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  1 pref,   0|           that any other language we have learnt, Greek, or Hebrew,
  2 pref,   0|       Hebrew, or any of the rest, we have learnt either in the
  3 pref,   0|       teacher. Now, then, suppose we advise all our brethren
  4 pref,   0|          let us tempt Him in whom we have believed, lest, being
  5 pref,   0|        and by our own perversity, we may even refuse to go to
  6 pref,   0|       preaching, in the hope that we shall be carried up to the
  7 pref,   0|                               And we know that the eunuch who
  8 pref,   0|         the truth." For what have we that we did not receive?
  9 pref,   0|             For what have we that we did not receive? And if
 10 pref,   0|           did not receive? And if we have received it, why do
 11 pref,   0|          have received it, why do we glory, as if we had not
 12 pref,   0|            why do we glory, as if we had not received it? ~
 13   1, arg |           to discover the meaning we must attend both to things
 14   1, arg |     necessary to know what things we ought to teach to the Christian
 15   1, arg |           and our true happiness. We are prevented by our sins
 16   1, arg |        bride the Church, in which we receive remission of our
 17   1, arg |           souls renewed by grace, we may await with hope the
 18   1, arg |         to eternal glory; if not, we shall be raised to everlasting
 19   1, arg |        have reference to God. And we ourselves are not objects
 20   1,   1 |           when it is ascertained. We shall treat first of the
 21   1,   2 |           however, the wood which we read Moses cast into the
 22   1,   2 |         and signs afterwards. But we must carefully remember
 23   1,   2 |      carefully remember that what we have now to consider about
 24   1,   3 |          after happiness, so that we can attain the things that
 25   1,   3 |           happy and rest in them. We ourselves, again, who enjoy
 26   1,   3 |         both kinds of objects, if we set ourselves to enjoy those
 27   1,   3 |    ourselves to enjoy those which we ought to use, are hindered
 28   1,   3 |          of lower gratifications, we lag behind in, or even altogether
 29   1,   4 |          an abuse. Suppose, then, we were wanderers in a strange
 30   1,   4 |          our fatherland, and that we felt wretched in our wandering,
 31   1,   4 |        determined to return home. We find, however, that we must
 32   1,   4 |            We find, however, that we must make use of some mode
 33   1,   4 |         the country through which we pass, and the very pleasure
 34   1,   4 |        turning these things which we ought to use into objects
 35   1,   4 |        into objects of enjoyment, we become unwilling to hasten
 36   1,   4 |           this life of mortality. We have wandered far from God;
 37   1,   4 |     wandered far from God; and if we wish to return to our Father'
 38   1,   4 |         is material and temporary we may lay hold upon that which
 39   1,   8 |          This will be evident, if we consider that the very rule
 40   1,  10 |           by change of place that we can come nearer to Him who
 41   1,  11 |                       But of this we should have been wholly
 42   1,  11 |          own humanity. Yet, since we when we come to Him do wisely,
 43   1,  11 |      humanity. Yet, since we when we come to Him do wisely, He
 44   1,  11 |         very foolishly. And since we when we come to Him become
 45   1,  11 |      foolishly. And since we when we come to Him become strong,
 46   1,  11 |     Himself also the way by which we should reach our home. ~
 47   1,  13 |           among us"? Just as when we speak, in order that what
 48   1,  13 |         speak, in order that what we leave in our minds may enter
 49   1,  13 |        the hearer, the word which we have in our hearts becomes
 50   1,  14 |    restored him through humility. We were ensnared by the wisdom
 51   1,  14 |        the wisdom of the serpent: we are set free by the foolishness
 52   1,  14 |           who overcome the devil. We used our immortality so
 53   1,  15 |          bestow at the last, when we consider that for our comfort
 54   1,  15 |          adversities of this life we may retain our confidence
 55   1,  15 |         love for, Him whom as yet we see not; and that He has
 56   1,  15 |   building up of His Church, that we may do what He points out
 57   1,  17 |                     Further, when we are on the way, and that
 58   1,  17 |          down as the way by which we should return, do that would
 59   1,  19 |        after a better pattern, so we must hope and believe that
 60   1,  19 |            after that death which we all owe as a debt contracted
 61   1,  21 |      clings to the assurance, and we must believe that it is
 62   1,  22 |        objects of enjoyment which we have spoken of as eternal
 63   1,  22 |        The rest are for use, that we may be able to arrive at
 64   1,  22 |          enjoyment of the former. We, however, who enjoy and
 65   1,  22 |    themselves, or to do both. For we are commanded to love one
 66   1,  22 |           it is for his own sake, we enjoy him; if it is for
 67   1,  22 |           sake of something else, we use him. It seems to me,
 68   1,  24 |       eternity; even in this life we must make it an object to
 69   1,  26 |       body, seeing, that is, that we love ourselves, and what
 70   1,  27 |       more than himself. Likewise we ought to love another man
 71   1,  27 |        and it is by the soul that we enjoy God. ~
 72   1,  28 |                     chap. 28. How we are to decide whom to aid~
 73   1,  29 |                         chap. 29. We are to desire and endeavour
 74   1,  29 |        who can with us enjoy God, we love partly those to whom
 75   1,  29 |         love partly those to whom we render services, partly
 76   1,  29 |            partly those upon whom we confer no advantage and
 77   1,  29 |           advantage and from whom we look for none. We ought
 78   1,  29 |       from whom we look for none. We ought to desire, however,
 79   1,  29 |           all the assistance that we either give them or accept
 80   1,  29 |         bear Him, concerning whom we have no fear that any one
 81   1,  29 |        love? And hence it is that we love even our enemies. For
 82   1,  29 |        love even our enemies. For we do not fear them, seeing
 83   1,  29 |     cannot take away from us what we love; but we pity them rather,
 84   1,  29 |         from us what we love; but we pity them rather, because
 85   1,  29 |           separated from Him whom we love. For if they would
 86   1,  30 |         the enjoyment of Him whom we long to enjoy; and the more
 87   1,  30 |       long to enjoy; and the more we enjoy Him in this life as
 88   1,  30 |          darkly, the more easy do we find it to bear our pilgrimage,
 89   1,  30 |           and the more eagerly do we long for its termination.
 90   1,  30 | considered our neighbour, because we are to work no ill to any
 91   1,  30 |         now, if every one to whom we ought to show, or who ought
 92   1,  30 |          of His own goodness, but we show pity to one another
 93   1,  30 |        that is, He pities us that we may fully enjoy Himself;
 94   1,  30 |          may fully enjoy Himself; we pity one another that we
 95   1,  30 |          we pity one another that we may fully enjoy Him. ~
 96   1,  31 |          And on this ground, when we say that we enjoy only that
 97   1,  31 |          ground, when we say that we enjoy only that which we
 98   1,  31 |          we enjoy only that which we love for its own sake, and
 99   1,  31 |        say that; for all the good we enjoy is either Himself,
100   1,  32 |        fashion of using. For when we use objects, we do so with
101   1,  32 |          For when we use objects, we do so with a view to the
102   1,  32 |          it is because He is good we exist; and so far as we
103   1,  32 |           we exist; and so far as we truly exist we are good.
104   1,  32 |          so far as we truly exist we are good. And, further,
105   1,  32 |          because He is also just, we cannot with impunity be
106   1,  32 |   impunity be evil; and so far as we are evil, so far is our
107   1,  32 |        only to His goodness. When we take pity upon a man and
108   1,  32 |           it is for his advantage we do so; but somehow or other
109   1,  32 |          does not leave the mercy we show to him who needs it
110   1,  32 |          our highest reward, that we should fully enjoy Him,
111   1,  33 |                            For if we find our happiness complete
112   1,  33 |          complete in one another, we stop short upon the road,
113   1,  33 |         the holy angel, even when we are weary and anxious to
114   1,  33 |          in the enjoyment of whom we find our common happiness.
115   1,  33 |           For when the thing that we love is near us, it is a
116   1,  33 |        said to enjoy it. And this we must never do except in
117   1,  34 |    apostle yet says: "Yea, though we have known Christ after
118   1,  34 |           yet now henceforth know we Him no more." For Christ,
119   1,  34 |         in me they rest. For when we come to Him, we come to
120   1,  34 |          For when we come to Him, we come to the Father also,
121   1,  34 |         it were seals us, so that we are able to rest permanently
122   1,  34 |       unchangeable God. And hence we may learn how essential
123   1,  35 |          that has been said since we entered upon the discussion
124   1,  35 |     things, this is the sum: that we should clearly understand
125   1,  35 |        the providence of God that we might know this truth and
126   1,  35 |          able to act upon it; and we ought to use that dispensation,
127   1,  35 |           feeling rather, such as we have towards the road, or
128   1,  35 |    suitably express the idea that we are to love the things by
129   1,  35 |          love the things by which we are borne only for the sake
130   1,  35 |        sake of that towards which we are borne. ~
131   1,  36 |         to say what is false; and we find plenty of people who
132   1,  37 |         utterly destroy him. "For we walk by faith, not by sight."
133   1,  38 |       that perfect bliss to which we shall come: love, on the
134   1,  38 |         these others fail. For if we love by faith that which
135   1,  38 |           faith that which as yet we see not, how much more shall
136   1,  38 |          not, how much more shall we love it when we begin to
137   1,  38 |        more shall we love it when we begin to see! And if we
138   1,  38 |           we begin to see! And if we love by hope that which
139   1,  38 |         by hope that which as yet we have not reached, how much
140   1,  38 |      reached, how much more shall we love it when we reach it!
141   1,  38 |        more shall we love it when we reach it! For there is this
142   1,  38 |      object is valued more before we possess it, and begins to
143   1,  38 |        prove worthless the moment we attain it, because it does
144   1,  40 |          from all hypocrisy, then we both abstain from loving
145   1,  40 |           and by living uprightly we are able to indulge the
146   2,   1 |    consequence of itself: as when we see a footprint, we conclude
147   2,   1 |          when we see a footprint, we conclude that an animal
148   2,   1 |           has passed by; and when we see smoke, we know that
149   2,   1 |            and when we see smoke, we know that there is fire
150   2,   1 |         is fire beneath; and when we hear the voice of a living
151   2,   1 |        the voice of a living man, we think of the feeling in
152   2,   1 |           attention to experience we come to know that fire is
153   2,   1 |          countenance, even though we do nothing with the intention
154   2,   2 |           2. Of the kind of signs we are now concerned with~
155   2,   2 |         sign has in his own mind. We wish, then, to consider
156   2,   3 |           other senses. For, when we nod, we give no sign except
157   2,   3 |         senses. For, when we nod, we give no sign except to the
158   2,   3 |           eyes of the man to whom we wish by this sign to impart
159   2,   7 |        then, it is necessary that we should be led by the fear
160   2,   7 |          or, when not understood, we feel as if we could be wiser
161   2,   7 |         understood, we feel as if we could be wiser and give
162   2,   7 |        better commands ourselves. We must rather think and believe
163   2,   7 |           and truer than anything we could devise by our own
164   2,   7 |          steps of fear and piety, we come to the third step,
165   2,   7 |       through a glass darkly that we are said to see, because
166   2,   7 |          are said to see, because we walk by faith, not by sight,
167   2,   7 |        faith, not by sight, while we continue to wander as strangers
168   2,   7 |        that beginning, then, till we reach wisdom itself, our
169   2,   8 |       canon of Scripture on which we say this judgment is to
170   2,   9 |                      chap. 9. How we should proceed in studying
171   2,   9 |   previous book. After this, when we have made ourselves to a
172   2,   9 |        the language of Scripture, we may proceed to open up and
173   2,  10 |         designed to point out, as we say bos when we mean an
174   2,  10 |           out, as we say bos when we mean an ox, because all
175   2,  10 |           things themselves which we indicate by the proper names
176   2,  10 |        signify something else, as we say bos, and understand
177   2,  11 |          doubt. Although, indeed, we often find Hebrew words
178   2,  11 |        than any part of a thought we have in our mind. And the
179   2,  12 |          temporal things (for now we walk by faith, not by sight);
180   2,  12 |      sight); as, moreover, unless we walk by faith, we shall
181   2,  12 |          unless we walk by faith, we shall not attain to sight,
182   2,  12 |       between the two things. For we must learn not to interpret,
183   2,  13 |                         But since we do not clearly see what
184   2,  13 |      ability and judgment, unless we examine it in the language
185   2,  13 |        the meaning of his author, we must either endeavour to
186   2,  13 |         translated into Latin, or we must get hold of the translations
187   2,  13 |           sufficient, but because we may use them to correct
188   2,  13 |   authority followed. For whether we say inter homines (among
189   2,  13 |         Again, that phrase, which we cannot now take away from
190   2,  13 |     should be corrected, and that we should say, not fliriet,
191   2,  14 |        belong to foreign tongues, we must either make inquiry
192   2,  14 |        speak those tongues, or if we have leisure we must learn
193   2,  14 |    tongues, or if we have leisure we must learn the tongues ourselves,
194   2,  14 |         the tongues ourselves, or we must consult and compare
195   2,  14 |     idioms in our own tongue that we are unacquainted with, we
196   2,  14 |         we are unacquainted with, we gradually come to know them
197   2,  14 |         and phrases whose meaning we do not know, so that where
198   2,  14 |           not know, so that where we happen to meet either with
199   2,  14 |          more learned man of whom we can inquire, or with a passage
200   2,  14 |        significance of the phrase we are ignorant of, we can
201   2,  14 |        phrase we are ignorant of, we can easily by the help of
202   2,  15 |          And to correct the Latin we must use the Greek versions,
203   2,  15 |        have expressed it, I think we must give way to the dispensation
204   2,  15 |   diversities of the Latin texts, we must of course yield to
205   2,  16 |          would lie unnoticed. And we cannot doubt that, in the
206   2,  16 |      other names in that language we are not acquainted with.
207   2,  16 |      expressions obscure, as when we do not know the nature of
208   2,  16 |          our Lord's command, that we should be wise as serpents;
209   2,  16 |        our head, which is Christ, we should willingly offer our
210   2,  16 |           us, if to save the body we deny our God! Or again,
211   2,  16 |         as the apostle says, that we may put on the new; and
212   2,  16 |           And the only reason why we find it easy to understand
213   2,  16 |      returned to the ark, is that we know both that the smooth
214   2,  16 |          winter months. Now while we live in time, we must abstain
215   2,  16 |        Now while we live in time, we must abstain and fast from
216   2,  16 |         of that eternity in which we wish to live; although by
217   2,  16 |   although by the passage of time we are taught this very lesson
218   2,  16 |           it is taken four times, we are admonished to live unstained
219   2,  16 |           for forty days. Of this we are admonished by the law
220   2,  16 |     looked on in amazement. Next, we have to inquire in the same
221   2,  16 |         raised about that number, we can only refer it to the
222   2,  16 |     places in the Holy Scriptures we find both numbers and music
223   2,  17 |                               For we must not listen to the falsities
224   2,  18 |      related, or is not so, still we ought not to give up music
225   2,  18 |   superstition of the heathen, if we can derive anything from
226   2,  18 |           nor does it follow that we must busy ourselves with
227   2,  18 |       theatrical trumpery because we enter upon an investigation
228   2,  18 |        upon spiritual things. For we ought not to refuse to learn
229   2,  18 |         place in the heart, ought we on that account to forsake
230   2,  20 |         and augurs. In this class we must place also all amulets
231   2,  20 |                          To these we may add thousands of the
232   2,  21 |                           Nor can we exclude from this kind of
233   2,  21 |           to be wondered at, when we consider that even in times
234   2,  21 |           dedicate the star which we call Lucifer to the name
235   2,  21 |         carried out. For example, we have changed the names of
236   2,  22 |     unfortunate. As, for example, we are told that Esau and Jacob
237   2,  23 |                     chap. 23. Why we repudiate arts of divination~
238   2,  23 |     offered in their honour, that we ought to feel in regard
239   2,  23 |      these branches of knowledge, we must fear and shun the fellowship
240   2,  25 |        the mind of the Christian, we must then look at human
241   2,  25 |         by many old men from whom we have frequently heard it.
242   2,  25 |          frequently heard it. And we may well believe this, because
243   2,  26 |           What human contrivances we are to adopt, and what we
244   2,  26 |         we are to adopt, and what we are to avoid~
245   2,  27 |         coming to the next point, we are not to reckon among
246   2,  27 |      reached by the bodily senses we either believe on testimony,
247   2,  28 |              Anything, then, that we learn from history about
248   2,  28 |         childish instruction. For we frequently seek information
249   2,  28 |        body) was in building. Now we know on the authority of
250   2,  28 |      putting His actions together we can make it out, yet that
251   2,  28 |         Lord came. And thus, when we reflect upon the dates,
252   2,  30 |        judgement about them, that we may not be wholly ignorant
253   2,  31 |  Scripture, only in the use of it we must guard against the love
254   2,  32 |         resurrection of the dead. We conclude, therefore, that
255   2,  33 |         order that he whose error we wish to correct may be sorry
256   2,  33 |         is just, he is good," and we admit its truth. Then he
257   2,  33 |         he is not just;" and when we admit this too, he draws
258   2,  33 |      orator, he is a man." But if we add, "He is not an orator,"
259   2,  34 |      opinions. In the former case we learn what is consequent,
260   2,  34 |    quadruped." In these instances we judge of the connection.
261   2,  34 |       truth of opinions, however, we must consider propositions
262   2,  34 |        but when propositions that we are not sure about are joined
263   2,  35 |  falsehood itself is defined when we say that falsehood is the
264   2,  35 |         of things which is not as we declare it to be; and this
265   2,  35 |  falsehood itself cannot be true. We can also divide it, saying
266   2,  37 |         regard to all these laws, we derive more pleasure from
267   2,  37 |     intellect in better training. We must take care, however,
268   2,  39 |          necessities of this life we must not neglect the arrangements
269   2,  39 |        And in regard to all these we must hold by the maxim, "
270   2,  40 |      rightly said by the heathen, we must appropriate to our
271   2,  40 |           harmony with our faith, we are not only not to shrink
272   2,  40 |       indispensable in this life, we must take and turn to a
273   2,  40 |       among our brethren done? Do we not see with what a quantity
274   2,  41 |      rooted and grounded in love, we may be able to comprehend
275   2,  41 |         by this Christian action, we shall be able to know even "
276   2,  41 |          things, were made, "that we may be filled with all the
277   3, arg |          case of figurative signs we need to guard against two
278   3, arg |          lays down rules by which we may decide whether an expression
279   3,   2 |         make Scripture ambiguous, we must see in the first place
280   3,   2 |           it is uncertain whether we should read, "ex duobus
281   3,   2 |         to have a desire for two. We must therefore punctuate
282   3,   2 |           according to any method we choose of those that suggest
283   3,   2 |          fear of God. Receive us; we have wronged no man." It
284   3,   2 |            It is doubtful whether we should read, mundemus nos
285   3,   3 |   understood. And in the same way we shall have the inquiry, "
286   3,   3 |         apostle says, "What shall we say then? That the Gentiles
287   3,   3 |          the inquiry, "What shall we say then?" what follows
288   3,   3 |          tongue, for in the Greek we find not "stome" [mouth],
289   3,   3 |           past [sicut proedixi]," we could not know without going
290   3,   4 |       form; and accordingly, when we look into the original,
291   3,   5 |    diligence. In the first place, we must beware of taking a
292   3,   7 |           But the command is that we should love and serve the
293   3,   9 |         resurrection of our Lord, we are not oppressed with the
294   3,   9 |         even to those signs which we now understand, but our
295   3,  10 |                     chap. 10. How we are to discern whether a
296   3,  10 |     speech as if it were literal, we must also pay heed to that
297   3,  10 |         In the first place, then, we must show the way to find
298   3,  11 |          if its meaning be clear, we are not to give it some
299   3,  12 |           in those banquets which we abhor. For the sweet odour
300   3,  12 |                                   We must, therefore, consider
301   3,  12 |           are more temperate than we are. For in all matters
302   3,  12 |          the nature of the things we use, but our reason for
303   3,  12 |      seeking them, that make what we do either praiseworthy or
304   3,  12 |     nature that is there narrated we are to take not only in
305   3,  12 |           of that description: so we must take heed in regard
306   3,  12 |       customs of those among whom we live, but frequently also
307   3,  13 |         habits of those with whom we are either compelled by
308   3,  15 |      minds and meditate upon what we read till an interpretation
309   3,  16 |          a figure, enjoining that we should have a share in the
310   3,  16 |  sufferings of our Lord, and that we should retain a sweet and
311   3,  16 |          his life shall lose it," we are not to think that He
312   3,  18 |                         chap. 18. We must take into consideration
313   3,  18 |                                   We must also be on our guard
314   3,  18 |           crime or a vice even if we take it literally and not
315   3,  21 |         adultery alone. And hence we may understand with what
316   3,  24 |     regard to any expression that we are trying to understand
317   3,  24 |          the laws of things which we discussed in the first book,
318   3,  24 |        turn it in every way until we arrive at a true interpretation,
319   3,  24 |   interpretation, especially when we bring to our aid experience
320   3,  24 |        the exercise of piety. Now we find out whether an expression
321   3,  25 |           likeness to each other, we are not to suppose there
322   3,  25 |          water denotes people, as we read in the Apocalypse,l
323   3,  26 |         are used is more manifest we must gather the sense in
324   3,  26 |    referring to the passage where we read, "Thou, Lord, hast
325   3,  26 |           with a shield." And yet we are not so to understand
326   3,  26 |   understand it, as that wherever we meet with a shield put to
327   3,  26 |           protection of any kind, we must take it as signifying
328   3,  26 |        but the favour of God. For we hear also of the shield
329   3,  26 |         of the wicked." Nor ought we, on the other hand, in regard
330   3,  26 |           to the shield only; for we read in another place of
331   3,  27 |    meaning lay in the words which we are trying to interpret;
332   3,  28 |           Scripture; so that when we wish to examine the passages
333   3,  28 |         metaphorical expressions, we may either obtain a meaning
334   3,  29 |       articulate voice with which we speak. Now of some of these
335   3,  29 |           these figures of speech we find in Scripture not only
336   3,  29 |          not only examples (which we have of them all), but the
337   3,  29 |         antiphrasis. Now in irony we indicate by the tone of
338   3,  29 |         tone of voice the meaning we desire to convey; as when
339   3,  29 |         desire to convey; as when we say to a man who is behaving
340   3,  29 |         by the tone of voice that we make an antiphrasis to indicate
341   3,  29 |        law of contraries, as when we ask in a place for what
342   3,  29 |     answer, "There is plenty;" or we add words that make it plain
343   3,  29 |          words that make it plain we mean the opposite of what
344   3,  29 |         mean the opposite of what we say, as in the expression, "
345   3,  29 |           give an absurd meaning, we ought forthwith to inquire
346   3,  29 |       that figurative sense which we are unacquainted with; and
347   3,  30 |         example, he inquires what we are to understand in the
348   3,  30 |           known and duly applied, we should be able to interpret
349   3,  31 |         is this, that, knowing as we do that the head and the
350   3,  31 |     Abraham, and that is Christ), we need not be in a difficulty
351   3,  32 |          be with Him in eternity. We ought, therefore, to say
352   3,  32 |       that wicked servant of whom we are told in the gospel,
353   3,  34 |         of regeneration which, as we see, is now imparted to
354   3,  34 |  apprehension of Scripture, as if we were enemies, but that he
355   3,  34 |         our spirit. And therefore we ought to take this saying "
356   3,  34 |           land of the living; and we are to understand that this
357   3,  35 |         of times, a rule by which we can frequently discover
358   3,  35 |       days cannot be true, unless we suppose that the writer
359   3,  35 |          day on which He suffered we join the previous night,
360   3,  35 |           night in which He arose we join the Lord's day which
361   3,  35 |        count it also a whole day, we cannot make out the three
362   3,  36 |           their proper place. And we make mistakes if we do not
363   3,  36 |           And we make mistakes if we do not understand this,
364   3,  36 |            in the book of Genesis we read, "And the Lord God
365   3,  36 |          be thought to imply, did we not accurately mark and
366   3,  36 |        tongues. And, accordingly, we are forthwith told of the
367   3,  37 |      another should be understood we have a figurative expression,
368   4, arg |           prayer from God, though we are not to forget to be
369   4,   3 |          be true or not, why need we inquire? For even if this
370   4,   3 |      while they are speaking. For we must be careful that what
371   4,   3 |         must be careful that what we have got to say does not
372   4,   3 |         does not escape us whilst we are thinking about saying
373   4,   3 |         speeches of eloquent men, we find rules of eloquence
374   4,   3 |          as they can? And what do we find from the examples themselves
375   4,   3 |         the case in this respect? We know numbers who, without
376   4,   3 |        who have learnt these; but we know no one who is eloquent
377   4,   5 |           with eloquence too. But we must beware of the man who
378   4,   5 |       Lights, how much more ought we to feel it who are the sons
379   4,   5 |          the meaning. It is plain we must set far above these
380   4,   5 |     welfare of the world." And as we must often swallow wholesome
381   4,   5 |     swallow wholesome bitters, so we must always avoid unwholesome
382   4,   5 |    wholesomeness? For the sweeter we try to make such things,
383   4,   7 |           the following passage: "We glory in tribulations also:
384   4,   7 |        laugh at him? And yet here we find the figure which is
385   4,   7 |        the one upon the other, as we see here that patience arises
386   4,   7 |       single tone of voice, which we call clauses and sections (
387   4,   7 |    concerning reproach, as though we had been weak. Howbeit,
388   4,   7 |    concerning reproach, as though we had been weak." Then is
389   4,   7 |            but not in knowledge," we could not in any way have
390   4,   7 |        Gentiles. And certainly if we bring forward anything of
391   4,   7 |          as a model of eloquence, we take it from those epistles
392   4,   7 |          men, and to show us that we must distinguish the music
393   4,   7 |        whether with more elegance we hold the words, "and they
394   4,   8 |      difficulty in understanding, we are not by any means to
395   4,   9 |         in private conversations, we must not shrink from the
396   4,   9 |          bringing the truth which we ourselves have reached within
397   4,  10 |      understand us for whose sake we speak? He, therefore, who
398   4,  11 |            if it cannot open what we want it to open? Or what
399   4,  11 |          open what is shut is all we want? But as there is a
400   4,  12 |        necessity, depends on what we say; the other two on the
401   4,  12 |          the other two on the way we say it. He, then, who speaks
402   4,  12 |     gaining the first two ends if we fail in the third? Neither
403   4,  14 |           madness! For what shall we do in the end thereof? And
404   4,  14 |        form of eloquence, such as we find in his subsequent letters,
405   4,  15 |          who can make us say what we ought, and in the way we
406   4,  15 |          we ought, and in the way we ought, except Him in whose
407   4,  15 |     except Him in whose hand both we and our speeches are? Accordingly,
408   4,  16 |          Now if any one says that we need not direct men how
409   4,  16 |           he may as well say that we need not pray, since our
410   4,  16 |       First Epistle to Timothy do we not read: "These things
411   4,  16 |          been told previously. Do we not read there: "Rebuke
412   4,  16 |          and so on. What then are we to think? Does the apostle
413   4,  16 |         they should teach? Or are we to understand, that though
414   4,  17 |        should pray and strive, as we have said above, to be heard
415   4,  18 |     eternal ruin, everything that we say is important; so much
416   4,  18 |         matters? Know ye not that we shall judge angels? How
417   4,  18 |                     Of course, if we were giving men advice as
418   4,  18 |         before the church courts, we would rightly advise them
419   4,  18 |     matters of little moment. But we are treating of the manner
420   4,  18 |         importance. Unless indeed we are prepared to say that,
421   4,  18 |         it not the case that when we happen to speak on this
422   4,  18 |          is with us, so that what we say is not altogether unworthy
423   4,  19 |      something is to be done, and we are speaking to those who
424   4,  19 |        urged, and powerfully when we are forcing a mind that
425   4,  19 |           not easy to comprehend, we may understand as much as
426   4,  19 |       given us to understand? Are we in this case to seek out
427   4,  19 |         learn something? But when we come to praise God, either
428   4,  19 |           preference to Him, then we ought to speak out with
429   4,  20 |          something more definite. We have an example of the calm,
430   4,  20 |        doubt or discredit on what we say. If, however, the solution
431   4,  20 |           useless to disturb what we cannot remove. And besides,
432   4,  20 |    following words of the apostle we have the temperate style: "
433   4,  20 |       that, while adding harmony, we take away none of the weight
434   4,  20 |           from which this harmony we speak of is most fully learnt,
435   4,  20 |      consolations of God's grace, we should bear with patience
436   4,  20 |            as dying, and, behold, we live; as chastened, and
437   4,  20 |           both power and beauty: "We know," he says, "that all
438   4,  20 |        also glorified. What shall we then say to these things?
439   4,  20 |          is written, For Thy sake we are killed all the day long,
440   4,  20 |          killed all the day long, we are accounted as sheep for
441   4,  20 |          Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors,
442   4,  21 |      water mingled with wine. But we must quote a passage by
443   4,  21 |          Observe," he says, "that we are instructed, in presenting
444   4,  21 |        contain His blood by which we are redeemed and quickened,
445   4,  21 |    declarations of Scripture. For we find that in the book of
446   4,  21 |          passion. In the same way we see the sacrament of the
447   4,  21 |         introduction to his work, we find the following passage
448   4,  21 |           end of the epistle, "As we have borne," he says, "the
449   4,  21 |         the image of the earthly, we shall also bear the image
450   4,  21 |   testimony to thine ugliness can we find, O woman, that is more
451   4,  21 |    modesty and fear. Accordingly, we notice that the style is
452   4,  22 |                               But we are not to suppose that
453   4,  22 |         with good taste. For when we keep monotonously to one
454   4,  22 |        monotonously to one style, we fail to retain the hearer'
455   4,  22 |      hearer's attention; but when we pass from one style to another,
456   4,  22 |      cooling or becoming languid. We can bear the subdued style,
457   4,  22 |       shorter time. And therefore we must be on our guard, lest,
458   4,  22 |          higher point the emotion we have excited, we rather
459   4,  22 |          emotion we have excited, we rather lose what we have
460   4,  22 |      excited, we rather lose what we have already gained. But
461   4,  22 |      interposition of matter that we have to treat in a quieter
462   4,  22 |         treat in a quieter style, we can return with good effect
463   4,  23 |        that sort turn up; just as we must use the temperate style,
464   4,  24 |       applause follows a speaker, we are not to suppose on that
465   4,  25 |                     From all this we may conclude, that the end
466   4,  25 |       adequate end; but when what we have to say is good and
467   4,  25 |      merely to give him pleasure. We, however, ought to make
468   4,  25 |           style of eloquence what we aim at effecting when we
469   4,  25 |          we aim at effecting when we use the majestic style.
470   4,  25 |           the majestic style. For we may by the use of this style
471   4,  25 |      already begun a good course, we may induce them to pursue
472   4,  25 |       even in the temperate style we must use beauty of expression
473   4,  25 |     pursuit of the good end which we hold out before him. ~
474   4,  26 |      style, and persuasive power, we are not to understand that
475   4,  26 |           these three merits. For we do not like even what we
476   4,  26 |          we do not like even what we say in the subdued style
477   4,  26 |         the hearer; and therefore we would be listened to, not
478   4,  26 |   pleasure as well. Again, why do we enforce what we teach by
479   4,  26 |            why do we enforce what we teach by divine testimony,
480   4,  26 |     divine testimony, except that we wish to carry the hearer
481   4,  27 |          Christ is the truth; yet we see that the truth can be
482   4,  28 |     adversaries oppose the truth, we are to say nothing in defense
483   4,  30 |            in whose hand are both we and our words." ~