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501 VII | even no such rebuke as that interfered in human affairs? How much
502 XIII | blood-shedding, what this interminable lust of cruelty? Rather
503 XV | your gods, at once upon our interrogation betraying what they are,
504 XXIV | joy of those cruel eyes inthe persecutions that they made
505 XVI | idols which human error has invented. Be turned to God, whom
506 XX | servants whom paradise is inviting, whom all the grace and
507 IX | the Lord, ye children of Israel: for the judgment of the '
508 IV | IV.~You impute it to the Christians
509 IX | IX.~And therefore with reason
510 X | intemperance, or envious with jealousy, or unchaste with lust,
511 VII | hardly brings forth a few jejune and pallid blades of grass;
512 XXII | Go through the midst of Jerusalem, and set a mark upon the
513 XXIII| the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom Thou hast sent."
514 XXII | when Egypt was smitten, the Jewish people could not escape
515 XXIII| acknowledged through His judgments. Seek the Lord even late;
516 IV | swiftness of their feet, in the keenness of their eyes, in the vigour
517 XXII | is found in this sign is kept safe and unharmed, is also
518 IX | cursing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and committing
519 IX | as if all things of that kind which happen were not infinitely
520 XXV | divine benefits. We repay kindness for your hatred; and for
521 XII | numerous punishments, by lacerating our vitals; nor can your
522 XVII | since long ago Scripture has laid down, and said. "Vengeance
523 IX | fishes of the sea shall languish, so that no man shall judge,
524 XI | delay. As if it were all lawful, as if it were all becoming,
525 III | their leafy products. The layers of marble are dug out in
526 XXV | us back to paradise; He leads us on to the kingdom of
527 III | seasons so fruitful in their leafy products. The layers of
528 I | rather than with the wish to learn, and preferred impudently
529 | least
530 XIX | we are not on the same level, and equal with you, because,
531 III | which once gushed forth liberally from its overflowing veins,
532 II | evil by the deception of a lie, will much more easily be
533 XX | decaying world our soul is lifted up, and our courage unshaken:
534 IV | in the fulness of their limbs, and that although once
535 VI | VI.~In fine, listen to Himself speaking; Himself
536 I | noisy words, to patiently listening to mine, it seethed to me
537 XII | them of their estate, you load them with chains, you shut
538 XX | suffer, because they are looking forward to gifts and prosperities
539 XV | took up to and venerate as lords: assuredly even thus you
540 VIII | yourself are thus exercising lordship?~
541 XI | does not rob were suffering loss and wasting his own property,
542 XXV | satisfaction. Here life is either lost or saved; here eternal safety
543 XI | modesty in their crimes. They love pathless ravines and deserted
544 XIII | in the hearing of your magistrates and governors; so that,
545 XXV | repentance, and no possibility of making satisfaction. Here life
546 II | sowing hatred against us with malicious words. you have made your
547 X | increased, while mercy is not manifested to the weak, and avarice
548 III | products. The layers of marble are dug out in less quantity
549 III | the camp, innocence in the market, justice in the tribunal,
550 XVI | their fingers made; and the mean man hath bowed down, and
551 XX | the fields shall yield no meat. The flock shall be cut
552 XVII | it. To say nothing of the memories of ancient times, and not
553 XVIII| overcome bodily weakness by mental strength. By those very
554 III | early exhaustion of the metals, and the impoverished veins
555 XXIII| world is at hand, turn your minds to God, in the fear of God;
556 IX | out over the land, they mingle blood with blood. Therefore
557 Arg | WHO WERE THE CAUSE OF SUCH MISCHIEFS, BECAUSE THEY DID NOT WORSHIP
558 XVIII| or murmur in any external misfortune or weakness of body: living
559 III | dry up, becomes by and by misshapen in a barren old age; and
560 I | scorn the ignorance of a mistaken man, than by speaking to
561 II | begin to be attributed to mistrust rather than to modesty;
562 XX | either for the removal or the moderating of adversity; and we pour
563 III | trickles with a sparing moisture. This is the sentence passed
564 XII | our discourse --that you molest us, although innocent; that,
565 XII | hands, but even portents and monsters besides, are pleasing to
566 III | her declining course, the moon wanes with exhausted horns;
567 III | the arts, discipline in morals. Think you that the substantial
568 III | disembowelled and wearied mountains; the diminished quantities
569 IX | Therefore shall the land mourn, with every one that dwelleth
570 V | foretold; that evils should be multiplied in the last times, and that
571 XII | tearing our bodies; you multiply numerous punishments, by
572 XVIII| down, nor do we grieve or murmur in any external misfortune
573 X | who are seen clearly and nakedly by all other men, yourself
574 VIII | hunger, with thirst and nakedness, and even frequently with
575 XXV | by quickening our mortal nature with a heavenly regeneration.
576 X | of your own conscience; nay, since now there is not
577 III | downwards to decay, with its end nearly approaching, must of necessity
578 III | nearly approaching, must of necessity be weakened. Thus, the sun
579 XIX | this body endures, it must needs have a common lot with others,
580 VII | and the earth falls into neglect with dusty corruption; if
581 V | judgment is now drawing nigh, the censure of an indignant
582 | nine
583 | nobody
584 III | abundance of showers for nourishing the seeds; in the summer
585 | nowhere
586 XXIV | without honour. How are they numbered among the children of God,
587 VIII | fellow-man to submit, and to be obedient to you; and although you
588 VIII | pleasure, unless you are obeyed by him in conformity to
589 VII | or complain in this your obstinacy and contempt, if the rain
590 VII | for the discipline of the obstinate or for the punishment of
591 XX | repulse of enemies, and for obtaining showers, and either for
592 XI | is shown in a certain and obvious way that God can prevent
593 XVII | any one think that this occurred by chance, or think that
594 XI | Therefore let your sins and of-fences be reckoned up; let the
595 XXIV | judgment shall come, what joy ofbelievers, what sorrow of unbelievers;
596 V | which show the anger of an offended God, they happen not on
597 | often
598 XV | XV.~Oh, would you but hear and
599 VI | upon the wine, and upon the oil, and upon men, and upon
600 XXII | the virgins and the little ones and the women, that they
601 X | avarice and rapine are waiting open-mouthed for the dead. The same men
602 XXV | believer, and a passage is opened to immortality even in death
603 XXV | His sacrament and sign. He opens to us the way of life; He
604 XXI | worshippers and to God's opponents, by reason of the equality
605 IX | breathe, there is still found opportunity for men to be evil, and
606 XII | contempt of God, you attack and oppress God's servants. It is little,
607 VIII | by whom all things are ordained to your service; do you
608 XII | fierceness be content with ordinary tortures; your ingenious
609 IV | in the freshness of their organic powers, in the fulness of
610 II | forth of your own root and origin, who, however, I believe,
611 | ours
612 | ourselves
613 XXII | Lord cometh, burning as an oven; and all the aliens and
614 XXV | mercy He confers upon us, by overcoming death in the trophy of the
615 III | forth liberally from its overflowing veins, as old age causes
616 XII | rapines; that true religion is overturned by false superstitions;
617 VII | weakens the vines; if the overwhelming whirlwind roots out the
618 XII | and swift exhaustion of pains. You set on foot tedious
619 VII | brings forth a few jejune and pallid blades of grass; if the
620 XX | olive deceive, and the field parched with grass dying with drought
621 XXV | acknowledgment of Him, and pardon is granted to the man who
622 XXII | this mark is, and in what part of the body it is placed,
623 II | you have made your own partisans, from the budding forth
624 XXIII| these things should come to pass. Believe Him who will give
625 XXV | goodness to the believer, and a passage is opened to immortality
626 XXII | the sign pertains to the passion and blood of Christ, and
627 XI | their crimes. They love pathless ravines and deserted solitudes;
628 XVII | vengeance to follow makes us patient. The innocent give place
629 I | shouted with noisy words, to patiently listening to mine, it seethed
630 I | dogs, neither cast ye your pearls before swine, lest they
631 XXV | and for the torments and penalties which are inflicted on us,
632 XXIV | be without the fruit of penitence; weeping will be useless,
633 XI | or about us, if heshould perceive that himself deserves what
634 | perhaps
635 XIV | guards them when shut up from perishing. You should be ashamed to
636 XII | worship God, nor do you at all permit Him to be worshipped; and
637 XVII | of the injustice of I our persecution so will be the justice and
638 XXII | thereof." And that the sign pertains to the passion and blood
639 VII | stanches the fountain; a pestilent breeze corrupts the air;
640 V | alone be worshipped and petitioned.~
641 XII | ashes of victims and the piles of cattle everywhere smoke
642 XXII | your eye spare. Have no pity upon old or young, and slay
643 XIII | not in hidden and secret places, but openly, and publicly,
644 Arg | WHICH THE WORLD WAS THEN PLAGUED MUST BE IMPUTED TO THE CHRISTIANS
645 IX | therefore with reason in these plagues that occur, there are not
646 XVII | thy help." Whence it is plain and manifest, that not by
647 XXV | we may not hate, and we please God more by rendering no
648 X | very wickedness itself that pleased you, do you, who are seen
649 XII | and monsters besides, are pleasing to you, it is only the worshipper
650 XXV | are inflicted on us, we point out to you the ways of salvation.
651 XI | market-place. Thence cheats, thence poisoners, thence assassins in the
652 XII | by man's hands, but even portents and monsters besides, are
653 XXV | place for repentance, and no possibility of making satisfaction.
654 XXV | heavenly regeneration. If it be possible, let us all follow Him;
655 XX | moderating of adversity; and we pour forth our prayers, and,
656 X | calumnies and wrongs of powerful citizens, would not be more
657 XVII | speedily, and in its speed so powerfully, followed of late in the
658 XXIII| fear of God; nor let that powerless and vain dominion in the
659 IV | freshness of their organic powers, in the fulness of their
660 XXIV | weeping will be useless, and prayer ineffectual. Too late they
661 XX | adversity; and we pour forth our prayers, and, propitiating and appeasing
662 XXII | Egypt." What previously preceded by a figure in the slain
663 I | with the wish to learn, and preferred impudently to insist on
664 V | wars continue frequently to prevail, that death and famine accumulate
665 XII | chains, you shut them up in prison, you punish them with the
666 IV | world itself is already in process of failing, and in its end.~
667 Arg | REPLY TO DEMETRIANUS THE PROCONSUL OF AFRICA, WHO CONTENDED
668 X | or cruel with anger, or prodigal with gambling, or flushed
669 X | the increase of the year's produce, and the accumulation of
670 III | fruitful in their leafy products. The layers of marble are
671 XXIV | the Lord. What hath pride profited us, or what good hath the
672 XIX | for the time of the divine promise; for as long as this body
673 XX | receive God's gifts and promises until we arrive at the presence
674 III | silent, and if we alleged no proofs from the sacred Scriptures
675 XI | loss and wasting his own property, thus every one hastens
676 XXII | saith the Lord." The Lord prophesies that the aliens shall be
677 XXI | announcement of God Himself, and by prophetic testimony, it has previously
678 XX | forth our prayers, and, propitiating and appeasing God, we entreat
679 XVII | remain unavenged, and that in proportion to the greatness of the
680 XX | looking forward to gifts and prosperities to come: for we who have
681 XIX | itself anything joyous or prosperous in this world, but, meek
682 XVI | heavenly things. Why do you prostrate yourself into the ruin of
683 XVIII| things. In fact, we are never prostrated by adversity, nor are we
684 XVII | matter is sufficient to prove that our defence, so speedily,
685 XXIV | time in derision, and a proverb of reproach; we fools counted
686 XXV | XXV.~Provide, therefore, while you may,
687 XXV | here eternal safety is provided for by the worship of God
688 XIII | your gods by an open and public announcement?~
689 XIII | places, but openly, and publicly, and in the very market-place,
690 X | race, when the sin that is punished is daily increasing? You
691 X | God's anger increases in punishing the human race, when the
692 III | mountains; the diminished quantities of gold and silver suggest
693 III | marble are dug out in less quantity from the disembowelled and
694 XXIV | their fire shall not be quenched; and they shall be for a
695 X | of affection, but rash in quest of implores gains; shunning
696 XVI | whom the Father has sent to quicken and restore us. Cease to
697 XXV | man to God the Father, by quickening our mortal nature with a
698 XIX | religious patience, always quiet and always grateful to God.
699 II | that plague, that famines rage, and that long droughts
700 XI | night. Avarice, however, rages openly, and, safe by its
701 V | that health is shattered by raging diseases, that the human
702 I | treated with contempt your railing and noisy clamour with sacrilegious
703 VI | rain. One piece shall be rained upon, and the piece whereon
704 II | suspending the showers and rains, it is not fitting that
705 XVI | and your countenance is raised upwards to heaven, and to
706 X | made a greater famine than rapacity, as if the fierceness of
707 XII | the summary of all bloody rapines; that true religion is overturned
708 X | duties of affection, but rash in quest of implores gains;
709 XI | thieves there is at any rate some modesty in their crimes.
710 XI | crimes. They love pathless ravines and deserted solitudes;
711 III | at his setting darts his rays with a less bright and fiery
712 VIII | fertile earth afford you less ready assistance; that the elements
713 XIII | that the confession of the reality of the crime, which the
714 II | believe, will admit the reasonableness of my discourse; for he
715 IX | of impiety, of anger, God rebukes and finds fault with, and
716 | recent
717 XI | your sins and of-fences be reckoned up; let the wounds of your
718 XVIII| fading and brief life here reckons some sweetness and pleasure,
719 XXV | the price of His blood, by reconciling man to God the Father, by
720 XVII | ancient times, and not to recur with wordy commemoration
721 XXV | trophy of the cross, by redeeming the believer with the price
722 VII | scourged them, but they have refused to receive correction."
723 XIII | which the tell-tale voice refuses to make, may be wrung out
724 XX | and are now created and regenerated by the Spirit, and no longer
725 XXV | mortal nature with a heavenly regeneration. If it be possible, let
726 XXV | all follow Him; let us be registered in His sacrament and sign.
727 XXV | of God the Father, always rejoicing with perpetual pleasures
728 XIX | us there is a strong and religious patience, always quiet and
729 XVII | whatsoever we suffer will not remain unavenged, and that in proportion
730 XX | showers, and either for the removal or the moderating of adversity;
731 I | feet, and turn again and rend you." For when you used
732 XXV | and we please God more by rendering no return for wrong, we
733 XXIV | unexpected salvation; and they, repenting and groaning for anguish
734 X | dangers from barbarians were repressed, the weapons of domestic
735 XX | yet we always ask for the repulse of enemies, and for obtaining
736 VIII | your slave you yourself require service; and though a man,
737 XXIV | with their bodies will be reserved in infinite tortures for
738 XVII | he is apprehended, makes resistance, nor avenges himself against
739 XXIV | time they may have either respite or end to their torments.
740 XVI | has sent to quicken and restore us. Cease to hurt the servants
741 XXV | we shall always rejoice, restored by His own blood. We Christians
742 XXV | faith. Nor let any one be restrained either by his sins or by
743 XXIII| to all that believe the reward of eternal life. Believe
744 XXIV | good hath the boasting of riches done us? All those things
745 XXIV | Anti again: "Then shall the righteous men stand in great constancy
746 XXIV | truth, and the light of righteousness hath not shined upon us,
747 VIII | after a time with equal rights, and by the same law; yet,
748 XI | becoming, as if he who does not rob were suffering loss and
749 III | is growing old remains so robust as that wherewith it might
750 II | budding forth of your own root and origin, who, however,
751 XVI | the Lord only, shall be rooted out?" And again: "They worshipped
752 VII | the overwhelming whirlwind roots out the olive; if drought
753 XXIV | shined upon us, and the sun rose not on us. We wearied ourselves
754 XVI | prostrate yourself into the ruin of death with the serpent
755 V | For since He is Lord and Ruler of the world, and all things
756 VI | house that is waste, and ye run every man to his own house,
757 XXV | us be registered in His sacrament and sign. He opens to us
758 III | alleged no proofs from the sacred Scriptures and from the
759 XVI | threatens and says, "He that sacrifices unto any gods, but unto
760 III | failing in the fields, the sailor at sea, the soldier in the
761 XXIV | and their lot is among the saints! Therefore have we erred
762 XVII | by our means, but for our sakes, all those things are happening
763 XI | who are to judge are for sale. And therefore by the mouth
764 VIII | you, and the breezes less salubrious, and the frequent showers
765 VI | water, and shall not be satisfied; and ye are not converted
766 XXV | Here life is either lost or saved; here eternal safety is
767 XXV | the man who confesses, and saving mercy is given from the
768 VII | comes down with unusual scarcity; and the earth falls into
769 XI | mortal. Everywhere there is scattering, there is seizure, there
770 I | and better, silently to scorn the ignorance of a mistaken
771 VIII | of his service, flog and scourge him: you afflict and torture
772 VII | have not grieved; Thou hast scourged them, but they have refused
773 V | and more aroused for the scourging of the human race. For these
774 VII | fear of God. Lo, blows and scourgings from above are not wanting,
775 III | joyous; nor are the autumnal seasons so fruitful in their leafy
776 XIII | gods, not in hidden and secret places, but openly, and
777 III | showers for nourishing the seeds; in the summer the sun has
778 I | patiently listening to mine, it seethed to me foolish to contend
779 XI | is scattering, there is seizure, there is taking possession;
780 VI | and the piece whereon I send no rain shall be withered.
781 XXII | in another place, when, sending forth His angels to the
782 XIX | flesh; for since in the sense of pain is all punishment,
783 I | to provoke the fury of a senseless one. Neither did I do this
784 III | sparing moisture. This is the sentence passed on the world, this
785 XI | hear you? But your sins separate between you and God; and
786 XIX | of the human race to be separated one from another, except
787 XVI | the ruin of death with the serpent whom you worship? Why do
788 XII | and apes, and stones, and serpents are worshipped by you; and
789 VIII | law; yet, unless you are served by him according to your
790 XXII | the body it is placed, God sets forth in another place,
791 XVII | will be the justice and the severity of the vengeance exacted
792 XXIV | things are passed away like a shadow." The pain of punishment
793 III | wherewith the world is now shaken and distressed, because
794 X | now there is not even any shame in your sins and you are
795 VIII | to you; and although you share the same lot in respect
796 XIX | manifest that he is not a sharer of your punishment who,
797 V | anxiety, that health is shattered by raging diseases, that
798 XXIV | of righteousness hath not shined upon us, and the sun rose
799 XXIV | us for a season; and the short joy of those cruel eyes
800 I | your own views, which you shouted with noisy words, to patiently
801 I | of a turbulent sea with shouts, than to check your madness
802 V | those things occur which show the anger of an offended
803 XI | spirit and instinct: it is shown in a certain and obvious
804 X | quest of implores gains; shunning the deaths of the dying,
805 X | dying, probably desired the sick man to perish.~
806 X | probably forsaken in their sickness for this cause, that they
807 XXII | foreheads of the men that sigh and that cry for all the
808 XXV | perpetual pleasures in the sight of God, and ever giving
809 XXII | who have been new-born and signed with the sign of Christ,
810 II | silent any longer, lest my silence should begin to be attributed
811 I | more modest and better, silently to scorn the ignorance of
812 III | diminished quantities of gold and silver suggest the early exhaustion
813 XII | our sufferings, and with a simple and swift exhaustion of
814 X | the human race, when the sin that is punished is daily
815 III | concord in friendships, skilfulness in the arts, discipline
816 XXII | preceded by a figure in the slain lamb is fulfilled in Christ,
817 VIII | wait upon you? From your slave you yourself require service;
818 XXII | pity upon old or young, and slay the virgins and the little
819 XIII | that, although it was a slight thing which you blamed in
820 I | it would he an easier and slighter thing to restrain the angry
821 XVI | XVI.~What, then, is that sluggishness of mind; yea, what blind
822 III | and great things become small, and that, when they have
823 IX | not infinitely less and of smaller account than your sins.~
824 XII | piles of cattle everywhere smoke in your temples, and God'
825 III | the sailor at sea, the soldier in the camp, innocence in
826 XVII | wealth, in the waste of soldiers, and the diminution of forts.
827 XI | pathless ravines and deserted solitudes; and they do wrong in such
828 XXIV | flames; nor will there be any source whence at any time they
829 II | up, and many of whom, by sowing hatred against us with malicious
830 XXII | smite, and let not your eye spare. Have no pity upon old or
831 III | scarcely trickles with a sparing moisture. This is the sentence
832 XXIV | compensated by a perpetual spectacle, according to the truth
833 XVII | so speedily, and in its speed so powerfully, followed
834 XVII | prove that our defence, so speedily, and in its speed so powerfully,
835 XV | by us, and tortured with spiritual scourges, and are ejected
836 XXII | profane, those who are not spiritually new-born, nor made children
837 III | a less bright and fiery splendour; thus, in her declining
838 XII | God, of their home; you spoil them of their estate, you
839 XI | no dissimulation about spoiling, and no delay. As if it
840 X | the dying, and craving the spoils of the dead, so that it
841 III | the harvest; nor in the spring season are the corn-fields
842 XIX | but, meek and gentle and stable against all the gusts of
843 XII | account, that your life is stained with a variety of gross
844 XX | shall be no herd in the stalls. But I will rejoice in the
845 VII | out the olive; if drought stanches the fountain; a pestilent
846 XIII | place, and with the people standing around, I am confounding
847 VI | therefore the heavens shall be stayed from dew, and the earth
848 IX | lying, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery,
849 XX | hope, and Corroded on the stedfastness of his faith, is not moved
850 II | others whom perhaps you have stirred up, and many of whom, by
851 XII | Crocodiles, and apes, and stones, and serpents are worshipped
852 III | strength in which it formerly stood; nor has it that vigour
853 VII | these words in the same strain, and says, "Thou hast stricken
854 III | the impoverished veins are straitened and decreased day by day;
855 III | divine knowledge, and a stranger to the truth, you must in
856 XVIII| trust that we are proved and strengthened. ~
857 XX | prophet, and exhorts us, strengthening with a heavenly word the
858 VII | strain, and says, "Thou hast stricken them, but they have not
859 XIV | of our body? why do you strive with the feebleness of this
860 XXII | do wickedly shall be as stubble, and the day that cometh
861 XVI | mind; yea, what blind and stupid madness of fools, to be
862 XXV | grateful, who, having been once subject to death, has been made
863 VIII | compel your fellow-man to submit, and to be obedient to you;
864 VIII | that the elements no longer subserve your uses and your pleasures
865 VIII | although you have like bodily substance and a common order of souls,
866 III | morals. Think you that the substantial character of a thing that
867 XXIV | and shall be amazed at the suddenness of their unexpected salvation;
868 XI | himself deserves what he suffers.~
869 XVII | instance of a recent matter is sufficient to prove that our defence,
870 III | quantities of gold and silver suggest the early exhaustion of
871 XII | deadly crimes, with the summary of all bloody rapines; that
872 III | nourishing the seeds; in the summer the sun has not so much
873 XXV | from the abyss of darkling superstition into the bright light of
874 IX | shall the groaning of the suppliants be heard there, because
875 XVII | punishments and tortures, sure and confident that whatsoever
876 II | and that long droughts are suspending the showers and rains, it
877 XVIII| brief life here reckons some sweetness and pleasure, but when it
878 XII | sufferings, and with a simple and swift exhaustion of pains. You
879 IV | hearing of their ears, in the swiftness of their feet, in the keenness
880 X | yourself. For either you are swollen with pride, or greedy with
881 IX | belief of things present to take thought for what is to come.
882 XXIV | afflicted them, and have taken away their labours. When
883 | taking
884 XXIII| cultivated and fruitful corn, the tares and the darnel have dominion.
885 II | patience; since I could neither teach an unteachable man, nor
886 XXIII| His coming admonishes and teaches this, saying, "This is life
887 XII | foot tedious tortures, by tearing our bodies; you multiply
888 XII | of pains. You set on foot tedious tortures, by tearing our
889 XIII | of the crime, which the tell-tale voice refuses to make, may
890 XII | everywhere smoke in your temples, and God's altars are either
891 XIX | until, when the end of the temporal life shall be attained,
892 III | and vigorous? Whatever is tending downwards to decay, with
893 XXV | of God, and ever giving thanks to God. For none can be
894 XV | deceits and trickeries of theirs.~
895 | therein
896 | thereof
897 XI | hastens to the rapine. Among thieves there is at any rate some
898 I | against the one and true God, thinking it more modest and better,
899 VIII | torture him with hunger, with thirst and nakedness, and even
900 XVI | thither, lift your eyes thitherward, seek God in the highest,
901 IX | of things present to take thought for what is to come. Amongst
902 VI | be withered. And two and three cities shall be gathered
903 X | the dead. The same men are timid in the duties of affection,
904 XXV | do ye who persecute us in tithe rejoice with us for eternity.
905 X | yon even among the very togas of peace. You complain that
906 | together
907 XVI | unwilling, when bound in the toils of eternal death, to receive
908 XXII | blood shall be to you for a token upon the houses in which
909 II | have frequently held my tongue, and overcome an impatient
910 XV | tremble as captives, whom you took up to and venerate as lords:
911 XVIII| those very things which torment and weary us, we know and
912 XIII | then I might deserve to be tormented, then I ought to be compelled
913 XIX | against all the gusts of this tossing world, it waits for the
914 XXII | be utterly destroyed. But touch not any man upon whom is
915 | towards
916 I | before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and
917 I | frequently, Demetrianus, treated with contempt your railing
918 II | modesty; and while I am treating the false charges with contempt,
919 III | exhausted horns; and the tree, which before had been green
920 XV | hands they stand bound, and tremble as captives, whom you took
921 VII | wanting, and there is no trembling, no fear. What if even no
922 III | the market, justice in the tribunal, concord in friendships,
923 XV | conceal those deceits and trickeries of theirs.~
924 III | causes it to fail, scarcely trickles with a sparing moisture.
925 I | and not expose it to be trodden down by swine and dogs,
926 XXV | overcoming death in the trophy of the cross, by redeeming
927 XXIV | they see it, they shall be troubled with horrible fear, and
928 XXI | common condition of worldly troubles, in such a way as to think
929 XVIII| and weary us, we know and trust that we are proved and strengthened. ~
930 I | restrain the angry waves of a turbulent sea with shouts, than to
931 XVI | human error has invented. Be turned to God, whom if you implore
932 XVII | we suffer will not remain unavenged, and that in proportion
933 XXIV | ofbelievers, what sorrow of unbelievers; that they should have been
934 X | envious with jealousy, or unchaste with lust, or violent with
935 XXIV | the suddenness of their unexpected salvation; and they, repenting
936 XXII | this sign is kept safe and unharmed, is also proved by God's
937 XVII | avenges himself against your unrighteous violence, although our people
938 XX | lifted up, and our courage unshaken: our patience is never anything
939 II | I could neither teach an unteachable man, nor check an impious
940 VII | the rain comes down with unusual scarcity; and the earth
941 XVI | creations of earth? God made you upright; and while other animals
942 XVI | your countenance is raised upwards to heaven, and to God. Look
943 XX | we entreat constantly and urgently, day and night, for your
944 Arg | WORSHIP THE GODS; FAIRLY URGES (HAVING ARGUED THAT ALL
945 | used
946 XXIV | penitence; weeping will be useless, and prayer ineffectual.
947 VIII | no longer subserve your uses and your pleasures as of
948 XXII | women, that they may be utterly destroyed. But touch not
949 V | V.~Moreover, that wars continue
950 V | that misfortunes should be varied; and that as the day of
951 XII | your life is stained with a variety of gross vices, with the
952 XI | crime of the wrong-doers is veiled by darkness and night. Avarice,
953 VI | VI.~In fine, listen to Himself
954 XII | with a variety of gross vices, with the iniquity of deadly
955 XII | displeasing to you. The ashes of victims and the piles of cattle
956 I | impudently to insist on your own views, which you shouted with
957 III | youth while still new and vigorous? Whatever is tending downwards
958 VII | VII.~Behold, the Lord is angry
959 VIII | VIII.~You complain that the fountains
960 XIV | themselves rise to their own vindication, let them defend themselves
961 XX | this life. Although the vine should fail, and the olive
962 XVII | against your unrighteous violence, although our people are
963 X | or unchaste with lust, or violent with cruelty; and do you
964 XXII | old or young, and slay the virgins and the little ones and
965 XXIV | and they shall be for a vision to all flesh." Anti again: "
966 XVIII| to be affected by their visitation. A man feels the punishment
967 XII | punishments, by lacerating our vitals; nor can your brutality
968 XIX | of this tossing world, it waits for the time of the divine
969 III | declining course, the moon wanes with exhausted horns; and
970 X | as if the fierceness of want did not increase more terribly
971 VI | at once instructing and warning us: "Thou shalt worship
972 V | that the human race is wasted by the desolation of pestilence,
973 VII | the weakness of disease wastes away man; although all these
974 XI | were suffering loss and wasting his own property, thus every
975 VI | gathered into one city to drink water, and shall not be satisfied;
976 I | thing to restrain the angry waves of a turbulent sea with
977 XXV | we point out to you the ways of salvation. Believe and
978 VII | if the destroying hail weakens the vines; if the overwhelming
979 XVII | things, in the destruction of wealth, in the waste of soldiers,
980 XXIV | the fruit of penitence; weeping will be useless, and prayer
981 XVII | sure and confident that whatsoever we suffer will not remain
982 XXIV | punishment of faithlessness? Whenthe day of judgment shall come,
983 | where
984 | wherein
985 VI | rained upon, and the piece whereon I send no rain shall be
986 VII | vines; if the overwhelming whirlwind roots out the olive; if
987 | whole
988 XXV | your life. We offer you the wholesome help of our mind and advice.
989 XXII | the aliens and all that do wickedly shall be as stubble, and
990 X | ferocious and more harshly wielded within. You complain of
991 XII | with the sword, with the wild beasts, with the flames.
992 VI | upon the corn, and upon the wine, and upon the oil, and upon
993 III | its failing estate. In the winter there is not such an abundance
994 V | true religion known in such wise that He who is the one God
995 I | contradicting rather than with the wish to learn, and preferred
996 XIX | from another, except by withdrawal from this present life.
997 XX | dying with drought should wither, what is this to Christians?
998 VI | I send no rain shall be withered. And two and three cities
999 VI | dew, and the earth shall withhold her fruits: and I will bring
1000 XXII | the little ones and the women, that they may be utterly