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501 10, 9 | under its patronage. In Exodus, was not that position of
502 8, 1 | about Him to such as were expecting the redemption of Israel,"
503 9, 4 | humiliation of xerophagies expel fear, and attract the ears
504 6, 5 | taught him even then (by experience) that man liveth not upon
505 6, 1 | retracing to primordial experiences the reasons for God's having
506 16, 2 | battle, his daughter-in-law expires in child-birth: for such
507 9, 6 | With such food did David express his own exomologesis; "eating
508 6, 4 | the "fats" of which He had expressly forbidden the eating, teaching
509 4 | THE LIMIT OF LAWFUL FOOD EXTENDED AFTER THE FLOOD? THE ANSWER
510 1, 3 | all mention: they are the exterior and interior botuli of the
511 2, 1 | vexed in that day shall be exterminated from his people."~2.
512 3, 4 | rekindle, just as satiety had extinguished, salvation, contemning for
513 12, 1 | revelations as xerophagies extort, nor apprehending such wars
514 16, 5 | colonies where, besides (these extraordinary solemnities, the inhabitants),
515 14, 2 | we spend our time in all exultation? Why do we devote to Stations
516 4, 1 | was constantly kept in the eye of the providence of God--
517 5, 3 | leaden of their own and eye-witnesses of (the power of) God, whom,
518 12, 3 | long been, thanks to the facilities afforded by the "free custody" (
519 concl, 1| most lax discipline, so faint are you in spirit.~2.
520 16, 2 | the temple doors, his sons fall in battle, his daughter-in-law
521 9, 3 | the Persians, when he had fallen into careful and repeated
522 16, 7 | It is out of truth that falsehood is built; out of religion
523 12, 2 | since the prison must be familiarized to us, and hunger and thirst
524 16, 5 | their purple, reverse the fasces, utter prayer, offer a victim.
525 13, 4 | of alms, as your beggarly fashion has it, but sometimes too
526 6, 3 | beloved is waxen thick, and fat, and distent, and hath quite
527 5, 3 | at last) to deplore (the fate of) the self-same leaden
528 15, 6 | the thorough doing of the Father's work;" teaching "to labour
529 6, 4 | heart" obstructed by the "fats" of which He had expressly
530 6, 5 | lifted up" rather than fattened up, who in forty days and
531 16, 3 | in the person of the rich feaster, convivialities tortured;
532 15, 3 | but another, being weak, feedeth on vegetables. Let not him
533 12, 3 | his intoxication made it feel like tickling--with a few
534 12, 1 | sins as fasts diminish, nor feeling need of such revelations
535 7, 1 | thrown into confusion, and felt in a mass in the sight of
536 6, 1 | meats, inundated with wines, fermenting for the purpose of excremental
537 concl, 2| with you "love" shows its fervour in sauce-pans, "faith" its
538 | few
539 concl, 1| so do you come from "the field" of your most lax discipline,
540 concl, 1| studious are you of catching fieldfares, so do you come from "the
541 14, 2 | first month? Why in the fifty ensuing days do we spend
542 7, 2 | to God." For such, Heaven fights. You have (before you) a
543 7, 6 | easily obtained from God the filling of her belly, empty of food,
544 10, 2 | case) was apparently to finish that duty, after prayer.~
545 16, 6 | They have one single fire in public--on the altars;
546 concl, 7| will drier flesh retain its firmness. Let Olympic cestus-players
547 15, 7 | that God "hath chosen" a "fist;" but has particularized
548 6, 2 | impeded? No one will suitably, fitly, usefully, remember God
549 10, 8 | self-same order of events, to fix the condition of late protraction
550 1, 4 | drinking anything with a winey flavour; also with abstinence from
551 6, 6 | rain-shower." Subsequently, fleeing from threatening Jezebel,
552 16, 2 | house, the defrauder of the fleshly sacrifices. Sameas, a "man
553 4 | FOOD EXTENDED AFTER THE FLOOD? THE ANSWER TO IT.~1.
554 8, 2 | stones," say, to make Jordan flow with wine perchance, if
555 5, 2 | lord, destined to the "land flowing with milk and honey;, but
556 10, 13 | at the beginning, swiftly flying, approached me, as it were,
557 7, 3 | of the harshness of the foe, he rent his garment, put
558 10, 8 | had requested. Thence (it follows) that it is even irreligious
559 15, 4 | But, since he forbids human choice to be made
560 9, 8 | likewise a restriction of food fore-furnishing a formal type to drink.
561 16, 4 | and a religious service;" foreseeing even then that other apostles
562 4, 4 | abstinence since He had foresent indulgence: in order that (
563 6, 2 | is customary for a man to forget his own self. All discipline
564 6, 3 | heart be elated, and thou be forgetful of the Lord thy God."~4.
565 6, 2 | when upbraiding Israel with forgetfulness, does not impute the cause
566 9, 8 | of food fore-furnishing a formal type to drink. For the quality
567 7, 8 | lions in the den he was formidable, where, six days fasting,
568 6, 3 | distent, and hath quite forsaken God, who made him, and hath
569 2, 7 | delay of, food, since "God," forsooth, "prefers the works of justice
570 9, 6 | that is, bread dry and foul like ashes: "mingling, moreover,
571 7, 3 | angel an hundred eighty and four thousand from his army than
572 4, 2 | beasts of the earth, and fowls of the heaven, and things
573 5, 4 | displeasing: they preferred the fragrance of garlic and onion to that
574 16, 8 | cook the priest, and your fragrant smell the Holy Spirit, and
575 7, 7 | three days, fasts with his fraternity, and--his prayers thus commended--
576 7, 4 | sinful state, Nineveh, is freed from the predicted ruin.
577 5, 3 | Egypt we were wont to eat freely, and the cucumbers, and
578 6, 7 | Elijah, here?" Much more friendly was this voice than, "Adam,
579 12, 3 | Plainly, your habit is to furnish cookshops in the prisons
580 2, 3 | that, with regard to the future, fasting was to be indifferently
581 12, 2 | already, by frequent fasting, gained a most intimate knowledge
582 2, 6 | affirm that we share with the Galatians the piercing rebuke (of
583 14 | REPLY TO THE CHARGE OF "GALATICISM."~1.
584 14, 1 | and months, and years," we Galaticize. Plainly we do, if we are
585 7, 3 | of the foe, he rent his garment, put on sackcloth, and bade
586 concl, 7| be, through the "strait gate" of salvation will slenderer
587 13, 6 | localities those councils gathered out of the universal Churches,
588 7, 1 | man. Israel, before their gathering together by Samuel on occasion
589 9, 2 | into the bargain. For God gave to the young men knowledge
590 9, 3 | first day on which thou gavest thy soul to recogitation
591 10, 7 | from the sixth hour in a general darkness--performed for
592 3, 3 | concurrently with my very generation; certain that God willed
593 10, 10 | Station? The sun "stood" in Gibeon, and the moon in Ajalon;
594 15, 3 | Romans, the apostle now gives you a home-thrust, detractors
595 15, 3 | and he who eateth not, giveth God thanks."~4.
596 2, 5 | departing from the faith, giving heed to spirits which seduce
597 7, 4 | attendant of mourning, just as gladness is an accessory of fulness.
598 7, 7 | tyrant's sophists; God is glorified; Daniel is honoured; destined
599 8, 2 | if He had been such a "glutton and toper." Nay, rather,
600 12, 2 | habitual observances; and to go forth out of custody to (
601 4, 1 | eye of the providence of God--modulating all things, as
602 7, 6 | Thus a God-ward fast is a work of reverential
603 6, 3 | multiplied, and (thy) silver and gold, thy heart be elated, and
604 7, 4 | not angry. Sodom also, and Gomorrah, would have escaped if they
605 13, 7 | when you are supping with a goodly company!)~8.
606 2, 6 | Himself noted thus; "Behold, a gormandizer and a drinker."~7.
607 8, 1 | widowhood, is additionally graced with the testimony of "fastings"
608 8, 4 | Finally, granting that upon the centurion
609 4, 2 | Behold, I have given you all grass fit for sowing, seeding
610 4, 2 | you for food: just like grassy vegetables have I given (
611 3, 4 | one unlawful more lawful (gratifications)?~
612 13, 6 | throughout the provinces of Greece there are held in definite
613 16, 1 | remain, where the People, greedy of "flesh," till, by devouring
614 13, 8 | fastings, know what it is "to grieve with the grieving," and
615 13, 8 | it is "to grieve with the grieving," and thus at last "to rejoice
616 1 | CONNECTION OF GLUTTONY AND LUST. GROUNDS OF PSYCHICAL OBJECTIONS
617 12, 3 | their accustomed usages, grow weary of life, (and) be
618 12, 2 | of John the Paraclete had grown mute; we ourselves would
619 13, 6 | all succeeding posterity guards with hereditary scrupulousness
620 10, 6 | things, the Paraclete, the guide of universal truth, inquire
621 16, 3 | they may ever have been guilty of incontinence of appetite.
622 12, 3 | Plainly, your habit is to furnish cookshops
623 6, 1 | alive, than when that whole habitation of our interior man, stuffed
624 7, 3 | of the priests, similarly habited, approach God through Isaiah--
625 12, 2 | s tortures, but his own habitual observances; and to go forth
626 16, 3 | of appetite. Nay, even in Hades the admonition has not ceased
627 9, 8 | should sacrifice to God half his appetite; temperate
628 13, 1 | away;" and interposing the half-fasts of Stations; and you, (I
629 16, 2 | restoration of that king's hand--after the rending in twain
630 8, 2 | new man" into "a severe handling" of "the old," that He might
631 9, 2 | they were therefore "more handsome" (lest any be apprehensive
632 2, 8 | two precepts the whole Law hangeth, and the prophets,' not
633 5, 3 | whom, by their regretful hankering after flesh, and their recollection
634 7, 6 | awe: and by its means also Hannah the wife of Elkanah making
635 8, 4 | labours, and perils, and hardships, after "hunger and thirst,"
636 8, 1 | evidences). For we now hasten to modern proofs. On the
637 8, 4 | of prophecy besides, had hastened to descend, we see that
638 12, 2 | soul herself withal now hastening (after it), having already,
639 1, 1 | gluttony, which leads them to hate fasts. Lust without voracity
640 16, 3 | pauper, fasts refreshed; having--(as convivialities and fasts
641 16, 6 | enough for me that you, by heaping blasphemies upon our xerophagies,
642 16, 8 | irreligious, in proportion as a heathen is more conformable. He,
643 7, 3 | true, (as it is), that on heating the announcement of the
644 12, 2 | his blood already sent on (heavenward) before him, the baggage
645 2, 5 | departing from the faith, giving heed to spirits which seduce
646 3, 2 | to his belly than to God, heeded the meat rather than the
647 4, 2 | had only been the food of herbs and trees which He had assigned
648 | here
649 13, 6 | succeeding posterity guards with hereditary scrupulousness the precepts
650 15, 1 | Jupiter, the Pythagorean heretic of to-day; not in the person
651 7, 3 | thousand from his army than Hezekiah the king's humiliation?
652 12, 3 | could utter nothing but hiccoughs and belchings, died in the
653 12, 3 | very last day of trial, at high noon, you premedicated with
654 10, 5 | days of the week, we most highly honour; but because, of
655 5 | V. PROCEEDING TO THE HISTORY OF ISRAEL, TERTULLIAN SHOWS
656 3, 3 | I hold, therefore, that from the
657 concl, 4| among you, is superior in holiness, except him who is more
658 7, 1 | Samuel was offering the holocaust (in no way do we learn that
659 16, 2 | of these signs invited (home) by the king by way of recompense,
660 15, 3 | apostle now gives you a home-thrust, detractors as you are of
661 7, 7 | is glorified; Daniel is honoured; destined as he was to receive,
662 6, 6 | mouth dry, arrived at Mount Horeb; where, when he had made
663 12, 2 | mere dry skin, and cased in horn to meet the claws, the succulence
664 2, 8 | know the quality of the hortatory addresses of carnal conveniences,
665 16, 2 | of God by the shameless house, the defrauder of the fleshly
666 6, 3 | drunken, and built excellent houses, thy sheep and oxen being
667 2, 6 | of years." Meantime they huff in our teeth the fact that
668 10, 3 | being more marked in things human--(hours) which divide the
669 7, 3 | the hand of the angel an hundred eighty and four thousand
670 15, 6 | not "the full;" but "the hungry and thirsty, blessed:" (
671 concl, 1| the savour of Esau, the hunter of wild beasts: so unlimitedly
672 11, 3 | of that form arguments to hurl back (upon us) which the
673 7, 5 | awe I will not bring the hurt upon (him) in his own days;
674 16, 8 | sacrifices his appetite to an idol-god; you to (the true) God will
675 10, 12 | although it had been in ignorance of the fast having been
676 2 | II. ARGUMENTS OF THE PSYCHICS,
677 3 | III. THE PRINCIPLE OF FASTING
678 16, 7 | emulator of things divine, imitates. It is out of truth that
679 16, 2 | after the drying up and immediate restoration of that king'
680 13, 5 | wont, from foresight of the imminence either of temptations to
681 6, 2 | play," unless it had been immodest, it would not have reprehended.
682 13, 1 | you can. For, behold, I impeach you of fasting besides on
683 6, 2 | occupied, the limbs of wisdom impeded? No one will suitably, fitly,
684 16, 5 | ashes, present a suppliant importunity to their idols, (while)
685 11, 6 | that He still continues to impose duties, because, in this
686 6, 6 | fact primarily, that he had imprecated a famine, already sufficiently
687 10, 6 | are we at that time more impressively commended to its commemoration,
688 1, 2 | love of eating, love of impurity finds passage. I recognise,
689 6, 2 | forgetfulness, does not impute the cause to "fulness."~
690 15, 6 | must have likewise "fasted" inasmuch as He has pronounced, not "
691 15, 5 | idols ;" still he has not included the kingdom of God in the
692 13 | XIII. OF THE INCONSISTENCIES OF THE PSYCHICS.~1.
693 16, 1 | to whom neither a People incontinent of appetite, nor a priest,
694 5, 2 | surrounding spectacle of an incopious desert sighing after the
695 concl, 4| To the indictment of your appetite pertains (
696 10, 3 | with absolutely perfect indifference, we must pray always, and
697 11, 4 | For, indubitably, Both heresy and pseudo-prophecy
698 15, 7 | your own wills are found (indulged), and all who are subject
699 4, 4 | abstinence since He had foresent indulgence: in order that (as we have
700 concl, 1| the truth, you who are so indulgent to appetite, and justly
701 8, 1 | who both recognised the infant Lord, and preached many
702 9, 1 | prejudgment concerning the inferior operations of abstinence
703 8, 3 | as of the Holy Spirit's ingress?~4.
704 16, 5 | extraordinary solemnities, the inhabitants), by an annual rite, clad
705 7, 5 | killed, and possessed the inheritance? In the place where dogs
706 8, 3 | is the instrument of the iniquitous spirit's egress as of the
707 8, 2 | of contemning food He was initiating "the new man" into "a severe
708 10, 3 | they who had received the initiatory gift of the Holy Spirit
709 10, 1 | pertains to the question of injunction, I will once for all give
710 6, 6 | when he had made a cave his inn, with how familiar a meeting
711 2, 7 | works of justice and of innocence."~8.
712 13, 1 | account of the unlawfulness of innovation. Stand on that ground, if
713 10, 6 | guide of universal truth, inquire whether there be not a worthier
714 12, 1 | and satiety"--not making inroads upon such sins as fasts
715 13, 5 | observances of this nature; for instance, at the present time, with
716 | instead
717 4, 1 | case, did not God forthwith institute some definite restriction
718 11, 2 | a spiritual voice which institutes these your solemnities;
719 11, 3 | impugn), from whatsoever institutor they are, be he a spiritual
720 7, 7 | prayers thus commended--is instructed throughout as to the order
721 8, 3 | the same operation is the instrument of the iniquitous spirit'
722 2, 7 | lack if we eat not." By the instrumentalities of these and similar passages,
723 15, 4 | so to the honour, not the insult, of the Creator.~5.
724 3, 3 | offence had left to; my intelligence the remedies for the offence.
725 9, 8 | temperate in waters, and intemperate in meats.~9.
726 15, 4 | certain restricters and interdicters of food, such as abstained
727 4, 3 | to tolerate so light an interdiction--of one single fruit, to
728 13, 1 | Bridegroom was taken away;" and interposing the half-fasts of Stations;
729 3, 2 | which he had prophetically interpreted that "great sacrament" with
730 12, 3 | to the presiding officer interrogating him "whom he confessed to
731 2, 8 | emptiness of my lungs and intestines."~
732 12, 2 | frequent fasting, gained a most intimate knowledge of death!~3.
733 9, 7 | And wine and that which is intoxicating shall he not drink:" for
734 12, 3 | on being tickled--for his intoxication made it feel like tickling--
735 6, 1 | man, stuffed with meats, inundated with wines, fermenting for
736 11, 1 | we may refute those who invalidate these things as empty observances;
737 16, 2 | on account of these signs invited (home) by the king by way
738 10, 7 | that hour in which the orb--involved from the sixth hour in a
739 1, 3 | It is really irksome to engage with such: one
740 7, 3 | habited, approach God through Isaiah--fasting being, of course,
741 4 | IV. THE OBJECTION IS RAISED,
742 9 | IX. FROM FASTS ABSOLUTE TERTULLIAN
743 5, 2 | were wont to sit over our jars of flesh and eat bread unto
744 7, 7 | upon the times predicted by Jeremiah, he set his face to God
745 16, 2 | idolatry introduced by King Jeroboam--after the drying up and
746 1, 3 | God, nor that they disjoin Jesus Christ (from God), nor that
747 16, 4 | For Joel withal exclaimed: "Sanctify
748 11, 4 | offering my opponents to join issue on whatever ground
749 10, 9 | suffice to have thus far joined issue on the argumentative
750 10, 12 | enjoined that Station, that Jonathan the son of Saul, although
751 8, 2 | of stones," say, to make Jordan flow with wine perchance,
752 10, 8 | the Lord's sepulture, when Joseph took down and entombed the
753 10, 10 | Think we that Joshua the son of Nun, when warring
754 9, 4 | afterwards, at Beersheba of Judea, that certain angel, after
755 13, 5 | purpose of winning over the judge by prayers), to issue mandates
756 11, 4 | Creator and of His Christ, be judged by diversity of divinity:
757 15, 3 | eateth not. Who art thou, who judgest another's servant?" "Both
758 16 | FROM SCRIPTURE OF DIVINE JUDGMENTS UPON THE SELF-INDULGENT;
759 1, 4 | by any flesh, and by any juiciness, and by any kind of specially
760 15, 1 | Marcion, a Tatian, or a Jupiter, the Pythagorean heretic
761 10, 10 | ordered the very elements to keep a Station? The sun "stood"
762 15, 5 | he has "delivered you the keys of the meat-market," permitting
763 5, 2 | out into these deserts, to kill this assembly by famine?"~
764 7, 5 | upbraided him, "How hast thou killed, and possessed the inheritance?
765 concl, 2| sauce-pans, "faith" its warmth in kitchens, "hope" its anchorage in
766 15, 4 | much more Divine! Thus he knew how to chide certain restricters
767 7, 7 | alone, trusting to God, and knowing what would tend to the deserving
768 11, 1 | our proceedings; or else known by the reading alone, not
769 15, 6 | Father's work;" teaching "to labour for the meat which is permanent
770 8, 4 | of Corinthians, among his labours, and perils, and hardships,
771 13, 5 | preaching in whatsoever lands He chose, and through whomsoever
772 5, 1 | be essayed, then all the laws and disciplines were imposed,
773 concl, 1| the field" of your most lax discipline, so faint are
774 14, 4 | antiquity all the while you are laying against us the charge of
775 2, 5 | The fires, I ween, which lead us to repeated contracting
776 5, 3 | the fate of) the self-same leaden of their own and eye-witnesses
777 6, 5 | had been upon God, nor his leanness, sated as it had been with
778 7, 1 | holocaust (in no way do we learn that the clemency of God
779 10, 4 | that Peter too had been led rather by ancient usage
780 5, 2 | bread unto the full! How leddest thou us out into these deserts,
781 5, 3 | and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the
782 3, 3 | demonstrated the offence had left to; my intelligence the
783 11, 2 | constituted this practice legally binding; some, offered by
784 2, 2 | that these are now the only legitimate days for Christian fasts,
785 5, 1 | At length, when a familiar people
786 concl, 2| If I offer you a paltry lentile dyed red with must well
787 16, 6 | xerophagies, put them on a level with the chastity of an
788 5 | THEREFORE THE RESTRAINTS OF THE LEVITICAL LAW WERE IMPOSED.~1.
789 2, 1 | appointed by God: as when, in Leviticus, the Lord enjoins upon Moses
790 6, 2 | slays or else wounds. I am a liar, if the Lord Himself, when
791 2, 5 | inburnt with doctrines of liars."(Inburnt?) With what fires,
792 9, 5 | wanting, to feed him more liberally? or had it been difficult
793 7, 5 | Naboth, thine also shall they lick up,"--he "abandoned himself,
794 7, 5 | the place where dogs had licked up the blood of Naboth,
795 6, 5 | heart" was habitually found "lifted up" rather than fattened
796 4, 3 | himself unable to tolerate so light an interdiction--of one
797 concl, 7| enter; more speedily will lighter flesh rise; longer in the
798 15, 3 | Let not him who eateth lightly esteem him who eateth not.
799 6, 2 | memory are occupied, the limbs of wisdom impeded? No one
800 9, 8 | drink." And, moreover, this limitation upon drink is the portion
801 15, 2 | For how limited is the extent of our "interdiction
802 13, 1 | Paschal-day, beyond the limits of those days in which "
803 16, 3 | prostrated by the rushing of a lion upon him in the way, and
804 9, 7 | Aaron "Wine and spirituous liquor shall ye not drink, thou
805 9, 2 | understanding in every kind of literature, and to Daniel in every
806 9, 6 | whatsoever difficulty, we must live on xerophagies. With such
807 6, 7 | equal with God, when he lives without food.~
808 13, 1 | you, (I find), sometimes living on bread and water, when
809 8, 2 | having (the power) to make "loaves out of stones," say, to
810 13, 6 | there are held in definite localities those councils gathered
811 8, 1 | pre-eminent distinction of long-continued and single-husbanded widowhood,
812 16, 6 | sigh for the arrival of the long-lingering evening star to sanction (
813 5, 2 | desert sighing after the lost enjoyments of Egyptian satiety,
814 10, 12 | presently convicted, by lot, of sin, and with difficulty
815 9, 8 | recent times He upbraids lsrael: "And ye used to give my
816 10, 3 | self-same commentary of Luke the third hour is demonstrated
817 concl, 3| adjoined, "nor in couches and lusts."~4.
818 16, 2 | from another old man, who lyingly professed himself a prophet,
819 3, 4 | doubt that of all dietary macerations the rationale has been this,
820 16, 5 | public proclamation; the magistrates lay aside their purple,
821 2, 4 | an Apis, an Isis, and a Magna Mater, by a restriction
822 | makes
823 concl, 8| against the spiritualities of malice." Against these it is not
824 6, 7 | makes God tent-fellow with man--peer, in truth, with peer!
825 concl, 5| just as we do not hesitate manfully to command, "Let us fast,
826 4, 3 | out-shed through 'blood,' it is manifest that He has conceded the
827 10, 11 | when engaged in battle, manifestly enjoined this duty: "Cursed (
828 5, 3 | soul is arid nought save manna do our eyes see!"~4.
829 15, 1 | find in the person of a Marcion, a Tatian, or a Jupiter,
830 1, 2 | through allowing but one marriage.~3.
831 1, 1 | which leads them to repeated marriages, if they were not likewise
832 8, 1 | none more than by the once married and often fasting.~2.
833 1, 2 | manifold feeding as to manifold marrying--so that it deservedly accuses
834 12, 3 | well-known Pristinus--your martyr, no Christian martyr--had
835 12, 3 | your martyr, no Christian martyr--had ever come in contact
836 12, 3 | prisons to untrustworthy martyrs, for fear they should miss
837 7, 1 | confusion, and felt in a mass in the sight of Israel;
838 9, 4 | ears of God, and make men masters of secrets. I return likewise
839 2, 4 | Apis, an Isis, and a Magna Mater, by a restriction laid upon
840 15, 4 | human choice to be made matter of controversy, how much
841 1, 3 | Montanus and Priscilla and Maximilia preach another God, nor
842 6, 6 | Jezebel, after one single (meal of) food and drink, which
843 13, 4 | I do not mean for the special purpose
844 10, 1 | concerning the limit of time, I mean--I must first demand from
845 | Meantime
846 2, 4 | to the whole range of the meat-market--(the apostle, I say), that
847 6, 6 | inn, with how familiar a meeting with God was he received!~
848 13, 5 | emperors which are opposed to "meetings" that we are sinning! The
849 5, 3 | and the cucumbers, and the melons, and the leeks, and the
850 6, 2 | religion, when the seats of the memory are occupied, the limbs
851 7, 2 | volleying blasphemies and menaces against Israel through Rabshakeh,
852 1, 3 | are I will once for all mention: they are the exterior and
853 12, 2 | since he is cuirassed in a mere dry skin, and cased in horn
854 7, 6 | mysteries, which fasts will merit from God.~7.
855 10, 10 | and the sun stood in the mid heaven." When, moreover, (
856 4, 4 | greater abstinence in the (midst of the) opportunity of a
857 10, 7 | never unmindful of their military oath, yet pay a greater
858 5, 2 | to the "land flowing with milk and honey;, but forthwith,
859 10, 11 | evening, until I avenge me on mine enemy;" and his whole people
860 9, 6 | dry and foul like ashes: "mingling, moreover, his drink with
861 9, 8 | that such as shall have ministered in the Church, being not
862 | miss
863 8, 1 | evidences). For we now hasten to modern proofs. On the threshold
864 6, 2 | to play." Understand the modest language of Holy Scripture: "
865 1, 3 | of which is offensive to modesty. For how am I to protect
866 4, 1 | of the providence of God--modulating all things, as He does,
867 7, 1 | the ground). At the very moment when Samuel was offering
868 1, 4 | already published a defence of monogamy. Now our battle is the battle
869 1, 1 | certainly be considered a monstrous phenomenon; since these
870 1 | PSYCHICAL OBJECTIONS AGAINST THE MONTANISTS.~1.
871 16, 1 | pleasing. To this day the "monuments of concupiscence" remain,
872 12, 2 | secure by premunition the moral position of the "latest
873 9, 7 | to God. For of Samuel his mother said: "And wine and that
874 6, 6 | his mouth dry, arrived at Mount Horeb; where, when he had
875 4, 2 | of the heaven, and things moving on earth, and the fish of
876 6, 3 | thy sheep and oxen being multiplied, and (thy) silver and gold,
877 11, 1 | among the overboastful multitude, to wit, of the Psychics.
878 3, 3 | from the very beginning the murderous gullet was to be punished
879 5, 2 | of Egyptian satiety, they murmured against Moses and Aaron "
880 12, 2 | the Paraclete had grown mute; we ourselves would have
881 13, 8 | provinces, (but) present mutually in spirit, observe those
882 | myself
883 16, 2 | Eli breaks his neck before the temple doors,
884 2, 3 | according to the times and needs of each individual: that
885 16, 6 | universally celebrated; while, neglecting the temples, throughout
886 2, 8 | I must love God, and my neighbour as myself: for 'on these
887 3, 3 | God willed that whereof He nilled the contrary, and confident
888 7, 4 | even that sinful state, Nineveh, is freed from the predicted
889 16, 6 | There is, I believe, a Ninevitan suspension of business!
890 4, 2 | however, after enumerating to Noah the subjection (to him)
891 12, 3 | last day of trial, at high noon, you premedicated with drugged
892 2, 6 | drink till He made Himself noted thus; "Behold, a gormandizer
893 5, 3 | But now our soul is arid nought save manna do our eyes see!"~
894 11, 1 | those who accuse them as novelties: for neither is that novel
895 10, 10 | we that Joshua the son of Nun, when warring down the Amorites,
896 2, 5 | repeated contracting of nuptials and daily cooking of dinners!~
897 11, 4 | of the devil," you say, O Psychic. And how is it that
898 10, 7 | unmindful of their military oath, yet pay a greater deference
899 13, 3 | merely to pay a willing obedience to Him, but withal to court
900 4 | IV. THE OBJECTION IS RAISED, WHY, THEN, WAS
901 1 | LUST. GROUNDS OF PSYCHICAL OBJECTIONS AGAINST THE MONTANISTS.~
902 7, 6 | or aversion of perils, or obliteration of sins, but likewise the
903 3, 4 | interdiction of food and observation of precept the primordial
904 6, 4 | understand with a heart" obstructed by the "fats" of which He
905 12, 2 | prayers God's anger, nor to obtain his protection or grace;
906 7, 1 | gathering together by Samuel on occasion of the drawing of water
907 6, 2 | seats of the memory are occupied, the limbs of wisdom impeded?
908 3, 4 | material through which he had offended, that is, through interdiction
909 1, 3 | very defence of which is offensive to modesty. For how am I
910 12, 3 | answer to the presiding officer interrogating him "whom
911 concl, 4| being both brethren and officers. Who, among you, is superior
912 | often
913 9, 3 | not into my mouth; with oil I was not anointed; until
914 concl, 7| retain its firmness. Let Olympic cestus-players and boxers
915 9 | TERTULLIAN COMES TO PARTIAL ONESAND XEROPHAGIES.~1.
916 5, 4 | fragrance of garlic and onion to that of heaven. And therefore
917 5, 3 | and the leeks, and the onions, and the garlic. But now
918 3, 2 | seed, deducing from thence onward its appetite for carnalities
919 16, 6 | all the shore, in every open place, they continue long
920 concl, 6| Openly let us vindicate our disciplines.
921 11, 4 | indifferently, offering my opponents to join issue on whatever
922 4, 4 | abstinence in the (midst of the) opportunity of a greater licence.~
923 2, 1 | pertains to fasts, they oppose to us the definite days
924 13, 5 | of the emperors which are opposed to "meetings" that we are
925 1, 2 | according to its ability opposes it, in this species of continence
926 11, 5 | teaching) towards God, (but) in opposition to our Christ? On which
927 10, 7 | to that hour in which the orb--involved from the sixth
928 10, 10 | on that day on which he ordered the very elements to keep
929 16, 6 | albeit by the dress and ornamentation of mourning they disgrace
930 | others
931 11, 6 | so far as lies in you, so otiose.~
932 4, 3 | the 'soul' of which is not out-shed through 'blood,' it is manifest
933 concl, 9| On the other hand, an over-fed Christian will be more necessary
934 11, 1 | the unskilled" among the overboastful multitude, to wit, of the
935 1, 3 | from God), nor that they overturn any particular rule of faith
936 2, 4 | whereas faith, free in Christ, owes no abstinence from particular
937 11, 2 | law for the time to come, owing to the authority of the
938 6, 3 | excellent houses, thy sheep and oxen being multiplied, and (thy)
939 16, 3 | among strangers; and thus paid the penalty of his breach
940 9, 5 | to carry away from some pan of the banquet-room of the
941 13, 2 | from God. Thus it is my part to perform, without external
942 15, 7 | chosen" a "fist;" but has particularized in detail the kind of fast
943 5, 1 | perpetual abstinence in certain particulars, might at last the more
944 11, 2 | wrangling of the opposite party is silenced, while they
945 13, 1 | of fasting besides on the Paschal-day, beyond the limits of those
946 1, 2 | love of impurity finds passage. I recognise, therefore,
947 2, 7 | instrumentalities of these and similar passages, they subtlely tend at last
948 10, 9 | times takes us under its patronage. In Exodus, was not that
949 16, 8 | lungs a temple, and your paunch a sacrificial altar, and
950 16, 3 | tortured; in that of the pauper, fasts refreshed; having--(
951 3, 3 | punished with the torments and penalties of hunger. Even if God had
952 10, 3 | understand that, with absolutely perfect indifference, we must pray
953 13, 2 | God. Thus it is my part to perform, without external suggestion
954 10, 2 | that they had that day been performing a Station, so as to interpret
955 | perhaps
956 15, 6 | labour for the meat which is permanent unto life eternal;" in our
957 4, 1 | did He withal enlarge His permission?~2.
958 13, 2 | what kind of deed is it, to permit to your own choice what
959 9, 6 | at a time of pressure and persecution and whatsoever difficulty,
960 10, 9 | prayers, maintained as it was perseveringly even till "sunset," a "late
961 9, 3 | year of Cyrus king of the Persians, when he had fallen into
962 10, 10 | the sun's peer, so long persistent in his duty--a Station longer
963 10, 4 | A persuasion which is sanctioned also
964 8, 1 | prophetess, daughter of Phanuel, "who both recognised the
965 1, 1 | be considered a monstrous phenomenon; since these two are so
966 6 | VI. THE PHYSICAL TFNDENCIES OF FASTING AND
967 2, 6 | share with the Galatians the piercing rebuke (of the apostle),
968 13, 5 | befall the Church, or of plagues to befall the world, in
969 16, 6 | no water even in their platters. There is, I believe, a
970 9, 3 | mourning during three weeks: pleasant bread I ate not; flesh and
971 concl, 6| are in the flesh cannot please God;" not, of course, those
972 5, 3 | recollection of their Egyptian plenties, they were ever exacerbating: "
973 5, 2 | belly than to God, when, plucked out from the harshness of
974 15, 3 | wine:" "for he who in these points doeth service, is pleasing
975 3, 3 | habitually accounted food as poison, and taken the antidote,
976 9, 8 | limitation upon drink is the portion of xerophagy. Anyhow, wherever
977 7, 5 | How hast thou killed, and possessed the inheritance? In the
978 1, 1 | that, had there been any possibility of disjoining them, the
979 2, 7 | prone to appetite finds it possible to regard as superfluous,
980 13, 6 | novel that all succeeding posterity guards with hereditary scrupulousness
981 7, 1 | efficacy, we may unfold the powers of this duty which reconciles
982 5, 4 | be condemned, the latter practically learned.~
983 13, 5 | present time, with the view of practising the discipline of sobriety
984 8, 1 | redemption of Israel," after the pre-eminent distinction of long-continued
985 8, 1 | recognised the infant Lord, and preached many things about Him to
986 13, 5 | Holy Spirit, when He was preaching in whatsoever lands He chose,
987 6, 3 | Deuteronomy, when bidding precaution to be taken against the
988 3, 3 | Even if God had enjoined no preceptive fasts, still, by pointing
989 16, 3 | and fasts alike had)--as preceptors "Moses and the prophets."~
990 15, 1 | foresight of the Holy Spirit, precondemning already the heretics who
991 16, 1 | For even if He does prefer "the works of righteousness,"
992 5, 3 | From the self-same belly preference were they destined (at last)
993 9, 2 | Daniel and his brethren, preferring as they did a diet of vegetables
994 2, 7 | since "God," forsooth, "prefers the works of justice and
995 9, 1 | restriction may already afford a prejudgment concerning the inferior
996 12, 3 | trial, at high noon, you premedicated with drugged wine as an
997 4, 4 | every beast." And thus, preministering the justice of judgment,
998 concl, 3| aware of; and hence, after premising, "Not in drunkenness and
999 12, 2 | grace; but to secure by premunition the moral position of the "
1000 2, 5 | us to have been even then prenoted as "in the latest times