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503 2 | condition of repentance also is discriminated. There will be a condition
504 16 | marriage." Thus, too, he discriminatingly judges her to be more blessed,
505 14 | schisms, and emulations, and discussions, and presumptions, and elations,
506 14 | gall; swelling, indignant, disdainful, comminatory, invidious,
507 7 | fact, often happens--by disdaining to submit to chastisement,
508 16 | have pardoned one who has disgraced the Lord, and who has cast
509 18 | soul; sustaineth dolors and disgraces. His ignominy, moreover,
510 20 | themselves the Son of God, and dishonouring Him." "For the earth which
511 5 | we are measured; by her disjunctive intervention we are conjoined;
512 5 | by such ribs, who shall dislocate her from the corporate mass
513 14 | the apostle by "acting disorderly," and "were wholly saddened"
514 20 | house ought of the pristine disorders and blemishes, he pronounced
515 6 | Christ, the flesh may have disported itself, nay, may have perished
516 11 | indeed has by this time been disposed of. If, however, the Lord,
517 17 | may appear to be partly disputing from the standpoint of Judaism,
518 1pref| could I not have acted the dissembler? I hear that there has even
519 12 | but an ungrateful man will dissolve. In that event, He will
520 6 | law which Christ has "not dissolved, but fulfilled." For it
521 2 | but it is not becoming to distend further, on the ground of
522 2 | themselves are anteriorly distinguished without confusion in the
523 10 | wavering of the flesh, any distraction of the mind, any wandering
524 8 | allegorical gestures to their ditties, giving expression to such
525 2 | with alternate pull into diverse directions; so that one (
526 2 | repentance are sins. These we divide into two issues: some will
527 14 | place the apostle's severity divided, against one who was "inflated,"
528 13 | was now, if ever, to be divined, when it is usual for all
529 21 | is the Trinity of the One Divinity--Father, Son. and Holy Spirit. (
530 15 | the norm and rule of his docrines; so as to presume that he,
531 21 | a separation between the doctrine of apostles and their power.
532 8 | subject-matters of their doctrines in accordance with the opportune
533 16 | sentences of the entire document.~
534 5 | mother they invoke. What doest thou, gentlest and humanest
535 19 | entering into the holy city. Dogs, sorcerers, fornicators,
536 18 | his own soul; sustaineth dolors and disgraces. His ignominy,
537 17 | that) death no more hath domination over Him. For in that He
538 20 | to cursing, whose end is (doomed) unto utter burning." He
539 1pref| adulterers also and fornicators; dooming them to pour forth tears
540 5 | in speech, hard by (the door of the church) stands an
541 3 | communion. For before her doors it stands, and by the example
542 20 | and "cast away" out of doors--for the Apocalypse wtthal
543 5 | the first; nothing is so dose to the first as the second.
544 5 | range thyself on our side. Dost thou once for all condemn
545 1pref| fornication by the nuptial and dotal tablets: and accordingly,
546 2 | accordance wherewith it will be doubtful to no one that some deserve
547 9 | heathens. Or else, if any doubts that in the land of Judea,
548 9 | and why, to be sure, "ten drachmas?" And what is that "besom?"
549 9 | to mould the ewe, and the dracnma, and the voluptuousness
550 14 | power of eating., and of drinking, and of leading about women,
551 20 | For the earth which hath drunk the rain often descending
552 10 | worthily both the idol of drunkenness, and the brize of adultery
553 17 | he puts restraints upon drunkennesses and revellings, as withal
554 17 | very foundations have been dug out by the apostle, when
555 9 | among all (rubbish) on a dungheap; and will carry back into
556 19 | businesses, in official duties, in trade, in food, in sight,
557 15 | For He saith, That I will dwell in you, and will walk in (
558 17 | has affirmed that "good dwelleth not in his flesh," yet (
559 16 | and that in you the Lord dwells?"--who likewise, for the
560 7 | ewe" "perished" not by dying, but by straying; and the "
561 8 | which the opposite side most eagerly catches at,--still it will
562 1pref| did he turn away from his early opinions: nor did he sin
563 18 | darkness." And yet more earnestly: "Communicate not with the
564 1pref| make it; since even the earthly temple of God can sooner
565 14 | conscience, even until now eat (it) as if (it were) an
566 22 | to him; instantly prayers echo around him; instantly pools
567 14 | utterance), how manifest the edge of the spiritual sword, (
568 7 | the mental faculty, to the effect that such answers are always
569 10 | and remedies will be more effective on their first application
570 16 | adulterers, and fornicators, and effeminates, and co-habitors with males,
571 2 | and pander to themselves, effeminating rather than invigorating
572 20 | appearance shall have become efflorescent over the skin, and shall
573 15 | bewailed, and indubitably ejected, that they might lose (the
574 13 | day of the Lord, by the ejection of the incestuous fornicator;
575 13 | from these,--nay, rather elated from no other source than
576 13 | and all innocence; which (elation of soul) was being restrained
577 14 | discussions, and presumptions, and elations, and contentions required,
578 13 | before the widows, before the elders, suing for the tears of
579 14 | verity," the "vessel of election," the founder of Churches,
580 | elsewhere
581 4 | the covering of marriage, elude the charge. But all the
582 21 | Elymas--Ananias with death, Elymas with blindness--in order
583 21 | Smitten were both Ananias and Elymas--Ananias with death, Elymas
584 12 | decree, and the counsel embodied therein, will cease (only)
585 5 | neighbour crimes, from the embrace of kindred wickednesses,
586 8 | occurrence in the case of embroidering garments with purple. When
587 13 | Alexander, "that they might be emended into not blaspheming," as
588 6 | is now a thing different, emerges in a new state, no longer (
589 13 | heathens and heretics are daily emerging out of blasphemy. But even
590 5 | the two most conspicuous eminences of misdeeds, and has completely
591 3 | fruit. It will not fail of emolument if it do not fail in duty.
592 16 | cast Him down from (the empire of) his body, and this indeed
593 1pref| and negligence; by taking emptiest precaution against (crimes)
594 22 | sinners. Similarly, you who emulate Him in condoning sins, if
595 14 | For so had schisms, and emulations, and discussions, and presumptions,
596 1pref| did he sin by becoming an emulator not of ancestral but of
597 5 | Enclosed by such flanks, encircled and supported by such ribs,
598 5 | equal majesty of crime. Enclosed by such flanks, encircled
599 6 | this very line our hostile encounter will forthwith cross swords.
600 16 | indulgence granted Paul, who endeavours to obliterate "necessity
601 9 | sinner, is that they may endow adultery and fornication
602 9 | transfer the parables to other ends (than they were originally
603 21 | was the first of all to be endued with the Spirit, and, after
604 6 | of incontinence, but of endurance; which was to taste from
605 2 | always hold my peace and endure? I have been quiet as (a
606 2 | and shall utterly burn His enemies;" striking down not the
607 13 | not regarding (him) as an enemy, but rebuking as a brother."
608 22 | tribes of penal inflictions enforce! Which has more truly apostatized--
609 1pref| deserted are studies; nor to be enforced, so dined are the laws.
610 18 | of all immodesty, and the enforcing of all modesty, yet without
611 12 | more to be honoured. His engagement none but an ungrateful man
612 12 | avoidance whereof He selectively enjoined; He has claimed whatever
613 5 | apart her alone for the enjoyment of repentance? Will not
614 4 | banditry. So, too, whoever enjoys any other than nuptial intercourse,
615 6 | of the Lord far-shining, enlightening eyes." Thus, too, the apostle: "
616 7 | darkness, whom the grace of God enlightens, than the Christian, who
617 14 | these): "Ye are already enriched! ye are already satiated!
618 6 | modesty, remains in its entirety; in which law "blessed (
619 22 | act, however, of urgently entreating from a martyr pardon for
620 22 | combatant--scars, of course, enviable in the eyes of Christ, because
621 9 | to God, but because they envied the nation salvation; being
622 22 | already "fought with beasts at Ephesus," when he decreed "destruction"
623 20 | working?" And, of course, the Episfie of Barnabas is more generally
624 5 | in their midst, with an equal majesty of crime. Enclosed
625 6 | should also be a perfect equality of grace in regard of all
626 10 | shake you down from your equipoise, "God is good." To His own (
627 19 | It is therefore nearly equivalent to saying that John has
628 16 | censorship he lops, and eradicates, and extirpates, every forest
629 20 | of God to the universal eradication of every sacrilegious outrage
630 13 | wedlock; as if he subsequently erased his own words, writing: "
631 14 | had already lost on his ereption, and whom, after condemnation,
632 7 | understand a Christian who has erred from the Church's 'flock.'"
633 9 | from the Lord, amid the errors and allurements and appetites
634 7 | heathen, so long as he "errs?" Who is more "re-sought"
635 21 | himself; (Peter) himself essayed the key; you see what (key): "
636 6 | faith? Far be it; but we are establishing the law "--forsooth in those (
637 12 | man will dissolve. In that event, He will neither accept
638 7 | drachma: (and this is an evidence in my favour); for if the
639 2 | peace," but withal "creating evils;" preferring repentance,
640 7 | possible--(granting) that ewes which have been mortally
641 13 | as not at least to have exacted from the criminal even this
642 13 | buffeted, lest he should exalt himself" If they touch upon
643 2 | irremissible sin. And it remains to examine specially, with regard to
644 20 | adulterer and fornicator. For excellently was he wont to interpret
645 1pref| censorial rigour curbed its excesses--on the hypothesis, that
646 8 | parables where they list, and exclude them (in other cases)--not
647 20 | colour from which it had been excluded, is a defect that admits
648 1pref| the utmost strictness, we excommunicate digamists, as bringing infamy
649 14 | more fully (than by simple excommunication) incur the penalty of being "
650 9 | of publicans have been so execrable in the eyes of the Lord,
651 15 | even by his own example, an execrator and expiator of every impurity,
652 6 | waived, but even summarily executed upon fornication. And of
653 14 | a sentence, which he was executing: the former (we see) still
654 21 | have done so, not in the exercise of discipline, but of power.
655 1pref| its activities had been exercised. I should prefer no good
656 5 | also, Murder, sometimes exert myself on behalf of Adultery.
657 21 | manifest proofs of seventy. Exhibit therefore even now to me,
658 21 | grant indulgence, who, by exhibiting neither the prophetic nor
659 7 | right path) into a public exhibition of charioteering frenzy,
660 1pref| judgments which each Testament exhibits; and is subject to a more
661 7 | heathen solemnity, to official exigence, to the ministry of another'
662 16 | of course the life which exists in the kingdom is not permitted
663 8 | united with the remaining expectation of Israel. Thus, even if
664 9 | further step if it is not expedient, (any more than reasonable),
665 7 | his appearance than he is expelled from the Church; nor does
666 22 | because their apostasy was expiable! In their case alone is
667 20 | unclean, and must no more be expiated by the priest. Thus adultery,
668 19 | discovering his mischance, and expiating it by repentance, both attains
669 18 | being) nowhere admissible to expiation. "But the adulterer," he
670 15 | example, an execrator and expiator of every impurity, and universally
671 19 | living faith, subsequently expired, and turned heretic, in
672 9 | by the subtlety of forced explanations, generally lead away from
673 8 | convicted diversity will expose all the error. In the self-same
674 22 | commits fornication. Lust is exposed to no violence, except itself:
675 9 | things (into shape) in the exposition, while we take care to avoid
676 18 | sinner saith the Lord, Why expoundest thou my righteous acts,
677 20 | his masters. For there is extant withal an Epistle to the
678 17 | or at all willed it to be extended--(he) who, not willing pollution
679 17 | he been in the habit of extending pardon to such, or at all
680 18 | have equally determined the extent to which he had (and that
681 13 | ill-treatment devoted to the extermination of the flesh, it seems to
682 16 | lops, and eradicates, and extirpates, every forest of lusts,
683 16 | of the Lord: "glorify and extol the Lord in your body."
684 16 | being may have committed is extraneous to the body; but whoever
685 8 | congruity. But away with extraordinary ingenuity, for it has nothing
686 9 | desiring to express the extreme pleasure which the salvation
687 1pref| flesh; amputating not the extremest superficies, but the inmost
688 7 | is a word--I think it is Ezekiel's: "Shepherds, hold, ye
689 7 | soundness of the mental faculty, to the effect that such
690 22 | thus also glorious, because failing to conquer they yielded; (
691 8 | showing that the Jewish fails to suit the comparison of
692 15 | have obtained mercy, we faint not; but renounce the secret
693 20 | flesh to the whiteness of faith--which (faith) is esteemed
694 14 | be standing, see lest he fall;" and, "If any seemeth to
695 2 | own lord a man standeth or falleth; who art thou, to judge
696 9 | among men "perishes," who falls from health, but he who
697 22 | indulgence of lusts has plainly familiarized them; and they seek peace
698 6 | the precept of the Lord far-shining, enlightening eyes." Thus,
699 16 | had them not." "For the fashion of this world is passing
700 2 | since, if they shall have fasted," saith He, "I will not
701 20 | to the High Priest of the Father--Christ--all impediments
702 10 | from the grace shown to the fathers--"for God is able from these
703 9 | thenceforward feeds upon the "fatness" of the Lord's body,--the
704 22 | earth and in the flesh is faultless?" What "martyr" (continues
705 8 | features in the parable) are favourable, yet by others of a contrary
706 10 | which is the only one which favours adulterers, had deserved
707 14 | Immediately the former retreated fearing the blow, the latter paying
708 8 | Israel. Thus, even if some (features in the parable) are favourable,
709 9 | set him over "swine," to feed that flock familiar to demons,
710 9 | appointed over the business of "feeding swine"--of tending unclean
711 9 | and thus thenceforward feeds upon the "fatness" of the
712 13 | not with him, that he may feel awed; not regarding (him)
713 8 | interpretations--the danger lest the felicity of our comparisons be tempered
714 6 | the daughters of Madian, fell in one plague. But, with
715 1pref| discipline in the persons of Our females rather by defilements of
716 14 | where the apostle is more fervent, where the fornicator himself
717 | few
718 7 | up by the beasts of the field; nor can they either "perish
719 6 | checking its itching with fig-leaves. Universally inherent was
720 7 | reply to this, the Lord had figured the restoration of the lost
721 14 | rebuffed with curt reproof, and filed down by haughtiness, and
722 13 | was not even once lawful--fill all the rest likewise full
723 5 | misdeeds, and has completely filled the vacant space, as it
724 10 | Go on, if you succeed in finding power and will, while you
725 17 | the flesh." Branding, in fine, such as had denied themselves--
726 20 | apt for conjunction, and firm,--such as are made (by God)
727 20 | that thus the man may be fit for God. But if, after the
728 1pref| self-same liminal limit we fix for adulterers also and
729 15 | I pray you, had he who fixes such (exhortations) in our
730 5 | crime. Enclosed by such flanks, encircled and supported
731 7 | and clothe you with the fleeces: what is strong ye have
732 11 | from the redemption of flesh--that is, the Lord's passion.
733 13 | take a leap out from the flock--as if that were no more
734 22 | too, it was that there flowed out of the wound in the
735 1pref| I. PREFACE.~MODESTY, the flower of manners, the honour of
736 6 | lasciviousness, but the flowers of holiness; which was to
737 16 | And, for fear you should fly to that statement for a
738 5 | immediately prohibiting its foe, adultery. Understand, consequently,
739 5 | therewith in fate as in following--will be alike co-heir therewith
740 13 | tears of all, licking the footprints of all, clasping the knees
741 10 | truth, mount with uncertain footstep upon a most slender thread,
742 10 | therefore, the yoke which forbade the discussion of these
743 5 | over murder, in the very fore-front of the most holy law, among
744 15 | prescriptive rule for the foregone, and a prejudgment for the
745 12 | these alone they put in the foremost rank, of course as not remissible; (
746 10 | preaching? or did he rather, foreseeing the mercy of God poured
747 16 | eradicates, and extirpates, every forest of lusts, for fear of permitting
748 17 | concerning) which I foretell you, as I have foretold,
749 16 | manner) of an apostle to take forethought for the fires of penalty.
750 17 | foretell you, as I have foretold, that whoever do such acts
751 12 | a yoke, except to place forever upon those (necks) these
752 19 | rashly swearing; or else forfeiting his plighted word or else
753 19 | for not even we ourselves forget the distinction between
754 6 | according to Jeremiah; and "forgetful of former things, we are
755 21 | against a brother. For the forgiveness of (sins) committed in the
756 21 | Church has the power of forgiving sins." This I acknowledge
757 19 | to saying that John has forgotten himself; asserting, in the
758 14 | indulgence? to that which by a formal pronouncement he has decisively
759 14 | by their counsel he had formally pronounced.~
760 6 | lust--the dregs which are formed out of milk contain it--(
761 16 | to the body; but whoever fornicateth, sinneth against his own
762 13 | that they argue that that fornicator--that incestuous person rather--
763 8 | Lord, and who have quite forsaken the LORD, and have provoked
764 6 | establishing the law "--forsooth in those (points) which,
765 14 | withal at the moment of being forsworn by the Church itself. How
766 18 | fornicators of this world"--and so forth--" else it behoved you to
767 5 | this (the Law) accordingly fortified, by immediately prohibiting
768 5 | substratum in strengthening and fortifying such counts, no other precept
769 22 | short, Paul had already "fought with beasts at Ephesus,"
770 16 | for (cleanse it) from (foul) stains he cannot. But this
771 7 | gladiatorial gore, or scenic foulness, or athletic vanity; or
772 1pref| which is being shaken to its foundation--(Christian modesty), which
773 14 | vessel of election," the founder of Churches, the censor
774 7 | sadness of the surrounding fraternities. By comparison, even in
775 19 | pardon--murder, idolatry, fraud, apostasy, blasphemy; (and),
776 14 | Church) fear to suffer a fraudulent loss of him whom she had
777 17 | which he annexes us, he frees us from the "infirmity of
778 4 | charge. But all the other frenzies of passions--impious both
779 7 | exhibition of charioteering frenzy, or gladiatorial gore, or
780 17 | EPISTLES.~Challenge me to front the apostolic line of battle;
781 1pref| had remained only to prove fruitless, in that it had not been
782 16 | fornication, of course he has frustrated the design of his own remedy.
783 9 | the Lord Himself the ewe, fugitive though she have been over
784 5 | accordance with its criminal function--is to be accounted, the
785 21 | however, you have had the functions of discipline alone allotted
786 18 | to his death?--for this fundamental ground of your opinion must
787 2 | thee.'" Such and so great futilities of theirs wherewith they
788 12 | by compensation: we have gained much, in order that we may
789 3 | avail to win pardon, that it gains it by entreaty from God
790 14 | you, except Crispus and Gaius, lest any say that I have
791 17 | ignorant of God." What do the Galatians read? "Manifest are the
792 14 | not with ink, but with gall; swelling, indignant, disdainful,
793 13 | this legally established garb of repentance which you
794 8 | the case of embroidering garments with purple. When you think
795 12 | already beginning to be gathered to their side out of the
796 6 | a new state, no longer (generated) of the slime of natural
797 5 | invoke. What doest thou, gentlest and humanest Discipline?
798 9 | placing on a par the one genus of heathens--some sinners
799 8 | accommodating allegorical gestures to their ditties, giving
800 16 | doeth" better" than her "giver in marriage." Thus, too,
801 7 | charioteering frenzy, or gladiatorial gore, or scenic foulness,
802 22 | your "martyr") beneath the glaive, with head already steadily
803 14 | thou hast not received? Why gloriest thou as if thou have not
804 16 | blood, to wit, of the Lord: "glorify and extol the Lord in your
805 5 | the very letters are our glue; herself can no longer exist
806 13 | ewe" go in quest of your goats? do you, for fear lest your "
807 5 | superstitious service of alien gods, and the making of idols
808 9 | wisdom, and natural power of Godward recognition; by means of
809 2 | by such as flatter His goodness--and who, albeit "patient,"
810 9 | stripped of his mental "goods," he has even handed his
811 7 | envy, His own grace and goodwill even in regard of one heathen,
812 7 | frenzy, or gladiatorial gore, or scenic foulness, or
813 22 | will recall rather than gory ones! Which repentance is
814 14 | having accordingly been got rid of--I return to the
815 9 | interpretation shall be simply governed with an eye to the object
816 21 | their power. Discipline governs a man, power sets a seal
817 1pref| and the security which grants indulgence. But since they
818 20 | upon it, and hath borne grass apt for them on whose account
819 22 | sported? And yet those scars graven on the Christian combatant--
820 19 | contraries of these; as the graver and destructive ones, such
821 18 | the bishop, or else, for greater and irremissible ones, from
822 20 | upon entering, he had found greenish or reddish cavities, and
823 7 | which discovers him, but grief; nor does he invite the
824 8 | Christian to rejoice, and not to grieve, at the restoration of Israel,
825 22 | he who when losing Him grieved, or he who when losing Him
826 6 | natural seed, nor of the grime of concupiscence, but of "
827 5 | the self-same weeping they groan; with the selfsame prayers
828 9 | the Christian that the Jew groans, not over his second restoration:
829 1pref| have laid the preliminary groundwork of it, discipline persuaded
830 5 | to Adultery; witness my groves and my mounts, and the living
831 1pref| to treat) is by this time grown so obsolete, that it is
832 1pref| knowledge had its stages of growth; through which stages the
833 1pref| integrity of the blood, the guarantee of our race, the basis of
834 18 | Divine clemency to have guaranteed the demonstration of itself
835 12 | select, in the way of careful guarding against, from the pristine
836 5 | rivalries I revenge; how many guards, how many informers, how
837 9 | having been cast by his moral habits far from the Lord, amid
838 22 | darkness with which the habitual indulgence of lusts has
839 10 | canon; if it had not been habitually judged by every council
840 15 | they were to be received hack (by him into the Church)
841 6 | the pristine days may have had--if the Psychics please--
842 11 | and wiping them with her hair, and inaugurating His sepulture
843 13 | and prostrate him, all in haircloth and ashes, a compound of
844 15 | SUBJECT CONTINUED.~If you hammer out the sequel of that Epistle
845 22 | they who have fallen in hand-to hand combat. Indignation
846 19 | free through baptism, the "handwriting of death" having been "made
847 7 | or)--as, in fact, often happens--by disdaining to submit
848 16 | I allow;--marriages, not harlotries. He tries to avoid giving
849 8 | occurring in it), which harmonize in hue with the present (
850 8 | that you have judiciously harmonized the proportions of the hues,
851 19 | taffy refused by Paul. This harmony of the Holy Spirit whoever
852 3 | vain, nor such discipline harsh. Both honour God. The former,
853 3 | And if it reaps not the harvest of peace here, yet it sows
854 18 | Timotheus: "Lay hands on no one hastily, nor communicate with others'
855 8 | not hearing; holding in hatred him who reproveth in the
856 14 | reproof, and filed down by haughtiness, and deterred by austerity.
857 1pref| delinquency itself shall haunt. There is the place to read
858 19 | no more be the successful Header: these will not at all be
859 2 | just as He knows how to "heal," so does He withal know
860 22 | axle, with the fire already heaped; in the very certainty,
861 18 | church the ashes of all hearths." For it had been his duty,
862 22 | Church who have fallen in heat of passion, than they who
863 1pref| Name; a discipline to which heathendom itself bears such emphatic
864 9 | Father, squanders, by living heathenishly, the "substance" received
865 9 | on a par the one genus of heathens--some sinners by office,
866 21 | be bound or loosed in the heavens," you therefore presume
867 12 | release our neck from so heavy a yoke, except to place
868 20 | withal an Epistle to the Hebrews under the name of Barnabas--
869 17 | sin, and especially to so heinous a sin. Else, if fornication
870 9 | be aptly fitted with the helpful accompaniment of a "besom"
871 19 | manifested to take away sins"--henceforth, of course, to be no more
872 10 | the Lord's ways," was the herald of repentance no less to
873 | Herein
874 13 | sadder are more wont to hesitate than things of a more joyous
875 7 | destroyed, but by being hidden. In this sense, a thing
876 16 | one possibility) was left him--to purge the flesh from (
877 14 | selected us the apostles (as) hindmost, like men appointed to fight
878 8 | the ear, and not hearing; holding in hatred him who reproveth
879 2 | pitiful-heartedness,' which He holds 'dearer than all sacrifice,' '
880 4 | modesty is massacred. Every homicide, even outside a wood, is
881 16 | from (the list of) even honourable pretexts (for marriage unions).
882 13 | compound of disgrace and horror, before the widows, before
883 20 | set "death" upon a "green horse," but a "warrior" upon a "
884 6 | marriages with prostitutes, for Hosea's sake; and not only the
885 6 | repentance, at this very line our hostile encounter will forthwith
886 1pref| it had not been in God's household that its activities had
887 8 | it), which harmonize in hue with the present (state
888 8 | harmonized the proportions of the hues, and believe yourself to
889 15 | offering your hand to so huge a whirlpool of impurities;
890 5 | doest thou, gentlest and humanest Discipline? Either to all
891 6 | law of piety, sanctity, humanity, truth, chastity, justice,
892 15 | when I shall have come, God humble me, and I bewail many of
893 14 | invidiousness is the pungency of humility? "To God I give thanks that
894 9 | contradictions. Why "an hundred sheep?" and why, to be sure, "
895 9 | world, where, compelled by hunger after truth," he handed
896 14 | the latter instantaneously hurtling; (the one) wherewith he
897 18 | a "brother" who "walketh idly" he warns the Thessalonians
898 10 | hence) worthily both the idol of drunkenness, and the
899 14 | it) as if (it were) an idol-sacrifice. But, so sinning, by shocking
900 5 | unclean spirit is, there are idolatries; wherever a man, by being
901 19 | fornicating and eating of idolsacrifice. And I gave her bounteously
902 18 | dolors and disgraces. His ignominy, moreover, shall not be
903 18 | mercy, because I did (so) ignorantly in unbelief." Thus that
904 2 | II. GOD JUST AS WELL AS MERCIFUL;
905 3 | III. AN OBJECTION ANTICIPATED
906 18 | the church" of such as act ill--"and with the impious will
907 13 | of neglect and studious ill-treatment devoted to the extermination
908 2 | pray for the aversion of ills on behalf of the sinful
909 20 | they who have once been illuminated, and have tasted the heavenly
910 15 | sequel of that Epistle to illustrate the meaning of the apostle,
911 8 | are far different from the immediate plot, and scene, and character,
912 18 | What more disgraceful than immodesties? If, moreover, even from
913 16 | in the character of) an immoveable column of discipline and
914 12 | Testament the condition is ever immutable; and, of course the public
915 7 | another's idolatry; if he has impaled himself upon some word of
916 20 | the Father--Christ--all impediments must first be taken away,
917 21 | the duty) of presiding not imperially, but ministerially; who
918 22 | which an involuntary, sinner implores? No one is compelled with
919 6 | attaching to the restrictions imposed upon the more fully developed
920 21 | the Lord, concerning the imposition upon the brethren of a yoke
921 20 | the dead, he says: "For impossible it is that they who have
922 1pref| No one blushes at his own improvement. Even in Christ, knowledge
923 10 | are not amenable to it, imputable as they are to ignorance,
924 10 | had no probation! so that in-suits offered to His clemency
925 11 | them with her hair, and inaugurating His sepulture with ointment;
926 19 | destructive ones, such as are incapable of pardon--murder, idolatry,
927 6 | That done, you will condone incests, too, for Lot's sake; and
928 8 | accordance with the opportune incidences of the parables. Loosed
929 9 | fornication, should be retained inconcessible. But it is more (to the
930 15 | put to the blush by the incongruity of his later meanings. For
931 1pref| of things evil is on the increase--which is the characteristic
932 14 | saddened" by him, through incurring (his) "rebuke," according
933 15 | in this place have been indicating somewhat touching communion.
934 18 | adulterer," he says, "through indigence of senses acquireth perdition
935 13 | anger is more readily indirect than indulgence. Things
936 2 | ACCORDINGLY, MERCY MUST NOT BE INDISCRIMINATE.~"But," say they, "God is '
937 14 | pricks them, too, with an individualizing pen: "Wherefore, let him
938 15 | were to be bewailed, and indubitably ejected, that they might
939 21 | whose property it is to indulge? "But," you say, "the Church
940 1pref| be idle while crimes are indulged, and crimes will remain
941 13 | usual for all the greatest indulgences not to be granted without
942 17 | withal here: "And be not inebriated with wine, in which is voluptuousness."
943 1pref| excommunicate digamists, as bringing infamy upon the Paraclete by the
944 22 | yet sighs; (scars) with an infelicity of their own, but a chaste
945 12 | claimed whatever He has not inferentially conceded. Hence it is that
946 6 | was to pertain not to the infernal regions, but to heaven;
947 21 | Christ (can do); nay, they infflicted plagues too, which Christ
948 14 | perished under the instant infliction of the penalty. Immediately
949 22 | butchery and tribes of penal inflictions enforce! Which has more
950 21 | clemency, and on the other to influence all others to sin. Or if,
951 5 | how many guards, how many informers, how many accomplices, I
952 22 | Apostasy, on the contrary, what ingenuities of butchery and tribes of
953 8 | away with extraordinary ingenuity, for it has nothing to do
954 22 | sins: it is the part of ingratitude or of pride to lavish upon
955 22 | martyr" (continues to be) an inhabitant of the world supplicating?
956 18 | vanity; and with them who act iniquitously will I not enter"--this (
957 10 | respects, too, you derive initiation; to which, perchance, that"
958 13 | are not ignorant of his injections." What (reference) is understood
959 16 | whether he who gives this injunction be likely to have pardoned
960 6 | Liberty in Christ" has done no injury to innocence. The law of
961 14 | say) as a whole, not with ink, but with gall; swelling,
962 1pref| extremest superficies, but the inmost image of modesty itself,
963 21 | evil to the majority. I now inquire into your opinion, (to see)
964 13 | for let this point be inquired into, whether the man's
965 1pref| edict, on which cannot be inscribed, "Good deed!" And where
966 5 | edict, marking it with the inscription of the very principal sins.
967 20 | priest, before he entered to inspect that house he bids all (
968 14 | condemned perished under the instant infliction of the penalty.
969 14 | brandishing, the latter instantaneously hurtling; (the one) wherewith
970 18 | thou madest." Deriving his instructions, therefore, from hence,
971 20 | properly (so called), indeed, instructs and determinately directs,
972 7 | pilotages of discipline and instruments of fear, "the Law and the
973 10 | fault and the favour are intelligible; that he who mourns, he
974 9 | than they were originally intended for), it would be rather
975 19 | laying his preliminary bases; intending to say, in the end, more
976 6 | points) which, being even now interdicted by the New Testament, are
977 5 | as it is), that after interdicting the superstitious service
978 18 | opponent), "will pertain to the interdiction of all immodesty, and the
979 19 | Accordingly, it is material to the interest of the whole sacrament to
980 17 | their missiles against the interests of luxury, and lasciviousness,
981 14 | or to that which by an interlocutory sentence he has left in
982 20 | the pristine and the new (intermixt). If, however, after the
983 9 | think that I have advanced interpretations more consonant with the
984 8 | he one cardinal danger in interpretations--the danger lest the felicity
985 10 | urge) to me, most benignant interpreter of God. But I would yield
986 8 | however, the majority of interpreters of the parables are deceived
987 10 | discerned or admitted of not interpreting otherwise than is (suitable
988 14 | SUBJECT CONTINUED.~And--these intervening points having accordingly
989 5 | measured; by her disjunctive intervention we are conjoined; to her,
990 8 | order of each people as intimated from Rebecca's womb permitted
991 9 | points which are just simply introduced with a view to the structure
992 8 | Rebecca's womb permitted the inversion: only that (in that case)
993 14 | offer you withal, for your investigation, this very question: Whether
994 14 | disdainful, comminatory, invidious, and shaped through (a series
995 2 | effeminating rather than invigorating discipline, with how cogent
996 7 | but grief; nor does he invite the congratulation of her
997 18 | follows that repentance invites clemency to itself; without
998 5 | the self-same mother they invoke. What doest thou, gentlest
999 2 | wherein they shall have invoked me, in the time of their
1000 22 | voluntary, or that which an involuntary, sinner implores? No one
1001 21 | wills not to do it if it involve evil to the majority. I
1002 1pref| upon the Paraclete by the irregularity of their discipline. The