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1 pref | that to teach rules for the interpretation of Scripture 2 pref, 0| There are certain rules for the interpretation of Scripture 3 pref, 0| taught to earnest students of the word, that they may profit 4 pref, 0| profit not only from reading the works of others who have 5 pref, 0| others who have laid open the secrets of the sacred writings, 6 pref, 0| laid open the secrets of the sacred writings, but also 7 pref, 0| from me, while I write, the thoughts He is wont to vouchsafe 8 pref, 0| I think it well to meet the objections of those who 9 pref, 0| likely to take exception to the work, or who would do so, 10 pref, 0| back from a useful study to the dull sloth of ignorance. ~ 11 pref, 0| have failed to understand the rules here laid down. Others, 12 pref, 0| though they understand the rules, yet in their attempts 13 pref, 0| have failed to clear up the point they wish cleared 14 pref, 0| certain power of interpreting the sacred books without reading 15 pref, 0| reading any directions of the kind that I propose to lay 16 pref, 0| done towards clearing up the obscurities of Scripture 17 pref, 0| could be better done by the unassisted grace of God. ~ 18 pref, 0| they were anxious to see the new or the old moon, or 19 pref, 0| anxious to see the new or the old moon, or some very obscure 20 pref, 0| directions, fail to penetrate the meaning of obscure passages 21 pref, 0| stand for those who, in the case I have imagined, are 22 pref, 0| my finger, but cannot see the stars at which it is pointed. 23 pref, 0| that God would grant them the sight of their eyes. For 24 pref, 0| that they may see either the fact that I am pointing, 25 pref, 0| fact that I am pointing, or the object at which I point. ~ 26 pref, 0| explain Scripture without the aid of such directions as 27 pref, 0| reason be held in contempt by the Egyptian monk Antony, a 28 pref, 0| is said to have committed the Scriptures to memory through 29 pref, 0| attained a full knowledge of the art of reading simply through 30 pref, 0| book presented to him on the spot by the astonished bystanders. ~ 31 pref, 0| presented to him on the spot by the astonished bystanders. ~ 32 pref, 0| who profess to understand the Scriptures without any directions 33 pref, 0| directions from man (and if the fact be so, they boast of 34 pref, 0| Greek, or Hebrew, or any of the rest, we have learnt either 35 pref, 0| we have learnt either in the same way, by hearing it 36 pref, 0| these things, because on the outpouring of the Holy Spirit 37 pref, 0| because on the outpouring of the Holy Spirit the apostles 38 pref, 0| outpouring of the Holy Spirit the apostles immediately began 39 pref, 0| immediately began to speak the language of every race; 40 pref, 0| whether he has yet received the Holy Spirit? No, no; rather 41 pref, 0| ensnared by such wiles of the enemy and by our own perversity, 42 pref, 0| may even refuse to go to the churches to hear the gospel 43 pref, 0| to the churches to hear the gospel itself, or to read 44 pref, 0| reading or preaching, in the hope that we shall be carried 45 pref, 0| we shall be carried up to the third heaven, "whether in 46 pref, 0| third heaven, "whether in the body or out of the body," 47 pref, 0| whether in the body or out of the body," as the apostle says, 48 pref, 0| or out of the body," as the apostle says,and there hear 49 pref, 0| for man to utter, or see the Lord Jesus Christ and hear 50 pref, 0| Lord Jesus Christ and hear the gospel from His own lips 51 pref, 0| and let us rather consider the fact that the Apostle Paul 52 pref, 0| rather consider the fact that the Apostle Paul himself, although 53 pref, 0| stricken down and admonished by the voice of God from heaven, 54 pref, 0| sent to a man to receive the sacraments and be admitted 55 pref, 0| sacraments and be admitted into the Church; and that Cornelius 56 pref, 0| Church; and that Cornelius the centurion, although an angel 57 pref, 0| instruction, and not only received the sacraments from the apostle' 58 pref, 0| received the sacraments from the apostle's hands, but was 59 pref, 0| instructed by him as to the proper objects of faith, 60 pref, 0| done everything through the instrumentality of angels, 61 pref, 0| instrumentality of angels, but the condition of our race would 62 pref, 0| chosen to make use of men as the ministers of His word to 63 pref, 0| true which is written, "The temple of God is holy, which 64 pref, 0| from heaven, or through the ministration of angels? 65 pref, 0| which binds men together in the bond of unity, would have 66 pref, 0| And we know that the eunuch who was reading Isaiah 67 pref, 0| eunuch who was reading Isaiah the prophet, and did not understand 68 pref, 0| he read, was not sent by the apostle to an angel, nor 69 pref, 0| inwardly illuminated by the grace of God without the 70 pref, 0| the grace of God without the interposition of man; on 71 pref, 0| interposition of man; on the contrary, at the suggestion 72 pref, 0| man; on the contrary, at the suggestion of God, Philip, 73 pref, 0| Philip, who did understand the prophet, came to him, and 74 pref, 0| human tongue, opened to him the Scriptures. Did not God 75 pref, 0| jealous pride, accepted the plan of his father-in-law, 76 pref, 0| ruling and administering the affairs of the great nation 77 pref, 0| administering the affairs of the great nation entrusted to 78 pref, 0| was to be ascribed not to the man who devised it, but 79 pref, 0| devised it, but to Him who is the Truth, the unchangeable 80 pref, 0| to Him who is the Truth, the unchangeable God. ~ 81 pref, 0| In the last place, every one who 82 pref, 0| illumination, understands the obscurities of Scripture, 83 pref, 0| rules of interpretation, at the same time believes, and 84 pref, 0| power is not his own, in the sense of originating with 85 pref, 0| originating with himself, but is the gift of God. For so he seeks 86 pref, 0| understanding, as he does, without the aid of any human interpreter, 87 pref, 0| that they too may learn by the inward teaching of the Spirit 88 pref, 0| by the inward teaching of the Spirit without the help 89 pref, 0| teaching of the Spirit without the help of man? The truth is, 90 pref, 0| without the help of man? The truth is, he fears to incur 91 pref, 0| truth is, he fears to incur the reproach: "Thou wicked and 92 pref, 0| to have put my money to the exchangers." Seeing, then, 93 pref, 0| they understand, but also the rules of interpretation 94 pref, 0| is of Him who says, "I am the truth." For what have we 95 pref, 0| audience pronounces aloud the words he sees before him: 96 pref, 0| learnt himself. Just so, the man who explains to an audience 97 pref, 0| explains to an audience the passages of Scripture he 98 pref, 0| like one who reads aloud the words before him. On the 99 pref, 0| the words before him. On the other hand, the man who 100 pref, 0| him. On the other hand, the man who lays down rules 101 pref, 0| what is written in it, so the man who is in possession 102 pref, 0| who is in possession of the rules which I here attempt 103 pref, 0| with an obscure passage in the books which he reads, will 104 pref, 0| interpreter to lay open the secret to him, but, holding 105 pref, 0| indications, will arrive at the hidden sense without any 106 pref, 0| will sufficiently appear in the course of the work itself 107 pref, 0| appear in the course of the work itself that no one 108 pref, 0| seemed convenient to reply at the outset to any who might 109 pref, 0| preliminary objections, such is the start I have thought good 110 pref, 0| thought good to make on the road I am about to traverse 111 1 | Containing a General View of the Subjects Treated in Holy 112 1, arg | Argument~The author divides his work 113 1, arg | two parts, one relating to the discovery, the other to 114 1, arg | relating to the discovery, the other to the expression, 115 1, arg | discovery, the other to the expression, of the true 116 1, arg | other to the expression, of the true sense of Scripture. 117 1, arg | He shows that to discover the meaning we must attend both 118 1, arg | things we ought to teach to the Christian people, and also 119 1, arg | Christian people, and also the signs of these things, that 120 1, arg | these things, that is, where the knowledge of these things 121 1, arg | things which use and enjoy. The only object which ought 122 1, arg | which ought to be enjoyed is the Triune God, who is our highest 123 1, arg | sins might be taken away, "The Word was made Flesh," our 124 1, arg | to Himself as his bride the Church, in which we receive 125 1, arg | we may await with hope the resurrection of the body 126 1, arg | hope the resurrection of the body to eternal glory; if 127 1, arg | faith having been expounded, the author goes on to show that 128 1, arg | goes on to show that love the love of God for His own 129 1, arg | God for His own sake and the love of our neighbour for 130 1, arg | neighbour for God's sake is the fulfilment and the end of 131 1, arg | sake is the fulfilment and the end of all Scripture. After 132 1, arg | understand and explain aright the Holy Scriptures. ~ 133 1, 1 | Chap. 1. The interpretation of Scripture 134 1, 1 | of Scripture depends on the discovery and enunciation 135 1, 1 | discovery and enunciation of the meaning, and is to be undertaken 136 1, 1 | interpretation of Scripture depends: the mode of ascertaining the 137 1, 1 | the mode of ascertaining the proper meaning, and the 138 1, 1 | the proper meaning, and the mode of making known the 139 1, 1 | the mode of making known the meaning when it is ascertained. 140 1, 1 | We shall treat first of the mode of ascertaining, next 141 1, 1 | of ascertaining, next of the mode of making known, the 142 1, 1 | the mode of making known, the meaning; a great and arduous 143 1, 1 | my hope of accomplishing the work rests on Him who has 144 1, 1 | it ought to be possessed. The Lord saith, "Whosoever has, 145 1, 1 | to and perfect His gifts. The loaves in the miracle were 146 1, 1 | His gifts. The loaves in the miracle were only five and 147 1, 1 | and seven in number before the disciples began to divide 148 1, 1 | began to divide them among the hungry people. But when 149 1, 1 | distribute them, though the wants of so many thousands 150 1, 1 | they filled baskets with the fragments that were left. 151 1, 1 | that bread increased in the very act of breaking it, 152 1, 1 | so those thoughts which the Lord has already vouchsafed 153 1, 2 | means of signs. I now use the word "thing" in a strict 154 1, 2 | that kind. Not, however, the wood which we read Moses 155 1, 2 | we read Moses cast into the bitter waters to make them 156 1, 2 | to make them sweet, nor the stone which Jacob used as 157 1, 2 | Jacob used as a pillow, nor the ram which Abraham offered 158 1, 2 | will not interfere with the division of the subject 159 1, 2 | interfere with the division of the subject according to which 160 1, 3 | happiness, so that we can attain the things that make us happy 161 1, 3 | that, getting entangled in the love of lower gratifications, 162 1, 3 | altogether turn back from, the pursuit of the real and 163 1, 3 | back from, the pursuit of the real and proper objects 164 1, 4 | its own sake. To use, on the other hand, is to employ 165 1, 4 | enjoyment is to commence. But the beauty of the country through 166 1, 4 | commence. But the beauty of the country through which we 167 1, 4 | through which we pass, and the very pleasure of the motion, 168 1, 4 | and the very pleasure of the motion, charm our hearts, 169 1, 4 | become unwilling to hasten the end of our journey; and 170 1, 4 | used, not enjoyed, that so the invisible things of God 171 1, 4 | seen, being understood by the things that are made, that 172 1, 5 | Chap. 5. The Trinity the true object 173 1, 5 | Chap. 5. The Trinity the true object of enjoyment~ 174 1, 5 | The true objects of enjoyment, 175 1, 5 | of enjoyment, then, are the Father and the Son and the 176 1, 5 | then, are the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, 177 1, 5 | the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, who are at 178 1, 5 | Holy Spirit, who are at the same time the Trinity, one 179 1, 5 | who are at the same time the Trinity, one Being, supreme 180 1, 5 | an object, and not rather the cause of all objects, or 181 1, 5 | or indeed even if He is the cause of all. For it is 182 1, 5 | better to speak in this way: The Trinity, one God, of whom 183 1, 5 | whom are all things. Thus the Father and the Son and the 184 1, 5 | things. Thus the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, 185 1, 5 | the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, and each of 186 1, 5 | Himself, is God, and at the same time they are all one 187 1, 5 | they are all one substance. The Father is not the Son nor 188 1, 5 | substance. The Father is not the Son nor the Holy Spirit; 189 1, 5 | Father is not the Son nor the Holy Spirit; the Son is 190 1, 5 | Son nor the Holy Spirit; the Son is not the Father nor 191 1, 5 | Holy Spirit; the Son is not the Father nor the Holy Spirit; 192 1, 5 | Son is not the Father nor the Holy Spirit; the Holy Spirit 193 1, 5 | Father nor the Holy Spirit; the Holy Spirit is not the Father 194 1, 5 | the Holy Spirit is not the Father nor the Son: but 195 1, 5 | Spirit is not the Father nor the Son: but the Father is only 196 1, 5 | Father nor the Son: but the Father is only Father, the 197 1, 5 | the Father is only Father, the Son is only Son, and the 198 1, 5 | the Son is only Son, and the Holy Spirit is only Holy 199 1, 5 | Spirit. To all three belong the same eternity, the same 200 1, 5 | belong the same eternity, the same unchangeableness, the 201 1, 5 | the same unchangeableness, the same majesty, the same power. 202 1, 5 | unchangeableness, the same majesty, the same power. In the Father 203 1, 5 | majesty, the same power. In the Father is unity, in the 204 1, 5 | the Father is unity, in the Son equality, in the Holy 205 1, 5 | in the Son equality, in the Holy Spirit the harmony 206 1, 5 | equality, in the Holy Spirit the harmony of unity and equality; 207 1, 5 | attributes are all one because of the Father, all equal because 208 1, 5 | Father, all equal because of the Son, and all harmonious 209 1, 5 | all harmonious because of the Holy Spirit. ~ 210 1, 6 | I know this, except from the fact that God is unspeakable? 211 1, 6 | contradiction of words, because if the unspeakable is what cannot 212 1, 6 | has condescended to accept the worship of men's mouths, 213 1, 6 | and has desired us through the medium of our own words 214 1, 6 | is called Deus (God). For the sound of those two syllables 215 1, 6 | nature; but yet all who know the Latin tongue are led, when 216 1, 7 | What all men understand by the term God~ 217 1, 7 | For when the one supreme God of gods 218 1, 7 | gods, their thought takes the form of an endeavour to 219 1, 7 | of an endeavour to reach the conception of a nature, 220 1, 7 | by those which pertain to the bodily senses, partly by 221 1, 7 | by those which pertain to the intellect and soul, those 222 1, 7 | sense think that either the heavens, or what appears 223 1, 7 | to be most brilliant in the heavens, or the universe 224 1, 7 | brilliant in the heavens, or the universe itself, is God 225 1, 7 | if they try to get beyond the universe, they picture to 226 1, 7 | vaguely as infinite, or of the most beautiful form conceivable; 227 1, 7 | or they represent it in the form of the human body, 228 1, 7 | represent it in the form of the human body, if they think 229 1, 7 | no one God supreme above the rest, but that there are 230 1, 7 | to what each man thinks the pattern of excellence. Those, 231 1, 7 | of excellence. Those, on the other hand, who endeavour 232 1, 7 | endeavour by an effort of the intelligence to reach a 233 1, 7 | strive emulously to exalt the excellence of God: nor could 234 1, 8 | itself; and, whatever may be the bodily form that has suggested 235 1, 8 | dead; who understand that the living bodily form itself, 236 1, 8 | quite a distinct thing from the life by which it is quickened; 237 1, 8 | quickened; and who look upon the life as incomparably superior 238 1, 8 | in dignity and worth to the mass which is quickened 239 1, 8 | they go on to look into the nature of the life itself, 240 1, 8 | look into the nature of the life itself, if they find 241 1, 8 | another time wise, but on the contrary is wisdom itself. 242 1, 8 | evident, if we consider that the very rule of truth by which 243 1, 8 | truth by which they affirm the unchangeable life to be 244 1, 8 | unchangeable life to be the more excellent, is itself 245 1, 9 | Chap. 9. All acknowledge the superiority of unchangeable: 246 1, 9 | is unchangeably fixed in the minds of all men, and presented 247 1, 9 | common contemplation. And the man who does not see it 248 1, 9 | it is like a blind man in the sun, whom it profits nothing 249 1, 9 | it profits nothing that the splendour of its light, 250 1, 9 | into his very eyeballs. The man, on the other hand, 251 1, 9 | very eyeballs. The man, on the other hand, who sees, but 252 1, 9 | from dwelling long among the shadows of the flesh. And 253 1, 9 | long among the shadows of the flesh. And thus men are 254 1, 9 | from their native land by the contrary blasts of evil 255 1, 10 | Chap. 10. To see God, the soul must be purified~ 256 1, 10 | our duty fully to enjoy the truth which lives unchangeably, 257 1, 10 | unchangeably, and truth for the things which He has made, 258 1, 10 | things which He has made, the soul must be purified that 259 1, 10 | is in every place, but by the cultivation of pure desires 260 1, 11 | pattern of holy life in the form of our own humanity. 261 1, 11 | looked upon as weak. But "the foolishness of God is wiser 262 1, 11 | God is wiser than men; and the weakness of God is stronger 263 1, 11 | home, He made Himself also the way by which we should reach 264 1, 12 | Chap. 12. In what sense the Wisdom of God came to us~ 265 1, 12 | is everywhere present to the inner eye when it is sound 266 1, 12 | make Himself manifest to the outward eye of those whose 267 1, 12 | dim. "For after that, in the wisdom of God, the world 268 1, 12 | that, in the wisdom of God, the world by wisdom knew not 269 1, 12 | not God, it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching 270 1, 12 | Not then in the sense of traversing space, 271 1, 12 | appeared to mortal men in the form of mortal flesh, He 272 1, 12 | seeing that "He was in the world, and the world was 273 1, 12 | He was in the world, and the world was made by Him." 274 1, 12 | their eagerness to enjoy the creature instead of the 275 1, 12 | the creature instead of the Creator had grown into the 276 1, 12 | the Creator had grown into the likeness of this world, 277 1, 12 | most appropriately named "the world," did not recognize 278 1, 12 | recognize Him, therefore the evangelist says, "and the 279 1, 12 | the evangelist says, "and the world knew Him not." Thus, 280 1, 12 | knew Him not." Thus, in the wisdom of God, the world 281 1, 12 | Thus, in the wisdom of God, the world by wisdom knew not 282 1, 12 | that it pleased God through the foolishness of preaching 283 1, 13 | Chap. 13. The Word was made flesh~ 284 1, 13 | way did He come but this, "The Word was made flesh, and 285 1, 13 | minds may enter through the ear into the mind of the 286 1, 13 | enter through the ear into the mind of the hearer, the 287 1, 13 | the ear into the mind of the hearer, the word which we 288 1, 13 | the mind of the hearer, the word which we have in our 289 1, 13 | does not lose itself in the sound, but remains complete 290 1, 13 | complete in itself, and takes the form of speech without being 291 1, 13 | modified in its own nature by the change: so the Divine Word, 292 1, 13 | nature by the change: so the Divine Word, though suffering 293 1, 14 | Chap. 14. How the wisdom of God healed man~ 294 1, 14 | Moreover, as the use of remedies is the way 295 1, 14 | as the use of remedies is the way to health, so this remedy 296 1, 14 | certain degree of neatness in the binding, in addition to 297 1, 14 | wound, and does not fit the same bandage to all limbs, 298 1, 14 | but puts like to like; in the same way the Wisdom of God 299 1, 14 | to like; in the same way the Wisdom of God in healing 300 1, 14 | humility. We were ensnared by the wisdom of the serpent: we 301 1, 14 | ensnared by the wisdom of the serpent: we are set free 302 1, 14 | serpent: we are set free by the foolishness of God. Moreover, 303 1, 14 | of God. Moreover, just as the former was called wisdom, 304 1, 14 | wisdom, but was in reality the folly of those who despised 305 1, 14 | those who despised God, so the latter is called foolishness, 306 1, 14 | wisdom in those who overcome the devil. We used our immortality 307 1, 14 | immortality so badly as to incur the penalty of death: Christ 308 1, 14 | as to restore us to life. The disease was brought in through 309 1, 14 | woman's corrupted soul: the remedy came through a woman' 310 1, 14 | woman's virgin body. To the same class of opposite remedies 311 1, 14 | that our vices are cured by the example of His virtues. 312 1, 14 | example of His virtues. On the other hand, the following 313 1, 14 | virtues. On the other hand, the following are, as it were, 314 1, 14 | it were, bandages made in the same shape as the limbs 315 1, 14 | made in the same shape as the limbs and wounds to which 316 1, 14 | those who can follow out the matter more fully, who are 317 1, 14 | who are not hurried on by the necessity of carrying out 318 1, 14 | instruction in considering the remedies, whether opposites 319 1, 14 | opposites or likes, employed in the medicine of Christianity. ~ 320 1, 15 | Faith is buttressed by the resurrection and ascension 321 1, 15 | The belief of the resurrection 322 1, 15 | The belief of the resurrection of our Lord 323 1, 15 | resurrection of our Lord from the dead, and of His ascension 324 1, 15 | what assurance, then, is the hope of believers animated, 325 1, 15 | Him to come from heaven as the judge of quick and dead, 326 1, 15 | strikes great terror into the careless, so that they retake 327 1, 15 | imagination can conceive, the reward He will bestow at 328 1, 15 | reward He will bestow at the last, when we consider that 329 1, 15 | freely of His Spirit, that in the adversities of this life 330 1, 15 | each gifts suitable for the building up of His Church, 331 1, 16 | For the Church is His body, as the 332 1, 16 | the Church is His body, as the apostle's teaching shows 333 1, 16 | functions, He holds together in the bond of unity and love, 334 1, 16 | Moreover He exercises it in the present time, and purges 335 1, 16 | transplanted it from this world to the eternal world, He may take 336 1, 17 | forgiving our sins, opened the way to our home~ 337 1, 17 | Further, when we are on the way, and that not a way 338 1, 17 | affections, and one which the guilt of our past sins like 339 1, 17 | willing to lay Himself down as the way by which we should return, 340 1, 17 | crucified for us to remove the stern decrees that barred 341 1, 17 | stern decrees that barred the door against our return? ~ 342 1, 18 | chap. 18. The keys given to the Church~ 343 1, 18 | chap. 18. The keys given to the Church~ 344 1, 18 | He has given, therefore, the keys to His Church, that 345 1, 18 | to say, that whosoever in the Church should not believe 346 1, 18 | sins, should be saved by the same faith and repentance 347 1, 18 | faith and repentance on the ground of which he is received 348 1, 18 | which he is received into the bosom of the Church. For 349 1, 18 | received into the bosom of the Church. For he who does 350 1, 18 | ceased to have faith in the results of his own repentance. ~ 351 1, 19 | there is a kind of death of the soul, which consists in 352 1, 19 | soul, which consists in the putting away of former habits 353 1, 19 | through repentance, so also the death of the body consists 354 1, 19 | repentance, so also the death of the body consists in the dissolution 355 1, 19 | of the body consists in the dissolution of the former 356 1, 19 | consists in the dissolution of the former principle of life. 357 1, 19 | principle of life. And just as the soul, after it has put away 358 1, 19 | must hope and believe that the body, after that death which 359 1, 19 | contracted through sin, shall at the resurrection be changed 360 1, 19 | and blood shall inherit the kingdom of God (for that 361 1, 19 | on immortality. And thus the body, being the source of 362 1, 19 | And thus the body, being the source of no uneasiness 363 1, 20 | chap. 20. The resurrection to damnation~ 364 1, 20 | here to be conformed to the truth, falls when the body 365 1, 20 | to the truth, falls when the body dies into a more terrible 366 1, 20 | habitation, but to endure the penalty of his sin. ~ 367 1, 21 | And so faith clings to the assurance, and we must believe 368 1, 21 | so in fact, that neither the human soul nor the human 369 1, 21 | neither the human soul nor the human body suffers complete 370 1, 21 | complete extinction, but that the wicked rise again to endure 371 1, 21 | inconceivable punishment, and the good to receive eternal 372 1, 22 | things, then, those only are the true objects of enjoyment 373 1, 22 | eternal and unchangeable. The rest are for use, that we 374 1, 22 | may be able to arrive at the full enjoyment of the former. 375 1, 22 | at the full enjoyment of the former. We, however, who 376 1, 22 | truly is man, made after the image and similitude of 377 1, 22 | of God, not as respects the mortal body in which he 378 1, 22 | clothed, but as respects the rational soul by which he 379 1, 22 | exalted in honour above the beasts. And so it becomes 380 1, 22 | for his own sake, or for the sake of something else. 381 1, 22 | enjoy him; if it is for the sake of something else, 382 1, 22 | that he is to be loved for the sake of something else. 383 1, 22 | for its own sake, then in the enjoyment of it consists 384 1, 22 | it consists a happy life, the hope of which at least, 385 1, 22 | which at least, if not yet the reality, is our comfort 386 1, 22 | reality, is our comfort in the present time. But a curse 387 1, 22 | himself, if you look at the matter clearly, because 388 1, 22 | for his own sake, but for the sake of Him who is the true 389 1, 22 | for the sake of Him who is the true object of enjoyment. 390 1, 22 | life is a journey towards the unchangeable life, and his 391 1, 22 | affections wrapped up in, the unchangeable good, than 392 1, 22 | God's sake. For this is the law of love that has been 393 1, 22 | afford room, as it were, for the wish to enjoy some other 394 1, 22 | love is to be borne into the same channel in which the 395 1, 22 | the same channel in which the whole current of our affections 396 1, 22 | as himself, a man turns the whole current of his love 397 1, 22 | himself and his neighbour into the channel of the love of God, 398 1, 22 | neighbour into the channel of the love of God, which suffers 399 1, 23 | related to us as to need the goodness of God through 400 1, 23 | instrumentality, such as the body. For assuredly the 401 1, 23 | the body. For assuredly the martyrs did not love the 402 1, 23 | the martyrs did not love the wickedness of their persecutors, 403 1, 23 | although they used it to attain the favour of God. As, then, 404 1, 23 | precepts need be given about the second and fourth of these. 405 1, 23 | a man may fall away from the truth, he still continues 406 1, 23 | and to love his own body. The soul which flies away from 407 1, 23 | soul which flies away from the unchangeable Light, the 408 1, 23 | the unchangeable Light, the Ruler of all things, does 409 1, 23 | men. For it is inherent in the sinful soul to desire above 410 1, 23 | own soul." And accordingly the soul becomes weak, and endures 411 1, 23 | endures much suffering about the mortal body. For, of course, 412 1, 23 | of course, it must love the body, and be grieved at 413 1, 23 | grieved at its corruption; and the immortality and incorruptibility 414 1, 23 | and incorruptibility of the body spring out of the health 415 1, 23 | of the body spring out of the health of the soul. Now 416 1, 23 | spring out of the health of the soul. Now the health of 417 1, 23 | health of the soul. Now the health of the soul is to 418 1, 23 | soul. Now the health of the soul is to cling steadfastly 419 1, 23 | to cling steadfastly to the better part, that is, to 420 1, 23 | better part, that is, to the unchangeable God. But when 421 1, 24 | man hate his own body. For the apostle says truly, "No 422 1, 24 | must be a spirit. And as to the fact that they seem in some 423 1, 24 | toil, those who do this in the right spirit do it not that 424 1, 24 | of toilsome exercise of the body itself to root out 425 1, 24 | lusts that are hurtful to the body, that is, those habits 426 1, 24 | habits and affections of the soul that lead to the enjoyment 427 1, 24 | of the soul that lead to the enjoyment of unworthy objects. 428 1, 24 | Those, on the other hand, who do this 429 1, 24 | interpretation of what they read: "The flesh lusteth against the 430 1, 24 | The flesh lusteth against the spirit, and the spirit against 431 1, 24 | against the spirit, and the spirit against the flesh, 432 1, 24 | and the spirit against the flesh, and these are contrary 433 1, 24 | and these are contrary the one to the other." For this 434 1, 24 | are contrary the one to the other." For this is said 435 1, 24 | other." For this is said of the carnal habit yet unsubdued, 436 1, 24 | unsubdued, against which the spirit lusteth, not to destroy 437 1, 24 | lusteth, not to destroy the body, but to eradicate the 438 1, 24 | the body, but to eradicate the lust of the body i.e., its 439 1, 24 | to eradicate the lust of the body i.e., its evil habit 440 1, 24 | thus to make it subject to the spirit, which is what the 441 1, 24 | the spirit, which is what the order of nature demands. 442 1, 24 | nature demands. For as, after the resurrection, the body, 443 1, 24 | after the resurrection, the body, having become wholly 444 1, 24 | become wholly subject to the spirit, will live in perfect 445 1, 24 | make it an object to have the carnal habit changed for 446 1, 24 | carnal habit changed for the better, so that its inordinate 447 1, 24 | affections may not war against the soul. And until this shall 448 1, 24 | this shall take place, "the flesh lusteth against the 449 1, 24 | the flesh lusteth against the spirit, and the spirit against 450 1, 24 | against the spirit, and the spirit against the flesh;" 451 1, 24 | and the spirit against the flesh;" the spirit struggling, 452 1, 24 | spirit against the flesh;" the spirit struggling, not in 453 1, 24 | not in hatred, but for the mastery, because it desires 454 1, 24 | loves should be subject to the higher principle; and the 455 1, 24 | the higher principle; and the fleshy struggling, not in 456 1, 24 | in hatred, but because of the bondage of habit which it 457 1, 24 | it has become inveterate. The spirit, then, in subduing 458 1, 24 | spirit, then, in subduing the flesh, is working as it 459 1, 24 | working as it were to destroy the ill founded peace of an 460 1, 24 | habit, and to bring about the real peace which springs 461 1, 24 | which would overbalance the loss. This and other indications 462 1, 24 | and other indications of the same kind are sufficient 463 1, 24 | those who candidly seek the truth how well-founded is 464 1, 24 | truth how well-founded is the statement of the apostle 465 1, 24 | well-founded is the statement of the apostle when he says, "No 466 1, 24 | and cherisheth it, even as the Lord the Church". ~ 467 1, 24 | cherisheth it, even as the Lord the Church". ~ 468 1, 25 | therefore, ought to be taught the due measure of loving, that 469 1, 25 | that he loves better than the safety and soundness of 470 1, 25 | to be told not to desire the safety and health of his 471 1, 25 | something he desires more. For the miser, though he loves money, 472 1, 25 | because he values more highly the bodily health which the 473 1, 25 | the bodily health which the bread sustains. It is superfluous 474 1, 25 | plain, but this is just what the error of wicked men often 475 1, 26 | chap. 26. The command to love God and 476 1, 26 | which is common to us with the beasts (for even the beasts 477 1, 26 | with the beasts (for even the beasts love themselves and 478 1, 26 | Thou shalt love," He says, "the Lord thy God with all thy 479 1, 26 | two commandments hang all the law and the prophets." Thus 480 1, 26 | commandments hang all the law and the prophets." Thus the end 481 1, 26 | and the prophets." Thus the end of the commandment is 482 1, 26 | prophets." Thus the end of the commandment is love, and 483 1, 26 | love, and that twofold, the love of God and the love 484 1, 26 | twofold, the love of God and the love of our neighbour. Now, 485 1, 26 | you will find that none of the classes of things that are 486 1, 26 | commandments. For though, when the love of God comes first, 487 1, 26 | of God comes first, and the measure of our love for 488 1, 27 | chap. 27. The order of love~ 489 1, 27 | have fellowship with us in the enjoyment of God, whereas 490 1, 27 | whereas our body cannot; for the body only lives through 491 1, 27 | body only lives through the soul, and it is by the soul 492 1, 27 | through the soul, and it is by the soul that we enjoy God. ~ 493 1, 28 | regard to those who, by the accidents of time, or place, 494 1, 28 | greater claim upon you than the other, you could do nothing 495 1, 28 | since you cannot consult for the good of them all, you must 496 1, 28 | them all, you must take the matter as decided for you 497 1, 28 | as each man happens for the time being to be more closely 498 1, 29 | us in loving God, and all the assistance that we either 499 1, 29 | to that one end. For in the theatres, dens of iniquity 500 1, 29 | art as a great or even as the very greatest good, he is