Such language, which is typical of many Catharan utterances, is simply that of a saeva indignatio, aroused by the ascription to the Deity of the cruelty and injustice which conscience reprobates in human beings.
Footnote 213: The ascription of these works to Nâgârjuna is probably correct for they were translated by Kumârajîva who was sufficiently near him in date to be in touch with good tradition.
Its doctrine is practically that of the Yogâcâra school and this makes the ascription doubtful, but it is a most important treatise.
The ascription to John Reynolds rests ultimately upon the authority of Edward Phillips, in whose Theatrum Poetarum, 1675, we find s.
The compiler has of course confused the translation with Fletcher's play, but the ascription is nevertheless interesting.
This appears to me the more reasonable ascription of the two.
The ascription does not carry with it much authority, but is in no way inherently improbable.
Mr. of Arts,' who was identified with Thomas Goffe by Kirkman; nor has thisascription ever been challenged.
The very marked Euphuism of the prose portions, combined with some lyrical merit, makes the composition worth notice, and has led to its ascription to the pen of Lyly himself.
All being now ready for the consummation of the sacrificial act, the ascription of thanksgiving and praise called the Preface is offered, which varies with the season, but closes with the Sanctus and Benedictus, sung by the choir.
We find in the Scriptures no praises of music as a nourisher of morality, rarely a trace of an ascription of magical properties.
To the Hebrews the arts obtained significance only as they could be used to adorn the courts of Jehovah, or could be employed in the ascription of praise to him.
But in truth the ascription of such high praise to his early teacher smacks too much of the Darwinian modesty to be accepted at once without demur by the candid critic.
The superficial ascription of their passion for animals would have been to a stifled or sterile maternity; but as with Mere Gontran and her three sons, Sylvia could recall that many of these elderly women had been the prey of their children.
I think it's their own ascription of a divine origin to a civilization which has been as rapid and as poisonous and as ugly as a toadstool.
During the Ascription the people stand and at the end respond, Amen.
The express ascription of miracles to the special intervention of a Personal God is also, as we have seen, excluded by the Scriptural admission that there are other supernatural beings capable of performing them.
Elsewhere,(3) and notably in the New Testament, we find an ascription of real signs and wonders to another power than God.
Science not only declares the ascription of disease to demoniacal possession or malignity to be an idle superstition now, but it equally repudiates the assumption of such a cause at any time.
Such ascription of politic {144} deception for the sake of popularity might be intelligible in an ordinary case, but when referred to the central personage of a Divine Revelation, who is said to be God incarnate, it is perfectly astounding.
In imputation there is, first, an ascription of something to those concerned; secondly, a determination to deal with them accordingly.
We assent to all this except the ascription to human life of the same iron necessity that rules the animal creation.
His first ascription to Shakespeare of A Warning for Fair Women is couched in terms far more dubious and diffident than such as he afterwards adopts.
In any case there was one then newly dead, too long before his time, whose memory stands even higher above the possible ascription of such a work than that of the adolescent Shakespeare's very self.
One is the general ascription of glory to the Three Persons together, both by fathers and churches, and that on continuous tradition and from the earliest times.
The ascriptionof medicinal power to fire kindled by the friction of wood is said to be especially characteristic of the Slavs who inhabit the Carpathian Mountains and the Balkan peninsula.
Grubb, a missionary who has been settled among the Indians of the Chaco for many years and is our principal authority on them, I assume that the ascription of the custom to the Lenguas is correct.
The ascription to John of this epistle, is virtually the ascription to him of the fourth gospel also.
In effect, every religious explanation of evil ultimately leads to the ascription of it to God himself or to a being more powerful than God, and in both cases equally the Creator is debased.
Fetichism, understood simply as the ascription of life to natural objects, is primitive.
This definition of fetichism is quite special, and in no wise concerns primitive fetichism, conceived as an ascription of something analogous to the human will in all inanimate things.
In Christianity one great source of the attraction of the faith has been the ascription of virginity to its female ideal.
By the philosophers the ascriptionof anger and vengeance to the Deity, and the apprehension of future torture at His hands, were unanimously repudiated;(299) by the priests the opposite opinion was deemed equally censurable.
The preacher of to-day is not wise who neglects Calvin on the Psalms and Calvin on Isaiah; but Calvin saw clearly that there were Aramaic elements in the 139th Psalm, and that the ascription of it to David was impossible.
The men of this generation read with amazement the attacks of the sixties on Darwin, attacks so full of acerbity, so reckless in their bandying of evil charges and in their ascription of anti-religious motives.
Both these considerations render its ascription to David utterly untenable.
The ascription of the whole book to Solomon, which seems to be implied by its opening verse, and which, if genuine, would render the fresh ascription in x.
The case would be parallel to theascription of various later Psalms to David.
According to critical views the ascription to Moses of the reception and delivery of this song was taken by the Deuteronomist from JE.
It is the proudest ascription of the Union Jack of the Empire that "Though it may sink o'er a shot-torn wreck, It never flies over a slave.
With the booty came, in the articles of peace, the old-time ascription of sovereignty to the British flag.
The grounds for theascription of magical superiority to women--whether from their supposed greater susceptibility to demoniac influence, or for some other reason--are not clear.
The ascription of divinity to the Tibetan Grand Lamas is a product of the transformation of Buddhism under the influence of a crude non-Aryan population that retained the old conception of the essential identity of nature of men and gods.
The data do not explain the reasons for this change of custom; a natural suggestion is that there came a time when the conception of the deity forbade an ascription of divinity to human beings.
The ascription of divinity to human beings is lacking in Arabia also and among Semitic Moslems generally.
On the ascription of divinity to men in great civilized religious systems see above, § 351 ff.
To this it has been answered that the personification of the corn as feminine, or at all events the ascription of the discovery of agriculture to a goddess, was suggested by the prominent part which women take in primitive agriculture.
The ascriptionof such power to the Meriah indicates that he was much more than a mere man sacrificed to propitiate a deity.
He then refers to the evils of false copying and the ascription of extracts to the wrong author.
Then it shall behold the universal praise of God and the true ascription of all good to Him.