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  1 pref,   0|             the works of others who have laid open the secrets of
  2 pref,   0|        others (over whom they might have influence, did they not
  3 pref,   0|          work of mine, because they have failed to understand the
  4 pref,   0|            again, will think that I have spent my labour to no purpose,
  5 pref,   0|             Scripture by them, they have failed to clear up the point
  6 pref,   0|             and these, because they have received no assistance from
  7 pref,   0|         know (or imagine) that they have attained a certain power
  8 pref,   0|           finger, they would surely have no right to fly into a passion
  9 pref,   0|            those who, in the case I have imagined, are just able
 10 pref,   0|              therefore, that what I have undertaken to write is entirely
 11 pref,   0|            read himself, is said to have committed the Scriptures
 12 pref,   0|          dint of wise meditation to have arrived at a thorough understanding
 13 pref,   0|        slave Christianus, of whom I have lately heard from very respectable
 14 pref,   0|          that any other language we have learnt, Greek, or Hebrew,
 15 pref,   0|              or any of the rest, we have learnt either in the same
 16 pref,   0|             us tempt Him in whom we have believed, lest, being ensnared
 17 pref,   0|            doubt it was possible to have done everything through
 18 pref,   0|         condition of our race would have been much more degraded
 19 pref,   0|            the bond of unity, would have no means of pouring soul
 20 pref,   0|           servant, thou oughtest to have put my money to the exchangers."
 21 pref,   0|             am the truth." For what have we that we did not receive?
 22 pref,   0|          did not receive? And if we have received it, why do we glory,
 23 pref,   0|     objections, such is the start I have thought good to make on
 24   1, arg |             to rest in them, but to have reference to God. And we
 25   1,   1 |             yet wanting when once I have begun to use what He has
 26   1,   1 |            give, then, to those who have; that is to say, if they
 27   1,   1 |            and cheerfully what they have received, He will add to
 28   1,   1 |             distribution in which I have engaged, so far from incurring
 29   1,   2 |     carefully remember that what we have now to consider about things
 30   1,   4 |          this life of mortality. We have wandered far from God; and
 31   1,   6 |                                     Have I spoken of God, or uttered
 32   1,   6 |             way? Nay, I feel that I have done nothing more than desire
 33   1,   6 |           desire to speak; and if I have said anything, it is not
 34   1,   6 |             unspeakable? But what I have said, if it had been unspeakable,
 35   1,   6 |         been unspeakable, could not have been spoken. And so God
 36   1,  10 |             be purified that it may have power to perceive that light,
 37   1,  11 |               But of this we should have been wholly incapable, had
 38   1,  11 |          considered by proud men to have done very foolishly. And
 39   1,  12 |         mortal flesh, He is said to have come to us. For He came
 40   1,  13 |           hearer, the word which we have in our hearts becomes an
 41   1,  18 |         evil, when he has ceased to have faith in the results of
 42   1,  22 |       objects of enjoyment which we have spoken of as eternal and
 43   1,  22 |            Neither ought any one to have joy in himself, if you look
 44   1,  24 |             body, but that they may have it in subjection and ready
 45   1,  24 |           must make it an object to have the carnal habit changed
 46   1,  25 |            sound. And yet a man may have something that he loves
 47   1,  25 |     soundness of his body. For many have been found voluntarily to
 48   1,  27 |            God, and another man can have fellowship with us in the
 49   1,  29 |             Him, concerning whom we have no fear that any one who
 50   1,  30 |           so great offices of mercy have been performed by them on
 51   1,  33 |         themselves, and are glad to have the hope of others fixed
 52   1,  33 |            the provision which they have received of God for us or
 53   1,  33 |                        But when you have joy of a man in God, it
 54   1,  33 |           happy, and you rejoice to have come to Him in whose presence
 55   1,  33 |     Philemon, "Yea, brother, let me have joy of thee in the Lord."
 56   1,  33 |          but had only said, "Let me have joy of thee," he would have
 57   1,  33 |         have joy of thee," he would have implied that he fixed his
 58   1,  34 |           yet says: "Yea, though we have known Christ after the flesh,
 59   1,  34 |           things, even though these have been put on and worn by
 60   1,  35 |          feeling rather, such as we have towards the road, or carriages,
 61   1,  38 |           hope that which as yet we have not reached, how much more
 62   1,  39 |           because, when a man shall have reached the eternal world,
 63   1,  40 |           vain. For these reasons I have been anxious to speak about
 64   2,   1 |          over. It will be enough to have noticed it thus far. ~
 65   2,   2 |        because even the signs which have been given us of God, and
 66   2,   2 |        Scriptures. The beasts, too, have certain signs among themselves
 67   2,   3 |     themselves to the ear are, as I have said, more numerous, and
 68   2,   3 |          words. For among men words have obtained far and away the
 69   2,   3 |             consist of words. For I have been able to put into words
 70   2,   3 |          various classes of which I have briefly touched upon, but
 71   2,   4 |        longer than their sound, men have by means of letters formed
 72   2,   5 |           they believe these men to have spoken. ~
 73   2,   6 |           and true servants of God, have come to the baptismal font
 74   2,   6 |            the figure of sheep that have been shorn, laying down
 75   2,   6 |         pleasanter in some cases to have knowledge communicated through
 76   2,   6 |            seek at all because they have what they require just beside
 77   2,   7 |             Next it is necessary to have our hearts subdued by piety,
 78   2,   7 |         step, knowledge, of which I have now undertaken to treat.
 79   2,   7 |          love for ourselves, should have reference to God. And on
 80   2,   8 |           for it is about it that I have set myself to speak and
 81   2,   8 |            must be given to such as have been thought worthy to be
 82   2,   8 |              he will prefer such as have the sanction of the greater
 83   2,   8 |       prophetical books, since they have attained recognition as
 84   2,   9 |           hope and love, of which I have spoken in the previous book.
 85   2,   9 |           book. After this, when we have made ourselves to a certain
 86   2,  11 |         tongue, of whom are those I have undertaken to instruct,
 87   2,  11 |            and Greek, that they may have recourse to the original
 88   2,  11 |          these, although they could have been translated, have been
 89   2,  11 |         could have been translated, have been preserved in their
 90   2,  11 |            of which the other two I have mentioned are examples.
 91   2,  11 |            any part of a thought we have in our mind. And the two
 92   2,  12 |         moschos" means a calf, some have not understood that "moscheumata"
 93   2,  12 |            are shoots of trees, and have translated the word "calves;"
 94   2,  13 |           who in their translations have chosen to follow the sense
 95   2,  13 |             our understanding it to have the following passage thus
 96   2,  14 |             those tongues, or if we have leisure we must learn the
 97   2,  14 |            learning, that those who have been in a sort of way nurtured
 98   2,  14 |         Latin than those which they have learnt from Scripture, but
 99   2,  15 |             that in which these men have expressed it, I think we
100   2,  15 |          those translators also who have kept most closely to the
101   2,  15 |      seventy in number, are said to have translated as with one voice.
102   2,  16 |             many Hebrew names which have not been interpreted by
103   2,  16 |            skilled in that language have conferred no small benefit
104   2,  16 |          with. And when these names have been investigated and explained,
105   2,  16 |             the power it is said to have of piercing rocks with its
106   2,  16 |           on in amazement. Next, we have to inquire in the same way,
107   2,  16 |           psalters of ten chords to have just so many strings; or
108   2,  18 |   discovered them; nor because they have dedicated temples to Justice
109   2,  18 |         stones things that ought to have their place in the heart,
110   2,  19 |          other of things which they have noted, either as transacted
111   2,  20 |           not strange, but it would have been very strange indeed
112   2,  21 |          handed it on to posterity, have given the names either of
113   2,  21 |            And this would, perhaps, have been done, and the name
114   2,  21 |        carried out. For example, we have changed the names of the
115   2,  21 |          His own pleasure, and they have a fixed movement, by which
116   2,  22 |            among those at least who have any sort of acquaintance
117   2,  22 |             born last, was found to have laid hold with his hand
118   2,  22 |           these notions also, which have their origin in certain
119   2,  23 |            would not that ye should have fellowship with devils."
120   2,  23 |           created and ordained, men have drawn lying omens of their
121   2,  23 |            struck by lightning, men have frequently drawn omens by
122   2,  23 |       conjectures of their own, and have committed them to writing,
123   2,  24 |      marking them that they came to have meaning. And so they are
124   2,  24 |      conjectures and preconceptions have already entangled him in.
125   2,  24 |             significant because men have agreed upon them; in the
126   2,  24 |           with devils is maintained have meaning just in proportion
127   2,  24 |            the omens and after they have completed their observations,
128   2,  25 |                  But when all these have been cut away and rooted
129   2,  25 |             among men, because they have agreed among themselves
130   2,  25 |           would not in former times have announced to the people
131   2,  25 |           many old men from whom we have frequently heard it. And
132   2,  25 |         among men, except when they have mutually agreed upon them. ~
133   2,  26 |      objects. And of these, such as have relation to fellowship with
134   2,  26 |           as is required a matter I have spoken of above. To this
135   2,  27 | institutions those things which men have handed down to us, not as
136   2,  29 |       bodies. And of this species I have treated above, and have
137   2,  29 |             have treated above, and have shown that this kind of
138   2,  29 |            that kind of knowledge I have already set aside as distinct
139   2,  29 |          the heavenly bodies. And I have stated what my views are
140   2,  32 |           rule that the reasoning I have quoted from the Apostle
141   2,  33 |          Let us suppose some man to have admitted: If a snail is
142   2,  34 |        certain. Now some, when they have ascertained the validity
143   2,  34 |          who hold the true opinions have an unfounded contempt for
144   2,  35 |          things. For although poets have applied it to their fictions,
145   2,  35 |            says what possibly might have been. The definition and
146   2,  37 |            supposing that when they have learnt these things they
147   2,  37 |            learnt these things they have learnt the true secret of
148   2,  37 |          they do not give those who have learnt them an inclination
149   2,  37 |           make them think that they have attained some great thing
150   2,  38 |          number because odd numbers have no half. Whether, then,
151   2,  38 |           or of other motions, they have fixed laws which were not
152   2,  38 |            he knows that all things have their being; the man, I
153   2,  39 |             find any of those which have been instituted by men varying
154   2,  39 |                What, then, some men have done in regard to all words
155   2,  39 |              what, I say, these men have done in regard to matters
156   2,  39 |         some or all of these things have been done already (as I
157   2,  39 |             been done already (as I have found that many things I
158   2,  39 |           things I had no notion of have been worked out and committed
159   2,  40 |          especially the Platonists, have said aught that is true
160   2,  40 |          our own use from those who have unlawful possession of it.
161   2,  40 |        branches of heathen learning have not only false and superstitious
162   2,  40 |                       And what else have many good and faithful men
163   2,  40 |           much Greeks out of number have borrowed! And prior to all
164   2,  40 |         persecuting the Christians) have ever furnished branches
165   2,  41 |   Scriptures, prepared in the way I have indicated, shall enter upon
166   2,  42 |     Scripture. For whatever man may have learnt from other sources,
167   2,  42 |          out, so that unknown signs have ceased to be a hindrance
168   3, arg | interpretation of expressions which have been proved to be figurative;
169   3,   1 |             through piety, so as to have no love of strife; when
170   3,   1 |       metaphorical, classes which I have already described in the
171   3,   2 |             and the translators who have omitted this particle have
172   3,   2 |          have omitted this particle have preferred the interpretation
173   3,   2 |            betwixt two, but also to have a desire for two. We must
174   3,   2 |         fear of God. Receive us; we have wronged no man." It is doubtful
175   3,   3 |           all the directions that I have given about ambiguous punctuations
176   3,   3 |            in the same way we shall have the inquiry, "Who is he
177   3,   3 |             not after righteousness have attained to righteousness;"
178   3,   3 |            not after righteousness, have attained to righteousness;"
179   3,   3 |        educated. For I would rather have the barbarism, "non est
180   3,   3 |  absconditum a te ossum meum", than have the passage in better Latin
181   3,   3 |             before [praedico], as I have also told you in time past [
182   3,   3 |            and had not added, "as I have also told you in time past [
183   3,   4 |         fratres in vobis", he would have followed the words less
184   3,   4 |          literally, but there would have been less doubt about the
185   3,   4 |       nostri", hardly any one would have doubted that the vocative
186   3,   4 |            vestram gloriam] which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord,
187   3,   7 |            gods of the works of man have sunk lower than they who
188   3,   9 |             and apostolic practice, have handed down to us a few
189   3,  10 |    neighbour. Now all these matters have been spoken of in the first
190   3,  10 |          come first; for when these have exhausted the soul, and
191   3,  11 |              They that are Christ's have crucified the flesh, with
192   3,  11 |      addressed to Jeremiah, "See, I have this day set thee over the
193   3,  11 |            be referred to the end I have spoken of. ~
194   3,  12 |    profligate men are accustomed to have theirs anointed in those
195   3,  12 |             proper for one woman to have several husbands, because
196   3,  14 |            into the light of wisdom have thought that there was no
197   3,  16 |             and drink His blood, ye have no life in you." This seems
198   3,  16 |            enjoining that we should have a share in the sufferings
199   3,  17 |         daughter, and so shalt thou have performed a weighty matter."
200   3,  18 |             matter of indulgence to have one wife because of their
201   3,  18 |       together had come, they would have immediately made themselves
202   3,  18 |            but uprightly: therefore have pity on us, O Lord." ~
203   3,  20 |           passion, they could never have restrained themselves from
204   3,  21 |            in battle, that he might have a place of repentance after
205   3,  24 |    expressions used is above all to have weight~
206   3,  25 |          other case. The examples I have adduced are indeed by no
207   3,  27 |        fruitful provision could God have made in regard to the Sacred
208   3,  29 |                   Moreover, I would have learned men to know that
209   3,  29 |            with the Scriptures, and have learnt these figures of
210   3,  29 |        elsewhere, although indeed I have already given that advice
211   3,  29 |             only examples (which we have of them all), but the very
212   3,  29 |          ordinary speech of men who have learnt no grammar, but are
213   3,  29 |           way many obscure passages have had light thrown upon them. ~
214   3,  30 |             be laid open," he would have said what was true, and
215   3,  30 |          elaborate and useful work, have led the reader into false
216   3,  30 |           false expectations. And I have thought it right to say
217   3,  32 |             them in paths that they have not known; I will make darkness
218   3,  33 |        treating of this doctrine. I have, however, dealt with it,
219   3,  34 |      species. And hence these words have come to be commonly known,
220   3,  34 |         among the heathen, which ye have profaned in the midst of
221   3,  36 |         nation could not be said to have its own language if all
222   3,  36 |           Is it when our Lord shall have been revealed that men are
223   3,  36 |            the past life which they have renounced? Is not the present
224   3,  36 |            that when the Lord shall have been revealed every man
225   3,  37 |             should be understood we have a figurative expression,
226   3,  37 |         from some less, just as men have got more or less from God
227   3,  37 |            of intellect, or as they have access to more or fewer
228   3,  37 |             understood, and which I have just finished speaking of
229   3,  37 |             and it is from Him they have received their very desire
230   3,  37 |          far as relates to words, I have now said enough. It remains
231   4, arg |          mingled; and that they all have the same end in view, to
232   4,   1 |           the meaning." As, then, I have already said a great deal
233   4,   1 |       ascertaining the meaning, and have given three books to this
234   4,   1 |         rules of rhetoric such as I have learnt, and taught too,
235   4,   1 |          but that whatever use they have is to be learnt elsewhere;
236   4,   1 |           good man should happen to have leisure for learning them,
237   4,   3 |            ornaments of speech, you have what is called eloquence
238   4,   3 |       importance as to wish men who have arrived at mature age to
239   4,   3 |         service. For even those who have learnt them, and who speak
240   4,   3 |             be careful that what we have got to say does not escape
241   4,   3 |         more eloquent than many who have learnt these; but we know
242   4,   3 |             learnt by boys, if they have the advantage of growing
243   4,   4 |               And all the methods I have mentioned are constantly
244   4,   5 |             principles of eloquence have been forced by truth to
245   4,   5 |           writers of the Church who have expounded the Holy Scriptures,
246   4,   6 |         same time that it could not have been properly said in any
247   4,   6 |          they spoke; no other would have been suitable for them;
248   4,   6 |            is then less apparent, I have no doubt but that it is
249   4,   6 |       qualities which these writers have in common with the heathen
250   4,   6 |          had shunned it, they would have done the former; if they
251   4,   6 |            it prominent, they might have appeared to be doing the
252   4,   7 |            when the words and ideas have a connection of dependency
253   4,   7 |      shipwreck, a night and a day I have been in the deep; in journeying
254   4,   7 |        members; for a period cannot have less than two members, though
255   4,   7 |          two members, though it may have more: "I say again, let
256   4,   7 |        clause: "a night and a day I have been in the deep." Next
257   4,   7 |            regard to the passages I have quoted from the apostle'
258   4,   7 |         some one is thinking that I have selected the Apostle Paul
259   4,   7 |             we could not in any way have put another meaning upon
260   4,   7 |             without it he could not have been the teacher of the
261   4,   7 |          their translation, seem to have altered some passages with
262   4,   7 |           such as these, would they have chosen to express themselves
263   4,   7 |           them, at least, who would have shrunk from raving like
264   4,   7 |            expressed it, this would have had its beauty: six separate
265   4,   7 |             viol, and think that ye have instruments of music like
266   4,   7 |            intimates that these men have not even skill in their
267   4,   7 |             in this passage which I have chosen as an example. But
268   4,   7 |         very eloquent and acute men have perceived and said, the
269   4,   7 |            art of oratory could not have been observed, and noted,
270   4,   8 |         other of these reasons they have expressed themselves with
271   4,   8 |           wholesome obscurity. They have indeed expressed themselves
272   4,   8 |           and explained them aright have in the Church of God obtained
273   4,   9 |            truth which we ourselves have reached within the comprehension
274   4,   9 |          hearer or companion should have an earnest desire to learn
275   4,   9 |         learn the truth, and should have capacity of mind to receive
276   4,  10 |        speech; though good teachers have, or ought to have, so great
277   4,  10 |          teachers have, or ought to have, so great an anxiety about
278   4,  10 |            seeing that African ears have no quick perception of the
279   4,  10 |           with delight by those who have already made acquaintance
280   4,  10 |         acquaintance with them, and have not yet forgotten them;
281   4,  11 |             put, and who, when they have succeeded in their object,
282   4,  12 |          said his say, whatever may have been his manner of saying
283   4,  12 |        knowledge of their duty will have such an effect that there
284   4,  14 |           which wicked and base men have with great eloquence recommended,
285   4,  14 |        hands; and my people love to have it so: and what will ye
286   4,  14 |             s people should love to have it so. God forbid, I say,
287   4,  16 |       Father knoweth what things ye have need of before ye ask Him;"
288   4,  16 |             Apostle Paul should not have given directions to Timothy
289   4,  17 |       should pray and strive, as we have said above, to be heard
290   4,  17 |          eloquence himself seems to have intended that the following
291   4,  18 |                    Now the author I have quoted could have exemplified
292   4,  18 |          author I have quoted could have exemplified these three
293   4,  18 |              he could not, however, have done so in regard to ecclesiastical
294   4,  18 |        those are called small which have reference to pecuniary transactions;
295   4,  18 |             up. Cases, again, which have to do with neither of these,
296   4,  18 |        place of authority, ought to have reference to men's salvation,
297   4,  18 |       pecuniary matters, whether it have reference to loss or gain,
298   4,  18 |             this life? If, then, ye have judgments of things pertaining
299   4,  20 |         something more definite. We have an example of the calm,
300   4,  20 |             a law given which could have given life, verily righteousness
301   4,  20 |         verily righteousness should have been by the law. But the
302   4,  20 |             words of the apostle we have the temperate style: "Rebuke
303   4,  20 |            am afraid of you, lest I have bestowed upon you labour
304   4,  20 |              for I am as ye are: ye have not injured me at all. Ye
305   4,  20 |             been possible, ye would have plucked out your own eyes,
306   4,  20 |      plucked out your own eyes, and have given them to me. Am I therefore
307   4,  21 |             and hear them, but must have an expositor. Let us, then,
308   4,  21 |             reading the Scriptures, have attained to the knowledge
309   4,  21 |        divine and saving truth, and have ministered it to the Church.
310   4,  21 |          end of the epistle, "As we have borne," he says, "the image
311   4,  21 |            to the Lord, to whom you have pledged your vows. Ye who
312   4,  21 |       holding up before virgins who have made their profession a
313   4,  21 |        minister to appetite." Now I have cited these latter passages
314   4,  21 |             not to induce those who have not yet devoted themselves
315   4,  21 |            what character those who have taken vows ought to be.
316   4,  21 |          subject which both of them have touched. Both have denounced
317   4,  21 |             them have touched. Both have denounced the women who
318   4,  21 |               and dost thou wish to have greater power so as to bring
319   4,  21 |           proclaim openly that they have incurred their own! For
320   4,  21 |            these two authors whom I have selected as specimens of
321   4,  22 |         higher point the emotion we have excited, we rather lose
322   4,  22 |              we rather lose what we have already gained. But after
323   4,  22 |     interposition of matter that we have to treat in a quieter style,
324   4,  23 |             for example, when, as I have said, a knotty question
325   4,  24 |          many other cases besides I have observed that men show the
326   4,  25 |      adequate end; but when what we have to say is good and useful,
327   4,  25 |           them, beauty of style may have its influence in securing
328   4,  25 |          vehement style; or if they have already begun a good course,
329   4,  27 |       Himself, before saying what I have just quoted about men of
330   4,  29 |           are, indeed, some men who have a good delivery, but cannot
331   4,  29 |           own thought, and yet they have nothing in common with his
332   4,  30 |         preparing it; and when they have received it, they ought
333   4,  31 |          little ability I possess I have in these four books striven