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1 28 | spiritual victim which has abolished the pristine sacrifices. "
2 19 | sadness chanting to the camp abolishes the "stations" of the soldiers:
3 8 | For God had commanded even Abraham to make a sacrifice of his
4 18 | requirements of Discipline abroad and of custom at home. So,
5 21 | would have made his limit absolute for every woman; but while
6 23 | the act of some few who abstain from kneeling on the Sabbath;
7 18 | conceal our fasts; for now, by abstinence from the kiss, we are known
8 17 | huge a beast; from the very abysses, through so huge a mass
9 18 | prayer ascends with more acceptability; that they may themselves
10 4 | will of God which the Lord accomplished in preaching, in working,
11 28 | For God is a Spirit, and accordingly requires His adorers to
12 4 | pray for Him the successful achievement of His will; but we pray
13 12 | defiled spirit cannot be acknowledged by a holy Spirit, nor a
14 9 | in the "Bread;" the full acknowledgment of debts in the prayer for
15 8 | the entire averting, of acts of guilt" Lead us not into
16 22 | simplicity. For both Eve and Adam, when it befell them to
17 6 | To which subject He also adapted the parable of the man who
18 25 | presumption, which may both add stringency to the admonition
19 8 | of so brief a prayer He added--in order that we should
20 10 | of each individual; our additional wants have the right--after
21 7 | God, we should likewise address His clemency. For what will
22 11 | amplifying the Law," openly adds the prohibition of anger
23 6 | But, because that word is admissible in a carnal sense too, it
24 7 | who begs for pardon fully admits his guilt. Thus, too, penitence
25 12 | adversary: no one grants admittance except to his compeer.~
26 11 | beyond sunset, as the apostle admonishes. But how rash is it either
27 4 | salvation of them whom He has adopted. There is, too, that will
28 28 | when the true adorers shall adore the Father in spirit and
29 16 | like, in sitting down after adoring their petty images; even
30 17 | mass of sea? What superior advantage will they who pray too loudly
31 5 | that we should ask for the advent of the kingdom, we should,
32 12 | grants reception to his adversary: no one grants admittance
33 8 | should hold no pledges of affection dearer than God. He Himself,
34 29 | waves, makes robbers stand aghast, nourishes the poor, governs
35 27 | extolling and honouring of God, aims unitedly to bring Him enriched
36 7 | clemency. For what will aliments profit us, if we are really
37 21 | treated of. For they who allow to virgins immunity from
38 1intro| the sight and hearing of Almighty God are present beneath
39 | almost
40 22 | would contend that "women" alone--that is, such as were already
41 | already
42 12 | Nor merely from anger, but altogether from all perturbation of
43 28 | the pomp of good works, amid psalms and hymns, unto God'
44 22 | not observe it, our Law, amplified and supplemented, would
45 29 | grieving, with endurance: it amplifies grace by virtue, that faith
46 11 | After that, the Lord, "amplifying the Law," openly adds the
47 29 | Christ. But how far more amply operative is Christian prayer!
48 1intro| obliterator of the whole ancient bygone system; in which
49 3 | we too, candidates for angelhood, if we succeed in deserving
50 22 | virginity--were the objects of angelic concupiscence, unless "virgins"
51 9 | ordained by Himself, and animated, even at the moment when
52 17 | loudly gain, except that they annoy their neighbours? Nay, by
53 22 | XXII. ANSWER TO THE FOREGOING ARGUMENTS.~
54 22 | such as were already wedded ant had lost their virginity--
55 29 | heaven--(prayer) which was ante able to procure its fires?
56 | anything
57 22 | is it wonderful that the apostle--guided, of course, by the
58 9 | prophets, the Gospels, the apostles--how many discourses, examples,
59 14 | XIV. APOSTROPHE.~Albeit Israel washed daily
60 21 | immunity from head-covering, appear to rest on this; that the
61 11 | retain them? How will he appease his Father who is angry
62 29 | high-spirited, escorts travellers, appeases waves, makes robbers stand
63 1intro| precept, let it in like manner appertain unto faith, and the modesty
64 22 | example of Eve unwedded, is applicable too to a "virgin." In fact,
65 1intro| not that the Lord must be approached with a train of words, who,
66 22 | designating each species by their appropriate names,) wishes, where he
67 1intro| Lord Jesus Christ has been approved as the Spirit of God, and
68 22 | ANSWER TO THE FOREGOING ARGUMENTS.~They who make this concession
69 2 | recognized the mother, from whom arises the name both of Father
70 29 | down plagues, scatter the armies of foes, withhold the wholesome
71 6 | gracefully has the Divine Wisdom arranged the order of the prayer;
72 29 | rich, upraises the fallen, arrests the falling, confirms the
73 5 | of God, which we pray may arrive, tends unto the consummation
74 2 | we say, "Our Father who art in the heavens;" for (in
75 25 | in that small vessel, had ascended into the more lofty parts
76 13 | into the reason of it, I ascertained it to be a commemorative
77 6 | his son a stone when he asks for bread?" For He thus
78 22 | nay, you do not seem to assume it falsely, for you are
79 22 | the same perils What is assumed from love of boasting is
80 22 | You do well in falsely assuming the married character, if
81 28 | acceptable to God, which assuredly He has required, which He
82 22 | small measure" pronounce and attest that they are to be veiled
83 2 | Israel, to which the Spirit attests heaven and earth, saying, "
84 5 | augur for Him, and to Him we attribute what from Him we expect.
85 17 | by making their petitions audible, what less error do they
86 24 | apostles (who, in gaol, in the audience of the prisoners, "began
87 5 | we wish for ourselves we augur for Him, and to Him we attribute
88 15 | are observed without the authority of any precept either of
89 5 | long, Lord, dost Thou not avenge our blood on the inhabitants
90 5 | for, of course, their avenging is regulated by the end
91 29 | prayer of righteousness avers all God's anger, keeps bivouac
92 29 | has no delegated grace to avert any sense of suffering;
93 8 | but touching the entire averting, of acts of guilt" Lead
94 29 | standard of our General; await we in prayer the angel's
95 15 | the three saints in the Babylonian king's furnace praying in
96 6 | on an enlargement of his barns for his forthcoming fruits,
97 13 | be a commemorative act, bearing on the surrender of our
98 17 | the entrails of so huge a beast; from the very abysses,
99 22 | incapable of excelling in beauty and finding lovers? Nay,
100 | become
101 17 | elevated temperately and becomingly; and not even our countenance
102 22 | both Eve and Adam, when it befell them to be "wise," forthwith
103 7 | and so He teaches that we beg "to have our debts remitted
104 24 | audience of the prisoners, "began praying and singing to God")
105 | begin
106 2 | FIRST CLAUSE.~The prayer begins with a testimony to God,
107 2 | and earth, saying, "I have begotten sons, and they have not
108 7 | confession; because he who begs for pardon fully admits
109 29 | do we read, and hear, and believe! Old-world prayer, indeed,
110 17 | the depth of the whale's belly, through the entrails of
111 15 | For matters of this kind belong not to religion, but to
112 16 | sits in a chair or on a bench, will act contrary to that
113 29 | and wild beasts pray and bend their knees; and when they
114 3 | account of the memory of His benefits ever due from every man.
115 | Besides
116 | between
117 | beyond
118 22 | Husband's discipline. If He bids the brides of others to
119 19 | service devoted to God, or bind it more to God? Will not
120 29 | their own manner. Nay, the birds too, rising out of the nest,
121 29 | avers all God's anger, keeps bivouac on behalf of personal enemies,
122 13 | idolatry, and all the other blemishes which, conceived by the
123 3 | also serves the turn of a blessing. Otherwise, when is the
124 22 | you are; for you ought to blush. If you are a virgin, shrink
125 22 | they shuddered at the first bodily touch of a man by kiss and
126 29 | prison-bars, to loose the bonds of the innocent. Likewise
127 22 | divine Scripture, so that book Genesis, was drawn up--has
128 15 | not be irksome to set our brand likewise on the other points
129 1intro| in new skins, and a new breadth be sewn to a new garment.
130 29 | idle mouth, making their breath vibrate after their own
131 1intro| His own. And yet that very brevity--and let this make for the
132 22 | discipline. If He bids the brides of others to be veiled,
133 8 | For the completeness of so brief a prayer He added--in order
134 2 | is the reproach that is brought against Israel, to which
135 7 | consigned to them, as it were a bull destined for a victim? The
136 28 | of rams, and the blood of bulls and of goats. For who hath
137 22 | cover quite over. It is our business to entrust to the knowledge
138 7 | seven times" in the case of Cain, but in that of Lamech "
139 19 | sadness chanting to the camp abolishes the "stations"
140 19 | Does, then, the Eucharist cancel a service devoted to God,
141 3 | wise, therefore, we too, candidates for angelhood, if we succeed
142 22 | from the time when she is capable of marriage; seeing that,
143 4 | substance of His will, and the capacity to do it, that we may be
144 19 | willingly, sadness more carefully.~
145 18 | justly forego the kiss, caring nothing to conceal anything
146 15 | had left his cloak with Carpus! God, forsooth, would not
147 19 | soldiers: for gladness will carry out discipline more willingly,
148 7 | assigned "seven times" in the case of Cain, but in that of
149 29 | pray; every creature prays; cattle and wild beasts pray and
150 3 | surrounding circle of angels cease not to say, "Holy, holy,
151 16 | practice deserves to be censured in us, because it is observed
152 15 | curious rather than rational ceremony; deserving of restraint,
153 16 | Nay, whoever sits in a chair or on a bench, will act
154 22 | that very moment she both changes the fashion of her hair,
155 19 | course no gladness or sadness chanting to the camp abolishes the "
156 8 | Infirmity and malice' are characteristics of the devil. For God had
157 16 | this is further added the charge of irreverence,--intelligible
158 28 | entire in innocence, pure in chastity, garlanded with love, we
159 20 | Peter likewise is plain, checking as he does with the same
160 29 | consoles the faint-spirited, cheers the high-spirited, escorts
161 11 | heaven; of which precepts the chief is, that we go not up unto
162 22 | those virgins whom their childhood defends, for from the first
163 27 | Him enriched prayer as a choice victim.~
164 29 | more amply operative is Christian prayer! It does not station
165 5 | all speed,--the prayer of Christians the confusion of the heathen,
166 3 | to whom that surrounding circle of angels cease not to say, "
167 1intro| either been quite changed, as circumcision; or else supplemented, as
168 10 | are made according to the circumstances of each individual; our
169 23 | been prescribed, except clearly "to pray at every time and
170 7 | should likewise address His clemency. For what will aliments
171 15 | prayer that Paul had left his cloak with Carpus! God, forsooth,
172 15 | forsooth, would not hear cloaked suppliants, who plainly
173 27 | such kind of psalms, in the closes of which the company respond.
174 8 | of the devil. For God had commanded even Abraham to make a sacrifice
175 6 | Discipline; for (the Lord) commands that bread be prayed for,
176 9 | obedience in the "Will;" the commemoration of hope in the "Kingdom;"
177 13 | I ascertained it to be a commemorative act, bearing on the surrender
178 9 | prerogative, into heaven, commending to the Father what the Son
179 17 | what less error do they commit than if they were to pray
180 25 | the vision of Universal Community, (exhibited) in that small
181 27 | the closes of which the company respond. And, of course,
182 12 | admittance except to his compeer.~
183 22 | Granted that virgins be not compelled to be veiled, at all events
184 20 | the variety of observance compels us--men of no consideration
185 21 | specially; or generally, by a compendious term, "females."~
186 18 | own peace? What prayer is complete if divorced from the "holy
187 22 | widowhood as of virginity. So completely has Paul by naming the sex
188 8 | OR FINAL CLAUSE.~For the completeness of so brief a prayer He
189 11 | unto God's altar before we compose whatever of discord or offence
190 15 | garb of prayer. would have comprehended in their instructions, unless
191 1intro| diffuse in meaning as it is compressed in words. For it has embraced
192 1intro| in fact, in the Prayer is comprised an epitome of the whole
193 22 | of a "virgin:" what she conceals for the sake of God, let
194 13 | the other blemishes which, conceived by the spirit, are effected
195 22 | ARGUMENTS.~They who make this concession ought to reflect on the
196 18 | when is peace more to be concluded with brethren than when,
197 22 | were the objects of angelic concupiscence, unless "virgins" are incapable
198 22 | of every rank, of every condition? By saying" every" he excepts
199 29 | operative for no evil: He had conferred on it all its virtue in
200 14 | passion? even in prayer we confess to Christ.~
201 7 | petition for pardon is a full confession; because he who begs for
202 1intro| faith, that he should be confident that the sight and hearing
203 7 | indeed elsewhere, too, in conformity with this Form of Prayer,
204 5 | prayer of Christians the confusion of the heathen, the exultation
205 25 | the Holy Spirit into the congregated disciples took place at "
206 22 | in the security of a good conscience before God, to damage their
207 13 | in human intercourse be a conscientious cause for washing them,
208 22 | age; their spirit, through consciousness; their modesty, through
209 1intro| blessed brethren, let us consider His heavenly wisdom: first,
210 20 | observance compels us--men of no consideration whatever--to treat, presumptuously
211 24 | singing to God") is not considered to have been done contrary
212 7 | profit us, if we are really consigned to them, as it were a bull
213 22 | their own judgment, and its consistency, to the custom of others.
214 29 | extinguishes persecutions, consoles the faint-spirited, cheers
215 22 | the other passages are in consonance herewith. For even by this
216 8 | final clause, therefore, is consonant, and interprets the sense
217 22 | are betrothed, I can with constancy "above my small measure"
218 5 | may arrive, tends unto the consummation of the age? Our wish is,
219 7 | was suitable that, after contemplating the liberality of God, we
220 22 | from God. Who then, would contend that "women" alone--that
221 22 | themselves to be virgins, content, in the security of a good
222 22 | fashion of her hair, and converts all her garb into that of
223 8 | for this sense is, "But convey us away from the Evil One."~
224 7 | every guilt, however small: corresponds with our profession that "
225 22 | manhood either from not being covered; for just so he says, "Every
226 29 | likewise, all pray; every creature prays; cattle and wild beasts
227 14 | privity to their fathers' crimes, they do not dare even to
228 29 | instead of hands, expand the cross of their wings, and say
229 13 | falsehood, from murder, from cruelty, from poisonings, from idolatry,
230 14 | account, as being hereditary culprits from their privity to their
231 4 | Father, remove this Thy cup;" and remembering Himself,
232 15 | studied, and forced, and of curious rather than rational ceremony;
233 22 | conscience before God, to damage their own fame. Touching
234 25 | to have been observed by Daniel also, in accordance (of
235 14 | fathers' crimes, they do not dare even to raise them unto
236 25 | mark the intervals of the day--the third, the sixth, the
237 23 | with which we enter on the daylight? At fasts, moreover, and
238 8 | tempted, (as they showed) by de-setting their Lord, because they
239 8 | no pledges of affection dearer than God. He Himself, when
240 7 | not equally spare his own debtor; and, being on that account
241 22 | embraced. But, withal, the declaration is plain: "Every woman,"
242 1intro| should increase and himself decrease"--the whole work of the
243 22 | virgins whom their childhood defends, for from the first a virgin
244 18 | precept, you may perhaps defer your "peace "at home, where
245 23 | and office of solicitude; deferring even our businesses lest
246 12 | unto whom it is sent. For a defiled spirit cannot be acknowledged
247 13 | wash our hands. Unless any defilement contracted in human intercourse
248 21 | that the apostle has not defined "virgins" by name, but "
249 25 | thing to establish some definite presumption, which may both
250 17 | prayed with humility and dejection not merely in his supplication,
251 29 | rustics' bread; it has no delegated grace to avert any sense
252 10 | said separately, after delivering His Rule of Prayer, "Ask,
253 17 | He is its inspector. The demon of the Pythian oracle says: "
254 4 | also, when He had wished to demonstrate to us, even in His own flesh,
255 4 | Father: and yet, for the demonstration of the patience which was
256 29 | God, who exacts it ever denied to prayer coming from "spirit
257 22 | for from God. Why do you denude before God what you cover
258 22 | prohibited; who, likewise, cannot deny themselves to be virgins,
259 18 | sacrifice is that from which men depart without peace? Whatever
260 29 | recall the souls of the departed from the very path of death,
261 23 | are not only praying, but deprecating, and making satisfaction
262 17 | out unto heaven from the depth of the whale's belly, through
263 4 | proportionably to each one's deserts, somewhat other is imposed
264 15 | the reproach of vanity may deservedly be laid; if, that is, they
265 16 | this account the practice deserves to be censured in us, because
266 22 | moreover, he makes it by designating each species by their appropriate
267 28 | holocausts of rams, and I desire not the fat of rams, and
268 7 | demonstrated acceptable to God who desires it rather than the death
269 7 | them, as it were a bull destined for a victim? The Lord knew
270 22 | love of boasting is easily destroyed. Be veiled, virgin, if virgin
271 1intro| one and the other,--has determined for us, the disciples of
272 29 | not station the angel of dew in mid-fires, nor muzzle
273 6 | but that very night he dies.~
274 22 | would have expressed itself differently concerning such as were
275 1intro| interpretation, and is as diffuse in meaning as it is compressed
276 27 | SUBJOINING A PSALM.~The more diligent in prayer are wont to subjoin
277 19 | of the sacrifice and the discharge of duty. If the "Station"
278 9 | duties are simultaneously discharged! The honour of God in the "
279 25 | of course) with Israel's discipline--we pray at least not less
280 11 | before we compose whatever of discord or offence we have contracted
281 1intro| for man, but almost every discourse of the Lord, every record
282 9 | the apostles--how many discourses, examples, parables of the
283 22 | prophesying with head uncovered, dishonoureth her own head." What is "
284 26 | OF BRETHREN.~You will not dismiss a brother who has entered
285 11 | us? For even Joseph, when dismissing his brethren for the purpose
286 22 | virgins also. Under our dispensation, let that age which is ignorant
287 23 | Sabbath; and since this dissension is particularly on its trial
288 23 | give His grace that the dissentients may either yield, or else
289 19 | that the Station must be dissolved by reception of the Lord'
290 23 | Pentecost; which period we distinguish by the same solemnity of
291 23 | also prayer is subject to diversity of observance, through the
292 18 | What prayer is complete if divorced from the "holy kiss?" Whom
293 15 | make prayer with cloaks doffed, for so do the nations approach
294 6 | children, and hand it to dogs?" and again, "Doth a father
295 1intro| to pray, but all John's doings were laid as groundwork
296 5 | the Lord "How long, Lord, dost Thou not avenge our blood
297 4 | the Father's will, without doubt those things which He used
298 22 | so that book Genesis, was drawn up--has used the selfsame
299 9 | Forgiveness;" the anxious dread of temptation in the request
300 22 | losing, if you boast; and you drive others unto the same perils
301 14 | ever unclean, eternally dyed with the blood of the prophets,
302 15 | level with Gentiles. As, e.g., it is the custom of some
303 8 | faith of any, or else were eager to overthrow it. Infirmity
304 22 | from love of boasting is easily destroyed. Be veiled, virgin,
305 6 | the morrow, what ye are to eat." To which subject He also
306 6 | Lord had withal issued His edict, "Seek ye first the kingdom,
307 13 | conceived by the spirit, are effected by the operation of the
308 22 | that which the grace of God effects in us, test we receive from
309 29 | mighty specimens of its efficacy do we read, and hear, and
310 20 | gold, and the meretricious elaboration of the hair.~
311 22 | follow the discipline of the elder; or else let the male "virgins,"
312 22 | name her at all. For he who elsewhere--namely, where the difference
313 15 | on one special point of empty observance, it will not
314 | end
315 16 | of sitting when prayer is ended, I perceive no reason, except
316 29 | and the grieving, with endurance: it amplifies grace by virtue,
317 4 | to preach, to work, to endure even unto death. And we
318 4 | preaching, in working, in enduring: for if He Himself proclaimed
319 8 | whereby He was, by and by, to enjoin that he should hold no pledges
320 6 | the man who pondered on an enlargement of his barns for his forthcoming
321 27 | aims unitedly to bring Him enriched prayer as a choice victim.~
322 23 | first prayer with which we enter on the daylight? At fasts,
323 26 | dismiss a brother who has entered your house without prayer. "
324 18 | possible for your fast to be entirely kept secret. But wherever
325 17 | whale's belly, through the entrails of so huge a beast; from
326 25 | without any admonition, on the entrance of light and of night. But,
327 22 | over. It is our business to entrust to the knowledge of God
328 1intro| speech, by which prayer is enunciated, in spirit, by which alone
329 1intro| the Prayer is comprised an epitome of the whole Gospel.~
330 17 | petitions audible, what less error do they commit than if they
331 28 | garlanded with love, we ought to escort with the pomp of good works,
332 29 | cheers the high-spirited, escorts travellers, appeases waves,
333 26 | you have seen your Lord;"--especially "a stranger," lest perhaps
334 25 | granted a good thing to establish some definite presumption,
335 14 | events, are ever unclean, eternally dyed with the blood of the
336 19 | s Body. Does, then, the Eucharist cancel a service devoted
337 7 | exacted by it: nor does it evade the justice of exaction,
338 | everything
339 | everywhere
340 29 | PRAYER.~For what has God, who exacts it ever denied to prayer
341 27 | course, every institution is excellent which, for the extolling
342 22 | virgins" are incapable of excelling in beauty and finding lovers?
343 26 | this house," unless you exchange mutual peace with them who
344 22 | addition for itself; let it be excused for imposing the veil on
345 4 | unto which things, as unto exemplars, we are now provoked; to
346 12 | perturbation of mind, ought the exercise of prayer to be free, uttered
347 25 | of Universal Community, (exhibited) in that small vessel, had
348 22 | their modesty, through the experience of the kiss their hope,
349 25 | on the day on which he experienced the vision of Universal
350 22 | title. But it would have expressed itself differently concerning
351 4 | imposed on us. So by this expression we premonish our own selves
352 1intro| John taught to pray is not extant, because earthly things
353 1intro| present beneath roofs, and extend even into the secret place;
354 22 | head is exacted,--(which extends) even unto those virgins
355 29 | faults, repels temptations, extinguishes persecutions, consoles the
356 27 | excellent which, for the extolling and honouring of God, aims
357 29 | wonder if it knows how to extort the rains of heaven--(prayer)
358 25 | Touching the time, however, the extrinsic observance of certain hours
359 22 | from (the gaze of) many eyes. Let no one wonder at your
360 22 | Let no one wonder at your face; let no one perceive your
361 29 | persecutions, consoles the faint-spirited, cheers the high-spirited,
362 29 | governs the rich, upraises the fallen, arrests the falling, confirms
363 29 | the fallen, arrests the falling, confirms the standing.
364 22 | God, to damage their own fame. Touching such, however,
365 29 | and from beasts, and from famine; and yet it had not (then)
366 7 | tormentor to pay the uttermost farthing--that is, every guilt, however
367 22 | moment she both changes the fashion of her hair, and converts
368 28 | rams, and I desire not the fat of rams, and the blood of
369 14 | from their privity to their fathers' crimes, they do not dare
370 29 | Likewise it washes away faults, repels temptations, extinguishes
371 28 | devoted from the whole heart, fed on faith, tended by truth,
372 29 | supplies the suffering, and the feeling, and the grieving, with
373 22 | represents what "female" (femina) represents, is frequently
374 22 | veiled; so, too, in the feminine, under the name of "woman,"
375 11 | brethren for the purpose of fetching their father, said, "And
376 6 | VI. THE FIFTH CLAUSE.~But how gracefully
377 4 | be done in all. For, by figurative interpretation of flesh
378 7 | is, in the Scriptures, a figure of guilt; because it is
379 2 | appellation is one both of filial duty and of power. Again,
380 22 | excelling in beauty and finding lovers? Nay, let us see
381 16 | The Shepherd, had, after finishing his prayer, not sat down
382 29 | and missiles against the foe who keeps watch over us
383 29 | plagues, scatter the armies of foes, withhold the wholesome
384 22 | sex let the younger age follow the discipline of the elder;
385 1intro| wisdom succeeded in the following precept, let it in like
386 15 | superstition, being studied, and forced, and of curious rather than
387 1intro| as the same John used to fore-announce "that it was needful" that "
388 18 | it were public, we justly forego the kiss, caring nothing
389 22 | XXII. ANSWER TO THE FOREGOING ARGUMENTS.~They who make
390 1intro| the whole work of the forerunner passed over, together with
391 10 | however, the Lord, the Foreseer of human necessities, said
392 1intro| certain, takes unsolicited foresight for His own. And yet that
393 22 | them everything has been forewedded: their age, through maturity;
394 9 | in the prayer for their "Forgiveness;" the anxious dread of temptation
395 2 | set a mark on such as have forgotten their Father.~
396 15 | cloak with Carpus! God, forsooth, would not hear cloaked
397 6 | enlargement of his barns for his forthcoming fruits, and on seasons of
398 28 | required, which He has looked forward to for Himself! This victim,
399 13 | indeed washed, but the spirit foul?--inasmuch as to our hands
400 10 | and customary prayers as a foundation, as it were--of rearing
401 5 | V. THE FOURTH CLAUSE.~"Thy kingdom come"
402 6 | barns for his forthcoming fruits, and on seasons of prolonged
403 4 | that we may be able to fulfil these duties. Again, in
404 1intro| rest of the Law; or else fulfilled, as Prophecy; or else perfected,
405 7 | because he who begs for pardon fully admits his guilt. Thus,
406 22 | their persons and in their functions. No one is a "virgin" from
407 15 | in the Babylonian king's furnace praying in their trousers
408 3 | God, and the function of future glory. So far, for the glory
409 17 | they who pray too loudly gain, except that they annoy
410 24 | by the apostles (who, in gaol, in the audience of the
411 28 | innocence, pure in chastity, garlanded with love, we ought to escort
412 1intro| breadth be sewn to a new garment. Besides, whatever had been
413 20 | Spirit, as Paul, the glory of garments, and the pride of gold,
414 22 | virgin, shrink from (the gaze of) many eyes. Let no one
415 15 | they put us on a level with Gentiles. As, e.g., it is the custom
416 22 | species together in the genus. Again, while he says that "
417 22 | regard to those in whom girlhood has changed (into maturity),
418 3 | name;" and again, "Father, glorify Thy name;" and more openly, "
419 28 | the blood of bulls and of goats. For who hath required these
420 20 | garments, and the pride of gold, and the meretricious elaboration
421 29 | she suffers. But in days gone by, withal prayer used to
422 9 | utterances of the prophets, the Gospels, the apostles--how many
423 29 | aghast, nourishes the poor, governs the rich, upraises the fallen,
424 6 | THE FIFTH CLAUSE.~But how gracefully has the Divine Wisdom arranged
425 1intro| this make for the third grade of wisdom--is supported
426 1intro| supported on the substance of a great and blessed interpretation,
427 22 | of the fact that in the Greek speech, in which the apostle
428 29 | and the feeling, and the grieving, with endurance: it amplifies
429 1intro| John's doings were laid as groundwork for Christ, until, when "
430 22 | wonderful that the apostle--guided, of course, by the same
431 7 | knew Himself to be the only guiltless One, and so He teaches that
432 22 | named the sex in saying gunaika; but in the sex even the
433 27 | subjoin in their prayers the "Hallelujah," and such kind of psalms,
434 6 | examples, and repeatedly handles in parables, when He says, "
435 2 | likewise obeying the precept. Happy they who recognize their
436 5 | wish is, that our reign be hastened, not our servitude protracted.
437 5 | have sent forth that cry, hastening toward the realization of
438 21 | to virgins immunity from head-covering, appear to rest on this;
439 25 | restored the paralytic to his health. Albeit these practices
440 17 | we need! But God is the hearer not of the voice, but of
441 1intro| confident that the sight and hearing of Almighty God are present
442 5 | Christians the confusion of the heathen, the exultation of angels,
443 29 | how to extort the rains of heaven--(prayer) which was ante
444 6 | prayer; so that after things heavenly--that is, after the "Name"
445 25 | of the spirit are to be held prior to those of the flesh,
446 | hereafter
447 | hereby
448 14 | on that account, as being hereditary culprits from their privity
449 22 | passages are in consonance herewith. For even by this very fact,
450 16 | children give. For what if that Hermas, whose writing is generally
451 23 | exultation. But who would hesitate every day to prostrate himself
452 29 | faint-spirited, cheers the high-spirited, escorts travellers, appeases
453 7 | the parable his debt; for hither does the scope of the whole
454 8 | to enjoin that he should hold no pledges of affection
455 28 | sacrifices? I am full of holocausts of rams, and I desire not
456 1intro| should offer its religious homage to Him alone, whom it believed
457 27 | which, for the extolling and honouring of God, aims unitedly to
458 13 | surrender of our Lord. We, howsoever, pray to the Lord: we do
459 29 | lions, nor transfer to the hungry the rustics' bread; it has
460 28 | good works, amid psalms and hymns, unto God's altar, to obtain
461 29 | look up heavenward with no idle mouth, making their breath
462 13 | cruelty, from poisonings, from idolatry, and all the other blemishes
463 2 | II. THE FIRST CLAUSE.~The prayer
464 3 | III. THE SECOND CLAUSE.~The
465 16 | after adoring their petty images; even on this account the
466 21 | they who allow to virgins immunity from head-covering, appear
467 7 | and, being on that account impeached before his lord, is made
468 18 | holy kiss?" Whom does peace impede when rendering service to
469 4 | deserts, somewhat other is imposed on us. So by this expression
470 22 | itself; let it be excused for imposing the veil on virgins also.
471 22 | concupiscence, unless "virgins" are incapable of excelling in beauty and
472 1intro| needful" that "He should increase and himself decrease"--the
473 1intro| Christ, until, when "He had increased "--just as the same John
474 6 | The like lesson He both inculcates by examples, and repeatedly
475 22 | wives of men," or "females," indifferently. Likewise, in that it saith, "
476 6 | perpetuity in Christ, and indivisibility from His body. But, because
477 23 | may either yield, or else indulge their opinion without offence
478 29 | withhold the wholesome influences of the showers. Now, however,
479 25 | than the rest. The first infusion of the Holy Spirit into
480 5 | avenge our blood on the inhabitants of the earth?" for, of course,
481 28 | tended by truth, entire in innocence, pure in chastity, garlanded
482 29 | to loose the bonds of the innocent. Likewise it washes away
483 16 | whose writing is generally inscribed with the title The Shepherd,
484 17 | heart, just as He is its inspector. The demon of the Pythian
485 15 | have comprehended in their instructions, unless any think that is
486 16 | charge of irreverence,--intelligible even to the nations themselves,
487 13 | defilement contracted in human intercourse be a conscientious cause
488 25 | to go to the bath, before interposing a prayer; for the refreshments
489 8 | therefore, is consonant, and interprets the sense of "Lead us not
490 3 | none. Even Moses, who had interrogated Him on that very point,
491 25 | I mean, which mark the intervals of the day--the third, the
492 1intro| I. GENERAL INTRODUCTION.~The Spirit of God, and
493 13 | scrupulously making a thorough investigation of this practice, and searching
494 22 | that, by your boasting, you invite others unto good? Nay, but
495 2 | in the Father the Son is invoked; "for I," saith He, "and
496 15 | observance, it will not be irksome to set our brand likewise
497 16 | hand, is that deed most irreligious under the eye of the living
498 16 | further added the charge of irreverence,--intelligible even to the
499 16 | on the one hand, it is irreverent to sit under the eye, and
500 1intro| as this method of praying is--that is not heavenly? And