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Stromata (Miscellanies)
Chapter XIII: Valentinian's Vagaries About the Abolition of Death Refuted. (2)
Respecting this God, he makes those allusions when writing in these expressions:
Egyptian Book of the Dead
Chapter XV (4)
He saith, as he invoketh his Lord, the Eternal one:—
Sentences of Sextus
Sentences of Sextus (355)
Speak concerning the word about God as if you were saying it in the presence of God.
Book of Jubilees
Chapter XXX (19)
And so they inscribe as a testimony in his favour on the heavenly tables blessing and righteousness before the God of all :
Chapter 23: Of the Deep above the Earth. (47)
I must write thus by way of distinction, that the Reader may understand it; for I cannot write mere heavenly words, but must write human words....
Sentences of Sextus
Sentences of Sextus (381)
He who makes his mind like unto God as far as he is able, he is the one who honors God greatly.
Chapter 23: Of the Deep above the Earth. (10)
Now perhaps thou wilt say that I write in a heathenish manner. Hearken and behold! observe the distinct understanding, how all this is so; for I...
Egyptian Book of the Dead
Chapter XCIII (4)
This chapter contains one of those threats (of which there are other instances) made to the gods. The speaker is in fact so identified with divinity...
Chapter 3: Of the most blessed Triumphing, Holy, Holy, Holy Trinity, GOD the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, ONE only God. (29)
For we live in this world as men who know but in part, and are made of that which is but in part. Therefore I cite the Reader into the life to come, w...
Chapter 7: Of the Court, Place and Dwelling, also of the Government of Angels, how these things stood at the Beginning, after the Creation, and how they became as they are. (35)
Now if a man likeneth the Son of God to the globe of the sun, as I have often done in the foregoing chapters, that is spoken in the way and manner of...
Asclepius
Section XLI (2)
For this is like to profanation of [our] sacred rites,—when thou dost pray to God, to offer incense and the rest. For naught is there of which He stan...
Chapter 5: Of the Corporeal Substance, Being and Propriety of an Angel. Question. (29)
Here I write not without knowledge; but if thou, like an epicure and fatted swine of the devil, from the devil's instigation, shouldst mock at these...
Life of Pythagoras
CHAP. XXVIII. (5)
With respect to oaths, however, all the Pythagoreans religiously observe them, being mindful of the Pythagoric precept, First to th’ immortal Gods...
Enuma Elish
Tablet VII (11)
Should he make an incantation, then are the gods [appeased
Sentences of Sextus
Sentences of Sextus (319)
After God, honor a wise man, since he is the servant of God.
Chapter 22: Of the Birth or Geniture of the Stars, and Creation of the Fourth Day. (35)
When they would write of God, then they seek for him without, and absent from, this world, above only, in a kind of heaven, as if he were some image...
Chapter 24: Of the Incorporating or Compaction of the Stars. (72)
This I write as a word which is generated in its heaven, where the holy Deity always generateth itself, and where the moving spirit riseth up in the...