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| Chapter XXXIV.—The Prophets Enjoined Holiness of Life.
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And, for the rest, would that in a kindly spirit
you would investigate divine
things617
| 617 [Comp. book
i. cap. xiv., supra, p. 93.] | —I mean the things
that are spoken by the prophets—in order that, by comparing what is
said by us with the utterances of the others, you may be able to discover
the truth. We618
| 618 Benedictine
editor proposes “ they.” | have shown from their
own histories, which they have compiled, that the names of those who
are called gods, are found to be the names of men who lived among them,
as we have shown above. And to this day their images are daily fashioned,
idols, “the works of men’s hands.” And these the mass
of foolish men serve, whilst they reject the maker and fashioner of all
things and the nourisher of all breath of life, giving credit to vain
doctrines through the deceitfulness of the senseless tradition received
from their fathers. But God at least, the Father and Creator of the
universe, did not abandon mankind, but gave a law, and sent holy prophets
to declare and teach the race of men, that each one of us might awake and
understand that there is one God. And they also taught us to refrain from
unlawful idolatry, and adultery, and murder, fornication, theft, avarice,
false swearing, wrath, and every incontinence and uncleanness; and that
whatever a man would not wish to be done to himself, he should not do
to another; and thus he who acts righteously shall escape the eternal
punishments, and be thought worthy of the eternal life from God.E.C.F. INDEX & SEARCH
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