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503 CON | might tell. Healings of diseases, and castings out of demons,
504 3 | child. For she considered it disgraceful and quite unsuitable, that
505 Int, I | But presently, much to the disgust of Gregory of Nazianzus,
506 Int, I | Palestine, where nothing but disillusionment awaited him. In 381 he was
507 29 | and when holy Macrina had dismissed my wife with all courtesy,
508 19 | in the yawning gulf of disobedience. Thou hast shown us the
509 26 | cried out the same, and a disorderly confusion disturbed the
510 11 | which they could not easily dispense.5 Nothing was left but the
511 19 | published abroad the secret disposition of her heart----her hurrying
512 15 | coining stole [976C] in and disquieted me.~
513 27 | they are all decayed and dissolved, as must be expected, and
514 6 | consequence her mother was distracted with various anxieties,
515 15 | visits were prevented by the distraction of the troubles which I
516 CON | of faith so is given the distribution of spiritual gifts, little
517 27 | afore-mentioned bishop of the district----took up that holy body
518 6 | was scattered in as many districts. [966 B] In consequence
519 6 | shared her mother's toils, dividing her cares with her, and
520 17 | Macrina, somehow or other divining our condition of mind, sent
521 18 | assigned to her in the equal division between brothers and sisters,
522 Int, I | orthodoxy. For a sketch of his doctrinal system the reader is referred
523 Int, I | the history of Christian doctrine and the eventual triumph
524 7 | living and the services of domestics to which she had been accustomed
525 9 | department of virtue, yet nature dominated her as it does others. For
526 28 | started on my way back, downcast and tearful, pondering over
527 Int, III | buildings as sketched by Dr. Hope in his monograph fairly
528 19 | broken the heads of the dragon who had seized us with his
529 16 | her strength being already drained by fever. But by putting
530 Int, II | a good text is a serious drawback in a theological treatise
531 6 | philosophy I mean, and gradually drawing her on to the immaterial
532 21 | fear of her, as if they dreaded her rebuke even when her
533 Int, I | arbour near the chapel he dreamed that the martyrs beat him
534 10 | the calamity, or tear her dress, or lament over the trouble,
535 19 | And gradually her tongue dried up with the fever, she could
536 15 | underwent, being constantly driven out from my own country
537 16 | drying up her strength and driving her on to death, yet she
538 14 | last one all admixture of dross may be purged away----consequently
539 16 | this great woman. Fever was drying up her strength and driving
540 Int, I | accept the see of Sasima, a dusty village where the post changed
541 6 | performance of religious duties---- for she deemed that zeal
542 16 | Then I entered that holy dwelling. I found her already terribly
543 28 | named Sebastopolis, and dwelt [996C] there with his subordinates.
544 11 (5) | 1 e1rgon de\ tw~n kata_ th_n zwh_
545 15 | ill, and I was the more eager to hurry on and complete
546 11 | the things after which men eagerly pursue in this life, there
547 Int, III | natural development of the earlier ascetic family life to which
548 3 | 962D] means of training the early years of the child. For
549 29 | My wife and I once had an earnest desire to pay a visit to
550 21 | virgins that sounded in my ears. So far they had remained [
551 11 | life far removed from all earthly follies and ordered with
552 11 | with which they could not easily dispense.5 Nothing was left
553 19 | been turned towards the East; and, ceasing to converse
554 13 | against their own life and eclipsing their previous record by
555 Int, II | task of a future critical editor. But the pages of Migne
556 12 | and reared him herself and educated [972C] him on a lofty system
557 Int, I | nor did he share Basil's educational advantages. See p. 51 of
558 29 | and it has already proved efficacious, and nothing is left of
559 16 | she raised herself on her elbow but could not come to meet
560 Int, I | rebuke administered by the elder brother.~In 370 Basil had
561 19 | chasm separate me from Thy elect. Nor let [986A] the Slanderer
562 14 | the famous saint, had been elected bishop 1 of the great church
563 Int, I | may be ascribed the strong element of Origenism in his writings.
564 10 | Besides which, the moral elevation always maintained by Macrina'
565 4 | the [964C] power of his eloquence in forensic contests on
566 | elsewhere
567 21 | remained calm, but a flood of emotion, like a watercourse in spate,
568 19 | indeed, and varied, were the emotions of my heart at what I saw.
569 2 (3) | Ramsay's Church in the Roman Empire.~
570 3 | task; she did not, however, employ the usual worldly method
571 Int, II | all the synonyms which he employs. Accordingly in a few places
572 2 | came for her pangs to be ended by delivery, she fell asleep
573 11 | unceasing round of prayer and endless hymnody, co-extensive with
574 14 | which was felt even by the enemies of the truth?----but just
575 3 | When she rose from bed, or engaged in household duties, or
576 17 | 980C] news, we began to enjoy the sights that lay before
577 17 | have any feelings of [980A] enjoyment when my soul within me was
578 29 | membrane round the eye being enlarged and whitish from the complaint.
579 | enough
580 14 | now that philosophy was enriched by the priesthood.~Eight
581 29 | a meal for them and had entertained them with the riches of
582 Int, III | conditions of primitive enthusiasm. Reference may be made to
583 24 | towards the place, so that the entrance hall could no longer hold
584 5 | DEATH OF THE YOUNG MAN~But Envy cut off these bright hopes
585 Int, I | pursued Gregory during his episcopate. He was deposed and banished
586 28 | a story of a marvellous episode in her life, which I shall
587 Int, I | reconciliation. In Basil's 58th Epistle may be read the crushing
588 Int2 | its heading, is apparently epistolary, but its bulk exceeds that
589 18 | things assigned to her in the equal division between brothers
590 11 | to live on a footing of equality with the staff of maids,
591 29 | were raised from both sides equally. Your brother was urging
592 5 | her father's intention was equivalent to a marriage, and resolved
593 Int, II | difficult to find suitable equivalents in English for all the synonyms
594 27 | And how," said I, "shall I escape such condemnation if I gaze
595 14 | so that if any impurity escapes the first furnace, it may
596 25 | 994C] deacons and servants, escorting the bier in order, all holding
597 Int, I | led him before long to espouse the ascetic life and become
598 4 | contrives all things and essays the greatest tasks, so as
599 18 | learning; in fact his fame was established throughout the law courts
600 Int, I | landed proprietors, who had estates in Cappadocia and Pontus
601 18 | Our father was greatly esteemed as a young man for his learning;
602 7 | dignitaries, excelling in his own estimation all the men of leading and
603 16 (6) | long dialogue, De Anima et Resurrectione (Migne, XLVI,
604 19 | and save our life. O God eternal, to Whom I have been attached
605 3 | especially which have an ethical bearing. Nor was she ignorant
606 CON (9) | 1 eu)ruxwri/an.~
607 Int, III | life in his own country. Eustathius of Sebaste was already working
608 Int, I | carried out the work of evangelising the district most thoroughly.
609 Int, I | Christian doctrine and the eventual triumph of Nicene orthodoxy.
610 9 | ground by the assault of the evil tidings, like some noble
611 22 | in the matter of burial exactly. When I asked her about
612 11 | body, but their life was exalted to the skies and [972B]
613 18 | of each of the children exceeded the prosperity of the parents.
614 7 | the mother had arranged excellent marriages for the other
615 7 | on the local dignitaries, excelling in his own estimation all
616 Int, II | inconvenience arises. With very few exceptions there is little margin for
617 8 | at the same time by such exercises he was taming his own manhood.
618 18 | had been through, first my exile at the hands of the Emperor
619 18 | opportunity of a comfortable existence. Never were petitioners
620 Int, III | side of the Iris was still existing when Gregory visited Macrina.
621 Int (1) | Biography, and Harnack, Expansion of Christianity, II, 349-
622 17 | guess, in a dejected state, expecting sad tidings, when Macrina,
623 Int, I | was killed on a hunting expedition in Pontus. Gregory and Peter,
624 Int, III | visit. Basil chose for his experiment a spot of much natural beauty
625 8 | expeditions, and since he was expert in every form of sport,
626 16 | left with us. I guessed the explanation, that the abbess was not
627 21 | they whom she picked up, exposed by the roadside in the time
628 18 | his reputation did not extend beyond Pontus. But he was
629 18 | of the day to be further extended, that she might never cease
630 Int, III | We do not know to what extent it conformed to the regulations
631 CON | Consequently I omit that extraordinary agricultural operation in
632 Int, III | Rule (Oxford, 1912), by E. F. Morison, and St. Basil
633 Int, II | a true account of actual facts, written down shortly after
634 18 | of God in it all? Do you fail to recognise the cause of
635 Int, III | Dr. Hope in his monograph fairly represents the topography
636 5 | absurd and unlawful not to be faithful to the marriage that had
637 20 | whole body had automatically fallen into the right position,
638 CON | insult and suspicion of falsehood, as remote from truth. Consequently
639 19 | our earth, which Thou hast fashioned with Thy hands, to the earth
640 23 | material, both of which were fastened by a slender thread and
641 23 | spoke, she loosened the fastener behind, then stretched out
642 1 | 962B] unwished-for violent fate, seeing that some men, inflamed
643 4 | round her parents. But her father----a shrewd man with a reputation
644 4 | he offered to his future father-in-law his fame in public speaking,
645 10 | it was a brother, and a favourite brother, who had been snatched
646 29 | journey.~[998B] "But when the feast came to an end and we had
647 8 | were living in poverty and feebleness, considering it appropriate
648 17 | was impossible to have any feelings of [980A] enjoyment when
649 22 | the well-worn shoes on the feet. This is all her wealth,
650 3 | constant companion, like a good fellow-traveller that never deserted her.~
651 24 | in the case of martyrs' festivals, was finished, and the dawn
652 29 | one run back quickly to fetch it. Just as this was being
653 Int, II | Patrologia Graeca, XLVI, pp. 960 ff.4~The absence of a good
654 8 | manner he completed the fifth year of his life as a philosopher,
655 17 | I have fought the good fight, I have finished the course,
656 Int, I | 395.~Gregory of Nyssa is a figure of great importance in the
657 4 | to model in imitation the figures of the heavenly bodies,
658 23 | added, as I think, this final grace to the body, so that,
659 16 | COMES TO THE MONASTERY AND FINDS MACRINA ON HER DEATH BED~
660 22 | at any rate, to putting finer clothing on the body and
661 21 | and grief like some inward fire was smouldering in their
662 8 | generous youth would go on fishing expeditions, and since he
663 Int, I | was by nature far better fitted to be a student than a man
664 19 | person on Whom she gazed fixedly. Her couch had been turned
665 19 | Thou that didst break the flaming sword and didst restore
666 25 | On either side we were flanked by a considerable number
667 24 | of men and women that had flocked in from all the neighbouring
668 21 | longer remained calm, but a flood of emotion, like a watercourse
669 16 | Holy Spirit, and the even flow of her language was like
670 Int2 | such times, the 960B] talk flowed on until we came to discuss
671 1 | parents, and was in the very flower of her youthful beauty,
672 8 | banks of the Iris----a river flowing through the midst of Pontus.
673 25 | of virgins, while the men folk I put in the ranks of the
674 11 | removed from all earthly follies and ordered with a view
675 2 | the name that she would follow her namesake's mode of life.~
676 8 | servants named Chrysapius followed him, because of the affection
677 7 | unrelated such a matter as the following, in which the lofty character
678 11 | induced her to live on a footing of equality with the staff
679 27 | the divine command, which forbids us to uncover the shame
680 2 | right choice of name, as to forecast the life of the young child,
681 4 | power of his eloquence in forensic contests on behalf of the
682 Int, I | uncle Gregory. He actually forged a letter purporting to come
683 Int2 | letter.~I am sure you do not forget our meeting, when, on my
684 | former
685 4 | man with a reputation for forming right decisions----picked
686 Int, III | movement there assumed two main forms, the eremitic and the coenobitic.~
687 7 | mark of philosophy that he forsook the glories of this world
688 | Forty
689 25 | of the bed. Then I went forward, slowly as was to be expected,
690 17 | shall give me," for "I have fought the good fight, I have finished
691 27 | expected, and turned into foul and repulsive shapelessness."~
692 2 (3) | which may well have been founded on fact. See article "Thecla"
693 16 | her language was like a fountain whose water streams down
694 11 | For that nature should be free from human weaknesses is
695 Int, II | has been recast with some freedom, in order to make a readable
696 Int, II | well-known rhetorical tendency so freely that it is difficult to
697 11 | end, and the property----a frequent cause of worldliness----
698 12 | crowds from all quarters were frequenting the retreat where they lived,
699 28 | both of relationship and friendship. He told me a story of a
700 29 | cried aloud with joy and fright. 'For, see! Nothing of what
701 23 | appeared then in place of the frightful [992C] sore and remained
702 22 | said she; "you have in front of you all her treasure.
703 Int, III | called his friend Gregory to fulfil a promise made in student
704 27 | side of the mother, thus fulfilling the common prayer of both.
705 Int, II | so charmingly told and full of human interest, should
706 Int2 (2)| Gregoire de Nazianze, Discours funèbres (Paris, 1908), p. lvi.~
707 14 | gold takes place in several furnaces, so that if any impurity
708 17 | one of the neighbouring gardens, and rested under the shade
709 19 | resurrection, having broken the gates of .hell, and brought to
710 15 | and a synod of bishops was gathered at Antioch, in which we
711 Int2 (2)| of the Christian religion generally and of asceticism in particular.
712 8 | a work his care. So the generous youth would go on fishing
713 22 | Among these was a lady of gentle birth, who had been famous
714 17 | though I found it a great and genuine rest to see her and hear
715 26 | procuring silence by our gesture, and the precentor taking
716 13 | she spoke she indicated by gestures her daughter and son. Then,
717 Int, II | reader.~But when Gregory gets to grips with his subject
718 25 | space of the retreat was getting crowded with the multitude
719 Int, III | by Sir William Hope, The Gilbertian Priory of Watton (London,
720 7 | treating all her slave girls and menials as if they were
721 12 | teacher, tutor, mother, giver of all good advice----she
722 19 | at the last trump. Thou givest our earth, which Thou hast
723 29 | went home together with glad and cheerful hearts, telling
724 21 | our day will be turned to gloom."~Saddest of all in their
725 17 | within me was constrained by gloomy anticipations, for the secret
726 7 | philosophy that he forsook the glories of this world and despised
727 6 | required services, even going so far as to prepare meals
728 28 | Learn what manner of goodness has been taken away from
729 18 | father's parents had their goods confiscated for confessing
730 Int, III | LVIII, No. 229). The rules governing the relations of monks and
731 6 | taxes to three different governors, since her property was
732 20 | compose them, being covered gracefully by the lids, just as happens
733 25 | our progress being but gradual. For the people thronged
734 Int, II | given in Migne's Patrologia Graeca, XLVI, pp. 960 ff.4~The
735 18 | Christ. Our maternal [980D] grandfather was slain by the imperial
736 Int, I | near Neo-Caesarea, by his grandmother Macrina, who used to repeat
737 29 | pupil and said----~"'If you grant me this favour and share
738 16 | This favour also Thou hast granted me, O God, and hast not
739 8 | that was already in his grasp, and drawn by an irresistible
740 8 | he provided food to his grateful clients by this means. And
741 18 | But her aim throughout was gratitude towards God, for she described
742 1 | known and approved for the gravity of his conduct, and so gained
743 28 | tearful, pondering over the greatness of my loss.~On my way I
744 Int2 (2)| careful note in Boulenger, Gregoire de Nazianze, Discours funèbres (
745 Int, I | distinction between the three Gregories who played an important
746 21 | other such thing as men grieve over when disaster comes.
747 21 | command and their mistress be grieved in consequence. But when
748 10 | she enjoyed rather than grieving over those that were missing.
749 9 | there fell on the mother a grievous and tragic affliction, contrived,
750 Int, II | But when Gregory gets to grips with his subject and describes
751 16 | my soul she stilled her groans and made great efforts to
752 22 | such honour from you on two grounds----your priesthood which
753 Int, III | quite independently, or grouped around some central church,
754 8 | a place with a luxuriant growth of trees and a hill nestling
755 22 | Macrina as protector and guardian of her widowhood, and spent
756 6 | thanks to her mother's guardianship, she was keeping her own
757 17 | before.~We were, as one might guess, in a dejected state, expecting
758 16 | them were left with us. I guessed the explanation, that the
759 19 | his jaws, in the yawning gulf of disobedience. Thou hast
760 3 (4) | semnote/roij peri\ tw~n gunaikei/wn dihgh&masin.~
761 Int, I | reader is referred to J. H. Srawley's edition of The
762 24 | place, so that the entrance hall could no longer hold the
763 12 | every art that involves hand-work, so that without any guidance
764 16 | Thy servant to visit Thy handmaid."~Lest she should vex my
765 29 | hand of God, when now His handmaiden, accomplishing those cures
766 CON | And after this there are happenings still more surprising, of
767 11 (5) | rergon. The play on words is hard to reproduce.~
768 3 | with unseemly tales of "the harem." 4 But such parts of inspired
769 25 | sexes in rhythmical and harmonious fashion, as in chorus singing,
770 Int (1) | Christian Biography, and Harnack, Expansion of Christianity,
771 19 | Bridegroom more clearly, she hastened towards the Beloved with
772 11 | anger or [970D] jealousy, no hatred or pride, was observed in
773 22 | the cloak, there is the head-covering, there the well-worn shoes
774 Int2 | if one may judge from its heading, is apparently epistolary,
775 Int, II | and a number of paragraph headings provided for the convenience
776 19 | sakes. Thou hast broken the heads of the dragon who had seized
777 Int, I | methods he adopted in order to heal a quarrel between his brother
778 CON | of which I might tell. Healings of diseases, and castings
779 CON | exceeds the capacity of the hearer, men receive with insult
780 19 | God and that she, too, was hearing His voice.~"Thou, O Lord,
781 19 | secret disposition of her heart----her hurrying towards Him
782 Int, I | Wonders").1~He was born of heathen parents at Neo-Caesarea
783 6 | her, and lightening her heavy load of sorrows. At one
784 23 (8) | Cross was discovered by Helena, mother of Constantine the
785 19 | having broken the gates of .hell, and brought to nought him
786 1 | beauty, were ready to abduct her----on this account she chose
787 | here
788 15 | country by the leaders of heresy. And when I came to reckon
789 | hers
790 29 | And her appearance was hideous and pitiable, the membrane
791 8 | cares that impedes man's higher life, with his own hands
792 8 | luxuriant growth of trees and a hill nestling under the mass
793 25 | distinguished priests took the hinder part of the bed. Then I
794 9 | like some noble athlete hit by an unexpected blow.~
795 24 | entrance hall could no longer hold the concourse.~When the
796 23 | treasure; for the ring is hollow in the hoop, and in it has
797 Int, I | Cappadocia and Pontus and had won honourable distinction by their steadfast
798 13 | time that the mother died, honoured by all, and went to God,
799 23 | the ring is hollow in the hoop, and in it has been hidden
800 Int, I | village where the post changed horses. In 379 he went to Constantinople
801 26 | impulsively that after this hour we should see that divine
802 19 | NEXT DAY: MACRINA'S LAST HOURS~But when day came it was
803 3 | from bed, or engaged in household duties, or rested, [964A]
804 | however
805 11 | adopt her own standard of humility. She induced her to live
806 23 | sort of an ornament has hung on the saint's neck!"~As
807 Int, I | Naucratius, who was killed on a hunting expedition in Pontus. Gregory
808 15 | I was the more eager to hurry on and complete the remainder
809 19 | disposition of her heart----her hurrying towards Him Whom she desired,
810 1 | account she chose for her husband a man who was known and
811 25 | example, that comes in the Hymn of the Three Children. Seven
812 24 | for her, accompanied by hymn-singing, as in the case of martyrs'
813 11 | round of prayer and endless hymnody, co-extensive with time
814 18 | spend time by ourselves in idleness, she began to recall her
815 10 | nor did she behave in any ignoble and womanish way, so as
816 Int, III | III. THE MONASTERIES OF PONTUS~
817 29 | eye after an infectious illness. And her appearance was
818 21 | night became to us as day,~Illumined with pure life, ~But now
819 17 | what I had seen. For the image I had seen was indeed true----
820 23 | that it might be, as I imagine, a memorial of the divine
821 11 | and ordered with a view of imitating the angelic life. For no
822 4 | so as even to model in imitation the figures of the heavenly
823 8 | from the din of cares that impedes man's higher life, with
824 18 | grandfather was slain by the imperial wrath, and all his possessions
825 10 | her own steadfastness and imperturbability taught her mother's soul
826 Int, I | Nyssa is a figure of great importance in the history of Christian
827 Int, I | Gregories who played an important part in the Church history
828 17 | trailing vines. But it was impossible to have any feelings of [
829 10 | contrary she resisted the impulses of nature, and quieted herself
830 26 | laid, a woman cried out impulsively that after this hour we
831 14 | furnaces, so that if any impurity escapes the first furnace,
832 11 | make verbal description inadequate. For just as souls freed
833 19 | human form with a sort of incarnation, to whom it was nothing [
834 16 | women, after reverently inclining their head for the blessing,
835 18 | God's blessing, that the income of each of the children
836 3 | as you would think were incomprehensible to young children were the
837 Int, II | straightforward that no special inconvenience arises. With very few exceptions
838 28 | her life, which I shall incorporate into my history and then
839 23 | complaint should become quite incurable, if it should spread to
840 3 | suggestions and plots, or the indecencies of comedy, to be, so to
841 2 | the young child, and to indicate by the name that she would
842 13 | tenth."~As she spoke she indicated by gestures her daughter
843 11 | standard of humility. She induced her to live on a footing
844 Int, II | pages of his letter Gregory indulges his well-known rhetorical
845 17 | were resplendent with the indwelling power of the Spirit. I explained
846 29 | affliction of the eye after an infectious illness. And her appearance
847 1 | fate, seeing that some men, inflamed by her beauty, were ready
848 Int, III | became known in the West and influenced St. Benedict. The Life of
849 18 | Will you not remedy the ingratitude of your soul? Will you not
850 23 | shared with me that great inheritance was present and joined in
851 23 | I will be content with inheriting the ring" ----for the cross
852 Int, III | returned home, resolved to initiate the Pachomian mode of life
853 19 | fever had consumed all her innate strength. But she, considering
854 16 | discussed various subjects, inquiring into human affairs and revealing
855 25 | round the bed and all were insatiable to see that holy sight,
856 18 | Will you not cease to be insensible to the divine blessings?
857 7 | this point I should like to insert a short parenthesis in my
858 | instead
859 6 | also by her own life she instructed her mother greatly, leading
860 12 | having in nature a sufficient instructor in all good knowledge, and
861 CON | hearer, men receive with insult and suspicion of falsehood,
862 Int, II | charmingly told and full of human interest, should have attracted so
863 Int, I | Theosebeia, if this is the true interpretation of some difficult passages.
864 16 | relax his activities nor interrupt the lofty sentiments of
865 29 | Such was his story; it was interrupted by sobs, and tears choked
866 24 | neighbouring country were interrupting the psalms with wailings.
867 29 | saint. And when a suitable interval had elapsed, we considered
868 25 | Children. Seven or eight stades intervened between the Retreat and
869 15 | when I came to reckon the intervening time during which the troubles
870 26 | precentor taking the lead and intoning the accustomed prayers of
871 Int, I | state of confusion. Having introduced a certain measure of order,
872 CON | incredible, by those who have investigated them accurately.~But by
873 14 | So she remained, like an invincible athlete in no wise broken
874 19 | divine and pure love of the invisible bridegroom, which she kept
875 12 | clever in every art that involves hand-work, so that without
876 17 | crown of victory, rejoices inwardly as if he had already attained
877 Int, III | of double monasteries in Ireland and elsewhere. Perhaps the
878 8 | spot on the banks of the Iris----a river flowing through
879 23 | representation of a cross of iron and a ring of the same material,
880 21 | all at once a bitter and irrepressible cry broke out; so that my
881 8 | his grasp, and drawn by an irresistible impulse went off to a life
882 8 | mother's wishes whenever she issued a command. And so in these
883 | itself
884 23 (8) | Catechetical Lectures, See iv. 10, "The whole world has
885 Int, I | Emperor Valens in 378.~On January 1, 379, Basil died; in September
886 19 | who had seized us with his jaws, in the yawning gulf of
887 11 | For no anger or [970D] jealousy, no hatred or pride, was
888 16 | we learn in the story of Job that the saint was tormented
889 Int, III | student days at Athens and join him in the ascetic life.
890 23 | inheritance was present and joined in the work. Do not let
891 25 | those that were constantly joining us did not allow our progress
892 Int, III | bank and came under the joint rule of Macrina and Peter.~
893 Int, III | from The Archaeological Journal, LVIII, No. 229). The rules
894 29 | telling one another as we journeyed what had befallen us. I
895 29 | she cried aloud with joy and fright. 'For, see! Nothing
896 3 | study to which her parents' judgment directed her. The education
897 19 | fear of Thee, and of Thy judgments have I been afraid. Let
898 4 | painters' hands could not do justice to her [964B] comeliness;
899 11 (5) | 1 e1rgon de\ tw~n kata_ th_n zwh_n tau&thn spoudazo&
900 Int, I | came Naucratius, who was killed on a hunting expedition
901 12 | their benevolence, Peter's kindness supplied such an abundance
902 19 | remember me, too, in Thy kingdom; because I, too, was crucified
903 19 | undisturbed, since he had no kinship or likeness with this life
904 29 | riches of philosophy. And kissing the child, as was natural,
905 29 | what was promised us is lacking! She has indeed given her
906 5 | snatching away the poor lad from life. Now Macrina was
907 12 | become all things to the lad---- father, teacher, tutor,
908 21 | duties, I gave myself up to lamentation. Indeed, the cause for the
909 22 | there was a lady called Lampadia, leader of the band of sisters,
910 19 | sung at the Lighting of the Lamps. But her voice failed and
911 14 | common grief of his native land and the whole world. Now
912 Int, I | given.~He came of a race of landed proprietors, who had estates
913 Int, III | independently in different lands and centuries under similar
914 11 | short one, and with the lapse of time their successes
915 13 | first-fruits and this my last-born is the tenth. Each is sanctified
916 12 | pangs ceased, for he was the latest born of the family. At one
917 20 | way needed the help of the layers-out.~
918 23 | unnoticed,"she remarked, laying bare part of the breast.~"
919 22 | a lady called Lampadia, leader of the band of sisters,
920 15 | from my own country by the leaders of heresy. And when I came
921 16 | her hands on the floor and leaning over from the pallet as
922 Int2 | description of what we had learned by personal experience,
923 6 | MACRINA RESOLVES NEVER TO LEAVE HER MOTHER~With such words
924 4 | the family, who was just leaving school, of good birth and
925 23 (8) | Jerusalem's Catechetical Lectures, See iv. 10, "The whole
926 12 | as not to give his soul leisure to turn to vain things.
927 | less
928 27 | was to be done. Before the lid of the grave was lifted
929 20 | covered gracefully by the lids, just as happens in natural
930 18 | parents' prayers that are lifting you up on high, you that
931 6 | her cares with her, and lightening her heavy load of sorrows.
932 19 | thanksgiving sung at the Lighting of the Lamps. But her voice
933 Int, III | head of a community of men likeminded with himself, while Macrina,
934 19 | coming day was the utmost limit of her life in the flesh,
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936 Int2 | be compressed within the limits of a letter.~I am sure you
937 Int, III | already working on the same lines, and the unorganised ascetic
938 Int, II | difficulties to the translator. A literal version of the artless and
939 6 | and lightening her heavy load of sorrows. At one and the
940 7 | oratory and looked down on the local dignitaries, excelling in
941 Int, III | Gilbertian Priory of Watton (London, 1901, reprinted from The
942 18 | 982C] Thus she spoke, and I longed for the length of the day
943 1 | and the fame of her good looks was attracting many suitors,
944 19 | might speedily be with Him, loosed from the chains of the body.
945 23 | neck!"~As she spoke, she loosened the fastener behind, then
946 19 | reconciled to the thought of losing the common glory of our
947 14 | indeed in soul at so great a loss----for how could she not
948 19 | rise superior to the common lot. For that she did not even
949 21 | called to the sisters with a loud voice----~"Look at her,
950 19 | bystanders that divine and pure love of the invisible bridegroom,
951 4 | accurately reproduce the loveliness of her form. In consequence
952 13 | each of the absent ones in loving remembrance, so that no
953 19 | hands and whispering with a low voice, so that we could
954 8 | man found a place with a luxuriant growth of trees and a hill
955 11 | her from all accustomed luxuries, Macrina drew her on to
956 11 | like. Continence was their luxury, and obscurity their glory.
957 Int2 (2)| funèbres (Paris, 1908), p. lvi.~
958 Int, III | Archaeological Journal, LVIII, No. 229). The rules governing
959 16 | afflicted with weakness. She was lying not on a bed or couch, but
960 2 (3) | chapter on Thecla in Sir W. M. Ramsay's Church in the
961 23 | THEY FIND ON THE BODY MAEKS OF MACRINA'S SANCTITY~When
962 Int2 (2)| called forth by the divine magnanimity." See a careful note in
963 7 | the lofty character of the maiden is displayed.~
964 21 | Indeed, the cause for the maidens' weeping seemed to me just
965 6 | worth those [966A] of many maidservants, and the benefits were mutual.
966 Int, III | movement there assumed two main forms, the eremitic and
967 10 | the moral elevation always maintained by Macrina's life gave her
968 23 | the deaconess spoke again, maintaining that it was not fitting
969 8 | exercises he was taming his own manhood. Besides this, he also gladly
970 27 | shame of human nature made manifest in the bodies of my parents?
971 11 | than can be expected from mankind. But these women fell short
972 21 | cried and bewailed in this manner----~"The light of our eyes
973 17 | the relics of a holy martyr which had been dead in sin,
974 29 | arms. And I understood the marvels of the Gospel that hitherto
975 3 (4) | tw~n gunaikei/wn dihgh&masin.~
976 8 | hill nestling under the mass of the overhanging mountain.
977 7 | view down to that of the masses, and to share the life of
978 8 | affection he had towards his master and the intention he had
979 18 | were transferred to other masters. Nevertheless their life
980 1 | danger that, if she were not mated to some one willingly, she
981 18 | for confessing Christ. Our maternal [980D] grandfather was slain
982 28 | conversation, he said to me----~"Learn what manner of
983 6 | going so far as to prepare meals for her mother with her
984 11 | day. So that to them this meant work, and work so called
985 | Meantime
986 23 | attention of a doctor, since the medical art, she [992B] said, was
987 10 | funeral chants with mournful melodies. On the contrary she resisted
988 Int, I | ascetic life and become a member of the monastery in Pontus,
989 29 | hideous and pitiable, the membrane round the eye being enlarged
990 23 | might be, as I imagine, a memorial of the divine visitation,
991 7 | all her slave girls and menials as if they were sisters
992 11 (5) | n zwh_n tau&thn spoudazo&menon ou)de\n, o#ti mh_ pa&rergon.
993 13 | used over her children, mentioning each of the absent ones
994 19 | with Thee and implored Thy mercies, remember me, too, in Thy
995 Int, II | relied on, as in places it is merely a paraphrase. Had the story
996 17 | said to deceive, but the message was [980B] actually true,
997 17 | condition of mind, sent to us a messenger with more cheerful news,
998 14 | trouble, in every respect the metal of her soul was proved to
999 3 | employ the usual worldly method of education, which makes
1000 Int, I | character is afforded by the methods he adopted in order to heal
1001 Int, I | Basil had become bishop and metropolitan of Caesarea. He found the
1002 11 (5) | spoudazo&menon ou)de\n, o#ti mh_ pa&rergon. The play on