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1003 14 | corpse, a tomb leprous with irremediable uncleanness--he might more
1004 11 | Lord, by His deeds withal, issued any such proclamation in
1005 6 | things, and checking its itching with fig-leaves. Universally
1006 12 | be revoked by iteration--(iteration) of adultery, of course,
1007 12 | is, it will be revoked by iteration--(iteration) of adultery,
1008 4 | IV. ADULTERY AND FORNICATION
1009 9 | IX. CERTAIN GENERAL PRINCIPLES
1010 7 | there is need not of the javelin-light of a lamp, but of the spear-like
1011 2 | self-affliction to God. For God is "jealous," and is One who is not
1012 19 | in communion) the woman Jezebel, who calleth herself a prophet,
1013 8 | as represented) by the joint figure of the younger son.
1014 10 | that, then, the reason why Jonah thought not repentance necessary
1015 9 | restore the son; and will joyfully proclaim that the drachma
1016 13 | hesitate than things of a more joyous cast. Of course the question
1017 6 | combined with incest, for Judah's sake; and base marriages
1018 17 | disputing from the standpoint of Judaism, yet it is to us that he
1019 9 | doubts that in the land of Judea, subjugated as it had been
1020 8 | you think that you have judiciously harmonized the proportions
1021 6 | humanity, truth, chastity, justice, mercy, benevolence, modesty,
1022 5 | crimes, from the embrace of kindred wickednesses, so as to set
1023 4 | distinction (between the kinds) of repentance, we are by
1024 9 | in the churches, is not known even to the Jews. I think
1025 17 | for whose sake soever, labouring (as we were) in the law, "
1026 15 | among the counts of his own labours, after" straits and pressures,"
1027 22 | prostrates tickled flesh, or lacerated? Which pardon is, in all
1028 3 | there is a repentance which lacks pardon, it immediately follows
1029 14 | required, that they should be laden with invidiousness, and
1030 6 | to wit, "of the Lord and Lamb"--you take hold of any one
1031 18 | to the post-baptismally lapsed, the apostle would have
1032 7 | believer, too, "perishes," by lapsing out of (the right path)
1033 15 | very moment after making a largess of restoration to the privileges
1034 | last
1035 12 | He has retained. Of the latest Testament the condition
1036 18 | wrinkle"--of course after the laver--"but (that) she may be holy
1037 13 | which was not even once lawful--fill all the rest likewise
1038 16 | On the other hand, he lays it down that "the time is
1039 14 | and of drinking, and of leading about women, just as the
1040 5 | Idolatry goes before and leads the way; on the other, Murder
1041 13 | your "ewe" again take a leap out from the flock--as if
1042 13 | which you ought to have learned from him? as to have uttered
1043 17 | Romans, moreover,--what learning is more impressed upon them
1044 | least
1045 7 | DRACHMA.~You shall have leave to begin with the parables,
1046 6 | be precinct not with the leaves of lasciviousness, but the
1047 8 | two, sons also, they are led by some figures (occurring
1048 13 | from the criminal even this legally established garb of repentance
1049 16 | to keep a fast from the legitimate fruit of nature--the apple,
1050 8 | of truth, they have had leisure, of course, to search into
1051 7 | vanity; or else if he has lent the aid of any special "
1052 20 | taken in the case of the leper: "But if the speckled appearance
1053 20 | in which the taint of the leprosy had been to be extracted
1054 14 | already a corpse, a tomb leprous with irremediable uncleanness--
1055 16 | he "wills" all to be on a level with himself. But when things
1056 14 | discipline, (in the guilt of) levity so great as that he should
1057 19 | committal, to which we all are liable: for who will be free from
1058 19 | not sinned, we make Him a liar, and His word is not in
1059 1pref| deed!" And where shall this liberality be posted up? On the very
1060 18 | unbelieving, for the sake of whose liberation Christ came; not (at such)
1061 6 | not those of disciplines. "Liberty in Christ" has done no injury
1062 16 | to that statement for a licence to fornication, on the ground
1063 13 | indulgence to the atrocious licentiousness of fornication burdened
1064 13 | suing for the tears of all, licking the footprints of all, clasping
1065 19 | not in Him," and that "we lie if we say that we have communion
1066 9 | unworthily clad are wont to be lifted by the torturers, and cast
1067 12 | violated. But it is not lightly that the Holy Spirit has
1068 8 | colour) and (the various) lights are fully developed, the
1069 | likely
1070 1pref| discipline. The self-same liminal limit we fix for adulterers
1071 1pref| discipline. The self-same liminal limit we fix for adulterers also
1072 2 | will stand within its own limits, without reciprocal opposition.
1073 1pref| yet up to a certain point linger in the world, if nature
1074 22 | him at the stake, with the lion already let loose; suppose
1075 11 | times, however, in which He lived on earth we lay this down
1076 18 | of a sinner to his death, looks at such as are ignorant
1077 22 | with the lion already let loose; suppose him on the axle,
1078 16 | an axe of censorship he lops, and eradicates, and extirpates,
1079 6 | condone incests, too, for Lot's sake; and fornications
1080 1pref| of the few that truth is loved But, however, a profitable
1081 14 | with a malediction, "If any loveth not the Lord Jesus, be he
1082 18 | deliberate judgments of Christ, "loving the Church," who "hath delivered
1083 16 | entrance into the faith, lovingly embraces the opportunity
1084 6 | and looking back at the lower things, and checking its
1085 9 | the hand of Pompey and of Lucullus, the publicans were heathens,
1086 7 | weight of a drachma, which, lurking in the same Church, and
1087 6 | inherent was the virus of lust--the dregs which are formed
1088 17 | against the interests of luxury, and lasciviousness, and
1089 18 | adulterers thy portion thou madest." Deriving his instructions,
1090 6 | fornication with the daughters of Madian, fell in one plague. But,
1091 5 | the poisoners, witness the magicians, how many seductions I avenge,
1092 6 | discipline which we are maintaining. For it is in vain that
1093 9 | as it is comprised in the maintenance of discipline, we see is
1094 5 | their midst, with an equal majesty of crime. Enclosed by such
1095 14 | following), wound up with a malediction, "If any loveth not the
1096 16 | effeminates, and co-habitors with males, will not attain the kingdom
1097 11 | heaven; none holy before the manifestation of the Holy Spirit from
1098 7 | heathen. Tell me, is not all mankind one flock of God? Is not
1099 1pref| MODESTY, the flower of manners, the honour of our bodies,
1100 19 | sunset; or else even using manual violence or else carelessly
1101 20 | impunity: so now, after manumission, it no more receives pardon.~
1102 14 | Lord Jesus, be he anathema maranatha," he is, of course, striking
1103 5 | of the celestial edict, marking it with the inscription
1104 16 | commit adultery; and he who marrieth one dismissed by a husband
1105 1pref| fornication their reason for marrying as often as they please--
1106 5 | dislocate her from the corporate mass of coherencies, from the
1107 4 | in towers that modesty is massacred. Every homicide, even outside
1108 9 | demons, where he would not be master of a supply of vital food,
1109 20 | right, the discipline of his masters. For there is extant withal
1110 8 | more aptly would they have matched the Christian with the elder,
1111 19 | preach." Accordingly, it is material to the interest of the whole
1112 22 | side water and blood, the materials of either baptism? I ought,
1113 1pref| peremptory one too. The Pontifex Maximus--that is, the bishop of bishops--
1114 5 | standard of) Idolatry we are measured; by her disjunctive intervention
1115 6 | blessed (is) the man who shall meditate by day and by night." About
1116 3 | work with an answer which meets us from the opposite side,
1117 13 | church, for the purpose of melting the brotherhood by his prayers,
1118 14 | indeed trembled beneath the menace of the uplifted rod, but
1119 20 | upon modesty, without any mention of restoration. I wish,
1120 14 | By this time, indeed, (he mentions individuals) by name: "Or
1121 3 | returns with an even richer merchandise--their compassion, namely--
1122 19 | Thyatirenes, the Spirit sends a message that He "hath against him
1123 13 | to be banished from their midst--much more, of course, from
1124 5 | make away with. Witness the midwives likewise, how many adulterous
1125 7 | to have been--that they migh blush the more when they
1126 5 | temples in cities, what mighty agents we are for overthrowing
1127 15 | sooner than to some more mild offender.~
1128 10 | less to such as were on military service and to publicans,
1129 15 | such (exhortations) in our minds been recalling some notorious
1130 22 | Others betake them to the mines, and return, in the character
1131 18 | in the Epistle, not to be mingled up with fornicators: not,
1132 21 | presiding not imperially, but ministerially; who or how great are you,
1133 15 | Wherefore, having this ministration, in accordance with (the
1134 7 | official exigence, to the ministry of another's idolatry; if
1135 8 | capable of corresponding with mirror-like accuracy) there he one cardinal
1136 19 | rite, upon discovering his mischance, and expiating it by repentance,
1137 5 | conspicuous eminences of misdeeds, and has completely filled
1138 17 | sanctity; they all aim their missiles against the interests of
1139 19 | too, he points out the mode in which we shall be utterly
1140 10 | balancing flesh with spirit, moderating your animal principle by
1141 4 | because they are not sins, but monstrosities.~
1142 9 | having been cast by his moral habits far from the Lord,
1143 8 | likewise had every more savoury morsel torn from his throat, not
1144 20 | be plastered with other mortar. For, in coming to the High
1145 17 | what "members" they are to "mortify" upon earth: "fornication,
1146 5 | supplicate; the self-same mother they invoke. What doest
1147 9 | opposite party is eager to mould the ewe, and the dracnma,
1148 8 | very beginning they have moulded together the very subject-matters
1149 10 | from the path of truth, mount with uncertain footstep
1150 5 | witness my groves and my mounts, and the living waters,
1151 15 | crime too: whether it be Ms province, again, to excuse
1152 1pref| remedies by their law of multinuptialism? For remedies will be idle
1153 16 | the command), "Grow and multiply." Thus he wills us to pass
1154 17 | is cast into the shade by multitude, doubt by certainty, obscurity
1155 16 | God; the married, however, muse about the world, how they
1156 8 | giving vividness to their mutual combination; presently,
1157 6 | washed away (the guilt of) Naboth's blood; and David, by confession,
1158 3 | merchandise--their compassion, namely--than their communion. And
1159 6 | precedent? It did not bear the names of "body of Christ," of "
1160 9 | because they envied the nation salvation; being plainly
1161 18 | part of the Psychics was (naturally) sequent; and accordingly
1162 16 | the legitimate fruit of nature--the apple, I mean, of marriage: "
1163 21 | into your ears: Jesus the Nazarene, a man destined by God for
1164 18 | defrauder" (for what so near akin?), and so on, "with
1165 19 | be so? "It is therefore nearly equivalent to saying that
1166 1pref| sake that incontinence is necessary--the "burning" will be extinguished
1167 12 | then, do they release our neck from so heavy a yoke, except
1168 12 | place forever upon those (necks) these compendia of discipline?
1169 13 | squalor, and every species of neglect and studious ill-treatment
1170 1pref| trifle with solicitude and negligence; by taking emptiest precaution
1171 5 | coherencies, from the bond of neighbour crimes, from the embrace
1172 5 | rank the station, from its neighbourhood the merit, of each thing.
1173 7 | the congratulation of her neighbours, but the fellowship in sadness
1174 17 | dead, so we too may walk in newness of life. For if we have
1175 9 | examples, albeit in the most nicely-poised balance, shall be admitted
1176 9 | of a "lamp." For curious niceties of this kind not only render
1177 19 | she had learnt from the Nicolaitans. For who has a doubt that
1178 20 | thorns, it is reprobate, and nighest to cursing, whose end is (
1179 6 | shall meditate by day and by night." About that (law) the same
1180 10 | necessary to the heathen Ninevites, when he tergiversated in
1181 22 | moreover, which, in the nominal custody now in vogue, are
1182 21 | about the observance or non-observance of the Law, Peter was the
1183 15 | himself, contrary to the norm and rule of his docrines;
1184 7 | of them would have been noted. I will now withdraw for
1185 9 | power the apostle withal notes that "in the wisdom of God,
1186 15 | minds been recalling some notorious fornicator into the Church?
1187 5 | omit tragedies, witness nowadays the poisoners, witness the
1188 | nowhere
1189 12 | abstinence from the more noxious. The matter has been settled
1190 6 | sufficient one, that so vast a number--(the number) of 24,000--
1191 9 | some special quantity of a numerical whole from which to describe
1192 12 | loosed us from the more numerous, that we might be bound
1193 13 | Thessalonians "But if any obey not our word through the
1194 19 | XIX. OBJECTIONS FROM THE REVELATION AND
1195 16 | Paul, who endeavours to obliterate "necessity of the flesh"
1196 15 | found to square with the obliteration of incest; lest even here
1197 13 | special anger. He is more obscure in his pity than in his
1198 17 | multitude, doubt by certainty, obscurity by plainness. Even if, for
1199 21 | with the works of darkness. Observe what He bids. Who, moreover,
1200 12 | necessary that abstinence be observed; from sacrifices, and from
1201 19 | the Holy Spirit whoever observes, shall by Him be conducted
1202 1pref| is by this time grown so obsolete, that it is not the abjuration
1203 1pref| might befall those, too, who obtruncate the pure and true integrity
1204 8 | result as is of very frequent occurrence in the case of embroidering
1205 8 | are led by some figures (occurring in it), which harmonize
1206 14 | accordingly been got rid of--I return to the second of
1207 21 | such as are chargeable with offence against you personally,
1208 15 | sooner than to some more mild offender.~
1209 22 | ON BEHALF OF SCANDALOUS OFFENDERS.~But you go so far as to
1210 10 | probation! so that in-suits offered to His clemency do not rather
1211 22 | for God, by whom those (offfences) have been condemned without
1212 14 | We have been made the offscourings of this world, the refuse
1213 22 | are a sinner, how will the oil of your puny torch be able
1214 11 | inaugurating His sepulture with ointment; as when to the Samaritaness--
1215 7 | a quibbler in answering, omitting the present subject-matter
1216 22 | custody now in vogue, are soft ones--than adulterers beset him,
1217 18 | times of antiquity, were openly taken with a view to the
1218 10 | children), not to heathens, He opens His bosom: a second repentance
1219 11 | power of His indulgence be operative at the present day! At those
1220 1pref| turn away from his early opinions: nor did he sin by becoming
1221 18 | these (passages)," says (our opponent), "will pertain to the interdiction
1222 22 | force upon the mind (of our opponents this conclusion): Whatever
1223 8 | concluding paragraph would oppose them; for it will he fitting
1224 16 | not your own;" immediately opposing (thereto), "for bought ye
1225 5 | repression of which (the Law) ordained next to (that of) idolatry.
1226 1pref| nature, if it was wont to originate in birth; its study, if
1227 17 | withal? "For our consolation (originated) not of seduction, nor of
1228 1pref| wish a hurtful one to be an ornament. I blush not at an error
1229 16 | crimes--nay, even before all others--when affirming that "adulterers,
1230 8 | other cases)--not where they ought--with the utmost aptitude.
1231 | ours
1232 5 | we are conjoined; to her, outjutting from our midst, we are united;
1233 20 | eradication of every sacrilegious outrage upon modesty, without any
1234 18 | impure." You have at the very outset of the Psalms, "Blessed
1235 22 | cross, with body already outstretched; suppose him at the stake,
1236 7 | will shine through (the outward semblance, to teach) whether
1237 10 | first application than when outworn. No doubt the Lord is "kind"
1238 20 | as a principal point, the overseer of all sanctity as regards
1239 13 | to the Christian who had overstepped the shamelessness of heathens?--
1240 5 | mighty agents we are for overthrowing modesty.' 'I also, Murder,
1241 22 | with torments, savagery has overthrown. Besides, it were unworthy
1242 16 | too, is God's temple. "Overturn this temple, and I will
1243 16 | as far as he puts on the paid side of the account such
1244 13 | by means (as they say) of pain in the ear or head? Incest,
1245 7 | shoulders. Let the very paintings upon your cups come forward
1246 2 | wherewith they flatter God and pander to themselves, effeminating
1247 14 | cause, he had sent none into panic, had struck (no) "inflated"
1248 7 | set them therefore in the parable--and if not such as they
1249 9 | CERTAIN GENERAL PRINCIPLES OF PARABOLIC INTERPRETATION. THESE APPLIED
1250 8 | that case) the concluding paragraph would oppose them; for it
1251 5 | religious regard toward parents second (only to that) toward
1252 18 | Proverbs, which we call Paroemiae, Solomon specially (treats)
1253 14 | impious voluptuousness and parricidal lust,--(lust) which he had
1254 9 | not have been censured for partaking of food with Jews, but with
1255 20 | heavenly gift, and have participated in the Holy Spirit, and
1256 13 | from being granted) without particularization. Why, do you yourself, when
1257 17 | albeit he may appear to be partly disputing from the standpoint
1258 18 | Ephesians: "Be not, then, partners with them: for ye were at
1259 9 | with which the opposite party is eager to mould the ewe,
1260 20 | down within the body of the party-wall, was to go out to the gate,
1261 16 | fashion of this world is passing away,"--(this world) no
1262 20 | the deadly and sanguinary passions "be extracted" and "cast
1263 4 | all the other frenzies of passions--impious both toward the
1264 8 | to say the very land of paternal promise. And accordingly
1265 9 | name) of such as put up the pathways of the very sky, and earth,
1266 2 | goodness--and who, albeit "patient," yet threatens, through
1267 10 | Shepherd will play the patron whom you depict upon your (
1268 6 | Plainly, if you show by what patronages of heavenly precedents and
1269 10 | adulterous, and hence a patroness of its comrades; from which
1270 6 | THE OLD DISPENSATION NO PATTERN FOR THE DISCIPLES OF THE
1271 17 | passage) to which you cling. Paucity is cast into the shade by
1272 14 | fearing the blow, the latter paying the penalty. When a letter
1273 9 | remissible, or else that their peers, adultery and fornication,
1274 22 | of butchery and tribes of penal inflictions enforce! Which
1275 22 | the world supplicating? pence in hand? subject to physician
1276 18 | to wit, as the result of penitential suing: in accordance with
1277 8 | represented in the two sons, two peoples--the eider the Jewish, the
1278 1pref| an edict set forth, and a peremptory one too. The Pontifex Maximus--
1279 15 | defilement of flesh and spirit, perfecting chastity in God's fear.'"
1280 20 | and strive rather after perfection, and not lay again the foundations
1281 10 | unintelligible to such to whom the perils themselves are unintelligible:
1282 20 | separate the house for a period within seven days. Then,
1283 14 | condemned" one, however, was permanently accounted as already devoured,
1284 16 | even here he is granting a permission by way of "sparing them."
1285 12 | abstained from? Not that they permit others; but that these alone
1286 22 | possession of martyrdom: who permits man to condone (offences)
1287 18 | and conditional, and not a perpetual, seventy. However, since
1288 16 | place of divorce, either perseverance in widowhood, or else a
1289 7 | not "perish," unless it persist in remaining outside. You
1290 1pref| groundwork of it, discipline persuaded to it, censorial rigour
1291 16 | that temple, wrote the law pertaining to the temple-keepers: "
1292 11 | LORD.~From the side of its pertinence to the Gospel, the question
1293 18 | sat in the state-chair of pestilence;" whose voice, withal,(is
1294 6 | it is justly with that phase of the law which Christ
1295 18 | which it excludes." This piece of shrewdness on the part
1296 6 | to innocence. The law of piety, sanctity, humanity, truth,
1297 7 | having, as they had, as pilotages of discipline and instruments
1298 5 | accepting of person:" the more pitiable repentances thou hast left (
1299 22 | Which repentance is more pitiable--that which prostrates tickled
1300 2 | pitiful-hearted,' and 'a pitier,' and 'abundant in pitiful-heartedness,'
1301 2 | pitier,' and 'abundant in pitiful-heartedness,' which He holds 'dearer
1302 13 | He is more obscure in his pity than in his indignation.
1303 4 | is no difference made by places--whether it be in chambers
1304 9 | possibly have been so; but by placing on a par the one genus of
1305 6 | daughters of Madian, fell in one plague. But, with an eye to the
1306 21 | do); nay, they infflicted plagues too, which Christ would
1307 17 | certainty, obscurity by plainness. Even if, for certain, the
1308 20 | first, and the house to be plastered with other mortar. For,
1309 14 | set before us, on the same platform will be the "inflated" man
1310 10 | perchance, that" Shepherd will play the patron whom you depict
1311 10 | be a Christian! These (pleas) you (will urge) to me,
1312 9 | desiring to express the extreme pleasure which the salvation of one
1313 17 | doing the concupiscences and pleasures of the flesh." Branding,
1314 17 | directing the integrity and plenitude of the rules of discipline,--(
1315 19 | great temptations are we plied! So that, if there were
1316 19 | or else forfeiting his plighted word or else lying, from
1317 8 | different from the immediate plot, and scene, and character,
1318 6 | marriage, but its simultaneous plurality, for our fathers' sakes:
1319 16 | apostle should be continuously pointed out to them; whom I will
1320 18 | sides more with our opinion, pointing out that the repentance
1321 22 | with head already steadily poised; suppose him on the cross,
1322 5 | tragedies, witness nowadays the poisoners, witness the magicians,
1323 17 | extended--(he) who, not willing pollution to be contracted even by
1324 5 | bad. I behold a certain pomp and circumstance of adultery:
1325 9 | long since by the hand of Pompey and of Lucullus, the publicans
1326 1pref| peremptory one too. The Pontifex Maximus--that is, the bishop
1327 22 | echo around him; instantly pools of tears (from the eyes)
1328 8 | of the eider they first portray the Jewish. Now, if I shall
1329 7 | I admit that the sinner portrayed in each parable is one who
1330 10 | a profane city, not yet possessed of a knowledge of God, still
1331 7 | left remaining. "Is it not possible--(granting) that ewes which
1332 12 | adultery and fornication the post of their own honour between
1333 18 | demonstration of itself even to the post-baptismally lapsed, the apostle would
1334 1pref| shall this liberality be posted up? On the very spot, I
1335 1pref| fornicators; dooming them to pour forth tears barren of peace,
1336 10 | foreseeing the mercy of God poured forth even upon strangers,
1337 16 | committeth adultery." What powerful remedies does the Holy Spirit
1338 17 | all contravening his own practice to meet the requirement
1339 1pref| traditions, wishing even the prae-cision of them who advised the
1340 13 | given. Lastly, when Paul is praying the Lord for its removal,
1341 19 | Paul), "or they, thus we preach." Accordingly, it is material
1342 19 | them who are without?" had preceded (the sentences now in question).
1343 5 | course, to which it gives the precedence over murder, in the very
1344 6 | heaven; which was to be precinct not with the leaves of lasciviousness,
1345 22 | has any one, acting on a preconceived arrangement, put on the
1346 5 | successor of the idolater, the predecessor of the murderer, the colleague
1347 14 | different had been in the same predicament at that time among the Corinthians;
1348 19 | John) has started? He had predicated "God" to be "Light," and
1349 2 | further, above, the same preferrer of mercy above sacrifice (
1350 5 | co-ordination. Yet further: premising "Thou shalt not commit adultery," (
1351 3 | Lord; nor does it lose, but prepares, its fruit. It will not
1352 21 | sins? This is His alone prerogative: for "who remitteth sins
1353 19 | not without sin, but now prescribing that we do not sin at all:
1354 15 | bound alike to serve as a prescriptive rule for the foregone, and
1355 13 | exist in the Church must be presented "saved," that is, untainted
1356 8 | subject-matter of the parable presents. For they set down, as represented
1357 9 | congruity of things, and the preservation of disciplines. But if the
1358 9 | Who will be careful to preserve to perpetuity what he will
1359 12 | place withal there has been preserved to adultery and fornication
1360 16 | he pronounces that the "preserver of a virgin" doeth" better"
1361 14 | official province of the president (of the Church); but (what
1362 21 | allotted you, and (the duty) of presiding not imperially, but ministerially;
1363 15 | labours, after" straits and pressures," after" fasts and vigils,"
1364 10 | Abraham. The Lord Himself presumed repentance on the part of
1365 14 | emulations, and discussions, and presumptions, and elations, and contentions
1366 16 | list of) even honourable pretexts (for marriage unions). He
1367 16 | awards you, according to his previous disposition, to Christ: "
1368 14 | rather?" In like manner he pricks them, too, with an individualizing
1369 20 | and the entrance of the priests, again resumes the scabs
1370 21 | itself is, properly and principally, the Spirit Himself, in
1371 7 | to those in whom it finds prior place. But you, I take it,
1372 8 | one," inasmuch as he had priority in adoption; although, too,
1373 22 | purchasing entrance into the prison than they who have lost(
1374 3 | the blush of shame to the privilege of communion. For before
1375 10 | such as have yet had no probation! so that in-suits offered
1376 15 | he should forthwith have proceeded to accumulate exhortations
1377 19 | of your theory), when, proceeding (with the Epistle), I find
1378 9 | the son; and will joyfully proclaim that the drachma has been
1379 10 | accordingly, for the sake of a profane city, not yet possessed
1380 2 | brother, not against God. We profess, in short, in our prayer,
1381 4 | connections, that is, not first professed in presence of the Church--
1382 16 | not be feared. And yet he professes that he has granted the
1383 19 | of any such crime while professing the faith, to "the lake
1384 1pref| is loved But, however, a profitable fickleness shall no more
1385 5 | V. OF THE PROHIBITION OF ADULTERY IN THE DECALOGUE.~
1386 18 | in all Epistles he both prohibits such a character, (so sinning)
1387 13 | to Satan--that is, their projection outside the Church--had
1388 1pref| There is the place for promulgating such repentance, where the
1389 17 | whatever "it shames (one) to pronounce?" for the other (works)
1390 14 | to that which by a formal pronouncement he has decisively settled,
1391 16 | please their spouse." Thus he pronounces that the "preserver of a
1392 21 | lack that virtue whose property it is to indulge? "But,"
1393 19 | righteous; and, He is the propitiation for our sins." "According
1394 7 | of a moderate character, proportionable to the small size and the
1395 8 | judiciously harmonized the proportions of the hues, and believe
1396 14 | who were, as it were, the proprietors of those charges? For so
1397 19 | adultery, not however in the prospect of restoration (to Church-fellowship)
1398 11 | now sixth marriage, but a prostitute--He showed (what He did show
1399 6 | and base marriages with prostitutes, for Hosea's sake; and not
1400 6 | granting indulgence to your prostitution?" In that case, you will
1401 10 | say, as) himself withal a prostitutor of the Christian sacrament, (
1402 21 | this very fact it might be proved that Christ had had the
1403 18 | this kind. For even in the Proverbs, which we call Paroemiae,
1404 16 | adultery as an instrument for providing, in place of divorce, either
1405 20 | redeemed, not yet set free: "provision," says (the Law), shall
1406 2 | the "severity" of God, and provoke our own constancy? Because,
1407 8 | forsaken the LORD, and have provoked unto anger the Holy One
1408 20 | for confirming, by most proximate right, the discipline of
1409 15 | away from impurities, about pruning away of blemishes, about
1410 18 | at the very outset of the Psalms, "Blessed the man who hath
1411 21 | your (church), indeed, Psychic? For, in accordance with
1412 18 | XVIII. ANSWER TO A PSYCHICAL OBJECTION.~"But these (passages),"
1413 9 | by nature, that is, not publicans--he has drawn a distinction
1414 1pref| no ampler return than the publication of their disgrace.~
1415 2 | contention with alternate pull into diverse directions;
1416 20 | the structure of it, to be pulled down, and cast away into
1417 14 | of invidiousness is the pungency of humility? "To God I give
1418 1pref| witness, that it strives to punish that discipline in the persons
1419 22 | how will the oil of your puny torch be able to suffice
1420 22 | who are more diligent in purchasing entrance into the prison
1421 16 | possibility) was left him--to purge the flesh from (natural)
1422 19 | them to us, and utterly purify us from every unrighteousness.'"
1423 6 | impart to the waters its own purities--thenceforth, whatever flesh (
1424 8 | embroidering garments with purple. When you think that you
1425 1pref| that every mental good quality is the result either of
1426 9 | should name some special quantity of a numerical whole from
1427 13 | parable of the "ewe" go in quest of your goats? do you, for
1428 7 | answers), that is, to the (questions) which call them forth.
1429 7 | it that the Lord, like a quibbler in answering, omitting the
1430 20 | been seen in such an one quick colour, he is defiled.", (
1431 10 | by which the chalice will quickly be followed, (a chalice)
1432 2 | and endure? I have been quiet as (a woman) in birth-throes;
1433 1pref| blood, the guarantee of our race, the basis of sanctity,
1434 6 | have said to his brother, Racha, shall be in danger of hell."
1435 20 | earth which hath drunk the rain often descending upon it,
1436 5 | it will be thy duty to range thyself on our side. Dost
1437 1pref| fornication will not be ranked at the same time among the
1438 18 | thou sawest a thief, thou rannest with him; and with adulterers
1439 9 | the former reflects its rap even upon the heathen; but
1440 1pref| every. good disposition; rare though it is, and not easily
1441 13 | fornicator--that incestuous person rather--having been delivered by
1442 7 | lamp, but of the spear-like ray of the entire sun. No sooner
1443 6 | of former things, we are reaching forward," according to the
1444 3 | their communion. And if it reaps not the harvest of peace
1445 9 | expedient, (any more than reasonable), that the story of the
1446 8 | people as intimated from Rebecca's womb permitted the inversion:
1447 14 | with invidiousness, and rebuffed with curt reproof, and filed
1448 14 | judge who is not wont "to rebuild those things which he has
1449 20 | flesh,"--and is no more rebuilt in the Church after his
1450 2 | we for our part able to rebut,--(arguments) which set
1451 22 | Contaminated bodies you will recall rather than gory ones! Which
1452 7 | authority of that parable which recalls a sheep not dead? Finally,
1453 2 | its own limits, without reciprocal opposition. The remedial
1454 12 | and, of course the public recitation of that decree, and the
1455 16 | Holy Spirit, so that he recites a false testimony from (
1456 5 | if they have any voice) reclaim: "This is our wedge, this
1457 9 | slaughtered;" and he will recline on that couch from which
1458 12 | a Paraclete) whom, not recognising Him even in His special
1459 9 | natural power of Godward recognition; by means of which power
1460 7 | by withdrawing, the more recommend it, when I shall have succeeded
1461 7 | lost, and eaten up, are recovered--that (in accordance also
1462 9 | the power of afterwards recovering? Who will be careful to
1463 20 | for God. But if, after the recovery and reformation, the priest
1464 20 | he had found greenish or reddish cavities, and their appearance
1465 10 | s passion, which was to redeem heathens as well (as others)
1466 11 | have premised) from the redemption of flesh--that is, the Lord'
1467 20 | restoration. I wish, however, redundantly to superadd the testimony
1468 7 | drachma will all the more refer to the heathen, that they
1469 7 | applicable to Christians are referable to a heathen. Tell me, is
1470 3 | For (the repentance) being referred back to the Lord, and thenceforward
1471 9 | restoration: for the former reflects its rap even upon the heathen;
1472 18 | taken with a view to the refusing of ecclesiastical communion
1473 7 | which it was His duty to refute, should spend His labour
1474 19 | FIRST EPISTLE OF ST.JOHN REFUTED.~But how far (are we to
1475 7 | and at that very moment refuting them, because they were
1476 13 | that he may feel awed; not regarding (him) as an enemy, but rebuking
1477 1pref| nature, "through the layer of regeneration;" its discipline, through
1478 6 | pertain not to the infernal regions, but to heaven; which was
1479 2 | tight, another to relax, the reins of discipline--in uncertainty,
1480 6 | of these crimes, as often reinstated in their former privileges.
1481 6 | of "works" that have been rejected, not those of disciplines. "
1482 8 | fitting for the Christian to rejoice, and not to grieve, at the
1483 16 | against his will that he relaxed the bond of this "good,"
1484 12 | remissible. Why, then, do they release our neck from so heavy a
1485 15 | disgrace," who has just released from condemnation one manifestly
1486 1pref| even more unhappy if it had remained only to prove fruitless,
1487 16 | frustrated the design of his own remedy. and will be bound forthwith
1488 9 | abundance of heavenly bread. He remembers his Father, God; he returns
1489 21 | alone prerogative: for "who remitteth sins but God alone?" and,
1490 13 | praying the Lord for its removal, what does he hear? "Hold
1491 9 | idolaters, and blasphemers, and renegades, and every class of apostates,
1492 9 | of the Holy Spirit; and a renewal of the "ring," the sign
1493 6 | and "a renewing hath been renewed," according to Jeremiah;
1494 15 | mercy, we faint not; but renounce the secret things of disgrace,"
1495 19 | sinner: let her, I grant, repent; but with the view of ceasing
1496 5 | person:" the more pitiable repentances thou hast left (unpitied)
1497 6 | and not only the frequent repetition of marriage, but its simultaneous
1498 20 | and sound, to be taken and replaced in the stead of the first,
1499 12 | which after baptism has been repolluted, can by repentance be washed
1500 20 | the party-walls had been reported to the priest, before he
1501 7 | wish this: that He should represent the ewe as lost not from
1502 5 | sin (that must be), the repression of which (the Law) ordained