...nature. In one of the moft learned and elaborate •works that antiquity has left us , the Thirty -fecond Chapter of the Twelfth Book of his Evangelical Preparation bears for its title this fcandalous Propo. fition, "How it may be lawful and fitting to ufe "falfhood as a medicine, and for...

...fvra fu -^euSei am favri' 1) <pa£paxS ^ijtfdui if! uifeXiia TUv i5so'n.svuv T» TOISTS r£off3, — " how it may be lawful and fitting to use falsehood...a medicine; and for the benefit of those who want to-be deceived." Timceus Locris and Plato, both gave into the same unjustifiable practice. (Mosheim...

...Preparation, of Eusebius,and read these words:— "How it may be lawful and fitting to use falsehood asa medicine, and for the benefit of those who want to be deceived."' In this chapter, as Gibbon has already observed before me, he adduces a passage of Plato, which approves...

...now notice a still more serious suspicion, to which he has rendered himself liable. The thirty-first chapter of the twelfth book of his Evangelical Preparation...lawful and fitting to use falsehood as a medicine, for the advantage of those who require such a method.' We have already deplored, with sorrow and indignation,...

...now notice a still more serious suspicion, to which he has rendered himself liable. The thirty-first chapter of the twelfth book of his Evangelical Preparation...How it may be lawful and fitting to use falsehood аэ a medicine, for the advantage of those who require such a method.' We have already deplored, with...

...parents, &c. The title of chapter 2 of book 12, of his evangelical preparation, is, " how it may be proper to use FALSEHOOD as a medicine, and for the benefit of those who require to be deceived." He defends this by the example of Plato, and the writers of the Old Testament....

...the two passages of the ecclesiastical historian. I shall only observe, that the bishop of Cscsarea seems to have claimed a privilege of a still more...the benefit of those who want to be deceived." "On ^eijtrti iron Tif \l/cv$ct arri <pap/iaKov ^pritrOai ETTI ilxfe\eiif TOV TOIOVTOV rpoTrou. (Page 356,...

...Chapter 31, of Book Xll.ofhis" Evangelical Preparation," with these words : " How far it may be proper to use falsehood as a medicine, and for the benefit of those who require to be deceived." Origen maintained the same doctrine, at least so says Bishop Horsley, who...

...year 340, distinctly treats} in one of his chapters, the following theological proposition, namely, How it may be lawful and fitting to use falsehood as a medicine, for the advantage of those who require such a method. You may well suppose how this business of pious...

...Moreover, Book xii., c. 31, of his Evangelical Preparation has this proposition for its title — " How it may be lawful and fitting to use falsehood as a medicine, for the advantage of those who require such a method." Principles such as these, it must be confessed,...