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 1    II          (87) |        the relation of God to the gods of heathenism.~ ~
 2   III,    XXVII     |         many who are living, and "gods many and lords many." But
 3   III,     XLII     |           found out the naming of gods; but the judgment of truth
 4    IV,       XX     |       those who are worshipped as gods. You do not know how to
 5    IV,       XX     |        unless He ruled over other gods; for this would befit His
 6    IV,     XXVI     |         of "God" may be given to "gods many and lords many." God
 7    IV,     XXVI     |     having the same name as other gods and therefore as one of
 8    IV,      XXI     |          we ourselves speak of as gods, because they are close
 9    IV,      XXI     |          whether a man calls them gods or angels, since their divine
10    IV,      XXI     |       object of reverence for the gods, do not think that the god297
11    IV,      XXI     |           that are brought to the gods, these are hot so much a
12    IV,     XXII     | light-minded as to think that the gods dwell within the statues,
13    IV,    XXIII     |             Thou shalt not revile gods" (Exod. xxii. 28).~ ~I could
14    IV,    XXIII     |           that insidious name of "gods" from the law, when it cries
15    IV,    XXIII     |            Thou, shalt not revile gods, and thou shalt not speak
16    IV,    XXIII     |          not speak to us of other gods than those already within
17    IV,    XXIII     |           Thou shalt not go after gods" (Jer. vii. 6); and again, "
18    IV,    XXIII     |           ye go and worship other gods" (Deut. xii. 28). It is
19    IV,    XXIII     |            It is not men, but the gods who are held in honour by
20    IV,    XXIII     |           alone, and put away the gods whom your fathers served" (
21    IV,    XXIII     |          there be that are called gods, whether on earth or in
22    IV,    XXIII     |          then about the fact that gods exist, and ought to receive
23    IV          (306)|        Lord did, " I said, ye are gods" (John x. 34). If it can
24    IV,     XXIX     |             Thou shall not revile gods " (Exod. xxii. 28).~ ~[So
25    IV,     XXIX     |         we call the four elements gods, nor deify the stars, even
26    IV,     XXIX     |             Thou shall not revile gods," are spoke of men, not
27    IV,     XXIX     |             are spoke of men, not gods. What he means is that those
28    IV,     XXIX     |         that those may be called "gods" to whom the word of God
29    IV,     XXIX     |        does not mean supernatural gods in this sense, for no one
30    IV,     XXIX     |        him. To call mean things " gods" does God Himself no harm,