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1 Thekla | Divine; Virtue, in Greek 0Areth/, Whence So Called.1 ~Well,
2 Domn(2) | English Divines, vol. ii. p. 137.]~
3 Procil(18) | See Barnabas, vol. i. p. 147, this series; also Irenaeus (
4 Thal(36) | Opp., tom. ii. p. 506, ed. 1667.]~
5 Thekla(41) | Hom., Il., vi. 181. ~
6 Thekla(35) | translation, Edinburgh, 1875.]~
7 Arete | go to meet Thee.~Thekla. 20. In hymns, O blessed spouse
8 Tusiane(3) | English Divines, vol. i. p. 218.]~
9 Marc(3) | of Origen, vol. iv. pp. 225-226.]~
10 Marc(3) | Origen, vol. iv. pp. 225-226.]~
11 Tusiane(1) | beginning of the treatise, p. 310, note 2.]~
12 Thal(47) | See p. 316, supra (note), and also
13 Thekla(14) | i.e., the Church. See p 337, note 4, infra]~
14 Thal(37) | animae.-Calvin, Ib., p. 350.] ~
15 Arete(10) | The only one. See p. 355, Elucidation II., infra]~
16 Arete(11) | Telmesiake.-Tr. [Comp. p. 356, n. 2, infra]~
17 Thal(59) | 1 Cor. vii. 37. ~
18 Thal(47) | contra, see Lewin, vol. i. 382, 386.]~
19 Thal(47) | see Lewin, vol. i. 382, 386.]~
20 Procil(9) | 1 Cor. xv. 41, 42.~
21 Thal(54) | Holy Living, Works, i. p. 424.]~
22 Thal(58) | virginity, see Taylor, i. 426, ed. London, 1844.]~
23 Tusiane(20)| sec. 3, Works, vol. i. p. 427, ed. Bohn, 1844. This is
24 Marc(24) | Compare Cyprian, vol. v. p. 475, this series.]~
25 Agathe(7) | Luke xii. 49. The Latin version is certainly
26 Thal(36) | comment, Opp., tom. ii. p. 506, ed. 1667.]~
27 Theop(69) | Odyss. K'. 510.~
28 Procil(18) | Irenaeus (same vol.), p. 562, at note 11.]~
29 Thall(1) | Compare vol. v. p. 587, this series.]~
30 Thekla(35) | On the Six Days' Work, p. 71, translation, Edinburgh,
31 Thal(27) | a0naplhsqei/j. Migne has a0naplasqei\j, moulded.~
32 Thal(27) | Jahn's reading, a0naplhsqei/j. Migne has a0naplasqei\
33 Intro(7) | likeness of its name to a9gno/j."-Liddell and Scott.~
34 Domn(8) | r0a/mnoj, which is not = a@gnoj. It spoils the force of
35 Thal(40) | quotation from St. Paul it is a@ptesqai; here it is prosyau/ein.
36 Thall(2) | Lit. game or toil, a@qlon.~
37 Theoph(2) | e@wj a@rti, even until now. John v.
38 Thekla | for nothing is alien and abhorrent to itself, and self-destructive,
39 Thekla | Virgins into the Blessed Abodes Before Others.~Those who
40 Theoph | Word did not altogether abolish the generation of children;
41 Theoph | Chapter I.-Marriage Not Abolished by the Commendation of Virginity.~
42 Marc(3) | I think evidence abounds, in the course of this allegory,
43 Arete | correction, recollection, and abstinence. For whoever teaches that
44 Theoph | who is discovered to have abstracted it unjustly should be punished.
45 Thekla | immortality, bearing in abundance flowers of inconceivable
46 Thal | take away occasion for the abuse of these passages from those
47 Thal | marriage an occasion for abusing your own vessels to uncleanness."
48 Agathe(7) | accurate, "Quid volo nisi ut accendatur?"-Tr. [A visionary interpretation
49 Agathe(6) | virgins. In the Greek the accented Iota might yet be associated
50 Arete | Thekla Chief of Virgins~I do accept it, Theopatra related that
51 Procil | beauty, of which the Lord accepts that which is within and
52 Thal | higher praise which Paul accords to chastity? "And this,"
53 Thekla | present to enlarge with accuracy, for fear of letting the
54 Theoph | and how, if they had to accuse their own parents, could
55 Thall | doctrines of men.If, too, I accustom my eyes not to lust after
56 Thekla | since they, too, wish to be acquainted with the heavenly ones,
57 Thall | full-grown man, he begins to acquire stability, and to make a
58 | across
59 Theoph | that inspired into him an active soul, and breathed in a
60 | actually
61 Thal(26) | and Calvin's Commentary, ad loc. Also his comment on
62 Procil | and domestic, and readily adapts itself to man's mode of
63 Tusiane | tabernacle with chastity. I will add the words themselves of
64 Marc | foremost for wisdom and addicted to nothing slothful or luxurious,
65 Thal | state of virginity, and adding expressly the following
66 Theoph | which perhaps any one who addresses you as a very wise person
67 Thal | Examined.~And here I may adduce the prophet Jeremiah as
68 Theoph | generation, and the entrance adjacent to the mountains to the
69 Thekla | pleasure? So that she was admired by every one who attended,
70 Thal | clay? And how shall he be admitted to be "the tree of life"
71 Thekla | stands upon our faith and adoption, under the figure of the
72 Tusiane | His honour a festal-day, adorning my tabernacle, that is my
73 Tusiane | delighted in those trivial adornments which they, preparing, fabricate
74 Theoph | perhaps concerning those who adulterate the truth, who, corrupting
75 Theoph | Chapter VI.-God Cares Even for Adulterous Births; Angels Given to
76 Marc | Heaven, Introduced Late; The Advancement of Mankind to Perfection,
77 Thekla | superior to ten thousand other advantages of virtue which we cultivate
78 Theop(82) | the Church, at the second Advent, when "the dead shall be
79 Thal | statement, showing that he had advised these things by human permission,
80 Arete | among my pursuits, rightly advises; which many think that they
81 Thal | would advance to this state, advising them to marry, lest in their
82 Thal | suitable that the oldest of the Aeons and the first of the Archangels,
83 Agathe | which has a relationship and affinity to divine wisdom. For the
84 Thekla | possessed of free-will, and affirm that he is governed by the
85 Domn | worn out with ills and afflicted, they again promised that
86 Tusiane | I also implore thee to afford me thine aid, lest I should
87 Thall | heavenly things which was afforded to them), was the third
88 Domn | fatigues and ailments, and affords light. For all lamp-light
89 Domn | Evil One was destroyed, who aforetime led captive and enslaved
90 Thal | therefore God, moistening him afresh and forming anew the same
91 Thal(5) | seems to have erred ever afterward in the other extreme. Here
92 Thal | easily effaced from the aged.~Euboulios. Say on, then;
93 Thall | and destroy men who are agitated by a desire for luxuries
94 Intro(7) | the Thesmophoria, vitex agnuscastus. It was associated with
95 Thekla | to come. But Christ, long ago conceived, was not caught
96 Thekla | Scriptures.13 If, then, you agree with this, it will not be
97 Tusiane | doubt, it will be shown how agreeable to God, and acceptable to
98 Thal | will it be most certainly agreed that the Church is formed
99 Theoph | discovered for the benefit of agriculture and the arts, injure those
100 Procil | the tree of knowledge, ran aground, the author of evil having
101 Theop(61) | i.e., ai0 yuxai/.~
102 Thekla(4) | ai0reth/.~
103 Thekla(5) | ai@rein.~
104 Domn | Chapter I.-Chastity Alone Aids and Effects the Most Praiseworthy
105 Domn | takes away our fatigues and ailments, and affords light. For
106 Thekla | called parqeni/a, what it aims at, what power it has, and
107 Agathe(2) | pneumatika\ th=j ponhri/aj (Eph. vi. 12). In E. V. "
108 Domn | of the Word, shall not be alarmed, nor frightened by him who
109 Tusiane | things are created by His all-sufficient will and inconceivable power;
110 Thal | into the way of the Spirit, allegorize the history of Adam and
111 Thal | also was, but afterwards allowing a second marriage to those
112 Thal | strength of animal passion, he allows that one who is in such
113 Theop(82) | Commentators have remarked the allusion to Phil. iii. 11. See Migne'
114 Theop | incorruption, sending it as an ally to those who are contending
115 Arete | fled stripped, and crying aloud:-~Chorus. I keep myself
116 Thall | it is fitting that the altars should signify some of the
117 Theop(83) | from the LXX., slightly alters the text, so as to make
118 Theoph | Chapter III.-An Ambiguous Passage of Scripture; Not
119 Arete | the heart by conceit and ambition. Nor when any one is conceited
120 Thal | that is able, he says, and ambitious to preserve his flesh pure,
121 Thekla(19) | necessary to observe, that amid many interpretations of
122 Thall | and pure, having nothing amiss; and the second and the
123 | amongst
124 Theop(75) | Amos iv. 5 (LXX.). The E. V.
125 Thekla | wild pleasures of unlawful amours. But those who, on light
126 Thal | those words of the Scripture amply and clearly, and to have
127 Marc | period of childhood, to amuse themselves like young animals,
128 Arete | ask rather for the sake of amusement than of truth.~Euboulios.
129 Thal | our pair, bring forth the analogical sense, looking more deeply
130 Procil(13) | fanciful and over-strained analogies.] ~
131 Thal | respects be similar and analogous to that of which it is the
132 Procil | orders, according to the analogy of the faith of each. And
133 Thal | first born and suckled, Ananias preaching to him, and renewing
134 Thekla | to a knowledge which is anathema?47 Well, then, either there
135 Thekla | men and beasts. But our ancestors lived without destiny. Let
136 Theop | have a calm, coming to an anchorage without damage, as also
137 Theop | become the giver to us. Anciently, then, after the fall of
138 Tusiane | and corruptible form into angelic size and beauty, where at
139 Thal(37) | 26. [Baptismus = lavacrum animae.-Calvin, Ib., p. 350.] ~
140 Thal | account of the strength of animal passion, he allows that
141 Intro(10) | the oration on Simeon and Anna, cap. 10, infra]~
142 Thall | means of sensible things, to announce beforehand the image of
143 Procil | Father.10 And here, also, He announces that the order and holy
144 Thekla | signs of the Zodiac in his annual periods, accomplishes the
145 Domn | helped by the law; the Spirit answering them back and reproaching
146 Intro(3) | Gregorion answers to the Diotima of Socrates
147 Theoph | round the middle by a strong antagonist, grew giddy, and with difficulty
148 Arete | who has many and strong antagonists, and continually is contending
149 Arete(16) | work. Possibly the epoch of Anthony had revived such discussions
150 Agathe | midnight is the kingdom of Antichrist, during which the destroying
151 Intro | happened, that some one might anticipate me.~Euboulios. Be comforted,
152 Thekla(9) | Baruch iii. 14, 15. The apocryphal book of Baruch, as bearing
153 Thall(26) | An apparent confusion between the altar
154 Thekla | behold only the shadows7 and apparitions, as in dreams, and think
155 Agathe | interval which precedes the appearing of Christ. Now the slumbering
156 Arete | concupiscent body, and which appeases with the medicaments of
157 Agathe | she said, and having been applauded for what she had uttered,
158 Theoph | of children, although he applauds chastity, and prefers it
159 Theoph | spoken, Theopatra said that applause arose from all the virgins
160 Theoph | completed, it remains for you to apply this picture, my wisest
161 Thekla | persuasion, and to gain approval for that which is expedient;
162 Arete | related that Arete said, and approve of it all. For it is an
163 Agathe | shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God:
164 Thekla | the Scorpion, the Ram, the Archer, the Fishes, the Goat, the
165 Intro | a very rough, steep, and arduous path: when we drew near
166 Theoph | will be room for some to argue plausibly among those who
167 Intro | for it is said that they argued with such ability and power
168 Intro | excessively powerful in argument-thoroughly confuting all your adversaries.~
169 Thekla(29) | Methodius was inclined to Arianism. There is no ground for
170 Arete | it has fallen to govern aright a body which is free from
171 Agathe | of righteousness having arisen, there is no need of other
172 Thekla(36) | i.e. in a regular arithmetical progression.~
173 Thall | the veil that is by the ark of the testimony, before
174 Thal | leaving the ranks and the armies of angels. For the mountains
175 Thekla | sober mind, oppose your armour to the swelling beast, and
176 Arete | protected under Thy life-giving arms, and to behold Thy beauty
177 Arete(3) | I have been obliged to arrange this hymn (so as to bring
178 Procil(22) | The forty-fifth in our arrangement.~
179 Theoph | take away the inferior, but arranges so as to assign to each
180 Agathe | His power, creating and arranging, made the soul after the
181 Tusiane | and adorned to the feast, arrayed, as by a decorator, in the
182 Intro | speaking," said Theopatra, "we arrive at the enclosure, the doors
183 Thekla | or as when they say, like Artemas, that the Person of the
184 Theoph | living soul."13 And those artificers who, to the destruction
185 Thekla | fictions, rather than in artistic words, ascribing human calamities
186 Theoph | benefit of agriculture and the arts, injure those who sharpened
187 Thekla | those who, on light wing, ascend into the supramundane life,
188 Tusiane | greater and better things, ascending into the very house of God
189 Thekla | than in artistic words, ascribing human calamities to the
190 Theoph | virtue,14 "his heart is ashes, his hope is more vile than
191 Domn | few words, the prophet, asking what are the olives on the
192 Thekla | subdue the dragon who made an assault upon the flesh. So that
193 Domn | inanimate trees cannot be assembled in council to choose a king,
194 Thekla | obscure, and falling, are the assemblies of the heterodox; since
195 Theoph | cannot say the same as to the assertion that from henceforth they
196 Theoph | inferior, but arranges so as to assign to each its own proper use
197 Thekla | conveyed Helle, the daughter of Athamas, and her brother Phryxos
198 Arete | in wrestling, is not the athlete who contends the more experienced?~
199 Thall | prescribed; for this is attached to your duties, consisting
200 Thekla | immense consternation when you attack him with great advantage
201 Marc | thing, and difficult of attainment, and in proportion to its
202 Thal | greatness. Nevertheless, let us attempt it. It remains that I speak
203 Thal | reasonable creatures obey and attend, who tends in order and
204 Arete | blessed spouse of God, we attendants of the Bride honour Thee,
205 Thekla | admired by every one who attended, her language blossoming
206 Arete | now the company of virgins attends thee towards the heavens,
207 Marc | things if they give their attention to it for a little while.
208 Tusiane | palm branches, that is, attentive meditation upon and study
209 Theop | ornaments, nor a bride her attire,"84 shows that she should
210 Thekla | weight, by a greater force of attraction. And let not the uncleanness
211 Procil | am, like a harp, inwardly attuned, and prepared to speak with
212 Theoph | shall we not be guilty of audacity if we think of the generation
213 Domn | the Holy Spirit are the authors, we ourselves meanwhile
214 Thekla | continue to exist, when summer, autumn, winter, and spring, were
215 Tusiane | utter destruction by the avenging angels, who shall reverence
216 Marc | the likeness of God is the avoiding of corruption. And that
217 Arete | assaults of wild beasts, I await Thee from heaven.~Chorus.
218 Thekla | Arete.33 Here the south wind awakes, and the north wind blows,
219 Thal | unconditionally. But afterwards, being aware of the weakness of the less
220 Intro | not that I had ever seen, awe-inspiring, yet tempered with gentleness
221 Domn | mere probabilities, and to babble, I will bring forward to
222 Thekla(35) | subject will be found in Bähr's Symbolik; also in Delitzsch'
223 Thekla | the Virgin, the Bull, the Balance, the Scorpion, the Ram,
224 Marc | appetites of a virgin are banished from the body by divine
225 Thall | places of public resort and banquets, where wicked men are found,
226 Thekla(30) | In the baptismal font.~
227 Thal(37) | Eph. v. 25, 26. [Baptismus = lavacrum animae.-Calvin,
228 Arete | Sing with Her; John the Baptist a Martyr to Chastity; The
229 Procil(18) | expressed by Methodius.-Tr. [See Barnabas, vol. i. p. 147, this series;
230 Marc(11) | these heroic believers, based on the words of Christ Himself,
231 Thekla | the divine seat and the basis of truth against which there
232 Marc | nor take deep rooting from bastard slips, nor lay any fast
233 Theoph(11) | Bastardy seems to have been regarded
234 Thekla | bravely prepare for the battle, armed with the helmet of
235 Intro | currents, mingled with pure beams of light, and a stream flowing
236 Domn | do spring, for the tree beareth her fruit, the fig-tree
237 Agathe | this kind, "pure oil olive, beaten for the light, to cause
238 Theop | the rivers of evil always beating upon us. Wherefore, also,
239 Arete | whom God makes gods in the beatitudes; they I who believe in Him
240 Arete | Thekla. 7. With open gates, O beauteously adorned Queen, admit us
241 Arete | drew him to an unlawful bed; but he giving no heed to
242 Theop | it and to cultivate it, bedewing it with wisdom, is watered
243 Tusiane | flowers and fruits as the bee, fully believe that these
244 Agathe | accurately resemble Him who begat and formed them, when, reflecting
245 Tusiane | nuptial banquet ought to be begirt, and to cover their loins?
246 Domn | paradise, the devil, having beguiled the man by its imitations,
247 Thal | instructing them how men should behave to their wives, showing
248 Thal | if any man think that he behaveth himself uncomely towards
249 Marc | discoursing of the rest. "I beheld a great multitude, which
250 Procil(18) | the prevalent millenarian belief of the first centuries is
251 Thekla | of flaming fire.~Her slew Bellerophon in truth. And this Slew
252 Arete | haired, chaste, spotless, beloved.~Chorus. I keep myself pure
253 Thal | render unto the wife due benevolence: and likewise also the wife
254 Tusiane | moved by transgression and bent to the earth, God putting
255 Arete | 22. Paradise is no longer bereft of mortals, for by divine
256 Marc(11) | Contending with the worse than bestial sensuality of paganism,
257 Theop | corruption. For God has bestowed upon us virginity as a most
258 Theoph | her not in marriage doeth bet ter."18 Now the word, in
259 Arete | as you see, it is time to betake ourselves to the care of
260 Arete | better for me to die than to betray my nuptials to you, O mad
261 Arete | became suspected of having betrayed the marriage-bed, she, O
262 Agathe | life, which confuse and bewitch the soul; and thus shall
263 Thekla | Sirens of Homer. For many, bewitched by the pleasures of error,
264 Arete | wakes the dead has come, bidding us all to meet the Bridegroom
265 Intro | disputant an object of envy, binding her with the unfading flowers
266 Arete | would not forthwith, as a bird flies to its food, listen
267 Thekla | adorned with the images of birds and of animals that live
268 Thekla | own proper nature, are not blamable in the eye of a righteous
269 Theop | this reason the prophet blames them strongly, and cries
270 Thekla | aloft, and to flee from the blandishments of their tongues, and from
271 Thekla | immediately driven away by a blast of the wind; so ye also,
272 Intro | inconceivable and divine. Modesty, blended with majesty, bloomed on
273 Arete | convince you.~Euboulios. Bless me! I am glad that you answer
274 Thekla | us strive for a life of blessedness and the kingdom of heaven.
275 Theop | you may know of how great blessings it has become the giver
276 Thal | is there so foolish and blind. as not to perceive in this
277 Thekla | before the fall and the blinding of his eyes, being in paradise,
278 Thekla | divine heads, and will bloom with the crowns gained from
279 Intro | Modesty, blended with majesty, bloomed on her countenance. It was
280 Theop | the nature of virginity to blossom and grow to maturity when
281 Thekla | countenance suffused with the blush of modesty; for she is altogether
282 Tusiane | complete. At this Domnina, blushing, and after a long delay,
283 Tusiane(20)| Works, vol. i. p. 427, ed. Bohn, 1844. This is a token of
284 Thekla | please us, not being in bondage to fate or fortune. And
285 Tusiane | Israelites, having left the borders of Egypt, first came to
286 Intro(1) | idea, and some of the ideas borrowed from the Symposium of Plato,
287 Tusiane | it is commanded that the bough of the Agnos tree be brought
288 Marc | swiftness of thought, lightly bounded above the world, and taken
289 Marc | race of man spreading to a boundless extent, God no longer allowed
290 Thekla | says:27 "For this cause I bow my knees unto the Father
291 Thall | periods of life, that of the boy, of the full-grown man,
292 Thall | period, that is, while we are boys, He may receive us ready
293 Theoph | did gold, or silver, or brass, and, to take it collectively,
294 Thall | have already compared the brazen altar to the company and
295 Thekla | bodies. For length, and breadth, and depth make up a body.
296 Thekla | of salvation,40 and the breastplate, and the greaves. For you
297 Theoph | for the Almighty alone breathes into man the undying and
298 Arete | is it he who does so in a breathless calm?~Gregorion. He that
299 Intro | from which came a gentle breeze laden with sweetest odour.
300 Thekla | exulting with her into the bride-chamber, showing your lamps. Do
301 Thekla | So far we have given, in brief, the history of the woman
302 Thal | may again be considered briefly from the beginning. For
303 Theop | our gifts, will sing the brightest and most glorious star of
304 Thekla | heart. For, as when the moon brightly shining fills the heaven
305 Agathe | already been so variously and brilliantly worked out. For I shall
306 Intro | other pledged, while towards broad heaven they looked."4 ~Gregorion.
307 Thal | life no longer soft and broken; lest, being overflowed
308 Marc | we read, "The multiplying brood of the ungodly shall not
309 Thekla | the dragon; and whoever bruises this is wreathed with the
310 Marc | longer have many wives, like brute beasts, as though born for
311 Theop | the nature of this tree to bud and grow through water,
312 Thall | watch is the time of the budding and youth of man, when the
313 Domn | checked and destroyed their buds. For the true vine and the
314 Thall | the city in heaven "whose builder and maker is God"24 "face
315 Thal | marriage to those who are burdened with the disease of the
316 Tusiane | earth would suffice as a burnt-offering or as incense for burning.
317 Thall | strange incense thereon, nor burnt-sacrifices nor meat-offering; neither
318 Thekla | bear the fetid foam which burst~From out the fountain of
319 Theop | they receive the sudden bursts of the waves of folly which
320 Thekla | Christ, like the Greeks, who, burying the truth in fairies and
321 Thekla | mischief of mortals, and busy themselves in working the
322 Thall | deluge, were drowned. And Cain, too, having drawn from
323 Procil | killed for her the fatted calf.14 ~
324 Arete | angels as Thou, O King, calledst from above, bearing the
325 Thal | when he cometh home, he calleth together his friends and
326 Arete | who lives a virgin life calmly and with ease.~Gregorion.
327 Thall | God, to which they bring calves and tithes, and free-will
328 Thekla | be destroyed by itself, cancelling itself, and contending against
329 Domn | slaughters, to exiles, and captivities, the law it self confessing,
330 Marc | instruction to a nature which is careful about trifles, and low,
331 Thal | I would have you without carefulness. He that is unmarried careth
332 Agathe | with oil, but others were careless, thinking only of the present.
333 Tusiane | from our luxuriousness and carelessness.~Whoso, therefore, desires
334 Domn(11) | Fathers. He is the malignant caricature of the Most High, exulting
335 Thekla | the Watercarrier, Perseus, Cassiopeia, Cepheus, Pegasus, Hydra,
336 Theoph | have our being. For the casting of seed into the furrows
337 Thekla(46) | Castor and Pollux.~
338 Thekla | fornication, by which he casts down the incontinent; consider
339 Agathe(6) | lamps found in the Roman catacombs have this mark (X), which
340 Thal | should be included in this catalogue and number, the Lord lifting
341 Theoph | the breath? or what god caused the humours to ferment,
342 Domn(8) | spoils the force of Jotham's caustic satire to adopt this conception
343 Thal(5) | text.-Tr. [A singularly cautious testimony against Origen,
344 Thal(5) | extreme. Here is a prudent caveat.]~
345 Tusiane | that God is worshipped with cedar, to whom not all the quadrupeds
346 Domn | bramble, and devour the cedars of Lebanon."~Now, that these
347 Thal | prepares for the Easter celebration, one should offer food to
348 Arete | drink, O virgins, for it is celestial drink, which the Bridegroom
349 Thekla | the earth should be the centre of the universe, around
350 Thekla | Watercarrier, Perseus, Cassiopeia, Cepheus, Pegasus, Hydra, the Raven,
351 Procil | thence one may learn with certainty that the commendation is
352 Thekla | with the hypothesis of the Chaldeans and Egyptians. For they
353 Thal | them up to emulation, he challenged his hearers to this state
354 Thal | And again, going on and challenging them to the same things,
355 Arete | Queen, admit us within thy chambers. O spotless, gloriously
356 Thal | magnificent. And then, again changing to what is deep, he sometimes
357 Procil(7) | Chap. iv. ver. 9-12.~
358 Arete | with a larger and thicker chaplet, as the chief of you, and
359 Tusiane | the law foretold to us the characteristics of the Church, and the Church
360 Marc | of pleasure, direct the chariot of the soul upwards from
361 Domn | long speeches, which merely charm the ears, before coming
362 Thall | eyes not to lust after the charms of the body, nor to take
363 Thal | are unable, as I said, to chasten their appetites. These things,
364 Arete | wisdom.~Gregorion. A mere chatterer, so you seem to be, O Euboulios.~
365 Domn | and much error, they had checked and destroyed their buds.
366 Thall | continence as a driver, who checks and vehemently restrains
367 Domn | Should I leave my wine, which cheereth God and man, and go to be
368 Thal | flesh, but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord the
369 Thekla | followed, as I promised; and chiefly those of Tusiane and Domnina;
370 Theoph | but also with those of child-bearing and of continence; for it
371 Tusiane(3) | adopt the errors of the Chiliasts, but he kept up the succession
372 Thekla | lies in wait to destroy the Christ-accepted mind of the baptized, and
373 Marc | Prophet of the Church, the Christ-possessed John shows us, saying, in
374 Theoph | understand being perfected in Christ-taught righteousness; 'he will
375 Thall | altar to the company and circuit of widows; for they are
376 Procil | corruptions of men would be circumcised. And, therefore, He called
377 Procil | in the Prophets as Though Clandestine.~Now if any one should have
378 Thal(56) | A clause is omitted here in the text.~
379 Thekla | up its moisture and its clay-like weight, by a greater force
380 Arete | all his members and senses clean and under restraint, as
381 Thal | that He might sanctify and cleanse it by the washing36 of water
382 Arete | is lifted up with pride, cleansing the outside of the cup and
383 Agathe | pollute our reasonable and clear-sighted beauty of mind by intercourse
384 Tusiane | Chapter IV.-The Mind Clearer When Cleansed from Sin;
385 Thall | the Spirit writes by it in clearest letters, from the depth
386 Thekla | contributing here their clearness and transformation into
387 Arete | 14. Daring Judith,8 by clever wiles having cut off the
388 Thal(5) | whom our author follows too closely in allegorizing interpretations
389 Thall | with textures of different cloths, or with stones and gold,
390 Thall | to be disturbed and to be clouded by the changes of life,
391 Thal | of His doctrine, they may co-operate with Him, helping in preaching
392 Marc | have come, by reason of coarseness of mind, ineffectually with
393 Agathe | themselves, and desire to cohabit with every soul which is
394 Theoph | if, like a counterfeit coin, it is moulded apart from
395 Thal(7) | Col. i. 15.~
396 Thekla | makes one, and is again collected into itself. For when divided
397 Marc | we should seem prolix in collecting the testimonies of the prophets,
398 Theoph | or brass, and, to take it collectively, the whole of the workable
399 Marc | But when hereafter it was colonized from end to end, the race
400 Thall | the second, that in its colour it seems in a measure to
401 Thall(12) | Keil and Delitzsch, Bib. Com., in loc.~
402 Domn | often rim headlong into combats and slaughter, into lust
403 Intro | anticipate me.~Euboulios. Be comforted, my excellent friend, for
404 Thall | the night, and His three comings, He shadows forth in symbol
405 Thal | being God,14 He is the chief Commander and Shepherd of the heavenly
406 Thekla | from kings and rulers, and commanders, and women, and children,
407 Thekla | above the earth-born, a commanding and voluntary mind, and
408 Agathe | what John signifies in the commemoration of the hundred and forty-four
409 Agathe | subject before us; something commensurate to my own power, and not
410 Thal(26) | Heb. x. 32, and Calvin's Commentary, ad loc. Also his comment
411 Tusiane | lusts, although they do not commit fornication, yet who, even
412 Theoph | though it be in adultery, are committed to guardian angels. But
413 Thekla | decrees of destiny, such as committing injustice, adultery, theft,
414 Thal(26) | Commonly used by the Greek Fathers
415 Procil | Knowledge of the Incarnation Communicated to the Prophets.~It still
416 Thekla | had been made Christs26 by communication of the Spirit, the Church
417 Arete(11) | In Jahn, Telmesiake.-Tr. [Comp. p. 356, n. 2, infra]~
418 Tusiane | with bones again joined and compacted with flesh. Then shall we
419 Thekla(9) | bearing the name of the companion of Jeremiah, was usually
420 Procil | Martyrs First Among the Companions of Christ.~Let no one suppose
421 Thekla | distance from our world, where, compassionating those who have fallen from
422 Thal | you on by violence, and compel any one to this.53 But yet
423 Thekla | the law prohibits destiny compels men to do. Hence law is
424 Agathe | philosophizing anything that could compete with those things which
425 Procil(15) | her innocency is surely a competent witness.]~
426 Thekla | degradation to His former completeness and greatness, having never
427 Thekla | can neither express nor comprehend, directing the course of
428 Thekla | as though they alone had comprehended from what forms the heaven
429 Thal | should be of necessity and by compulsion, but according to the free
430 Domn | captive, persuading him to conceal the nakedness of his body
431 Theoph | lawful authority? And so we concede to men the power of forming
432 Arete | but injuring the heart by conceit and ambition. Nor when any
433 Arete | ambition. Nor when any one is conceited of riches is he desirous
434 Thekla | waste their life with mere conceits, passing it in nothing but
435 Arete | in procuring them, and in concern about them. But all the
436 Thekla | Despised, When They are Concerned About the Knowledge of the
437 Arete(16) | Here is our author's conclusive condemnation of Origen,
438 Procil | those who have believed are condemned, thinking that we who are
439 Thekla(19) | passage, this which Methodius condemns is probably the true one,
440 Thal | none of those things which conduce to sanctification should
441 Theoph | begetting of children1 is confessedly being fulfilled to this
442 Theoph | own parents, could they confidently, before the judgment seat
443 Thekla | Faithful in Baptism Males, Configured to Christ; The Saints Themselves
444 Thall | the poets and orators who confirm the doctrines of men.If,
445 Agathe | undefiled rewards"18 of the conflict of virginity. I am betrothed
446 Thekla | appeared in meeting the chief conflicts of the martyrs, procuring
447 Domn | Now truly they were then confused by great and frequent calamities;
448 Arete | nothing that darkens or confuses the eye of the soul for
449 Intro | powerful in argument-thoroughly confuting all your adversaries.~Euboulios.
450 Theop | thirsting for heaven as a congenial abode, whence God, approving
451 Domn | to be sophistical, and to conjecture these things from mere probabilities,
452 Marc | Polygamy Put a Stop To; Conjugal Purity Itself by Degrees
453 Thekla | many, according to their conjunctions and departures, their rising
454 Theoph | when shut up within, in the connexion of the vessels? or who,
455 Theoph | prefigured the embraces of connubial love. When thirsting for
456 Thekla | lamentations. Let faith conquer wholly, and let its light
457 Thall | like them and akin to them, conquering the one and being conquered
458 Thall | best of his flocks, another consecrates his being; and no one is
459 Thall | Chapter IV.-Perfect Consecration and Devotion to God: What
460 Thal | other, except it tie with consent for a time, that ye may
461 Thal | sparing you, such as you are, consented to these things, because
462 Domn | over them, which Scripture consequently called the bramble. And
463 Arete | above measure, and eagerly considers that which is expedient
464 Thekla | dreams, and think that they consist of the actions of men, because
465 Thekla | point,-surely the earth consisted before all, they say, in
466 Procil | concerning those who have been conspicuous for their righteousness
467 Thekla | Chapter II.-The Lofty Mind and Constancy of the Sacred Virgins; The
468 Thal | perfect continence, ye be constantly tempted by the evil one,
469 Thekla | which were placed among the constellations, from men and beasts. But
470 Thekla | bring upon him an immense consternation when you attack him with
471 Arete | vehement lascivious desires constituted chastity, neglecting other
472 Agathe | unharmed, and such as He who constructed it formed and fashioned
473 Tusiane(3) | this point, may be worth consulting. Notes on Old English Divines,
474 Tusiane | festival of the resurrection is consummated, shall pass froth the wonderful
475 Tusiane | Clear to Any One When the Consummation of the World Will Be; Even
476 Thal | as I. But if they cannot contain, let them marry: for it
477 Thekla | they were longing to come, contemplating them in imagination from
478 Domn | subjects; that is, they are contemptuously told that they cannot be
479 Procil | of such a nature as to be contented with any of the things which
480 Thal | your discourse, however contentious and contradictory he may
481 Domn | agnos, because it always continues chaste. Hence the Scripture
482 Tusiane | come into the heavens, not continuing to remain in tabernacles -
483 Theop | souls of men. And they,61 continuously exposed to this, were carried
484 Thal(47) | Eusebius, there cited. Per contra, see Lewin, vol. i. 382,
485 Thal | condition may, "by permission," contract a second marriage; not as
486 Marc | times of the prophets the contracting of marriage with several
487 Thekla | and temperance, which is a contradiction. For if good be opposed
488 Thekla | of the Spirit, the Church contributing here their clearness and
489 Thal | Arete, I offer to thee as my contribution on the subject of chastity.~
490 Thekla | souls of many imagining and contriving things in opposition to
491 Thall | become impatient of the control of continence as a driver,
492 Intro(9) | but the freedoms of the converse must offend unless we bear
493 Thekla | them too, when they were converted and believed, He would be
494 Theoph(11) | baptism, thousands of pagan converts having been born under this
495 Arete | there is no one who can convince you.~Euboulios. Bless me!
496 Theoph | But at present man must cooperate in the forming of the image
497 Thekla(45) | two thousand years, till Copernicus, a Christian priest, broke
498 Tusiane | all, full and abounding copiously abounding in graces.~After
499 Thal | hand the Epistle to the Corinthians, and, examining all its
500 Arete | those who listen, but for correction, recollection, and abstinence.
501 Thekla | in perfect agreement and correspondence with what has been said,
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