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1 II, 2 | S MEANING IN I COR. VII. 12-14.~Therefore, when in these
2 II, 2 | MEANING IN I COR. VII. 12-14.~Therefore, when in these
3 I, 3 | dissolve wedlock, (and) to abolish marriage talons; as if from
4 I, 4 | fleshly concupiscence, in abolishing the temporal and fleeting
5 I, 5 | laws, who are decimated by abortions; burdens which, finally,
6 | above
7 II, 4 | without anxiety endure her absence all the night long at the
8 II, 2 | he had been pronouncing absolutely, (in the words under discussion,)
9 I, 4 | and while on earth, by abstaining from marriage, are already
10 I, 7 | itself, let us resolve to accept it, that what we have not
11 II, 1intro| proposed to the will (for acceptance or rejection): the other
12 II, 3 | with the brotherhood, in accordance with the letter of the apostle,
13 I, 6 | ground of virginity. To the Achaean Juno, at the town Aegium,
14 I, 5 | other though the greed of acquiring. And yet that "blindness"
15 I, 5 | that they who have wives act as if they had them not."~
16 I, 2 | permitted, yet Singly. For Adam was the one husband of Eve,
17 II, 1intro| recurring to that point also in addressing you, had I not by this time
18 II, 3 | is not "fornication." The admission of a strange man (to your
19 I, 7 | would not grant a widow admittance into the order unless she
20 II, 1intro| regard of human infirmity; admonished hereto by the examples of
21 I, 4 | claims the functions of adult age, craves after beauty'
22 II, 3 | with the members of an adulteress. So far as I know, "'we
23 II, 3 | just referred to) is not "adultery;" It is not "fornication."
24 I, 3 | persecutions it is better to take advantage of the permission granted,
25 I, 3 | for teaching that Christ's advent was intended to dissolve
26 I, 7 | God. Besides, reflect, I advise you, that there is no one
27 II, 2 | double-dealing of their advisers, in that there is no scripture
28 I, 6 | Achaean Juno, at the town Aegium, a virgin is allotted; and
29 I, 7 | good, but as contumeliously affecting what is pleasing to God
30 I, 7 | of course, as having any affinity with anything good, but
31 II, 5 | else in regard of your own affliction in avoiding his intolerance. "
32 II, 8 | rich, would perhaps not afford (all) these. Set before
33 I, 6 | that widows minister to the African Ceres; enticed away, indeed,
34 I, 2 | certain things) which should afterward deserve to be either lopped
35 | again
36 II, 6 | of the month, she will be agitated by the odour of incense.
37 II, 2 | if she finds her husband agreeable (to their continued union),
38 I, 8concl| they are destitute of human aid, the Father of all undertakes
39 II, 1intro| this account is the highest aim of (widowed) life, I have
40 II, 6 | inimical, all condemned; aimed by the Evil One for the
41 I, 3 | place is what every struggle aims at; the second has consolation
42 II, 2 | Spirit give (me ability); alleging, before all (other arguments),
43 I, 8concl| s agent; industry, which allows not women to be "wanderers;"
44 II, 8 | relieved, with freedom. Alms (are given) without (danger
45 | alone
46 I, 7 | man;" for it behoves God's altar to be set forth pure. That
47 | always
48 II, 6 | The handmaid of God dwells amid alien labours; and among
49 II, 8 | will be dowered with an ampler dowry from the goods of
50 I, 2 | We grant, that among our ancestors, and the patriarchs themselves,
51 I, 5 | at the first trump of the angel will spring forth disencumbered--
52 I, 4 | counted as belonging to the angelic family. Training yourself
53 II, 2 | other is not bound?" I will answer, if the Spirit give (me
54 I, 1intro| suspicious of the pain of (anticipated) slight, am even at this
55 II, 1intro| former case, to disregard appears liberty, in the latter,
56 I, 5 | them, and by one marriage appeased all concupiscence of this
57 I, 5 | that those encumbrances appertain; but that ("woe") will not
58 I, 4 | these its counsels, do you apply the examples of sisters
59 I, 6 | old) dragon himself, are appointed on the ground of virginity.
60 II, 4 | husband at daybreak makes an appointment with his wife to meet him
61 I, 4 | desire it, they receive His approbation as dotal gifts. Thus they
62 II, 8 | are they to seek a husband apt for maintaining their sedan,
63 II, 5 | suit before some spy as arbitrator! which most women, not foreseeing,
64 I, 6 | yearned after. A hard and arduous thing enough, surely, is
65 I, 5 | men allege for themselves arise from anxiety for posterity,
66 I, 1intro| Therefore no solicitude arising from carnal jealousy will,
67 II, 4 | mind? If a pilgrim brother arrive, what hospitality for him
68 II, 3 | in other cases (setting aside the injury done to the flesh
69 II, 2 | enjoins and exhorts; both asks and threatens. It is a concise,
70 I, 4 | night; to the Lord they assign their prayers as dowries;
71 II, 8 | ensuing) torment; sacrifices (attended) without scruple; daily
72 II, 1intro| end. Let us now turn our attention to the next best advice,
73 II, 3 | Gentile practices,--personal attractiveness, dressing of the head, wordly
74 II, 6 | by the Evil One for the attrition of salvation! ~
75 II, 8 | will be to have her wealth augmented in the person of a poor
76 I, 5 | for ourselves which are avoided even by the majority of
77 I, 1intro| husbands; nor is any (husband) awaiting her to put her to confusion.
78 I, 8concl| the continence which is aware of its own right, which
79 II, 8 | seals; (which) angels carry back the news of (to heaven), (
80 I, 6 | from the moment of their baptism set the seal (of virginity)
81 I, 3 | but profitable into the bargain. For you are bound to prefer
82 II, 3 | head, wordly elegancies, baser blandishments, the very
83 II, 4 | wife to meet him at the baths; if there are fasts to be
84 II, 5 | rise to pray? Will you not be-thought to be engaged in some work
85 I, 4 | Gallic mules nor German bearers, which all add lustre to
86 II, 5 | notice when you sign your bed, (or) your body; when you
87 II, 3 | Himself has forbidden has beeb duly contracted? What is
88 | beforehand
89 II, 8 | Set before yourself, I beg of you, the examples of
90 | behind
91 I, 7 | wife of one man;" for it behoves God's altar to be set forth
92 I, 4 | are already counted as belonging to the angelic family. Training
93 I, 8concl| defend. Look how the widow's benefactor is put on a level with the
94 I, 1intro| heavenly, and in a sense to bequeath a legacy to be received
95 I, 1intro| demonstration touching those (bequests) which are allotted out
96 II, 7 | of this kind (contracted berate conversion) stands ratified
97 | Besides
98 I, 7 | loosed from a wife; seek not binding." For even if you do not "
99 II, 3 | wordly elegancies, baser blandishments, the very secrets even of
100 I, 4 | compensating gain of immortal blessings. On the other hand, this
101 I, 2 | union of man and woman, blest by God as the seminary of
102 I, 5 | acquiring. And yet that "blindness" then was felt long before "
103 II, 3 | what kind of price? The blood of God. In hurting this
104 II, 5 | or) your body; when you blow away some impurity; when
105 I, 3 | matrimonial computation, the two bodies taken out of the consortship
106 II, 4 | prison to kiss a martyr's bonds? nay, truly, to meet any
107 II, 3 | her husband --a Gentile to boot? For in obeying a Gentile
108 I, 3 | denying Him who, after borrowing the female from the male,
109 I, 5 | in the womb, none in the bosom. Therefore, whether it be
110 II, 3 | we are not our own, but bought with a price;" and what
111 II, 4 | him in an alien home? If bounty is to be distributed to
112 I, 5 | marrying and buying," He sets a brand upon the very leading vices
113 II, 4 | in her mind? If a pilgrim brother arrive, what hospitality
114 II, 3 | all communication with the brotherhood, in accordance with the
115 I, 1intro| having been married to seven brothers successively, wound any
116 II, 1intro| has (in whatever way) been brought to an end. Let us now turn
117 II, 3 | avoiding it, in so far is it burdened with the charge of contumacy.
118 I, 3 | mare good is (merely) that "burning" is less? Nay, but how far
119 I, 4 | will by spiritual affection bury that fleshly concupiscence,
120 II, 4 | be made, never is family business more urgent. For who would
121 I, 5 | They were marrying and buying," He sets a brand upon the
122 I, 6 | by equal mutual consent cancel the debt of matrimony-voluntary
123 II, 7 | himself is, by his fear, a candidate for God. Thus men of this
124 II, 8 | name of "matron," the more capacious house does she require for
125 II, 7 | that it can in no case be carded to a prosperous end.~
126 I, 1intro| solicitude arising from carnal jealousy will, in the day
127 II, 5 | avoiding his intolerance. "Cast not," saith He, "your pearls
128 II, 5 | wives), whose dowries, by casting in their teeth their (Christian)
129 II, 2 | they should not be equally cautious for their flesh?--whereas
130 I, 6 | their desire! after the celestial kingdom! But if, while the
131 I, 7 | function) of widowhood and of celibacies among the nations. Of course (
132 II, 8 | marriage which the Church cements, and the oblation confirms,
133 I, 6 | minister to the African Ceres; enticed away, indeed, from
134 II, 3 | produce (our) marriage certificates before the Lord's tribunal,
135 II, 8 | hymns; and they mutually challenge each other which shall better
136 I, 6 | servants, and he is heard! He challenges, forsooth, God's servants,
137 I, 8concl| the widow herself, whose champion shall "reason with the LORD!"
138 II, 5 | believe in, in case they ever chance to be hurt: they do endure (
139 II, 7 | evidences; he knows her changed for the better: thus even
140 II, 8 | other which shall better chant to their Lord. Such things
141 II, 3 | REFERRED TO IN THE PRECEDING CHAPTER.~If these things are so,
142 II, 3 | is it burdened with the charge of contumacy. Let us now
143 II, 4 | convivial banquet; if a charitable expedition has to be made,
144 I, 8concl| shall turn out) you will cherish my memory in them.~
145 I, 7 | king of heathendom, the chief pontiff, to marry a second
146 II, 8 | joys?--which, indeed, is chiefly found among the wealthier;
147 I, 5 | woe to them that are with child, and them that give suck,"
148 I, 1intro| the case of her whom they chose to represent as having been
149 I, 1intro| profit yourself. But to Christians, after their departure from
150 II, 8 | its course. To such the churches look paltry. A rich man
151 I, 2 | introducing the spiritual circumcision. Therefore, by means of
152 II, 7 | apprehended by God" in these very circumstances; and they are bidden to
153 II, 8 | other men's slaves, may be claimed as slaves? Shall earthly
154 I, 4 | repudiated. Fleshly concupiscence claims the functions of adult age,
155 I, 4 | spirit is strong;" for each clause occurs in one and the same
156 II, 2 | the believer." The very closing sentence of the period confirms (
157 I, 4 | care and providence, who clothes with such grace the lilies
158 I, 4 | about to-morrow's food and clothing, promising that He knows
159 II, 6 | her husband ofttimes in club meetings, oft-times in taverns;
160 I, 4 | source of authority and of comfort, or to render it safe from
161 I, 7 | to that which necessity commanded. How detrimental to faith,
162 II, 5 | feared. But since Scripture commands each of two things--namely,
163 I, 8concl| dearest fellow-servant, I commend to you thus early, handled
164 I, 7 | testimony of (our) faith; as a commendation of this flesh of ours, which
165 I, 6 | EXAMPLES OF HEATHENS URGED AS COMMENDATORY OF WIDOWHOOD AND CELIBACY.~
166 I, 3 | this "good" which is (only) commended by comparison with "evil,"
167 II, 2 | fornication; but continence He commends. Let the one, therefore,
168 II, 2 | before marriage, if they commingle themselves with "strange
169 II, 3 | the temple of God," less commingles "the members of Christ"
170 II, 3 | to be excluded from all communication with the brotherhood, in
171 I, 8concl| scorns the world. Follow companies and conversations worthy
172 I, 6 | own (future) penalty, in company with the (old) dragon himself,
173 I, 3 | which is (only) commended by comparison with "evil," so that the
174 I, 5 | of the Gentiles, who are compelled by laws, who are decimated
175 I, 4 | beauty and youth by the compensating gain of immortal blessings.
176 I, 5 | says (the apostle), "is compressed. It remaineth that they
177 I, 3 | themselves, in the matrimonial computation, the two bodies taken out
178 II, 5 | The more care you take to conceal them, the more liable to
179 II, 2 | condition alone does he concede the foregoing of continence. "
180 I, 3 | the power of marrying is conceded is necessity; but whatever
181 II, 2 | asks and threatens. It is a concise, brief sentence; and by
182 I, 2 | multiply wives. There were concubines, too, (in those days.) But
183 II, 8 | faith, ever prone, to the concupiscences of worldly joys?--which,
184 II, 3 | unbelieving intercourse? "Evil confabulations corrupt good morals;" how
185 I, 1intro| that you will on that score confer any benefit on me, except
186 I, 3 | if I be apprehended and confess my faith.) If I think (that
187 I, 3 | depart (this life) in blessed confession of their testimony. I may
188 I, 7 | Of course (this is) in conformity with the devil's principle
189 II, 8 | lose their liberty; ours conjoin to themselves the devil'
190 II, 2 | unbelieving wife, and she consents to the matrimony, let him
191 I, 8concl| neighbour to the belly. These considerations, dearest fellow-servant,
192 I, 6 | wives) are (thus) bound to consign to oblivion what they have,
193 I, 7 | Church is represented (as consisting) of holiness. Priesthood
194 II, 6 | lanterns, as from some new consistory of public lusts; she will
195 I, 3 | aims at; the second has consolation attaching to it, but not
196 I, 3 | bodies taken out of the consortship of the self-same material
197 I, 1intro| good of each of us to be consulted. If we draw up wills for
198 I, 6 | course, smiling on it--all contact (with males), even as far
199 I, 6 | own, as if on equal terms! Continent are even the priests of
200 II, 2 | husband agreeable (to their continued union), dismiss him: for
201 II, 2 | therefore, have the necessity of continuing; the other, further, even
202 II, 3 | is certain that believers contracting marriages with Gentiles
203 II, 2 | declaration so diverse from and contrary to his own permission, saying: "
204 I, 7 | with anything good, but as contumeliously affecting what is pleasing
205 I, 8concl| world. Follow companies and conversations worthy of God, mindful of
206 I, 4 | they live; with Him they converse; Him they "handle" by day
207 I, 8concl| through curiosity they convey a spirit of rivalry in lust.
208 II, 4 | husbandthat same day holds a convivial banquet; if a charitable
209 II, 4 | from his side by nocturnal convocations, if need so be? Who, finally,
210 I, 6 | let us survey others who cope with still greater difficulties.
211 II, 2 | integrity, who exhorts us to a copy of himself, prescribes no
212 II, 2 | THE APOSTLE'S MEANING IN I COR. VII. 12-14.~Therefore,
213 II, 2 | the first (Epistle) to the Corinthians, where it is written: If
214 II, 4 | indeed to all the poorer, cottages? Who will willingly bear
215 II, 3 | of a strange man (to your couch) less violates "the temple
216 | could
217 I, 4 | rumours. To meet these its counsels, do you apply the examples
218 I, 4 | from marriage, are already counted as belonging to the angelic
219 I, 8concl| because it is easy not to crave after that which you know
220 I, 4 | functions of adult age, craves after beauty's harvest,
221 I, 8concl| the latter virtue, that is crowned. For some things there are
222 II, 1intro| within our power, so far more culpable is it not to observe that
223 I, 4 | has, as its causes, glory, cupidity, ambition, want of sufficiency;
224 I, 8concl| Talkative, idle, winebibbing, curious tent-fellows, do the very
225 I, 2 | the (Jewish) age, either cut off the redundancies or
226 II, 6 | a prejudgment of her own damnation, in that she tends them
227 II, 4 | be kept, the husband at daybreak makes an appointment with
228 II, 2 | woman, when her husband is dead, is free: let her marry
229 I, 5 | of course, that they were dealing in marriage and merchandise;
230 I, 8concl| belly. These considerations, dearest fellow-servant, I commend
231 I, 7 | VII. THE DEATH OF A HUSBAND IS GOD'S CALL
232 I, 6 | mutual consent cancel the debt of matrimony-voluntary eunuchs
233 I, 7 | will of God, the husband is deceased, the marriage likewise,
234 I, 7 | likewise, by the will of God, deceases. Why should you restore
235 II, 8 | have not (the nations) decided that such women as have,
236 I, 5 | compelled by laws, who are decimated by abortions; burdens which,
237 II, 2 | would never have subjoined a declaration so diverse from and contrary
238 I, 7 | prescription of the apostle declare, when he suffers not men
239 II, 2 | the Spirit has oracularly declared. For fear we should make
240 I, 4 | to God their youth (is dedicated). With Him they live; with
241 I, 5 | God, so as to prevent my deeming it enough to have once for
242 II, 4 | Lord's Supper which they defame? Who will suffer her to
243 I, 4 | self-excuse, put forward (in our defence) the weak part of us, but
244 I, 8concl| Father of all undertakes to defend. Look how the widow's benefactor
245 II, 2 | with the holy, unless to defile and slay it by its own (
246 II, 2 | first place, against the defilement of holy flesh in Gentile
247 II, 7 | straits, and hindrances, and defilements, having already (as it has)
248 II, 8 | and inquiry, and repeated deliberation, whether he whom God has
249 I, 6 | priestesses) who rave at Delphi know not marriage. Moreover,
250 II, 6 | all the memorial days of demons, at all solemnities of kings,
251 I, 1intro| mean, of) admonition and demonstration touching those (bequests)
252 I, 3 | the "one flesh in twain;" denying Him who, after borrowing
253 I, 3 | they who have strength to depart (this life) in blessed confession
254 I, 6 | that she whose husband has departed from the world should thenceforward
255 I, 3 | If I think (that fate) deplorable, (then flight) is good;
256 I, 3 | she by her very nature depreciates. In fact, in that it is
257 II, 7 | But, on the other hand, to descend into forbidden ground unsolicited
258 II, 1intro| or rejection): the other descends from authority, and is bound
259 II, 8 | into lascivious excess, desert their duties purvey their
260 I, 2 | which should afterward deserve to be either lopped off
261 I, 1intro| I. DESIGN OF THE TREATISE. DISAVOWAL
262 I, 3 | things which are not to be desired merely because they are
263 I, 4 | the temporal and fleeting desires of beauty and youth by the
264 I, 5 | that are now imminent); desirous as we are ourselves, too,
265 I, 4 | things heavenly, and you will despise things earthly. To widowhood
266 II, 8 | own freedmen and slaves, despising public opinion, provided
267 II, 8 | inferior to herself in estate, destined as she will be to have her
268 I, 8concl| in proportion as they are destitute of human aid, the Father
269 I, 5 | vices which of old were detestable before Him? "The time,"
270 I, 7 | necessity commanded. How detrimental to faith, how obstructive
271 I, 2 | seminary of the human race, and devised for the replenishment of
272 I, 6 | numbers of Gentile women devote to the memory of beloved
273 I, 1intro| end for myself the entire devotion of your flesh, that I, suspicious
274 I, 3 | case? I must of necessity die (if I be apprehended and
275 II, 7 | AFTER MARRIAGE WITH HIM VERY DIFFERENT, AND MUCH MORE HOPEFUL.~
276 I, 6 | cope with still greater difficulties. How many are there who
277 I, 1intro| be honour, glory, renown, dignity, and power, now and to the
278 II, 8 | without scruple; daily diligence (discharged) without impediment: (
279 II, 7 | laying snares for her, less diligent in playing the spy over
280 II, 3 | therefore, we hurt Him directly. What did that man mean
281 I, 1intro| DESIGN OF THE TREATISE. DISAVOWAL OF PERSONAL MOTIVES IN WRITING
282 I, 3 | proposition, it is easily discerned that the ground on which
283 II, 4 | to (the question) how she discharges her duties to her husband.
284 II, 8 | as slaves? Shall earthly disciplines be held more strict than
285 I, 5 | off the most from divine disciplines--the one through the pleasure
286 II, 8 | FROM HEATHENISH LAWS TO DISCOUNTENANCE MARRIAGE WITH UNBELIEVERS.
287 II, 5 | foreseeing, have been wont to discover either by the extortion
288 II, 2 | absolutely, (in the words under discussion,) touching the marriage
289 I, 5 | angel will spring forth disencumbered--will freely bear to the
290 I, 5 | testifies that in that day of disencumbrance the encumbrances of children
291 I, 1intro| resumption of voluptuous disgrace between us. No such frivolities,
292 I, 3 | perversities, teach the disjoining of the "one flesh in twain;"
293 I, 2 | redundancies or regulated the disorders.~
294 II, 1intro| In the former case, to disregard appears liberty, in the
295 I, 3 | s advent was intended to dissolve wedlock, (and) to abolish
296 II, 2 | that it should at all be dissolved: in short, divorce He prohibits,
297 I, 3 | to the higher things is a dissuasion from the lowest. A thing
298 II, 5 | Your pearls" are the distinctive marks of even your daily
299 I, 5 | respect, I mean, of the distresses that are now imminent);
300 II, 4 | home? If bounty is to be distributed to any, the granaries, the
301 I, 4 | maintenance, unless it be that we distrust the promises of God, and (
302 II, 2 | subjoined a declaration so diverse from and contrary to his
303 I, 1intro| before the inheritance be divided,--(the legacy, I mean, of)
304 II, 2 | waywardness or else the double-dealing of their advisers, in that
305 II, 8 | in the rich). She will be dowered with an ampler dowry from
306 II, 8 | be dowered with an ampler dowry from the goods of him who
307 I, 6 | in company with the (old) dragon himself, are appointed on
308 I, 1intro| us to be consulted. If we draw up wills for such matters,
309 II, 8 | VIII. ARGUMENTS DRAWN EVEN FROM HEATHENISH LAWS
310 II, 3 | personal attractiveness, dressing of the head, wordly elegancies,
311 I, 2 | modified. For the Law was (in due time) to supervene. (Nor
312 II, 3 | Himself has forbidden has beeb duly contracted? What is prohibited (
313 II, 2 | It shows that it is the duty of one who, already living
314 II, 6 | REVELS.~The handmaid of God dwells amid alien labours; and
315 I, 5 | idle. For why should we be eager to bear children, whom,
316 I, 8concl| striving are attained by earnest pursuit. Pursue earnestly,
317 I, 8concl| earnest pursuit. Pursue earnestly, therefore, the virtue of
318 I, 3 | Thus, albeit he does not "east a snare upon us," he points
319 II, 8 | benediction. Between the two echo psalms and hymns; and they
320 II, 3 | dressing of the head, wordly elegancies, baser blandishments, the
321 II, 2 | by its own very brevity, eloquent. Thus is the divine voice
322 II, 1intro| difficult, and not without its embarrassments, and on this account is
323 I, 7 | widowhood. The occasion must be embraced which puts an end to that
324 I, 2 | materials for subsequent emendations were furnished beforehand,
325 II, 7 | to the exercise of some eminent heavenly virtue, is, by
326 I, 4 | Training yourself to an emulation of (their) constancy by
327 I, 7 | pure. That whole halo which encircles the Church is represented (
328 II, 8 | property is fit for dotal endowments? Whence are we to find (
329 I, 5 | was felt long before "the ends of the world." What, then,
330 I, 6 | still intact, abstinence is endured, how much more when it has
331 II, 5 | any (good) work. He who "endures" (a thing) cannot be ignorant
332 I, 7 | be to God, when even His enemy affects it!--not, of course,
333 II, 5 | you not be-thought to be engaged in some work of magic? Will
334 II, 2 | both bids and advises; both enjoins and exhorts; both asks and
335 I, 8concl| honours which widowhood enjoys in the sight of God, there
336 II, 8 | BETWEEN PARTNERS IN THE FAITH ENLARGED ON IN CONCLUSION.~Let us
337 II, 2 | the passage) be wittingly ensnaring himself! But it is manifest
338 I, 7 | says "pressure of the flesh ensues." Wherefore, so far as we
339 II, 8 | given) without (danger of ensuing) torment; sacrifices (attended)
340 II, 1intro| as my ability permitted, entered for your benefit at some
341 I, 6 | minister to the African Ceres; enticed away, indeed, from matrimony
342 I, 1intro| be able to receive in its entirety this feoffment in trust
343 I, 1intro| called before you; (and) to entrust to your honour the observance
344 II, 8 | whether he whom God has entrusted with His own property is
345 II, 2 | that passage of the first (Epistle) to the Corinthians, where
346 II, 8 | in God. Let her be on an equality with him. on earth, who
347 II, 5 | Gentile curiosity. Shall you escape notice when you sign your
348 II, 1intro| Therefore in this case especially, if we do not obey, we run
349 II, 7 | whom the grace of God has established a familiar intimacy, are
350 II, 8 | believer inferior to herself in estate, destined as she will be
351 I, 4 | hold for themselves of an eternal gift of the Lord; and while
352 I, 7 | instrument for attaining eternity, and as a testimony of (
353 I, 6 | debt of matrimony-voluntary eunuchs for the sake of their desire!
354 I, 3 | that which is fully "good" excels on this ground, that it
355 II, 8 | not run into lascivious excess, desert their duties purvey
356 II, 4 | any one of the brethren to exchange the kiss? to offer water
357 II, 7 | to wrest them away, to exclude them from the faith. So
358 II, 3 | fornication, and are to be excluded from all communication with
359 I, 6 | discipline of widowhood, which excludes the solace even of holy
360 II, 7 | that state, still they are excused, as having been "apprehended
361 II, 7 | among the Gentiles to the exercise of some eminent heavenly
362 II, 1intro| in the fear that, having exhorted you myself to perseverance
363 II, 8 | mutually teaching, mutually exhorting, mutually sustaining. Equally (
364 II, 6 | whom (formerly) she was expecting to judge? whose hand will
365 II, 8 | believers, not "lawful;" is not "expedient."~
366 II, 4 | banquet; if a charitable expedition has to be made, never is
367 I, 4 | another's store to lavish expenditure which you do not feel! Far
368 II, 7 | mighty works; he has seen experimental evidences; he knows her
369 II, 5 | make them, and the more exposed to the grasp of Gentile
370 II, 7 | women, just in order to exterminate them, to wrest them away,
371 I, 4 | on another's wealth; to extort splendour from another's
372 II, 5 | to discover either by the extortion of their property, or else
373 II, 8 | Gentile women, noble in extraction and wealthy in property,
374 II, 3 | temperance, as beneath the eyes of God.~
375 I, 8concl| the nearest vision of the face of God, yet the widow has
376 II, 1intro| marriages, put "an occasion of falling" in your way. But if you
377 I, 7 | the case,) not even a leaf falls from off a tree without
378 II, 7 | of God has established a familiar intimacy, are more easily "
379 II, 8 | own apostle! What am I to fasten on as the cause of this
380 I, 3 | faith.) If I think (that fate) deplorable, (then flight)
381 II, 8 | lawfully wed without their fathers' consent. What kind of yoke
382 I, 4 | nobler origin, it is our own fault if we follow the weaker.
383 II, 5 | does not endure (it), he is feared. But since Scripture commands
384 I, 4 | any labour on their part, feeds the fowls of the heaven;
385 I, 4 | expenditure which you do not feel! Far be all this from believers,
386 II, 4 | offer water for the saints' feet? to snatch (somewhat for
387 II, 8 | Both (are) brethren, both fellow servants, no difference
388 II, 3 | good morals;" how much more fellowship of life, and indivisible
389 I, 1intro| receive in its entirety this feoffment in trust of my admonition,
390 I, 2 | although the Church did come in figuratively in the synagogue, yet (to
391 I, 7 | supervene; for enduring, in fine, the will of God. Besides,
392 I, 6 | of that "inextinguishable fire," keeping watch over the
393 II, 8 | with His own property is fit for dotal endowments? Whence
394 II, 2 | said I, "whether they flatter themselves on the ground
395 I, 3 | permission granted, and "flee from town to town," than,
396 I, 4 | abolishing the temporal and fleeting desires of beauty and youth
397 I, 3 | fate) deplorable, (then flight) is good; but if I have
398 II, 1intro| question what course is to be followed by a holy woman when her
399 I, 3 | after what is before, and be followers after the better rewards.
400 II, 4 | granaries, the storehouses, are foreclosed.~
401 II, 2 | alone does he concede the foregoing of continence. "Only," he
402 I, 2 | deficiencies of the Law should have forerun (Him who was to supply those
403 II, 2 | understand that the apostle foresaw many dangers and wounds
404 II, 5 | arbitrator! which most women, not foreseeing, have been wont to discover
405 II, 3 | as I have said) to faith, foreseen by the apostle; most grievous
406 I, 5 | faith! For why did the Lord foretell a "woe to them that are
407 I, 1intro| we not much more to take forethought for our posterity in things
408 I, 3 | we listen to the apostle, forgetting what is behind, let us both
409 I, 6 | what is intact to be quite forsaken, than for what has been
410 II, 6 | of Christ? Where are the fosterings of faith by the interspersion
411 I, 3 | time, is that I may lay a foundation for teaching that Christ'
412 I, 4 | on their part, feeds the fowls of the heaven; who prohibits
413 II, 2 | her husband is dead, is free: let her marry whom. she
414 II, 8 | Some take up with their own freedmen and slaves, despising public
415 II, 8 | indigent relieved, with freedom. Alms (are given) without (
416 I, 5 | forth disencumbered--will freely bear to the end whatsoever
417 I, 1intro| disgrace between us. No such frivolities, no such impurities, does
418 I, 8concl| women to be "wanderers;" frugality, which scorns the world.
419 I, 5 | persecution, with no burdensome fruit of marriage heaving in the
420 I, 7 | holiness. Priesthood is (a function) of widowhood and of celibacies
421 I, 4 | concupiscence claims the functions of adult age, craves after
422 I, 2 | subsequent emendations were furnished beforehand, of which materials
423 I, 2 | replenishment of the earth and the furnishing of the world, and therefore
424 I, 6 | the omens of their own (future) penalty, in company with
425 I, 4 | burdensome garments, not Gallic mules nor German bearers,
426 I, 7 | to be sustained for the "garment of immortality," which is
427 I, 4 | necklaces, not burdensome garments, not Gallic mules nor German
428 II, 6 | forth (from her house) by a gate wreathed with laurel, and
429 II, 2 | be that, by understanding generally this monition regarding
430 I, 4 | garments, not Gallic mules nor German bearers, which all add lustre
431 I, 4 | His approbation as dotal gifts. Thus they have laid hold
432 I, 1intro| the advice which we are giving shall be profitable, we
433 I, 8concl| never had to regret. More glorious is the continence which
434 I, 3 | What is permitted is not goad. For how stands the case?
435 I, 5 | overtaken, like Sodom and Gomorrah, by that day of fear! For
436 II, 2 | remembered that this had in days gone by been done by others:
437 I, 2 | materials the Lord by His Gospel, and then the apostle in
438 II, 4 | distributed to any, the granaries, the storehouses, are foreclosed.~
439 I, 3 | but whatever necessity grants, she by her very nature
440 II, 5 | the more exposed to the grasp of Gentile curiosity. Shall
441 II, 1intro| this time taken up a still graver solicitude. For the nobler
442 I, 6 | others who cope with still greater difficulties. How many are
443 I, 8concl| tent-fellows, do the very greatest hurt to the purpose of widow-hood.
444 I, 5 | rioting, the other though the greed of acquiring. And yet that "
445 II, 8 | stealthy signing, no trembling greeting, no mute benediction. Between
446 II, 3 | foreseen by the apostle; most grievous not to the flesh merely,
447 II, 3 | marriages with Gentiles are guilty of fornication, and are
448 II, 8 | and their mules, and their hair-curlers of outlandish stature? A
449 I, 7 | set forth pure. That whole halo which encircles the Church
450 I, 4 | they converse; Him they "handle" by day and by night; to
451 I, 8concl| commend to you thus early, handled throughout superfluously
452 II, 6 | HEATHENISH RITES, AND REVELS.~The handmaid of God dwells amid alien
453 II, 7 | HOPEFUL.~If these things may happen to those women also who,
454 I, 8concl| may possibly be held the happier, but the widow the more
455 I, 3 | imitation of his own example. Happy the man who shall prove
456 II, 7 | forward, so as not to be thus harassed by pressures, and straits,
457 I, 6 | not to be yearned after. A hard and arduous thing enough,
458 I, 6 | For I believe it to be harder for what is intact to be
459 I, 8concl| but the widow the more hardly tasked; the former in that
460 I, 4 | age, craves after beauty's harvest, rejoices in its own shame,
461 II, 3 | attractiveness, dressing of the head, wordly elegancies, baser
462 II, 6 | she who sups upon God will hear somewhat! From hell what
463 I, 6 | his servants, and he is heard! He challenges, forsooth,
464 II, 8 | things when Christ sees and hears, He joys. To these He sends
465 I, 7 | rivalry. For the king of heathendom, the chief pontiff, to marry
466 I, 7 | FROM SCRIPTURE AND FROM HEATHENISM.~To us continence has been
467 I, 6 | VI. EXAMPLES OF HEATHENS URGED AS COMMENDATORY OF
468 I, 5 | burdensome fruit of marriage heaving in the womb, none in the
469 II, 7 | by the Evil One. A sign hereof is this fact, that it is
470 II, 1intro| human infirmity; admonished hereto by the examples of certain,
471 I, 1intro| immortal goods, and from the heritage of the heavens? Only, that
472 II, 8 | in refreshments. Neither hides (ought) from the other;
473 I, 3 | preference given to the higher things is a dissuasion from
474 II, 1intro| and on this account is the highest aim of (widowed) life, I
475 II, 4 | devil, his lord's agent for hindering the pursuits and duties
476 I, 4 | gifts. Thus they have laid hold for themselves of an eternal
477 II, 4 | hospitality for him in an alien home? If bounty is to be distributed
478 I, 8concl| CONCLUSION.~For, concerning the honours which widowhood enjoys in
479 II, 7 | DIFFERENT, AND MUCH MORE HOPEFUL.~If these things may happen
480 II, 7 | are found not to shrink in horror from Christian women, just
481 II, 4 | pilgrim brother arrive, what hospitality for him in an alien home?
482 II, 6 | wreathed with laurel, and hung with lanterns, as from some
483 II, 3 | price? The blood of God. In hurting this flesh of ours, therefore,
484 II, 1intro| to perseverance in single husbandhood and widowhood, I may now,
485 II, 4 | fasts to be observed, the husbandthat same day holds a convivial
486 II, 8 | the two echo psalms and hymns; and they mutually challenge
487 I, 8concl| unfriendly to modesty; through idleness they seduce one from strictness;
488 II, 8 | indiscriminately with the ignoble and the mean, sought out
489 II, 5 | or else, if he is kept in ignorance because he does not endure (
490 I, 5 | distresses that are now imminent); desirous as we are ourselves,
491 I, 7 | sustained for the "garment of immortality," which is one day to supervene;
492 I, 6 | world should thenceforward impose rest on her sex by abstinence
493 I, 3 | the old, and the restraint imposed on the later time, is that
494 II, 1intro| because one may with more impunity neglect an "advice" than
495 I, 1intro| such frivolities, no such impurities, does God promise to His (
496 II, 5 | when you blow away some impurity; when even by night you
497 II, 1intro| which you must keep. But, inasmuch as that course is difficult,
498 II, 6 | agitated by the odour of incense. And she will have to go
499 I, 5 | encumbrances of children will be an inconvenience? It is to marriage, of course,
500 II, 3 | necessity (which makes them incumbent), with modesty and temperance,