Psychics

Let the former times have had every kind of unchastity — let them even have had, if the Psychics will, the power of it.

" Deservedly do they so object, since they have usurped into their own power the fruit also of this penitence — that is, pardon.

There will therefore be here too a title against the Psychics, against the partnership which they once held with my own past opinion — wherefore they may the more cast this at me as a mark of fickleness.

the outer and inner sausages of the Psychics.

For as regards fasting, they set against us the days fixed by God, as when in Leviticus the Lord enjoins upon Moses the tenth day of the seventh month, the day of atonement:

But all these things, I believe, are unknown to those who are troubled by our practices—or perhaps known only by reading and not by attention as well—according to the greater force of the ignorant among that most glorious multitude, forsooth, of the Psychics.

These trees our opponents rooted out and sold, and received a huge sum of money.

If now, men of the jury, it were against the dead man only that they had committed an outrage in doing this, their conduct would have been disgraceful, though in a less degree;

How, now, could people more effectively bring a house to extinction than if, being themselves of another house, that of Stratius, they should dispossess those nearest of kin to Hagnias?

For a man set in the spirit, especially when he beholds the glory of God, or when God speaks through him, must of necessity fall from his senses, overshadowed, namely, by the divine power — concerning which there is a question between us and the psychics.

but Praxeas, by asserting falsehoods about these very prophets and their churches, and by defending the authority of the bishop's predecessors, compelled him both to recall the letters of peace already sent out and to draw back from his purpose of receiving the spiritual gifts.