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501 XX | discipline, breaks the force of lust, represses the violence
502 XVI | these things unless you maintain the stedfastness of patience
503 | make
504 V | which is in heaven, who maketh His sun to rise on the good
505 XVIII| devil arms his wife also, making use of that old device of
506 XXII | Holy Spirit declares by Malachi the prophet, saying, "Behold,
507 V | Adam had lost by sin, be manifested and shine in our actions.
508 XI | But that it may be more manifestly and fully known how useful
509 XIV | understood. Adultery, fraud, manslaughter, are mortal crimes. Let
510 XIX | earthen image leaders of their march; nor did they ever desist
511 VI | whereby He showed forth the marks of a divine majesty, He
512 XX | those who are united and married a single affection. It makes
513 XVI | charge." It behoved the first martyr of Christ thus to be, who,
514 X | consecrated the origin of martyrdom, and the passion of the
515 X | Christ springs, how great and marvellous and Christian is the patience,
516 VI | Father; among the other marvels of His virtues, whereby
517 IV | put on their leaves, the meadows their verdure; and while
518 | meantime
519 VI | long patience--could take meat with His enemy--could know
520 II | is wise who is lowly and meek--but we do not see that philosophers
521 X | but with lowliness and meekness he is patiently slain. Thus
522 XVIII| works of his justice and mercy, was tried with the loss
523 XXIV | adored; and the Apostle Paul, mindful of the divine command, lays
524 IV | God's behest, the seasons minister to the guilty and the guiltless,
525 XII | suffer the tribulations and mischiefs of the devil and the world
526 XII | and ally, we may bear all mischievous things!~
527 XVIII| if he could deceive and mislead all by women, even as he
528 VII | were patiently heard, what mockings of contumely were suffered,
529 VII | eyes, He speaks not, nor is moved, nor declares His majesty
530 XX | manifold, is not restrained by narrow limits, nor confined by
531 XXI | the congregations of the nations, that I may take hold on
532 X | according to the flesh, the nativity of Christ springs, how great
533 XII | birth except to weep. By a natural foresight, the untrained
534 VII | guiltless, that just One,--nay, He who is innocency itself
535 XIII | crown with the praise now near at hand, may be crowned
536 XI | and groaning we must of necessity be all the days of our life:
537 XIII | to their result, there is need of patience. For we are
538 V | said, Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and have thine enemy in
539 | never
540 VII | disturbed, the earth quakes, night shuts out the day, the sun,
541 XVIII| inflicted, the privation of a numerous offspring is ordained for
542 XXI | voice, saying, How long, O Lord, holy and true, dost
543 X | hesitate nor delay, but obeys the commands of God with
544 Arg | HIMSELF BRIEFLY SETS FORTH THE OCCASION OF THIS TREATISE AT THE
545 IV | frequent, yea, with continual offences, He softens His indignation,
546 XVI | enemies; that you should offer prayer for your adversaries
547 XXIII| neither contradicted, when He offered His back to stripes, and
548 XVIII| privation of a numerous offspring is ordained for him. The
549 | often
550 XVIII| also, making use of that old device of his wickedness,
551 | once
552 XXIV | eagerness. Let us rather press onward and labour, and, watching
553 VI | the household foe, and not openly point him out, nor refuse
554 XIX | the Jews, drives them in opposition to the peace and charity
555 VII | transgressors, and truth is oppressed with false witnesses. He
556 XXII | Lord cometh, burning as an oven; and all the aliens and
557 XX | name, but are diffused by overflowing streams through many ways
558 XIX | might call the head of an ox and an earthen image leaders
559 Arg | INSPIRATION OF THE LORD,WRITTEN A PAMPHLET 'ON THE BENEFIT OF PATIENCE,'
560 X | not only with patience pardons them, but even bountifully
561 XXI | the fact in the furthest particular, that placed as we are in
562 XX | suffers persecutions, perfects passions and martyrdoms. It is patience
563 XIII | and the things that are past perish, while those which
564 I | heavenly discipline wherein the path of our hope and faith is
565 VI | to the last with a long patience--could take meat with His
566 X | Finally, we find that both patriarchs and prophets, and all the
567 XII | persecutions forsake our patrimonies, undergo imprisonment, bear
568 VI | fellow-servant ought to be among his peers and equals. Nor is it to
569 XII | all kinds of torments and penalties, to be endured in the faith
570 XX | temptations, suffers persecutions, perfects passions and martyrdoms.
571 Arg | OUR POOR ABILITIES, BY THE PERMISSION AND INSPIRATION OF THE LORD,
572 V | and pray for them which persecute you; that ye may be the
573 VII | end, all things are borne perseveringly and constantly, in order
574 VI | unbelieving to the faith by persuasion, in soothing the unthankful
575 XVIII| and, moreover, an eating pest of worms consumes his festering
576 IX | walk even as He walked." Peter also, upon whom by the Lord'
577 II | man despoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the
578 XXII | shall crumble the war to pieces; He shall stir up the battle,
579 XXIII| nothing, and, to the wonder of Pilate, kept a most patient silence.
580 XVIII| raised up to the very highest pinnacle of praise by the virtue
581 IV | and patient, and of great pity, and who inclines His judgment
582 II | the very reason that they please themselves, displeasing
583 II | lowly or meek, but greatly pleasing themselves, and, for the
584 XIX | all the righteous men, and plunged even into the crime of the
585 XIV | sanctified body and temple of God polluted by adultery, nor is the
586 V | how great a felicity, to possess among our virtues, that
587 VIII | Church would never have possessed Paul as an apostle.~
588 XIX | wickedness of the devil possesses. Briefly let us look at
589 IV | so that, if it might be possible, the long protracted mischief
590 XIX | priority by impatience for the pottage. Why was the Jewish people
591 XXI | take hold on the kings, and pour out upon them my fury."
592 V | placed on the level of divine praises!~
593 V | Love your enemies, and pray for them which persecute
594 XVI | enemies; that you should offer prayer for your adversaries and
595 XVI | death, was not only the preacher of the Lord's passion, but
596 X | in sorrow and suffering precede it.~
597 X | righteous men who in their preceding likeness wore the figure
598 XIII | XIII.~It is the wholesome precept of our Lord and Master: "
599 IV | revenge in His power, He prefers to keep patience for a long
600 X | of devotion. And Isaac, prefigured as the likeness of the Lord'
601 XIII | are not following after present glory, but future, according
602 X | Lord's victim, when he is presented by his father for immolation,
603 XXIV | eagerness. Let us rather press onward and labour, and,
604 XX | represses the violence of pride, extinguishes the fire of
605 Arg | THE BOND OF FAITH, AND PRIESTLY CONCORD, ARE MAINTAINED
606 XXIII| when He was accused by the priests and elders, answered nothing,
607 XIX | the younger, he lost his priority by impatience for the pottage.
608 XVIII| estate is inflicted, the privation of a numerous offspring
609 II | II.~Philosophers also profess that they pursue this virtue;
610 XVII | inflicted by the losses of property, by the heats of fevers,
611 XXI | Seal not the sayings of the prophecy of this book: for now the
612 XXII | declares by Malachi the prophet, saying, "Behold, the day
613 XX | It makes men humble in prosperity, brave in adversity, gentle
614 XX | soothes the want of the poor, protects a blessed integrity in virgins,
615 IV | might be possible, the long protracted mischief may at some time
616 VI | contradictors, in bearing the proud with clemency, in yielding
617 II | the understanding of the prudent." Moreover, the blessed
618 XXII | this we read also in the Psalms, where the approach of God
619 V | ye have? do not even the publicans the same? And if ye shall
620 XV | charity envieth not, is not puffed up, is not provoked, thinketh
621 XXIV | shall come, we may not be punished with the impious and sinners,
622 IV | benefited for life eternal. Punishment is then executed on the
623 XX | integrity in virgins, a careful purity in widows, in those who
624 VI | He had come down for this purpose, that He might do the will
625 II | Philosophers also profess that they pursue this virtue; but in their
626 IV | to say, mercifully, and putting off, so that, if it might
627 VII | are disturbed, the earth quakes, night shuts out the day,
628 XXI | revenge our suffering with a querulous haste, since it is written, "
629 XIX | as rebels, to hostile and raging hatred. And, not at length
630 V | good and on the evil, and raineth upon the just and on the
631 IV | bestows His undiscriminating rains. We see that with undistinguishing
632 XVIII| out and proved, and was raised up to the very highest pinnacle
633 VII | Jews, withdraws both his rays and his eyes, He speaks
634 VII | and cross, before they had reached the cruelty of death and
635 XXII | saith the Lord." And this we read also in the Psalms, where
636 II | that the patience is not real among them where there is
637 XIII | for in its season we shall reap." He admonishes that no
638 I | wholesome discourse and reasoning are then effectually learnt,
639 XIX | and charity of Christ as rebels, to hostile and raging hatred.
640 II | For it is written, I will rebuke the wise in their own craftiness."
641 IV | apostle referring to, and recalling the sinner to repentance,
642 XVII | immortality also has been received--it behoves us, in this bodily
643 XVI | are sealed unto the day of redemption. Let all bitterness, and
644 IV | moreover, the blessed apostle referring to, and recalling the sinner
645 VI | openly point him out, nor refuse the kiss of the traitor.
646 VI | His body in the layer of regeneration. For forty Clays He fasts,
647 IV | guilty and the guiltless, the religious and the impious--those who
648 XVIII| that nothing at all should remain that Job did not experience
649 VI | He who is about to bestow remission of sins, does not Himself
650 XII | world." And if we who have renounced the devil and the world,
651 X | delivered up to him, not repaying his enemy in turn, but rather,
652 XVIII| broken down by his severe and repeated conflicts, nor the blessing
653 XIV | what is good, but it also repels what is evil. In harmony
654 VIII | enemies to His name, if they repent of their sin, if they acknowledge
655 XX | breaks the force of lust, represses the violence of pride, extinguishes
656 VII | blood, what infamies of reproach were patiently heard, what
657 II | of the wise, and I will reprove the understanding of the
658 X | righteous man, makes no resistance nor struggles against his
659 XX | entreat long and earnestly. It resists temptations, suffers persecutions,
660 V | and taught that they were restored by a heavenly birth, if
661 XX | copious and manifold, is not restrained by narrow limits, nor confined
662 XIII | faith may attain to their result, there is need of patience.
663 IV | patience waits for the day of retribution, once for all determined;
664 IV | the day of wrath and of revelation of the righteous judgment
665 XXII | announced as worthy to be reverenced for the majesty of His judgment: "
666 I | attainment of the divine rewards, anything of more advantage,
667 XVIII| estate, and the father, richer in children, is on a sudden
668 IV | Or despisest thou the riches of His goodness, and forbearance,
669 XIX | Esau descended from the rights of the first-born to those
670 IV | fruits of the vineyards ripen, the trees are loaded with
671 XXI | the Lord, in the day of my rising up for a testimony; for
672 IV | earth, and the sacrilegious rites instituted by men, in contempt
673 XXI | given to them each white robes; and it was said unto them
674 X | first of all instituting the root and foundation of faith,
675 XV | and it continues with no roots nor strength. The apostle,
676 XXII | shall burn before Him, and round about Him a great tempest.
677 VI | farther than by words. He ruled over His disciples not as
678 XX | the mind, guards peace, rules discipline, breaks the force
679 XIX | he was impatient of his sacrifice and gift; and in that Esau
680 XXII | establish His covenant in sacrifices; and the heavens shall declare
681 IV | images of earth, and the sacrilegious rites instituted by men,
682 XXII | separate His people. Gather His saints together unto Him, who establish
683 Arg | PATIENCE,' WHICH, FOR THE SAKE OF OUR MUTUAL LOVE, WE HAVE
684 V | the same? And if ye shall salute your brethren only, what
685 XIV | heart; and neither is the sanctified body and temple of God polluted
686 VI | word and of grace may be satisfied with heavenly bread. He
687 X | to be able to kill king Saul, who was persecuting him
688 X | and yet, chose rather to save him when placed in his hand,
689 VIII | come to Him; and with a saving patience, He who is benignant
690 XXI | says he, "the fifth seal, I saw under the altar of God the
691 XXI | Apocalypse, saying, "Seal not the sayings of the prophecy of this
692 VI | the Son of God did not scorn to put on the flesh of man,
693 VII | devil and his angels is now scourged by His servants, Himself
694 VII | servants, Himself suffered scourgings! He was crowned with thorns,
695 XVI | from the hurricanes of the sea, and have already begun
696 XVI | Spirit of God, in whom ye are sealed unto the day of redemption.
697 IV | patience, at God's behest, the seasons minister to the guilty and
698 XXIII| shall come manifest in His second advent, will not be silent.
699 XV | peace, the holdfast and security of unity, which is greater
700 XVI | curse; that you should not seek again your goods when taken
701 | seem
702 XIII | by hope; but hope that is seen is not hope: for what a
703 XIII | not hope: for what a man seeth, why doth he hope for? But
704 XI | bound with the chain of this sentence, until, death being expunged,
705 XXII | earth beneath, that He may separate His people. Gather His saints
706 VI | Lord is baptized by the servant; and He who is about to
707 XVI | not only seven times, but seventy times seven times? but,
708 XII | especially so for us who are more shaken by the siege of the devil,
709 XXIII| and as a lamb before its shearer is without voice, so He
710 VIII | by Christ's blood who has shed Christ's blood. Such and
711 XXIII| it is He who was led as a sheep to the slaughter; and as
712 XI | had charged thee that thou shouldest not eat, cursed shall be,
713 III | and worshippers of God, show, in our spiritual obedience,
714 IV | He waters the earth with showers, no one is excluded from
715 XIII | according to God's own showing. Moreover, in another place,
716 XV | beareth all things." Thence he shows that it can tenaciously
717 XXIII| For although He came first shrouded in humility, yet He shall
718 VII | the earth quakes, night shuts out the day, the sun, that
719 XII | who are more shaken by the siege of the devil, who, daily
720 VII | and the Word of God is led silently to the slaughter. And when
721 XVII | have patience; for gold and silver are tried in the fire."~
722 XXIV | punished with the impious and sinners, but may be honoured with
723 XII | wrestlings of an inveterate and skilful enemy; for us who, besides
724 X | persecuting him and desiring to slay him; and yet, chose rather
725 VI | wishing to gather together the slayers of the prophets, and those
726 XXI | the burden or the pain of smarting wrongs, to be quickly avenged
727 XVI | your other cheek to the smiter; that you should forgive
728 VII | eternal flowers. He was smitten on the face with palms,
729 IV | with continual offences, He softens His indignation, and in
730 X | and persecuting. Joseph, sold by his brethren and sent
731 | some
732 XX | checks the power of the rich, soothes the want of the poor, protects
733 VI | faith by persuasion, in soothing the unthankful by concession,
734 X | patience. For the crown of sorrows and sufferings cannot be
735 XXI | under the altar of God the souls of them that were slain
736 XX | liberality proceed indeed from a source of one name, but are diffused
737 XII | imprisonment, bear chains, spend our lives, endure the sword,
738 III | worshippers of God, show, in our spiritual obedience, the patience
739 XXIII| face from the foulness of spitting. Surely it is He who, when
740 VII | so that He received the spittings of insulters, who with His
741 VII | insulters, who with His spittle had a little before made
742 XII | says, "These things have I spoken unto you, that in me ye
743 XIV | carried in it, is the hand spotted with the sword and blood.~
744 X | the nativity of Christ springs, how great and marvellous
745 XIV | dedicated to righteousness stained with the contagion of fraud;
746 XII | of the devil, who, daily standing in the battle-field, are
747 VII | the cross, of the Lord the stars are confounded, the elements
748 XI | be who are born in such a state, that we labour here with
749 XVI | unless you maintain the stedfastness of patience and endurance?
750 XVI | see done in the case of Stephen, who, when he was slain
751 IX | that ye should follow His steps, who did no sin, neither
752 XXII | war to pieces; He shall stir up the battle, and shall
753 X | faithless people, and almost stoned; and yet with gentleness
754 XVI | the Jews with violence and stoning, did not ask for vengeance
755 XXII | fire, and His chariot as a storm, to render vengeance in
756 XX | limits, nor confined by strait boundaries. The virtue of
757 XX | diffused by overflowing streams through many ways of glory;
758 XXIII| was His voice heard in the streets. Surely He who was not rebellious,
759 XVI | of anger, of discord, of strife, which things ought not
760 XXIII| when He offered His back to stripes, and His cheeks to the palms
761 XXII | all the wicked shall be stubble; and the day that cometh
762 XVIII| Tobias also, who, after the sublime works of his justice and
763 VI | down from that heavenly sublimity to earthly things, the Son
764 XVIII| richer in children, is on a sudden neither master nor father!
765 XII | the devil and the world, suffer the tribulations and mischiefs
766 X | with greater patience, he suppliantly brings him back to concord
767 XII | lasts. Nor can there be supplied any consolations to those
768 X | mercifully bestows gratuitous supplies of corn on them when they
769 XVII | and encounter cannot be sustained but by the strength of patience.
770 XVI | beyond;--that you should not swear nor curse; that you should
771 XII | in the inn of this world, takes his beginning from tears;
772 IV | judgment is just, because it is tardy, because it is long and
773 V | were thus completed, and taught that they were restored
774 III | which we learn from heavenly teachings. For we have this virtue
775 XII | takes his beginning from tears; and, although still unconscious
776 XXII | round about Him a great tempest. He shall call the heaven
777 XIV | the sanctified body and temple of God polluted by adultery,
778 IV | patiently enduring the profane temples and the images of earth,
779 VI | wrestles with the devil tempting Him; and, content only to
780 XV | Thence he shows that it can tenaciously persevere, because it knows
781 IV | impious--those who give thanks and the unthankful; that
782 | Thence
783 | thine
784 XI | of thy life. Thorns and thistles shall it give forth to thee,
785 | though
786 II | again: "The Lord knoweth the thoughts of the wise, that they are
787 IX | again; when He suffered, threatened not, but gave Himself up
788 IV | thou treasurest up unto thyself wrath in the day of wrath
789 XI | shall thou go." We are all tied and bound with the chain
790 XI | shalt thou eat thy bread, till thou return into the ground
791 XVIII| the victory of patience. Tobias also, who, after the sublime
792 XII | to those that sweat and toil other than patience; which
793 XV | one another with mutual toleration, and should keep the bond
794 XX | anger, which bridles the tongue, governs the mind, guards
795 XVIII| forth against him! what tortures were put in use! The loss
796 II | and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the elements
797 II | forth for the calling and training of the heathen, bears witness
798 VI | nor refuse the kiss of the traitor. Moreover, in bearing with
799 XVI | have already begun to be tranquil and meek in the harbour
800 XIII | in whatever clay he shall transgress;" and again, "Hold that
801 XVII | For since in that first transgression of the commandment strength
802 XI | of the commandment, and a transgressor of the given law, received.
803 VII | itself,--is counted among transgressors, and truth is oppressed
804 Arg | OUR MUTUAL LOVE, WE HAVE TRANSMITTED TO YOU." A.D. 256.~
805 XIII | who lay up for themselves treasures in heaven with the increase
806 IV | and impenitent heart thou treasurest up unto thyself wrath in
807 Arg | FORTH THE OCCASION OF THIS TREATISE AT THE CONCLUSION OF HIS
808 XI | wife, and hast eaten of the tree of which alone I had charged
809 IV | the vineyards ripen, the trees are loaded with apples,
810 XII | the world ye shall have tribulation; yet be confident, for I
811 XII | and the world, suffer the tribulations and mischiefs of the devil
812 XIII | in my word, ye shall be truly my disciples; and ye shall
813 III | wisdom in our garb, but in truth--who are better acquainted
814 XVI | place there; or should they try to enter, they are quickly
815 X | not repaying his enemy in turn, but rather, on the contrary,
816 XXIII| palms of the hands; neither turned away His face from the foulness
817 VI | and how great patience, in turning the unbelieving to the faith
818 VI | patience, in turning the unbelieving to the faith by persuasion,
819 XII | tears; and, although still unconscious and ignorant of all things,
820 XII | forsake our patrimonies, undergo imprisonment, bear chains,
821 V | And that we may more fully understand, beloved brethren, that
822 II | and I will reprove the understanding of the prudent." Moreover,
823 XIV | few the rest also may be understood. Adultery, fraud, manslaughter,
824 IV | unrighteous He bestows His undiscriminating rains. We see that with
825 IV | rains. We see that with undistinguishing equality of patience, at
826 XX | widows, in those who are united and married a single affection.
827 V | upon the just and on the unjust. For if ye love them which
828 IX | up to him that judged Him unjustly."~
829 XII | a natural foresight, the untrained soul laments the anxieties
830 V | God our Father dwell in us--if the divine likeness,
831 | using
832 XIII | the increase of the divine usury, that they also should be
833 V | V.~And that we may more fully
834 II | you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition
835 XVII | moreover, also, for the varied ills of the flesh, and the
836 XII | for us who, besides the various and continual battles of
837 IV | leaves, the meadows their verdure; and while God is provoked
838 VII | who clothes others in the vesture of immortality. He was fed
839 VI | VI.~Nor, beloved brethren,
840 X | the likeness of the Lord's victim, when he is presented by
841 XVIII| and trials of his, by the victory of patience. Tobias also,
842 VII | VII.~And moreover, in His very
843 VIII | VIII.~And after all these things,
844 VII | He was given to drink of vinegar, who appointed the cup of
845 IV | increases, the fruits of the vineyards ripen, the trees are loaded
846 XX | protects a blessed integrity in virgins, a careful purity in widows,
847 III | than with the boast, of virtues--who do not speak great things,
848 XII | beginning bears witness by its wails and groans to the storms
849 XIII | wait for it." Therefore, waiting and patience are needful,
850 IV | indignation, and in patience waits for the day of retribution,
851 IX | also to walk even as He walked." Peter also, upon whom
852 XX | of the rich, soothes the want of the poor, protects a
853 XXII | forth, and shall crumble the war to pieces; He shall stir
854 V | and, bringing forth divine warnings, was instructing His disciples
855 XI | the ground from which thou wast taken: for dust thou art,
856 XIV | brethren, not only, keeps watch over what is good, but it
857 X | praise of their virtues were watchful over nothing more than that
858 XXIV | onward and labour, and, watching with our whole heart, and
859 IV | and the evil; and while He waters the earth with showers,
860 XII | earliest birth except to weep. By a natural foresight,
861 | well
862 XIII | But let us not faint in well-doing, for in its season we shall
863 | whatever
864 | wherein
865 XXI | were given to them each white robes; and it was said unto
866 | whoever
867 XXII | all the aliens and all the wicked shall be stubble; and the
868 XX | The virtue of patience is widely manifest, and its fertility
869 XX | virgins, a careful purity in widows, in those who are united
870 XII | lives, endure the sword, the wild beasts, fires, crucifixions--
871 IV | elements wait on them; the winds blow, the fountains flow,
872 XXIV | angel withstands John, who wishes to worship him, and says: "
873 VI | humility to the persecutors, in wishing to gather together the slayers
874 VII | on the crime of the Jews, withdraws both his rays and his eyes,
875 XVIII| nor the blessing of God withheld from being declared in the
876 XXI | against them, we must not withhold the fact in the furthest
877 | within
878 XXIV | the Apocalypse the angel withstands John, who wishes to worship
879 VII | is oppressed with false witnesses. He who shall judge is judged;
880 XVIII| deceive and mislead all by women, even as he did in the beginning
881 XXIII| answered nothing, and, to the wonder of Pilate, kept a most patient
882 VI | equals. Nor is it to be wondered at, that among the obedient
883 X | their preceding likeness wore the figure of Christ, in
884 XVIII| moreover, an eating pest of worms consumes his festering and
885 III | let us, as servants and worshippers of God, show, in our spiritual
886 XXII | the Judge is announced as worthy to be reverenced for the
887 XXII | His sword shall they be wounded." And again: "The Lord God
888 VI | with heavenly bread. He wrestles with the devil tempting
889 XII | battle-field, are wearied with the wrestlings of an inveterate and skilful
890 X | X.~Finally, we find that both
891 XI | XI.~But that it may be more
892 XII | XII.~Whence every one of us,
893 XIII | XIII.~It is the wholesome precept
894 XIV | XIV.~But patience, beloved brethren,
895 XIX | XIX.~And, beloved brethren,
896 XV | XV.~Charity is the bond of
897 XVI | XVI.~What beyond;--that you
898 XVII | XVII.~And moreover, also, for
899 XVIII| XVIII.~Thus Job was searched out
900 XX | XX.~Wherefore, beloved brethren,
901 XXI | XXI.~But since I know, beloved
902 XXII | XXII.~But when shall come the
903 XXIII| XXIII.~But who is this that says
904 XXIV | XXIV.~Let us wait for Him, beloved
905 IV | provoked with frequent, yea, with continual offences,
906 VI | proud with clemency, in yielding with humility to the persecutors,
907 XIX | first-born to those of the younger, he lost his priority by
908 | yourself