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1 XI | persecution the Church is abandoned by the clergy. If any one
2 XIII| receiving us into everlasting abodes. But of what will not cowardice
3 | above
4 IX | they flee. For how can the absent be supported by you? By
5 III | proving or rejecting, more of abusing or punishing, it must be
6 I | less, who no doubt, by not accepting the Comforter, the guide
7 VI | preaching might be fully accomplished in the case of those among
8 VII | of our Lord's ordinances accord with a lasting command of
9 XII | And so the will of God accords with this. Look at the condition--
10 II | there than persecution?), we acknowledge that that comes to pass
11 XII | it of God and His ways of acting, who spared not His own
12 V | confessor's part, and so add to your safety, that you
13 VIII| offering supplication, and adding, too, the other words: "
14 XIII| teach you. The saying was addressed to the Jewish people; inasmuch
15 XI | foreshadowings Himself, adds: "The bad shepherd is he
16 VI | persecution, might also have adduced that prior will of the Lord,
17 I | too, you will see that the adjudging of the contest belongs to
18 XIII| themselves to our faith, might be admitted into everlasting habitations.
19 XII | on this point give you my advice, distinctly affirming that
20 XII | you my advice, distinctly affirming that persecution, from which
21 II | displays against righteousness affords occasion for attestations
22 XII | be done by you is to buy aft a Christian, or to buy one.
23 | afterwards
24 VI | sufferings in store for him which Agabus had foretold; but doing
25 III | inquiry about us, and we are alarmed lest we awaken their anxieties.
26 III | smite and heal I will make alive and put to death." "I will
27 VII | And then what does He allot to the fearful? "He who
28 II | having it only by special allowance, since the Lord in the Gospel
29 XIII| men? As if Scripture both allowed them to flee, and commanded
30 | almost
31 XIII| but compels. It is not alms he looks for, who comes
32 | along
33 X | commander Christ, who, so amply armed by the apostle, as
34 XII | indeed ransomed him from the angelic powers which rule the world--
35 X | escaping through my own anger."~
36 XIII| Guilt money." Shall I be angry even with an enemy? But
37 XIV | guides into all truth, and animates to all endurance. And they
38 I | discussions if one make answer--Therefore evil and sin are
39 XII | never canbe made,--with Antichrist now close at hand, and gaping
40 V | or to deny, why do we not anticipate the nobler thing, that is,
41 III | is, war, for that is the antithesis of peace. But what other
42 XIII| enjoy their rule free from anxiety, under colour of providing(
43 | anywhere
44 II | face of the world show that apostatizers to the devil's cause have
45 VII | that there might not be the appearance of His will being thwarted
46 XII | most precious blood? It appears, then, that it is better
47 XII | are daily provided so many appliances--registerings of property,
48 XIII| of unlimited or universal application. And so He commands us to
49 I | also. We have therefore applied a methodical treatment,
50 X | exhortations of God, are readier to apply to themselves that Greek
51 VI | nations, Yes, and if we are apprehended, we shall not be brought
52 IX | the Spirit, what does He approve more than that utterance
53 XII | comfort. When did Onesimus, or Aquila, or Stephen, give them aid
54 XI | Thus Zechariah threatens: "Arise, O sword, against the shepherds,
55 X | commander Christ, who, so amply armed by the apostle, as soon
56 II | the devil should have the assailing of it in his own power!
57 IX | resist him, and sustain his assaults in their utmost force. Accordingly
58 XII | from hell, that he might attain to heaven. What, now, are
59 X | X.~But some, paying no attention to the exhortations of God,
60 II | righteousness affords occasion for attestations of that to which it is opposed
61 XII | of what example do you avail yourself to warrant your
62 V | from persecution because it avails us nothing if God disapproves?~
63 XII | yourself to warrant your averting by money the giving of you
64 IV | persecution as an evil (for no one avoids what is good); or they count
65 III | and we are alarmed lest we awaken their anxieties. Do ye not
66 X | if you will, having an awe of God all the greater,
67 I | breaks out? The Church is awe-struck. Then is faith both more
68 XI | the leaders turning their backs, who of the common rank
69 X | into Christ you have been baptized. Christ, who is in you,
70 I | indeed to lay it down, (in bar of all besides,) that nothing
71 XII | everlasting death. But you bargain for him with an informer,
72 VII | flight--a protection so base, and unworthy, and servile--
73 IV | because it has a natural basis, we on valid grounds lay
74 XIII| hucksters, and pickpockets, and bath-thieves, and gamesters, and pimps,
75 X | denying, he has yet faced and battled with the torture. I had
76 VI | the precept of the Lord, bear this solemn testimony before
77 IX | be supported by you? By bearing with them? Well, he says
78 X | in the belly even of a beast, in which he was confined
79 XI | shepherdless, a prey to all the beasts of the field. And this never
80 | becoming
81 IX | seek not to die on bridal beds, nor in miscarriages, nor
82 XIII| the Lord, that when grace began to depart from them, they,
83 | begin
84 XII | exacting nothing on Caesar's behalf; nay, doing the very opposite,
85 XIII| conferred a favour on me, and, beholding his plunder, says, "Guilt
86 VI | of those among whom this behoved first of all to be carried
87 XII | the rich among those who believed--men, and also women, who
88 I | winnowing the mixed heap of believers, and separating the grain
89 XIII| not when rather he both believes that he has conferred a
90 X | land, but, in fact, in the belly even of a beast, in which
91 II | were an executioner to whom belonged the inflicting of punishment,
92 XII | I owe to Caesar, a thing belonging to him, about which the
93 XII | property, taxes in kind benevolences, taxes in money; but never
94 II | pass by His will whom we beseech to exempt us from it. For
95 II | absolutely committed to Him, beseeching it of the Father, from whom
96 V | Himself be my protector? It beseems us better to retain our
97 XII | cheating God if I do my best to withhold payment. I have
98 XIII| kept us from God, if they bestowed the blessing upon us, for
99 XIII| depart from them, they, betaking themselves to our faith,
100 XIII| I am not threatened with betrayal. If he threatens, I will
101 XIII| withal he did not say a, betrayer, or persecutor, or one seeking
102 XIV | Keep pure for Christ His betrothed virgin; let no one make
103 | between
104 II | more unjust than that the bishops of the true God, that all
105 XI | deacons, and presbyters, and bishops--take to flight, how will
106 II | they might be taught not to blaspheme. You see, then, that the
107 XII | was rich in blood for him. Blessed therefore are the poor,
108 X | to be pitied than to be blushed for. More glorious is the
109 X | their purpose. A certain bold prophet also had fled from
110 XIV | yourselves (to a tribute bondage). Keep pure for Christ His
111 VI | us, save as also we are bound to preach to all nations,
112 XI | Spirit also, he will hear him branding the runaways. But if it
113 VI | that the sons might receive bread before the dogs, for that
114 I | Him, and when persecution breaks out? The Church is awe-struck.
115 IX | elsewhere: seek not to die on bridal beds, nor in miscarriages,
116 VII | outcast, in the lake of brimstone and fire, which is the second
117 XII | the kind been provided by bringing Christians under some purchase-money
118 II | God. I may say that the bristles of the swine, too, were
119 XIV | who is ready to follow the broad way, but who the narrow.
120 I | prayers, and lowliness, in brotherly-kindness and love, in holiness and
121 II | by God as a drop of the bucket, and as the dust of the
122 II | the messenger of Satan, to buffet him; and even this son of
123 III | and put to death." "I will burn them," He says, "as gold
124 III | them," He says, "as gold is burned; and I will try them," He
125 III | faith gets a ministry of burning and kindling; yet by the
126 XIII| having managed ill the business of the Lord which had been
127 XII | shown Him forth? He who buys himself off does nothing
128 XI | the flock would have no call to hold his ground, as his
129 I | glorious One, as umpire, who calls us to the prize. The one
130 XII | such an imposition never canbe made,--with Antichrist now
131 VI | the world; nay, no special care even for Israel has been
132 VI | apostles did wrong who were not careful to keep fleeing to the last.~
133 I | receive them, and the duty of carefully considering it concerns
134 VI | behoved first of all to be carried out--that the sons might
135 I | of God, as He tries and casts away, lays on and takes
136 II | apostatizers to the devil's cause have been in reality His
137 VI | cannot continue with us which ceased with our teachers, even
138 XII | us from our sins. The sun ceded to us the day of our redemption;
139 I | of the martyrs from the chaff of the deniers; and this
140 II | trial is granted to him, challenged or challenging, as in the
141 II | granted to him, challenged or challenging, as in the instances already
142 XI | those committed to their charge,--but also scattering the
143 XIII| will give on the plea of charity, not under any intimidation.
144 II | Hermogenes over to Satan that by chastening they might be taught not
145 IV | nature a very good thing is chastity, and so is truth, and righteousness;
146 XII | am undoubtedly guilty of cheating God if I do my best to withhold
147 XII | to the scourges, nay, His cheeks to the hands of the smiter,
148 VII | Whereas in fact He does not cherish, but ever rejects the weak,
149 XII | subject to tribute, not by children. Or how shall I render to
150 V | I depart not; God, if He choose, will Himself be my protector?
151 V | for Him on His part, if He chooses, to bring me, when I flee,
152 X | world is judged. You are Christ-clothed, you who flee before the
153 XII | blood, not for the money of Christians--how can it be pointed out
154 VI | but we shall certainly be cited before Roman magistrates
155 XII | Can Christ, therefore, claim that you, as a witness for
156 I | that fan which even now cleanses the Lord's threshing-floor--
157 I | everything one's knowledge is clearer when it is known from whom
158 XI | Church is abandoned by the clergy. If any one recognises the
159 XIII| how much more shall I heap coals upon the head of a man of
160 XII | started, it being a tribute coin due indeed by those subject
161 XIII| free from anxiety, under colour of providing(a like freedom
162 X | soldier he furnishes to his commander Christ, who, so amply armed
163 XII | payment. I have well kept the commandment, if, rendering to Caesar
164 XI | their backs, who of the common rank will hope to persuade
165 I | some news or other were communicated, whether or not we ought
166 XIII| receive, does not crave, but compels. It is not alms he looks
167 XI | will be kept from him as compensation; nay, even from his former
168 VII | opposed to each other do not comport with the divine dignity,
169 XII | question proposed by you is concerned, you have our opinion in
170 XII | accords with this. Look at the condition--certainly of God's ordaining,
171 XIII| both believes that he has conferred a favour on me, and, beholding
172 XII | doubt not, be said, You have confessed Him; so also, on the account
173 V | are able rather to act a confessor's part, and so add to your
174 XI | along with it." But Christ, confirming these foreshadowings Himself,
175 I | contest. By whom is the conflict proclaimed, but by Him by
176 X | whatever way of it, either as conquered or as conqueror. But although
177 I | whose is the distinction of conquering in persecution, in very
178 XI | it would not require in consequence of its liberty, forsooth,
179 XII | must now be prepared to consider the following question also:
180 I | and the duty of carefully considering it concerns you no less,
181 V | and thereafter he was consigned to the flames, and thus
182 II | the devil, and persecution consists of injustice (for what more
183 V | rather on this, the side of constancy and trust in God, say, I
184 II | whom the injustice which constitutes persecution is perpetrated,
185 III | flame of persecution is consuming as, then the stedfastness
186 I | persecution, in very deed contending in their victorious struggle
187 XIV | them one after another. Be content with a church of threes.
188 XIII| what will not cowardice convince men? As if Scripture both
189 VIII| their states, you might be convinced that they have no power
190 VI | not be brought into Jewish councils, nor scourged in Jewish
191 IX | loved? Yes; and if you ask counsel of the Spirit, what does
192 XII | Assuredly you have here too the counselling of fear. Because you fear,
193 IV | avoids what is good); or they count themselves stronger than
194 XII | right it had in us, and our covenant is in heaven; the everlasting
195 XIII| does not receive, does not crave, but compels. It is not
196 III | am He who make peace and create evil,"--that is, war, for
197 XII | and by the laws of man a criminal. Of another sort is the
198 II | the manner o the vilest criminals?), persecution therefore
199 X | fled from the Lord, he had crossed over from Joppa in the direction
200 XIV | sometimes should not see your crowds, than subject yourselves (
201 I | but by Him by whom the crown and the rewards are offered?
202 V | was put to the torture and cruelly mangled,--a punishment,
203 XII | that He might be made a curse for us, because cursed is
204 XII | a curse for us, because cursed is he that hangeth on a
205 XII | increasing the treasury there are daily provided so many appliances--
206 XI | themselves--I mean the very deacons, and presbyters, and bishops--
207 XII | When did the apostles, dealing with the matter, in any
208 XII | for the payment of that debt, I am undoubtedly guilty
209 IV | satisfy your doubts, and to decide from these introductory
210 I | we must first come to a decision as to how the matter stands
211 XI | both Ezekiel and Jeremiah declaim with kindred threatenings,
212 VI | understand the meaning of that declaration of the Lord, that they may
213 XIII| back again. Even now, the declarations of the Lord have reasons
214 XII | teaching of John when he declares, not that we should pay
215 VII | utter inconsistency in the decrees of One who commands to flee,
216 X | who, as a fugitive, is a defeated man, be conqueror? A worthy
217 XII | glorious One, nay, slights and defiles His goods, obtained at so
218 IV | several nature is a certain definite reality, and it lays it
219 XII | for being (what he is), a denier? For what says that extorter?
220 I | martyrs from the chaff of the deniers; and this is also the ladder
221 IV | more secure. Unless, as it depends on the Lord, one either
222 V | do Him high dishonour by despairing of power at His hands to
223 XII | at a price!" Yet who will despise him for being (what he is),
224 X | not flee from, but rather despises him, relying on the protection
225 XII | equally persistent in his determination to go to Jerusalem, and
226 I | devil, that with the less difficulty we may get on firm ground
227 VI | being at once put down, the diffusion of the Gospel too might
228 VII | comport with the divine dignity, they clearly prove that
229 V | avails us nothing if God disapproves?~
230 XI | given him at the time of his discharge will be kept from him as
231 VII | follows Me, cannot be My disciple." Last of all, in the Revelation,
232 I | preparation, and better disciplined in fasts, and meetings,
233 I | give occasion to the other discussions if one make answer--Therefore
234 II | proportion to the enmity it displays against righteousness affords
235 II | that he has I put at your disposal; but do not stretch out
236 VI | What do ye, weeping and disquieting my heart? For I could wish
237 IV | righteousness; and yet they are distasteful to many. Is perhaps the
238 I | above all, whose is the distinction of conquering in persecution,
239 XII | point give you my advice, distinctly affirming that persecution,
240 I | will of God. But lest we be diverted from the point before us,
241 VI | had now filled with their doctrine--saying, "It was necessary
242 VI | receive bread before the dogs, for that reason He commanded
243 IX | in which he had heard the doom of the fearful, (and so)
244 V | already. But if you are doubtful on that point, why do you
245 IX | darts of the devil, when doubtless ye resist him, and sustain
246 IV | at once to satisfy your doubts, and to decide from these
247 I | the ladder of which Jacob dreams, on which are seen, some
248 II | all counted by God as a drop of the bucket, and as the
249 XII | it being a tribute coin due indeed by those subject
250 XIII| have delivered us from the dues of sins which kept us from
251 II | of the bucket, and as the dust of the threshing-floor,
252 XII | Christ in the man in whom He dwells, as though He were some
253 X | bring odium upon Him by dying by His will, than by escaping
254 | each
255 VI | anxieties of the disciples, eagerly entreating him that he would
256 I | are we called on to give earnest thought to the question
257 X | Tarsus, as if he could as easily transport himself away from
258 XI | their not only wickedly eating of the Sheep,--they feeding
259 I | find in the Revelation its edict, setting forth the rewards
260 II | himself by the faith of the elect which proves victorious
261 | elsewhere
262 VI | time--not with the object of eluding danger, under the plea strictly
263 III | in its issues persecution emphatically brings either life or death,
264 XII | heart is--of kingdoms and empires. For increasing the treasury
265 XIV | yourself; while, if you do employ them, you can have no need
266 II | Thus even injustice is employed, that righteousness may
267 XIII| Churches have imposed tribute en masse on themselves. I know
268 XII | our opinion in answer and encouragement. But he who inquires whether
269 II | granted him sufficient to endanger his faith. Whence it is
270 XIII| were, friends rather than enemies, and to have delivered us
271 VI | things at the same time enjoined, that [command] cannot continue
272 IX | their faith, just as (he enjoins) that we should comfort
273 XIII| occupants might be able to enjoy their rule free from anxiety,
274 XIII| even with an enemy? But enmities have also other grounds.
275 II | injustice in proportion to the enmity it displays against righteousness
276 XII | person and the sect, although enormous gains could be reaped from
277 VI | way of the Gentiles, and entered into the cities of the Samaritans;
278 VI | way of the Gentiles, and entering into the cities of the Samaritans,
279 VI | of the disciples, eagerly entreating him that he would not risk
280 XIII| the Lord which had been entrusted to them, they ought to have
281 XII | who wept because he was equally persistent in his determination
282 X | dying by His will, than by escaping through my own anger."~
283 I | ground that persecution is especially worthy of God, and, so to
284 | ever
285 XII | money from me by threats, exacting nothing on Caesar's behalf;
286 IX | utterly opposed to their own examples as a command to flee, while
287 VI | walk; and no city has been excepted. So we preach throughout
288 VIII| is now your fashion, make excuses on the ground of the weakness
289 II | him, as though he were an executioner to whom belonged the inflicting
290 II | will whom we beseech to exempt us from it. For this is
291 VIII| ours; and then, that, by an exhibition of their states, you might
292 X | paying no attention to the exhortations of God, are readier to apply
293 IX | they should be sent into exile. But when he urges us not
294 IV | to perceive it just as it exists. Now, if that which comes
295 XII | Going further than you expected, therefore, I will also
296 XIII| habitations. Hold now any other explanation of this parable and saying
297 IV | but to indicate by this expression that it was good because
298 XII | denier? For what says that extorter? Give me money: assuredly
299 XII | an informer or an enemy, extorts money from me by threats,
300 XII | of persecution trouble, extricate themselves by money? And
301 IV | on which God has cast His eye. And with this idea has
302 IX | when you are before the eyes of men. So also elsewhere:
303 XI | And against them both Ezekiel and Jeremiah declaim with
304 I | I.~My brother Fabius, you very lately asked,
305 X | succumbed in denying, he has yet faced and battled with the torture.
306 II | for you that your faith fail not;" that is, that the
307 IX | that we should comfort the faint-hearted; he does not say, however,
308 XII | is better to flee than to fall in value, if a man will
309 III | sparrow, a penny can buy, falls to the ground. But we, I
310 I | God alone. This is that fan which even now cleanses
311 XI | will be tuned off from the farm; the wages to have been
312 I | and better disciplined in fasts, and meetings, and prayers,
313 IX | lake, no doubt. "He that feareth is not perfect in love"--
314 XI | eating of the Sheep,--they feeding themselves rather than those
315 XII | persecuted? Paul indeed, when Felix the governor hoped that
316 XIII| not wine to him who has a fever, but even poison or a sword
317 IX | miscarriages, nor in soft fevers, but to die the martyr's
318 | few
319 XI | to all the beasts of the field. And this never happens
320 III | proved. These will be the fiery darts of the devil, by which
321 VI | Israel, which they had now filled with their doctrine--saying, "
322 VIII| aid of hosts of angels: finding fault, too, with Peter's
323 VIII| teaching; and when it was finished, I do not say He stood firm,
324 XII | Christ is our Head. It is not fit that Christ should cost
325 III | is tried," for when the flame of persecution is consuming
326 V | he was consigned to the flames, and thus paid to the mercy
327 XI | who, on seeing the wolf, flees, and leaves the sheep to
328 VII | was not able even without flight--a protection so base, and
329 XIII| a like freedom for their flocks)? For such a peace, forsooth,
330 VII | first, not that we are to fly from our persecutors, but
331 XII | under, as they say, the folds of the tunic--as if he were
332 XIV | not asked who is ready to follow the broad way, but who the
333 II | the true God, that all the followers of the truth, should be
334 II | confound the strong, and the foolish things of the world to confound
335 VI | prohibition against setting foot in the way of the Gentiles,
336 IX | assaults in their utmost force. Accordingly John also teaches
337 XI | Christ, confirming these foreshadowings Himself, adds: "The bad
338 XIII| the apostles, with so much foresight, make the office of overseer
339 IX | to the mind of God: they forgot and omitted nothing of the
340 | found
341 II | since the service is not of free-will, but of subjection (for
342 XIII| colour of providing(a like freedom for their flocks)? For such
343 III | persons with frivolous and frigid faith, which seizes upon
344 III | unless it be persons with frivolous and frigid faith, which
345 VI | when, Israel having had its full measure, the apostles went
346 X | conqueror? A worthy soldier he furnishes to his commander Christ,
347 X | taunt all runaways with the futility of their purpose. A certain
348 IX | should you be ashamed of gaining glory? The opportunity is
349 XII | sect, although enormous gains could be reaped from numbers
350 XIII| pickpockets, and bath-thieves, and gamesters, and pimps, Christians too
351 XII | Antichrist now close at hand, and gaping for the blood, not for the
352 XII | heaven; the everlasting gates were lifted up, that the
353 XII | opened He not His mouth; but gave His back to the scourges,
354 IX | you forth into the public gaze. Why should you be ashamed
355 III | punishing, it must be that their general occurrence is permitted
356 IV | this statement been made in Genesis, "And God saw because it
357 III | the devil, by which faith gets a ministry of burning and
358 XII | that he has fallen while getting out of persecution's way.
359 XIII| bought from the soldiers by gifts like those you have in the
360 IX | part by fleeing; and to be girt, not to play the fugitive
361 IX | s death, that He may be glorified who has suffered for you.~
362 XII | when for a bribe he lets me go--Christian as I am, and by
363 II | persecution, the will of God goes first, but that as the instrument
364 III | burn them," He says, "as gold is burned; and I will try
365 IV | have been ignorant of its goodness unless He had seen it, but
366 XII | Paul indeed, when Felix the governor hoped that he should receive
367 X | apply to themselves that Greek versicle of worldly wisdom, "
368 XIII| whether it is matter for grief or shame when among hucksters,
369 I | accepting the Comforter, the guide to all truth, have, as was
370 XIV | Comforter is requisite, who guides into all truth, and animates
371 XIII| beholding his plunder, says, "Guilt money." Shall I be angry
372 XII | that debt, I am undoubtedly guilty of cheating God if I do
373 VI | urges (rather He was in the habit of proclaiming that they
374 XIII| admitted into everlasting habitations. Hold now any other explanation
375 II | God, not to speak of the hairs of holy men. The devil,
376 I | with me the subject but half treated, meaning to set
377 XII | because cursed is he that hangeth on a tree,--Him who was
378 III | by Him at whose will they happen even partially; by Him,
379 VII | am ashamed to confess. "Happy they who suffer persecution
380 IV | happening to somebody's harm. Yet for all that, a thing
381 XIV | brother, seem to you perhaps harsh and not to be endured; but
382 VII | kindness, suggested also the haven of flight to them. For He
383 III | this. "I will smite and heal I will make alive and put
384 III | death, either wounds or healing, you have the author, too,
385 IX | Revelation, in which he had heard the doom of the fearful, (
386 X | the apostle, as soon as he hears persecution's trumpet, runs
387 IX | that we should take to our heels, he only teaches that passion
388 I | both from God; the devil henceforth, and even we ourselves,
389 | her
390 II | have had power over the herd of swine unless they had
391 | here
392 II | delivered Phygellus and Hermogenes over to Satan that by chastening
393 VI | fled from city to city, nor hesitated to suffer. Nay, Paul too,
394 IX | of light, does not bid us hide away out of sight as sons
395 V | witness-bearing, to do Him high dishonour by despairing
396 I | seen, some mounting up to higher places, and others going
397 II | when both are sought from Him--the shaking by the devil,
398 I | was natural, opposed us hitherto in regard to other questions
399 VIII| like favour; but as He did, holding your position,--merely offering
400 I | brotherly-kindness and love, in holiness and temperance. There is
401 V | Strange conduct, is it not, to honour God in the matter of flight
402 XIII| fear, when the recipient honours God and returns me his blessing;
403 XII | when Felix the governor hoped that he should receive money
404 VIII| from His Father the aid of hosts of angels: finding fault,
405 II | those who belong to the household of God he may not do ought
406 XIII| grief or shame when among hucksters, and pickpockets, and bath-thieves,
407 II | him; " or the design is to humble, as the apostle tells us,
408 IV | cast His eye. And with this idea has perhaps this statement
409 II | II.~If, because injustice is
410 III | III.~Seeing therefore, too,
411 XIII| inasmuch as, having managed ill the business of the Lord
412 IV | God: so they think, who imagine it possible to escape when
413 XI | may come to have a more important one, if he has made some
414 XII | tributary sect--in fact, such an imposition never canbe made,--with
415 IX | In fact, it was utterly impossible that they should have laid
416 I | proved that persecution, improving as it does the servants
417 I | servants of God, cannot be imputed to the devil.~
418 XIII| addressed to the Jewish people; inasmuch as, having managed ill the
419 V | why do you not, in the incertitude of your fear wavering between
420 XIII| pimps, Christians too are included as taxpayers in the lists
421 VII | flee? In fact, what utter inconsistency in the decrees of One who
422 IV | unless He had seen it, but to indicate by this expression that
423 XIII| think that we should give indiscriminately to all who ask, that seems
424 VI | to city. For so a certain individual, but a fugitive likewise.
425 IX | you are exposed to public infamy, says he, it is for your
426 XI | and act, even one in an inferior place, that he may come
427 II | executioner to whom belonged the inflicting of punishment, as in the
428 XII | encouragement. But he who inquires whether persecution ought
429 XII | His own likeness and money inscribed with His name, that is,
430 II | or challenging, as in the instances already referred to, or,
431 | instead
432 II | goes first, but that as the instrument of persecution, which is
433 IX | too, which persons who intend to run away would not require.
434 V | may avoid denying, when in intention you have denied already.
435 I | pen; for your inquiry had interested me in it, and the state
436 XIV | should you buy off the interference of the soldiers. Therefore
437 IV | and to decide from these introductory remarks alone, that men
438 XI | to flee when the wolves invade it--nay, if that is absolutely
439 XII | whose hand the king's heart is--of kingdoms and empires.
440 IX | just from bonds, or the islands in which, for confessing,
441 I | servants. For what is the issue of persecution, what other
442 XI | flee when the wolves invade it--nay, if that is absolutely
443 | itself
444 IV | IV.~Well, then, if it is evident
445 IX | IX.~The teaching of the apostles
446 I | also the ladder of which Jacob dreams, on which are seen,
447 X | the soldier pierced with a javelin in battle, than he who has
448 XI | against them both Ezekiel and Jeremiah declaim with kindred threatenings,
449 II | servants. You have the case of Job, whom the devil, unless
450 X | he had crossed over from Joppa in the direction of Tarsus,
451 X | angels, since you are to judge angels; who ought to be
452 X | by you, too, the world is judged. You are Christ-clothed,
453 V | flight to stand before the judgment-seat; but in regard of witness-bearing,
454 VI | before Roman magistrates and judgment-seats. So, then, the circumstances
455 XII | blood; but I am now in this juncture, that a demand is made upon
456 XI | if it does not become the keepers of the flock to flee when
457 VII | not them who are able to kill the body, but are unable
458 III | ministry of burning and kindling; yet by the will of God.
459 VII | people, nevertheless, in His kindness, suggested also the haven
460 XI | and Jeremiah declaim with kindred threatenings, for their
461 XII | poor, because, He says, the kingdom of heaven is theirs who
462 XII | the king's heart is--of kingdoms and empires. For increasing
463 VII | in persecution such as He knew to be weak! Whereas in fact
464 I | knowledge is clearer when it is known from whom it has its origin.
465 I | deniers; and this is also the ladder of which Jacob dreams, on
466 XII | sacrifice, and just as a lamb before its shearer, so opened
467 X | say in the sea and on the land, but, in fact, in the belly
468 XII | certainly had from the prices of lands which were laid down at
469 III | same time, and flock in large numbers to the church, the
470 VII | ordinances accord with a lasting command of flight. In the
471 XIV | no need of any ransoming. Lastly, if you cannot assemble
472 I | brother Fabius, you very lately asked, because some news
473 | latter
474 XI | take to flight, how will a layman be able to see with what
475 XI | city? Thus, too, with the leaders turning their backs, who
476 VIII| and even from this may learn what to do, and by what
477 | least
478 XI | seeing the wolf, flees, and leaves the sheep to be torn in
479 II | tempted. Nor would the devil's legion have had power over the
480 IX | he wishes us to gain a lengthening of life, not by flight,
481 XII | opposite, when for a bribe he lets me go--Christian as I am,
482 IX | confined, they wrote their letters to the Churches. Paul bids
483 XII | bought off. The difference lies in the payment; but as flight
484 XII | the everlasting gates were lifted up, that the King of Glory,
485 XIII| clearly see that there is no likelihood of our opposers, should
486 XII | certainly, therefore, His own likeness and money inscribed with
487 VI | flee was restricted to the limits of Judea. But no command
488 XIII| included as taxpayers in the lists of free soldiers and spies.
489 IX | that we must lay down our lives for the brethren; much more,
490 VI | worthy of eternal life, lo, we turn to the Gentiles."
491 XIII| poison or a sword to him who longs for death. But how we are
492 XII | of God accords with this. Look at the condition--certainly
493 IV | besides that, what has been looked upon by God can no longer
494 VIII| the willing spirit," that, looking to the natures respectively
495 XIII| compels. It is not alms he looks for, who comes not to be
496 XIV | make use of these, you may lose even the deliverance which
497 XI | restoration of the master's loss will be required; for "to
498 XIV | suffer, he will be perfect in love--in the love, it is meant,
499 IX | fear, but he who has not loved? Yes; and if you ask counsel
500 I | and others going down to lower. So, too, persecution may