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1 V | and yet it delights to abide here long among the devil'
2 | above
3 XVIII| pray. How preposterous and absurd it is, that while we ask
4 XI | murmur in adversity, but to accept bravely and patiently whatever
5 IX | is tried in the fire, but acceptable men in the furnace of humiliation."~
6 III | eternal security, when having accomplished this death we come to immortality.
7 I | what is of still greater account, through error from the
8 XX | travellers, as navigators are accustomed to do; that they should
9 III | temple with His mother, acknowledged in spirit that Christ was
10 XII | his son, or from doing an act of parricide. You, who cannot
11 X | in his impatience at the acuteness of his pain, to speak something
12 VIII | as one who undergoes all adverse things here and is reserved
13 XVI | sick; whether relations affectionately love their kindred; whether
14 X | adversity, by his very bodily affliction increased in praise; and
15 XII | harassment of your limbs by agonizing disorders, although the
16 V | hasten to Christ by the aid of a quicker death; as He
17 XX | those, who, we say, are alive with God, as if they were
18 XXIII| to the Lord, saying, "How amiable are thy dwellings, O God
19 XIV | sublimity, to stand erect amid the desolation of the human
20 XV | constrained to believe, the ancient congregation of the faithful
21 X | and afterwards Raphael the angel praises him, saying, "It
22 X | Raphael, one of the seven holy angels, who are present, and go
23 XXV | you were on a voyage, an angry and raging tempest, by the
24 XXII | since Paul the apostle announces and says, "For our conversation
25 XXVI | brethren--we should ever and anon reflect that we have renounced
26 X | complaining and envious voice, he answered and said, "Thou speakest
27 XV | difference made between one ant another, the righteous die
28 XV | the threats of the coming Antichrist, and his corruptions and
29 II | What room is there here for anxiety and solicitude? Who, in
30 XI | possessed this endurance. The apostles maintained this discipline
31 XXVI | glorious company of the apostles--there the host of the rejoicing
32 XX | hope and faith: what we say appears to be simulated, feigned,
33 XIX | anxious about the present approach of death, prayed for a respite
34 III | rejoicing concerning his now approaching death, and secure of his
35 XX | lost; and that we do not approve wills the testimony of the
36 XVII | sees you, and praises and approves you; and He who sees that
37 XVI | quench the ever insatiable ardour of their raging avarice
38 Arg | Argument.~THE DEACON PONTIUS IN A
39 II | earthquakes, and pestilences would arise in each place; and lest
40 XIV | that from the weakness arising by the maiming and loss
41 X | of the fear of God, and armed by the faith of his religion
42 III | received the child into his arms, and blessing the Lord,
43 XV | rest, the new and abundant army is gathered to the battle
44 XXV | by the waves violently aroused, foretold the coming shipwreck,
45 XXIV | whole will of God: laying aside the fear of death, let us
46 XIX | in stature and shining in aspect, and on whom, as he stood
47 XXVI | Let us greet the day which assigns each of us to his own home,
48 VIII | here in the world, we are associated with the human race in fleshly
49 XXVI | longing for us, already assured of their own safety, and
50 XXVI | number of our dear ones is awaiting us, and a dense crowd of
51 IX | has believed, he will be aware that he must suffer more
52 VIII | Thus, when the earth is barren with an unproductive harvest,
53 XII | be offences to you, but battles: nor let them weaken nor
54 III | assuredly proving and bearing witness that the servants
55 XII | compacted of solid timbers is beaten by the waves and is not
56 XXII | follow, unless it should befall us to depart from this life.
57 X | In all these things which befell him, Job sinned not with
58 XVIII| prayers do we entreat and beg that the day of His kingdom
59 | beginning
60 VI | lacking, because no one believes that the things which God
61 XVI | death; whether the haughty bend their neck; whether the
62 XIX | might acknowledge what is beneficial for all.~
63 XIII | that he is not grieved, but benefited by his adversity, in order
64 XV | brethren, for the divine benefits, and do not acknowledge
65 XVI | physicians do not forsake the beseeching patients; whether the fierce
66 IV | the world. The mind of man besieged, and in every quarter invested
67 XIII | lifted up: for which thing I besought the Lord thrice, that it
68 XVI | perish, the rich, even then bestow anything, and give, when
69 XXI | from this life, or do we bewail and grieve for our friends
70 XX | should be desired, but not bewailed; that the black garments
71 VIII | to the law of our first birth, common to us with them?
72 XX | but not bewailed; that the black garments should not be taken
73 XXI | reproaches, and rebukes, and blames any who are in sorrow at
74 XII | chaff is carried away by the blast that falls upon it.~
75 XII | the assurance of future blessings. Unless the battle has preceded,
76 V | we shall see Christ, what blindness of mind or what folly is
77 XVI | the wicked soften their boldness; whether, when their dear
78 XVIII| departing hence under the bondage of necessity, not with the
79 XI | God bears witness in the book of Numbers, saying, "Let
80 III | spirit that Christ was now born, concerning whom it had
81 VIII | common flesh of ours is borne by us in the world.~
82 XIV | This trial, that now the bowels, relaxed into a constant
83 XV | corruptions and his brothels. Boys escape the peril of their
84 XV | gathered to the battle with a braver vigour, to fight without
85 XII | nor let them weaken nor break the Christian's faith, but
86 IV | wine-bibbing entices, envy breaks concord, jealousy cuts friendship;
87 XX | testimony of the heart and breast the faith which we express
88 XXVI | consider, dearly beloved brethren--we should ever and anon
89 XII | when the threshing-floor brings out the corn, the strong
90 XI | The sacrifice to God is a broken spirit; a contrite and humbled
91 XV | his corruptions and his brothels. Boys escape the peril of
92 XXVI | dense crowd of parents, brothers, children, is longing for
93 XIII | the messenger of Satan to buffet me, that I should not be
94 Arg | A FEW WORDS UNFOLDS THE BURTHEN OF THIS TREATISE IN HIS
95 XVII | reward for your virtue. Had Cain, when he offered his gift
96 X | religious mind, he says, "Naked came I out of my mother's womb,
97 II | placed in the heavenly camp, already hopes for divine
98 XVII | condemnation. As in that case the evil thought and mischievous
99 XIV | injected blood; that in some cases the feet or some parts of
100 XI | saying, "Let their murmuring cease from me, and they shall
101 XIX | one. And he, not without a certain indignation of mind and
102 III | are freed from the devil? Certainly Simeon, that just man, who
103 XII | the winds, while the empty chaff is carried away by the blast
104 VI | believers is eternal and un- changeable. If a grave and praiseworthy
105 XXII | Who would not crave to be changed and renewed into the likeness
106 XXV | harbour? Lo, the world is changing and passing away, and witnesses
107 VI | think that you should be cheated and deceived by him whom
108 III | summons, he received the child into his arms, and blessing
109 XVII | and says, "And all the churches shall know that I am the
110 VIII | invasion of an enemy any city is taken, captivity at once
111 VIII | all; and when the serene clouds withhold the rain, the drought
112 XXV | now--now that the world is collapsing and is oppressed with the
113 XIX | future. Our dying brother and colleague heard what he was to say
114 XIX | people, when one of our colleagues and fellow-priests, wearied
115 XVII | patriarchs, to whose feast is collected every one that is found
116 XV | battle shall come, because it comes to the warfare in the time
117 IX | saying, "My son, when thou comest to the service of God, stand
118 XVIII| should not at once obey the command of His will! We struggle
119 XX | and manifestly has it been commanded by the condescension of
120 XI | thou hast well kept His commandments or no." And again: "The
121 III | truly just, who kept God's commands with a full faith, when
122 XII | winds, and the ship which is compacted of solid timbers is beaten
123 XXVI | living! There the glorious company of the apostles--there the
124 XIII | that in misfortune they complain and murmur, while adversity
125 X | something against God with a complaining and envious voice, he answered
126 X | the earth, a man without complaint, a true worshipper of God."
127 IV | wine-bibbing entices, envy breaks concord, jealousy cuts friendship;
128 XVII | his mind, anticipated its condemnation. As in that case the evil
129 IX | and keep fast under what condition and what law he has believed,
130 X | honourable to show forth and to confess the works of God. For when
131 IV | and weapons in constant conflicts? Our warfare is with avarice,
132 XXII | of our humiliation, and conform it to the body of His glory?"
133 XXV | give God thanks, do you not congratulate yourself, that by an earlier
134 XV | to believe, the ancient congregation of the faithful is called
135 XXI | with whom we are both to conquer and to reign for ever.~
136 XIX | concerning their summons, consents not to their present desire,
137 X | testimony, saying, "Hast thou considered my servant Job? for there
138 Arg | THE RIGHTEOUS ARE TAKEN TO CONSOLATION, WHILE THE UNRIGHTEOUS ARE
139 XI | always offended, that they constantly murmured against God, as
140 XIX | their present desire, but consults for the future. Our dying
141 VIII | this life free from the contact of ills; and not as one
142 XXIII| should be polluted with the contagions of the world. "He was taken
143 XVI | the glory of fortitude; by contempt of death they prepare for
144 XV | happiness attain the reward of continence and innocence. Now the delicate
145 XXVI | by the strength of their continency--there are merciful men rewarded,
146 XIV | intestines are shaken with a continual vomiting; that the eyes
147 XI | God is a broken spirit; a contrite and humbled heart God does
148 XXII | announces and says, "For our conversation is in heaven, from whence
149 XII | threshing-floor brings out the corn, the strong and robust grains
150 VIII | spirit. Therefore until this corruptible shall put on incorruption,
151 XV | coming Antichrist, and his corruptions and his brothels. Boys escape
152 XIX | prescient of the future, takes counsel for the true salvation of
153 XX | to be simulated, feigned, counterfeit. There is no advantage in
154 VII | Christ, and to die is gain;" counting it the greatest gain no
155 XXVI | We regard paradise as our country--we already begin to consider
156 XXIII| longeth, and hasteth unto the courts of God."~
157 V | it should rather be our craving and wish to hasten to Christ
158 XXIV | you? John in his epistle cries and says, exhorting that
159 XIV | who is not enrolled in the cross and passion of Christ; he
160 XXVI | awaiting us, and a dense crowd of parents, brothers, children,
161 XII | although the constant and cruel harassment of your limbs
162 XXV | destruction to its structure crumbling with age, would you not
163 IV | you are constrained to curse, which the divine law forbids;
164 IV | breaks concord, jealousy cuts friendship; you are constrained
165 Arg | TREATISE IN HIS LIFE OF CYPRIAN. FIRST OF ALL, HAVING POINTED
166 XII | display when there is no danger. Struggle in adversity is
167 XIV | obstructed, or the sight darkened;--is profitable as a proof
168 IV | than a struggle against his darts and weapons in constant
169 Arg | Argument.~THE DEACON PONTIUS IN A FEW WORDS UNFOLDS
170 II | For he who wars for God, dearest brethren, ought to acknowledge
171 XVI | are trainings for us, not deaths: they give the mind the
172 I | weakness of mind, or through decay of faith, or through the
173 VI | you should be cheated and deceived by him whom you knew to
174 XXIV | this life, flattering and deceiving, invites by the enticements
175 XX | bear witness and publicly declare that our brethren who are
176 V | the Lord Himself again declares, when He says, "I will see
177 XVII | the mind, the intention dedicated to good is crowned by God
178 XII | truth. The tree which is deeply founded in its root is not
179 XXIII| free, lest while they are delaying longer in this world they
180 XV | continence and innocence. Now the delicate matron does not fear the
181 XXVI | ones is awaiting us, and a dense crowd of parents, brothers,
182 XVII | with abundant courage, am deprived of martyrdom, in that I
183 XV | slothful are stimulated, the deserters are compelled to return,
184 XVII | yet, being honoured by the deserts of faith and righteousness,
185 XVII | not know whether you would deserve to receive. Then, besides,
186 XX | to the Gentiles for them deservedly and rightly to reprehend
187 XX | do; that they should be desired, but not bewailed; that
188 VIII | taken, captivity at once desolates all; and when the serene
189 XIV | to stand erect amid the desolation of the human race, and not
190 XX | virtue by our words, and destroying the truth by our deeds.~
191 XI | despise;" since also in Deuteronomy the Holy Spirit warns by
192 XIV | against so many onsets of devastation and death! what sublimity,
193 XXI | if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so
194 XXII | arrive more quickly to the dignity of heavenly glory, since
195 IV | anger, with ambition; our diligent and toilsome wrestle with
196 XX | condescension of God, that I should diligently bear witness and publicly
197 X | to rise up and leave thy dinner, and wentest and didst bury
198 VIII | Father, whatsoever are the disadvantages of the flesh are common
199 XXV | from the shipwrecks and disasters that are imminent?~
200 XIV | relaxed into a constant flux, discharge the bodily strength; that
201 VII | shows to us, who, when His disciples were saddened that He said
202 XI | apostles maintained this discipline from the law of the Lord,
203 I | full strength, and with a discourse gathered from the Lord's
204 XIV | off by the contagion of diseased putrefaction; that from
205 Arg | ENSUE; AND HOW MUCH SOEVER DISEASES ARE COMMON TO THE VIRTUOUS
206 I | heart, the matter may not be disguised nor kept in silence, but
207 XII | your limbs by agonizing disorders, although the deadly and
208 XII | is proved. It is a wanton display when there is no danger.
209 I | slothfulness of a luxurious disposition must be restrained, and
210 VIII | harvest, famine makes no distinction; thus, when with the invasion
211 II | whirlwinds of the world, and no disturbance, since the Lord had foretold
212 I | devoted spirit that is not disturbed at the frequency of this
213 XXIV | lust thereof; but he who doeth the will of God abideth
214 XII | losing his son, or from doing an act of parricide. You,
215 VI | and eternity; and do you doubt? This is not to know God
216 XIX | learn for himself? Yea, doubtless, he learnt it for us who
217 | down
218 XVIII| froward servants we are dragged to the presence of the Lord
219 VIII | clouds withhold the rain, the drought is alike to all; and when
220 XXV | as possible. If in your dwelling the walls were shaking with
221 XXIII| saying, "How amiable are thy dwellings, O God of hosts! My soul
222 XXVI | to his friends would not eagerly desire a prosperous gale,
223 XXV | congratulate yourself, that by an earlier departure you are taken
224 XXIII| who please God are more early taken hence, and are more
225 II | that wars, and famines, and earthquakes, and pestilences would arise
226 XII | despise the winds, while the empty chaff is carried away by
227 XXI | Himself, our Lord and God, encourages us and says, "I am the resurrection
228 | end
229 | ending
230 XIV | faith, and by suffering endured, going forward to Christ
231 XV | to Jews and Gentiles, and enemies of Christ, so it is a departure
232 VIII | with the invasion of an enemy any city is taken, captivity
233 XIV | body, either the gait is enfeebled, or the hearing is obstructed,
234 VIII | that he might have the enjoyment of the world and this life
235 XIV | may fear to die who is not enrolled in the cross and passion
236 Arg | PRECEDED, THE VICTORY COULD NOT ENSUE; AND HOW MUCH SOEVER DISEASES
237 IV | pride puffs up, wine-bibbing entices, envy breaks concord, jealousy
238 XVIII| frequently repeated prayers do we entreat and beg that the day of
239 VII | troubles, and freed from the envenomed fangs of the devil, to go
240 X | God with a complaining and envious voice, he answered and said, "
241 IV | up, wine-bibbing entices, envy breaks concord, jealousy
242 VIII | the human race in fleshly equality, but are separated in spirit.
243 VIII | Disease attacks our people equally with the heathens, as if
244 XIV | what sublimity, to stand erect amid the desolation of the
245 I | greater account, through error from the truth, are standing
246 XV | corruptions and his brothels. Boys escape the peril of their unstable
247 XV | the tortures; for she has escaped by a rapid death the fear
248 VI | incredulity; this is for one established in the Church not to have
249 XII | should be the loss of private estate, although the constant and
250 XIX | who was already on the eve of departure, learn for
251 | everything
252 XIX | divine providence may be more evidently manifest, proving that the
253 Arg | IS IT WONDERFUL THAT THE EVILS OF THIS LIFE ARE COMMON
254 XVI | righteousness of each one, and examines the minds of the human race,
255 Arg | WORLD, AND THENCE, AFTER THE EXAMPLE OF JOB AND TOBIAS, THERE
256 IV | ambition is despised, anger exasperates, pride puffs up, wine-bibbing
257 X | And Tobias, after his excellent works, after the many and
258 VIII | shipwreck is common without exception to all that sail in her;
259 III | and blessing the Lord, he exclaimed, and said, "Now lettest
260 XV | and the torments of the executioner. By the dread of the mortality
261 I | less steadily, and are not exerting the divine and unvanquished
262 II | these would come. With the exhortation of His fore-seeing word,
263 XXIV | epistle cries and says, exhorting that we should not follow
264 XX | breast the faith which we express with speech and word. We
265 XX | with God, as if they were extinct and lost; and that we do
266 XV | salvation to God's servants. The fact that, without any difference
267 II | eternal things of things that fade away. What room is there
268 VI | speaking with you; and do you faithlessly waver in your unbelieving
269 XII | carried away by the blast that falls upon it.~
270 VIII | an unproductive harvest, famine makes no distinction; thus,
271 II | and said that wars, and famines, and earthquakes, and pestilences
272 VII | freed from the envenomed fangs of the devil, to go at the
273 I | kept in silence, but as far as my feeble powers suffice
274 XIV | ferments into wounds of the fauces; that the intestines are
275 Arg | OR PLAGUE WAS NOT TO BE FEARED, IN THAT IT LEADS TO IMMORTALITY,
276 XVII | the patriarchs, to whose feast is collected every one that
277 I | silence, but as far as my feeble powers suffice with my full
278 VIII | attack of fevers, and the feebleness of all the limbs is common
279 XXVI | merciful men rewarded, who by feeding and helping the poor have
280 XIV | that in some cases the feet or some parts of the limbs
281 XX | appears to be simulated, feigned, counterfeit. There is no
282 XIX | one of our colleagues and fellow-priests, wearied out with infirmity,
283 XIV | originated in the marrow ferments into wounds of the fauces;
284 VIII | eyes, and the attack of fevers, and the feebleness of all
285 | FEW
286 XVI | beseeching patients; whether the fierce suppress their violence;
287 XV | with a braver vigour, to fight without fear of death when
288 XXI | XXI.~Finally, the Apostle Paul reproaches,
289 XVII | spirit. Such as the Lord finds you when He calls you, such
290 XIV | is delivered over to the fires of Gehenna; he may fear
291 X | taken away; as it seemed fit to the Lord, so it hath
292 XIV | from this world eternal flame shall torment with never-ending
293 XXIV | delights, whom this life, flattering and deceiving, invites by
294 XIV | relaxed into a constant flux, discharge the bodily strength;
295 XXIV | on the immortality which follows. By this let us show ourselves
296 V | blindness of mind or what folly is it to love the world'
297 X | Thou speakest as one of the foolish women. If we have received
298 IV | curse, which the divine law forbids; you are compelled to swear,
299 II | With the exhortation of His fore-seeing word, instructing, and teaching,
300 XXVI | that has been placed in foreign lands would not hasten to
301 XVII | mischievous intention were foreseen by a foreseeing God, so
302 IX | Holy Scripture teaches and forewarns, saying, "My son, when thou
303 XVI | whether physicians do not forsake the beseeching patients;
304 XVI | give the mind the glory of fortitude; by contempt of death they
305 XIV | suffering endured, going forward to Christ by the narrow
306 XII | The tree which is deeply founded in its root is not moved
307 XVII | yet God, foreseeing the fratricide conceived in his mind, anticipated
308 I | is not disturbed at the frequency of this present mortality,
309 IV | breaks concord, jealousy cuts friendship; you are constrained to
310 XVIII| and after the manner of froward servants we are dragged
311 | further
312 XIV | of the body, either the gait is enfeebled, or the hearing
313 XXVI | eagerly desire a prosperous gale, that he might the sooner
314 XX | bewailed; that the black garments should not be taken upon
315 X | under the earth: the Lord gave, the Lord hath taken away;
316 XIV | delivered over to the fires of Gehenna; he may fear to die who
317 XXIII| who pleased God, as in Genesis the Holy Scripture bears
318 XVII | Cain, when he offered his gift to God, already slain his
319 X | Therefore the Lord God gives him a testimony, saying, "
320 XXI | eternally, let us come with a glad security unto Christ, with
321 XVI | s servants that we begin gladly to desire martyrdom as we
322 XIX | stood by him, the human glance could scarcely look with
323 IX | humility have patience; for gold and silver is tried in the
324 XIII | and He said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee,
325 XII | corn, the strong and robust grains despise the winds, while
326 XIV | a proof of faith. What a grandeur of spirit it is to struggle
327 VI | and un- changeable. If a grave and praiseworthy man should
328 XVIII| the Lord with sadness and grief, departing hence under the
329 XIII | body, says that he is not grieved, but benefited by his adversity,
330 XIII | scourgings, after many and grievous tortures of the flesh and
331 X | the death of his children, grievously afflicted, moreover, with
332 XIV | that in the meanwhile his groanings and his anguish are being
333 XXVI | meantime living here as guests and strangers. Let us greet
334 XV | of persecution, and the hands and the torments of the
335 XI | patiently whatever things happen in the world; since the
336 XI | patience and courage whatever happens, since it is written, "The
337 XII | although the constant and cruel harassment of your limbs by agonizing
338 VIII | barren with an unproductive harvest, famine makes no distinction;
339 XXIII| pleasing to God; wherefore hasted He to take him away from
340 XXVI | own country? Who that is hastening to return to his friends
341 XXIII| its God in spiritual faith hastens to the Lord, saying, "How
342 XXIII| hosts! My soul longeth, and hasteth unto the courts of God."~
343 XVI | fear of death; whether the haughty bend their neck; whether
344 X | God again hath sent me to heal thee and Sara thy daughter-in-law.
345 XVI | whether they who are in health tend the sick; whether relations
346 XIV | gait is enfeebled, or the hearing is obstructed, or the sight
347 XVI | they are to die without heirs. Even although this mortality
348 VII | greatest gain no longer to be held by the snares of this world,
349 XII | to the victors. For the helmsman is recognised in the tempest;
350 XXVI | rewarded, who by feeding and helping the poor have done the works
351 | her
352 XIX | death, a youth, venerable in honour and majesty, lofty in stature
353 X | praises him, saying, "It is honourable to show forth and to confess
354 II | the heavenly camp, already hopes for divine things, so that
355 XVI | pestilence and plague which seems horrible and deadly, searches out
356 XXVI | the apostles--there the host of the rejoicing prophets--
357 XXIII| thy dwellings, O God of hosts! My soul longeth, and hasteth
358 XI | broken spirit; a contrite and humbled heart God does not despise;"
359 IX | pain endure, and in thy humility have patience; for gold
360 XI | vex thee, and will bring hunger upon thee; and it shall
361 XXI | not," says he, have you ignorant, brethren, concerning them
362 II | II.~For he who wars for God,
363 III | III.~For it is written that
364 X | after the many and glorious illustrations of his merciful spirit,
365 IV | warfare is with avarice, with immodesty, with anger, with ambition;
366 X | wife also urged him, in his impatience at the acuteness of his
367 VIII | corruptible shall put on incorruption, and this mortal receive
368 II | us that adversity would increase more and more in the last
369 X | his very bodily affliction increased in praise; and even him
370 VI | believers, with the sin of incredulity; this is for one established
371 XIX | XIX.~Besides, that the indications of the divine providence
372 XIX | anxious about persecution, and indifferent concerning their summons,
373 XIX | he, not without a certain indignation of mind and voice, rebuked
374 XIII | therefore, weakness and inefficiency and any destruction seize
375 III | and Christ had come an infant into the temple with His
376 XIX | fellow-priests, wearied out with infirmity, and anxious about the present
377 XV | the time the lukewarm are inflamed, the slack are nerved up,
378 XII | struggle, since all the injury inflicted by present troubles is to
379 XIV | eyes are on fire with the injected blood; that in some cases
380 XII | struggle, since all the injury inflicted by present troubles
381 XV | reward of continence and innocence. Now the delicate matron
382 XXVI | rejoicing prophets--there the innumerable multitude of martyrs, crowned
383 XVI | rapacious can quench the ever insatiable ardour of their raging avarice
384 II | of His fore-seeing word, instructing, and teaching, and preparing,
385 V | quicker death; as He Himself instructs us, and says, "Verily, verily,
386 XIV | of the fauces; that the intestines are shaken with a continual
387 VIII | distinction; thus, when with the invasion of an enemy any city is
388 IV | besieged, and in every quarter invested with the onsets of the devil,
389 XVII | reins and heart, and the investigator and knower of secret things,
390 XXIV | flattering and deceiving, invites by the enticements of earthly
391 XVII | For neither Abraham, nor Isaac, nor Jacob were slain; and
392 | itself
393 IV | IV.~But for the rest, what
394 IX | IX.~Moreover, if the Christian
395 XVII | Abraham, nor Isaac, nor Jacob were slain; and yet, being
396 VIII | alike to all; and when the jagged rocks rend the ship, the
397 IV | entices, envy breaks concord, jealousy cuts friendship; you are
398 XXIV | redeemed you and loves you? John in his epistle cries and
399 XXII | but a transit, and, this journey of time being traversed,
400 XVII | good is crowned by God the judge. It is one thing for the
401 XVII | calls you, such also He judges you; since He Himself bears
402 XIV | faith according to His own judgment! Assuredly he may fear to
403 IX | if the Christian know and keep fast under what condition
404 XXVI | works of righteousness--who, keeping the Lord's precepts, have
405 Arg | THAT AFFLICTIONS OF THIS KIND HAD BEEN FORETOLD BY CHRIST,
406 XVI | affectionately love their kindred; whether masters pity their
407 XVII | and the investigator and knower of secret things, sees you,
408 XI | upon thee; and it shall be known in thine heart if thou hast
409 VI | is so, because faith is lacking, because no one believes
410 XX | s summons are not to be lamented, since we know that they
411 XXVI | has been placed in foreign lands would not hasten to return
412 XVI | whether masters pity their languishing servants; whether physicians
413 XXVI | faith, He who will give the larger rewards of His glory to
414 II | gladness and possession lately lost of paradise, are now
415 IV | compelled to swear, which is not lawful.~
416 XXIV | for the whole will of God: laying aside the fear of death,
417 VII | Apostle Paul in his epistle lays it down, saying, "To me
418 VIII | immortality, and the Spirit lead us to God the Father, whatsoever
419 Arg | TO BE FEARED, IN THAT IT LEADS TO IMMORTALITY, AND THAT
420 XIX | himself? Yea, doubtless, he learnt it for us who remain, in
421 | least
422 X | not delay to rise up and leave thy dinner, and wentest
423 XIV | has this advantage in a lengthened delay, that in the meanwhile
424 | less
425 I | gathered from the Lord's lessons, the slothfulness of a luxurious
426 III | exclaimed, and said, "Now lettest Thou Thy servant depart
427 VII | this world, no longer to be liable to the sins and vices of
428 XV | many of our people are liberated from this world. This mortality,
429 XIV | the human race, and not to lie prostrate with those who
430 XIII | me, that I should not be lifted up: for which thing I besought
431 XXII | changed and renewed into the likeness of Christ, and to arrive
432 X | Job sinned not with his lips in the sight of the Lord."
433 III | is written that the just lives by faith. If you are just,
434 XXI | shall live; and whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall
435 XXIII| O God of hosts! My soul longeth, and hasteth unto the courts
436 XXVI | brothers, children, is longing for us, already assured
437 XII | You, who cannot endure to lose your son by the law and
438 XII | did not shrink even from losing his son, or from doing an
439 XII | your son by the law and lot of mortality, what would
440 VII | to them, and said, "If ye loved me, ye would surely rejoice
441 XXIV | who both redeemed you and loves you? John in his epistle
442 XV | mortality and of the time the lukewarm are inflamed, the slack
443 I | lessons, the slothfulness of a luxurious disposition must be restrained,
444 XIV | weakness arising by the maiming and loss of the body, either
445 XI | endurance. The apostles maintained this discipline from the
446 XIX | venerable in honour and majesty, lofty in stature and shining
447 | makes
448 XIX | providence may be more evidently manifest, proving that the Lord,
449 VII | teaching thereby, and manifesting that when the dear ones
450 XX | revealed, how frequently and manifestly has it been commanded by
451 XVIII| and resist, and after the manner of froward servants we are
452 XXII | live with Him in eternal mansions, and may rejoice in heavenly
453 XIV | a fire originated in the marrow ferments into wounds of
454 XXVI | innumerable multitude of martyrs, crowned for the victory
455 XVI | love their kindred; whether masters pity their languishing servants;
456 XV | innocence. Now the delicate matron does not fear the tortures;
457 | meanwhile
458 IV | scarcely in each point meets the attack, scarcely resists
459 XXIII| of God was thus to have merited to be translated from this
460 XIII | thorn in the flesh, the messenger of Satan to buffet me, that
461 XVI | each one, and examines the minds of the human race, to see
462 III | according to Thy word; for mine eyes have seen Thy salvation;"
463 II | unexpected and new dread of mischiefs should shake us, He previously
464 XIII | who know not God, that in misfortune they complain and murmur,
465 VIII | on incorruption, and this mortal receive immortality, and
466 XI | the Holy Spirit warns by Moses. and says, "The Lord thy
467 XII | although the deadly and mournful wrench from wife, from children,
468 XII | founded in its root is not moved by the onset of winds, and
469 XXVI | prophets--there the innumerable multitude of martyrs, crowned for
470 XI | offended, that they constantly murmured against God, as the Lord
471 X | been done. Blessed be the name of the Lord." And when his
472 XIV | forward to Christ by the narrow way that Christ trod, we
473 XX | precede us as travellers, as navigators are accustomed to do; that
474 XVI | is it, how pertinent, how necessary, that pestilence and plague
475 XVIII| hence under the bondage of necessity, not with the obedience
476 XVI | whether the haughty bend their neck; whether the wicked soften
477 Arg | JOB AND TOBIAS, THERE IS NEED OF PATIENCE WITHOUT MURMURING.
478 XV | inflamed, the slack are nerved up, the slothful are stimulated,
479 | never
480 XIV | flame shall torment with never-ending punishments; he may fear
481 | nevertheless
482 | none
483 | nothing
484 XXV | much more ought to be done now--now that the world is collapsing
485 XXVI | our parents? There a great number of our dear ones is awaiting
486 XI | bears witness in the book of Numbers, saying, "Let their murmuring
487 XXIII| amiable are thy dwellings, O God of hosts! My soul longeth,
488 XVIII| necessity, not with the obedience of free will; and we wish
489 XVII | But perchance some one may object, and say, "It is this, then,
490 I | temptations; yet because I observe that among the people some,
491 XIV | enfeebled, or the hearing is obstructed, or the sight darkened;--
492 | off
493 XII | Let not these things be offences to you, but battles: nor
494 VI | know God at all; this is to offend Christ, the Teacher of believers,
495 XI | Jews in this matter always offended, that they constantly murmured
496 X | thy daughter-in-law, I did offer the remembrance of your
497 XVII | virtue. Had Cain, when he offered his gift to God, already
498 | often
499 XXV | world is collapsing and is oppressed with the tempests of mischievous
500 XIV | bodily strength; that a fire originated in the marrow ferments into