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1 XXI | exalteth himself shall be abased, and he who humbleth himself
2 XVIII| Thus Korah, Dathan, and Abiram, who endeavoured to claim
3 XII | furnace; and because they abode towards God in simplicity,
4 X | are they who of their own accord, without any divine arrangement,
5 XI | purged away, but are even accumulated. Such a nativity does not
6 XVI | affection, truce-breakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, hating
7 XXIII| wandering steps from errors, acknowledge the straight way of the
8 IX | life in mutual intercourse, acknowledging the concord of peace with
9 XIV | charity envieth not; charity acteth not vainly, is not puffed
10 XV | certainly a sublime and an admirable thing; but one does not
11 XVIII| hasty revenge; doubtless to admonish and show that whatever those
12 XII | to what He commanded and admonished, although only two or three
13 VI | Church and is joined to an adulteress, is separated from the promises
14 XX | frauds, and fornications, and adulteries, which now with groans and
15 VI | spouse of Christ cannot be adulterous; she is uncorrupted and
16 III | detected and cast down by the advent of Christ, after light has
17 XVI | faithful brethren, had long ago begun, but now the mischievous
18 XXIV | heart, simple in speech, agreeing in affection, faithfully
19 V | light, its unity does not allow a division of light; break
20 | alone
21 XXVII| breaking the slumber of our ancient listlessness, let us be
22 XVI | to spring forth and shoot anew; because even thus it must
23 III | transforms himself into an angel of light, and equips his
24 III | under the pretext of faith, antichrist under the name of Christ;
25 I | foresight and watching with an anxious heart, both to perceive
26 | anything
27 XIV | name; so neither can he appear as a Christian who does
28 I | when, deceiving by the appearance of peace, he steals forward
29 X | strangers assembled, who appoint themselves prelates without
30 VI | She keeps us for God. She appoints the sons whom she has born
31 I | steals forward by hidden approaches, whence also he has received
32 XVI | the end of the world is approaching, they have come for the
33 arg | Argument.~ON THE OCCASION OF THE
34 IV | lengthened discussion and arguments. There is easy proof for
35 VI | escape who was outside the ark of Noah, then he also may
36 XVII | clergy and people? He bears arms against the Church, he contends
37 XXVII| Let us, beloved brethren, arouse ourselves as much as we
38 IV | might set forth unity, He arranged by His authority the origin
39 X | accord, without any divine arrangement, set themselves to preside
40 IV | say unto thee, that thou art Peter; and upon this rock
41 X | with serpent's tongue, and artful in corrupting the truth,
42 I | is his dark and stealthy artifice for circumventing man. Thus
43 XXI | end is a step by which we ascend to the summit of salvation,
44 XXI | wherein the full result of the ascent is already gained. He is
45 XXI | to whom more dignity is ascribed, of him more service is
46 XII | the last words, and lay aside the former ones, remembering
47 XXV | to obtain whatever they asked from the Lord's mercy.~
48 IX | John execrates and severely assails these, when he says, "They
49 XXV | apostles; and thus the new assembly of believers, keeping the
50 V | ought firmly to hold and assert, especially those of us
51 XVIII| hundred and fifty sharers and associates of that madness besides,
52 IX | human dwellings, knowing the association of one home; when they have
53 X | any law of ordination, who assume to themselves the name of
54 I | things which advance by open attack to overwhelm and cast down
55 XX | dangers, and onsets, and attacks of the world; otherwise
56 XVIII| immediate punishment for their attempts. The earth, breaking its
57 IV | unity, He arranged by His authority the origin of that unity,
58 XVIII| extinguished in the presence of an avenging Lord.~
59 arg | CARTHAGINIANS, WHO ALREADY WERE NOT AVERSE TO HIM, ON ACCOUNT OF NOVATUS
60 XVII | be turned away from and avoided, whosoever he may be, that
61 I | contest when the adversary avows himself. The enemy is more
62 XVIII| against God's law, and when Azariah the priest withstood him,
63 XIV | violated the love of Christ b faithless dissension. He
64 XIV | Christ gave us peace; He bade us be in agreement, and
65 XI | they think that they can baptize; although they forsake the
66 IX | clearness, battle with peace, barrenness with fertility, drought
67 IX | light, rain with clearness, battle with peace, barrenness with
68 IX | peace with the kiss of the beak, in all things fulfilling
69 XVII | His clergy and people? He bears arms against the Church,
70 II | came, the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it
71 I | yet he was understood, and beaten back, and therefore prostrated,
72 I | else, beloved brethren, befits us, than to use foresight
73 XI | receive the promises of truth. Begotten of perfidy, they lose the
74 XXIV | called the sons of God." It behoves the sons of God to be peacemakers,
75 III | the numerous concourse of believers--to devise a new fraud, and
76 II | how can a man say that he believes in Christ, who does not
77 XIV | evil; loveth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things,
78 VIII | upon us this same unity, beseeches and exhorts, saving, "I
79 | besides
80 XXII | and yet afterwards Judas betrayed the Lord. Yet not on that
81 XIX | sinned, and laments and bewails it; the other, puffed up
82 | beyond
83 XXVII| be such as He Himself has bidden us to be, saying, "Let your
84 IV | and whatsoever thou shalt bind on earth shall be bound
85 X | to themselves the name of bishop, although no one gives them
86 IX | with gall, not cruel in its bite, not violent with the rending
87 IX | and joyous creature, not bitter with gall, not cruel in
88 IX | and envenomed contagion. Bitterness cannot consist and be associated
89 XXI | shall have subsequently been blameworthy and obnoxious; if he shall
90 XXI | Christ be not afterwards blasphemed by him. Let not the tongue
91 XVI | proud, boasters, covetous, blasphemers, disobedient to parents,
92 II | the floods came, the winds blew, and beat upon that house;
93 II | is shaken by the wind, be blown about; and he will make
94 XVI | their own selves, proud, boasters, covetous, blasphemers,
95 XVIII| mingled with them in that boldness, the fire that went out
96 XII | Himself, having loosed the bolts of the dungeon, placed them
97 XII | does not agree with the booty of the Church itself, and
98 VII | it shall be." That coat bore with it an unity that came
99 XXIII| Mother may enclose in her bosom the one body of a people
100 IV | shalt bind on earth shall be bound also in heaven, and whatsoever
101 V | division of light; break a branch from a tree,--when broken,
102 V | allow a division of light; break a branch from a tree,--when
103 VI | with me scattereth." He who breaks the peace and the concord
104 XII | surrounding flames, with the breath of dew: in the way in which,
105 XXIII| the womb cannot live and breathe in its detached condition,
106 XV | our hope and faith in a brief summary, said, "The Lord
107 XIX | after strange doctrines, and bring in teachings of human appointment,
108 IX | home; when they have young, bringing forth their young together;
109 V | over the whole world. She broadly expands her rivers, liberally
110 XIV | martyr who has not maintained brotherly love. Paul the apostle teaches
111 V | it will not be able to bud; cut off the stream from
112 IV | and upon this rock I will build my Church, and the gates
113 VIII | withdraw from the Church, building for yourself other homes
114 II | him unto a wise man, that built his house upon a rock: the
115 XXVII| comes, it should find us burdened and entangled. Let our light
116 XIV | s Church. Although they burn, given up to flames and
117 XIV | though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it
118 XXVII| be girt, and your lamps burning; and ye yourselves like
119 XXVI | bids us sell, we rather buy and increase our store.
120 XIII | God had not respect unto Cain's offerings; for he could
121 IV | spirit, one hope of your calling, one Lord, one faith, one
122 X | speech doth creep like a cancer, whose discourse forms a
123 XVI | creep into houses, and lead captive silly women laden with sins,
124 IX | Church. The wind does not carry away the wheat, nor does
125 arg | TO KEEP BACK FROM HIM THE CARTHAGINIANS, WHO ALREADY WERE NOT AVERSE
126 II | necessity waver and wander, and, caught away by a spirit of error,
127 XIII | priests think that they celebrate? Do they deem that they
128 VI | strength and coheres in celestial sacraments, can be divided
129 XXIII| substantial unity of body by the cement of concord. Unity cannot
130 XVIII| king,--when he bare the censer and violently claimed to
131 XXIII| to the way of salvation certain leaders of schisms and originators
132 X | already divided, and the chaff is separated from the wheat.
133 XIV | agreement, and of one mind. He charged the bonds of love and charity
134 VI | one home; she guards with chaste modesty the sanctity of
135 XXIII| the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience. Be not
136 X | things to be, while the choice of one's own liberty remains,
137 XXII | XXII.~For the Lord chose Judas also among the apostles,
138 VII | Jerusalem, the city which I have chosen to place my name there."
139 III | they still call themselves Christians, and, walking in darkness,
140 I | and stealthy artifice for circumventing man. Thus from (he very
141 III | darkness of the old way, he circumvents and deceives by the error
142 XI | have hewed them out broken cisterns which can hold no water."
143 VII | and for Jerusalem, the city which I have chosen to place
144 XVIII| Abiram, who endeavoured to claim to themselves the power
145 XVIII| the censer and violently claimed to himself to sacrifice
146 IX | with the rending of its claws, loving human dwellings,
147 III | the dumb might pray with clear voices and prayers--seeing
148 IX | darkness with light, rain with clearness, battle with peace, barrenness
149 XVIII| into a deep gulf, and the cleft of the receding ground swallowed
150 XVII | from the company of His clergy and people? He bears arms
151 IX | brotherhood may imitate the cloves, that their gentleness and
152 VII | connected, it shows the coherent concord of our people who
153 VI | the divine strength and coheres in celestial sacraments,
154 VII | of a concord inseparably cohering, is set forth where in the
155 XIII | with them when they are collected together, who are gathered
156 XXII | been victorious in their combat with the devil.~
157 XII | faithless for their discord, and commending peace by His word to the
158 arg | LOOKED TO, THAT THE COMMON COMMISSION FIRST ENTRUSTED TO PETER
159 arg | NOT LOOKED TO, THAT THE COMMON COMMISSION FIRST ENTRUSTED
160 XVII | tongue." And again, "Evil communications corrupt good manners." The
161 XVII | separates himself from the company of His clergy and people?
162 III | deserted by the numerous concourse of believers--to devise
163 XVII | perverted and sins, and is condemned of his own self. Does he
164 XXII | grace in the Church by the condescension of God; and by this very
165 XXIII| breathe in its detached condition, but loses the substance
166 XXI | not the tongue which has confessed Christ be evil-speaking;
167 XXI | may imitate Christ whom he confesses. For since He says, "Whosoever
168 XXV | thus they were able with confidence to obtain whatever they
169 XVIII| obedient and yield,--was confounded by the divine indignation,
170 IX | wild beasts? We are to be congratulated when such as these are separated
171 VII | possess it; undivided, united, connected, it shows the coherent concord
172 II | stand in the footsteps of a conquering Christ, that we may not
173 XXVI | faithless. That which our conscience would fear if it believed,
174 XXVI | in love, in labour; none considers the fear of futurity, and
175 IX | contagion. Bitterness cannot consist and be associated with sweetness,
176 arg | THESE, HE EXHORTS THEM TO CONSTANCY, AND INSTRUCTS THEM THAT
177 XVIII| that went out from the Lord consumed with a hasty revenge; doubtless
178 VIII | sacrament of the passover contains nothing else in the law
179 arg | FIRST ENTRUSTED TO PETER IS CONTEMNED, AND THE ONE CHURCH AND
180 XVII | arms against the Church, he contends against God's appointment.
181 I | prepared beforehand for the contest when the adversary avows
182 XII | I in the midst of them." Corrupters and false interpreters of
183 X | s tongue, and artful in corrupting the truth, vomiting forth
184 VI | modesty the sanctity of one couch. She keeps us for God. She
185 XXIII| agreement. Yet if wholesome counsel cannot recall to the way
186 XVI | selves, proud, boasters, covetous, blasphemers, disobedient
187 XVI | lifts up, envy inflames, covetousness makes blind, impiety depraves,
188 III | of what deceives by the craft of subtle fraud. And what
189 XII | ones, remembering part, and craftily suppressing part: as they
190 XXIII| error, or deceived by some craftiness of misleading cunning, loose
191 IX | dove, a simple and joyous creature, not bitter with gall, not
192 I | inexperienced souls by an incautious credulity. Thus he endeavoured to
193 I | guarded against, when he creeps on us secretly; when, deceiving
194 XI | people of this kind the Lord cries; from these He restrains
195 XIX | pleasing himself in his very crimes, separates sons from their
196 XIV | Such a one may be slain; crowned he cannot be. He professes
197 IX | serpents, and the sanguinary cruelty of wild beasts? We are to
198 XXIII| craftiness of misleading cunning, loose yourselves from the
199 arg | ORIGINATED THE WHOLE DISTURBANCE, CYPRIAN WROTE THIS TREATISE. AND
200 XIX | sinned but once, he sins daily. Finally, the lapsed, who
201 XX | security from temptations, and dangers, and onsets, and attacks
202 VIII | can be divided, or should dare to rend it--the garment
203 XVII | forsaking God's priests, he dares to set up another altar,
204 I | his subtlety; that is his dark and stealthy artifice for
205 XXI | not after words of praise, dart forth serpents' venom against
206 XVIII| XVIII.~Thus Korah, Dathan, and Abiram, who endeavoured
207 VII | unto him for my servant David's sake, and for Jerusalem,
208 XXVII| night of this world to the daylight of eternal brightness. Let
209 III | preservation of men, that the deaf might receive the hearing
210 XX | not greater, or better, or dearer to God than Solomon, who,
211 XXVI | liberality of working is decayed. Then they used to give
212 arg | FORTIFYING THEM AGAINST THE DECEITS OF THESE, HE EXHORTS THEM
213 XII | market-place, that they might declare to the multitude the word
214 VII | sign of His garment, He has declared the unity of the Church.~
215 II | strong and stedfast; these He declares to be founded in robust
216 XVI | even thus it must be in the decline of the world, since the
217 XXVI | and the eternal torments decreed for the faithless. That
218 XIII | they celebrate? Do they deem that they have Christ with
219 XVIII| fastenings, gaped open into a deep gulf, and the cleft of the
220 XX | of the devil, nor does it defend a man who is still placed
221 XV | right and just way. The Lord denounces, and says, "Many shall say
222 XVI | of form of religion, but denying the power thereof. Of this
223 XX | that, when righteousness departs, the crown must also depart.~
224 XVI | covetousness makes blind, impiety depraves, pride puffs up, discord
225 II | house upon a rock: the rain descended, the floods came, the winds
226 XXI | beginning of glory, not the full desert of the crown; nor does it
227 XXI | from this very fact his deserving of punishment has become
228 IV | Spirit in the Song of Songs designated in the person of our Lord,
229 XXIII| XXIII.~I indeed desire, beloved brethren, and I
230 XXIV | says, "What man is he that desireth to live, and would fain
231 XV | discord, divides the Church, destroys the faith, I disturbs the
232 XXIII| live and breathe in its detached condition, but loses the
233 III | concourse of believers--to devise a new fraud, and under the
234 XII | flames, with the breath of dew: in the way in which, with
235 XII | than with a great many who differ, and that more can be obtained
236 VIII | yourself other homes and a different dwelling, when it is said
237 XV | His Gospel, when He would direct the way of our hope and
238 XII | unanimity and peace upon His disciples, said, "I say unto you,
239 X | creep like a cancer, whose discourse forms a deadly poison in
240 X | remains, so that while the discrimination of truth is testing our
241 IV | is no need for lengthened discussion and arguments. There is
242 XXI | have stained his life by disgraceful foulness; if, finally, forsaking
243 XXIII| God upon the children of disobedience. Be not ye therefore partakers
244 XXIII| from all brethren that walk disorderly, and not after the tradition
245 XXIII| schisms and originators of dissensions, who abide in blind and
246 XV | faith, I disturbs the peace, dissipates charity, profanes the sacrament?~
247 XXVI | the price of them, to be distributed for the use of the poor.
248 XVII | faithlessness of many move or disturb us, but rather strengthen
249 arg | HAD ORIGINATED THE WHOLE DISTURBANCE, CYPRIAN WROTE THIS TREATISE.
250 XVII | shall both fall into the ditch." Such a one is to be turned
251 XVI | which are led away with divers lusts; ever learning, and
252 XII | establishment for themselves of diverse places of worship, they
253 XIX | tradition, seek after strange doctrines, and bring in teachings
254 II | heareth my words, and doeth them, I will liken him unto
255 IX | What the savageness of dogs, and the deadly venom of
256 XXI | quiet; let him be in his doings modest with discipline,
257 VIII | shall go abroad beyond the door of thine house, his blood
258 X | pestilential tongues; whose speech doth creep like a cancer, whose
259 IX | they should lay waste the doves and sheep of Christ with
260 XIX | schism has deceived many by drawing them with him. In the former,
261 V | and that which is cut off dries up. Thus also the Church,
262 XVII | brethren, men of this kind, and drive away from your side and
263 II | Christ whereby death is driven out and overcome, when He
264 IX | barrenness with fertility, drought with springs, storm with
265 III | might run to the church, the dumb might pray with clear voices
266 XII | loosed the bolts of the dungeon, placed them again in the
267 II | a spirit of error, like dust which is shaken by the wind,
268 VIII | other homes and a different dwelling, when it is said to Rahab,
269 IX | its claws, loving human dwellings, knowing the association
270 XXVI | has the vigour of faith dwindled away among us; thus has
271 XIV | is not puffed up, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil;
272 VIII | In one house shall ye eat it; ye shall not send its
273 VIII | figure of Christ should be eaten in one house. God speaks,
274 XXII | the faith of God without effect? God forbid: for God is
275 XXV | And thus they prayed with effectual prayers; thus they were
276 IV | only one of her mother, elect of her that bare her." Does
277 XXI | his confession that he is elected to the reward of glory,
278 | elsewhere
279 XXIII| our rejoicing Mother may enclose in her bosom the one body
280 XXIII| brethren, and I equally endeavour and exhort, that if it be
281 VIII | Forbearing one another in love, endeavouring to keep the unity of the
282 | ending
283 IV | also the same as was Peter, endowed with a like partnership
284 XIV | in the kingdom, she will endure for ever in the unity of
285 XIII | What peace, then, do the enemies of the brethren promise
286 XIX | necessity; there the will is engaged in the wickedness: on the
287 XXI | who even by His own law enjoined upon us humility, and Himself
288 XXVII| should find us burdened and entangled. Let our light shine in
289 II | and says, "If thou wilt enter into life, keep the commandments?"
290 XIX | sons from their Mother, entices sheep from their shepherd,
291 VII | cut, but is received as an entire garment, and is possessed
292 VII | a whole and substantial entireness. He cannot possess the garment
293 XXIII| torn into pieces, with its entrails wrenched asunder by laceration.
294 XIX | Church is sought after and entreated; in that case, the Church
295 arg | COMMON COMMISSION FIRST ENTRUSTED TO PETER IS CONTEMNED, AND
296 XIV | charity is kind; charity envieth not; charity acteth not
297 XIII | peace with him, who through envious discord had not peace with
298 XVI | senselessness lifts up, envy inflames, covetousness makes
299 XXII | blessed Apostle Paul in his epistle speaks in this manner: "
300 IV | resurrection, He gives an equal power, and says, "As the
301 XXIII| beloved brethren, and I equally endeavour and exhort, that
302 III | into an angel of light, and equips his ministers as if they
303 XI | restrains and recalls His erring people, saying, "Hearken
304 XXIII| your wandering steps from errors, acknowledge the straight
305 III | to the light, and to have escaped the night of the world,
306 XXIV | that they speak no guile. Eschew evil, and do good; seek
307 V | firmly to hold and assert, especially those of us that are bishops
308 II | security upon the rock, established with immoveable and unshaken
309 XII | subsequently, from their establishment for themselves of diverse
310 XXVI | give for sale houses and estates; and that they might lay
311 | everywhere
312 XII | Christ's name, who, it is evident, are separated from Christ
313 XXI | has confessed Christ be evil-speaking; let it not be turbulent,
314 XXI | of him more service is exacted." Let no one perish by the
315 XXI | since He says, "Whosoever exalteth himself shall be abased,
316 IV | If any one consider and examine these things, there is no
317 XVI | pride puffs up, discord exasperates, anger hurries headlong.~
318 XVII | XVII.~Yet let not the excessive and headlong faithlessness
319 XXI | of unity, he shall have exchanged his first faith for a subsequent
320 IX | whirlwind. The Apostle John execrates and severely assails these,
321 XXIII| I equally endeavour and exhort, that if it be possible,
322 arg | INSTRUCTS THEM THAT HERESIES EXIST BECAUSE CHRIST, THE HEAD
323 VIII | nothing else in the law of the Exodus than that the lamb which
324 V | whole world. She broadly expands her rivers, liberally flowing,
325 XVIII| commanded, were at once extinguished in the presence of an avenging
326 III | the blind might open their eyes to God, the weak might grow
327 XXI | glory, when from this very fact his deserving of punishment
328 XXII | firmness of the apostles fail, because the traitor Judas
329 XXII | because the traitor Judas failed from their fellowship: so
330 XIV | Charity," says he, "never faileth." For she will ever be in
331 XXIV | desireth to live, and would fain see good days? Refrain thy
332 XIX | the lapsed seem to have fallen into, who nevertheless,
333 XIV | all things Charity never falleth.""Charity," says he, "never
334 V | which is spread abroad far and wide into a multitude
335 XVIII| The earth, breaking its fastenings, gaped open into a deep
336 XIV | the inexpiable and grave fault of discord is not even purged
337 XXVI | fear if it believed, it fears not because it does not
338 IX | about by the tempest, the feeble trees are overthrown by
339 III | Christ; so that, while they feign things like the truth, they
340 XIV | a way as the devil often feigns himself to be Christ, as
341 II | upon that house; and it fell not: for it was founded
342 XXIV | preservation of peace. If we are fellow-heirs with Christ, let us abide
343 IX | with peace, barrenness with fertility, drought with springs, storm
344 | few
345 VII | Jeroboam the king in the field, divided his garment into
346 XVI | false accusers, incontinent, fierce, hating the good, traitors,
347 IX | and sheep. What does the fierceness of wolves do in the Christian
348 XII | the three youths in the fiery furnace; and because they
349 XVIII| sedition); but two hundred and fifty sharers and associates of
350 VIII | lamb which is slain in the figure of Christ should be eaten
351 arg | THE SCRIPTURES AS BY THE FIGURES OF THE OLD AND NEW TESTAMENT,
352 XIV | given up to flames and fires, or lay down their lives,
353 XXI | subsequent unbelief, he may not flatter himself on account of his
354 XXIII| withdraw, nay rather must flee, from those who fall away,
355 IX | abroad, remaining in their flights by the side of one another,
356 VIII | And there shall be one flock and one shepherd." And does
357 VIII | either many shepherds or many flocks? The Apostle Paul, moreover,
358 II | the rain descended, the floods came, the winds blew, and
359 V | and since from one spring flow many streams, although the
360 V | expands her rivers, liberally flowing, yet her head is one, her
361 IX | young together; when they fly abroad, remaining in their
362 I | the wiles of the crafty foe, that we, who have put on
363 XIX | doubtless, they imitate and follow, who, despising God's tradition,
364 XVI | proceed no further, for their folly shall be manifest unto all
365 II | old man, to stand in the footsteps of a conquering Christ,
366 VIII | judgment." And again, he says, "Forbearing one another in love, endeavouring
367 XXII | God without effect? God forbid: for God is true, though
368 XVIII| and was polluted upon his forehead by the spot of leprosy:
369 II | the nets of death, but, foreseeing our danger, may possess
370 I | befits us, than to use foresight and watching with an anxious
371 XVI | world, since the Holy Spirit foretells and forewarns us by the
372 XVI | of God, having a sort of form of religion, but denying
373 | formerly
374 X | cancer, whose discourse forms a deadly poison in the heart
375 XX | those subsequent frauds, and fornications, and adulteries, which now
376 XI | can baptize; although they forsake the fountain of life, they
377 XX | from the Lord, yet after he forsook the Lord's way he lost also
378 XXII | dignity of confessors is not forthwith diminished, because the
379 arg | TREATISE. AND FIRST OF ALL, FORTIFYING THEM AGAINST THE DECEITS
380 I | appearance of peace, he steals forward by hidden approaches, whence
381 XI | them, but rather are made foul; nor are sins purged away,
382 XXI | his life by disgraceful foulness; if, finally, forsaking
383 XI | If they had stood on my foundation (substantia, upostasei),
384 XX | confessors those subsequent frauds, and fornications, and adulteries,
385 X | Hence heresies not only have frequently been originated, but continue
386 II | call you not servants, but friends." Finally, these persons
387 V | the body separated. Her fruitful abundance spreads her branches
388 XVI | things were predicted are fulfilled; and as the end of the world
389 IX | the beak, in all things fulfilling the law of unanimity. This
390 XII | three youths in the fiery furnace; and because they abode
391 | further
392 XII | deceive themselves by a futile interpretation, in respect
393 XXVI | none considers the fear of futurity, and none takes to heart
394 XXI | of the ascent is already gained. He is a confessor; but
395 IX | creature, not bitter with gall, not cruel in its bite,
396 XVIII| breaking its fastenings, gaped open into a deep gulf, and
397 IV | build my Church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail
398 VIII | of thy father, thou shalt gather unto thee into thine house;
399 XI | Such a nativity does not generate sons to God, but to the
400 XXIV | of God to be peacemakers, gentle in heart, simple in speech,
401 IX | imitate the cloves, that their gentleness and meekness may be like
402 IV | you: Receive ye the Holy Ghost: Whose soever sins ye remit,
403 XIII | with peace and offer his gift to God: for God had not
404 XXIV | heritage; He promised all the gifts and rewards of which He
405 XIV | perfidy; nor will it be the glorious ending of religious valour,
406 XXVII| shine in good works, and glow in such wise as to lead
407 VIII | to pass, whosoever shall go abroad beyond the door of
408 XXIII| those who walk wickedly, and goes on in ways of error and
409 XIV | And though I give all my goods to feed the poor, and though
410 XIV | blood: the inexpiable and grave fault of discord is not
411 XX | sin thus wickedly, thus grievously. For neither does confession
412 XX | adulteries, which now with groans and sorrow we witness in
413 XVIII| the cleft of the receding ground swallowed up the men standing
414 III | eyes to God, the weak might grow strong again with eternal
415 XXVI | the strength of believers grown weak. And therefore the
416 I | more to be feared and to be guarded against, when he creeps
417 VI | She knows one home; she guards with chaste modesty the
418 XXIV | lips that they speak no guile. Eschew evil, and do good;
419 XXIII| should be found in like guilt. God is one, and Christ
420 XVIII| gaped open into a deep gulf, and the cleft of the receding
421 XV | On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets."
422 III | by their subtlety. This happens, beloved brethren, so long
423 I | bids us to be simple to harmlessness, and yet with our simplicity
424 | hast
425 XVIII| the Lord consumed with a hasty revenge; doubtless to admonish
426 | hath
427 XVI | accusers, incontinent, fierce, hating the good, traitors, heady,
428 XVI | hating the good, traitors, heady, high-minded, lovers of
429 XVII | with thorns, and refuse to hear a wicked tongue." And again, "
430 II | Whosoever," says He, "heareth my words, and doeth them,
431 III | the deaf might receive the hearing of spiritual grace, the
432 XI | erring people, saying, "Hearken not unto the words of the
433 XVII | conversation; as it is written, "Hedge thine ears about with thorns,
434 V | one, each part of which is held by each one for the whole.
435 IV | Church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against
436 | Hence
437 II | things that I command you, henceforth I call you not servants,
438 XIX | has endeavoured to cause a heresy or a schism has deceived
439 XVI | the envenomed plague of heretical perversity and schisms has
440 XXIV | He gave this to us as an heritage; He promised all the gifts
441 | herself
442 XI | living waters, and have hewed them out broken cisterns
443 I | peace, he steals forward by hidden approaches, whence also
444 XVI | the good, traitors, heady, high-minded, lovers of pleasures more
445 XXII | very thing they obtain a higher praise of their faith, that
446 XXI | and Himself received the highest name from the Father as
447 IV | the Church think that he holds the faith? Does he who strives
448 XXII | the case in question the holiness and dignity of confessors
449 VIII | building for yourself other homes and a different dwelling,
450 IV | like partnership both of honour and power; but the beginning
451 XIV | things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all
452 XVII | servant, an impious son, a hostile brother, despising the bishops,
453 VIII | Church. This home, this household of unanimity, the Holy Spirit
454 XXI | wisdom of God the Father, He humbled Himself upon earth, how
455 XXI | shall be abased, and he who humbleth himself shall be exalted;"
456 XVIII| of the sedition); but two hundred and fifty sharers and associates
457 IX | the wheat, nor does the hurricane uproot the tree that is
458 II | to all the tempests and hurricanes of the world. "Whosoever,"
459 XVI | discord exasperates, anger hurries headlong.~
460 III | and prayers--seeing his idols forsaken, and his lanes
461 II | II.~From which an example is
462 III | III.~But, beloved brethren,
463 XXII | the contagion of crime. Illuminated by the true light of the
464 XVIII| Aaron the priest, underwent immediate punishment for their attempts.
465 II | the rock, established with immoveable and unshaken firmness, in
466 XVI | covetousness makes blind, impiety depraves, pride puffs up,
467 XVII | disobedient servant, an impious son, a hostile brother,
468 II | that we may not again be incautiously turned back into the nets
469 XV | His instruction. He has included all the prophets and the
470 XVI | truce-breakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, hating the good,
471 XVI | destruction of the same evil has increased, and the envenomed plague
472 | indeed
473 XVIII| Nor did the anger of the indignant God strike only those who
474 XVIII| confounded by the divine indignation, and was polluted upon his
475 XXIII| taken in simplicity, or induced by error, or deceived by
476 I | with lying words, he misled inexperienced souls by an incautious credulity.
477 XIV | washed away by blood: the inexpiable and grave fault of discord
478 XVI | senselessness lifts up, envy inflames, covetousness makes blind,
479 XXVI | therefore the Lord, look ing to our days, says in His
480 XV | depart from me, ye that work iniquity." There is need of righteousness,
481 XXI | perfect our praise, but it initiates our dignity; and since it
482 XIX | who has lapsed has only injured himself; on the other, he
483 XXI | confessor; let no one learn injustice, let no one learn arrogance,
484 VIII | and faithless, who is so insane with the madness of discord,
485 VII | this bond of a concord inseparably cohering, is set forth where
486 | instead
487 XV | time, love and unity by His instruction. He has included all the
488 IX | spending their life in mutual intercourse, acknowledging the concord
489 XII | deceive themselves by a futile interpretation, in respect of the Lord
490 XII | them." Corrupters and false interpreters of the Gospel quote the
491 III | deceive the incautious? He has invented heresies and schisms, whereby
492 XIV | be kept uncorrupted and inviolate; he cannot show himself
493 VII | As the twelve tribes of Israel were divided, the prophet
494 VIII | or should dare to rend it--the garment of the Lord--
495 IV | IV.~If any one consider and
496 IX | IX.~Therefore also the Holy
497 XVI | truth. And as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses, so do these
498 XVI | knowledge of the truth. And as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses,
499 XXI | turbulent, let it not be heard jarring with reproaches and quarrels,
500 VII | Abijah the prophet, meeting Jeroboam the king in the field, divided