Chapter

  1   1|        and how~much I desire that you should be wise - though
  2   1|         of this world?"~1 Rather, you should be one of those of
  3   1|         of the world"~2; and also you should be the kind of man~
  4   1|          he said,~3 "I would have you be wise in goodness~and
  5   1|           consists in piety. This you have in the book of the
  6   1|           is wisdom."~5 If, then, you ask what ~kind of piety
  7   1|        piety she was speaking of, you will find it more ~distinctly
  8   1|      source of human wisdom.~When you ask me to be brief, you
  9   1|           you ask me to be brief, you do not expect me to speak
 10   1|     issues in a few~sentences, do you? Is not this rather what
 11   1|           Is not this rather what you desire: a brief summary
 12   1| worshipped in faith, hope, love," you would doubtless~reply that
 13   1|        that this was shorter than you wished, and might then beg
 14   1|           answer these questions, you would then have everything
 15   1|        would then have everything you asked for in~your letter.
 16   1|      asked for in~your letter. If you have kept a copy of it,
 17   1|           have kept a copy of it, you can easily refer to it.
 18   1|          4. It is your desire, as you wrote, to have from me a
 19   1|           of the catholic ~faith? You would have the answers to
 20   1|         to all these questions if you really understood what a
 21   1|                                6. You have asked for an enchiridion,
 22   1|         an enchiridion, something you could carry around, not
 23   2|           called absurd or told, "You have seen; therefore you
 24   2|          You have seen; therefore you have not believed." For
 25   7|       lives by faith."~39 Now, if you take away~positive affirmation,~40
 26   7|          positive affirmation,~40 you take away faith, for without
 27   9|           since it is true, I ask you what kind of liberty can
 28   9|             If the Son shall make you free, then you will be free
 29   9|         shall make you free, then you will be free indeed"~49? ~
 30   9|           when he~said, "By grace you have been saved by faith."~50~
 31   9|          is God who is at work in you both to will and to do according
 32  10|          remains virgin. Read, if you~please, my letter on the
 33  11|         And shortly ~thereafter, "You have found favor with God."~76
 34  11|       Holy Spirit shall come upon you~and the power of the Most
 35  11|        Most High shall overshadow you; therefore the Holy One
 36  11|        One which shall be~born of you shall be called the Son
 37  11|       Spirit"~79 - that is, "What you suspect is from another
 38  13|         Christ's sake, we beseech you to be reconciled to God,"
 39  13|           O Israel, which brought you out of the land of Egypt,"~87
 40  14|           we are dead to sin, "Do~you not know that all we who
 41  14|          sin, he had added, "Know you ~not, that as many of us
 42  14|      baptized - he says, "So also you should reckon yourselves
 43  14|      Father's right hand:~"But if you have risen again with Christ,
 44  14|          things on the earth. For you~are dead, and your life
 45  14|          your~life, shall appear, you shall then also appear with
 46  15|         the apostle~speaks, "Know you not that your body is the
 47  15|        the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you~have from God?"~114
 48  15|       Spirit, who is in you, whom you~have from God?"~114 In another
 49  15|          says of this body, "Know you not that your bodies~are
 50  15|          same apostle says: "Know you not that you are the temple
 51  15|          says: "Know you not that you are the temple of God,"
 52  15|         Spirit of God dwelleth in you?" God~therefore dwelleth
 53  19|           all things are clean to~you"~157 - applies to all useful
 54  19|         well to one who has ~done you no evil. It is far greater -
 55  19|          to wish him well and, as you can, _do_ well to him who
 56  19|            well to him who wishes you ill and who does you ~harm
 57  19|       wishes you ill and who does you ~harm when he can. Thus
 58  19|         do good to them that~hate you, and pray for them that
 59  19|           for them that persecute you."~159~Such counsels are
 60  19|        put in it, saying: "For if you forgive men their trespasses,~
 61  19|          Father will also forgive you your trespasses. But if
 62  19|           your trespasses. But if you will not forgive men,~neither
 63  19|          will your Father forgive you your offenses."~161 He who
 64  20|           all things are clean to you."~They do not understand
 65  20|        the Lord said to him: 'Now you Pharisees clean the outside
 66  20|          and the dish,~but within you are still full of extortion
 67  20|           all things are clean to you.'"~162~Should we interpret
 68  20|           all things are clean to you."~
 69  20|        self - love, it was said, "You shall love your neighbor
 70  20|           all things are clean to you." Then, to make plain~the
 71  20|  almsgiving, he adds, "But woe to you, Pharisees"~169 - as if
 72  20|         if to say, "I~am advising you to give the kind of alms
 73  20|          make all things clean to you." "But woe to~you, for you
 74  20|        clean to you." "But woe to~you, for you tithe mint and
 75  20|        you." "But woe to~you, for you tithe mint and rue and every
 76  20|           these alms of yours and you need not~think I am admonishing
 77  20|        not~think I am admonishing you to give them up" - "and
 78  20|          of almsgiving would make you clean from all inward defilement,
 79  20|          just as the bodies~which you wash are made clean by you."
 80  20|        you wash are made clean by you." For the word "all" here
 81  20|            he~adds, "These things you should do" - that is, pay
 82  21|         together lest Satan tempt you at the point of self - control."~173
 83  21|       where he says, "Dare any of you, having a case against another,~
 84  21|           later: "If, ~therefore, you have cases concerning worldly
 85  21|        worldly things," he says, "you appoint those who are~contemptible
 86  21|         eyes. I say this to shame you. Can it be that there is
 87  21|          is not a wise man ~among you, who could judge between
 88  21|   therefore the whole fault among you is that you have lawsuits
 89  21|           fault among you is that you have lawsuits with~one another."~176
 90  21|         and contend in court with you, let go your cloak also."~178
 91  21|          saying to his ~brother, "You fool," is "in danger of
 92  21|   reconciliation: "If, therefore,~you are offering a gift at the
 93  21|     brother has something against~you,"~181 etc. Or who would
 94  21|          to such men, "I fear for you, lest perhaps I have labored
 95  21|      perhaps I have labored among you in vain"~182?~
 96  21|          called a "cry" (clamor). You have such a usage in the~
 97  21|         apostle says, "I fear for you, lest perchance I have labored~
 98  21|        have labored~in vain among you," I was moved to exclaim: "
 99  24|       saith most plainly: "Woe to you, Chorazin; woe to you, Bethsaida.
100  24|          to you, Chorazin; woe to you, Bethsaida. For if in Tyre~
101  24|           gathers her chicks, and you would not."~204 This sounds
102  25|        this very purpose~I raised you up, that I may show through
103  25|           that I may show through you my power, and that my name
104  25|           giving: "O man, who are you to reply to God? Does the
105  25|          to the~molder, 'Why have you made me like this?' Or is
106  25|         he said - "O man, who are you?" - has actually great weight
107  27|          saith to the Pharisees, "You tithe mint and rue~and every
108  33|       this book must have an end. You can see for yourself whether
109  33|          see for yourself whether you~should call it an Enchiridion,
110  33|          hope for good things for you through the help of~our
111  33|        Redeemer, and since I love you greatly as one of the members
112  33|        have written this~book for you - may its usefulness match