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1001 12| the Lord's parables. The shepherd's patience seeks and finds
1002 14| against the corslet and shield of his patience, that instrument
1003 7 | from the Lord, he greatly shocks for the sake of a worldly
1004 6 | antecedent to faith. In short, Abraham believed God, and
1005 5 | whatever causes besides it shortly found for itself it lays
1006 12| burden-bearer carries home on his shoulders the forsaken sinner. That
1007 9 | desire of Christians, we show unwillingness ourselves
1008 13| pronouncing it "weak," He shows what need there is of strengthening,
1009 4 | or of salvation; for the shunning of which severity or the
1010 1 | I, most miserable, ever sick with the heats of impatience,
1011 1 | impatience, must of necessity sigh after, and invoke, and persistently
1012 1 | health, know not how to be silent about its blessings. So
1013 10| does place separate what similarity conjoins. And the precept
1014 5 | that she would never have sinned at all, if she had honoured
1015 12| his shoulders the forsaken sinner. That prodigal son also
1016 3 | the disciples' feet; not sinners, not publicans, did He repel;
1017 5 | experiment, what an aid unto sinning was that which he had been
1018 1 | easily to any unless patience sit by his side. So is patience
1019 15| disturbed. For Patience sits on the throne of that calmest
1020 4 | who have the bond of their slavery under their chin, or in
1021 10| you avenge yourself too slightly, you will be mad; if too
1022 3 | His ensnarers. This were a small matter, if He had not had
1023 7 | therefore, which we have not the smallest need to seek after, because
1024 14| crooked remedies! How did God smile, how was the evil one cut
1025 8 | then, on being cursed, I smite (with my tongue,) how shall
1026 8 | To him," He saith, "who smiteth thee on the face, turn the
1027 3 | break the bruised reed; the smoking flax He did not quench:
1028 14| the Lord; whom the devil smote with all his might in vain.
1029 11| own errors or else by the snares of the Evil One, we incur
1030 15| hue of the cloud but is of soft serenity, open and simple,
1031 13| in the gyve, the flesh in solitude, and in that want of light,
1032 | something
1033 3 | in its entirety, in His Son--had not falsely spoken.
1034 13| libation to the Lord of sordid raiment, together with scantiness
1035 5 | rashness--was, through his very speech with her, breathed on by
1036 8 | sometimes will recoil and spend its rage on him who sent
1037 12| whole strength of the Holy Spirit--trained? "Charity," he says, "
1038 6 | has been prohibited, our spirits retained, the petulance
1039 14| THIS TWOFOLD PATIENCE, THE SPIRITUAL AND THE BODILY. EXEMPLIFIED
1040 3 | pleasure of patience. He is spitted on, scourged, derided, clad
1041 7 | money for our soul, whether spontaneously in bestowing or patiently
1042 7 | they hire themselves for sport and the camp; when, after
1043 14| his own ulcer, while he sportively replaced the vermin that
1044 13| realms of heaven. That which springs from a virtue of the mind
1045 10| There is, too, another chief spur of impatience, the lust
1046 13| form in his seven years' squalor and neglect., because he
1047 10| latter as posterior? Yet each stands impeached of hurting a man
1048 8 | blunted on a rock of most stedfast hardness. For it will wholly
1049 3 | even His own betrayer, and stedfastly abstained from pointing
1050 5 | therefore she is the only parent stem, too, to every delinquency,
1051 5 | wickedness, the earlier step is his becoming impatient
1052 14| speak concerning the Lord; Stephen is stoned, and prays for
1053 7 | another's. He who is greatly stirred with impatience of a loss,
1054 14| concerning the Lord; Stephen is stoned, and prays for pardon to
1055 5 | use offensive to God. For straightway that impatience conceived
1056 15| He must of necessity be straitened in every place and at every
1057 12| patience seeks and finds the straying ewe: for Impatience would
1058 3 | any hear His voice in the streets. He did not break the bruised
1059 13| shows what need there is of strengthening, it--that is by patience--
1060 13| bear with all constancy stripes, fire, cross, beasts, sword;
1061 15| the weak; exhausts not the strong; is the delight of the believer;
1062 10| impetuosity fails either to stumble, or else to fall altogether,
1063 5 | impatiently bore that the Lord God subjected the universal works which
1064 4 | Him to whom alone we are subjected--that is, the Lord? But how
1065 16| the slaves of the belly submit to contumelious patronage,
1066 7 | exhortation to contempt of money submitted (to us), than (the fact)
1067 5 | malice from impatience; that subsequently they conspired between themselves;
1068 16| itself--a patience which the subterraneous fire awaits! Let us, on
1069 13| meet every preparation for subverting or punishing faith; that
1070 6 | discipline of patience is succinctly comprised, since evil-doing
1071 14| in body; in order that we succumb neither to damages of our
1072 5 | paradise. But when once he succumbed to impatience, he quite
1073 3 | enjoining, but likewise by the sufferings of the Lord in enduring)
1074 15| EFFECTS OF PATIENCE.~So amply sufficient a Depositary of patience
1075 1 | exhibiting that which we go to suggest to others should prove a
1076 5 | that by which wrath was suggested during this cradle-time
1077 12| that is contemplating a suit against his adversary will
1078 4 | feeling shaping their conduct suitably to the disposition of their
1079 15| XV. GENERAL SUMMARY OF THE VIRTUES AND EFFECTS
1080 9 | not with equanimity the summoning out of this world of any
1081 12| return to patience. If "the sun go down over our wrath,"
1082 6 | which is Christ," and was superinducing grace over the law, made
1083 10| malice, it constitutes itself superior in following out revenge,
1084 6 | absent. But after He has supervened, and has united the grace
1085 11| gentle:" under this term, surely, the impatient cannot possibly
1086 14| of his in sheep, nor the sweeping away of his children in
1087 5 | he quite ceased to be of sweet savour to God; he quite
1088 14| away of his children in one swoop of ruin, nor, finally, the
1089 3 | did not receive. No one's table or roof did He despise:
1090 | taking
1091 15| Spirit, will (He) always tarry with us? Nay, I know not
1092 12| welcome it). For by whose teachings but those of Patience is
1093 9 | That longing also must be tempered with patience. For why should
1094 9 | you bear impatiently the temporary withdrawal of him who you
1095 6 | to (I would not say the temptation, but) the typical attestation
1096 3 | alone the assaults of the tempter; while from being" Lord"
1097 12| absence of patience makes you tenacious of a wrong? No one who is
1098 11| the gentle:" under this term, surely, the impatient cannot
1099 1 | PATIENCE GENERALLY; AND TERTULLIAN'S OWN UNWORTHINESS TO TREAT
1100 5 | own very diversity they testify that neither works for the
1101 | thee
1102 7 | somewhat of his, either by theft, or else by force, or else
1103 5 | endure things celestial. Thenceforward, a creature given to earth,
1104 | THEREOF
1105 1 | the magnitude of some good things--just as of some ills too--
1106 9 | will return? That which you think to be death is departure.
1107 15| simple, whom Elias saw at his third essay. For where God is,
1108 5 | not enduring a three-days' thirst; for this also is laid to
1109 14| testimony to us, for the thorough accomplishment of patience
1110 11| over and above, at being thought worthy of divine chastisement. "
1111 15| the devil, and her laugh threatening; her clothing, moreover,
1112 5 | the Lord in not enduring a three-days' thirst; for this also is
1113 15| For Patience sits on the throne of that calmest and gentlest
1114 5 | that good. For you will throw more light on what is to
1115 5 | to his assistance for the thrusting of man into crime. The woman,
1116 15| long for repentance; sets tier seal on confession; rules
1117 11| peacemakers" with the same title of felicity, and names them "
1118 16| affection, undergoes. every toil of forced complaisance,
1119 11| Who, without patience, is tolerant of such unhappinesses? And
1120 12| Charity endures all things; tolerates all things;" of course because
1121 12| have their consummation. "Tongues, sciences, prophecies, become
1122 1 | things--just as of some ills too--is insupportable, so that
1123 | toward
1124 3 | hurled on so contumelious a town. He cared for the ungrateful;
1125 2 | adoring as they do the toys of the arts and the works
1126 16| dowry, and teaching them to trade in panderings, makes them
1127 3 | more than from any other trait, ought ye, Pharisees, to
1128 15| tongue; restrains the hand; tramples temptations under foot;
1129 15| habit. Her countenance is tranquil and peaceful; her brow serene
1130 5 | silence, and makes him the transmitter of that which she had imbibed
1131 12| sacrament of the faith, the treasure-house of the Christian name, which
1132 1 | to have dared compose a treatise on Patience, for practising
1133 2 | services of the elements, the tributes of entire nature, to accrue
1134 8 | smiteth thee on the face, turn the other cheek likewise."
1135 5 | he begins to be easily turned by impatience unto every
1136 4 | judgment on His servants turns not on a fetter or a cap
1137 1 | to others should prove a tutorship into exhibiting it; except
1138 7 | how will one, when he has two coats, give the one of them
1139 14| XIV. THE POWER OF THIS TWOFOLD PATIENCE, THE SPIRITUAL
1140 6 | the temptation, but) the typical attestation of his faith.
1141 14| unclean overflow of his own ulcer, while he sportively replaced
1142 1 | affectation of virtue, they unanimously pursue; concerning patience
1143 14| equanimity kept scraping off the unclean overflow of his own ulcer,
1144 16| with feigned affection, undergoes. every toil of forced complaisance,
1145 3 | the death which must be undergone need of contumelies likewise?
1146 4 | cattle, even from brutes; understanding that they have been provided
1147 4 | the acknowledgment of God understands what is incumbent on it.
1148 10| it!--inasmuch as nothing undertaken with impatience can be effected
1149 12| despise one ewe; but Patience undertakes the labour of the quest,
1150 1 | practising which I am all unfit, being a man of no goodness;
1151 5 | idle, because it is not unfruitful. In edification no loquacity
1152 15| downcast in humility, not in unhappiness; her mouth sealed with the
1153 11| patience, is tolerant of such unhappinesses? And so to such, "consolation"
1154 8 | enjoyment. Then you not only go unhurt away, which even alone is
1155 13| of patience simple and uniform, and as it exists merely
1156 6 | has supervened, and has united the grace of faith with
1157 5 | honesty; impious of piety; unquiet of quietness. In order that
1158 9 | desire of Christians, we show unwillingness ourselves to attain it.~
1159 1 | GENERALLY; AND TERTULLIAN'S OWN UNWORTHINESS TO TREAT OF IT.~I FULLY
1160 2 | accrue at once to worthy and unworthy; bearing with the most ungrateful
1161 8 | hurt. When, then, you have upset his enjoyment by not being
1162 14| quite wearied with ills, and urging him to resort to crooked
1163 5 | by impatience unto every use offensive to God. For straightway
1164 | used
1165 4 | provided and delivered for our uses by the Lord. Shall, then,
1166 6 | tooth" and to repay with usury "evil with evil; " for,
1167 8 | by his pain. This is the utility and the pleasure of patience.~
1168 4 | themselves which the severity utters, or the promises which the
1169 5 | V. AS GOD IS THE AUTHOR OF
1170 10| fall altogether, or else to vanish headlong. Moreover, if you
1171 12| wrong? No one who is at variance with his brother in his
1172 10| revenge! How oft has its vehemence been found worse than the
1173 5 | from her own fount various veins of crimes. Of murder we
1174 16| which, making husbands venal for dowry, and teaching
1175 14| sportively replaced the vermin that brake out thence, in
1176 6 | VI. PATIENCE BOTH ANTECEDENT
1177 14| that instrument of God's victory not only presently recovered
1178 7 | VII. THE CAUSES OF IMPATIENCE,
1179 8 | VIII. OF PATIENCE UNDER PERSONAL
1180 12| is not puffed up; is not violent;" for that pertains not
1181 13| the widow, and sets on the virgin the seal and raises the
1182 15| GENERAL SUMMARY OF THE VIRTUES AND EFFECTS OF PATIENCE.~
1183 3 | aloud; nor did any hear His voice in the streets. He did not
1184 11| either by imprudence or else voluntarily, draw upon ourselves anything,
1185 14| deferred; meantime he endured a voluntary bereavement, that he might
1186 11| our ability, why should we wander out of our way among the
1187 13| in solitude, and in that want of light, and in that patience
1188 8 | too little equanimity some wanton or wicked word uttered against
1189 2 | insensibility, furnishes the warrant for exercising patience;
1190 13| flight press hard, the flesh wars with the inconvenience of
1191 5 | angel of perdition" first was--malicious or impatient--
1192 3 | Himself ministered to the washing of the disciples' feet;
1193 13| diet and the pure drink of water in con joining fasts to
1194 5 | of the manna, after the watery following of the rock, they
1195 2 | avarice, iniquity, malignity, waxing insolent daily: so that
1196 1 | contemplation of my own weakness, digest, the truth, that
1197 8 | with the same fate as, some weapon launched against and blunted
1198 12| when, on a disjunction of wedlock (for that cause, I mean,
1199 11| Blessed," saith He, "are the weepers and mourners." Who, without
1200 12| because it finds Patience (to welcome it). For by whose teachings
1201 1 | precept, fulfil no work well-pleasing to the Lord, if estranged
1202 | whereby
1203 6 | precept, the perfect execution whereof was not even pleasing to
1204 15| found in the roll of the whirlwind, nor in the leaden hue of
1205 15| moreover, about her bosom white and well fitted to her person,
1206 8 | stedfast hardness. For it will wholly fall then and there with
1207 8 | equanimity some wanton or wicked word uttered against me,
1208 11| found at home, what abroad? Wide and diffusive is the Evil
1209 13| the flesh: she keeps the widow, and sets on the virgin
1210 12| perpetual observance of widowhood), she waits for, she yearns
1211 7 | when, after the manner of wild beasts, they play the bandit
1212 13| patience. If the "spirit is willing, but the flesh," without
1213 7 | sake of a worldly matter. Willingly, therefore, let us lose
1214 13| body, for the purpose of "winning the Lord;" inasmuch as it
1215 15| evenly relaxed in gladsome wise, with eyes downcast in humility,
1216 9 | impatiently the temporary withdrawal of him who you believe will
1217 16| subject to the power of their wives; which, with feigned affection,
1218 3 | conceived in a mother's womb, and awaits the time for
1219 3 | foully, more foully crowned. Wondrous is the faith of equanimity!
1220 10| its vehemence been found worse than the causes which led
1221 5 | the devil on the contrary worst, of beings, by their own
1222 3 | patience of the Lord was wounded in (the wound of) Malchus.
1223 15| serene contracted by no wrinkle of sadness or of anger;
1224 10| X. OF REVENGE.~There is, too,
1225 11| XI. FURTHER REASONS FOR PRACTISING
1226 12| XII. CERTAIN OTHER DIVINE PRECEPTS.
1227 13| XIII. OF BODILY PATIENCE.~Thus
1228 14| XIV. THE POWER OF THIS TWOFOLD
1229 15| XV. GENERAL SUMMARY OF THE
1230 16| XVI. THE PATIENCE OF THE HEATHEN
1231 12| widowhood), she waits for, she yearns for, she persuades by her
1232 13| human form in his seven years' squalor and neglect., because
1233 11| very great ones you may yield in regard of their overpoweringness.
1234 3 | cared for the ungrateful; He yielded to His ensnarers. This were
1235 15| in childhood, praised in youth, looked up to in age; is
1236 11| equanimity may mock the zeal of the foe. If, however,