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1 I | under foot in his chosen abode. You had already in pitched
2 II | spirit. In spirit, then, roam abroad; in spirit walk about, not
3 I | skulk away into his own abysses, shrunken and torpid, as
4 I | bodily wants in the prison, accept also from me some contribution
5 II | equally of the soul, may have accompanied you as far as the prison
6 I | by their cries the most accomplished gladiators, and from the
7 IV | comfort from the Lord's acknowledgment of the weakness of the flesh.
8 III| luxuries, nor does he go to action from his comfortable chamber,
9 III| in which the living God acts the part of superintendent,
10 | actually
11 II | obtains besides important advantages. You have no occasion to
12 IV | leapt down into the fires of AEtna; and Peregrinus, who not
13 I | are wont to animate from afar by their cries the most
14 II | worldly life and all its affairs! Nor let this separation
15 | again
16 VI | and bodily condition and age such a fate seemed most
17 IV | Peregrinus, who not long ago threw himself on the funeral
18 II | separation from the world alarm you; for if we reflect that
19 | Along
20 | already
21 | always
22 | am
23 V | very wild beasts in vain ambition; and they fancy themselves
24 III| prize is an eternal crown of angelic essence, citizenship in
25 II | mingling in them; you are not annoyed by the foul fumes of idolatrous
26 III| Master, Jesus Christ, who has anointed you with His Spirit, and
27 III| the athletes, too, are set apart to a more stringent discipline,
28 III| victory. "And they," says the apostle, "that they may obtain a
29 IV | or bull, which Cleopatra applied to herself, that she might
30 III| testudo, engaging in many arduous labours. The sweat of the
31 III| and led you forth to the arena, has seen it good, before
32 I | other, but let him find you armed and fortified with concord;
33 IV | the wild beasts, and even asps, those serpents worse than
34 IV | fear of torture. And so the Athenian courtezan succumbed to the
35 III| be the greater. For the athletes, too, are set apart to a
36 II | public shows, nor by the atrocity or madness or immodesty
37 II | your relatives may have attended you. There and thenceforth
38 II | race. Then, last of all, it awaits the judgment, not of the
39 | away
40 IV | choosing rather to be given back to the enemy. He was crammed
41 IV | rite the Spartan youths are beaten with scourges before the
42 IV | fire, that she might not behold her husband suppliant as
43 | besides
44 I | you may be able perhaps to bestow it upon others.~
45 IV | conspiracy, still making no betrayal of her confederates, she
46 II | the more grievous fetters, binding men's very souls. The world
47 VI | and that though from their birth and dignities and bodily
48 V | themselves more winsome from the bites and scars of the contest.
49 II | has the greater darkness, blinding men's hearts. The world
50 III| brow is on everything, that bodies and minds may not shrink
51 | both
52 I | mother the Church from her bountiful breasts, and each brother
53 IV | exhorting them to stand it bravely out. For it will be always
54 I | Church from her bountiful breasts, and each brother out of
55 II | s very souls. The world breathes out the worst impurities--
56 II | Church and the love of the brethren, even the flesh does not
57 II | do not fall on stews and brothels; you are free from causes
58 I | bountiful breasts, and each brother out of his private means,
59 III| final judgment we may be brought forth well disciplined by
60 III| labours. The sweat of the brow is on everything, that bodies
61 IV | serpents worse than bear or bull, which Cleopatra applied
62 V | a certain distance in a burning tunic. Others, with most
63 II | sweets, it is the way of business to suffer present loss,
64 II | the name of prison; let us call it a place of retirement.
65 IV | exceeding painful, have yet been calmly endured by many,--and, have
66 III| soldier comes out to the campaign laden with luxuries, nor
67 IV | large number of Carthaginian captives, choosing rather to be given
68 II | flesh loses. Nay, by the care of the Church and the love
69 I | if that which is weak be carefully looked to, it is but right
70 II | and whither it wills it carries him. But where thy heart
71 IV | wife of Hasdrubal, who, Carthage being on fire, that she
72 IV | exchanged for a large number of Carthaginian captives, choosing rather
73 IV | been taken prisoner by the Carthaginians, declined to be exchanged
74 II | brothels; you are free from causes of offence, from temptations,
75 II | madness or immodesty of their celebrants; your eyes do not fall on
76 IV | trifling sufferings to obtain a celestial glory and a divine reward.
77 V | themselves to fires, to run a certain distance in a burning tunic.
78 II | The leg does not feel the chain when the mind is in the
79 III| action from his comfortable chamber, but from the light and
80 VI | of cities, when they have chanced to escape from their dens!
81 IV | might have glory for her chastity. Mucius burned his right
82 I | dwelling with you, and to cherish it, and to guard it, that
83 IV | was crammed into a sort of chest; and, everywhere pierced
84 IV | s feet, rushed with her children into the conflagration,
85 I | unskilled, nay, all who choose, without the slightest need
86 IV | of Carthaginian captives, choosing rather to be given back
87 I | wicked one under foot in his chosen abode. You had already in
88 III| Therefore your Master, Jesus Christ, who has anointed you with
89 III| O blessed, that even to Christians the prison is unpleasant;
90 VI | it may be in the heart of cities, when they have chanced
91 III| crown of angelic essence, citizenship in the heavens, glory everlasting.
92 IV | conflagration, in which her native city was destroyed. Regulus,
93 III| of mail, from silence to clamour, from quiet to tumult. In
94 IV | side, let the spirit set clearly before both itself and the
95 IV | than bear or bull, which Cleopatra applied to herself, that
96 III| the robe of peace to the coat of mail, from silence to
97 III| sunshine, from sunshine to icy cold, from the robe of peace
98 II | you shady paths or long colonnades, but the way which leads
99 III| words. Well, no soldier comes out to the campaign laden
100 IV | not, withal, take delusive comfort from the Lord's acknowledgment
101 III| he go to action from his comfortable chamber, but from the light
102 IV | with the flesh about the common salvation, thinking no longer
103 II | martyrs. Meanwhile let us compare the life of the world and
104 II | in the heavens. The mind compasses the whole man about, and
105 IV | dear to her, she should be compelled to marry again; and so did
106 V | many ease-lovers does the conceit of arms give to the sword?
107 I | armed and fortified with concord; for peace among you is
108 VI | s estate in its ordinary conditions, that mayhap from things
109 IV | making no betrayal of her confederates, she at last bit off her
110 II | in, though the flesh is confined, all things are open to
111 IV | with her children into the conflagration, in which her native city
112 V | these same cruel and painful conflicts, a mere vanity you find
113 V | animate us, and on that day to confound us if we have feared to
114 II | prison too. It is of no consequence where you are in the world--
115 IV | for having taken part in a conspiracy, still making no betrayal
116 VI | from examples of enduring constancy having such an origin as
117 VI | often, then, have fires consumed the living! How often have
118 II | impurities--human lusts. The world contains the larger number of criminals,
119 VI | let us turn to a simple contemplation of man's estate in its ordinary
120 V | the bites and scars of the contest. Some have sold themselves
121 IV | however long they should be continued. Everybody knows what to
122 I | accept also from me some contribution to your spiritual sustenance;
123 VI | treated with every sort of contumely ! One may even suffer in
124 IV | strength. Let the spirit hold convene with the flesh about the
125 IV | s face, that he might be convinced of the uselessness of his
126 III| that they may obtain a corruptible crown." We, with the crown
127 III| manner, O blessed ones, count whatever is hard in this
128 IV | out. For it will be always counted more honourable and glorious
129 II | much more from the ordinary course of worldly life and all
130 IV | torture. And so the Athenian courtezan succumbed to the executioner,
131 IV | Heraclitus, who, smeared with cowdung, burned himself; and Empedocles,
132 IV | back to the enemy. He was crammed into a sort of chest; and,
133 I | animate from afar by their cries the most accomplished gladiators,
134 II | contains the larger number of criminals, even the whole human race.
135 IV | outside, he endured so many crucifixions. Woman has voluntarily sought
136 V | of glory. All these same cruel and painful conflicts, a
137 II | sweetness. The judge is daily looked for, but ye shall
138 III| are kept from luxury, from daintier meats, from more pleasant
139 IV | death of a husband very dear to her, she should be compelled
140 IV | on this account He first declared the spirit willing, that
141 IV | prisoner by the Carthaginians, declined to be exchanged for a large
142 IV | hand on an altar, that this deed of his might dwell in fame.
143 I | I shall tempt them, with defections or dissensions among themselves."
144 IV | Let us not, withal, take delusive comfort from the Lord's
145 VI | chanced to escape from their dens! How many have fallen by
146 II | the Christian which the desert did for the prophet. Our
147 I | I.~BLESSED Martyrs Designate,--Along with the provision
148 IV | have even been eagerly desired for the sake of fame and
149 IV | their fellows, I may say, despise the sword, the fire, the
150 IV | pile. For women even have despised the flames. Dido did so,
151 IV | which her native city was destroyed. Regulus, a Roman general,
152 I | The prison, indeed, is the devil's house as well, wherein
153 IV | Lacedaemonian solemnity--the diamastugôsis, or scourging; in which
154 IV | have despised the flames. Dido did so, lest, after the
155 VI | though from their birth and dignities and bodily condition and
156 II | showed His glory to the disciples. Let us drop the name of
157 III| may be brought forth well disciplined by many a trial; since virtue
158 V | in fact, a sort of mental disease--as trampled under foot.
159 I | them, with defections or dissensions among themselves." Let him
160 V | fires, to run a certain distance in a burning tunic. Others,
161 III| the plain, working at the ditch, making the testudo, engaging
162 IV | a celestial glory and a divine reward. If the bit of glass
163 I | himself, "They are now in my domain; with vile hatreds I shall
164 IV | The flesh, perhaps, will dread the merciless sword, and
165 III| meats, from more pleasant drinks; they are pressed, racked,
166 IV | everywhere pierced by nails driven from the outside, he endured
167 II | to the disciples. Let us drop the name of prison; let
168 IV | that this deed of his might dwell in fame. The philosophers
169 I | so you ought to have it dwelling with you, and to cherish
170 IV | high a value is put on the earthly glory, won by mental and
171 V | trampled under foot. How many ease-lovers does the conceit of arms
172 | either
173 IV | cowdung, burned himself; and Empedocles, who leapt down into the
174 | end
175 I | this day. Do you give all endeavour, therefore, to retain Him;
176 III| ditch, making the testudo, engaging in many arduous labours.
177 II | who sighs for the world's enjoyments. The Christian outside the
178 I | the Holy Spirit, who has entered the prison with you; for
179 I | Not that I am specially entitled to exhort you; yet not only
180 IV | would take me too long to enumerate one by one the men who at
181 II | Other things, hindrances equally of the soul, may have accompanied
182 VI | when they have chanced to escape from their dens! How many
183 III| eternal crown of angelic essence, citizenship in the heavens,
184 VI | simple contemplation of man's estate in its ordinary conditions,
185 III| citizenship in the heavens, glory everlasting. Therefore your Master,
186 IV | they should be continued. Everybody knows what to this day is
187 | everything
188 | everywhere
189 VI | VI.~Passing, too, from examples of enduring constancy having
190 IV | how these things, though exceeding painful, have yet been calmly
191 IV | Carthaginians, declined to be exchanged for a large number of Carthaginian
192 II | made you free. Unpleasant exhalations are there, but ye are an
193 I | am specially entitled to exhort you; yet not only the trainers
194 IV | kinsmen standing by and exhorting them to stand it bravely
195 III| the crown eternal in our eye, look upon the prison as
196 II | of their celebrants; your eyes do not fall on stews and
197 IV | spat it in the tyrant's face, that he might be convinced
198 V | vanity you find among men--in fact, a sort of mental disease--
199 VI | their dens! How many have fallen by the robber's sword !
200 IV | true as others do for the false?~
201 I | well, wherein he keeps his family. But you have come within
202 IV | As to women, there is a famous case at hand: the violated
203 V | vain ambition; and they fancy themselves more winsome
204 VI | condition and age such a fate seemed most unlikely; either
205 V | to confound us if we have feared to suffer for the truth,
206 I | not good that the flesh be feasted and the spirit starve: nay,
207 II | bonds. The leg does not feel the chain when the mind
208 IV | husband suppliant as Scipio's feet, rushed with her children
209 IV | for the praise of their fellows, I may say, despise the
210 II | imposes the more grievous fetters, binding men's very souls.
211 III| training-ground, that at the goal of final judgment we may be brought
212 I | among themselves." Let him fly from your presence, and
213 II | often as in spirit your footsteps are there, so often you
214 VI | it may be in their own forests, or it may be in the heart
215 | former
216 I | let him find you armed and fortified with concord; for peace
217 II | you are not annoyed by the foul fumes of idolatrous solemnities;
218 II | a place of safety. It is full of darkness, but ye yourselves
219 II | not annoyed by the foul fumes of idolatrous solemnities;
220 IV | ago threw himself on the funeral pile. For women even have
221 II | see if the spirit does not gain more in the prison than
222 II | present loss, that after gains may be the larger. Thus
223 II | you as far as the prison gate, to which also your relatives
224 IV | destroyed. Regulus, a Roman general, who had been taken prisoner
225 VI | our minds to bear, we may get instruction. How often,
226 IV | former thus from the latter getting strength. Let the spirit
227 III| superintendent, in which the Holy Ghost is your trainer, in which
228 I | cries the most accomplished gladiators, and from the mere throng
229 IV | divine reward. If the bit of glass is so precious, what must
230 IV | counted more honourable and glorious that the soul rather than
231 III| training-ground, that at the goal of final judgment we may
232 II | occasion to look on strange gods, you do not run against
233 III| III.~Grant now, O blessed, that even
234 I | first, then, O blessed, grieve not the Holy Spirit, who
235 II | The world imposes the more grievous fetters, binding men's very
236 I | and to cherish it, and to guard it, that you may be able
237 VI | mayhap from things which happen to us whether we will or
238 III| ones, count whatever is hard in this lot of yours as
239 III| tent, where every kind of hardness, roughness and unpleasantness
240 III| since virtue is built up by hardships, as by voluptuous indulgence
241 IV | and so did the wife of Hasdrubal, who, Carthage being on
242 I | in my domain; with vile hatreds I shall tempt them, with
243 II | darkness, blinding men's hearts. The world imposes the more
244 II | images; you have no part in heathen holidays, even by mere bodily
245 IV | outstripped,--for instance Heraclitus, who, smeared with cowdung,
246 VI | the cause of a man what he hesitates to suffer in the cause of
247 IV | itself to stripes. But if so high a value is put on the earthly
248 II | II.~Other things, hindrances equally of the soul, may
249 IV | strength. Let the spirit hold convene with the flesh about
250 II | have no part in heathen holidays, even by mere bodily mingling
251 IV | will be always counted more honourable and glorious that the soul
252 III| training, the stronger is the hope of victory. "And they,"
253 I | indeed, is the devil's house as well, wherein he keeps
254 | however
255 V | have walked about under the hunters' whips. The Lord has given
256 III| sunshine, from sunshine to icy cold, from the robe of peace
257 II | annoyed by the foul fumes of idolatrous solemnities; you are not
258 II | II.~Other things, hindrances
259 III| III.~Grant now, O blessed, that
260 II | do not run against their images; you have no part in heathen
261 II | the atrocity or madness or immodesty of their celebrants; your
262 II | the spirit obtains besides important advantages. You have no
263 III| pleasant in itself, and has imposed on you a harder treatment,
264 II | men's hearts. The world imposes the more grievous fetters,
265 I | used to seek it from the imprisoned martyrs. And so you ought
266 II | world breathes out the worst impurities--human lusts. The world contains
267 III| themselves to war by toils and inconveniences--marching in arms, running
268 III| hardships, as by voluptuous indulgence it is overthrown.~
269 IV | have been outstripped,--for instance Heraclitus, who, smeared
270 VI | minds to bear, we may get instruction. How often, then, have fires
271 III| Even in peace soldiers inure themselves to war by toils
272 II | the rewards to which God invites the martyrs. Meanwhile let
273 IV | IV.~From the saying of our
274 III| Therefore your Master, Jesus Christ, who has anointed
275 IV | not called on, then, most joyfully to lay out as much for the
276 II | but ye shall judge the judges themselves. Sadness may
277 I | house as well, wherein he keeps his family. But you have
278 III| powers built up. They are kept from luxury, from daintier
279 III| narrow tent, where every kind of hardness, roughness and
280 I | not the success in his own kingdom of setting you at variance
281 IV | in the presence of her kinsfolk, plunged the knife into
282 IV | altar, their parents and kinsmen standing by and exhorting
283 IV | her kinsfolk, plunged the knife into herself, that she might
284 IV | the saying of our Lord we know that the flesh is weak,
285 IV | be continued. Everybody knows what to this day is the
286 IV | to this day is the great Lacedaemonian solemnity--the diamastugôsis,
287 III| comes out to the campaign laden with luxuries, nor does
288 I | the provision which our lady mother the Church from her
289 IV | declined to be exchanged for a large number of Carthaginian captives,
290 | latter
291 IV | then, most joyfully to lay out as much for the true
292 I | to retain Him; so let Him lead you thence to your Lord.
293 II | colonnades, but the way which leads to God. As often as in spirit
294 IV | himself; and Empedocles, who leapt down into the fires of AEtna;
295 V | V.~I leave out of account now the motive
296 III| you with His Spirit, and led you forth to the arena,
297 II | will not be in bonds. The leg does not feel the chain
298 IV | the flames. Dido did so, lest, after the death of a husband
299 II | that He might have greater liberty to pray, that He might be
300 | like
301 IV | merciless sword, and the lofty cross, and the rage of the
302 IV | common salvation, thinking no longer of the troubles of the prison,
303 II | even the flesh does not lose there what is for its good,
304 II | the prison than the flesh loses. Nay, by the care of the
305 II | business to suffer present loss, that after gains may be
306 II | not of it. And if you have lost some of life's sweets, it
307 III| whatever is hard in this lot of yours as a discipline
308 II | care of the Church and the love of the brethren, even the
309 IV | case at hand: the violated Lucretia, in the presence of her
310 II | worst impurities--human lusts. The world contains the
311 III| the campaign laden with luxuries, nor does he go to action
312 III| built up. They are kept from luxury, from daintier meats, from
313 | made
314 II | nor by the atrocity or madness or immodesty of their celebrants;
315 III| of peace to the coat of mail, from silence to clamour,
316 | makes
317 III| quiet to tumult. In like manner, O blessed ones, count whatever
318 III| toils and inconveniences--marching in arms, running over the
319 IV | she should be compelled to marry again; and so did the wife
320 III| everlasting. Therefore your Master, Jesus Christ, who has anointed
321 VI | ordinary conditions, that mayhap from things which happen
322 I | brother out of his private means, makes for your bodily wants
323 | Meanwhile
324 III| from luxury, from daintier meats, from more pleasant drinks;
325 V | They actually go down to meet the very wild beasts in
326 V | mere vanity you find among men--in fact, a sort of mental
327 IV | perhaps, will dread the merciless sword, and the lofty cross,
328 VI | many persons of rank have met with death in a mere human
329 II | holidays, even by mere bodily mingling in them; you are not annoyed
330 I | provision which our lady mother the Church from her bountiful
331 V | leave out of account now the motive of glory. All these same
332 II | of the world. It was in a mountain solitude, too, He showed
333 IV | glory for her chastity. Mucius burned his right hand on
334 | my
335 IV | and, everywhere pierced by nails driven from the outside,
336 II | disciples. Let us drop the name of prison; let us call it
337 III| but from the light and narrow tent, where every kind of
338 IV | conflagration, in which her native city was destroyed. Regulus,
339 I | choose, without the slightest need for it, are wont to animate
340 I | still weaker should not be neglected. Not that I am specially
341 III| about to pass through a noble struggle, in which the living
342 II | you are not pained by the noise of the public shows, nor
343 | nothing
344 IV | that the flesh might yield obedience to the spirit--the weaker
345 II | its good, while the spirit obtains besides important advantages.
346 II | advantages. You have no occasion to look on strange gods,
347 II | are there, but ye are an odour of sweetness. The judge
348 | off
349 II | are free from causes of offence, from temptations, from
350 III| In like manner, O blessed ones, count whatever is hard
351 I | from the mere throng of onlookers useful suggestions have
352 II | confined, all things are open to the spirit. In spirit,
353 VI | constancy having such an origin as this, let us turn to
354 IV | ought to be subject to the other--that the flesh might yield
355 I | torpid, as though he were an outcharmed or smoked-out snake. Give
356 IV | The philosophers have been outstripped,--for instance Heraclitus,
357 | over
358 I | pitched battle outside utterly overcome him; let him have no reason,
359 I | not only the trainers and overseers, but even the unskilled,
360 III| voluptuous indulgence it is overthrown.~
361 II | solemnities; you are not pained by the noise of the public
362 IV | before the altar, their parents and kinsmen standing by
363 VI | enemies if they have been his partisans.~ ~
364 VI | VI.~Passing, too, from examples of enduring
365 II | setting before you shady paths or long colonnades, but
366 IV | precious, what must the true pearl be worth? Are we not called
367 IV | the fires of AEtna; and Peregrinus, who not long ago threw
368 II | reminiscences; you are free now from persecution too. The prison does the
369 VI | testimony, when so many persons of rank have met with death
370 IV | might dwell in fame. The philosophers have been outstripped,--
371 III| that they may have their physical powers built up. They are
372 VI | wild beasts torn men in pieces, it may be in their own
373 IV | of chest; and, everywhere pierced by nails driven from the
374 IV | threw himself on the funeral pile. For women even have despised
375 I | abode. You had already in pitched battle outside utterly overcome
376 III| in arms, running over the plain, working at the ditch, making
377 IV | presence of her kinsfolk, plunged the knife into herself,
378 IV | vigour, that men, for the praise of their fellows, I may
379 II | have greater liberty to pray, that He might be quit of
380 IV | If the bit of glass is so precious, what must the true pearl
381 IV | weakness of the flesh. For precisely on this account He first
382 IV | conflict for which they are the preparation. The flesh, perhaps, will
383 III| harder their labours in the preparatory training, the stronger is
384 III| pleasant drinks; they are pressed, racked, worn out; the harder
385 IV | general, who had been taken prisoner by the Carthaginians, declined
386 I | each brother out of his private means, makes for your bodily
387 III| your trainer, in which the prize is an eternal crown of angelic
388 II | the judgment, not of the proconsul, but of God. Wherefore,
389 II | which the desert did for the prophet. Our Lord Himself spent
390 I | Designate,--Along with the provision which our lady mother the
391 II | pained by the noise of the public shows, nor by the atrocity
392 IV | the wild beasts, and that punishment of the flames, of all most
393 I | within its walls for the very purpose of trampling the wicked
394 III| silence to clamour, from quiet to tumult. In like manner,
395 II | to pray, that He might be quit of the world. It was in
396 II | criminals, even the whole human race. Then, last of all, it awaits
397 III| drinks; they are pressed, racked, worn out; the harder their
398 IV | the lofty cross, and the rage of the wild beasts, and
399 VI | when so many persons of rank have met with death in a
400 II | reflect that the world is more really the prison, we shall see
401 VI | in the cause of God. In reference to this indeed, let the
402 II | world alarm you; for if we reflect that the world is more really
403 II | Wherefore, O blessed, you may regard yourselves as having been
404 IV | native city was destroyed. Regulus, a Roman general, who had
405 II | gate, to which also your relatives may have attended you. There
406 II | temptations, from unholy reminiscences; you are free now from persecution
407 III| the living God in our very response to the sacramental words.
408 I | endeavour, therefore, to retain Him; so let Him lead you
409 II | let us call it a place of retirement. Though the body is shut
410 IV | celestial glory and a divine reward. If the bit of glass is
411 II | far I say nothing of the rewards to which God invites the
412 IV | scourging; in which sacred rite the Spartan youths are beaten
413 II | spirit. In spirit, then, roam abroad; in spirit walk about,
414 VI | many have fallen by the robber's sword ! How many have
415 III| sunshine to icy cold, from the robe of peace to the coat of
416 IV | was destroyed. Regulus, a Roman general, who had been taken
417 III| every kind of hardness, roughness and unpleasantness must
418 V | eagerly sought for to their ruin?~
419 III| inconveniences--marching in arms, running over the plain, working
420 IV | suppliant as Scipio's feet, rushed with her children into the
421 III| our very response to the sacramental words. Well, no soldier
422 IV | or scourging; in which sacred rite the Spartan youths
423 II | judge the judges themselves. Sadness may be there for him who
424 II | we may say, a place of safety. It is full of darkness,
425 IV | eagerly desired for the sake of fame and glory; and this
426 IV | the flesh about the common salvation, thinking no longer of the
427 V | truth, that we might be saved, what others out of vanity
428 IV | IV.~From the saying of our Lord we know that
429 III| of victory. "And they," says the apostle, "that they
430 V | winsome from the bites and scars of the contest. Some have
431 IV | her husband suppliant as Scipio's feet, rushed with her
432 IV | Spartan youths are beaten with scourges before the altar, their
433 IV | solemnity--the diamastugôsis, or scourging; in which sacred rite the
434 II | spent much of His time in seclusion, that He might have greater
435 I | Church, have been used to seek it from the imprisoned martyrs.
436 | seemed
437 III| forth to the arena, has seen it good, before the day
438 IV | the men who at their own self-impulse have put an end to themselves.
439 II | its affairs! Nor let this separation from the world alarm you;
440 IV | beasts, and even asps, those serpents worse than bear or bull,
441 II | The prison does the same service for the Christian which
442 II | and thenceforth you were severed from the world; how much
443 IV | women, may be worthy of your sex. It would take me too long
444 III| shrink at having to pass from shade to sunshine, from sunshine
445 II | not setting before you shady paths or long colonnades,
446 V | Others, with most enduring shoulders, have walked about under
447 IV | spirit willing, that He might show which of the two ought to
448 II | mountain solitude, too, He showed His glory to the disciples.
449 II | the noise of the public shows, nor by the atrocity or
450 III| bodies and minds may not shrink at having to pass from shade
451 I | away into his own abysses, shrunken and torpid, as though he
452 II | retirement. Though the body is shut in, though the flesh is
453 IV | torture. But, on the other side, let the spirit set clearly
454 II | may be there for him who sighs for the world's enjoyments.
455 III| to the coat of mail, from silence to clamour, from quiet to
456 VI | as this, let us turn to a simple contemplation of man's estate
457 | since
458 IV | most terrible, and all the skill of the executioner in torture.
459 I | from your presence, and skulk away into his own abysses,
460 I | who choose, without the slightest need for it, are wont to
461 IV | instance Heraclitus, who, smeared with cowdung, burned himself;
462 I | he were an outcharmed or smoked-out snake. Give him not the
463 I | outcharmed or smoked-out snake. Give him not the success
464 V | of the contest. Some have sold themselves to fires, to
465 III| sacramental words. Well, no soldier comes out to the campaign
466 III| put up with. Even in peace soldiers inure themselves to war
467 II | foul fumes of idolatrous solemnities; you are not pained by the
468 IV | the great Lacedaemonian solemnity--the diamastugôsis, or scourging;
469 II | world. It was in a mountain solitude, too, He showed His glory
470 | sometimes
471 II | fetters, binding men's very souls. The world breathes out
472 IV | in which sacred rite the Spartan youths are beaten with scourges
473 IV | last bit off her tongue and spat it in the tyrant's face,
474 I | neglected. Not that I am specially entitled to exhort you;
475 II | prophet. Our Lord Himself spent much of His time in seclusion,
476 IV | might yield obedience to the spirit--the weaker to the stronger;
477 I | some contribution to your spiritual sustenance; for it is not
478 IV | by and exhorting them to stand it bravely out. For it will
479 IV | their parents and kinsmen standing by and exhorting them to
480 I | be feasted and the spirit starve: nay, if that which is weak
481 II | your eyes do not fall on stews and brothels; you are free
482 II | have no occasion to look on strange gods, you do not run against
483 III| are set apart to a more stringent discipline, that they may
484 IV | body has given itself to stripes. But if so high a value
485 III| to pass through a noble struggle, in which the living God
486 IV | which of the two ought to be subject to the other--that the flesh
487 IV | to the executioner, when, subjected to torture by the tyrant
488 I | snake. Give him not the success in his own kingdom of setting
489 IV | so the Athenian courtezan succumbed to the executioner, when,
490 VI | s sword ! How many have suffered at the hands of enemies
491 VI | seemed most unlikely; either suffering at his hands if they have
492 IV | surely are but trifling sufferings to obtain a celestial glory
493 I | throng of onlookers useful suggestions have sometimes come; first,
494 III| living God acts the part of superintendent, in which the Holy Ghost
495 IV | might not behold her husband suppliant as Scipio's feet, rushed
496 IV | beasts, the torture; these surely are but trifling sufferings
497 I | contribution to your spiritual sustenance; for it is not good that
498 III| many arduous labours. The sweat of the brow is on everything,
499 II | but ye are an odour of sweetness. The judge is daily looked
500 II | have lost some of life's sweets, it is the way of business
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