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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