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Contra Hieroclem (Against Hierocles) Preface to the online edition; English Translation ; Demonstratio Evangelica (The Proof of the Gospel) Preface to the online edition; Preface, contents, abbreviations; Introduction; Book 1; Book 2; Book 3; Book 4; Book 5; Book 6; Book 7; Book 8; Book 9; Book 10; Adverts; Encomium on the Martyrs. Or has any of them been seized and crucified for the Name? So he speaks as follows: [OENOMAUS] As ominous dreams thou dost to mortals send,  But it is important to observe the time at which he says that the death of the daemon took place. Rub out the magic lines, and let me go. In his first year Julian became bishop of the Alexandrian churches, after Agripinnus had held the office for twelve years. Then he was dragged away harshly, and received blows of every kind. That by their darkness and obscurity they concealed their own ignorance, XXIV. 3. 179 d 9 Porphyry, Against the Christians, 4. 214 a 10 Hesiod, Works and Days, vv. Having related these things at the outset, and continued the refutation of their delusion through his entire work, in the second book he speaks as follows of their end: 12. And rushing swiftly down to Deo's earth  To welcome thee as god. But of those Pythian responses which Were most celebrated among the Greeks there was a certain one addressed to Lycurgus, to whom at his coming the Pythoness addressed that famous answer: 'To my rich shrine thou com'st, Lycurgus, dear  August 309 Bischof von Rom. The enemy of God's Church, who is emphatically a hater of good and a lover of evil, and leaves untried no manner of craft against men, was again active in causing strange heresies to spring up against the Church. 15. 205 It was not difficult therefore to see that they would neither have accepted both misfortunes rather than one, nor the greater instead of the less, and it was less that one, even their king, should fall instead of all. "Set not thy hand to deeds of war alone,  In the letter to Florinus, of which we have spoken, Irenæus mentions again his intimacy with Polycarp, saying: These doctrines, O Florinus, to speak mildly, are not of sound judgment. A school of sacred learning, which continues to our day, was established there in ancient times, and as we have been informed, was managed by men of great ability and zeal for divine things. Video. Yet shall a day arrive when ye shall meet him in battle. But the blessed Blandina, last of all, having, as a noble mother, encouraged her children and sent them before her victorious to the King, endured herself all their conflicts and hastened after them, glad and rejoicing in her departure as if called to a marriage supper, rather than cast to wild beasts. Es-pecial thanks are due for the help and inspiration gained from that eminent scholar, and for the light thrown by him upon many difficult passages in those portions of the work. For it was the time of Tiberius, in which our Saviour, making His sojourn among men, is recorded to have been ridding human life from daemons of every kind: so that there were some of them now kneeling before Him and beseeching Him not to deliver them over to the Tartarus that awaited them. 'This was the answer to the Lacedaemonians against the Messenians; but on the other hand the answer to the Messenians against the Lacedaemonians was as follows; for thou didst give oracles to the Messenians also against the Lacedaemonians, and not only to the Lacedaemonians against the Messenians: "A virgin of the race of Aepytus  And in our own days also one might observe thousands of similar cases, in which from ancient times even to our own the successive rulers at one time rushed into unprofitable wars by the advice of the oracles, at another time were foiled by the obscurity of the responses, or again were misled from the actual deceit of the oracles. BUT since this wonderful god by his own responses has deified not only poets but even boxers and athletes, the author before mentioned seems to me to pass an appropriate censure on this also in the following words: 'O thou who knowest to number the sands and to measure the ocean  'But as the top of the log was like a head (Apollo! 3. 4. If I was desirous of becoming a sculptor or painter, and was seeking for teachers, was it sufficient for me to hear 41. We could show the same thing of many others. By lot assigned to Minos, ye send forth  4. ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY OF. When those called to martyrdom from the Church for the truth of the faith have met with any of the so-called martyrs of the Phrygian heresy, they have separated from them, and died without any fellowship with them, because they did not wish to give their assent to the spirit of Montanus and the women. These are the matters recorded by Apollonius. For neither did night avail us for this purpose, nor did money persuade, nor entreaty move to compassion; but they kept watch in every way, as if the prevention of the burial would be of some great advantage to them. We have learned that, in his youth, he was a hearer of Polycarp. They were also so zealous in their imitation of Christ —'who, being in the form of God, counted it not a prize to be on an equality with God,' Philippians 2:6 — that, though they had attained such honor, and had borne witness, not once or twice, but many times — having been brought back to prison from the wild beasts, covered with burns and scars and wounds — yet they did not proclaim themselves witnesses, nor did they suffer us to address them by this name. The first of these was Plutarch, who was mentioned just above CHAPTER 5. When the foe shall have taken (whatever the limit of Cecrops  And of what use art thou to us? For the passionless nature can neither be enticed, nor forced, nor compelled by necessity. But being recently in Ancyra in Galatia, I found the church there greatly agitated by this novelty, not prophecy, as they call it, but rather false prophecy, as will be shown. What need to tell how at times in the greatest crises either of battle-array against the enemy, or of danger in bodily sickness, men gained no help or healing from the supposed gods. Stop the muttering from the cave;". By all these testimonies, then, I think it is clearly proved that their gods were found to be daemons haunting the earth and enslaved to passions: wherefore it seems to me that I have followed sound reason in turning away from them. The kind of methods by which their wonderful gods are subjected to the impostors, XI. For they once set out to invade the Peloponnese by way of the Isthmus, but failed in the attempt. Or even if among these there were, as they say, some who were by nature good, or even gods, what need was there to offer worship to the bad, when they ought to have been driven away by the good? He had the same name as the one who anciently was at the head of the Roman church, and who was a disciple of the apostles. All ten books of Eusebius' famous church history are presented here complete in a superb and authoritative translation. And mingle with the red beard's sacred locks. Such, he said, was the case also with the legends of Typhon and the Titans, that there were battles of daemons against daemons, then banishments of the conquered, or punishments by a god of those who had committed sins, such as Typhon is said to have committed upon Osiris, and Kronos on Uranos; gods, whose honours among us have become more obscure, or have altogether ceased, since they have departed into another world. 11. After their departure Mark, the disciple and interpreter of Peter, also transmitted to us in writing those things which Peter had preached; and Luke, the attendant of Paul, recorded in a book the Gospel which Paul had declared. This manly valour treads and concord true,  So come, let us append to it the verses in which at another time Apollo admires Archilochus, a man who in his own poems employed against women all kinds of foul and unspeakable abuse, which any modest man would not endure even to listen to: Euripides also he admires though he was expelled from the school and philosophy of Socrates, and is caricatured upon the stage even to the present day: besides these Homer also, whom the noble Plato banishes from his own republic, as in no respect profitable, but as having been the author of language which utterly corrupts the young. 1. 5. 'And when another man had determined to travel, because things were not well with him at home, he said that he was not taking right counsel; for he would go away and leave his country where it was, but would take his folly with him, which would make him disagreeable to the people there just as much as to those at home. Book II.→ THE. You see, for instance, how they say that their magic figures and images of that kind hold them fast in certain spots of ground: though they ought, if, as they say, there is any real divinity in them, to set foot in no other place, except only in the thought of the soul, and that thought too purified from all filth and from every stain, and adorned with modesty and righteousness and all the other virtues. At this time Narcissus was the bishop of the church at Jerusalem, and he is celebrated by many to this day. Thus Irenæus, who truly was well named, became a peacemaker in this matter, exhorting and negotiating in this way in behalf of the peace of the churches. 24. by F. C. Conybeare (HTML at tertullian.org) 1. We shall show then almost immediately that very soon after His manifestation there came stories of the deaths of daemons, and that the wonderful oracles so celebrated of old have ceased. 'For the cities offer sacrifice and keep festivals not only to wooden heads of Dionysus, but also to heads of stone, and bronze, and gold; not only to wooden heads but also to actual heads of Dionysus, and to very many of the other gods of Hesiod. Even now they stand with dark sweat horribly dripping,  And having been tossed about by the animal, but feeling none of the things which were happening to her, on account of her hope and firm hold upon what had been entrusted to her, and her communion with Christ, she also was sacrificed. For indeed there were still many evangelists of the Word who sought earnestly to use their inspired zeal, after the examples of the apostles, for the increase and building up of the Divine Word. He speaks as follows: For the old man Apelles, when conversing with us, was refuted in many things which he spoke falsely; whence also he said that it was not at all necessary to examine one's doctrine, but that each one should continue to hold what he believed. Either your glorious city shall be sacked  'Again there is the combination most unlike prophecy. Neither, therefore, did Pythagoras the Rhodian speak rightly, nor would the author of this testimony of theirs, nor any man whatsoever call them with good reason gods, nay, nor yet good daemons, dragged about as they are by mortal men and mere impostors, not according to their own judgement, but dragged by force and compulsion, and without having in themselves the power of release from their bonds. Eusebius presents the history of the Church from the apostles to his own time, with special regard to the following points: 1. the successions of bishops in the principal sees 2. the history of Christian teachers 3. the history of heresies 4. the history of the Jews 5. the relations to the heathen 6. the martyrdoms. The country in which the arena was prepared for them was Gaul, of which Lyons and Vienne are the principal and most celebrated cities. Or men who drink fair Arethusa's fount.". It seems to me that he alludes to the same person also in the first book of his Stromata, when, referring to the more conspicuous of the successors of the apostles whom he had met, he says: 3. So far then let these quotations suffice from this work of Porphyry. Yet knowing this thou none the less givest this answer, and then lookest on at his mistake. 28. And his own parish, from which he came, did not receive him, because he was a robber. After quoting some of their words, he adds: Having found these things in a certain work of theirs in opposition to the work of the brother Alcibiades, in which he shows that a prophet ought not to speak in ecstasy, I made an abridgment. Further proof that the prophetic and oracular shrines among the heathen belonged to evil daemons, and how they have all been destroyed and have failed since our Saviour's teaching in the Gospel, II. And as being of the earth and speaking of the earth, and as ignorant of him who comes from above, they forsake the holy writings of God to devote themselves to geometry. 10, 'This man ascribed his inspiration to daemons, and had much to say about Delphi, and there was none of the stories told here about Dionysos, nor of the sacred rites performed, of which he had not heard; but those also he asserted to be mighty sufferings of daemons, and the same of the story about the Python, Such practices the same author has mentioned again in his Epistle to the before-mentioned Egyptian, as though he were consulting a prophet upon secret truths, and requesting to be taught by him the words in which they accomplish these results. Perhaps then on this account the soul is of threefold form and parts: and one part of it is irascible, and another concupiscent, by which latter it is invited to amorous indulgence. 6. Other writers of history record the victories of war and trophies won from enemies, the skill of generals, and the manly bravery of soldiers, defiled with blood and with innumerable slaughters for the sake of children and country and other possessions. To which he adds, if they are still tardy in the dismissal: "Unwrap the linen cloud, and set the prophet free.". 2 and the leader of them all in malice, were regarded among all men as the greatest of gods; the memory also of those long dead came to be thought worthy of greater worship. And as if by decree of the Senate he was put to death by decapitation; an ancient law requiring that those who were brought to the judgment seat and refused to recant should not be liberated. Now the author aforesaid writes as follows in his book which he entitled Of the Philosophy to be derived from Oracles, wherein he protests against betraying the secrets of the gods, and binds himself by oath and exhorts others to conceal what he shall say and not publish it to many. For this of course the land gained no help towards being relieved of its barrenness, but that some wise person who understood the mind of the gods conceived that the banished one was the statue which had been drowned in the sea. The Ecclesiastical History of Eusebius Pamphilus (c. 326) translated by C.F. Eusebius has 63 books on Goodreads with 11615 ratings. Worshipping wealth in customs not those of your sires but divine. Sarapis for example says of himself, after seeing Pan: "A brilliant light shone through the god's own house;  And his body was a witness of his sufferings, being one complete wound and bruise, drawn out of shape, and altogether unlike a human form. 'For as Pythagoras had made these statements, I learned, by close observation of the oracles, how true his words are. men of the golden age are set. 1. But they had cast the pentathlete Euthycles into prison, on a charge of having received bribes against his country: and not only so, but after he was dead they committed outrages upon his statues, until the gods could not endure their conduct, and sent the most violent famine upon them. The Ecclesiastical History of Eusebius Pamphilus, Bishop of Caesarea, in Palestine, in Ten Books (1842) by Eusebius of Caesarea, translated by C. F. Cruse. Enfeebled by long ages, it hath laid  They asked for life, and he gave it to them, and they shared it with their neighbors. And he alludes to him in a private letter to Caricus and Pontius, in which he himself exposes the same heresy, and adds the following words: 2. For he will not admit that the oracles which are admired among all the Greeks proceed from a daemon, much less from a god, but says that they are frauds and tricks of human impostors, cunningly contrived to deceive the multitude. And as he remembered their words, and what he heard from them concerning the Lord, and concerning his miracles and his teaching, having received them from eyewitnesses of the 'Word of life,' 1 John 1:1 Polycarp related all things in harmony with the Scriptures. The Sun alone, which lights our mortal life, Eusebius Pamphili of Caesarea. Deshalb habe ich ein Buch nach dem anderen überarbeitet und… These mix with resin, myrrh, and frankincense,  Then all of us feared greatly on account of uncertainty as to their confession; not because we dreaded the sufferings to be endured, but because we looked to the end, and were afraid that some of them might fall away. p. 417 B, 6. He often resorted to such conversations devoured by the people put away the.. 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