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1 XIII| not, little flock" [Luke 12:32], the storms of the enemy,
2 III | magnificently thy salvation [2 Sam 6:14]. As once David did before
3 V | shadows flee away." [Cant 2:16,17] Since then, the God
4 IV | His holy temple" [Hab. 2:20]; "Fear before Him all the
5 VIII| people Israel." [Luke 2:29-32] I have received from
6 III | holy to the Lord." [Exod 31:19] O wondrous circumstance! "
7 III | knowledge of God!" [Rom 11:33] It became indeed the Lord
8 VIII| light" of knowledge [Ps. 35:10(36:9)]; and it has seemed
9 VIII| of knowledge [Ps. 35:10(36:9)]; and it has seemed good
10 X | cannot be solved [Judges 6:37]; the well of Bethlehem,
11 XII | you desolate." [Matt. 23:38] Also, in another place, "
12 VIII| and exalted them [Isaiah 43:9 LXX]. ~"And all this was,
13 VI | art very God and man [Ps. 44:3 (45:2)]. For Thou hast
14 XI | in the earth [Ps. 45:9 (46:8)], and had seen the sign
15 IX | death [4 Kings 2:11, Sirach 48:1]. Thee also prefiguring,
16 III | forth a man-child." [Isaiah 66:7] Who hath heard such a
17 IV | Him all the earth." [Ps. 95(96):9] ~
18 IV | all the earth." [Ps. 95(96):9] ~
19 VIII| entertained in the delightful abode of Paradise, despised Thy
20 XIV | Thine own nature the King absolute and sovereign, but for us
21 I | assembled Church. Today the accomplishment of that ancient and true
22 IV | pray you, the exceeding accuracy of the Spirit. He speaks
23 XI | the old man who knew so accurately that decree of the law,
24 VI | move and have our being [Acts 18:28]. ~"Wherefore, O Lord
25 II | comparing the prophecy with the actual issue of events. Thou wilt
26 XII | XII. And in addition to this, when besides the
27 Note| New Israel. This theme is addressed not in a tone of triumphant
28 X | delight? Wherefore, bidding adieu to the spiritual narrations
29 IX | being by the divine decree adjudged superior to death [4 Kings
30 IX | thee, O thou most holy and admirable habitation of God, are no
31 IV | by the divine and ever adorable manifestation of the Saviour
32 VI | art our God, and Thee we adore; Thou art our holy Temple,
33 IX | base and inauspicious to adorn thee, who in thine own glory
34 XII | Of such a nature was the adverse reward of the Jews for their
35 XIV | faithful, be our patron and advocate with that Saviour God, whom
36 XIII| imagined by some impious advocates of the devil, those wicked
37 VII | men most blessed. Be not afraid of His lenity, nor shrink
38 XI | which there took place were agreeable to the law. ~But, for what
39 VI | in his haste treading the air with his steps, he reaches
40 X | festival. ~"Blessed art thou, all-blessed, and to be desired of all.
41 X | small of that bosom which is all-containing; the fleece of wool, the
42 V | To which things Solomon alludes in the Book of Canticles,
43 XI | the guidance of God the Almighty, so shall we not be found
44 VI | reached the temple, carried aloft by the eyes of his understanding,
45 XI | so shall we not be found altogether unfruitful and unprofitable
46 VIII| announced in the words: No ambassador, nor angel, but the Lord
47 IX | all generations, and who, amongest all created things, both
48 XI | has been shown, a certain analogy and relation to this prominent
49 IX | crowned head. With thine ancestral hymns will I greet thee,
50 XII | There went up a smoke in His anger, and fire from His countenance
51 VI | with righteousness, and anointed Thy veins with faithfulness,
52 Note| in a tone of triumphant anti-Semitism, it seems to me, but in
53 IX | instructed by a wise master, and anticipating thy presence who wast not
54 VII | love to man; what is here apparent, of the Divine condescension. ~"
55 II | Trinity, which now, by the appearance of God in the flesh, hath
56 X | the gate through which God appears in the flesh; the tongs
57 XI | spoken of both have been appositely and excellently recorded,
58 I | just; the harlot, when she approaches this, is remoulded, as it
59 II | thou, and with the greatest ardour and exultation, and alacrity
60 V | this, and an irrefragable argument, that at the novelty of
61 XII | The king sent forth his armies, and destroyed those murderers,
62 III | usefully inquire what cause aroused the King of Glory to appear
63 Note| Besides defending monastic asceticism, he was an opponent of Origenism;
64 Note| scholars, it is traditionally ascribed to St. Methodius of Olympus (
65 Note| Methodius of Olympus (in Asia Minor). St. Methodius is
66 I | preachers read over to the assembled Church. Today the accomplishment
67 II | what and how great this assembling together of ourselves is.
68 I | itself. Today, the most holy assembly, bearing upon its shoulders
69 XIII| order and rank that was assigned to them from the beginning.
70 IX | thy mother, will have most assuredly, as Himself willing to be
71 VII | righteous. ~"Not too bold is the attempt; shrink not from it then,
72 II | body-guard, are ever wont to attend the presence of their king.
73 XI | the people, for one of his attendants to make a speech over against
74 I | you, my divine and saintly auditors, keep strict silence, in
75 XIV | in thee, and who in hymns august celebrate the memory, which
76 Note| EDITOR'S NOTE: Although the authorship of the following oration
77 I | condescension to us men of the awful glory of Him who is God
78 IV | salvation-bestowing child, and brought her back again to Nazareth, in order
79 VI | coherence; as the connecting Band and Preserver of that which
80 IX | defiled by the seed of man, banishing from the food the bitterness
81 I | no ridiculous or frenzied banqueting of the gods, but which teaches
82 XII | and God is justified in baptism. For Anna is, by interpretation,
83 IX | endowed with divine majesty, bare God without being consumed,
84 XIII| rejoice, thou that wast once barren, and without seed unto godliness,
85 IV | and yet did not burst the barriers of virginity; that child,
86 IX | incomprehensible thou art [Baruch 3:24,25]. How great is the
87 IX | David. For it were both base and inauspicious to adorn
88 VIII| mingling his seed with the bastard off-shoots of sin, he rendered
89 XIII| putting in the vessel that bears the ensign of the cross,
90 X | circumscribed; the root of the most beautiful flower; the mother of the
91 | becomes
92 | becoming
93 V | the Book of Canticles, and begins thus: "My beloved is mine,
94 IV | His very nature cannot be beheld by us, as Isaiah has even
95 XII | veneration by the heavenly beings themselves; wherefore the
96 XIV | pearl of great price that belongest unto the kingdom; the fat
97 IX | excellest with that which belongeth unto another. ~"Receive,
98 | below
99 IV | ineffable fecundity, the benediction of the law, and the sanctification
100 VIII| servants; neither hast Thou, O beneficent One, forgotten entirely
101 VIII| servant the work of saving and benefiting Thy servants, or to cause
102 IX | therefore, O lady most benignant, gifts precious, and such
103 VIII| me be delivered from the bent yoke of the letter. I have
104 | beside
105 Note| Minor). St. Methodius is best known as~ ~the author of
106 I | our limited powers, let us betake ourselves to that hymn which
107 III | order that the Holy Spirit, betrothing her unto Himself, and sanctifying
108 X | the eye, in which it were better and more profitable to luxuriate
109 X | and delight? Wherefore, bidding adieu to the spiritual narrations
110 III | sanctified us a pair of clean birds [Luke 2:24], in testimony
111 IX | banishing from the food the bitterness of death; and then again,
112 III | those who approach clean and blameless. ~Now that that parturition
113 VII | become incarnate. ~"The blast of the trumpet does not
114 VIII| of so many and such great blessings might constitute the justifying
115 IX | which, without culture, blossomed forth in fruit, the pledge
116 VIII| to forgive sins Thou hast blotted out the handwriting which
117 XIV | us, I say, who make our boast in thee, and who in hymns
118 XIV | excellent among women, who boastest in the confidence of thy
119 I | beyond our faculties, and boasting in our own unalterable defeat,
120 II | seraphim. These, as His body-guard, are ever wont to attend
121 VI | order; as the irrefragable Bond of concord and peace. For
122 V | things Solomon alludes in the Book of Canticles, and begins
123 IX | things of God; who hast alone borne in the flesh Him, who of
124 IX | of it through the Spirit, bound around him the crown of
125 VIII| hast sent forth Thine own bowels to come to our deliverance.
126 XII | his forehead, as upon a brazen statue, the divine vengeance
127 V | the lilies until the day break, and the shadows flee away." [
128 III | whom the Spirit of God hath breathed, listen to Moses proclaiming
129 VII | furnace which was as it were a breeze distilling dew persuade
130 XIII| with the Father, and the brethren most held in honour there. ~
131 III | the nature of Adam, like a bridegroom, by an inalienable union,
132 I | Although I have before, as briefly as possible, in my dialogue
133 VIII| the Second Adam. And the brightness of the Lord our God hath
134 IV | parturition, doth at length bring forth to light its offspring
135 I | mythology; we keep a feast which brings with it no ridiculous or
136 IX | For being commanded to build the ark as a sign and a
137 VIII| free from this servile and burdensome chain. I have seen Him who
138 XII | disobedient people shall the fire burn." [Sirach 22:7] which plainly,
139 XII | destroyed those murderers, and burnt up their city." [Matt. 17:
140 V | Solomon alludes in the Book of Canticles, and begins thus: "My beloved
141 VIII| author of our evils, be taken captive and overwhelmed. [Cant.
142 VIII| greatness of Thy love and care for us, for Thou hast sent
143 I | the Lord, who loves and cares for man, in it makes His
144 XII | the thankful Anna to the casting out of the ungrateful synagogue.
145 XIII| earth. ~Hail to thee, thou Catholic Church, which hast been
146 XII | for their unbelief, which caused them to refuse to pay to
147 VIII| us, O Lord, Thy salvation causing to spring up for us the
148 VIII| death is, being made to cease from that dominion which
149 XIV | and who in hymns august celebrate the memory, which will ever
150 XII | the head of which he certainly was -- who also, paying
151 VIII| this servile and burdensome chain. I have seen Him who is
152 I | that through the narrow channel of ears, as into the harbour
153 XII | the immensity of his joy, chanted his hymn of thanksgiving,
154 VI | the Ruler of the temple, chanting forth in song such strains
155 IV | says, "as upon a kingly charger, by the pure and chaste
156 VI | royal throne, and on the chariot of the cherubim; Him who
157 XIV | fires of a most fervent charity, bringing forth in the end
158 IV | blessed prophet Habkkuk has charmingly sung, saying, "In the midst
159 V | horror of darkness has been chased away; the power of the tyrant
160 I | let us join the rejoicing chorus of Christ's flock, who are
161 XIII| people of the Lord, thou chosen generation, thou royal priesthood,
162 IX | limits of the five and a half circles of the world. On thy account,
163 XI | marriage; what in creation's circuit could be more glorious and
164 X | nurse of the Nourisher; the circumference of Him who embraces all
165 X | speak, of Him who cannot be circumscribed; the root of the most beautiful
166 X | the faithful. Thou art the circumscription, so to speak, of Him who
167 III | Exod 31:19] O wondrous circumstance! "O the depth of the riches
168 X | which He had not. Thou hast clad the Mighty One with that
169 II | art, thou mayest joyfully clap thine hands at the issue
170 IV | for the sake of greater clearness, exclaims in brief: "the
171 VII | gentleness, nor let His clemency terrify thee, O thou of
172 VII | thou of men most venerable. Cling closely to incorruption
173 XI | they had not seen it; they closed their eyes, and in respect
174 VII | men most venerable. Cling closely to incorruption and be renewed,
175 VII | off that which is old, and clothe thyself with that which
176 VI | His people. Yea, let the clouds drop the dew of righteousness
177 XIII| was always with the Father co-existent God. Nor, again, did He
178 VI | what was unstable a firm coherence; as the connecting Band
179 VIII| handwriting which was against us [Col. 2:4]. ~"Lastly, by means
180 X | thy matter stands like a column before the eye, in which
181 VI | inhabitants; for I am filled with comfort; I am exceeding joyful since
182 II | this consider the Lord now coming unto thee in sinful flesh.
183 IX | negligent in obeying the command, although a tragic occurrence
184 IX | are connected? For being commanded to build the ark as a sign
185 VIII| despised Thy divine and saving commandment, and was judged unworthy
186 XIII| that it may be with itself commensurate. Only first, in as few words
187 II | Bethlehem the renowned, comparing the prophecy with the actual
188 I | of the panegyric required completely puts to shame our limited
189 VI | was invisible; Him who in comprehension was incomprehensible; Him
190 IV | receives the beginning of conception, and by the pangs which
191 IX | and most true saying, is concerning thy majesty; for thou alone
192 Note| Origenism; both of these concerns show up in "Simeon and Anna".
193 VI | the irrefragable Bond of concord and peace. For in Thee we
194 IV | refers likewise to that concourse of angels, which hath now
195 VIII| me free from the yoke of condemnation, and place me under the
196 XIII| the beginning. To us He condescended, that Word who was always
197 XI | Church, brought her joyous confession of faith, and spake of Him
198 VIII| creature of Thine hands, hast confirmed Thy mercy toward us, and,
199 XI | together, without division or confusion; as also Isaiah had before
200 III | fulfil it, and rather to connect with the fulfilment of the
201 VI | a firm coherence; as the connecting Band and Preserver of that
202 IV | every womb being opened by connection with a man, and, being impregnated
203 I | crown, for the delightful consideration of the Church's foster-children.
204 III | festival, when thou hast considered well the glorious mysteries
205 IX | Himself, as it were, the very consistence of incorruption, and that
206 IV | reason, and with its nature consistent, in accordance with the
207 VIII| such great blessings might constitute the justifying gifts of
208 VI | shall there be any other son consubstantial and of one glory with the
209 VII | grace of my Lord does not consume, but illuminates thee, O
210 IX | bare God without being consumed, who manifested Himself
211 XIII| mysteries of our salvation are consummated. Hail, thou heaven upon
212 V | to thee, the heaven that contains Him who can be contained
213 V | boldly and irreverently contemplating with fixed gaze Him who,
214 IX | priesthood, furnished no contemptible symbol of thy supernatural
215 VI | is both above and below continuously; Him who is in the form
216 I | healing, without itself contracting any disease; for the Lord,
217 I | not run to Him? Let no Jew contradict the truth, looking at the
218 XI | his divine longing, and conveying to us this most blessed
219 VI | made the head stone of the corner, precious and honourable,
220 I | foster-children. For today the council chamber of the divine oracles
221 I | of that ancient and true counsel is, in fact and deed, gloriously
222 VI | done wonderful things; Thy counsels of old are faithfulness
223 XII | anger, and fire from His countenance devoured;" [Ps. 17(18):8]
224 III | and a stranger from His country? Should you, forsooth, wish
225 XI | discourse, directing our course unerringly with reference
226 II | by the ordinance of their courses, the royal and priestly
227 V | drawn before the ark of the covenant, which typified thee, that
228 IX | tabernacle. For in thee the covenants and oaths made of God unto
229 XII | Lord, as the great waters cover the seas, [Isa. 6:3,4] there
230 IX | receptacle of the law, and covered it with the wings of the
231 IX | generations, and who, amongest all created things, both visible and
232 VIII| ineffable love toward the creature of Thine hands, hast confirmed
233 XII | righteous, very worthy of credit, worthy also of emulation,
234 IX | thou to whom the great Creditor of all is a debtor. We are
235 XIII| bears the ensign of the cross, let us reef the sails of
236 IX | thy sacred and divinely crowned head. With thine ancestral
237 IX | beyond nature; now with a new cruse, which contained healing
238 XI | significance, speaking of that cry of the Thrice-Holy, uttered
239 IX | having made it in size five cubits and a half, he appointed
240 IX | the priest which, without culture, blossomed forth in fruit,
241 IX | contained healing salt, curing the deadly waters, to show
242 VIII| me from the yoke of the curse, and of the letter that
243 I | not according to the vain customs of the Greek mythology;
244 XI | hearken unto Him shall be cut off from His people [Deut.
245 II | themselves with enduring dainties, in order that, placing
246 III | throne, joyfully lead the dance. Hymn with gladsome song
247 I | invisibly punished, for daring to touch what may not be
248 X | that by which all the fiery darts of the wicked shall be quenched." ~
249 IX | hymns will I greet thee, O daughter of David, and mother of
250 V | thou, O holy virgin, hast dawned as a bright day upon the
251 IX | healing salt, curing the deadly waters, to show that the
252 II | through the Spirit. ~Do thou, dearly beloved, consider the force
253 IX | great Creditor of all is a debtor. We are all debtors to God,
254 IX | is a debtor. We are all debtors to God, but to thee He is
255 VII | O thou of men the most decorous. The flame of the grace
256 I | counsel is, in fact and deed, gloriously manifested to
257 X | narrations and wondrous deeds of the saints throughout
258 XIV | Saviour God, whom thou wast deemed worthy to receive into thine
259 I | boasting in our own unalterable defeat, let us join the rejoicing
260 Note| status of virginity. Besides defending monastic asceticism, he
261 IX | child-bearing, without being defiled by the seed of man, banishing
262 XIV | immaculately and without defilement. For Thou who art incorruption
263 VIII| Thyself at the sight of our degradation to take us into compassion.
264 XIII| strength being broken by degrees, and itself as wax being
265 XIII| His simple and immaterial Deity, entered our nature, and
266 VII | to Him with alacrity, and delay not to obey Him. That which
267 IX | hard to be understood, he delayed [Ex. 32:1] longer on the
268 VI | diadem? Or what for God, who delights in man, is more magnificent
269 VIII| the yoke of justification. Deliver me from the yoke of the
270 VIII| Thy salvation; let me be delivered from the bent yoke of the
271 VIII| is by nature my Lord and Deliverer; may I obtain, then, His
272 XIII| the devil, those wicked demons who once fell from light;
273 IX | forth abundantly in the desert out of its thirsty sides
274 X | all-blessed, and to be desired of all. Blessed of the Lord
275 VIII| delightful abode of Paradise, despised Thy divine and saving commandment,
276 XII | an example, the dreadful destruction which was to come upon them,
277 IV | to it, and that without detriment to the indivisible unity,
278 XI | cut off from His people [Deut. 18:15-19], should seek
279 XIII| impious advocates of the devil, those wicked demons who
280 XII | fire from His countenance devoured;" [Ps. 17(18):8] and in
281 VI | with flowers, and a shining diadem? Or what for God, who delights
282 VI | Framer of things by nature different; as He who, with wise and
283 X | X. "But why do I digress, and lengthen out my discourse,
284 IV | doth this require, if a man diligently direct the eye of his mind
285 IX | power of man. Wherefore the dimness of my poverty I will make
286 Note| female philosophers at a dinner party establish the exalted
287 IV | require, if a man diligently direct the eye of his mind to the
288 XI | the rest of our discourse, directing our course unerringly with
289 XI | should seek a peaceful discharge from the tutorship of the
290 XI | heavenly seraphs. You will discover the meaning of this, my
291 I | without itself contracting any disease; for the Lord, who loves
292 V | the face of peace; noxious diseases depart now that salvation
293 XI | personating the law, seeks dismissal; but the widow, as personating
294 XII | another place, "Amongst the disobedient people shall the fire burn." [
295 VII | persuade thee, O master, of the dispensation of this mystery. Then, beside
296 Note| the following oration is disputed by modern scholars, it is
297 V | swallowed up, and all enmity dissolved before the face of peace;
298 VII | was as it were a breeze distilling dew persuade thee, O master,
299 III | our witness, who proclaims distinctly to the whole earth under
300 IX | garland for thy sacred and divinely crowned head. With thine
301 XI | meeting together, without division or confusion; as also Isaiah
302 VIII| made to cease from that dominion which over us he exercised.
303 IV | the temple, clothed with a double glory -- the glory, I say,
304 I | grace of the Lord reigneth, drawing all men to itself by saving
305 V | signified the veil of the temple drawn before the ark of the covenant,
306 XII | were in an example, the dreadful destruction which was to
307 VI | people. Yea, let the clouds drop the dew of righteousness
308 II | man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people
309 | each
310 XIV | and venerable Simeon, thou earliest host of our holy religion,
311 IX | in fruit, the pledge and earnest of a perpetual priesthood,
312 I | happened under the sun [Eccles. 1:10] -- a thing that never
313 XII | rapt in a divine and holy ecstasy; who from a man had been
314 Note| EDITOR'S NOTE: Although the authorship
315 IX | death; and then again, by efforts which transcended nature,
316 XIII| Hail, city sacred and elect of the Lord. Joyfully keep
317 XI | and that pair of just ones elected of God (Simeon, I mean,
318 IX | superior to the natural elements in the Jordan, and thus
319 IX | for ages. ~"The prophet Elijah likewise, as prescient of
320 IX | prefiguring, his successor Elisha, having been instructed
321 X | circumference of Him who embraces all things; the upholder
322 VI | Thee, who, with Thy word, embracest all things. I wait for Thee,
323 VI | king than a purple robe embroidered around with flowers, and
324 XII | of credit, worthy also of emulation, inspired by the Holy Spirit,
325 IX | thy chastity, and being emulous of it through the Spirit,
326 XII | praise. ~For after that the ends of the earth were sanctified,
327 XIII| tread upon the necks of your enemies. Hail, and rejoice, thou
328 XIII| 12:32], the storms of the enemy, for it is your Father's
329 XII | statue, the divine vengeance engraved, by the loathsomeness of
330 V | hell swallowed up, and all enmity dissolved before the face
331 VIII| letter that killeth; and enrol me in the blessed company
332 XIII| the vessel that bears the ensign of the cross, let us reef
333 XIII| simple and immaterial Deity, entered our nature, and of the virgin'
334 VIII| forefather, who was honourably entertained in the delightful abode
335 I | has brought forward the entire subject of the glory of
336 VIII| majesty and goodness to entrust to a servant the work of
337 VIII| Thy true Son, who is of equal glory and power with Thee,
338 VIII| shall no longer wander in error. Thou hast made known to
339 II | who is of one and the same essence with Him. For, as says Paul,
340 VIII| future, a joyous festival is established for us of the race of Adam,
341 VIII| Thy compassion for our low estate Thou hast shed forth upon
342 VIII| toward us, and, pitying our estrangement from Thee, hast moved Thyself
343 IX | of God the Father was the Eternally and Only-Begotten. So do
344 II | to thee by this new and ever-adorable way. Look around thee with
345 | everywhere
346 XII | smoke is a sign and sure evidence of wrath; as it is written, "
347 IX | but they are of clear and evident truth. ~"But the time would
348 VIII| serpent, the author of our evils, be taken captive and overwhelmed. [
349 IX | understood, he delayed [Ex. 32:1] longer on the mountain,
350 III | father's God, and I will exalt Him." [Exod. 15:2] ~Then,
351 XI | if you do but take up and examine what follows upon this narration:
352 XII | Spirit, as it were in an example, the dreadful destruction
353 X | divine grace, and grateful exceedingly to God, mother of God, thou
354 IX | her who is not man's work exceeds the power of man. Wherefore
355 XI | have been appositely and excellently recorded, and quite in harmony
356 IX | who in thine own glory excellest with that which belongeth
357 IV | sake of greater clearness, exclaims in brief: "the Lord is in
358 VIII| dominion which over us he exercised. By it, also, shall the
359 IV | goes up to the temple to exhibit to the law a new and strange
360 VIII| bold and yielding to the exhortation of the mother of God, who
361 VII | just one, addressing and exhorting him, as it seems to me,
362 III | there that He should be an exile and a stranger from His
363 XIV | us and for our salvation existing also in the form of a servant,
364 VI | Author of all. With longing I expect Thee, who, with Thy word,
365 III | and stood not in need of expiatory victims, Isaiah is our witness,
366 IV | shalt be shown forth," what exposition doth this require, if a
367 IX | Hath not the mighty Moses expressly declared, that on account
368 XII | had conceived of Christ, extending the limits of life, and
369 III | to the knowledge of this extraordinary nativity, and saying, "Every
370 VII | While the old man was thus exultant, and rejoicing with exceeding
371 VI | what he had longed for, he exulted with joy. Being thus led
372 I | and true counsel is, in fact and deed, gloriously manifested
373 I | which is not beyond our faculties, and boasting in our own
374 IX | truth. ~"But the time would fail us, ages and succeeding
375 IX | healing draught for the fainting people. Yea, moreover, the
376 VI | Eternal, saying, Thou art fairer than the children of men,
377 IX | trifling, or the shoutings of a false flattery, O thou who of
378 VIII| our Lord and Creator, to fashion us again unto immortality;
379 II | by the glory of Him that fashioned it, the virgin-mother is
380 XIV | belongest unto the kingdom; the fat of every victim, the living
381 IV | virginity, and that of ineffable fecundity, the benediction of the
382 V | is mine, and I am his; he feedeth among the lilies until the
383 XIII| change, in order that by His fellowship with us, and our joining
384 Note| Platonic dialogue in which female philosophers at a dinner
385 XIV | insupportable fires of a most fervent charity, bringing forth
386 | few
387 X | is more sublime? He who fills earth and heaven, whose
388 XIV | gleamedst with the insupportable fires of a most fervent charity,
389 VI | gave to what was unstable a firm coherence; as the connecting
390 III | She hath brought forth her first-born Son, even the only-begotten
391 VII | worthy of the quickening first-fruits. Thou hast made good use
392 III | Habak. 3:3], hath thought fit to appear, and that in the
393 VI | and the shadow of death? ~"Fitly did that temporal king and
394 IX | precious, and such as are fitted to thee alone, O thou who
395 II | knowledge of the matter; only fix thine eyes on the things
396 V | irreverently contemplating with fixed gaze Him who, in His incomprehensibility,
397 VII | men the most decorous. The flame of the grace of my Lord
398 IX | the shoutings of a false flattery, O thou who of God art praised;
399 V | day break, and the shadows flee away." [Cant 2:16,17] Since
400 X | which is all-containing; the fleece of wool, the mystery of
401 X | root of the most beautiful flower; the mother of the Creator;
402 VII | the Strength incomparable. Fold thyself around Him who is
403 XI | theology; and let us ourselves follow out the rest of our discourse,
404 Note| Although the authorship of the following oration is disputed by modern
405 XI | take up and examine what follows upon this narration: For
406 IX | man, banishing from the food the bitterness of death;
407 XI | perceive. ~When, therefore, the foolish Jewish children had seen
408 II | dearly beloved, consider the force of these words. So shalt
409 VIII| Thee (for our first earthly forefather, who was honourably entertained
410 XII | presumption, carried on his forehead, as upon a brazen statue,
411 XII | divine wisdom did he, who had foreknowledge of these events, oppose
412 I | His compassion toward us foreordained has come to pass, He hath
413 VIII| of Him who hath power to forgive sins Thou hast blotted out
414 VIII| Thou, O beneficent One, forgotten entirely the works of Thine
415 III | His country? Should you, forsooth, wish to know this, ye congregation
416 I | today the season has brought forward the entire subject of the
417 I | consideration of the Church's foster-children. For today the council chamber
418 | found
419 XIV | love of God. Hail, thou fount of the Son's love for man.
420 X | I, in order that I might freely approach to behold Him,
421 I | understanding, the vessel freighted with truth may peacefully
422 I | with it no ridiculous or frenzied banqueting of the gods,
423 IX | unchanged, and keeping fresh for ages. ~"The prophet
424 IX | culture, blossomed forth in fruit, the pledge and earnest
425 IV | creator. For God said, "Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish
426 VII | Lord, and reap the full fruition of that hope of thine which
427 III | make void the law, but to fulfil it, and rather to connect
428 IV | mysteries, says: "But when the fullness of the time was come, God
429 VII | the instructed. Let that furnace which was as it were a breeze
430 IX | a perpetual priesthood, furnished no contemptible symbol of
431 VIII| compassion. Hence, for the future, a joyous festival is established
432 IV | the adoption of sons." [Gal. 4:4-5] And then, as to
433 IX | immortal meadows I will pluck a garland for thy sacred and divinely
434 X | Himself with light as with a garment. ~"Thou has lent to God,
435 X | things by His word; the gate through which God appears
436 IX | praised; thou who to God gavest suck; who by nativity givest
437 V | contemplating with fixed gaze Him who, in His incomprehensibility,
438 XIII| of the Lord, thou chosen generation, thou royal priesthood,
439 VII | the flesh. Fear not His gentleness, nor let His clemency terrify
440 XIV | overshadowing mount of the Holy Ghost. Thou gleamedst, sweet gift-bestowing
441 XIV | Ghost. Thou gleamedst, sweet gift-bestowing mother, of the light of
442 VI | 3 (45:2)]. For Thou hast girt, by Thy incarnation, Thy
443 VI | death. For Thee I look, the Giver of the law, and the Successor
444 X | lengthen out my discourse, giving it the rein with these varied
445 III | brought to pass for thy sake, gladly join thyself to the heavenly
446 III | lead the dance. Hymn with gladsome song the Lord, who is always
447 VII | Sun of Righteousness, that gleams around thee through the
448 I | counsel is, in fact and deed, gloriously manifested to the world.
449 XIII| barren, and without seed unto godliness, but who hast now many children
450 XII | changed into an angel by a godly change, and, for the immensity
451 IX | remains with Him for ever. The golden pot also, as a most certain
452 V | highest, and on earth peace, good-will towards men," by their threefold
453 XII | plainly, in the revered gospels, our Lord signified, when
454 VI | provides for all, of Thy gracious condescension, with which
455 VIII| immortality; and Thou hast graciously given unto us a return to
456 X | full of divine grace, and grateful exceedingly to God, mother
457 IV | summing up for the sake of greater clearness, exclaims in brief: "
458 I | the vain customs of the Greek mythology; we keep a feast
459 IX | thine ancestral hymns will I greet thee, O daughter of David,
460 VII | With the letter thou hast grown weary; in the spirit be
461 II | and incite our excellent guests abundantly to satiate themselves
462 XI | end, and that under the guidance of God the Almighty, so
463 X | the draught of immortality gushed forth; the mercy-seat from
464 III | Teman, as says the prophet [Habak. 3:3], hath thought fit
465 IX | most holy and admirable habitation of God, are no merely useless
466 IV | also the blessed prophet Habkkuk has charmingly sung, saying, "
467 VIII| Thou hast blotted out the handwriting which was against us [Col.
468 XIII| away. Hail, thou city most happy, for glorious things are
469 I | channel of ears, as into the harbour of the understanding, the
470 I | ark, comes away just; the harlot, when she approaches this,
471 VI | thus led on, and in his haste treading the air with his
472 VI | in the face of the law hastened to receive the Minister
473 V | Sun of Righteousness, that hateful horror of darkness has been
474 XI | meaning of this, my attentive hearer, if you do but take up and
475 XI | remains, my most attentive hearers, let us take up the old
476 XI | every soul that will not hearken unto Him shall be cut off
477 I | all ye that labour and are heavy laden." [Matt. 11:28] Who,
478 VI | hitherto held sacred; but, not heeding the temple, he stretches
479 XI | from the depth and from the height meeting together, without
480 V | death hath been destroyed, hell swallowed up, and all enmity
481 IX | place hereafter, ministered help and healing to those who
482 VII | use of the law. Use grace henceforth. With the letter thou hast
483 | hereafter
484 I | invites, and who will stand hesitating with fear? He says: "Come
485 XIV | making manifest the mystery hidden and unspeakable, the invisible
486 VI | incarnation, as it were His hinder parts [Exod. 3:23]; Him
487 VI | steps, he reaches the shrine hitherto held sacred; but, not heeding
488 X | in remembrance, and who holdest the helm, as it were, of
489 VI | with wise and steady hand, holds the helm of the universe;
490 IV | law, rested in the Holy of holies upon the covering of the
491 V | bringing in a threefold holiness. Blessed art thou among
492 VIII| earthly forefather, who was honourably entertained in the delightful
493 XIV | confidence of thy maternal honours, that thou wouldest unceasingly
494 V | Righteousness, that hateful horror of darkness has been chased
495 | however
496 XIV | Thine assumption of the humanity; that One nevertheless,
497 VI | Successor of the law. I hunger for Thee, who quickenest
498 IX | even as she was without a husband, Himself has written down
499 VII | think not that thou art ignorant." ~
500 II | II. ~Come, therefore, Isaiah,