Letter, Par.

   1  I, 1|                                       1. Come now let me relieve
   2  I, 1|             these calamities I do not abandon the hope of better things,
   3 IV, 2|              my disorder had slightly abated I began to form plans for
   4 IV, 2|              was coming to an end and abating. Pharetrius however nowhere
   5 II, 2|            neither saw them laid upon abed, nor kissed their hands,
   6 II, 3|          Christ is far better, but to abide in the flesh is more necessary
   7 IV, 1|               which my fame is spread abroad, when you ought to leap
   8 IV, 2|           toil, the strain, the total absence of attendants, the difficulty
   9 II, 1|             wholesome climate, and an abundant supply of the necessaries
  10 IV, 5|               whether he is likely to accomplish anything by going thither
  11      | according
  12 II, 2|              head and crown of things accounted painful, namely death, terrible
  13 IV, 4|               vexed at your saying "I accumulate sorrowful thoughts, even
  14  I, 5|              may reckon up everything accurately and compare them with the
  15  I, 1|           frauds, calumnies, insults, accusations, confiscation, exile, the
  16  I, 4|            the more clearly. And they accused Him of usurping kingly power
  17 II, 3|            the Lord." And when he was accusing others of another very awful
  18 III  |              of what has been already achieved becomes the ground of cheerfulness,
  19 IV, 5|              been laid to rest, after achieving many great exploits: and
  20  I, 5|            tumults. For when they had acquired much confidence by means
  21  V   |     concerning thy golden soul, which acquires therefrom the greatest riches
  22 II, 2|               they were about to die, acts which tend not a little
  23  I, 3|        perverted, from the evangelist adding the remark "for neither
  24 IV, 2|             my tertian malady. And in addition to this there was the fatigue
  25 II, 3|            and just man it becomes an additional ground of the greatest confidence.
  26 III  |             the very gates of death I address this letter to the discreet
  27 III  |               you deserve superlative admiration, inasmuch as after so many
  28 III  |              indeed always fitting to admire those who pursue virtue,
  29 III  |           They indeed before they had advanced far in the contest, even
  30 IV, 1|    intercourse or partnership with my adversaries. Therefore to avoid upsetting
  31 III  |        dismayed by the number of your adversities, that you are all the more
  32  I, 2|           Nevertheless, you will say, adversity is a terrible thing and
  33 II, 4|               the unlimited amount of advice and exhortation which you
  34 IV, 2|              placed and not daring to advise me either to go out to certain
  35 II, 2|             in a brief moment of time affecting his lands, his house, his
  36 IV, 1|            and show you all manner of affectionate regard; and he has set the
  37 II, 2|                What then is it that I affirm? Not the spoliation of goods,
  38 II, 4|                inasmuch as you lately affirmed that it was nothing but
  39 IV, 2|               which was so grievously afflicting me, nor anything else made
  40 IV, 5|        accomplished there through his agency, and for what purpose he
  41 II, 1|           life, consider how great an aggravation of distress is occasioned
  42  I, 3|           were already irritated, and agitated by ill-will, and consumed
  43 IV, 2|             were in terror, and in an agony of alarm the very soil of
  44  I, 4|             increased. For some said "Ah! thou that destroyest the
  45  I, 2|             but ceasing to invoke the aid of this or that person,
  46 II, 1|              Now if you say that your ailments have been produced by despondency
  47 II, 1|             in contact with the outer air, I suffer no small damage.
  48 IV, 2|            terror, and in an agony of alarm the very soil of their country
  49  I, 5|              the disciples were again alarmed, fugitive, and distressed.
  50 III  |             severe onslaught, nor any alarming muster of the enemy's force,
  51 IV, 3|            presbyter (for he also had alighted from his mule), and so I
  52 II, 4|           small consolation that I am alive, and in good health, and
  53 IV, 2|              find some physicians and allay this fiery fever; for it
  54 II, 1|             cured my disorder; for it allays the deep internal inflammation,
  55  I, 2|           shadows (for such are human alliances), do thou persistently call
  56 II, 3|             think that the labour now allotted to you is a slight one,
  57 IV, 5|              wrote to me asking to be allowed to depart to his own country,
  58      | almost
  59      | along
  60 II, 4|         health permits you, recite it aloud. For if you will, it may
  61  I, 5|              did not. And thus amidst alternate trials, and respites from
  62  V   |            rest, and treading worldly ambitions under foot. Or do they threaten
  63  I, 5|        entertainers did not. And thus amidst alternate trials, and respites
  64      | among
  65 IV, 3|           many of my sins, and afford ample material for obtaining praise
  66 IV, 4|            Antonius, and the third by Anatolius my servant; two of them
  67 III  |              bring their ship to some anchorage, or island or shore. But
  68 III  |              have met me just as I am anchoring at last in harbour. For
  69  I, 5|           brought out of prison by an angel and so released from their
  70 IV, 2|      reasonable, but they pressed on, animated by such fierce rage that
  71 IV, 4|              saying, "perhaps you are annoyed with me as having neglected
  72 III  |        confined chamber you serve and anoint the combatants for the contest,
  73  V   |               contests which you have anticipated in your training you now
  74 IV, 4|       character, no less than that of Antioch. So great is the warmth,
  75 IV, 4|          proconsular soldiers, one by Antonius, and the third by Anatolius
  76 III  |               my great affection, and anxiety, and solicitude for your
  77  I, 4|            broken) after the manifest appearance of the truth. For the multitude
  78 IV, 3|      attention, and treated me as the apple of their eye; I suppose
  79 II, 1|              no more than three days' application of it cured my infirmity.
  80 IV, 5|              and who have no right to appoint, and the other is that any
  81 IV, 5|               that a bishop should be appointed by these men who have wrought
  82 III  |       relieved. For as soon as spring approached, and a little change in
  83  I, 3|               have all received their appropriate correction, save some few
  84 II, 4|               and after my sojourn in Arabissus. Yet I have survived all
  85 II, 1|              the mischief which might arise from them; keeping up a
  86 II, 1|              what it is wont to be in Armenia; nothing more need be said
  87 II, 4|           great security, so that all Armenians are astonished that with
  88 III  |            stronger than ten thousand armies, more powerful than arms,
  89  I, 3|       disciples of Christ. "For there arose" it is said, "a questioning
  90 II, 1|           remedy also yourself and to arrange that some more of it may
  91 IV, 4|               lord Dioscorus does and arranges everything so as to prevent
  92  I, 2|             power of God, the supreme artificer, was displayed, and shone
  93  I, 5|           houses of common people and artisans when they were driven out
  94 IV, 5|            the affairs in Persia. And ascertain from him, if you can, what
  95 IV, 3|             were at hand, for she was ashamed to mention the compulsion
  96 IV, 5|            bishop: for he wrote to me asking to be allowed to depart
  97  I, 4|               the midst of the Jewish assembly? and when the servant of
  98  I, 4|           that dreadful and monstrous assertion that the robber and housebreaker,
  99 IV, 3|    perplexity-we had no companion, no assistant, for all had deserted us.
 100 II, 4|             so that all Armenians are astonished that with such a feeble
 101 IV, 1|             and expressing wonder and astonishment at the ill-treatment to
 102  I, 4|            who were offended and went astray, how many of the disciples
 103 II, 1|             owing to the state of the atmosphere, I had recourse amongst
 104 II, 4|           robbers who have repeatedly attacked us, and yet in daily want
 105 III  |               subject to these severe attacks, have not only avoided falling
 106 IV, 2|              my lord Ruffinus (a most attentive friend she was to me), exhorted
 107 IV, 3|              the barbarians should be attracted by the light and attack
 108  I, 5|           were driven out by those in authority; they were courteously treated
 109 II, 3|            now) this bodily infirmity availed for his salvation; and he
 110 II, 1|           have devised many plans for averting the mischief which might
 111 IV, 1|             adversaries. Therefore to avoid upsetting them do not let
 112 III  |         severe attacks, have not only avoided falling into such a condition
 113 IV, 1|                the lord Pharetrius is awaiting you, and going about in
 114 II, 1|               reward even of sickness awaits one who has a thankful spirit?
 115 II, 3|       accusing others of another very awful sin, that of partaking unworthily
 116 III  |           exploits; for I also who am banished to so great a distance gain
 117  I, 3|               Jordan, behold the same baptizeth and all men come to Him."
 118 II, 2|               one were to be stripped bare of all one's possessions,
 119  I, 4|               away from Him. And that base Suspicion which his enemies
 120 III  |            the contrary after so many battles and such large muster of
 121 II, 2|             the other calamities were bearable, as loss of child, or property,
 122 IV, 5|                and the deacon was the bearer of a letter from the king
 123 IV, 2|              that they had shamefully beaten many of the proconsular
 124  V   |            having practised this most beautiful art in the course of your
 125      | becoming
 126  I, 3|            casteth out devils through Beelzebub the prince of the Devils"
 127 III  |             you bear the things which befall you so bravely, calling
 128 IV, 1|            certainly the things which befell me were very grievous: and
 129 II, 4|              for the same position. I beg you therefore to go over
 130      | beginning
 131 II, 3|      sacrificed his own son, his only begotten, who had been given him
 132 II, 1|               Do not be anxious on my behalf, nor rack yourself with
 133  I, 3|            Him, although John himself behaved reverently to Him, and they
 134 IV, 1|             do you lament? why do you belabour yourself, and demand of
 135  I, 4|               able to manufacture the belief that He was worse than the
 136  I, 4|            not even he who buried Him belonged to his own friends, to those
 137  I, 3|             the abundance of resource belonging to God? His wisdom, His
 138  I, 3|               than of the Saviour and benefactor. How many think you then
 139  I, 4|         friends, to those whom He had benefited, to his disciples, to those
 140 IV, 4|            even if you are infinitely bent on being despondent. I at
 141 IV, 2|            with me, and entreated and beseeched me, saying "even if we are
 142 IV, 3|             against me but Pharetrius beset the lady as she says, straitly
 143      | besides
 144  I, 3|             not, come into being, and bestows existence on things which
 145  I, 4|               of the crucifixion? One betrayed Him, the others took to
 146  I, 1|               of grasping the rudder, bewailing the hopelessness of their
 147  I, 4|               were offended, how many bewildered, how many perplexed when
 148  V   |     fulfilling the Lord's precept who bids us pray that we may not
 149 IV, 1|            leap and dance for joy and bind wreaths upon your brow,
 150  I, 3|          become immediately after his birth a wanderer and a fugitive?
 151 IV, 4|            one to fear so much as the bishops, with a few exceptions.
 152  I, 1|        situation with sharp cries and bitter lamentations, neither sky
 153  I, 1|              it because of the fierce black storm which has overtaken
 154 II, 3|              death now is exempt from blame, but hearken to the voice
 155  I, 2|              the wrath of the king to blaze even more fiercely than
 156 II, 3|           things yet he obtained this blessing inasmuch as he cheerfully
 157  I, 3|         cruelty, which caused so much bloodshed, and forbore to prevent
 158 IV, 3|           befallen me, would avail to blot out many of my sins, and
 159 IV, 2|            but covered with shame and blushes (for they said that these
 160 IV, 2|       threatening them with blows and boasted that they had shamefully
 161 II, 2|           toil, nor imprisonment, and bondage, nor reproaches, and abuse,
 162  I, 2|               fire was bound, and the bondmen were released; and the furnace
 163 II, 3|        meaning by this the blows, the bonds, the chains, the imprisonments,
 164  I, 2|              thing and grievous to be borne. Yet look at it again compared
 165 II, 3|                and he departed to the bosom of the man who possessed
 166 IV, 5|             for them to sail into the Bosporus or into those parts at the
 167  I, 4|            was a fabrication, and was bought for money; nevertheless
 168  I, 2|               thou servest, merely to bow his head; and in a moment
 169 III  |              have been upset; so also boys have been proclaimed conquerors.
 170  V   |               soul should become more braced, and your zeal and energy
 171  V   |                when it lays hold of a brave and noble soul, this is
 172 III  |        rushing down upon them, or the breakers seething with an abundance
 173  I, 1|               the planks of the ships breaking up, the sails torn to tatters,
 174  I, 3|             and infants torn from the breast were handed over to death,
 175  I, 4|               to draw even their last breath upon the earth? And then
 176 II, 4|         amount of cold, or that I can breathe at all, when those who are
 177 II, 2|           great storm stirred up in a brief moment of time affecting
 178 III  |       surround me, being cheered, and brightened, and not a little proud
 179 II, 3|           just, shining far above the brightness of the sun, and it is the
 180  I, 4|          seals (of the sepulchre were broken) after the manifest appearance
 181 II, 2|             not of excess, a table of brotherly kindness, they were all
 182 IV, 1|            and bind wreaths upon your brow, because I have been deemed
 183 III  |              exertion to wreathe your brows with the garland prize of
 184 II, 3|               a messenger of Satan to buffet me" meaning by this the
 185 II, 3|          bodily infirmity, yet he was buffeted by trials not less severe,
 186  I, 4|             temple, and in three days buildest it up;" and some, "He saved
 187  I, 5|            and the ruined places were built up more firmly than before.
 188 II, 3|       greatest sins from the heaviest burden of them; or if any one is
 189  I, 4|            body. Thus not even he who buried Him belonged to his own
 190 III  |               winds, and fierce waves burst upon you together, and the
 191 IV, 2|           arrived late one evening at Cae;sarea, in an exhausted and
 192  I, 4|               king is not a friend of Caesar" bringing this charge of
 193 III  |          which befall you so bravely, calling them all but an idle tale;
 194  I, 1|             the storm by his art, but calms the raging waters by his
 195  I, 3|             to work miracles how many calumniators He had! Some called Him
 196  I, 1|              plots, enmities, frauds, calumnies, insults, accusations, confiscation,
 197  I, 4|               Moreover they brought a calumnious accusation of blasphemy
 198 IV, 4|              were a salutary medicine capable of reviving any one who
 199 IV, 1|          about to enter the region of Cappadocia, having escaped from that
 200  I, 2|            exiles from their country, captives deprived of their liberty,
 201  V   |          power which is proof against capture and conquest and rises superior
 202 III  |              who after an illustrious career in the priesthood, and after
 203  I, 3|            were destroyed? But I must carry my argument yet further
 204  I, 3|                a sorcerer" saying "He casteth out devils through Beelzebub
 205  I, 4|               dead, cleansing lepers, casting out devils, multiplying
 206 IV, 5|             of meeting the threatened catastrophe with a view to its correction
 207 II, 2|             his lands, his house, his cattle, and his children, when
 208  I, 3|              who perish, many who are caught by snares. Many such things
 209 III  |          neither feeling distress nor causing it to others, but as it
 210 III  |           easy for me to deceive your cautious spirit, by sending good
 211 III  |             their citadel. And whilst ceaselessly contending with demons,
 212  I, 2|           happening trouble thee, but ceasing to invoke the aid of this
 213 II, 2|            and wine, the cups and the ceiling, the table, and the dust,
 214 III  |               or occupying the public centres of the city, but sitting
 215 IV, 1|            one know these things. For certainly the things which befell
 216 IV, 2|       imminent, and death well nigh a certainty, and the fever was oppressing
 217 IV, 4|     inhabiting a prison and wearing a chain? or in being ill-treated
 218 III  |           inside harbour; and if they chance to be tempest-tossed in
 219 II, 1|               the quick succession of changes in your condition do not
 220  V   |      affliction when it visits golden characters renders them purer and more
 221  I, 4|              of Caesar" bringing this charge of usurpation against one
 222 II, 3|            when we are judged, we are chastened of the Lord, that we should
 223 II, 3|         derive much benefit from such chastisement is plain from the case of
 224  V   |           counted by thee as dust and cheaper than dirt. Or shall it be
 225  I, 4|            when they smote Him on the cheek and said "prophesy unto
 226 III  |              which surround me, being cheered, and brightened, and not
 227 II, 2|             were bearable, as loss of child, or property, or anything
 228  I, 4|               the judge to make their choice preferred Barabbas, desiring
 229 III  |            return to your own land; a chronic sufferer from the most severe
 230  V   |              warm affection, in which Chrysostom wrote to his intimate friends.
 231 II, 3|      important ministry, and made the circuit of the world with Paul passed
 232 IV, 3|              night without a moon - a circumstance which filled up the measure
 233 III  |            tyranny and levelled their citadel. And whilst ceaselessly
 234  I, 3|             and the depraved populace clamoured for the preservation of
 235  I, 1|            pilots seated on the deck, clasping their knees with their hands
 236  I, 4|           miracles, raising the dead, cleansing lepers, casting out devils,
 237 IV, 2|           Isaurians, provided you get clear away from us. For wherever
 238 II, 2|              therefore try to make it clearer. What then is it that I
 239 III  |     especially when some are found to cling to it at a time when many
 240 II, 2|              he shut their mouths, or close their eyes when they were
 241 III  |             me as I spent all my time closely confined to my bed, and
 242  I, 4|              the High Priest rent his clothes saying "He hath spoken blasphemy;
 243  I, 1|            thoughts which gather this cloud of care around thee. For
 244 III  |            and voyagers when they see clouds gathering up, or fierce
 245  V   |          woman's body, feebler than a cobweb, treading under foot with
 246 IV, 3|             or maltreat me, he was to collect the labourers from her other
 247 IV, 1|               your soul, you go about collecting distressing thoughts, even
 248 II, 3|               is the freight which he collects. Do not then think that
 249 III  |              you serve and anoint the combatants for the contest, and whilst
 250 III  |       manifold kinds of wrestling and combats. And very naturally so;
 251 IV, 2|             by degrees the malady was coming to an end and abating. Pharetrius
 252 II, 3|              home on account of God's command, and sacrificed his own
 253 II, 3|         releases any one who may have committed the greatest sins from the
 254 III  |            which has become more than commonly severe, brought on a storm
 255 IV, 1|          communion with me and had no communication or intercourse or partnership
 256 II, 4|        exceeding the limits of former communications. Deem it then no small consolation
 257 IV, 1|             declare that they were in communion with me and had no communication
 258 IV, 3|              our perplexity-we had no companion, no assistant, for all had
 259  I, 4|            was led away bound without companions. How many then think you
 260  I, 5|             everything accurately and compare them with the misfortunes,
 261  I, 3|             argument about purifying, comparing one kind of baptism with
 262  I, 2|            labours of the heroes were completed, and the garland of victory
 263  I, 1|          power, or honour; but having comprised all the things which are
 264 IV, 3|            was ashamed to mention the compulsion which she had undergone.
 265 III  |               occasioned me no little concern to learn that my discreet
 266 IV, 5|              the Bishop, as far as it concerns you, so as to lift him up
 267 II, 3|           Lord, that we should not be condemned with the world." Moreover
 268 II, 1|          which avail to correct these conditions. For a few days ago when
 269 IV, 1|             Caesarea, here again your conduct is unworthy of yourself.
 270 IV, 4|          desponding or stumbling, and conducting him into a healthy state
 271  I, 2|             state of tranquillity and conducts them to an unexpected settlement.
 272  I, 2|            choose to do this, thereby conferring great pain upon them. Therefore
 273 II, 4|               have yourself made this confession I shall not believe that
 274 II, 4|               the bath, nor perpetual confinement in one chamber as in a prison,
 275  I, 5|             to have, that you are not confounded with sorrow, that you do
 276  I, 5|            and involved the Church in confusion; and the disciples were
 277 IV, 4|             cold. And if I may form a conjecture from the outset of my experience,
 278 III  |             boys have been proclaimed conquerors. while aged men have been
 279  V   |             proof against capture and conquest and rises superior to all
 280 IV, 4|               are distressed lest the consequences of my ill-treatment should
 281 III  |        withstand every kind of storm; consequently they often shrink from doing
 282  V   |             what is quite natural and consonant to reason, that by a constant
 283 III  |                And whilst ceaselessly contending with demons, you have won
 284 II, 4|          which I now send your honour contends for the same position. I
 285 IV, 3|               even then they were not content to desist from their fury
 286  V   |              much repetition in their contents, and great general similarity
 287  I, 5|              those days the disciples continued to live in hiding and secrecy,
 288 II, 3|               that he might therefrom contract a very great abundance of
 289 III  |               and in spite of endless contrivances I could not shake off the
 290  I, 4|           Suspicion which his enemies contrived in consequence of the resurrection
 291  I, 3|             sinners." And when he was conversing with the harlot they called
 292  I, 3|             those who have fallen, to convert those who are in error,
 293  I, 2|         ungratified, then He suddenly converts all things to a state of
 294 III  |         amount of smoke, and remained cooped up in one chamber, covered
 295 II, 1|              medicines which avail to correct these conditions. For a
 296 II, 2|               were reclining on their couches at a banquet, a banquet
 297 II, 1|             my most honoured lord the Count Theophilus be exhorted to
 298 II, 2|             that you are to think the courageous endurance of such things
 299  I, 2|           higher dignity than a royal court, and the very hairs of their
 300  I, 5|               in authority; they were courteously treated in every way, by
 301  I, 3|              was He not from the very cradle removed with the whole household
 302 III  |            are rising to a crest, and crags and reefs, and rocky ledges
 303 IV, 5|               they are not anxious to create some worthy man bishop,
 304  I, 2|            men inviting every kind of created thing to join in the wondrous
 305 II, 2|               redounds so much to the credit of any one as patient endurance
 306 III  |               billows are rising to a crest, and crags and reefs, and
 307  I, 1|        monsters of the sea attack the crews on every side.~But how much
 308  I, 1|            their situation with sharp cries and bitter lamentations,
 309  I, 4|                the man laden with the crime of murder deserved to be
 310  I, 4|               offenders? of execrable criminals? was it not of the vilest
 311  V   |              encompass thee, and many crowds of wicked doers, I fear
 312  I, 4|           offended at the time of the crucifixion? One betrayed Him, the others
 313  I, 4|        Barabbas, desiring not only to crucify Christ, but also to involve
 314 II, 2|       destruction of his children, so cruelly inflicted moreover that
 315 II, 2|              and blood, and wine, the cups and the ceiling, the table,
 316 IV, 2|              howling, and imprecating curses on the perpetrator of these
 317  I, 1|             and speedily, such is His custom - He does not at the beginning
 318 II, 4|               attacked us, and yet in daily want of the necessaries
 319 II, 1|          outer air, I suffer no small damage. Wherefore I beseech thee
 320 IV, 1|            when you ought to leap and dance for joy and bind wreaths
 321 IV, 2|            and none of the presbyters dared to stand by me and help
 322 III  |               the midst of a storm of darts and turn the spears which
 323  I, 1|            the masts sprung, the oars dashed out of the sailors' hands,
 324  I   |         Reverend And Divinely Favored Deaconess Olympias, I John, Bishop,
 325  I, 4|            servant of the High-Priest dealt Him a blow; and when the
 326 II, 1|              have said constantly and dearly in your mind, listen once
 327 IV, 4|             mention that which is the debt of nature: a thing which
 328  I, 3|            dead, to restore lustre to decayed things,and freshness to
 329  I, 3|               hast a Devil" others "a deceiver," saying "This man is not
 330  I, 3|            This man is not of God but deceiveth the multitude" others "a
 331  I, 1|              the pilots seated on the deck, clasping their knees with
 332  I, 1|        sorrows relating to this life, declared the whole truth in one sentence
 333 IV, 1|             brow, because I have been deemed worthy of so great an honour
 334 II, 1|        cheerfulness, but have sunk so deeply under the tyranny of despondency
 335 II, 4|              are found susceptible of degradation. ~
 336 IV, 2|               condition. At length by degrees the malady was coming to
 337  I, 1|            why art thou sorrowful and dejected? Is it because of the fierce
 338 IV, 5|           view to its correction save delay and postponement (as it
 339 III  |             joy; I am in a flutter of delight, I am insensible to my present
 340 III  |               am exceedingly glad and delighted to hear, not only that you
 341 IV, 2|            the hands of the Isaurians deliver us from these wild beasts."
 342 II, 3|          sinned. On this account Paul delivers the man who had made the
 343  I, 3|            called Him a Samaritan and demoniac saying "Thou art a Samaritan
 344 III  |           ceaselessly contending with demons, you have won countless
 345  I, 4|            others took to flight, one denied Him, and when all had abandoned
 346 III  |              thriving and robust, not depressed by insults, nor elated by
 347 II, 2|             the calamities which were depressing him; and when he underwent
 348 II, 4| unskillfulness of physicians, nor the deprivation of the bath, nor perpetual
 349  V   |              treading under foot with derisive scorn the fury of lusty
 350 III  |               for these contests, and descend into the lists with all
 351  I, 1|            material even more flimsy, describing the whole of it "as the
 352 IV, 3|             no assistant, for all had deserted us. Nevertheless under the
 353 III  |               at a time when many are deserting it. Therefore, my sweet
 354  I, 4|              with the crime of murder deserved to be released rather than
 355  I, 1|             amongst men under the one designation of glory he said "all the
 356 IV, 3|              they were not content to desist from their fury against
 357 II, 4|               not call your household desolate, which has now a higher
 358  I, 1|           most persons are reduced to despair, then He works wondrously,
 359  I, 2|              when all they who beheld despaired of their rescue, suddenly,
 360 IV, 4|          having neglected you," yet I despatched a letter many days ago to
 361  I, 2|          image and then also learn to despise it. For the railings, and
 362 III  |             do a mortal body, and yet despising death as if you were hastening
 363 IV, 4|              infinitely bent on being despondent. I at least have not ceased,
 364 IV, 4|              reviving any one who was desponding or stumbling, and conducting
 365 II, 4|              case. For if it were not destined to happen, I should long
 366  I, 3|             done by him who sought to destroy Jesus, yet the long-suffering
 367  I, 4|              some said "Ah! thou that destroyest the temple, and in three
 368 II, 2|          invent any further shameless device, but hid his face and retreated.~
 369 III  |               they do their best, and devise every means to bring their
 370 IV, 5|           substance: even so they who devote themselves to the work in
 371  I, 2|               prevailed over that all devouring element which gets the better
 372 IV, 5|            great service (for he is a devout, inflexible, and zealous
 373  I, 2|              a place of fountains and dew, of higher dignity than
 374 II, 2|               when they were about to die, acts which tend not a little
 375  V   |                and for those who have died a blessed death, not in
 376 III  |         require great care as regards diet; therefore I put only a
 377 IV, 3|             impossible through such a difficult country, and amongst steep
 378 III  |             so that it may be able to digest it easily. But it has occasioned
 379  I, 2|          fountains and dew, of higher dignity than a royal court, and
 380 IV, 5|             what will follow. Use all diligence therefore to prevent either
 381 IV, 5|              about to say, but to pay diligent heed to it. The Marsian
 382 II, 1|              benefit from them in the direction of cheerfulness, but have
 383 IV, 1|                and going about in all directions for fear of missing the
 384  V   |              as dust and cheaper than dirt. Or shall it be by expulsion
 385  I, 1|             travailing to bring forth disastrous shipwrecks, and increasing
 386 II, 4|               time in such a habit of disci line and endurance are found
 387 II, 1|          person, and through letters, discoursed to you concerning this theme?
 388 IV, 1|               hands of Patricius have discovered to me the wounds which have
 389 III  |               hairs, have fallen into disgrace on this account, and become
 390 II, 4|             rouse yourself from these dismal swamps of despondency in
 391 IV, 4|              is?~As to the Isaurians, dismiss your fears in future concerning
 392 IV, 3|            destruction, after which I dismounted, and was dragged along on
 393 IV, 4|              every possible effort to dispel your affliction you do the
 394  I, 1|               of thy despondency, and disperse the thoughts which gather
 395  I, 2|            the supreme artificer, was displayed, and shone forth with exceeding
 396  I, 3|            although He had the power, displaying his long-suffering for some
 397  I, 3|       disciples who said these things disputed with a certain Jew and raised
 398 III  |             am banished to so great a distance gain no small cheerfulness
 399 II, 2|               and transportation to a distant land, nor the strain of
 400  I, 1|          present the tragedy yet more distinctly to thee. We behold a sea
 401  I, 3|              Why are you troubled and distracted because such a person is
 402 III  |       although my separation from you distresses you, yet you have this very
 403 IV, 2|       multitudes were overrunning the district of Caesarea, and had burnt
 404  I, 3|              let none of these things disturb thee. For our Master is
 405  V   |             not only being in no wise disturbed by the things which are
 406  I, 5|              this good employment may divert your mind from despondency;
 407  V   |           thee to do it, thou wouldst divest thyself of it more readily
 408 IV, 3|               to yourself, and not to divulge them to any one, although
 409  V   |             and many crowds of wicked doers, I fear nothing; but I pray
 410 IV, 3|      barbarians are upon us, they are dose at hand." Imagine my condition
 411  I, 2|             for they shall wax old as doth a garment, and like moth-eaten
 412 IV, 1|              be set to run the longer double course, in order that the
 413  V   |      anticipation, and if they should drag you to slaughter, they will
 414  V   |               slaughter, they will be dragging a body which is already
 415  I, 4|        brought all together, and this drama of iniquity was enacted
 416  I, 4|       offences, and are not worthy to draw even their last breath upon
 417 II, 1|           deep internal inflammation, draws out moisture on the skin,
 418 IV, 4|              Caesarea. And why do you dread the cold? for a suitable
 419  I, 4|          already said, they made that dreadful and monstrous assertion
 420 III  |           dead upon the water, others drifting naked upon planks, you plunging
 421  I, 3|            Son of man came eating and drinking and they say behold a gluttonous
 422 IV, 3|               and that the envy which drove me from Constantinople did
 423 II, 1|         amongst other remedies to the drug which was sent me by my
 424  I, 3|     gluttonous, and greedy man, and a drunkard, and a friend of the wicked
 425  V   |             home. But you know how to dwell in great and populous cities
 426 IV, 5|              cast on one side: for he eagerly and earnestly begged for
 427 II, 2|       destroyed at the same moment in early youth and by a violent end,
 428 IV, 5|              side: for he eagerly and earnestly begged for letters from
 429  I, 4|            their last breath upon the earth? And then as to the manner
 430  V   |               now undertake with much ease, although it be in a woman'
 431 III  |              may be able to digest it easily. But it has occasioned me
 432 III  |                it would not have been easy for me to deceive your cautious
 433  I, 3|            said, "the Son of man came eating and drinking and they say
 434 IV, 2|             But even then nothing was effected, and on the morrow the monks
 435 II, 4|             you will, it may prove an effectual remedy for you. But if you
 436 IV, 4|          ought to make every possible effort to dispel your affliction
 437  I, 2|               over that all devouring element which gets the better even
 438 III  |              defence, speaking in the eloquent voice of example, and through
 439      | elsewhere
 440 IV, 4|              what is only freedom and emancipation from care.~
 441 IV, 1|             endeavour to see you, and embrace you, and show you all manner
 442 II, 2|               Jeremiah that great and eminent prophet proves who was not
 443 II, 1|            beseech you, dear lady, to employ various and skilled physicians,
 444 IV, 1|              Dioscorus are constantly employed in providing for my refreshment.
 445  I, 5|               yourself with this good employment may divert your mind from
 446  I, 4|            this drama of iniquity was enacted in the capital city, and
 447 III  |         sensible of the horrors which encircled me, and day and dawn and
 448  V   |             though innumerable wolves encompass thee, and many crowds of
 449 III  |             but overthrown before the encounter and worsted before the struggle,
 450 IV, 1|        extreme was the danger which I encountered. Now I beseech you to keep
 451 II, 4|               said this now merely to encourage you, but I am sure that
 452 II, 4|         should deem this the greatest encouragement, and the crown of your consolation.
 453 III  |               my bed, and in spite of endless contrivances I could not
 454 IV, 3|              the lady being unable to endure his annoyance, announced,
 455 II, 4|               the sufferings which it endures. I was grievously distressed
 456  V   |             braced, and your zeal and energy for the struggle increased,
 457  I, 1|           dead upon the waves, others engulfed by them, the planks of the
 458  I, 1|              all other things, plots, enmities, frauds, calumnies, insults,
 459  I, 3|          straight those who have been ensnared, to release those who have
 460 IV, 2|           well nigh a dead man when I entered the city. Then indeed I
 461 II, 2|              novice in suffering, nor entering the lists for the first
 462  I, 5|        venture there themselves their entertainers did not. And thus amidst
 463 IV, 4|             that I have shaken myself entirely free from them, and that
 464 II, 3|              was such a good man, and entrusted with such an important ministry,
 465  I, 1|             has overtaken the Church, enveloping all things in darkness as
 466  I, 3|            the disciples of John were envious of Him and tried to slander
 467 IV, 3|               Pharetrius and that the envy which drove me from Constantinople
 468 IV, 5|            you have delivered the two epistles which I sent to him: and
 469  I, 3|              convert those who are in error, to set straight those who
 470 IV, 2|              and she sent some men to escort me, and so I departed thither.~
 471 IV, 2|           also gradually came out and escorted me, mourning as they went.
 472 III  |          those who pursue virtue, but especially when some are found to cling
 473 II, 4|               this luxury I am now so established in the habit that I do not
 474  I, 1|              all the things which are esteemed splendid amongst men under
 475  I, 3|              were perverted, from the evangelist adding the remark "for neither
 476 IV, 2|               when I arrived late one evening at Cae;sarea, in an exhausted
 477 IV, 3|               who were ex-vicars, and ex-governors, the ex-tribunes and indeed
 478 IV, 3|      ex-vicars, and ex-governors, the ex-tribunes and indeed the whole people
 479 IV, 3|              the learned men who were ex-vicars, and ex-governors, the ex-tribunes
 480 II, 4|             oppresses you, and do not exact inordinate and cruel penances
 481  I, 4|       scourged, streaming with blood, examined before the governor's tribunal,
 482 II, 3|             Except your righteousness exceed the righteousness of the
 483 IV, 1|             great an honour which far exceeds my merits? Is it the desolation
 484 IV, 5|       bringing word that Unilas, that excellent bishop whom I lately ordained
 485 II, 2|       perfection of crowns; and as it excels all other forms of righteousness,
 486      | Except
 487 IV, 4|               the bishops, with a few exceptions. On account of the Isaurians
 488 II, 2|          banquet full of love, not of excess, a table of brotherly kindness,
 489 II, 1|          infuses no little vigor, and excites an appetite for food; and
 490 IV, 3|          having roused me from sleep, exclaimed with a loud voice "Get up,
 491 II, 3|             not however that it is an excuse to justify you in desiring
 492  I, 4|              of capital offenders? of execrable criminals? was it not of
 493 II, 3|            yours you have a perpetual executioner residing with you.~
 494 II, 3|              to pray for death now is exempt from blame, but hearken
 495 II, 4|        unlimited amount of advice and exhortation which you enjoy I shall
 496 IV, 2|               not pay any heed to his exhortations, and in fact he was powerless.
 497 II, 4|             On this account Paul also exhorts Timothy to take the greatest
 498  I, 2|             power; that they had been exiles from their country, captives
 499  I, 3|               into being, and bestows existence on things which are nowhere
 500  V   |         nothing; but I pray both that existing temptations may be suppressed,