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501 com, com12, 3| in them, and exhort your hearers that their repentance may
502 vis, vis1, 4 | righteous: the first are for heathens and apostates." And while
503 sim, sim10, 2| and have sinned before, on heating these words, may repent,
504 sim, sim9, 28| understand, for your sins were heavy; but if you had not suffered
505 sim, sim5, 2 | beloved son who was his heir, and his friends who were
506 sim, sim5, 6 | glorious angels, regarding the heirship of the slave, listen. The
507 sim, sim9, 28| suffered cheerfully--these are held in greater honour with God,
508 sim, sim2, 1 | and the poor man, being helped by the rich, intercedes
509 sim, sim2 | ELM, SO IS THE RICH MAN HELPER BY THE PRAYER OF THE POOR.~
510 com, com8, 1 | following attendant on these: helping widows, looking after orphans
511 com, com4, 4 | I am to give, keep from henceforth, yea, from the very day
512 com, com5, 2 | righteous Spirit; and being henceforward filled with evil spirits,
513 vis, vis2, 3 | worketh death. And you, Henna, have endured great personal
514 vis, vis1, 4 | me, "Behave like a man, Hennas."~
515 sim, sim6, 1 | yellow colour: and he was herding very many sheep, and these
516 vis, vis3, 9 | Ye, therefore, who are high in position, seek out the
517 vis, vis1, 3 | heavens and the mountains, the hills and the seas, and all things
518 com, com8, 1 | servant of God must restrain himself--theft, lying, robbery, false
519 sim, sim5, 7 | sir," I said, "has been hitherto ignorant, before he heard
520 sim, sim9, 6 | every stone separately; and holding a rod in his hand, he struck
521 com, com12, 5| but the devil is hard, and holds sway over them." "He cannot,"
522 com, com2, 1 | peace with all. Put on a holiness in which there is no wicked
523 com, com11, 1| to the ground, and yet it hollows a stone. You see, then,
524 vis, vis4, 2 | her head was covered by a hood.s And she had white hair.
525 com, com12, 5| their heart place their hopes in Him. The devil can wrestle
526 sim, sim8, 9 | others of them hesitated, not hoping to be saved on account of
527 vis, vis1, 2 | For it is a wicked and horrible wish in an all-chaste and
528 vis, vis3, 1 | on end, and as it were a horror came upon me when I saw
529 com, com8, 1 | from necessities, the being hospitable--for in hospitality good-doing
530 vis, vis3, 1 | country, and counted the hours, and reached the place where
531 com, com4, 2 | does good munificently, and humbles and torments his soul because
532 vis, vis4, 1 | of that beast was about a hundred feet, and it had a head
533 vis, vis3, 9 | in position, seek out the hungry as long as the tower is
534 sim, sim1, 1 | city. See lest it be to thy hurt to deny thy law; for if
535 sim, sim9, 19| possessions they became hypocritical, and each one taught according
536 sim, sim8, 6 | they intended to repent hypocritically, He did not grant repentance,
537 com, com11, 1| regard to any action is an idolater, and devoid of the truth,
538 com, com11, 1| upon themselves by their idolatry. For he who inquires of
539 sim, sim9, 21| account of their fear, worship idols, and are ashamed of the
540 sim, sim5, 7 | Respecting former sins of ignorance," he said, "God alone is
541 sim, sim9, 26| who discharged their duty ill, and who plundered widows
542 com, com12, 3| hard. But if you come to imagine that they cannot be kept
543 vis, vis4, 1 | more and more, so that I imagined that it was something sent
544 com, com4, 1 | flesh, but by those who imitate the heathen in their actions."
545 vis, vis1, 1 | rocks; it was rugged and impassible on account of water. Having
546 com, com11, 1| first seat, and is bold, and impudent, and talkative, and lives
547 vis, vis1, 1 | me of this wickedness and impurity?" With a smile she replied
548 sim, sim7, 1 | have done such things as to incense the glorious angel against
549 sim, sim7, 1 | glorious angel has been incensed at them on account of their
550 com, com7, 1 | of your actions will be incomparable. For, fearing the Lord,
551 sim, sim9, 15| is Unbelief, the second: Incontinence, the third Disobedience,
552 sim, sim9, 31| believed, for the thing is incredible that a shepherd could suffer
553 com, com5, 2 | evils, ends in great and incurable sin. For when all these
554 sim, sim4, 1 | summer the fruits of each individual tree appear, and it is ascertained
555 sim, sim6, 4 | period of time that they have indulged in luxury and deceit?" He
556 com, com8, 1 | from wicked luxury, from indulgence in many kinds of food and
557 sim, sim10, 3| are pure, and chaste, and industrious, and have all influence
558 sim, sim9, 29| the following: they are as infant children, in whose hearts
559 sim, sim9, 29| previously mentioned; for all infants are honourable before God,
560 vis, vis3, 7 | But in another and much inferior place they will be laid,
561 com, com4, 3 | the devil, that he would inflict some evil on the servants
562 sim, sim10, 3| industrious, and have all influence with the Lord. Therefore,
563 sim, sim2, 1 | poor man is acceptable and influential with God. Both, accordingly,
564 sim, sim5, 7 | stainless, that the Spirit which inhabits it may bear witness to it,
565 vis, vis3, 8 | all evil desire, he will inherit eternal life." "But the
566 vis, vis3, 12| his life. Then suddenly an inheritance is left him: and hearing
567 vis, vis2, 2 | to their sins lusts and iniquitous pollutions, and thus their
568 com, com4, 1 | his sin. Therefore has the injunction been laid on you, that you
569 vis, vis3, 10| by asking many things you injure your flesh: be content with
570 com, com11, 1| gives empty answers to empty inquirers; for every answer is made
571 com, com11, 1| their idolatry. For he who inquires of a false prophet in regard
572 com, com11, 1| them according to their inquiries, and according to their
573 vis, vis4, 3 | said to me, "Again you are inquisitive in regard to such matters." "
574 com, com11, 1| man who says that he is inspired. But as for you, trust the
575 com, com5, 2 | their daily life, as for instance on account of their food,
576 vis, vis2, 3 | former sins. For they will be instructed with righteous instruction,
577 sim, sim9, 11| Did you offer him any insult? "Ask him," they said. I
578 sim, sim6, 3 | and confusion; others are insulted by unworthy persons, and
579 vis, vis3, 9 | bodies waste away. This intemperance in eating is thus injurious
580 sim, sim9, 9 | I replied. "Have you no intentions regarding them? "Sir," I
581 sim, sim2, 1 | being helped by the rich, intercedes for him, giving thanks to
582 sim, sim2, 1 | the elm. So also poor men interceding with the Lord on behalf
583 sim, sim2, 1 | very few confessions and intercessions to the Lord, and those which
584 sim, sim8, 6 | they were hypocrites, and introducers of strange doctrines, and
585 com, com9, 1 | request of your soul; for invariably it is on account of some
586 com, com10, 1| searched for the truth, nor investigated the nature of the Divinity,
587 sim, sim8, 6 | he said, "that repentance involves life to sinners, but non-repentance
588 com, com10, 2| heart of the man who was irritated, and he is grieved at the
589 vis, vis3, 1 | to meet her. And I see an ivory seat ready placed, and on
590 vis, vis3, 5 | On account of this, they join exactly into the building
591 sim, sim9, 9 | stone, without a single joining. And the stone seemed as
592 sim, sim8, 10| gladly bore His name, and joyfully received His servants into
593 sim, sim6, 1 | appearance of the shepherd was joyous, and he was running about
594 vis, vis3, 9 | needy. Give heed to the judgment that is to come. Ye, therefore,
595 vis, vis3, 2 | another that the lines of juncture could not be perceived.
596 sim, sim9, 30| of their mouth, but all justice, virtue, and truth. When
597 sim, sim1, 1 | the lord of this country justly says to thee, 'Either obey
598 vis, vis1, 2 | for Hermas so to do, who keeps himself from all wicked
599 sim, sim9, 26| wild beasts destroy and kill a man by their poison, so
600 vis, vis3, 9 | have mercy from the great King. Take heed, therefore, children,
601 sim, sim9, 6 | the tower ran forward and kissed him, and began to walk near
602 sim, sim9, 11| And the others seeing her kissing me, began also to kiss me],
603 sim, sim2, 1 | water, nourishes the vine l and the vine, having an
604 sim, sim5, 6 | excellently and purely, and after labouring and co-operating with the
605 vis, vis4, 1 | bloody, then golden, and lastly white.~
606 com, com4, 3 | are to believe, or have lately believed, in the Lord. For
607 sim, sim9, 19| black, for their race is a lawless one. And from the second
608 sim, sim9, 16| he receives the seal he lays aside his deadness, and
609 sim, sim9, 11| also to kiss me], and to lead me round the tower, and
610 com, com11, 1| righteous, are found [on leaving] to be such as they were
611 sim, sim9, 1 | as it was before." And he led me away into Arcadia, to
612 sim, sim9, 33| their sins, and they were levelled down, that they might not
613 sim, sim6, 5 | the back-biter, and the liar, and the covetous man, and
614 com, com12, 4| hard, and bitter, and wild licentiousness, and fear not the devil;
615 sim, sim9, 9 | Shepherd commanded them to lift the stones that were rejected
616 vis, vis3, 2 | the seat to the left; and lifting up a splendid rod, she said
617 com, com11, 1| desires of men is earthly, light, and powerless, and it is
618 sim, sim7, 1 | punishment to afflict you more lightly; nevertheless, you will
619 sim, sim9, 10| Go and bring unslacked lime and fine-baked clay, that
620 vis, vis2, 2 | repentance of the righteous has limits. Filled up are the days
621 vis, vis3, 2 | one with another that the lines of juncture could not be
622 sim, sim9, 26| widows and orphans of their livelihood, and gained possessions
623 vis, vis4, 1 | and out of its mouth fiery locusts proceeded. But the size
624 sim, sim9, 22| account, therefore, of this loftiness of mind, many became vain,
625 sim, sim9, 2 | plain. And the rock was more lofty than the mountains, rectangular
626 sim, sim8, 9 | great pride, and became lofty-minded, and deserted the truth,
627 vis, vis3, 10| these appearances, for I longed much to know what the visions
628 com, com6, 2 | when you are attacked by a longing after many transactions,
629 sim, sim8, 1 | after so many branches were lopped off; [but wait,] and when
630 sim, sim6, 3 | For some are punished with losses, others with want, others
631 vis, vis3, 8 | conclusion. She cried out with a loud voice, "Foolish man! do
632 com, com8, 1 | witness, overreaching, wicked lust, deceit, vainglory, boastfulness,
633 vis, vis2 | HIS TALKATIVE WIFE AND HIS LUSTFUL SONS, AND OF HIS CHARACTER.~
634 sim, sim6, 1 | these sheep were feeding luxuriously, as it were, and riotously,
635 vis, vis3, 9 | carry your drug and poison m your heart. Ye are hardened,
636 vis, vis1, 3 | And then I heard from her, magnificently and admirably, things which
637 vis, vis1, 1 | road to the villages, and magnifying the creatures of God, and
638 com, com4, 3 | heard, sir, some teachers maintain that there is no other repentance
639 sim, sim9, 27| were in want, and always maintained a holy conversation. All
640 sim, sim8, 1 | from the angel. And the majority of the crowd returned branches
641 com, com6, 2 | There are two angels with a man--one of righteousness, and
642 com, com12, 4| easier or sweeter, or more manageable, than these commandments.
643 sim, sim10, 4| to me, "Conduct yourself manfully in this service, and make
644 com, com4, 3 | weakness of men and the manifold wiles of the devil, that
645 com, com4, 4 | sin?" "There is no sin in marrying again," said he; "but if
646 vis, vis4, 1 | vouchsafed to show me His marvels. And while I was glorifying
647 com, com12, 2| God. But as many as are mastered by them, and do not resist
648 vis, vis2, 3 | destroyed. Now you will tell Maximus: Lo! tribulation cometh
649 sim, sim8 | REWARDED ACCORDING TO THE MEASURE OF THEIR REPENTANCE AND
650 sim, sim9, 26| within an enclosure, and meeting with neglect, is destroyed,
651 vis, vis4, 2 | thirty feet, lo! a virgin meets me, adorned as if she were
652 com, com9, 1 | multitude of His tender mercies; that He will never leave
653 com, com11, 1| according to their desires, mere empty words: for they are
654 sim, sim1, 1 | preparations for thyself than such merely as may be sufficient; and
655 sim, sim6, 1 | were, and riotously, and merrily skipping hither and thither.
656 vis, vis4, 2 | your path?" I say, "I was met by a beast of such a size
657 sim, sim8, 3 | great and glorious angel Michael is he who has authority
658 sim, sim9 | MYSTERIES IN THE BUILDING OF THE MILITANT AND TRIUMPHANT CHURCH.~
659 sim, sim9, 31| with simplicity, and be not mindful of offences, nor remain
660 sim, sim8, 4 | me girded, and ready to minister to him, "Summon," he said, "
661 sim, sim9, 13| he replied, "and examine minutely, hear about the stones that
662 vis, vis2, 4 | The Sibyl." "You are in a mistake," says he; "it is not the
663 sim, sim5, 7 | is corruptible, and you misuse it by any act of defilement.
664 vis, vis2, 3 | is written in Eldad and Modat, who prophesied to the people
665 com, com6, 2 | righteousness is gentle and modest, meek and peaceful. When,
666 com, com12, 5| Sir, listen to me for a moment." "Say what you wish," says
667 sim, sim9, 9 | to me the appearance of a monolith.~
668 vis, vis4, 1 | I came near it, and the monstrous beast stretched itself out
669 sim, sim6, 5 | which he does until the morrow; for he forgets what he
670 sim, sim8, 4 | withered and eaten as by a moth. Those that gave them in
671 vis, vis3, 8 | do all the works of their mother, you will be able to live." "
672 vis, vis4, 2 | the wild beast, and had moved forward about thirty feet,
673 com, com4, 2 | wickedly, but does good munificently, and humbles and torments
674 vis, vis3, 2 | who had come with her. But myriads of men were carrying stones
675 sim, sim9 | SIMILITUDE NINTH. THE GREAT MYSTERIES IN THE BUILDING OF THE MILITANT
676 sim, sim9, 20| walk among thistles with naked feet, so also it is hard
677 sim, sim5, 2 | similitude which I am about to narrate to you relative to fasting.
678 sim, sim8, 7 | rivalry. Yet they also, being naturally good, on hearing my commandments,
679 sim, sim5, 4 | having you with me, I am necessitated to ask questions of you,
680 com, com8, 1 | exercised in others there is no need of restraint." "Make known
681 sim, sim5, 4 | questions at all; for if it is needful to explain anything, it
682 com, com8, 1 | being quiet, having fewer needs than all men, reverencing
683 com, com10, 1| beautiful vines, when they are neglected, are withered up by thorns
684 vis, vis2, 2 | ye who work righteous, ness, and doubt not, that your
685 | nevertheless
686 sim, sim9, 14| life, He restored us to newness of life." "Now, sir," I
687 sim, sim5, 6 | the Holy Spirit dwelt, was nobly subject to that Spirit,
688 sim, sim8, 6 | involves life to sinners, but non-repentance death.~
689 sim, sim2, 1 | elm, which contains water, nourishes the vine l and the vine,
690 vis, vis3, 9 | they have not sufficient nourishment. And on this account their
691 vis, vis3, 6 | which you saw lying in great numbers, and not going into the
692 sim, sim9, 17| prudence and understanding. As numerous, then, as are the varieties
693 sim, sim8, 6 | saw would become pure, and obedient to Him, He gave power to
694 sim, sim5, 2 | this slave freedom if he obeyed the command which I gave
695 sim, sim1, 1 | this city, because thou obeyest not my laws.' Thou, therefore,
696 sim, sim9, 16| these spirits? "They were obliged," he answered, "to ascend
697 sim, sim9, 30| because their riches had obscured and darkened them a little
698 sim, sim9, 22| all. On account of this obstinacy of theirs, understanding
699 sim, sim9, 16| aside his deadness, and obtains life. The seal, then, is
700 com, com11, 1| Some true words he does occasionally utter; for the devil fills
701 vis, vis3, 11| you, weakened by worldly occupations, have given yourselves up
702 com, com5, 2 | embittered on account of occurrences in their daily life, as
703 com, com2, 1 | there is no wicked cause of offence, but all deeds that are
704 sim, sim10, 2| anything improper, or have offended him in any respect." He
705 sim, sim10, 1| power, and mighty in his office. To him alone throughout
706 sim, sim1, 1 | return again to his own. Oh foolish, and unstable, and
707 sim, sim9, 12| ignorant man. The Son of God is older than all His creatures,
708 sim, sim8, 1 | returned their branches, one-half withered and the other green;
709 sim, sim5, 4 | understanding, and receives it, and opens up every parable; and the
710 vis, vis1, 1 | your heart. Is it not your opinion that a righteous man commits
711 com, com8, 1 | good-doing finds a field--never opposing any one, the being quiet,
712 com, com8, 1 | admonishing sinners, not oppressing debtors and the needy, and
713 com, com12, 6| now made strong in all the ordinances of the Lord, because you
714 sim, sim9, 29| in whose hearts no evil originates; nor did they know what
715 sim, sim5, 3 | give it to a widow, or an orphan, or to some person in want,
716 sim, sim9, 2 | more distinguished than the others--they were all, however,
717 | ourselves
718 com, com5, 1 | within himself. But if any outburst of anger take place, forthwith
719 com, com5, 2 | cannot contain them, but overflows. The tender Spirit, then,
720 sim, sim1, 1 | and orphans, and do not overlook them; and spend your wealth
721 vis, vis5, 1 | took hold of me, and I was overpowered with deep sorrow that I
722 sim, sim8, 1 | showed me a large willow tree overshadowing plains and mountains, and
723 com, com12, 5| can wrestle against these, overthrow them he cannot. If, then,
724 com, com5, 2 | anger, and in what way it overthrows the servants of God by its
725 sim, sim9, 6 | remarkable a size as to overtop the tower. And the six men
726 vis, vis1, 2 | heavens were shut. I was overwhelmed with sorrow and fear, and
727 com, com11, 1| unable to speak. For if you pack closely a storehouse with
728 sim, sim8, 2 | formed, as it were, of palms; and he crowned the men
729 vis, vis3, 7 | transferred, because they have partaken of the righteous Word. And
730 sim, sim5, 6 | Spirit, He assumed it as a partner with it. For this conduct
731 sim, sim2, 1 | souls. Both, therefore, are partners in the righteous work. He
732 vis, vis2, 2 | and doubt not, that your passage may be with the holy angels.
733 sim, sim9, 1 | mountain, again, had cheerful pastures, and the whole mountain
734 sim, sim5, 6 | people, showed them the paths of life by giving them the
735 com, com11, 1| from above is meek, and peaceable, and humble, and refrains
736 com, com6, 2 | gentle and modest, meek and peaceful. When, therefore, he ascends
737 com, com5, 2 | dwell with meekness and peacefulness. Then, when he withdraws
738 sim, sim6, 5 | like these, gratifies his peculiar propensity, and in so doing
739 com, com11, 1| sky, and see if you can penetrate the sky." "How, sir," say
740 vis, vis4, 2 | size that it could destroy peoples, but through the power of
741 sim, sim5, 5 | field is He who created, and perfected, and strengthened all things; [
742 com, com9, 1 | faith promises all things, perfects all things; but doubt having
743 sim, sim4, 1 | receive nothing. And in the performance even of a single action
744 sim, sim6, 5 | Every act of a man which he performs with pleasure," he replied, "
745 | perhaps
746 sim, sim6, 4 | are tortured for the same period of time that they have indulged
747 vis, vis2, 4 | to foreign countries, for permission has been granted to him
748 vis, vis1, 3 | not warn your house, but permitted them to be terribly corrupted.
749 sim, sim9, 2 | reasoning in yourself, and perplexing your mind, and distressing
750 sim, sim10, 2| words to you, that you may persevere. For he had a good report
751 sim, sim8, 6 | allowing them to repent, but persuading them by foolish doctrines.
752 sim, sim6, 2 | the servants of God, and perverts them from the truth, deceiving
753 com, com11, 1| drop which falls from a pitcher to the ground, and yet it
754 com, com11, 1| earthly spirits powerless and pithless. But look, on the other
755 sim, sim6, 3 | this shepherd, who is so pitiless and severe, and so completely
756 sim, sim9, 28| care, therefore, ye who are planning such things, lest that suggestion
757 sim, sim6, 3 | becoming unstable in their plans, try many things, and none
758 sim, sim9, 22| learn, and obstinate, and pleasing themselves, wishing to know
759 sim, sim6, 2 | sheep were in a wretched plight.~
760 sim, sim9, 26| their duty ill, and who plundered widows and orphans of their
761 com, com4, 3 | into all things, I will point this also out to you, not
762 com, com11, 1| I.~ He pointed out to me some men sitting
763 com, com5, 1 | patience, the patience is polluted, and its prayer is not then
764 com, com5, 1 | as he wishes, for anger pollutes him. For the Lord dwells
765 vis, vis2, 2 | sins lusts and iniquitous pollutions, and thus their iniquities
766 vis, vis3, 4 | account of the doubtful who ponder in their hearts whether
767 vis, vis3, 6 | cannot become square unless portions be cut off and cast away,
768 com, com11, 1| prophets of this character are possessed by an earthly spirit. Then
769 com, com12, 5| empty, fear the devil, as possessing power. When a man has filled
770 sim, sim8, 7 | lose his life. Life is the possession of all who keep the commandments
771 sim, sim9, 32| be of no service to its possessor? for its use began to be
772 sim, sim8, 2 | And now let us try, and pour waters upon them; and if
773 sim, sim8, 2 | after he had planted them he poured much water upon them, so
774 vis, vis3, 12| account of his weakness and poverty, and looks forward to nothing
775 com, com4, 1 | continue in her vicious practices?" And he said, "The husband
776 vis, vis3, 5 | straight ways of the Lord and practised His commandments." "But
777 sim, sim9, 18| God," he answered, "and practises evil, receives a certain
778 sim, sim9, 22| entered into them. And they praise themselves as having wisdom,
779 sim, sim5, 6 | slave, listen. The holy, pre-existent Spirit, that created every
780 vis, vis3, 8 | by them according to the precept of the Lord. Listen now
781 sim, sim6, 2 | and he cast them into a precipitous place, full of this ties
782 sim, sim9, 9 | building those which you prefer, and fit them into it?"
783 vis, vis4, 2 | that is coming. If then ye prepare yourselves, and repent with
784 sim, sim9, 4 | gate. Those ten stones were prepared as the foundation for the
785 vis, vis4, 2 | you did not doubt in the presence of such a beast. Go, therefore,
786 sim, sim10, 1| with God, and that he is a president with great power, and mighty
787 com, com2, 1 | they who receive on false pretences will suffer punishment.
788 com, com12, 6| rule over him, and shall prevail against all his works. And
789 sim, sim5, 3 | and having reckoned up the price of the dishes of that day
790 sim, sim9, 28| Him, ye be delivered up to prison. If the heathen chastise
791 vis, vis3, 2 | Listen," said she: "scourges, prisons, great tribulations, crosses,
792 com, com11, 1| reply; nor does he speak privately, nor when man wishes the
793 vis, vis3, 5 | he will be rejected. This privilege, however, will belong only
794 com, com12, 2| delivering up to it the prize which you have received,
795 com, com11, 1| things of itself, for it proceeds from above from the power
796 sim, sim8, 3 | this law is the Son of God, proclaimed to the ends of the earth;
797 sim, sim8, 3 | they who have heard the proclamation, and have believed upon
798 com, com10, 2| same entreaty [as would be produced by the Holy Spirit alone].
799 com, com5, 2 | frenzy. This frenzy, the product of so many evils, ends in
800 sim, sim9, 1 | wooded, and those trees were productive, being adorned with various
801 sim, sim8, 6 | lest they should again profane His name." I said to him, "
802 vis, vis2, 2 | treachery did they not reap profit. And even now they have
803 sim, sim7, 1 | every evil thing: and it is profitable for you and for your house
804 sim, sim6, 5 | gratifies his peculiar propensity, and in so doing indulges
805 com, com11, 1| and takes rewards for his prophecy; and if he does not receive
806 vis, vis2, 3 | in Eldad and Modat, who prophesied to the people in the wilderness."~
807 com, com11, 1| doubters and the vain, and prophesies to them in a comer, and
808 com, com11, 1| God, then the angel of the prophetic Spirit, who is destined
809 vis, vis1, 2 | be saved, or how shall I propitiate God in regard to my sins,
810 sim, sim6, 3 | and they say they are not prosperous in their undertakings; and
811 sim, sim9, 27| bishops never failed to protect, by their service, the widows,
812 vis, vis1 | FIRST. AGAINST FILTHY AND PROUD THOUGHTS, AND THE CARELESSNESS
813 sim, sim5, 3 | continued, "is very good, provided the commandments of the
814 vis, vis1, 3 | and by His own wisdom and providence has created His holy Church,
815 sim, sim9, 17| nations. And they vary in prudence and understanding. As numerous,
816 sim, sim8, 4 | said to them, "Let each one pull out his own branch, and
817 sim, sim6, 3 | angels, and is appointed to punish. He accordingly takes those
818 sim, sim7, 1 | would order the shepherd who punishes to depart out of my house,
819 sim, sim1, 1 | and it is much better to purchase such lands, and possessions,
820 sim, sim9, 18| of one stone after its purification. In like manner also shall
821 vis, vis3, 12| becoming exceeding joyful, he puts on strength. And now he
822 sim, sim8, 7 | the Lord, but amongst the quarrelsome and transgressors, death.~
823 sim, sim9, 3 | rectangular stones, not hewn in a quarry. And the six men called
824 vis, vis3, 6 | continue to put every kind of question and understand nothing?
825 com, com11, 1| altogether silent if it is not questioned." "How then, sir," say I, "
826 sim, sim9, 16| By these, then, were they quickened and made to know the name
827 sim, sim9, 9 | and if I wish to make them ractangular, a large portion of them
828 sim, sim9, 1 | had green grass, and was ragged. And the sixth mountain
829 sim, sim8, 7 | waverers and slanderers, [railing against the absent,] and
830 sim, sim9, 15| who were clothed in black raiment." "Hear," he said, "the
831 vis, vis4, 1 | Are cattle approaching and raising the dust?" It was about
832 sim, sim8, 4 | they all stood in their ranks. He said to them, "Let each
833 vis, vis4, 1 | road. The district is one rarely traversed. And as I walked
834 sim, sim7, 1 | time, and again you will be re-established in your house. Only continue
835 sim, sim8, 8 | repentance within their reach, if they repent quickly,
836 vis, vis3, 1 | and counted the hours, and reached the place where I, had promised
837 vis, vis2, 2 | their treachery did they not reap profit. And even now they
838 sim, sim9, 28| cowards, and in doubt, and who reasoned in their hearts whether
839 sim, sim9, 2 | said to me "Why are you reasoning in yourself, and perplexing
840 vis, vis2, 1 | previous year, in my walk I recalled to memory the vision of
841 | recently
842 vis, vis3, 12| strength. And now he no longer reclines, but stands up; and his
843 com, com6 | COMMANDMENT SIXTH. HOW TO RECOGNISE THE TWO SPIRITS ATTENDANT
844 vis, vis1, 1 | Many years after this I recognised her, and I began to love
845 sim, sim2, 1 | Lord, and with which he recompenses the master who helps him.
846 sim, sim5, 2 | was full of weeds. He then reflected, saying, 'I have kept this
847 sim, sim6, 1 | all that I had seen, and reflecting on the commandments, that
848 com, com12, 2| from evil desires, that by refraining ye may live to God. But
849 com, com11, 1| peaceable, and humble, and refrains from, all iniquity and the
850 sim, sim2, 1 | above. But when the rich man refreshes the poor, and assists him
851 com, com5, 1 | but, dwelling in a broad region, he will rejoice and be
852 vis, vis1, 1 | come. For many will their regrets be; for they have no hope,
853 vis, vis3, 8 | they have. Their powers are regulated by each other, and follow
854 com, com12, 1| wicked desire, and will rein yourself in even as you
855 sim, sim8, 7 | the tower. But if any one relapse into strife, he will be
856 vis, vis3, 3 | to know everything that relates to the tower." "Even so,
857 sim, sim2, 1 | but is poor in matters relating to the Lord, because he
858 com, com6, 1 | powers are double, and have relation alike to the righteous and
859 sim, sim5, 2 | about to narrate to you relative to fasting. A certain man
860 sim, sim5, 6 | to that Spirit, walking religiously and chastely, in no respect
861 sim, sim9, 6 | midst of them one man of so remarkable a size as to overtop the
862 vis, vis3, 8 | this you will take care to remember--I Command you to speak all
863 vis, vis4, 1 | rescue me from it. Then I remembered the word which I had heard, "
864 vis, vis1, 3 | which He has blessed, lo! He removes the heavens and the mountains,
865 vis, vis3, 2 | from the depths, others removing them from the land, and
866 com, com2, 1 | They who receive, will render an account to God why and
867 sim, sim9, 31| most stringent necessity of rendering an account of you.~
868 sim, sim8, 6 | upon them, and sent you to renew their spirits." "Listen,"
869 vis, vis3, 11| men who have no hope of renewing their strength, and expect
870 sim, sim5, 2 | his friends and his son, reported to them the slave's proceeding
871 vis, vis4, 1 | another vision, brethren--a representation of the tribulation that
872 sim, sim9, 24| labour to every man, without reproach and without hesitation.
873 vis, vis1, 2 | said, "O Lady, I have been reproached by a very good woman, who
874 vis, vis3 | AND THE VARIOUS CLASSES OF REPROBATE MEN.~
875 sim, sim7, 1 | but not so great as to require that you be delivered over
876 com, com11, 1| For no spirit given by God requires to be asked; but such a
877 com, com8, 1 | there is no self-restraint requisite. First of all there is faith,
878 vis, vis4, 1 | and to call on the Lord to rescue me from it. Then I remembered
879 sim, sim10, 4| necessity. Whoever, therefore, rescues a soul of this kind from
880 com, com8, 1 | after orphans and the needy, rescuing the servants of God from
881 sim, sim9, 21| neither alive nor] dead. They resemble, therefore, the waverers:
882 sim, sim1, 1 | own city, when you come to reside in it. This is a noble and
883 com, com12, 2| with the fear of God, and resisting it, it will flee far from
884 sim, sim5, 2 | carried them out.' With this resolution of the master his son and
885 sim, sim9, 30| black. But if he had so resolved with respect to the other
886 sim, sim9, 32| wicked He is far distant. Restore to Him, therefore, a spirit
887 sim, sim9, 14| had no hope of life, He restored us to newness of life." "
888 com, com8, 1 | but turning them back and restoring them to peace of mind, admonishing
889 sim, sim9, 32| those whom He shall find retaining a recollection of offences.
890 sim, sim8, 3 | the law, and kept it, he retains under his own authority." "
891 vis, vis3, 3 | these visions, she wished to retire. I said to her, "What is
892 vis, vis3, 4 | visions should have been revealed--but that the name of God
893 com, com8, 1 | fornication, from unlawful revelling, from wicked luxury, from
894 com, com6, 2 | delicacies, and drunken revels, and divers luxuries, and
895 com, com8, 1 | fewer needs than all men, reverencing the aged, practising righteousness,
896 vis, vis3, 5 | and deacons chastely and reverently to the elect of God. Some
897 sim, sim8 | MANY KINDS, BUT ALL WILL BE REWARDED ACCORDING TO THE MEASURE
898 vis, vis1, 1 | brought me up, sold me to one Rhode in Rome. Many years after
899 com, com6, 2 | many transactions, and the richest delicacies, and drunken
900 vis, vis1, 1 | righteous. For by thinking righteously his character is established
901 sim, sim6, 1 | luxuriously, as it were, and riotously, and merrily skipping hither
902 vis, vis3, 12| and hearing of this, he rises up, and becoming exceeding
903 com, com6, 1 | the crooked path has no roads, but has many pathless places
904 com, com3, 1 | who lie deny the Lord, and rob Him, not giving back to
905 com, com3, 1 | of the Lord, and become robbers." On hearing these words,
906 com, com8, 1 | restrain himself--theft, lying, robbery, false witness, overreaching,
907 vis, vis1, 2 | woman, arrayed in a splendid robe, and with a book in her
908 vis, vis1, 1 | situated in the midst of rocks; it was rugged and impassible
909 vis, vis3, 7 | upon the public road and rolling from it into pathless places,
910 vis, vis1, 1 | sold me to one Rhode in Rome. Many years after this I
911 vis, vis3, 5 | there will not be more room for any one, but he will
912 vis, vis3, 6 | the Lord, for they have roused Him to anger. But I shall
913 sim, sim6, 2 | empty luxuries; and they are ruined by the angel, some being
914 com, com11, 1| chair is a false prophet, ruining the minds of the servants
915 sim, sim9, 1 | trees sheep lay resting and ruminating. And the eleventh mountain
916 sim, sim6, 1 | shepherd was joyous, and he was running about amongst his flock. [
917 sim, sim8, 4 | undressed linen made of sackcloth;" and seeing me girded,
918 sim, sim5, 3 | have commanded you, your sacrifice will be acceptable to God,
919 sim, sim5, 4 | the vineyard, and of the sakes, and of the weeds that were
920 vis, vis1, 1 | woman whom I had desired saluting me from the sky, and saying, "
921 vis, vis4, 2 | in white, and with white sandals, and veiled up to her forehead,
922 sim, sim9, 11| others danced, and others sang; and I, keeping silence,
923 vis, vis3, 2 | to them the division of santification on the right hand, and to
924 sim, sim2, 1 | poor in their necessities, satisfy their souls. Both, therefore,
925 sim, sim9, 31| away from you those wicked schisms, that if the Lord of the
926 com, com10, 1| have the fear of God, and search after Godhead and truth,
927 com, com10, 1| he. "Those who have never searched for the truth, nor investigated
928 vis, vis1, 3 | mountains, the hills and the seas, and all things become plain
929 vis, vis3, 9 | Church and love the first seats, "Be not like to drug-mixers.
930 com, com10, 2| to man a cheerful Spirit. Secondly, Grieving the Holy Spirit,
931 vis, vis3, 6 | When the riches that now seduce them have been circumscribed,
932 vis, vis2, 3 | tribulation cometh on. If it seemeth good to thee, deny again.
933 vis, vis3, 1 | and as it were a trembling seized hold of me, and my hair
934 sim, sim9, 9 | and fit them into it?" He selected the larger ones among them,
935 sim, sim5, 2 | field with a vineyard, and selecting a faithful and beloved and
936 sim, sim9, 22| exalting themselves: for self-will and empty confidence is
937 sim, sim9, 22| departed from them, and foolish senselessness entered into them. And they
938 vis, vis3, 6 | each other, but when they separate one from the other, their
939 sim, sim9, 6 | carefully, feeling every stone separately; and holding a rod in his
940 sim, sim9, 1 | and had within it deadly serpents, which destroy men. And
941 sim, sim5, 6 | that the reward [of its servitude had been lost], for the
942 vis, vis3, 8 | smile, and said, "Do you see seven women around the tower?" "
943 sim, sim6, 4 | God ought to be tortured seven-fold." He said to me "You are
944 sim, sim6, 3 | who is so pitiless and severe, and so completely devoid
945 sim, sim8, 1 | mountains, and under the shade of this willow had assembled
946 sim, sim9, 1 | trees, and was completely shaded, and under the shadow of
947 sim, sim8, 11| wickedness before enumerated, and shah add no more to their sins,
948 com, com2, 1 | God wishes His gifts to be shared amongst all. They who receive,
949 sim, sim6, 5 | an act of luxury; for the sharp-tempered man, when gratifying his
950 sim, sim4, 1 | therefore, the mercy of the Lord shines forth, then shall they be
951 vis, vis4, 1 | from God. But the sun now shone out a little, and, lo! I
952 com, com8 | COMMANDMENT EIGHTH. WE OUGHT TO SHUN THAT WHICH IS EVIL, AND
953 com, com11, 1| assembly of righteous men, but shuns them. And it associates
954 com, com8, 1 | encouraging those who are sick in soul, not casting those
955 sim, sim6, 3 | others with want, others with sicknesses of various kinds, and others
956 sim, sim9, 4 | others stooped down under the sides of the stones. And in this
957 sim, sim9, 11| others sang; and I, keeping silence, walked with them around
958 com, com11, 1| powerless, and it is altogether silent if it is not questioned." "
959 com, com10, 1| of the Divinity, but have simply believed, when they devote
960 com, com12, 6| for he is powerless as the sinews of a dead man. Give ear
961 vis, vis1, 1 | could not travel, for it was situated in the midst of rocks; it
962 sim, sim6, 1 | and riotously, and merrily skipping hither and thither. The
963 com, com12, 2| are the evil desires which slay the servants of God. For
964 com, com12, 1| works in which evil desire slays the servants of God."~
965 sim, sim8, 5 | them green, but to a very slight extent withered and cracked.
966 vis, vis3, 11| have given yourselves up to sloth, and have not cast your
967 sim, sim9, 6 | hew, and appeared to field slowly to the chisel; they were
968 vis, vis1, 2 | and temperate, and always smiling. Why are you so gloomy,
969 vis, vis1, 3 | comfort your house. For as a smith hammers out his work, and
970 sim, sim9, 10| about the tower must be smooth." And I did as he commanded
971 sim, sim8, 2 | same clothing--white as snow. And those who returned
972 vis, vis1, 1 | He who had brought me up, sold me to one Rhode in Rome.
973 sim, sim9, 1 | the Church. In a noble and solemn manner did you see everything
974 sim, sim9, 25| whole world, and who taught solemnly and purely the word of the
975 sim, sim9, 26| servants of God, but living in solitude, they destroy their own
976 vis, vis2, 1 | of it I did not catch. No sooner, however, had I finished
977 com, com11, 1| doubters then go to him as to a soothsayer, and inquire of him what
978 com, com11, 1| repent, betake themselves to soothsaying, even as the heathen, and
979 sim, sim9, 8 | because they were found to be sounder than the others; but the
980 sim, sim9, 7 | about, fill up the same space?" He answered, "Those that
981 vis, vis1, 3 | so shall righteous daily speech overcome all iniquity. Cease
982 sim, sim8, 8 | their power, if they repent speedily; and their abode will be
983 com, com10, 2| are grievous to the Holy Spirit--doubt and anger. Wherefore
984 sim, sim9, 2 | that I marvelled at the splendour of the gate; and round about
985 sim, sim6, 2 | shoulders, and a very hard staff with branches, and a large
986 sim, sim5, 2 | which I have planted, and stake it until I come, and do
987 sim, sim5, 2 | when he had finished the staking of the vines, he saw that
988 com, com3, 1 | truthfulness of your present statements. For even they can become
989 sim, sim9, 6 | brought and put in their stead. [And the builders asked
990 vis, vis4, 1 | its tongue, and did not stir at all until I had passed
991 sim, sim9, 9 | this art, neither am I a stone-cutter, nor can I tell." "Do you
992 com, com5, 1 | Spirit, who is tender, is straitened, not having a pure place,
993 com, com12, 6| enjoined upon me, the Lord strengthening me." "You will keep them,"
994 vis, vis4, 1 | and the monstrous beast stretched itself out on the ground,
995 sim, sim8, 7 | if any one relapse into strife, he will be east out of
996 sim, sim9, 31| shepherd, and I am under a most stringent necessity of rendering an
997 com, com12, 5| in the faith, resist him strongly, and he withdraws from them,
998 com, com6, 1 | road walk evenly without stumbling, because it is neither rough
999 com, com6, 1 | many pathless places and stumbling-blocks in it, and it is rough and
1000 vis, vis3, 6 | will you be foolish and stupid, and continue to put every