks: "Thou hast 266 II, III, 4| of worlds may exist with changes of no unimportant kind, 267 I, VI, 4| present world, and this changing of the heavens will undoubtedly 268 I, VII, 5| also Solomon appears to characterize the whole of corporeal nature 269 II, I, 4| themselves incur a similar charge of impiety in saying that 270 II, V, 2| else is there so unjust charged by them against the God 271 II, X, 4| punishment, and is set on fire to chastisements; when the mind itself, or 272 I, V, 4| the mount of God. And a cherub drove thee forth from the 273 I, I, 9| makes use of teeth, when it chews and eats the bread of life 274 II, IX, 5| has no scope (for no one chooses for himself either where, 275 II, VIII, 1| the Psalms 22, regarding Christ-for it is certain, as the Gospel 276 II, VII, 1| there are two Gods and two Christs, but we have never known 277 II, XI, 2| onyx, and chrysolite, and chrysoprase, and jacinth, and amethyst. 278 I, V, 4| give thee for ashes and cinders on the earth in the sight 279 II, III, 6| within its more magnificent circumference; so that all things are 280 II, V, 4| Apostle Paul makes use of no circumlocution, when he says, "The law 281 I, I, 6| nature should appear to be circumscribed or in some degree hampered 282 II, IV, 4| also with regard to those citizens who, when the head of the 283 Pre, 0, 2| it known) among all who claimed it for erroneous opinions, 284 I, VI, 3| evil, which the apostle classed among the opposing powers. 285 I, VI, 2| the earth: by which three classes the whole universe of things 286 II, IX, 6| silver, but also of wood and clay (and some indeed to honour, 287 I, VII, 2| accusation of a want of cleanness in the splendour of their 288 I, VIII, 3| will, flee from evil, and cleave to good. There is no nature, 289 II, VII, 4| alarmed by anything, since, clinging to the Word of God and His 290 I, V, 5| lower world. As a garment cloned with blood, and stained, 291 II, III, 4| lie for the second time close beside that grain where 292 II, III, 2| of God, which mould; and clothe, and adorn the soul? And 293 I, V, 5| I shall ascend above the clouds; I shall be like the Most 294 II, VI, 5| immensity of its love it clung to it unchangeably and inseparably, 295 I, III, 5| salvation unless with the co-operation of the entire Trinity; and 296 II, VIII, 1| the waters, oysters and cockles, and all others which are 297 I, IV, 2| seeing we were discussing a cognate topic relating to our rational 298 I, II, 6| that anything in Him is cognisable by the senses. He is wisdom, 299 II, VIII, 3| and what is found to be colder than he? In the sea also 300 II, X, 6| punishments of fevers, and colds, and jaundice, and with 301 II, VII, 4| he undoubtedly obtains comfort and joy of heart. For since 302 II, IV, 1| of the law to Moses, or commissioned the prophets, who is the 303 I, I, 6| situation, but from the commotion or disturbance of the body 304 I, III, 6| all men are not without communion with God, is taught in the 305 II, XI, 1| consult for the benefit of the community, a third to devote attention 306 I, II, 4| monstrous and unlawful to compare God the Father, in the generation 307 I, V, 5| And notwithstanding He compares him to lightning, and says 308 I, V, 3| Logical reasoning will compel us to take the same view 309 II, II, 2| necessity of logical reasoning compels us to understand that rational 310 I, III, 7| therefore the expression is competently applied to the Holy Spirit, 311 I, VI, 1| indication of the perfection and completion of things. And this reminds 312 I, V, 3| proved that there was nothing compound in the nature of the Trinity, 313 II, I, 3| being in God, except by His comprehending and holding together the 314 II, III, 6| things which are under it, comprehends by its immense size and 315 II, IX, 1| there can neither be any comprehension nor any limitation. Now 316 I, I, 6| size is dilated, but is compressed and contracted in order 317 II, III, 2| ornament to it, covering and concealing its mortal nature. The expression, 318 II, VII, 1| For although we should concede to Marcion or to Valentinus 319 Pre, 0, 8| if the point were to be conceded, the word a0sw/maton there 320 I, II, 7| which He is the Way, and conducts to the Father; and in which 321 II, VI, 1| bore Him witness, and as is confessed by the various signs and 322 I, V, 3| obliged to make a similar confession regarding the good and holy 323 II, III, 7| may be safely and most confidently placed,-where, viz., these, 324 Pre, 0, 1| were it not our purpose to confine the present treatise within 325 I, VI, 4| corruption. And Paul seems to confirm the latter view, when he 326 I, VIII, 4| righteousness of God, that, conformably with the declaration of 327 II, I, 2| from each other in mental conformation to one agreement of labour 328 I, VII, 4| Now it may be established conjecturally as follows. If the soul 329 II, VIII, 2| i.e., spiritual things, conjoins and associates with the 330 I, VI, 1| even His enemies being conquered and subdued. For thus says 331 I, I, 7| should be an accident, or consequent upon bodies? Those who assert 332 I, I, 6| by its waves the mind is considerably less vigorous than it is 333 II, X, 5| difficult, we may draw some considerations from the evil effects of 334 II, VII, 3| the Gospel, and not duly considering in consequence of what work 335 II, V, 4| a bad man. For as no one considers a man to be wicked without 336 II, V, 4| greater number of proofs, consisting of those passages, where 337 I, II, 10| And therefore His glory consists in this very thing, that 338 II, VII, 4| paraclesis being termed in Latin consolatio. For if any one has deserved 339 II, IX, 3| brought up in a manner more consonant with freedom and reason: 340 II, III, 2| spiritual), the soul makes constant use, says, "This corruptible 341 II, VI, 6| a mass of iron be kept constantly in the fire, receiving the 342 I, V, 3| privilege inherent in their constitutions, but on account of merit.~ 343 II, XI, 2| precious stones, and its walls constructed of jasper, and its battlements 344 II, XI, 1| bodily pleasures, another to consult for the benefit of the community, 345 II, XI, 1| general good, then, either by consulting for the benefit of the state 346 I, I, 2| utterly destroy; that He consumes evil thoughts, wicked actions, 347 I, VII, 2| actually not clean from the contagion of it. The following are 348 II, VI, 1| that the world itself could contain the books which might be 349 I, II, 3| forming beforehand and containing within herself the species 350 II, VI, 2| therefore the spectacle is to be contemplated with all fear and reverence, 351 II, VI, 6| veins, and the fire being continuous and the iron never removed 352 I, I, 7| form of the ears or eyes contributes something to hearing and 353 II, XI, 2| and that they will have control over their riches; that 354 II, IX, 1| arranged, governed, and controlled by God. But measure will 355 II, IX, 8| arranges all things by His controlling judgment, according to a 356 I, II, 10| limpid glory of wisdom is a convenient expression to distinguish 357 I, IV, 2| and the Holy Spirit, more conveniently consider in the proper place 358 Pre, 0, 4| after His resurrection He conversed with His disciples, and 359 II, V, 4| that the heretics, being convicted by numerous testimonies, 360 I, VI, 1| doing not so much to the convictions of reason as to the dogmatism 361 II, VI, 4| said, "Which of you will convince Me of sin? " And again He 362 I, V, 2| people Jacob; Israel is the cord of His inheritance." Other 363 I, I, 6| with the body, by means of corporal additions, up to the twentieth 364 II, VIII, 3| and that, if repaired and corrected, it returns to the condition 365 II, III, 1| there will be again, for the correction and improvement of those 366 I, II, 4| of other living beings, correspond to the seed of those by 367 I, III, 7| flood, when all flesh had corrupter their way before God, it 368 I, IV, 1| away, and to yield to the corrupting influence of a negligence 369 I, II, 6| which is made known by the counsel of His will. And thus also 370 II, XI | Chapter XI.-On Counter Promises. ~ 371 II, XI, 2| that the natives of other countries are to be given them as 372 I, I, 2| is said or thought to be covered: and this is the meaning 373 II, X, 1| they undoubtedly rise to be coverings for us; and if it is necessary 374 II, II, 2| order, moulded into the crasser and more solid condition 375 II, I, 4| formerly did not? Would He cream a worse and inferior matter, 376 I, III, 7| taken away and destroyed, creates for Himself a new people, 377 I, V, 4| these positions may be more credibly maintained. And, firstly, 378 II, VIII, 1| four-footed beasts, and creeping things, and beasts of the 379 II, VIII, 5| I am aware that certain critics, in explaining the words 380 II, VIII, 3| serpent, upon the dragon the crooked serpent, and will slay him." 381 II, III, 6| one of those who are there cross over to us, which he also 382 II, V, 2| sucking children along with cruel and ungodly giants? Now, 383 II, XI, 2| and its battlements of crystal; that it is to have a wall 384 II, IX, 7| remedies may lead to their cure, and incites them to salvation.~ 385 I, VIII, 1| Raphael, e.g., the work of curing and healing to Gabriel, 386 I, II, 2| I know not whether our curiosity ought to advance beyond 387 II, VIII, 3| it has appeared to a few curious inquirers that a meaning 388 I, II, 6| conclusions from what are customarily called images among men. 389 I, I, 6| renders to the mind its customary services under by no means 390 II, IX, 3| while some, again, possess customs of an inhuman and savage 391 I, II, 6| understanding, and neither cuts off any part nor is separated 392 II, III, 4| souls are not driven on in a cycle which returns after many 393 I, VIII, 1| and such angels as even daily behold the face of God must 394 I, III, 2| Spirit from me; " and by Daniel, where it is Said, "The 395 II, VII, 1| that certain heretics have dared to say that there are two 396 I, II, 9| ever demanding an earlier date, and going upwards with 397 Pre, 0, 1| called the son of Pharaoh's daughter; choosing rather to suffer 398 I, VIII, 4| from the First Book of the de Principiis.~Translated by 399 II, IV, 3| distinction which we employ in dealing with heretics. For we have 400 II, X, 6| recover their health, God so deals towards those who have lapsed 401 I, VII, 3| Job, "the stars are not dean in His sight," seems to 402 Pre, 0, 10| all these things, that by dear and necessary statements 403 II, IX, 5| matter, indeed, what is dearly the truth of things is the 404 I, VI, 2| subdued to Christ, when death-the last enemy-shall be destroyed, 405 II, III, 4| same amount of births, and deaths, and actions; but that a 406 II, VIII, 4| seems to me that this very decay and falling away of the 407 II, VII, 3| themselves over to errors and deceits, being depraved by a spirit 408 II, V, 3| individual virtues, and not deceive themselves by saying that 409 II, IV, 3| of the simple by certain deceptive sophisms, I do not consider 410 I, VI, 4| appearance. Isaiah also, in declaring prophetically that there 411 I, VI, 2| proportion to the desert of his declension and defection. Certain of 412 I, II, 4| upon themselves by their declension-for death is nothing else than 413 II, I, 1| variety in the movements and declensions of those who fell from that 414 I, III, 8| fall away, but that he must decline gradually and little by 415 II, IX, 7| any good or evil, that the decree of God according to election 416 Pre, 0, 10| Scripture, or which he has deduced by closely tracing out the 417 II, X, 6| eating and drinking, we deem it necessary for the health 418 II, XI, 1| therefore, in this life, one man deems it the highest good to enjoy 419 I, I, 9| ears when it perceives the deeper meaning of a statement. 420 II, VI, 1| God, we are lost in the deepest amazement that such a nature, 421 II, IX, 3| their early years; some defective in vision, others in hearing 422 II, X, 6| desiring to remove the defects of our souls, which they 423 II, V, 3| up the position which we defend, for they will not be able 424 I, II, 3| beginning of his Gospel, when defining God by a special definition 425 I, II, 9| goodness." These, then, are the definitions which he gives of God, pointing 426 I, VIII, 4| down to such (a pitch of degradation), and be so emptied, as 427 II, IX, 4| graces into our senses, may deign to illuminate what is dark, 428 I, I, 6| intellectual nature can admit of no delay or hesitation in its movements 429 I, II, 2| power, He concealed it, and delayed the generation of Wisdom. 430 Pre, 0, 10| life, there is no distinct deliverance. ~Every one, therefore, 431 I, II, 9| allowed; and in this way, ever demanding an earlier date, and going 432 Pre, 0, 8| that form or outline of demoniacal body, whatever it is, does 433 I, III, 7| by the Apostle Paul, when demonstrating that the power of the Trinity 434 II, II, 2| mysterious language, through the demonstration of the Holy Spirit to those 435 I, VIII, 2| not Peter who uttered the denial, but some other individual 436 I, II, 13| it may be supposed to be denied that either Christ or the 437 I, II, 3| Father Himself, seeing he denies that He had always been 438 II, X, 5| and have in this condition departed from the world, it be sufficient 439 II, IV, 2| strange and foreign to God depend upon Him? And when Paul 440 II, VI, 5| and that which formerly depended upon the will was changed 441 I, III, 8| an one would suddenly be deposed from his position and fall 442 II, VII, 3| errors and deceits, being depraved by a spirit of error, rather 443 II, IX, 3| in that condition, others deprived of the use of their senses 444 I, VI, 3| spoken, have sunk to such a depth of unworthiness and wickedness 445 II, VIII, 3| eyes, and descend into the depths of the sea, there will I 446 I, VII, 3| be at any time subject to derangement, would it not be the height 447 I, II, 4| appear among us, or those descendants of other living beings, 448 II, III, 7| land." For it is called a descent to this earth, but an exaltation 449 I, III, 3| Enoch also we have similar descriptions. But up to the present time 450 I, I, 2| Scripture, when it wishes to designate anything opposed to this 451 I, VII, 3| then, that they may be designated as living beings, for this 452 I, V, 1| Paul himself we find him designating them, from some unknown 453 I, III, 4| or "was," or any other designation of time, they are not to 454 I, I, 7| if created purposely and designedly for perceiving and understanding 455 II, X, 6| that God our Physician, desiring to remove the defects of 456 I, VI, 2| But if they neglect and despise such participation, then 457 II, IV, 3| fables being rejected and despised which are invented by ignorant 458 II, III, 7| each one of our readers determine for himself, with care and 459 II, II, 1| that the question may be determined with greater precision, 460 II, V, 2| committed crimes more wicked and detestable than those for which the 461 II, X, 6| Scriptures. In the book of Deuteronomy, the divine word threatens 462 II, VII, 3| Following the doctrine of devils, forbidding to marry, to 463 II, X, 1| foolish, and altogether devoid of sense; and these are 464 I, V, 4| midst of thee, and it shall devour thee, and I shall give thee 465 II, VI, 1| every nation a multitude of devout believers in Himself.~ 466 II, X, 1| this, What is that which died? Was it not a body? It is 467 II, VI, 3| God also is said to have died-in reference, viz., to that 468 II, I, 2| those very creatures which differed so much from each other 469 Pre, 0, 2| yet some of these think differently from their predecessors, 470 II, I, 2| should be established by the difficulties of the contest. ~ 471 I, IV, 2| what we have said, into a digression, having considered that 472 I, I, 6| bodies of larger size is dilated, but is compressed and contracted 473 I, VII, 2| unable, through their own diligent efforts, either to acquire 474 II, V, 2| alike to be invited, without directing their merits to be inquired 475 I, VIII, 4| different condition in either direction, i.e., angels may become 476 II, I, 1| goodness, and drawn in various directions by the harassing influence 477 I, VIII, 4| perfect spirituality, and discern all things by their perfect 478 II, VIII, 2| what is to be spiritually discerned. In another passage he says 479 I, VIII, 4| ever one spirit with Him, discerning along with Him each individual 480 II, III, 7| after having fulfilled and discharged every obligation, deserve 481 I, II, 3| Word of God, because of her disclosing to all other beings, i.e., 482 II, I, 3| internal discrepancies and discordances; but as our one body is 483 II, I, 3| supposed as one of internal discrepancies and discordances; but as 484 I, VIII, 4| is neither from want of discrimination, nor from any accidental 485 II, IX, 3| bodies, some with bodies diseased from their early years; 486 II, X, 6| all the enumerations of diseases which in the threatenings 487 I, I, 7| doubtless do so to the disparagement of that better substance 488 II, I, 1| beginning and end, or those dispensations of Divine Providence which 489 I, V, 2| divided the nations, and dispersed the sons of Adam, He fixed 490 I, VI, 4| coming world, in which that dispersion and separation from the 491 I, VIII, 1| qualities which they severally displayed before this world was formed; 492 II, V, 2| they assert, but of one who displays undiscriminating goodness 493 I, II, 12| or in judgment, or in the disposal and arrangement of individual 494 I, VIII, 2| partiality on the part of the Disposer. But that this may more 495 I, VIII, 4| persons with Him," who rather disposes everything according to 496 II, IX, 3| and others of a milder disposition. And certain of them live 497 I, VI, 1| best may, in the style of a disputation rather than of strict definition.~ 498 II, X, 5| chastisement and torture of its own dissension, and to feel the punishments 499 I, V, 1| 1. After the dissertation, which we have briefly conducted 500 II, X, 5| condition. And when this dissolution and rending asunder of soul