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1 V | jealous of the righteous Abel, in that the wicked persecutes
2 XI | that no murderer hath life abiding in him." And again: "He
3 V | new brotherhood, hence the abominable fratricides, in that the
4 XVII | spiritual cornfield may abound to the plentifulness of
5 IV | angelic majesty, he who was accepted and beloved of God, when
6 V | forth with the suffrage of acclamation into praises of David, Saul
7 VIII | of an infuriate mind. And accordingly the Holy Spirit says in
8 I | thought trifling and of small account, it is not feared; not being
9 XV | spiritually born that in his acts and praises the divine eminence
10 XIII | charity entire and inviolate, added, and said: "Charity, is
11 VI | charity; by this truth is adulterated, unity is divided; men plunge
12 VII | completion of the crime. In the adulterer the offence ceases when
13 VII | divine benefits--to turn the advantages of others into one's own
14 XVI | the future, to suffer the adversity of the world. And he who
15 XIII | another place, when he was advising that the man who has already
16 VI | and reduces the secret agencies of the mind under its command,
17 VI | prevaricates, impatience agitates, discord rages, anger grows
18 XV | themselves--and it is more agreeable to have begotten an offspring
19 V | Goliath was slain, and by the aid and condescension of God
20 I | watch-fulness, the enemy, raging and aiming his darts against every
21 I | and careless with a milder air and a softer breeze, should
22 XVII | yourself their associate in the alliance of charity and the bond
23 XIII | teaching that neither faith nor alms, nor even the passion itself
24 | alone
25 | am
26 VI | wealthy. Jealousy stirs up ambition, when one sees another more
27 IV | beloved brethren, whereby an angel fell, whereby that lofty
28 IV | He who was sustained in angelic majesty, he who was accepted
29 VI | hatred, thence proceeds animosity. Jealousy inflames avarice,
30 XV | divine eminence of race is announced! What a palm of righteousness
31 VI | the day of judgment is not anticipated. Pride inflates, cruelty
32 Arg | ONLY, BUT BY CHRIST AND HIS APOSTLES. FINALLY, EXHORTING TO THE
33 XV | despised me!" Let Christ rather applaud you, and invite you to the
34 IX | and when the medicament is applied, the sore that is seen is
35 VII | penalty, anti, as it were, to apply a sort of executioner to
36 XVI | that so often as the enemy approaches, however often he may try
37 X | passed over, and the day is approaching: let us therefore cast away
38 Arg | Argument.~AFTER POINTING OUT THAT
39 X | and let us put upon us the armour of light. Let us walk honestly,
40 V | hostile to his brother Jacob, arose from jealousy also. For
41 XIV | Christ, even as the apostle arouses and exhorts us, saying: "
42 III | the mind ought to stand arrayed and armed, ever as ready
43 X | brother, when His disciples asked Him which among them should
44 VIII | countenance, the lowering aspect, pallor in the face, trembling
45 VIII | he says, "The poison of asps is under their lips, and
46 XIII | and when he was strongly asserting and teaching that neither
47 XII | why does he who falsely asserts himself to be a Christian,
48 XVII | love; make yourself their associate in the alliance of charity
49 III | the foe is ever ready to attack. And since those darts of
50 X | humility we grow to the highest attainments; we have learnt in what
51 IV | perish by jealousy obeys the author of his ruin, imitating the
52 VI | the subject of a foreign authority any longer restrain or govern
53 XVII | let the wood which at Mara availed in a figure for sweetening
54 XIII | magnanimous, and kind, and averse from jealousy and rancour,
55 XIII | unto carnal, even as unto babes in Christ. I have fed you
56 XIV | lest, while we are turned back again to the conversation
57 I | But, moreover, the Lord bade us be prudent, and charged
58 XIV | glory." Let us, then, who in baptism have both died and been
59 | becomes
60 V | V.~Hence, in fine, began the primal hatreds of the
61 IV | source, even at the very beginnings of the world, the devil
62 III | jealousy, and when and how it begins. For so mischievous an evil
63 IV | beloved of God, when he beheld man made in the image of
64 XVIII| attain to the result of beholding Him, if we now delight Him
65 V | rather to envy Christ than to believe Him? Disparaging those great
66 IX | evil to persecute a man who belongs to the grace of God. It
67 VII | deservings or the divine benefits--to turn the advantages of
68 II | us; and even as an enemy besieging those who are shut up (in
69 VI | priests are disparaged, when bishops are envied, when a man complains
70 V | had received his father's blessing, the former was inflamed
71 XI | because that darkness hath blinded his eyes." Whosoever hates,
72 V | did, they were deceived by blinding jealousy, and could not
73 VIII | Their feet are swift to shed blood, destruction and misery
74 I | stealthily into our breast, and blow up a flame from the sparks,
75 VII | and the possession of the booty puts an end to the rapacity
76 XV | any one is so spiritually born that in his acts and praises
77 XIV | are heavenly. As we have borne the image of him who is
78 VI | brief limits in a narrow boundary. The mischief of jealousy,
79 VII | whatever wrong is done, is bounded by the completion of the
80 V | persecuting hatred by the brands of jealousy. And that Joseph
81 I | milder air and a softer breeze, should stir up storms and
82 VI | form, or restrained within brief limits in a narrow boundary.
83 X | gloom is chased away, if the brightness of day has illuminated your
84 VI | bond of the Lord's peace is broken; by this is violated brotherly
85 VI | broken; by this is violated brotherly charity; by this truth is
86 XIV | have both died and been buried in respect of the carnal
87 VII | proportion the envious man burns with the fires of jealousy
88 V | routed, the wondering people burst forth with the suffrage
89 XVI | persevere. Let us be always busied in spiritual actions, that
90 IX | the grace of God. It is a calamity without remedy to hate the
91 I | charged us to watch with careful solicitude, lest the adversary,
92 III | Christian, nothing more carefully watched, than being taken
93 I | soothing the unguarded and careless with a milder air and a
94 VII | violation is perpetrated; in the case of the robber, the crime
95 X | out and tore away every cause anti matter of gnawing envy.
96 XVI | let constant prayer never cease at all; let saving labour
97 VII | the adulterer the offence ceases when the violation is perpetrated;
98 IX | bound with the links of chains from which yon cannot extricate
99 XV | XV.~For this is to change what you had been, and to
100 XII | disciples, what did He more charge to be guarded and observed
101 I | bade us be prudent, and charged us to watch with careful
102 X | therefrom, if the gloom is chased away, if the brightness
103 II | pleasures, that he may destroy chastity by the sight. He tempts
104 VII | joyous, no drink can be cheerful. They are ever sighing,
105 XVI | disposed to the mercifulness of cherishing the poor, obtains the retribution
106 V | for this reason, that they chose rather to envy Christ than
107 II | those who are shut up (in a city), he examines the walls,
108 XVI | he may find the breast closed and armed against him. For
109 III | and envy. And if any one closely look into this, be will
110 III | may be able more fully to collect and more plainly to perceive
111 VIII | He seeth that his day is coming." The blessed Apostle Paul
112 VI | agencies of the mind under its command, the fear of God is despised,
113 XII | unto life who keeps His commandments, and that he is wise who
114 VII | rest when the homicide is committed; and the possession of the
115 VI | bishops are envied, when a man complains that he himself was not
116 VII | rapacity of the thief; and the completed deception places a limit
117 VII | done, is bounded by the completion of the crime. In the adulterer
118 III | his which creep on us in concealment are more frequent, and his
119 V | David, Saul through jealousy conceived the rage of enmity and persecution.
120 V | slain, and by the aid and condescension of God so great an enemy
121 XIV | heavenly image, unless in that condition wherein we have already
122 VI | punishment of the unwise confer health upon the prudent.
123 IV | the grace of immortality conferred, he himself has lost that
124 XIII | the passion itself of the confessor and the martyr, would avail
125 VI | that evil of that kind is confined in one form, or restrained
126 XVI | of this kind it must be confirmed against all the darts of
127 XVII | least rejoice with them, and congratulate those who are better than
128 IX | the lurking-places of the conscience. Whoever you are that are
129 V | penalty of the sin, was considered. He was unrighteously stricken
130 VI | VI.~Considering which things, beloved brethren,
131 IX | of jealousy; nor will any consolations help you. It is a persistent
132 XVI | thoughts in the mind; let constant prayer never cease at all;
133 V | the rage of envy to the consummation of that deed of wickedness,
134 VI | avarice, in that one cannot be content with what is his own, while
135 XIII | among you jealousy, and contention, and strifes, are ye not
136 X | With us there can be no contest for exaltation; from humility
137 XVI | overcome lust is the palm of continency. To have resisted against
138 VII | no limit; it is an evil continually enduring, and a sin without
139 XVII | the divine and spiritual cornfield may abound to the plentifulness
140 XIV | beloved brethren, and the corrupting plague of the earthly body
141 VIII | VIII.~Hence the threatening countenance, the lowering aspect, pallor
142 VI | let us with vigilance and courage fortify our hearts dedicated
143 VI | disasters, the nursery of crimes, the material of transgressions.
144 XVII | from the sacrament of the cross, let the wood which at Mara
145 XVI | manifold engagement, are crowned, when their adversary is
146 VI | anticipated. Pride inflates, cruelty embitters, faithlessness
147 XVII | your increasing health. Be cured by that whereby you had
148 VIII | and their mouth is full of cursing and bitterness. Their feet
149 X | same shall be great." He cut off all envy by His reply.
150 XVI | this course of virtues we daily run; to these palms and
151 IX | much more trifling, and the danger less, when the limbs are
152 I | shunned: and it thus becomes a dark and hidden mischief, which,
153 VI | in honours. When jealousy darkens our perceptions, and reduces
154 XIV | upon the earth. For ye are dead, and your life is hid with
155 XIV | man, we be entangled in deadly snares, even as the apostle,
156 XVII | bond of brotherhood. Your debts shall be remitted to you
157 III | in the blind snares of a deceitful enemy, in that the brother
158 II | when he cannot hiddenly deceive, he threatens plainly and
159 III | against all the devil's deceiving snares or open threatenings,
160 VII | thief; and the completed deception places a limit to the wrong
161 XI | homicide, the Apostle John declares in his epistle, saying, "
162 VI | courage fortify our hearts dedicated to God against such a destructiveness
163 V | the consummation of that deed of wickedness, that neither
164 IV | illustrious grandeur could be defrauded and overthrown, whereby
165 XVIII| beholding Him, if we now delight Him who sees us, by our
166 X | jealousy." If the darkness has departed from your breast, if the
167 XI | hurrying into punishment, departing, that is, from the light
168 II | earthly honours, that he may deprive of heavenly ones; he makes
169 VIII | slaughter; even if for the time deprived of a sword, yet armed with
170 XII | of the divine name, but a desertion of the way of salvation;
171 VII | hate in him either his own deservings or the divine benefits--
172 VIII | The blessed Apostle Paul designates and points out these when
173 XVI | triumph over avarice to despise money. It is the praise
174 XV | will glorify, and he who despiseth me shall be despised." For
175 II | easy pleasures, that he may destroy chastity by the sight. He
176 VI | dedicated to God against such a destructiveness of evil. Let the death of
177 I | about seeking any one to devour."~
178 XIV | flesh, ye shall begin to die; but if ye, through the
179 XIV | who in baptism have both died and been buried in respect
180 VI | all evils, the fountain of disasters, the nursery of crimes,
181 X | matter of gnawing envy. A disciple of Christ must not be jealous,
182 XV | forth in you, that the godly discipline might respond to God, the
183 VI | prevaricates, impatience agitates, discord rages, anger grows hot;
184 XVII | gall, cast out the virus of discords. Let the mind which the
185 VI | not rather ordained, or disdains to suffer that another should
186 II | make the cheat, he presents dishonest gains; to take captive the
187 XII | himself to be a Christian, dishonour the flock of Christ? To
188 VI | schisms when priests are disparaged, when bishops are envied,
189 XVII | whom you envied with unjust disparagements. Imitate good men, if you
190 V | Christ than to believe Him? Disparaging those great works which
191 XVI | humility; and he who is disposed to the mercifulness of cherishing
192 V | visions, their malevolent disposition broke forth into envy. Moreover,
193 Arg | ENEMIES BY GOD'S EXAMPLE, HE DISSUADES FROM THE SIN OF ENVY, BY
194 I | by the prudent, secretly distresses incautious minds. But, moreover,
195 VI | is adulterated, unity is divided; men plunge into heresies
196 XII | is called the greatest doctor in the kingdom of heaven
197 | done
198 XIII | envieth not;" teaching, doubtless, and showing that whoever
199 X | day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in lusts and wantonness,
200 XIV | The first man is of the dust of the earth; the second
201 V | was impiously slain, who, dying, did not resist. And that
202 | each
203 II | the sight. He tempts the ears with harmonious music, that
204 III | severely and frequently effectual to our wounding, in proportion
205 VI | Pride inflates, cruelty embitters, faithlessness prevaricates,
206 XV | acts and praises the divine eminence of race is announced! What
207 V | to show righteousness; he endured hatred who had not known
208 VII | it is an evil continually enduring, and a sin without end.
209 II | sounds he may relax and enervate Christian vigour. He provokes
210 XI | darkness ofjealousy? why do you enfold yourself in thecloud of
211 XVI | from a varied and manifold engagement, are crowned, when their
212 V | jealousy conceived the rage of enmity and persecution. And, not
213 XVII | that the Lord's seed may enrich you with a fertile produce,
214 XVIII| paradise, whither Cain does not enter, who by jealousy slew his
215 IV | envy of the devil death entered into the world." Therefore
216 XIII | requirements of charity entire and inviolate, added, and
217 II | and less trustworthy, by entrance through which he may penetrate
218 XIII | charity is kind, charity envieth not;" teaching, doubtless,
219 IV | jealousy with malevolent envy--not hurling down another
220 V | did not resist. And that Esau was hostile to his brother
221 X | the light of Christ, have escaped from the darkness of the
222 XVII | be reformed to the way of eternal life in the footsteps of
223 IX | persecute with jealousy, can evade and escape you. You cannot
224 VI | widely. It is the root of all evils, the fountain of disasters,
225 X | there can be no contest for exaltation; from humility we grow to
226 VI | when one sees another more exalted in honours. When jealousy
227 II | shut up (in a city), he examines the walls, and tries whether
228 II | he instigates the hand by exasperating wrongs to the wrecklessness
229 VII | were, to apply a sort of executioner to one's own breast, to
230 XVI | by these meditations. By exercises of this kind it must be
231 Arg | AND HIS APOSTLES. FINALLY, EXHORTING TO THE LOVE OF ONE'S ENEMIES
232 VI | manifold and fruitful, extends widely. It is the root of
233 IX | chains from which yon cannot extricate yourself; you are captive
234 VIII | lowering aspect, pallor in the face, trembling on the lips,
235 VI | inflates, cruelty embitters, faithlessness prevaricates, impatience
236 X | this risk, that none should fall into the snare of death
237 II | ones; he makes a show of false things, that he may steal
238 XII | of sheep? why does he who falsely asserts himself to be a
239 V | with envy and jealousy. So far prevailed the rage of envy
240 XVII | wherewith you were before held fast, and be reformed to the
241 XIII | babes in Christ. I have fed you with milk, not with
242 VII | to one's own thoughts and feelings, that they may tear us with
243 VIII | cursing and bitterness. Their feet are swift to shed blood,
244 IV | brethren, whereby an angel fell, whereby that lofty and
245 XVII | seed may enrich you with a fertile produce, that the divine
246 II | hostile, crafty in peace, and fierce in persecution.~
247 XVII | which at Mara availed in a figure for sweetening the taste,
248 V | V.~Hence, in fine, began the primal hatreds
249 VII | envious man burns with the fires of jealousy to an increased
250 II | any part of the walls less firm and less trustworthy, by
251 I | our breast, and blow up a flame from the sparks, magnifying
252 III | as ready to repel as the foe is ever ready to attack.
253 XI | light of the world. He that followeth me shall not walk in darkness,
254 XII | mouth is fulfilled by deeds following? But what did the Lord more
255 VII | malevolence. To such, no food is joyous, no drink can
256 XIV | body must be trodden under foot with spiritual vigour, lest,
257 Arg | REASON WAS FRATERNAL HATRED FORBIDDEN NOT IN ONE PLACE ONLY, BUT
258 VI | become the subject of a foreign authority any longer restrain
259 XIV | even as the apostle, with foresight and wholesomeness, forewarned
260 XIV | foresight and wholesomeness, forewarned us of this very thing, and
261 I | Apostle Peter, in his epistle, forewarns and teaches, saying, "Be
262 XVII | you yourself shall have forgiven. Your sacrifices shall be
263 VI | kind is confined in one form, or restrained within brief
264 | former
265 XV | glorification the Lord, forming and preparing us, and the
266 II | presents to the eyes seductive forms and easy pleasures, that
267 VI | with vigilance and courage fortify our hearts dedicated to
268 III | this, let us recur to its fount and origin. Let us consider
269 VI | the root of all evils, the fountain of disasters, the nursery
270 Arg | THEREFORE WITH REASON WAS FRATERNAL HATRED FORBIDDEN NOT IN
271 V | brotherhood, hence the abominable fratricides, in that the unrighteous
272 III | in concealment are more frequent, and his more hidden and
273 XIV | such also are they who are froth the earth and such as He
274 XII | uttered by his mouth is fulfilled by deeds following? But
275 III | That we may be able more fully to collect and more plainly
276 XVI | of faith, by trust in the future, to suffer the adversity
277 II | cheat, he presents dishonest gains; to take captive the soul
278 XVII | Cast out the poison of gall, cast out the virus of discords.
279 XII | the wolf lurk under the garb of sheep? why does he who
280 Arg | FROM THE OLD TESTAMENT, AND GATHERS, BY REFERENCE TO SPECIAL
281 XI | he goeth unconsciously to Gehenna, in ignorance and blindness;
282 V | him--innocent, merciful, gentle, patient in meekness--what
283 Arg | TRACED TO THE DEVIL, HE GIVES ILLUSTRATIONS OF ENVY FROM
284 XV | how much greater is the gladness in God the Father, when
285 X | scattered therefrom, if the gloom is chased away, if the brightness
286 XV | be despised." For which glorification the Lord, forming and preparing
287 XV | praise of living, God may be glorified in man; as He Himself exhorts,
288 VIII | the righteous, and shall gnash upon him with his teeth.
289 VIII | trembling on the lips, gnashing of the teeth, mad words,
290 XV | shine forth in you, that the godly discipline might respond
291 V | jealousy? Because, when Goliath was slain, and by the aid
292 XV | the Father, says in His Gospel: "Ye have heard that it
293 VI | authority any longer restrain or govern himself. By this the bond
294 IV | that lofty and illustrious grandeur could be defrauded and overthrown,
295 VII | sighing, and groaning, and grieving; and since envy is never
296 VII | They are ever sighing, and groaning, and grieving; and since
297 VI | prudent. Moreover, there is no ground for any one to suppose that
298 X | exaltation; from humility we grow to the highest attainments;
299 VI | agitates, discord rages, anger grows hot; nor can he who has
300 I | brethren, we must be on our guard, and strive with all our
301 XI | hatred, is bound by the guilt of homicide, the Apostle
302 XVI | the divine reading in the hands, the Lord's thoughts in
303 VII | of his virtue or of his happiness; that is, to hate in him
304 IX | without remedy to hate the happy.~
305 II | He tempts the ears with harmonious music, that by the hearing
306 XVII | plentifulness of a fruitful harvest. Cast out the poison of
307 IX | crafty, mischievous, and hateful you are to those whom you
308 XI | blinded his eyes." Whosoever hates, says he, his brother, walketh
309 V | in fine, began the primal hatreds of the new brotherhood,
310 XIV | beginning to be His temples, if, having received the Holy Spirit,
311 IX | they admit the remedy of a healing cure, since they have shut
312 II | captive the soul by money, he heaps together mischievous hoards;
313 XV | in His Gospel: "Ye have heard that it hath been said,
314 II | harmonious music, that by the hearing of sweet sounds he may relax
315 XII | and that he is wise who hears and does His words; that
316 VII | jealousy to an increased heat.~
317 Arg | ENVY IS A SIN ALL THE MORE HEINOUS IN PROPORTION AS ITS WICKEDNESS
318 XVII | wherewith you were before held fast, and be reformed to
319 IX | nor will any consolations help you. It is a persistent
320 VI | divided; men plunge into heresies and schisms when priests
321 XIV | are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God. But
322 II | true; and when he cannot hiddenly deceive, he threatens plainly
323 X | humility we grow to the highest attainments; we have learnt
324 V | repeated persecutions to kill him--innocent, merciful, gentle,
325 XIII | meat: for ye were not able hitherto; moreover, neither now are
326 II | heaps together mischievous hoards; he promises earthly honours,
327 II | threatens plainly and openly, holding forth the fear of turbulent
328 XIV | Holy Spirit, we are living holily and spiritually, if we have
329 X | armour of light. Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting
330 XVI | meekness loves his brethren, is honoured with the recompense of love
331 VII | recesses of the heart with the hoof of malevolence. To such,
332 VI | discord rages, anger grows hot; nor can he who has become
333 | however
334 IV | before he himself was first hurled down by jealousy, captive
335 XI | ignorance and blindness; he is hurrying into punishment, departing,
336 XI | unconsciously to Gehenna, in ignorance and blindness; he is hurrying
337 II | II.~He goeth about every one
338 III | III.~Wherefore, beloved brethren,
339 VII | intermission day and night. Other ills have their limit; and whatever
340 Arg | TRACED TO THE DEVIL, HE GIVES ILLUSTRATIONS OF ENVY FROM THE OLD TESTAMENT,
341 XI | footsteps and His ways, who imitates that which Christ both did
342 IV | the author of his ruin, imitating the devil in his jealousy;
343 V | of his brother, nor the immensity of the crime, nor the fear
344 IV | robs man of the grace of immortality conferred, he himself has
345 VI | faithlessness prevaricates, impatience agitates, discord rages,
346 V | known how to hate; he was impiously slain, who, dying, did not
347 I | prudent, secretly distresses incautious minds. But, moreover, the
348 VII | fires of jealousy to an increased heat.~
349 XVII | for a medicine for your increasing health. Be cured by that
350 | indeed
351 XVII | malice of the serpent had infected be purged; let all bitterness
352 V | blessing, the former was inflamed to a persecuting hatred
353 VI | proceeds animosity. Jealousy inflames avarice, in that one cannot
354 VI | is not anticipated. Pride inflates, cruelty embitters, faithlessness
355 VIII | armed with the hatred of an infuriate mind. And accordingly the
356 XVI | resisted against anger, against injury, is the crown of patience.
357 XII | sheep, that their Christian innocence may be like that of sheep;
358 V | persecutions to kill him--innocent, merciful, gentle, patient
359 II | he may penetrate to the inside. He presents to the eyes
360 II | tongue by reproaches; he instigates the hand by exasperating
361 IV | ruins others. While, at the instigation of jealousy, he robs man
362 XII | the Lord more frequently instil into His disciples, what
363 XV | preparing us, and the Son of God instilling the likeness of God the
364 IV | hurling down another by the instinct of his jealousy before he
365 X | finally, the Apostle Paul, instructing and warning, that we who,
366 VII | that they may tear us with intestine pangs, and may smite the
367 XII | Lord, who, when jealousy intrudes, can neither be peaceable
368 XIII | requirements of charity entire and inviolate, added, and said: "Charity,
369 XV | rather applaud you, and invite you to the reward, saying, "
370 | itself
371 IV | IV.~From this source, even
372 IX | IX.~The mischief is much more
373 V | was hostile to his brother Jacob, arose from jealousy also.
374 V | once for all. Did not the Jews perish for this reason,
375 XI | of homicide, the Apostle John declares in his epistle,
376 V | brands of jealousy. And that Joseph was sold by his brethren,
377 XV | unjust." If it is a source of joy and glory to men to have
378 VII | malevolence. To such, no food is joyous, no drink can be cheerful.
379 XVIII| God Himself looking on and judging, that we may then at length
380 VI | is neglected, the day of judgment is not anticipated. Pride
381 XV | and sendeth rain upon the just and on the unjust." If it
382 XVI | these palms and crowns of justice we attain without intermission
383 XII | And in what manner does he keep either the peace or the
384 XII | shall come unto life who keeps His commandments, and that
385 XIII | would avail him, unless he kept the requirements of charity
386 VI | and perverse through envy, kicks, hence he revolts, in anger
387 V | repeated persecutions to kill him--innocent, merciful,
388 V | Moreover, that Saul the king hated David, so as to seek
389 XI | brother is a murderer; and ye know that no murderer hath life
390 V | eyes of their heart to the knowledge of divine things.~
391 XVI | heavenly treasure; and he who knows not to be jealous, and who
392 XVI | cease at all; let saving labour persevere. Let us be always
393 | latter
394 VIII | his teeth. But God shall laugh at him; for He seeth that
395 XVIII| birth and by the divine law are made one, and respond
396 XIII | spiritual and divine things, he lays it down, and says: "And
397 X | highest attainments; we have learnt in what way we may be pleasing.
398 XI | Christ suffered for us, leaving you an example that ye should
399 XIV | live. For as many as are led by the Spirit of God they
400 XIV | earth to heaven, if we have lifted our hearts, filled with
401 IX | the danger less, when the limbs are wounded with a sword.
402 VI | restrained within brief limits in a narrow boundary. The
403 XV | to the parent with like lineaments--how much greater is the
404 IX | tied and bound with the links of chains from which yon
405 I | the devil, as a roaring lion, goeth about seeking any
406 IV | angel fell, whereby that lofty and illustrious grandeur
407 VI | a foreign authority any longer restrain or govern himself.
408 III | And if any one closely look into this, be will find
409 XVIII| our life, with God Himself looking on and judging, that we
410 IV | conferred, he himself has lost that which he had previously
411 XII | love wherewith He Himself loved the disciples, we also should
412 XVI | one heart and in meekness loves his brethren, is honoured
413 XII | neither be peaceable nor loving?~
414 VIII | threatening countenance, the lowering aspect, pallor in the face,
415 XII | lambs. Why does the wolf lurk under the garb of sheep?
416 IX | blind suffering within the lurking-places of the conscience. Whoever
417 XVI | subdued. To have overcome lust is the palm of continency.
418 X | and drunkenness, not in lusts and wantonness, not in strifes
419 I | on the watch and always lying in wait, should creep stealthily
420 VIII | gnashing of the teeth, mad words, unbridled revilings,
421 I | a flame from the sparks, magnifying small things into the greatest;
422 III | both the source and the magnitude of that same evil be known.~
423 XIII | rancour, such a one can maintain charity. Moreover, in another
424 IV | was sustained in angelic majesty, he who was accepted and
425 | makes
426 XV | which is in heaven, who maketh His sun to rise on the good
427 VII | the heart with the hoof of malevolence. To such, no food is joyous,
428 IX | are that are envious and malignant, observe how crafty, mischievous,
429 IX | easy where the wound is manifest; and when the medicament
430 XII | one another? And in what manner does he keep either the
431 XVII | cross, let the wood which at Mara availed in a figure for
432 XIII | of the confessor and the martyr, would avail him, unless
433 VI | the nursery of crimes, the material of transgressions. Thence
434 X | tore away every cause anti matter of gnawing envy. A disciple
435 IX | is manifest; and when the medicament is applied, the sore that
436 XVII | you shall not strive for a medicine for your increasing health.
437 XVI | beloved brethren, by these meditations. By exercises of this kind
438 XVI | who with one heart and in meekness loves his brethren, is honoured
439 V | merciful, gentle, patient in meekness--what else was the provocation
440 VII | prosperity of illustrious men--to make other people's glory
441 V | persecutions to kill him--innocent, merciful, gentle, patient in meekness--
442 XVI | he who is disposed to the mercifulness of cherishing the poor,
443 XIII | when he was urging the merits of peace and charity, and
444 I | unguarded and careless with a milder air and a softer breeze,
445 XIII | Christ. I have fed you with milk, not with meat: for ye were
446 VII | of others into one's own mischief--to be tormented by the prosperity
447 VIII | shed blood, destruction and misery are in their ways, who have
448 XII | Christ, what else is it but a mockery of the divine name, but
449 XIV | ye, through the Spirit, mortify the deeds of the flesh,
450 II | to the wrecklessness of murder; to make the cheat, he presents
451 II | the ears with harmonious music, that by the hearing of
452 | my
453 XII | people, by what title He names His flock. He calls them
454 VI | within brief limits in a narrow boundary. The mischief of
455 XII | mind may imitate the simple nature of lambs. Why does the wolf
456 XVI | often he may try to come near, he may find the breast
457 VI | the teaching of Christ is neglected, the day of judgment is
458 XV | said, Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy. But
459 V | the primal hatreds of the new brotherhood, hence the abominable
460 V | not to go to the length of numbering each one, let us observe
461 VI | fountain of disasters, the nursery of crimes, the material
462 IV | about to perish by jealousy obeys the author of his ruin,
463 XII | charge to be guarded and observed among His saving counsels
464 XIV | at the right hand of God; occupy your minds with things that
465 VII | crime. In the adulterer the offence ceases when the violation
466 XV | agreeable to have begotten an offspring then when the remaining
467 XI | you rush into the darkness ofjealousy? why do you enfold yourself
468 | once
469 II | may deprive of heavenly ones; he makes a show of false
470 II | he threatens plainly and openly, holding forth the fear
471 VI | in anger and malice the opponent, not of the man, but of
472 VI | he himself was not rather ordained, or disdains to suffer that
473 | ourselves
474 XVI | prostrated and subdued. To have overcome lust is the palm of continency.
475 IV | grandeur could be defrauded and overthrown, whereby he who deceived
476 VIII | countenance, the lowering aspect, pallor in the face, trembling on
477 XVI | virtues we daily run; to these palms and crowns of justice we
478 VII | may tear us with intestine pangs, and may smite the secret
479 XVIII| things to consider. Think of paradise, whither Cain does not enter,
480 XV | progeny responds to the parent with like lineaments--how
481 X | and says, "The night has passed over, and the day is approaching:
482 XIII | faith nor alms, nor even the passion itself of the confessor
483 XVI | injury, is the crown of patience. It is a triumph over avarice
484 V | innocent, merciful, gentle, patient in meekness--what else was
485 XII | intrudes, can neither be peaceable nor loving?~
486 XVIII| called sons of God who are peacemakers, who in heavenly birth and
487 II | entrance through which he may penetrate to the inside. He presents
488 III | collect and more plainly to perceive this, let us recur to its
489 VI | When jealousy darkens our perceptions, and reduces the secret
490 VII | ceases when the violation is perpetrated; in the case of the robber,
491 V | Abel, in that the wicked persecutes the good with envy and jealousy.
492 V | former was inflamed to a persecuting hatred by the brands of
493 V | to seek by often repeated persecutions to kill him--innocent, merciful,
494 XVI | at all; let saving labour persevere. Let us be always busied
495 IX | consolations help you. It is a persistent evil to persecute a man
496 VI | haughty through jealousy, and perverse through envy, kicks, hence
497 I | people to be a slight and petty wrong; and, being thought
498 VII | the completed deception places a limit to the wrong of
499 XIV | brethren, and the corrupting plague of the earthly body must
500 VII | of the soul is it, what a plague-spot of our thoughts, what a
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