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1001 14, 2 | week, and to fasts the "preparation-day?"~3.
1002 15, 5 | about rich and carefully prepared, if, when he subjoins, "
1003 4, 4 | the materials of liberty; preparing through allowance an undergrowth
1004 6, 7 | fasting one. Such is the prerogative of circumscribed food, that
1005 8, 2 | of hunger. Thereafter He prescribed to fasts a law--that they
1006 13, 1 | You lay down a prescription that this faith has its
1007 9, 5 | into the den of lions and presented to Daniel in his hunger?~
1008 concl, 2| you will sell all your "primacies:" with you "love" shows
1009 6, 6 | withal had, by this fact primarily, that he had imprecated
1010 1, 4 | secondary (or rather the primary) continence, in regard of
1011 9, 1 | This principal species in the category
1012 14, 4 | apostle, the differentiating principle--distinguishing (as he is
1013 concl, 1| justly do you vaunt your "priority:" always do I recognise
1014 1, 3 | rejected: not that Montanus and Priscilla and Maximilia preach another
1015 12, 3 | furnish cookshops in the prisons to untrustworthy martyrs,
1016 12, 3 | not even the well-known Pristinus--your martyr, no Christian
1017 2, 5 | Inburnt?) With what fires, prithee? The fires, I ween, which
1018 6, 1 | into a premeditatory of privies, (a premeditatory) where,
1019 9, 8 | of the eating. It is not probable that a man should sacrifice
1020 11, 1 | state of agitation at our proceedings; or else known by the reading
1021 16, 5 | the year arid, barefooted processions are enjoined by public proclamation;
1022 16, 5 | processions are enjoined by public proclamation; the magistrates lay aside
1023 7, 1 | clemency of God was more procured than by the abstinence of
1024 6, 4 | riches themselves are the procuring agents. Through them, to
1025 8, 1 | We produce, too, our remaining (evidences).
1026 2, 6 | defiled, but by such as are produced out of the mouth;" while
1027 15, 6 | blessed:" (He) who was wont to profess "food" to be, not that which
1028 11, 5 | have (ever) gone forth (professedly teaching) towards God, (
1029 7, 1 | examples, in order that, by its profitable efficacy, we may unfold
1030 2, 4 | in like manner as they prohibit marrying, so bid us abstain
1031 10, 1 | censure them) too as being prolonged habitually too late, saying
1032 1, 4 | keeping fasts of our own; with prolonging our Stations generally into
1033 15, 6 | the Lord "ate and drank" promiscuously! But I think that He must
1034 8, 1 | we now hasten to modern proofs. On the threshold of the
1035 10, 1 | turning) to the point which is proper to this particular cause--
1036 3, 4 | soul, wholly shattered "--properly, of course, by straits of
1037 1, 3 | this account that the New Prophecies are rejected: not that Montanus
1038 16, 2 | Sameas, a "man of God," after prophesying the issue of the idolatry
1039 8, 1 | of the Gospel, Anna the prophetess, daughter of Phanuel, "who
1040 2, 2 | Christian fasts, the legal and prophetical antiquities having been
1041 3, 2 | ecstasy in which he had prophetically interpreted that "great
1042 15, 3 | service, is pleasing and propitiable to our God." "One believeth
1043 1, 2 | the order of the vices is proportionate to the arrangement of the
1044 4, 1 | view of demolishing our proposition, should say: "Why, in that
1045 16, 3 | For he was prostrated by the rushing of a lion
1046 1, 3 | modesty. For how am I to protect chastity and sobriety without
1047 12, 2 | anger, nor to obtain his protection or grace; but to secure
1048 12 | XII. OF THE NEED FOR soME PROTEST AGAINST THE PSYCHICS AND
1049 2, 3 | given precept, nor (to be protracted) beyond the last hour of
1050 10, 8 | fix the condition of late protraction of the Station; (namely),
1051 10, 2 | hour of prayer," who will prove to me that they had that
1052 16, 7 | our xerophagy) will be proved divine, which the devil,
1053 11, 3 | else to undertake these proven duties (which they impugn):
1054 4, 1 | constantly kept in the eye of the providence of God--modulating all things,
1055 6, 1 | plainly, nothing is so proximately supersequent as the savouring
1056 13, 7 | to dwell in unity!" This psalm you know not easily how
1057 1 | GLUTTONY AND LUST. GROUNDS OF PSYCHICAL OBJECTIONS AGAINST THE MONTANISTS.~
1058 16, 6 | have one single fire in public--on the altars; no water
1059 1, 4 | marrying, we have already published a defence of monogamy. Now
1060 1, 1 | of disjoining them, the pudenda would not have been affixed
1061 3, 3 | murderous gullet was to be punished with the torments and penalties
1062 5, 4 | for the sake at once of punishing gluttony and exercising
1063 10, 12 | difficulty exempted from punishment through the prayer of the
1064 3, 3 | hunger; through which to purge the primordial cause of
1065 2, 4 | abstemious rigours which purify an Apis, an Isis, and a
1066 16, 5 | magistrates lay aside their purple, reverse the fasces, utter
1067 7, 1 | forth out of Mizpeh, and pursued the aliens, and smote them
1068 15, 1 | Tatian, or a Jupiter, the Pythagorean heretic of to-day; not in
1069 16, 1 | devouring without digesting the quails, they brought on cholera,
1070 6, 1 | will plainly tell with what qualities she is ever wont to find
1071 7, 7 | signification of the dream; quarter is granted to the tyrant'
1072 13, 7 | should congregate from all quarters to Christ! "See, how good
1073 13, 6 | not only all the deeper questions are handled for the common
1074 6, 3 | fat, and distent, and hath quite forsaken God, who made him,
1075 7, 2 | menaces against Israel through Rabshakeh, nothing else (but fasting)
1076 4, 3 | reformation of the human race, (as before it), one law--
1077 12, 3 | and, being now put on the rack for this silence, when he
1078 6, 6 | dew in these years, and rain-shower." Subsequently, fleeing
1079 1, 3 | Psychics. It is these which raise controversy with the Paraclete;
1080 4 | IV. THE OBJECTION IS RAISED, WHY, THEN, WAS THE LIMIT
1081 11, 3 | which the ancient economies ran their course, and at the
1082 11, 1 | similarly point out in what rank of religious duty they have
1083 16, 2 | having presently afterwards rashly taken food from another
1084 10, 3 | distinguish businesses, which re-echo in the public ear--have
1085 10, 2 | is from the fact that we read that Peter and he who was
1086 3, 2 | Spirit's," yielded more readily to his belly than to God,
1087 11, 1 | proceedings; or else known by the reading alone, not by careful study
1088 9, 5 | as the breakfast of the reapers was carried into the den
1089 6, 1 | primordial experiences the reasons for God's having laid, and
1090 2, 6 | the Galatians the piercing rebuke (of the apostle), as "observers
1091 10, 9 | argumentative challenge; rebutting, as I have done, conjectures
1092 | recent
1093 | recently
1094 1, 5 | that, either way, we who reclaim hear (sentence of) anathema.~
1095 9, 3 | thou gavest thy soul to recogitation and to humiliation before
1096 8, 1 | daughter of Phanuel, "who both recognised the infant Lord, and preached
1097 5, 3 | hankering after flesh, and their recollection of their Egyptian plenties,
1098 16, 2 | home) by the king by way of recompense, plainly declined (for he
1099 7, 1 | powers of this duty which reconciles God, even when angered,
1100 2, 3 | Peter's example, which is recorded in the Acts.~4.
1101 11, 1 | in order that, while we recount, according to the materials
1102 concl, 2| you a paltry lentile dyed red with must well boiled down,
1103 8, 1 | such as were expecting the redemption of Israel," after the pre-eminent
1104 3, 2 | that "great sacrament" with reference to Christ and the Church,
1105 7, 4 | sackcloth any care for satiety's refinements. Hunger is ever the attendant
1106 4, 3 | after the deluge, in the reformation of the human race, (as before
1107 16, 3 | that of the pauper, fasts refreshed; having--(as convivialities
1108 10, 8 | of the servants to take refreshment before their Lord did.~9.
1109 11, 1 | of, food confer, we may refute those who invalidate these
1110 10, 7 | enjoyment when the universe regained its sunshine.~8.
1111 1, 1 | elsewhere. Look at the body: the region (of these members) is one
1112 5, 3 | of) God, whom, by their regretful hankering after flesh, and
1113 12, 1 | well as others, "you are reigning in wealth and satiety"--
1114 4, 3 | accordingly, having had the rein relaxed, he was to be strengthened
1115 1, 2 | well; imposing, as it does, reins upon the appetite, through
1116 1, 3 | that the New Prophecies are rejected: not that Montanus and Priscilla
1117 3, 2 | appetite for carnalities and rejection of spiritualities.~3.
1118 13, 8 | grieving," and thus at last "to rejoice in company with the rejoicing."
1119 13, 8 | rejoice in company with the rejoicing." If we also, in our diverse
1120 3, 4 | emulous wise, hunger might rekindle, just as satiety had extinguished,
1121 4, 3 | accordingly, having had the rein relaxed, he was to be strengthened
1122 16, 1 | monuments of concupiscence" remain, where the People, greedy
1123 8, 1 | We produce, too, our remaining (evidences). For we now
1124 11, 6 | prophets (were) until John." It remains for you to banish Him wholly,
1125 3, 3 | to; my intelligence the remedies for the offence. Unbidden,
1126 7, 4 | if they had fasted. This remedy even Ahab acknowledges.~
1127 6, 2 | suitably, fitly, usefully, remember God at that time when it
1128 13, 3 | court Him; for the former I render to His command, the latter
1129 16, 2 | that king's hand--after the rending in twain of the sacrificial
1130 3, 4 | has been this, that by a renewed interdiction of food and
1131 7, 3 | harshness of the foe, he rent his garment, put on sackcloth,
1132 9, 9 | xerophagies--(the apostle) who had repeatedly practised greater rigours, "
1133 7, 4 | the predicted ruin. For repentance for sins had sufficiently
1134 6, 2 | immodest, it would not have reprehended. On the other hand, how
1135 13, 6 | benefit, but the actual representation of the whole Christian.
1136 1, 5 | are therefore constantly reproaching us with NOVELTY; concerning
1137 15, 1 | The apostle reprobates likewise such as "bid to
1138 5, 2 | first People had withal reproduced the first man's crime, being
1139 15, 6 | likewise commanding us to request "bread," not the wealth
1140 10, 8 | entombed the body which he had requested. Thence (it follows) that
1141 7, 7 | deserving of God's favour, requires a space of three days, fasts
1142 4, 4 | comminatory warning through the "requisition of blood from the hand of
1143 5 | ADAM'S CASE. THEREFORE THE RESTRAINTS OF THE LEVITICAL LAW WERE
1144 15, 4 | knew how to chide certain restricters and interdicters of food,
1145 6, 1 | the sake of God) to lay, restrictions upon food, let us consult
1146 concl, 7| sepulchre will drier flesh retain its firmness. Let Olympic
1147 11, 3 | in their turn be able to retort, they will be bound either
1148 6, 1 | has been temerity in our retracing to primordial experiences
1149 12, 3 | baptism!), and to all the retreats of voluptuousness (as if
1150 10, 5 | ignorant about, the Lord will reveal to you."~6.
1151 12, 1 | nor feeling need of such revelations as xerophagies extort, nor
1152 9, 9 | forbidden "drunkennesses and revellings"--we have a sufficient evidence
1153 concl, 3| Not in drunkenness and revels," he adjoined, "nor in couches
1154 7, 6 | God-ward fast is a work of reverential awe: and by its means also
1155 16, 5 | lay aside their purple, reverse the fasces, utter prayer,
1156 3, 2 | Adam) himself at that time, reverting to the condition of a Psychic
1157 14, 4 | and old"--which will be ridiculous; but (in this case too)
1158 16, 5 | When the heaven is rigid and the year arid, barefooted
1159 15, 5 | shall we be deficient," the ring of his words suits, (as
1160 concl, 7| speedily will lighter flesh rise; longer in the sepulchre
1161 16, 5 | inhabitants), by an annual rite, clad in sackcloth and besprent
1162 concl, 8| Against these it is not by robustness of flesh and blood, but
1163 15, 3 | further: when writing to the Romans, the apostle now gives you
1164 14, 2 | the passover by an annual rotation in the first month? Why
1165 9, 4 | that certain angel, after rousing him from sleep, offered
1166 9, 2 | beverage of water to the royal dishes and decanters, and
1167 7, 4 | freed from the predicted ruin. For repentance for sins
1168 16, 3 | he was prostrated by the rushing of a lion upon him in the
1169 14, 3 | your Station even over the Sabbath,--a day never to be kept
1170 15, 2 | the whole of these,--the Sabbaths, to wit, and the Lord's
1171 3, 2 | interpreted that "great sacrament" with reference to Christ
1172 13, 8 | been defending, that is the sacramental law.~
1173 8, 3 | should what is salutary be sad? He taught likewise that
1174 8, 2 | to be performed "without sadness."~3.
1175 10, 5 | have advanced) for their sakes who think that they are
1176 6, 1 | food and drink, with our saliva still in a virgin state,
1177 8, 3 | for why should what is salutary be sad? He taught likewise
1178 16, 4 | their sanctuary, and by saluting them at each particular
1179 16, 2 | the fleshly sacrifices. Sameas, a "man of God," after prophesying
1180 9, 8 | And ye used to give my sanctified ones wine to drink." And,
1181 16, 4 | Joel withal exclaimed: "Sanctify a fast, and a religious
1182 10, 4 | A persuasion which is sanctioned also by the corroboratire
1183 16, 4 | by adorning them in their sanctuary, and by saluting them at
1184 11, 5 | Paraclete be held to be Satan. But you affirm it is "a
1185 6, 5 | upon God, nor his leanness, sated as it had been with His
1186 3, 4 | order that man may make God satisfaction through the self-same causative
1187 9, 4 | ravens had been wont to satisfy him with "bread and flesh,"
1188 concl, 2| love" shows its fervour in sauce-pans, "faith" its warmth in kitchens, "
1189 5, 3 | our soul is arid nought save manna do our eyes see!"~
1190 3, 2 | in short, and perished; saved (as he would) else (have
1191 6, 3 | gone away from the Lord his Saviour." In short, in the Self-same
1192 concl, 1| always do I recognise the savour of Esau, the hunter of wild
1193 6, 1 | proximately supersequent as the savouring of lasciviousness.~2.
1194 10, 8 | If this savours more of the spirit of Christian
1195 6, 5 | strength (to his body), both saw with his eyes God's glory,
1196 9, 2 | any be apprehensive on the score of his paltry body, to boot!),
1197 13, 1 | solemnities "appointed" by the Scriptures or the tradition of the
1198 4, 2 | earth, and the fish of the sea, and every creeping thing,'
1199 14, 3 | fast except at the passover season, according to a reason elsewhere
1200 6, 2 | mindful of religion, when the seats of the memory are occupied,
1201 8, 4 | the apostle too, in the Second of Corinthians, among his
1202 1, 4 | battle is the battle of the secondary (or rather the primary)
1203 12, 3 | voluptuousness (as if they were more secret than those of the Church!),
1204 6, 1 | the purpose of excremental secretion, is already being turned
1205 3, 1 | which is in danger of being secretly subverted; (namely), of
1206 9, 4 | and make men masters of secrets. I return likewise to Elijah.
1207 12, 2 | protection or grace; but to secure by premunition the moral
1208 2, 5 | giving heed to spirits which seduce the world, having a conscience
1209 4, 2 | all grass fit for sowing, seeding seed, which is upon the
1210 8, 2 | man) to the devil, again seeking to tempt him by means of
1211 | seemed
1212 6, 2 | a man to forget his own self. All discipline food either
1213 12 | AGAINST THE PSYCHICS AND THEIR SELF-INDULGENCE.~1.
1214 16 | DIVINE JUDGMENTS UPON THE SELF-INDULGENT; AND APPEALS TO THE PRACTICES
1215 concl, 2| down, forthwith you will sell all your "primacies:" with
1216 13, 5 | against the decrees of the senate and the mandates of the
1217 16, 6 | place, they continue long to send prayer up to heaven. And,
1218 7, 2 | the king of the Assyrians, Sennacherib, after already taking several
1219 6, 1 | transaction of matters, by the sense especially whereby things
1220 1, 5 | way, we who reclaim hear (sentence of) anathema.~
1221 concl, 7| flesh rise; longer in the sepulchre will drier flesh retain
1222 16, 2 | of burial in his fathers' sepulchres.~3.
1223 10, 8 | awaiting the time of the Lord's sepulture, when Joseph took down and
1224 15, 3 | thou, who judgest another's servant?" "Both he who eateth, and
1225 10, 8 | irreligious for the flesh of the servants to take refreshment before
1226 5, 2 | the harshness of Egyptian servitude "by the mighty hand and
1227 6, 1 | find us endowed when she sets us, before taking food and
1228 2, 1 | Moses the tenth day of the seventh month (as) a day of atonement,
1229 | several
1230 8, 2 | initiating "the new man" into "a severe handling" of "the old,"
1231 | shalt
1232 16, 2 | at the hand of God by the shameless house, the defrauder of
1233 2, 6 | too, they affirm that we share with the Galatians the piercing
1234 concl, 4| presiding (elders) by double shares (of meat and drink); whereas
1235 3, 4 | and calls "a soul, wholly shattered "--properly, of course,
1236 6, 3 | built excellent houses, thy sheep and oxen being multiplied,
1237 3, 1 | very beginning, shall have shone out to view.~2.
1238 16, 5 | idols, (while) baths and shops are kept shut till the ninth
1239 16, 6 | temples, throughout all the shore, in every open place, they
1240 4, 3 | abstinence, who so recently showed himself unable to tolerate
1241 4, 4 | For the Lord had already shown His judgment through the
1242 16, 5 | baths and shops are kept shut till the ninth hour.~6.
1243 9, 2 | paltry body, to boot!), sides being spiritually cultured
1244 16, 6 | faith in abstinence, and sigh for the arrival of the long-lingering
1245 5, 2 | spectacle of an incopious desert sighing after the lost enjoyments
1246 10, 5 | Scripture, until by some signal celestial gift they be either
1247 7, 7 | throughout as to the order and signification of the dream; quarter is
1248 16, 2 | being on account of these signs invited (home) by the king
1249 12, 3 | put on the rack for this silence, when he could utter nothing
1250 11, 2 | of the opposite party is silenced, while they say: "It is
1251 6, 3 | being multiplied, and (thy) silver and gold, thy heart be elated,
1252 10, 12 | gluttony, although of a simple kind.~13.
1253 7, 1 | battle is dispersed by them simultaneously (with the water on the ground).
1254 concl, 8| are other thews and other sinews, just as our contests withal
1255 13, 7 | you know not easily how to sing, except when you are supping
1256 8, 1 | distinction of long-continued and single-husbanded widowhood, is additionally
1257 7, 1 | of water at Mizpeh, had sinned; but so immediately do they
1258 13, 5 | to "meetings" that we are sinning! The Holy Spirit, when He
1259 5, 2 | Egypt, when we were wont to sit over our jars of flesh and
1260 7, 8 | he was formidable, where, six days fasting, he had breakfast
1261 7, 7 | cannot be discovered by human skill. Daniel alone, trusting
1262 12, 2 | cuirassed in a mere dry skin, and cased in horn to meet
1263 7, 5 | transgression and idolatry, and the slaughter of Naboth, slain by Jezebel
1264 6, 2 | All discipline food either slays or else wounds. I am a liar,
1265 concl, 7| gate" of salvation will slenderer flesh enter; more speedily
1266 7, 5 | his flesh, and fasted, and slept in sackcloth. And then (
1267 10, 5 | are ignorant: not as if we slighted the ninth hour, (an hour)
1268 16, 8 | priest, and your fragrant smell the Holy Spirit, and your
1269 15, 7 | abuse and strifes, and ye smite with the fists. Not such
1270 5, 2 | Would that we had been smitten to the heart by the Lord,
1271 7, 1 | pursued the aliens, and smote them unto Bethor,"--the
1272 9, 8 | in the Church, being not sober, shall "die." Thus, too,
1273 7, 4 | which God was not angry. Sodom also, and Gomorrah, would
1274 3, 2 | rather than the mandate, and sold salvation for his gullet!
1275 10, 7 | For even soldiers, though never unmindful
1276 10, 12 | So solemn a sanction, moreover, did
1277 10, 3 | likewise ever been of special solemnity in divine prayers?~4.
1278 13, 4 | cause of ecclesiastical solicitude. And accordingly, if you
1279 2, 7 | point, that every one who is somewhat prone to appetite finds
1280 16, 2 | before the temple doors, his sons fall in battle, his daughter-in-law
1281 6, 7 | to a fed man, the former soothing a fasting one. Such is the
1282 10, 7 | performed for its dead Lord a sorrowful act of duty; so that we
1283 2, 1 | day, and ye shall vex your souls; and every soul which shall
1284 10, 13 | And while I was still speaking in prayer, behold, the man
1285 1, 4 | juiciness, and by any kind of specially succulent fruit; and with
1286 10, 4 | hour, praying at the third specific interval, (the interval)
1287 concl, 7| slenderer flesh enter; more speedily will lighter flesh rise;
1288 14, 2 | fifty ensuing days do we spend our time in all exultation?
1289 2, 5 | the faith, giving heed to spirits which seduce the world,
1290 9, 2 | to boot!), sides being spiritually cultured into the bargain.
1291 9, 7 | said to Aaron "Wine and spirituous liquor shall ye not drink,
1292 6, 6 | said, "before whom I am standing in His sight, if there shall
1293 16, 6 | the long-lingering evening star to sanction (their feeding).
1294 7, 4 | in a space of three days, starving out even the cattle with
1295 10, 4 | through exception of certain stated hours, no other, moreover,
1296 15, 7 | who are subject to you ye stealthily sting; or else ye fast with
1297 11, 1 | Psychics. This is why we have steered our course straight through
1298 15, 7 | subject to you ye stealthily sting; or else ye fast with a
1299 9, 9 | have been beneficial to his stomach--by this very fact he has
1300 8, 2 | to make "loaves out of stones," say, to make Jordan flow
1301 11, 1 | have steered our course straight through the different individual
1302 concl, 7| it may be, through the "strait gate" of salvation will
1303 3, 4 | properly, of course, by straits of diet--" a sacrifice;"
1304 16, 3 | way, and was buried among strangers; and thus paid the penalty
1305 concl, 7| necessary; and yet they also strengthen themselves by xerophagies.~
1306 4, 3 | rein relaxed, he was to be strengthened by his very liberty; that
1307 15, 7 | with a view to abuse and strifes, and ye smite with the fists.
1308 8, 2 | means of food, (to be) too strong for the whole power of hunger.
1309 2, 4 | consider) the novel name of a studied duty, and very much akin
1310 11, 1 | reading alone, not by careful study as well; in accordance with
1311 4, 2 | enumerating to Noah the subjection (to him) of 'all beasts
1312 1, 3 | ashamed to wrangle about subjects the very defence of which
1313 15, 7 | but such an one as He has subjoined, and by subjoining has not
1314 15, 7 | He has subjoined, and by subjoining has not abolished, but confirmed.~
1315 15, 5 | carefully prepared, if, when he subjoins, "Neither, if we shall have
1316 5, 2 | by the mighty hand and sublime arm" of God, they were seen
1317 6, 5 | nature, while spiritual faith subministered strength (to his body),
1318 1, 2 | lasciviousness are laid subordinately to daintiness: through love
1319 concl, 6| course, those who are in the substance of the flesh, but in the
1320 2, 7 | and similar passages, they subtlely tend at last to such a point,
1321 3, 1 | danger of being secretly subverted; (namely), of what value
1322 13, 6 | it nothing novel that all succeeding posterity guards with hereditary
1323 12, 2 | horn to meet the claws, the succulence of his blood already sent
1324 1, 4 | by any kind of specially succulent fruit; and with not eating
1325 12, 2 | just) come forth of it,--to suffer there not penalty, but discipline,
1326 10, 9 | But let it suffice to have thus far joined
1327 13, 2 | perform, without external suggestion thereto, an act of respect
1328 6, 2 | wisdom impeded? No one will suitably, fitly, usefully, remember
1329 concl, 4| frequent in banqueting, more sumptuous in catering, more learned
1330 10, 9 | perseveringly even till "sunset," a "late Station?"~10.
1331 10, 7 | the universe regained its sunshine.~8.
1332 2, 7 | it possible to regard as superfluous, and not so very necessary,
1333 concl, 4| officers. Who, among you, is superior in holiness, except him
1334 6, 1 | nothing is so proximately supersequent as the savouring of lasciviousness.~
1335 13, 7 | sing, except when you are supping with a goodly company!)~
1336 16, 5 | besprent with ashes, present a suppliant importunity to their idols, (
1337 12, 3 | under an obligation, I suppose, to all the baths (as if
1338 14, 1 | those the apostle unteaches, suppressing the continuance of the Old
1339 5, 2 | forthwith, stumbled at the surrounding spectacle of an incopious
1340 16, 6 | I believe, a Ninevitan suspension of business! A Jewish fast,
1341 7, 3 | After that, what else swept away by the hand of the
1342 10, 13 | dreams at the beginning, swiftly flying, approached me, as
1343 9, 7 | whenever ye shall enter the tabernacle, or ascend unto the sacrificial
1344 16, 2 | and there uttered over the table, of burial in his fathers'
1345 10, 9 | drawn from the ancient times takes us under its patronage.
1346 10, 12 | he had allowed himself a taste of honey, was both presently
1347 10, 11 | enemy;" and his whole people tasted not (food), and (yet) the
1348 15, 1 | the person of a Marcion, a Tatian, or a Jupiter, the Pythagorean
1349 14, 4 | own unfairness, while you taunt us with the form of antiquity
1350 1, 3 | chastity and sobriety without taxing their adversaries? What
1351 2, 6 | Meantime they huff in our teeth the fact that Isaiah withal
1352 6, 1 | Nature herself will plainly tell with what qualities she
1353 6, 1 | Now, if there has been temerity in our retracing to primordial
1354 9, 8 | to God half his appetite; temperate in waters, and intemperate
1355 16, 6 | celebrated; while, neglecting the temples, throughout all the shore,
1356 8, 2 | devil, again seeking to tempt him by means of food, (to
1357 13, 5 | the imminence either of temptations to befall the Church, or
1358 6, 7 | food, that it makes God tent-fellow with man--peer, in truth,
1359 2, 1 | Lord enjoins upon Moses the tenth day of the seventh month (
1360 6, 7 | God will not hunger, as He testifies through Isaiah, this will
1361 8, 1 | additionally graced with the testimony of "fastings" also; pointing
1362 6 | VI. THE PHYSICAL TFNDENCIES OF FASTING AND FEEDING CONSIDERED.
1363 11, 2 | a mandate for its doing thenceforward. And so from this consideration,
1364 | Thereafter
1365 13, 2 | without external suggestion thereto, an act of respect to my
1366 15, 6 | not the wealth of Attalus therewithal.~7.
1367 concl, 8| But ours are other thews and other sinews, just as
1368 | thine
1369 15, 6 | full;" but "the hungry and thirsty, blessed:" (He) who was
1370 15, 6 | disciples had supposed, but "the thorough doing of the Father's work;"
1371 7, 3 | hundred eighty and four thousand from his army than Hezekiah
1372 6, 7 | latter voice was uttering a threat to a fed man, the former
1373 6, 6 | Subsequently, fleeing from threatening Jezebel, after one single (
1374 8, 1 | to modern proofs. On the threshold of the Gospel, Anna the
1375 10, 4 | corroboratire fact of Daniel praying thrice in the day; of course, through
1376 7, 1 | the aliens, and they were thrown into confusion, and felt
1377 7, 1 | then and there "the Lord thundered with a mighty voice upon
1378 12, 3 | enervated, that on being tickled--for his intoxication made
1379 12, 3 | intoxication made it feel like tickling--with a few claws, he was
1380 4, 1 | suit the exigencies of the times--lest any from the opposite
1381 9, 9 | the case of his disciple Timotheus; whom when he admonishes, "
1382 15, 1 | the Pythagorean heretic of to-day; not in the person of the
1383 10, 8 | s sepulture, when Joseph took down and entombed the body
1384 8, 2 | been such a "glutton and toper." Nay, rather, by the virtue
1385 3, 3 | to be punished with the torments and penalties of hunger.
1386 16, 3 | feaster, convivialities tortured; in that of the pauper,
1387 16, 2 | been prohibited by God) to touch food at all in that place;
1388 | towards
1389 3 | THE PRINCIPLE OF FASTING TRACED BACK TO ITS EARLIEST SOURCE.~
1390 6, 1 | in a virgin state, to the transaction of matters, by the sense
1391 9, 5 | amply-furnished waiter, and transfer him to Elijah, just as the
1392 7, 5 | When, after his transgression and idolatry, and the slaughter
1393 3, 3 | cause of death--a cause transmitted to me also, concurrently
1394 4, 2 | been the food of herbs and trees which He had assigned to
1395 12, 3 | on the very last day of trial, at high noon, you premedicated
1396 7, 7 | Babylon all the sophists are troubled: they affirm that, without
1397 7, 7 | human skill. Daniel alone, trusting to God, and knowing what
1398 11, 3 | economies will in their turn be able to retort, they
1399 6, 1 | secretion, is already being turned into a premeditatory of
1400 10, 1 | to suit all causes. Now, (turning) to the point which is proper
1401 16, 2 | hand--after the rending in twain of the sacrificial altar,--
1402 9, 8 | fore-furnishing a formal type to drink. For the quality
1403 7, 7 | quarter is granted to the tyrant's sophists; God is glorified;
1404 concl, 6| flesh, but in the care, the uffection, the work, the will, of
1405 7, 1 | unfed (chasing) the fed, the unarmed the armed.~2.
1406 3, 3 | remedies for the offence. Unbidden, I would, in such ways and
1407 5, 1 | things being prohibited as unclean, in order that man, by observing
1408 4, 4 | preparing through allowance an undergrowth of discipline; permitting
1409 9, 2 | young men knowledge and understanding in every kind of literature,
1410 11, 3 | those arguments, or else to undertake these proven duties (which
1411 13, 2 | exceeding tradition, in undertaking observances which have not
1412 15, 3 | sake of food," he says, "undo the work of God." What "
1413 14, 4 | too) it will be your own unfairness, while you taunt us with
1414 7, 1 | them unto Bethor,"--the unfed (chasing) the fed, the unarmed
1415 7, 1 | profitable efficacy, we may unfold the powers of this duty
1416 5, 4 | And therefore from men so ungrateful all that was more pleasing
1417 1, 1 | since these two are so united and concrete, that, had
1418 13, 4 | of a man's edict, and all unitedly, how is it that in our case
1419 10, 7 | return to enjoyment when the universe regained its sunshine.~8.
1420 11, 1 | instances) I believe to be unknown to those who are in a state
1421 3, 4 | contemning for the sake of one unlawful more lawful (gratifications)?~
1422 concl, 1| hunter of wild beasts: so unlimitedly studious are you of catching
1423 10, 7 | even soldiers, though never unmindful of their military oath,
1424 1, 4 | likewise, keeping our food unmoistened by any flesh, and by any
1425 11, 1 | the greater bulk of "the unskilled" among the overboastful
1426 14, 1 | solemnities: for those the apostle unteaches, suppressing the continuance
1427 12, 3 | cookshops in the prisons to untrustworthy martyrs, for fear they should
1428 15, 6 | How unworthy, also, is the way in which
1429 7, 5 | his vineyard, Elijah had upbraided him, "How hast thou killed,
1430 6, 2 | if the Lord Himself, when upbraiding Israel with forgetfulness,
1431 9, 8 | too, in recent times He upbraids lsrael: "And ye used to
1432 10, 4 | been led rather by ancient usage to the observance of the
1433 12, 3 | should miss their accustomed usages, grow weary of life, (and)
1434 6, 2 | one will suitably, fitly, usefully, remember God at that time
1435 16, 2 | word of God then and there uttered over the table, of burial
1436 6, 7 | For the latter voice was uttering a threat to a fed man, the
1437 5 | V. PROCEEDING TO THE HISTORY
1438 3, 1 | subverted; (namely), of what value in the sight of God this "
1439 9, 1 | question of the novelty or vanity of xerophagies, to see whether
1440 concl, 1| appetite, and justly do you vaunt your "priority:" always
1441 13, 6 | is celebrated with great veneration.~7.
1442 2, 1 | you the day, and ye shall vex your souls; and every soul
1443 2, 1 | which shall not have been vexed in that day shall be exterminated
1444 6 | VI. THE PHYSICAL TFNDENCIES
1445 1, 2 | short, the order of the vices is proportionate to the
1446 6, 1 | not) with a mind much more vigorous, with a heart much more
1447 7 | VII. FURTHER EXAMPLES FROM THE
1448 8 | VIII. EXAMPLES OF A SIMILAR KIND
1449 concl, 6| Openly let us vindicate our disciplines. Sure we
1450 7, 5 | Jezebel on account of his vineyard, Elijah had upbraided him, "
1451 6, 1 | with our saliva still in a virgin state, to the transaction
1452 8, 2 | toper." Nay, rather, by the virtue of contemning food He was
1453 9, 3 | repeated meditation on a vision, he provided another form
1454 12, 3 | the "free custody" (now in vogue, and) under an obligation,
1455 13, 2 | command of God? Shall human volition have more licence than Divine
1456 7, 2 | taking several cities, was volleying blasphemies and menaces
1457 1, 1 | hate fasts. Lust without voracity would certainly be considered
1458 11, 2 | God, have discharged some votive obligation. Still, even
1459 11, 2 | obligation. Still, even a vow, when it has been accepted
1460 9, 8 | either exacted by God or vowed by man, there let there
1461 9, 5 | with his amply-furnished waiter, and transfer him to Elijah,
1462 concl, 2| hope" its anchorage in waiters; but of greater account
1463 9, 5 | Had ravens been wanting, to feed him more liberally?
1464 concl, 2| sauce-pans, "faith" its warmth in kitchens, "hope" its
1465 4, 4 | likewise issued a comminatory warning through the "requisition
1466 16, 3 | breach of fast. These will be warnings both to people and to bishops,
1467 10, 10 | Joshua the son of Nun, when warring down the Amorites, had breakfasted
1468 7, 1 | but so immediately do they wash away the sin by a fast,
1469 9, 8 | his appetite; temperate in waters, and intemperate in meats.~
1470 6, 3 | My) beloved is waxen thick, and fat, and distent,
1471 3, 3 | Unbidden, I would, in such ways and at such times as I might
1472 15, 3 | eaten; but another, being weak, feedeth on vegetables.
1473 9, 9 | his stomach and constant weaknesses," to use "a little wine,"
1474 8, 3 | that fasts are to be the weapons for battling with the more
1475 12, 3 | accustomed usages, grow weary of life, (and) be stumbled
1476 2, 5 | fires, prithee? The fires, I ween, which lead us to repeated
1477 9, 6 | moreover, his drink with weeping"--of course, instead of
1478 concl, 6| not us; for it is not by weight that God bestows flesh,
1479 12, 3 | discipline) which not even the well-known Pristinus--your martyr,
1480 | whatever
1481 | whenever
1482 3, 3 | certain that God willed that whereof He nilled the contrary,
1483 | whoever
1484 12, 3 | come in contact with: he whom--stuffed as he had long been,
1485 13, 5 | lands He chose, and through whomsoever He chose, was wont, from
1486 2, 3 | the week), but yet take a wide range according to individual
1487 8, 1 | long-continued and single-husbanded widowhood, is additionally graced
1488 7, 6 | its means also Hannah the wife of Elkanah making suit,
1489 concl, 1| savour of Esau, the hunter of wild beasts: so unlimitedly studious
1490 3, 3 | generation; certain that God willed that whereof He nilled the
1491 15, 7 | of your fasts your own wills are found (indulged), and
1492 6, 1 | with meats, inundated with wines, fermenting for the purpose
1493 1, 4 | drinking anything with a winey flavour; also with abstinence
1494 13, 5 | Advocate for the purpose of winning over the judge by prayers),
1495 2, 2 | wherever it suits their wishes, they recognise what is
1496 5, 4 | pleasing and appetizing was withdrawn, for the sake at once of
1497 15, 5 | deficient," the ring of his words suits, (as it does), you
1498 12, 3 | as if they were of more worth than those of life eternal!),
1499 10, 6 | inquire whether there be not a worthier reason adduced among its
1500 6, 2 | food either slays or else wounds. I am a liar, if the Lord
1501 1, 3 | one is really ashamed to wrangle about subjects the very
1502 11, 2 | consideration, again, the wrangling of the opposite party is
1503 concl, 8| withal are other; we whose "wrestling is not against flesh and
1504 10, 10 | that God," says (the writer), "should hear a man"--(
1505 15, 3 | But further: when writing to the Romans, the apostle
1506 10 | X. OF STATIONS, AND OF THE
1507 9, 9 | had any acquaintance with xerophagies--(the apostle) who had repeatedly
1508 11 | XI. OF THE RESPECT DUE TO "
1509 12 | XII. OF THE NEED FOR soME PROTEST
1510 13 | XIII. OF THE INCONSISTENCIES
1511 14 | XIV. REPLY TO THE CHARGE OF "
1512 15 | XV. OF THE APOSTLE'S LANGUAGE
1513 16 | XVI. INSTANCES FROM SCRIPTURE
1514 concl | XVII. CONCLUSION.~1.
1515 3, 2 | which were the Spirit's," yielded more readily to his belly
1516 2, 3 | imposing (as they did) no other yoke of definite fasts to be