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501 3| tables teach nothing new, but remind them of what had been obliterated--
502 1| perverse are the Jews, and remote from the understanding of
503 1| office imposed upon me, require of me this necessity of
504 2| Moreover also they were reserved by the command of the Creator
505 5| by continency, and by the rest of the virtues, God is worshipped.
506 2| of the divine law, may be restored. But to begin from the beginning
507 6| wasted by vice, the former restores by crime; the circle of
508 4| remedies were sought for to restrain the intemperance of the
509 4| THE JEWS; TO WIT, FOR THE RESTRAINT OF THE INTEMPERANCE OF THE
510 3| firmness of the other, and so retained in the substantial footstep.
511 1| ROMAN PRESBYTER, DURING HIS RETIREMENT AT THE TIME OF THE DECIAN
512 5| that all those things are returned to their original blessedness
513 5| finished, and that we must not revert to the special observances
514 3| been put to sleep, might revive again as it were by the
515 2| persisted in, which must be got rid of with all our ability;
516 7| grace being known, and the rigour of temperance being observed,
517 6| leave them, whom at his rising he looks upon as already
518 2| be cultivated, the more robust food of flesh is offered
519 1| I. ARGUMENT. NOVATIAN, A ROMAN PRESBYTER, DURING HIS RETIREMENT
520 6| reason, that "avarice is the root of all evils;" for it follows
521 3| constituting their cleanness; rough, and rugged, and unpolished,
522 3| For that in fishes the roughness of scales is regarded as
523 3| their cleanness; rough, and rugged, and unpolished, and substantial,
524 7| rejected, we who keep the rule of truth throughout all
525 1| teachers. Therefore as you run, I exhort you; and as you
526 6| fasting and already drunk, not running to the tavern, but carrying
527 4| modesty; or as a torrent rushing from the mountain-peaks
528 5| covered with the clouds of sacraments. For the illustrious Master,
529 2| earthly and human doctrine to sacred and spiritual words; and
530 1| and rejecting as welt the sacrilegious calumnies of heretics as
531 2| Creator in Noah's ark for the sake of their offspring, that
532 6| any one of them offers a salute, he gives not a kiss, but
533 6| restrained the destroyers of salvation, the belly and the palate,
534 5| thanksgiving; for it is sanctified by the Word of God and prayer."
535 5| Ye seek me not because ye saw the miracles, but because
536 3| with high neck; when the sea-mew, too talkative an intemperance
537 5| for Him hath the Father sealed." By righteousness, I say,
538 5| having their conscience seared with a hot iron, forbidding
539 5| the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, doctrines of demons,
540 6| with the wine. Thus you may see such in a new kind, still
541 | seeming
542 5| do the will of Him that sent me, and to finish His work."
543 2| clean, than that the law has separated them from the uses of food?
544 2| great subtlety in making a separation among those animals which
545 4| PEOPLE, AND THAT THEY MIGHT SERVE THE ONE GOD.~To these considerations,
546 4| might be restrained to the service of one God; because frugality
547 6| be wanting, so that their servitude could not cease; who think
548 6| state does the sun at his setting leave them, whom at his
549 6| wine, should not prevail to shake off heavy sleep and the
550 | shalt
551 1| you urge me the more by showing that you stand fast continually
552 1| wherein I return to you similar communications, with the
553 2| again find a pleasure in sinning, if the labour imposed upon
554 3| vigorous; the tendency to slip of one part of the hoof
555 2| should not be given in too small quantity for men's support,
556 3| law, after the manner of a smothered fire. But they could profit
557 5| passage: "Everything that is sold in the market-place eat,
558 | something
559 7| offered to the idols; and as soon as this is done, it belongs
560 6| his very hunger and in his sores themselves, and with the
561 6| claimed to themselves the sound of the Christian name, afford
562 3| Moreover, when it forbids the sparrow, it condemns intemperance;
563 4| to religion, nay, so to speak, rather related and akin
564 5| spirits, doctrines of demons, speaking lies in hypocrisy, having
565 5| in another place: "The Spirit expressly says that in the
566 5| giving heed to seducing spirits, doctrines of demons, speaking
567 1| pure and purged from all stain of perverse doctrine, but
568 3| But it execrates mental stains. Who would eat the hawk,
569 1| more by showing that you stand fast continually in the
570 6| intoxicated? Or in what kind of state does the sun at his setting
571 3| the hoof, if with the firm step of innocency they tread
572 1| and arouses me with such a stimulus of care and anxiety, as
573 1| you; and as you watch, I stir you up; and as you contend
574 1| still further enhance it, by stirring me up to write through means
575 1| with such bonds nothing stirs and arouses me with such
576 2| beyond the measure of their strength, they should not be able
577 6| nor has any one given such strict laws against gluttony as
578 1| of my absence; and this I strive to remedy, in labouring
579 6| which cannot be if the mind, stupefied by meat and wine, should
580 6| he looks upon as already stupid with wine? But things which
581 1| AGAINST THE JEWS ON THE SUBJECTS OF CIRCUMCISION AND THE
582 2| the exercise of very great subtlety in making a separation among
583 1| that any disadvantage is suffered by you by reason of my absence;
584 6| what kind of state does the sun at his setting leave them,
585 5| rebuked, as "obeying the superstitions of angels, puffed up by
586 2| covered with scales and supplied with fins, but that those
587 2| added, the divine favour supplying for human necessities the
588 2| small quantity for men's support, and they should be enfeebled
589 3| garbage of vice, placing its supreme good not in generosity of
590 3| order that the divine and sure idea of the law may be carried
591 3| one part of the hoof being sustained by the firmness of the other,
592 3| light of truth; when the swan, the proud with high neck;
593 3| Or when it forbids the swine to be taken for food? It
594 6| re-trodden, that luxury may again take away whatever avarice had
595 7| nourishes the person who so takes it for the demon, not for
596 | TAKING
597 3| neck; when the sea-mew, too talkative an intemperance of tongue;
598 5| those things: "Touch not, taste not, handle not; which indeed
599 5| Master, and the heavenly Teacher, and the ordainer of the
600 1| these very things to be teachers. Therefore as you run, I
601 1| may hold the sole word and teaching of Christ, so as worthily
602 6| name, afford instances and teachings of intemperance; whose vices
603 5| worshipped. For Zecharias also tells us, saying: "If ye eat or
604 7| known, and the rigour of temperance being observed, and the
605 3| people. Finally, also, those ten commandments on the tables
606 2| no more a paradise to be tended, but a whole world to be
607 3| is always vigorous; the tendency to slip of one part of the
608 2| diminish His authority, test, in calling some things
609 3| in this case it reproves theft. Who would eat the lizard?
610 | THENCE
611 | thereby
612 6| food and raiment, we are therewith content," laid down the
613 6| blessed, and the hungering and thirsting happy, the rich miserable;
614 | Thou
615 | throughout
616 2| food not prepared without toil, doubtless for their advantage,
617 3| talkative an intemperance of tongue; when the bat, those who
618 4| with its modesty; or as a torrent rushing from the mountain-peaks
619 5| observing those things: "Touch not, taste not, handle not;
620 | towards
621 2| For afterwards, man's sin transferred his need from the fruit-trees
622 3| firm step of innocency they tread the ways of righteousness,
623 1| I urge you on,--that, treading under foot and rejecting
624 2| things enjoined by God be so treated as if they were assumed
625 3| scales are unclean; because trifling, and fickle, and faithless,
626 4| their liberty? They were truly worthy that the slavery
627 5| them that are defiled and unbelieving is nothing pure, but even
628 1| Jews, and remote from the understanding of their law, I have fully
629 1| owe, and the charge I have undertaken, and the very ministerial
630 6| Gospel the use of meats is universally given to us, yet it is understood
631 | unless
632 6| poured into their empty and unoccupied veins should have gone down
633 3| rough, and rugged, and unpolished, and substantial, and grave
634 2| who were both tender and unskilled, it was still a food not
635 1| DECIAN PERSECUTION, BEING URGED BY VARIOUS LETTERS FROM
636 | used
637 2| separated them from the uses of food? And what, moreover,
638 | using
639 2| not clean might have been utterly abolished, if it had needed
640 5| V. ARGUMENT. BUT THERE WAS
641 1| PERSECUTION, BEING URGED BY VARIOUS LETTERS FROM HIS BRETHREN,
642 6| their empty and unoccupied veins should have gone down directly
643 6| VI. ARGUMENT. BUT, ON THE GROUND
644 3| that everything which is vicious in men, as committed against
645 2| more might be added to the vigour of the human body. All these
646 7| VII. ARGUMENT. MOREOVER, WE
647 4| who dared to prefer the vilest meats of the Egyptians to
648 3| it hates plunderers and violent people who live by crime.
649 3| righteousness, and of every virtue of life. For of those creatures
650 5| while we are recalled by a voluntary slavery to those elements
651 3| who live by crime. Who the vulture? But it holds accursed those
652 7| of food, and we must be warned lest any should think that
653 6| Whatever the latter has wasted by vice, the former restores
654 1| I exhort you; and as you watch, I stir you up; and as you
655 3| innocency they tread the ways of righteousness, and of
656 3| But it hates an aimless waywardness of life. Who the eft? But
657 3| would use the body of the weasel for food? But in this case
658 | well
659 1| under foot and rejecting as welt the sacrilegious calumnies
660 3| far, then, must that law, which--as I have shown by the authority
661 | whole
662 5| conscience, and an innocent soul. Whosoever is thus fed, feeds also
663 1| the spiritual things of wickedness," I address you; and as
664 4| many kinds of meats were withheld from the Jews; and that
665 3| rebukes men deformed into women. And who would use the body
666 2| to sacred and spiritual words; and this we must beware
667 5| sent me, and to finish His work." Hence, "Ye seek me not
668 3| things were made by one Workman, and He who made them Himself
669 2| to be tended, but a whole world to be cultivated, the more
670 5| the draught. For he who worships the Lord by meats, is merely
671 1| teaching of Christ, so as worthily to claim for yourselves
672 4| liberty? They were truly worthy that the slavery which they
673 1| AND THE SABBATH, AND NOW WRITES THE PRESENT ONE ON THE JEWISH
674 1| of me this necessity of writing letters, yet you still further
675 1| receive your letters and writings is most ardently longed
676 5| God is worshipped. For Zecharias also tells us, saying: "