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501 XII| of those whose modesty is lowly. Thus in the Holy Scriptures,
502 XVI| leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened; for
503 XIII| ignorance of truth is it, what madness of mind, to wish for that
504 IX| counted now among Christ's maidens and virgins, since yon live
505 XVII| resurrection comes, your Maker may not recognise you again,
506 IV| in one flesh, and in the male is at the same time signified
507 XVI| neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness, but with
508 I| Solomon we have received the mandates of wisdom, warning us: "
509 XXIII| Father's house are many mansions, He points out the dwellings
510 XII| in a purple and scarlet mantle, and was adorned with gold,
511 XIII| This God blames, this He marks out: hence He declares that
512 XXI| and lascivious banquets of marriages be avoided, the contagion
513 XXII| resurrection from the dead, neither marry nor are given in marriage:
514 II| houses based with solid mass upon the rock unshaken by
515 XXI| greater, and to be found no match for the less. Strait and
516 XVII| Are not these, I beg, matters to be reflected on by God'
517 XVI| by the deceitful dyes of medicaments? Your Lord says, "Thou canst
518 XXIII| brave to all suffering, meek to sustain wrong, easy to
519 VIII| wealthy and rich; but Paul meets your riches, and with his
520 II| well as knowing that our members, when purged from all the
521 I| they rebuke, that they may mend them; since God also before
522 XXIII| sustain wrong, easy to show mercy, of one mind and one heart
523 XIII| their heads adorned, they merited dishonour and disgrace.
524 arg| DESCRIBING THE GLORY, HONOUR, AND MERITS OF VIRGINITY, AND OF THOSE
525 XVI| your Lord, will be more mighty than He, and stain your
526 XIII| their gowns as they go, and mincing with their feet. And God
527 XXIII| truth. Disciplines which are mindful of God bear it, retaining
528 XVIII| lascivious discourse to mingle in unchaste conversation,
529 XI| temptation, unless the wealth minister to good uses; so that every
530 X| performed many great works with miracle, wherewith he abounded in
531 XXI| smiles, that he may do mischief; entices, that he may slay.
532 I| casteth away discipline is miserable." And from Solomon we have
533 VIII| voice prescribes for the moderating of your dress and ornament
534 arg| REGULATED BY FITTING LIMITS, MODERATION OUGHT EVEN MORE TO BE OBSERVED
535 XIII| their round tires like the moon, and their crisping-pins,
536 XXI| the hills and the tops of mountains! What, then, that we may
537 XX| therefore, the Church frequently mourns over her virgins; hence
538 XI| God; give food to Christ. Move Him by the prayers of many
539 XI| not on that account must murders be committed. Or because
540 XXIV| Stir one another up with mutual exhortations; provoke to
541 XIX| men, when the boldness of nakedness has conduced to immodesty.~
542 XXI| for the less. Strait and narrow is the way which leadeth
543 XV| medicament which can corrupt the native lineaments. God says, "Let
544 XXIII| are purged by a second nativity. But the greater holiness
545 XV| of indignation would seem natural to the former artist. And
546 XXIII| does He impose the yoke of necessity, since the free choice of
547 XI| you are wealthy; let the needy feel that you are rich.
548 I| to turn away from her and neglect her is deadly. The Holy
549 XVIII| those things, which while by negligence they come into use, have
550 arg| VIRGINS THOSE THINGS WHICH HAD NEGLIGENTLY COME INTO USE, AS BEING
551 XVI| leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened;
552 | next
553 XVII| always to be dreaded day and night? Let married women see to
554 XVI| head--that is, with the nobler part of your body! And although
555 | none
556 | nothing
557 IX| of young men after you, nourish the lust of concupiscence,
558 I| salvation, the stimulus and nourishment of good dispositions, the
559 III| virginity is added to her number, so much the more it increases
560 XXIII| the fruitful begetting of numbers, and we increase to the
561 XIV| distributed in a woven series or numerous cluster, wherewith you would
562 IX| manner as to make yourselves objects of desire.~
563 arg| MODERATION OUGHT EVEN MORE TO BE OBSERVED BY A VIRGIN. THEREFORE,
564 V| flesh, and no contest more obstinate than that of conquering
565 XXIII| desires of the flesh, you obtain the reward of a greater
566 XV| such wicked temerity, an offence to God the artificer? For
567 V| striving to please men they offend God? Not considering that
568 II| of God, lost He should be offended, and forsake the temple
569 IX| cause others to perish, and offer yourself, as it were, a
570 XI| to immolate victims and offerings to the gods? Otherwise a
571 XVI| flame-coloured hair; and sin (oh, wickedness!) with your
572 XI| them rather be heavenly ones, where neither rust wears
573 III| solicitude, I fear more from the onset of Satan.~
574 XVI| white or black;" and you, in order to overcome the word of
575 | Otherwise
576 VIII| be in the woman not the outward adorning of array, or gold,
577 II| religion and faith which they owe to God, that what is received
578 VII| lord, and he that is freed owes obedience to his deliverer,
579 XIV| worldly evil, may be put to pain, that subsequently from
580 XIV| They taught them also to paint the eyes with blackness
581 XV| devil's If any artist, in painting, were to delineate in envious
582 II| but there is no further pardon for sinning after you have
583 XXI| hear me, O virgins, as a parent; hear, I beseech you, one
584 XVIII| to be present at marriage parties, and in that freedom of
585 XVII| their excuse, they make them partners in the association of guilty,
586 VII| renounced when by a blessed passage we came to God, John stimulates
587 X| And all these things have passed away like a shadow." And
588 XVI| unleavened; for even Christ our passover is sacrificed. Therefore
589 XXI| tends to glory. By this pathway the martyrs progress, the
590 XI| his wealth, ought by his patrimony rather to redeem his transgressions
591 XXIII| and one heart in fraternal peace.~
592 V| to be so, but also to be perceived and believed to be so: no
593 I| Keep discipline, lest perchance the Lord be angry, and ye
594 XI| your fruits constant and perennial, and free from all contact
595 V| as to whether she is one. Perfectness should show itself equal
596 XXI| the contagion of which is perilous. Overcome dress, since you
597 VII| which abide with us in perpetual possession with God. But
598 XXI| Immortality is given to the persevering, eternal life is set before
599 XV| painted and completed, another person were to lay hands on it,
600 XII| angels, which had the seven phials, and talked with me, saying,
601 X| and guarded, on whom He placed and founded the Church,
602 XIX| of the bathing-place; the places where you assemble are fouler
603 XVIII| marriage? Or what can there be pleasant or joyous in those engagements
604 V| sublimely uttered, "If I yet pleased men, I should not be the
605 XVII| husbands with the desire of pleasing them, and while they put
606 XXI| snares and death-bringing pleasures; there the devil flatters,
607 XI| through, where no insidious plunderer breaks in. Prepare for yourself
608 XXIII| house are many mansions, He points out the dwellings of the
609 VII| itself is contemned, whose pomps and delights we have already
610 XXII| continence avoids, what good it possesses? "I will multiply," says
611 XI| in. Prepare for yourself possessions; but let them rather be
612 III| affection rather than with power; not that I would claim--
613 III| and uncorrupted work of praise and honour, God's image
614 arg| CYPRIAN CELEBRATES THE PRAISES OF DISCIPLINE, AND PROVES
615 XI| Christ. Move Him by the prayers of many to grant you to
616 I| saith God, "Why dost thou preach my laws, and takest my covenant
617 IV| forth, and virginity is preached: "These are they which have
618 I| them; since God also before predicted by Jeremiah, and pointed
619 VII| fertility of means, who prefer their own wealth, and contend
620 XI| insidious plunderer breaks in. Prepare for yourself possessions;
621 XVI| profane contempt. With evil presage of the future, you make
622 II| frequently and everywhere prescribed, and the whole foundation
623 IX| cannot be excused on the pretence that you are chaste and
624 XV| upon the divine work, is a prevarication of the truth.~
625 II| are bought with a great price; glorify and bear God in
626 XIII| And God will humble the princely daughters of Sion, and the
627 II| of religion and of faith proceeds from obedience and fear;
628 XXIII| vessel, whom God sent to proclaim the heavenly command: "The
629 VI| VI.~Paul proclaims in a loud and lofty voice, "
630 XX| its glory and dignity are profaned. Thus the hostile besieger
631 V| not a husband whom they profess that they please, should
632 VI| and lusts." And she who professes to have renounced the lusts
633 VIII| array, but as becometh women professing chastity, with a good conversation."
634 XXI| your advantage and your profit. Be such as God the Creator
635 X| Scripture says, "What hath pride profited us? or what benefit hath
636 XXI| this pathway the martyrs progress, the virgins pass, the just
637 XXIV| provoke to glory by rival proofs of virtue. Endure bravely,
638 XXIII| still rough and void, we are propagated by the fruitful begetting
639 XIX| frequent promiscuous baths; who prostitute to eyes that are curious
640 XII| not fitting for any but prostitutes and immodest women; and
641 IV| almost always speaks to the Protoplast, the first formed, because
642 arg| PRAISES OF DISCIPLINE, AND PROVES ITS USEFULNESS FROM SCRIPTURE.
643 XXIV| with mutual exhortations; provoke to glory by rival proofs
644 I| Holy Spirit says in the Psalms, "Keep discipline, lest
645 IX| as to draw attention in public, and attract the eyes of
646 XX| will they experience great punishments for the loss of their virginity.~
647 XVI| the warning apostle is, "Purge out the old leaven, that
648 XIX| washing defiles; it does not purify nor cleanse the limbs, but
649 I| right way, when His wrath is quickly kindled against you." And
650 XXIII| enlargement of the human race. Now, when the world is
651 XIII| with gold, and silver, and raiment, and rebukes them, affluent
652 XI| bruises, nor sun burns, nor rain spoils your fruits constant
653 XV| on God when they try to re-form that which He formed, and
654 XX| XX.~For this reason, therefore, the Church frequently
655 I| but love those whom they rebuke, that they may mend them;
656 I| nor faint when thou art rebuked of Him: for whom the Lord
657 XVII| promises, and may exclude you, rebuking you with the vigour of a
658 XVII| comes, your Maker may not recognise you again, and may turn
659 XXII| reward awaits you, a great recompense of virtue, the immense advantage
660 XI| his patrimony rather to redeem his transgressions than
661 II| and since we have been redeemed by the blood of Christ,
662 II| furtherance to the empire of our Redeemer by all the obedience of
663 VIII| excuse for their dress by reference to their husband, should
664 XVII| these, I beg, matters to be reflected on by God's servants? Are
665 XIX| my care is only that of refreshing and washing my poor body."
666 VI| becoming for a virgin, to regard any glory and honour of
667 arg| MARRIED WOMEN A DRESS TO BE REGULATED BY FITTING LIMITS, MODERATION
668 II| with free and unchecked reins, but more severely threatens
669 III| fruitfulness of Mother Church rejoices by their means, and in them
670 VIII| restrained and limited by religious observance to the Church'
671 VIII| another, but she herself remains in its guilt!~
672 XXIV| spiritually, attain happily. Only remember us at that time, when virginity
673 XXIII| of the saving layer, and, renewed by the Holy Spirit from
674 XXIII| holiness and truth of that repeated birth belongs to you, who
675 XV| the love which brotherhood requires, I think that not virgins
676 XVIII| virgin falls short of her resolution, when she who had come there
677 VIII| their husband, should be restrained and limited by religious
678 XXIII| mindful of God bear it, retaining righteousness with religion,
679 XXIV| virginity shall begin to be rewarded in you.~
680 XXIII| of God bear it, retaining righteousness with religion, stedfast
681 XIII| pearls, and their armlets and rings, and earrings, and silks
682 V| let her not invite her own risk, if she is keeping herself
683 XXIV| exhortations; provoke to glory by rival proofs of virtue. Endure
684 II| with solid mass upon the rock unshaken by the storms and
685 XXI| advance. Avoid the broad and roomy ways. There are deadly snares
686 II| fast, than to stand with roots strongly fixed, and with
687 XIII| thou shall be girt with a rope instead of with a girdle;
688 XV| colour, or with black dust or rouge, or with any kind of medicament
689 XXIII| While the world is still rough and void, we are propagated
690 XVII| their contagion; lest they ruin others even as they have
691 XXII| thy husband, and he shall rule over thee." You are free
692 XI| heavenly ones, where neither rust wears out, nor hail bruises,
693 XI| and fire, are we thence to sacrifice to idols? Or because the
694 XVI| even Christ our passover is sacrificed. Therefore let us keep the
695 I| I.~Discipline, the safeguard of hope, the bond of faith,
696 III| fear more from the onset of Satan.~
697 VI| forbid that I should glory, save in the cross of our Lord
698 XXIII| man by the grace of the saving layer, and, renewed by the
699 XII| me away in spirit; and I saw a woman sit upon a beast,
700 XX| hence she groans at their scandalous and detestable stories;
701 XIV| that subsequently from the scars and holes of the ears precious
702 XII| lowly. Thus in the Holy Scriptures, by which the Lord wished
703 XX| snares that deceive, by secret ways, the devil creeps in.
704 XV| are not unchaste with your seducing dyes, yet when those things
705 III| flower of the ecclesiastical seed, the grace and ornament
706 V| believed to be so: no one on seeing a virgin should be in any
707 XXII| persevere continuously, and not seek the ornaments of necklaces
708 | seem
709 XXII| You are free from this sentence. You do not fear, the sorrows
710 XIV| pearls distributed in a woven series or numerous cluster, wherewith
711 XV| skilled, could amend it, a serious wrong and a just cause of
712 XVII| and painted eyes of the serpent. As you are adorned in the
713 XVII| be reflected on by God's servants? Are they not always to
714 XIII| and take up that which has served as the sword and weapon
715 II| by all the obedience of service, that nothing impure or
716 II| unchecked reins, but more severely threatens him who is again
717 X| have passed away like a shadow." And the apostle again
718 VIII| adorn themselves with shamefacedness and sobriety, not with broidered
719 IX| and modest in mind. Your shameful dress and immodest ornament
720 XXI| bathing is modest. Let the shameless feasts and lascivious banquets
721 XIV| the juices of herbs and shell-fish to dye and colour wool,
722 I| said, "And I will give you shepherds according to my heart: and
723 XVIII| How greatly a virgin falls short of her resolution, when
724 IV| male is at the same time signified the woman also.~
725 XIII| disgrace. Having put on silk and purple, they cannot
726 XIII| rings, and earrings, and silks woven with gold and hyacinth.
727 XXI| neck unadorned, your figure simple; let not wounds be made
728 XVI| preserved, when what is sincere is polluted by adulterous
729 II| a smaller fault to have sinned before, while as yet you
730 XII| spirit; and I saw a woman sit upon a beast, and that woman
731 XII| of the great whore, that sitteth upon many waters, with whom
732 XXI| hundred-fold; the second is yours, sixty-fold. As with the martyrs there
733 XV| painted, he, being more skilled, could amend it, a serious
734 XVII| You have polluted your skin with a false medicament,
735 XXI| mischief; entices, that he may slay. The first fruit for the
736 XXI| flesh and of the world, no small, and trifling, and delicate
737 II| because it is doubtless a smaller fault to have sinned before,
738 XIII| And instead of a sweet smell there shall be dust; and
739 XXI| flatters, that he may deceive; smiles, that he may do mischief;
740 XVI| were white like wool or snow," you curse that whiteness
741 XVIII| contrary to modest and sober manners. Some are not ashamed
742 VIII| with shamefacedness and sobriety, not with broidered hair,
743 XVII| themselves concerning the solace of their husbands with the
744 XIX| enticement to vice, do they not solicit and invite the desires of
745 III| unceasingly careful even to solicitude, I fear more from the onset
746 II| with our houses based with solid mass upon the rock unshaken
747 I| is miserable." And from Solomon we have received the mandates
748 I| wisdom, warning us: "My son, despise not thou the discipline
749 XXII| and thy groanings; and in sorrow shalt thou bring forth children;
750 V| as if she either had or sought for a husband? Rather let
751 V| please, should persevere, sound and pure not only in body,
752 III| of the Mother. To these I speak, these I exhort with affection
753 IV| Scripture almost always speaks to the Protoplast, the first
754 IX| a sword or poison to the spectators; you cannot be excused on
755 arg| COMMANDED, TO WIT, FOR BEING SPENT ON THE POOR. MOREOVER, ALSO,
756 XXIV| virtue. Endure bravely, go on spiritually, attain happily. Only remember
757 XVII| those which the devil has spoiled. You have followed him,
758 XI| nor sun burns, nor rain spoils your fruits constant and
759 VI| and affectest another. You sprinkle yourself with the stains
760 XXI| golden bands, your hair stained with no dye, your eyes worthy
761 II| and to hold fast, than to stand with roots strongly fixed,
762 XXIII| righteousness with religion, stedfast in faith, humble in fear,
763 VII| we must walk with equal steps; we must strive with emulous
764 VII| passage we came to God, John stimulates and exhorts us, witnessing
765 XXIV| stimulus to your coevals. Stir one another up with mutual
766 XX| scandalous and detestable stories; hence the flower of her
767 II| the rock unshaken by the storms and whirlwinds of the world,
768 XXI| found no match for the less. Strait and narrow is the way which
769 XXI| grace, let there be the strength in endurance next to theirs.
770 XIII| are haughty, and walk with stretched-out neck and beckoning of the
771 VII| with equal steps; we must strive with emulous walk. Then
772 V| wherewith while they are striving to please men they offend
773 VI| when a woman is found to be stronger than the tortures; when
774 II| than to stand with roots strongly fixed, and with our houses
775 V| beauty, when she has no struggle greater than that against
776 IV| great reward, and may not study any longer to be adorned
777 V| than that of conquering and subduing the body.~
778 V| also has gloriously and sublimely uttered, "If I yet pleased
779 XIV| may be put to pain, that subsequently from the scars and holes
780 XXII| virginity remain and endure substantial and uninjured; and as it
781 XI| glory of virginity, and to succeed in coming to the Lord's
782 XXI| is not easy. What toil we suffer, what labour, when we endeavour
783 XXIII| humble in fear, brave to all suffering, meek to sustain wrong,
784 XXIV| that are advanced in years, suggest a teaching to the younger.
785 XV| of the fear which faith suggests to me, for the sake of the
786 IX| if you dress your hair sumptuously, and walk so as to draw
787 XI| out, nor hail bruises, nor sun burns, nor rain spoils your
788 XI| not on that account to be sung. And God willed iron to
789 arg| EVEN WEALTH DID NOT EXCUSE SUPERFLUOUS CARE FOR DRESS ON THE PART
790 XXIII| is filled and the earth supplied, they who can receive continency,
791 XXIII| to all suffering, meek to sustain wrong, easy to show mercy,
792 XIII| hyacinth. And instead of a sweet smell there shall be dust;
793 IV| carefulness nor a vain fear, which takes counsel for the way of salvation,
794 I| thou preach my laws, and takest my covenant into thy mouth?
795 | taking
796 XII| had the seven phials, and talked with me, saying, Come hither,
797 I| of good dispositions, the teacher of virtue, causes us to
798 VII| the divine footsteps and teachings of our Lord, who warned
799 II| already begun to be. Paul tells us in his epistles, in which
800 XV| boldness of such wicked temerity, an offence to God the artificer?
801 XI| Otherwise a large estate is a temptation, unless the wealth minister
802 XXI| difficult is the track which tends to glory. By this pathway
803 XIX| assemble are fouler than a theatre. There all modesty is put;
804 XXI| strength in endurance next to theirs. The ascent to great things
805 | thence
806 XVIII| her own? What is learnt there--what is seen? How greatly
807 | therein
808 | thereof
809 XI| your treasures, where no thief digs through, where no insidious
810 XIX| disposition with which he comes thither: my care is only that of
811 XI| this purpose, to enjoy them thoroughly, without a view to salvation.
812 VI| Virgin, thou art taken, thouart exposed, thou boastest one
813 XXI| the martyrs there is no thought of the flesh and of the
814 II| reins, but more severely threatens him who is again enslaved
815 I| Jeremiah, and pointed to our times, when he said, "And I will
816 XIII| their curls, and their round tires like the moon, and their
817 XXI| things is not easy. What toil we suffer, what labour,
818 XVIII| yet in eyes, in ears, in tongue, she has diminished the
819 XXI| ascend the hills and the tops of mountains! What, then,
820 VI| let her glory when she is tortured in confession of the name;
821 VI| to be stronger than the tortures; when she suffers fire,
822 XXI| hard and difficult is the track which tends to glory. By
823 XIII| and beckoning of the eyes, trailing their gowns as they go,
824 XV| which He formed, and to transfigure it, not knowing that everything
825 XI| patrimony rather to redeem his transgressions than to increase them.~
826 XI| rewards. There entrust your treasures, where no thief digs through,
827 XXI| the world, no small, and trifling, and delicate encounter;
828 XV| laying hands on God when they try to re-form that which He
829 IV| formed, because they are two in one flesh, and in the
830 XXI| is not consistent to be unable to be conquered by the greater,
831 XXI| you incorrupt, your neck unadorned, your figure simple; let
832 III| censure, but because, being unceasingly careful even to solicitude,
833 II| to wander with free and unchecked reins, but more severely
834 XIV| infancy, as yet innocent, and unconscious of worldly evil, may be
835 III| disposition, the wholesome and uncorrupted work of praise and honour,
836 I| And again: "But unto the ungodly saith God, "Why dost thou
837 XXII| and endure substantial and uninjured; and as it began bravely,
838 | unless
839 II| solid mass upon the rock unshaken by the storms and whirlwinds
840 XIII| Sion, and the Lord will unveil their dress; and the Lord
841 XXII| and of the world, the eyes uplifted to things above, or set
842 II| what is more fitting for us urgently to desire, what more to
843 | used
844 arg| DISCIPLINE, AND PROVES ITS USEFULNESS FROM SCRIPTURE. THEN, DESCRIBING
845 XI| wealth minister to good uses; so that every man, in proportion
846 XVIII| have made for themselves a usurped licence, contrary to modest
847 V| gloriously and sublimely uttered, "If I yet pleased men,
848 V| V.~But if continency follows
849 IV| empty carefulness nor a vain fear, which takes counsel
850 X| or what benefit hath the vaunting of riches conferred upon
851 XXIII| the Lord called His chosen vessel, whom God sent to proclaim
852 VI| VI.~Paul proclaims in a loud
853 XIX| themselves afford enticement to vice, do they not solicit and
854 VI| renounced the lusts and vices of the flesh, is found in
855 XI| fields, ought you to immolate victims and offerings to the gods?
856 XI| them thoroughly, without a view to salvation. For God gave
857 VII| VII.~But there are some rich
858 VIII| VIII.~You call yourself wealthy
859 II| polluted, since he who does violence to them is himself injured.
860 XVII| adulterous colour, your face is violently taken possession of by a
861 X| wealthy in his faith and virtue--wherewith he performed many
862 XVIII| she has diminished the virtues that she possessed.~
863 XXIII| world is still rough and void, we are propagated by the
864 VII| also so to walk even as He walked." Therefore we must walk
865 XIX| crime of lasciviousness and wantonness. Such a washing defiles;
866 VIII| heart." But if these also warn us that the women who are
867 VII| teachings of our Lord, who warned us, and said, "I came down
868 XII| that sitteth upon many waters, with whom the kings of
869 XIII| served as the sword and weapon for the death of another?
870 XI| ones, where neither rust wears out, nor hail bruises, nor
871 XIV| heavy, if not by their weight, still by the amount of
872 | whatever
873 | whence
874 | Whereas
875 | whereby
876 II| unshaken by the storms and whirlwinds of the world, so that we
877 XVI| or snow," you curse that whiteness and hate that hoariness
878 IV| they which follow the Lamb whithersoever He goeth." For not only
879 XII| the judgment of the great whore, that sitteth upon many
880 XV| commit a boldness of such wicked temerity, an offence to
881 V| world, how he may please his wife. So both the virgin and
882 VI| cross, or the sword, or the wild beasts, that she may be
883 XI| God ordained incense, and wine, and fire, are we thence
884 I| received the mandates of wisdom, warning us: "My son, despise
885 XII| Scriptures, by which the Lord wished us to be both instructed
886 XVIII| where both desires and wishes are different from her own?
887 arg| WHICH GOD HAS COMMANDED, TO WIT, FOR BEING SPENT ON THE
888 VI| of the grass: the grass withereth, and the flower fadeth;
889 | within
890 VII| stimulates and exhorts us, witnessing with a spiritual and heavenly
891 IV| born from their mother's womb; and there are some eunuchs,
892 X| he performed many great works with miracle, wherewith
893 XIII| from the true and divine worship. Lifted up, they have fallen;
894 II| himself injured. We are the worshippers and priests of those temples;
895 I| the right way, when His wrath is quickly kindled against
896 X| X.~You say that you are wealthy
897 XI| XI.~You say that you are wealthy
898 XII| XII.~The characteristics of
899 XIII| XIII.~Moreover Isaiah, full of
900 XIV| XIV.~For God neither made the
901 XIX| XIX.~But what of those who frequent
902 XV| XV.~And indeed in that very
903 XVI| XVI.~The voice of the warning
904 XVII| XVII.~Are you not afraid, I entreat
905 XVIII| XVIII.~And since we are seeking
906 XX| XX.~For this reason, therefore,
907 XXI| XXI.~Therefore hear me, O virgins,
908 XXII| XXII.~Hold fast, O virgins! hold
909 XXIII| XXIII.~The first decree commanded
910 XXIV| XXIV.~Every one of which things,
911 XXIV| You that are advanced in years, suggest a teaching to the
912 XV| with the application of yellow colour, or with black dust
913 XXIII| nor does He impose the yoke of necessity, since the
914 IX| you, and draw the sighs of young men after you, nourish the
915 | yours
916 IX| and attract the eyes of youth upon you, and draw the sighs