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Chapter XVII.—They are
Blameworthy Who Invented Such Stories.
“Now,1076
| 1076 [Compare with
the arguments here, Recognitions, x.
35–38.—R.] | since these
things can be clearly, profitably, and without prejudice to piety, set
forth in an open and straightforward manner, I wonder you call those
men sensible and wise who concealed them under crooked riddles, and
overlaid them with filthy
stories, and thus, as if impelled by an evil spirit, deceived almost
all men. For either these things are not riddles, but real crimes
of the gods, in which case they should not have been exposed to
contempt, nor should these their needs have been set before men at all
as models; or things falsely attributed to the gods were set forth in
an allegory, and then, Appion, they whom you call wise erred, in that,
by concealing under unworthy stories things in themselves worthy, they
led men to sin, and that not without dishonouring those whom they
believed to be gods.
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