Falsafa

Comma for either/or — dharma, courage. Spelling forgiving — corage finds courage.

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    the heathen

    group · 7 works · 8 mentions · 12 anchored passages

    Heathens · cattle (figurative) · heathen · strangers · the Heathens · the gentile people · the heathen man · the nations · the opinion of the heathen

    spoken of as

    1 expression

    The Heathens1 mention

    Common Sense (English)

    Government by Kings was first introduced into the World by the Heathens, from whom the children of Israel copied the custom.
    ch. 2

    in the texts

    De Carnis ResurrectioneLate Antiquity · Latin

    Non-Christians whose common opinions about death and the flesh are shown to overlap with heretical teaching.

    For the rest, you may find by experience in conversation with them — heathen and heretics alike — how far their foul speech may go.
    de carnis resurrectione
    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.
    de carnis resurrectione
    "another of cattle" — that is, of the heathen (of whom the prophet too:
    de carnis resurrectione

    StromataLate Antiquity · Greek

    Non-Christians used as a contrast to the believer's progress.

    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;
    book 7
    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.
    book 7

    Adversus MarcionemLate Antiquity · Latin

    Non-Christian pagans, mentioned as a hypothetical contrasting audience.

    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.
    book 2

    De AnimaLate Antiquity · Latin

    Non-Christians, described both as the 'adversary' of the parable and as those whose births are marked by idolatrous ritual.

    For the heathen man too is our adversary, walking in the same way of common life.
    de anima
    So scarcely any birth is clean — at least among the heathen.
    de anima

    De Exhortatione Castitatis LiberLate Antiquity · Latin

    Non-Christian peoples ('the heathen'), cited as secular witnesses who honor monogamy through their own customs.

    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;
    ch. 1

    De SpectaculisLate Antiquity · Latin

    Non-Christian Romans/Greeks whose arguments in favor of the spectacles are addressed and refuted.

    For often the censors used to destroy theatres just as they were rising, taking thought for morals, whose enormous peril from wantonness they of course foresaw—so that already here the very sentence of the heathen yields as a testimony, making with us, and human prerogative serves us for the heightening of discipline.
    de spectaculis
    To both, perhaps, the opinions of the heathen may yet flatter someone, who in this cause have been wont to argue against us thus:
    de spectaculis
    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.
    de spectaculis

    Common SenseEnlightenment · English

    Non-Israelite peoples who originated monarchy and divine honors for kings, whose customs Israel wrongly copied

    Government by Kings was first introduced into the World by the Heathens, from whom the children of Israel copied the custom.
    ch. 2
    the Heathens, whereas their true glory laid in being as much unlike them as possible.
    ch. 2