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501 X | learnt in what way we may be pleasing. And finally, the Apostle
502 II | seductive forms and easy pleasures, that he may destroy chastity
503 XVII | cornfield may abound to the plentifulness of a fruitful harvest. Cast
504 X | all envy by His reply. He plucked out and tore away every
505 VI | adulterated, unity is divided; men plunge into heresies and schisms
506 Arg | Argument.~AFTER POINTING OUT THAT JEALOUSY OR ENVY
507 VIII | Apostle Paul designates and points out these when he says, "
508 XVI | mercifulness of cherishing the poor, obtains the retribution
509 VII | homicide is committed; and the possession of the booty puts an end
510 I | and strive with all our powers to repel, with solicitous
511 XV | Love your enemies, and pray for them which persecute
512 XVI | in the mind; let constant prayer never cease at all; let
513 XII | has been well and usefully preached, if what is uttered by his
514 XII | will be of advantage to the preacher what has been well and usefully
515 XV | receive the kingdom which is prepared for you from the beginning
516 XV | glorification the Lord, forming and preparing us, and the Son of God instilling
517 V | envy and jealousy. So far prevailed the rage of envy to the
518 VI | embitters, faithlessness prevaricates, impatience agitates, discord
519 VI | judgment is not anticipated. Pride inflates, cruelty embitters,
520 VI | heresies and schisms when priests are disparaged, when bishops
521 V | Hence, in fine, began the primal hatreds of the new brotherhood,
522 V | reason of their selling him proceeded from envy. When in simplicity,
523 VI | Thence arises hatred, thence proceeds animosity. Jealousy inflames
524 XVII | enrich you with a fertile produce, that the divine and spiritual
525 XV | then when the remaining progeny responds to the parent with
526 VIII | unbridled revilings, a hand prompt for the violence of slaughter;
527 VIII | against him who walketh prosperously in his way." And again: "
528 XVI | when their adversary is prostrated and subdued. To have overcome
529 V | meekness--what else was the provocation save the spur of jealousy?
530 II | enervate Christian vigour. He provokes the tongue by reproaches;
531 VIII | Holy Spirit says in the Psalms: "Be not jealous against
532 XVII | serpent had infected be purged; let all bitterness which
533 XVIII| eyes of God, that we are pursuing the course of our conversation
534 VII | possession of the booty puts an end to the rapacity of
535 XI | thecloud of malice? why do you quench all the light of peace and
536 IX | the sore that is seen is quickly brought to health. The wounds
537 XV | praises the divine eminence of race is announced! What a palm
538 I | watch-fulness, the enemy, raging and aiming his darts against
539 XV | on the evil, and sendeth rain upon the just and on the
540 XIV | spiritually, if we have raised our eyes from earth to heaven,
541 VII | booty puts an end to the rapacity of the thief; and the completed
542 XVI | Let there be the divine reading in the hands, the Lord's
543 XVII | taste, avail to you in in reality for soothing your softened
544 XV | ye blessed of my Father, receive the kingdom which is prepared
545 VII | and may smite the secret recesses of the heart with the hoof
546 XVI | brethren, is honoured with the recompense of love and peace. In this
547 III | to perceive this, let us recur to its fount and origin.
548 VI | darkens our perceptions, and reduces the secret agencies of the
549 Arg | TESTAMENT, AND GATHERS, BY REFERENCE TO SPECIAL VICES, THAT ENVY
550 XVII | before held fast, and be reformed to the way of eternal life
551 XIV | with Christ in the heavenly regeneration, both think upon and do
552 XVII | to follow them, at least rejoice with them, and congratulate
553 II | hearing of sweet sounds he may relax and enervate Christian vigour.
554 XV | offspring then when the remaining progeny responds to the
555 XII | XII.~We ought to remember by what name Christ calls
556 XVII | brotherhood. Your debts shall be remitted to you when you yourself
557 XI | the devil, whom you had renounced? why do you stand like Cain?
558 VII | the possessed heart is rent without intermission day
559 V | so as to seek by often repeated persecutions to kill him--
560 X | cut off all envy by His reply. He plucked out and tore
561 II | He provokes the tongue by reproaches; he instigates the hand
562 XIII | him, unless he kept the requirements of charity entire and inviolate,
563 V | slain, who, dying, did not resist. And that Esau was hostile
564 XVI | palm of continency. To have resisted against anger, against injury,
565 XV | when the remaining progeny responds to the parent with like
566 VII | robber, the crime is at rest when the homicide is committed;
567 II | vanquish God's servants--always restless, and always hostile, crafty
568 VI | foreign authority any longer restrain or govern himself. By this
569 VI | confined in one form, or restrained within brief limits in a
570 XVIII| be able to attain to the result of beholding Him, if we
571 XVI | cherishing the poor, obtains the retribution of a heavenly treasure;
572 XI | blindness of envy? why do you return to the devil, whom you had
573 VIII | teeth, mad words, unbridled revilings, a hand prompt for the violence
574 VI | through envy, kicks, hence he revolts, in anger and malice the
575 XIV | Christ is sitting at the right hand of God; occupy your
576 X | honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in
577 XV | heaven, who maketh His sun to rise on the good and on the evil,
578 X | taking thought for this risk, that none should fall into
579 I | adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, goeth about seeking
580 VII | perpetrated; in the case of the robber, the crime is at rest when
581 IV | instigation of jealousy, he robs man of the grace of immortality
582 V | God so great an enemy was routed, the wondering people burst
583 IV | obeys the author of his ruin, imitating the devil in
584 IV | before he takes captive, ruined before he ruins others.
585 IV | captive, ruined before he ruins others. While, at the instigation
586 XVI | course of virtues we daily run; to these palms and crowns
587 XI | XI.~Why do you rush into the darkness ofjealousy?
588 VII | of our thoughts, what a rust of the heart, to be jealous
589 XVII | meat and drink from the sacrament of the cross, let the wood
590 XVII | shall have forgiven. Your sacrifices shall be received when you
591 VI | of others avail for our safety; let the punishment of the
592 XI | him." And again: "He that saith he is in the light, and
593 V | else was the provocation save the spur of jealousy? Because,
594 X | breast, if the night is scattered therefrom, if the gloom
595 VI | plunge into heresies and schisms when priests are disparaged,
596 XIV | the dust of the earth; the second man is from heaven. Such
597 I | against by the prudent, secretly distresses incautious minds.
598 II | He presents to the eyes seductive forms and easy pleasures,
599 I | To be jealous of what you see to be good, and to be envious
600 XVII | thistles, that the Lord's seed may enrich you with a fertile
601 I | roaring lion, goeth about seeking any one to devour."~
602 | seems
603 IX | applied, the sore that is seen is quickly brought to health.
604 VIII | shall laugh at him; for He seeth that his day is coming."
605 V | brethren, the reason of their selling him proceeded from envy.
606 XV | good and on the evil, and sendeth rain upon the just and on
607 X | day has illuminated your senses, if you have begun to be
608 XVII | which the malice of the serpent had infected be purged;
609 II | persecution to vanquish God's servants--always restless, and always
610 XVII | all bitterness which had settled within be softened by the
611 III | hurling of them is the more severely and frequently effectual
612 | shalt
613 XVII | than you. Make yourself a sharer with them in united love;
614 VIII | Their feet are swift to shed blood, destruction and misery
615 XV | that the divine birth might shine forth in you, that the godly
616 I | destruction of faith and the shipwreck of salvation and of life.
617 XIII | teaching, doubtless, and showing that whoever is magnanimous,
618 V | prosperity which had been shown to him in visions, their
619 IV | Therefore they who are on his side imitate him.~
620 VII | cheerful. They are ever sighing, and groaning, and grieving;
621 II | destroy chastity by the sight. He tempts the ears with
622 XII | of mind may imitate the simple nature of lambs. Why does
623 XIV | are above, where Christ is sitting at the right hand of God;
624 VIII | prompt for the violence of slaughter; even if for the time deprived
625 XVIII| not enter, who by jealousy slew his brother. Think of the
626 I | eyes of some people to be a slight and petty wrong; and, being
627 VII | intestine pangs, and may smite the secret recesses of the
628 X | none should fall into the snare of death through jealousy
629 I | and teaches, saying, "Be sober, and watch; because your
630 X | the greatest, said, "Who soever shall be least among you
631 I | with a milder air and a softer breeze, should stir up storms
632 V | jealousy. And that Joseph was sold by his brethren, the reason
633 I | our powers to repel, with solicitous and full watch-fulness,
634 I | us to watch with careful solicitude, lest the adversary, who
635 | some
636 IX | medicament is applied, the sore that is seen is quickly
637 VII | as it were, to apply a sort of executioner to one's
638 II | by the hearing of sweet sounds he may relax and enervate
639 I | blow up a flame from the sparks, magnifying small things
640 XIII | indeed, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual,
641 Arg | GATHERS, BY REFERENCE TO SPECIAL VICES, THAT ENVY IS THE
642 V | the provocation save the spur of jealousy? Because, when
643 XVIII| Christ. Consider that we are standing under the eyes of God, that
644 XI | But he follows Christ who stands in His precepts, who walks
645 II | false things, that he may steal away the true; and when
646 I | lying in wait, should creep stealthily into our breast, and blow
647 | still
648 I | a softer breeze, should stir up storms and whirlwinds,
649 VI | another more wealthy. Jealousy stirs up ambition, when one sees
650 I | softer breeze, should stir up storms and whirlwinds, and bring
651 XVI | XVI.~The mind must be strengthened, beloved brethren, by these
652 XIII | charity, and when he was strongly asserting and teaching that
653 XVI | adversary is prostrated and subdued. To have overcome lust is
654 VI | can he who has become the subject of a foreign authority any
655 VII | the advantage of a greater success, in that proportion the
656 XI | and warns, saying, "Christ suffered for us, leaving you an example
657 IX | shut themselves in blind suffering within the lurking-places
658 V | people burst forth with the suffrage of acclamation into praises
659 XV | in heaven, who maketh His sun to rise on the good and
660 VI | no ground for any one to suppose that evil of that kind is
661 IV | destroyed (others). He who was sustained in angelic majesty, he who
662 II | that by the hearing of sweet sounds he may relax and
663 XVII | availed in a figure for sweetening the taste, avail to you
664 XVII | within be softened by the sweetness of Christ. If you take both
665 VIII | bitterness. Their feet are swift to shed blood, destruction
666 III | carefully watched, than being taken captive by envy and malice,
667 IV | jealousy, captive before he takes captive, ruined before he
668 | taking
669 XVII | figure for sweetening the taste, avail to you in in reality
670 XI | which Christ both did and taught; in accordance with what
671 XIV | already beginning to be His temples, if, having received the
672 II | chastity by the sight. He tempts the ears with harmonious
673 Arg | ILLUSTRATIONS OF ENVY FROM THE OLD TESTAMENT, AND GATHERS, BY REFERENCE
674 XI | do you enfold yourself in thecloud of malice? why do you quench
675 | themselves
676 XV | to have children like to themselves--and it is more agreeable
677 IV | deceived was himself deceived! Thenceforth envy rages on the earth,
678 X | if the night is scattered therefrom, if the gloom is chased
679 VII | end to the rapacity of the thief; and the completed deception
680 | thine
681 XIV | forewarned us of this very thing, and said: "Therefore, brethren,
682 XVII | from your breast thorns and thistles, that the Lord's seed may
683 XVII | Tear out from your breast thorns and thistles, that the Lord'
684 | Thou
685 VIII | VIII.~Hence the threatening countenance, the lowering
686 III | deceiving snares or open threatenings, the mind ought to stand
687 II | cannot hiddenly deceive, he threatens plainly and openly, holding
688 | thy
689 IX | shut up within; you are tied and bound with the links
690 XII | calls His people, by what title He names His flock. He calls
691 | together
692 II | vigour. He provokes the tongue by reproaches; he instigates
693 X | reply. He plucked out and tore away every cause anti matter
694 VII | one's own mischief--to be tormented by the prosperity of illustrious
695 VII | own breast, to bring the tormentors to one's own thoughts and
696 Arg | THAT ITS ORIGIN IS TO BE TRACED TO THE DEVIL, HE GIVES ILLUSTRATIONS
697 XIV | and carnal sins must be trampled down, beloved brethren,
698 VI | crimes, the material of transgressions. Thence arises hatred, thence
699 XVI | retribution of a heavenly treasure; and he who knows not to
700 VIII | aspect, pallor in the face, trembling on the lips, gnashing of
701 II | examines the walls, and tries whether there is any part
702 XVI | crown of patience. It is a triumph over avarice to despise
703 XIV | the earthly body must be trodden under foot with spiritual
704 II | that he may steal away the true; and when he cannot hiddenly
705 XVI | the praise of faith, by trust in the future, to suffer
706 II | walls less firm and less trustworthy, by entrance through which
707 VI | brotherly charity; by this truth is adulterated, unity is
708 XVI | approaches, however often he may try to come near, he may find
709 II | holding forth the fear of turbulent persecution to vanquish
710 IX | you are captive under the tyranny of jealousy; nor will any
711 VIII | of the teeth, mad words, unbridled revilings, a hand prompt
712 XI | whither he goeth. For he goeth unconsciously to Gehenna, in ignorance
713 III | let us also be watchful to understand and repel these, among which
714 I | and so, while soothing the unguarded and careless with a milder
715 XVII | yourself a sharer with them in united love; make yourself their
716 VI | this truth is adulterated, unity is divided; men plunge into
717 V | fratricides, in that the unrighteous Cain is jealous of the righteous
718 V | was considered. He was unrighteously stricken who had been the
719 | until
720 VI | let the punishment of the unwise confer health upon the prudent.
721 III | brother, should himself be unwittingly destroyed by his own sword.
722 XII | preacher what has been well and usefully preached, if what is uttered
723 XII | usefully preached, if what is uttered by his mouth is fulfilled
724 V | V.~Hence, in fine, began the
725 II | turbulent persecution to vanquish God's servants--always restless,
726 XVI | wherewith the victors, from a varied and manifold engagement,
727 VI | VI.~Considering which things,
728 XVI | its crowns, wherewith the victors, from a varied and manifold
729 VI | beloved brethren, let us with vigilance and courage fortify our
730 VII | VII.~But what a gnawing worm
731 VIII | VIII.~Hence the threatening countenance,
732 VI | peace is broken; by this is violated brotherly charity; by this
733 VII | offence ceases when the violation is perpetrated; in the case
734 VIII | revilings, a hand prompt for the violence of slaughter; even if for
735 VII | either in respect of his virtue or of his happiness; that
736 XVI | peace. In this course of virtues we daily run; to these palms
737 XVII | poison of gall, cast out the virus of discords. Let the mind
738 V | had been shown to him in visions, their malevolent disposition
739 I | watch and always lying in wait, should creep stealthily
740 XI | stands in His precepts, who walks in the way of His teaching,
741 X | drunkenness, not in lusts and wantonness, not in strifes and jealousy."
742 X | Apostle Paul, instructing and warning, that we who, illuminated
743 I | with solicitous and full watch-fulness, the enemy, raging and aiming
744 III | nothing more carefully watched, than being taken captive
745 III | perceived, let us also be watchful to understand and repel
746 VI | while he sees another more wealthy. Jealousy stirs up ambition,
747 | well
748 IX | are the enemy of no one's well-being more than your own. Whoever
749 | whatever
750 | whence
751 | whereas
752 III | III.~Wherefore, beloved brethren, against
753 | wherein
754 | Wherever
755 | whether
756 I | should stir up storms and whirlwinds, and bring about the destruction
757 XIV | apostle, with foresight and wholesomeness, forewarned us of this very
758 VI | manifold and fruitful, extends widely. It is the root of all evils,
759 XII | commandments, and that he is wise who hears and does His words;
760 XII | nature of lambs. Why does the wolf lurk under the garb of sheep?
761 V | an enemy was routed, the wondering people burst forth with
762 XVII | sacrament of the cross, let the wood which at Mara availed in
763 VII | VII.~But what a gnawing worm of the soul is it, what
764 | would
765 IX | The cure is easy where the wound is manifest; and when the
766 III | frequently effectual to our wounding, in proportion as it is
767 IX | quickly brought to health. The wounds of jealousy are hidden and
768 II | exasperating wrongs to the wrecklessness of murder; to make the cheat,
769 X | deeds and works of light, writes and says, "The night has
770 II | the hand by exasperating wrongs to the wrecklessness of
771 X | X.~And therefore, beloved
772 XI | XI.~Why do you rush into the
773 XII | XII.~We ought to remember by
774 XIII | XIII.~Thus also the Apostle Paul,
775 XIV | XIV.~Vices and carnal sins must
776 XV | XV.~For this is to change what
777 XVI | XVI.~The mind must be strengthened,
778 XVII | XVII.~To these rewards that you
779 XVIII| XVIII.~And you have many things
780 IX | links of chains from which yon cannot extricate yourself;
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