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501 35 | brief space Jerome became so enamored of the "folly of the Cross"
502 19 | word of Scripture - yet, by endeavoring to distinguish between what
503 22 | Church's teaching, which is endorsed by the testimony of Jerome
504 60 | And Jerome had to endure much from heretics and abandoned
505 57 | is flaccid, languid and enervated; it is like boiled herbs
506 3 | means of hard study. Here he engaged a convert Jew to teach him
507 60 | bodily pains, he yet ever enjoyed an interior peace. Nor was
508 25 | Whatever, then, it tells us of Enoch, Elias and Moses - that
509 41 | Epistles. And when she has enriched her soul with these treasures
510 58 | both clergy and laity with enthusiasm for the study of the Bible.
511 60 | seen with what reverent yet enthusiastic love he attached himself
512 17 | not be the Author of the entirety of Sacred Scripture.[42] ~
513 49 | preaching the Word of God," entitled Humani generis. How insistently
514 59 | Commentary on the Epistle to the Ephesians, which he dedicated to Paula
515 42 | When he sent Eustochium the epitaph he had composed for her
516 45(79) | Id. Epsit. as Marcellam, 27, i, 2.~
517 56 | winning empty applause by an equally empty and noisy flow of
518 53 | on that historical basis erected a spiritual interpretation,
519 14 | being mere men - sometimes err,"[36] and though many things
520 21 | authors themselves could have erred."[43]~
521 41 | Heptateuch, Kings and Chronicles, Esdras and Esther: then she can
522 60 | and point you out as the establisher of the old-time faith; and -
523 41 | and Chronicles, Esdras and Esther: then she can learn the
524 67 | ardent love for the Holy Eucharist: "Who is wealthier than
525 57 | words; may they win all the eulogiums they crave for! For myself,
526 60(113)| Augustinum, 141, 2; cf. Epist. ad eumdem, 134,1.~
527 2(7) | Damasum, 15, 1, 1; Epist. ad eundum, 16, 2, 1. ~
528 24 | general custom. Thus the Evangelist calls St. Joseph the father
529 27 | is due of course to the Evangelists - who, however, added much
530 53 | the mystery of Adam and Eve, did not deny that they
531 50 | meaning, compelled him to an ever-growing appreciation of its literal
532 57 | The consequence is that everybody hears gladly this simple
533 22 | opinion or even on baseless evidence; neither do they tell us
534 42 | thing about her, though evil-disposed people may cavil at it:
535 24 | are true." He then gives examples from the Old Testament,
536 43 | who also knew the Bible exceedingly well.[74] And none can fail
537 9 | Saint infers the supreme excellence and dignity of Scripture,
538 16 | error, but as necessarily excludes it and forbids it as God,
539 50 | These mainly concern the exegetes, yet preachers, too, must
540 40 | wisdom will come to us; but exercise your mind, feed it daily
541 59 | applause, find it impossible to exhaust their wealth by dissipating
542 31 | the Bible which St. Jerome exhibits in his whole life and teaching:
543 7 | neither labor nor watching nor expense, he continued to extreme
544 34 | through what Augustine also experienced when he took up the study
545 7 | this most pleasant food: he explained St. Paul's Epistles; he
546 55 | impression of haziness. . .yet explains things, sets out the meaning,
547 54 | those allegorical or similar explanations which the Fathers have given,
548 57 | simplicity[108]. . . A cleric's exposition of the Bible should, of
549 55 | He further demands of an expositor of Scripture a style which, "
550 17 | commit to writing and aptly express with unerring truth; else
551 8 | language, in style and mode of expression, each of them uses his own
552 61 | interior life should be extolled, and since the primal law
553 7 | expense, he continued to extreme old age meditating day and
554 13 | Similarly, when explaining Ezechiel's first vision as portraying
555 12 | Once more, when showing Fabiola how to deal with critics,
556 68 | restore peace to the tottering fabric of society. May Jerome,
557 13 | corrections in the Gospels in face of the authority of the
558 43 | exceedingly well.[74] And none can fail to see what profit and sweet
559 23 | argument when refuting the fallacies of adversaries and defending
560 4 | and in the height of his fame as a teacher. While there
561 44 | so that every Christian family may have them and become
562 60 | words:~Well done! You are famous throughout the world. Catholics
563 34 | 13:44), so did Jerome say farewell to the idle pleasures of
564 69 | which desire and of our fatherly feeling for you we impart
565 55 | Church, lest through some faulty interpretation we make Christ'
566 25 | walked amongst men' - as Faustus would have it - but we believe
567 1 | not willingly let pass so favorable an opportunity of addressing
568 41 | of Canticles without any fear."[71] ~
569 8 | character, almost their very features; this is especially so in
570 40 | but exercise your mind, feed it daily with Holy Scripture."[69]
571 69 | desire and of our fatherly feeling for you we impart to you
572 52 | ancient writers; for he feels that they are not sufficiently
573 68 | the East and sat at the feet of Gregory and Didymus,
574 58 | my companion, friend, and fellow mystic": "I beseech you
575 60 | Augustine, his junior yet his fellow-soldier, and rejoicing in the fact
576 12 | adversaries; then you will fetter them and lead them bound
577 | few
578 34 | that he had and bought that field" (Mt. 13:44), so did Jerome
579 60 | hear that my children are fighting for Christ. May He in whom
580 51 | metaphorical dress and described figuratively."[90] Indeed, he himself
581 27 | for "attempting rather to fill up the story than to tell
582 9 | even impels it - to write; finally, that God abides with him
583 50 | of the whole of what he finds written.[88] ~
584 56 | of oratory, it must be a fine thing to pervert the meaning
585 33 | would let Scripture give the finishing touches to your work - I
586 58 | hope that his example will fire both clergy and laity with
587 45 | you have got to teach. Get firm hold of that "faithful word
588 45 | as the brightness of the firmament." What a vast difference,
589 45 | themselves 'disciples of the fisherman'; as though they were holy
590 57 | life-giving in it; it is flaccid, languid and enervated;
591 69 | impart to you and all your flocks the Apostolic blessing.~
592 17 | definitions of the Councils of Florence and Trent, confirmed by
593 55 | explaining the Bible we need no florid oratorical composition,
594 56 | equally empty and noisy flow of words. He says to Nepotian:~
595 56 | peoples' ears tingle by their flowery declamations![104]~Again:~
596 27 | that the twin streams now flowing in the same channel cannot
597 63 | of Life, says:~One stream flows out from the throne of God,
598 57 | their cheeks and produce a foaming torrent of words; may they
599 12 | into captivity; then of the foes you have made captive you
600 68 | so that there may be "one fold and one shepherd."~
601 20 | take account as Leo XIII, following in the footsteps of St.
602 37 | desert to Pope Damasus as follows:~I decided, therefore, to
603 35 | became so enamored of the "folly of the Cross" that he himself
604 59 | the Lord, trample under foot the swelling tumults of
605 16 | necessarily excludes it and forbids it as God, the Supreme Truth,
606 1 | from the Scriptures."[1] Foremost among these teachers stands
607 53 | Testament as preparing for and foreshadowing the New Covenant, and whilst
608 58 | interests, this is really a foretaste of the joys of heaven.'[110]~
609 60 | Jerome saw the Church of God foretold. Did not practically every
610 7 | and his voice was silent forever. So it was that, sparing
611 40 | to the question of the formation of Biblical students. We
612 | formerly
613 50 | literal sense and to the 88 formulation of sound principles regarding
614 44 | similar Societies will be founded in your dioceses and affiliated
615 44 | ourselves were instrumental in founding; its success has gladdened
616 13 | vision as portraying the Four Gospels, he remarks:~That
617 27 | in their treatment of the Fourth Gospel - that much is due
618 35 | which a humble and devout frame of mind is conducive to
619 27 | after rebuking the heretical framers of the apocryphal Gospels
620 65 | lowly with Christ, with soul freed from earthly cares, sought
621 12 | made captive you will make freemen of God.[28] ~
622 46 | cannot do this better than by frequenting the Biblical Institute established
623 58 | Paulinus, "my companion, friend, and fellow mystic": "I
624 35 | Holy Spirit, and asking his friends to do the same for him.
625 49 | if the latter is to be fruitful. On this point it is a pleasure
626 2 | reading of the Bible the fuller riches of Christ and true
627 27 | Here again he is in fullest harmony with Augustine,
628 55 | interpretation, and that the real function of a commentator is to set
629 26 | in order to overturn the fundamental truth of the Bible and thus
630 67(131)| Id., Epist. ad Furiam, 54, 13, 6.~
631 44 | us, and we trust that the future will see a great impulse
632 45 | it fails to "resist the gainsayer." Malachias the Prophet
633 45 | doctrine and convince the gainsayers."[77] ~When reminding Paulinus
634 56 | God. To make the populace gape by spinning words and speaking
635 34 | pride shrank from its modest garb, while my gaze could not
636 37 | wherein I first put on the garment of Christ. . .I, who follow
637 19 | profane knowledge," the garments in which Divine truth is
638 13 | doctrine of the Fathers, and generally received. Thus when, at
639 49 | of God," entitled Humani generis. How insistently Jerome
640 9(22) | Id., Quaest. in Genesim, Praef.~
641 54 | able to mold firmly but gently the lives and characters
642 46 | with Biblical history and geography. Such knowledge will avail
643 4(13) | Id., Epist. ad Geruchiam, 123, 9; Epist. ad Principiam,
644 50 | for us all to follow in getting from the Sacred Books their
645 24 | Saints are true." He then gives examples from the Old Testament,
646 44 | founding; its success has gladdened us, and we trust that the
647 61 | profit to have your walls glittering with jewels while Christ
648 52 | Sacred Books shines and glitters even in its outer shell;
649 68 | David's royal city once gloried in the possession of the
650 47 | what, in his view, is the goal of such study? First, that
651 51 | Just as we have to seek gold in the earth, for the kernel
652 39 | would cling to St. Jerome's golden rule and obediently listen
653 12 | parents, nor of those who have gone before us; we have the authority
654 39 | sneer at the authority and government of God, Who has revealed
655 32 | If God in His mercy grants us life, we sincerely hope
656 57 | is like boiled herbs and grass, which speedily dry up and
657 5 | my hair was now growing gray and though I looked more
658 18 | will only come to miserable grief if they neglect our predecessor'
659 18 | for doubt or dispute, it grieves us to find that not only
660 13 | so utterly stupid nor so grossly uneducated as to imagine
661 57 | vegetable, but something that 'grows into a tree so that the
662 11 | Scripture, lest he should grumble and complain that he has
663 60 | the divinely appointed guardian of God's Word. For in the
664 65 | fancy me a scoundrel and guilty of every crime - and, indeed,
665 51(90) | Id., In Hab., 3:14.~
666 60 | their hatred of heresy, he hails him with the words:~Well
667 5 | Biblical studies.~Though my hair was now growing gray and
668 51 | hidden fruit beneath its hairy coverings, so in Holy Scripture
669 26 | destroy Catholic teaching handed down by the Fathers. If
670 56 | study, but who, if they happen once to have caught men'
671 15 | always, indeed, with the happiest results. Yet he would never
672 16 | what our predecessor of happy memory, Leo XIII, declared
673 2 | learned Latin and Greek, and hardly had he left the school of
674 45 | of God, it does as much harm to the Church if it fails
675 | hast
676 65 | I am deemed worthy to be hated by the world. . . What real
677 55 | leaving no impression of haziness. . .yet explains things,
678 65 | fight for the Cross? Men heap false accusations on me;
679 60 | faith:~I rejoice when I hear that my children are fighting
680 27 | they themselves had seen or heard. They maintain - and particularly
681 57 | consequence is that everybody hears gladly this simple and holy
682 31 | striving to kindle in the hearts of the faithful, and his
683 44 | thus approach this table of heavenly instruction which the Lord
684 45 | stars; the latter to the heavens themselves![78] ~He writes
685 6 | company with some learned Hebrews I went through the entire
686 4 | Bishop of that See and in the height of his fame as a teacher.
687 41 | memory the Prophets, the Heptateuch, Kings and Chronicles, Esdras
688 57 | enervated; it is like boiled herbs and grass, which speedily
689 | herein
690 60 | were one in their hatred of heresy, he hails him with the words:~
691 27 | Jerome: after rebuking the heretical framers of the apocryphal
692 58 | the lips of the saintly hermit rather than from our words
693 34 | pierce to what the latter hid. Of a truth Scripture was
694 15(41) | Hieron., inter epist. S. Hier., 116, 3. ~
695 15(41) | S. Augustine, Ad S. Hieron., inter epist. S. Hier.,
696 54 | thus lift themselves to a higher plane, they would, with
697 34 | remove whatever might prove a hindrance to his ambitions in this
698 24 | that he maintained that historic truth and sequence were
699 43 | the veil into the Holy of Holies."[75]~Hence, as far as in
700 39 | really fit defenders of this holiest of causes as you can. They
701 37 | He ever paid submissive homage to the Church, our supreme
702 4 | translated into Latin Origen's Homilies on the Prophets and Eusebius'
703 59 | herein? What food, what honey could be sweeter than to
704 46 | the Angel of the Lord of hosts" (Mal. 2:7). They must realize,
705 49 | the Word of God," entitled Humani generis. How insistently
706 35 | Consequently, he was ever humbly praying for God's assistance
707 61 | jewels while Christ dies of hunger in poverty?"[116]~
708 37 | afraid to say there are Three Hypostases. If it is your wish let
709 38(66) | Id., In Mich., I:I0-IS.~
710 21(43) | Ibid., cf. Ench. Bibl., n. 124.~
711 55 | which is truth."[100]~This ideal he ever kept before him;
712 54 | infinite treasury of facts and ideas in the Bible, and would
713 32(51) | Decr. de ed. et usu ss. Iibrorum; cf. Ench. Bibl., n. 61.~
714 47 | shuts the door on any divine illumination on it?~Alas! many of God'
715 67 | hence came those interior illuminations whereby he was ever more
716 1 | has by his earnest and illuminative defense of Catholic doctrine
717 13 | which does not shine and illumine the world by its splendor,
718 9 | God, through His grace, illumines the writer's mind regarding
719 8 | a work in common Jerome illustrates by the case of a workman
720 48 | gather confirmations and illustrations of any particular doctrine
721 65 | he would bear about the image of His sufferings in himself.
722 27 | added much from their own imaginations; but much, too, is due to
723 13 | grossly uneducated as to imagine that the Lord's words needed
724 39 | lay and cleric alike, to imbibe the spirit of this "Greatest
725 48 | the present age would but imitate him in this we should see
726 65 | in closest intimacy, by imitating Him he would bear about
727 43(75) | Imitatio Christi, 4, 11, 4.~
728 20 | regards their own proper and immediate object. Therefore, from
729 34 | will. Thus Jerome himself, immediately on his baptism, determined
730 36 | Bishop of Alexandria, he imparted the rule he had laid down
731 26 | refuge in such notions as "implicit quotations" or "pseudo-historical
732 59 | popular applause, find it impossible to exhaust their wealth
733 31 | outset, then, we are deeply impressed by the intense love of the
734 55 | which, "while leaving no impression of haziness. . .yet explains
735 44 | future will see a great impulse given to it.~The object
736 14 | in the Bible which seem incredible, yet they are true;[37]
737 26 | origins of the Bible as must inevitably weaken - if not destroy -
738 67 | life hard for the body but inexpressibly sweet to the soul, cry out: "
739 2 | Pannonia";[5] that from his infancy he was brought up a Catholic;[6]
740 61 | against the pagan morals then infecting Rome! But he rightly felt
741 9 | accomplished. Whence the Saint infers the supreme excellence and
742 54 | derive abundant help from the infinite treasury of facts and ideas
743 48 | eminently desirable: "The Bible influencing our theological teaching
744 49 | proportion as they are "informed" by Holy Scripture: "Let
745 1(4) | S. Prosper, Carmen de ingratis, 57~
746 18 | neglect our predecessor's injunctions and overstep the limits
747 24 | 24.~ Nor do modern innovators stop here: they even try
748 28 | children of the Church, this insane freedom in ventilating opinions
749 38 | receive?"[63] With his strong insistence on adhering to the integrity
750 | instead
751 68 | sweeping away all human institutions - unless God steps in to
752 54 | reproving, for correcting, for instructing in justice" (2 Tim. 3: 16).~
753 1 | Scripture left us most precious instructions. These we propose to set
754 47 | that are in darkness, an instructor of the foolish, having the
755 8 | it were, by means of an instrument."[19]~
756 44 | which we ourselves were instrumental in founding; its success
757 68 | of Holy Scripture, of its integral character and historical
758 57 | so to speak that I may be intelligible; when I discuss the Bible
759 19 | what concerns religion is intended and taught by God in Scripture,
760 15(41) | Augustine, Ad S. Hieron., inter epist. S. Hier., 116, 3. ~
761 58 | nought else, to have no other interests, this is really a foretaste
762 39 | for novelty - venture to interpret the sacred books as though
763 50 | dried according to some interpreter's fancy. He should study
764 65 | Him he lived in closest intimacy, by imitating Him he would
765 63 | does Jerome celebrate the intimate union between Christ and
766 61 | priesthood! With what vigor he inveighs against the pagan morals
767 25 | says:~Holy Scripture is invested with supreme authority by
768 40 | done that does St. Jerome invite us to study the Bible. In
769 11(25) | Id., Adv. Iovin., 1, 4.~
770 45 | themselves![78] ~He writes ironically to Marcella about the "self-righteous
771 10 | witness afforded solid and irrefutable arguments. Thus, when Helvidius
772 4 | Chronicle; he also wrote on Isaias' vision of the Seraphim.
773 68 | upon us, and especially on Italian piety and zeal, to restore
774 39 | those, too, who - through an itching desire for novelty - venture
775 62 | the House of the God of Jacob, to the Church which is "
776 5 | but when I got back to Jerusalem and Bethlehem how hard I
777 3 | Here he engaged a convert Jew to teach him Hebrew and
778 59 | wealth, may drink out of jeweled cups, be clad in silks,
779 5 | Nicodemus he was afraid of the Jews![17] ~
780 41 | trample on the world. In Job she will find an example
781 38 | crying out, 'Any man who is joined to Peter's Chair, he is
782 29 | sources to the stories of Jonas and the Ninivites, of the
783 24 | the Evangelist calls St. Joseph the father of Jesus, but
784 29 | of the sacred books: "One jot, or one tittle shall not
785 11 | undertakes to defend against Jovinian, with precisely the same
786 34 | found a treasure and "for joy thereof went and sold all
787 58 | really a foretaste of the joys of heaven.'[110]~
788 6 | Bible better if he has seen Judaea with his own eyes and discovered
789 15 | like Celsus, Porphyry, and Julian."[40] Here he is in full
790 60 | applauding Augustine, his junior yet his fellow-soldier,
791 54 | correcting, for instructing in justice" (2 Tim. 3: 16).~They would,
792 26 | now he would sharpen his keenest controversial weapons against
793 67 | perpetual virginity he had so keenly defended, whose title as
794 60 | would that wishes could kill.[113] ~Sulpicius Severus
795 56 | shrank from that declamatory kind of eloquence which simply
796 31 | he was ever striving to kindle in the hearts of the faithful,
797 2 | youthful piece of work"[8] kindled in him such love of the
798 62 | the rock, and her hath the King brought into His chamber,
799 41 | Prophets, the Heptateuch, Kings and Chronicles, Esdras and
800 67 | His Mother; when we can kiss the wood of His Cross and,
801 59 | the Lord day and night, to knock at His door when shut, to
802 27 | witness is true; and he knows that he tells the truth,
803 5 | entrusted to him a most laborious task, the correction of
804 8 | of St. Jerome's life and labors we may now treat of his
805 45 | about the "self-righteous lack of education" noticeable
806 57 | eloquence and wordy rusticity "lacks biting power, has nothing
807 41 | writing to the Roman matron Laeta about her daughter's training,
808 41(71) | Id., Epist. ad Laetam, 107, 9, 12.~
809 29 | whether on the Mount by the lakeside, or in the synagogue at
810 47 | to break it unto them" (Lam. 4:4); and "With desolation
811 38 | time Jerome deplored the lamentable state of heretics, and adjured
812 64 | lamplight. For what light can a lamp give when lit in the daytime?
813 68 | writings, which "shine like lamps throughout the world."[132]
814 57 | life-giving in it; it is flaccid, languid and enervated; it is like
815 2 | lectures of Apollinaris of Laodicea; but while I learned much
816 61 | likewise never failed to lash with biting tongue any looseness
817 49 | 49.~ Lastly, the real value of the Bible
818 62 | forth His hand through the lattices.[120] ~
819 59 | which the wise of this world laugh, but which really are full
820 12 | and have realized that its laws and testimonies are the
821 67 | tomb with the sister (of Lazarus) and mourn with His Mother;
822 67 | while far away from Rome and leading a life hard for the body
823 50 | Greek doctors before him, leaned too much, especially at
824 18 | and professors of sacred learning - who in their own conceit
825 19 | merely permits, and even leaves to the individual author'
826 55 | Scripture a style which, "while leaving no impression of haziness. . .
827 57 | the human race and not the leisurely philosophical schools with
828 45 | reminding Paulinus of the lessons St. Paul gave to Timothy
829 62 | Commentaries wherein he lets slip no opportunity for
830 38 | 38.~ And in his next letter: "Meanwhile I keep crying
831 68 | established here that honor and liberty which its Apostolic dignity
832 6 | synagogues and from the library formed at Caesarea by Origen
833 57 | power, has nothing vivid or life-giving in it; it is flaccid, languid
834 66 | Eustochium to courageous and lifelong toil for Christ's sake:~
835 54 | temperate fashion, and thus lift themselves to a higher plane,
836 61 | to creep in unnoticed, he likewise never failed to lash with
837 21 | would be wholly impious to limit inspiration to certain portions
838 19 | writers really adhere to these limitations. For while conceding that
839 23 | that we can apply a like line of argument when refuting
840 46 | be undertaken along the lines laid down by Leo XIII in
841 68 | the whole Catholic world listened to it when it echoed from
842 64 | light can a lamp give when lit in the daytime? If the sun
843 32 | used in teaching and in the liturgy.[51] If God in His mercy
844 58 | mystic": "I beseech you to live amidst these things. To
845 5 | growing gray and though I looked more like professor than
846 47 | ministers, through never looking at their Bible, perish themselves
847 61 | lash with biting tongue any looseness in morals, for he was always
848 57 | As a matter of fact, mere loquacity would not win any credit
849 68 | society. May Jerome, who so loved God's Church and so strenuously
850 56(104)| Id., Dialogus contra Luciferianos, 11.~
851 27(47) | Jerome, In Matt., Prol.; cf. Luke, 1:1.~
852 41 | 41.~ For matrons and maidens alike he lays down the same
853 50 | 50.~ These mainly concern the exegetes, yet
854 24 | views on the ground that he maintained that historic truth and
855 24 | More than this: Jerome maintains that belief in the Biblical
856 13 | unimportant shine with the majesty of the Holy Spirit.[30] ~
857 68 | for they lie in St. Mary Major's beside the Lord's Crib.
858 13 | vehemently attacked him for "making corrections in the Gospels
859 46 | Angel of the Lord of hosts" (Mal. 2:7). They must realize,
860 67 | Savior's cave? As for the manger in which He lay - well,
861 43 | Thy Wisdom Thou hast made manifest to me!" (Ps. 50:8), for
862 13 | Testament, and certain "manikins" had vehemently attacked
863 47 | cometh down from heaven," the manna containing all delights.[82]
864 4 | task of copying various manuscripts,[15] as well as answering
865 53 | ought not to desert the path mapped out by Christ and His Apostles,
866 4(16) | Asellam, 45, 2; Epist. ad Marcellinum et Anapsychiam, 126, 3;
867 4(15) | Damasum, 36, 1; Epist. ad Marcellum, 32, 1.~
868 39 | to keep within the bounds marked out by the Fathers and ratified
869 66 | sake:~To become what the Martyrs, the Apostles, what even
870 65 | of Christ we cannot but marvel that he, poor and lowly
871 48 | defend. In this Jerome was marvelously expert. When disputing with
872 28 | the school of the Divine Master Himself. We know what He
873 41 | Thus, writing to the Roman matron Laeta about her daughter'
874 41 | 41.~ For matrons and maidens alike he lays
875 51 | seek our deeper and hidden meanings, as to nourish his mind
876 | Meanwhile
877 47 | for there is none than meditateth in the heart" (Jer. 12:11).~
878 64 | then, if in his devout meditations he applied everything in
879 34 | putting on Him Who was "meek and humble of heart." But
880 67 | spirit?[130] ~Filled with memories such as these, Jerome could,
881 60 | himself: afflicted with many mental anxieties and bodily pains,
882 11 | of abstinence, and of the merit of good works:~In refuting
883 45 | but however much a life so meritorious may serve to build up the
884 51 | itself is often presented in metaphorical dress and described figuratively."[90]
885 51 | because a thing is said metaphorically, for "the history itself
886 50 | should study the beginning, middle, and end, and so form a
887 34 | turgid eloquence appealed mightily to me.[53] ~So, too, St.
888 49 | trumpet that stirs us with a mighty voice and penetrates to
889 17 | as they wrote, that their minds could rightly conceive only
890 57 | assistance to those to whom they minister.~
891 47 | confidence can he have that, when ministering to others, he is really "
892 47 | it?~Alas! many of God's ministers, through never looking at
893 18 | that they will only come to miserable grief if they neglect our
894 27 | instructed in the truth and misled by no lie."[49]~
895 26 | assailants of Holy Scripture who misuse principles - which are only
896 8 | in language, in style and mode of expression, each of them
897 1 | teacher of Catholics,"[3] "model of virtue, world's teacher"[4] -
898 34 | swelling pride shrank from its modest garb, while my gaze could
899 39 | their Mother's words, so as modestly to keep within the bounds
900 54 | would thence be able to mold firmly but gently the lives
901 25 | by reason of its sure and momentous teachings regarding the
902 40 | night so that, as expert money-changers, we may be able to detect
903 45 | His words to Rusticus the monk apply to all clerics:~So
904 62 | Postumianus, who spent six months with him at Bethlehem, says: "
905 68 | free from a pagan type of morality which seems to have sprung
906 67 | sister (of Lazarus) and mourn with His Mother; when we
907 46 | shall ask the Law at his mouth, for he is the Angel of
908 8 | what the Lord says by their mouths He says, as it were, by
909 17 | Spirit so stirred them and moved them to write, so assisted
910 9 | holds, moreover, that God moves the writer's will - nay,
911 57 | least of all seeds" - the mustard seed - "no mere vegetable,
912 58 | companion, friend, and fellow mystic": "I beseech you to live
913 14(34) | Id., In Nah. 1:9.~
914 33 | not echo the most sweet Name of Jesus, so no literature
915 22 | ignorant of the facts, they narrated them in accordance with
916 44 | 44.~ Our thoughts naturally turn just now to the Society
917 29 | or in the synagogue at Nazareth, or in His own city of Capharnaum,
918 44 | portions of the Old, in neat and simple form so as to
919 24 | Biblical narrative is as necessary to salvation as is belief
920 13 | imagine that the Lord's words needed any correction or were not
921 6 | either under the old names or newer ones. In company with some
922 | next
923 37 | faith subsequent to that of Nicaea, and let us orthodox praise
924 5 | Baraninus! Like another Nicodemus he was afraid of the Jews![17] ~
925 5 | Bethlehem to a monastery nigh to the cave where Christ
926 5 | what a price I paid for my night-time teacher Baraninus! Like
927 34 | fast! And after the long night-watches, when memory of my past
928 29 | stories of Jonas and the Ninivites, of the Queen of Sheba and
929 42 | Bible, and when your head nods let it be resting on the
930 56 | by an equally empty and noisy flow of words. He says to
931 14 | from a false by this very note of truth:[31] "The Lord'
932 66 | and all under the sun mere nothingness if only they may win Christ,
933 58 | the Bible and its study. Notice, then, in what strain he
934 45 | self-righteous lack of education" noticeable in some clerics, who "think
935 51 | and hidden meanings, as to nourish his mind with more delicate
936 7 | 7.~ He nourished his soul unceasingly on
937 39 | through an itching desire for novelty - venture to interpret the
938 19 | their view a considerable number of things occur in the Bible
939 44 | to the Church of God when numbers of people thus approach
940 39 | Jerome's golden rule and obediently listen to their Mother's
941 54 | Apostles; if they would but obey the directions of Leo XIII,
942 55 | out the meaning, clears up obscurities, and is not mere verbiage."[102]~
943 24 | truth and sequence were not observed in the Bible, "precisely
944 2 | An eager desire to learn obsessed me. But I was not so foolish
945 34 | style of life. With all obstacles thus removed he prepared
946 39 | silently disregard, or at least obstinately endeavor to adapt to their
947 46 | however, already priests, will obtain here a wider knowledge of
948 4 | distract him from continual occupation with the Bible,[14] and
949 62 | Bethlehem, says: "He is wholly occupied in reading and with books;
950 22 | events as they actually occurred. If we were to accept such
951 | off
952 61 | Adorn it, deck it out, offer your gifts to it, in it
953 66 | consider worldly pomp a mere offscouring and all under the sun mere
954 60 | as the establisher of the old-time faith; and - an even greater
955 67 | with the ascending Lord on Olivet, be uplifted in mind and
956 6 | under the old names or newer ones. In company with some learned
957 29 | in the same doctrine: "He opened their understanding that
958 18 | their own conceit either openly repudiate or at least attack
959 68 | Eastern Churches, so long in opposition to the See of Peter, would
960 55 | Bible we need no florid oratorical composition, but that learned
961 56 | being a degraded species of oratory, it must be a fine thing
962 45 | regard you cell as your orchard; there you can gather Scripture'
963 56 | And once more:~Students ordained at this time seem not to
964 1 | ARCHBISHOPS, ~BISHOPS, AND ORDINARIES ~IN UNION WITH THE APOSTOLIC
965 39 | they were of purely human origin; Those, too, who scoff at
966 26 | word, or who suggest such origins of the Bible as must inevitably
967 56 | caught men's ears by their ornate sermons, straightway begin
968 37 | that of Nicaea, and let us orthodox praise God in the same form
969 53 | the wise remark that we ought not to desert the path mapped
970 | ours
971 52 | and glitters even in its outer shell; but the marrow of
972 | over
973 68 | Noe he will perish in the over-whelming flood."[133] Today this
974 36 | prerogatives of a Christian, not to overpass the limits set by the Fathers,
975 18 | predecessor's injunctions and overstep the limits set by the Fathers.~
976 47 | First, that from the Bible's pages we learn spiritual perfection.
977 60 | mental anxieties and bodily pains, he yet ever enjoyed an
978 32 | reading of the Bible and his painstaking study of each book - nay,
979 67 | way of the Cross to the palm of victory. Hence, too,
980 2 | borders of Dalmatia and Pannonia";[5] that from his infancy
981 44 | dioceses and affiliated to the parent Society here. ~Commendation,
982 21 | inspiration extends to every part of the Bible without the
983 27 | heard. They maintain - and particularly in their treatment of the
984 42 | youth upwards, have only partly learned, and which I even
985 8 | Prophets and of St. Paul. This partnership of God and man in the production
986 34 | the idle pleasures of this passing world; he went into the
987 65 | Savior, the mystery of His Passion, the secret of His Resurrection."[125]
988 41 | will find an example of patient virtue. Thence let her pass
989 1 | 1.~TO ALL THE PATRIARCHS, PRIMATES, ARCHBISHOPS, ~
990 24 | to claim St. Jerome as a patron of their views on the ground
991 50 | the prudent reader not to pay attention to superstitious
992 18 | Church - nay, what is a peculiar sorrow to us, even clerics
993 38(64) | Id., Dial. contra Pelagianos, Prol. 2.~
994 60 | men, especially when the Pelagians laid waste the monastery
995 49 | with a mighty voice and penetrates to the soul of them that
996 47 | pages we learn spiritual perfection. Meditating as he did day
997 | perhaps
998 27 | by the faithful at other periods, the result, of course,
999 19 | is presented - God merely permits, and even leaves to the
1000 11 | of the virginal state, of perseverance, of abstinence, and of the
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