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"Aves quasdam . . . rerum augurandarum causa natas esse putamus." claps of thunder, the overflowing of rivers "Multa cernunt Aruspices, multa Augures provident, multa oraculis declarantur, multa vaticinationibus, multa somniis, multa portentis." and others of the like nature, upon which antiquity founded most of their public and private enterprises, our religion has totally abolished them.
Abraham, § 1; Quod Deus immut., § 6; De confus. ling., § 9, 14 and 28; De profugis, § 20; De Somniis, i. § 37; De Agric. The comparisons which have been made between it and the Honover of the Parsees are also without foundation. The comparisons which have been attempted between the Alexandrian theory of the Word and certain points of Egyptian theology may not be entirely without value.
"At uxor mea imaginabatur assidue se videre calvariam patris, qui erat absens dum utero gereret Jo: Baptistam." Paralipomenon, lib. iii. c. 21. De Utilitate, p. 832. "Post ex geminatis somniis, scripsi libros de Subtilitate quos impressos auxi et denuo superauctos tertio excudi curavi." De Vita Propria, ch. xlv. p. 175.
Whilst he accorded to the powerful of the earth, who were to him representatives of force, a respect full of irony, he proclaimed the supreme consolation the recourse to the Father which each one has in heaven and the true kingdom of God, which each one bears in his heart. De Confus. Ling., § 14; De Migr. Abr., § 1; De Somniis, ii. § 41; De Agric. Noë, § 12; De Mutatione Nominum, § 4.
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