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1 III | grown old, and does not abide in that strength in which
2 XVI | your soul. That you may be able to know God, first know
3 XXII | and that cry for all the abominations that be done in the midst
4 XXV | and to emerge from the abyss of darkling superstition
5 XXV | s mercy is open, and the access is easy to those who seek
6 XI | while modest men are silent; accomplices are afraid, and those who
7 V | prevail, that death and famine accumulate anxiety, that health is
8 X | year's produce, and the accumulation of their price. You complain
9 XIII | crime of which they are accused, are tortured in order that
10 XI | found. There is no fear from accuser or judge: the wicked obtain
11 II | contempt, I may seem to be acknowledging the crime. I reply, therefore,
12 XVII | the guilty; the harmless acquiesce in punishments and tortures,
13 XVIII| for him only punishment added to sorrow. But they have
14 XV | and see them when they are adjured by us, and tortured with
15 IX | words of God; nor is any one admonished by the belief of things
16 XXIII| for Christ at His coming admonishes and teaches this, saying, "
17 XV | whom you fear, whom you adore. You will see that under
18 IX | stealing, and committing adultery, is broken out over the
19 XIV | majesty. But what can they advantage their worshippers, if they
20 XX | their God; and the evils and adversities of the world they bravely
21 XXV | wholesome help of our mind and advice. And because we may not
22 VII | that interfered in human affairs? How much greater still
23 XVIII| also themselves seem to be affected by their visitation. A man
24 X | are timid in the duties of affection, but rash in quest of implores
25 VIII | flog and scourge him: you afflict and torture him with hunger,
26 XXIV | the face of those who have afflicted them, and have taken away
27 VIII | showers and the fertile earth afford you less ready assistance;
28 XI | silent; accomplices are afraid, and those who are to judge
29 Arg | DEMETRIANUS THE PROCONSUL OF AFRICA, WHO CONTENDED THAT THE
30 | afterwards
31 VII | pestilent breeze corrupts the air; the weakness of disease
32 III | were we silent, and if we alleged no proofs from the sacred
33 V | what He Himself has done or allowed to be done, certainly when
34 VI | saying, "Thus saith the Lord Almighty: Because of mine house that
35 XII | your temples, and God's altars are either nowhere or are
36 XIII | your election of one of two alternatives. To be a Christian is either
37 XXIV | horrible fear, and shall be amazed at the suddenness of their
38 | Amongst
39 XVII | nothing of the memories of ancient times, and not to recur
40 XXII | when, sending forth His angels to the destruction of the
41 XXIV | repenting and groaning for anguish of spirit, shall say within
42 XVI | upright; and while other animals are downlooking, and are
43 III | the world itself is now announcing, and, bearing witness to
44 XIX | incur equally with you the annoyances of the world and of the
45 I | thy words; " and again, "Answer not a fool according to
46 VII | devoted and dedicated to God answers to these words in the same
47 XXIV | a vision to all flesh." Anti again: "Then shall the righteous
48 V | death and famine accumulate anxiety, that health is shattered
49 XVIII| XVIII.~Nor let anybody think that Christians are
50 XII | hidden. Crocodiles, and apes, and stones, and serpents
51 X | the dead, so that it may appear as if the wretched are probably
52 XX | prayers, and, propitiating and appeasing God, we entreat constantly
53 XIII | a Christian, why do you apply tortures to one who avows
54 XVII | that none of us, when he is apprehended, makes resistance, nor avenges
55 XXV | repentance is too late. The approach to God's mercy is open,
56 III | decay, with its end nearly approaching, must of necessity be weakened.
57 Arg | GODS; FAIRLY URGES (HAVING ARGUED THAT ALL THINGS ARE GRADUALLY
58 Arg | Argument.~CYPRIAN, IN REPLY TO DEMETRIANUS
59 I | to check your madness by arguments. Assuredly it would be both
60 II | it is ascribed that wars arise more frequently, that plague,
61 X | even although external arms and dangers from barbarians
62 | around
63 V | should be more and more aroused for the scourging of the
64 XX | gifts and promises until we arrive at the presence of God.
65 III | friendships, skilfulness in the arts, discipline in morals. Think
66 II | complaining that to us it is ascribed that wars arise more frequently,
67 XII | displeasing to you. The ashes of victims and the piles
68 XX | of God. And yet we always ask for the repulse of enemies,
69 XI | thence poisoners, thence assassins in the midst of the city,
70 V | inexperience of the truth asserts and repeats, because your
71 VIII | earth afford you less ready assistance; that the elements no longer
72 XII | in contempt of God, you attack and oppress God's servants.
73 XX | faith, is not moved by the attacks of this world and this life.
74 IV | years, it can now scarcely attain to its hundredth year? We
75 XIX | the temporal life shall be attained, we shall be distributed
76 XXI | those who were hurt, should attend them.~
77 XVII | immediate vengeance from above attending it. To say nothing of the
78 XIV | XIV.~Why do you turn your attention to the weakness of our body?
79 VI | filled with the Holy Spirit, attests and denounces the anger
80 XVI | earth, yours is a lofty attitude; and your countenance is
81 VII | greater still would be the audacity in men, if it were secure
82 I | did I do this without the authority of the divine teaching,
83 III | corn-fields so joyous; nor are the autumnal seasons so fruitful in their
84 XXII | example, that the anger of an avenging God may be known. But the
85 XIII | apply tortures to one who avows it, and who destroys your
86 XXV | way of life; He brings us back to paradise; He leads us
87 X | external arms and dangers from barbarians were repressed, the weapons
88 X | although in the same way the barns are shut up on earth. You
89 X | within. You complain of barrenness and famine, as if drought
90 III | is now announcing, and, bearing witness to its decline by
91 | becomes
92 | becoming
93 | beginning
94 IX | any one admonished by the belief of things present to take
95 | below
96 XVI | Why do you humble and bend yourself to false gods?
97 XVI | are depressed in posture bending towards the earth, yours
98 | besides
99 XXV | itself. This grace Christ bestows; this gift of His mercy
100 XV | once upon our interrogation betraying what they are, and even
101 I | thinking it more modest and better, silently to scorn the ignorance
102 | between
103 | beyond
104 I | And we are, moreover, bidden to keep what is holy within
105 VII | a few jejune and pallid blades of grass; if the destroying
106 XIII | a slight thing which you blamed in me before, that which
107 XXV | glorious together with Christ, blessed of God the Father, always
108 XIII | this insatiable madness for blood-shedding, what this interminable
109 XXII | whoever is found in the bloodand the sign of Christ alone
110 XII | with the summary of all bloody rapines; that true religion
111 XX | fruit, and there shall be no blossom in the vines. The labour
112 XXIV | us, or what good hath the boasting of riches done us? All those
113 XI | openly, and, safe by its very boldness, exposes the weapons of
114 XIX | same adverse things are not borne equally by us and by you?
115 XVI | to false gods? Why do you bow your body captive before
116 XVI | made; and the mean man hath bowed down, and the great man
117 IV | year? We see grey hairs in boys--the hair fails before it
118 III | green and fertile, as its branches dry up, becomes by and by
119 XX | adversities of the world they bravely suffer, because they are
120 XIV | the strength of the mind, break down the power of the soul,
121 XV | who has now possessed your breast, who has now darkened your
122 IX | and shut up, can scarcely breathe, there is still found opportunity
123 VII | the fountain; a pestilent breeze corrupts the air; the weakness
124 VIII | plentiful to you, and the breezes less salubrious, and the
125 VI | withhold her fruits: and I will bring a sword upon the earth,
126 XI | deserts of sinners prevent His bringing aid. "Is the Lord's hand,"
127 XII | our vitals; nor can your brutality and fierceness be content
128 II | own partisans, from the budding forth of your own root and
129 XXII | day of the Lord cometh, burning as an oven; and all the
130 XXII | that the aliens shall be burnt up and consumed; that is,
131 XXIII| life. Believe Him who will call down on them that believe
132 V | worshipped, but they are called down by your sins and deservings,
133 X | domestic assault from the calumnies and wrongs of powerful citizens,
134 III | sea, the soldier in the camp, innocence in the market,
135 XVI | Why do you bow your body captive before foolish images and
136 XV | stand bound, and tremble as captives, whom you took up to and
137 V | world, and all things are carried on by His will and direction,
138 I | holy unto the dogs, neither cast ye your pearls before swine,
139 III | that all these things are caused by us, and that to us ought
140 III | overflowing veins, as old age causes it to fail, scarcely trickles
141 V | is now drawing nigh, the censure of an indignant God should
142 XI | instinct: it is shown in a certain and obvious way that God
143 V | done or allowed to be done, certainly when those things occur
144 XVII | numerous and plentiful. Our certainty of a vengeance to follow
145 XII | estate, you load them with chains, you shut them up in prison,
146 XIV | them as their lord. Your championship defends them when injured,
147 XVII | think that this occurred by chance, or think that it was fortuitous,
148 III | you that the substantial character of a thing that is growing
149 IV | What if old men should charge it on the Christians that
150 II | I am treating the false charges with contempt, I may seem
151 XI | the market-place. Thence cheats, thence poisoners, thence
152 III | has not so much heat for cherishing the harvest; nor in the
153 XII | very matter is of which is chiefly our discourse --that you
154 VI | withered. And two and three cities shall be gathered into one
155 X | calumnies and wrongs of powerful citizens, would not be more ferocious
156 XIX | grateful to God. Nor does it claim for itself anything joyous
157 XIX | Among you there is always a clamorous and complaining impatience;
158 I | contempt your railing and noisy clamour with sacrilegious mouth
159 X | you, do you, who are seen clearly and nakedly by all other
160 IV | commencement, birth hastens to its close; thus, whatever is now born
161 IX | misfortunes wherein the soul, closely bound and shut up, can scarcely
162 II | be moved to good by the cogency of truth.~
163 VII | and contempt, if the rain comes down with unusual scarcity;
164 XXV | religion. We do not envy your comforts, nor do we conceal the divine
165 XVII | not to recur with wordy commemoration to frequently repeated vengeance
166 IV | Thus, even at its very commencement, birth hastens to its close;
167 XI | with impunity. The crime is committed by the guilty, and the guiltless
168 IX | killing, and stealing, and committing adultery, is broken out
169 XVI | by his means and in his company ? Keep the lofty estate
170 VIII | service; and though a man, you compel your fellow-man to submit,
171 XIII | tormented, then I ought to be compelled to confession of my crime
172 XXIV | they made for us will be compensated by a perpetual spectacle,
173 XV | of ignorance, shall speak concerning yourself in your hearing.
174 III | justice in the tribunal, concord in friendships, skilfulness
175 XXIV | Gehenna will burn up the condemned, and a punishment devouring
176 XXV | this gift of His mercy He confers upon us, by overcoming death
177 XVIII| of present evils who have confidence in future good things. In
178 XVII | punishments and tortures, sure and confident that whatsoever we suffer
179 XVI | countenance and of your body, conform your soul. That you may
180 VIII | you are obeyed by him in conformity to your will, you, as an
181 XV | assuredly even thus you might be confounded in those errors of yours,
182 XIII | people standing around, I am confounding both you and your gods by
183 XIV | soul, destroy our faith, conquer if you can by discussion,
184 VII | these things come as the consequence of the sins that provoke
185 II | II.~In consideration of this, I have frequently
186 XI | wounds of your conscience be considered; and let each one cease
187 XI | with constant havoc, nobody considers that he himself is mortal.
188 XVIII| received here, all whose consolation is ended here, whose fading
189 XXIV | righteous men stand in great constancy before the face of those
190 XI | midst of a people dying with constant havoc, nobody considers
191 XX | appeasing God, we entreat constantly and urgently, day and night,
192 XXII | aliens shall be burnt up and consumed; that is, aliens from the
193 XIX | are all, good and evil, contained in one household. Whatever
194 Arg | PROCONSUL OF AFRICA, WHO CONTENDED THAT THE WARS, AND FAMINE,
195 IX | eternal dungeon, and the continual fire, and the everlasting
196 I | to me with the desire of contradicting rather than with the wish
197 IX | this matter, and do not convert individuals to God by such
198 III | the spring season are the corn-fields so joyous; nor are the autumnal
199 XX | the truth of his hope, and Corroded on the stedfastness of his
200 VII | into neglect with dusty corruption; if the barren glebe hardly
201 VII | fountain; a pestilent breeze corrupts the air; the weakness of
202 XXIV | proverb of reproach; we fools counted their life madness, and
203 XX | soul is lifted up, and our courage unshaken: our patience is
204 III | thus, in her declining course, the moon wanes with exhausted
205 XX | earthly birth, and are now created and regenerated by the Spirit,
206 XVI | before foolish images and creations of earth? God made you upright;
207 IX | field, with things that creep on the earth, and with the
208 XII | either nowhere or are hidden. Crocodiles, and apes, and stones, and
209 XXV | death in the trophy of the cross, by redeeming the believer
210 IX | angry God was not heard, crying by His prophet, and saying, "
211 XXIII| the field, even among the cultivated and fruitful corn, the tares
212 X | that they may not, by being cured, escape: for he who enters
213 IX | God upon the earth. But cursing, and lying, and killing,
214 XX | meat. The flock shall be cut off from the fold, and there
215 Arg | Argument.~CYPRIAN, IN REPLY TO DEMETRIANUS
216 X | sin that is punished is daily increasing? You complain
217 XV | your breast, who has now darkened your mind with the night
218 XXV | emerge from the abyss of darkling superstition into the bright
219 XXIII| corn, the tares and the darnel have dominion. Nor say ye
220 III | the sun at his setting darts his rays with a less bright
221 XII | vices, with the iniquity of deadly crimes, with the summary
222 XII | innocent, the just, the dear to God, of their home; you
223 X | implores gains; shunning the deaths of the dying, and craving
224 III | is tending downwards to decay, with its end nearly approaching,
225 XIII | punishment I should conceal, by a deceitful falsehood, what I had previously
226 XV | unable to conceal those deceits and trickeries of theirs.~
227 XX | should fail, and the olive deceive, and the field parched with
228 XXIII| hast sent." Believe Him who deceives not at all. Believe Him
229 II | is moved to evil by the deception of a lie, will much more
230 III | Scriptures and from the divine declarations, the world itself is now
231 VII | of the evil, the same God declares in the Holy Scriptures,
232 XIII | punish has increased, that by declaring myself a Christian in a
233 III | bearing witness to its decline by the testimony of its
234 III | splendour; thus, in her declining course, the moon wanes with
235 III | veins are straitened and decreased day by day; the husbandman
236 VII | provoke them, and God is more deeply indignant when such and
237 IV | thus, whatever is now born degenerates with the old age of the
238 XIV | or, if your gods have any deity and power, let them themselves
239 XI | dissimulation about spoiling, and no delay. As if it were all lawful,
240 XXIII| world over the just and meek delight you, since in the field,
241 XV | yourself, he--i.e., the demon--who has now possessed your
242 XIII | put to the torture if I denied it. If in fear of your punishment
243 XIII | examinations the guilty, who deny that they are guilty of
244 VIII | into this world of ours and depart from it after a time with
245 XVI | below; lift your heart to a dependence on high and heavenly things.
246 XX | and the worshipper of God, depending on the truth of his hope,
247 XVI | are downlooking, and are depressed in posture bending towards
248 XII | not with impunity. You deprive the innocent, the just,
249 XXIV | whom we had some time in derision, and a proverb of reproach;
250 XI | love pathless ravines and deserted solitudes; and they do wrong
251 XIII | your gods, then I might deserve to be tormented, then I
252 XI | heshould perceive that himself deserves what he suffers.~
253 IX | by an evil life you were deserving any good, as if all things
254 V | called down by your sins and deservings, by whom God is neither
255 I | often to come to me with the desire of contradicting rather
256 X | estate of the dying, probably desired the sick man to perish.~
257 XXII | anger, to lay the earth desolate, and to destroy the sinners
258 XXII | world shall begin to be desolated and smitten, whoever is
259 V | human race is wasted by the desolation of pestilence, know that
260 I | when he hear thee he should despise the wisdom of thy words; "
261 XXII | that they may be utterly destroyed. But touch not any man upon
262 VII | blades of grass; if the destroying hail weakens the vines;
263 XIII | one who avows it, and who destroys your gods, not in hidden
264 IX | to God by such terror of destructions, there remains after all
265 X | of individuals are either detected or increased, while mercy
266 Arg | ALL THINGS ARE GRADUALLY DETERIORATING WITH THE OLD AGE OF THE
267 XVI | into the destruction of the devil, by his means and in his
268 XII | your ingenious cruelty devises new sufferings.~
269 VII | correction." And the prophet devoted and dedicated to God answers
270 XXIV | condemned, and a punishment devouring with living flames; nor
271 VI | heavens shall be stayed from dew, and the earth shall withhold
272 XXIV | says, "Their worm shall not die, and their fire shall not
273 V | carried on by His will and direction, nor can anything be done
274 XIV | faith, conquer if you can by discussion, overcome by reason; or,
275 V | health is shattered by raging diseases, that the human race is
276 III | in less quantity from the disembowelled and wearied mountains; the
277 XII | worshipper of God who is displeasing to you. The ashes of victims
278 XI | is taking possession; no dissimulation about spoiling, and no delay.
279 III | world is now shaken and distressed, because your gods are not
280 Arg | GOD, AND, MOREOVER, WERE DISTRESSING THE CHRISTIANS WITH UNJUST
281 XIX | be attained, we shall be distributed among the homes either of
282 X | repressed, the weapons of domestic assault from the calumnies
283 XVI | while other animals are downlooking, and are depressed in posture
284 III | vigorous? Whatever is tending downwards to decay, with its end nearly
285 V | the day of judgment is now drawing nigh, the censure of an
286 XXI | things which happen are not drawn down by you; since by the
287 VI | gathered into one city to drink water, and shall not be
288 II | famines rage, and that long droughts are suspending the showers
289 III | fertile, as its branches dry up, becomes by and by misshapen
290 III | The layers of marble are dug out in less quantity from
291 IX | remains after all the eternal dungeon, and the continual fire,
292 VII | falls into neglect with dusty corruption; if the barren
293 X | same men are timid in the duties of affection, but rash in
294 IX | mourn, with every one that dwelleth therein, with the beasts
295 | each
296 XI | midst of the city, are as eager for wickedness as they are
297 X | escape: for he who enters so eagerly upon the estate of the dying,
298 XI | or has He made heavy His ear, that He cannot hear you?
299 III | gold and silver suggest the early exhaustion of the metals,
300 I | you; since it would he an easier and slighter thing to restrain
301 II | of a lie, will much more easily be moved to good by the
302 XXV | open, and the access is easy to those who seek and apprehend
303 XIII | and repeated to the same effect bear witness that I am a
304 IV | endured beyond the age of eight and nine hundred years,
305 XV | spiritual scourges, and are ejected from the possessed bodies
306 XIII | cruelty? Rather make your election of one of two alternatives.
307 VIII | ready assistance; that the elements no longer subserve your
308 XXV | satisfaction to God, and to emerge from the abyss of darkling
309 XVIII| all whose consolation is ended here, whose fading and brief
310 XII | you content with a brief endurance of our sufferings, and with
311 IV | although once the life of men endured beyond the age of eight
312 XIX | for as long as this body endures, it must needs have a common
313 XX | always ask for the repulse of enemies, and for obtaining showers,
314 | enough
315 X | cured, escape: for he who enters so eagerly upon the estate
316 XV | You will see that we are entreated by those whom you entreat,
317 X | flushed with intemperance, or envious with jealousy, or unchaste
318 XXV | true religion. We do not envy your comforts, nor do we
319 XXI | opponents, by reason of the equality of the flesh and body, a
320 XXIV | saints! Therefore have we erred from the way of truth, and
321 XVI | Forsake the idols which human error has invented. Be turned
322 XV | might be confounded in those errors of yours, when you see and
323 XXV | tithe rejoice with us for eternity. When you have once departed
324 XXIV | that they might believe! An ever-burning Gehenna will burn up the
325 IX | continual fire, and the everlasting punishment; nor shall the
326 XVII | severity of the vengeance exacted for those persecutions.
327 VIII | imperious and excessive exactor of his service, flog and
328 XIII | of suffering, as in other examinations the guilty, who deny that
329 XXII | Something is given for an example, that the anger of an avenging
330 VIII | you, as an imperious and excessive exactor of his service,
331 VIII | while you yourself are thus exercising lordship?~
332 III | course, the moon wanes with exhausted horns; and the tree, which
333 XXV | no return for wrong, we exhort you while you have the power,
334 I | our own knowledge, and not expose it to be trodden down by
335 XI | safe by its very boldness, exposes the weapons of its headlong
336 XX | waiting for? They always exult in the Lord, and rejoice
337 XXII | smite, and let not your eye spare. Have no pity upon
338 IV | formerly, have the same facilities, in the hearing of their
339 XVIII| consolation is ended here, whose fading and brief life here reckons
340 IV | hairs in boys--the hair fails before it begins to grow;
341 Arg | DID NOT WORSHIP THE GODS; FAIRLY URGES (HAVING ARGUED THAT
342 XXIV | what the punishment of faithlessness? Whenthe day of judgment
343 XVI | you worship? Why do you fall into the destruction of
344 VII | scarcity; and the earth falls into neglect with dusty
345 XIII | conceal, by a deceitful falsehood, what I had previously been,
346 II | frequently, that plague, that famines rage, and that long droughts
347 XIX | house, we suffer with equal fate, until, when the end of
348 IX | anger, God rebukes and finds fault with, and no one is converted
349 XIV | why do you strive with the feebleness of this earthly flesh? Contend
350 XV | man and the power of God, feeling the stripes and blows, they
351 XVIII| their visitation. A man feels the punishment of worldly
352 VIII | though a man, you compel your fellow-man to submit, and to be obedient
353 X | citizens, would not be more ferocious and more harshly wielded
354 | few
355 III | rays with a less bright and fiery splendour; thus, in her
356 XX | our hope and faith. "The fig-tree," says He, "shall not bear
357 XXII | previously preceded by a figure in the slain lamb is fulfilled
358 VI | Moreover, the prophet, filled with the Holy Spirit, attests
359 IX | of anger, God rebukes and finds fault with, and no one is
360 VI | VI.~In fine, listen to Himself speaking;
361 XVI | worshipped them whom their fingers made; and the mean man hath
362 XXIII| eternal punishments in the fires of Gehenna.~
363 IX | fowls of heaven; and the fishes of the sea shall languish,
364 II | showers and rains, it is not fitting that I should be silent
365 XXI | XXI.~Let no one, however, flatter himself, because there is
366 XX | shall yield no meat. The flock shall be cut off from the
367 VIII | exactor of his service, flog and scourge him: you afflict
368 III | wherewith it might previously flourish in its youth while still
369 XX | XX.~There flourishes with us the strength of
370 X | prodigal with gambling, or flushed with intemperance, or envious
371 XX | shall be cut off from the fold, and there shall be no herd
372 I | a fool according to his folly, lest thou also be like
373 XII | exhaustion of pains. You set on foot tedious tortures, by tearing
374 III | nor has it that vigour and force which it formerly possessed.
375 XXII | and set a mark upon the foreheads of the men that sigh and
376 XXIII| late; for long ago, God, forewarning by His prophet, exhorts
377 XVII | And again the Holy Spirit forewarns, and says, "Say not thou,
378 XVI | himself, and I will not forgive them." Why do you humble
379 XVI | God, first know yourself. Forsake the idols which human error
380 XVII | soldiers, and the diminution of forts. Nor let any one think that
381 XVII | chance, or think that it was fortuitous, since long ago Scripture
382 XXIII| dominion. Nor say ye that ill fortunes happen because your gods
383 XX | because they are looking forward to gifts and prosperities
384 VIII | VIII.~You complain that the fountains are now less plentiful to
385 IX | the earth, and with the fowls of heaven; and the fishes
386 II | religion, nor restrain a frantic man with gentleness. But
387 IX | sins of lying, of lust, of fraud, of cruelty, of impiety,
388 XIII | myself a Christian in a frequented place, and with the people
389 IV | of their strength, in the freshness of their organic powers,
390 III | the tribunal, concord in friendships, skilfulness in the arts,
391 XXII | figure in the slain lamb is fulfilled in Christ, the truth which
392 IV | their organic powers, in the fulness of their limbs, and that
393 I | speaking to provoke the fury of a senseless one. Neither
394 X | rash in quest of implores gains; shunning the deaths of
395 X | anger, or prodigal with gambling, or flushed with intemperance,
396 VI | and three cities shall be gathered into one city to drink water,
397 XXIV | ever seen by us who here gazed upon us for a season; and
398 XIX | this world, but, meek and gentle and stable against all the
399 II | restrain a frantic man with gentleness. But yet, when you say that
400 XXV | grace Christ bestows; this gift of His mercy He confers
401 XXV | the sight of God, and ever giving thanks to God. For none
402 VII | corruption; if the barren glebe hardly brings forth a few
403 XXV | We Christians shall be glorious together with Christ, blessed
404 III | diminished quantities of gold and silver suggest the early
405 XXIV | and destruction; we have gone through deserts where there
406 XXV | is given from the divine goodness to the believer, and a passage
407 XIII | of your magistrates and governors; so that, although it was
408 Arg | ARGUED THAT ALL THINGS ARE GRADUALLY DETERIORATING WITH THE OLD
409 XXV | acknowledgment of Him, and pardon is granted to the man who confesses,
410 X | increase more terribly from grasping at the increase of the year'
411 XVII | that in proportion to the greatness of the injustice of I our
412 X | are swollen with pride, or greedy with avarice, or cruel with
413 III | tree, which before had been green and fertile, as its branches
414 IV | its hundredth year? We see grey hairs in boys--the hair
415 XVIII| we broken down, nor do we grieve or murmur in any external
416 VII | them, but they have not grieved; Thou hast scourged them,
417 XVIII| glory are in the world. He grieves and groans if it is ill
418 XVIII| the world. He grieves and groans if it is ill with him in
419 XII | stained with a variety of gross vices, with the iniquity
420 III | character of a thing that is growing old remains so robust as
421 IV | is decaying as the world grows old. What if old men should
422 XIV | just as your protection guards them when shut up from perishing.
423 XI | committed by the guilty, and the guiltless who can avenge it is not
424 III | the fountain which once gushed forth liberally from its
425 XIX | and stable against all the gusts of this tossing world, it
426 VII | grass; if the destroying hail weakens the vines; if the
427 IV | grey hairs in boys--the hair fails before it begins to
428 IV | hundredth year? We see grey hairs in boys--the hair fails
429 XIX | one household. Whatever happens within the house, we suffer
430 VII | corruption; if the barren glebe hardly brings forth a few jejune
431 XVII | place to the guilty; the harmless acquiesce in punishments
432 X | more ferocious and more harshly wielded within. You complain
433 III | heat for cherishing the harvest; nor in the spring season
434 XI | people dying with constant havoc, nobody considers that he
435 XV | will even believe yourself, he--i.e., the demon--who has
436 XI | exposes the weapons of its headlong craving in the light of
437 V | accumulate anxiety, that health is shattered by raging diseases,
438 XVI | things below; lift your heart to a dependence on high
439 III | the sun has not so much heat for cherishing the harvest;
440 Arg | THAT IT WAS RATHER THE HEATHENS THEMSELVES WHO WERE THE
441 VI | own house, therefore the heavens shall be stayed from dew,
442 XI | save you; or has He made heavy His ear, that He cannot
443 II | this, I have frequently held my tongue, and overcome
444 | hence
445 XX | fold, and there shall be no herd in the stalls. But I will
446 XI | about God, or about us, if heshould perceive that himself deserves
447 XI | because of your sins He hath hid His face from you, that
448 X | yourself; look into the hiding-places of your own conscience;
449 XVI | heart to a dependence on high and heavenly things. Why
450 XVI | thitherward, seek God in the highest, that you may be free from
451 XII | the dear to God, of their home; you spoil them of their
452 XIX | be distributed among the homes either of eternal death
453 XXIV | their end to be without honour. How are they numbered among
454 III | moon wanes with exhausted horns; and the tree, which before
455 XXIV | they shall be troubled with horrible fear, and shall be amazed
456 XII | worship, with a sacrilegious hostility. You neither worship God,
457 XIX | and evil, contained in one household. Whatever happens within
458 XXII | you for a token upon the houses in which ye shall be; and
459 XXII | Scripture denounces, saying, "Howl ye, for the day of the Lord
460 XV | tortures of words, when howling and groaning at the voice
461 XXI | that persecutions which humanly would hurt us should not
462 XVI | forgive them." Why do you humble and bend yourself to false
463 XVI | and the great man hath humbled himself, and I will not
464 IV | the age of eight and nine hundred years, it can now scarcely
465 IV | now scarcely attain to its hundredth year? We see grey hairs
466 VIII | afflict and torture him with hunger, with thirst and nakedness,
467 III | decreased day by day; the husbandman is failing in the fields,
468 XV | even believe yourself, he--i.e., the demon--who has now
469 II | II.~In consideration of this,
470 III | III.~You have said that all
471 XVII | the name we bear, without immediate vengeance from above attending
472 XIX | clamorous and complaining impatience; with us there is a strong
473 II | tongue, and overcome an impatient man with patience; since
474 VIII | to your will, you, as an imperious and excessive exactor of
475 IX | of fraud, of cruelty, of impiety, of anger, God rebukes and
476 X | affection, but rash in quest of implores gains; shunning the deaths
477 III | exhaustion of the metals, and the impoverished veins are straitened and
478 VIII | with the sword and with imprisonment. And, wretch that you are,
479 I | to learn, and preferred impudently to insist on your own views,
480 IV | IV.~You impute it to the Christians that
481 Arg | WAS THEN PLAGUED MUST BE IMPUTED TO THE CHRISTIANS BECAUSE
482 X | wonder that God's anger increases in punishing the human race,
483 X | that is punished is daily increasing? You complain that the enemy
484 XIX | world and in this flesh, we incur equally with you the annoyances
485 | indeed
486 X | produced were given to the indigent. You reproach plague and
487 V | complaining and ignorant inexperience of the truth asserts and
488 XXIV | bodies will be reserved in infinite tortures for suffering.
489 IX | kind which happen were not infinitely less and of smaller account
490 XII | ordinary tortures; your ingenious cruelty devises new sufferings.~
491 IX | the 'Lord is against the inhabitants of the earth; because there
492 XII | of gross vices, with the iniquity of deadly crimes, with the
493 XVII | to the greatness of the injustice of I our persecution so
494 III | the soldier in the camp, innocence in the market, justice in
495 XIII | XIII.~What is this insatiable madness for blood-shedding,
496 I | preferred impudently to insist on your own views, which
497 XVII | of God's worshippers, the instance of a recent matter is sufficient
498 XI | with the divine spirit and instinct: it is shown in a certain
499 VI | with a divine voice at once instructing and warning us: "Thou shalt
500 X | gambling, or flushed with intemperance, or envious with jealousy,