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  1 pref,   0|               they may profit not only from reading the works of others
  2 pref,   0|              sacred writings, but also from themselves opening such
  3 pref,   0|               our Lord do not withhold from me, while I write, the thoughts
  4 pref,   0|           assaults), to turn them back from a useful study to the dull
  5 pref,   0|            have received no assistance from this work themselves, will
  6 pref,   0|               s great gift, yet it was from human teachers they themselves
  7 pref,   0|               whom I have lately heard from very respectable and trustworthy
  8 pref,   0|              who, without any teaching from man, attained a full knowledge
  9 pref,   0|      Scriptures without any directions from man (and if the fact be
 10 pref,   0|               by hearing it constantly from childhood, and that any
 11 pref,   0|               by hearing it spoken, or from a human teacher. Now, then,
 12 pref,   0|           learn whatever can be learnt from man; and let him who teaches
 13 pref,   0|             Christ and hear the gospel from His own lips rather than
 14 pref,   0|               His own lips rather than from those of men. ~
 15 pref,   0|         admonished by the voice of God from heaven, was yet sent to
 16 pref,   0|                received the sacraments from the apostle's hands, but
 17 pref,   0|              God gave forth no oracles from His human temple, but communicated
 18 pref,   0|                taught to men by voices from heaven, or through the ministration
 19 pref,   0|              men never learnt anything from their fellow-men. ~
 20   1, arg |              are prevented by our sins from enjoying God; and that our
 21   1,   1 |           which I have engaged, so far from incurring loss and poverty,
 22   1,   3 |                sometimes even led away from it; so that, getting entangled
 23   1,   3 |              even altogether turn back from, the pursuit of the real
 24   1,   4 |            could not live happily away from our fatherland, and that
 25   1,   4 |              our thoughts are diverted from that home whose delights
 26   1,   4 |        mortality. We have wandered far from God; and if we wish to return
 27   1,   6 |             How do I know this, except from the fact that God is unspeakable?
 28   1,   8 |              is quite a distinct thing from the life by which it is
 29   1,   9 |            hand, who sees, but shrinks from this truth, is weak in his
 30   1,   9 |              weak in his mental vision from dwelling long among the
 31   1,   9 |               thus men are driven back from their native land by the
 32   1,  15 |               resurrection of our Lord from the dead, and of His ascension
 33   1,  15 |               men look for Him to come from heaven as the judge of quick
 34   1,  16 |            when He has transplanted it from this world to the eternal
 35   1,  18 |                should repent, and turn from his sins, should be saved
 36   1,  22 |               good, than when he turns from that to enjoy even himself.
 37   1,  22 |            whole intelligence upon Him from whom you derive all that
 38   1,  22 |              no stream to be drawn off from itself by whose diversion
 39   1,  23 |                far a man may fall away from the truth, he still continues
 40   1,  23 |              The soul which flies away from the unchangeable Light,
 41   1,  24 |             habit which it has derived from its parent stock, and which
 42   1,  28 |             neither of whom had either from need or relationship a greater
 43   1,  29 |                confer no advantage and from whom we look for none. We
 44   1,  29 |             either give them or accept from them should tend to that
 45   1,  29 |           seeing they cannot take away from us what we love; but we
 46   1,  29 |                more are they separated from Him whom we love. For if
 47   1,  30 |            certain man who, going down from Jerusalem to Jericho, fell
 48   1,  30 |                to love God is distinct from that to love our neighbour.
 49   1,  31 |                must be in need of good from us, and no sane man will
 50   1,  31 |          either Himself, or what comes from Himself. And no one can
 51   1,  34 |               who has freed our nature from the bondage of temporal
 52   1,  36 |            hand, a man draws a meaning from them that may be used for
 53   1,  36 |                 and he is wholly clear from the charge of deception.
 54   1,  37 |                For if a man has fallen from faith, he must necessarily
 55   1,  37 |             must necessarily also fall from love; for he cannot love
 56   1,  40 |               For if our faith is free from all hypocrisy, then we both
 57   1,  40 |        hypocrisy, then we both abstain from loving what is unworthy
 58   2, arg |               Scripture spring chiefly from two sources, unknown and
 59   2, arg |                 The difficulty arising from ignorance of signs is to
 60   2,   1 |           signs are those which, apart from any intention or desire
 61   2,   1 |          indicates fire. For it is not from any intention of making
 62   2,   2 |                instinctively and apart from any purpose, or whether
 63   2,   2 |               of the subject I exclude from the scope of this work as
 64   2,   4 |               among men, which springs from every man trying to snatch
 65   2,   6 |               in Scripture which arise from its figurative language~
 66   2,   6 |         redeeming those who come to it from all kinds of superstitions,
 67   2,   6 |              he draws the same meaning from that passage in Canticles,
 68   2,   6 |               are shorn, which came up from the washing, whereof every
 69   2,   6 |               Church, tearing men away from their errors, and bringing
 70   2,   6 |            like fleeces, and coming up from the washing, i.e., from
 71   2,   6 |                from the washing, i.e., from baptism, and all bearing
 72   2,   6 |              no such figure were drawn from the sacred books, though
 73   2,   6 |            seek but do not find suffer from hunger. Those, again, who
 74   2,   6 |                them often grow languid from satiety. Now weakness from
 75   2,   6 |             from satiety. Now weakness from either of these causes is
 76   2,   7 |                has been drawn far away from such a love for God and
 77   2,   7 |             mind he extricates himself from every form of fatal joy
 78   2,   7 |               things, and turning away from these, fixes his affection
 79   2,   7 |               upon this object shining from afar, and has felt that
 80   2,   7 |        disturbs him with base desires, from the filth it has contracted.
 81   2,   7 |            that he will not step aside from the truth, either for the
 82   2,   7 |               the beginning of wisdom. From that beginning, then, till
 83   2,   8 |                are ascribed to Solomon from a certain resemblance of
 84   2,   9 |              in doing so draw examples from the plainer expressions
 85   2,  10 |                signs prevent Scripture from being understood~
 86   2,  10 |                prevent what is written from being understood: its being
 87   2,  11 |         translations of the Scriptures from Hebrew into Greek can be
 88   2,  12 |              is useful. Errors arising from ambiguous words~
 89   2,  12 |             blood. Again, that passage from the same prophet Isaiah: "
 90   2,  13 |             learned man, often departs from the meaning of his author,
 91   2,  13 |           knowledge of those languages from which the Scriptures are
 92   2,  13 |          according to a different rule from that which those of our
 93   2,  13 |                word in a different way from that in which those who
 94   2,  13 |                we cannot now take away from the lips of the people who
 95   2,  13 |              surely takes away nothing from the meaning. Yet a more
 96   2,  13 |         stronger than men) is not free from ambiguity, even though it
 97   2,  13 |                 even though it be free from solecism. For whether "hominibus"
 98   2,  14 |                make inquiry about them from men who speak those tongues,
 99   2,  14 |           those which they have learnt from Scripture, but which are
100   2,  15 |             Hebrew in a different form from that in which these men
101   2,  15 |            race were unwilling, either from religious scruple or from
102   2,  15 |              from religious scruple or from jealousy, to make known
103   2,  15 |               if any perplexity arises from the diversities of the Latin
104   2,  16 |        Scripture is accustomed to draw from that animal, so ignorance
105   2,  16 |              numbers, too, prevents us from understanding things that
106   2,  16 |               we must abstain and fast from all joy in time, for the
107   2,  16 |             often shuts out the reader from this instruction. ~
108   2,  16 |               explained some metaphors from the difference between the
109   2,  17 |            recollect the name) ordered from each of three artists a
110   2,  17 |             should select and purchase from him. It so happened that
111   2,  18 |           despised even though it come from a profane source~
112   2,  18 |              if we can derive anything from it that is of use for the
113   2,  21 |                     Nor can we exclude from this kind of superstition
114   2,  21 |               and Augustus Caesar; and from this instance any one who
115   2,  22 |             fate of those who are born from such an observation, is
116   2,  23 |          against our return. As, then, from the stars which God created
117   2,  23 |               their own fancy, so also from things that are born, or
118   2,  24 |                when writing to a Greek from that in which he uses it
119   2,  24 |               of no significance apart from the previous arrangement
120   2,  25 |             remembered by many old men from whom we have frequently
121   2,  25 |       peculiarly man's own and derived from himself than, anything that
122   2,  27 |            pointed out to us, or infer from experience. ~
123   2,  28 |          Anything, then, that we learn from history about the chronology
124   2,  28 |            shadow of doubt might arise from another source, can be ascertained
125   2,  28 |             clearly and more certainly from a comparison of profane
126   2,  28 |        compelled to admire and praise, from the books of Plato because (
127   2,  28 |               even Pythagoras himself, from whose successors these men
128   2,  28 |            said that was good and true from our literature, than that
129   2,  28 |               Lord Jesus Christ learnt from the writings of Plato, a
130   2,  29 |          already set aside as distinct from the lawful and free kind
131   2,  29 |                it will remove the pain from your stomach; and another
132   2,  29 |                it will remove the pain from your stomach. In the former
133   2,  29 |                because one may go back from the present position and
134   2,  29 |                drawing any information from them as to our own acts
135   2,  30 |         teaches us to infer the future from the past. For no man who
136   2,  30 |              figures of speech derived from these arts. ~
137   2,  31 |            object of making the person from whose error these consequences
138   2,  31 |       inferences followed legitimately from the opinion of those who
139   2,  31 |      conclusions may be drawn not only from true but from false propositions,
140   2,  31 |           drawn not only from true but from false propositions, the
141   2,  32 |                reasoning I have quoted from the Apostle Paul proceeds.
142   2,  32 |             wished to overthrow. Next, from this antecedent, the assertion,
143   2,  33 |                inferences may be drawn from valid seasonings, and vice
144   2,  33 |               true and valid inference from the false admission. Thus,
145   2,  35 |               s device, but is evolved from the reason of things. For
146   2,  37 |                we derive more pleasure from them as exhibitions of truth,
147   2,  38 |               inquire after the source from which those things which
148   2,  38 |                derive their truth, and from which those others which
149   2,  38 | unchangeableness, and who, mounting up from bodily appearances to the
150   2,  38 |                and love of the one God from whom he knows that all things
151   2,  39 |               withdraw their attention from such institutions of men
152   2,  40 |             are not only not to shrink from it, but to claim it for
153   2,  40 |               claim it for our own use from those who have unlawful
154   2,  40 |               of Israel hated and fled from, but also vessels and ornaments
155   2,  40 |               the leadership of Christ from the fellowship of the heathen,
156   2,  40 |            separates himself in spirit from the miserable fellowship
157   2,  40 |                men, ought to take away from them, and to devote to their
158   2,  41 |                 its length by the part from the ground up to the crossbar
159   2,  41 |                on which the whole body from the head downwards is fixed,
160   2,  41 |                 its height by the part from the crossbar to the top
161   2,  41 |              of the riches brought out from Egypt. "Purge me with hyssop,"
162   2,  41 |              show that it is purifying from pride that is indicated
163   2,  42 |            knowledge which is gathered from the books of the heathen
164   2,  42 |           whatever man may have learnt from other sources, if it is
165   3, arg |              signs ambiguity may arise from the punctuation, the pronunciation,
166   3,   1 |            happen however, that either from the greatness of his intellect,
167   3,   2 |            faith which he has gathered from the plainer passages of
168   3,   2 |             passages of Scripture, and from the authority of the Church,
169   3,   2 |              therefore must be decided from the context. It is where
170   3,   2 |               let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh
171   3,   2 |               let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh
172   3,   2 |               let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh],
173   3,   3 |             bone [os meum] was not hid from Thee, which Thou didst make
174   3,   5 |         customary offerings of victims from the flock, and of the fruits
175   3,   6 |                people, differed widely from what it was in the case
176   3,   6 |              Jews did was God, or came from God. But those who did believe,
177   3,   6 |             But those who did believe, from among whom the first Church
178   3,   7 |              be anything the more free from the burden and the livery
179   3,   8 |            chap. 8. The Jews liberated from their bondage in one way,
180   3,   8 |               signs, it not only freed from their slavery to such signs,
181   3,   8 |               the gentiles were turned from the corruption of a multitude
182   3,   9 |              wrongly, to draw the neck from under the yoke of bondage
183   3,  20 |             have restrained themselves from implacable hatred towards
184   3,  25 |               found to be drawn either from like objects or from objects
185   3,  25 |            either from like objects or from objects having some affinity. ~
186   3,  25 |           living bread which came down from heaven;" in a bad, "Bread
187   3,  25 |                Scriptures passing away from the Jews and coming to the
188   3,  26 |                                    Now from the places where the sense
189   3,  27 |              danger if it can be shown from other passages of Scripture
190   3,  27 |              draws a different meaning from the words, but one that
191   3,  27 |             sound doctrine, he is free from blame so long as he is supported
192   3,  28 |                by indubitable evidence from Scripture, it remains for
193   3,  29 |                these figures of speech from other writings, can imagine
194   3,  29 |             For the written characters from which grammar itself gets
195   3,  29 |            fish, and yet gets its name from fish? And this is the figure
196   3,  29 |                a grove is called lucus from its want of light; or it
197   3,  30 |              required which are so far from being embraced in this number
198   3,  30 |        pathways of light, be preserved from going astray." Now, if he
199   3,  30 |                no more may be expected from it than it really contains.
200   3,  31 |              when a transition is made from the head to the body or
201   3,  31 |                the head to the body or from the body to the head, and
202   3,  32 |           persons altogether different from the former; but as the two
203   3,  33 |             that it did not come to us from God; not keeping in mind
204   3,  33 |         brethren, and love with faith, from God the Father and the Lord
205   3,  33 |            gift of God, when he learns from this passage, and believes,
206   3,  34 |               transition at that point from the species to the genus,
207   3,  34 |              eyes. For I will take you from among the heathen, and gather
208   3,  34 |                 and ye shall be clean: from all your filthiness, and
209   3,  34 |               all your filthiness, and from all your idols, will I cleanse
210   3,  34 |              God. I will also save you from all your uncleannesses."
211   3,  34 |                 Now the heart of flesh from which the apostle's expression, "
212   3,  34 |             point out as distinguished from the stony heart by the possession
213   3,  34 |            therefore, is distinguished from the carnal Israel which
214   3,  36 |                do not understand this, from applying the rule here spoken
215   3,  36 |             the garden, as now appears from the order of the narrative
216   3,  36 |               to tell how it was, that from having one language in common,
217   3,  36 |                of Sodom it rained fire from heaven, and destroyed them
218   3,  37 |              Church, until they depart from this life, or until the
219   3,  37 |           until the chaff is separated from the wheat at the last great
220   3,  37 |              Isaiah, "How he is fallen from heaven, Lucifer, son of
221   3,  37 |              dust which the wind blows from the face of the earth. ~
222   3,  37 |               labour to understand it, from some more, from some less,
223   3,  37 |         understand it, from some more, from some less, just as men have
224   3,  37 |              men have got more or less from God of the gifts of intellect,
225   3,  37 |              understanding;" and it is from Him they have received their
226   4, arg |               sought in earnest prayer from God, though we are not to
227   4, arg |                examples, selected both from Scripture and from early
228   4, arg |                both from Scripture and from early teachers of the Church,
229   4,   1 |             need not look for any such from me. Not that I think such
230   4,   3 |           oratory) may be learnt apart from these writings of mine,
231   4,   3 |              themselves did not shrink from sayings any one who cannot
232   4,   3 |             learning words and phrases from those who do speak, why
233   4,   3 |               can? And what do we find from the examples themselves
234   4,   3 |              of the faults, they will, from being accustomed to correct
235   4,   5 |                wisdom which comes down from the Father of Lights, how
236   4,   5 |                gain strength and power from the confirming testimony
237   4,   6 |              above that of others (not from empty inflation, but from
238   4,   6 |              from empty inflation, but from solid merit) as it seems
239   4,   6 |            characters, and to guide us from this world of wickedness
240   4,   7 |                of true eloquence drawn from the epistles of Paul and
241   4,   7 |              apostles who had gone out from the Jews, and had been trying
242   4,   7 |           delighted and affected. For, from the place where I commenced
243   4,   7 |             the passages I have quoted from the apostle's writings,
244   4,   7 |               of eloquence, we take it from those epistles which even
245   4,   7 |                so, quoting principally from the book of that prophet
246   4,   7 |        herdsman, and was called by God from that occupation, and sent
247   4,   7 |            follow the translation made from the Hebrew into Latin by
248   4,   7 |              unto Calneh, and see; and from thence go ye to Hamath the
249   4,   7 |           least, who would have shrunk from raving like madmen? ~
250   4,   7 |                 he says, "and see, and from thence go ye to Hamath the
251   4,   7 |             couches; that eat the lamb from the flock, and the calves
252   4,   7 |              couches, who eat the lamb from the flock, and calves out
253   4,   7 |            gluttony: "who eat the lamb from the flock, and the calves
254   4,   7 |      distinguish the music of the wise from the music of the voluptuary,
255   4,   7 |             who stands out illustrious from among his brethren, both
256   4,   7 |                in wisdom and eloquence from the divine mind; wisdom
257   4,   7 |                eloquence not shrinking from wisdom. For if, as certain
258   4,   8 |             some examples of eloquence from those writings of theirs
259   4,   8 |         converted to piety or shut out from a knowledge of the mysteries,
260   4,   8 |            knowledge of the mysteries, from one or other of these reasons
261   4,   9 |      conversations, we must not shrink from the duty of bringing the
262   4,  10 |             translators did not shrink from saying, "Non congregabo
263   4,  10 |              unlearned audience shrink from using "ossum" instead of "
264   4,  10 |              will derive pleasure even from hearing another man repeat
265   4,  11 |               them do what they shrank from, but in making clear what
266   4,  12 |            objects of pity, and shrink from those whom you set before
267   4,  13 |            without deriving any profit from it. For what does it profit
268   4,  14 |            pleasure. But may God avert from His Church what the prophet
269   4,  14 |             which is the more terrible from its purity, and the more
270   4,  14 |          purity, and the more crushing from its solidity! Assuredly
271   4,  14 |                 no pleasure is derived from that species of eloquence
272   4,  16 |               makes him ready to learn from Himself, that God who is
273   4,  16 |             applied; and if it be done from a sense of duty, it is esteemed
274   4,  18 |         moderate things get their name from modus (a measure); and it
275   4,  18 |                addressed to the people from the place of authority,
276   4,  18 |             viz., that all lines drawn from the centre to the circumference
277   4,  18 |                truths which deliver us from eternal misery and bring
278   4,  19 |               is, and urge men to flee from it. ~
279   4,  20 |               the various styles drawn from Scripture~
280   4,  20 |             the two covenants; the one from the Mount Sinai, which gendereth
281   4,  20 |               to the original question from which he set out. It is,
282   4,  20 |                away none of the weight from these divine and authoritative
283   4,  20 |               our prophets were so far from being deficient in the musical
284   4,  20 |                in the musical training from which this harmony we speak
285   4,  20 |                style of speech differs from the temperate style just
286   4,  20 |              us. Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall
287   4,  20 |           shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is
288   4,  21 |              the various styles, drawn from the teachers of the church,
289   4,  21 |               custom handed down to us from the Lord, and to do nothing
290   4,  21 |               the message he had heard from God, that, though thousands
291   4,  21 |               would deliver His people from their enemies, he brought
292   4,  21 |       celebrated encomium on virginity from Cyprian: "Now our discourse
293   4,  21 |         examples of the majestic style from their treatment of a subject
294   4,  21 |     carefully-chosen colours, and then from stains on their features
295   4,  21 |               those of a painting, and from fear of incurring their
296   4,  21 |             victim of a pander shrinks from acting the pander's part,
297   4,  22 |            attention; but when we pass from one style to another, the
298   4,  22 |         prevent the hearer's attention from cooling or becoming languid.
299   4,  22 |               like the sea. It follows from this, that the majestic
300   4,  23 |                with greater brilliance from the dark background. Again,
301   4,  24 |              was dissuading the people from that civil, or worse than
302   4,  24 |          command to root out and drive from their hearts and lives an
303   4,  24 |               been handed down to them from their fathers and their
304   4,  25 |                                        From all this we may conclude,
305   4,  26 |                very acute observations from a quarter whence nothing
306   4,  26 |         simplicity, does not hinder it from crushing its adversary by
307   4,  27 |             which belonged to another, from preaching their own doctrines. ~
308   4,  29 |              steal His words every one from his neighbour. For those
309   4,  29 |                is to say, what ye hear from their lips, that do; what
310   4,  29 |                speak good things?" And from this it would appear that
311   4,  29 |                place, the former draws from himself what does not belong
312   4,  29 |                and the latter receives from another what really belongs
313   4,  30 |                to render thanks to Him from whom they know such blessings