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501 III | flatter himself with the notion of a pure and immaculate
502 VIII | laborious in aiding and nourishing the poor. For when Zacchaeus
503 XVIII| this worldly life, in the nourishment and bringing up of children,
504 XVIII| labours. Thus also Job offered numerous sacrifices on behalf of
505 XXIV | continual labour, give our obedience, to deserve well of the
506 VII | perfect and complete by the observation of the law, He said, "If
507 VI | asked in such a way might be obtained, and that Christ's aid would
508 | off
509 XIII | you certain shadows and omens of a vain excuse? Yea, confess
510 VIII | to unfruitful and barren ones, saying, "If ye have not
511 XV | conferred upon widows and orphans, she gives, whom it behoved
512 XVIII| greater ought to be the outlay of your labours. Thus also
513 II | away rather than that from outside; but that he who shall have
514 | over
515 XV | the Church. For your eyes, overcast with the gloom of blackness,
516 XIX | does any forensic calumny overthrow it. That inheritance is
517 XXIII| defend the minds of rich men, overwhelmed with a profane barrenness
518 XXVI | God his debtor. For this palm of works of salvation let
519 XVI | not to prefer either our parents or children to God. And
520 VII | amount of his patrimony, parting with all his wealth for
521 XIII | with Christ; make Christ a partner with you in your earthly
522 V | the poor, and God will be patient to thy sins." And as the
523 VII | when he found a precious pearl, he went away and sold all
524 VII | to purchase the precious pearl--that is, eternal life--at
525 VII | merchantman seeking goodly pearls. And when he found a precious
526 XXVI | things abide firmly in our perceptions, let them be understood
527 XV | to God, and that whoever performs them deserves well of the
528 XXII | made equal to mine that perish, although they are honoured
529 XXI | rabble grasped at, but the perpetual reward of the kingdom of
530 VI | recalled to life by the widows' petition.~
531 VI | would not be wanting to the petitioners, since He Himself was clothed
532 V | and certifies that our petitions become efficacious by almsgiving,
533 XII | a Christian? The name of Pharisee is more fitting for you.
534 XII | this, and said, "But the Pharisees heard all these things,
535 X | shipwreck from the faith, and pierced themselves through with
536 XIX | them in religion and true piety. You who are careful rather
537 XVII | what she did kindly and piously. And she did not as yet
538 II | must be given. He who is pitiful teaches and warns us that
539 I | the clemency, that by a plan of salvation it is provided
540 XXI | in order that they may please the higher classes; how
541 XVII | God's sight a thing that pleases God: promptly and liberally
542 XX | do before Him that which pleaseth Him; and command thy sons,
543 XXII | foolish vanity of deceiving pleasures. There, in Thy poor, Thou
544 XXII | gift of that kind,--having pledged or scattered their riches,
545 XXII | sumptuous devices either pledging or selling their means in
546 II | when the disciples were pointed out, as eating and not first
547 I | of securing salvation by pointing out works of justice and
548 I | and had healed the old poisons of the serpent, He gave
549 VI | advocate for the widows and poor--had brought to the Lord
550 XXII | and hissings, and by the popular fury sometimes they are
551 XVII | asked for, Neither is it a portion out of abundance, but the
552 XXV | the fruits of an eternal possession, and there prepared homes
553 XXV | of equality, he who, as a possessor in the earth, shares his
554 XXVI | sin, a thing placed in the power of the doer, a thing both
555 Arg | Argument.~HE POWERFULLY EXHORTS TO THE MANIFESTATION
556 XXI | forth in that case, when the powers of heaven assemble to the
557 XV | judgment hast merited to be praised by the voice of the Judge!
558 VI | falling on his knees, he had prayed, and--fit advocate for the
559 VI | previously received, and praying for the deceased not by
560 VIII | alms according to God's precept believes in God, and he
561 XXII | them immortality. But they prepare for me gifts how precious!
562 IX | men of this kind, and with prescient voice denouncing faithless
563 XVII | according to the spirit is preserved. Therefore Elias, being
564 XVII | his children to Christ, preserves his wealth, and does not
565 I | care should be taken for preserving man after he is already
566 XXII | the Church wherein Thou presidest and beholdest, they set
567 XXV | and His gifts, so as to prevent the whole human race from
568 XI | the king's command for a prey to the lions; and you are
569 XXV | presented to the apostles the proceeds to be dispensed to the poor;
570 XXI | and glorious thing to have proconsuls or emperors present, and
571 XXII | excessive and tedious a labour procured! and that, with the most
572 XXII | selling their means in the procuring of the gift! and, unless
573 XXII | spectator, are perishing in a prodigal and foolish vanity of deceiving
574 XXIII| men, overwhelmed with a profane barrenness and a kind of
575 XIII | departed thence, the deep and profound darkness of avarice has
576 XXVI | merits and good works the promised rewards, to give heavenly
577 XXII | art clothed and fed; Thou promisest eternal life to those who
578 XXIII| do He has instructed us; promising a reward to those that are
579 XVII | thing that pleases God: promptly and liberally is presented
580 V | V.~The remedies for propitiating God are given in the words
581 XIII | your patrimony, that, in proportion as you are rich in this
582 I | the people who before were prostrate; was wounded that He might
583 XXVI | guard of our security, a protection of hope, a safeguard of
584 XIX | trustee; let Him be their protector, by His divine majesty,
585 III | without fault is either proud or foolish, how needful,
586 VI | things, as that we should not prove what Raphael the angel said,
587 II | Here also it is shown and proved, that as in the layer of
588 XIX | guardianship of God. This is to provide for one's dear pledges for
589 I | moreover, what is that providence, and how great the clemency,
590 XII | of our earthly lucre by provident good works, who might afterwards
591 XXII | forth into the midst, and provoking the people of Christ with
592 V | Holy Spirit declares in the Psalms, and proves, saying, Blessed
593 VII | eternal salvation, ought to purchase the precious pearl--that
594 XXVI | whole heart, let them be purchased by the magnanimity of our
595 V | deliver from death, and it purgeth away sins." He shows that
596 III | remedies for the cleansing and purging of our sins. Nor let any
597 XXVI | will accompany it with a purple one for our passion.~
598 II | extinguisheth fire, so almsgiving quencheth sin." Here also it is shown
599 XXI | and fleeting favour of the rabble grasped at, but the perpetual
600 XXV | prevent the whole human race from enjoying equally the
601 XXV | enlightens, the sun gives radiance, the rain moistens, the
602 I | humbled Himself, that He might raise up the people who before
603 XI | is fed by the ministry of ravens; and a meal from heaven
604 XXVI | salvation let us gladly and readily strive; let us all, in the
605 XI | meal from heaven is made ready for Daniel in the den, when
606 XI | Gospel bears witness, for the rebuke of those whose mind is doubtful
607 XIV | Lord in the Apocalypse, rebuking men of your stamp with righteous
608 VI | to live, deserved to be recalled to life by the widows' petition.~
609 XVI | who has declared that He receives them; and not prefer our
610 V | acceptable to thee; and redeem thy sins by almsgivings,
611 IX | dealing, you may perchance be reduced to poverty; be of good courage
612 XV | the Lord observed and saw, regarding her work not for its abundance,
613 XIX | forward to preserve them in religion and true piety. You who
614 XVII | to eat, and then of what remained that she and her children
615 XIII | its weight; and you do not remember what God answered to the
616 XV | the Gospel the widow that remembered the heavenly precepts, doing
617 V | deliver him in the evil day." Remembering which precepts, Daniel,
618 II | And because in baptism remission of sins is granted once
619 XXVI | eternity, to which He has renewed us by the quickening of
620 II | washing their hands, He replied and said, "He that made
621 XXIII| XXIII.~What do we reply to these things, dearest
622 XIX | He who walketh without reproach in his integrity shall leave
623 XIV | your stamp with righteous reproaches: "Thou sayest," says He, "
624 XIII | this night thy soul is required of thee; then whose shall
625 I | of human frailty have any resource, unless the divine mercy,
626 XI | has it ever happened that resources could fail the righteous
627 XVI | consideration, dearest brethren, restrain and recall the Christian
628 IX | doer is increased by the retribution of God. And the Lord in
629 V | and good works. The angel reveals, and manifests, and certifies
630 VI | astonishment of all, the revived body is quickened into this
631 XXVI | crown of peace without the risk of persecution; the true
632 X | destruction. For covetousness is a root of all evils, which some
633 XXVI | struggle of righteousness, run with God and Christ looking
634 XXVI | furnished, if swift, if running in this contest of charity,
635 IV | if they were clothed in sackcloth and ashes, be able to soften
636 II | Holy Spirit speaks in the sacred Scriptures, and says, "By
637 XII | whence this impious and sacrilegious consideration? What does
638 XXVI | a protection of hope, a safeguard of faith, a remedy for sin,
639 IX | supply the wants of the saints, but shall be abundant also
640 V | of righteousness God is satisfied, that with the deserts of
641 II | and because He seeks to save those whom at a great cost
642 XIV | righteous reproaches: "Thou sayest," says He, "I am rich, and
643 XXII | who labour for Thee; and scarcely are Thy people made equal
644 XXII | kind,--having pledged or scattered their riches, yea, having
645 XXII | they are cast out with scoffings and hissings, and by the
646 XXII | received buffets, nor bore scourgings, nor endured the cross,
647 VI | almsgiving not only from the second, but from the first death,
648 XIII | who know, utter forth the secret and hidden things of your
649 I | should open some way of securing salvation by pointing out
650 VII | like unto a merchantman seeking goodly pearls. And when
651 II | be shown; and because He seeks to save those whom at a
652 | seems
653 VIII | children of Abraham whom He sees to be laborious in aiding
654 XVI | this world's goods, and seeth his brother have need, and
655 XI | creatures which have no sense of things divine there is
656 XXIII| unfruitful. He has set forth His sentence. He has before announced
657 XXIII| all nations; and He shall separate them one from another, as
658 I | healed the old poisons of the serpent, He gave a law to the sound
659 XX | my son, I command thee, serve God in truth, and do before
660 I | He might heal our wounds; served, that He might draw out
661 XXI | beloved brethren, whose setting forth is celebrated in the
662 XVIII| true and righteous man, had seven sons and three daughters,
663 XV | gloom of blackness, and shadowed in night, do not see the
664 XIII | lay out before you certain shadows and omens of a vain excuse?
665 XIV | be clothed, and that the shame of thy nakedness may not
666 XXV | possessor in the earth, shares his returns and his fruits
667 XXII | nor endured the cross, nor shed my blood, nor redeemed my
668 XXIII| them one from another, as a shepherd divideth his sheep from
669 X | some desiring, have made shipwreck from the faith, and pierced
670 XI | patrimony perchance may fall short, if you should begin to
671 V | it purgeth away sins." He shows that our prayers and fastings
672 XVI | his brother have need, and shutteth up his bowels from him,
673 IV | never failed, has never been silent in urging God's people always
674 XIII | yourself in those vain and silly conceits, as if you were
675 XVI | faith and the love of God, similar things are written: "Who
676 I | thing should befall the sinner. We had been limited and
677 V | instructions have taught what sinners ought to do, that by works
678 XIX | devil than to Christ, are sinning twice, and allowing a double
679 XXIII| with Him, then shall He sit in the throne of His glory:
680 II | begun to be clean also in skin and body. Further, admonishing,
681 XXVI | this life and the world, slacken our course by no desire
682 XIII | You are the captive and slave of your money; you are bound
683 XI | written, "The Lord will not slay with famine the righteous
684 X | fall into temptation and a snare, and into many and hurtful
685 IV | sackcloth and ashes, be able to soften God's anger, yet in the
686 XIII | from good works by fear and solicitude for the future? Why do you
687 | something
688 | sometimes
689 XXII | the more strike upon their sordid conscience, let each one
690 X | themselves through with many sorrows."~
691 XXI | XXI.~What sort of gift is it, beloved brethren,
692 XXI | or a consulship that is sought for the giver, but life
693 I | serpent, He gave a law to the sound man and bade him sin no
694 IX | ministereth seed to the sower, shall both minister bread
695 IX | shall multiply your seed sown, and shall increase the
696 I | and shut up into a narrow space by the commandment of innocence.
697 IV | He, "with strength, and spare not. Lift up thy voice as
698 IX | want, but rather that the sparing and barren hereafter come
699 XI | food is afforded to the sparrows; and to creatures which
700 IV | thee; whilst yet thou art speaking, He shall say, Here I am."~
701 XXI | of heaven assemble to the spectacle, when all the angels come
702 XXII | heavenly treasures! In those spectacles of mine, perishing and earthly
703 XXII | exhibitor and the mistake of the spectator, are perishing in a prodigal
704 XXI | have God and Christ as the spectators of the gift! How much more
705 IV | thy garments shall arise speedily; and righteousness shall
706 XXV | those that sleep, and the splendour of the stars and of the
707 XXII | of perdition and death, springing forth into the midst, and
708 XIV | Apocalypse, rebuking men of your stamp with righteous reproaches: "
709 XXV | and the splendour of the stars and of the moon is common.
710 XIX | all worldly injuries. The state neither takes away the property
711 | still
712 XXIII| unto us? How more could He stimulate the works of our righteousness
713 XXII | sometimes they are almost stoned! Show, O Christ, such givers
714 VI | had come in haste, there stood around him widows weeping
715 V | evil." And again: "Whoso stoppeth his ears that he may not
716 IV | works of mercy; and in the strain and exhortation of the Holy
717 XV | amidst the difficulties and straits of poverty, casting two
718 IV | Isaiah: "Cry," says He, "with strength, and spare not. Lift up
719 XVI | in Deuteronomy, for the strengthening of faith and the love of
720 XXII | and disgrace may the more strike upon their sordid conscience,
721 XXVI | let us gladly and readily strive; let us all, in the struggle
722 XXVI | the weak, glorious for the strong, assisted by which the Christian
723 XXVI | strive; let us all, in the struggle of righteousness, run with
724 II | righteousness the flame of sins is subdued. And because in baptism
725 I | away whatever foulness we subsequently contract.~
726 XII | they derided Him." Some suchlike we see now in the Church,
727 XX | deliver from death, and suffereth not to come into Gehenna.
728 V | seek, unless they be made sufficient by the addition of deeds
729 VI | sick and died, Peter was summoned to her lifeless body; and
730 XXV | equally enlightens, the sun gives radiance, the rain
731 IV | even though they should use supplications, and prayers, and fastings,
732 IX | this service shall not only supply the wants of the saints,
733 IV | and the glory of God shall surround thee. Then shalt thou cry,
734 VI | given. Therefore death is suspended, and the spirit is restored,
735 XXII | one is clothed, no one is sustained by the comfort either of
736 XVIII| them the full and paternal sweetness of love, you ought to be
737 XXVI | persecution, furnished, if swift, if running in this contest
738 I | abundant care should be taken for preserving man after
739 XIX | injuries. The state neither takes away the property entrusted
740 | taking
741 V | divine instructions have taught what sinners ought to do,
742 VII | the Gospel, the Lord, the Teacher of our life and Master of
743 XXII | with how excessive and tedious a labour procured! and that,
744 XXVI | earthly, eternal things for temporal, great things for small;
745 X | who will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many
746 VI | Raphael the angel said, by the testimony of the truth. In the Acts
747 IX | unto God;" because, while thanks are directed to God for
748 IX | be abundant also by many thanksgivings unto God;" because, while
749 | themselves
750 III | mercy, which, knowing that thereare still found some wounds
751 X | food and clothing, let us therewith be content. For they who
752 XXII | such givers as these of Thine--those rich men, those men
753 XVII | Thus that widow in the third book of Kings, when in the
754 XXV | transferred their lands thither where they might receive
755 | though
756 XXIII| that are charitable, and threatening punishment to the unfruitful.
757 XXIII| the Lord will do what He threatens, seeing that He says: "When
758 XVIII| man, had seven sons and three daughters, and cleansed
759 XXIII| then shall He sit in the throne of His glory: and before
760 XX | layest up a good reward for thyself against the day of necessity,
761 XX | to your children as was Tobias. Give useful and saving
762 | together
763 XIX | Therefore you are an unfair and traitorous father, unless you faithfully
764 XXIV | having already despised and trampled under foot the world, have
765 XX | mind, and be not willing to transgress His commandments. Do righteousness
766 IV | declare to my people their transgressions, and to the house of Jacob
767 XV | all that she had, into the treasury; whom when the Lord observed
768 VIII | cannot lie--that unfruitful trees, that is, unproductive men,
769 XXII | people of Christ with the trial of comparison--Christ Himself
770 IV | Lift up thy voice as a trumpet, and declare to my people
771 XII | who does not altogether trust in Christ named and called
772 XIX | children; let Him be their trustee; let Him be their protector,
773 XX | alms of thy substance, and turn not away thy face from any
774 XX | shall the face of God be turned away from thee. As thou
775 IX | never lack, but he that turneth away his eye shall be in
776 XIX | than to Christ, are sinning twice, and allowing a double and
777 XIX | and allowing a double and twofold crime, both in not providing
778 XVII | Therefore Elias, being the type of Christ, and showing that
779 XV | of their barrenness and unbelief. The widow, the widow needy
780 XIX | Him who is the eternal and unchanging Father of spiritual children.
781 XV | And in order that we may understand that their labours are given
782 XXVI | perceptions, let them be understood with full faith, let them
783 XIX | him." Therefore you are an unfair and traitorous father, unless
784 VIII | unfruitful trees, that is, unproductive men, are cut off and cast
785 VIII | not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who will commit
786 V | by almsgivings, and thine unrighteousness by mercies to the poor,
787 XIV | were before frightful and unseemly, may be clothed with the
788 | until
789 XVI | not in them whom we see unwilling to labour for the poor. "
790 IV | has never been silent in urging God's people always and
791 | used
792 XX | children as was Tobias. Give useful and saving precepts to your
793 XIII | deceive those who know, utter forth the secret and hidden
794 V | V.~The remedies for propitiating
795 XI | them: are you not of more value than they?" God feeds the
796 XXII | in a prodigal and foolish vanity of deceiving pleasures.
797 XVII | Thus saith the Lord, The vessel of meal shall not fail,
798 XVII | augmentations and increase, the vessels of meal and oil were filled.
799 VI | VI.~Neither, beloved brethren,
800 VII | VII.~Therefore in the Gospel,
801 VIII | VIII.~In fine, He calls those
802 XXV | flourished with greater virtues, when the faith of believers
803 IX | celebrated. Neither do I vouch for this on my own authority;
804 XXII | honoured by Thee with divine wages and heavenly rewards.~
805 XX | life, and be not willing to walk in the way of iniquity;
806 XIX | blessed." And again: "He who walketh without reproach in his
807 XVIII| the sight of God, there wanted not daily sacrifices wherewith
808 IX | shall not only supply the wants of the saints, but shall
809 XXV | believers burned with a warmth of faith as yet new. Then
810 XII | faithfully and wholesomely warned us to make to ourselves
811 XII | from spiritual and saving warnings, of whom we need not wonder
812 I | that by almsgiving we may wash away whatever foulness we
813 II | as eating and not first washing their hands, He replied
814 XIII | hast provided?" Why do you watch in loneliness over your
815 I | would the infirmity and weakness of human frailty have any
816 XXII | affluent with abounding wealth--whether in the Church wherein
817 XXIV | faith. But let us not be weary in well-doing, for in its
818 VI | stood around him widows weeping and entreating, showing
819 XIII | which burdens your with its weight; and you do not remember
820 XXIV | But let us not be weary in well-doing, for in its season we shall
821 VII | found a precious pearl, he went away and sold all that he
822 | wherein
823 IX | What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed? For
824 XII | almsgiving, and faithfully and wholesomely warned us to make to ourselves
825 XIV | mistaken, and are deceived, whosoever you are, that think yourself
826 VII | the law, He said, "If thou wilt be perfect, go and sell
827 XXV | the rain moistens, the wind blows, and the sleep is
828 Arg | WORKS, AND ENFORCES THE WISDOM OF OFFERINGS TO THE CHURCH
829 VII | heart be also." And when He wished to set forth a man perfect
830 XIII | conceits, as if you were withheld from good works by fear
831 V | Raphael the angel also witnesses the like, and exhorts that
832 XV | Greatly blessed and glorious woman, who even before the day
833 XII | warnings, of whom we need not wonder that they contemn the servant
834 VIII | what is foretold by God's word is true, and that the Holy
835 XI | to one given up to good works--thinkest thou that to one
836 I | him sin no more, lest a worse thing should befall the
837 III | who cannot be without some wound of conscience, heal our
838 I | before were prostrate; was wounded that He might heal our wounds;
839 XIV | knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor,
840 VIII | and if I have done any wrong to any man, I restore fourfold,"
841 X | X.~You are afraid lest perchance
842 XI | XI.~Are you afraid that your
843 XII | XII.~Unless you imagine that
844 XIII | XIII.~Wherefore do you applaud
845 XIV | XIV.~You are mistaken, and are
846 XIX | XIX.~Neither should you think
847 XV | XV.~But you who are such as
848 XVI | XVI.~But neither let the consideration,
849 XVII | XVII.~Thus that widow in the
850 XVIII| XVIII.~Moreover, also, (you say)
851 XX | XX.~Be rather such a father
852 XXI | XXI.~What sort of gift is it,
853 XXII | XXII.~And that the indolent and
854 XXIII| XXIII.~What do we reply to these
855 XXIV | XXIV.~And therefore, dearest
856 XXV | XXV.~Let us consider, beloved
857 XXVI | XXVI.~What, dearest brethren,
858 XIX | which says: "I have been young, and now am old; yet have
859 VIII | nourishing the poor. For when Zacchaeus said, "Behold, the half