the heathen

For the rest, you may find by experience in conversation with them — heathen and heretics alike — how far their foul speech may go.

Take away from the heretics, in short, the things in which they think with the heathen, so that they rest their questions on the Scriptures alone, and they will not be able to stand.

"another of cattle" — that is, of the heathen (of whom the prophet too:

There provoked, as I suppose, the fact that the Pharisees, indignant, were muttering that the Lord admitted publicans and heathen sinners and shared food with them.

Or, if anyone doubts that the publicans among the Jews were heathens — the Jews having been seized long since by the hand of Pompey and Lucullus — let him read Deuteronomy:

When first the Gospel thundered and shook the old things, so that it was disputed concerning the standing of the law, whether or not it was to be retained, the apostles send forth this first rule, on the authority of the Holy Spirit, to those who had begun to be chosen out from the nations:

And there seems to me to be a first saving change—that from the heathen into faith, as I said before—and a second, that from faith into knowledge;

For just as among the heathen, both from not being able "to obtain the things one loves" and from fear of men, and there are some who, for the sake of greater pleasures, abstain from the pleasures at their feet—so too in the faith some practise continence either through a promise or through fear of God.

Of this I would treat at greater length, if I were dealing with the heathen — although even with heretics the engagement stands not much different.

So scarcely any birth is clean — at least among the heathen.

For the heathen man too is our adversary, walking in the same way of common life.

In short, monogamy among the heathen is in such high honour that even for virgins lawfully marrying a matron of one husband is employed as bride-attendant;

"Since we assemble in a disorderly way, and assemble all together, and many of us run together into the church, we are inquired after by the heathen, and we fear lest the heathen be disturbed.

But these things I have answered to the heathen.

To both, perhaps, the opinions of the heathen may yet flatter someone, who in this cause have been wont to argue against us thus:

For the rest, all the kinds of evils, which even the heathen, as things undoubted, both forbid and guard against, consist of the works of God.

the Heathens, whereas their true glory laid in being as much unlike them as possible.

Government by Kings was first introduced into the World by the Heathens, from whom the children of Israel copied the custom.