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501 I  |            with vile hatreds I shall tempt them, with defections or
502 II |              causes of offence, from temptations, from unholy reminiscences;
503 III|            from the light and narrow tent, where every kind of hardness,
504 IV |              the flames, of all most terrible, and all the skill of the
505 VI |            let the present time bear testimony, when so many persons of
506 III|             at the ditch, making the testudo, engaging in many arduous
507    | thence
508 II |              attended you. There and thenceforth you were severed from the
509 IV |          about the common salvation, thinking no longer of the troubles
510    | those
511 IV |         Peregrinus, who not long ago threw himself on the funeral pile.
512 I  |        gladiators, and from the mere throng of onlookers useful suggestions
513    | through
514 III|           inure themselves to war by toils and inconveniences--marching
515 IV |              she at last bit off her tongue and spat it in the tyrant'
516 IV |            of the uselessness of his torments, however long they should
517 VI |           How often have wild beasts torn men in pieces, it may be
518 I  |            own abysses, shrunken and torpid, as though he were an outcharmed
519 VI |             cross, after having been tortured first, yes, and treated
520 III|         which the Holy Ghost is your trainer, in which the prize is an
521 I  |         exhort you; yet not only the trainers and overseers, but even
522 III|           labours in the preparatory training, the stronger is the hope
523 III|          look upon the prison as our training-ground, that at the goal of final
524 V  |           sort of mental disease--as trampled under foot. How many ease-lovers
525 I  |              for the very purpose of trampling the wicked one under foot
526 II |            yourselves as having been translated from a prison to, we may
527 VI |             tortured first, yes, and treated with every sort of contumely !
528 III|              imposed on you a harder treatment, that your strength might
529 III|           well disciplined by many a trial; since virtue is built up
530 IV |        torture; these surely are but trifling sufferings to obtain a celestial
531 IV |            thinking no longer of the troubles of the prison, but of the
532 V  |             feared to suffer for the truth, that we might be saved,
533 III|            to clamour, from quiet to tumult. In like manner, O blessed
534 V  |        certain distance in a burning tunic. Others, with most enduring
535 VI |            an origin as this, let us turn to a simple contemplation
536 IV |              might show which of the two ought to be subject to the
537 II |               from temptations, from unholy reminiscences; you are free
538    | unlikely
539 III|              hardness, roughness and unpleasantness must be put up with. Even
540 I  |              overseers, but even the unskilled, nay, all who choose, without
541    | used
542 I  |             mere throng of onlookers useful suggestions have sometimes
543 IV |            might be convinced of the uselessness of his torments, however
544 I  |            in pitched battle outside utterly overcome him; let him have
545 V  |                                      V.~I leave out of account
546 V  |              the very wild beasts in vain ambition; and they fancy
547 IV |            stripes. But if so high a value is put on the earthly glory,
548 I  |            kingdom of setting you at variance with each other, but let
549 VI |                                      VI.~Passing, too, from examples
550 III|              stronger is the hope of victory. "And they," says the apostle, "
551 IV |             won by mental and bodily vigour, that men, for the praise
552 I  |           are now in my domain; with vile hatreds I shall tempt them,
553 IV |             famous case at hand: the violated Lucretia, in the presence
554 III|   disciplined by many a trial; since virtue is built up by hardships,
555 IV |              crucifixions. Woman has voluntarily sought the wild beasts,
556 III|         built up by hardships, as by voluptuous indulgence it is overthrown.~
557 II |               roam abroad; in spirit walk about, not setting before
558 V  |             enduring shoulders, have walked about under the hunters'
559 I  |             you have come within its walls for the very purpose of
560 I  |         means, makes for your bodily wants in the prison, accept also
561 III|         soldiers inure themselves to war by toils and inconveniences--
562 III|            yet we were called to the warfare of the living God in our
563 IV |              s acknowledgment of the weakness of the flesh. For precisely
564    | whatever
565 II |           the proconsul, but of God. Wherefore, O blessed, you may regard
566    | wherein
567    | whether
568    | while
569 V  |             about under the hunters' whips. The Lord has given these
570    | whither
571 I  |             purpose of trampling the wicked one under foot in his chosen
572 IV |          marry again; and so did the wife of Hasdrubal, who, Carthage
573 II |            man about, and whither it wills it carries him. But where
574 V  |           they fancy themselves more winsome from the bites and scars
575 IV |          spirit willing. Let us not, withal, take delusive comfort from
576    | within
577 IV |        endured so many crucifixions. Woman has voluntarily sought the
578 IV |            put on the earthly glory, won by mental and bodily vigour,
579 I  |           slightest need for it, are wont to animate from afar by
580 III|          response to the sacramental words. Well, no soldier comes
581 III|              running over the plain, working at the ditch, making the
582 II |     consequence where you are in the world--you who are not of it. And
583 II |          from the ordinary course of worldly life and all its affairs!
584 III|            they are pressed, racked, worn out; the harder their labours
585 IV |            even asps, those serpents worse than bear or bull, which
586 II |           The world breathes out the worst impurities--human lusts.
587 IV |          what must the true pearl be worth? Are we not called on, then,
588 IV |            you, O holy women, may be worthy of your sex. It would take
589 IV |            of the prison, but of the wrestle and conflict for which they
590    | yes
591 IV |          other--that the flesh might yield obedience to the spirit--
592    | yours
593 IV |              sacred rite the Spartan youths are beaten with scourges