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501   3,  12 |       account of the necessity for a numerous offspring, the
502   3,  12 |          several husbands, because a woman does not in that way
503   3,  12 |      bounds of custom, betrays, in a disgraceful outbreak, its
504   3,  13 |         necessity, or undertake as a matter of duty, to spend
505   3,  14 |             since every nation has a different custom, and right
506   3,  15 |            figurative expressions, a rule such as the following
507   3,  15 |         literally it at once gives a meaning of this kind, the
508   3,  16 |         command, either forbidding a crime or vice, or enjoining
509   3,  16 |        however, it seems to enjoin a crime or vice, or to forbid
510   3,  16 |         you." This seems to enjoin a crime or a vice; it is therefore
511   3,  16 |         seems to enjoin a crime or a vice; it is therefore a
512   3,  16 |            a vice; it is therefore a figure, enjoining that we
513   3,  16 |      enjoining that we should have a share in the sufferings
514   3,  16 |          and that we should retain a sweet and profitable memory
515   3,  16 |           and this is beyond doubt a command to do a kindness.
516   3,  16 |       beyond doubt a command to do a kindness. But in what follows, "
517   3,  16 |         his head," one would think a deed of malevolence was
518   3,  16 |            an injury, the other to a display of superiority,
519   3,  16 |       groans of penitence by which a man's pride is cured who
520   3,  16 |          prudence with which it is a man's duty to care for his
521   3,  16 |          life, but that He says in a figurative sense, "Let him
522   3,  16 |            godly man, and help not a sinner." The latter clause
523   3,  16 |             for it says, "help not a sinner." Understand, therefore,
524   3,  17 |       Again, it often happens that a man who has attained, or
525   3,  17 |         thinks he has attained, to a higher grade of spiritual
526   3,  17 |        example, if he has embraced a life of celibacy and made
527   3,  17 |          celibacy and made himself a eunuch for the kingdom of
528   3,  17 |            about loving and ruling a wife are not to be taken
529   3,  17 |         unmarried, he tries to put a figurative interpretation
530   3,  17 |          shalt thou have performed a weighty matter." Accordingly,
531   3,  17 |        upon the state of health as a whole, but also upon the
532   3,  17 |          which cannot be raised to a higher state must be cared
533   3,  18 |   condition of those times, is not a crime or a vice even if
534   3,  18 |           times, is not a crime or a vice even if we take it
535   3,  18 | transferred to the present time as a habit of life. For no one
536   3,  18 |        they spurn can be turned to a good use, and that which
537   3,  18 |        former case the man aims at a useful object suited to
538   3,  18 |           latter case he gratifies a lust which is engrossed
539   3,  18 |           the apostle permitted as a matter of indulgence to
540   3,  18 |        numerous wives, yet just as a wise man uses food and drink
541   3,  19 |       about steeping themselves in a multitude of debaucheries,
542   3,  19 |           the shameless license of a sort of slavish freedom
543   3,  19 |       freedom heap up the filth of a still more beastly excess,
544   3,  19 |          men of ancient times used a number of wives with temperance,
545   3,  19 |          accomplish in the case of a single wife, they think
546   3,  19 |          impossible in the case of a number of wives. ~
547   3,  19 |            so become so light that a breath of rumour, whether
548   3,  21 |         battle, that he might have a place of repentance after
549   3,  21 |            accused of his crime by a prophet, who, when he had
550   3,  21 |       though he had many, yet when a guest came to him spared
551   3,  21 |            temperance he possessed a number of wives when he
552   3,  21 |       abode with him, but was only a passing guest. On this account
553   3,  21 |           by the accusing prophet, a guest. For he did not say
554   3,  21 |        poor man's ewe-lamb to make a feast for his king, but
555   3,  21 |            come and pass away like a guest, but reigned as a
556   3,  21 |            a guest, but reigned as a king. And about him Scripture
557   3,  21 |           but accuses him of being a lover of strange women;
558   3,  21 |         reign he was inflamed with a desire for wisdom, but after
559   3,  23 |           and to trace out in them a figure of things to come,
560   3,  23 |         fall." For there is hardly a page of Scripture on which
561   3,  24 |       every way until we arrive at a true interpretation, especially
562   3,  25 |          ways in which things show a likeness to each other,
563   3,  25 |        there is any rule that what a thing signifies by similitude
564   3,  25 |           Lord used leaven both in a bad sense, as when He said, "
565   3,  25 |           the Pharisees," I and in a good sense, as when He said, "
566   3,  25 |            like unto leaven, which a woman took and hid in three
567   3,  25 |      metaphorically at one time in a good sense, at another in
568   3,  25 |          good sense, at another in a bad, as in the case of the
569   3,  25 |        example of the same is that a lion stands for Christ in
570   3,  25 |            adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about
571   3,  25 |         way the serpent is used in a good sense, "Be wise as
572   3,  25 |           serpents;" and again, in a bad sense, "The serpent
573   3,  25 |        subtilty." Bread is used in a good sense, "I am the living
574   3,  25 |         came down from heaven;" in a bad, "Bread eaten in secret
575   3,  25 |            is pleasant." And so in a great many other case. The
576   3,  25 |          hand of the Lord there is a cup, and the wine is red:
577   3,  25 |           which they understand in a carnal manner, still remaining
578   3,  26 |            with Thy favour as with a shield." And yet we are
579   3,  26 |         that wherever we meet with a shield put to indicate a
580   3,  26 |           a shield put to indicate a protection of any kind,
581   3,  27 |     harmony with the truth. And if a man in searching the Scriptures
582   3,  27 |     endeavour, or whether he draws a different meaning from the
583   3,  28 |             It is safer to explain a doubtful passage by other
584   3,  28 |                     When, however, a meaning is evolved of such
585   3,  28 |         meaning is evolved of such a kind that what is doubtful
586   3,  28 |    evidence of reason. But this is a dangerous practice. For
587   3,  28 |  expressions, we may either obtain a meaning about which there
588   3,  28 |           is no controversy, or if a controversy arises, may
589   3,  29 |           are said to be learnt as a matter of liberal education
590   3,  29 |    metaphor. Who does not speak of a fish-pond in which there
591   3,  29 |          convey; as when we say to a man who is behaving badly, "
592   3,  29 |       their etymological sense, as a grove is called lucus from
593   3,  29 |          or it is customary to use a certain form of expression,
594   3,  29 |     although it puts yes for no by a law of contraries, as when
595   3,  29 |      contraries, as when we ask in a place for what is not there,
596   3,  29 |           Beware of him, for he is a good man." And what illiterate
597   3,  30 |           Tichonius, who, although a Donatist himself, has written
598   3,  30 |           herein showed himself of a most inconsistent disposition,
599   3,  30 |         them up altogether), wrote a book which he called the
600   3,  30 |        present obscurities of such a kind as require none of
601   3,  30 |           so necessary as to write a little book of rules, and,
602   3,  30 |       shall be elucidated, so that a man travelling through the
603   3,  30 |          which the author falls as a man, but chiefly on account
604   3,  30 |      heresies which he advances as a Donatist. And now I shall
605   3,  31 |         Christ), we need not be in a difficulty when a transition
606   3,  31 |            be in a difficulty when a transition is made from
607   3,  31 |          the person spoken of. For a single person is represented
608   3,  31 |       saying, "He has decked me as a bridegroom with ornaments,
609   3,  31 |       ornaments, and adorned me as a bride with jewels;" and
610   3,  31 |          and yet it is, of course, a matter for interpretation
611   3,  32 |             but this indeed is not a suitable name, for that
612   3,  32 |        come to address or speak of a different set of persons,
613   3,  32 |       being for the time united in a common participation of
614   3,  32 |            will bring the blind by a way that they knew not;
615   3,  32 |           Now these words refer to a set of persons altogether
616   3,  33 |           made use of when writing a book on this subject. It
617   3,  33 |         however, seems to me to be a great question in itself,
618   3,  33 |    question in itself, rather than a rule to be applied to the
619   3,  34 |       species should be understood a part, by genus the whole
620   3,  34 |          which he calls species is a part: as, for example, every
621   3,  34 |      example, every single city is a part of the great society
622   3,  34 |         nations: the city he calls a species, all nations constitute
623   3,  34 |   acuteness the difference between a part and a species. The
624   3,  34 |      difference between a part and a species. The rule is of
625   3,  34 |        Scripture, not in regard to a single city, but in regard
626   3,  34 |      single city, but in regard to a single province, or tribe,
627   3,  34 |          the whole world, but only a part of it, things are said
628   3,  34 |         the whole of which this is a part; or, as our author
629   3,  34 |         the genus of which this is a species. And hence these
630   3,  34 |        Church, of which Solomon is a part. ~
631   3,  34 |      things are often said of such a kind as evidently apply
632   3,  34 |            Scripture, having up to a certain point been speaking
633   3,  34 |           about the species, makes a transition at that point
634   3,  34 |           me as the uncleanness of a removed woman. Wherefore
635   3,  34 |         idols, will I cleanse you. A new heart also will I give
636   3,  34 |          also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within
637   3,  34 |          flesh and I will give you a heart of flesh. And I will
638   3,  34 |   uncleannesses." Now that this is a prophecy of the New Testament,
639   3,  34 |           the sand of the sea, yet a remnant of them shall be
640   3,  34 |             and that there is here a promise of that washing
641   3,  34 |           where the prophet says, "A new heart also will I give
642   3,  34 |          also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within
643   3,  34 |           that he deals with us as a physician, giving us a wholesome
644   3,  34 |          as a physician, giving us a wholesome exercise for our
645   3,  34 |           of the grace as given at a time when those to whom
646   3,  34 |           come, when there will be a new heaven and a new earth,
647   3,  34 |           will be a new heaven and a new earth, wherein the unrighteous
648   3,  35 |            he designates of times, a rule by which we can frequently
649   3,  35 |    previous night, and count it as a whole day, and to the latter
650   3,  35 |         dawning, and count it also a whole day, we cannot make
651   3,  35 |           Jeremiah may be taken in a spiritual sense for the
652   3,  35 |         during which the Church is a sojourner among aliens);
653   3,  36 |           And the Lord God planted a garden eastwards in Eden;
654   3,  36 |             viz., that God planted a garden, and there put the
655   3,  36 |         this is finished, there is a repetition of the fact which
656   3,  36 |          nations were divided into a multitude of tongues. And,
657   3,  36 |         recapitulation is found in a still more obscure form;
658   3,  36 |          which shall be brought to a close by a day of judgment,
659   3,  36 |           be brought to a close by a day of judgment, belongs
660   3,  37 |          of the wicked, who are in a sense his body, and destined
661   3,  37 |      really belong to him, are for a time mixed up with the Church,
662   3,  37 |       should be understood we have a figurative expression, even
663   4, arg |          of his intention to write a treatise on the laws of
664   4, arg |           office he holds, to lead a life in harmony with his
665   4, arg |          own teaching, and to show a good example to all. ~
666   4,   1 |          This work not intended as a treatise on rhetoric~
667   4,   1 |         into two parts. For, after a preface, in which I answered
668   4,   1 |          then, I have already said a great deal about the mode
669   4,   1 |          subject, I shall only say a few things about the mode
670   4,   1 |            by this preamble to put a stop to the expectations
671   4,   2 |          chap. 2. It is lawful for a Christian teacher to use
672   4,   2 |          as to put the hearer into a friendly, or attentive,
673   4,   2 |       shall tell the truth in such a way that it is tedious to
674   4,   2 |         and somnolent? Who is such a fool as to think this wisdom?
675   4,   3 |             to which, when you add a tongue thoroughly skilled
676   4,   3 |         these writings of mine, if a suitable space of time be
677   4,   3 |           aside for the purpose at a fit and proper age. But
678   4,   3 |        great advantage is fixed in a place of secure authority,
679   4,   3 |         writings, in reading which a man of ability will acquire
680   4,   3 |            of ability will acquire a tinge of the eloquence with
681   4,   5 |       without wisdom is frequently a positive injury, and is
682   4,   5 |            this higher wisdom! Now a man speaks with more or
683   4,   5 |         his mode of speech. But if a man desire to speak not
684   4,   6 |       canon, which carries with it a most wholesome authority,
685   4,   6 |         only, or eloquent as well. A question which to me, and
686   4,   6 |         other way. For as there is a kind of eloquence that is
687   4,   6 |        more becoming in youth, and a kind that is more becoming
688   4,   6 |           the speaker, so there is a kind of eloquence that is
689   4,   6 |            and wholesome words was a necessary element in eloquence
690   4,   6 |            element in eloquence of a kind that was designed to
691   4,   7 |         not care to call it scala (a ladder), when the words
692   4,   7 |           the words and ideas have a connection of dependency
693   4,   7 |     certain statements finished in a single tone of voice, which
694   4,   7 |            kommata", there follows a rounded sentence (ambitus
695   4,   7 |         says, "Let no man think me a fool: if otherwise, yet
696   4,   7 |         fool: if otherwise, yet as a fool receive me, that I
697   4,   7 |            that I may boast myself a little. That which I speak,
698   4,   7 |            wise. For ye suffer, if a man bring you into bondage,
699   4,   7 |         bring you into bondage, if a man devour you, if a man
700   4,   7 |            if a man devour you, if a man take of you, if a man
701   4,   7 |           if a man take of you, if a man exalt himself, if a
702   4,   7 |            a man exalt himself, if a man smite you on the face.
703   4,   7 |   ministers of Christ? (I speak as a fool), I am more: in labours
704   4,   7 |       thrice I suffered shipwreck, a night and a day I have been
705   4,   7 |    suffered shipwreck, a night and a day I have been in the deep;
706   4,   7 |           in these words. And even a man sound asleep must notice
707   4,   7 |            asleep must notice what a stream of eloquence flows
708   4,   7 |           periods of which I spoke a short time ago, being intermingled
709   4,   7 |     consisting of two members; for a period cannot have less
710   4,   7 |         again, let no man think me a fool." The next has three
711   4,   7 |     members: "if otherwise, yet as a fool receive me, that I
712   4,   7 |            that I may boast myself a little." The third has four
713   4,   7 |        members: "for ye suffer, if a man bring you into bondage."
714   4,   7 |        three sections (caesa): "if a man devour you, if a man
715   4,   7 |            if a man devour you, if a man take of you, if a man
716   4,   7 |           if a man take of you, if a man exalt himself." Next
717   4,   7 |        three clauses (membra): if "a man smite you on the face.
718   4,   7 |           weak." Then is subjoined a period of three members: "
719   4,   7 |          of Abraham? so am I." But a fourth section being put
720   4,   7 |            section (caesum) but in a clause (membrum): "Are they
721   4,   7 |   ministers of Christ? (I speak as a fool.) I am more." Then
722   4,   7 |           oft." Next is interposed a short period; for, by a
723   4,   7 |            a short period; for, by a suspension of the voice, "
724   4,   7 |    suffered shipwreck." Next comes a clause: "a night and a day
725   4,   7 |              Next comes a clause: "a night and a day I have been
726   4,   7 |       comes a clause: "a night and a day I have been in the deep."
727   4,   7 |          sections burst forth with a vehemence which is most
728   4,   7 |    nakedness." After this comes in a period of three members: "
729   4,   7 |        this he adds two clauses in a tone of inquiry: "Who is
730   4,   7 |          for breath, winds up with a period of two members: "
731   4,   7 |        hearer rest, by interposing a slight narrative. For he
732   4,   7 |         forward anything of his as a model of eloquence, we take
733   4,   7 |         things are concealed under a metaphorical style, which
734   4,   7 |            it is my duty to select a passage of such a kind that
735   4,   7 |           select a passage of such a kind that I shall not be
736   4,   7 |       prophet who says that he was a shepherd or herdsman, and
737   4,   7 |           by the presbyter Jerome, a man thoroughly acquainted
738   4,   7 |            been obliged to deliver a message like this, and to
739   4,   7 |            each clause finished by a single effort of the speaker'
740   4,   7 |           the period, and comes to a pause on the third. ~
741   4,   7 |          of Joseph," so as to make a period of two members; in
742   4,   7 |        members; in any case, it is a touch of marvelous beauty
743   4,   7 |                                And a number of other points bearing
744   4,   7 |        with an eloquence suited to a character and position like
745   4,   8 |         those passages where, with a view to exercise and train
746   4,   8 |         willing to learn, and with a view also to throw a veil
747   4,   8 |          with a view also to throw a veil over the minds of the
748   4,   8 |          to piety or shut out from a knowledge of the mysteries,
749   4,   8 |          expressed themselves with a useful and wholesome obscurity.
750   4,   8 |       expressed themselves in such a way that those who in after
751   4,   9 |          which are written in such a style that, if understood,
752   4,  10 |                                Now a strong desire for clearness
753   4,  10 |           meaning intended. Whence a certain author, when dealing
754   4,  10 |          says that there is in it "a kind of careful negligence."
755   4,  10 |     teaching that they will employ a word which cannot be made
756   4,  10 |     important for the sense to put a word here in the plural
757   4,  10 |           the singular; why should a teacher of godliness who
758   4,  10 |           much more in the case of a speech delivered in public:
759   4,  10 |            has the power of asking a question; but when all are
760   4,  10 |         customary nor decorous for a person to ask a question
761   4,  10 |       decorous for a person to ask a question about what he does
762   4,  10 |       those who cannot ask it. Now a crowd anxious for instruction
763   4,  10 |         and variety of expression, a thing which cannot be done
764   4,  10 |            to bring his address to a close, or pass on to another
765   4,  10 |           to another point. For if a man gives pleasure when
766   4,  10 |          the hearers, it is almost a matter of indifference whether
767   4,  10 |           whether he who speaks be a speaker or a reader. For
768   4,  10 |         who speaks be a speaker or a reader. For things that
769   4,  10 |            man repeat them. And if a man has forgotten anything,
770   4,  11 |             For of what service is a golden key, if it cannot
771   4,  11 |         what objection is there to a wooden one if it can, seeing
772   4,  11 |           we want? But as there is a certain analogy between
773   4,  12 |                        Accordingly a great orator has truly said
774   4,  12 |         Then he adds: "To teach is a necessity, to delight is
775   4,  12 |           necessity, to delight is a beauty, to persuade is a
776   4,  12 |           a beauty, to persuade is a triumph." Now of these three,
777   4,  12 |             the teaching, which is a matter of necessity, depends
778   4,  12 |           the style of speaking is a matter of importance. And
779   4,  12 |             Therefore, to teach is a necessity. For what men
780   4,  12 |      principle, to persuade is not a necessity: for it is not
781   4,  12 |         reason also to persuade is a triumph, because it is possible
782   4,  12 |        because it is possible that a man may be taught and delighted,
783   4,  12 |           the third? Neither is it a necessity to give pleasure;
784   4,  12 |           falsities are frequently a source of pleasure when
785   4,  13 |           it is put in the form of a pleasing discourse, no small
786   4,  13 |            For what does it profit a man that he both confesses
787   4,  13 |            then, when he is urging a practical truth, must not
788   4,  13 |            subdue the will. For if a man be not moved by the
789   4,  14 |    eloquence recommended, not with a view to gaining assent,
790   4,  14 |            synagogue of the Jews: "A wonderful and horrible thing
791   4,  14 |         solidity! Assuredly it is "a hammer that breaketh the
792   4,  14 |                                 In a serious assembly, moreover,
793   4,  14 |           unimportant truths under a frothy mass of ornamental
794   4,  14 |   something of this sort occurs in a letter of the blessed Cyprian,
795   4,  14 |      language, and confined him to a more dignified and modest
796   4,  14 |            his subsequent letters, a style which is admired without
797   4,  14 |      neighbouring solitudes afford a retreat where, whilst the
798   4,  14 |            leafy covering has made a portico of vine." There
799   4,  14 |          do not use it, but employ a more chastened style, do
800   4,  15 |            what it is expedient at a given moment for us to say,
801   4,  15 |           taught, and acquire such a faculty of speech as is
802   4,  15 |          speech as is suitable for a divine. But when the hour
803   4,  15 |      better suited to the wants of a pious mind: "Take no thought
804   4,  16 |           obtained the position of a teacher in the Church. In
805   4,  16 |          elder, but entreat him as a father?" Is it not said
806   4,  16 |         thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not
807   4,  16 |        Titus, does he not say that a bishop ought to "hold fast
808   4,  16 |             and if it be done from a sense of duty, it is esteemed
809   4,  16 |            of duty, it is esteemed a work of mercy or benevolence;
810   4,  17 |           can say little things in a subdued style, moderate
811   4,  17 |          style, moderate things in a temperate style, and great
812   4,  17 |         style, and great things in a majestic style:" as if he
813   4,  17 |           can say little things in a subdued style, in order
814   4,  17 |    instruction, moderate things in a temperate style, in order
815   4,  17 |      pleasure, and great things in a majestic style, in order
816   4,  18 |    transactions; those great where a matter relating to man's
817   4,  18 |        pleasure, occupy as it were a middle place between the
818   4,  18 |         get their name from modus (a measure); and it is an abuse,
819   4,  18 |            and it is an abuse, not a proper use of the word moderate,
820   4,  18 |          are equal, is the same in a great disk that it is in
821   4,  18 |            Dare any of you, having a matter against another,
822   4,  18 |           it so, that there is not a wise man among you? No,
823   4,  18 |         therefore there is utterly a fault among you, because
824   4,  18 |            fine, that he speaks in a tone so exalted about matters
825   4,  18 |            of the man who is to be a teacher of the truths which
826   4,  18 |     friends or enemies, whether in a continuous discourse or
827   4,  18 |      prepared to say that, because a cup of cold water is a very
828   4,  18 |     because a cup of cold water is a very trifling and common
829   4,  18 |         our Lord that he who gives a cup of cold water to one
830   4,  18 |          unimportant. Or that when a preacher takes this saying
831   4,  18 |         eloquence or power, but in a subdued and humble style.
832   4,  18 |           unworthy of the subject, a tongue of fire springs up
833   4,  18 |            cold hearts of men with a zeal for doing works of
834   4,  19 |          to be speaking of them in a majestic tone, but in a
835   4,  19 |            a majestic tone, but in a subdued tone when he is
836   4,  19 |       spoken of with power, and in a manner calculated to sway
837   4,  19 |     powerfully when we are forcing a mind that is averse to the
838   4,  19 |   discussion, so that in regard to a subject which it is not
839   4,  19 |     Himself, or in His works, what a field for beauty and splendour
840   4,  19 |     impressiveness, show how great a wickedness this is, and
841   4,  20 |           had two sons; the one by a bond maid, the other by
842   4,  20 |            bond maid, the other by a free woman. But he who was
843   4,  20 |           of men: Though it be but a man's covenant, yet if it
844   4,  20 |           by angels in the hand of a mediator. Now a mediator
845   4,  20 |            hand of a mediator. Now a mediator is not a mediator
846   4,  20 |    mediator. Now a mediator is not a mediator of one; but God
847   4,  20 |              For if there had been a law given which could have
848   4,  20 |      reasoning is extended to such a length, that unless the
849   4,  20 |        refuted, lest it turn up at a time when no one will be
850   4,  20 |        lest, if it should occur to a man who is present but says
851   4,  20 |          elder, but entreat him as a father; and the younger
852   4,  20 |        that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy,
853   4,  20 |  gracefully all this is brought to a close in a period of two
854   4,  20 |           is brought to a close in a period of two members: "
855   4,  20 |            men of low estate!" And a little afterwards: "Render
856   4,  20 |         clauses, are terminated by a period of two members: "
857   4,  20 |          to love one another." And a little farther on: "The
858   4,  20 |            doubt be gratified with a more harmonious ending;
859   4,  20 |         fully learnt, that Jerome, a very learned man, describes
860   4,  20 |          elaboration of speech. If a brave man be armed with
861   4,  20 |           anger furnishes him with a weapon that he digs out
862   4,  20 |          evils of this life. It is a great subject, and is treated
863   4,  20 |           end, where it rises into a temperate eloquence, yet
864   4,  20 |       zealously affected always in a good thing, and not only
865   4,  20 |          words rising gradually to a climax, or of sonorous clauses,
866   4,  20 |          notwithstanding, there is a glow of strong emotion that
867   4,  21 |            who is not content with a superficial acquaintance,
868   4,  21 |            wine. But we must quote a passage by way of illustration.
869   4,  21 |          Now, that Melchizedek was a type of Christ, the Holy
870   4,  21 |            the Son says, 'Thou art a priest forever after the
871   4,  21 |          also, though dealing with a question of very great importance,
872   4,  21 |          enemies, he brought forth a kid of the goats, and by
873   4,  21 |         with unleavened cakes upon a rock, and poured the broth
874   4,  21 |         indicate that the rock was a type of the body of Christ,
875   4,  21 |           at that time declared in a mystery that the Lord Jesus,
876   4,  21 |           that was among them fell a lusting; and the children
877   4,  21 |           rose out of it, this was a sign that our Lord's flesh,
878   4,  21 |          joy of honour and praise, a work unbroken and unblemished,
879   4,  21 |         have made their profession a model for their imitation,
880   4,  21 |      imitation, and says: "She was a virgin not in body only,
881   4,  21 |          wound her parents even by a look? When did she quarrel
882   4,  21 |          an image of her mind, and a picture of purity. For a
883   4,  21 |           a picture of purity. For a good house ought to be known
884   4,  21 |            within, as the light of a lamp set inside sheds its
885   4,  21 |         prevail on any one to take a step of such a nature and
886   4,  21 |         one to take a step of such a nature and of so great importance,
887   4,  21 |           respects by the power of a majestic eloquence. ~
888   4,  21 |            from their treatment of a subject which both of them
889   4,  21 |         this topic, says: "Suppose a painter should depict in
890   4,  21 |            of God's handiwork, and a violation of truth. Listen
891   4,  21 |         old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened.
892   4,  21 |        deceptions of quackery into a lie? Thy Lord says, 'Thou
893   4,  21 |           hair: I would that, with a prophetic look to the future,
894   4,  21 |            of nature into those of a painting, and from fear
895   4,  21 |         who has been the victim of a pander shrinks from acting
896   4,  22 |            in striving to carry to a higher point the emotion
897   4,  22 |           that we have to treat in a quieter style, we can return
898   4,  22 |           the speech or writing as a whole, however, being referred
899   4,  23 |                          Now it is a matter of importance to
900   4,  23 |          concurrence of any one in a course of action. In the
901   4,  23 |     example, when, as I have said, a knotty question comes up
902   4,  24 |          vehement applause follows a speaker, we are not to suppose
903   4,  24 |         stones, fought annually at a certain season of the year
904   4,  24 |          the powerful eloquence of a wise man, not by clamorous
905   4,  24 |         quiet style, too, has made a change in many; but it was
906   4,  24 |        quiet style know or believe a truth which they were previously
907   4,  25 |           their eloquence and make a boast of panegyrics, and
908   4,  25 |            they have already begun a good course, we may induce
909   4,  26 |       three conditions I laid down a little while ago as necessary
910   4,  26 |             so that perspicuity is a merit peculiar to the subdued
911   4,  26 |          And when any one narrates a story, even in the subdued
912   4,  26 |            acute observations from a quarter whence nothing was
913   4,  26 |         all this is accompanied by a natural, unsought grace
914   4,  26 |        grace of expression, and by a rhythm and balance of style
915   4,  26 |            you would be heard with a submissive mind. ~
916   4,  27 |          itself may be preached by a man of perverse and deceitful
917   4,  27 |           their hearts, or even go a little further, and say
918   4,  27 |          listen with submission to a man who does not listen
919   4,  28 |                               Such a teacher as is here described
920   4,  28 |          he takes care to maintain a good reputation as well,
921   4,  28 |         than by words; thinks that a thing is well said in proportion
922   4,  28 |          is true in fact, and that a teacher should govern his
923   4,  28 |         describing the sort of man a bishop ought to be: "that
924   4,  28 |         true and not false. For as a man with a comely body but
925   4,  28 |           false. For as a man with a comely body but an ill-conditioned
926   4,  28 |            ill-conditioned mind is a more painful object than
927   4,  29 |          29. It is permissible for a preacher to deliver to the
928   4,  29 |           what has been written by a more eloquent man than himself~
929   4,  29 |           as shall not only secure a reward for himself, but
930   4,  29 |          indeed, some men who have a good delivery, but cannot
931   4,  29 |         say. Hence it happens that a wicked man who is eloquent
932   4,  29 |            is eloquent may compose a discourse in which the truth
933   4,  29 |           forth to be delivered by a good man who is not eloquent;
934   4,  30 |                        But whether a man is going to address
935   4,  30 |          God to put into his mouth a suitable discourse. For
936   4,  30 |         and when the discourse has a happy issue, they ought
937   4,  31 |          This book has extended to a greater length than I expected