1
Aristides turns from elements and heavenly bodies to the divinization of human beings.
2
An ish has beginning and end, body, breath, changing emotion, hunger, grief, joy, jealousy, regret, and mortality.
3
Human beings can be wounded, deceived, corrupted, and killed.
4
The Creator described in Chapter 1 cannot be equated with a mortal simply because later generations honor or fear that mortal.
5
To call a deceased ruler or hero 'god' does not remove the limitations that marked his life.
6
Aristides concludes that the Barbarians departed from the invisible Creator and followed the desires of imagination through corruptible elements and dead likenesses.