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1 Arg | TRANSMITTED TO YOU." A.D. 256.~
2 Arg | HAVE TRANSMITTED TO YOU." A.D. 256.~
3 X | stedfast equanimity. Thus Abel, who first initiated and
4 XIX | in whom Christ dwells and abides is found patient, so he
5 IX | saying, "He who saith he abideth in Christ, ought himself
6 Arg | WITH THE BEST OF OUR POOR ABILITIES, BY THE PERMISSION AND INSPIRATION
7 XVI | depart, that a peaceful abode may continue in the heart,
8 X | is patiently slain. Thus Abraham, believing God, and first
9 XIX | enumerate single cases, absolutely everything which patience,
10 IV | the fountains flow, the abundance of the harvests increases,
11 XVI | and persecutors? Can you accomplish these things unless you
12 XXI | many are eager, either on account of the burden or the pain
13 XXIII| it is He who, when He was accused by the priests and elders,
14 VIII | repent of their sin, if they acknowledge the crime committed, He
15 III | in truth--who are better acquainted with the consciousness,
16 XXI | quickly avenged of those who act harshly and rage against
17 XVIII| The wasting of wounds is added; and, moreover, an eating
18 XVI | harbour of Christ, he ought to admit neither anger nor discord
19 XIII | brethren, in order that, being admitted to the hope of truth and
20 XIII | season we shall reap." He admonishes that no man should impatiently
21 XIX | of docility and of divine admonition, they put to death their
22 I | rewards, anything of more advantage, either as more useful for
23 I | patience, and to declare its advantages and benefits, from what
24 XX | in prosperity, brave in adversity, gentle towards wrongs and
25 II | insolent audacity of an affected liberty, and the immodest
26 XX | united and married a single affection. It makes men humble in
27 XVII | righteous more, than that in affliction the unrighteous man impatiently
28 XI | that we labour here with afflictions and contests. "Because,"
29 XXII | as an oven; and all the aliens and all the wicked shall
30 IV | light of the sun to arise alike upon the good and the evil;
31 VIII | merciful? Even he is made alive by Christ's blood who has
32 XII | wherewith as our helper and ally, we may bear all mischievous
33 | almost
34 | alone
35 | already
36 XXI | fifth seal, I saw under the altar of God the souls of them
37 XVI | moreover, all his sins altogether; that you should love your
38 XXIV | And in the Apocalypse the angel withstands John, who wishes
39 VII | whose name the devil and his angels is now scourged by His servants,
40 XXII | approach of God the Judge is announced as worthy to be reverenced
41 XXIII| the priests and elders, answered nothing, and, to the wonder
42 VI | unthankful by concession, in answering gently to the contradictors,
43 XII | untrained soul laments the anxieties and labours of the mortal
44 VI | deigned even to wash the apostles' feet, that since the Lord
45 XIX | is found patient, so he appears always impatient whose mind
46 IV | the trees are loaded with apples, the groves put on their
47 VII | to drink of vinegar, who appointed the cup of salvation. That
48 XXII | in the Psalms, where the approach of God the Judge is announced
49 Arg | Argument.~CYPRIAN HIMSELF BRIEFLY
50 IV | the light of the sun to arise alike upon the good and
51 XVIII| in his trials, the devil arms his wife also, making use
52 XI | wast taken: for dust thou art, and to dust shall thou
53 VI | being in the meantime laid aside, He suffers Himself to become
54 XIV | body, wherewith the soul is assaulted and taken. Let us look briefly
55 VI | characterized by patience as their associate; in that, first of all,
56 XIV | with the Holy Spirit, and associated with what is heavenly and
57 XX | is patience, too, which assuages anger, which bridles the
58 X | glorious deaths, who all have attained to the heavenly crowns by
59 I | faith is directed to the attainment of the divine rewards, anything
60 II | where there is the insolent audacity of an affected liberty,
61 I | even at this time, for your audience of me, patience is needful,
62 III | proceed from God as its author. Man ought to love the thing
63 X | rather, on the contrary, even avenging him when slain! In fine,
64 VI | the guilty. The Lord is baptized by the servant; and He who
65 XXII | pieces; He shall stir up the battle, and shall cry out against
66 XII | who, daily standing in the battle-field, are wearied with the wrestlings
67 XII | the various and continual battles of temptations, must also
68 XV | things, hopeth all things, beareth all things." Thence he shows
69 XII | endure the sword, the wild beasts, fires, crucifixions--in
70 | becomes
71 XIX | let us look at the very beginnings. The devil suffered with
72 III | with God. From Him patience begins; from Him its glory and
73 IV | equality of patience, at God's behest, the seasons minister to
74 XVI | sin to their charge." It behoved the first martyr of Christ
75 XIII | may receive that which we believe and hope for, according
76 XV | evil; loveth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things,
77 IV | patience of God man may be benefited for life eternal. Punishment
78 VIII | saving patience, He who is benignant to preserve, closes His
79 | besides
80 Arg | MOREOVER, WE HAVE, WITH THE BEST OF OUR POOR ABILITIES, BY
81 VI | and He who is about to bestow remission of sins, does
82 III | garb, but in truth--who are better acquainted with the consciousness,
83 | between
84 | beyond
85 XXI | forth to their revenge, are bidden still to wait, and to give
86 XVI | day of redemption. Let all bitterness, and anger, and wrath, and
87 VIII | Those adversaries, those blasphemers, those who were always enemies
88 XVII | impatiently complains and blasphemes, while the righteous is
89 XVI | wrath, and clamour, and blasphemy, be put away from you."
90 XVIII| repeated conflicts, nor the blessing of God withheld from being
91 VII | little before made eyes for a blind man; and He in whose name
92 XVIII| he patiently endured his blindness, in that proportion deserved
93 XIX | crime of the crucifixion and bloodshedding of the Lord. Moreover, impatience
94 IV | wait on them; the winds blow, the fountains flow, the
95 III | consciousness, than with the boast, of virtues--who do not
96 II | liberty, and the immodest boastfulness of an exposed and half-naked
97 XVII | received--it behoves us, in this bodily frailty and weakness, always
98 XXI | of the prophecy of this book: for now the time is at
99 VII | the end, all things are borne perseveringly and constantly,
100 II | an exposed and half-naked bosom.~
101 XI | go." We are all tied and bound with the chain of this sentence,
102 XX | nor confined by strait boundaries. The virtue of patience
103 X | patience pardons them, but even bountifully and mercifully bestows gratuitous
104 XXIV | Jesus every knee should bow, of things heavenly, and
105 XXI | and hastening with grief breaking forth to their revenge,
106 XX | peace, rules discipline, breaks the force of lust, represses
107 XX | which assuages anger, which bridles the tongue, governs the
108 V | precepts for salvation, and, bringing forth divine warnings, was
109 X | patience, he suppliantly brings him back to concord with
110 XVIII| world. And yet Job is not broken down by his severe and repeated
111 XV | Charity is the bond of brotherhood, the foundation of peace,
112 VI | gentle, He loved them with a brotherly love. He deigned even to
113 XII | entering. For the sweat of the brow and labour is the condition
114 XVI | that, when you receive a buffet, you should give your other
115 XIX | patience, by its works, builds up to glory, impatience
116 XXI | either on account of the burden or the pain of smarting
117 XXII | day of the Lord cometh, burning as an oven; and all the
118 XIX | patience. And in order that Cain should put his brother to
119 XIII | that none should be either called off or overcome by temptations
120 II | and sent forth for the calling and training of the heathen,
121 XVI | have departed from rage and carnal contention as if from the
122 XIV | nor, after the Eucharist carried in it, is the hand spotted
123 XIX | length to enumerate single cases, absolutely everything which
124 XIX | up to glory, impatience casts down into ruin.~
125 XIX | mischief impatience may cause. For as patience is the
126 XIII | while those which have begun cease to be perfect; as it is
127 XI | tied and bound with the chain of this sentence, until,
128 XII | undergo imprisonment, bear chains, spend our lives, endure
129 IV | mischief may at some time be changed, and man, involved in the
130 VI | from His very advent, are characterized by patience as their associate;
131 XVI | lay not this sin to their charge." It behoved the first martyr
132 XI | tree of which alone I had charged thee that thou shouldest
133 XXII | come like a fire, and His chariot as a storm, to render vengeance
134 XX | extinguishes the fire of enmity, checks the power of the rich, soothes
135 XVI | you should give your other cheek to the smiter; that you
136 XXIII| back to stripes, and His cheeks to the palms of the hands;
137 XV | kept unless brethren should cherish one another with mutual
138 X | desiring to slay him; and yet, chose rather to save him when
139 XIII | that very fact that we are Christians is the substance of faith
140 XVI | and anger, and wrath, and clamour, and blasphemy, be put away
141 XIII | deliver him in whatever clay he shall transgress;" and
142 VI | regeneration. For forty Clays He fasts, by whom others
143 VI | in bearing the proud with clemency, in yielding with humility
144 VIII | is benignant to preserve, closes His Church to none. Those
145 VII | His earthly garment, who clothes others in the vesture of
146 Arg | SPIRIT, THE HONOUR OF OUR COLLEGE, THE BOND OF FAITH, AND
147 VI | in that, first of all, coming down from that heavenly
148 VIII | they acknowledge the crime committed, He receives, not only to
149 III | For we have this virtue in common with God. From Him patience
150 VII | sun, that he may not be compelled to look on the crime of
151 XVII | unrighteous man impatiently complains and blasphemes, while the
152 VI | soothing the unthankful by concession, in answering gently to
153 Arg | OF THIS TREATISE AT THE CONCLUSION OF HIS EPISTLE TO JUBAIANUS
154 IX | upon whom by the Lord's condescension the Church was founded,
155 XII | the brow and labour is the condition of life so long as it lasts.
156 XIX | bear the delays of Moses conferring with God, they dared to
157 XII | have tribulation; yet be confident, for I have overcome the
158 XX | restrained by narrow limits, nor confined by strait boundaries. The
159 XVIII| his severe and repeated conflicts, nor the blessing of God
160 VII | of the Lord the stars are confounded, the elements are disturbed,
161 XXIV | avenge with Himself the congregation of His Church, and the number
162 XXI | for my judgment is to the congregations of the nations, that I may
163 III | better acquainted with the consciousness, than with the boast, of
164 X | who first initiated and consecrated the origin of martyrdom,
165 VI | patience of His Father in the constancy of His endurance. Finally,
166 VII | borne perseveringly and constantly, in order that in Christ
167 XVIII| an eating pest of worms consumes his festering and wasting
168 VII | perfect patience may be consummated.~
169 X | him. Moses is frequently contemned by an ungrateful and faithless
170 IV | rites instituted by men, in contempt of His majesty and honour,
171 XX | gentle towards wrongs and contempts. It teaches us quickly to
172 VI | devil tempting Him; and, content only to have overcome the
173 XVI | departed from rage and carnal contention as if from the hurricanes
174 XII | temptations, must also in the contest of persecutions forsake
175 XI | here with afflictions and contests. "Because," says He, "thou
176 XIII | hand, may be crowned by the continuance of patience.~
177 XV | and of enduring, and it continues with no roots nor strength.
178 XXIII| not rebellious, neither contradicted, when He offered His back
179 VI | answering gently to the contradictors, in bearing the proud with
180 VII | heard, what mockings of contumely were suffered, so that He
181 XX | to God; which patience, copious and manifold, is not restrained
182 X | bestows gratuitous supplies of corn on them when they come to
183 VII | and justice itself,--is counted among transgressors, and
184 X | by his brother from his country, departs with patience;
185 XXII | unto Him, who establish His covenant in sacrifices; and the heavens
186 II | rebuke the wise in their own craftiness." And again: "The Lord knoweth
187 XXI | their testimony; and they cried with a loud voice, saying,
188 XIX | even into the crime of the crucifixion and bloodshedding of the
189 XII | the wild beasts, fires, crucifixions--in fine, all kinds of torments
190 VII | before they had reached the cruelty of death and the effusion
191 XXII | shall go forth, and shall crumble the war to pieces; He shall
192 XXI | Whence also the martyrs, crying out and hastening with grief
193 VII | vinegar, who appointed the cup of salvation. That guiltless,
194 XVI | you should not swear nor curse; that you should not seek
195 XI | thou shouldest not eat, cursed shall be, the ground in
196 Arg | Argument.~CYPRIAN HIMSELF BRIEFLY SETS FORTH
197 XIX | conferring with God, they dared to ask for profane gods,
198 XVIII| virtue of patience. What darts of the devil were sent forth
199 X | for those people. But in David, from whom, according to
200 XIX | command with respect to the deadly food, by impatience fell
201 XVII | and weakness came on with death-and strength cannot be received
202 X | were honoured with glorious deaths, who all have attained to
203 XVIII| God withheld from being declared in the midst of those difficulties
204 XIV | adultery, nor is the innocence dedicated to righteousness stained
205 XIV | divine, it struggles with the defence of its strength against
206 XXIV | servants as we are, to be defended before our Lord with irreligious
207 IV | it is long and greatly, deferred, so that by the long patience
208 III | it becomes sons not to be degenerate.~
209 VI | with a brotherly love. He deigned even to wash the apostles'
210 X | son, does not hesitate nor delay, but obeys the commands
211 XIX | Not being able to bear the delays of Moses conferring with
212 XVI | continue in the heart, where it delights the God of peace to dwell.
213 XIII | the righteous shall not deliver him in whatever clay he
214 X | placed in his hand, and delivered up to him, not repaying
215 X | brother from his country, departs with patience; and afterwards
216 XV | Take from it patience; and deprived of it, it does not endure.
217 XIX | and gift; and in that Esau descended from the rights of the first-born
218 XVIII| blindness, in that proportion deserved greatly of God by the praise
219 X | was persecuting him and desiring to slay him; and yet, chose
220 IV | sets forward, and says: "Or despisest thou the riches of His goodness,
221 II | saying, "See that no man despoil you through philosophy and
222 VII | those who overcome. He was despoiled of His earthly garment,
223 II | wise in this world, "I will destroy the wisdom of the wise,
224 IV | retribution, once for all determined; and although He has revenge
225 XVIII| making use of that old device of his wickedness, as if
226 IV | will the death of him that dieth, so much as that he may
227 XVIII| declared in the midst of those difficulties and trials of his, by the
228 XX | source of one name, but are diffused by overflowing streams through
229 III | from Him its glory and its dignity take their rise. The origin
230 XX | beloved brethren, having diligently pondered both the benefits
231 I | of our hope and faith is directed to the attainment of the
232 XX | our hope. It is this which directs our doing, that we may hold
233 I | needful, as you cannot even discharge this duty of hearing and
234 I | patience? For wholesome discourse and reasoning are then effectually
235 VI | of sins, does not Himself disdain to wash His body in the
236 II | they please themselves, displeasing God--it is evident that
237 XVII | to us. Nor does anything distinguish between the unrighteous
238 VII | confounded, the elements are disturbed, the earth quakes, night
239 XVII | examined and searched out, diverse sufferings are introduced;
240 II | dwelleth all the fulness of divinity." And in another place he
241 XIX | until, impatient always of docility and of divine admonition,
242 XIII | instructs the righteous and the doers of good works, and them
243 XX | is this which directs our doing, that we may hold fast the
244 | done
245 XXI | O Lord, holy and true, dost Thou not judge and avenge
246 XIII | for what a man seeth, why doth he hope for? But if we hope
247 VII | heavenly food. He was given to drink of vinegar, who appointed
248 X | found patient. And Jacob, driven forth by his brother from
249 XIX | the likeness of the Jews, drives them in opposition to the
250 I | cannot even discharge this duty of hearing and learning
251 II | after Christ, because in Him dwelleth all the fulness of divinity."
252 XIX | and as one in whom Christ dwells and abides is found patient,
253 | each
254 XXI | brethren, that very many are eager, either on account of the
255 XXIV | irreligious and immodest eagerness. Let us rather press onward
256 XII | nothing else in that very earliest birth except to weep. By
257 XX | wrong, to entreat long and earnestly. It resists temptations,
258 XIX | the head of an ox and an earthen image leaders of their march;
259 XI | voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree of which alone
260 XVIII| added; and, moreover, an eating pest of worms consumes his
261 I | discourse and reasoning are then effectually learnt, if what is said
262 XV | says, "in love, using every effort to keep the unity of the
263 VII | cruelty of death and the effusion of blood, what infamies
264 XXIII| accused by the priests and elders, answered nothing, and,
265 | else
266 XVII | fight. And this struggle and encounter cannot be sustained but
267 XIII | Lord and Master: "He that endureth," saith He, "unto the end,
268 VI | could take meat with His enemy--could know the household
269 XX | extinguishes the fire of enmity, checks the power of the
270 XVI | there; or should they try to enter, they are quickly excluded
271 XII | of the world which it is entering. For the sweat of the brow
272 XX | you yourself do wrong, to entreat long and earnestly. It resists
273 X | gentleness and patience he entreats the Lord for those people.
274 XIX | hatred. And, not at length to enumerate single cases, absolutely
275 XV | charity is kind; charity envieth not, is not puffed up, is
276 IV | that with undistinguishing equality of patience, at God's behest,
277 VI | to be among his peers and equals. Nor is it to be wondered
278 IV | involved in the contagion of errors and crimes, may even though
279 XIX | sacrifice and gift; and in that Esau descended from the rights
280 XXII | saints together unto Him, who establish His covenant in sacrifices;
281 XIV | of fraud; nor, after the Eucharist carried in it, is the hand
282 | everything
283 II | displeasing God--it is evident that the patience is not
284 XXIV | down, and says: "God hath exalted Him, and given Him a name
285 XVII | patience. But as we are to be examined and searched out, diverse
286 XV | both hope and faith, which excels both good works and martyrdoms,
287 | except
288 IV | eternal. Punishment is then executed on the impious and the sinner,
289 XIII | not thy crown." Which word exhorts us to persevere with patience
290 XXIV | give an obedience full of expectation to His advent; and let us
291 XVIII| remain that Job did not experience in his trials, the devil
292 II | immodest boastfulness of an exposed and half-naked bosom.~
293 XI | sentence, until, death being expunged, we depart from this life.
294 XX | represses the violence of pride, extinguishes the fire of enmity, checks
295 XXIII| the God of all, but of the faithfull and believing; and He, when
296 VI | He is hungry, and suffers famine, that they who had been
297 VI | the enemy, He strives no farther than by words. He ruled
298 VI | regeneration. For forty Clays He fasts, by whom others are feasted.
299 VI | fasts, by whom others are feasted. He is hungry, and suffers
300 VII | vesture of immortality. He was fed with gall, who gave heavenly
301 VI | even to wash the apostles' feet, that since the Lord is
302 V | God! what and how great a felicity, to possess among our virtues,
303 XIX | deadly food, by impatience fell into death; nor did he keep
304 XXI | until the number of their fellow-servants and brethren is fulfilled,
305 XX | widely manifest, and its fertility and liberality proceed indeed
306 XVIII| pest of worms consumes his festering and wasting limbs. And that
307 XVII | property, by the heats of fevers, by the torments of wounds,
308 XI | shalt eat the food of the field. In the sweat of thy face
309 XXI | had opened," says he, "the fifth seal, I saw under the altar
310 XVII | always to struggle and to fight. And this struggle and encounter
311 X | preceding likeness wore the figure of Christ, in the praise
312 II | the blessed Apostle Paul, filled with the Holy Spirit, and
313 XII | sword, the wild beasts, fires, crucifixions--in fine,
314 XX | martyrdoms. It is patience which firmly fortifies the foundations
315 XIX | descended from the rights of the first-born to those of the younger,
316 XII | while in this world they are fit and necessary for all men,
317 IV | winds blow, the fountains flow, the abundance of the harvests
318 VII | crowns martyrs with eternal flowers. He was smitten on the face
319 VI | could know the household foe, and not openly point him
320 XIII | patience. For we are not following after present glory, but
321 Arg | EPISTLE TO JUBAIANUS AS FOLLOWS: "CHARITY OF SPIRIT, THE
322 II | be wise, let him become a fool to this world, that he may
323 II | the wise, that they are foolish." Wherefore if the wisdom
324 II | wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written,
325 IX | who follow Christ in the footsteps of salvation, let us walk
326 IV | riches of His goodness, and forbearance, and long-suffering, not
327 XV | And in another place: "Forbearing one another," he says, "
328 XX | rules discipline, breaks the force of lust, represses the violence
329 XVI | Christ thus to be, who, fore-running the martyrs that should
330 XII | except to weep. By a natural foresight, the untrained soul laments
331 XXII | is the Judge." And Isaiah foretells the same things, saying: "
332 XI | of the human race, Adam, forgetful of the commandment, and
333 XVI | smiter; that you should forgive a brother who sins against
334 XII | contest of persecutions forsake our patrimonies, undergo
335 XX | is patience which firmly fortifies the foundations of our faith.
336 | forty
337 XXIII| turned away His face from the foulness of spitting. Surely it is
338 XX | which firmly fortifies the foundations of our faith. It is this
339 IX | condescension the Church was founded, lays it down in his epistle,
340 IV | them; the winds blow, the fountains flow, the abundance of the
341 XVII | behoves us, in this bodily frailty and weakness, always to
342 X | nor struggles against his fratricidal brother, but with lowliness
343 XIII | the truth shall make you free." We must endure and persevere,
344 XII | and the world with more frequency and violence, how much more
345 X | they come to him. Moses is frequently contemned by an ungrateful
346 IV | harvests increases, the fruits of the vineyards ripen,
347 XIII | are needful, that we may fulfil that which we have begun
348 II | in Him dwelleth all the fulness of divinity." And in another
349 XXI | withhold the fact in the furthest particular, that placed
350 XXI | and pour out upon them my fury." The Lord commands us to
351 VII | immortality. He was fed with gall, who gave heavenly food.
352 III | forward our wisdom in our garb, but in truth--who are better
353 VII | despoiled of His earthly garment, who clothes others in the
354 XXI | persecutions both of Jews or Gentiles, and heretics, we may patiently
355 VI | concession, in answering gently to the contradictors, in
356 XIX | impatient of his sacrifice and gift; and in that Esau descended
357 X | to concord with peaceful gifts, when he is even more impious
358 VII | the face with palms, who gives the true palms to those
359 V | the Lord in His Gospel was giving precepts for salvation,
360 II | themselves, displeasing God--it is evident that the patience
361 XIX | dared to ask for profane gods, that they might call the
362 XVII | estate have patience; for gold and silver are tried in
363 XVI | should not seek again your goods when taken from you; that,
364 V | Father; when the Lord in His Gospel was giving precepts for
365 XX | which bridles the tongue, governs the mind, guards peace,
366 IV | for He is merciful, and gracious, and patient, and of great
367 X | bountifully and mercifully bestows gratuitous supplies of corn on them
368 III | their rise. The origin and greatness of patience proceed from
369 XXI | crying out and hastening with grief breaking forth to their
370 XVI | us, and teaches, saying: "Grieve not the Holy Spirit of God,
371 XII | witness by its wails and groans to the storms of the world
372 IV | loaded with apples, the groves put on their leaves, the
373 XIX | received from God under the guardianship of patience. And in order
374 XX | tongue, governs the mind, guards peace, rules discipline,
375 II | boastfulness of an exposed and half-naked bosom.~
376 XXIII| cheeks to the palms of the hands; neither turned away His
377 XVII | race is daily wearied and harassed, patience is necessary.
378 XVI | tranquil and meek in the harbour of Christ, he ought to admit
379 IV | repentance? But after thy hardness and impenitent heart thou
380 XIV | repels what is evil. In harmony with the Holy Spirit, and
381 XXI | avenged of those who act harshly and rage against them, we
382 IV | flow, the abundance of the harvests increases, the fruits of
383 XXI | suffering with a querulous haste, since it is written, "Wait
384 XXIV | His advent; and let us not hasten, servants as we are, to
385 XXI | martyrs, crying out and hastening with grief breaking forth
386 | hath
387 XX | Wherefore, beloved brethren, having diligently pondered both
388 XIX | that they might call the head of an ox and an earthen
389 I | even discharge this duty of hearing and learning without patience?
390 XI | Because," says He, "thou hast hearkened to the voice of thy wife,
391 II | calling and training of the heathen, bears witness and instructs
392 V | others)? do not even the heathens the same thing? Be ye therefore
393 XVII | losses of property, by the heats of fevers, by the torments
394 XXII | covenant in sacrifices; and the heavens shall declare His righteousness,
395 XII | patience, wherewith as our helper and ally, we may bear all
396 I | useful for life or more helpful to glory, than that we who
397 | Hence
398 | here
399 X | respect of his son, does not hesitate nor delay, but obeys the
400 XX | is this which lifts up on high the increase of our hope.
401 XVIII| was raised up to the very highest pinnacle of praise by the
402 XV | foundation of peace, the holdfast and security of unity, which
403 XV | things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, beareth all
404 XIX | of Christ as rebels, to hostile and raging hatred. And,
405 XXII | again: "The Lord God of hosts shall go forth, and shall
406 VI | against God, even to the very hour of His cross and passion!~
407 XX | affection. It makes men humble in prosperity, brave in
408 VI | that they who had been in hunger of the word and of grace
409 VI | others are feasted. He is hungry, and suffers famine, that
410 XVI | contention as if from the hurricanes of the sea, and have already
411 XXIV | of the world. Let him who hurries, and is too impatient for
412 XXI | God's) vengeance, and not hurry to revenge our suffering
413 XII | although still unconscious and ignorant of all things, he knows
414 II | II.~Philosophers also profess
415 III | III.~But for us, beloved brethren,
416 XVII | moreover, also, for the varied ills of the flesh, and the frequent
417 IV | profane temples and the images of earth, and the sacrilegious
418 X | presented by his father for immolation, is found patient. And Jacob,
419 IV | But after thy hardness and impenitent heart thou treasurest up
420 IV | guiltless, the religious and the impious--those who give thanks and
421 XII | our patrimonies, undergo imprisonment, bear chains, spend our
422 IV | and of great pity, and who inclines His judgment towards the
423 IV | abundance of the harvests increases, the fruits of the vineyards
424 | indeed
425 IV | offences, He softens His indignation, and in patience waits for
426 VII | effusion of blood, what infamies of reproach were patiently
427 X | equanimity. Thus Abel, who first initiated and consecrated the origin
428 XXI | persevere in injuring to injure, and for him that is filthy
429 XXI | for them that persevere in injuring to injure, and for him that
430 XII | born and received in the inn of this world, takes his
431 XIV | by adultery, nor is the innocence dedicated to righteousness
432 VII | just One,--nay, He who is innocency itself and justice itself,--
433 II | them where there is the insolent audacity of an affected
434 Arg | ABILITIES, BY THE PERMISSION AND INSPIRATION OF THE LORD,WRITTEN A PAMPHLET '
435 IV | and the sacrilegious rites instituted by men, in contempt of His
436 X | believing God, and first of all instituting the root and foundation
437 V | forth divine warnings, was instructing His disciples to perfection,
438 VII | received the spittings of insulters, who with His spittle had
439 XX | poor, protects a blessed integrity in virgins, a careful purity
440 XV | the bond of concord by the intervention of patience.~
441 XVII | diverse sufferings are introduced; and a manifold kind of
442 XII | with the wrestlings of an inveterate and skilful enemy; for us
443 IV | time be changed, and man, involved in the contagion of errors
444 XXIV | defended before our Lord with irreligious and immodest eagerness.
445 X | patience of devotion. And Isaac, prefigured as the likeness
446 XXII | for God is the Judge." And Isaiah foretells the same things,
447 IV | IV.~But what and how great
448 IX | IX.~But if we also, beloved
449 X | immolation, is found patient. And Jacob, driven forth by his brother
450 XXI | midst of these storms of a jarring world, and, moreover, the
451 XIX | the pottage. Why was the Jewish people faithless and ungrateful
452 XV | would speak of charity, joined to it endurance and patience. "
453 X | impious and persecuting. Joseph, sold by his brethren and
454 Arg | CONCLUSION OF HIS EPISTLE TO JUBAIANUS AS FOLLOWS: "CHARITY OF
455 VI | such, since He could bear Judas even to the last with a
456 X | his power to be able to kill king Saul, who was persecuting
457 XII | crucifixions--in fine, all kinds of torments and penalties,
458 X | power to be able to kill king Saul, who was persecuting
459 XXI | that I may take hold on the kings, and pour out upon them
460 VI | him out, nor refuse the kiss of the traitor. Moreover,
461 XXIV | the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things heavenly,
462 II | craftiness." And again: "The Lord knoweth the thoughts of the wise,
463 IV | and long-suffering, not knowing that the patience and goodness
464 I | glory, than that we who are labouring in the precepts of the Lord
465 XII | laments the anxieties and labours of the mortal life, and
466 XXIII| the slaughter; and as a lamb before its shearer is without
467 XII | foresight, the untrained soul laments the anxieties and labours
468 XV | Charity," he says, "is large-souled; charity is kind; charity
469 | last
470 XII | condition of life so long as it lasts. Nor can there be supplied
471 IV | crimes, may even though late be converted to God, as
472 XI | transgressor of the given law, received. Then we shall
473 VI | to wash His body in the layer of regeneration. For forty
474 XIX | ox and an earthen image leaders of their march; nor did
475 IV | patience and goodness of God leadeth thee to repentance? But
476 III | obedience, the patience which we learn from heavenly teachings.
477 I | this duty of hearing and learning without patience? For wholesome
478 I | reasoning are then effectually learnt, if what is said be patiently
479 IV | the groves put on their leaves, the meadows their verdure;
480 IX | Christ suffered for us, leaving you an example, that ye
481 XIX | raging hatred. And, not at length to enumerate single cases,
482 | less
483 V | which may be placed on the level of divine praises!~
484 XX | manifest, and its fertility and liberality proceed indeed from a source
485 XX | faith. It is this which lifts up on high the increase
486 IV | the day to begin and the light of the sun to arise alike
487 XXI | still more righteous, and likewise for him that is holy to
488 XVIII| his festering and wasting limbs. And that nothing at all
489 XX | not restrained by narrow limits, nor confined by strait
490 XII | bear chains, spend our lives, endure the sword, the wild
491 IV | vineyards ripen, the trees are loaded with apples, the groves
492 IV | goodness, and forbearance, and long-suffering, not knowing that the patience
493 IV | repentance for the sin can no longer avail.~
494 XVII | temptations is inflicted by the losses of property, by the heats
495 XXI | testimony; and they cried with a loud voice, saying, How long,
496 VI | but, kind and gentle, He loved them with a brotherly love.
497 III | which the Divine Majesty loves, it commends. If God is
498 XV | provoked, thinketh not evil; loveth all things, believeth all
499 XVII | pain endure, and in thy low estate have patience; for
500 X | fratricidal brother, but with lowliness and meekness he is patiently