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  1 pref,   0|            so, did I not conciliate them beforehand. And if, after
  2 pref,   0|        influence, did they not find them forearmed against their
  3 pref,   0|            their assaults), to turn them back from a useful study
  4 pref,   0|             their attempts to apply them and to interpret Scripture
  5 pref,   0|           to interpret Scripture by them, they have failed to clear
  6 pref,   0|        instead that God would grant them the sight of their eyes.
  7 pref,   0|           to memory through hearing them read by others, and by dint
  8 pref,   0|           thorough understanding of them; or by that barbarian slave
  9 pref,   0|           do not strongly insist on them. For, as I am dealing with
 10 pref,   0|           and, as it were, mingling them one with another, if men
 11 pref,   0|             does he not rather send them direct to God, that they
 12   1, arg |            use; for, though some of them may be loved, yet our love
 13   1, arg |          our love is not to rest in them, but to have reference to
 14   1,   1 |           disciples began to divide them among the hungry people.
 15   1,   1 |            they began to distribute them, though the wants of so
 16   1,   1 |           soon as I begin to impart them to others, be multiplied
 17   1,   2 |           the bitter waters to make them sweet, nor the stone which
 18   1,   2 |            way that even if some of them may be used as signs also,
 19   1,   3 |           make us happy and rest in them. We ourselves, again, who
 20   1,   5 |            all one God; and each of them by Himself is a complete
 21   1,   7 |            other gods, and who call them by that name, and worship
 22   1,   7 |           by that name, and worship them as gods, their thought takes
 23   1,   7 |        intellect and soul, those of them who are in bondage to sense
 24   1,   8 |             has suggested itself to them, recognize that it is by
 25   1,   8 |        others in splendour, overtop them in size, and excel them
 26   1,   8 |             them in size, and excel them in beauty, is quite a distinct
 27   1,  12 |    foolishness of preaching to save them that believe." ~
 28   1,  12 |    foolishness of preaching to save them that believe? ~
 29   1,  14 |         sinners to heal and restore them. And just as surgeons, when
 30   1,  14 |          our wounds, curing some of them by their opposites, some
 31   1,  14 |            their opposites, some of them by their likes. And just
 32   1,  15 |        suffered so great things for them while they were still in
 33   1,  28 |             consult for the good of them all, you must take the matter
 34   1,  29 |      assistance that we either give them or accept from them should
 35   1,  29 |            give them or accept from them should tend to that one
 36   1,  29 |         enemies. For we do not fear them, seeing they cannot take
 37   1,  29 |           what we love; but we pity them rather, because the more
 38   1,  29 |            us too as partakers with them in so great a blessing. ~
 39   1,  30 |             was severely wounded by them, and left naked and half
 40   1,  30 |            your enemies, do good to them that hate you." ~
 41   1,  30 |        mercy have been performed by them on our behalf, as may easily
 42   1,  32 |              and "Thou shalt say to them, I AM has sent me unto you;"
 43   1,  32 |           far as He has given it to them to be so. That use, then,
 44   1,  33 |           hope of others fixed upon them. But, on the contrary, the
 45   1,  33 |            and anxious to stay with them and rest in them, set themselves
 46   1,  33 |          stay with them and rest in them, set themselves to recruit
 47   1,  34 |             salvation, to pass over them quickly, and to struggle
 48   1,  36 |          Scriptures, or any part of them, but puts such an interpretation
 49   1,  36 |         such an interpretation upon them as does not tend to build
 50   1,  36 |             does not yet understand them as he ought. If, on the
 51   1,  36 |            man draws a meaning from them that may be used for the
 52   1,  39 |           love has been built up in them, that, holding to what is
 53   2,   1 |        intention or desire of using them as signs, do yet lead to
 54   2,   6 |           superstitions, and making them through their imitation
 55   2,   6 |            and none is barren among them?" Does the hearer learn
 56   2,   6 | contemplating holy men, when I view them as the teeth of the Church,
 57   2,   6 |          their errors, and bringing them into the church's body,
 58   2,   6 |     pleasure, too, that I recognize them under the figure of sheep
 59   2,   6 |             of love, and none among them barren in that holy fruit. ~
 60   2,   6 |                      But why I view them with greater delight under
 61   2,   6 |            they require just beside them often grow languid from
 62   2,   7 |             to find nothing else in them but that God is to be loved
 63   2,   8 |            the first place has read them all and retained them in
 64   2,   8 |          read them all and retained them in his knowledge, if not
 65   2,   8 |             reading gives, those of them, at least, that are called
 66   2,   9 |        understanding, still to read them so as to commit them to
 67   2,   9 |           read them so as to commit them to memory, or at least so
 68   2,   9 |           remain wholly ignorant of them. Next, those matters that
 69   2,   9 |            are plainly laid down in them, whether rules of life or
 70   2,  11 |             Latin translators throw them into doubt. Although, indeed,
 71   2,  11 |             and Hallelujah. Some of them, again, are said to be untranslatable
 72   2,  12 |            may provoke to emulation them which are my flesh, and
 73   2,  12 |              and might save some of them;" that is, that through
 74   2,  12 |           who had believed, some of them might believe too. And he
 75   2,  13 |              but because we may use them to correct the freedom or
 76   2,  13 |          man do not choose to avoid them altogether, it is easy to
 77   2,  14 |           either make inquiry about them from men who speak those
 78   2,  14 |           we gradually come to know them through being accustomed
 79   2,  14 |       accustomed to read or to hear them. There is nothing that it
 80   2,  14 |          forms of speech, and think them less pure Latin than those
 81   2,  15 |            manuscript of any one of them that was not found in the
 82   2,  15 |       common labour and judgment of them all; even so, it would not
 83   2,  15 |          Holy Spirit, who worked in them and had given them all one
 84   2,  15 |        worked in them and had given them all one voice, thought most
 85   2,  16 |              if ignorance of any of them should chance to bring the
 86   2,  16 |             any one could interpret them, be of great value and service
 87   2,  17 |          any one can be found among them more curious or more learned
 88   2,  17 |       Hesiod the poet gave names to them all. It was not Jupiter,
 89   2,  17 |             not because it had seen them in visions, nor because
 90   2,  18 |             that Mercury discovered them; nor because they have dedicated
 91   2,  20 |            boy, should come between them. And the kicking of a stone,
 92   2,  20 |             dog who has run between them, not with impunity however,
 93   2,  21 |             July and August, naming them in honour of the men Julius
 94   2,  22 |            interval of time between them that can be apprehended
 95   2,  22 |            so different that one of them has a most fortunate life,
 96   2,  23 |       ground that those who profess them speak lies, but it says, "
 97   2,  23 |           to pass, hearken not unto them." For though the ghost of
 98   2,  23 |             own, and have committed them to writing, as if they had
 99   2,  23 |       writing, as if they had drawn them by rule. ~
100   2,  24 |            attending to and marking them that they came to have meaning.
101   2,  24 |              men did not agree upon them as signs because they were
102   2,  24 |        because men have agreed upon them; in the same way also, those
103   2,  25 |         give his whole attention to them in vain. Yet all men aim
104   2,  25 |           have mutually agreed upon them. ~
105   2,  25 |         inquire in regard to any of them, for what reason, where,
106   2,  25 |   sufficient degree of attention to them, and keep them in memory. ~
107   2,  25 |         attention to them, and keep them in memory. ~
108   2,  26 |        nothing unlawful in learning them, nor do they involve us
109   2,  29 |        drawing any information from them as to our own acts and fates,
110   2,  30 |           with a view to practicing them (unless some duty compel
111   2,  30 |           forming a judgement about them, that we may not be wholly
112   2,  31 |             result, feel ashamed of them, and of thus leading him
113   2,  32 |            is observed and noted by them that they may be able to
114   2,  36 |          attention without wearying them. And it is the same with
115   2,  37 |         movements than to attend to them while they are going through
116   2,  37 |        while they are going through them, or to understand when they
117   2,  37 |            when they are told about them. Those, on the other hand,
118   2,  37 |    directions, as they cannot prove them by making trial of them.
119   2,  37 |             them by making trial of them. And in the same way a clever
120   2,  37 |           derive more pleasure from them as exhibitions of truth,
121   2,  37 |          give those who have learnt them an inclination to lead people
122   2,  37 |         catching questions, or make them think that they have attained
123   2,  37 |         some great thing that gives them an advantage over the good
124   2,  39 |           if these could secure for them the happiness they seek;
125   2,  39 |     carefully to discriminate among them. And if they find any of
126   2,  40 |            to themselves, designing them for a better use, not doing
127   2,  40 |          their ignorance, providing them with things which they themselves,
128   2,  40 |             One God are found among them. Now these are, so to speak,
129   2,  40 |             ought to take away from them, and to devote to their
130   2,  40 |             they were about to turn them to the use of worshipping
131   2,  41 |           but charity edifieth? Let them remember, then, that those
132   2,  41 |           lamb, used hyssop to mark them with. Now this is a meek
133   2,  42 |       people of Israel brought with them out of Egypt was in comparison
134   3,   2 |            both readings, or all of them (if there are more than
135   3,   3 |       whatever way he may pronounce them. For example, if our faith
136   3,   6 |        endure our Lord's neglect of them when the time for their
137   3,   6 |          one who refused to observe them in the way the Jews did
138   3,   6 |      thoughts of those who observed them on the worship of the One
139   3,   7 |                  And if ever any of them endeavoured to make it out
140   3,   7 |          signs, yet still they used them in reference to the worship
141   3,   8 |           they were in bondage, set them free by raising them to
142   3,   8 |            set them free by raising them to the realities of which
143   3,   9 |          they refer, and so reveres them not in carnal bondage, but
144   3,   9 |        things that are signified by them, is a mark of weakness and
145   3,   9 |         signs than, by interpreting them wrongly, to draw the neck
146   3,  11 |          according to his deeds: to them who, by patient continuance
147   3,  11 |              eternal life; but unto them that are contentious, and
148   3,  12 |             on the other hand, uses them so as to transgress the
149   3,  12 |            but our reason for using them, and our manner of seeking
150   3,  12 |           and our manner of seeking them, that make what we do either
151   3,  12 |             not mix with our use of them; for lust not only abuses
152   3,  14 |           authority, they look upon them as sins, and do not consider
153   3,  14 |            to you, do ye even so to them," I cannot be altered by
154   3,  18 |             though they had each of them numerous wives, yet just
155   3,  18 |        stones away but of gathering them together had come, they
156   3,  19 |   prosperous or adverse, will carry them into the whirlpool of vice
157   3,  19 |           whirlpool of vice or dash them on the rocks of crime. Let
158   3,  19 |             the rocks of crime. Let them, then, learn how trying
159   3,  19 |           stings of insult; but let them not measure others by their
160   3,  20 |                                 Let them believe, on the contrary,
161   3,  22 |        which, though the authors of them are praised, are repugnant
162   3,  23 |             see and to trace out in them a figure of things to come,
163   3,  25 |      signification, but each one of them denotes not two only but
164   3,  29 |          Greek name tropes, and use them more freely and in greater
165   3,  29 |         know these tropes recognize them in Scripture, and are very
166   3,  29 |      assisted by their knowledge of them in understanding Scripture.
167   3,  29 |           is not the place to teach them to the illiterate, lest
168   3,  29 |          examples (which we have of them all), but the very names
169   3,  29 |             the vulgar makes use of them all, even of those more
170   3,  29 |          have had light thrown upon them. ~
171   3,  30 |            he was unwilling to give them up altogether), wrote a
172   3,  30 |          that there was no need for them, as there was no difficulty
173   3,  30 |         attributes so much value to them that it would appear as
174   3,  32 |          they knew not; I will lead them in paths that they have
175   3,  32 |          make darkness light before them, and crooked things straight:
176   3,  32 |         these things will I do unto them, and not forsake them;"
177   3,  32 |          unto them, and not forsake them;" He immediately adds in
178   3,  32 |             in one body; for one of them is that wicked servant of
179   3,  33 |          and believes, that each of them is given? There are many
180   3,  34 |     Wherefore I poured my fury upon them for the blood that they
181   3,  34 |        polluted it: and I scattered them among the heathen, and they
182   3,  34 |           to their doings, I judged them." Now it is easy to understand
183   3,  34 |            profaned in the midst of them; and the heathen shall know
184   3,  34 |             my commandments, and do them. And ye shall dwell in the
185   3,  34 |           the sea, yet a remnant of them shall be saved," but also
186   3,  34 |             when it was promised to them in the sure and immutable
187   3,  34 |        given in its own time was to them, on account of the unchangeableness
188   3,  36 |            is added in reference to them all: "These are the families
189   3,  36 |    punishment being there laid upon them as the judgment of God upon
190   3,  36 |          from heaven, and destroyed them all. Even thus shall it
191   3,  36 |              and not to look behind them, that is, not to long after
192   3,  36 |            the time to give heed to them, that when the Lord shall
193   3,  37 |            in Scripture, to observe them carefully, and to remember
194   3,  37 |          carefully, and to remember them accurately, but also, what
195   3,  37 |            that they may understand them. For in these very books
196   4,   1 |          order if possible to bring them all within the compass of
197   4,   1 |        secular schools, and to warn them that they need not look
198   4,   1 |           have leisure for learning them, he is not to ask me to
199   4,   1 |           is not to ask me to teach them either in this work or any
200   4,   2 |            to enliven, and to rouse them, while the latter shall
201   4,   3 |         only by those who can learn them quickly; for the masters
202   4,   3 |             been spent in enforcing them, they come to be in some
203   4,   3 |          even those who have learnt them, and who speak with fluency
204   4,   3 |              cannot always think of them when they are speaking so
205   4,   3 |            speak in accordance with them, unless they are discussing
206   4,   3 |        whether they had ever learnt them, or whether they had never
207   4,   3 |             had never even met with them. For it is because they
208   4,   3 |             it is not that they use them in order to be eloquent. ~
209   4,   3 |      eloquent men, and by imitating them as far as they can? And
210   4,   4 |         learn, whether he has found them so, or has himself made
211   4,   4 |             so, or has himself made them so, the remaining objects
212   4,   5 |           frigidly while others use them with acuteness, elegance,
213   4,   5 |      hearers, even though he profit them less than he would if he
214   4,   5 |            I do not mean by reading them much and committing them
215   4,   5 |            them much and committing them to memory, but by understanding
216   4,   5 |        memory, but by understanding them aright and carefully searching
217   4,   5 |            who read and yet neglect them; they read to remember the
218   4,   5 |           and at leisure to exhaust them. ~
219   4,   6 |        would have been suitable for them; and this itself would be
220   4,   6 |           as it seems to fall below them. Where, however, I do not
221   4,   6 |      absence: for it did not become them either to condemn it or
222   4,   7 |             eloquence flows through them. ~
223   4,   7 |           great prices are paid for them, and the vendors puff them
224   4,   7 |          them, and the vendors puff them magniloquently. And I fear
225   4,   7 |        respect differently those of them, at least, who would have
226   4,   7 |            drowsy senses to startle them into wakefulness: "Woe to
227   4,   7 |          God, who has bestowed upon them ample territory, to show
228   4,   7 |                  Next he reproaches them with their luxury in seeking
229   4,   8 |           it is our duty to imitate them in those passages where,
230   4,   8 |            understood and explained them aright have in the Church
231   4,   8 |             who does not understand them, or that if what they say
232   4,   9 |             the speaker may expound them; and these should never
233   4,   9 |             who do not care to read them, and in private conversations,
234   4,  10 |            teach; and if instead of them he can find words which
235   4,  10 |             first acquaintance with them, but reread with delight
236   4,  10 |      already made acquaintance with them, and have not yet forgotten
237   4,  10 |          and have not yet forgotten them; nay, both these classes
238   4,  10 |          hearing another man repeat them. And if a man has forgotten
239   4,  11 |             disliked, nor in making them do what they shrank from,
240   4,  12 |            the hearers, not telling them what they ought to do, but
241   4,  12 |             ought to do, but urging them to do what they already
242   4,  12 |             will be no need to move them with greater strength of
243   4,  13 |          that to believe or to know them is enough, to give one's
244   4,  14 |             and the priests applaud them with their hands; and my
245   4,  14 |      because their judgment teaches them to avoid it. Wherefore this
246   4,  15 |             and many ways of saying them, who knows what it is expedient
247   4,  16 |         since the Holy Spirit makes them teachers, he may as well
248   4,  16 |            no man despise thee. Put them in mind to be subject to
249   4,  16 |        Spirit, he yet himself gives them directions how and what
250   4,  16 |           of whom thou hast learned them." For as the medicines which
251   4,  16 |           no avail except God gives them virtue (who can heal without
252   4,  16 |         only when God works to make them of advantage, who could
253   4,  18 |        pertaining to this life, set them to judge who are least esteemed
254   4,  18 |             we would rightly advise them to conduct them quietly
255   4,  18 |      rightly advise them to conduct them quietly as matters of little
256   4,  19 |            always to be speaking of them in a majestic tone, but
257   4,  20 |            Christ might be given to them that believe." It is part,
258   4,  20 |         given to hospitality. Bless them which persecute you: bless,
259   4,  20 |             curse not. Rejoice with them that do rejoice, and weep
260   4,  20 |           do rejoice, and weep with them that weep. Be of the same
261   4,  20 |           these writers and arrange them according to the law of
262   4,  20 |     importance; and he will find in them many kinds of speech of
263   4,  20 |          metres employed by some of them, in the Hebrew language
264   4,  20 |             as well pleased to find them in the sacred authors very
265   4,  20 |          hand, it does not seek for them. For it is borne on by its
266   4,  20 |           work together for good to them that love God, to them who
267   4,  20 |           to them that love God, to them who are the called according
268   4,  20 |           whom He did predestinate, them He also called; and whom
269   4,  20 |         called; and whom He called, them He also justified; and whom
270   4,  20 |              and whom He justified, them He also glorified. What
271   4,  20 |            own eyes, and have given them to me. Am I therefore become
272   4,  20 |           you, that ye might affect them. But it is good to be zealously
273   4,  21 |   acquaintance, but desires to know them thoroughly, must not only
274   4,  21 |         must not only read and hear them, but must have an expositor.
275   4,  21 |        spiritual rock that followed them, and that rock was Christ;'
276   4,  21 |            multitude that was among them fell a lusting; and the
277   4,  21 |       mother the Church rejoices in them, and in them flourishes
278   4,  21 |            rejoices in them, and in them flourishes more abundantly;
279   4,  21 |             that great bishop urges them to their duty even in these
280   4,  21 |             a subject which both of them have touched. Both have
281   4,  21 |       become thoroughly imbued with them all. ~
282   4,  24 |             had been handed down to them from their fathers and their
283   4,  24 |          had complete possession of them) was overthrown; and immediately
284   4,  24 |          was finished I called upon them with heart and voice to
285   4,  24 |             show the effect made on them by the powerful eloquence
286   4,  24 |           many; but it was to teach them what they were ignorant
287   4,  24 |         ignorant of, or to persuade them of what they thought incredible,
288   4,  24 |             incredible, not to make them do what they knew they ought
289   4,  25 |             to instruct or persuade them, beauty of style may have
290   4,  25 |            compliance, or in making them adhere to it more tenaciously.
291   4,  25 |        majestic style, he persuades them to do what they are aware
292   4,  25 |       temperate style, he persuades them that his speech is elegant
293   4,  25 |          good course, we may induce them to pursue it more zealously,
294   4,  26 |            an unexpected light upon them; when it worms out and brings
295   4,  27 |        theirs but Moses', compelled them to say what was good, though
296   4,  28 |          says to Timothy: "Charging them before the Lord that they
297   4,  29 |         cannot be blamed, supposing them to do it without deception.
298   4,  29 |        there are no divisions among them. Nor are such men to be
299   4,  29 |             what does not belong to them, but the word of God belongs
300   4,  29 |       another sense they do not say them; for both these statements
301   4,  30 |             what others compose for them ought, before they receive