3. But He did not permit men
to make supplication to the lesser gods. Do you, then, know who
are, or where are the lesser gods? Has mistrust of them, or the
way in which they were mentioned, ever touched you, so that you are
justly indignant that their worship has been done away with and
deprived of all honour?3410
| 3410 It
seems necessary for the sake of the argument to read this
interrogatively, but in all the edd. the sentence ends without any mark
of interrogation. |
But if haughtiness of
mind and
arrogance,
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as it is called
by the
Greeks, did not stand in your way and
hinder you, you might long
ago have been able to understand what He forbade to be done, or
wherefore; within what limits He would have true
religion lie;
3412
| 3412
Lit., “He chose…to stand.” |
what danger
arose to you from that which you thought obedience? or from what evils
you would escape if you broke away from your dangerous
delusion.
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