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  1 pref,   0|         able and willing to learn, if God our Lord do not withhold
  2 pref,   0|    conciliate them beforehand. And if, after all, men should still
  3 pref,   0|       understanding. It is just as if they were anxious to see
  4 pref,   0|       point it out with my finger: if they had not sight enough
  5 pref,   0|                                But if any one thinks that these
  6 pref,   0|           directions from man (and if the fact be so, they boast
  7 pref,   0|            been much more degraded if God had not chosen to make
  8 pref,   0|        holy, which temple ye are," if God gave forth no oracles
  9 pref,   0|    mingling them one with another, if men never learnt anything
 10 pref,   0|        surely they cannot blame me if I likewise teach not only
 11 pref,   0|            we did not receive? And if we have received it, why
 12 pref,   0|            it, why do we glory, as if we had not received it? ~
 13 pref,   0|          here attempt to lay down, if he meet with an obscure
 14   1, arg |         remission of our sins. And if our sins are remitted and
 15   1, arg |         the body to eternal glory; if not, we shall be raised
 16   1,   1 |         undertaking, and one that, if difficult to carry out,
 17   1,   1 |           it would undoubtedly be, if I were counting on my own
 18   1,   1 |          being shared with others, if it is possessed and not
 19   1,   1 |          who have; that is to say, if they use freely and cheerfully
 20   1,   2 |            in such a way that even if some of them may be used
 21   1,   3 |       among both kinds of objects, if we set ourselves to enjoy
 22   1,   4 |           obtain what one desires, if it is a proper object of
 23   1,   4 |         wandered far from God; and if we wish to return to our
 24   1,   5 |       common to all who enjoy Him, if He is an object, and not
 25   1,   5 |            objects, or indeed even if He is the cause of all.
 26   1,   6 |          than desire to speak; and if I have said anything, it
 27   1,   6 | unspeakable? But what I have said, if it had been unspeakable,
 28   1,   6 |    contradiction of words, because if the unspeakable is what
 29   1,   6 |          of, it is not unspeakable if it can be called unspeakable.
 30   1,   7 |         itself, is God of gods: or if they try to get beyond the
 31   1,   7 |            form of the human body, if they think that superior
 32   1,   7 |         superior to all others. Or if they think that there is
 33   1,   8 |         nature of the life itself, if they find it mere nutritive
 34   1,   8 |           never can become so. And if men never caught sight of
 35   1,   8 |      change. This will be evident, if we consider that the very
 36   1,  18 |     despair, and becomes worse, as if no greater good remained
 37   1,  22 |            sake of something else. If it is for his own sake,
 38   1,  22 |            own sake, we enjoy him; if it is for the sake of something
 39   1,  22 |        sake of something else. For if a thing is to be loved for
 40   1,  22 |            hope of which at least, if not yet the reality, is
 41   1,  22 |            to have joy in himself, if you look at the matter clearly,
 42   1,  22 |          entirely fixed upon that. If, however, he loves himself
 43   1,  22 |            even himself. Wherefore if you ought not to love even
 44   1,  22 |            has a right to be angry if you love him too for God'
 45   1,  23 |      attained something very great if it is able to lord it over
 46   1,  24 |         war upon their own body as if it were a natural enemy.
 47   1,  26 |        love of our neighbour. Now, if you take yourself in your
 48   1,  27 |        loved for His own sake. And if God is to be loved more
 49   1,  28 |           to more than one person; if two persons presented themselves,
 50   1,  29 |           iniquity though they be, if a man is fond of a particular
 51   1,  29 |            show him to others; and if he find any one comparatively
 52   1,  29 |      urging his favorite's merits: if, however, he meet with any
 53   1,  29 |          he can to remove it. Now, if this be so, what does it
 54   1,  29 |         from Him whom we love. For if they would turn to Him,
 55   1,  30 |          would be our duty to help if he were in need. Whence
 56   1,  30 |          Thou shalt not covet; and if there be any other commandment,
 57   1,  30 |         apostle thought it no sin, if a man were not a Christian
 58   1,  30 |                           But now, if every one to whom we ought
 59   1,  31 |           as objects of enjoyment? If He enjoys us, He must be
 60   1,  31 |           but makes use of us. For if He neither enjoys nor uses
 61   1,  33 |                                For if we find our happiness complete
 62   1,  33 |          of thee in the Lord." For if he had not added "in the
 63   1,  33 |         bring delight with it. And if you pass beyond this delight,
 64   1,  33 |         say that you enjoy it. But if you cling to it, and rest
 65   1,  35 |           such love and delight as if it were a good to rest in,
 66   1,  36 |       understand them as he ought. If, on the other hand, a man
 67   1,  36 |          commits an injustice; and if any man thinks that a lie
 68   1,  36 |             as I was going to say, if his mistaken interpretation
 69   1,  36 |           the straight road, lest, if he get into a habit of going
 70   1,  37 |                                For if he takes up rashly a meaning
 71   1,  37 |   harmonize with this meaning. And if he admits that these statements
 72   1,  37 |            he is with himself. And if he should once permit that
 73   1,  37 |              Now faith will totter if the authority of Scripture
 74   1,  37 |          begin to shake. And then, if faith totter, love itself
 75   1,  37 |         itself will grow cold. For if a man has fallen from faith,
 76   1,  37 |          not believe to exist. But if he both believes and loves,
 77   1,  38 |        when these others fail. For if we love by faith that which
 78   1,  38 |          when we begin to see! And if we love by hope that which
 79   1,  40 |                    And, therefore, if a man fully understands
 80   1,  40 |            reference to hope; for, if a man has the burthen of
 81   1,  40 |           of faith unfeigned." For if our faith is free from all
 82   2,   6 |         For why is it, I ask, that if any one says that there
 83   2,   6 |             how is it, I say, that if a man says this, he does
 84   2,   6 |   harshness softened down, just as if they had been torn off and
 85   2,   6 |     delight under that aspect than if no such figure were drawn
 86   2,   7 |            the motions of pride as if our flesh were nailed to
 87   2,   7 |         not understood, we feel as if we could be wiser and give
 88   2,   8 |    retained them in his knowledge, if not yet with full understanding,
 89   2,   8 |           those of less authority. If, however, he shall find
 90   2,   9 |         said, to know these books, if not yet with the understanding,
 91   2,   9 |       counts for a great deal; but if the memory be defective,
 92   2,  11 |     recourse to the original texts if the endless diversity of
 93   2,  12 |        understanding of Scripture, if only readers were not careless.
 94   2,  12 |            apostle, when he says, "If by any means I may provoke
 95   2,  12 |          the same prophet Isaiah: "If ye will not believe, ye
 96   2,  12 |           another has translated: "If ye will not believe, ye
 97   2,  12 |           these reasons one says, "If ye will not believe, ye
 98   2,  12 |       understand;" but the other, "If ye will not believe, ye
 99   2,  13 |          and since the translator, if he be not a very learned
100   2,  13 |       would often set up our neck, if it were not held down by
101   2,  13 |       Mistakes of this kind, then, if a man do not choose to avoid
102   2,  13 |    stronger than men 1 Cor.1:25 ). If any one should retain in
103   2,  13 |            it is ambiguous too, as if the meaning might be, that
104   2,  14 |          brings him to a stop. Now if these belong to foreign
105   2,  14 |            speak those tongues, or if we have leisure we must
106   2,  14 |       compare several translators. If, however, there are words
107   2,  14 |           a very great assistance, if they are examined and discussed
108   2,  15 |       there was but one voice. And if, as is reported, and as
109   2,  15 |           anything to it? And even if they conferred together
110   2,  15 |       learned men. Wherefore, even if anything is found in the
111   2,  15 |            to say, to be corrected if necessary by the authority
112   2,  15 |          the New Testament, again, if any perplexity arises from
113   2,  16 |           figurative signs, again, if ignorance of any of them
114   2,  16 |            a secret sense; but yet if the evangelist had not interpreted
115   2,  16 |     writers of those books, would, if any one could interpret
116   2,  16 |          were, be destroyed in us, if to save the body we deny
117   2,  16 |       mystical way. A candid mind, if I may so speak, cannot but
118   2,  16 |          our Lord Himself, who, as if receiving the witness both
119   2,  16 |          many strings; or whether, if there be no such law, the
120   2,  16 |       commandments of the law (and if again any question is raised
121   2,  18 |       superstition of the heathen, if we can derive anything from
122   2,  20 |            that are to be observed if any part of the body should
123   2,  20 |           the body should jump, or if, when friends are walking
124   2,  20 |         the kicking of a stone, as if it were a divider of friends,
125   2,  20 |            to cuff an innocent boy if he happens to run between
126   2,  20 |           house; to go back to bed if any one should sneeze when
127   2,  20 |           slippers; to return home if you stumble when going to
128   2,  20 |           been very strange indeed if the boots had eaten the
129   2,  21 |          Writ in these terms: "For if they were able to know so
130   2,  22 |       professes to read the fates. If, then, he does not discover
131   2,  22 |      referred to the same class as if they were leagues and covenants
132   2,  23 |           lies, but it says, "Even if what they tell you should
133   2,  23 |     treacherous friendship. Not as if the idol were anything,"
134   2,  23 |    government of God's providence, if there chance only to be
135   2,  23 |      committed them to writing, as if they had drawn them by rule. ~
136   2,  25 |     convenience and necessity. For if those signs which the actors
137   2,  25 |            this, because even now, if any one who is unaccustomed
138   2,  25 |        makes a mistake, especially if they are executed by skilled
139   2,  25 |          the same kind. Now these, if they were not devices of
140   2,  26 |          or enervate us by luxury, if they only occupy our minds
141   2,  28 | understanding the Scriptures, even if it be learnt without the
142   2,  29 |            it is one thing to say: If you bruise down this herb
143   2,  29 |       stomach; and another to say: If you hang this herb round
144   2,  31 |          error, when he finds that if he wishes to retain his
145   2,  31 |           since they would be true if the dead rise not, there
146   2,  32 |            briefly expressed thus: If there is no resurrection
147   2,  33 |         some man to have admitted: If a snail is an animal, it
148   2,  33 |          propounds the statement, "If this man is just, he is
149   2,  33 |            the statement is true, "If he is an orator, he is a
150   2,  33 |          orator, he is a man." But if we add, "He is not an orator,"
151   2,  34 |       example of a consequent is, "If he is an orator, he is a
152   2,  34 |         man;" of an inconsequent, "If he is a man, he is an orator;"
153   2,  34 |      orator;" of an incompatible, "If he is a man, he is a quadruped."
154   2,  34 |     inference, plume themselves as if this involved also the truth
155   2,  34 |         knows that it follows that if there is no resurrection
156   2,  37 |          such rules. It is just as if a man wishing to give rules
157   2,  39 |           the Church of Christ, as if these could secure for them
158   2,  39 |       discriminate among them. And if they find any of those which
159   2,  39 |            conjectures, especially if they involve entering into
160   2,  39 |           regard to other matters, if any competent man were willing
161   2,  40 |                          Moreover, if those who are called philosophers,
162   2,  40 |          knowledge it held useful, if it had suspected they were
163   2,  42 |         learnt from other sources, if it is hurtful, it is there
164   2,  42 |             it is there condemned; if it is useful, it is therein
165   3,   2 |        pronunciation. Accordingly, if, when attention is given
166   3,   2 |       first book about things. But if both readings, or all of
167   3,   2 |          readings, or all of them (if there are more than two),
168   3,   2 |           be with Christ]. And, as if he were asked why he has
169   3,   3 |          or succeeding context; or if neither of these methods
170   3,   3 |       pronounce them. For example, if our faith that God will
171   3,   3 |        word "os" as short or long. If he make it short, it is
172   3,   3 |          singular of ossa [bones]; if he make it long, it is the
173   3,   3 |           the kingdom of God." Now if he had only said, "Of the
174   3,   4 |          shown to be vocative. Now if the translator had chosen
175   3,   4 |           the meaning; or, indeed, if he had added "nostri", hardly
176   3,   5 |           figuratively is taken as if it were said literally,
177   3,   5 |          takes figurative words as if they were proper, and does
178   3,   5 |      secondary signification; but, if he hears of the Sabbath,
179   3,   7 |                                And if ever any of them endeavoured
180   3,   7 |          poet of theirs, who says, if I recollect aright, "Thou,
181   3,   7 |           representations of gods. If, then, to take a sign which
182   3,   7 |        things themselves! For even if you go back to the very
183   3,  10 |     metaphorical form of speech as if it were literal, we must
184   3,  10 |          literal form of speech as if it were figurative. In the
185   3,  10 |        thus it comes to pass, that if Scripture either enjoins
186   3,  10 |        what is not so opposed, and if at the same time the authority
187   3,  10 |           of men. In the same way, if an erroneous opinion has
188   3,  11 |          the dominion of lust. And if its meaning be clear, we
189   3,  11 |            secondary reference, as if it were spoken figuratively.
190   3,  15 |            the reign of love. Now, if when taken literally it
191   3,  16 |                                    If the sentence is one of command,
192   3,  16 | benevolence, it is not figurative. If, however, it seems to enjoin
193   3,  16 |           for us. Scripture says: "If thine enemy hunger, feed
194   3,  16 |            enemy hunger, feed him; if he thirst, give him drink;"
195   3,  17 |           figurative; for example, if he has embraced a life of
196   3,  17 |   literally, but figuratively; and if he has determined to keep
197   3,  18 |         not a crime or a vice even if we take it literally and
198   3,  18 |           be used to condemnation, if the use of the former be
199   3,  18 |                               For, if it was possible for one
200   3,  18 |       offspring. And, accordingly, if these last had been still
201   3,  20 |                                For if they had been under the
202   3,  21 |            son should not be slain if he were conquered in battle,
203   3,  27 |   undiscovered, there is no danger if it can be shown from other
204   3,  27 |        harmony with the truth. And if a man in searching the Scriptures
205   3,  28 |        there is no controversy, or if a controversy arises, may
206   3,  30 |            that it would appear as if, when they were thoroughly
207   3,  30 |         are to many invisible. And if this system of rules be
208   3,  30 |          forest of prophecy shall, if he follow these rules as
209   3,  30 |           from going astray." Now, if he had said, "There are
210   3,  30 |    recesses of the whole law;" and if he had not said "What is
211   3,  32 |         persons as before, just as if both sets constituted one
212   3,  32 |          in one body, He speaks as if there were no change in
213   3,  34 |        rule is of course the same, if anything of the kind referred
214   3,  34 |      apprehension of Scripture, as if we were enemies, but that
215   3,  34 |        says shortly afterwards, as if repeating himself, "And
216   3,  34 |        fathers," not literally, as if they referred to Israel
217   3,  34 |           and purpose, the same as if it were already given; just
218   3,  34 |          because it is the same as if it were itself given, when
219   3,  36 |        place. And we make mistakes if we do not understand this,
220   3,  36 |           to have its own language if all had one language in
221   3,  37 |         very desire for knowledge, if it is wedded to piety. But
222   4,   1 |        known the meaning, in order if possible to bring them all
223   4,   1 |           be learnt elsewhere; and if any good man should happen
224   4,   3 |            these writings of mine, if a suitable space of time
225   4,   3 |          need we inquire? For even if this art can occasionally
226   4,   3 |             especially, of course, if in addition he practice
227   4,   3 |        grounds of piety and faith. If, however, such ability be
228   4,   3 |          either not understood, or if, after great labour has
229   4,   3 |        need not be learnt by boys, if they have the advantage
230   4,   4 |    whatever way the case requires. If the hearers need teaching,
231   4,   4 |          the exhibition of proofs. If, however, the hearers require
232   4,   5 |       argue and speak with wisdom, if not with eloquence, and
233   4,   5 |            them less than he would if he could speak with eloquence
234   4,   5 |     nonsense, and so much the more if the hearer is pleased with
235   4,   5 |          and is of service never." If, then, the men who teach
236   4,   5 |            his mode of speech. But if a man desire to speak not
237   4,   5 |           prove of greater service if he can do both), I would
238   4,   5 |            of rhetoric; especially if the men he reads and listens
239   4,   6 |            can be called eloquence if it be not suitable to the
240   4,   6 |                  I could, however, if I had time, show those men
241   4,   6 |    ostentatious display of it; and if they had shunned it, they
242   4,   6 |        would have done the former; if they had made it prominent,
243   4,   6 |          to suggest themselves; as if wisdom were walking out
244   4,   7 |           man unlearnedly learned (if I may use the expression)
245   4,   7 |            no man think me a fool: if otherwise, yet as a fool
246   4,   7 |           are wise. For ye suffer, if a man bring you into bondage,
247   4,   7 |            bring you into bondage, if a man devour you, if a man
248   4,   7 |      bondage, if a man devour you, if a man take of you, if a
249   4,   7 |         you, if a man take of you, if a man exalt himself, if
250   4,   7 |            if a man exalt himself, if a man smite you on the face.
251   4,   7 |          offended, and I burn not? If I must needs glory, I will
252   4,   7 |           next has three members: "if otherwise, yet as a fool
253   4,   7 |           members: "for ye suffer, if a man bring you into bondage."
254   4,   7 |           three sections (caesa): "if a man devour you, if a man
255   4,   7 |               if a man devour you, if a man take of you, if a
256   4,   7 |         you, if a man take of you, if a man exalt himself." Next
257   4,   7 |            three clauses (membra): if "a man smite you on the
258   4,   7 |             this whole passage, as if panting for breath, winds
259   4,   7 |            period of two members: "If I must needs glory, I will
260   4,   7 |   knowledge," he seems to speak as if granting so much to his
261   4,   7 |           he recognized its truth. If he had said, "I am indeed
262   4,   7 |            Gentiles. And certainly if we bring forward anything
263   4,   7 |           calves out of the herd." If he had so expressed it,
264   4,   7 |         shrinking from wisdom. For if, as certain very eloquent
265   4,   7 |             and reduced to system, if they had not first had their
266   4,   8 |     themselves in the same way, as if putting forward their expositions
267   4,   8 |           understand them, or that if what they say should not
268   4,   9 |      written in such a style that, if understood, they, so to
269   4,   9 |        draw their own readers, and if not understood, give no
270   4,  10 |           unlearned employ it. For if our translators did not
271   4,  10 |            ossum" instead of "os", if he fear that the latter
272   4,  10 |            use at all in speaking, if they do not understand us
273   4,  10 |       words that do not teach; and if instead of them he can find
274   4,  10 |          take these by preference; if, however, he cannot, either
275   4,  10 |           that are not quite pure, if only the substance of his
276   4,  10 |   generally shows by its movements if it understands what is said;
277   4,  10 |           on to another point. For if a man gives pleasure when
278   4,  10 |            the pleasure they give, if the attention be directed
279   4,  10 |      itself is already well known, if it be pleasing to the hearers,
280   4,  10 |       another man repeat them. And if a man has forgotten anything,
281   4,  10 |            on the truth itself, as if it required further explanation;
282   4,  10 |        bring it home to the heart. If it appear right to do this,
283   4,  11 |        clear what was obscure; yet if this be done without grace
284   4,  11 |           service is a golden key, if it cannot open what we want
285   4,  11 |           is there to a wooden one if it can, seeing that to open
286   4,  12 |            does not understand it. If, however, he is understood,
287   4,  12 |           manner of saying it. But if he wishes to delight or
288   4,  12 |       action. And as he is pleased if you speak with sweetness
289   4,  12 |       elegance, so he is persuaded if he be drawn by your promises,
290   4,  12 |          and awed by your threats; If he reject what you condemn,
291   4,  12 |          embrace what you commend; if he grieve when you heap
292   4,  12 |       point out an object for joy; if he pity those whom you present
293   4,  12 |                                    If however, they do not yet
294   4,  12 |         gaining the first two ends if we fail in the third? Neither
295   4,  13 |         and praises the eloquence, if he does not yield his consent,
296   4,  13 |         attention to what he says? If the truths taught are such
297   4,  13 |        manner in which it is said, if it be not so learnt as to
298   4,  13 |            to subdue the will. For if a man be not moved by the
299   4,  14 |         graceful or dignified even if used to adorn great and
300   4,  15 |         and he need not doubt that if he succeed in this object,
301   4,  16 |                                Now if any one says that we need
302   4,  16 |          yet they are applied; and if it be done from a sense
303   4,  17 |           in a majestic style:" as if he had taken in also the
304   4,  18 |         shall judge the world? And if the world shall be judged
305   4,  18 |         that pertain to this life? If, then, ye have judgments
306   4,  18 |                         Of course, if we were giving men advice
307   4,  19 |           Him in some measure! But if He be not worshipped, or
308   4,  19 |           He be not worshipped, or if idols, whether they be demons
309   4,  20 |          but a man's covenant, yet if it be confirmed, no man
310   4,  20 |        promise of none effect. For if the inheritance be of the
311   4,  20 |        occur to the hearer to ask, If there is no inheritance
312   4,  20 |        reason in these words: "For if there had been a law given
313   4,  20 |          discredit on what we say. If, however, the solution of
314   4,  20 |          these again still others; if these be all discussed and
315   4,  20 |     present to answer it, or lest, if it should occur to a man
316   4,  20 |        most beautiful in which, as if paying what was due, things
317   4,  20 |            the lusts thereof." Now if the passage were translated
318   4,  20 |         This I know, however, that if any one who is skilled in
319   4,  20 |           that the other does; but if they do not happen to be
320   4,  20 |     careful elaboration of speech. If a brave man be armed with
321   4,  20 |          then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be
322   4,  20 |           I bear you record, that, if it had been possible, ye
323   4,  21 |            redeemed and quickened, if the wine be absent; for
324   4,  21 |           put his hand over it, as if to improve by his superior
325   4,  21 |            afraid to show thyself? If thou art comely why dost
326   4,  21 |          thou hide thy comeliness? If thou art plain, why test
327   4,  21 |            man; and thou art angry if he love another, though
328   4,  22 |           that the majestic style, if it is to be long continued,
329   4,  24 |                                    If frequent and vehement applause
330   4,  25 |      habits and give up evil ones, if they are not so hardened
331   4,  25 |        need the vehement style; or if they have already begun
332   4,  26 |         But who will listen to him if he do not arrest attention
333   4,  26 |          some beauty of style? And if he be not intelligible,
334   4,  26 |        style. But who can be moved if he does not understand what
335   4,  26 |            who will stay to listen if he receives no pleasure?
336   4,  26 |         intelligible and pleasing, if you would be heard with
337   4,  27 |          do good to very many more if they lived as they preach.
338   4,  28 |           more painful object than if his body too were deformed,
339   4,  28 |         lies are the more pitiable if they happen to be eloquent
340   4,  29 |                                    If, however, he cannot do even
341   4,  29 |          anything to deliver. Now, if such men take what has been
342   4,  29 |         follow their own ways. And if you look closely into the
343   4,  30 |            suitable discourse. For if Queen Esther prayed, when