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1503 20 | bring forth thorns, it is reprobate, and nighest to cursing,
1504 14 | and rebuffed with curt reproof, and filed down by haughtiness,
1505 8 | holding in hatred him who reproveth in the gates, and in scorn
1506 1pref| for a mark of fickleness. Repudiation of fellowship is never a
1507 17 | God He liveth. Thus, too, repute ye yourselves dead indeed
1508 14 | elations, and contentions required, that they should be laden
1509 17 | own practice to meet the requirement of the time. He circumcised
1510 1pref| as have discharged (the requirements of) repentance, the sins
1511 16 | world) no longer, to wit, requiting (the command), "Grow and
1512 14 | power of the Lord," if he rescinded what by their counsel he
1513 22 | believe the same power (to reside) in any one, whoever he
1514 15 | part of your Epistle, by restitution of the incestuous one, you
1515 22 | authority, whatever reason, restores ecclesiastical peace to
1516 13 | elation of soul) was being restrained in the apostle by "buffets,"
1517 6 | reward attaching to the restrictions imposed upon the more fully
1518 5 | as the second. That which results from the first is (in a
1519 20 | entrance of the priests, again resumes the scabs and stains of
1520 11 | none a Christian before the resumption of Christ to heaven; none
1521 16 | will in three days' space resuscitate it." "Taking away the members
1522 21 | to "bind"--that is, to "retain"--nothing subsequently,
1523 1pref| of them who advised the retention of circumcision. And would
1524 14 | Immediately the former retreated fearing the blow, the latter
1525 22 | proof of His power as to reveal thoughts, and so impart
1526 19 | XIX. OBJECTIONS FROM THE REVELATION AND THE FIRST EPISTLE OF
1527 17 | restraints upon drunkennesses and revellings, as withal here: "And be
1528 5 | avenge, how many rivalries I revenge; how many guards, how many
1529 20 | If, however, after the reversal (of the sentence of uncleanness),
1530 20 | the old nature shall have revived with its tendencies, that
1531 12 | if, that is, it will be revoked by iteration--(iteration)
1532 6 | present day. "What will be the reward attaching to the restrictions
1533 5 | encircled and supported by such ribs, who shall dislocate her
1534 3 | and returns with an even richer merchandise--their compassion,
1535 14 | having accordingly been got rid of--I return to the second
1536 12 | abstaining from which ye act rightly, the Holy Spirit carrying
1537 10 | repentance." For what more ripens as the fruit of repentance
1538 17 | order that, as Christ hath risen again from the dead, so
1539 4 | presence of the Church--run risk of being judged akin to
1540 22 | the hands of those who are risking their own! Others betake
1541 19 | by (a spurious baptismal) rite, upon discovering his mischance,
1542 5 | seductions I avenge, how many rivalries I revenge; how many guards,
1543 22 | very passion He set the robber free. For to this end had
1544 1pref| called by the Lord a "den of robbers," than of adulterers and
1545 9 | his former "garment," the robe of the Holy Spirit; and
1546 18 | they shall have wiped, with rolling at their feet, the shoes
1547 17 | the kingdom of God." The Romans, moreover,--what learning
1548 1pref| among crimes, there is no room at once for their indulgence
1549 10 | the cessation from sin the root of pardon, that pardon may
1550 10 | merit favour. Come, you rope-walker upon modesty, and chastity,
1551 9 | have been over all that is rough and rugged. But we prefer,
1552 9 | found, albeit among all (rubbish) on a dungheap; and will
1553 9 | over all that is rough and rugged. But we prefer, if it must
1554 20 | in the Church after his ruin. So, too, with regard to
1555 4 | presence of the Church--run risk of being judged akin
1556 5 | observance) the veneration of the Sabbath, after commanding a religious
1557 5 | repentance bids, they sit in sackcloth and bristle in ashes; with
1558 10 | whom you depict upon your (sacramental) chalice, (depict, I say,
1559 15 | and believer shares the sacraments with unbeliever. And idols
1560 12 | abstinence be observed; from sacrifices, and from fornications,
1561 20 | universal eradication of every sacrilegious outrage upon modesty, without
1562 13 | indulgence. Things of a sadder are more wont to hesitate
1563 1pref| the true, the modest, the saintly, shall be free from stain
1564 6 | plurality, for our fathers' sakes: for, of come, it is meet
1565 9 | and earth, and sea, for sale. Moreover, when (the writer)
1566 13 | such as were "delivered to Sam" by him (were so delivered)
1567 11 | ointment; as when to the Samaritaness--not an adulteress by her
1568 16 | ablution, but ye have been sanctified, in the Name of the Lord
1569 18 | up for her, that He may sanctify her (purifying her utterly
1570 19 | was); for John has here sanctioned it; in that there are some
1571 20 | forthwith must the deadly and sanguinary passions "be extracted"
1572 14 | enriched! ye are already satiated! ye are already reigning!"
1573 9 | to Him when he has been satisfied; he receives again the pristine "
1574 22 | struggling with torments, savagery has overthrown. Besides,
1575 2 | worth as his repentance, 'a Saviour of all men, most of all
1576 8 | likewise had every more savoury morsel torn from his throat,
1577 18 | through thy mouth? If thou sawest a thief, thou rannest with
1578 20 | priests, again resumes the scabs and stains of the flesh,
1579 22 | INTERCESSION ON BEHALF OF SCANDALOUS OFFENDERS.~But you go so
1580 1pref| not easily perfected, and scarce ever retained in perpetuity,
1581 8 | the immediate plot, and scene, and character, and yet
1582 7 | or gladiatorial gore, or scenic foulness, or athletic vanity;
1583 14 | those charges? For so had schisms, and emulations, and discussions,
1584 8 | reproveth in the gates, and in scorn holy speech? So, too, it
1585 9 | very sky, and earth, and sea, for sale. Moreover, when (
1586 9 | interrogated, he publicly seals the agreement of faith,
1587 8 | had leisure, of course, to search into and put together those
1588 5 | doubt, has she taken her seat between the two most conspicuous
1589 19 | the Thyatirene Church) was secretly introducing into the Church,
1590 22 | let Him tell publicly the secrets of the heart, that He may
1591 10 | and will, while you are so secure, and as it were upon solid
1592 17 | sons of unbelief." Who "seduces with empty words" but he
1593 19 | prophet, and teacheth, and seduceth my servants unto fornicating
1594 19 | we have not sin, we are seducing ourselves, and the truth
1595 17 | consolation (originated) not of seduction, nor of impurity:" and, "
1596 5 | the magicians, how many seductions I avenge, how many rivalries
1597 | seemed
1598 14 | lest he fall;" and, "If any seemeth to be contentious, we have
1599 12 | appear which alone they select, in the way of careful guarding
1600 14 | And, "(I think) God hath selected us the apostles (as) hindmost,
1601 12 | careful avoidance whereof He selectively enjoined; He has claimed
1602 2 | and when they offer their self-affliction to God. For God is "jealous,"
1603 7 | shine through (the outward semblance, to teach) whether a Christian
1604 1pref| born, so corrupted are the seminal principles; or to be trained,
1605 12 | authority of the Holy Spirit, send out to those who were already
1606 19 | Thyatirenes, the Spirit sends a message that He "hath
1607 17 | walk according to flesh are sensible as to those things which
1608 11 | hair, and inaugurating His sepulture with ointment; as when to
1609 18 | Psychics was (naturally) sequent; and accordingly we have
1610 14 | invidious, and shaped through (a series of) individual charges,
1611 17 | tendered your members to servile impurity and iniquity, so
1612 8 | beggar in alien territory, serving even until now its princes,
1613 1pref| study, if in training; its servitude, if in compulsion: except
1614 21 | Discipline governs a man, power sets a seal upon him; apart from
1615 20 | shall--their age already setting--have fallen away, should
1616 20 | house for a period within seven days. Then, upon returning
1617 20 | Then, upon returning on the seventh day, if he should have perceived
1618 | several
1619 21 | did not beseem Him to be severe who had come to suffer.
1620 1pref| bodies, the grace of the sexes, the integrity of the blood,
1621 4 | the bodies and toward the sexes--beyond the laws of nature,
1622 10 | chastity, and every kind of sexual sanctity, who, by the instrumentality
1623 17 | Paucity is cast into the shade by multitude, doubt by certainty,
1624 10 | the eye, shall chance to shake you down from your equipoise, "
1625 21 | kingdom;" or, "Whatsoever thou shale have bound or loosed in
1626 20 | found it sweet, when they shall--their age already setting--
1627 3 | it prefers the blush of shame to the privilege of communion.
1628 13 | who had overstepped the shamelessness of heathens?--since, of
1629 17 | mean), except whatever "it shames (one) to pronounce?" for
1630 14 | comminatory, invidious, and shaped through (a series of) individual
1631 15 | with Christ, and believer shares the sacraments with unbeliever.
1632 7 | have not tended; what is shattered ye have not bound; what
1633 4 | threshold, but from all shelter of the Church, because they
1634 7 | meaning of that sheep will shine through (the outward semblance,
1635 13 | longer the solace of the ship, the Church. For to those
1636 13 | too, he pronounced them "shipwrecked with regard to faith," having
1637 14 | idol-sacrifice. But, so sinning, by shocking the weak consciences of
1638 18 | rolling at their feet, the shoes of the brethren;" and, "
1639 12 | the Gospel thundered and shook the old system to its base,
1640 8 | Now, if I shall succeed in showing that the Jewish fails to
1641 10 | delinquency from the grace shown to the fathers--"for God
1642 18 | excludes." This piece of shrewdness on the part of the Psychics
1643 9 | Physician." necessary to "the sick" "more than to the whole."
1644 18 | any condition or time; he sides more with our opinion, pointing
1645 10 | repentance on the part of the Sidonians and Tyrians if they had
1646 22 | even the devil himself yet sighs; (scars) with an infelicity
1647 9 | renewal of the "ring," the sign and seal of baptism; and
1648 8 | by others of a contrary significance the thorough carrying out
1649 9 | birth--this parable also will signify. See whether the heathen
1650 13 | not to perdition; what similarity is there between blasphemy
1651 17 | through flesh, His own Son, in similitude of flesh of sin; and, became
1652 6 | repetition of marriage, but its simultaneous plurality, for our fathers'
1653 19 | be utterly purified from sin--(by) "walking in the light,"
1654 2 | of ills on behalf of the sinful People,--"since, if they
1655 10 | thus wholly engaged in a single step? Go on, if you succeed
1656 21 | of Israel, let what I say sink into your ears: Jesus the
1657 1pref| things whose position is now sinking; it is the system of Christian
1658 11 | used to be conferred on sinners--even Jewish ones. For Christian
1659 10 | chalice) from which you sip nothing more readily than (
1660 21 | even now to me, apostolic sir, prophetic evidences, that
1661 11 | an adulteress by her now sixth marriage, but a prostitute--
1662 7 | proportionable to the small size and the weight of a drachma,
1663 8 | yourself to have succeeded in skilfully giving vividness to their
1664 9 | the pathways of the very sky, and earth, and sea, for
1665 6 | confession, purged Uriah's slaughter, together with its cause--
1666 20 | regard to lying with a female slave, who had been betrothed
1667 10 | uncertain footstep upon a most slender thread, balancing flesh
1668 6 | longer (generated) of the slime of natural seed, nor of
1669 2 | does He withal know how to "smite;" "making peace," but withal "
1670 17 | discipline,--(us), for whose sake soever, labouring (as we were)
1671 22 | custody now in vogue, are soft ones--than adulterers beset
1672 6 | Christ" has lost its pristine soils, is now a thing different,
1673 13 | faith," having no longer the solace of the ship, the Church.
1674 7 | convivialities of heathen solemnity, to official exigence, to
1675 10 | secure, and as it were upon solid ground. For if any wavering
1676 18 | which we call Paroemiae, Solomon specially (treats) of the
1677 | sometimes
1678 21 | Church akin to Peter, what sort of man are you, subverting
1679 20 | will be the man --flesh and soul--who, subsequently to reformation,
1680 7 | ear and tongue, out of the soundness of the mental faculty, to
1681 3 | harvest of peace here, yet it sows the seed of it with the
1682 1pref| he says, "as a child I spake, as a child I understood;
1683 16 | a permission by way of "sparing them." On the other hand,
1684 7 | javelin-light of a lamp, but of the spear-like ray of the entire sun. No
1685 14 | since we have been made a spectacle to this world, both to angels
1686 14 | But I will come with more speed, if the Lord shall have
1687 7 | His duty to refute, should spend His labour about one yet
1688 15 | thread of discourse) also you spin out, O apostle, when at
1689 9 | swine"--of tending unclean spirits, to wit--has recovered his
1690 10 | Gentiles while the Jews make sport of His patience! But what
1691 22 | or he who when losing Him sported? And yet those scars graven
1692 7 | special "arts of curiosity" to sports, to the convivialities of
1693 1pref| be posted up? On the very spot, I suppose, on the very
1694 20 | case of a house: if any spots and cavities in the party-walls
1695 16 | aught to regain strength and sprout again; behold him desiring
1696 20 | the priest. Thus adultery, sprouting again from the pristine
1697 19 | heretic, deceived by (a spurious baptismal) rite, upon discovering
1698 13 | repentance; in that by fasts, and squalor, and every species of neglect
1699 9 | away. For who will fear to squander what he has the power of
1700 9 | wandering far from his Father, squanders, by living heathenishly,
1701 15 | that sequel be found to square with the obliteration of
1702 12 | more trivial in the new stage of disciplines than in the
1703 5 | compacting power? By (the standard of) Idolatry we are measured;
1704 2 | For 'to his own lord a man standeth or falleth; who art thou,
1705 14 | who thinketh himself to be standing, see lest he fall;" and, "
1706 17 | partly disputing from the standpoint of Judaism, yet it is to
1707 19 | point whence (John) has started? He had predicated "God"
1708 19 | between sins, which was the starting-point of our digression. And (
1709 18 | sinners, and sat in the state-chair of pestilence;" whose voice,
1710 9 | and preaching in direct statements. Who among men "perishes,"
1711 17 | empty words" but he who states in a public harangue that
1712 5 | measure, from its rank the station, from its neighbourhood
1713 6 | unblameable converting souls; the statutes of the Lord (are) direct,
1714 22 | glaive, with head already steadily poised; suppose him on the
1715 14 | instrumentality of a pen: not to steep, to wit, Paul, the "apostle
1716 3 | by the example of its own stigma admonishes all others, and
1717 20 | again from the pristine stock, and wholly blemishing the
1718 18 | counsel of the impious, nor stood in the way of sinners, and
1719 22 | If the Lord set so much store by the proof of His power
1720 9 | than reasonable), that the story of the prodigal son should
1721 15 | his own labours, after" straits and pressures," after" fasts
1722 9 | Lord, unless as being a "strange", name,--a (name) of such
1723 16 | permitting aught to regain strength and sprout again; behold
1724 5 | as the next substratum in strengthening and fortifying such counts,
1725 6 | prescribe you a law, not to stretch out your hand after the
1726 10 | me that even John, when "strewing the Lord's ways," was the
1727 1pref| accordingly, with the utmost strictness, we excommunicate digamists,
1728 19 | other assetting with all stringency, that whoever may have sinned
1729 20 | all first principles, and strive rather after perfection,
1730 1pref| emphatic witness, that it strives to punish that discipline
1731 22 | his confession, after hard struggling with torments, savagery
1732 1pref| trained, so deserted are studies; nor to be enforced, so
1733 1pref| originate in birth; its study, if in training; its servitude,
1734 4 | say "adulterium," and if "stuprum," the indictment of contamination
1735 9 | Necessary it was that the style of one engaged in searching
1736 19 | me for sons;" and so has subjoined: "But to the cowardly, and
1737 16 | destruction of the flesh), after subjoining for that reason, "Let none
1738 9 | that in the land of Judea, subjugated as it had been long since
1739 5 | many a time do I, Idolatry, subminister occasion to Adultery; witness
1740 7 | happens--by disdaining to submit to chastisement, has broken
1741 5 | that Law) laid, as the next substratum in strengthening and fortifying
1742 9 | things suspected, but, by the subtlety of forced explanations,
1743 9 | discipline, we see is being subverted by that interpretation which
1744 21 | been more the part of a subverter on the one hand to commend
1745 21 | what sort of man are you, subverting and wholly changing the
1746 3 | itself, will more readily win success; the latter, by assuming
1747 5 | midst?--(the adulterer), the successor of the idolater, the predecessor
1748 1pref| that they make the fear of succumbing to adultery and fornication
1749 2 | them)" of course when they sue for mercy, when out of repentance
1750 14 | suffer that which, before suffering it, he might have mourned.
1751 8 | that the Jewish fails to suit the comparison of the elder
1752 20 | apostles,--(a testimony) aptly suited for confirming, by most
1753 19 | in the lake of fire and sulphur, which (lake) is the second
1754 6 | merely not waived, but even summarily executed upon fornication.
1755 5 | in being stationed at the summit, or else in the centre,
1756 7 | spear-like ray of the entire sun. No sooner has (such a)
1757 4 | familiar acquaintance with sundry appellations. So, in every
1758 13 | hope of pardon, men already sunken from the faith into blasphemy;
1759 19 | retaining his anger beyond sunset; or else even using manual
1760 17 | in order that grace may superabound? Far be it. We, who are
1761 16 | permitted either. Moreover, by superadding, "But such indeed ye have
1762 14 | Lord?" With what kind of superciliousness, on the contrary, was he
1763 1pref| amputating not the extremest superficies, but the inmost image of
1764 5 | else in the centre, of the superlatively bad. I behold a certain
1765 5 | that after interdicting the superstitious service of alien gods, and
1766 19 | through the successful Suppliant of the Father, Christ. But
1767 5 | the self-same knees they supplicate; the self-same mother they
1768 22 | inhabitant of the world supplicating? pence in hand? subject
1769 2 | their behalf in prayer and supplication, since I will not listen
1770 9 | would not be master of a supply of vital food, and at the
1771 5 | such flanks, encircled and supported by such ribs, who shall
1772 14 | the "inflated" man too. Surely the analogy, of the case
1773 20 | through all the visible surface, then the priest, when he
1774 7 | fellowship in sadness of the surrounding fraternities. By comparison,
1775 9 | only render some things suspected, but, by the subtlety of
1776 14 | sentence he has left in suspense? And, of course, (I am speaking
1777 13 | at this point, too, the suspicions which they raise. For, in
1778 18 | perdition to his own soul; sustaineth dolors and disgraces. His
1779 19 | speaking evil; or else rashly swearing; or else forfeiting his
1780 14 | with ink, but with gall; swelling, indignant, disdainful,
1781 14 | the edge of the spiritual sword, (in words like these): "
1782 6 | encounter will forthwith cross swords. Yet I must necessarily
1783 8 | the parables seem (to be symbolical).~
1784 4 | ADULTERY AND FORNICATION SYNONYMOUS.~Having defined the distinction (
1785 1pref| by the nuptial and dotal tablets: and accordingly, with the
1786 19 | by John, which has been taffy refused by Paul. This harmony
1787 18 | thou my righteous acts, and takest up my testament through
1788 7 | is not a drachma, but a talent, (which is the measure);
1789 17 | concupiscence," and "base talk." Yield up, by this time,
1790 6 | endurance; which was to taste from that tree not anything
1791 21 | For so withal the result teaches. In (Peter) himself the
1792 19 | calleth herself a prophet, and teacheth, and seduceth my servants
1793 8 | particular parable has bidden us (temper it). For we remember (to
1794 8 | felicity of our comparisons be tempered with a different aim from
1795 10 | animal principle by faith, tempering your eye by fear; why are
1796 16 | the law pertaining to the temple-keepers: "If any shall have marred
1797 5 | living waters, and the very temples in cities, what mighty agents
1798 18 | had condemned them with a temporary and conditional, and not
1799 19 | in hearing, by how great temptations are we plied! So that, if
1800 21 | say, "And now why are ye tempting the Lord, concerning the
1801 9 | and why, to be sure, "ten drachmas?" And what is that "
1802 7 | what is weak ye have not tended; what is shattered ye have
1803 20 | shall have revived with its tendencies, that which was beginning
1804 17 | and iniquity, so too now tender them servants to righteousness
1805 17 | he knew. "For as ye have tendered your members to servile
1806 9 | business of "feeding swine"--of tending unclean spirits, to wit--
1807 10 | heathen Ninevites, when he tergiversated in the duty of preaching?
1808 8 | substance, is a beggar in alien territory, serving even until now
1809 22 | me? I have, even now, a test whereby to prove (the presence
1810 9 | structure and disposition and texture of the parable, in order
1811 14 | humility? "To God I give thanks that I have baptized none
1812 | thence
1813 6 | waters its own purities--thenceforth, whatever flesh (is) "in
1814 19 | then, will become (of your theory), when, proceeding (with
1815 14 | wounded with mourning, he therefore--the moderate nature of his
1816 | thereof
1817 16 | immediately opposing (thereto), "for bought ye are with
1818 18 | mouth? If thou sawest a thief, thou rannest with him;
1819 14 | Wherefore, let him who thinketh himself to be standing,
1820 2 | than all sacrifice,' 'not thinking the sinner's death of so
1821 14 | reigning!" and, "If any thinks himself to know, he knoweth
1822 10 | what the Psychics mean is this--that God, the Judge of righteousness,
1823 20 | blessing; but if it bring forth thorns, it is reprobate, and nighest
1824 8 | contrary significance the thorough carrying out of this comparison
1825 14 | consciences of the brethren thoroughly, they will sin against Christ."
1826 22 | of His power as to reveal thoughts, and so impart health by
1827 14 | a "rod," which he was threatening; a sentence, which he was
1828 4 | banish not only from the threshold, but from all shelter of
1829 9 | never in days bygone was thrifty; who was from the first
1830 8 | savoury morsel torn from his throat, not to say the very land
1831 | throughout
1832 12 | old? When first the Gospel thundered and shook the old system
1833 19 | meanings. For (the angel of the Thyatirene Church) was secretly introducing
1834 19 | where, to the angel of the Thyatirenes, the Spirit sends a message
1835 5 | will be thy duty to range thyself on our side. Dost thou once
1836 22 | pitiable--that which prostrates tickled flesh, or lacerated? Which
1837 2 | Scripture) may seem to draw tight, another to relax, the reins
1838 20 | them on whose account it is tilled withal, attaineth God's
1839 20 | it unclean, and bade the timbers, and the stones, and all
1840 1pref| characteristic of the last times--things good are now not
1841 1pref| appetites, beneath the very titles of the sensual appetites.
1842 14 | was already a corpse, a tomb leprous with irremediable
1843 7 | out of the law of ear and tongue, out of the soundness of
1844 22 | will the oil of your puny torch be able to suffice for you
1845 22 | after hard struggling with torments, savagery has overthrown.
1846 8 | every more savoury morsel torn from his throat, not to
1847 13 | of the flesh," not its "torture"--condemning the actual
1848 9 | wont to be lifted by the torturers, and cast away into darkness,--
1849 1pref| defilements of the flesh than tortures; wishing to wrest from them
1850 4 | it be in chambers or in towers that modesty is massacred.
1851 19 | in official duties, in trade, in food, in sight, in hearing,
1852 1pref| ancestral but of Christian traditions, wishing even the prae-cision
1853 5 | behalf of Adultery. To omit tragedies, witness nowadays the poisoners,
1854 9 | short, if it were lawful to transfer the parables to other ends (
1855 8 | Thy precept have I never transgressed." For when has the Jew not
1856 14 | thereafter the rebuked one indeed trembled beneath the menace of the
1857 22 | ingenuities of butchery and tribes of penal inflictions enforce!
1858 9 | Deuteronomy: "There shall be no tribute-weigher of the sons of Israel."
1859 16 | marriages, not harlotries. He tries to avoid giving pardon even
1860 1pref| And so, either way, they trifle with solicitude and negligence;
1861 14 | human. Therefore he has trifled both with his own "spirit,"
1862 21 | Himself, in whom is the Trinity of the One Divinity--Father,
1863 12 | perchance it be esteemed more trivial in the new stage of disciplines
1864 14 | the fornicator himself has troubled others also. "As if I be
1865 15 | accumulate exhortations about turning away from impurities, about
1866 20 | APOSTOLIC TEACHING TERTULLIAN TURNS TO THAT OF COMPANIONS OF
1867 9 | labour hard, either, to twist all things (into shape)
1868 9 | was in the habit both of typifying in parables and preaching
1869 10 | part of the Sidonians and Tyrians if they had seen the evidences
1870 19 | these, salvation would be unattainable to any. Of these, then,
1871 21 | therefore, was the first to unbar, in Christ's baptism, the
1872 6 | The law of the Lord (is) unblameable converting souls; the statutes
1873 2 | reins of discipline--in uncertainty, as it were,--and the latter
1874 20 | reversal (of the sentence of uncleanness), ought of the old nature
1875 14 | leprous with irremediable uncleanness--he might more fully (than
1876 3 | by laying no flattering unction to itself, will more readily
1877 10 | should again take flattering unctions for delinquency from the
1878 20 | and in their stead must be under-strewn stones polished and apt
1879 22 | respects holy, He might undergo death on behalf of sinners.
1880 16 | in whose honour he has undertaken this cause against the Holy
1881 19 | manifested the Son of God, to undo the works of the devil:"
1882 19 | the devil:" for He has "undone" them withal, by setting
1883 18 | Communicate not with the unfruitful works of darkness; nay rather
1884 12 | His engagement none but an ungrateful man will dissolve. In that
1885 1pref| that it had been even more unhappy if it had remained only
1886 20 | stationed next to himself in the uninterrupted observance of abstinence: "
1887 16 | honourable pretexts (for marriage unions). He does grant "indulgence,"
1888 19 | accident of either being angry unjustly, and retaining his anger
1889 16 | indulgence, who hope for things unlawful? "To the unmarried" also, "
1890 2 | own conditions, without unlimited concession; and the causes
1891 5 | repentances thou hast left (unpitied) behind!~
1892 3 | repentance must withal be wholly unpractised by you. For nothing is to
1893 13 | presented "saved," that is, untainted by the contagion of impurities
1894 10 | the Lord is "kind" to "the unthankful," rather than to the ignorant!
1895 9 | couch from which such as are unworthily clad are wont to be lifted
1896 22 | overthrown. Besides, it were unworthy of God and of His mercy,
1897 7 | re-sought." Pray, does he withal upbraid them at all concerning that
1898 14 | beneath the menace of the uplifted rod, but the condemned perished
1899 10 | These (pleas) you (will urge) to me, most benignant interpreter
1900 17 | Moreover, the apostle is urgent in prohibiting" sin from
1901 22 | In the act, however, of urgently entreating from a martyr
1902 19 | introducing into the Church, and urging justly to repentance, an
1903 6 | David, by confession, purged Uriah's slaughter, together with
1904 12 | come to an agreement with us--coming to this agreement
1905 9 | first that which is more useful; for no adjustment of examples,
1906 16 | prohibiting divorce, he uses the Lord's precept against
1907 | using
1908 22 | subject to physician and usurer? Suppose, now, (your "martyr")
1909 21 | see) from what source you usurp this right to "the Church."
1910 3 | against us; since they have usurpingly kept in their own power
1911 14 | the free expression (find utterance), how manifest the edge
1912 13 | learned from him? as to have uttered no commination on the past?
1913 5 | V. OF THE PROHIBITION OF ADULTERY
1914 5 | has completely filled the vacant space, as it were, in their
1915 8 | body (of colour) and (the various) lights are fully developed,
1916 6 | sufficient one, that so vast a number--(the number) of
1917 5 | religious observance) the veneration of the Sabbath, after commanding
1918 6 | THE OLD HAS EXAMPLES OF VENGEANCE UPON SUCH OFFENCES.~Plainly,
1919 12 | XII. OF THE VERDICT OF THE APOSTLES, ASSEMBLED
1920 14 | the nations in faith and verity," the "vessel of election,"
1921 6 | VI. EXAMPLES OF SUCH OFFENCES
1922 6 | being in Adam, with its own vicious nature, easily indulging
1923 15 | pressures," after" fasts and vigils," has named "chastity" also:
1924 7 | VII. OF THE PARABLES OF THE
1925 8 | VIII. OF THE PRODIGAL SON.~But,
1926 21 | your divine virtue, and vindicate to yourself the power of
1927 19 | and if there be any other "violation of the temple of God." For
1928 6 | John," not the remedial virtues. It is the "yokes" of "works"
1929 6 | Universally inherent was the virus of lust--the dregs which
1930 20 | the feet through all the visible surface, then the priest,
1931 9 | be master of a supply of vital food, and at the same time
1932 15 | to themselves: the very vitiator of the temple of God is
1933 8 | succeeded in skilfully giving vividness to their mutual combination;
1934 1pref| will), highest (crimes, viz.,) in that it is not permitted,
1935 22 | the nominal custody now in vogue, are soft ones--than adulterers
1936 6 | above: "Are we, then, making void the law through faith? Far
1937 6 | judgment not merely not waived, but even summarily executed
1938 18 | even from a "brother" who "walketh idly" he warns the Thessalonians
1939 8 | present (state of things), to wander out of the path of the true
1940 20 | Shepherd" of adulterers. Warning, accordingly, the disciples
1941 2 | arguments) which set before us warningly the "severity" of God, and
1942 20 | a "green horse," but a "warrior" upon a "red"--and in their
1943 18 | I not sit;" and, "I will wash with the innocent mine hands,
1944 11 | the "woman, a sinner,"--washing, as she did, His feet with
1945 9 | sacrament is most truly wasted away. For who will fear
1946 10 | solid ground. For if any wavering of the flesh, any distraction
1947 10 | when "strewing the Lord's ways," was the herald of repentance
1948 5 | voice) reclaim: "This is our wedge, this our compacting power?
1949 13 | as he was to his father's wedlock; as if he subsequently erased
1950 20 | away, in the space of a week, that the house which remains,
1951 2 | when out of repentance they weep and fast, and when they
1952 5 | ashes; with the self-same weeping they groan; with the selfsame
1953 4 | us, secret connections as well--connections, that is, not
1954 10 | ignorance, did the prophet well-nigh perish? except that he suffered
1955 6 | perished before its Lord went to seek and bring it back:
1956 | whereby
1957 12 | crimes the careful avoidance whereof He selectively enjoined;
1958 15 | offering your hand to so huge a whirlpool of impurities; nay, you
1959 20 | habit of the flesh to the whiteness of faith--which (faith)
1960 13 | polluted with so great a wickedness will be saved; the object
1961 5 | from the embrace of kindred wickednesses, so as to set apart her
1962 4 | assault another's bride or widow, provided it be not his
1963 14 | appointed to fight with wild beasts; since we have been
1964 10 | caresses! and He does not more willingly impart to strangers that (
1965 6 | that is, concupiscences and wills--no less than the actual
1966 17 | And be not inebriated with wine, in which is voluptuousness."
1967 11 | His feet with tears, and wiping them with her hair, and
1968 7 | order that I may, even by withdrawing, the more recommend it,
1969 19 | laid down, but not being wittingly committed. For this is the
1970 16 | that even "they who have wives may be as if they had them
1971 8 | intimated from Rebecca's womb permitted the inversion:
1972 4 | homicide, even outside a wood, is banditry. So, too, whoever
1973 7 | the shepherds, there is a word--I think it is Ezekiel's: "
1974 9 | in order that they may be worked up throughout to the end
1975 20 | blemish in (the eyes of) the world--and is wholly made new,
1976 2 | sinner's death of so much worth as his repentance, 'a Saviour
1977 14 | and terrified, and already wounded with mourning, he therefore--
1978 4 | let them, if thereafter woven together by the covering
1979 17 | this account cometh the wrath of God upon the sons of
1980 1pref| than tortures; wishing to wrest from them that which they
1981 7 | the sake of which they are wrested into a forced application
1982 9 | sale. Moreover, when (the writer) adjoins "sinners" to "publicans,"
1983 20 | doors--for the Apocalypse wtthal has set "death" upon a "
1984 10 | X. REPENTANCE MORE COMPETENT
1985 11 | XI. FROM PARABLES TERTULLIAN
1986 12 | XII. OF THE VERDICT OF THE APOSTLES,
1987 13 | XIII. OF ST. PAUL, AND THE PERSON
1988 14 | XIV. THE SAME SUBJECT CONTINUED.~
1989 19 | XIX. OBJECTIONS FROM THE REVELATION
1990 15 | XV. THE SAME SUBJECT CONTINUED.~
1991 16 | XVI. GENERAL CONSISTENCY OF
1992 17 | XVII. CONSISTENCY OF THE APOSTLE
1993 18 | XVIII. ANSWER TO A PSYCHICAL OBJECTION.~"
1994 20 | XX. FROM APOSTOLIC TEACHING
1995 21 | XXI. OF THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN
1996 22 | XXII. OF MARTYRS, AND THEIR INTERCESSION
1997 22 | of Christ, because they yearned after Conquest, and thus
1998 8 | Father: "Behold, in how many years do I serve Thee, and Thy
1999 22 | failing to conquer they yielded; (scars) after which even
2000 6 | remedial virtues. It is the "yokes" of "works" that have been
2001 | yours
2002 | yourselves