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1 73, Arg | DONATISTAS," LIB. V. CAP. 23. HE SAYS THERE: "CYPRIAN, 2 71, Arg | COMMUNICATE AS LAY PEOPLE. A.D. 255.~ 3 74 | LETTER OF STEPHEN. A.D. 256.~ 4 82, Arg | OF HIS OWN PEOPLE. A.D. 258.~ 5 74, XVI | just as their partners and abettors perished with a like death 6 64, I | ministers--Korah, Dathan, and Abiram--dared to deal proudly, and 7 54, XIX | weak, so prostrate, and so abject, so inefficient by the weakness 8 41, II | And elsewhere: "Thy mouth abounded in malice, and thy tongue 9 68, V | examination, may not be abrogated by the authority of your 10 10, III | event of anything being abruptly and unworthily either promised 11 68, V | clear in your sight and absolved by your judgment, behold 12 74, IX | IX.~That, moreover, is absurd, that they do not think 13 54, XVIII | declaiming against us and abusing us be afforded to Novatian; 14 74, X | cities, dragged into the abyss, were swallowed up by the 15 14, I | brethren by my counsel, acccording to the Lord's precepts, 16 53, IV | any one say, "that he who accepts martyrdom is baptized in 17 1, XIV | gift from God, and it is accessible to all. As the sun shines 18 4, II | servants of God, we ought to accommodate ourselves to the times, 19 33, V | of the brotherhood s may accompany these same persons. Know, 20 74, X | deceived the brotherhood, accomplishing certain wonderful and portentous 21 1, IV | began to suggest a means of accomplishment, what had been thought impossible, 22 71, II | against the unanimous and accordant people of God? Such as these, 23 1, XI | the world in its ignorance accounts good. Among these also you 24 1, II | spoken, what has not been accumulated with tardy painstaking during 25 74, IV | some things for the sake of accumulating proof. But if anything has 26 12, I | information from you, I could accurately investigate and advise upon 27 1, X | makes his charge, the false accuser attacks, the witness defames, 28 74, Arg | LITTLE MORE VEHEMENCE AND ACERBITY THAN BECOMES A BISHOP, CHIEFLY 29 5, II | they have testified, may achieve glory also by their characters, 30 1, VII | power to murder, and the achievement of murder is its glory. 31 23, I | displease you. But I ought to acquaint you in my letter concerning 32 25, Arg | THE JUDGMENT OF CYPRIAN IS ACQUIESCED IN.~ 33 73, VIII | maintains, and approves, and acquiesces in the baptism of blasphemers, 34 19, Arg | IN THIS EPISTLE, BEYOND ACQUIESCING IN THE OPINION OF CALDONIUS, 35 1, VII | Training is undergone to acquire the power to murder, and 36 1, III | our material nature, or acquired by us has become inveterate 37 25, VI | supplies from your own just acquisitions; that in all things you 38 62, I | servant should obey the Lord, acquitted by all of assuming anything 39 | across 40 77, III | as supporters in all our actions. We bid you, lord and brother, 41 21, I | and rejoice that you are actively occupied. Now beloved, already 42 1, VIII | which have now ceased to be actual deeds of vice become examples. 43 52, I | were vanquished by the acuteness of the torments, and fell, 44 30, V | and confession, by your addresses and letters; that, following 45 67, I | Geminius, Marcellus, Iambus, Adelphius, Victoricus, and Paulus, 46 68, VIII | priest, and the flock which adheres to its pastor. Whence you 47 41, Arg | FIRST INSTANCE GIVE HIS ADHESION TO THAT, BUT RATHER TO CORNELIUS, 48 74, V | what else does he do but adjudge himself with them, and condemn 49 27, III | Church must be weighed and adjudged with careful deliberation. 50 32, I | or praiseworthy for the admirableness of his modesty. He is both 51 8, II | who were present saw with admiration the heavenly contest,--the 52 6, VI | glory in our courage may now admire the discipline in our lives. 53 6, VI | and those who formerly admired our glory in our courage 54 62, VIII | in His passion; who also, admonishing what was before announced 55 70, III | opinions, but should rather adopt as our own those which at 56 71, III | themselves, which have once been adopted among them. In which behalf 57 73, II | who, forgetful of unity, adopts the lies and the contagions 58 1, VIII | imitate the gods whom they adore, and to such miserable beings 59 44, Arg | THE TIME THAT HE WAS AT ADRUMETUM, LETTERS HAD BEEN SENT THENCE 60 27, I | care for, not with affected adulation, but with sincere faith, 61 72, XI | cannot be corrupted and adulterated, as the Church herself also 62 62, XVIII | Lord, he is corrupting and adulterating the divine precepts, as 63 73, X | who daily increases and advances by learning better; which 64 25, VII | they themselves are more advantaged by the very delay, and that 65 33, V | way and conversation is so advantageous to the announcement of their 66 61, IV | therefore you have acted advisedly and with vigour, dearest 67 73, VIII | their venom; whilst, by the advocacy of some, both authority 68 72, XXI | unless the patrons and advocates of heretics declare that 69 30, V | necessity of delaying this affair; having, since the departure 70 7, VIII | whirlwinds, a peaceful calm; the affectionate aids of paternal love, the 71 1, VIII | senses, he flatters the affections, he drives out the more 72 67, VI | and Sabinus our colleagues affirm, and as another Felix of 73 45, I | came to our presbyters, affirming that Maximus the confessor 74 73, VIII | he give glory to God, who affirms that sons are born to God 75 72, VI | saying, "Why do they who afflict me prevail? My wound is 76 75, XII | seem to be sprinkled or affused, when they obtain the Lord' 77 74, XIX | truth. And this indeed you Africans are able to say against 78 1, III | be capable of being born again--a truth which the divine 79 1, IV | heart,--after that, by the agency of the Spirit breathed from 80 75, X | rather to be indignant and aggrieved at, that Christians should 81 1, I | gratify our eyes with the agreeable outlook upon trees and vines, 82 51, XXVII | rule of divine preaching, agrees the principle of truth, 83 70, IV | IV.~Which thing, indeed, Agrippinus also, a man of worthy memory, 84 72, III | long time ago, that, under Agrippinus--a man of worthy memory-- 85 52, I | Cyprian to Fortunatus, Ahymnus, Optatus, Privatianus, Donatulus, 86 72, XXII | men of this kind, who are aiders and favourers of heretics, 87 51, III | I say not with a light air, but even with a wind or 88 46, II | rejoicing with the greatest alacrity, what must have been the 89 74, X | tithes after the Emperor Alexander, there happened in these 90 75, XII | ye shall be clean: from alI your filthiness and from 91 72, X | both pleased God and justly allayed His wrath when He was angry, 92 74, XX | XX.~But to what they allege and say on behalf of the 93 60, II | body. But if such a one alleges poverty and the necessity 94 8, II | to the eyes of God in the allegiance and devotion of His soldiers! 95 25, I | and have gathered some alleviation for the griefs of our saddened 96 33, IV | he was associated in the alliance of divine honour; with whom, 97 43, I | what is neither right nor allowable to be done; that another 98 60, II | that he is redeemed by an allowance to cease from sinning, since 99 17, I | either me or the Gospel, nor allowing their cases to be examined 100 67, Arg | PRIESTLY HONOUR. MOREOVER, HE ALLUDES BY THE WAY TO CERTAIN MATTERS 101 37, II | Moreover, whoever shall ally himself with his conspiracy 102 66, IV | begun to be of these, and, allying himself with Novatian, has 103 51, XXII | because it is written, "Alms do deliver from death," 104 51, V | the lapsed." It was added also--Novatian then writing, and 105 1, IV | s own praise is hateful, althoughwe cannot in reality boast 106 80, I | said, "Lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the 107 54, IX | lately sent to us as an ambassador for Novatian, and rejected 108 7, VII | anger; if corrected and amended by the present tribulation, 109 52, II | to have long resisted, amidst the threats of the proconsul 110 1, XII | themselves. Their possession amounts to this only, that they 111 54, VI | for the lions;" in the amphitheatre, honoured with the testimony 112 76, I | of their tortures to more ample titles of merit, to receive 113 53, I | Tertullus, Lucianus, Eutyches, Amplus, Sattius, Secundinus, another 114 80, III | the same kind as once did Ananias, Azarias, and Misael, the 115 33, III | blessed,--whether those ancestors, for a posterity so illustrious, 116 33, III | so the sublimity of his ancestry illuminates his glory.~ 117 1, XIV | distracting world, and, anchored on the ground of the harbour 118 70, II | custom; although among the ancients these were as yet the first 119 13, III | driven from their country, andspoiled of all their property, have 120 6, V | have learnt with extreme anguish and grief of mind, to wit, 121 68, VI | the brute cattle and dumb animals, and robbers, although bloody, 122 81, Arg | COLLEAGUES, THAT EACH ONE MIGHT ANIMATE HIS OWN FLOCK TO MARTYRDOM.~ 123 44, I | perceived that you were annoyed that, whereas letters from 124 36, Arg | CELEBRATING THEIR MEMORY ANNUALLY; AND, FINALLY, THAT THEY 125 39, V | from the Church; let them anoia be without bishops who have 126 69, II | not the oil of a sinner anoint my head," which the Holy 127 72, IV | grace. If the Patripassians, Anthropians, Valentinians, Apelletians, 128 13, III | lapsed should be hasty to anticipate even confessors themselves, 129 73, IX | custom without truth is the antiquity of error. On which account, 130 76, Arg | OPPOSING, IN A BEAUTIFUL ANTITHESIS, TO THE TORTURES OF EACH, 131 | anyhow 132 40, I | chosen and ordained and ap-proved by the laudable sentence 133 72, IV | Anthropians, Valentinians, Apelletians, Ophites, Marcionites, and 134 72, II | Novatian, after the manner of apes--which, although they are 135 74, XXIV | who has made himself an apostate from the communion of ecclesiastical 136 53, III | between those who either have apostatized, and, having returned to 137 62, VII | Thy garments red, and Thy apparel as from the treading of 138 14, II | necessary, to the exiles, nor my appeals and persuasions to the whole 139 1, XI | ensnaring mischief, and an appearance of smiling wickedness, joyous 140 1, VI | mountain, thence gaze on the appearances of things lying below you, 141 8, II | them also that love His appearing."~ 142 62, IX | always indicated by the appellation of water, and that thus 143 66, IV | sheep of Christ, and to apply the medicine of paternal 144 54, XXII | bishop chosen by divine appointment--which presbyters are associated 145 1, VI | I will give you light to apprehend it, the obscurity caused 146 1, I | conscience of the breast to the apprehension of the divine precepts. 147 58, V | its earliest birth, who approaches the more easily on this 148 45, II | rest we received with great approbation of the people. But we remitted 149 1, I | confess that this is the appropriate time for its fulfilment, 150 35, I | portion, lest it should be all appropriated, I have supplemented by 151 30, V | inflamed them to a much more ardent desire of heavenly glory; 152 1, VII | sons; a brother is in the arena, and his sister is hard 153 68, Arg | HE IS ACCUSED BY HIM; AND ARGUES THE LIGHTNESS OF HIS MIND, 154 62, IX | there need of very many arguments, dearest brother, to prove 155 66, I | Marcianus, who abides at Aries, has associated himself 156 21, II | Herennius, Julia, Martial, and Aristo, who by God's will were 157 76, I | for the strengthening and arming of the brethren, advancing 158 53, II | one place, and the Lord's army may be arrived for the contest 159 71, I | thought it necessary for the arranging of certain matters, dearest 160 6, IV | banished, to perish when arrested, not now as being a Christian, 161 1, XV | of its gold. Whatever is artificially beautified is perishing; 162 64, III | themselves deacons after the ascent of the Lord into heaven, 163 1, IV | grateful for whatever we do not ascribe to man's virtue but declare 164 53, IV | negligence or cruel hardness be ascribed to us in the day of judgment, 165 20, II | tears, in sackcloth, and ashes, and I am still spending 166 15, IV | s goodness even what it asks. For what do you ask from 167 72, XXIII | in the Church have fallen asleep. Nevertheless it does not 168 54, XIII | reproach the priests--to assail with contumelies and with 169 54, VI | dearest brother, is seen to be assailed by some desperate and reckless 170 21, Arg | Argument.~LUCIAN ASSENTS TO THE PETITION OF CELERINUS.~ 171 8, II | animated the champions and assertors of His name. And He who 172 37, II | have discovered, and have asseverated that they will prove; all 173 51, XXVII | they con tend, by their own asseveration, that the idolatry of the 174 72, XXI | Christ are martyrs, and assign to them the glory and the 175 54, XIV | portion of the flock has been assigned to each individual pastor, 176 81, I | should be sent in chains by assignment to Caesar's estates. The 177 76, IV | name, approves the willing, assists the struggling, crowns the 178 15, I | approval. Your individual love associates me with your honour; the 179 6, V | and infamous concubinage, associating their beds promiscuously 180 1, V | withdrawn from the mischievous associations of the world, as one who 181 1, IV | things at once began to assure themselves to me, hidden 182 63, Arg | THE CONGREGATION OF THE ASSURITANS NOT TO ALLOW FORTUNATIANUS, 183 67, I | peoples abiding at Legio and Asturica, also to Laelius the deacon, 184 1, V | affluence. Let our heart only be athirst, and be ready to receive: 185 7, II | God with good deeds nor atone for our sins. Let us of 186 51, XXVI | the hope of lamenting and atoning is left, according to the 187 54, VI | removed, he may rage more atrociously and more violently with 188 40, I | heresy by their unlawful attempts, you shall hear everything 189 1, XI | similar procession might attend and precede him with salutations,-- 190 48, II | and ambition appointed his attendant Felicissimus a deacon, and 191 7, III | Then, afterwards, that the attending people were bidden to pray 192 54, II | taken possession, daily attest their venomous madness with 193 66, V | be denied; and this they attested by their letters, and we 194 1, III | celebrated for his costly attire, when does he reduce himself 195 1, VIII | infamies, the spectator is attracted either to reconsider what 196 54, VII | works, and illustrated the attributes of God the Father by the 197 1, II | decked up to charm a popular audience with cultivated rhetoric, 198 67, VI | another Felix of Caesar Augusta, a maintainer of the faith 199 73, Arg | EPISTLE IS GIVEN IN ST. AUGUSTINE'S "CONTRA DONATISTAS," LIB. 200 24, I | thence have begun good auspices of victory. It happened 201 54, IV | the priestly honour and authority--yet Paul, considering the 202 70, I | baptized by one dead, what availeth his washing?" Now it is 203 54, XVII | than divine protection avails to defend.~ 204 48, II | rapacity of an insatiable avarice, inflated with the arrogance 205 54, IV | the rebuke of the Lord the avenger, who heap up such expressions, 206 51, IX | manglers of his body and the avengers of a ferocious tyrant, who, 207 68, X | begin to believe Him who avengeth the priest." Although I 208 53, III | But if--which may the Lord avert from our brethren--any one 209 39, V | and flee from their words, avoiding them as a cancer and a plague, 210 1, V | startling threats to force to avow themselves the impure and 211 80, III | kind as once did Ananias, Azarias, and Misael, the illustrious 212 67, VIII | up faithfully against the Babylonian fires, and conquered the 213 67, IX | same thing: "Whisperers, backbiters, haters of God, injurious, 214 61, II | the rocks and cliffs; the baggage must swiftly be taken out 215 51, VI | forward s on both sides, we balanced the decision with wholesome 216 50, III | and considering the Lord's balances, and thinking of the love 217 51, X | malignant things that are bandied about concerning him, I 218 1, XIII | he may be hedged in with bands of satellites, and may guard 219 75, VII | to differ from us in the baptismal interrogatory; let any one 220 67, V | detection of his crimes, and the baring of his conscience even by 221 41, II | and did not echo with any barkings of curses and revilings, 222 50, III | gathered into the Lord's barns, we may receive fruit for 223 1, V | is checked by no closed barriers within certain bounded spaces; 224 74, XVI | one Church which was once based by Christ upon the rock, 225 1, XI | his purple. Yet with what baseness has he purchased this glitter! 226 30, VI | will much avail them; a bashful entreaty, a necessary humility, 227 75, XII | appliances also, and a bath and a basin wherewith this vile body 228 21, II | whose names I subjoin: viz., Bassus in the dungeon of the perjured, 229 75, XII | other appliances also, and a bath and a basin wherewith this 230 1, X | full of pitfalls, after battles of many kinds scattered 231 15, I | he who continues always battling with punishments, and is 232 68, II | Father, how much more does it be-hove His servants to observe 233 76, II | hair of your half-shorn bead seems repulsive; but since 234 68, II | but there is another who beareth witness of me." but if the 235 1, VII | offer themselves to the wild beasts--men of ripe age, of sufficiently 236 1, V | constantly renewing pain, to beat them with scourges, to roast 237 54, XXII | that, for the confusion and beating down of heretics, the Lord 238 1, XV | Whatever is artificially beautified is perishing; and such things 239 2, III | Or if you have widows or bedridden people who are unable to 240 6, V | concubinage, associating their beds promiscuously with women' 241 68, VI | VI.~Bees have a king, and cattle 242 53, V | inhuman hardness. We, as befitted our faith and charity and 243 68, I | still the same as you were before--that you believe the same 244 62, IV | Before the morning star I begat Thee; Thou art a priest 245 1, IV | assurance we have gained may not beget carelessness, and so the 246 74, XIV | which occurs in baptism, begets sons of God. But if the 247 12, I | that the summer has already begun--a season that is disturbed 248 33, V | incitement of glory to the beholders. But know that I have already 249 8, III | through secret things, and beholds that which is concealed. 250 63, III | banquets, whose debauch they belched forth in the indigestion 251 45, III | Christ our Lord. But we believe--nay, we confide in it for 252 62, XIII | in that which they have believed--from Christ, in such a way 253 62, VIII | come and drink. He that believeth on me, as the Scripture 254 62, IV | that blessing going before belonged to our people. For if Abraham 255 70, III | claim to themselves anything belonging to His grace.~ 256 1, XIV | and grand, lies altogether beneath his consciousness. He who 257 62, IV | Genesis, therefore, that the benediction, in respect of Abraham by 258 27, II | refuse wholesome food and beneficial drink as bitter and distasteful, 259 72, XIV | maintained towards him a benevolent love, but that some indulged 260 62, XVIII | coming draws near to us, His benign and liberal condescension 261 53, V | of human cruelty than the benignity of divine and paternal love; 262 20, Arg | LAPSED SISTERS AT ROME, BESEECHES PEACE FROM THE CARTHAGINIAN 263 | beside 264 53, IV | and confesses in us? Then, besides--if, having forsaken everything 265 1, XI | he, as an early courtier, besieged! How many scornful footsteps 266 1, V | vagrant spirits that have betaken themselves into the bodies 267 72, X | far as to contemplate the betrayal to them of that baptism, 268 1, XVI | wont. You will provide a betterentertainment for your dearest friends, 269 36 | XXXVI. TO THE CLERGY, BIDDING THEM SHOW EVERY KINDNESS 270 41, IV | IV.~Bill, so far as pertains to the 271 1, VI | look upon the eddies of the billowy world, while you yourself 272 30, VII | not a wedding garment He binds hands and feet, and casts 273 1, VIII | breaking forth by the help of birds to violate the purity of 274 72, XXV | Genesis, Esau thence lost his birthright, nor was able afterwards 275 67, V | great crimes should hold his bishopric, since the apostle also 276 6, V | as thyself." "But if ye bite and find fault with one 277 66, IV | the Lord, in His Gospel, blames and condemns men of that 278 27, II | hindered by mischievous blandishments and flatteries, and the 279 72, XIII | himself, "I who at first was a blasphemer, and a persecutor, and injurious; 280 72, XIV | appointed that perfidious and blasphemous men could receive remission 281 8, II | flowing which might quench the blaze of persecution, which might 282 51, X | discovered that he has been blemished with no stain of a certificate, 283 54, XIX | lamented, whom the devil so blinds, that, without considering 284 1, VI | escaped it. Consider the roads blocked up by robbers, the seas 285 59, II | redeemed us by His cross and blood--who suffers these things 286 62, XV | concerning His blood and His blood-shedding. Moreover, however, the 287 38, I | exiles, and Irene of the Blood-stained ones; and Paula the sempstress; 288 54, VII | stability of wheat, but blown about like chaff by the 289 54, XIII | God--that he who has either blushed or feared to be a Christian 290 67, IX | of God, injurious, proud, boasters of themselves, inventors 291 74, X | happen. By these lies and boastings he had so subdued the minds 292 67, VIII | and wrecks of faith; but, bold and stedfast, they maintain 293 18, I | keeping. Moreover, a woman, Bona by name, who was dragged 294 1, XII | torments, that he is held in bondage by his gold, and that he 295 66, I | the prey of wolves and the booty of the devil; which matter, 296 73, IV | sacraments, light should borrow her discipline from darkness, 297 30, II | from thence that vigour had borrowed the roots of faith from 298 72, XI | people of God; we guard the boundaries of the living fountains. 299 1, V | barriers within certain bounded spaces; it flows perpetually, 300 33, III | praise to be a patrician, of bow much greater praise and 301 1, I | disturb it, let us seek this bower. The neighbouring thickets 302 63, I | have made: and the mean man boweth down, and the great man 303 62, X | He had given thanks, He brake it, and said, This is my 304 54, II | stones and swords, which they brandish with parricidal words: as 305 25, Arg | WORDS OF THE GOSPEL ARE BRANDS TO INFLAME FAITH. IN THE 306 52, II | granted to those, who by the bravery of their warfare, have not, 307 6, I | heretofore, dearly beloved and bravest brethren, sent you a letter, 308 1, VII | of limbs is enriched with brawn and muscle, that the wretch 309 1, X | are publicly prescribed on brazen tablets. Yet wrong is done 310 39, IV | loneliness without you, breaks me to pieces with my constant 311 25, V | how to be conquered,--the breastplate of righteousness, which 312 15, I | in prayer, since, already breathing onlycelestial things, and 313 1, I | harmonizes with the gentle breezes of a mild autumn in soothing 314 53, III | the Lord avert from our brethren--any one of the lapsed should 315 61, II | still critical, ought to be bridled in all things and ruled 316 34, I | a man illustrious by the brightest light of confession, exalted 317 1, VI | the divine may shine more brightly by the development of the 318 63, I | tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy 319 74, XIV | to Stephen, heresy indeed brings them forth and exposes them, 320 1, XII | he rather continues to brood over his vexing wealth,-- 321 51, XXVI | of another, or entering a brothel, into the sink and filthy 322 1, X | whether exposed for sale in brothels or hidden within the domestic 323 15, II | celestial garlands wreathed your brows. Behold, the summer is fruitful 324 68, VI | better than you are the brute cattle and dumb animals, 325 38, I | Sophronius and Soliassus (budinarius),--himself also one of the 326 54, IV | passion, He had received a buffet from a servant of the priest, 327 26, I | and upon this rock will I build my Church; and the gates 328 62, V | and says, "Wisdom hath builded her house, she hath underlaid 329 74, XVII | rocks and establish new buildings of many churches; maintaining 330 1, XII | sums of money, either in built-up heaps or in buried stores,-- 331 62, VII | be attained to unless the bunch of grapes be first trodden 332 15, II | in the presses. You, rich bunches out of the Lord's vineyard, 333 21, I | that by reason of your so burdening me I was almost overcome 334 51, XVIII | tempted. Bear ye one another's burdens, and so fulfil the law of 335 30, V | extremely invidious and burdensome to examine into what seems 336 1, X | stretches, the fire that burns up,--more tortures for one 337 80, II | them as a sacrifice of a burnt-offering, and in due time regard 338 4, I | assist the necessities and burthens of individuals.~ 339 67, VI | profane sepulchres, and burying them together with strangers, 340 65, I | involvements, who, being busied with divine and spiritual 341 1, VIII | shame. It is the tragic buskin which relates in verse the 342 54, VI | VI.~But--I speak to you as being 343 10, II | sheep may not become their butchers. For to concede those things 344 12, II | there are any overtaken bydanger, and placed near to death, 345 74 | LXXIV. FIRMILIAN, BISHOP OF CAESAREA IN CAPPADOCIA, TO CYPRIAN, 346 30, VI | to have fallen into those calamities of the time, entreat the 347 1, XI | treacherous deception of hidden calamity. Just as some poison, in 348 1, VIII | incest are unfolded in action calculated to express the image of 349 51, XXII | thy wife Jezebel, which calleth herself a prophetess, to 350 78, II | you manifested to us that candid and blessed breast of yours 351 33, V | it was fitting that the candle should be placed in a candlestick, 352 33, V | candle should be placed in a candlestick, whence it may give light 353 79, I | address, asking from the candour of your mind that you would 354 73, XI | see expressed also in the Canticles, in the person of Christ, 355 67, V | done, and of the truth, to canvass that he might be replaced 356 73, Arg | CONTRA DONATISTAS," LIB. V. CAP. 23. HE SAYS THERE: "CYPRIAN, 357 1, V | in which we bring to it a capacious faith, in that measure we 358 75, I | which matter, as much as the capacity of my faith and the sanctity 359 1, X | forges a will, another by a capital fraud makes a false deposition; 360 52, I | you were in the city of Capsa for the purpose of ordaining 361 25, V | His power; and, as a good captain, will at length bring forth 362 45, II | imposture; we were deceived by captious perfidy and loquacity. For 363 77, II | severed sinews of the very carcase of the public foe were trodden 364 1, V | with fire: the matter is carded on there, but is not seen; 365 4, II | your parts, of wisdom and carefulness to preserve peace. For although 366 41, II | easily be put forward, nor carelessly and rudely published, which 367 1, IV | have gained may not beget carelessness, and so the old enemy creep 368 65, Arg | THEMSELVES UP IN SECULAR CARES.~ 369 54, XXI | saying, "A perverse man carrieth perdition in his mouth; 370 25, I | bishop of the church of the Carthaginians, Moyses and Maximus, presbyters, 371 1, X | eyes, although the laws are carved on twelve tables, and the 372 69, I | Victor, another Victor, Cassius, Proculus, Modianus, Cittinus, 373 67, IX | hatest instruction, and castedst my words behind thee: when 374 62, XVIII | thou hatest instruction and castest my words behind thee? When 375 30, VII | binds hands and feet, and casts him out beyond the assembly 376 6, Arg | SEEM TO DENY HIM IN DEED; CASUALLY REBUKING SOME OF THEM, WHO, 377 25, VII | is undone by any little casualty, if the remedies be not 378 74, VII | also they who are called Cataphrygians, and endeavour to claim 379 7, IV | threatened to throw, in order to catch the people standing round. 380 66, III | whoever should enter would be caught by the attack of those who 381 22, III | account of the dislike that he causes for my reverential dealing. 382 35, Arg | Argument.~HE CAUTIONS THEM AGAINST NEGLECTING 383 72, XXI | in a hiding-place and a cave of robbers, stained with 384 68, IX | pure and unstained lips I ceaselessly offer sacrifices, not only 385 73, X | divine tradition, human error ceases; and having seen the reason 386 54, III | exalted, and raised above the cedars of Libanus: I went by, and, 387 1, XV | supplied with heavenly food. Ceilings enriched with gold, and 388 52, III | almost all, during the first celebrations of Easter, are dwelling 389 33, III | condescension. His grandmother, Celerina, was some time since crowned 390 21, II | and were shut up in two cells, that so they might weaken 391 68, VIII | and bound together by the cement of priests who cohere with 392 81, I | Xistus was martyred in the cemetery on the eighth day of the 393 75, VIII | profit them. Even those very censers in which incense had been 394 71, I | the house of Cornelius the centurion, the Holy Ghost had descended 395 74, V | Marcion the disciple of Cerdo is found to have introduced 396 73, II | from Pontus, whose master Cerdon came to Rome,--while Hyginus 397 45, III | nay, we confide in it for certain-that the others also who have 398 62, V | mingled her wine in the chalice; she hath also furnished 399 1, IX | closed doors of sleeping chambers, and recall their dark recesses 400 8, II | strengthened, animated the champions and assertors of His name. 401 26, I | heaven." Thence, through the changes of times and successions, 402 4, II | individually; because, by thus changing the persons and varying 403 1, XIII | stable permanence among the chaplets of honour and vast wealth, 404 1, VI | VI.~But in order that the characteristics of the divine may shine 405 5, II | day, that we might not be chargeable to any of you."~ 406 27, II | enticement is deceiving with its charms.~ 407 80, II | and having been a little chastised, they shall be greatly rewarded: 408 1, X | the one hand, children are cheated of their inheritances, on 409 6, IV | praise, should rebuke and check and correct. For what a 410 6, IV | back to the smiters, and my cheeks to the palms of their hands. 411 12, II | people who are lapsed, and cheer them by your consolation, 412 25, VI | their spirits are to be cheered and to be nourished up to 413 1, I | mild autumn in soothing and cheering the senses. In such a place 414 24, I | For you, who have become chiefs and leaders in the battle 415 58, III | each of the limbs of the child, and his feet to his feet. 416 7, IV | indignation, holding his chin in his right hand, occupied 417 67, III | have the power either of choosing worthy priests, or of rejecting 418 69, II | that, having received the chrism, that is, the anointing, 419 72, XVI | false prophets and false Christs in His name. "Many," He 420 74, VII | gathered from Galatia and Cilicia, and other neighbouring 421 25, VII | that they are bound in the cincture of chains in God's name, 422 15, II | passed over the rolling circle of the returning year. The 423 54, XVI | province, for the sake of circumventing and defrauding the brethren; 424 69, I | and hewed them out broken cisterns, which can hold no water." 425 1, III | mere private and inglorious citizen. The man who is attended 426 69, I | Cassius, Proculus, Modianus, Cittinus, Gargilius, Eutycianus, 427 1, III | charm of the fasces and of civic honours shrinks from becoming 428 1, VII | sufficiently beautiful person, clad in costly garments? Living 429 1, I | converse, nor any unrestrained clatter of a noisy household disturb 430 1, X | executioner also; there is the claw that tears, the rack that 431 20, IV | torture of the grappling claws, bravely confessed, and 432 80, I | than the sun itself, and clearer than the light of this world, 433 37, II | which we have known by the clearest truth, the crime also of 434 68, III | the high priest, but only clearing His own innocence, answered, 435 75, II | Apostle Paul, more openly and clearly still manifesting this same 436 68, Arg | Argument.~CYPRIAN CLEARS HIMSELF IN THE EYES OF FLORENTIUS 437 48, I | father and mother, and shall cleave unto his wife; and they 438 48, I | Christ with the Church, cleaving to one another with indivisible 439 52, I | before you, that Ninus, Clementianus, and Florus, our brethren, 440 65, II | departing should name a cleric for executor or guardian; 441 54, IX | very great friend and a clerk, I have written to you by 442 1, II | accept from me things, not clever but weighty, words, not 443 61, II | broken among the rocks and cliffs; the baggage must swiftly 444 48, I | as if to have changed the clime were to change the man, 445 75, XIII | Soranus. For I, who know of a Clinic in the Gospel, know that 446 75, VI | pressed from many grapes and clusters and collected together, 447 51, XXIV | in the Church by sixteen co-bishops--strives by bribery to be 448 68, VIII | the cement of priests who cohere with one another.~ 449 41, I | of our colleagues, at the coining also of our colleagues Pompeius 450 21, III | my colleague, and Maris, Collecta, and Emerita, Calphurnius 451 72, Arg | AND WITH THE GREATEST CARE COLLECTS WHATEVER HE THINKS WILL 452 21, III | Uranius, Alexius, Quintainus, Colonica, and all whose names I have 453 8, I | braver in suffering. The combat has increased, and the glory 454 8, I | increased, and the glory of the combatants has increased also. Nor 455 66, I | heretical presumption, that the comforts and aids of divine love 456 10, I | keep the precepts of their commander; to you it is more especially 457 62, IX | of baptism and the cup in commanding that that faithful water, 458 36, II | and sacrifices for their commemorations, which things, with the 459 76, Arg | HE EXTOLS WITH WONDERFUL COMMENDATIONS THE MARTYRS IN THE MINES, 460 51, IX | dearest brother, to be commended with the highest testimony 461 16, I | they have done since the commission of their sin has been, in 462 1, X | who sits to avenge crimes commits them, and the judge becomes 463 51, XXVI | without the body, but he that committeth fornication sinneth against 464 51, XXVII | violates God; and he who, in committing sins, does the will of the 465 54, XXI | the apostle says, "Evil communications corrupt good manners." And 466 76, I | bodily suffering, yet in community of love. Could I be silent 467 29, I | communion, let them try to compare it with the Gospel, that 468 51, XXIII | Him?'' The Lord is here comparing the father after the flesh, 469 64, Arg | WITH HIS INSULTS, AND TO COMPEL HIM TO REPENT OF HIS BOLDNESS; 470 58, I | urgent, and no necessity compelling it. But the judgment being 471 75, XII | salvation, when necessity compels, and God bestows His mercy, 472 72, I | this matter, I have, as a compendious method, sent you a copy 473 51, XIII | by God, no one ought to complain of the priests for this, 474 64, I | your letter in which you complained of your deacon, that, forgetful 475 64, I | humility towards us, in rather complaining of him to us; although you 476 1, VIII | pleasing there who has most completely broken down the man into 477 62, IV | wine; which thing the Lord, completing and fulfilling, offered 478 74, XXI | error, and die without the completion of grace. But what a crime 479 53, II | II.~For we must comply with fitting intimations 480 51, XXVII | another's sin, and if they con tend, by their own asseveration, 481 75, XII | all things hold and may be con- summated and perfected by 482 7, VII | VII.~It was my duty not to conceal these special matters, nor 483 7, VIII | be quickly helped in our concealments and our dangers; that those 484 10, II | become their butchers. For to concede those things which tend 485 75, XII | as my poor understanding conceives it, I think that the divine 486 54, XIX | and of our blood. Their concision is to be mourned and lamented, 487 51, XXVII | fornication, uncleanness, and evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which 488 1, IX | are criminals in private, condemning themselves at the same time 489 66, IV | in His Gospel, blames and condemns men of that kind, saying, " 490 7, VI | admonished by these divine condescensions both concerning a spare 491 7, I | tormentor, without any end of condetonation, without any comfort of 492 37, I | take note of their ages and conditions and deserts,--that I also, 493 72, XV | they may do nothing towards conferring the ecclesiastical and saving 494 80, I | be sanctified by divine confessions!~ 495 22, III | wrote to Lucian the same confessor--also what Lucian replied 496 82, I | moment of confession, the confessor-bishop speaks, he speaks in the 497 45, III | But we believe--nay, we confide in it for certain-that the 498 54, IX | by you there. Since I was confident that these things were in 499 36, I | confessed the Lord, and are confined in prison; yet, again and 500 74, IV | the same things for the confirmation of the truth, or, moreover, 501 81, I | should have their property confiscated, and should be sent in chains