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nei ther receives nor allows them; much moro ii ho is not yet
will not receive them ; and will be as sale as one Who kno ingly accepta polson from one Who knows it not, but does not drink it. To him necessity is attributed as an excuse, because ho has no other Way to learn. Moreover, the notteaehing literature is as much easter than the not lea ing, as it is easter, toο, sor the pupil not to attend, than for thomaster not to frequent, the rest of the desilemonis incident to tho schoois from public and scholastic solemnities.
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156 TERTULLIANUS have suffered stipWroch about salth, y albeii coveto nemis by the fame aposue callod idolatu: ) in the nexi placo proc ding tri mendacity, the minister of coveto ness: offalse s earing I am silent, since even amearing is not laWful: -is trade adapted for a servant of God But, covetousnessapari, What is the motive for acquiring men ins motivo for acquiring ceases, there Will be no necessity for trading. Grant noW that there bo some righinousness in business, secure from the duty of Walchfulneas against coVetousnessand mondacity; I take it that that trade whicli pertians tothe very foui and spirit os idols, Which pampers every demon, salis under the chargo os idolat . Rather, is not that thoprinoipal idolat i Ii tho self-same merehandises-franis incense, I mean, and ali oster foreim productions-used assacrifice to idols, are os use lihewiso in men for medicinaloinimenis, in us DChristiansJ also, over and above, for solacesos sepulture, let them see to it; at ali evenis, While the pomps, while the pri thooti, while tho sacrifices os idols, are beingiurnished by dangere, by losses, by inconveniences, is cogit tions, is runnings in and iro, or trades, What else Me Jou demonstrated in ta but an idola' agent i Let none contendthat, in this Way, exception may be inhen to ali trades. Allgraver fauila extend the sphere for diligence in Walchfulnem proportionably to tho magnitudo of the danger; in ordis that We may Withdra not only hom tho faulis, but hom tho
means. In no case ought I to be necessam in another,
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deed, ii ho shali havs ejected a demon, congratulate himselfon his faith, sor he has not ejected an memy; he ought is have eastly had his prayer granted by one Whom he isdatly ieeding.' No ari, then, no profession, no trade, Whichadministere either to equipping or forming idola, can belaeo hom tho titie of idolato; unless Wo interpret idolatry
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times to our timidity, in opposition to the eommon salth
issuo is this : whether a servant os God ought to sitare Withthe Very nations themselves in matters of this hind, either in
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160 TERTULLIANUS drem, or in f d, or in any other hind of their gladnem. ΤΟ
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to bo Christians. Re are not apprehensive lest me seem to
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tho individual solemnities of the nations, and set them out into a ro they Will not be able to mae up a Pentecost. CHAP. XV.-Coneerning festivati in honour os emper ora, victories, and the liti. Mamples of the three ehildren 'and Daniel.
rahippers that aforetime tho gods themselves of tho nations more men; and so it maes no differenco whether that superstitious homage bo rendered to men os a former age or of this. Idolat is condemned, not on account of the persons Whicli are set up sor Worship, but on account of those iis observances, which pertain to demons. The thingsWhich aro Caesar's are to M rendered to Caesar. si It is
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not because they aro an honour to God, but in him who is honoured in God's stead by ceremonial observances of thathind, so sar as is manifest, saving the religious performance, whicli is in secret appertaining to demons. For ure ought tobo suro it there are any whose notice it escapes throuo ignorance of this worid's literature, that there are among the Romans even gods of entrances; Cardea HingeἘod-
that even entrances Would come into superstitious use. For We see too that other entrances aro adored in the ballis.
But it there are beings Which are adored in entrances, it isto them that both the lamps and tho laureis mill pertain.