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  1 pref,   0|          students of the word, that they may profit not only from
  2 pref,   0|            objections, yet at least they will not prevail with others (
  3 pref,   0|      prevail with others (over whom they might have influence, did
  4 pref,   0|           might have influence, did they not find them forearmed
  5 pref,   0|          this work of mine, because they have failed to understand
  6 pref,   0|            purpose, because, though they understand the rules, yet
  7 pref,   0|        interpret Scripture by them, they have failed to clear up
  8 pref,   0|        failed to clear up the point they wish cleared up; and these,
  9 pref,   0|      cleared up; and these, because they have received no assistance
 10 pref,   0|            Scripture well, or think they do, and who, because they
 11 pref,   0|           they do, and who, because they know (or imagine) that they
 12 pref,   0|         they know (or imagine) that they have attained a certain
 13 pref,   0|     understanding. It is just as if they were anxious to see the
 14 pref,   0|           it out with my finger: if they had not sight enough to
 15 pref,   0|       enough to see even my finger, they would surely have no right
 16 pref,   0|          for those who, even though they know and understand my directions,
 17 pref,   0|      obscure passages in Scripture, they may stand for those who,
 18 pref,   0|             to open men's eyes that they may see either the fact
 19 pref,   0|        Divine Grace, and boast that they understand and can explain
 20 pref,   0|       remember that, however justly they may rejoice in God's great
 21 pref,   0|             was from human teachers they themselves learnt to read.
 22 pref,   0|     themselves learnt to read. Now, they would hardly think it right
 23 pref,   0|          hardly think it right that they should for that reason be
 24 pref,   0|              and if the fact be so, they boast of a real advantage,
 25 pref,   0|           one of no ordinary kind), they must surely grant that every
 26 pref,   0|            them direct to God, that they too may learn by the inward
 27 pref,   0|             speech or writing, what they understand, surely they
 28 pref,   0|             they understand, surely they cannot blame me if I likewise
 29 pref,   0|        likewise teach not only what they understand, but also the
 30 pref,   0|             rules of interpretation they follow. For no one ought
 31   1,   1 |            have; that is to say, if they use freely and cheerfully
 32   1,   1 |          freely and cheerfully what they have received, He will add
 33   1,   1 |        hungry people. But when once they began to distribute them,
 34   1,   1 |           thousands were satisfied, they filled baskets with the
 35   1,   2 |          his son; for these, though they are things, are also signs
 36   1,   2 |       consider about things is what they are in themselves, not what
 37   1,   2 |   themselves, not what other things they are signs of. ~
 38   1,   5 |           God, and at the same time they are all one God; and each
 39   1,   5 |         complete substance, and yet they are all one substance. The
 40   1,   7 |       itself, is God of gods: or if they try to get beyond the universe,
 41   1,   7 |            get beyond the universe, they picture to themselves something
 42   1,   7 |      beautiful form conceivable; or they represent it in the form
 43   1,   7 |          form of the human body, if they think that superior to all
 44   1,   7 |       superior to all others. Or if they think that there is no one
 45   1,   7 |         equal rank, still these too they conceive as possessed of
 46   1,   8 |             think of Him as living, they only can form any conception
 47   1,   8 |          animated by it. Then, when they go on to look into the nature
 48   1,   8 |       nature of the life itself, if they find it mere nutritive life,
 49   1,   8 |             such as that of plants, they consider it inferior to
 50   1,   8 |              and above this, again, they place intelligent life,
 51   1,   8 |          this is subject to change, they are compelled to place above
 52   1,   8 |        caught sight of this wisdom, they could never with entire
 53   1,   8 |         very rule of truth by which they affirm the unchangeable
 54   1,   8 |            itself unchangeable: and they cannot find such a rule,
 55   1,   8 |        beyond their own nature; for they find nothing in themselves
 56   1,   9 |            preference to that which they own to be more excellent
 57   1,  14 |          And just as surgeons, when they bind up wounds, do it not
 58   1,  14 |           limbs and wounds to which they are applied: He was born
 59   1,  15 |            believers animated, when they reflect how great He was
 60   1,  15 |         great things for them while they were still in unbelief!
 61   1,  15 |          into the careless, so that they retake themselves to diligent
 62   1,  18 |         that his sins are remitted, they should not be remitted to
 63   1,  23 |         their persecutors, although they used it to attain the favour
 64   1,  24 |           when some people say that they would rather be without
 65   1,  24 |          without a body altogether, they entirely deceive themselves.
 66   1,  24 |             and its heaviness, that they hate. And so it is not no
 67   1,  24 |           and very light body, that they want. But they think a body
 68   1,  24 |           body, that they want. But they think a body of that kind
 69   1,  24 |             no body at all, because they think such a thing as that
 70   1,  24 |             And as to the fact that they seem in some sort to scourge
 71   1,  24 |         right spirit do it not that they may get rid of their body,
 72   1,  24 |             of their body, but that they may have it in subjection
 73   1,  24 |             every needful work. For they strive by a kind of toilsome
 74   1,  24 |      enjoyment of unworthy objects. They are not destroying themselves;
 75   1,  24 |          not destroying themselves; they are taking care of their
 76   1,  24 |           enemy. And in this matter they are led astray by a mistaken
 77   1,  24 |     mistaken interpretation of what they read: "The flesh lusteth
 78   1,  24 |             one eye, even supposing they could do so without suffering
 79   1,  24 |        suffering any pain, and that they had as much sight left in
 80   1,  24 |           much sight left in one as they formerly had in two, unless
 81   1,  25 |            some of their limbs that they might obtain other objects
 82   1,  25 |          obtain other objects which they valued more highly. But
 83   1,  29 |            to desire, however, that they should all join with us
 84   1,  29 |             dens of iniquity though they be, if a man is fond of
 85   1,  29 |            for the sake of him whom they admire in common; and the
 86   1,  29 |          own existence and the love they bear Him, concerning whom
 87   1,  29 |           reward, even Himself whom they love? And hence it is that
 88   1,  29 |            do not fear them, seeing they cannot take away from us
 89   1,  29 |            rather, because the more they hate us the more are they
 90   1,  29 |           they hate us the more are they separated from Him whom
 91   1,  29 |            Him whom we love. For if they would turn to Him, they
 92   1,  29 |             they would turn to Him, they must of necessity love Him
 93   1,  30 |          question about angels. For they are happy in the enjoyment
 94   1,  33 |            with the provision which they have received of God for
 95   1,  34 |           is, by me men come, to me they come, in me they rest. For
 96   1,  34 |              to me they come, in me they rest. For when we come to
 97   1,  39 |        Whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether there
 98   1,  39 |           whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there
 99   1,  39 |            of these instruments (as they may be called), so great
100   1,  39 |         holding to what is perfect, they do not seek for what is
101   2, arg |           of the heathen, so far as they are true and useful, may
102   2,   1 |      attending to anything but what they are in themselves, even
103   2,   1 |             themselves, even though they are signs of something else,
104   2,   1 |    direction, not to attend to what they are in themselves, but to
105   2,   1 |    themselves, but to the fact that they are signs, that is, to what
106   2,   1 |             signs, that is, to what they signify. For a sign is a
107   2,   1 |          sounds, soldiers know that they are to advance or retreat,
108   2,   2 |      purpose of showing, as well as they can, the feelings of their
109   2,   2 |           among themselves by which they make known the desires in
110   2,   2 |             any purpose, or whether they are really used with the
111   2,   4 |          words pass away as soon as they strike upon the air, and
112   2,   5 |            in accordance with which they believe these men to have
113   2,   6 |         another; and in some places they cannot hit upon even a fair
114   2,   6 |           softened down, just as if they had been torn off and masticated
115   2,   6 |             not seek at all because they have what they require just
116   2,   6 |          all because they have what they require just beside them
117   2,   7 |          men see Him just so far as they die to this world; and so
118   2,   7 |           this world; and so far as they live to it they see Him
119   2,   7 |           so far as they live to it they see Him not. But yet, although
120   2,   8 |        belief of the truth, so that they will not take first possession
121   2,   8 |         most likely opinion is that they were written by Jesus the
122   2,   8 |            the son of Sirach. Still they are to be reckoned among
123   2,   8 |            prophetical books, since they have attained recognition
124   2,  10 |        either proper or figurative. They are called proper when they
125   2,  10 |         They are called proper when they are used to point out the
126   2,  10 |            to point out the objects they were designed to point out,
127   2,  11 |              Hebrew and Greek, that they may have recourse to the
128   2,  11 |             Some of these, although they could have been translated,
129   2,  12 | figuratively of Christians, because they are spiritually born of
130   2,  13 |            it in the language which they translate; and since the
131   2,  13 |   understanding of the passage, yet they are offensive to those who
132   2,  13 |         kind, just in proportion as they are weak; and they are weak
133   2,  13 |    proportion as they are weak; and they are weak just in proportion
134   2,  13 |          weak just in proportion as they wish to seem learned, not
135   2,  13 |           And what the land is that they dwell in, whether it be
136   2,  13 |             or bad: and what cities they be that they dwell in. Num.
137   2,  13 |            what cities they be that they dwell in. Num. 13:19) And
138   2,  14 |         pure Latin than those which they have learnt from Scripture,
139   2,  14 |           very great assistance, if they are examined and discussed
140   2,  14 |            corrected, at least when they are copies of the same translation. ~
141   2,  15 |      unworthy of confidence assert, they were separated during the
142   2,  15 |         anything to it? And even if they conferred together with
143   2,  15 |            thus it is possible that they translated in such a way
144   2,  15 |           that of those who, though they were seventy in number,
145   2,  17 |             most beautiful statues, they should select and purchase
146   2,  17 |             in visions, nor because they had presented themselves
147   2,  18 |            to learn letters because they say that Mercury discovered
148   2,  18 |        discovered them; nor because they have dedicated temples to
149   2,  18 |            and avoid men who, "when they knew God, glorified him
150   2,  18 |   Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, and changed
151   2,  19 |           the other of things which they have noted, either as transacted
152   2,  20 |        superstitious, pertaining as they do either to the worship
153   2,  20 |     incantations, or in marks which they call characters, or in hanging
154   2,  20 |        manifest; and these remedies they call by the less offensive
155   2,  21 |            For these, too, although they may seek with pains for
156   2,  21 |            it out, yet in so far as they attempt thence to predict
157   2,  21 |           heavens without the names they now bear. But as the men
158   2,  21 |           by human folly to honour, they seemed to think that in
159   2,  21 |          their names upon the stars they were raising the dead men
160   2,  21 |             to heaven. But whatever they may be called by men, still
161   2,  21 |         after His own pleasure, and they have a fixed movement, by
162   2,  21 |             in these terms: "For if they were able to know so much
163   2,  21 |           able to know so much that they could weigh the world, how
164   2,  21 |            weigh the world, how did they not more easily find out
165   2,  22 |        position of the stars, which they call constellations, at
166   2,  22 |         under the same stars, while they do not meet with equal fortune
167   2,  22 |        equal fortune either in what they do or what they suffer,
168   2,  22 |             in what they do or what they suffer, but often meet with
169   2,  22 |             to the same class as if they were leagues and covenants
170   2,  23 |             their evil desires. For they are deluded and imposed
171   2,  23 |         known, and turn out just as they are foretold; and in the
172   2,  23 |        ensnared by these successes, they become more eagerly inquisitive,
173   2,  23 |          but it says, "Even if what they tell you should come to
174   2,  23 |            because the things which they sacrifice they sacrifice
175   2,  23 |         things which they sacrifice they sacrifice to devils and
176   2,  23 |          God and our neighbour, but they waste the hearts of wretched
177   2,  23 |    committed them to writing, as if they had drawn them by rule. ~
178   2,  24 |            the common language, but they are all full of hurtful
179   2,  24 |              For it was not because they had meaning that they were
180   2,  24 |       because they had meaning that they were attended to, but it
181   2,  24 |            to and marking them that they came to have meaning. And
182   2,  24 |             to have meaning. And so they are made different for different
183   2,  24 |           the same sort of omens as they see his own conjectures
184   2,  24 |          upon them as signs because they were already significant,
185   2,  24 |    significant, but on the contrary they are now significant because
186   2,  24 |            rites of the augurs; for they, both before they observe
187   2,  24 |       augurs; for they, both before they observe the omens and after
188   2,  24 |         observe the omens and after they have completed their observations,
189   2,  25 |            force among men, because they have agreed among themselves
190   2,  25 |        agreed among themselves that they should be in force, are
191   2,  25 |         possible be like the things they signify. But because one
192   2,  25 | significance among men, except when they have mutually agreed upon
193   2,  25 |            a mistake, especially if they are executed by skilled
194   2,  25 |    likenesses recognizes the things they are likenesses of. And this
195   2,  25 |       reckoned whatever differences they choose to make in bodily
196   2,  25 |            same kind. Now these, if they were not devices of men,
197   2,  26 |  intercourse of men, are, so far as they are not matters of luxury
198   2,  26 |            in learning them, nor do they involve us in superstition,
199   2,  26 |           enervate us by luxury, if they only occupy our minds so
200   2,  26 |          important objects to which they ought to be subservient. ~
201   2,  27 |         testimony, or perceive when they are pointed out to us, or
202   2,  28 |         those sayings of His, which they are compelled to admire
203   2,  28 |             books of Plato because (they urged) it cannot be denied
204   2,  28 |        philosophers learnt whatever they said that was good and true
205   2,  31 |            but clever men too, when they are not on their guard.
206   2,  31 |        false, it follows that since they would be true if the dead
207   2,  32 |     observed and noted by them that they may be able to learn and
208   2,  34 |            consider propositions as they stand by themselves, and
209   2,  34 |          that are true and certain, they themselves, too, necessarily
210   2,  34 |             certain. Now some, when they have ascertained the validity
211   2,  34 |             for themselves, because they are ignorant of the laws
212   2,  35 |          not, though it is possible they might be, true. For example,
213   2,  36 |          are not the less true that they can be used for persuading
214   2,  36 |            of what is false; but as they can be used to enforce the
215   2,  36 |          whether the cause in which they are used be true or false,
216   2,  36 |   themselves true just in so far as they are effective in producing
217   2,  36 |          are so, than arranged that they should be so. ~
218   2,  37 |        error of supposing that when they have learnt these things
219   2,  37 |            have learnt these things they have learnt the true secret
220   2,  37 |             to attend to them while they are going through them,
221   2,  37 |         them, or to understand when they are told about them. Those,
222   2,  37 |           about such directions, as they cannot prove them by making
223   2,  37 |       opinions, except perhaps that they put the intellect in better
224   2,  37 |            take care, however, that they do not at the same time
225   2,  37 |        vanity, that is to say, that they do not give those who have
226   2,  37 |             or make them think that they have attained some great
227   2,  38 |            that it is not true that they are not the double of any
228   2,  38 |        sounds, or of other motions, they have fixed laws which were
229   2,  39 |       secure for them the happiness they seek; but soberly and carefully
230   2,  39 |     discriminate among them. And if they find any of those which
231   2,  39 |          conjectures, especially if they involve entering into fellowship
232   2,  39 |          those which, pertaining as they do to the senses, are subject
233   2,  40 |    providing them with things which they themselves, were not making
234   2,  40 |             to abhor and avoid; but they contain also liberal instruction
235   2,  40 |        their gold and silver, which they did not create themselves,
236   2,  40 |         useful, if it had suspected they were about to turn them
237   2,  40 |          vain worship of idols. But they gave their gold and their
238   2,  40 |             to the people of God as they were going out of Egypt,
239   2,  40 |          not knowing how the things they gave would be turned to
240   2,  41 |            in type and shadow, when they were ordered to mark their
241   2,  42 |    comparison with the riches which they afterwards attained at Jerusalem,
242   3,   3 |            is applied with success, they will remain doubtful, but
243   3,   3 |          time past [praedixi], that they which do such things shall
244   3,   5 |        takes figurative words as if they were proper, and does not
245   3,   6 |           their minds. And although they paid attention to the signs
246   3,   6 |           the signs referred, still they had this conviction rooted
247   3,   6 |        themselves to such a bondage they were doing the pleasure
248   3,   6 |       clinging to these signs as it they were realities, could not
249   3,   6 |           earth. These men, because they had been very near to spiritual
250   3,   6 |         offerings and types, though they did not clearly apprehend
251   3,   6 |            their spiritual meaning, they had learnt to adore the
252   3,   6 |             of the Holy Spirit that they sold all their goods, and
253   3,   6 |             of which the old temple they were serving was but the
254   3,   7 |          were only signs, yet still they used them in reference to
255   3,   7 |              I grant, however, that they who make gods of the works
256   3,   7 |            man have sunk lower than they who make gods of the works
257   3,   8 |     interpreting the signs to which they were in bondage, set them
258   3,   8 |            of the One God: not that they might now fall into bondage
259   3,   8 |        useful kind, but rather that they might exercise their minds
260   3,   9 |        observances he knows to what they refer, and so reveres them
261   3,  10 |            a hold upon their minds, they think that the expression
262   3,  11 |          plain expression is used: "They that are Christ's have crucified
263   3,  12 |            hidden kernel of meaning they contain is to be picked
264   3,  12 |             it does not follow that they are more temperate than
265   3,  12 |             without blame, although they did things which could not
266   3,  14 |             of such actions, unless they are restrained by authority,
267   3,  14 |            restrained by authority, they look upon them as sins,
268   3,  18 |        lesson, both that the custom they spurn can be turned to a
269   3,  18 |            good use, and that which they embrace can be used to condemnation,
270   3,  18 |          God than those who, though they had each of them numerous
271   3,  18 |             them together had come, they would have immediately made
272   3,  19 |      propagating the race; and what they themselves, who are entangled
273   3,  19 |          the case of a single wife, they think utterly impossible
274   3,  19 |          good and holy men, because they themselves when they are
275   3,  19 |        because they themselves when they are honoured and praised,
276   3,  19 |      frequently and the more widely they are blown about on the tongue
277   3,  20 |         were neither puffed up when they were honoured by men, nor
278   3,  20 |             men, nor cast down when they were despised. And certainly
279   3,  20 |             to those great men. For they were both cried up by the
280   3,  20 |           not in bondage to lust as they are who refuse to believe
281   3,  20 |                              For if they had been under the influence
282   3,  20 |      influence of any such passion, they could never have restrained
283   3,  20 |         towards their sons, by whom they knew that their wives and
284   3,  25 |            that are only different. They signify contraries, for
285   3,  25 |       contraries, for example, when they are used metaphorically
286   3,  25 |             uncertain in what sense they ought to be taken, as for
287   3,  25 |         observances, however, which they understand in a carnal manner,
288   3,  25 |     according to the place in which they are found. ~
289   3,  26 |            where the sense in which they are used is more manifest
290   3,  26 |           gather the sense in which they are to be understood in
291   3,  29 |     certainly advise, however, that they be learnt elsewhere, although
292   3,  29 |           the very opposite of what they say, as for example, those
293   3,  29 |        forthwith to inquire whether they may not be used in this
294   3,  30 |          sacred writings; but still they do not explain all the difficult
295   3,  30 |            would appear as if, when they were thoroughly known and
296   3,  32 |         said to be in Him, although they seem to be in His Church.
297   3,  32 |             the blind by a way that they knew not; I will lead them
298   3,  32 |             lead them in paths that they have not known; I will make
299   3,  32 |            is mixed with the good, "They shall be turned back." Now
300   3,  32 |            subject of the sentence. They will not, however, always
301   3,  33 |            heresies among you, that they which are approved may be
302   3,  34 |            dwelt in their own land, they defiled it by their own
303   3,  34 |             them for the blood that they had shed upon the land,
304   3,  34 |           for their idols wherewith they had polluted it: and I scattered
305   3,  34 |         them among the heathen, and they were dispersed through the
306   3,  34 |      fathers," not literally, as if they referred to Israel after
307   3,  36 |            scattered over the earth they had all one language in
308   3,  36 |          and it was after this that they were scattered over the
309   3,  36 |           after the past life which they have renounced? Is not the
310   3,  37 |           of those also who, though they really belong to him, are
311   3,  37 |           up with the Church, until they depart from this life, or
312   3,  37 |           gifts of intellect, or as they have access to more or fewer
313   3,  37 |            to be understood just as they are expressed, so in the
314   3,  37 |             necessary, to pray that they may understand them. For
315   3,  37 |         books on the study of which they are intent, they read, "
316   3,  37 |           of which they are intent, they read, "The Lord giveth wisdom:
317   3,  37 |  understanding;" and it is from Him they have received their very
318   4, arg |          when and for what purposes they are mingled; and that they
319   4, arg |          they are mingled; and that they all have the same end in
320   4,   1 |      schools, and to warn them that they need not look for any such
321   4,   1 |          use, but that whatever use they have is to be learnt elsewhere;
322   4,   3 |            the eloquence with which they are written, even though
323   4,   3 |            spent in enforcing them, they come to be in some small
324   4,   3 |           small measure understood, they prove of no service. For
325   4,   3 |           always think of them when they are speaking so as to speak
326   4,   3 |        accordance with them, unless they are discussing the rules
327   4,   3 |             rules of speaking while they are speaking. For we must
328   4,   3 |          eloquence at the time when they were speaking, whether they
329   4,   3 |         they were speaking, whether they had ever learnt them, or
330   4,   3 |             learnt them, or whether they had never even met with
331   4,   3 |             them. For it is because they are eloquent that they exemplify
332   4,   3 |      because they are eloquent that they exemplify these rules; it
333   4,   3 |         these rules; it is not that they use them in order to be
334   4,   3 |            imitating them as far as they can? And what do we find
335   4,   3 |           not be learnt by boys, if they have the advantage of growing
336   4,   3 |         names of any of the faults, they will, from being accustomed
337   4,   3 |            in the speech of any one they listen to, and avoid it;
338   4,   4 |           instructed, in order that they may be diligent to do what
339   4,   4 |          may be diligent to do what they already know, and to bring
340   4,   4 |             harmony with the truths they admit, greater vigour of
341   4,   5 |      rhetoric should be taught: for they confess that "though wisdom
342   4,   5 |          treat of eloquence, though they were ignorant of the true,
343   4,   5 |          read and yet neglect them; they read to remember the words,
344   4,   6 |            God. With this eloquence they spoke; no other would have
345   4,   6 |         beauties of eloquence which they make their boast, are to
346   4,   6 |     eloquence peculiarly their own, they so use this eloquence of
347   4,   6 |  ostentatious display of it; and if they had shunned it, they would
348   4,   6 |             if they had shunned it, they would have done the former;
349   4,   6 |            have done the former; if they had made it prominent, they
350   4,   6 |         they had made it prominent, they might have appeared to be
351   4,   6 |             that the words in which they are put seem not so much
352   4,   7 |         some in Latin gradatio, for they do not care to call it scala (
353   4,   7 |     foolishly), I am bold also. Are they Hebrews? so am I. Are they
354   4,   7 |          they Hebrews? so am I. Are they Israelites? so am I. Are
355   4,   7 |            Israelites? so am I. Are they the seed of Abraham? so
356   4,   7 |            of Abraham? so am I. Are they ministers of Christ? (I
357   4,   7 |       answers, three to three: "Are they Hebrews? so am I. Are they
358   4,   7 |          they Hebrews? so am I. Are they Israelites? so am I. Are
359   4,   7 |            Israelites? so am I. Are they the seed of Abraham? so
360   4,   7 |            a clause (membrum): "Are they the ministers of Christ? (
361   4,   7 |           contemptible; not because they do not possess, but because
362   4,   7 |            not possess, but because they do not display, the eloquence
363   4,   7 |           which the more completely they seem buried under figures
364   4,   7 |           to the sound of the viol. They thought that they had instruments
365   4,   7 |             viol. They thought that they had instruments of music
366   4,   7 |             costliest ointment: and they were not grieved for the
367   4,   7 |            men such as these, would they have chosen to express themselves
368   4,   7 |           even skill in their art: "they thought that they had instruments
369   4,   7 |             art: "they thought that they had instruments of music
370   4,   7 |             follows all these: "and they were not grieved for the
371   4,   7 |             we hold the words, "and they were not grieved," suspended
372   4,   7 |             beauty not to say, "and they were not grieved for the
373   4,   7 |           and reduced to system, if they had not first had their
374   4,   7 |       orators, is it wonderful that they should be found in the messengers
375   4,   8 |             the godless either that they may be converted to piety
376   4,   8 |           or other of these reasons they have expressed themselves
377   4,   8 |            and wholesome obscurity. They have indeed expressed themselves
378   4,   8 |            equal to that with which they are themselves regarded,
379   4,   8 |             the same authority; but they ought in all their deliverances
380   4,   8 |    understand them, or that if what they say should not be very easily
381   4,   8 |          and subtilty of the matter they are trying to explain. ~
382   4,   9 |          style that, if understood, they, so to speak, draw their
383   4,  10 |         anxiety about teaching that they will employ a word which
384   4,  10 |       assemblies of blood), because they felt that it was important
385   4,  10 |          use at all in speaking, if they do not understand us for
386   4,  10 |           no such words, or because they do not at the time occur
387   4,  10 |            the sake of the pleasure they give, if the attention be
388   4,  10 |             but to the way in which they are told. Nay, even when
389   4,  11 |             making people like what they disliked, nor in making
390   4,  11 |          nor in making them do what they shrank from, but in making
391   4,  11 |            it is put, and who, when they have succeeded in their
392   4,  12 |      hearers, not telling them what they ought to do, but urging
393   4,  12 |          but urging them to do what they already know ought to be
394   4,  12 |                         If however, they do not yet know this, they
395   4,  12 |          they do not yet know this, they must of course be instructed
396   4,  12 |         course be instructed before they can be moved. And perhaps
397   4,  12 |           when people, knowing what they ought to do, do it not.
398   4,  12 |            is their duty to do what they do not know? On the same
399   4,  12 |             source of pleasure when they are brought to light and
400   4,  12 |              but as it is true that they are false, the speech which
401   4,  13 |          who are so fastidious that they do not care for truth unless
402   4,  13 |           more than to confess that they are true. When, however,
403   4,  14 |      chastened style, do so because they cannot attain the former,
404   4,  16 |          not direct men how or what they should teach, since the
405   4,  16 |             Titus as to how or what they should teach others. And
406   4,  16 |             directions how and what they should teach? Or are we
407   4,  16 |           without their aid, though they cannot without His), and
408   4,  16 |        cannot without His), and yet they are applied; and if it be
409   4,  18 |         giving men advice as to how they ought to conduct secular
410   4,  18 |           in letters long or short, they are of great importance.
411   4,  19 |    worshipped, or if idols, whether they be demons or any created
412   4,  20 |             those writings of which they boast so much. But care
413   4,  20 |         that the other does; but if they do not happen to be at hand,
414   4,  20 |          suggest the fitting words; they need not be selected by
415   4,  20 |         heat of battle, not because they are costly, but because
416   4,  20 |             are costly, but because they are arms; and yet the same
417   4,  20 |       because I tell you the truth? They zealously affect you, but
418   4,  20 |             you, but not well; yea, they would exclude you, that
419   4,  21 |          various modes of speech as they are exemplified in the writings
420   4,  21 |         Christ, for it is written, 'They drank of that spiritual
421   4,  21 |             to the virgins, who, as they are the objects of higher
422   4,  21 |         holiness and truth bear it; they bear it who are mindful
423   4,  21 |           women, in their fear that they may not prove attractive
424   4,  21 |             to proclaim openly that they have incurred their own!
425   4,  23 |             certain exuberances (as they may be called) of ornament.
426   4,  24 |         worse than civil, war which they called Ceterva (for it was
427   4,  24 |            the applause showed that they were instructed and delighted,
428   4,  24 |       delighted, but the tears that they were subdued. And when I
429   4,  24 |           it was to teach them what they were ignorant of, or to
430   4,  24 |            to persuade them of what they thought incredible, not
431   4,  24 |            not to make them do what they knew they ought to do but
432   4,  24 |         make them do what they knew they ought to do but were unwilling
433   4,  24 |       Praise and censure, too, when they are eloquently expressed,
434   4,  24 |             an effect on some, that they are not only pleased with
435   4,  24 |            or believe a truth which they were previously ignorant
436   4,  25 |           persuades them to do what they are aware they ought to
437   4,  25 |           to do what they are aware they ought to do, but do not;
438   4,  25 |             an object as this last? They may desire it who are vain
439   4,  25 |           and give up evil ones, if they are not so hardened as to
440   4,  25 |           the vehement style; or if they have already begun a good
441   4,  27 |            All therefore whatsoever they bid you observe, that observe
442   4,  27 |           ye after their works; for they say and do not;" and therefore
443   4,  27 |        profit by others. For though they seek their own objects,
444   4,  27 |             seek their own objects, they do not dare to teach their
445   4,  27 |           own doctrines, sitting as they do in the high places of
446   4,  27 |             Moses's seat." The seat they occupied then, which was
447   4,  27 |           say what was good, though they did what was evil. And so
448   4,  27 |           did what was evil. And so they followed their own course
449   4,  27 |          were prevented by the seat they occupied, which belonged
450   4,  27 |           to many by preaching what they themselves do not perform;
451   4,  27 |      themselves do not perform; but they would do good to very many
452   4,  27 |           good to very many more if they lived as they preach. For
453   4,  27 |          many more if they lived as they preach. For there are numbers
454   4,  27 |             you bid me do? And thus they cease to listen with submission
455   4,  27 |           in despising the preacher they learn to despise the word
456   4,  28 |           them before the Lord that they strive not about words to
457   4,  28 |            are the more pitiable if they happen to be eloquent in
458   4,  29 |           deliver it to the people, they cannot be blamed, supposing
459   4,  29 |            his own thought, and yet they have nothing in common with
460   4,  29 |            And so God has said that they steal His words who would
461   4,  29 |             but are in fact bad, as they follow their own ways. And
462   4,  29 |             who say the good things they say. For how can they say
463   4,  29 |        things they say. For how can they say in words what they deny
464   4,  29 |          can they say in words what they deny in deeds? It is not
465   4,  29 |          apostle says of such men: "They profess that they know God,
466   4,  29 |             men: "They profess that they know God, but in works they
467   4,  29 |         they know God, but in works they deny Him." In one sense,
468   4,  29 |           Him." In one sense, then, they do say the things, and in
469   4,  29 |        things, and in another sense they do not say them; for both
470   4,  29 |          place He says, "Whatsoever they bid you observe, that observe
471   4,  29 |         lives, that do ye not; "for they say and do not." And so,
472   4,  29 |             do not." And so, though they do not, yet they say. But
473   4,  29 |             though they do not, yet they say. But in another place,
474   4,  29 |         would appear that even what they say, when they say what
475   4,  29 |            even what they say, when they say what is good, it is
476   4,  29 |             for in will and in deed they deny what they say. Hence
477   4,  29 |          and in deed they deny what they say. Hence it happens that
478   4,  29 |            to whom belongs all that they say; and even those who
479   4,  29 |          who could not compose what they say make it their own by
480   4,  30 |      compose for them ought, before they receive their discourse,
481   4,  30 |          are preparing it; and when they have received it, they ought
482   4,  30 |         when they have received it, they ought to pray both that
483   4,  30 |             ought to pray both that they themselves may deliver it
484   4,  30 |              and that those to whom they address it may give ear;
485   4,  30 |        discourse has a happy issue, they ought to render thanks to
486   4,  30 |             thanks to Him from whom they know such blessings come,