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 1  Marc  |  chastity, sings on this wise, "Better it is to have no children,
 2 Theoph |     example, that you may still better understand how the creative
 3 Theoph |     setting forth that which is better and sweeter, did not intend
 4  Thal  |   Church. For those who are the better, and who embrace the truth
 5  Thal  |       let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn."
 6  Thal  |      life, teaching that it was better that a man who had been
 7  Thal  |         flood,48 but judging it better than burning. Just as though,
 8  Thal  |      and to please God, is much better than to care for the things
 9  Thal  |   preserve his flesh pure, does better; but he that is unable,
10 Procil |        brings forward a witness better than all those who are praised.
11 Procil |     sister, my spouse! how much better is thy love than wine! and
12 Procil |      who, being inferior to the better ones, have practised righteousness,
13 Thekla |      melting away your hopes in better things; but shake off incessantly
14 Thekla |       the invisible heaven, but better and more resplendent, so
15 Thekla |     Elkesaios and others, it is better not even to make mention.~
16 Thekla |      Mathematicians.~If it were better, O wretched ones, that man
17 Thekla |       changed human life into a better state and government than
18 Thekla |     life. But the ancients were better than those of the present
19 Thekla |   seasons, they are divine, and better than men; for these must
20 Thekla |         these must needs pass a better life, and a blessed and
21 Thekla |      actions, and doing nothing better than men, if at least our
22 Thekla |     order to that of God, being better than the virtue of the best
23 Thekla |         And if the righteous be better than the unrighteous, and
24 Thekla |    things.~If the temperate are better than the incontinent, and
25 Thekla |  temperance, being a virtue, is better than that which is in accordance
26 Thekla |        and the temperate be the better, and that of the opposite
27 Thekla |      worse; and if those of the better character be near to God
28 Thekla |        who are injured, it were better that the evil should not
29 Thekla |         not the cause. If it is better to be righteous than to
30 Thekla |        laws, that he may become better, he is so tempered as possessing
31 Tusiane|       tabernacle to greater and better things, ascending into the
32 Arete  |     Thee.~Thekla. 16. It is far better for me to die than to betray
33 Arete  |      Chapter III.-Which are the Better, the Continent, or Those
34 Arete  |      which shall we say are the better, those who without lust
35 Arete  |     words, it is that I may the better learn, and that no one hereafter
36 Arete  |      who is not concupiscent is better than he who is. If I cannot,
37 Arete  |         from hence we shall the better go on to the discovery of
38 Arete  |        the port of chastity, is better and more estimable than
39 Arete  |       wrestling? Whether is the better wrestler he who has many
40 Arete  | Euboulios.And if stronger, then better?~Gregorion.Truly.~Euboulios.
41 Arete  |     from what has been said, is better than that which is not concupiscent,