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501 IX | that is, not without profit fall to the ground if we choose
502 VI | can give an eternity of fame, a resurrection by being
503 XIII| tribulation, or distress, or famine, or nakedness, or peril,
504 IV | tongue as by the hand, to fashion a god, and not to worship
505 II | shall not make you idols fashioned by the hand, neither rear
506 XV | another, when he is made fast to the cross. Then does
507 IV | slain. Who wished this fatal issue to his soldier, but
508 XIII| how he, (I say,) speaks in favour of martyrdoms, now to be
509 IX | entire faith, which had had favourable omens. Therefore it will
510 XII | has punishment; and he who fears is not perfect in love."
511 XII | evildoers! For this is a lovely feature, and even hereunto were
512 V | load the same hands with a fee, and proclaim that they
513 V | for destruction? Will he feel squeamish with reference
514 I | first of all apply it to the feelings, or whip with it as if on
515 II | hands, and they handle not; feet and they walk not. Like
516 V | happily fallen. He also fell into your sicknesses. Man
517 I | especially when some display of ferocity has already arrayed with
518 XIII| which he is providing a festival of mutual joy. When at length
519 VI | those games, the combative festivals and superstitious contests
520 X | light unthankfully, and fetters of the zones perhaps, and,
521 XII | Beloved, be not alarmed by the fiery trial which is taking place
522 XI | confessing, me; and "he who findeth his life shall lose it;
523 IV | existence of this will, finding fault with it, so that he
524 XI | it.'' Therefore indeed he finds it, who, in winning life,
525 XIII| fought the good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the
526 X | For what does He add after finishing with confession and denial? "
527 VII | song. Wisdom behaves with firmness in the streets, for with
528 VII | murdered even her own proper, first-born and only Son, who is certainly
529 VI | there are some wounds: fists make reel, heels kick like
530 XIII| deaths oft. Of the Jews five times received I forty stripes,
531 V | healed. For they are many who flee from the aid of physic also,
532 I | source. If the promise of God flows with milk and honey, the
533 X | daughter-in-law. And a man's foes shall be they of his own
534 VII | die! And therefore what follows? Wisdom is praised in hymns,
535 XIII| then himself supplying food as did Jacob, how he, (I
536 X | with the ground, by the footsteps of the Lord, and an entrance
537 XI | be subjected? But when He forbids thinking about what answer
538 X | forth here, examination uses force here, torture rages here,
539 IX | follow when any one had been forced to renounce the Christian
540 X | with a certain Carnus, Forculus, and Limentinus? What powers
541 IX | the mind appears in the forehead, and that the wound of shame
542 III | war and captivity and a foreign yoke, as often as they turned
543 VIII| not be altogether like the foreigners, and be seized with fear
544 II | again: "Neither do thou forget the Lord thy God, who brought
545 VI | they whose iniquities are forgiven, and whose sins are covered.
546 XII | his own Revelation too, forgiving such advice! For indeed
547 | former
548 III | Joshua the son of Nave they forsake the God of their fathers,
549 | forty
550 XIII| departure is at hand. I have fought the good fight, I have finished
551 VII | shudder at the altogether foul breath of blasphemy which
552 X | both synagogues of the Jews fountains of persecution before which
553 II | His abhorrence of idols, framed a series of curses too: "
554 VI | and the baptism thereafter free from danger of blood. And
555 I | dull, the blood of the mind freezes, the flesh of the spirit
556 XIII| abundant, in prisons very frequent, in deaths oft. Of the Jews
557 II | wife of thy bosom, or thy friend who is as thine own soul,
558 V | accruing is the apology for the frightfulness of the work. In short, that
559 V | speak of as a good. This frowardness also appertains to men,
560 IV | divine threatenings and their fulfilments, which was even then commended
561 X | destitute of the sun's rays or full of light unthankfully, and
562 X | Orion will exercise his function; if put an end to by beasts,
563 VI | also who discharge earthly functions are eager for promotion?
564 VIII| able to deliver us from the furnace of fire and from your hands;
565 XII | for her drunkenness are furnished by the cups of martyrdoms;
566 VI | loftiness of faith, that gain ought to have been of some
567 VI | presented with the Pythian game after the racecourse had
568 VI | the world celebrates those games, the combative festivals
569 V | the counter poison, who gaped for the poison?~
570 V | of all indeed (that the garden produced) and should refrain
571 VI | boxing-gloves mangle, whips leave gashes. Yet there will be no one
572 X | powers, keeping guard at the gate, do I hear you affirm to
573 II | and all the spoil of it be gathered together into all its places
574 VII | Scythians, or Mercury of the Gauls, or Saturn of the Africans,
575 VIII| falls to the lot of men generally, and is a debt due by all (
576 VI | to be bruised, here too generosity rather than harshness in
577 XV | devil had from the Lord: "Get thee behind me, Satan; thou
578 IV | is important), for we are getting severely stung concerning
579 XV | rising faith. Then is Peter girt by another, when he is made
580 II | a dreamer of dreams, and giveth thee a sign or a wonder,
581 XII | manna with the stone of glistening whiteness, and the name
582 XIII| Him, that we may be also glorified together. For I reckon that
583 XII | be ashamed, but let him glorify God on this behalf." John,
584 I | stupefaction? But if it gluts the wound, it drives the
585 I | represented by the bush, then the Gnostics break out, then the Valentinians
586 VIII| your idol, nor worship your golden image which you have set
587 VI | crowned likewise. With what good-will the world celebrates those
588 V | good, will not be God. The goodness of the thing itself also
589 VI | deal in discoloration, and gore, and swellings, he will
590 II | enjoined by God. Let the Gospels wait a little, while I set
591 X | against the soul: I shall be graced by the neglect of this command:
592 V | might be mixed, the Lord gradually prepared the means of healing
593 XII | afterwards to Paul, to whom He granted participation in (the joys
594 III | the daughters of Moab to gratify their lust: they are allured
595 VI | superstitious contests of the Greeks, involving forms both of
596 XI | withering of the word after the green blade had sprung up, He
597 XV | says, "Why weep ye, and grieve my heart? But for my part,
598 XIII| severities will seem to be more grievous than martyrdoms, yet once
599 V | that man who is howling and groaning and bellowing in the hands
600 II | pillars, and cut down their groves, and burn with fire the
601 IX | does He address words of guidance to the apostles: "Behold,
602 VIII| Spirit of God used to be guided by Himself to martyrdoms;
603 XV | you say), in all respects guileless souls and doves merely,
604 XIV | sentence beforehand upon the guilty. Then he goes on also to
605 X | Christian is to be stoned, hail-storms will be near; if burned,
606 IX | because the number of our hairs also has been recorded before
607 XII | robes, wear the dazzling halo of brightness, until others
608 II | speak not; hands, and they handle not; feet and they walk
609 XIV | righteousness, as it were handmaids of the divine court of justice,
610 XI | meaning in words, what would happen if they were found to have
611 XII | though some strange thing happened unto you. For, inasmuch
612 V | into His hands, but have happily fallen. He also fell into
613 VI | blood. And concerning the happiness of the man who has partaken
614 XIII| utter want; since we are harassed by persecutions, but not
615 VIII| temple, imparting to the hard stones lasting marks of
616 I | appointed for pursuit, are like hares being hemmed in from a distance;
617 I | and cup. For some, making haste, take also beforehand a
618 I | poison inwards, and makes it hasten into the bowels; forthwith
619 | hath
620 I | refuses that of bulls and he-goats? Assuredly He had rather
621 V | also will be at liberty to heal for everlasting life by
622 V | to die rather than to be healed. For they are many who flee
623 XV | indictments by tribunes, and the hearing of causes by kings, and
624 III | their fathers, and have not hearkened to my voice, I also will
625 I | faith either in heresy or in heathenism. And now the present state
626 I | adjuring, and besmearing the heel with the beast. Finally,
627 VI | wounds: fists make reel, heels kick like butting rams,
628 XIII| nor life, nor power, nor height, nor depth, nor any other
629 V | an evil, for it occasions helpful pains; nor will it be refused
630 I | pursuit, are like hares being hemmed in from a distance; and
631 V | little draught, and stops hemorrhage by opening a veinlet in
632 | hereafter
633 I | wounded faith either in heresy or in heathenism. And now
634 XII | lovely feature, and even hereunto were ye called, since Christ
635 | herself
636 IV | furiously in battle, am wounded, hewn in pieces, slain. Who wished
637 VI | closes the wounds, the palm hides the blood: he is excited
638 II | gods, upon mountains and hills, and under shady trees.
639 I | whatever is prolonged from the hindmost part of the body, and scourges
640 I | drawing along the tail hitherto, they first of all apply
641 I | summer season: fierceness hoists the sail when the wind is
642 X | stand in earthly: I shall hold out against the greater
643 VI | rather than harshness in God holds sway. For He wished to make
644 I | sweeter than honey and the honeycombs, the juices are from that
645 XIV | far from assuming divine honours; because both father and
646 I | up, being themselves also hot to strike, penetrate, kill.
647 V | In short, that man who is howling and groaning and bellowing
648 I | have made trial; others are hungering in prison for the martyrdoms
649 VII | follows? Wisdom is praised in hymns, in the places of egress;
650 VIII| shall neither serve your idol, nor worship your golden
651 VIII| messenger, is, suffering an ignominious death, beheaded to reward
652 II | II.~But not yet about the good
653 III | III.~Nor should I think it needful
654 VIII| worshipped, religion has got ill-will for her portion. He who
655 XV | for him, having a mind to illustrate what he had always taught,
656 VI | of judging, spectacles, (illustrations of) even the barbarity of
657 X | consider (whether what they imagine to exist does so), if so
658 VII | matter of discussion, or imagines that it does not occur for
659 V | disease and to do good by imitating the malady, to destroy death
660 IX | to Him, or to have got an immunity from the assaults of unrighteousness,
661 VIII| the altar and the temple, imparting to the hard stones lasting
662 VIII| whom that captivity was impending: "And now ye shall see borne
663 I | being drawn back, gives an impetus to the arrows. The point
664 I | the scorpion, the warlike implement which, by its being drawn
665 XII | rather made known the veiled import of His own language, than
666 IV | occasion. At present (it is important), for we are getting severely
667 I | by violence? Or does God importune for the blood of men, especially
668 III | prefer to destroy. Aaron is importuned, and commands that the earrings
669 IV | examples so numerous and impressive show, and that no offence
670 VI | to whom the Lord will not impute sin." For, strictly speaking,
671 XII | happened unto you. For, inasmuch as ye are partakers of Christ'
672 VI | foreseen also other weaknesses incident to the condition of man,
673 XV | doubtless, that sufferings are included in the will of God. For
674 X | it will certainly be also incumbent on them to devise a mode
675 X | to that method which is indicated in the Scriptures. And we
676 XI | something else than the sound indicates; and there will be one thing
677 XV | of the heathen, and the indictments by tribunes, and the hearing
678 V | by the trespass, suffered indigestion tending to death; he certainly
679 V | but because it afflicts inevitably will it be applied. The
680 I | many are artless and also inexperienced, and weak moreover, that
681 IX | For even so much will be inferred from that denial, by which,
682 XIII| Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in necessities,
683 V | wished to do so. But the inflamed tumour due to the trespass
684 V | greater load; and subdues inflammation by leaving thirst unappeased,
685 I | of extreme minuteness, to inflict the wound; and where it
686 II | him; thou shall certainly inform upon him. Thine hand shall
687 VI | voices, the reward being the informer, the public exhibition the
688 I | with milk and honey, the ingredients which go to make that draught
689 VI | Blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven, and whose
690 XV | which not even thus are to injure readily any of the weak
691 VI | men to outrage. Suits for injuries lie outside the racecourse.
692 V | it, to aid the flesh by injuring it, to preserve the soul
693 I | it as if on empty space. Innocent persons undergo such suffering.
694 X | Christ, and that no delay or inquest will meet Christians on
695 II | before thee, that thou do not inquire after their gods, saying,
696 XII | of God a pillar with the inscription on it of the name of God
697 I | without a reason, is the first insertion. Then they now strike mortally.
698 I | the scorpion, which in the inside is a thin poisoned veinlet,
699 IV | with it, so that he either insinuates that there is another god,
700 VIII| Such commands as well as instances, remounting to earliest
701 VI | or the places in which to institute a trial concerning His own
702 II | will be shown to have been instituted and also enjoined by God.
703 XII | appointed to us for masters to instruct us in all points. To whom
704 XII | scholars, certainly to be fully instructed in all points, and appointed
705 I | we are in the midst of an intense heat, the very dog-star
706 XV | to keep him back with the intention not of dissuading, but to
707 X | those on whom He enjoins the interchange of righteous dealing. But
708 I | protecting draught; but sexual intercourse drains it off, and they
709 XV | of Caesar, do not need an interpreter. That Peter is struck, that
710 X | series of means proper to the intimidation of Christians, and especially
711 X | been able to assume without invalidating a comparison between the
712 IX | confess me," (yet) the conduct involved in daily confession Is not
713 IV | the keeping of a command involves the suffering of violence,
714 VI | contests of the Greeks, involving forms both of worship and
715 XIII| of persecutions-"yet the inward man is renewed day by day"
716 I | wound, it drives the poison inwards, and makes it hasten into
717 I | for destruction, or for irritation if not for death? As for
718 II | further urges, when they (the Israelites) had entered the land of
719 IV | IV.~If, therefore, it is evident
720 IX | IX.~It remains for us, lest
721 X | forsooth, where they readily join in the cry, Death to the
722 XIII| heirs indeed of God, and joint-heirs with Christ: if so be that
723 XII | granted participation in (the joys of) paradise too, prior
724 VI | cures, counsels, methods of judging, spectacles, (illustrations
725 XI | what answer to make at a judgment-seat, He is preparing His own
726 XV | causes by kings, and the judgment-seats of proconsuls and the name
727 IV | forbidden, as well as of the judgments upon a punished, idolatry.
728 I | and the honeycombs, the juices are from that source. If
729 VII | and in Latium to this day Jupiter has human blood given him
730 XIV | handmaids of the divine court of justice, which even here pronounces
731 VI | one, which can plead, in justification of itself, that either benefit
732 III | appoint, and whether He justly avenges the abandonment
733 XIV | be honoured only when he keeps to his own sphere, when
734 VI | fists make reel, heels kick like butting rams, boxing-gloves
735 I | folly, nay madness. If He kills me, how will it be His duty
736 XI | delivered up by our nearest of kin also, as it is written;
737 II | lest His anger should be kindled against thee, and destroy
738 VIII| brother. Beginning with kindred blood, in order that it
739 I | Wherefore that succession of knots in the scorpion, which in
740 II | serve other gods, which thou knowest not, nor did thy fathers,
741 X | Himself from them, as well as l consisting of those on whom
742 XIII| suffering must be borne: "In labours, (he says,) more abundant,
743 XII | will have their part in the lake of fire and brimstone."
744 XII | white in the blood of the Lamb." For the flesh is the clothing
745 X | have experience in these lands, and in this life, and under
746 XII | veiled import of His own language, than to him to whom He
747 III | of Beelphegor. For this lapse, too, into idolatry, sister
748 VIII| imparting to the hard stones lasting marks of his blood. That
749 VII | human sacrifices; and in Latium to this day Jupiter has
750 VII | indeed, the world has held it lawful for Diana of the Scythians,
751 XII | in fact, exhorts us to lay down our lives even for
752 IX | shoot of the name, with the layer of the Holy Spirit, the
753 VIII| man perisheth, and no one layeth it to heart; and righteous
754 V | checks heat by heat, by laying on a greater load; and subdues
755 VI | with all its life (which it lays down for God), it makes
756 | least
757 X | powers, who yielded to the lesser: I shall deserve to be at
758 V | to die, He drives out the lethargy of death. Why does man show
759 X | and locusts, and put on a level even with brute beasts.
760 X | of ascent was thereafter levelled with the ground, by the
761 II | a secret place." But in Leviticus He says: "Go not ye after
762 V | salvation. God also will be at liberty to heal for everlasting
763 X | have ever read in David, "Lift up your gates, ye princes,
764 X | the everlasting gates be lifted up; and the King of glory
765 X | to contempt it might be likened to objects held in contempt,
766 X | certain Carnus, Forculus, and Limentinus? What powers do you set
767 XI | attack, there is now one line of defence: an appeal will
768 IV | draw before us definite lines for one form of encounter,
769 V | trespass-listening by a listening of allegiance. Thus, even
770 I | too, have a troublesome littleness, and are of different sorts,
771 VIII| both to those who were then living and to those following in
772 XI | different does not. But, lo! we are both regarded as
773 I | of the spirit pines away, loathing for the Christian name is
774 X | threshing-floor, and spittle and locusts, and put on a level even
775 VI | also was appropriate to loftiness of faith, that gain ought
776 X | preserved a race such that He is looking for a testimony to Himself
777 XI | shall lose it; but he who loseth it for my sake shall find
778 VI | unto salvation, would be lost again, through soiling the
779 VIII| that one which falls to the lot of men generally, and is
780 XII | evildoers! For this is a lovely feature, and even hereunto
781 VI | multitude of sins;" and loving God, to wit, with all its
782 III | of Moab to gratify their lust: they are allured to the
783 I | artlessness, but folly, nay madness. If He kills me, how will
784 I | have very great efficacy; magic also puts on some bandage;
785 XI | and are brought before magistrates, and examined, and tortured,
786 VI | endurance of martyrdom it maintains the fight), with all its
787 V | do good by imitating the malady, to destroy death by death,
788 V | idolatry, not from some malice which they share, but from
789 VI | butting rams, boxing-gloves mangle, whips leave gashes. Yet
790 IV | which the compliance will be manifest. The injunction is given
791 XIII| tribulations, in which ye endure a manifestation of the righteous judgment
792 V | And the healing art has manifestly an apparent cruelty, by
793 XII | second death; now the hidden manna with the stone of glistening
794 VI | Or how will there be many mansions in our Father's house, if
795 V | a truth with which the Marcionites have now been made acquainted
796 III | near relative God, solemnly marked both the commencement and
797 VIII| the hard stones lasting marks of his blood. That person
798 XII | should know better the marrow of the Scriptures than the
799 XII | and appointed to us for masters to instruct us in all points.
800 III | He has plucked from the maze of false religion should
801 XI | words, another in their meanings, as is the case with allegories,
802 | Meanwhile
803 V | endured until in due time the medicine might be mixed, the Lord
804 X | no delay or inquest will meet Christians on the threshold,
805 VII | Diana of the Scythians, or Mercury of the Gauls, or Saturn
806 VI | decision. Where there are mere contests, there are some
807 VIII| called not a prophet, but a messenger, is, suffering an ignominious
808 III | nations was preserved, He meted wrath out to Israel by war
809 X | kind, and opposed to that method which is indicated in the
810 VI | call these cures, counsels, methods of judging, spectacles, (
811 I | promise of God flows with milk and honey, the ingredients
812 VII | merely by ears, but also by minds. He who does not understand,
813 XIV | of it. Therefore he is a minister of God to thee for good.
814 I | is also a duct of extreme minuteness, to inflict the wound; and
815 VI | superintendent of the contest for his misfortune. Shall it be unbecoming
816 I | of an engine for shooting missiles. From which circumstance
817 X | have saved me from this mistake about confession on earth,
818 V | time the medicine might be mixed, the Lord gradually prepared
819 III | people go to the daughters of Moab to gratify their lust: they
820 IX | their own, to review the modern Christian system, as though,
821 V | many from fear and false modesty. And the healing art has
822 XIII| affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more
823 I | wind and conform to its moods, they perceive that they
824 | moreover
825 XII | and the brightness of the morning star; now the being clothed
826 I | insertion. Then they now strike mortally. But the unsophisticated
827 X | against her mother, and the mother-in-law against her daughter-in-law.
828 X | brothers, fathers, children, mothers-in-law, daughters-in-law and those
829 IX | therefore, since in the mould in which the confession
830 VI | that it might strive to mount up, seeing they also who
831 III | was apart with God on the mountain, when the people, not brooking
832 VII | deadly religion, and the mournful ceremonies, and the altar-pyre,
833 I | and scourges is the one movement which they all use when
834 VI | Thus, "love covers the multitude of sins;" and loving God,
835 VII | see how divine Wisdom has murdered even her own proper, first-born
836 V | of the great heat of the mustard; yet to be cut and burned,
837 XIII| providing a festival of mutual joy. When at length he had
838 | myself
839 X | questioned about those hidden mysteries of the heretics, they must
840 XIII| distress, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? (As
841 II | themselves, and destroy the names of them out of that place."
842 III | death of Joshua the son of Nave they forsake the God of
843 V | called God for its being necessary that He should be believed
844 XIII| infirmities, in reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses
845 XI | For what is written, must needs come to pass. Besides, what
846 X | I shall be graced by the neglect of this command: I shall
847 XV | of the Caesars: At Rome Nero was the first who stained
848 VI | man also covets a second new birth. The exchange is displeasing
849 | next
850 I | also the colours of it. Nicander writes an the subject of
851 II | are round about thee, very nigh unto thee or far off from
852 X | an end to by beasts, the north will send forth the bears,
853 II | and hear not; they have a nose, and smell not; a mouth,
854 III | having, as we are I told in Numbers, turned aside at Sethim,
855 IX | persecution in case He were obeyed for those only who were
856 X | contempt it might be likened to objects held in contempt, the nature
857 VIII| that believers are under obligation to suffer martyrdom.~
858 X | having up to that time been observed in heaven. Besides, what
859 II | driven to duty, not enticed. Obstinacy must be conquered, not coaxed.
860 XV | the cross. Then does Paul obtain a birth suited to Roman
861 V | account an evil, for it occasions helpful pains; nor will
862 IV | to come to pass for the occurrence of which He had given occasion.
863 XV | Wherever I read of these occurrencer so soon as I do so, I learn
864 XI | Well now, seeing the very occurrences are met with in actual life
865 VII | gave Himself up for our offences. Already has Wisdom butchered
866 XIII| very frequent, in deaths oft. Of the Jews five times
867 VI | through failing to provide oil for their torchlets would
868 VI | racecourse had attained to an old age. Thus, by the world
869 IX | which had had favourable omens. Therefore it will be to
870 XV | and the swords, and the onsets by the Jews, and the assemblies
871 V | and stops hemorrhage by opening a veinlet in addition. But
872 V | proclaim that they are the best operators, and no longer affirm that
873 VI | might make trial with our opponent, in order that He may now
874 I | creep forth, then all the opponents of martyrdom bubble up,
875 XIV | to the powers, not on an opportunity occurring for his avoiding
876 V | martyrdom strives against and opposes idolatry. But to strive
877 IX | beforehand with reference to its opposite too denial, that is that
878 IX | sense different from the ordinary, being such a person as
879 X | as the source in which it originates, and which pleads dissension
880 I | of persecution, a state originating doubtless with the dog-headed
881 X | if butchered, the armed Orion will exercise his function;
882 III | upon themselves, the true ornaments for the ears, the words
883 | ourselves
884 VI | contest for exposing men to outrage. Suits for injuries lie
885 VI | Suits for injuries lie outside the racecourse. But to the
886 XIII| But though," says he, "our outward man perisheth" the flesh
887 II | under shady trees. Ye shall overthrow all their altars, ye shall
888 IV | his will, or none the less overthrows ours, seeing such is his
889 II | all their altars, ye shall overturn and break in pieces their
890 XV | struck, that Stephen is overwhelmed by stones, that James is
891 V | which the affliction is owing. For he both checks heat
892 X | discriminated from one another, but owned, and not put to the question,
893 III | other animals, a certain ox likewise. Therefore the
894 VI | not complain of feeling pain, for he wishes it; the crown
895 V | swords, and all that is painful. But you will admire the
896 XII | white and distinguished by palms of victory, celebrating
897 XI | avenge His own elect. In the parable also of the withering of
898 XI | case with allegories, with parables, with riddles. Whatever
899 XII | participation in (the joys of) paradise too, prior to his martyrdom?
900 VII | into glory. Of murder by a parent, oh the clever form! Oh
901 VI | happiness of the man who has partaken of these, David says: "Blessed
902 XII | For, inasmuch as ye are partakers of Christ's sufferings,
903 XII | Paul, to whom He granted participation in (the joys of) paradise
904 VI | injury is shared by the parties making it.~
905 VII | hear God also, in another passage, say, "I will burn them
906 II | advice of unrighteous men, passed over to other gods, all
907 XII | the glory, if ye suffer patiently, without being punished
908 X | not that I am come to send peace on earth, but a sword,"
909 XII | souls of the martyrs both peacefully rest in the meantime under
910 XII | courage to confess? What penalty will he appoint as the punishment
911 I | themselves also hot to strike, penetrate, kill. For, because they
912 I | the wound; and where it penetrates, it pours out poison. The
913 VIII| would the lions, with their pent-up and wonted savageness, have
914 IX | reference to) denial also may be perceived, it is evident that to another
915 XII | the angel of the church in Pergamus (mention was made) of Antipas,
916 XIII| famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? (As it is written:
917 V | Physician Himself knew as a perilous one. He gave ear to him
918 X | of earth, nor during this period of existence, nor before
919 IX | men shall revile you, and persecute you, and shall say all manner
920 XIII| doubtless, by the violence of persecutions-"yet the inward man is renewed
921 XIII| an apostle, from being a persecutor, who first of all shed the
922 X | will sketch more easily Perseus and Cepheus, and Erigone,
923 XII | His throne, which once was persistently refused to the sons of Zebedee.
924 X | we must confess there, to persuade us that we must deny here.
925 XIII| who loved us. For we are persuaded, that neither death, nor
926 XII | the angel of the church in Philadelphia (it was signified) that
927 V | who flee from the aid of physic also, many in folly, many
928 XI | sprung up, He is drawing a picture with reference to the burning
929 XII | made in the temple of God a pillar with the inscription on
930 II | and break in pieces their pillars, and cut down their groves,
931 I | the flesh of the spirit pines away, loathing for the Christian
932 II | him, neither shalt thou pity, neither shalt thou preserve
933 VIII| and then it will be made plain to you that we shall neither
934 X | has to be made where He plainly announced that His own would
935 X | of the Father? Will you plant there both synagogues of
936 X | forth these things in even a playful manner; nor will any one
937 VI | displeasing to no one, which can plead, in justification of itself,
938 X | it originates, and which pleads dissension in the state
939 II | that it is not good are not plied with arguments for thinking
940 XIII| turned the dagger into a plough, being first a ravening
941 II | hands nought of its accursed plunder, that the Lord may turn
942 VI | would cost great effort, poignant suffering, torture, death.
943 I | impetus to the arrows. The point in their case is also a
944 VII | to teach Him? or who has pointed out to Him the way of understanding?"
945 I | in the inside is a thin poisoned veinlet, rising up with
946 VI | and glory, and a present, political privileges, contributions
947 XII | Addressing the Christians of Pontus, Peter, at all events, says, "
948 VIII| has got ill-will for her portion. He who had pleased God
949 VIII| We keep therefore the one position, and, in respect of this
950 II | nations, which ye shall possess by inheritance, served their
951 IX | destruction upon all the possessors of the name, on whom the
952 X | ascent, and is such as to pour forth his abundance (of
953 XV | that, long after, he has poured forth these poisons, which
954 X | to persecution, all the powerful instrumentality which has
955 XIV | good, and thou shall have praise of it. Therefore he is a
956 VIII| delusive. For the rest, every preacher of God, and every worshipper
957 IX | might be different from what preceded, and besides, therefore,
958 XII | the castsways, nay, taking precedence of them all, are the fearful. "
959 IX | that the wound of shame precedes that in the body.~
960 XIII| for his part also give in preceding passages: "It is a faithful
961 III | for his own part, he will prefer to destroy. Aaron is importuned,
962 V | gave ear to him whom he preferred, and broke through self-restraint.
963 I | into darkness; and thus, by preferring this very wretched life
964 VI | the Judge to pronounce the preliminary decision also. Well now,
965 I | times has prompted me to prepare by my pen, in opposition
966 X | prevented the Lord from clearly prescribing that confession by men likewise
967 VI | annoy Carthage, which was presented with the Pythian game after
968 IX | merely. For, from His mode of presenting confession, it might be
969 V | hands of a physician will presently load the same hands with
970 XV | him; as yearning for (the preservation of) the apostle, not as
971 I | die for God, is, since He preserves me, not even artlessness,
972 VIII| occasion of the citizens being pressed to offer worship, knew well
973 X | constellations. But who prevented the Lord from clearly prescribing
974 XIII| in verses occurring in a previous part of the epistle: "Our
975 VI | the same things are the price which are also the commodities.
976 X | Lift up your gates, ye princes, and let the everlasting
977 XII | the joys of) paradise too, prior to his martyrdom? Or do
978 XIII| our Lord, nor of me His prisoner;" for he had said before: "
979 VI | distinction, to that one the privilege of citizenship, to that
980 VI | and a present, political privileges, contributions by the citizens,
981 III | of the judges died, they proceeded to transgress more than
982 XV | and the judgment-seats of proconsuls and the name of Caesar,
983 XV | martyrdom. And if even then a Prodicus or Valentinus stood by,
984 X | race? But ye are bound to produce in the same place both our
985 VI | most proper mode of testing proficiency in studies, to put in competition
986 IX | vain that is, not without profit fall to the ground if we
987 II | arguments for thinking it profitable save when they have been
988 I | tail will be whatever is prolonged from the hindmost part of
989 XIII| seen are eternal" he is promising rewards. But writing in
990 VI | functions are eager for promotion? Or how will there be many
991 I | the state of the times has prompted me to prepare by my pen,
992 VI | proper for the Judge to pronounce the preliminary decision
993 II | certainly, that will be pronounced beforehand quite good enough,
994 XIV | justice, which even here pronounces sentence beforehand upon
995 VII | dexterity of crime! Oh the proof of cruelty, which has slain
996 X | evidently thus (in the case proposed) has been able to assume
997 V | extol your God for your prosperity; you have fallen into His
998 I | take also beforehand a protecting draught; but sexual intercourse
999 VIII| concerning God should have proved delusive. For the rest,
1000 II | dreamer, for the Lord your God proveth you, to know whether ye