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1001 VI | wedding-dress, through failing to provide oil for their torchlets
1002 X | instrumentality which has been provided for dealing with this matter,
1003 V | sicknesses. Man always first provides employment for the physician;
1004 VI | kept in remembrance. The pugilist himself does not complain
1005 V | to be cut and burned, and pulled and bitten, is not on that
1006 VI | reject some also, and after punishing to remove them with disgrace?
1007 IV | further to perceive the purport of both the divine threatenings
1008 III | needful to discuss whether God pursues a worthy course in forbidding
1009 II | hands of the craftsman, and putteth it in a secret place." But
1010 IX | denial, although the mode of putting them is different. He who
1011 VI | which was presented with the Pythian game after the racecourse
1012 X | not appointing a different quarter of the world for any doing
1013 VIII| might the more easily go in quest of that of strangers, ungodliness
1014 X | come to Jesus), and to be questioned about those hidden mysteries
1015 II | be pronounced beforehand quite good enough, which will
1016 X | zones perhaps, and, for a rack-horse, the axis itself which whirls
1017 V | cruel. Thus martyrdoms also rage furiously, but for salvation.
1018 X | uses force here, torture rages here, and confession or
1019 X | you set in order at the railings? If you have ever read in
1020 XII | the being clothed in white raiment, and not having the name
1021 X | that, being after death raised to heavenly places, I should
1022 VI | heels kick like butting rams, boxing-gloves mangle, whips
1023 XIII| a plough, being first a ravening wolf of Benjamin, then himself
1024 X | heaven lies open; and he who reaches it will enter. What powers,
1025 II | fashioned by the hand, neither rear you up a graven image. Nor
1026 V | as you deem it to be, is reasonableness; what you count cruelty
1027 VII | wisely if only into life, and reasonably if only into glory. Of murder
1028 XI | riddles. Whatever wind of reasoning, therefore, these scorpions
1029 XII | every man save him that receiveth it); now power to rule with
1030 XIII| glorified together. For I reckon that the sufferings of this
1031 VI | there cannot any longer be reckoned ought against the martyrs,
1032 XI | mean ought else than we recognise in actual facts; or if those
1033 VIII| truth ought to have been recommended both to those who were then
1034 VIII| of martrydoms, and of the recompense they bring. From the beginning,
1035 XV | confidence to rest upon a public record, the archives of the empire
1036 IX | our hairs also has been recorded before Him? Fear ye not,
1037 XIII| our Lord." But further, in recounting his own sufferings to the
1038 XII | also promises, that out of red and scarlet there will come
1039 VI | some wounds: fists make reel, heels kick like butting
1040 XI | other announcements too refer to the condition of martyrdom. "
1041 I | of men, especially if He refuses that of bulls and he-goats?
1042 XI | not. But, lo! we are both regarded as persons to be hated by
1043 XIII| we suffer, we shall also reign with Him; if we deny Him,
1044 VI | citizenship, to that one pay? to reject some also, and after punishing
1045 IV | ground of the commandments relating to an always forbidden,
1046 III | displeased their so very near relative God, solemnly marked both
1047 III | thousand by their nearest relatives, because they had displeased
1048 III | God in opposition to false religions, the completely vanquished
1049 V | death. Why does man show reluctance to suffer now from a cure,
1050 V | a cure, what he was not reluctant then to suffer from a disorder?
1051 X | readily occurs to one to remark further, "If it is in heaven
1052 II | image. Nor shall ye set up a remarkable stone in your land (to worship
1053 X | think heaven still shut, remember that the Lord left here
1054 VIII| idolatry to the death. For they remembered also the words of Jeremias
1055 VI | resurrection by being kept in remembrance. The pugilist himself does
1056 IX | the endurance of these, He reminds them that they must not
1057 VIII| commands as well as instances, remounting to earliest times, show
1058 II | the same law of His by a renewal of the same commands, and
1059 XIII| persecutions-"yet the inward man is renewed day by day" the soul, doubtless,
1060 IX | any one had been forced to renounce the Christian name, that
1061 IX | that is that denial is repaid by the Lord with denial,
1062 XV | blood, and Christ for a repayment of suffering, as though
1063 IV | of God, and the scorpion repeats the prick, denying the existence
1064 I | Assuredly He had rather have the repentance than the death of the sinner.
1065 XI | occur as the Scriptures represent that they would; since another
1066 VIII| that they had given a false representation of His power. For forthwith,
1067 I | also who oppose martyrdoms, representing salvation to be destruction,
1068 XIII| pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions,
1069 III | Thus that, too, will not require to be treated by us, whether
1070 V | but this ground for it requires a different state of matters.
1071 X | where will be the flesh requisite for all this? Where the
1072 VI | death. But consider the requital, when flesh and life are
1073 V | faith, they also bearing a resemblance to (the causes of) the ailment,
1074 VIII| namely, that they must resist idolatry to the death. For
1075 XV | do we, (you say), in all respects guileless souls and doves
1076 IX | applies first to all without restriction, then specially to the apostles
1077 VII | the streets, for with good results does she murder her own
1078 VI | give an eternity of fame, a resurrection by being kept in remembrance.
1079 IX | many of us have. Then He returns to the apostles: "And ye
1080 XII | sufficiently prepared, by his own Revelation too, forgiving such advice!
1081 XII | patience by the assured hope of revenge; and, clothed in their robes,
1082 XIV | God, nay also, says he, a revenger to execute wrath upon him
1083 IV | worship or in any way show reverence to another than Him only
1084 IX | exclusively) their own, to review the modern Christian system,
1085 IX | shall ye be when men shall revile you, and persecute you,
1086 XIII| eternal" he is promising rewards. But writing in bonds to
1087 V | tending to death; he certainly richly deserving to lose his life
1088 XI | allegories, with parables, with riddles. Whatever wind of reasoning,
1089 IX | person as to urge no one to a risk of this kind as to promise
1090 III | and are admired to the rites of Beelphegor. For this
1091 V | I denied that there is a rivalry in evil things with one
1092 XII | now power to rule with a rod of iron, and the brightness
1093 XIII| thrice was I beaten with rods; once was I stoned," and
1094 II | while I set forth their root the Law, while I ascertain
1095 II | ye know not." And as to rooting them out in every way: "
1096 VIII| when the dedication of the royal image was the occasion of
1097 XIV | previously spoken thus: "For rulers are not a terror to a good
1098 X | the statement might have run thus:" Whosoever shall confess
1099 XV | This only I perceive in running through the Acts. I am not
1100 XI | make confession, and are ruthlessly killed, as it is written.
1101 III | wit, which clothed with sacredness, among the other animals,
1102 I | season: fierceness hoists the sail when the wind is from the
1103 XI | scorpions may catch (in their sails), with whatever subtlety
1104 VIII| righteousness and the sacrament. As saith Esaias, "See how the righteous
1105 V | as from a physician, the salutary enough rule to live according
1106 I | far as you can, with your sandal, and leave it dying in its
1107 VII | Mercury of the Gauls, or Saturn of the Africans, to be appeased
1108 VIII| their pent-up and wonted savageness, have devoured Daniel also,
1109 XII | promises, that out of red and scarlet there will come forth the
1110 XII | both chose for Himself as scholars, certainly to be fully instructed
1111 XII | the Scriptures than the school of Christ itself? the persons
1112 XI | Thus these passages of Scripture will not mean ought else
1113 VII | lawful for Diana of the Scythians, or Mercury of the Gauls,
1114 II | beneath, and which are in the sea under the earth. Thou shalt
1115 IV | his soldier, but he who sealed him by such an oath?~
1116 XV | I am not at all on the search. The prisons there, and
1117 II | craftsman, and putteth it in a secret place." But in Leviticus
1118 II | soul, solicit thee, saying secretly, Let us go and serve other
1119 II | God." But also in another section. "If, however, thy brother,
1120 IX | bushes from the apostolic seed. For even thus again does
1121 III | absence, which was so needful, seek to make gods for themselves,
1122 I | Already the understanding also seeks for itself a place where
1123 | seems
1124 VIII| like the foreigners, and be seized with fear while ye behold
1125 II | nations: "Take heed to thy self, that thou do not follow
1126 V | preferred, and broke through self-restraint. He ate what was forbidden,
1127 VI | also. As yet cities, by sending their congratulations severally,
1128 I | forthwith all the former senses become dull, the blood of
1129 XIV | which even here pronounces sentence beforehand upon the guilty.
1130 II | possess by inheritance, served their gods, upon mountains
1131 VIII| having been summoned to the service of idolatry, had refused
1132 III | Numbers, turned aside at Sethim, the people go to the daughters
1133 III | distressed. And after this God sets judges (critas), the same
1134 | several
1135 VI | sending their congratulations severally, annoy Carthage, which was
1136 IV | important), for we are getting severely stung concerning the will
1137 XIII| and the rest. And if these severities will seem to be more grievous
1138 I | protecting draught; but sexual intercourse drains it off,
1139 II | mountains and hills, and under shady trees. Ye shall overthrow
1140 XIII| persecutor, who first of all shed the blood of the church,
1141 VIII| whom on this account God shielded, that it might not seem
1142 IX | entire sacrament, with the shoot of the name, with the layer
1143 I | manner of an engine for shooting missiles. From which circumstance
1144 VII | am God's;" and this one shouts, "In the name of Jacob;"
1145 VII | murderer for our God, I shall shudder at the altogether foul breath
1146 IX | As not long ago, alas, we shuddered at the struggle waged in
1147 V | He also fell into your sicknesses. Man always first provides
1148 XIII| we are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; and
1149 XII | in Philadelphia (it was signified) that he who had not denied
1150 VI | the Lord will not impute sin." For, strictly speaking,
1151 VIII| precious is His sight, as David sings, it is not, I think, that
1152 I | repentance than the death of the sinner. And how is He eager for
1153 I | death of those who are not sinners? Whom will not these, and
1154 III | lapse, too, into idolatry, sister to adultery, it took the
1155 XII | heavenly Jerusalem; now a sitting with the Lord on His throne,
1156 X | described to me, Aratus will sketch more easily Perseus and
1157 II | from the abode of human slavery. But from the mouth of every
1158 IX | hell. Who, pray, are these slayers of the body only, but the
1159 I | make that draught have the smack of this. "But woe to them
1160 II | not; they have a nose, and smell not; a mouth, and they speak
1161 XII | the angel of the church in Smyrna: "Behold, the devil shall
1162 VI | aspects of the creatures, the snares of the world; that faith,
1163 V | to preserve the soul by snatching it away. The wrongheadedness,
1164 XII | come forth the whiteness of snow and wool? When great Babylon
1165 VI | would be lost again, through soiling the wedding-dress, through
1166 III | spoiled by them, and to be sold to their adversaries, and
1167 III | very near relative God, solemnly marked both the commencement
1168 II | who is as thine own soul, solicit thee, saying secretly, Let
1169 XI | confess be the object of solicitude; and He is soothing their
1170 VII | own Wisdom, by the lips of Solomon, proclaimed Himself to be
1171 VII | martyrs also is praised in song. Wisdom behaves with firmness
1172 XI | of solicitude; and He is soothing their sufferings when He
1173 I | littleness, and are of different sorts, and are armed in one manner,
1174 I | accompanied by a sense of sourness. Already the understanding
1175 I | when the wind is from the south and the south-west. Among
1176 I | is from the south and the south-west. Among cures, certain substances
1177 I | whip with it as if on empty space. Innocent persons undergo
1178 II | him. Thine eye shall not spare him, neither shalt thou
1179 VII | when he writes: "If God spared not His own Son, but gave
1180 I | that you may suppose the speaker to be a brother or a heathen
1181 II | announcing no other duty in so special a manner as the being on
1182 IX | without restriction, then specially to the apostles themselves:"
1183 I | as many as are also the species of it, the pains as many
1184 VI | counsels, methods of judging, spectacles, (illustrations of) even
1185 XIV | when he keeps to his own sphere, when he is far from assuming
1186 X | the threshing-floor, and spittle and locusts, and put on
1187 II | become accursed, and all the spoil of it be gathered together
1188 III | and they continued to be spoiled by them, and to be sold
1189 III | them up to the hands of spoilers, and they continued to be
1190 I | the alert, smite on the spot the scorpion with a curse,
1191 XV | citizenship, when in Rome he springs to life again ennobled by
1192 XI | after the green blade had sprung up, He is drawing a picture
1193 V | destruction? Will he feel squeamish with reference to the counter
1194 XV | Rome Nero was the first who stained with blood the rising faith.
1195 XII | away by baptism, but the stains are changed into dazzling
1196 XII | brimstone." Thus fear, which, as stated in his epistle, love drives
1197 VI | by the citizens, images, statues, and of such sort as the
1198 III | these did they continue steadfastly to obey. So soon as one
1199 IX | Master and Lord Himself was stedfast in suffering persecution,
1200 VI | test flesh and spirit as to stedfastness and endurance? to give to
1201 III | unwilling to uphold it. My next step, indeed, is to put to the
1202 XV | That Peter is struck, that Stephen is overwhelmed by stones,
1203 XII | ye should follow His own steps." And again: "Beloved, be
1204 I | bound, draws tight a barbed sting at the end, after the manner
1205 VII | of blasphemy which comes stinking from his heretical mouth;
1206 I | armed in one manner, and are stirred up at a definite time, and
1207 XV | a Prodicus or Valentinus stood by, suggesting that one
1208 V | bitter little draught, and stops hemorrhage by opening a
1209 VI | it not to have had some store of hope, for the increase
1210 X | upon trial in the several stories of the heavens, with reference
1211 VIII| easily go in quest of that of strangers, ungodliness made the object
1212 VI | the condition of man, the stratagems of the enemy, the deceptive
1213 XII | conquerors, but martyrs in the strict sense of the word?For indeed
1214 VI | will not impute sin." For, strictly speaking, there cannot any
1215 XIII| five times received I forty stripes, save one; thrice was I
1216 V | punished. For martyrdom strives against and opposes idolatry.
1217 XV | interpreter. That Peter is struck, that Stephen is overwhelmed
1218 IX | alas, we shuddered at the struggle waged in this way by some
1219 VI | of testing proficiency in studies, to put in competition the
1220 IV | we are getting severely stung concerning the will of God,
1221 I | leave it dying in its own stupefaction? But if it gluts the wound,
1222 II | save when they have been subdued. It is proper that heretics
1223 V | laying on a greater load; and subdues inflammation by leaving
1224 I | these, and perhaps other subtle devices containing heretical
1225 XI | their sails), with whatever subtlety they may attack, there is
1226 III | judges and of the kings who succeeded them, while the strength
1227 VI | comfort, and the last means of succour, the fight of martyrdom
1228 V | it were, the wrong way, succouring by means of those things
1229 VIII| beginning, indeed, righteousness suffers violence. Forthwith, as
1230 XII | more for the Lord, he being sufficiently prepared, by his own Revelation
1231 XV | or Valentinus stood by, suggesting that one must not confess
1232 XV | does Paul obtain a birth suited to Roman citizenship, when
1233 VI | exposing men to outrage. Suits for injuries lie outside
1234 I | usual time of danger is the summer season: fierceness hoists
1235 VIII| also, such as, having been summoned to the service of idolatry,
1236 X | prison also, destitute of the sun's rays or full of light
1237 V | rather; and contracts the superabundance of bile by every bitter
1238 IX | they may not seem as if superior to Him, or to have got an
1239 X | in accordance with Roman superstition, with a certain Carnus,
1240 VII | which fires and punishments supply, by the testing martyrdoms
1241 XIII| of Benjamin, then himself supplying food as did Jacob, how he, (
1242 XII | meantime under the altar, and support their patience by the assured
1243 I | suffering. So that you may suppose the speaker to be a brother
1244 I | earth brings forth, as if by suppuration, great evil from the diminutive
1245 V | what was forbidden, and, surfeited by the trespass, suffered
1246 IV | challenged by the enemy. If I surrender to them, I am as they are.
1247 III | while the strength of the surrounding nations was preserved, He
1248 VI | than harshness in God holds sway. For He wished to make man,
1249 II | and cleave to Him, and swear by His name. Ye shall not
1250 I | utterances of the Lord are sweeter than honey and the honeycombs,
1251 VI | discoloration, and gore, and swellings, he will design for them
1252 VII | VII.~If the scorpion, swinging his tail in the air, still
1253 IX | review the modern Christian system, as though, being also from
1254 VIII| condemnation to which it is ta be traced), but that other
1255 X | For even if the life was tainted, so that condemned to contempt
1256 XIII| what more than martyrdoms takes the lead, in tearing them
1257 II | yourselves have seen that I have talked with you from heaven. Ye
1258 XV | illustrate what he had always taught, he says, "Why weep ye,
1259 VII | been His counsellor, to teach Him? or who has pointed
1260 XII | soul, in hell? And if he teaches that we must die for the
1261 XIII| martyrdoms takes the lead, in tearing them away to its injury?~
1262 XIII| providing it? If anywhere He tears men away from idolatry,
1263 V | of His will. It would be tedious to show that my God is good,
1264 X | powers and the real men, the Teleti, to wit, and the Abascanti,
1265 XIII| things which are seen are temporal" he is speaking of troubles;"
1266 XII | prison, that ye may be tried ten days. Be thou faithful unto
1267 V | trespass, suffered indigestion tending to death; he certainly richly
1268 VIII| suffered, agreeably to the tenor of that argument too, by
1269 XIV | thus: "For rulers are not a terror to a good work, but to an
1270 X | translated without being already tested, that I should there be
1271 | thereof
1272 IX | besides, therefore, opposed thereto in its code of rules likewise,
1273 XII | suffer as a murderer, or as a thief, or as an evil-doer, or
1274 I | which in the inside is a thin poisoned veinlet, rising
1275 XI | life, denies; but he who thinks that he wins it by denying,
1276 X | in the cry, Death to the third race? But ye are bound to
1277 V | affirm that he whom he has thought to be evil is not God, or
1278 IX | only? Who is this but the threatener of fires hereafter, He without
1279 IV | purport of both the divine threatenings and their fulfilments, which
1280 VIII| at defiance the king' s threats against the disobedient: "
1281 X | bucket, and the dust of the threshing-floor, and spittle and locusts,
1282 X | will meet Christians on the threshold, since they have there to
1283 XIII| forty stripes, save one; thrice was I beaten with rods;
1284 VI | plucked from the devil's throat by faith, trample upon him
1285 XII | sitting with the Lord on His throne, which once was persistently
1286 XII | For yet again a countless throng are revealed, clothed in
1287 | throughout
1288 I | itself a place where it may throw up; and thus, once for all,
1289 III | together, that they may be thrown into the fire. For the people
1290 X | will be near; if burned, thunderbolts are at hand; if butchered,
1291 I | a bow-like bound, draws tight a barbed sting at the end,
1292 XIII| writes in these terms to Timothy: "For I am already being
1293 III | Israel having, as we are I told in Numbers, turned aside
1294 IV | speaking, as little by the tongue as by the hand, to fashion
1295 III | sister to adultery, it took the slaughter of twenty-three
1296 VII | her own sons. Nay, on the top of the walls she speaks
1297 VI | to provide oil for their torchlets would be such as would have
1298 V | leaving thirst unappeased, by tormenting rather; and contracts the
1299 XI | magistrates, and examined, and tortured, and make confession, and
1300 V | good heed to another thrust touching the character of His will.
1301 | toward
1302 VIII| condemnation to which it is ta be traced), but that other which is
1303 VI | devil's throat by faith, trample upon him likewise by courage,
1304 X | as not to be compelled to transfer the whole array of means
1305 III | died, they proceeded to transgress more than their fathers
1306 III | says, "this nation have transgressed my covenant which I established
1307 X | whither I would not be translated without being already tested,
1308 I | salvation to be destruction, transmute sweet into bitter, as well
1309 X | presumptuous heretic, from transporting to the world above the whole
1310 VI | their deliverance may be in transports when they are crowned likewise.
1311 III | heart where they have their treasure also, in Egypt, to wit,
1312 III | will not require to be treated by us, whether He has wished
1313 XI | but in accordance with the treatment to which the Christian would
1314 II | and hills, and under shady trees. Ye shall overthrow all
1315 V | of life, and diminish the trespass-listening by a listening of allegiance.
1316 XV | and the indictments by tribunes, and the hearing of causes
1317 XII | victory, celebrating their triumph doubtless over Antichrist,
1318 VI | trial concerning His own troop (of competitors) as if it
1319 I | the little beasts which trouble our sect, our antidote against
1320 XIII| condition is such, that we are troubled on every side, yet not distressed;
1321 XIII| temporal" he is speaking of troubles;" but the things which are
1322 III | judgment upon themselves, the true ornaments for the ears,
1323 VII | gold is burned, and will try them as silver is tried."
1324 V | do so. But the inflamed tumour due to the trespass having
1325 III | it took the slaughter of twenty-three thousand by the swords of
1326 V | inflammation by leaving thirst unappeased, by tormenting rather; and
1327 VI | misfortune. Shall it be unbecoming in God to bring forth kinds
1328 XII | clothing of the soul. The uncleanness, indeed, is washed away
1329 I | space. Innocent persons undergo such suffering. So that
1330 VII | the altar-pyre, and the undertaker-priest, and not rather have counted
1331 X | on earth, but a sword," undoubtedly on the earth. "For I am
1332 X | has to be killed by men? Unerring reason has commanded us
1333 VIII| quest of that of strangers, ungodliness made the object of its pursuit,
1334 X | Demiurge himself did not uniformly approve of the men of our
1335 X | characteristics of the race and a unique property. For even if the
1336 XII | whiteness, and the name unknown ( to every man save him
1337 I | strike mortally. But the unsophisticated souls know not what is written,
1338 X | s rays or full of light unthankfully, and fetters of the zones
1339 III | He had been unwilling to uphold it. My next step, indeed,
1340 X | dealing. But if I should urgently demand that those heavenly
1341 II | that place." He further urges, when they (the Israelites)
1342 II | it; nor must we learn the usefulness of it, before we have heard
1343 X | forth here, examination uses force here, torture rages
1344 | using
1345 I | it pours out poison. The usual time of danger is the summer
1346 XIII| are in need, but not in utter want; since we are harassed
1347 II | in every way: "Ye shall utterly destroy all the places wherein
1348 V | V.~You have therefore the
1349 I | Gnostics break out, then the Valentinians creep forth, then all the
1350 I | truth are Christians who veer about with the wind and
1351 XII | have rather made known the veiled import of His own language,
1352 XIII| sake." He also says, in verses occurring in a previous
1353 VI | VI.~But if, for the contest'
1354 XV | that James is slain as is a victim at the altar, that Paul
1355 XII | For indeed theirs are the victories whose also are the fights;
1356 VII | VII.~If the scorpion, swinging
1357 VIII| VIII.~We keep therefore the one
1358 I | used when he despised the viper's bite. What, then, does
1359 XI | He wishes a brother to be visited in prison, He is commanding
1360 VI | condition of bodies and of voices, the reward being the informer,
1361 IX | shuddered at the struggle waged in this way by some with
1362 II | by God. Let the Gospels wait a little, while I set forth
1363 II | handle not; feet and they walk not. Like to them shall
1364 VII | Nay, on the top of the walls she speaks with assurance,
1365 II | you this day, and do not wander from the way which I have
1366 XIII| in need, but not in utter want; since we are harassed by
1367 III | meted wrath out to Israel by war and captivity and a foreign
1368 I | after the scorpion, the warlike implement which, by its
1369 X | forth his abundance (of waters) over the earth;" know that
1370 VI | forsooth, the times, or the ways, or the places in which
1371 I | thus, once for all, the weakness with which it has been smitten
1372 VI | had foreseen also other weaknesses incident to the condition
1373 XII | clothed in their robes, wear the dazzling halo of brightness,
1374 VI | again, through soiling the wedding-dress, through failing to provide
1375 IX | and kings aforesaid men, I ween? Who is the ruler of the
1376 XV | always taught, he says, "Why weep ye, and grieve my heart?
1377 XV | awaited Paul, the disciples, weeping and entreating that he would
1378 XIII| more exceeding and eternal weight of glory; while we look
1379 IV | commands so numerous and weighty and that it has never been
1380 III | enemies. Whithersoever they went forth, His hand was upon
1381 II | commandments of the Lord your God, whatsoever I command you this day,
1382 | wherein
1383 | Wherever
1384 I | apply it to the feelings, or whip with it as if on empty space.
1385 VI | rams, boxing-gloves mangle, whips leave gashes. Yet there
1386 X | rack-horse, the axis itself which whirls the heavens round. Then,
1387 | whither
1388 III | stand before their enemies. Whithersoever they went forth, His hand
1389 V | men, to discard what is wholesome, to accept what is baleful,
1390 II | applicable certainly to whomsoever the Lord God of Israel may
1391 III | so that they committed whoredom with the spirit also: finally,
1392 II | or thy daughter, or the wife of thy bosom, or thy friend
1393 XIV | good work, but to an evil. Wilt thou then not be afraid
1394 XI | indeed he finds it, who, in winning life, denies; but he who
1395 XI | but he who thinks that he wins it by denying, will lose
1396 III | ears, the words of God. The wise fire makes for them the
1397 VII | has certainly slain them wisely if only into life, and reasonably
1398 V | punishments, to bestow life by withdrawing it, to aid the flesh by
1399 XI | the parable also of the withering of the word after the green
1400 | within
1401 I | the smack of this. "But woe to them who turn sweet into
1402 XIII| being first a ravening wolf of Benjamin, then himself
1403 IX | as sheep in the midst of wolves;" and, "Beware of men, for
1404 III | that the earrings of their women be brought together, that
1405 II | giveth thee a sign or a wonder, and it come to pass, and
1406 VIII| with their pent-up and wonted savageness, have devoured
1407 VIII| of gold and silver and wood, causing fear to the Gentiles.
1408 VI | sought for over mountains and woodlands, and carried back upon the
1409 XII | the whiteness of snow and wool? When great Babylon likewise
1410 VIII| soon as God has begun to be worshipped, religion has got ill-will
1411 I | by preferring this very wretched life to that most blessed
1412 XII | martyrdom? Or do they also write differently from what they
1413 II | the will of God from those writings from which I recall to mind
1414 V | he aids, as it were, the wrong way, succouring by means
1415 V | by snatching it away. The wrongheadedness, as you deem it to be, is
1416 X | X.~But as to those who think
1417 XI | XI.~In the same manner, therefore,
1418 XII | XII.~Who, now, should know better
1419 XIII| XIII.~But how Paul, an apostle,
1420 XIV | XIV.~No doubt the apostle admonishes
1421 XV | XV.~Now, then, the epistles
1422 XV | to show love for him; as yearning for (the preservation of)
1423 III | captivity and a foreign yoke, as often as they turned
1424 VIII| stoned; Esaias cut asunder; Zacharias butchered between the altar
1425 XII | persistently refused to the sons of Zebedee. Who, pray, are these so
1426 X | send forth the bears, the Zodiac the bulls and the lions.
1427 X | unthankfully, and fetters of the zones perhaps, and, for a rack-horse,