Homily, Par.

1003  I,  1    |            end were greater, and the shouts more clear, and the same
1004  I,  4    |        universe were here I will not shrink from saying this. Would
1005  I,  8    |           let us do all diligence to shut the mouths of them who rave
1006  I,  5    |          only have they a hoe, but a sickle too, suitable for cutting:
1007  I,  8    |             reason many are weak and sickly, and some sleep. For if
1008 III,  1   |        creator who provides for all; silence his speech not by word,
1009  I,  6    |              with money, and lend us silver, we give them our thanks
1010 III,  2   |              shewn you this not from simple reasoning only, but from
1011 III,  1   |              this account he did not simply say "Noe was just, perfect,"
1012 III,  6   |         consider what a tumult their simultaneous approach excited. But nevertheless
1013  I,  8    |   distinguished. And if thou seest a sinner punished, remember the paralytic
1014 II,  4    |      disposition, but because of the skill of the Apostle. For as the
1015 II,  2    |            names. For the Devil, the slanderer that is, is called so from
1016 II,  2    |           that is, is called so from slandering; for he slandered man to
1017  I,  3    |             same birth pangs, and to slay him who had done him no
1018  I,  3    |              becoming better by this slight and this dishonour, may
1019  I,  3    |          hands, escape our hold, and slip through easily; so also
1020  I,  3    |            the mark; and even as the slippery bodies when grasped by countless
1021 II,  6    |            who condemns his sins, is slower to fall into them again.
1022  I,  2    |              There to leave off more slowly, is culpable and faulty,
1023 III,  2   |             leaven is small. But the smallness in no way injures the lump,
1024 III,  5   |           was constant, and the evil smell which surrounded him was
1025  I,  5    |             that we should blame and smite with countless accusations
1026 III,  4   |           have started back from the snare. "Ye shall not die the death,"
1027 II,  4    |              of by Satan."13 We have snatched beforehand the man from
1028  I,  7    |           own senselessness to their sober senses one day; how could
1029  I,  2    |              communion with God, his sojourn in Paradise, his unclouded
1030 II,  2    |   slothfulness.~I will state another solution of this question, in order
1031           | something
1032 III,  1   |            taking part in lascivious songs; ye were having a share
1033 III,  6   |         against me, and I called the sons of my concubines, and they
1034 III,  6   |             only was there no one to soothe him but many even on many
1035 II,  4    |            swallowed up by over much sorrow." And, "we be taken advantage
1036  I,  5    |              he slew them, then they sought him, and they returned,
1037  I,  4    |             that the soul may become sound. Then does God these things
1038  I,  5    |            would not have become the sources of good to us, chastening
1039 III,  3   |           said that the Queen of the South would condemn the Jews.
1040  I,  6    |           could they have endured to spare us our salvation. If Demons
1041  I,  1    |      accusing themselves indeed, but sparing others: Paul saying I am
1042  I,  1    |            about the unlawfulness of speaking ill one of another, when
1043 II,  4    |         about the fornicator he thus speaks "Deliver such an one unto
1044 III,  1   |             There is no need of long speeches, no need of a complex plan,
1045 II,  6    |              which it is possible to spend money (I speak of almsgiving),
1046  I,  2    |             of which matters we then spoke, shewing both the lovingkindness
1047 III,  6   |                And others" saith he "sport upon me, and I became the
1048  I,  1    |            subjects and the teaching spread more widely, then accordingly,
1049 III,  5   |             how many glorious things spring from earnestness. Consider
1050  I,  6(21)|                       Matt. viii. 28 sqq. ~
1051  I,  8    |         milder punishment there hear St. Paul saying "For this reason
1052 III,  7   |             unable to reach the same standard as he, after so long a time,
1053  I,  4    |     arrogance but I have the prophet standing at my side, crying and saying, "
1054 III,  5   |           that blessed and noble man stands forth, and by means of the
1055  I,  4    |               if when it has taken a start it be not hindered, as fire
1056 II,  2    |             own slothfulness.~I will state another solution of this
1057 III,  4   |              it not evident that his steadfastness was owing to his vigilance
1058 III,  6   |            man of iron what heart of steel could have endured so many
1059 II,  1    |              to our love of you. For still-still-we renew our discourse concerning
1060  I,  6    |          enemies who are perpetually stinging them what would they not
1061  I,  5    |               both the wheel and the stocks, and the executioners, and
1062  I,  6    |              that they may not throw stones to heaven, and receive wounds
1063 III,  4   |           him, and weighed upon him, stood nobly and did not fall,
1064 III,  5   |           his body was wasted, and a stream of worms on every side issued
1065 II,  3    |          given thee that thou mayest stretch them forth unto prayer.
1066 II,  3    |              thou are not wary, thou stretchest them out unto covetousness.
1067 III,  7   |            some affectionate mother, stretching forth her hands on all sides,
1068 II,  2    |   acknowledged by all, yet give heed strictly to the things which are
1069 III,  7   |              when there was not much strictness of life, when the grace
1070 II,  5    |            the arena, and are in the struggles of repentance. Art thou
1071 II,  3    |        Christ crucified, unto Jews a stumbling-block and unto Gentiles foolishness."9
1072 III,  1   |              been uttered. But to be stung, and pinched in conscience
1073  I,  1    |              a sinful man:"3 Matthew styling himself a publican even
1074  I,  1    |       gradually took hold of all the subjects and the teaching spread
1075  I,  3    |           him to be still, to refuse submission and to affront his maker,
1076  I,  7    |              covetous, he drains the substance of the poor day by day,
1077  I,  3    |              of restoration, and may succeed to his father's inheritance:
1078  I,  6    |             unimpeded, an invariable succession of night and day, all things,
1079 II,  5    |           say peace and safety, then sudden destruction cometh upon
1080  I,  1    |             the discourse, I wish to suggest this to them, that they
1081  I,  1    |         subject for self accusation, suggesting that you should speak ill
1082  I,  5    |             a hoe, but a sickle too, suitable for cutting: yet notwithstanding
1083 III,  5   |             the garment which nature supplies, the clothing of the flesh,
1084 III,  7   |              I am not like him; thou suppliest me with a greater accusation
1085  I,  1    |           when I furnished you witha sure subject for self accusation,
1086 II,  1    |              so far. On this account surely, we also having spent the
1087 III,  7   |           our ills, and his grievous surging sea the harbour of our sufferings,
1088 III,  5   |             and the evil smell which surrounded him was strong, and the
1089  I,  2    |              the whole angelic force surrounding it.~
1090  I,  5    |           not that which comes under suspicion and is worthy of reproach;
1091 II,  4    |          means such an one should be swallowed up by over much sorrow."
1092  I,  7    |          very long ago. Again he who swears, saith he, even if he fulfil
1093 II,  1    |         discourse about the Devil is sweet to us, but because the doctrine
1094 III,  6   |        children, the ten at one fell swoop, the ten in the very bloom
1095  I,  5    |             On this account both the sword is sharpened by them, and
1096 III,  1   |            complex plan, nor even of syllogisms. By means of deeds the proof
1097 II,  1    |        security to know clearly, the tactics of your enemies. We have
1098 III,  6   |              and I became the common talk of all. And my very raiment"
1099  I,  2    |             Because there indeed the tardiness arises from greediness,
1100 II,  5    |              one admonishes "make no tarrying to turn to the Lord and
1101 III,  4   |           the trees, refused him the taste of one only: and this very
1102 III,  6   |            many sides beset him with taunts. And thou seest him lamenting
1103  I,  8    |             Resurrection; and let us teach others, and let us do all
1104 II,  3    |             is set before us, as the teacher of the knowledge of God.
1105 III,  6   |        mockery and derision, and the tearing in pieces by all, was something
1106  I,  2    |         quite unpardonable. For this tempest was due entirely not to
1107  I,  2    |              those lost. In place of temporal toil he honoured us with
1108 II        |             Homily II.~Resisting the Temptation of the Devil.~Against those
1109 III       |            Homily III.~Resisting the Temptations of the Devil.~That evil
1110 III,  4   |              was a serpent; here the tempter was a woman, and she did
1111 II,  1    |            table. What could be more tenderly affectionate than he? What
1112 III,  7   |           receiving and reviving her terrified children, so let us always
1113 III,  6   |            frighten me in sleep, and terrify me in visions?" What man
1114 III,  6   |          night, but the delusions of terrors by night were a greater
1115  I,  4    |             aloud to all men, and to testify that God does these things.
1116 III,  6   |         permits them for the sake of testing thee: just as they who suffer
1117  I,  8    |       chastened here, and bearing it thankfully should experience milder
1118  I,  5    |           the name of evil, not only thefts and adulteries, but also
1119  I,  1    |             sins, collecting disease therefrom for their acquaintance,
1120           | thereof
1121 II,  5    |              the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night."16 On this
1122 III,  6   |                       6. But if thou thinkest that this is sufficient
1123  I,  1    |            of due time, and not even thinking himself worthy of the title
1124 III,  5   |              way to the pain when he thinks upon this saint. But this
1125 II,  6    |             of our neighbours' sins, thirdly that which comes of prayer,
1126  I,  1    |             it all, you retire again thirsting. And this indeed has become
1127  I,  1    |             but thy brother is still thirsty. Let him then not distress
1128  I,  8    |             the paralytic who passed thirty eight years on his bed.
1129  I,  2    |               In place of thorns and thistles he prepared the fruit of
1130  I,  2    |            eternal life. In place of thorns and thistles he prepared
1131 III,  1   |             For the good appear more thoroughly approved when they are in
1132 III,  4   |              not say the Devil. Thou thoughtest that he was a mere serpent.
1133  I,  4    |        notwithstanding their impious thoughts are made out from their
1134  I,  3    |            labour, and beholding the threat of death hanging over his
1135 III,  3   |         their fellow-servant when he threatened an overthrow: in order that
1136 II,  4    |       through his own wisdom cut his throat: hear in the second epistle
1137  I,  6    |             blood, that they may not throw stones to heaven, and receive
1138 III,  3   |           this man declared the glad tidings of a kingdom of heaven.
1139  I,  1(1) |                                    1 Tim. . 3, 15. ~
1140  I,  1    |       thinking himself worthy of the title of Apostle:2 Peter saying "
1141 II,  2    |              the earnest one who has toiled so much? It is quite clear
1142  I,  6    |              coming forth out of the tombs met Christ, and the Demons
1143 II,  1    |             we also having spent the tones of our voice, and the strength
1144 III,  1   |            the righteous man did not torment them, this word would not
1145 III,  1   |         beginning of amendment to be tormented at his presence. For if
1146  I,  5    |              who puts his patient to torture nor the judge who corrects,
1147  I,  5    |            is sharpened by them, and tortures are prepared; both the wheel
1148 III,  1   |            at all events; also trees tossed about by contrary winds,
1149  I,  3    |            his eyes, and holding the traces of the wrath of God still
1150  I,  3    |          mere sight of the tree, she trampled under foot the law which
1151 III,  2   |               in order that they may transfer the wicked to their own
1152 II,  5    |           with no pardon from having transferred the cause to him. Just as
1153 III,  1   |             from himself indeed, and transferring it to the creator who provides
1154  I,  1    |            that they have sinned and transgressed, and have not kept the commandments
1155 II,  6    |        countless sins, after so many transgressions, he is promised that he
1156 II,  1    |             of God than ten thousand transgressors."2 And next, that if the
1157  I,  5    |         wantoning in prosperity, and travailing with a fever of sins, and
1158 III,  1   |          contrary to them, like some traveller, pursuing his way while
1159 III,  6   |            to him? The desertion and treachery of his friends, and the
1160  I,  6    |            have assigned to us their treatment of the swine, and of those
1161 III,  3   |             nations. Terrible is the tribunal: terrible to the sinful,
1162 III,  4   |            the dog, to the swine. He trod under foot the words: and
1163 III,  5   |               This indeed especially troubled and disturbed him, to think
1164  I,  6    |             ever a warfare without a truce, and an implacable fight,
1165  I,  4    |            voice were clearer than a trumpet, and that it were possible
1166 III,  4   |            thou discern? Was not the trustworthiness of the lawgiver sufficient
1167 III,  6   |              itself, consider what a tumult their simultaneous approach
1168 III,  2   |               The whole world was in unbelief. Dost thou see how great
1169 II,  2    |              of the faithful against unbelievers but also on the part of
1170  I,  2    |             who am faithful, but the unbelieving has not yet seen the wonder.
1171  I,  7    |              a woman, saith he, with unchaste eyes,26 is wholly an adulterer,
1172  I,  2    |             sojourn in Paradise, his unclouded life, and as from a shipwreck,
1173 III,  4   |             the blame belongs to her uncontrolled vision, not to the deceit
1174 III,  3   |        deceived, are found to remain undeceived, and they who ought in every
1175  I,  2    |            to fall in Paradise is to undergo shipwreck in harbour. Why
1176  I,  2    |             as lovingly as if he had undergone this in the midst of the
1177 II,  3    |               were darkened in their understandings, and worshipped and served
1178 II,  2    |              Perhaps ye have not yet understood what has been said. Therefore
1179  I,  6    |             an implacable fight, and undying hatred. And if in the case
1180 III,  5   |           which seems to be the most unendurable of all, I mean poverty,
1181  I,  7    |              chastened, then do thou unfold thine own conscience; reckon
1182 III,  3   |               Because that animal is unfruitful and is not able to contribute
1183 III,  2   |             miserable, and wretched, ungrateful and lazy man! Thou oughtest
1184 III,  1   |            were feeding on spiritual unguents. Who pray decoyed them?
1185  I,  6    |              the courses of the moon unimpeded, an invariable succession
1186  I,  2    |              the Master through this unity of speech, and the senselessness
1187  I,  1    |       whereon I discoursed about the unlawfulness of speaking ill one of another,
1188  I,  1    |              the more they pour down unmixed wine, so much the rather
1189 III,  1   |               a clear testimony, and unquestionable reasoning, that in every
1190  I,  8    |                For his judgments are unsearchable and his ways past finding
1191  I,  8    | incomprehensible let us yield to the unsearchableness of His wisdom. For if it
1192  I,  5    |             cutting off much that is unserviceable, so as through the rejection
1193  I,  6    |           the savage and inhuman and unsparing character of the wickedness
1194           | until
1195  I,  5    |              with dangers, diseases, untimely deaths. For He is full of
1196 III,  5   |        hunger was to him strange and unusual. For not even was he able
1197 III,  5   |             calamity in which he was unversed, experiencing the immense
1198 II,  1    |              aside our fatigue, were uplifted with pleasure; we saw his
1199 III,  3   |         there are purposes which are upright, and purposes which are
1200  I,  7    |     forbearance, self-restraint, and uprightness, and is adorned with all
1201  I,  8    |             in sins, chastening is a useful thing for us, sometimes
1202  I,  4    |          rightly, but they lapsed to utter folly. He took away again
1203 III,  1   |             word would not have been uttered. But to be stung, and pinched
1204 III,  4   |           deceived me," she paid the uttermost penalty. For it was in her
1205 III,  4   |              and puffing her up with vain hopes, thus he deceived
1206 III,  4   |             from the defeated to the vanquisher, from the conquered to the
1207 II,  6    |       repentance? They are many, and various, and different, and all
1208 II,  3    |           made it thus beautiful and vast hear a certain one saying, "
1209 II,  3    |        certain one saying, "From the vastness and beauty of the creatures,
1210 III,  3   |          were parallel, and that the verdict given proceeds from those
1211 III,  5   |            which come upon them. For verily, there is no human suffering
1212  I,  1    |            his teaching, seems to be vexatious, but he who meets with eager,
1213  I,  5    |             and leading us away from vice. This too, it is possible
1214 III,  4   |       steadfastness was owing to his vigilance of soul?~
1215 III,  5   |             I have held myself to be vile, and am wasted away, and
1216 III,  3   |            but the opposite. See the villany of the Devil. He said that
1217  I,  5    |              protect the root of the vine, nor hedge it round but
1218 II,  1    |              compulsion, nor through violence. Since were this so, he
1219 III,  6   |              law of nature, but by a violent and pitiable death. Who
1220  I,  7    |       chastened, and of those living virtuously, yea some even enjoying
1221 III,  4   |          belongs to her uncontrolled vision, not to the deceit alone
1222 III,  6   |             sleep, and terrify me in visions?" What man of iron what
1223 II,  2    |           with gluttony, unprepared, void of strength, nerveless;
1224 III,  6   |             in such excessive degree waged then against this noble
1225  I,  3    |               to take away the gift? Wait, and thou shalt fully hear.
1226 II,  6    |           not thou then be lazy; but walk in all these day by day.
1227  I,  3    |            fatal leaps; and if these walls were set at nought, whither
1228  I,  5    |              a fever of sins, and by want, and hunger, and death and
1229  I,  3    |             with blood, and when God wanted him to be still, to refuse
1230  I,  5    |           seizes this nature of ours wantoning in prosperity, and travailing
1231 II,  1    |              thought fit to shew his warm love thus, and deigned to
1232  I,  1    |            your heart was the rather warmed, your desire was the rather
1233  I,  2    |            foreseeing that we should waste the gift nevertheless gave
1234  I,  5    |              into baths and pools of water, nor yet when he sets before
1235  I,  2    |            to whom it was entrusted, waxed evil over their charge.
1236 II,  4    |             with him. And nothing is weaker than he who has come into
1237 III,  4   |          these things beset him, and weighed upon him, stood nobly and
1238  I,  5    |      tortures are prepared; both the wheel and the stocks, and the
1239           | whereas
1240  I,  1    |             day particularly shewed: whereon I discoursed about the unlawfulness
1241           | whither
1242  I,  7    |             with unchaste eyes,26 is wholly an adulterer, and of this
1243  I,  1    |            who meets with eager, and wide-awake, and attentive hearers,
1244  I,  1    |             the teaching spread more widely, then accordingly, then
1245 III,  4   |           bare of all his goods, her wiles were added. But in the other
1246 III,  6   |              to hinder them, but not willing.~Behold then! thou hast
1247  I,  4    |       liberty to do all things as he wills. But still as one about
1248  I,  1    |          more they pour down unmixed wine, so much the rather they
1249  I,  1    |         thing is happening which the winebibbers at heathen drinking-bouts
1250 II,  3(5) |                                      Wisd. xiii. 5. ~
1251 III,  5   |      fulfilment of them. And if thou wishest, let us first bring forward
1252  I,  1    |        another, when I furnished you witha sure subject for self accusation,
1253  I,  7    |           most excellent change, and wondering at his tolerance, to have
1254 III,  3   |         great, both of their natural wool, their progeny, and their
1255 III,  5   |              wasted, and a stream of worms on every side issued from
1256 III,  3   |            advantage, turn out to be worsted. On this account, we made
1257  I,  3    |              wicked Demon to be more worth believing than the commandments
1258  I,  3    |            holding the traces of the wrath of God still in his hands,
1259 II,  2    |           also two athletes about to wrestle gainst him, and of these
1260 II,  1    |             he himself overcomes and wrestles down ten thousand and if
1261 II,  2    |              passing his time in the wrestling school, in many gymnastic
1262 III,  7   |            was terrible. But now our wrestlings have become easier, all
1263 III,  2   |       austere man." O miserable, and wretched, ungrateful and lazy man!
1264 II,  4    |            learn this from Paul: for writing about the fornicator he
1265  I,  1(4) |                                Matt. x. 3. ~
1266 II,  6(25)|                                 Mark xii. 42. ~
1267  I,  5(18)|                                 Isa. xiv. 7. ~
1268 II,  6(19)|                                 Isa. xliii. 26. ~
1269  I,  1(2) |                               1 Cor. xv. 8,9. ~
1270 II,  1(2) |                              Ecclus. xvi. 3.~
1271  I,  3(13)|                                 Luke xxiii. 43. ~
1272 II,  6(20)|                                  Ps. xxxii. 5. ~
1273  I,  1(5) |                                  Ps. xxxvii. 5. ~
1274           | Yes
1275  I,  8    |              incomprehensible let us yield to the unsearchableness
1276 III,  4   |              For she was defeated by yielding to her own desire, not by
1277           | yourselves
1278  I,  5    |              which renders them more zealous, which leads them on to