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This is a list of all the questions and their associated study carrel identifiers. One can learn a lot of the "aboutness" of a text simply by reading the questions.

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40929And what peculiar thing is it that the new creature, the Son of God intimates and teaches?
40929The Procidians 160 A.D.(?)
40929What is this?
40929[ 28] Circa 200(?).
35562** What does it mean, to love God with one''s heart and soul and mind?
35562** Why a Church?
35562Does it attempt to officiate for God?
35562Does its Priesthood possess authority?
35562Have you tried the virtue of the law of the earth?
35562In the plan, what was to be man''s part?
35562Is the increasing power of man a sufficient reward for the effort and struggle that must accompany progression?
35562Shall a man obey a man?
35562The question is often asked,"Does nature, as we know it, the rocks and trees and beasts, possess intelligence of an order akin to that of man?"
35562WHY A CHURCH?
35562Whence?
35562Whither?
35562Who knows?
30888How can I cease to pray for thee? 30888 My God, My God, why hast Thou forsaken Me?"
30888What is their object?
30888What name do they bear?
30888Can He not hear me when for thee I pray?"
30888Can He not reach thee with His tender care?
30888If not, then how came about their universal acceptance and continuance even unto this present day?
30888In time there grew up a church there, a mixed society of Jews and Gentiles, and the citizens of Antioch naturally asked,"What are they?"
30888N N or M.--The letters placed after the first question in the Church Catechism,"What is your name?"
30888This being the case the question, therefore, is not"Shall we have forms?"
30888What becomes of the living soul when thus separated from the body by death?
30888but,"_ What_ form shall we have in our Public Worship?"
31165(_ b_)"Do you think?"
31165(_ c_)"Are you persuaded?"
31165), Ruth( Samuel or Ezra), 1st and 2nd Samuel( Samuel, Nathan, and Gad), 1st and 2nd Kings( Jeremiah), 1st and 2nd Chronicles( Ezra?
311651.16?
31165From their rights?
31165How can infants be made disciples, but by baptism?
31165It should be noticed that the question is not"Are you sure?"
31165These fifteen hundred were ejected, and from what?
31165What is the nature of this terrible sin which"shall not be forgiven, neither in this world nor in the world to come?"
31165What would John Wesley have thought of all this?
31165Where the name of the Author differs from the name of the Book it is given in brackets,--Joshua, Judges( Samuel?
31165but(_ a_)"Do you trust?"
45952), which took place at the very end of the forty years''wandering?
45952Are there any traces of the influence of this idea at work in the religion of the Old Testament?
45952Are we to refuse to read it and to reverse the judgment that included it in the Canon?
45952But are these different points of view incompatible with a single author?
45952But how are we to decide what is compatible with inspiration?
45952But when did Israel embody such a conception?
45952Can we be certain, without examining the facts, to what lines the revelation of God is to be restricted?
45952Can we trace within this more limited circle a movement that shall in any way prepare us for the appearance of men of the type of Amos?
45952Could He not use the early legends which they believed, and through them bring the truth to men?
45952Could not God speak to man in his infancy, and with the growing understanding would there not be growing light?
45952Did Jesus ever read that Book, or were its ideas at all commonly known?
45952Do these reflect the conditions and development of his times?
45952Fall of Nineveh 607_ Chaldà ¦ an Period._ Jeremiah 626- 586 Deuteronomy discovered 621 Habakkuk 605- 600?
45952How came such a tender root out of such a dry ground?
45952Is any such antithesis necessary?
45952Is such a thing as its reception by the Hebrews credible on this account?
45952Is this not coming to the Bible with a theory which we have manufactured and which will surely distort the facts?
45952Israel had suffered for her sins of presumption and disobedience; but were the nations who punished her any more righteous?
45952Return under Sheshbazzar(?)
45952The question to be answered is: What was that"law of Moses"which Ezra brought to Jerusalem and read to the people?
45952Was it a stone image of Jehovah?
45952What are we to learn from this Book?
45952What fulfilment would it be if Cyrus was yet a figure of the unknown future?
45952What gave the name of David to that collection?
45952What is the cause of that difference?
45952What then is the significance of the expressions which seem to point to something more?
45952What was it that led the Prophet to write down the message which he had delivered?
45952What were the sources from which this code drew its material?
37696But I return to them, to demonstrate their injustice by what they have said: Say then, for what reason you destroyed that great temple? 37696 If also Christ wished to be concealed, why was a voice heard from heaven, proclaiming him to be the son of God?
37696Again: How can we think him to be a God, who, that I may omit other things, performed, as we learn, nothing that was promised?
37696And did not some of them consider themselves sacred to Mercury, but others to the Muses?
37696And do we not lament the ruins made by earthquakes?
37696And if it be hurtful likewise, why not much more?
37696And what advantage have they by this, when the profession only is the same with theirs, but a real agreement with them is wanting?
37696Are not the temples the possession of the Emperors as well as other things?
37696Are you alone ignorant that summer and winter are produced by him, and that all things are alone vivified and alone germinate from him?
37696Are you alone insensible of the splendour that flows from the sun?
37696Besides, what God that ever appeared to men, did not procure belief that he was a God, particularly when he appeared to those who expected his advent?
37696But he who does that which is not approved by the Emperor, does Wrong; does he not?
37696But if all this affair of sacrifices be a vain thing, why has not this vain thing been prohibited?
37696But what witness worthy of belief saw this spectre?
37696But what_ excellent_ general, who was the leader of many myriads of men, was ever betrayed by his soldiers?
37696But who was it that saw this?
37696But, from all these, nothing happens to the gods beyond what they already possess; for what accession can be made to a divine nature?
37696But, tell me, what advantage has accrued to your city from those who now introduce among you a new religion?
37696By what right do they make these incursions?
37696Can it be thought, that they who are not able to bear the sight of a collector s cloak, should despise the power of your government?
37696Do we think it a cruel thing to cut off a man''s hand, and a small matter to pluck out the eyes of cities?
37696Do you assent to this principle?
37696Do you not therefore call a sinner, an unjust man, a thief, a housebreaker, a wizard, one who is sacrilegious, and a robber of sepulchres?
37696Do you not, also, perceive the great advantages that accrue to your city from the moon, from him and by him the fabricator of all things?
37696Does not every one suppose him to be distracted, who throws his purse into the sea?
37696For have there not been many who have destroyed good men, such as Socrates and Dion, and the great Empedotimus?
37696For what account can be given of such mischiefs?
37696For why, employing his testimony, should we rather think those other workers of miracles to be more depraved than himself?
37696How can such return without cursing the author of these evils?
37696How do they destroy some things, and carry off others?
37696How do they not defeat your own care and providence and labours, O Emperor?
37696How do they not fight against your law by what they do?
37696How do they seize other men''s goods with the indignation of the countries?
37696How is it, then, that some under your government disturb others equally under your government, and permit them not to enjoy the common benefits of it?
37696How, then, are you not liable to punishment?
37696How, then, do we not consider as wood and stones those statues which are fashioned by the hands of men?
37696Is it because you would have them remain?
37696Is it the part of wise men to sink their own goods?
37696Is it therefore just or unjust for a man to be malific to him by whom he has been hurt?
37696Is it, therefore, reasonable that he should also be deprived of this?
37696Nevertheless, what is this but in time of peace to wage war with the husbandmen?
37696Or why was he not acknowledged by those, by whom he had been for a long time expected?
37696Or, condemning his own laws, did he alter his opinion, and send a messenger to mankind with mandates of a contrary nature?
37696Or, if he did not wish to be concealed, why did he suffer punishment, and why did, he[ ignominiously] die?"
37696Or, was the Father who sent Jesus forgetful of what he had formerly said to Moses?
37696Quid ad hæc audet Octavius homo Plautinæ Prosapiæ, ut Pistorum præcipuus ita postremus Philosophorum?
37696Tell me why this temple of Fortune is safe?
37696Were not Homer, Hesiod, Demosthenes, Herodotus, Thucydides, Isocrates, and Lysias, the leaders of all erudition?
37696What kind of ichör also or blood dropped from his crucified body?
37696What other persons would the crier nominate, who should call robbers together?
37696What reason is there for destroying that, the use of which may be changed?
37696What then did the Ptolemies, who succeeded your founder?
37696What then?
37696What then?
37696What thing of this kind did your God utter when{ 35} he was punished*?
37696What young or old person, what man, what woman?
37696Where then is the truth of this charge, when they accuse those men of sacrificing contrary to law?
37696Whether, therefore, does Moses or Jesus lie?
37696Who are they?
37696Who of their neighbours?
37696Who of those inhabiting the same country, and not agreeing with the sacrificers in the worship of the gods?
37696Who, however, would choose to be thus changed?
37696Why likewise do you begin from our sacred institutions, but afterwards in the progress[ of your iniquity] despise them?
37696Why then do you run mad against the temples?
37696Why, therefore, do not you Christians[ voluntarily] die with your master?"
37696Would it not be shameful for an army to fight against its own walls?
37696and for a general to excite them against what they have raised with great labour; the finishing of which was a festival for those who then reigned?
37696and the temple of Jupiter, and of Minerva, and of Bacchus?
37696and when there are no earthquakes, nor other accidents, shall we ourselves do what they are wo nt to effect?
37696and yet think it proper for a magistrate to deprive a city of such a part of it?
37696is it proper or not, O Crito, to be malific?
37696or how can you pretend that what you have done is right, when the sufferers have done no wrong?
37696was it,..... such as from the blest immortals flows?
37696{ 12} who had insulted both him and his father?
37696{ 31}"The Christians again will say, How can God be known unless he can be apprehended by sense?
37696{ 41} tormentors and castigators as these things are thought to be?
37696{ 6} husband, so as neither to be saved by her own credulity nor by divine power?
37696{ 96} How can these men reject their fellow- subjects, differing from them in this matter?
43685Can any man forbid the water,said Peter,"that these should not be baptized, who have received the Holy Spirit as well as we?"
43685For who among men knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of the man, which is in him? 43685 (= 2=)= Humanity in John.=--But if the Jesus of the Synoptists is a true man, how is it with the Jesus of John? 43685 12:7- 10? 43685 2. WHO WAS THE AUTHOR? 43685 3:1? 43685 9:1- 5? 43685 9:3? 43685 A PHILOSOPHY, OR A TESTIMONY? 43685 AUTHORSHIP Who wrote the book of The Acts? 43685 After the case of Cornelius, how could any possible question arise? 43685 And where was such a misunderstanding of Paul possible in Jewish Christian circles of A. D. 62? 43685 Are those words intended to be part of what was spoken at the very time of the conversion? 43685 Are we really separate from the world? 43685 Are we reallya chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people"( A. V.)?
43685Are we willing to be known as"Christians"in that sense?
43685Behooved it not the Christ to suffer these things, and to enter into his glory?
43685But by what standard is the Gospel judged?
43685But did he come for naught?
43685But from whom had Paul"received"these things?
43685But how could that opposition arise at all?
43685But how is it with our lives?
43685But how is it with the difference between Second Peter and First Peter?
43685But how shall we find him?
43685But instruments for what?
43685But through whom does he apply the healing touch?
43685But was the empire really identical with the world?
43685But what good is it to us?
43685But what has he done for us?
43685But when was it written?
43685But who was he?
43685Can modern Christians be called"saints,"in the New Testament sense?
43685Could Paul have had so many personal acquaintances in a church which he had never visited?
43685Could they have been deceived?
43685Did Paul speak before the court, or did he speak on Mars''hill merely to those who were interested?
43685Did he use written sources as well as oral information?
43685Do we really feel ourselves to be strangers and pilgrims in the earth?
43685Do you think that was an advantage or a disadvantage?
43685For example, how were the elders to be chosen?
43685For example, if Paul is referring to the Apostolic Council, why has he not mentioned the apostolic decree of Acts 15:23- 29?
43685For example, the words:"What then is the law?
43685From whom could the opponents have received their letters of introduction?
43685HOW WERE ELDERS TO BE CHOSEN?
43685Have we become merged in the life of the world?
43685He has done something like that at the conclusion of his Gospel; why not also at the conclusion of The Acts?
43685How can the acceptance of a historical fact satisfy the longing of our souls?
43685How could a Hebrew book be used in the Greek world?
43685How could the missionaries get a hearing for their message?
43685How did the New Testament come to be written in Greek?
43685How did they come to be omitted?
43685How do you know that Luke was written by Luke?
43685How do you know?
43685How is it with our religious observances?
43685How may it now be checked?
43685How shall it be investigated?
43685How then can you now think that the law is necessary?
43685How then, if the decree really was passed as Luke says it was, could it have been left unmentioned by Paul?
43685How was it produced?
43685How was the Hellenistic age like our own?
43685How was the transition accomplished?
43685If God had opened, who could close?
43685If Paul did not write the Epistle to the Hebrews, who did write it?
43685If the Christian is already a citizen of heaven, may he not be indifferent to the conditions of life upon this earth?
43685If the disciples were nothing but Jews, why did the Jews persecute them?
43685If the passage was a refutation not of Paul but of a misunderstanding of Paul, why did James not say so?
43685If we are pronounced righteous whether we are really righteous or not, then may we not go on with impunity in sin?
43685In what languages is the Bible written?
43685Is that attitude altogether unfavorable, or did the early missionaries ever lay hold upon the higher aspirations of their Gentile hearers( Athens)?
43685Is the Jesus of the Fourth Gospel fiction or fact, a splendid product of religious genius or a living Saviour?
43685Is the totality of man''s happiness limited to a brief span of life; are we after all but creatures of a day?
43685May not the same person have spoken the discourses of the Fourth Gospel and also those of the Synoptists?
43685Mother said to Archalaus,''It quite upsets him to be left behind(?).''
43685Must we stake our salvation upon the intricacies of historical research?
43685ONE BOOK, OR A COLLECTION OF BOOKS?
43685Or are we rather salt that has lost its savor?
43685Or is he Saviour of you and me?
43685Or is there an eternal life beyond the grave, with infinite possibilities of good or evil?
43685PAUL AT TARSUS In the first place, what was the extent of the Greek influence which was exerted upon Paul at Tarsus?
43685SOURCES Where did Luke get the materials for his work?
43685Shall Paul''s explanation of his life be accepted?
43685Shall we be sharers in his holy joy?
43685Shall we heed the message?
43685Shall we then stand aloof?
43685Since God had spoken so clearly, who could deny to the Gentiles a free entrance into the Church?
43685THE RESURRECTION A FACT OF HISTORY Which of the books of the New Testament contain the evidence for the resurrection of Jesus?
43685TO WHOM WAS RELIEF EXTENDED?
43685The epistle was certainly written by Paul, but was it all, as we now have it, originally part of one letter?
43685Under what title should the claims of the Saviour be presented?
43685WAS THE FIRST GOSPEL ORIGINALLY ARAMAIC?
43685WHEN WAS THE EPISTLE WRITTEN?
43685WHERE WERE THE READERS?
43685Was Paul released?
43685Was he condemned and executed?
43685Was he considering the possibility that Christianity might be true?
43685Was he trying to stifle his own inward uncertainty by the very madness of his zeal?
43685Wast thou called being a bondservant?
43685We may not understand it all, but is Christ to be believed?
43685Were the Gentiles to become Jews in order to become Christians, and was the Gentile mission to begin at once?
43685Were these extreme legalists, who objected to the work of Paul and Barnabas-- were these men present in the Church from the beginning?
43685What Old Testament passages has Paul here in mind?
43685What could he possibly gain by such useless trouble- making?
43685What did Paul do in Arabia and in Tarsus?
43685What did the Jews of the first century mean by the Messiah, and what did they mean by the Messianic age?
43685What did the apostles teach about the condition of the believer between death and the final resurrection?
43685What has become of your devotion to me?
43685What if the Christians were right about salvation by faith?
43685What is it that John adds to what had already been told?
43685What is meant by"the kingdom of God"?
43685What is the attitude of the apostles toward Greek thought?
43685What light do these passages shed upon the linguistic conditions of the time?
43685What men of higher position are mentioned in the New Testament?
43685What more natural than that the same thoughts and to some extent the same words should appear in both?
43685What need of regularly appointed forms when the Holy Spirit was so immediately manifested?
43685What other languages are mentioned in the New Testament?
43685What should the attitude of the Christians be?
43685What was God''s purpose in providing these simple exercises of the Christian life-- what benefit do we receive from them?
43685What was the moral condition of the Greco- Roman world?
43685What was the origin of the great church at Alexandria?
43685What was the social condition of the early Christians?
43685What were this man''s thoughts and feelings and desires before the grace of Christ made him the greatest of Christian missionaries?
43685What would be the result of its first real contact with the culture of the time?
43685What, for example, is meant by the"angels"of the churches to which the several letters are addressed?
43685When John the Baptist asked,"Art thou he that cometh, or look we for another?"
43685When will the modern Church take up the message with new power?
43685Where did the missionaries come into contact with heathen superstition?
43685Where should they draw the line in associating with their heathen friends?
43685Which meaning is intended here?
43685Which side would be victorious?
43685Who can stand before the white light of God''s awful judgment throne?
43685Who can tell what God has now in store?
43685Who founded the church at Rome?
43685Who is meant by"the woman Jezebel"?
43685Who was the other?
43685Who wrote the Fourth Gospel?
43685Why did God send our Lord just in the first century?
43685Why did he not distinguish Paul clearly from his misinterpreters?
43685Why should the example of the apostolic Church be followed in the matter of Bible- reading, of the sacraments, of prayer, of Christian meetings?
43685Why, then, is the disciple who appears so prominently along with Andrew and Simon not mentioned by name?
43685Will the invitation be accepted?
43685Will they still share the joy of God at the return of his lost children?
43685Would the brethren who had fallen asleep miss the benefits of Christ''s kingdom?
43685Would they ever even gain a hearing?
45122A_ mere_ man?
45122And how can we love what is totally different from ourselves?
45122And if a name was wanted for that intimate relation between God and man, what better name was there than Father and Son?
45122And if so, why should that love ever cease?
45122And shall we find them again such as they left us?
45122And where can we study the science of thought, that most wonderful instance of development, except in the languages and literatures of the past?
45122And why should it be so different when the door opens, and we step out of this dark life into the bright room?
45122And yet who will say that true Christianity, Christianity which is known by its fruits, is less vigorous now than it has ever been before?
45122Are they not human too?
45122Are we not altogether at the mercy of God?
45122But can we prevent the light of the sun and the noises of the street from waking the happy child from his heavenly dreams?
45122But how can we speak of these things except in metaphors?
45122But what did he mean by soul?
45122But what is the reason of this?
45122Can we imagine a more powerful revelation?
45122Can we say that of God''s love?
45122Can we wish for more than what we are, lookers- on-- resisting what tries to crush us, call it force, or evil, or anything else?
45122Does the Self take possession of a body because it lives, or does the body live because the Self has taken possession of it?
45122Has our prosperity taught us to meet adversity when it comes?
45122Has the Self which for a time dwells in a living body anything to do with what we call the life of that body?
45122How are we to do justice to our ancestors except by letting them plead their own case in their own language?
45122How it is in that larger world, who can say?
45122How much more in the real presence of a real and really beloved God, as felt by the true mystic, not merely as a phrase, but as a fact?
45122How then can we rely on it as an accurate picture of the thoughts of Moses and his contemporaries?
45122How, where, when?
45122If God is called holy, again we have to say No, for what can our conception of holiness be compared with the holiness of God?
45122If people talk of the miseries of life, are they not all man''s work?
45122If so, does the body die because the Self leaves it, or does the Self leave the body because it dies?
45122If there is continuity in the world everywhere, why should there be a wrench and annihilation only with us?
45122Is any kind of religion possible without an unquestioning trust in truth?
45122Is it not all one?
45122Is it not the same with the Beautiful?
45122Is it nothing to know that there is a solid rock on which all religion, call it natural or supernatural, is founded?
45122Is not a real fact that happened, in a world in which nothing can happen against the will of God, better than any miracle?
45122Is not that also God''s will?
45122Is that better than Christ''s own simple human language, I go to my Father?
45122Is that nothing?
45122Is there any one who loves us more than God?
45122Is there anything among the works of God, anything next to God, more wonderful, more awful, more holy than man?
45122It is all God''s work, and where is there a flaw in that wonder of all wonders, God''s ever- working work?
45122It is true our hopes are human, but what are the doubts and difficulties?
45122Look at the miserable conceptions which man made to himself as long as he spoke of gods beside God?
45122Much rather should we ask, Was then Jesus a mere God?
45122Nay, is it not our duty to wake the child, when the time has come that he must be up and doing, and take his share in the toils of the day?
45122Need we wonder, therefore, that just those who wish to transfer only their highest to the Godhead begin to shrink from speaking of a personal God?
45122Or again, Are we to make ourselves gods?
45122Shall we meet again as we left?
45122Should we then attach our hearts to nothing, and pass quietly and unsympathetically through this world, as if we had nothing to do with it?
45122Shut our eyes and be silent?
45122Surely this was not so in the early centuries, nor again at the time of the Reformation?
45122Then what can we do?
45122To live means to be able to absorb, but who or what is able?
45122Was not Christ, who died for us, more than we ourselves?
45122We are in a dark prison here; let us believe that outside it there is no darkness, but light-- but what light, who knows?
45122We believe what we desire-- true-- but why do we desire?
45122We do not know_ how_ it will be so, but who has a right to say it_ can not_ be so?
45122We love the fair appearance too, how could it be otherwise?
45122We seem to love the fleeting forms of life, and yet how can we truly love what is so faithless?
45122What can we do?
45122What do we ourselves mean by soul?
45122What does that mean?
45122What does that mean?
45122What ground have we, then, to doubt that it was even before that moment?
45122What has life to do with the Self?
45122What led to such expressions as''God is Love''but a feeling of reverence, which shrank from speaking of God as loving as we love?
45122What should we be without it?
45122What should we learn from these prophets who from distant countries and bygone ages all bear the same witness to the same truth?
45122What would become of the world if all our prayers were granted?
45122What, then, is that something which, added to the good, makes it beautiful?
45122What, then, is the touchstone by which we assay the Beautiful?
45122Whence all these limits?
45122Whence comes melody?
45122Where is the temple of God, or the true kingdom of God?
45122Where is there a flaw or a fault?
45122Wherever and whenever it was, we feel that we have made ourselves what we are; is not that a useful article of faith?
45122Who would blame them or disturb them?
45122Why do we so seldom face the great problem?
45122Why not?
45122Why not?
45122Why should all be different?
45122Why should we look for God and listen for His voice outside us only, and not within us?
45122Why should we protest against a similar unknown quantity before the beginning of our life on earth?
45122Why should we try to know more than we can know, if only we firmly believe that Christ''s immortal spirit ascended to the Father?
45122Why was the past often so beautiful?
45122Would it not be fearful to live for one day unless we knew, and saw, and felt His Presence and Wisdom and Love encompassing us on all sides?
45122_ Chips._ Can not a concept exist without a word?
45122_ Chips._ What author has ever said the last word he wanted to say, and who has not had to close his eyes before he could write_ Finis_ to his work?
45122_ Gifford Lectures, II._ Can there be anything higher and better than truth?
45122_ Gifford Lectures, II._ What can a study of Natural Religion teach us?
45122_ Gifford Lectures, III._ We have toiled for many years and been troubled with many questionings, but what is the end of it all?
45122_ Life._ Do we really lose those who are called before us?
45122_ Life._ Does love pass away( with death)?
45122_ Life._ What can we call ours if God did not vouchsafe it to us from day to day?
45122_ Life._ What is more natural in life than death?
45122_ Life._ Why do we love so deeply?
45122_ Life._ Would that loving Father begin such a work in us as is now going on, and then destroy it, leave it unfinished?
45122_ MS._ How is it that we know so little of life after death?
45122_ MS._ If Jesus was not God, was He, they ask, a mere man?
45122_ MS._ Is there such a thing as a Lost Love?
45122_ MS._ THE BEAUTIFUL Is the Beautiful without us, or is it not rather within us?
45122_ MS._ Then it is said, Is not Christ God?
45122_ MS._ There is the old riddle always before me, why was... taken from me?
45122_ MS._ What can we pray for?
45122_ MS._ What is past, present, future?
45122_ MS._ What is the tenure of all our happiness?
45122_ MS._ What, then, is that which we call Death?
45122_ MS._ Why is there so much suffering in this world?
45122_ Science of Religion._ Do you still wonder at polytheism or at mythology?
45122_ Science of Thought._ Every language has to be learnt, but who made the language that was to be learnt?
45122_ Silesian Horseherd._ Why should the belief in the Son give everlasting life?
45122any one who knows better what is for our real good than God?
45122if the souls are without all this, without age, and sex, and national character, without even their native language, what will they be to us?''
45122or insist on defining the word''personal''so that it should exclude all that is incompatible with a perfect, unlimited, unchanging Being?
45122perceive the whole universe, and turn it into his object?
45122that we can hardly imagine anything without feeling that it is all human poetry?
45122whence all those desires in us that can not be fulfilled?
21938In this mene tyme( 1533,) thair come ane heremeit callit Thomas Douchtie, in Scotland, quha had bein lang Capitane[ captive?] 21938 Knave,( quod ane,) what have ye to do to medle with the Scriptures?"
21938Tush,( said the gossope,) we meane no so heigh materis: we meane, What honest man will do greatest service for least expensses?
21938What sayis thow of the Messe?
21938What then,( said ane other,) shall we leave to the Bischoppis and Kirkmen to do, yf everie man shalbe a babler upoun the Byble?
21938Will ye bynd us so strait, that we may do nothing without the expresse word of God? 21938 [ 155] Wharat the idiot Doctouris offended, said,"What will yo do, my Lord?
21938--"What must I do that I may be saved?"
21938And Job consenteth to the same sentence, saying,"Seing that he is heychtar then the heavins, tharefor what can thow buyld unto him?
21938And do ye not approve this vocatioun?"
21938And how can a man, being of this fassioun, please him?
21938And how long will thow suffer this tyranny of men?"
21938And in the end, he said to those that war present,"Was not this your charge to me?
21938And think ye, that God will approve in yow that whiche he did dampne in otheris?
21938At lenth he asked,"Will ye save my lyef?"
21938At the first sight of the Cardinall, sche said,"Welcome, my Lord: Is nott the King dead?"
21938Bot quhy dois sche not answer, for quhatt purpoise did sche bring in hir new bandis of men of weir?
21938But thare was no questioun,"With what forces shall we resist, yf we be invadit?"
21938But was thare obedience,( blynd raige it should be called,) excusable befoir God?
21938But what shall we think to be the verray cause that God hath thus dejected us?
21938But where God is left,( as he had plainlie renunced him before,) what can counsall or judgement availl?
21938But who rewlled my Lordis conscience, when he took his Eme''s wyff, Lady Giltoun?
21938Butt whairin yit hathe my Lord Duik his Grace and his freindis offended?
21938For as the schip perischeing, quhat can be saif that is within?
21938For how is he thy Saviour, yf thow mychtest save thy self by thy werkis?
21938For when thy baronis ar putt doun, what arte thow bot the King of Bane?
21938For while the Bishop in mockage saide to Adam reade of blaspheming, read beleeue ye that God is in heauen?
21938For whill the Bischop, in mocking, said to Adam Reid of Barskemyng,[39]"REID, Beleve ye that God is in heavin?"
21938For why?
21938Have I not the Quene at my awin devotioun?
21938Have ye slayne my Lord Cardinall?
21938He cryes in his ear,"Tak ordour, Schir, with your realme: who shall rewill during the minoritie of your Dowghter?
21938He is deapar then the hell, then how sall thow know him?
21938He lapp up mearely upoun the scaffold, and, casting a gawmound, said,"Whair ar the rest of the playaris?"
21938He re- demandis,"Is that Normond?"
21938His servandis reparing unto him, asked, Whare hie wold have provisioun maid for his Yule?
21938Honest and indifferent men asked, Why sche did so manifestlie violat hir promeise?
21938How can he then displease him?
21938How cane thei then displease him?
21938How long shall darknes owerquhelme this realme?
21938In July 1541,--"Item, to Maister Johnne Lauder, for his[ laubours] in writing of directionis to the Courte of[ Rome?]
21938In explanyng these wordis,"How long shall thow be angree, O Lord, against the prayer of thy people?"
21938Is Oliver tane?
21938Is Oliver tane?
21938Is not France my freind, and I freind to France?
21938Is nott my Lord Governour myne?
21938It was demanded, what could be reprehended in it?
21938Know ye not how the Bischoppis and thair officiallis servis us husband men?
21938Lett us see my Lord Cardinall?"
21938May nocht the lyek be trew this day?
21938May not my Lord compell me to ansuer to his extorte power?
21938May we cast away what we please, and reteane what we please?
21938Or belevith he that I am unprovided to rander accompt of my doctrine?
21938Or to what end should he have deid for thee, yf any werkis of thine might have saved thee?
21938Or, sall those that obey the wicked commandiment of those that ar placed in authoritie be excusable befoir God?
21938Otheris cryed,"Against whome will ye feght?
21938Questioun was had, what should thei meane?
21938Quhair is thy rychteousnes, goodnes, and satisfactioun?
21938Shall thare nott be four Regentes chosyn?
21938Shall ye suffer this hole realme to be infected with pernicious doctrin?
21938Thare was hard nothing of the Quenis parte but"My joyes, my hartes, what ailes yow?
21938Thay ar cum,( yitt not sa mony, na, not the saxt pairt that sche desyreit and lukit for,) and how?
21938The Bischoppes heirat offended, said,"What pratting is this?
21938The Capitane said,"Will ye nott go to the Messe?"
21938The Cardinall askyne,"Who calles?"
21938The Cardinall, awalkned with the schouttis, asked from his windo, What ment that noyse?
21938The Erle of Hunteley said,"What a babling foole is this?
21938The Provest[452] assembles the communitie, and cumis to the fowseis syd, crying,"What have ye done with my Lord Cardinall?
21938The Suppriour said to him,"Father, what say ye?
21938The summe of all his sermon was:"Thei say that we shuld preach: why nott?
21938Then he asked of one of the Officers that stoode by, Is your fire makyng ready?
21938Then the Sub- Prior demanded, Whether they would suffer M. Wischarde to receive the Communion or not?
21938Then the ravineyng wolves turned into madnes,[424] and said,"Whareunto lett we him speak any further?
21938They that awated prevented him, as thei had bein ignorant, till that he came in; and than begane thei to demand whare he had bein?
21938Thow wilt ask me, What word?
21938Thow wilt say then, Makith it no mater what we do?
21938Thow wilt say, Shall we then do no good werkis?
21938Thow wilt then say, that thift, murther, adulterie, and all vices, please God?
21938To whome, yf it please God that I returne, and questioun be demanded, What was the impediment of my purposed jorney?
21938Was all Leith of the Congregatioun?
21938Was not the Congregatioun under appointment with hir?
21938Was thair any defectioun espyit befoir thair arryvall?
21938Whairat the King wondering, said,"Adam Reid, what say ye?"
21938Whare ar thei knaiffis that have brought me this tale?"
21938Whare is my Lord Cardinall?
21938What assurance have ye this day of your religioun, whiche the warld that day had nocht of thairis?
21938What danger should I fear?"
21938What diddest thou say, sayd the Accuser?
21938What is a Saviour, butt he that savith?
21938What is this to say, Christ deid for thee?
21938What nedith he any thing of thyne, who gevith all thing, and is not the poorare?
21938When that he beheld thare lawghing,"Lawgh ye,( sayeth he,) my Lordis?
21938When the questioun was asked, What difference was betuix the one and the other, and yf thei understud the nature of the Greak terme_ Agape_?
21938Whether doest thou graunt thy foresayd Articles that thou art accused of, or no, and thou shalt heare them shortly?
21938Whither may we do the same in materis of religioun?
21938Whome other desyrest thow to be thy judge?"
21938Why flie ye, vilanes, now, without ordour?
21938Why may nott the Kirk,( said he,) for good causes, devise Ceremonies to decore the Sacramentis, and other Goddis service?"
21938Will thei not give to us a lettir of Curssing for a plack, to laste for a year, to curse all that looke ower our dick[ dyke]?
21938Will ye condempne all that my Lord Cardinall and the other Bischoppes and we have done?
21938Will ye not go to your chalmer, and not ly hear into this commoun house?"
21938Witness his eldast sone[437] thare pledge at my table?
21938Ye have knawin my service: what will ye have done?
21938Yea, and how far was it socht heir to have bene brocht in upoun yow and your posteritie, under cullour to have bene laid up in stoir for the weiris?
21938[ 929] In MS. G,"and how are they cum?"
21938[ 949] Sua the commun- wealth being betrayit, quhat particular member can leif in quyetnes?
21938[ 978]] maist unworthy of ony regiment in ane weill rewlit commun- wealth?
21938_ Whither may we do the same in matters of religion?_(_ omitted_.)
21938_ of a justifeid man: but how it is suppressed, we know nott_--of a man justified, which is extant to this day.--(_In the margin_,) with a smudge?]
21938and I ask a drynk?
21938and shall nott I be principall of thame?"
21938and should ye nott luif your nychtbouris as your selfis?"
21938think ye that I synne?
21938was paid to"ane child to bring the auld( Service?)
6038At home with the Lord--that is what"death"(?)
6038Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots? 6038 Hath he said, and shall he not do it?"
6038He that spared not his own Son, but freely delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him freely give us all things?
6038Where is your Christ?
6038Who was this one, this remaining angel? 6038 Why_ reason_ ye these things in your hearts?"
6038''0, my Lord,''said Daniel to the angel,''what shall be the end of these things?''
6038( 1)''What is meant by statement that man was made"in the image of God"?
6038( 2) What is meant by the anthropomorphic expressions used of God?
6038( 2) Whence comes this universal belief in the existence of God?
6038( See Luke 1:34--"How shall this be, seeing I know not a man?")
603811) this shall be accomplished?
603812:8, 9--"And I heard, but I understood not: then said I, 0 my Lord, what shall be the end of these things?
603813:55--"Is not his mother called Mary?"
60381:12--"Art thou not from everlasting, O Lord my God, mine Holy One?"
60381:14)?
60381:14--"Are they not all ministering spirits?"
60381:14--"Are they( angels) not all ministering spirits, sent forth to minister for them who shall be heirs of salvation?"
60381:23)?
603823:23, 24-"Am I a God at hand, saith the Lord, and not a God afar off?
603826: 61- 63)?
603833:20:"There shall no man see me and live"?
603849:15, 16--"Can a woman forget her sucking child?
60384:1- 11) and fail to realize both parties in the wilderness conflict were persons-- Christ, a person; Satan, a person?
60386:8-"Who will go for_ us_?"
60388:11--"And through thy knowledge shall the weak brother perish, for whom Christ died?"
60388:34--"Who is he that condemneth?
6038A garden, and no gardener?
6038A serious question at once arises: Who is to decide what is and what is not inspired?
6038A star lit, and nobody to pour oil in to keep the wick burning?
6038A time- card and a train, and nobody to run it?
6038A watch with a main- spring broken, and no jeweler to fix it?
6038A watch, and no key for it?
6038A watch, and no repair shop?
6038Acts 1:11--"Ye men of Galilee, why stand ye gazing up into heaven?
6038Also in Luke 11:11--"Will he_ for_ a fish give him a serpent?"
6038An act of faith denotes a manifestation of the intelligence:"How shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard?"
6038And if they were asleep( v. 13), how could they know what took place?
6038And the Lord said unto him, Who hath made man''s mouth?
6038And the Lord said unto him, Who hath made man''s mouth?
6038And the anger of the Lord was kindled against Moses, and he said, Is not Aaron the Levite thy brother?
6038And the anger of the Lord was kindled against Moses, and he said, Is not Aaron the Levite thy brother?
6038And the ass said unto Balaam, Am not I thine ass, upon which thou hast ridden ever since I was thine unto this day?
6038Are angels interested in conversions?
6038Believest thou this?"
6038But did the sight of His suffering move the Jews to repentance?
6038But does such silence really exist?
6038But how was the world to be saved if not through the atonement?
6038But take away from Christianity the name and person of Jesus Christ and what have you left?
6038But what did the heavenly voice signify to Christ?
6038Can any hide himself in secret places that I shall not see him?
6038Can any statement allege deity more clearly?
6038Can he judge through the dark cloud?
6038Can it be said even of any of the sons of men?
6038Can such be said of an influence?
6038Can we explain these facts?
6038Can we imagine the effect of such words on the apostles?
6038Can you punish a stone or a house?
6038Canst thou find out the Almighty unto perfection?"
6038Certain things, conditions, institutions exist in our midst today; they are effects of causes, or a cause; what is that cause?
6038Conditions, and no conditioner?"
6038Could He not have possessed them and yet not have used them?
6038Could Jesus say all this without having any consciousness of His unique relationship to all these things?
6038Could Job explain the wonders of the natural phenomena around him?
6038Could a mere influence do this?
6038Could he thus speak of baptism if it had been the means through which they had been begotten again?
6038DID INSPIRATION AFFECT THE WORDS USED?
6038Did God know of their trouble in Egypt?
6038Did He forget?
6038Did He not hunger and thirst, for example?
6038Did the false prophets think that they could hide their secret crimes from God?
6038Did they consume, or did they withstand the fire?
6038Do not I fill heaven and earth?
6038Do not the works of James, the faith of Paul, and the love of John appeal to us in their own peculiar way?
6038Do the departed loved ones know anything about it?
6038Do we believe_ with Him_, or_ on_ Him?
6038Do we carry these little characteristics into the other life?
6038Do we love holiness to the extent of sacrificing for it?
6038Do we really believe these words?
6038Does Christ still retain the prints of the nails?
6038Does God Repent?
6038Does he perish at death, or does he enter into another state of being; and under what conditions of happiness or woe does he exist there?
6038Does it move men today?
6038Does not a liberal faith mean a faith that believes_ much,_ not little-- as much, not as little, as possible?
6038Does not such a faith(?)
6038Does the Holy Spirit possess such properties?
6038Does the doctrine of repentance find such a prominent place in the preaching and teaching of today?
6038Even if these events are to precede the"rapture,"have they not all been fulfilled?
6038Flowers, and no florist?
6038For what reason, and on what ground was it changed?
6038From finite and imperfect beings like ourselves?
6038From whence this idea?
6038Further, is the Church the_ only_ witness?
6038Gen. 18:14--"Is anything too hard for the Lord?"
6038Has God lessened or changed the terms of admission into His kingdom?
6038Has Jesus Christ still this body in the glory?
6038Has the need for repentance diminished?
6038Hath he spoken and shall he not make it good?"
6038He explained all the other figurative words, why not this one?
6038Here is an effect, a tremendous effect; what was its cause?
6038How are men sanctified?
6038How could He reward and punish otherwise?
6038How did that grave become empty?
6038How do we account for it?
6038How does the Word of God sanctify?
6038How shall we account for the absence of the body of Jesus from the tomb?
6038How then is man responsible for not having it?
6038How would it sound to say,"In the name of the Father"_ and of Moses?_ Would it not seem sacrilegious?
6038How would it sound to say,"In the name of the Father"_ and of Moses?_ Would it not seem sacrilegious?
6038How, then, can Israel say,"My way is hid from the Lord?"
6038How, then, can evil triumph?
6038How, then, do we account for the differences in style of the various writers, the preservation of their individualities, their idiosyncrasies?
6038How?
6038If He needed to depend solely upon the Spirit can we afford to do less?
6038If a miraculous exit was granted to men like Elijah and Enoch, who were sinful men, why should we marvel if such was granted to Christ?
6038If all men were not capable of being saved, how then could we pray to that end?
6038If such is His power how shall Assyria withstand it?
6038If the first two names are personal, is not the third?
6038If without shedding of blood there is no remission of sin, where is the shed blood?''
6038In the story of the Rich Man and Lazarus no name is given to the godless rich man; why?
6038Is He not holy?
6038Is He still the Lamb as though it had been slain?
6038Is Jesus Christ a man of a much higher type of faith than ours, yet one with whom we believe in God?
6038Is any light thrown on the question by the incident of the three Hebrew children in the fiery furnace?
6038Is it a definite place, or is it simply a figure of speech denoting a place of authority and power?
6038Is it a"sign"of His coming?
6038Is it not marvellous?
6038Is it not remarkable that the Baptist uses the word"unquenchable"''( Greek,"asbestos") when speaking of this fire?
6038Is it possible that anyone need be told the flat and sapless tautology that all divinely- inspired Scripture is_ also_ profitable?
6038Is it right that God should make the holiest man in all the ages the greatest sufferer, if that man were but a martyr?
6038Is it self- originating, or is the cause of its being outside of itself?
6038Is it too much to say that on that baptismal day Jesus was keenly conscious that these Old Testament predictions were fulfilled in Him?
6038Is its cause finite or infinite?
6038Is not Jesus here conscious of Himself as being the centre of the scene thus described in the Apocalypse?
6038Is not Jesus here repeating what had been done for Him at His baptism: conveying super- human power?
6038Is not one of the principal reasons for the writing of the Epistle to the Colossians to correct the gnostic theory of the worshipping of angels?
6038Is not this a sufficient number?
6038Is not this true also of the believer''s eternal security?
6038Is the present Christian consciousness borne out by the Gospel narratives?
6038Is the"fire"spoken of here_ literal_ fire?
6038Is there a purpose here to ignore the wicked?
6038Is there not here an indication of the consciousness on the part of Jesus of a unique relationship with His heavenly Father?
6038Is this a description of hell--absence of spiritual light; separation from the company of the saved; lamentation; impotent rage?
6038Is this cause within or without himself, finite or infinite?
6038It can not help raising the question of the whither, as well as of the what and the whence?
6038It is an effect, a glorious effect; what is its cause?
6038It is true that others raised the dead, but under what different conditions?
6038It is true that this term is used of men, e.g., Acts 16:30--"Sirs( Lords), what must I do to be saved?"
6038Jesus saith unto him, If I will that he tarry till I come, what is that to thee?
6038Job 22:12- 14--"Is not God in the height of heaven?
6038John 21:21- 23--"Peter seeing him( John) saith to Jesus, Lord, and what shall this man do?
6038Know you of anything bolder than this?
6038Luke 11:13--"How much more shall your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask Him?"
6038Mark 14:61, 62--"Art thou the Christ, the Son of the Blessed"( Luke 22:70--"Art thou then the Son of God?
6038Meaning: The Samaritan woman''s question,"Where is God to be found?"
6038Micah 7:18,19--"Who is a God like unto thee, that pardoneth iniquity, and passeth by the transgression of the remnant of his heritage?
6038Or did He intend that His disciples should have the impression that He was speaking of literal fire?
6038Or is He, equally with God, the object of our faith?
6038Or that He could not pursue them into foreign countries?
6038Or that He knew what was transpiring in heaven only and not upon the earth, and even in its most distant corners?
6038Pride(?)
6038Reference may here be made to the white stone( diamond?)
6038Reply: True, but was not this fulfilled when they saw Christ on the Transfiguration Mount?
6038Reply: What is meant by a"generation"?
6038Shall we know Him by the prints?]
6038Shall we know our loved ones by these things?]
6038Shall we read,"Anointed.. with_ power_ and power?"
6038Shall we read,"That ye may abound in hope, through the power of the_ power_"?
6038Shall we say,"It seemeth good to_ the wind_ and to us"?
6038She said:"Thy father"; Jesus replied in substance:"Did you say_ my_ father has been seeking me?"
6038Should not the exit of Christ from this world be as unique as His entrance into it?
6038Simon Magus was baptized( Acts 8), but was he saved?
6038So was it with the faith which Christ demanded in His miracles:"Believe ye that I am able to do this?"
6038Strictly speaking, it is not now so much of a_ sin_ question as it is a_ Son_ question; not, What shall be done with my sin?
6038That was an effect; what was its cause?
6038That word was used for other Christian deaths, why not for Christ''s?
6038The great question for the Christian to answer is not"What can I do?"
6038The prophet can not believe it possible, for has not God_ eternal_ purposes for Israel?
6038The question is not so much"How many talents have I received,"but"To what use am I putting them?"
6038The test which the church should apply to all questions of practice: Would I like to have Christ find me doing this when He comes?
6038They are not given to mock but to encourage us:"Hath he said and shall he not do it?
6038Thirdly, There is the descent of the Spirit, and the heavenly voice; what meaning did these things have to Jesus?
6038Trace our origin back, if you will, to our first parent, Adam; then you must ask, How did he come into being?
6038True, but we reply: Why do we need an incarnation for the manifestation of that purpose?
6038WHAT IS THE NATUEE OF THE INSPIRATION THAT CHARACTERIZED THE WRITERS OF THE SCRIPTURES, AND IN WHAT DEGREE WERE THEY UNDER ITS INFLUENCE?
6038WHY IS THE PERSONALITY OF THE HOLY SPIRIT QUESTIONED?
6038Was there any significance in the fact that Jesus did not explain the word"fire"?
6038Were the words dictated by the Holy Spirit, or were the writers left to choose their own words?
6038Were the_ thoughts_ or_ concepts_ alone inspired, or were the_ words_ also inspired?
6038Were there not men enough in existence?
6038What are God''s relations to the universe and to men?
6038What bearing has the testimony of Jesus upon the question of His deity?
6038What do we learn from these scriptures regarding the relation of God to this universe, to man, and to all God''s creatures?
6038What does all this mean?
6038What had they to gain by fraud?
6038What is glory?
6038What is meant by the terms_ image_ and_ likeness_?
6038What is meant by"the right hand of God"?
6038What is the end, the final aim of the great whole, that far- off divine event towards which the whole creation moves?
6038What is the end, the final destiny of the individual?
6038What means are used, and what agencies employed to make men holy and conform them into the likeness of Christ?
6038What motive could the apostles have had in perpetrating the story of Christ''s resurrection upon people?
6038What part is inspired, and what part is not?
6038What shall the Christian church say to these things, and what shall be her reply?
6038What takes place when we go to sleep?
6038What was the nature and likeness of Christ''s resurrection body which our resurrection body is to resemble?
6038What would this world be without it?
6038What, then, did these men see?
6038Where did this institution come from?
6038Where did we get this standard of right and wrong?
6038Where is its sacrifice?
6038Who are those"in the presence of the angels of God"?
6038Who can give this power that is strong enough to make even demons obey?
6038Who can tell?
6038Who dared change it?
6038Who has a right to command my life?
6038Who is this that dares to set Himself up as superior to Moses and the law of Moses, by saying,"But_ I_ say unto you"?
6038Who is to be the judge of so vital a question?
6038Who made is obligatory?
6038Who shall put it away?
6038Why can not both things be included?
6038Why create a new being for such a purpose?
6038Why did not the Master explain what he meant by the figurative word"fire"?
6038Why not make a guilty, and not an absolutely innocent and guileless man such an example of God''s displeasure upon sin?
6038Why should He be God- forsaken in that crucial hour?
6038Why stumble over the limitation of this attribute and not over the others?
6038Why then mention this eternal aspect of adoption?
6038Why then should such a comforting and helpful doctrine as this be spoken against?
6038Why then, if faith is the work of the Godhead, are we responsible for not having it?
6038Would not these passages rebel against such tautological and meaningless usage?
6038Would that sound right?
6038Would they have sacrificed their lives for what they themselves believed to be an imposture?
6038Zion or Gerizim?
6038[ NOTE: Does this throw any light on the matter of recognition in heaven?
6038_ In general:_ Job 11:7, 8--"Canst thou by searching find out God?
6038but"How much can I believe?"
6038but, What shall I do with Jesus, which is called Christ?
6038e) Individual Freedom in Choice of Words-- To What Extent?
6038have not I the Lord?
6038have not I the Lord?
6038label itself narrow rather than liberal by such a refusal of faith?
6038no God?
6038or who maketh the dumb, or deaf, or the seeing, or the blind?
6038or who maketh the dumb, or deaf, or the seeing, or the blind?
6038was I ever wo nt to do so unto thee?
14453''But why not reveal true things first to the wise?
14453''How shall mortal man walk in such a yoke,''sayest thou,''even with the Son of God bearing it also?''
14453''How then am I to try after it?
14453''I hope, sir, your health is better than it has been?''
14453''I will be God among you; I will be myself to you.--You will not have me?
14453''Shall not God avenge his own elect,''he says,''which cry day and night unto him?''
14453''What is it, then, to be pure in heart?''
14453''What power can heal the broken- hearted?''
14453''Why did you look for me?
14453Ah, to whom shall we go?
14453All come from the one mighty father: shall he judge the live thoughts of God, which is greater and which is less?
14453And he said unto them,''How is it that ye sought me?
14453And what shall we say of those coming, and yet to come and pass-- evermore issuing from the fountain of life, daily born into evil things?
14453And why are they always glad before the face of the Father in heaven?
14453And why should he have taken it for granted they would know, or judge that they ought to have known, that he was there?
14453Are all to have the same face?
14453Are these not worth making immortal?
14453Are they authorized in translating the Greek thus?
14453Are they not the fittest to receive them?''
14453Are we guilty of connivance, when silent as to the ambush whence we know the wicked arrow privily shot?
14453Are we to call the traitor to account?
14453Are we to treat persons known for liars and strife- makers as the children of the devil or not?
14453Are we to turn away from them, and refuse to acknowledge them, rousing an ignorant strife of tongues concerning our conduct?
14453Are you the lowest kind of creature that_ could_ be permitted to live?
14453As to his being the Messiah, that was merest absurdity: did they not all know his father, the carpenter?
14453Blessed of God because restored to an absence of sorrow?
14453But a yoke is for drawing withal: what load is it the Lord is drawing?
14453But had we once seen God face to face, should we not be always and for ever sure of him?
14453But if all our light shine out, and none of our darkness, shall we not be in utmost danger of hypocrisy?
14453But if the child try to possess as a house the thing his father made an organ, will he succeed in so possessing it?
14453But if the thought be anywise precious to you, is it essential to your enjoyment in it, that nothing less than yourself should share its realization?
14453But if you do, why not believe in it for them?
14453But is toothache nothing, because there are yet worse pains for head and face?
14453But let us waste no strength in despising such men; let us rather turn the light upon ourselves: are we not in some way denying him?
14453But shall I admire their discoveries at the expense of the stranger-- nay, no stranger-- the poor brother within their gates?
14453But what if your righteousness tarry, because your hunger after it is not eager?
14453But what is this liberty of the children of God, for which the whole creation is waiting?
14453But what shall I say of such as for any kind of end subject animals to torture?
14453But why inquire?
14453But would such restoration be comfort enough for the heart of Jesus to give?
14453Can there be oneness without difference?
14453Could Love create with such end in view?
14453Could we see things always as we have sometimes seen them-- and as one day we must always see them, only far better-- should we ever know dullness?
14453Darest thou imply a divine preference for Capernaum over Nazareth?''
14453Dead, in bondage to corruption, how can they share in the liberty of the children of Life?
14453Did he ever say,''This is mine, not yours''?
14453Did he not say,''All things are mine, therefore they are yours''?
14453Did you not know that I must be among my father''s things?''
14453Do we understand it?
14453Do you believe in immortality for yourself?
14453Does he intend''my father and me''?
14453Does he intend_ all of us men_?
14453Does he make the least lamentation over the temple?
14453Does not he then, who loves and understands his book, possess it with such possession as is impossible to the other?
14453Does not this involve its existence beyond what we call this world?
14453Dost thou look for a good time coming, friend, when thou shalt know as thou art known?
14453Dost thou not justify thy deed to thyself by thy tenderness toward me?
14453First then, what does Paul, the slave of Christ, intend by''the creature''or''the creation''?
14453For how can God in any sense forgive, remit, or send away the sin which a man insists on retaining?
14453For the sake of your children, would you waylay a beggar?
14453For what good, for what divine purpose is the maker of the sparrow present at its death, if he does not care what becomes of it?
14453For what is a lamp or a man lighted?
14453For what makes the thing a book?
14453Had God been of like heart with you, would he have given life and immortality to creatures so much less than himself as we?
14453Had he not known something better, would he have said what he did about the father of men and the sparrows?
14453Had not those words found a way to the pure human, that is, the divine in the men?
14453Has the question no interest for you?
14453Have they not also a faithful creator?
14453He_ is_ that thing; why think about it?
14453How are they to go on loving it without a growing knowledge of it?
14453How can he keep in his sight a foul presence?
14453How can we be workers with God at his work, and he never say''Thank you, my child''?
14453How could the divine order of things, founded for growth and gradual betterment, hold and proceed without the notion of return for a thing done?
14453How did they bear him witness?
14453How shall he die to escape the remorse of the authorship of so much misery?
14453How should it be otherwise?
14453How should it not be so, when the one Power is the informing life of both?
14453How should that woman care to be delivered from her sins, how could she accept any comfort, who believed the child of her bosom lost to her for ever?
14453How should the treasure of the Father be open to such?
14453How, then, am I to let my light shine, if I take pains to hide what I do?
14453How, then, were they worth calling out of the depth of no- being?
14453If a woman forget the child she has borne and nourished, how shall she remember the father from whom she has herself come?
14453If another have none, thine must lie in thy superior power; and will there not one day come a stronger than thou?
14453If any one say,''Why did the Lord let the word remain there so long, if he never said it?''
14453If he did say''_ my father''s house_'', could he have meant the temple and his parents not have known what he meant?
14453If he meant that they might have known this without being told, why was it that, even when he set the thing before them, they did not understand him?
14453If his faith in God take from a man his cheerfulness, how shall the face of a man ever shine?
14453If his presence be no good to the sparrow, are you very sure what good it will be to you when your hour comes?
14453If one answer,''For aught I know, it may be so,''--Where then are thy own rights?
14453If such then be the words of the apostle, does he, or does he not, I ask, hold the idea of the immortality of the animals?
14453If the Father will raise his children, why should he not also raise those whom he has taught his little ones to love?
14453If the Lord said very little about animals, could he have done more for them than tell men that his father cared for them?
14453If they had denied him, where would our gospel be?
14453In the Perfect, would familiarity ever destroy wonder at things essentially wonderful because essentially divine?
14453In which of his changing moods is he more himself?
14453Is God a mocker, who will not be mocked?
14453Is Time too much for him?
14453Is any other imaginable reward worth mentioning beside it?
14453Is he a loving God?
14453Is he a merciful God?
14453Is he the husbandman to take all the profit, and muzzle the mouth of his ox?
14453Is he to tell them the horrors of the persecutions that await them, and not the sweet sympathies that will help them through?
14453Is it a grand thing, is it a meritorious thing, not to be vile?
14453Is it in wine only that the old is better?
14453Is it not of the very essence of the Christian hope, that we shall be changed from much bad to all good?
14453Is it not that it has a soul-- the mind in it of him who wrote the book?
14453Is it selfish to desire to love?
14453Is it selfish to hope for purity and the sight of God?
14453Is it shining before men so that they glorify God for it?
14453Is it what he himself thinks he is?
14453Is it what his friends at any given moment think him?
14453Is not our love to the animals a precious variety of love?
14453Is not the prophecy on the groaning creation to have its fulfilment in the new heavens and the new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness?
14453Is not virtue then a reward?
14453Is our light bearing witness?
14453Is the Lord such as they believe him?
14453Is there a past to God with which he has done?
14453Is there any mourning worthy the name that has not love for its root?
14453Is there anything to be proud of in refusing to worship the devil?
14453Is this the fine of the great buyer of land, to have his fine pate full of fine dirt?
14453It is a greater deed, to make be that which was not, than to seal it with an infinite immortality: did God do that which was not worth doing?
14453It was the Israelite indeed, whom the Lord met with miracle:''Because I said unto thee, I saw thee under the fig- tree, believest thou?
14453It will take the utmost joy God can give, to let men know him; and what man, knowing him, would mind losing every other joy?
14453Let us now take the translation given us by the Revisers:--''Wist ye not that I must be in my father''s house?''
14453Loves any lover so little as to desire_ no_ change in the person loved-- no something different to bring him or her closer to the indwelling ideal?
14453May we roll the rejection of a villainy as a sweet morsel under our tongues?
14453Mayst thou not one day be in Naboth''s place, with an Ahab getting up to go into thy vineyard to possess it?
14453Must he give them no help to counterbalance the load with which they start on their race?
14453Must not the light of truth in his face, beheld of such even as knew not the truth, have lifted their souls up truthward?
14453Must she keep away until she knows herself sorry for her sins?
14453Must the Lord hide from his friends that they will have cause to rejoice that they have been obedient?
14453Must the creator send forth his virtue to hold alive a thing that will be evil-- a thing that ought not to be, that has no claim but to cease?
14453Must the love live on for ever without its object?
14453Must the very immortality of love divide the bond of love?
14453Must there be only current and no tide?
14453Must we congratulate you on such a love for your fellows as inspires you to wrong the weaker than they, those that are without helper against you?
14453Must we fail still?
14453Need I argue the injustice?
14453Now what can God''s elect have to keep on crying for, night and day, but righteousness?
14453Only what other joy could keep from entering, where the God of joy already dwelt?
14453Or can he have been with him, and have left him behind in his closet?
14453Or did he care for them, but could not help them?
14453Or does he intend''you and me, John''?
14453Shall not the children have little dogs under the Father''s table, to which to let fall plenty of crumbs?
14453Shall not_ the_ Father do_ his_ best to find his prodigal?
14453Shall we count the man worthy who, for the sake of his friend, robbed another man too feeble to protect himself, and too poor to punish his assailant?
14453Shall we not rather believe that the vessels of less honour, the misused, the maltreated, shall be filled full with creative wine at last?
14453Should we not just open our own child- eyes, look upon the things themselves, and be consoled?
14453Starts thy soul, trembles thy brain at the thought of such a burden as the will of the eternally creating, eternally saving God?
14453That is like the lawyer''s''Who is my neighbour?''
14453The Father is father_ for_ his children, else why did he make himself their father?
14453The Greek, taken literally, says,''Wist ye not that I must be in the----of my father?''
14453The Lord knew these men, and had their hearts in his hand; else would he have told them they were the salt of the earth and the light of the world?
14453The Lord would have men love righteousness, but how are they to love it without being acquainted with it?
14453The man who takes no count of what is fair, friendly, pure, unselfish, lovely, gracious,--where is his claim to call Jesus his master?
14453The plural article implies the English_ things_; and the question is then, What_ things_ does he mean?
14453The rich man may come prowling after thy little ewe lamb, and what wilt thou have to say?
14453The sons of God are not a new race of sons of God, but the old race glorified:--why a new race of animals, and not the old ones glorified?
14453The typical soul reappears in higher formal type; why may not also the individual soul reappear in higher form?
14453Then, if the earth must have its animals, why not the old ones, already dear?
14453Therefore, that he is empty of good, needs discourage no one; for what is emptiness but room to be filled?
14453They had heard of wonderful things he had done in other places: why had they not first of all been done in_ their_ sight?
14453They have little, and we have much; ought they therefore to have less and we more?
14453To what purpose is the spirit of God promised to them that ask it, if not to help them order their way aright?
14453Was ever love so deep, so pure, so perfect, as to be good enough for him?
14453Was it not the something true, common to all hearts, that bore the wondering witness to the graciousness of his words?
14453Was it wrong to assure them that where he was going they should go also?
14453Was that his saying?
14453We must be nowise anxious to defend ourselves; and if not ourselves because God is our defence, then why our friends?
14453Were they created only to become dear, and be destroyed?
14453What are we for but to do our duty?
14453What are we to understand by''my father''s things''?
14453What better can we do for our neighbour than to become altogether righteous toward him?
14453What can be done for the poor things-- except indeed you take the absurd notion into your head, that they too have a life beyond the grave?''
14453What did Jesus come into the world to do?
14453What did his saying mean?
14453What first reward for doing well, may I look for?
14453What is he there for, I repeat, if he have no care that it go well with his bird in its dying, that it be neither comfortless nor lost in the abyss?
14453What is it constitutes this or that man?
14453What is there for us when we discover that we are out of the way, but to bethink ourselves and turn?
14453What light can he have in him who is always on his own side, and will never descry reason or right on that of his adversary?
14453What man would he be who accepted the offer to be healed and kept alive by means which necessitated the torture of certain animals?
14453What more could it be?
14453What saves his claim from being merest mockery?
14453What shall we say of him who comes from his closet, his mountain- top, with such a veil over his face as masks his very humanity?
14453What sort of Christians are they?
14453What then makes those who give us this translation, prefer it to the phrase in the authorized version,''_ about my Father''s business_''?
14453What was his place of prayer?
14453What was in the news to make the poor glad?
14453What was the new covenant?
14453What would the newest earth be to the old children without its animals?
14453When his reward comes, will the youth feel aggrieved that it is Greek, and not bank- notes?
14453Where does he find symbols whereby to speak of what goes on in the mind and before the face of his father in heaven?
14453Where is the evil toward God, where the wrong to my neighbour, if I think sometimes of the joys to follow in the train of perfect loving?
14453Where is their deliverance?
14453Where shall the woman go whose child is at the point of death, or whom the husband of her youth has forsaken, but to her Father in heaven?
14453Where shines their light?
14453Where then was the propriety of his coming to be baptized by John, and insisting on being by him baptized?
14453Wherein then consisted the goodness of the news which he opened his mouth to give them?
14453Whereon will they ground their complaint should God give them their hearts''desire?
14453Wherewith is the cart laden which he would have us help him draw?
14453Whether the Syriac words he used were more precise, who in this world can tell?
14453Which is the richer-- the man who, his large money spent, would have no refuge; or he for whose necessity a hundred would sacrifice comfort?
14453Which of the two possessed the earth-- king Agrippa or tent- maker Paul?
14453Who had a claim equal to theirs?
14453Who will count himself deceived by overfulfilment?
14453Why cast out a devil that the man may the better do the work of the devil?
14453Why did they not understand it?
14453Why should a man meditate with satisfaction on having denied himself some selfish indulgence, any more than on having washed his hands?
14453Why should it not then involve immortality?
14453Why should such a notion seem to you absurd?
14453Why then think of it as anything more?
14453Why was his arrival with such words in his heart and mouth, the coming of the kingdom?
14453Why?
14453Will he not be the nearer sharing in the exceeding great reward of a return to the divine idea?
14453Will he take joy in his success and give none?
14453With what but the will of the eternal, the perfect Father?
14453Would Satan, with all the instincts and impulses of his origin in him, have_ merited_ eternal life by refusing to be a devil?
14453Would it not be more like the king eternal, immortal, invisible, to know no life but the immortal?
14453Would not such acknowledgment from the father be the natural correlate of the child''s behaviour?
14453Would such a mother be a woman of whom the saviour of men might have been born?
14453Would such a new heaven be a thing to thank God for?
14453Would the Lord have such a one be of good cheer, of merry heart, because her sins were forgiven her?
14453Would this be a prospect on which the Son of Man would congratulate the mourner, or at which the mourner for the dead would count himself blessed?
14453Yes, if we but hide our darkness, and do not strive to slay it with our light: what way have we to show it, while struggling to destroy it?
14453Your conscience does not trouble you?
14453Zeal for God will never eat them up: why should it?
14453_ JESUS IN THE WORLD._''Son, why hast thou thus dealt with us?
14453_ THE SALT AND THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD._''Ye are the salt of the earth; but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be salted?
14453and thou seen as the receiver of the reward!_ In what other way could the word, then or now, be fairly understood?
14453and what would the father''s smile be but the perfect reward of the child?
14453can I do so without knowing what it is?''
14453harmony without distinction?
14453is he not their defence as much as ours?
14453is thy friend''s esteem then so small?
14453no moment in which to sob-- Sister, brother, I am thy slave?
14453no room for making amends?
14453or are we to give warning of any sort?
14453or worse still, must the love die with its object, and be eternal no more than it?
14453seek the praise of God for laying our hearts at the feet of him to whom we utterly belong?
14453seek the praise of men for being fair to our own brothers and sisters?
14453the good shepherd to find his lost sheep?
14453then why faces at all?
14453to create nothing that could die; to slay nothing but evil?
14453to something that is not we, which means annihilation?
14453what hope for the self- indulgent, the conceited, the greedy, the miserly?
14453where his claim to Christianity?
14453who so capable as they to pronounce judgment on his mission whether false or true: had they not known him from childhood?
14453wist ye not that I must be about my father''s business?''
37274And they said unto Moses, Because there were no graves in Egypt, hast thou taken us away to die in the wilderness? 37274 Having loved_ His own_ which were in the world, He loved them"--how long?
37274He that spared not His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all, how shall He not with Him also freely give us all things?
37274How can I do this great wickedness, and sin against God?
37274Jesus answered him, Wilt thou lay down thy life for My sake? 37274 O our God, wilt Thou not judge them?
37274Of what use,it might be argued,"can it be to uphold the standard when all is gone to pieces?
37274Open to what?
37274Peter said unto Him, Lord, why can not I follow Thee now? 37274 The bread which we break, is it not the communion of the body of Christ?
37274The bread which we break, is it not the communion of the body of Christ?
37274Then cometh He to Simon Peter; and Peter saith unto Him,''Lord, dost Thou wash my feet?'' 37274 What shall we say then?
37274When He makes bare His arm, Who shall His work withstand? 37274 Who art thou that judgest another man''s servant?
37274A grand reality, most surely: who could duly estimate it?
37274Abandon the ground in impatience, chagrin, and disappointment?
37274Again:"Wilt thou obediently keep God''s holy will and commandments, and walk in the same all the days of thy life?
37274All this is most true; but what right have we to imagine that Cornelius was praying, fasting, and giving alms in order to earn salvation?
37274And can aught be more unseemly than to see a number of people sitting, lolling, lounging, and gaping about while prayer is being offered?
37274And does He not act in various places?
37274And dost thou not know full well, reader, that there are two sides to this great question, as there are to every question?
37274And further, can we not distinctly recall the fact that there was a most decided setting aside of all human arrangement and official routine?
37274And further, let us ask, who was the most earnest, laborious, and faithful preacher that ever trod this earth?
37274And has He not?
37274And he spake unto the children of Israel, saying, When your children shall ask their fathers in time to come, saying, What mean these stones?
37274And hence we can say, What may we not expect, seeing that Christ has died for us?
37274And how can we best reach the people, for whom the tracts and books are prepared?
37274And how do we get life?
37274And in the event of this, where is the difference between that assembly and the systems of men?"
37274And is it not comely and right so to do?
37274And must not the believer cross it?
37274And shall not God avenge His own elect, which cry day and night unto Him, though He bear long with them?
37274And then the question,"_ Who am I?_"In this we see the blessed fact that self was for the moment lost sight of.
37274And then what was to become of him if the prisoners were gone?
37274And were they not showing the way of salvation?
37274And what do they designate large- heartedness?
37274And what does he do?
37274And what has He said?
37274And what is the difference between the blood- stained lintel and the divided sea?
37274And what then?
37274And what, let me ask, was the effect of all this upon the heart of David?
37274And what, on the contrary, is a large and liberal heart?
37274And where do these virtues shine out?
37274And who has been preaching the gospel for the last eighteen centuries?
37274And why?
37274And why?
37274And why?
37274And why?
37274And, may we not ask, what more could be said in the Church''s brightest days?
37274And, on the same principle, how can a soul grow in the divine life, if he is always liable to doubt whether he has that life or not?
37274And, we may ask, is not He sufficient?
37274Are we affording any practical proof in daily life that Christ has died for us, and that we have died in Him?
37274Are we declaring plainly that we have passed clean over Jordan-- that we belong to heaven-- that we are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit?
37274Are we erecting our memorial?
37274Are we giving evidence-- such evidence as may strike even the mind of a child-- of the fact that our Jesus has vanquished the power of death for us?
37274Are we living as those who are dead with Christ-- dead to sin-- dead to the world?
37274Are we living in the world or living in heaven-- which?
37274Are we practically freed from the world-- letting go our hold of present things, in the power of communion with a risen Christ?
37274Are we taught from the word of God that the early Church ever elected its own pastors or teachers?
37274Are we to allow ourselves to fall under the fatal influence of the surrounding malaria?
37274Are we to continue in error because the dispensation has failed?"
37274Are you built on Christ?
37274Are you content with such a sandy foundation?
37274Are you in this path?
37274Are you looking to your own heart or to Christ''s finished work for salvation?
37274Are you thoroughly satisfied with God''s foundation?
37274Are you wise-- are you right, in persisting in such a line of action under such circumstances?
37274Art thou consciously standing on the solid ground of holy Scripture?
37274Art thou washed in the precious atoning blood of Christ?
37274As long as they behaved themselves, and walked with unsoiled feet?
37274Beloved reader, are you on this foundation?
37274Beloved reader, dost thou still hesitate?
37274Brethren, of what use, may I ask you, would a blind love be to you or to me?
37274But I think I hear you saying,"Where is all the Scripture we were to have had?
37274But are we to be idle?
37274But does it not seem to you, beloved, that we often err on the other side?
37274But does it not strike you that we want more of the individual work?
37274But does not Jordan represent death?
37274But for the present we pause, and shall close this paper with a solemn and earnest question to the reader,_ Art thou sheltered by the blood of Jesus_?
37274But how did the believers at Jerusalem meet together?
37274But how is it now in the professing Church?
37274But how then shall the Scriptures be fulfilled, that thus it must be?"
37274But if I am afraid to face the Word of God, or if I am willfully refusing its action, how can I enjoy communion with God?
37274But if so, what is the day which specially characterizes that dispensation?
37274But in what aspect?
37274But it may be asked, Is there no preparation necessary?
37274But it will be asked,"Were there not elders and deacons in the early Church, and ought we not to have such likewise?"
37274But may we not often detect ourselves in the habit of lightly and formally asking others to pray for us?
37274But ought not the lambs and sheep to be gathered and cared for?
37274But some may ask,"Is there no danger of incompetent men intruding their ministry upon an assembly of God?
37274But the question is, have we made them our own-- have they been applied practically to our souls by the power of the Holy Ghost?
37274But the sheep must be gathered before they can be fed; and how are they to be gathered but by the earnest preaching of the gospel?
37274But then what of the law?
37274But we must return to our theme; and in doing so, we would ask the reader if he really understands the true spiritual import of the river Jordan?
37274But what is Christianity?
37274But what is an assembly to do when abuses creep in?
37274But what is fellowship?
37274But what is"the camp?"
37274But what then?
37274But what, we repeat, were these living stones doing?
37274But where have we anything like this now?
37274But whither should Christ''s sheep be gathered?
37274But who among us does?
37274But who told thee this?
37274But why did Mordecai refuse to bow to Haman?
37274But, we may here inquire,"Is there aught in the history of God''s people now answering to Israel''s experience at the Red Sea?"
37274C. H. M. FOOTNOTE:[ V.] When the jailer at Philippi inquired of Paul and Silas,"What must I do to be saved?"
37274Can anything be more hardening to the heart, or more deadening to the conscience than this?
37274Can it be"gold, silver, precious stones?"
37274Can it have your Lord''s approving smile?
37274Can selfishness live in the view of the cross?
37274Can thoughts about our own interests, or our own gratification, be indulged in the presence of Him who sacrificed Himself for us?
37274Can you not wait until night has drawn her sable curtain around you, and your closet door has shut you in, and then pour out your heart to your God?
37274Canst thou give a"Thus saith the Lord"for the position which thou occupiest, at this moment?
37274Christian reader, are you thinking of"the regions beyond you?"
37274Could I depend upon God''s grace to enable me to abide under the curse?
37274Could a family circle, after the toils of the day, sit down to supper with sighs and gloomy looks?
37274Did not He take up and use instruments the most unfit and unfurnished, according to human thinking, for the accomplishment of His gracious purpose?
37274Did not that make some difference?
37274Did they do"_ all_"that the Lord commanded?
37274Did they really think that Jehovah was going to judge and destroy them, after all?
37274Did they"continue in all things which are written in the book of the law, to do them?"
37274Do we mourn over the coldness, barrenness, and death around us?
37274Do we not feel the lack of power in all our public reunions?
37274Do we not often, by a stiff and peculiar style, cast a chill upon young converts?
37274Do we not remember the style and character of the agents who were chiefly used in the conversion of souls?
37274Do we really understand such utterances?
37274Do we really understand these words?
37274Do we really want man''s authority to make us sure that God has spoken?
37274Do we, in very deed, perceive their application to ourselves?
37274Do you earnestly desire to follow your Lord?
37274Do you ever think of calling in question your own very personal welcome to study the book of Creation?
37274Do you not often find that it is after the more formal public preaching is finished, and the close personal work begins, that souls are reached?
37274Do you not think that if we had more"Philips"we should have more"Nathanaels?"
37274Do you really aim at something beyond mere empty profession, cold orthodoxy, or mechanical religiousness?
37274Do you sigh for reality, depth, energy, fervor, and whole- heartedness?
37274Does He send His sunlight and showers to mock and to tantalize, or to gladden and refresh?
37274Does he believe it?
37274Does not the voice of Holy Scripture bear the clearest testimony to the fact of the interest of the Trinity in the work of the gospel?
37274Faith can now, therefore, sing triumphantly,"O death, where is thy sting?
37274Finally, if we be asked,"Where is the true expression of this assembly of God now?"
37274Fold our arms in cold indifference?
37274For how long?
37274For instance, when a believer dies and goes to heaven, is he called to fight?
37274For then would they not have ceased to be offered?
37274For what do men now call bigotry and narrow- mindedness?
37274For what end?
37274For what had he to build upon in himself?
37274For what, after all, is a narrow mind?
37274For who is there of all flesh that hath heard the voice of the living God speaking out of the midst of the fire, as we have, and lived?
37274For, what is it?
37274Fourthly, what is the_ authority_ on which the assembly is gathered?
37274Had He not bestowed it upon his seed forever?
37274Had He not made Abraham a present of the land of Canaan?
37274Had He not ratified the gift by His word and His oath-- these two immutable things in which it was impossible for Him to lie?
37274Had He not said to them,"Ye shall not need to fight"?
37274Had he a"Thus saith the Lord"for his warrant in refusing a single nod of the head to the proud Amalekite?
37274Have books and tracts lost their interest and value in our eyes?
37274Have we entered into their real force and meaning?
37274Have we not here a very elevated character of work?
37274Have we not to deplore the objectless character of our prayer- meetings?
37274Have we the custody of the Lamb''s book of life?
37274Have we weighed the full force of the expression,"living in the world"?
37274Have you come to Him as God''s living Stone, and given Him the full confidence of your heart?
37274Have you ever pondered these words?
37274Have you ever seen their application to yourself?
37274Have you found any great breadth of truth in them?
37274Having an evil nature, a crafty foe, and a hostile world to cope with, how is he to get on?
37274He had to tread that rough path in profound solitude-- for who could accompany Him?
37274He has died to sin, in the death of Christ; and what power has sin over a dead man?
37274He might have gone forth and enjoyed his freedom, but what of them?
37274He said unto Jesus,"Lord, whither goest thou?
37274He saith unto them, But whom say ye that I am?
37274How am I to know that God has spoken to me?
37274How are we to know that Christ has, by His work on the cross, absolutely and divinely accomplished the will of God?
37274How can I bow to one with whom Jehovah is at war?
37274How can I do homage to a man whom the faithful Samuel would hew in pieces before the Lord?"
37274How can I possess this precious faith?"
37274How can I realize that I am dead to sin?
37274How can a man get life by keeping that which requires life to keep it-- a life which he has not?
37274How can any one run a race, if he has not cleared the starting post?
37274How can he erect a building, if he has not laid the foundation?
37274How can he pass off the platform of nature?
37274How can he reach the blessed position of those to whom the Holy Ghost declares,"Ye are not in the flesh but in the Spirit"?
37274How can there be, seeing He has borne the condemnation in their stead?
37274How can we tell whether a man is eternally linked with Christ or not?
37274How could God, as a holy Father, grant such petitions?
37274How could I ever have the self- consciousness of it, while in the body?
37274How could I feel it?
37274How could I realize it?
37274How could acceptable priestly service be discharged with unclean hands?
37274How could any one, of old, have constituted himself a son of Aaron?
37274How could he face the authorities?
37274How could he leave them behind?
37274How could it be otherwise when we so fail in waiting upon God?
37274How could it be otherwise with an honest mind?
37274How could it be otherwise?
37274How could they take possession of Canaan with the reproach of Egypt resting upon them?
37274How could truth ever hinder Christians from giving expression to the unity of the Church?
37274How could uncircumcised people dispossess the Canaanites?
37274How do I know this?
37274How does this appear?
37274How is he to be kept?
37274How is he to be lifted up if he falls?
37274How is he to be restored if he wanders?
37274How is it then that there is so little of this latter?
37274How is the Christian to be kept in the face of such things?
37274How is this most precious life to be had?
37274How is this to be done?
37274How is this?
37274How is this?
37274How is this?
37274How many of those who fill our preaching rooms and lecture halls follow the example of Lydia?
37274How shall_ we that are dead_ to sin, live any longer therein?
37274How would he act in the face of all this?
37274How, then, are all those things to be met?
37274How, then, could we break it with sad hearts or sorrowful countenances?
37274How, then, should we treat him?
37274I must work there?"
37274I would affectionately ask such, Are we to have no higher object before us in our actings than our own happiness?
37274If I were to attempt to shape my way according to the thoughts of men, where should I be?
37274If Jesus is in our midst, why should we think of setting up a human president?
37274If all the really spiritual members were to stay away on such a ground, what would become of the prayer- meeting?
37274If it be allowable to depart from Scripture at all, how far are we to go?
37274If not, what mean the words,"Christ for His part, and this infant for his part?"
37274If not, what then?
37274If not, why not?
37274If one were to be asked what he would consider most necessary for such days as these?
37274If the authority of tradition be admitted at all, who is to fix its domain?
37274If this be not a dishonor done to the Lord Christ, what is?
37274If we admit, for a moment, that, in some things, we must have recourse to tradition and expediency, then who will undertake to fix the boundary line?
37274If we had more"Andrews,"we should have more"Simons?"
37274If you again ask,"How?"
37274If you are anxious to get salvation, and God desires you should have it, why need you be another moment without it?
37274If your sphere of work lies inside the camp, when your Master tells you to go forth, what shall we say for your work?
37274In a word, of what is the Red Sea a type?
37274Is Christian life to be made up of a series of negations?
37274Is He a living Stone?
37274Is He a precious Stone?
37274Is He a rejected Stone?
37274Is all this real and true?
37274Is it a question of Satan?
37274Is it a question of anxiety about my eternal salvation?
37274Is it a question of death?
37274Is it a question of guilt?
37274Is it a question of sin?
37274Is it a question of the world?
37274Is it a question of trespass?
37274Is it because I feel it?
37274Is it because you feel it?
37274Is it into the folds of man''s erection, or into an assembly gathered on divine ground?
37274Is it needful, think you, to wait that God should do something more for your salvation?
37274Is it not invariably something designed for the testing, or experimenting for the improvement, or advancement of the first man?
37274Is it not plain that I am throwing overboard the cross?
37274Is it not plain that salvation is made to depend upon something or some one besides Christ?
37274Is it not plain that the professing Church neither keeps the right day as the sabbath, nor does she keep it after the Scripture mode?
37274Is it not quite enough for us to be"joined to the Lord?"
37274Is it not so?
37274Is it to Old Testament scripture merely?
37274Is it to mock or to tantalize you by presenting before you what was never intended for you?
37274Is it-- can it be, true humility to reduce the blood of Christ to the level of the blood of bulls and of goats?
37274Is mere feeling the ground of your faith?
37274Is not that sufficient?
37274Is not the New Testament a sufficient rule without the Ten Commandments?
37274Is not the deficiency manifest from the fact that we see so little result from our prayers?
37274Is not the lack of this the explanation of much leanness of soul, from which knowledge alone is not able to lift us up?
37274Is not this something?
37274Is the Christian not to be as one living in the world?
37274Is the discipline of the Church of God founded upon what we can know, or upon what we_ can not_?
37274Is the reader in the habit of using such a form of words?
37274Is there a heart here to- night that will say, I am not satisfied with Christ''s service: I can not rest in His work?
37274Is there anything questionable in thy surroundings and associations?
37274Is there no lesson here for us?
37274Is there no one who will enter upon it in simple faith, looking to the living God?
37274Is there no one who will take up this valuable work for Christ''s sake and not for the sake of remuneration?
37274Is there not a danger of the evangelist becoming merged in the teacher?
37274Is there not a sad lack of this"one accord,""one place"principle in our midst?
37274Is there not a want of that deep, personal, loving interest in souls which will express itself in a thousand ways that act powerfully on the heart?
37274Is there not frequently something repulsive in our spirit and deportment?
37274Is there nothing for us to do in the outside place to which we are called?
37274Is there nothing positive?
37274Is this nothing?
37274Is this the way to"render unto the Lord"?
37274It may be asked,"Is it possible that a true child of God could ever be found in such a low moral condition?"
37274It may be said by the advocates of human authority,"How could an assembly ever get on without some human presidency?
37274It may, however, be asked,"How could all the believers in London meet in one place?"
37274Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized to Jesus Christ were baptized to His death?
37274Many might have felt disposed to say to him,"Why persist in this practice?
37274May it speak with living power to the soul of the unconverted reader, leading him to cry out in all sincerity,"What is to be done?"
37274Must not the fault be in us?--are we not deficient in concord and confidence?
37274Must we not admit that our reunions for prayer suffer sadly from long, rambling, desultory prayers?
37274My reader, can you own such a fearful surrender of the truth of God?
37274Need we wonder at the little result?
37274Need we wonder that such an one should cry mightily to God?
37274Now where, we ask, is this precedent followed?
37274Now, in view of all this, what shall we say of Christendom''s priests and Christendom''s sacrifices?
37274Now, my beloved hearers, I ask you, before I proceed, this question, Is there a heart in this congregation that has not yet rested here?
37274Now, the question is, are not our prayers and prayer- meetings sadly deficient on this point?
37274Now, the question is, how far do we understand this great lesson?
37274Now, under such circumstances, what is one to do?
37274Now, we may feel disposed to ask, Are these the people whom we have seen so recently feeding, in perfect safety, under the cover of the blood?
37274Now, what is the simple application of all this to us as Christians?
37274O grave, where is thy victory?
37274O our God, wilt Thou not judge them?
37274Of what, then, were they afraid?
37274Or does the fault lie in the mode of conducting our Tract depots?
37274Ought we not to come together more with some definite object on our hearts, as to which we are going to wait together upon God?
37274Ought we not to examine ourselves as to how far we really understand these two conditions of prayer, namely, unanimity and confidence?
37274Reader, are you assembled on this divine ground?
37274Reader, art thou on God''s ground?
37274Reader, art thou, at this moment in any pressure, in any trial, need, or difficulty?
37274Reader, do you really want salvation?
37274Reader, dost thou not utterly abhor it?
37274Reader, is all this, think you, understood and taught in Christendom?
37274Reader, why was this?
37274Say, dear friend, are thy sins forgiven?
37274Say, dear friend,_ have you_?
37274Say, is the salvation of thy never- dying soul just_ the_ one thing in which thou canst do nothing?
37274Secondly, what is the_ centre_ round which the assembly is gathered?
37274Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound?
37274Should not we go and do likewise?
37274Should they seek aught else?
37274Should we not seek to save a drowning man, even though we could not command the use of a patent life- boat?
37274Should we teach him not to pray?
37274Suppose, then, I find myself in a place where two or more tables have been spread; what am I to do?
37274Take Judaism or any other_ ism_ that ever was known or that now exists in this world, and what do you find it to be?
37274Take what?
37274The application is for your own heart to ponder: but say, are you thinking of"the regions beyond you?"
37274The continual inquiry of the Christian should be, not is this or that according to law?
37274The difficulty of faith is,"How shall He_ not_?"
37274The difficulty of unbelief is,"How shall He?"
37274The grand question is this, Is God''s word sufficient or not?
37274The inspired volume has been placed in your hand and laid open before your eyes; and for what think you?
37274The moment we see man usurping authority in that which calls itself the church, we simply ask,"Who are you?"
37274The question forces itself upon us,"Is the man speaking to God, or to us?"
37274The question is not,"Am I doing a great deal of work?
37274The question is, How will she receive the action?
37274The question is,_ What is that assembly_?
37274Then why not take it, as God''s free gift?
37274There is the Christ of God and the word of God, and-- what then?
37274Thirdly, what is the_ power_ by which the assembly is gathered?
37274This conducts us naturally to our second point, namely, What is the centre round which God''s assembly is gathered?
37274This latter is of all- importance, inasmuch as it may be truly said, Is not God everywhere?
37274To consider ourselves?
37274To heaven, or to Rome?
37274To what"volume"does He here refer?
37274Was it merely a whim of his own?
37274Was it not most manifestly a work of God''s Spirit?
37274Was she not saying the truth?
37274Was the Church told to inquire?
37274Was there any divine reason for Daniel''s praying toward Jerusalem?
37274Was there any great principle at stake?
37274Was this blind obstinacy, or bold decision-- which?
37274We are by nature"dead in trespasses and sins,"and what can a dead man do?
37274We ask, where is the Church''s warrant for calling, making or appointing pastors?
37274We feel we do not value that precious blood as we ought-- who ever did, or ever could?
37274We have the answer in that one pithy statement:"Then went King David in, and sat before the Lord, and said,''Who am I?''"
37274We may be asked,"Where will you find all this down here?"
37274We reply by asking,"Are we to be disobedient because the Church is in ruin?
37274We reply, How do you know that you are a lost sinner?
37274We solemnly challenge thee, in the presence of God, Canst thou look up to Him and say,"I can do nothing-- I am not responsible?"
37274We would put this pointed question to him, which we entreat him to answer, now,"_ Have you got eternal life_?"
37274Well, I understand this; but will any one tell me that a teacher or pastor may not go forth in earnest longing after souls?
37274Well, what was the special character of that work in its earlier stages?
37274Were it not that we have"the law and the testimony,"where should we be?
37274Were they not for the most part"unlearned and ignorant men?"
37274Were they not the servants of the most high God?
37274What are stripes, or stocks, or prison walls, or gloomy nights, to living stones and holy priests?
37274What are we to do?
37274What avails such security?
37274What can be more painful than to hear a man on his knees explaining principles and unfolding doctrines?
37274What do these things declare?
37274What do they utter in the anxious sinner''s ear?
37274What does he want with a pompous ritual, with all its imposing adjuncts?
37274What does he want with a poor, sinful, dying priest, who can not save himself?
37274What does he want with the sacrifice of the mass?
37274What does it really mean?
37274What follows?
37274What grand lesson are we to learn from the scenes on the shores of the Red Sea?
37274What has the Evangelical Alliance effected?
37274What have we to say to these latter?
37274What if both he and I are, by our very vows, made debtors to do the whole law, and thus shut up under its terrible curse?
37274What is faith''s reply to all this?
37274What is it?
37274What is the necessary practical result?
37274What is the real want of their souls?
37274What is the reply?
37274What is the true position of a Christian?
37274What is to be done?
37274What more can we need?
37274What need is there for opening your windows and praying toward Jerusalem, in such a public manner?
37274What power has sin over such an one?
37274What remained for them?
37274What remains?
37274What riches are required to speak a kindly word-- to drop the tear of sympathy-- to give the soothing, genial look?
37274What should we do, what would become of us, were it otherwise?
37274What should we do?
37274What then becomes of all our vows and resolutions?
37274What then had they to do?
37274What then?
37274What then?
37274What think you was the secret of his success?
37274What was the burden of her song, during those"many days"in the which the apostle narrowly considered her case?
37274What was the result?
37274What were they doing?
37274What will a righteous Judge say to them?
37274What will be her end?
37274What would she have said if any one had told her that millions of professing Christians would yet be praying to her?
37274What, then, did he consider?
37274What, then, do we learn from Luke xi?
37274What, then, have we got to do?
37274What, then, saith the Scripture as to the necessary moral conditions of prayer?
37274What, therefore, is the ground of our justification?
37274What, therefore, saith the Scripture?
37274When He His people''s cause defends, Who then shall stay His hand?"
37274When any one was separated, or"cut off,"from the congregation of Israel, was it because of not being an Israelite?
37274Whence, then, these fears, this intense alarm, this agonizing cry?
37274Where are we to put him?
37274Where hast thou learnt it?
37274Where have we an instance in the New Testament of a Church electing its own pastor?
37274Where in Scripture have we such an expression as"the Christian sabbath"?
37274Where is the Timothy or the Titus now?
37274Where is the authority for altering the day or the mode of observing it?
37274Where is the proof of all this?
37274Where is the proof-- where the abiding memorial-- where the stone on the shoulder?
37274Where is the spiritual power to be had for such works?
37274Where is there any repeal of the law as to the sabbath?
37274Where is there the least intimation in the New Testament that there should be a succession of men invested with the power to ordain elders or pastors?
37274Where is this command obeyed?
37274Where is this safe and blessed path?
37274Where must all this end?
37274Wherefore hast thou dealt thus with us, to carry us forth out of Egypt?
37274Which?
37274Whither should we go?
37274Whither, think you, will such a system lead you?
37274Who can encounter the swellings of Jordan?
37274Who can face that grim and terrible foe?
37274Who can measure the heights and the depths of those two words,"rich"and"poor,"in their application to our adorable Lord and Saviour?
37274Who can stand before the king of terrors?
37274Who first announced the good news of the bruised Seed of the woman?
37274Who first preached the gospel?
37274Who in his senses would maintain aught so monstrous?
37274Who is sufficient for these things?
37274Who was the first herald of salvation?
37274Who would accept of it?
37274Who would dare to hush or hinder that cry?
37274Who would lean on an arm of flesh, when he can lean on the arm of the living God?
37274Who would not rather be Daniel in the den than Darius in the palace?
37274Who would think of resting in that which is human when he can have that which is divine?
37274Who would venture upon such a piece of daring blasphemy?
37274Who, except the Ark go first, can face death and judgment?
37274Why a second, if aught could be made of the first?
37274Why add aught thereto?
37274Why are souls not smitten down under the Word?
37274Why be grieved with-- why silence such a witness?
37274Why did he not allow her to continue to bear witness to the object of his mission?
37274Why is there so little gathering- power?
37274Why is this?
37274Why not unanimously and heartily allow Him to take the president''s seat, and bow to Him in all things?
37274Why set up human authority, in any shape or form, in the house of God?
37274Why should an anxious load Press down our weary mind?
37274Why should the regenerated seek to belong to something else than that to which they already belong-- the assembly of God?
37274Why the barrenness of our gospel services?
37274Why the dullness and feebleness in the celebration of that precious feast which ought to stir the very deepest depths of our renewed being?
37274Why then was Paul grieved?
37274Why those barren seasons at the Lord''s table?
37274Why those varied evils on which we have been dwelling, and which are being mourned over almost every where by the truly spiritual?
37274Why was not the church at Ephesus, or why were not the churches at Crete, directed to elect or appoint elders?
37274Why was the direction given to Timothy and Titus without the slightest reference to the Church, or to any part of the Church?
37274Why were they to tarry one for another?
37274Why, we may justly inquire, should it be different now?
37274Why?
37274Why?
37274Why?
37274Why?
37274Will anyone presume to excuse himself for rejecting the gospel message on the ground of his inability to believe it?
37274Will she push away the basin?
37274Will she refuse the gracious ministry?
37274Will she resist it, or yield to it?
37274Would anyone be satisfied to purchase sheep, and then leave them to wander whithersoever they list?
37274Would he not feel it right to lower the standard?
37274Would it be right to pass a house on fire, without giving warning, even though one were not a member of the Fire Brigade?
37274Would it not be better to give just one nod?
37274Would it not lead to all sorts of confusion?
37274Would it not open the door for everyone to intrude himself upon the assembly, quite irrespective of gift or qualification?"
37274Yes, here is the question,"What must I do to be saved?"
37274and in Thy hand is there not power and might, so that none is able to withstand Thee?
37274and rulest not Thou over all the kingdoms of the heathen?
37274and what has he got to do?
37274and what is our rule of life?
37274and, under such circumstances, is it not better for each denomination to have their own table?
37274are we to sit down at the table of the Lord with as much indifference as if we were sitting down to an ordinary supper table?
37274are we to yield to the paralyzing power of the atmosphere that inwraps the place?
37274but am I pleasing my Master?
37274but is it like Christ?
37274but,"the anxious reader may say,"what has all this to say to my case?
37274give all up as a myth, a fable, an idle chimera?
37274give up in despair?
37274go back to that from which they once came out?
37274more of the private, earnest, personal dealing with souls?
37274murmuring and complaining?
37274or are you seeking to add something of your own-- your own works, your prayers, your ordinances, your vows and resolutions, your religious duties?
37274or give vent to complaining, murmuring, fretfulness, or irritation?
37274shall we accept salvation as the fruit of our Lord''s death, and deem aught that concerns Him non- essential?
37274these partakers of the rock- life-- the victorious, resurrection- life of Christ-- how did they employ themselves?
37274v. linked eternally with Christ, or not?
37274v.: but what can be higher than"joy in God"?
37274v.?
37274what are the moral conditions which it sets before us?
37274where the many quotations from the Gospels and the Acts?"
37274x.?
13316Adipiscuntur igitur boni quod appetunt?
13316Ambulandi,inquit,"motum secundum naturam esse hominibus num negabis?"
13316An etiam causas, cur i d ita sit, deprehendisti?
13316An,inquit illa,"te alumne desererem nec sarcinam quam mei nominis inuidia sustulisti, communicato tecum labore partirer?
13316And doth not a man want that,quoth she,"which he desireth?"
13316And how can it be that, knowing the beginning, thou canst be ignorant of the end? 13316 And it is many ways clear that the vicious are miserable?"
13316And makest thou any doubt that the function of it doth naturally belong to the feet?
13316And what of the other which, being unpleasing, restraineth the evil with just punishment, doth not the people think it good?
13316And what other manner shall this be,quoth I,"besides these?"
13316And wilt thou doubt that he could, whom thou seest bring to pass what he desired?
13316Atqui non egeret eo, nisi possideret pecuniam quam posset amittere?
13316Atqui scis unde cuncta processerint?
13316Bona igitur?
13316But dost thou grant that all that is good is good by partaking goodness?
13316But he should not need that help, unless he had money which he might lose?
13316But he that wanteth anything is not altogether sufficient of himself?
13316But it is granted that the chiefest good is blessedness?
13316But knowest thou from whence all things had their beginning?
13316But that fortune which either exerciseth or correcteth is profitable?
13316But what account wilt thou make,quoth she,"to know what goodness itself is?"
13316Can God do evil?
13316Deniest thou,quoth she,"that every wicked man deserveth punishment?"
13316Do we not think,quoth she,"that blessedness is good?"
13316Dost thou ask me if I know that I am a reasonable and mortal living creature? 13316 Dost thou imagine that there is any mortal or frail thing which can cause this happy estate?"
13316Dost thou not think then that that is good which is profitable?
13316Egebit igitur,inquit,"extrinsecus petito praesidio quo suam pecuniam quisque tueatur?"
13316Eget uero,inquit,"eo quod quisque desiderat?"
13316Eiusque rei pedum officium esse naturale num dubitas?
13316Essene aliquid in his mortalibus caducisque rebus putas quod huiusmodi statum possit afferre?
13316Est igitur,inquit,"aliquis qui omnia posse homines putet?"
13316Estne igitur,inquit,"quod in quantum naturaliter agat relicta subsistendi appetentia uenire ad interitum corruptionemque desideret?"
13316Et qui fieri potest, ut principio cognito quis sit rerum finis ignores? 13316 Et qui i d,"inquam,"fieri potest?"
13316Et quid,inquam,"tu in has exilii nostri solitudines o omnium magistra uirtutum supero cardine delapsa uenisti?
13316Et quis erit,inquam,"praeter hos alius modus?"
13316Hast thou also understood the causes why it is so?
13316Have we not granted,quoth she,"that the good are happy, and the evil miserable?"
13316Hocine interrogas an esse me sciam rationale animal atque mortale? 13316 How can that be?"
13316How is this?
13316How?
13316How?
13316How?
13316If then,quoth she,"thou wert to examine this cause, whom wouldest thou appoint to be punished, him that did or that suffered wrong?"
13316Illius igitur praesentiam huius absentiam desiderabas?
13316Is the One the same as the Other?
13316Is there any then,quoth she,"that think that men can do all things?"
13316Is there anything,quoth she,"that in the course of nature, leaving the desire of being, seeketh to come to destruction and corruption?"
13316It is good then?
13316Ita est,inquam,"Quae uero aut exercet aut corrigit, prodest?"
13316Nonne igitur bonum censes esse quod prodest?
13316Nonne quia uel aberat quod abesse non uelles uel aderat quod adesse noluisses?
13316Nonne,inquit,"beatitudinem bonum esse censemus?"
13316Nostine igitur,inquit,"omne quod est tam diu manere atque subsistere quam diu sit unum, sed interire atque dissolui pariter atque unum destiterit?"
13316Now thinkest thou, that which is of this sort ought to be despised, or rather that it is worthy to be respected above all other things?
13316Now, what sayest thou to that pleasing fortune which is given in reward to the good, doth the common people account it bad?
13316Num igitur deus facere malum potest?
13316Num me,inquit,"fefellit abesse aliquid, per quod, uelut hiante ualli robore, in animum tuum perturbationum morbus inrepserit?
13316Num recordaris beatitudinem ipsum esse bonum eoque modo, cum beatitudo petitur, ab omnibus desiderari bonum?
13316O te alumne hac opinione felicem, si quidem hoc,inquit,"adieceris....""Quidnam?"
13316Omnem,inquit,"improbum num supplicio dignum negas?"
13316Omnes igitur homines boni pariter ac mali indiscreta intentione ad bonum peruenire nituntur?
13316Quae igitur cum discrepant minime bona sunt, cum uero unum esse coeperint, bona fiunt; nonne haec ut bona sint, unitatis fieri adeptione contingit?
13316Quaenam,inquit,"ista est?
13316Quem uero effecisse quod uoluerit uideas, num etiam potuisse dubitabis?
13316Qui igitur supplicio digni sunt miseros esse non dubitas?
13316Qui uero eget aliquo, non est usquequaque sibi ipse sufficiens?
13316Qui?
13316Quid igitur homo sit, poterisne proferre?
13316Quid igitur,inquam,"nihilne est quod uel casus uel fortuitum iure appellari queat?
13316Quid igitur?
13316Quid reliqua, quae cum sit aspera, iusto supplicio malos coercet, num bonam populus putat?
13316Quid uero iucunda, quae in praemium tribuitur bonis, num uulgus malam esse decernit?
13316Quid uero,inquit,"obscurumne hoc atque ignobile censes esse an omni celebritate clarissimum?
13316Quid?
13316Quid?
13316Quid?
13316Quid?
13316Quid?
13316Quidnam?
13316Quidnam?
13316Quidni fateare, cum eam cotidie ualentior aliquis eripiat inuito? 13316 Quidni,"inquam,"meminerim?"
13316Quidni?
13316Quidni?
13316Quidni?
13316Quis i d neget?
13316Quis i d,inquam,"neget?"
13316Quod igitur nullius egeat alieni, quod suis cuncta uiribus possit, quod sit clarum atque reuerendum, nonne hoc etiam constat esse laetissimum?
13316Quod si conetur,ait,"num tandem proficiet quidquam aduersus eum quem iure beatitudinis potentissimum esse concessimus?"
13316Quod uero huiusmodi sit, spernendumne esse censes an contra rerum omnium ueneratione dignissimum?
13316Quonam modo?
13316Quonam,inquam"modo?"
13316Quonam,inquam,"modo?"
13316Quonam,inquam,"modo?"
13316Quonam?
13316Sed dic mihi, quoniam deo mundum regi non ambigis, quibus etiam gubernaculis regatur aduertis?
13316Sed omne quod bonum est boni participatione bonum esse concedis an minime?
13316Sentisne,inquit,"haec atque animo inlabuntur tuo, an[ Greek: onos luras]?
13316Shall we,quoth she,"frame our speech to the vulgar phrase, lest we seem to have as it were forsaken the use of human conversation?"
13316Should I,saith she,"forsake thee, my disciple, and not divide the burden, which thou bearest through hatred of my name, by partaking of thy labour?
13316Si igitur cognitor,ait,"resideres, cui supplicium inferendum putares, eine qui fecisset an qui pertulisset iniuriam?"
13316So that every man needeth some other help to defend his money?
13316So that thou feltest this insufficiency, even the height of thy wealth?
13316The offerer of the injury then would seem to thee more miserable than the receiver?
13316Then thou desiredst the presence of that, and the absence of this?
13316Then you do not doubt that those who deserve punishment are wretched?
13316Those things, then, which, when they differ, are not good and when they are one, become good, are they not made good by obtaining unity?
13316Tu itaque hanc insufficientiam plenus,inquit,"opibus sustinebas?"
13316Understandest thou these things,saith she,"and do they make impression in thy mind?
13316Visne igitur,inquit,"paulisper uulgi sermonibus accedamus, ne nimium uelut ab humanitatis usu recessisse uideamur?"
13316Was it not because thou either wantedst something which thou wouldst have had, or else hadst something which thou wouldst have wanted?
13316Well then, canst thou explicate what man is?
13316What if anything doth endeavour,quoth she,"can anything prevail against Him, whom we have granted to be most powerful by reason of His blessedness?"
13316What is that?
13316What is that?
13316What now,quoth she,"thinkest thou this to be obscure and base, or rather most excellent and famous?
13316What then,quoth I,"is there nothing that can rightly be called chance or fortune?
13316What then?
13316What?
13316What?
13316What?
13316What?
13316What?
13316What?
13316What?
13316Whither?
13316Who can deny that?
13316Who denies that?
13316Why not?
13316Why not?
13316Why not?
13316Why should I not remember it?
13316Why shouldst thou not grant it, since that every day those which are more potent take it from others perforce? 13316 Why?"
13316Wilt thou deny,quoth she,"that the motion of walking is agreeable to the nature of men?"
13316''For what cause, O man, chargest thou me with daily complaints?
13316''Quid tu homo ream me cotidianis agis querelis?
1331610 Quid tantum miseri saeuos tyrannos Mirantur sine uiribus furentes?
1331610 Sed cur tanto flagrat amore Veri tectas reperire notas?
1331610 Vis aptam meritis uicem referre?
1331615 Quis enim quidquam nescius optet Aut quis ualeat nescita sequi?
1331620 Quid me felicem totiens iactastis amici?
133165 An nulla est discordia ueris Semperque sibi certa cohaerent?
13316Agnoscisne me?
13316Am I deceived in this?
13316An claritudo nihili pendenda est?
13316An cum mentem cerneret altam, 20 Pariter summam et singula norat?
13316An distant quia dissidentque mores, Iniustas acies et fera bella mouent Alternisque uolunt perire telis?
13316An ego sola meum ius exercere prohibebor?
13316An est aliquid, tametsi uulgus lateat, cui uocabula ista conueniant?"
13316An gemmarum fulgor oculos trahit?
13316An ignoras illam tuae ciuitatis antiquissimam legem, qua sanctum est ei ius exulare non esse quisquis in ea sedem fundare maluerit?
13316An illos accusatores iustos fecit praemissa damnatio?
13316An in bonis non est numeranda potentia?
13316An optasse illius ordinis salutem nefas uocabo?
13316An praesidio sunt amici quos non uirtus sed fortuna conciliat?
13316An quia inrationabiles substantiae non possunt habere personam qua[64] Christi uocabulum excipere possint[65]?
13316An scientes uolentesque bonum deserunt, ad uitia deflectunt?
13316An sectanda nouerunt?
13316An tu aliter existimas?"
13316An tu arbitraris quod nihilo indigeat egere potentia?"
13316An tu in hanc uitae scaenam nunc primum subitus hospesque uenisti?
13316An tu mores ignorabas meos?
13316An tu potentem censes quem uideas uelle quod non possit efficere?
13316An ubi Romani nominis transire fama nequit, Romani hominis gloria progredietur?
13316An uel si amiserit, neglegendum putat?
13316An uernis floribus ipse distingueris aut tua in aestiuos fructus intumescit ubertas?
13316An uero te longus ordo famulorum facit esse felicem?
13316An uero tu pretiosam aestimas abituram felicitatem?
13316An uos agrorum pulchritudo delectat?
13316An ut tu quoque mecum rea falsis criminationibus agiteris?
13316And after what manner do riches expel penury?
13316And except they be all one and the same thing, that they have nothing worth the desiring?"
13316And how far doth this error of yours extend, who think that any can be adorned with the ornaments of another?
13316And if there be no God, from whence cometh any good?''
13316And if there is nothing in these worthy to be desired, why art thou either glad when thou hast them or sorry when thou losest them?
13316And if they light upon wicked men, what Aetnas, belching flames, or what deluge can cause so great harms?
13316And if this strength of kingdoms be the author of blessedness, doth it not diminish happiness and bring misery, when it is in any way defective?
13316And is the present fortune dear unto thee, of whose stay thou art not sure, and whose departure will breed thy grief?
13316And shall the insatiable desire of men tie me to constancy, so contrary to my custom?
13316And then she said:"Thinkest thou that this world is governed by haphazard and chance?
13316And what if they were destitute of this so great and almost invincible help of the direction of nature?
13316And what plague is able to hurt us more than a familiar enemy?
13316And when, we answer, will this not be so?
13316And who either conserveth goodness or expelleth evils, but God the Ruler and Governor of men''s minds?
13316Are riches precious in virtue either of their own nature or of yours?
13316Are these the rewards which thy obedient servants have?
13316Are they not thirsty?
13316Are we the better for those friends which love us not for our virtue but for our prosperity?
13316Art thou come to bear me company in being falsely accused?"
13316Art thou thyself adorned with May flowers?
13316Art thou''like the ass, deaf to the lyre''?
13316At cuius praemii?
13316At si ad hominum iudicia reuertar, quis ille est cui haec non credenda modo sed saltem audienda uideantur?"
13316At si nescit, quid caeca petit?
13316At si noua ueraque non ex homine sumpta caro formata est, quo tanta tragoedia generationis?
13316At si quando, quod perrarum est, probis deferantur, quid in eis aliud quam probitas utentium placet?
13316At si quem sapientia praeditum uideres, num posses eum uel reuerentia uel ea qua est praeditus sapientia non dignum putare?
13316Auaritia feruet alienarum opum uiolentus ereptor?
13316Aut quid habeat amplum magnificumque gloria tam angustis exiguisque limitibus artata?
13316Aut quid hoc refert uaticinio illo ridiculo Tiresiae?
13316Because their famous names in books we read, Come we by them to know the dead?
13316Because this soul the highest mind did view, Must we needs say that it all nature knew?
13316Bona uero unde, si non est?''
13316But I pray thee, leavest thou no punishments for the souls after the death of the body?"
13316But I would have thee answer me to this also; dost thou remember that thou art a man?"
13316But are men so completely wise that whomsoever they judge wicked or honest must needs be so?
13316But by whose accusations did I receive this blow?
13316But did I deserve the same of the Senators themselves?
13316But do they always last among them where they had their beginning?
13316But how is it possible those things should not happen which are foreseen to be to come?
13316But if I return to the judgments of men, who is there that will think them worthy to be believed or so much as heard?"
13316But if flesh had been formed new and real and not taken from man, to what purpose was the tremendous tragedy of the conception?
13316But if thou seest any man endued with wisdom, canst thou esteem him unworthy of that respect or wisdom which he hath?
13316But in this rank of coherent causes, have we any free- will, or doth the fatal chain fasten also the motions of men''s minds?"
13316But in what Scriptures is the name of Christ ever made double?
13316But now have you laid hold of him who hath been brought up in Eleatical and Academical studies?
13316But now, if we follow Nestorius, what happens that is new?
13316But tell me, dost thou remember what is the end of things?
13316But thou wilt say,''If it is in my power to change my purpose, shall I frustrate providence if I chance to alter those things which she foreknoweth?''
13316But what crime was laid to my charge?
13316But what great or heroical matter can that glory have, which is pent up in so small and narrow bounds?
13316But what if thou hast tasted more abundantly of the good?
13316But what is more devoid of strength than blind ignorance?
13316But what is this excellent power which you esteemed so desirable?
13316But what reward hath he?
13316But who would not despise and neglect the service of so vile and frail a thing as his body?
13316But why should he call God Himself by the name of Christ?
13316But wilt thou have our arguments contend together?
13316By ignorance of that which is good?
13316Can they therefore behold, as is wo nt to be said of bodies, that inward complexion of souls?
13316Canst thou ever imperiously impose anything upon a free mind?
13316Canst thou remove a soul settled in firm reason from the quiet state which it possesseth?
13316Celsa num tandem ualuit potestas Vertere praui rabiem Neronis?
13316Comest thou now first as a pilgrim and stranger into the theatre of this life?
13316Consider you not, O earthly wights, whom you seem to excel?
13316Could Nestorius, I ask, dare to call the one man and the one God in Christ two Christs?
13316Could so many dangers ever make thee think to bear office with Decoratus,[124] having discovered him to be a very varlet and spy?
13316Could this glorious might Restrain the furious rage of wicked Nero''s spite?
13316Cur enim flammas quidem sursum leuitas uehit, terras uero deorsum pondus deprimit, nisi quod haec singulis loca motionesque conueniunt?
13316Cur enim omnino duos audeat Christos uocare, unum hominem alium deum?
13316Cur enim relicta uirtute uitia sectantur?
13316Cur inertes Terga nudatis?
13316Cur ita prouenit?
13316Cur uero non elementa quoque ipsa simili audeat appellare uocabulo per quae deus mira quaedam cotidianis motibus operatur?
13316Darest thou boast of the beauty which any of them have?
13316Deo uero atque homini quid non erit diuersa ratione disiunctum, si sub diuersitate naturae personarum quoque credatur mansisse discretio?
13316Deum uero ipsum Christi appellatione cur uocet?
13316Did my dealing deserve it?
13316Didst thou not know my fashion?
13316Didst thou not learn in thy youth that there lay two barrels, the one of good things and the other of bad,[105] at Jupiter''s threshold?
13316Dignitatibus fulgere uelis?
13316Diuitiaene uel uestra uel sui natura pretiosae sunt?
13316Do any of these belong to thee?
13316Does this square with catholic doctrine?
13316Dost thou esteem it a small benefit that this rough and harsh Fortune hath made known unto thee the minds of thy faithful friends?
13316Dost thou esteem that happiness precious which thou art to lose?
13316Dost thou not know me?
13316Doth not the very countenance of this place move thee?
13316Doth the glittering of jewels draw thy eyes after them?
13316Doth the light and unconstant change his courses?
13316Doth the outrageous fret and fume?
13316Doth the pleasant prospect of the fields delight you?
13316Doth the treacherous fellow rejoice that he hath deceived others with his hidden frauds?
13316Ea etiam quae inanimata esse creduntur nonne quod suum est quaeque simili ratione desiderant?
13316Endeavourest thou to stay the force of the turning wheel?
13316Estne aliquid tibi te ipso pretiosius?
13316Et illa:"Bonos,"inquit,"esse felices, malos uero miseros nonne concessimus?"
13316Et illa:"Nihilne aliud te esse nouisti?"
13316Et quid si hoc tam magno ac paene inuicto praeeuntis naturae desererentur auxilio?
13316Ex meane dispositione scientia diuina mutabitur, ut cum ego nunc hoc nunc aliud uelim, illa quoque noscendi uices alternare uideatur?
13316Fatebimur?
13316Ferox atque inquies linguam litigiis exercet?
13316First then, I ask thee thyself, who not long since didst abound with wealth; in that plenty of riches, was thy mind never troubled with any injuries?"
13316Foedis inmundisque libidinibus immergitur?
13316For are not rich men hungry?
13316For being askt how can we answer true Unless that grace within our hearts did dwell?
13316For can you be bigger than elephants, or stronger than bulls?
13316For dost thou think that this is the first time that Wisdom hath been exposed to danger by wicked men?
13316For doth thy sight impose any necessity upon those things which thou seest present?"
13316For from whence proceed so many complaints in law, but that money gotten either by violence or deceit is sought to be recovered by that means?"
13316For seem they to err who endeavour to want nothing?
13316For what is there wanting life and members that may justly seem beautiful to a nature not only endued with life but also with reason?
13316For what liberty remaineth there to be hoped for?
13316For what place can confusion have, since God disposeth all things in due order?
13316For what should I speak of kings''followers, since I show that kingdoms themselves are so full of weakness?
13316For what?
13316For who but a very fool would hate the good?
13316For who hath so entire happiness that he is not in some part offended with the condition of his estate?
13316For why do they follow vices, forsaking virtues?
13316For why doth levity lift up flames, or heaviness weigh down the earth, but because these places and motions are convenient for them?
13316For why should I speak of those feigned letters, in which I am charged to have hoped for Roman liberty?
13316For why should slippery chance Rule all things with such doubtful governance?
13316For, since nothing can be imagined better than God, who doubteth but that is good than which is nothing better?
13316Gloriam petas?
13316Haecine est bibliotheca, quam certissimam tibi sedem nostris in laribus ipsa delegeras?
13316Haecine omnia bonum-- sufficientia potentia ceteraque-- ueluti quaedam beatitudinis membra sunt an ad bonum ueluti ad uerticem cuncta referuntur?"
13316Haecine praemia referimus tibi obsequentes?
13316Hast thou forgotten how many ways, and in what degree thou art happy?
13316Have I now made clear the difference between the categories?
13316Have offices that force to plant virtues and expel vices in the minds of those who have them?
13316Have we not in ancient times before our Plato''s age had oftentimes great conflicts with the rashness of folly?
13316Have we not placed sufficiency in happiness, and granted that God is blessedness itself?"
13316Have you no proper and inward good, that you seek your goods in those things which are outward and separated from you?
13316Heu primus quis fuit ille Auri qui pondera tecti Gemmasque latere uolentes Pretiosa pericula fodit?
13316Hisne accedamus quos beluis similes esse monstrauimus?
13316Hoc uero qui fieri potest, si diuinitas in generatione Christi et humanam animam suscepit et corpus?
13316How cometh this to pass?
13316How doth God foreknow that these uncertain things shall be?
13316How many are there, thinkest thou, which would think themselves almost in Heaven if they had but the least part of the remains of thy fortune?
13316How often have I encountered with Conigastus, violently possessing himself with poor men''s goods?
13316How often have I put back Triguilla, Provost of the King''s house, from injuries which he had begun, yea, and finished also?
13316How shall she find them out?
13316How should I curse these fools?
13316Hunc uero Eleaticis atque Academicis studiis innutritum?
13316Iam uero quam sit inane quam futtile nobilitatis nomen, quis non uideat?
13316Iamne igitur uides quid haec omnia quae diximus consequatur?"
13316Iamne patet quae sit differentia praedicationum?
13316If heretofore one had care of the people''s provision, he was accounted a great man; now what is more abject than that office?
13316If it was the manhood of that man from whom all men descend, what manhood did divinity invest?
13316If not, what estate can be blessed by ignorant blindness?
13316If she knows not, why strives she with blind pain?
13316If she knows that which she doth so require, Why wisheth she known things to know again?
13316In hoc igitur minimo puncti quodam puncto circumsaepti atque conclusi de peruulganda fama, de proferendo nomine cogitatis?
13316In qua mecum saepe residens de humanarum diuinarumque rerum scientia disserebas?
13316Infitiabimur crimen, ne tibi pudor simus?
13316Inscitiane bonorum?
13316Insidiator occultus subripuisse fraudibus gaudet?
13316Inter eos uero apud quos ortae sunt, num perpetuo perdurant?
13316Irae intemperans fremit?
13316Is he drowned in filthy and unclean lusts?
13316Is it because irrational substances can not possess a Person enabling them to receive the name of Christ?
13316Is it shamefastness or insensibleness that makes thee silent?
13316Is not the operation of God seen plainly in men of holy life and notable piety?
13316Is the angry and unquiet man always contending and brawling?
13316Is the fearful and timorous afraid without cause?
13316Is the slow and stupid always idle?
13316Is the violent extorter of other men''s goods carried away with his covetous desire?
13316Is there anything more precious to thee than thyself?
13316Itane autem nullum est proprium uobis atque insitum bonum ut in externis ac sepositis rebus bona uestra quaeratis?
13316Itane nihil fortunam puduit si minus accusatae innocentiae, at accusantium uilitatis?
13316Leuis atque inconstans studia permutat?
13316Likewise, who seeth not what a vain and idle thing it is to be called noble?
13316May I seem to have provoked enmity enough against myself?
13316Modum desideras?
13316Must I only be forbidden to use my right?
13316My friends, why did you count me fortunate?
13316Nam bonos quis nisi stultissimus oderit?
13316Nam cum nihil deo melius excogitari queat, i d quo melius nihil est bonum esse quis dubitet?
13316Nam cur rogati sponte recta censetis, Ni mersus alto uiueret fomes corde?
13316Nam cur tantas lubrica uersat Fortuna uices?
13316Nam de compositis falso litteris quibus libertatem arguor sperasse Romanam quid attinet dicere?
13316Nam quae sperari reliqua libertas potest?
13316Nam quid ego de regum familiaribus disseram, cum regna ipsa tantae inbecillitatis plena demonstrem?
13316Nesciebas Croesum regem Lydorum Cyro paulo ante formidabilem mox deinde miserandum rogi flammis traditum misso caelitus imbre defensum?
13316Nihilne te ipsa loci facies mouet?
13316Nonne adulescentulus[ Greek: doious pithous ton men hena kakon ton d''heteron eaon] in Iouis limine iacere didicisti?
13316Nonne in beatitudine sufficientiam numerauimus deumque beatitudinem ipsam esse consensimus?"
13316Nonne in sanctis hominibus ac pietate conspicuis apertus diuinitatis actus agnoscitur?
13316Nonne, o terrena animalia, consideratis quibus qui praesidere uideamini?
13316Nos ad constantiam nostris moribus alienam inexpleta hominum cupiditas alligabit?
13316Nostraene artes ita meruerunt?
13316Now doth necessity compel any of these things to be done in this sort?"
13316Now what should I speak of bodily pleasures, the desire of which is full of anxiety, and the enjoying of them breeds repentance?
13316Now, how can any man exercise jurisdiction upon anybody except upon their bodies, and that which is inferior to their bodies, I mean their fortunes?
13316Now, what desire you with such loud praise of fortune?
13316Now, what is the health of souls but virtue?
13316Now, what is there that any can enforce upon another which he may not himself be enforced to sustain by another?
13316Now, why should I discourse of dignities and power which you, not knowing what true dignity and power meaneth, exalt to the skies?
13316Num audes alicuius talium splendore gloriari?
13316Num enim diuites esurire nequeunt?
13316Num enim elephantos mole, tauros robore superare poteritis, num tigres uelocitate praeibitis?
13316Num enim quae praesentia cernis, aliquam eis necessitatem tuus addit intuitus?"
13316Num enim tu aliunde argumentum futurorum necessitatis trahis, nisi quod ea quae praesciuntur non euenire non possunt?
13316Num enim uidentur errare hi qui nihilo indigere nituntur?
13316Num frigus hibernum pecuniosorum membra non sentiunt?
13316Num i d mentior?
13316Num igitur ea mentis integritate homines degunt, ut quos probos improbosue censuerunt eos quoque uti existimant esse necesse sit?
13316Num igitur quantum ad hoc attinet, quae ex arbitrio eueniunt ad necessitatem cogantur?"
13316Num igitur quidquam illorum ita fieri necessitas ulla compellit?"
13316Num imbecillum ac sine uiribus aestimandum est, quod omnibus rebus constat esse praestantius?
13316Num ita quasi cum duo corpora sibimet apponuntur, ut tantum locis iuncta sint et nihil in alterum ex alterius qualitate perueniat?
13316Num mentem firma sibi ratione cohaerentem de statu propriae quietis amouebis?
13316Num quidquam libero imperabis animo?
13316Num sitire non possunt?
13316Num te horum aliquid attingit?
13316Num te praeterit Paulum Persi regis a se capti calamitatibus pias inpendisse lacrimas?
13316Num uero labuntur hi qui quod sit optimum, i d etiam reuerentiae cultu dignissimum putent?
13316Num uis ea est magistratibus ut utentium mentibus uirtutes inserant uitia depellant?
13316Nunc enim primum censes apud inprobos mores lacessitam periculis esse sapientiam?
13316Or by what skill are several things espied?
13316Or did the condemnation, which went before, make them just accusers?
13316Or do they err who take that which is best to be likewise most worthy of respect?
13316Or do they know what they should embrace, but passion driveth them headlong the contrary way?
13316Or do they wittingly and willingly forsake goodness, and decline to vices?
13316Or doth much money make the owners senseless of cold in winter?
13316Or doth the multitude of servants make thee happy?
13316Or doth thy fertility teem with the fruits of summer?
13316Or having so, How shall she then their forms and natures know?
13316Or in true things can we no discord see, Because all certainties do still agree?
13316Or in what is this better than that ridiculous prophecy of Tiresias"Whatsoever I say shall either be or not be"[172]?
13316Or is fame to be contemned?
13316Or is not power to be esteemed good?
13316Or is there something, though unknown to the common sort, to which these names agree?"
13316Or rather dost thou believe that it is ruled by reason?"
13316Or swifter than tigers?
13316Or though he should lose it, doth he think that a thing of no moment?
13316Or to what the whole intention of nature tendeth?"
13316Or what is it to thee, if they be precious by nature?
13316Or what new thing has been wrought by the coming of the Saviour?
13316Or why should punishments, Due to the guilty, light on innocents?
13316Or will such ignorant pursuit maintain?
13316Ought, then, by parity of reason, all things to be just because He is just who willed them to be?
13316Pauidus ac fugax non metuenda formidat?
13316Pecuniamne congregare conaberis?
13316Perceivest thou now what followeth of all that we have hitherto said?"
13316Plures enim magnum saepe nomen falsis uulgi opinionibus abstulerunt; quo quid turpius excogitari potest?
13316Postremo cum omne praemium idcirco appetatur quoniam bonum esse creditur, quis boni compotem praemii iudicet expertem?
13316Potentem censes qui satellite latus ambit, qui quos terret ipse plus metuit, qui ut potens esse uideatur, in seruientium manu situm est?
13316Potentiamne desideras?
13316Primum igitur paterisne me pauculis rogationibus statum tuae mentis attingere atque temptare, ut qui modus sit tuae curationis intellegam?"
13316Pudore an stupore siluisti?
13316Quae diuisa recolligit 20 Alternumque legens iter Nunc summis caput inserit, Nunc decedit in infima, Tum sese referens sibi Veris falsa redarguit?
13316Quae est igitur facta hominis deique coniunctio?
13316Quae est igitur haec potestas quae sollicitudinum morsus expellere, quae formidinum aculeos uitare nequit?
13316Quae est igitur ista potentia quam pertimescunt habentes, quam nec cum habere uelis tutus sis et cum deponere cupias uitare non possis?
13316Quae iam praecipitem frena cupidinem 15 Certo fine retentent, Largis cum potius muneribus fluens Sitis ardescit habendi?
13316Quae omnia non modo ad tempus manendi uerum generatim quoque quasi in perpetuum permanendi ueluti quasdam machinas esse quis nesciat?
13316Quae si in improbissimum quemque ceciderunt, quae flammis Aetnae eructuantibus, quod diluuium tantas strages dederint?
13316Quae si recepta futurorum necessitate nihil uirium habere credantur, quid erit quo summo illi rerum principi conecti atque adhaerere possimus?
13316Quae tua tibi detraximus bona?
13316Quae uero est ista uestra expetibilis ac praeclara potentia?
13316Quae uero pestis efficacior ad nocendum quam familiaris inimicus?
13316Quae uero, inquies, potest ulla iniquior esse confusio, quam ut bonis tum aduersa tum prospera, malis etiam tum optata tum odiosa contingant?
13316Quae uis singula perspicit Aut quae cognita diuidit?
13316Quaenam discors foedera rerum Causa resoluit?
13316Quam multos esse coniectas qui sese caelo proximos arbitrentur, si de fortunae tuae reliquiis pars eis minima contingat?
13316Quam tibi fecimus iniuriam?
13316Quam uero late patet uester hic error qui ornari posse aliquid ornamentis existimatis alienis?
13316Quamquam quid ipsa scripta proficiant, quae cum suis auctoribus premit longior atque obscura uetustas?
13316Quando enim non fuit diuinitatis propria humanitatisque persona?
13316Quando uero non erit?
13316Quare si opes nec submouere possunt indigentiam et ipsae suam faciunt, quid est quod eas sufficientiam praestare credatis?
13316Quare si quid ita futurum est ut eius certus ac necessarius non sit euentus, i d euenturum esse praesciri qui poterit?
13316Quibus autem deferentibus perculsi sumus?
13316Quibus autem umquam scripturis nomen Christi geminatur?
13316Quibus si nihil inest appetendae pulchritudinis, quid est quod uel amissis doleas uel laeteris retentis?
13316Quid aegritudo quam uitia?
13316Quid autem de corporis uoluptatibus loquar, quarum appetentia quidem plena est anxietatis; satietas uero poenitentiae?
13316Quid autem de dignitatibus potentiaque disseram quae uos uerae dignitatis ac potestatis inscii caelo exaequatis?
13316Quid autem est quod in alium facere quisquam[111] possit, quod sustinere ab alio ipse non possit?
13316Quid autem tanto fortunae strepitu desideratis?
13316Quid dicam liberos consulares quorum iam, ut in i d aetatis pueris, uel paterni uel auiti specimen elucet ingenii?
13316Quid dignum stolidis mentibus inprecer?
13316Quid earum potius, aurumne an uis congesta pecuniae?
13316Quid enim furor hosticus ulla Vellet prior arma mouere, 20 Cum uulnera saeua uiderent Nec praemia sanguinis ulla?
13316Quid enim uel speret quisque uel etiam deprecetur, quando optanda omnia series indeflexa conectit?
13316Quid enim?
13316Quid est enim carens animae motu atque compage quod animatae rationabilique naturae pulchrum esse iure uideatur?
13316Quid est igitur o homo quod te in maestitiam luctumque deiecit?
13316Quid etiam diuina prouidentia humana opinione praestiterit; si uti homines incerta iudicat quorum est incertus euentus?
13316Quid externa bona pro tuis amplexaris?
13316Quid fles, quid lacrimis manas?
13316Quid genus et proauos strepitis?
13316Quid huic seueritati posse astrui uidetur?
13316Quid igitur ingemiscis?
13316Quid igitur inquies?
13316Quid igitur o magistra censes?
13316Quid igitur o mortales extra petitis intra uos positam felicitatem?
13316Quid igitur postulas ut necessaria fiant quae diuino lumine lustrentur, cum ne homines quidem necessaria faciant esse quae uideant?
13316Quid igitur referre putas, tune illam moriendo deseras an te illa fugiendo?
13316Quid igitur refert non esse necessaria, cum propter diuinae scientiae condicionem modis omnibus necessitatis instar eueniet?
13316Quid igitur, si ratiocinationi sensus imaginatioque refragentur, nihil esse illud uniuersale dicentes quod sese intueri ratio putet?
13316Quid igitur?
13316Quid igitur?
13316Quid igitur?
13316Quid igitur?
13316Quid igitur?
13316Quid inanibus gaudiis raperis?
13316Quid o superbi colla mortali iugo Frustra leuare gestiunt?
13316Quid quod omnes uelut in terras ore demerso trahunt alimenta radicibus ac per medullas robur corticemque diffundunt?
13316Quid si a te non tota discessi?
13316Quid si haec ipsa mei mutabilitas iusta tibi causa est sperandi meliora?
13316Quid si uberius de bonorum parte sumpsisti?
13316Quid taces?
13316Quid tragoediarum clamor aliud deflet nisi indiscreto ictu fortunam felicia regna uertentem?
13316Quid uero aliud animorum salus uidetur esse quam probitas?
13316Quid uero noui per aduentum saluatoris effectum est?
13316Quidni, cum a semet ipsis discerpentibus conscientiam uitiis quisque dissentiat faciantque saepe, quae cum gesserint non fuisse gerenda decernant?
13316Quidni, quando eorum felicitas perpetuo perdurat?
13316Quidni?
13316Quis autem alius uel seruator bonorum uel malorum depulsor quam rector ac medicator mentium deus?
13316Quis autem modus est quo pellatur diuitiis indigentia?
13316Quis enim coercente in ordinem cuncta deo locus esse ullus temeritati reliquus potest?
13316Quis est enim tam conpositae felicitatis ut non aliqua ex parte cum status sui qualitate rixetur?
13316Quis est ille tam felix qui cum dederit inpatientiae manus, statum suum mutare non optet?
13316Quis illos igitur putet beatos Quos miseri tribuunt honores?
13316Quis legem det amantibus?
13316Quis non te felicissimum cum tanto splendore socerorum, cum coniugis pudore, cum masculae quoque prolis opportunitate praedicauit?
13316Quis tanta deus Veris statuit bella duobus, Vt quae carptim singula constent Eadem nolint mixta iugari?
13316Quo uero quisquam ius aliquod in quempiam nisi in solum corpus et quod infra corpus est, fortunam loquor, possit exserere?
13316Quod si aeternitatis infinita spatia pertractes, quid habes quod de nominis tui diuturnitate laeteris?
13316Quod si haec regnorum potestas beatitudinis auctor est, nonne si qua parte defuerit, felicitatem minuat, miseriam inportet?
13316Quod si natura pulchra sunt, quid i d tua refert?
13316Quod si natura quidem inest, sed est ratione diuersum, cum de rerum principe loquamur deo, fingat qui potest: quis haec diuersa coniunxerit?
13316Quod si nec ex arbitrio retineri potest et calamitosos fugiens facit, quid est aliud fugax quam futurae quoddam calamitatis indicium?
13316Quod si neque i d ualent efficere quod promittunt bonisque pluribus carent, nonne liquido falsa in eis beatitudinis species deprehenditur?
13316Quod tantos iuuat excitare motus Et propria fatum sollicitare manu?
13316Quonam modo deus haec incerta futura praenoscit?
13316Quoue inueniat, quisque[173] repertam Queat ignarus noscere formam?
13316Requirentibus enim:"Ipse est pater qui filius?"
13316Rursus:"Idem alter qui alter?"
13316Satisne in me magnas uideor exaceruasse discordias?
13316Scitne quod appetit anxia nosse?
13316Secundum Nestorii uero sententiam quid contingit noui?
13316Secundum hanc igitur rationem cuncta oportet esse iusta, quoniam ipse iustus est qui ea esse uoluit?
13316Sed dic mihi, meministine, quis sit rerum finis, quoue totius naturae tendat intentio?"
13316Sed hoc quoque respondeas uelim, hominemne te esse meministi?"
13316Sed in hac haerentium sibi serie causarum estne ulla nostri arbitrii libertas an ipsos quoque humanorum motus animorum fatalis catena constringit?"
13316Sed num idem de patribus quoque merebamur?
13316Sed num in his eam reperiet, quae demonstrauimus i d quod pollicentur non posse conferre?"
13316Sed quaeso,"inquam,"te, nullane animarum supplicia post defunctum morte corpus relinquis?"
13316Sed quemadmodum bona sint, inquirendum est, utrumne participatione an substantia?
13316Sed qui fieri potest ut ea non proueniant quae futura esse prouidentur?
13316Sed quid eneruatius ignorantiae caecitate?
13316Sed quis non spernat atque abiciat uilissimae fragilissimaeque rei corporis seruum?
13316Sed quis nota scire laborat?
13316Sed quod decora nouimus uocabula, Num scire consumptos datur?
13316Sed uisne rationes ipsas inuicem collidamus?
13316Seekest thou for glory?
13316Seest thou now how all these in knowing do rather use their own force and faculty than the force of those things which are known?
13316Seest thou then in what mire wickedness wallows, and how clearly honesty shineth?
13316Seest thou therefore how strait and narrow that glory is which you labour to enlarge and increase?
13316Segnis ac stupidus torpit?
13316Shall I call it an offence to have wished the safety of that order?
13316Shall I confess it?
13316Shall I deny this charge, that I may not shame thee?
13316Shall we join ourselves to them whom we have proved to be like beasts?
13316Should I fear any accusations, as though this were any new matter?
13316Si eo de cuius semine ductus est homo, quem uestita diuinitas est?
13316Si nescit, quaenam beata sors esse potest ignorantiae caecitate?
13316Si non confitetur ex ea traxisse, dicat quo homine indutus aduenerit, utrumne eo qui deciderat praeuaricatione peccati an alio?
13316Sic rerum uersa condicio est ut diuinum merito rationis animal non aliter sibi splendere nisi inanimatae supellectilis possessione uideatur?
13316Supposest thou to find any constancy in human affairs, since that man himself is soon gone?
13316Tell me, since thou doubtest not that the world is governed by God, canst thou tell me also by what means it is governed?"
13316Than which what can be imagined more vile?
13316That things which severally well settled be Yet joined in one will never friendly prove?
13316The gold or the heaps of money?
13316Thinkest thou him mighty whom thou seest desire that which he can not do?
13316Thinkest thou otherwise?"
13316Thinkest thou that which needeth nothing, to stand in need of power?"
13316Those things also which are thought to be without all life, doth not every one in like manner desire that which appertaineth to their own good?
13316Thou to that certain end Governest all things; deniest Thou to intend The acts of men alone, Directing them in measure from Thy throne?
13316Though what do writings themselves avail which perish, as well as their authors, by continuance and obscurity of time?
13316To which she replied:"Dost thou not know thyself to be anything else?"
13316Tu uero uoluentis rotae impetum retinere conaris?
13316Tum ego collecto in uires animo:"Anne adhuc eget admonitione nec per se satis eminet fortunae in nos saeuientis asperitas?
13316Tum illa,"Quanti,"inquit,"aestimabis, si bonum ipsum quid sit agnoueris?"
13316Tum illa:"Huncine,"inquit,"mundum temerariis agi fortuitisque casibus putas, an ullum credis ei regimen inesse rationis?"
13316V. An uero regna regumque familiaritas efficere potentem ualet?
13316V. But can kingdoms and the familiarity of kings make a man mighty?
13316Vbi ambitus passionis?
13316Vbi nunc fidelis ossa Fabricii manent, 15 Quid Brutus aut rigidus Cato?
13316Vel quid amplius in Iesu generatione contingit quam in cuiuslibet alterius, si discretis utrisque personis discretae etiam fuere naturae?
13316Verumtamen ne te existimari miserum uelis, an numerum modumque tuae felicitatis oblitus es?
13316Videsne igitur quam sit angusta, quam compressa gloria quam dilatare ac propagare laboratis?
13316Videsne igitur quanto in caeno probra uoluantur, qua probitas luce resplendeat?
13316Videsne igitur ut in cognoscendo cuncta sua potius facultate quam eorum quae cognoscuntur utantur?
13316Videsne quantum malis dedecus adiciant dignitates?
13316Visne igitur cum fortuna calculum ponere?
13316Vllamne humanis rebus inesse constantiam reris, cum ipsum saepe hominem uelox hora dissoluat?
13316Vllamne igitur eius hominis potentiam putas, qui quod ipse in alio potest, ne i d in se alter ualeat efficere non possit?
13316Vnde enim forenses querimoniae nisi quod uel ui uel fraude nolentibus pecuniae repetuntur ereptae?"
13316Vnde haud iniuria tuorum quidam familiarium quaesiuit:''Si quidem deus,''inquit,''est, unde mala?
13316Voluptariam uitam degas?
13316Was not fortune ashamed, if not that innocency was accused, yet at least that it had so vile and base accusers?
13316Well, when had not divinity and humanity each its proper Person?
13316What God between two truths such wars doth move?
13316What bridle can contain in bounds this their contentless will, When filled with riches they retain the thirst of having more?
13316What cause of discord breaks the bands of love?
13316What could be added to this severity?
13316What goods of thine have I taken from thee?
13316What if I be not wholly gone from thee?
13316What if this mutability of mine be a just cause for thee to hope for better?
13316What injury have I done thee?
13316What kind of union, then, between God and man has been effected?
13316What might be the reason of this?
13316What part of them can be so esteemed of?
13316What sickness have they but vices?
13316What then, if sense and imagination repugn to discourse and reason, affirming that universality to be nothing which reason thinketh herself to see?
13316What then?
13316What then?
13316What then?
13316What thinkest thou, O Mistress?
13316What?
13316When they ask"Is the Father the same as the Son?"
13316Whence not without cause one of thy familiar friends[95] demanded:''If,''saith he,''there be a God, from whence proceed so many evils?
13316Where the fame of the Roman name could not pass, can the glory of a Roman man penetrate?
13316Where the value of His long Passion?
13316Whereas, if thou weighest attentively the infinite spaces of eternity, what cause hast thou to rejoice at the prolonging of thy name?
13316Wherefore if riches can neither remove wants, and cause some themselves, why imagine you that they can cause sufficiency?
13316Wherefore lamentest thou?
13316Wherefore what power is this that the possessors fear, which when thou wilt have, thou art not secure, and when thou wilt leave, thou canst not avoid?
13316Wherefore, O man, what is it that hath cast thee into sorrow and grief?
13316Wherefore, O mortal men, why seek you for your felicity abroad, which is placed within yourselves?
13316Wherefore, enclosed and shut up in this smallest point of that other point, do you think of extending your fame and enlarging your name?
13316Wherefore, what matter is it whether thou by dying leavest it, or it forsaketh thee by flying?
13316Who after things unknown will strive to go?
13316Who can for lovers laws indite?
13316Who esteemed thee not most happy, having so noble a father- in- law, so chaste a wife, and so noble sons?
13316Who is so happy that if he yieldeth to discontent, desireth not to change his estate?
13316Who knows where faithful Fabrice''bones are pressed, Where Brutus and strict Cato rest?
13316Who would esteem of fading honours then Which may be given thus by the wickedest men?
13316Why brag you of your stock?
13316Why do fierce tyrants us affright, Whose rage is far beyond their might?
13316Why do proud men scorn that their necks should bear That yoke which every man must wear?
13316Why dost thou not speak?
13316Why embracest thou outward goods as if they were thine own?
13316Why not, when their felicity lasteth always?
13316Why not?
13316Why not?
13316Why rejoicest thou vainly?
13316Why sheddest thou so many tears?
13316Why should he not go on to call the very elements by that name?
13316Why should we strive to die so many ways, And slay ourselves with our own hands?
13316Why then, the hidden notes of things to find, Doth she with such a love of truth desire?
13316Why weepest thou?
13316Why, then, is that to be accounted feeble and of no force, which manifestly surpasses all other things?
13316Wilt thou endeavour to gather money?
13316Wilt thou excel in dignities?
13316Wilt thou have it in one word?
13316Wilt thou know the manner how?
13316Wilt thou live a voluptuous life?
13316Wilt thou then reckon with fortune?
13316Wishest thou for power?
13316Would those things which proceed from free- will be compelled to any necessity by this means?"
13316Wouldst thou give due desert to all?
13316Yet how can this be if Godhead in the conception of Christ received both human soul and body?
13316You gallant men pursue this way of high renown, Why yield you?
13316[ 103] Hast thou forgotten how Paul piously bewailed the calamities of King Perses his prisoner?
13316[ 104] What other thing doth the outcry of tragedies lament, but that fortune, having no respect, overturneth happy states?
13316[ 123] Seest thou what great ignominy dignities heap upon evil men?
13316[ 125] What power is this, then, which can not expel nor avoid biting cares and pricking fears?
13316[ 153] Do they such wars unjustly wage, Because their lives and manners disagree, And so themselves with mutual weapons kill?
13316[ 86] At cuius criminis arguimur summam quaeris?
13316or in what shall the divine providence exceed human opinion, if, as men, God judgeth those things to be uncertain the event of which is doubtful?
14988Ay,says Diagoras,"I see those who were saved, but where are those painted who were shipwrecked?"
14988How am I then injured by being torn by those animals, if I have no sensation?
14988How can I, when I do not know how learned or how good a man he is?
14988How can you do that,they answer,"for you will not perceive them?"
14988Is Archelaus, then, miserable?
14988What are they?
14988What do you mean?
14988What less than this,says Aristotle,"could be inscribed on the tomb, not of a king, but an ox?"
14988You can not, then, pronounce of the great king of the Persians whether he is happy or not?
14988After all, what kind of a Deity must that be who is not graced with one single virtue, if we should succeed in forming this idea of such a one?
14988Am I superior to Plato in eloquence?
14988And Africanus boasts, Who, from beyond Mæotis to the place Where the sun rises, deeds like mine can trace?
14988And as I continued to observe the earth with great attention, How long, I pray you, said Africanus, will your mind be fixed on that object?
14988And as to other things, do not Epicurus and the rest of the philosophers seem sufficiently prepared?
14988And as to the men, what shall I say?
14988And can you, then, refuse to acknowledge also Codrus, and many others who shed their blood for the preservation of their country?
14988And do we not see what the Lacedæmonians provide in their Phiditia?
14988And do you set bounds to vice?
14988And does it become a philosopher to boast that he is not afraid of these things, and that he has discovered them to be false?
14988And if Hecate is a Goddess, how can you refuse that rank to the Eumenides?
14988And if that really is the case-- for I say nothing either way-- what is there agreeable or glorious in it?
14988And if the constant course of future time is to resemble that night, who is happier than I am?
14988And if these are the effects of virtue, why can not virtue itself make men happy?
14988And if they are admitted, what reason have we to reject the Gods of the barbarians?
14988And in this state of things where can the evil be, since death has no connection with either the living or the dead?
14988And is not the art of the soothsayers divine?
14988And must not every one who sees what innumerable instances of the same kind there are confess the existence of the Gods?
14988And shall not the great man found laws, institutions, and a republic?
14988And should you observe any one of your friends under affliction, would you rather prescribe him a sturgeon than a treatise of Socrates?
14988And thus there will be something better than a happy life: but what can be more absurd than such an assertion?
14988And to what purpose?
14988And what are those things of more consequence?
14988And what is it that constitutes the happiness which you assert that he enjoys?
14988And when it is thus explained, what can a warrior, a commander, or an orator want more?
14988And where do the multitude of Gods dwell, if heaven itself is a Deity?
14988And wherein doth poverty prevent us from being happy?
14988And who is there whom pain may not befall?
14988And whose images are they?
14988And why should I be uneasy it I were to expect that some nation might possess itself of this city ten thousand years hence?
14988And why should we worship them from an admiration only of that nature in which we can behold nothing excellent?
14988And why so?
14988And, again, how are we to conceive how much it is able to contain?
14988Anything sudden or unforeseen?
14988Are any of them hook- nosed, flap- eared, beetle- browed, or jolt- headed, as some of us are?
14988Are not their opinions subversive of all religion?
14988Are these parts necessary to immortality?
14988Are these the good things which remove the most afflicting grief?
14988Are these your words or not?
14988Are they afraid of any attacks or blows?
14988Are they all alike in the face?
14988Are they conducive to the existence of the Deity?
14988Are we to suppose the divine seed fell from heaven upon earth, and that men sprung up in the likeness of their celestial sires?
14988Are we, then, to attribute the first of these characteristics to animals?
14988Are you able to tell?
14988Are you not acquainted with the first principles of logic?
14988As to the beasts, do they not bear cold and hunger, running about in woods, and on mountains and deserts?
14988As to the natural fortifications of Rome, who is so negligent and unobservant as not to have them depicted and deeply stamped on his memory?
14988As, therefore, it is plain that what is moved by itself must be eternal, who will deny that this is the general condition and nature of minds?
14988Besides, how can the world move itself, if it wants a body?
14988Besides, how could that Deity, if it is nothing but soul, be mixed with, or infused into, the world?
14988Besides, is not everything that had a beginning subject to mortality?
14988Besides, what piety is due to a being from whom you receive nothing?
14988But I ask you if I have effected anything or nothing in the preceding days?
14988But I would demand of you both, why these world- builders started up so suddenly, and lay dormant for so many ages?
14988But among men, do we not see a disparity of manners in persons very much alike, and a similitude of manners in persons unlike?
14988But are any of these miserable now?
14988But can not we have the pleasure of hearing you resume it, or are we come too late?
14988But could not the Deity have assisted and preserved those eminent cities?
14988But do not you, who are so great an adept in physics, see what a soothing flatterer, what a sort of procuress, nature is to herself?
14988But do we imagine that he was afterward delighted with that variety with which we see the heaven and earth adorned?
14988But do you mean, said Tubero, that he dared to speak thus to men almost entirely uneducated and ignorant?
14988But do you really imagine them to be such?
14988But do you think they were all madmen who thought that a Deity could by some possibility exist without hands and feet?
14988But does your Epicurus( for I had rather contend with him than with you) say anything that is worthy the name of philosophy, or even of common- sense?
14988But how can that be miserable for one which all must of necessity undergo?
14988But how can wisdom reside in such shapes?
14988But how can you assert that the Gods do not enter into all the little circumstances of life, and yet hold that they distribute dreams among men?
14988But how does all this face of things arise from atomic corpuscles?
14988But how does he speak on these subjects?
14988But how is it that you take it for granted that life is nothing but fire?
14988But how will any one be enabled to bear his misfortunes the better by knowing that it is unavoidable that such things should happen to man?
14988But how will you get rid of the objections which Carneades made?
14988But if a concourse of atoms can make a world, why not a porch, a temple, a house, a city, which are works of less labor and difficulty?
14988But if it does not ease our pain, why should we debase ourselves to no purpose?
14988But if their doctrine be true, of what avail is piety, sanctity, or religion?
14988But if understanding, faith, virtue, and concord reside in human kind, how could they come on earth, unless from heaven?
14988But if you decline those opinions, why should a single form disturb you?
14988But if you think Latona a Goddess, how can you avoid admitting Hecate to be one also, who was the daughter of Asteria, Latona''s sister?
14988But is that the truth?
14988But it is not necessary at present to go through the whole: the question is, to what point are we to advance in order to abate our grief?
14988But let us see what she will perform?
14988But like what man?
14988But must they, for that reason, be all eternal?
14988But since the universe contains all particular beings, as well as their seeds, can we say that it is not itself governed by nature?
14988But still, what was this extraordinary fortune?
14988But suppose we are mistaken as to his pleasure; are we so, too, as to his pain?
14988But supposing these were to be allowed, how can the rest be granted, or even so much as understood?
14988But the question is, had he died, would he have been taken from good, or from evil?
14988But to detract from another''s reputation, or to rival him with that vicious emulation which resembles an enmity, of what use can that conduct be?
14988But what age is long, or what is there at all long to a man?
14988But what are those degrees by which we are to limit it?
14988But what are those images you talk of, or whence do they proceed?
14988But what are those more important things about which you say that you are occupied?
14988But what are we doing?
14988But what can be more internal than the mind?
14988But what conception can we possibly have of a Deity who is not eternal?
14988But what do you think of those to whom a victory in the Olympic games seemed almost on a par with the ancient consulships of the Roman people?
14988But what does the same man say in his funeral oration?
14988But what is Chrysippus''s definition?
14988But what is it, Epicurus, that you do for them?
14988But what is that great and noble work which appears to you to be the effect of a divine mind, and from which you conclude that there are Gods?
14988But what is that opinion of Epicharmus?
14988But what is that peroration?
14988But what is there more effectual to dispel grief than the discovery that it answers no purpose, and has been undergone to no account?
14988But what is there of any excellency which has not its difficulty?
14988But what life do they attribute to that round Deity?
14988But what occasion is there to animadvert on the opinions of individuals, when we may observe whole nations to fall into all sorts of errors?
14988But what occasion is there to philosophize here in a matter with which we see that philosophy is but little concerned?
14988But what pleasures can they enjoy?
14988But what said that chief of the Argonauts in tragedy?
14988But what sense can the air have?
14988But what shall I say of human reason?
14988But what signifies that, if his defects were beauties to Catulus?
14988But what think you of those whose mothers were Goddesses?
14988But when virtue governs the Commonwealth, what can be more glorious?
14988But whence comes that divination?
14988But where is truth?
14988But who can with correctness speak in praise of a mediocrity of evils?
14988But who ever thanked the Gods that he was a good man?
14988But why are we angry with the poets?
14988But why are we to add many more Gods?
14988But why do I mention Socrates, or Theramenes, men distinguished by the glory of virtue and wisdom?
14988But why was not man endued with a reason incapable of producing any crimes?
14988But would any one say of us, who do exist, that we want horns or wings?
14988But would it not have been better that these inhumanities had been prevented than that the author of them should be punished afterward?
14988But, do you not see how much harm is done by poets?
14988But, indeed, who can dispute the antiquity of philosophy, either in fact or name?
14988Can any one contradict himself more?
14988Can any one in whom there is lust or desire be otherwise than libidinous or desirous?
14988Can anything be natural that is against reason?
14988Can anything show stupidity in a greater degree?
14988Can he who does not exist be in need of anything?
14988Can madness be of any use?
14988Can there be any doubt that whatever may be lost can not be properly classed in the number of those things which complete a happy life?
14988Can there be any glory or excellence in that nature which only contemplates its own happiness, and neither will do, nor does, nor ever did anything?
14988Can we suppose any of them to be squint- eyed, or even to have a cast in the eye?
14988Can we, then, think that this plentiful fountain of evil sprung from the immortal Gods?
14988Can you deny, my Lælius, that this is a fair definition of a democracy, where the people are all in all, and where the people constitute the State?
14988Can you, then, call yourself a brave man, of a great soul, endued with patience and steadiness above the frowns of fortune?
14988Can you, then, think, after this plain refutation, that there is need to employ more subtle reasonings?
14988Could he, then, be happy who occasioned the death of these men?
14988Could the Scythian Anacharsis[69] disregard money, and shall not our philosophers be able to do so?
14988Could the different courses of the stars be preserved by the uniform movement of the whole heaven?
14988Could the earth at one season be adorned with flowers, at another be covered with snow?
14988Could the flux and reflux of the sea and the height of the tides be affected by the increase or wane of the moon?
14988Could these things subsist, I say, in such a harmony of all the parts of the universe without the continued influence of a divine spirit?
14988Did he not follow his philosophical studies with the greatest satisfaction at Athens, although he was banished?
14988Did not his colleague Junius, in the same war, lose his fleet in a tempest by disregarding the auspices?
14988Did not they plainly deny the very essence of a Deity?
14988Did not this grave and wise man sufficiently show that the public revenue was dissipated by the Sempronian law?
14988Did she avoid labor?
14988Did you ever observe anything like this, Epicurus?
14988Did you ever see any world but this?
14988Did you, then, say that it was your opinion that such a man was as naturally liable to perturbation as the sea is exposed to winds?
14988Do I explain your opinion rightly?
14988Do I talk of their men?
14988Do not the Egyptians esteem their sacred bull, their Apis, as a Deity?
14988Do not they put their names to those very books which they write on the contempt of glory?
14988Do they not hate every virtue that distinguishes itself?
14988Do those grandiloquent gentlemen state anything better than Epicurus in opposition to these two things which distress us the most?
14988Do we look, then, on the libidinous, the angry, the anxious, and the timid man, as persons of wisdom, of excellence?
14988Do we not observe that where those exercises called gymnastic are in esteem, those who enter the lists never concern themselves about dangers?
14988Do you admit this-- that souls either exist after death, or else that they also perish at the moment of death?
14988Do you believe an eagle, a lion, or a dolphin prefers any shape to its own?
14988Do you believe that they thought that their names should not continue beyond their lives?
14988Do you commit your affairs to the hands of many persons?
14988Do you conceive him to have the least skill in natural philosophy who is capable of thinking anything to be everlasting that had a beginning?
14988Do you imagine that Epaminondas groaned when he perceived that his life was flowing out with his blood?
14988Do you imagine that I am angry when in pleading I use any extraordinary vehemence and sharpness?
14988Do you intend all the laws indifferently?
14988Do you not consider, Balbus, to what lengths your arguments for the divinity of the heaven and the stars will carry you?
14988Do you not look upon him as unworthy of his own father''s light?
14988Do you observe how he constrains himself?
14988Do you see that I have much leisure?
14988Do you see that city Carthage, which, though brought under the Roman yoke by me, is now renewing former wars, and can not live in peace?
14988Do you suppose if beasts were endowed with reason that every one would not give the prize of beauty to his own species?
14988Do you take that print of a horse''s hoof which is now to be seen on a stone at Regillus to be made by Castor''s horse?
14988Do you take these for fabulous stories?
14988Do you think the Deity is like either me or you?
14988Do you think there is any creature on the land or in the sea that is not highly delighted with its own form?
14988Do you, then, admit our idea of that governor of a commonwealth to whom we wish to refer everything?
14988Do you, then, asked Scipio, believe in nothing which is not before your eyes?
14988Do you, then, think that it can befall a wise man to be oppressed with grief, that is to say, with misery?
14988Does not Dionysius, then, seem to have declared there can be no happiness for one who is under constant apprehensions?
14988Does not Niobe here seem to reason, and by that reasoning to bring all her misfortunes upon herself?
14988Does not Old age, though unregarded, still attend On childhood''s pastimes, as the cares of men?
14988Does pain annoy us?
14988Does the earth bring forth fruit and grain in such excessive abundance and variety for men or for brutes?
14988Doth anything come nearer madness than anger?
14988Eternal sorrows what avails to shed?
14988For how is such a one judged to be best either in learning, sciences, or arts?
14988For how without these qualities could it be infinitely perfect?
14988For if that last day does not occasion an entire extinction, but a change of abode only, what can be more desirable?
14988For let the soul perish as the body: is there any pain, or indeed any feeling at all, in the body after death?
14988For piety is only justice towards the Gods; but what right have they to it, when there is no communication whatever between the Gods and men?
14988For what can be thought better than the best?
14988For what can possibly be more evident than this?
14988For what can possibly ever have been put together which can not be dissolved again?
14988For what can we pronounce more deplorable than folly?
14988For what is Athos or the vast Olympus?
14988For what is a republic but an association of rights?
14988For what is better and more excellent than goodness and beneficence?
14988For what is memory of words and circumstances?
14988For what is more unbecoming in a man than to cry like a woman?
14988For what is not only more miserable, but more base and sordid, than a man afflicted, weakened, and oppressed with grief?
14988For what is that faculty by which we remember?
14988For what is that love of friendship?
14988For what is there in human knowledge, or the short span of this life, that can appear great to a wise man?
14988For what is there in natures of that kind which has the power of memory, understanding, or thought?
14988For what is there in this life that can appear great to him who has acquainted himself with eternity and the utmost extent of the universe?
14988For what nation, what people are there, who have not, without any learning, a natural idea, or prenotion, of a Deity?
14988For what now remains of those antique manners, of which the poet said that our Commonwealth consisted?
14988For what shall we say?
14988For what should he be concerned for who has not even any sensation?
14988For what stronger argument can there be that it is of little use than that some very profound philosophers live in a discreditable manner?
14988For what superior force can there be?
14988For what was the State of Athens when, during the great Peloponnesian war, she fell under the unjust domination of the thirty tyrants?
14988For what-- can such a man be disturbed by fear?
14988For whence comes piety, or from whom has religion been derived?
14988For who does not see this, that an appetite is the best sauce?
14988For who that fears either pain or death, the one of which is always present, the other always impending, can be otherwise than miserable?
14988For whom, then, will any one presume to say that the world was made?
14988For why should I entreat him to be propitious?
14988For why should a woman be disabled from inheriting property?
14988For, in the first place, what are the pleasures of which we are deprived by that dreadful thing, blindness?
14988For, with respect to him what better authority can we cite than Plato?
14988From what would you derive Vejupiter and Vulcan?
14988From whence arose those five forms,[83] of which the rest were composed, so aptly contributing to frame the mind and produce the senses?
14988Granting, then, everything to be made of atoms, what advantage is that to your argument?
14988Had there not been danger, we should say, who would have applied to you?
14988Has it not even entered the heavens?
14988Has our entrance at all interrupted any conversation of yours?
14988Have I invented this?
14988Have they any warts?
14988Have they no names?
14988Have you any grounds of complaint, then, that she recalls it at her pleasure?
14988Have you, then, no commendation at all for any kind of democratical government?
14988He determines to be miserable: and can any one determine on anything against his will?
14988Here some people talk of moderate grief; but if such be natural, what occasion is there for consolation?
14988How can anything of this kind befall one to whom nothing is sudden and unforeseen that can happen to man?
14988How can he be brave and undaunted, and hold everything as trifles which can befall a man?
14988How can it be right that you should voluntarily grieve, rather than take the trouble of acquiring what you want to have?
14988How can that divine sense of the firmament be preserved in so rapid a motion?
14988How comes it that no one is in love with a deformed young man, or a handsome old one?
14988How could the Gods err?
14988How could the air, fire, water, and earth pay obedience and submit to the will of the architect?
14988How do the beasts live in the fields and in the forests?
14988How is it that the very first moment that I choose I can form representations of them in my mind?
14988How is it that they come to me, even in my sleep, without being called or sought after?
14988How is it when some things do of themselves prevent your grieving at them?
14988How much more reasonable is the doctrine of the Stoics, whom you censure?
14988How shall we account for this?
14988How so?
14988How was it with T. Altibutius?
14988How we are to behave in bed?
14988How, then, can a life be pleasant without prudence and temperance?
14988How, then, can we conceive this to be a Deity that makes no use of reason, and is not endowed with any virtue?
14988How, therefore, can they be those persons?
14988I desire, therefore, to know, Balbus, why this Providence of yours was idle for such an immense space of time?
14988I perceive your gradations from happiness to virtue, and from virtue to reason; but how do you come from reason to human form?
14988I should be glad to be confuted; for what am I endeavoring at but to clear up truth in every question?
14988I would inquire of him which of his family the nephew of Africanus''s brother was like?
14988I?
14988If I ask, why?
14988If I have not faculties for knowing all that I could desire to know, will you not even allow me to make use of those which I have?
14988If a just man and a virtuous man is bound to obey the laws, I ask, what laws do you mean?
14988If any sentiments, indeed, are communicated without obscurity, what is there that Velleius can understand and Cotta not?
14988If he never heard a lecture on these Democritean principles, what lectures did he ever hear?
14988If it is not the same, then why did she make the world mortal, and not everlasting, like Plato''s God?
14988If it were not so, why should we pray to or adore them?
14988If it were not so, why would not a bull become enamored of a mare, or a horse of a cow?
14988If it were true, what occasion was there to come so gradually to it?
14988If the Gods can exist without corporeal sense, and if there can be a mind without a body, why did he annex a mind to water?
14988If the human mind were a Deity, how could it be ignorant of any thing?
14988If there are Gods, are nymphs also Goddesses?
14988If there be no such thing as a Deity, what is there better than man, since he only is possessed of reason, the most excellent of all things?
14988If these are Deities, which we worship and regard as such, why are not Serapis and Isis[255] placed in the same rank?
14988If they are Goddesses, are Pans and Satyrs in the same rank?
14988If you did not deify one as well as the other, what will become of Ino?
14988If you suppose that wisdom governs the State, is it not as well that this wisdom should reside in one monarch as in many nobles?
14988If, then, honor and riches have no value, what is there else to be afraid of?
14988If, therefore, she neglects whole nations, is it not very probable that she neglects all mankind?
14988In afflictions, in labor, in danger?
14988In short, how is he happy?
14988In the first place, therefore, I ask you, Where is the habitation of your Deity?
14988In what manner?
14988In what other parts to the north or the south, or where the sun rises and sets, will your names ever be heard?
14988In what respect are they superior to these ideas?
14988In what was Epicurus happier, living in his own country, than Metrodorus, who lived at Athens?
14988In what way, said Lælius, are you going to make me again support your argument?
14988In what, therefore, can it be defective, since it is perfect?
14988In which, how could I have acted if I had not been consul at the time?
14988Is anger inflamed?
14988Is any country of barbarians more uncivilized or desolate than India?
14988Is he deprived of eyes?
14988Is he destitute of children?
14988Is he not involved in a very great error?
14988Is it because the mere separation of the soul and body can not be effected without pain?
14988Is it because you can not be liberal without pity?
14988Is it for beasts?
14988Is it in your innumerable worlds, some of which are rising, some falling, at every moment of time?
14988Is it not easier, then, to find one man of such a spirit as we are inquiring after, than to meet with a whole city of such men?
14988Is it not sufficient, if it is not disagreeable?
14988Is it possible that you should attain any human applause or glory that is worth the contending for?
14988Is it the contempt of honors?
14988Is it the same man who calls pain the greatest of all evils?
14988Is not a dog like a wolf?
14988Is not the decree of the senate concerning Vatienus still subsisting?
14988Is not the temple, built by Posthumius in honor of Castor and Pollux, to be seen in the Forum?
14988Is not this the case with the people everywhere?
14988Is poverty the subject?
14988Is she not called Leucothea by the Greeks, and Matuta by us?
14988Is that sufficient for beings who are supposed to enjoy all good things and the most supreme felicity?
14988Is the face itself of use?
14988Is there no natural charity in the dispositions of good men?
14988Is there, then, anything that a disturbed mind can do better than one which is calm and steady?
14988Is this all?
14988Is this that Telamon so highly praised By wondering Greece, at whose sight, like the sun, All others with diminish''d lustre shone?
14988It is an important question for us, Which has the most appearance of truth?
14988It is reported that Cleanthes on that struck his foot on the ground, and repeated a verse out of the Epigonæ: Amphiaraus, hear''st thou this below?
14988It may be said, on the other side, Who is so mad as to grieve of his own accord?
14988Lastly, if fortitude is ascribed to the Deity, how does it appear?
14988Lastly, what have the principal poets and the most learned men published of themselves in their poems and songs?
14988Moreover, how can a good man avoid referring all his actions and all his feelings to the one standard of whether or not it is laudable?
14988Moreover, who can think anything in human affairs of brilliant importance who has penetrated this starry empire of the gods?
14988Must I now seek for arguments to refute this doctrine seriously?
14988Must not the mind, then, when it is puffed up, or distended, be out of order?
14988Must we conclude that some Deity appoints and directs these ebbings and flowings to certain fixed times?
14988Must we not attribute prudence to a Deity?
14988Nay, more; is not the whole of heaven( not to dwell on particulars) almost filled with the offspring of men?
14988No beast has more sagacity than an elephant; yet where can you find any of a larger size?
14988Nothing is more true, and he says very appropriately, What, are you sane, who at this rate lament?
14988Now imagine a Democritus, a Pythagoras, and an Anaxagoras; what kingdom, what riches, would you prefer to their studies and amusements?
14988Now what made these men so easy, but their persuasion that grief and lamentation was not becoming in a man?
14988Now who that is acquainted with these instances can doubt that this motion of the mind is altogether in opinion and voluntary?
14988Now, do you understand what is meant by quasi- body and quasi- blood?
14988Now, does it not appear to you that he is here placing the whole of a happy life in virtue alone?
14988Now, in what sense do you say there is nothing better than the world?
14988Now, let our wise man be considered as protecting the republic; what can be more excellent than such a character?
14988Now, that very warlike anger, which is of such service in war, what is the use of it to him when he is at home with his wife, children, and family?
14988Now, what disorders can be worse to the body than these two distempers of the mind( for I overlook others), weakness and desire?
14988Now, what ignominy can a wise man be affected with( for it is of such a one that I am speaking) who can be guilty of nothing which deserves it?
14988Now, what were these inventions?
14988Of what use is reason to him?
14988Of what value is this philosophy, which, like old women and illiterate men, attributes everything to fate?
14988On the other side, what disgrace, what ignominy, would he not submit to that he might avoid pain, when persuaded that it was the greatest of evils?
14988Or are they free from imperfections?
14988Or can any one be angry without a perturbation of mind?
14988Or did Plato''s happiness exceed that of Xenocrates, or Polemo, or Arcesilas?
14988Or do you think Æsopus was ever angry when he acted, or Accius was so when he wrote?
14988Or for the sake of fools?
14988Or how can that nature be called animated which neither regards nor performs anything?
14988Or how can you, or any one else, be indebted to him who bestows no benefits?
14988Or how, if it is in perpetual self- motion, can it be easy and happy?
14988Or is it in your atomical corpuscles, which form such excellent works without the direction of any natural power or reason?
14988Or is that city to be valued much that banishes all her good and wise men?
14988Or the relations and sons of many other excellent men, whose names there is no occasion to mention?
14988Or was Theseus in a passion when he seized on the horns of the Marathonian bull?
14988Or were these things made, as you almost assert, by God for the sake of men?
14988Or what is there that had a beginning which will not have an end?
14988Or what old woman is now to be found so weak and ignorant as to stand in fear of those infernal monsters which once so terrified mankind?
14988Or what religion did Prodicus the Chian leave to men, who held that everything beneficial to human life should be numbered among the Gods?
14988Or who can think anything connected with mankind long who has learned to estimate the nature of eternity?
14988Or would we rather imitate Epicurus?
14988Or, if uninterrupted, still how do you prove them to be eternal?
14988Ought not such authorities to move you?
14988Ought we to contemn Attius Navius''s staff, with which he divided the regions of the vine to find his sow?
14988Secondly, What motive is it that stirs him from his place, supposing he ever moves?
14988Seeing, then, that it is clear that whatever moves itself is eternal, can there be any doubt that the soul is so?
14988Shall Amphiaraus and Tryphonius be called Gods?
14988Shall I adore, and bend the suppliant knee, Who scorn their power and doubt their deity?
14988Shall I call the sun, the moon, or the sky a Deity?
14988Shall I immediately crowd all my sails?
14988Shall I superficially go over what I said before, that my discourse may have a greater scope?
14988Shall Tantalus''unhappy offspring know No end, no close, of this long scene of woe?
14988Shall a wise man be afraid of pain?
14988Shall men not be able to bear what boys do?
14988Shall musicians compose their tunes to their own tastes?
14988Shall the Deity, then, have a tongue, and not speak-- teeth, palate, and jaws, though he will have no use for them?
14988Shall the happy life of a wise and consistent man succumb to this?
14988Shall the industrious husbandman, then, plant trees the fruit of which he shall never see?
14988Shall the members which nature has given to the body for the sake of generation be useless to the Deity?
14988Shall the world be possessed of every other perfection, and be destitute of this one, which is the most important and valuable of all?
14988Shall virtue, then, yield to this?
14988Shall we give, therefore, any credit to Pauæstius, when he dissents from his master, Plato?
14988Shall we imagine that there is a kind of measure in the soul, into which, as into a vessel, all that we remember is poured?
14988Shall we imagine the soul to receive impressions like wax, and memory to be marks of the impressions made on the soul?
14988Shall we not then allow the Gods to have these perfections, since we worship the sacred and august images of them?
14988Shall we say, then, that madness has its use?
14988Shall we, then, prefer determining between them, or shall we return to our subject?
14988Shall we, therefore, receive a lame Deity because we have such an account of him?
14988Shall, then, a veteran soldier be able to behave in this manner, and shall a wise and learned man not be able?
14988She turn''d me out- of- doors; she sends for me back again; Shall I go?
14988Should Pythagoras, Socrates, or Plato say to me, Why are you dejected or sad?
14988Should it be asked, why not?
14988Should you ask what its nature is?
14988Socrates, in Xenophon, asks,"Whence had man his understanding, if there was none in the world?"
14988Still, you would not be liable to punishment; for who could prove that you had known?
14988Suppose that we allow that to be without pain is the chief good?
14988Supposing he is so, would his happiness be less perfect if he had not two feet?
14988Take away this, and who would be so mad as to spend his life amidst toils and dangers?
14988That indeed is absurd; for how shall we form any idea of the bottom, or of the shape or fashion of such a soul as that?
14988That of nature?
14988The flights and notes of birds?
14988Then Lælius asked: But what difference is there, I should like to know, between the one and the many, if justice exists equally in many?
14988Then Mucius said: What, then, do you consider, my Lælius, should be our best arguments in endeavoring to bring about the object of your wishes?
14988Then Tubero said: I do not mean to disagree with you, Lælius; but, pray, what do you call more important studies?
14988Then said Furius, What is it that you are about?
14988Therefore, as fear with them, prevailed over grief, can not reason and true philosophy have the same effect with a wise man?
14988Therefore, when he had set off the riches of Priam to the best advantage, which had the appearance of a long continuance, what does he add?
14988This is not only a weak, but a false, argument; for, first of all, how do you know the opinions of all nations?
14988Though_ Sol_( the sun) is so called, you say, because he is_ solus_( single); yet how many suns do theologists mention?
14988Thus reasons Carneades; not with any design to destroy the existence of the Gods( for what would less become a philosopher?
14988Thy aid, O Venus, why should I invoke?
14988To judge whom?
14988To what length now will not anger go?
14988To whom is owing that knowledge from the entrails of beasts?
14988V._ A._ Should this be the case, is it not to be feared that you are dressing up philosophy in false colors?
14988Was Romulus, then, think you, king of a barbarous people?
14988Was it for the wise?
14988Was it, then, an unwise act in him to prefer the liberty of banishment to slavery at home?
14988Was there no evil in what afflicted Alcibiades thus?
14988We grant you this; but where is the similitude?
14988We must drive away this grief of hers: how is that to be done?
14988We should assist her, for she looks out for help: Where shall I now apply, where seek support?
14988We that are alive, are we not wretched, seeing we must die?
14988Were not that the case, why should the Stoics say so much on that question, Whether virtue was abundantly sufficient to a happy life?
14988What Hector?
14988What advantage, then, is the knowledge of futurity to us, or how does it assist us to guard against impending evils, since it will come inevitably?
14988What and how various are the kinds of animals, tame or wild?
14988What are the characters of the words, what of the facts themselves?
14988What are the notions of you philosophers?
14988What are the poet''s views but to be ennobled after death?
14988What are those good things?
14988What artificer but nature, whose direction is incomparable, could have exhibited so much ingenuity in the formation of the senses?
14988What being is there but a God superior to man?
14988What bounds can you set to the value of conversing with Orpheus, and Musæus, and Homer, and Hesiod?
14988What can I say to these definitions?
14988What can be more childish than to assert that there are no such creatures as are generated in the Red Sea or in India?
14988What can be wanting to such a life as this to make it more happy than it is?
14988What can make a worse appearance than Homer''s Achilles, or Agamemnon, during the quarrel?
14988What city would endure the maker of a law which should condemn a son or a grandson for a crime committed by the father or the grandfather?
14988What comeliness is there in the heart, the lungs, the liver, and the rest of them, abstracted from their use?
14988What could be better than to assert that fortune interferes but little with a wise man?
14988What could be weaker than this?
14988What do our philosophers think on the subject?
14988What do predictions and foreknowledge of future events indicate, but that such future events are shown, pointed out, portended, and foretold to men?
14988What do you allude to?
14988What do you conclude from thence?
14988What do you imagine that so many and such great men of our republic, who have sacrificed their lives for its good, expected?
14988What do you think of that son of Phoebus?
14988What do you think, then?
14988What does that man say in Terence who punishes himself, the Self- tormentor?
14988What doth Alcæus, who was distinguished in his own republic for his bravery, write on the love of young men?
14988What else is it, I say, that we do, but invite the soul to reflect on itself?
14988What else is the object of these lines, Behold old Ennius here, who erst Thy fathers''great exploits rehearsed?
14988What entertainment could that be to the Deity?
14988What fire have not candidates run through to gain a single vote?
14988What gladiator, of even moderate reputation, ever gave a sigh?
14988What greater example need we seek for?
14988What have we to ask of the Gods, and why do we prefer our vows to them?
14988What if your assertion, Velleius, proves absolutely false, that no form occurs to us, in our contemplations on the Deity, but the human?
14988What is his course of life?
14988What is his object in doing so, except that he is interested in posterity?
14988What is more agreeable than a learned retirement?
14988What is the meaning, then, of this absurd acceptation, unless some one wishes to make the whole of Athos a monument?
14988What is the reason that I entertain one idea of the figure of the same person, and you another?
14988What is the result, then?
14988What is the swine good for but to eat?
14988What is there in Epicurus''s physics that is not taken from Democritus?
14988What is there in them which does not prove the principle of an intelligent nature?
14988What is there that can discompose such gravity and constancy?
14988What is this dread-- this fear?
14988What is to be done at home?
14988What is to be done, then?
14988What madness is it, then, in us to require the same from others?
14988What materials, what tools, what bars, what machines, what servants, were employed in so vast a work?
14988What men do you mean?
14988What necessity can there be of feet, without walking; or of hands, if there is nothing to be grasped?
14988What pleasures?
14988What proof, says Balbus, do you require of me?
14988What say you to this?
14988What shall I say of Dicæarchus, who denies that there is any soul?
14988What shall I say of Socrates,[282] whose death, as often as I read of it in Plato, draws fresh tears from my eyes?
14988What shall I say of our military affairs; in which our ancestors have been most eminent in valor, and still more so in discipline?
14988What shall I say of our own ambitious pursuits or desire of honors?
14988What shall we say of Ino, the daughter of Cadmus?
14988What shall we say of him who not only dreads these evils as impending, but actually feels and bears them at present?
14988What shall we say of the sacrilegious, the impious, and the perjured?
14988What shall we say of those who think it unbecoming in a man to grieve?
14988What signifies what men say when we see what they do?
14988What similitude is there between them?
14988What sort of life does he lead?
14988What strange things does Lycon say?
14988What then?
14988What think you of Diagoras, who was called the atheist; and of Theodorus after him?
14988What time do you mean?
14988What troubles, then, are they free from who have no connection whatever with the people?
14988What was it that incited the Deity to act the part of an ædile, to illuminate and decorate the world?
14988What will you say of her brother Absyrtus, whom Pacuvius calls Ægialeus, though the other name is more frequent in the writings of the ancients?
14988What will you say?
14988What words does Sophocles here put in his mouth, in his Trachiniæ?
14988What, in the name of those Deities concerning whom we are now disputing, is the meaning of all this?
14988What, lastly, is that power which investigates secret things, and is called invention and contrivance?
14988What, sweet?
14988What, then, are those goods in the possession of which you may be very miserable?
14988What, then, is that being but a God?
14988What, then, is this opinion of theirs?
14988What, then, was the subject of your discussion?
14988What, then, will you say of his brothers?
14988What, then, would your just man do, if, in a case of shipwreck, he saw a weaker man than himself get possession of a plank?
14988What, then?
14988What, then?
14988What, then?
14988What, then?
14988What, then?
14988What, then?
14988What, then?
14988What, too, is invention?
14988What?
14988When they reason in this manner, what think you-- is what they say worth attending to or not?
14988When we pronounce the word"aristocracy,"which, in Greek, signifies the government of the best men, what can be conceived more excellent?
14988When we see machines move artificially, as a sphere, a clock, or the like, do we doubt whether they are the productions of reason?
14988When will the dire reward of guilt be o''er, And Myrtilus demand revenge no more?
14988When you go out at the Capene gate and see the tombs of the Calatini, the Scipios, Servilii, and Metelli, do you look on them as miserable?
14988Whence can I, then, more properly begin than from Nature, the parent of all?
14988Whence comes justice, faith, equity?
14988Whence comes law, either that of nations, or that which is called the civil law?
14988Whence fortitude in labors and perils?
14988Whence modesty, continence, the horror of baseness, the desire of praise and renown?
14988Whence proceeded that happy concourse of atoms which gave so sudden a rise to men in the form of Gods?
14988Where hence betake me, or to whom resort?"
14988Where is his abode?
14988Where is his habitation?
14988Where is the place where he is to be found?
14988Where is to be the end of this trifling?
14988Where now is your sagacity?
14988Where shall I begin, then?
14988Where, then, are they who say that anger has its use?
14988Where, then, is it seated, you will say?
14988Where, then, is the evil?
14988Where, then, is this intellect seated, and of what character is it?
14988Who else is to be tried?
14988Who first made observations from the voice of the crow?
14988Who has not heard how Demosthenes used to watch, who said that it gave him pain if any mechanic was up in a morning at his work before him?
14988Who invented the Lots?
14988Who is it saith this?
14988Who is not compelled to admit the truth of what I assert by that agreeable, uniform, and continued agreement of things in the universe?
14988Who is there who does not dread poverty?
14988Who is there who is unacquainted with the customs of the Egyptians?
14988Who is there, then, that does not lament the loss of his friends, principally from imagining them deprived of the conveniences of life?
14988Who now believes in Hippocentaurs and Chimæras?
14988Who on thy malice ever could refine?
14988Who that thinks death an evil could approve of the evenness of temper in this great man at the instant of dying?
14988Who, do you think, will admit that?
14988Whom did the grandson of P. Crassus, that wise and eloquent and most distinguished man, resemble?
14988Whom has it not attacked?
14988Whose assistance, then, can be of more service to me than yours, when you have bestowed on us tranquillity of life, and removed the fear of death?
14988Why can a vestal virgin become an heir, while her mother can not?
14988Why did Cannæ deprive us of Paulus?
14988Why did Hannibal kill Marcellus?
14988Why did Maximus[279] lose his son, the consul?
14988Why did Phidias include a likeness of himself in the shield of Minerva, when he was not allowed to inscribe his name on it?
14988Why did that Marius live to an old age, and die so happily at his own house in his seventh consulship?
14988Why do I mention poets?
14988Why do the priests preside over the altars, and the augurs over the auspices?
14988Why do they not admit the same estimate in life?
14988Why do we frame ideas of men, countries, and cities which we never saw?
14988Why do we image to ourselves such things as never had any existence, and which never can have, such as Scyllas and Chimæras?
14988Why do you expect a proof from me, says Balbus, if you thoroughly believe it?
14988Why do you faint, and yield to fortune, which, perhaps, may have power to harass and disturb you, but should not quite unman you?
14988Why do you impose upon me, Zeno?
14988Why else do you believe there is any?
14988Why fire rather than air, of which the life of animals consists, and which is called from thence_ anima_,[248] the soul?
14988Why had Marius, the most perfidious of men, the power to cause the death of Catulus, a man of the greatest dignity?
14988Why is Rutilius, my uncle, a man of the greatest virtue and learning, now in banishment?
14988Why is it that there is this sensible difference between a raw recruit and a veteran soldier?
14988Why is not the superintendence of human affairs given to some of those idle Deities which you say are innumerable?
14988Why need I mention Albutius?
14988Why need I mention oxen?
14988Why need I mention the exercises of the legions?
14988Why should I say more?
14988Why should you pity rather than assist, if it is in your power to do so?
14988Why so?
14988Why was Scævola, the high- priest, that pattern of moderation and prudence, massacred before the statue of Vesta?
14988Why was my own friend and companion Drusus assassinated in his own house?
14988Why was not Africanus protected from violence in his own house?
14988Why was that inhuman wretch Cinna permitted to enjoy so long a reign?
14988Why was the body of Regulus delivered up to the cruelty of the Carthaginians?
14988Why, before that, were so many illustrious citizens put to death by Cinna?
14988Why, then, are riches desired?
14988Why, then, did others bear it afterward?
14988Why, then, do you call in the assistance of anger?
14988Why, then, may I not call him happy, nay, the happiest of men, who has attained them?
14988Why, then, should Camillus be affected with the thoughts of these things happening three hundred and fifty years after his time?
14988Why, then, should we not believe the world is a living and wise being, since it produces living and wise beings out of itself?"
14988Why, therefore, as we are inferior in all other respects, should we be equal in form?
14988Why, therefore, do you presume to assert that there are not only six hundred thousand worlds, but that they are innumerable?
14988Why, therefore, should it not be considered troublesome also to the Deity?
14988Why, therefore, was the Carthaginian in Spain suffered to destroy those best and bravest men, the two Scipios?
14988Will not the temerity of P. Claudius, in the first Punic war, affect us?
14988Will temperance permit you to do anything to excess?
14988Will that suffer you to labor and take pains to no purpose?
14988Will they not fight for their young ones till they are wounded?
14988Will you act in a manner consistently with courage, and its attendants, greatness of soul, resolution, patience, and contempt for all worldly things?
14988Will you allow of such a virtue as prudence, without which no virtue whatever can even be conceived?
14988Will you condemn yourself, Thyestes, and deprive yourself of life, on account of the greatness of another''s crime?
14988Will you not rather bear it with resolution and constancy?
14988Will you say that it did not foresee it?
14988Will you, notwithstanding that, persist in the defence of such an absurdity?
14988Will you, then, invite Telamon to this kind of life to ease his grief?
14988With baneful art his dire machine he shapes; From such a God what mortal e''er escapes?
14988With regard to animals, do we not see how aptly they are formed for the propagation of their species?
14988Would courage, unless it began to get furious, lose its energy?
14988Yet what need has a being for the discernment of good and ill who neither has nor can have any ill?
14988Yet, for all this, who is so mad as to doubt which of these two men he would rather be?
14988You may ask, How the case is in peace?
14988You may inquire, perhaps, how?
14988You must necessarily confess, indeed, they have none; for what occasion is there for different names if their persons are alike?
14988You say it is a great and difficult undertaking: who denies it?
14988Your sect, Balbus, frequently ask us how the Gods live, and how they pass their time?
14988[ 23] Can this change of abode appear otherwise than great to you?
14988[ 24] What was it that Leonidas, their general, said to them?
14988[ 258] But if you deify the rainbow, what regard will you pay to the clouds?
14988[ 273] What are these frauds, tricks, and stratagems but the effects of reason?
14988[ 31] Can we then, despise pain, when we see Hercules himself giving vent to his expressions of agony with such impatience?
14988[ 53] Now, is not this inconstancy and mutability of mind enough to deter any one by its own deformity?
14988[_ Scipio._ Ought not a farmer] to be acquainted with the nature of plants and seeds?
14988_ A._ And who could not on such a subject?
14988_ A._ By what means?
14988_ A._ Do you take me to be so imbecile as to give credit to such things?
14988_ A._ Hitherto you are on my side; I will see to that by- and- by; and, in the mean while, whence are those verses?
14988_ A._ How can it, after what I now know?
14988_ A._ How comes that to be so easy?
14988_ A._ How so?
14988_ A._ How so?
14988_ A._ In what respect?
14988_ A._ More prolix than was necessary?
14988_ A._ What is it that you mean, for I do not exactly comprehend you?
14988_ A._ What opinion?
14988_ A._ What, then?
14988_ A._ What, when in torments and on the rack?
14988_ A._ What, will you leave me when you have raised my expectations so high?
14988_ A._ What?
14988_ A._ Why may I not?
14988_ A._ Why, I beg?
14988_ Lælius._ What examples do you mean?
14988_ Lælius._ What senses do you mean?
14988_ Lælius._ Wherefore Jupiter?
14988_ Lælius._ You mean the model that would be approved by the truly accomplished politician?
14988_ M._ And do you think a wise man subject to these?
14988_ M._ But what is there of evil in that opinion?
14988_ M._ Can you, then, help calling any one miserable who lives ill?
14988_ M._ Do you ask how it can?
14988_ M._ Do you imagine I am speaking of him as laid on roses and violets?
14988_ M._ Do you not, then, perceive how great is the evil from which you have delivered human nature?
14988_ M._ Do you perceive, then, how much of the terror of pain you have given up on a small hint?
14988_ M._ Do you, then, expect that I am to give you a regular peroration, like the rhetoricians, or shall I forego that art?
14988_ M._ How comes that?
14988_ M._ In what respect?
14988_ M._ It is a misery, then, because an evil?
14988_ M._ Then all are miserable?
14988_ M._ Then that boasted wisdom is but of small account, if it differs so little from madness?
14988_ M._ Then those who have already died, and those who have still got to die, are both miserable?
14988_ M._ Well, then, I appeal to you, if the arguments which prove that there is something divine in the souls of men are not equally strong?
14988_ M._ What is it that you do say, then?
14988_ M._ What occasion have you, then, for my assistance?
14988_ M._ What, and to the other perturbations of mind, as fears, lusts, anger?
14988_ M._ What, do you not believe them?
14988_ M._ What, even greater than infamy?
14988_ M._ What, if I should ask you a question, would you not answer?
14988_ M._ What, more so than not to have existed at all?
14988_ M._ What, then?
14988_ M._ What, then?
14988_ M._ What, to those who are already dead?
14988_ M._ Where, then, are those you call miserable?
14988_ M._ Which, then, shall we do?
14988_ M._ You do not think, then, that a wise man is subject to grief?
14988_ M._ You say, then, that they are so?
14988_ Scipio._ But who was his predecessor?
14988_ Scipio._ Do not you observe that it was the cruelty and pride of one single Tarquin only that made the title of king unpopular among the Romans?
14988_ Scipio._ Do you think that knowledge only fit for a steward?
14988_ Scipio._ How, then, can you doubt what opinion to form on the subject of the Commonwealth?
14988_ Scipio._ Well, in your whole establishment, is there any other master but yourself?
14988_ Scipio._ Well, then, does a mind thus governed and regulated meet your approbation?
14988_ Scipio._ Well, then, what are four centuries in the age of a state or city?
14988_ Scipio._ Well, then, when you are angry, do you permit your anger to triumph over your judgment?
14988_ Scipio._ What do you at home?
14988_ Scipio._ You desire, then, that all the faculties of the mind should submit to a ruling power, and that conscience should reign over them all?
14988_ Scipio._ You grant, then, that a state which is entirely in the power of a faction can not justly be entitled a political community?
14988and shall a philosopher, master of a much better art, seek to ascertain, not what is most true, but what will please the people?
14988and shall custom have such great force, and reason none at all?
14988and that all these things assume too melancholy or too cheerful an appearance through our own error?
14988and that there is no evil that should be able to overwhelm you, or the suspicion of which should distract you?
14988and what is there in this discussion which resembles that poem?
14988and what, again, is that prodigious greatness which can give rise to impressions of so many things?
14988and whom has it spared?
14988can we imagine that Homer, or any other learned man, has ever been in want of pleasure and entertainment for his mind?
14988did not the grief of Alcibiades proceed from the defects and evils of the mind?
14988did you ever observe anything like the sun, the moon, or the five moving planets?
14988do not even the Stoics, who maintain that all fools are mad, make the same inferences?
14988do you deny that virtue can possibly be sufficient for a happy life?
14988do you imagine Epicurus really meant this, and that he maintained anything so sensual?
14988do you imagine that I am going to argue against Brutus?
14988do you imagine that a happy life depends on that?"
14988do you then call studies lust?
14988does every commotion of the mind seem to you to be madness?
14988for what is there agreeable in life, when we must night and day reflect that, at some time or other, we must die?
14988for what seed could there be of injustice, intemperance, and cowardice, if reason were not laid as the foundation of these vices?
14988for who is so weak as to be concerned about them?
14988has there not been enough said on bearing poverty?
14988have I misrepresented him?
14988have you ever seen the Deity himself?
14988how eternal?
14988in wonder at whom men exclaimed thus: Is this the man surpassing glory raised?
14988is it a long time?
14988is lust excited?
14988is not virtue sufficient to enable us to live as we ought, honestly, commendably, or, in fine, to live well?
14988is the contention about the Punic war?
14988is there no other way you can know it by?"
14988oblige it to converse with itself, and, as far as possible, break off its acquaintance with the body?
14988of what use is understanding?
14988or Philoctetes?
14988or advise him to listen to the music of a water organ rather than to Plato?
14988or because the body will admit of a cure, while there is no medicine whatever for the mind?
14988or can a man who is occupied by anger avoid being angry?
14988or can one who is exposed to any vexation escape being vexed?
14988or glorious who is aware of the insignificance of the size of the earth, even in its whole extent, and especially in the portion which men inhabit?
14988or he who collected the dispersed inhabitants of the world, and united them in the bonds of social life?
14988or he who confined the sounds of the voice, which used to seem infinite, to the marks of a few letters?
14988or he who first observed the courses of the planets, their progressive motions, their laws?
14988or how is it, if anger is natural, that one person is more inclined to anger than another?
14988or how long will he be Hector?
14988or if he is under the influence of fear, must he not be fearful?
14988or is it because the disorders of the mind are less dangerous than those of the body?
14988or is it no vice to disobey reason?
14988or is it possible for any other member of the body, when swollen or enlarged, to be in any other than a disordered state?
14988or on that of providing counsels for the future, as you, who, by dispelling two mighty perils from our city, have provided for its safety forever?
14988or shall I make use of my oars, as if I were just endeavoring to get clear of the harbor?
14988or that any one should repent of what he had done in a passion?
14988or that the lust of revenge should cease before it has revenged itself?
14988or that there are innumerable worlds, some rising and some perishing, in every moment of time?
14988or to those who must die?
14988or what divine form can be attributed to it?
14988or what length of days can be imagined which would be preferable to such a night?
14988or what place do they inhabit?
14988or what trouble is it to refute these monstrous inventions of the poets and painters?
14988or why do we glory in its name?
14988or will you deny that any one who you allow lives well must inevitably live happily?
14988or, rather, whom has it not wounded?
14988said Lælius; or what was the discussion we broke in upon?
14988said he,"did you not perceive by our slight repast of yesterday that I had no occasion for money?"
14988saith he;"do you think the night can furnish no pleasure?"
14988should an affair of such importance be left to the decision of fools, who, by your sect especially, are called madmen?
14988should we be under any difficulty?
14988that where the praise of riding and hunting is highly esteemed, they who practice these arts decline no pain?
14988though he should be deprived of the senses of seeing and hearing?
14988to ease his grief, must we mix him a cup of sweet wine, or something of that kind?
14988to the birds and beasts?"
14988was not Aristides( I had rather instance in the Greeks than ourselves) banished his country for being eminently just?
14988what gain is it to die?
14988what had not only I myself, but the whole life of man, been without you?
14988what is its force?
14988what its nature?
14988when I write out my speeches after all is over and past, am I then angry while writing?
14988where is your own, and what is its character?
14988which can recollect the past, foresee the future, and comprehend the present?
14988who can admire them?
14988who can think they merit a religious adoration?
14988who ever disgraced himself either in the actual combat, or even when about to die?
14988who ever turned pale?
14988who that had been defeated ever drew in his neck to avoid the stroke of death?
14988why do n''t you rather take a view of the magnificent temples among which you have arrived?
14988why eternal?