Book, Chapter

  1 pref,   0|          willing to learn, if God our Lord do not withhold from
  2 pref,   0|       then, suppose we advise all our brethren not to teach their
  3 pref,   0|         wiles of the enemy and by our own perversity, we may even
  4 pref,   0|      angels, but the condition of our race would have been much
  5   1, arg |         is the Triune God, who is our highest good and our true
  6   1, arg |           is our highest good and our true happiness. We are prevented
  7   1, arg |    happiness. We are prevented by our sins from enjoying God;
  8   1, arg |       from enjoying God; and that our sins might be taken away, "
  9   1, arg |         The Word was made Flesh," our Lord suffered, and died,
 10   1, arg |           we receive remission of our sins. And if our sins are
 11   1, arg |     remission of our sins. And if our sins are remitted and our
 12   1, arg |         our sins are remitted and our souls renewed by grace,
 13   1, arg |         of them may be loved, yet our love is not to rest in them,
 14   1, arg |          God: he uses us, but for our own advantage. He then goes
 15   1, arg |          own sake and the love of our neighbour for God's sake
 16   1,   3 |           to speak) support us in our efforts after happiness,
 17   1,   3 |           to use, are hindered in our course, and sometimes even
 18   1,   4 |        not live happily away from our fatherland, and that we
 19   1,   4 |          that we felt wretched in our wandering, and wishing to
 20   1,   4 |          wishing to put an end to our misery, determined to return
 21   1,   4 |       reach that fatherland where our enjoyment is to commence.
 22   1,   4 |     pleasure of the motion, charm our hearts, and turning these
 23   1,   4 |    unwilling to hasten the end of our journey; and becoming engrossed
 24   1,   4 |          in a factitious delight, our thoughts are diverted from
 25   1,   4 |       happy. Such is a picture of our condition in this life of
 26   1,   4 |           if we wish to return to our Father's home, this world
 27   1,   6 |          us through the medium of our own words to rejoice in
 28   1,  10 |            Wherefore, since it is our duty fully to enjoy the
 29   1,  10 |           of journey or voyage to our native land. For it is not
 30   1,  11 |  condescended to adapt Himself to our weakness, and to show us
 31   1,  11 |          holy life in the form of our own humanity. Yet, since
 32   1,  11 |         though Wisdom was Himself our home, He made Himself also
 33   1,  11 |          by which we should reach our home. ~
 34   1,  13 |       order that what we leave in our minds may enter through
 35   1,  13 |         the word which we have in our hearts becomes an outward
 36   1,  13 |         is called speech; and yet our thought does not lose itself
 37   1,  14 |           its mere usefulness, so our medicine, Wisdom, was by
 38   1,  14 | assumption of humanity adapted to our wounds, curing some of them
 39   1,  14 |       overcome the devil. We used our immortality so badly as
 40   1,  14 |         remedies it belongs, that our vices are cured by the example
 41   1,  15 |     belief of the resurrection of our Lord from the dead, and
 42   1,  15 |          heaven, has strengthened our faith by adding a great
 43   1,  15 |         when we consider that for our comfort in this earthly
 44   1,  15 |           this life we may retain our confidence in, and love
 45   1,  17 |          17. Christ, by forgiving our sins, opened the way to
 46   1,  17 |           sins, opened the way to our home~
 47   1,  17 |        and one which the guilt of our past sins like a hedge of
 48   1,  17 |          except to forgive us all our sins, and by being crucified
 49   1,  17 |           barred the door against our return? ~
 50   1,  22 |           not yet the reality, is our comfort in the present time.
 51   1,  22 |          He means that no part of our life is to be unoccupied,
 52   1,  22 |        which the whole current of our affections flows. Whoever,
 53   1,  23 |           goodness of God through our instrumentality, such as
 54   1,  26 |           command to love God and our neighbour includes a command
 55   1,  26 |       regard to God above us, and our neighbour beside us. "Thou
 56   1,  26 |       love of God and the love of our neighbour. Now, if you take
 57   1,  26 |         first, and the measure of our love for Him is prescribed
 58   1,  26 |    nothing seems to be said about our love for ourselves; yet
 59   1,  26 |         once becomes evident that our love for ourselves has not
 60   1,  27 |           another man better than our own body, because all things
 61   1,  27 |         enjoyment of God, whereas our body cannot; for the body
 62   1,  29 |         those who both help us in our need and in turn are helped
 63   1,  29 |           in Him, and who desires our love, not for any gain to
 64   1,  29 |           it is that we love even our enemies. For we do not fear
 65   1,  30 |         angels are to be reckoned our neighbours~
 66   1,  30 |        easy do we find it to bear our pilgrimage, and the more
 67   1,  30 |          who commanded us to love our neighbour made no exception,
 68   1,  30 |       concerned, is shown both by our Lord Himself in the Gospel,
 69   1,  30 |          For when the man to whom our Lord delivered those two
 70   1,  30 |     interrogated in turn. To whom our Lord says, "Go and do thou
 71   1,  30 |            teaching us that he is our neighbour whom it is our
 72   1,  30 |          our neighbour whom it is our duty to help in his need,
 73   1,  30 |         need, or whom it would be our duty to help if he were
 74   1,  30 |          be in turn to help us is our neighbour. For the name "
 75   1,  30 |          mercy may be denied when our Lord extends the rule even
 76   1,  30 |          extends the rule even to our enemies? "Love your enemies,
 77   1,  30 |           man is to be considered our neighbour, because we are
 78   1,  30 |          that the command to love our neighbour embraces the holy
 79   1,  30 |         been performed by them on our behalf, as may easily be
 80   1,  30 |          ground even God Himself, our Lord, desired to be called
 81   1,  30 |        Lord, desired to be called our neighbour. For our Lord
 82   1,  30 |         called our neighbour. For our Lord Jesus Christ points
 83   1,  30 |            and far removed above, our nature, the command to love
 84   1,  30 |        distinct from that to love our neighbour. For He shows
 85   1,  32 |         neither does He use after our fashion of using. For when
 86   1,  32 |         as we are evil, so far is our existence less complete.
 87   1,  32 |          so; but somehow or other our own advantage follows by
 88   1,  32 |       without reward. Now this is our highest reward, that we
 89   1,  33 |                    For if we find our happiness complete in one
 90   1,  33 |          upon the road, and place our hope of happiness in man
 91   1,  33 |         set themselves to recruit our energies with the provision
 92   1,  33 |           thus refreshed to go on our way towards Him, in the
 93   1,  33 |         enjoyment of whom we find our common happiness. For even
 94   1,  34 |         on the way, when not even our Lord Himself, so far as
 95   1,  34 |         He has condescended to be our way, is willing to detain
 96   1,  34 |        put on and worn by Him for our salvation, to pass over
 97   1,  34 |       unto Himself, who has freed our nature from the bondage
 98   1,  35 |  Scripture is the love of God and our neighbour~
 99   1,  35 |         temporal dispensation for our salvation, therefore, was
100   1,  36 |           twofold love of God and our neighbour, does not yet
101   1,  40 |          faith unfeigned." For if our faith is free from all hypocrisy,
102   1,  40 |        loving what is unworthy of our love, and by living uprightly
103   1,  40 |          to indulge the hope that our hope shall not be in vain.
104   2, arg |     turned to account in removing our ignorance of signs, whether
105   2,   3 |       wish by this sign to impart our desire. And some convey
106   2,   3 |         the thoughts of the mind. Our Lord, it is true, gave a
107   2,   6 |     admirable wisdom and care for our welfare, so arranged the
108   2,   6 |       plainer passages to satisfy our hunger, and by the more
109   2,   6 |         more obscure to stimulate our appetite. For almost nothing
110   2,   7 |       excite in us the thought of our mortality and of the death
111   2,   7 |        the motions of pride as if our flesh were nailed to the
112   2,   7 |           it is necessary to have our hearts subdued by piety,
113   2,   7 |  understood it strikes at some of our sins, or, when not understood,
114   2,   7 |       anything we could devise by our own wisdom. ~
115   2,   7 |       loved for His own sake, and our neighbour for God's sake;
116   2,   7 |            in such a way that all our love for our neighbour,
117   2,   7 |         way that all our love for our neighbour, like all our
118   2,   7 |           our neighbour, like all our love for ourselves, should
119   2,   7 |           this world, even though our conversation be in heaven.
120   2,   7 |           we reach wisdom itself, our way is by the steps now
121   2,  11 |           of a thought we have in our mind. And the two given
122   2,  12 |         command is not to despise our kinsmen, because when one
123   2,  12 |        not pass away, but abides, our understanding being purified
124   2,  13 |          from that which those of our predecessors who spoke with
125   2,  13 |           even would often set up our neck, if it were not held
126   2,  13 |          held down by the yoke of our Master. For how does it
127   2,  13 |           For how does it prevent our understanding it to have
128   2,  14 |      there are words or idioms in our own tongue that we are unacquainted
129   2,  14 |         can easily by the help of our memory turn our attention
130   2,  14 |           help of our memory turn our attention to the matter
131   2,  16 |          where the man whose eyes our Lord had anointed with clay
132   2,  16 |        throws upon the meaning of our Lord's command, that we
133   2,  16 |         say, that for the sake of our head, which is Christ, we
134   2,  16 |         we should willingly offer our body to the persecutors,
135   2,  16 |          to save the body we deny our God! Or again, the statement
136   2,  16 |        according to the saying of our Lord, "Enter ye in at the
137   2,  16 |        that Moses and Elijah, and our Lord Himself, all fasted
138   2,  16 |     personified in Elijah, and by our Lord Himself, who, as if
139   2,  16 |        the number fifty, which in our religion has no ordinary
140   2,  16 |         after the resurrection of our Lord, when the nets were
141   2,  16 |      referred to the structure of our Lord's body, in relation
142   2,  16 |          heretics to confess that our Lord put on, not a false,
143   2,  21 |          the stars at the time of our birth, and may sometimes
144   2,  21 |         attempt thence to predict our actions, or the consequences
145   2,  21 |            or the consequences of our actions, grievously err,
146   2,  21 |      times more recent and nearer our own, the Romans made an
147   2,  23 |          pernicious error. And to our advantage, the Word of God
148   2,  23 |    promoting love towards God and our neighbour, but they waste
149   2,  23 |          and bar the door against our return. As, then, from the
150   2,  26 |       luxury, if they only occupy our minds so far as not to stand
151   2,  28 |           the consulship in which our Lord was born, and that
152   2,  28 |        this cannot be referred to our Lord's age, it may be referred
153   2,  28 |  formation of the body which, for our sakes, the only begotten
154   2,  28 |     Greeks, what a great question our own Ambrose has set at rest!
155   2,  28 |       calumniously to assert that our Lord Jesus Christ learnt
156   2,  28 |         long before the coming of our Lord! did not the illustrious
157   2,  28 |   Jeremiah's means initiated into our literature, so as to be
158   2,  28 |           as concerning the flesh our Lord came. And thus, when
159   2,  28 |       that was good and true from our literature, than that the
160   2,  29 |    celebrating the anniversary of our Lord's passion, is known
161   2,  29 |       information from them as to our own acts and fates, in the
162   2,  31 |       risen," and again, "Then is our preaching vain, and your
163   2,  40 |            we must appropriate to our uses~
164   2,  40 |          true and in harmony with our faith, we are not only not
165   2,  40 |           it, but to claim it for our own use from those who have
166   2,  40 |       good and faithful men among our brethren done? Do we not
167   2,  41 |     cannot be safe. Now Christ is our Passover sacrificed for
168   2,  41 |           comprehend the cross of our Lord, the breadth of which
169   3,   2 |         there is nothing wrong in our punctuation or pronunciation.
170   3,   3 |   pronounce them. For example, if our faith that God will not
171   3,   4 |      which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord, I die daily." For
172   3,   6 |       such signs could not endure our Lord's neglect of them when
173   3,   9 |           after that the proof of our liberty has shone forth
174   3,   9 |    clearly in the resurrection of our Lord, we are not oppressed
175   3,   9 |      which we now understand, but our Lord Himself, and apostolic
176   3,  12 |            for example, that when our Lord's feet were anointed
177   3,  12 |          fish after the manner of our Lord, to eating lentils
178   3,  12 |         of the things we use, but our reason for using them, and
179   3,  12 |        reason for using them, and our manner of seeking them,
180   3,  12 |        end of love towards God or our neighbour, or both. For
181   3,  12 |         that lust do not mix with our use of them; for lust not
182   3,  13 |            either directly, as is our duty, or figuratively, as
183   3,  15 |         to carefully turn over in our minds and meditate upon
184   3,  16 |        share in the sufferings of our Lord, and that we should
185   3,  16 |   distress. In the same way, when our Lord says, "He who loveth
186   3,  17 |           Accordingly, another of our rules for understanding
187   3,  18 |                We must also be on our guard against supposing
188   3,  18 |      still alive at the advent of our Lord, when the time not
189   3,  18 |        Blessed art Thou, O God of our fathers, and blessed is
190   3,  20 |    contrary, that the apostles of our faith were neither puffed
191   3,  22 |         of the good men who since our Lord's advent are the custodians
192   3,  24 |       especially when we bring to our aid experience strengthened
193   3,  25 |          in all other places. For our Lord used leaven both in
194   3,  29 |          know that the authors of our Scriptures use all those
195   3,  33 |           faith itself was so far our own that it did not come
196   3,  33 |       heresy, which has arisen in our time, and has given us much
197   3,  33 |           of God which is through our Lord Jesus Christ and which (
198   3,  34 |      which this is a part; or, as our author terms it, to the
199   3,  34 |     promised to their fathers and our fathers; and that there
200   3,  34 |  comparison with the Old, "Ye are our epistle ... written not
201   3,  34 |          a wholesome exercise for our spirit. And therefore we
202   3,  34 |         saints: "Not according to our works, but according to
203   3,  34 |      manifest by the appearing of our Saviour." He speaks of the
204   3,  35 |           three of His disciples, our Lord was transfigured on
205   3,  35 |                In the next place, our author calls those numbers
206   3,  36 |    obscure form; as, for example, our Lord says in the gospel: "
207   3,  36 |           Lot's wife." Is it when our Lord shall have been revealed
208   3,  37 |        the means of communicating our thoughts to others. ~
209   4,   3 |       outside the canon, which to our great advantage is fixed
210   4,   6 |       that was designed to profit our understandings, not only
211   4,   6 |   language as superior to that of our authors (not because of
212   4,   6 |    goodness has provided to mould our characters, and to guide
213   4,   7 |          of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost
214   4,   7 |          of God is shed abroad in our hearts;" the third, "by
215   4,   7 |             The God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which
216   4,   7 |          ill-taught men who think our authors contemptible; not
217   4,   7 |        Apostle Paul because he is our great orator. For when he
218   4,   7 |     learned and eloquent, despise our prophets as untaught and
219   4,   8 |       means to suppose that it is our duty to imitate them in
220   4,   9 |         to be insisted upon, that our hearer or companion should
221   4,  10 |       unlearned employ it. For if our translators did not shrink
222   4,  10 |       insisted on as necessary to our being understood, not only
223   4,  14 |           that not only is it not our duty to do, but it is our
224   4,  14 |         our duty to do, but it is our duty to shun and abhor,
225   4,  15 |                            And so our Christian orator, while
226   4,  15 |         in whose hand both we and our speeches are? Accordingly,
227   4,  15 |       reflect upon that saying of our Lord's, as better suited
228   4,  16 |           we need not pray, since our Lord says, "Your Father
229   4,  16 |      Wherefore though holy men be our helpers, or even holy angels
230   4,  18 |        small affairs of money, as our Lord says: "He that is faithful
231   4,  18 |       common thing, the saying of our Lord that he who gives a
232   4,  19 |                    And yet, while our teacher ought to speak of
233   4,  20 |          ministry, let us wait on our ministering; or he that
234   4,  20 |       more harmonious ending; but our translator, with more strictness,
235   4,  20 |       indeed, I must confess that our authors are very defective
236   4,  20 |         beauty, beautiful even in our language, but especially
237   4,  20 |     authoritative utterances. Now our prophets were so far from
238   4,  20 |       burning: "O ye Corinthians, our mouth is opened unto you,
239   4,  20 |         mouth is opened unto you, our heart is enlarged," and
240   4,  20 |          which is in Christ Jesus our Lord." ~
241   4,  21 |            and to do nothing that our Lord has not first done
242   4,  21 |    sacrament is foreshadowed, and our Lord's sufferings typically
243   4,  21 |       wine, and thus showed forth our Lord's passion. In the same
244   4,  21 |          it, this was a sign that our Lord's flesh, filled with
245   4,  21 |      virginity from Cyprian: "Now our discourse addresses itself
246   4,  21 |       unleavened. For even Christ our Passover is sacrificed for
247   4,  22 |           therefore we must be on our guard, lest, in striving
248   4,  27 |         sound doctrine. Wherefore our Lord Himself, before saying
249   4,  30 |        whose hand are both we and our words." ~