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Ante-Nicene Fathers, Vol. III
783 chapters English Public domain
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151 Christians Charged with an Obstinate Contempt of Death. Instances of the Same are Found Amongst the Heathen. 152 If Christians and the Heathen Thus Resemble Each Other, There is Great Difference in the Grounds and Nature of Their Apparently Similar Conduct. 153 Truth and Reality Pertain to Christians Alone. The Heathen Counselled to Examine and Embrace It. 154 Chapter I 155 Philosophers Had Not Succeeded in Discovering God. The Uncertainty and Confusion of Their Speculations. 156 The Physical Philosophers Maintained the Divinity of the Elements; The Absurdity of the Tenet Exposed. 157 Wrong Derivation of the Word Qeός. The Name Indicative of the True Deity. God Without Shape and Immaterial. Anecdote of Thales. 158 The Physical Theory Continued. Further Reasons Advanced Against the Divinity of the Elements. 159 The Changes of the Heavenly Bodies, Proof that They are Not Divine. Transition from the Physical to the Mythic Class of Gods. 160 The Gods of the Mythic Class. The Poets a Very Poor Authority in Such Matters. Homer and the Mythic Poets. Why Irreligious. 161 The Gods of the Different Nations. Varro's Gentile Class. Their Inferiority. A Good Deal of This Perverse Theology Taken from Scripture. Serapis a Perversion of Joseph. 162 The Power of Rome. Romanized Aspect of All the Heathen Mythology. Varro's Threefold Distribution Criticised. Roman Heroes (Æneas Included,) Unfavourably Reviewed. 163 A Disgraceful Feature of the Roman Mythology. It Honours Such Infamous Characters as Larentina. 164 The Romans Provided Gods for Birth, Nay, Even Before Birth, to Death. Much Indelicacy in This System. 165 The Original Deities Were Human--With Some Very Questionable Characteristics. Saturn or Time Was Human. Inconsistencies of Opinion About Him. 166 The Gods Human at First. Who Had the Authority to Make Them Divine? Jupiter Not Only Human, But Immoral. 167 Gods, Those Which Were Confessedly Elevated to the Divine Condition, What Pre-Eminent Right Had They to Such Honour? Hercules an Inferior Character. 168 The Constellations and the Genii Very Indifferent Gods. The Roman Monopoly of Gods Unsatisfactory. Other Nations Require Deities Quite as Much. 169 Inventors of Useful Arts Unworthy of Deification. They Would Be the First to Acknowledge a Creator. The Arts Changeable from Time to Time, and Some Become Obsolete. 170 Conclusion, the Romans Owe Not Their Imperial Power to Their Gods. The Great God Alone Dispenses Kingdoms, He is the God of the Christians. 171 Appendix: A Fragment Concerning the Execrable Gods of the Heathen. 172 Elucidation. 173 Chapter I 174 The Law Anterior to Moses. 175 Of Circumcision and the Supercession of the Old Law.
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Ante-Nicene Fathers, Vol. III
783 chapters English Public domain
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Table of contents
783 chapters
151 Christians Charged with an Obstinate Contempt of Death. Instances of the Same are Found Amongst the Heathen. 152 If Christians and the Heathen Thus Resemble Each Other, There is Great Difference in the Grounds and Nature of Their Apparently Similar Conduct. 153 Truth and Reality Pertain to Christians Alone. The Heathen Counselled to Examine and Embrace It. 154 Chapter I 155 Philosophers Had Not Succeeded in Discovering God. The Uncertainty and Confusion of Their Speculations. 156 The Physical Philosophers Maintained the Divinity of the Elements; The Absurdity of the Tenet Exposed. 157 Wrong Derivation of the Word Qeός. The Name Indicative of the True Deity. God Without Shape and Immaterial. Anecdote of Thales. 158 The Physical Theory Continued. Further Reasons Advanced Against the Divinity of the Elements. 159 The Changes of the Heavenly Bodies, Proof that They are Not Divine. Transition from the Physical to the Mythic Class of Gods. 160 The Gods of the Mythic Class. The Poets a Very Poor Authority in Such Matters. Homer and the Mythic Poets. Why Irreligious. 161 The Gods of the Different Nations. Varro's Gentile Class. Their Inferiority. A Good Deal of This Perverse Theology Taken from Scripture. Serapis a Perversion of Joseph. 162 The Power of Rome. Romanized Aspect of All the Heathen Mythology. Varro's Threefold Distribution Criticised. Roman Heroes (Æneas Included,) Unfavourably Reviewed. 163 A Disgraceful Feature of the Roman Mythology. It Honours Such Infamous Characters as Larentina. 164 The Romans Provided Gods for Birth, Nay, Even Before Birth, to Death. Much Indelicacy in This System. 165 The Original Deities Were Human--With Some Very Questionable Characteristics. Saturn or Time Was Human. Inconsistencies of Opinion About Him. 166 The Gods Human at First. Who Had the Authority to Make Them Divine? Jupiter Not Only Human, But Immoral. 167 Gods, Those Which Were Confessedly Elevated to the Divine Condition, What Pre-Eminent Right Had They to Such Honour? Hercules an Inferior Character. 168 The Constellations and the Genii Very Indifferent Gods. The Roman Monopoly of Gods Unsatisfactory. Other Nations Require Deities Quite as Much. 169 Inventors of Useful Arts Unworthy of Deification. They Would Be the First to Acknowledge a Creator. The Arts Changeable from Time to Time, and Some Become Obsolete. 170 Conclusion, the Romans Owe Not Their Imperial Power to Their Gods. The Great God Alone Dispenses Kingdoms, He is the God of the Christians. 171 Appendix: A Fragment Concerning the Execrable Gods of the Heathen. 172 Elucidation. 173 Chapter I 174 The Law Anterior to Moses. 175 Of Circumcision and the Supercession of the Old Law.
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Ante-Nicene Fathers, Vol. III
783 chapters English Public domain
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783 chapters
151 Christians Charged with an Obstinate Contempt of Death. Instances of the Same are Found Amongst the Heathen. 152 If Christians and the Heathen Thus Resemble Each Other, There is Great Difference in the Grounds and Nature of Their Apparently Similar Conduct. 153 Truth and Reality Pertain to Christians Alone. The Heathen Counselled to Examine and Embrace It. 154 Chapter I 155 Philosophers Had Not Succeeded in Discovering God. The Uncertainty and Confusion of Their Speculations. 156 The Physical Philosophers Maintained the Divinity of the Elements; The Absurdity of the Tenet Exposed. 157 Wrong Derivation of the Word Qeός. The Name Indicative of the True Deity. God Without Shape and Immaterial. Anecdote of Thales. 158 The Physical Theory Continued. Further Reasons Advanced Against the Divinity of the Elements. 159 The Changes of the Heavenly Bodies, Proof that They are Not Divine. Transition from the Physical to the Mythic Class of Gods. 160 The Gods of the Mythic Class. The Poets a Very Poor Authority in Such Matters. Homer and the Mythic Poets. Why Irreligious. 161 The Gods of the Different Nations. Varro's Gentile Class. Their Inferiority. A Good Deal of This Perverse Theology Taken from Scripture. Serapis a Perversion of Joseph. 162 The Power of Rome. Romanized Aspect of All the Heathen Mythology. Varro's Threefold Distribution Criticised. Roman Heroes (Æneas Included,) Unfavourably Reviewed. 163 A Disgraceful Feature of the Roman Mythology. It Honours Such Infamous Characters as Larentina. 164 The Romans Provided Gods for Birth, Nay, Even Before Birth, to Death. Much Indelicacy in This System. 165 The Original Deities Were Human--With Some Very Questionable Characteristics. Saturn or Time Was Human. Inconsistencies of Opinion About Him. 166 The Gods Human at First. Who Had the Authority to Make Them Divine? Jupiter Not Only Human, But Immoral. 167 Gods, Those Which Were Confessedly Elevated to the Divine Condition, What Pre-Eminent Right Had They to Such Honour? Hercules an Inferior Character. 168 The Constellations and the Genii Very Indifferent Gods. The Roman Monopoly of Gods Unsatisfactory. Other Nations Require Deities Quite as Much. 169 Inventors of Useful Arts Unworthy of Deification. They Would Be the First to Acknowledge a Creator. The Arts Changeable from Time to Time, and Some Become Obsolete. 170 Conclusion, the Romans Owe Not Their Imperial Power to Their Gods. The Great God Alone Dispenses Kingdoms, He is the God of the Christians. 171 Appendix: A Fragment Concerning the Execrable Gods of the Heathen. 172 Elucidation. 173 Chapter I 174 The Law Anterior to Moses. 175 Of Circumcision and the Supercession of the Old Law.
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