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502 Procil | thereby the passions and corruptions of men would be circumcised.
503 Thal | and death to be that which corrupts and kills, and not that
504 Domn | trees cannot be assembled in council to choose a king, inasmuch
505 Procil | reason, then, the prophets count them blessed, and admire
506 Procil | so numerous as not to be counted from their multitude, but
507 Thal | they are not ashamed to run counter to the Spirit, but, as though
508 Marc | trifles, and low, and which counterfeits wisdom. For would it not
509 Procil | virgins, who belong to a countless assembly, those who, being
510 Arete | Thekla. 5. I forget my own country, O Lord, through desire
511 Theop | as willows by the water courses."70 Surely, then, the shoot
512 Agathe | shut out from the divine courts. For whether, on the one
513 Marc | when he first received the covenant of circumcision, seems to
514 Procil | other good things, which, covering, as they do, the unseemliness
515 Thekla | the crown of temperance. Cowardice and weakness is also a head;
516 Thekla | stars, of the Lion, the Crab, the Twins, the Virgin,
517 Agathe | circumference of His power, creating and arranging, made the
518 Thekla | uncleanness which you hear creep in and weigh you down to
519 Thekla | carried over Europe into Crete; and they say the circle
520 Theoph | should be punished as a criminal and transgressor. For the
521 Thekla | forbids this, punishing criminals, and by threats restrains
522 Agathe | they bore a more abundant crop of transgressions, in consequence
523 Thekla | I will again help you to cross it like a river.~
524 Thal | subject, having measured and crossed a mighty sea of words.~Gregorion.
525 Thekla | the visions of evil which crowd around the heart. For, as
526 Thall | poison of dragons, and the cruel venom of asps." The inhabitants
527 Arete | lifted up to heaven, said, Cruelly slain by a brother's hand,
528 Thekla | Let us endeavour now to crush falsehood, like physicians,
529 Theop | Chapter VI.-Virginity to Be Cultivated and Commended in Every Place
530 Arete | pleasure of carnal delight that cultivates chastity, if he do not keep
531 Thekla | Chapter IV.-Exhortation to the Cultivation of Virginity; A Passage
532 Theoph | members, worked into foam and curdled, is projected through the
533 Marc | to be a sin, calling him cursed who should "uncover the
534 Arete | and under restraint, as is customary with the planks of ships,
535 Arete | by clever wiles having cut off the head of the leader
536 Thal | provoking it; and therefore he, cutting off very sharply these dishonest
537 Thall(10) | Cf. Ps. cxxxix. 4, and cxli. 3.~
538 Thall(10) | Cf. Ps. cxxxix. 4, and cxli. 3.~
539 Theop(63) | reference here is to the cxxxvith Psalm as we have it. It
540 Marc(24) | Compare Cyprian, vol. v. p. 475, this series.]~
541 Theop | to an anchorage without damage, as also the Holy Spirit
542 Theoph | foetus was not suffocated by damp when shut up within, in
543 Thal | without mistake. For it is a dangerous thing wholly to despise
544 Thal | food to an other who was dangerously ill, and say," In truth,
545 Marc | is the greatness of its dangers.3 ~For this reason, it requires
546 Thal | impulses of sensuality in them, dare to force the Scriptures
547 Arete | to meet Thee.~Thekla. 14. Daring Judith,8 by clever wiles
548 Tusiane | distracting thoughts which darken it, quickly perceives the
549 Arete | they bring in nothing that darkens or confuses the eye of the
550 Tusiane | miserable men, going back, deal with the figures of the
551 Thall | hands from dishonourable dealing, from acts of covetousness
552 Arete | maddened with desire, said, O dear lady, we have come desiring
553 Tusiane | Completed.~O Arete, thou dearest boast to the lovers of virginity,
554 Thall | husbandman." But the wild and death-bearing vine is the devil, who drops
555 Domn | forthwith at the point in debate. So I will begin from thence,
556 Thekla | O Gregorion, has Thekla debated!~Gregorion. What, then,
557 Thal | swallowed up by the waves of deceit. For with this purpose the
558 Tusiane | the citron only. But this deceives the unwary, for they have
559 Domn | promoting its exercise, but for deception and hypocrisy. For in order
560 Domn | not been able to make a deceptive image. For which cause,
561 Thekla | are exempt?~Now those who decide that man is not possessed
562 Thekla | in our own power, and not decided by the stars. For there
563 Thal | own free will and purpose decides to preserve his flesh in
564 Thall | flesh now withering and declining to old age.~
565 Tusiane | Agnos tree be brought to decorate the Tabernacle, because
566 Tusiane | whoever shall not be found decorated with the boughs of chastity,
567 Thall | conquered by the other, that is, decorating herself with textures of
568 Tusiane | feast, arrayed, as by a decorator, in the discipline and exercise
569 Arete | leading a virgin life in deed and word. And now what that
570 Arete | pollute the soul by evil deeds and lust; nor here to profess
571 Thal | meaning, so as to twist into a defence of their incontinence the
572 Thekla(19) | support save among modern defenders of the late pontiff's bull
573 Thekla | when the Apocalypse plainly defines that the Church brings forth
574 Thal | nor death life,"21 rightly defining corruption and death to
575 Domn(11) | Most High, exulting in the deformity which he gives to his copies.
576 Thal | own body, but the wife. Defraud ye not one the other, except
577 Thekla | from His humiliation and degradation to His former completeness
578 Theop | the law by distorting and degrading it, expecting a sensual
579 Domn(11) | Diabolus simia Dei, an idea very common to
580 Domn | upon the subject, lest, by delaying upon those matters which
581 Domn | childhood for desirable and delectable glory, and carries this
582 Intro | garden, threw up a most delicious drink; and the water flowing
583 Tusiane | as they erect; as if God delighted in those trivial adornments
584 Tusiane | my daughter, do thou also deliver a discourse, that our banquet
585 Tusiane | solely in remembrance of the deliverance of their fathers from Egypt,
586 Procil | consider what the Spirit delivers to us in the rest of the
587 Arete | that the soul, which is deluged with the surging waves of
588 Procil(4) | That the Canticles demand allegorical interpretation,
589 Domn | The Allegory of the Trees Demanding a King, in the Book of Judges,
590 Thekla | righteousness, the devil and the demons plotting and striving against
591 Marc | prophets, and more fully demonstrate the truth of the statements
592 Thal | not fitting to leave the demonstration of the argument unexamined -
593 Theop | by the heart are properly denoted our heart and mind. Now
594 Thekla | the moon, as I consider, denotes the faith of those who are
595 Tusiane | most fitly calling charity dense boughs, because it is all
596 Thekla | those who are offended, and deny that we speak the truth,
597 Theop | faith, but rejected it, denying it by their works. And hence
598 Thal | subject under consideration, departing from the question, as now
599 Thekla | to their conjunctions and departures, their rising and setting.~
600 Procil | all authority and power depend. For it was fitting that
601 Thekla | planets, in their opinion, depended upon the same kind of bodies.
602 Thekla | and all moist substance is dependent upon her. The Church, then,
603 Thekla | men, if at least our life depends upon their revolutions and
604 Thal(54) | can feel more deeply the deplorable state of the Church which
605 Theoph | he alone has to bring and deposit his own clay, not touching
606 Marc | is introduced earnestly deprecating, from henceforth, this seduction,
607 Thal | whispers implants it in the depths of the mind; and is conceived
608 Thekla | Chapter I.-Methodius' Derivation of the Word Virginity: Wholly
609 Agathe | the Lord Himself shall descend from heaven with a shout,
610 Theoph | souls from heaven, and their descent into the bodies; the holes
611 Thekla | heavens, are not ashamed to describe the circumference of the
612 Procil | boundaries of virginity, describing them all under the one name
613 Intro | the Work; Way to Paradise; Description and Personification of Virtue;
614 Thekla | Whence, also, they are by a descriptive term called newly-enlightened;18
615 Domn | law given to Moses in the desert, because the prophetic grace,
616 Domn | reproaching them because they had deserted those men whom God had commanded
617 Thekla | are not blameworthy and deserving of the punishment which
618 Tusiane | feast? How shall he rejoice? Desirest thou to know the goodly
619 Arete | conceited of riches is he desirous of honouring chastity; he
620 Agathe | Antichrist, during which the destroying angel passes over the houses.12
621 Thekla | by destiny. But the law destroys destiny, teaching that virtue
622 Domn | over men, the fraud was detected and overcome, Christ, the
623 Thekla | which, they say, were so determined from mythical causes; saying
624 Thekla | it in some measure, not deterred by the greatness of the
625 Thall | If I shut my ears against detraction and slanders, and open them
626 Thall | this means, that he who has devoted and offered himself to the
627 Thall | Perfect Consecration and Devotion to God: What It is.~That
628 Thekla | are filled with refreshing dews, and crowned with the unfading
629 Domn(11) | Diabolus simia Dei, an idea very
630 Thekla | circles, making its movements diagonally, and that there are in it
631 Intro | Introduction1 ~Persons of the Dialogue: Euboulios, Gregorion, Arete;
632 Intro | except that there had been dialogues; but when he was asked what
633 Thal | that which is corrupted and dies; and incorruption and life
634 Domn | destitute of prudence, and who differ in nothing from dry trees,
635 Thal | there are, as it seems, differences in men's bodies; such a
636 Procil | the stars: for one star differeth from another star in glory.
637 Thekla | flesh and that of the soul, differing from each other,52 whence
638 Intro | recreation. The air was diffused in soft and regular currents,
639 Thal | Chapter II.-The Digressions of the Apostle Paul; The
640 Thekla | image of them here, but only dim copies, which themselves
641 Thekla | greatness, having never been diminished from His essential perfection.~
642 Thekla | Europe or Phryxos, and the Dioscuroi,46 and the other signs of
643 Intro(3) | Gregorion answers to the Diotima of Socrates in Plato's Banquet,
644 Tusiane | the house and cast out the dirt, that is, the passions which
645 Intro | Gregorion.3 I seem to be disappointed of my hope, as some one
646 Procil | blessed," said our Lord to His disciples,20 "are your eyes, for they
647 Arete | Who Shall See God; Virtue Disciplined by Temptations.~Euboulios.
648 Marc | consider what he means when discoursing of the rest. "I beheld a
649 Arete | the better go on to the discovery of what things are truly
650 Tusiane | learning and charity and discretion are imparted in due time
651 Thekla | we shall often be able to discuss these and other subjects.
652 Thal | not disturb you, if, in discussing one class of subjects, he,
653 Marc | took upon Him our form, disfigured as it was by many sins,
654 Theoph | improperly, then it becomes disgraceful. For how did iron, which
655 Theoph | it comes out pure, but if disgracefully and improperly, then it
656 Thal | cutting off very sharply these dishonest follies and invented excuses,
657 Thall | If I keep my hands from dishonourable dealing, from acts of covetousness
658 Marc | order to benefit, and which disinfects, without which it is impossible
659 Thal | seems, the wisdom of Paul, dislike the comparing of the first
660 Arete | medicaments of temperance the disorders arising from the heat of
661 Thekla | in a state of chaos and disorganization. Now certainly the wretched
662 Agathe | in the choir with Christ dispensing His rewards in heaven, around
663 Thekla | live now, since God then disposed the seasons in the same
664 Theop | whence God, approving their dispositions, promises with an oath to
665 Intro | not make the successful disputant an object of envy, binding
666 Arete | that many wise men often dispute among themselves, you say
667 Thal | constitution opposite and dissimilar. For one who should venture
668 Domn | mercies of God entirely dissolve death, and assist the human
669 Tusiane | no snore to perish or be dissolved into the dust of the tomb.
670 Thekla | place, removed to a great distance from our world, where, compassionating
671 Thekla | since there are the same distances of the parts, that the earth
672 Thall | down clusters of graces, distilling love, is our Lord Jesus,
673 Thekla | being a power by herself distinct from her children; whom
674 Marc | which are honourable, and be distinguished among the foremost for wisdom
675 Theop | land, explaining the law by distorting and degrading it, expecting
676 Tusiane | laborious exercises from the distracting thoughts which darken it,
677 Theop | chastity through wiles and distractions. For by the heart are properly
678 Thal | is good for the present distress; I say, that it is good
679 Thal | spoken, one thing, my friend, distresses and troubles me, considering
680 Theop | Babylon, which is interpreted "disturbance "or" confusion," signifies
681 Thekla | The heaven was not then diversified by such shapes.~If the sun
682 Domn | are clearly known by the diversity of the fruits. For the fig-tree,
683 Thekla(37) | i.e. its divisors or dividends.~
684 Thekla | greatest; and the second, which divides it into two equal parts,
685 Theop | of Chastity and Virginity Divinely Given to Men, that They
686 Marc | souls of men as being the divinities of their bodies, and adorn
687 Procil | God, and assigned to Him a divinity above other men, did not
688 Thekla | stars were made for the division and protection of the members
689 Thekla(37) | i.e. its divisors or dividends.~
690 Thekla(32) | Dokh/sei, hence Docetae.-Tr.~
691 Theop | and cast holy things to dogs, and pearls before swine,73
692 Thekla | and lawless actions, and doing nothing better than men,
693 Thekla(32) | Dokh/sei, hence Docetae.-Tr.~
694 Procil | that creature is tame and domestic, and readily adapts itself
695 Thall | if I close it, putting a door and a watch upon it10 against
696 Tusiane | preserved by marking the door-posts of their houses with blood.
697 Thekla | error, take their flight downwards, and are weighed down when
698 Thekla | with destiny that Minos and Dracon, and Lycurgus, and Solon,
699 Thekla | exhibit in the theatre the drama of truth, that is, righteousness,
700 Thall | For in the same way that draughts of wine overthrow man's
701 Marc | Holy Spirit, now openly drawing His hearers to continence
702 Procil | manifested visibly, and not in a dream. For consider what confidence
703 Thekla | and apparitions, as in dreams, and think that they consist
704 Thall | incense every morning: when he dresseth the lamps, he shall burn
705 Thall | meat-offering; neither shall ye pour drink-offering thereon."~
706 Thekla | wholly, and let its light drive away the visions of evil
707 Thall | control of continence as a driver, who checks and vehemently
708 Thekla | natal destiny.~If the sun, driving through the circles and
709 Tusiane | letter of Scripture, like drones about the leaves of herbs,
710 Procil | Thy lips, O my spouse, drop as the honeycomb; honey
711 Thal | ruined him, flowing and dropping down upon him like water.
712 Thall | death-bearing vine is the devil, who drops down fury and poison and
713 Thall | overwhelmed by the deluge, were drowned. And Cain, too, having drawn
714 Domn | began to be surrounded and drowning by the waters, they began
715 Theop | steeped in water, if it be drunk, it extinguishes whatever
716 Thal | I, from my weakness and dulness, am unable to speak, according
717 Theop | this, were carried along dumb and stupid, neglecting to
718 Thekla | the dragon. For it is our duty to prefer and to set forward
719 Tusiane | setting out from those dwellings which are called tabernacles,
720 Procil | it, and, being incarnate, dwelt in it? Therefore He called
721 Domn | to death, he is outwardly dyed with the colours of immortality.
722 Theop(83) | setai; in the text it is e0pilaqe/sqai.~
723 Theop(83) | question. The original has e0pilh/setai; in the text it is
724 Theoph(5) | Remark the connection, e@kstasij and eci/statai.~
725 Theoph(2) | e@wj a@rti, even until now. John
726 Arete | to himself; there to be eager in procuring them, and in
727 Arete | himself above measure, and eagerly considers that which is
728 Thekla | called the "wings of great eagle,"39 having conquered the
729 Thekla | with those before you in an earnest desire for the same glory
730 Arete | take up and go through with earnestness those things which have
731 Thekla | should be begotten on the earth-that is, that He who was before
732 Tusiane | they, intent upon things earthly, have in greater esteem
733 Theoph | children, they bring and east in seed into the natural
734 Thal | fast which prepares for the Easter celebration, one should
735 Intro | a garden of hers with an eastern aspect, to enjoy the fruits
736 Thekla | those trees are gathered and eaten, and do not perish and wither,
737 Thekla | when they contend, like the Ebionites, that the prophets spoke
738 Theoph(5) | connection, e@kstasij and eci/statai.~
739 Thekla | like physicians, taking its edge off, and quenching it with
740 Arete(3) | the form in the Edinburgh edition. I invite a comparison.] ~
741 Thal | things lately heard is easily effaced from the aged.~Euboulios.
742 Theop | begetting of children without effect, as also Homer indicated,
743 Domn | Chastity Alone Aids and Effects the Most Praiseworthy Government
744 Intro | children, for having granted an effectual answer to all our prayers.'
745 Procil | of the Bride. Let these efforts of mine to speak to thee,
746 Thekla | hypothesis of the Chaldeans and Egyptians. For they say that the circumference
747 Thal(40) | a@ptesqai; here it is prosyau/ein. Nothing could be gained
748 Tusiane | by the sweeping out and ejection from it of sins. For it
749 Procil | and prepared to speak with elegance and propriety.~Arete. I
750 Domn | the Scripture relates that Elijah, fleeing from the face of
751 Arete | of things secular being eliminated, they not only, as I said,
752 Thekla | Valentinus, and those about Elkesaios and others, it is better
753 | elsewhere
754 Tusiane | lest, whilst I delay in embellishments suitable to them, I depart
755 Domn | fruit of the fig-tree as an emblem of goodness. But the vine,
756 Agathe | inapproachable places,1 embracing all things in the circumference
757 Theop | Given to Men, that They May Emerge from the Mire of Vices.~
758 Thekla | a human life. For having emptied Himself,38 and taken upon
759 Tusiane | having anything hare or empty, but all full, both branches
760 Thal | regeneration, unless Christ, emptying Himself for their sake,
761 Thal | order to stir them up to emulation, he challenged his hearers
762 Arete | One, from the innumerable enchanting wiles of the serpent, and,
763 Procil | smell of Lebanon. A garden enclosed is my sister, my spouse;
764 Intro | Theopatra, "we arrive at the enclosure, the doors not being shut
765 Agathe | prophetic word, which gives encouragement to temperance, being nourished
766 Arete | brought blame2 upon those endeavouring after it by the fight way,
767 Thal | Christ should be chaste, endeavours by many arguments to show
768 Arete | Euboulios. Therefore, if endurance be the strength of virtue,
769 Procil | little moment of time, but as enduring them through all their life,
770 Thekla | be far from Him and His enemies, those who believe in fate
771 Domn | hereafter be more clear.~The enemy, by his power, always imitates11
772 Marc | inclination for sexual intercourse engendered by habit. For presently
773 Procil | concerning chastity, be engraven on a monument.~And Procilla
774 Intro | with an eastern aspect, to enjoy the fruits of the season,
775 Thekla | eyes, being in paradise, enjoyed its fruits, God appointing
776 Arete | flesh and to their heart, enjoying tranquillity from passions.
777 Thekla | sufficient time at present to enlarge with accuracy, for fear
778 Thekla | birth to a male; since the enlightened22 receive the features,
779 Procil | towards God, and Abel, and Enos, and Enoch, and Methuselah,
780 Theop | and grow to maturity when enriched by words, so that one can
781 Domn | aforetime led captive and enslaved the whole race of men, so
782 Domn | into an angel of light,"12 ensnaring many by the appearance of
783 Arete | not to prepare a sweet entertainment for those who listen, but
784 Procil | of the psalm, after the enthronization of the manhood assumed by
785 Thekla | plants of wisdom. For it was entrusted to the first Adam to cultivate
786 Theop | watchtower."72 Now, let us here enumerate the points which follow.
787 Thekla | the clouds from the west, enviously rushing in, for a little
788 Intro | successful disputant an object of envy, binding her with the unfading
789 Thal | will, take in his hand the Epistle to the Corinthians, and,
790 Thekla | which separates these, the equinoctial; and on each side of this
791 Thal(5) | This is the obvious English equivalent of the Greek text.-Tr. [
792 Tusiane | such a tabernacle as they erect; as if God delighted in
793 Tusiane | the resurrection to be the erection of the tabernacle. Account
794 Arete | resolved that he will not err from the practice of chastity,
795 Thal(5) | one case, seems to have erred ever afterward in the other
796 Arete | Thee.~Thekla. 4. Having escaped, O blessed One, from the
797 Thal | before it flies away and escapes; for the remembrance of
798 Procil | and gladness, guarded and escorted by angels. For so lovely
799 Procil | concubines, because He did not espouse them openly, as He did the
800 Thekla | been diminished from His essential perfection.~Moreover, it
801 Theop | honours, appointing and establishing them "above His chief joy; "
802 Intro(1) | philosophy" in its best estate, and the heavenly chastity
803 Tusiane | earthly, have in greater esteem the riches of the world
804 Arete | things that are in this life esteemed. For all riches and gold "
805 Arete | chastity, is better and more estimable than he that navigates in
806 Agathe | Father; and I triumph in eternity, crowned with the bright
807 Agathe | and continence, full of ethereal splendour.~
808 Intro(2) | In Migne's ed. Euboulion, but apparently with less
809 Theoph(17) | many of the ancients. See Euseb., H. E., iii. 30.]~
810 Thal(47) | supra (note), and also Eusebius, there cited. Per contra,
811 Tusiane | give the likeness of past events, some of them a type of
812 Procil | intercourse, fruits which bear an ever-memorable renown. For if you will
813 Arete | who governed all things by everlasting power, O Father, with Thy
814 | everywhere
815 Marc(3) | I think evidence abounds, in the course of
816 Tusiane | If, therefore, she was evidently moved, come and complete
817 Marc | the very greatest and most exalted lesson of virginity, they
818 Procil | the Queen, whom the Lord exalts, and presents in sinless
819 Thekla(35) | interesting and profound examination of the subject will be found
820 Theoph | For when one thoroughly examines and understands those things
821 Thal | to the Corinthians, and, examining all its passages one by
822 Thekla | divided, when put together, exceed twelve, this number not
823 Thekla | peaceful one, and one which far exceeds our own life in righteousness
824 Theoph | spoke:-Since Marcella has excellently begun this discussion without
825 Procil | spotless and undefiled, and excelling all in the glory and beauty
826 Arete | continence, though concupiscent, excels him who, having no concupiscence,
827 Thal(54) | furnishes only rare and exceptional examples of voluntary celibacy
828 Tusiane | unsubdued concupiscence are excessive in embraces, how shall they
829 Intro | skilful in discussions, and excessively powerful in argument-thoroughly
830 Arete | small degree, by base lusts, exchanging pleasures for pleasures.
831 Theop | when, being overcome by the excitements to passion which fall upon
832 Thall | weaknesses and laughter, exciting herself to wiles and foolish
833 Thal | he had spoken before, he exclaimed,55 "I would have you without
834 Thal | ignorant, now deprived of all excuse. For men who are incontinent
835 Tusiane | handled. Wherefore I ask to be excused exordium and introductions,
836 Thal | dishonest follies and invented excuses, and having arrived at the
837 Marc | But discrimination must be exercised with respect to these; for
838 Procil | spring flower, always softly exhaling immortality from its white
839 Thekla | and that we have come to exhibit in the theatre the drama
840 Thekla | Chapter IV.-Exhortation to the Cultivation of Virginity;
841 Agathe | He also Himself suggests, exhorting that the light of chastity
842 Thal | admirably fulfilling it, he exhorts to abide and to preserve
843 Domn | to mutual slaughters, to exiles, and captivities, the law
844 Theoph | those who have come into existence in opposition to the divine
845 Theoph | of God, while the world exists and is still being formed;
846 Tusiane | Wherefore I ask to be excused exordium and introductions, lest,
847 Domn | omitting the long preludes of exordiums, will endeavour according
848 Theop | distorting and degrading it, expecting a sensual kingdom, and setting
849 Arete | athlete who contends the more experienced?~Gregorion. It must be granted.~
850 Thekla(35) | the last who has sought to explore the mystery of numbers.
851 Theop | And they,61 continuously exposed to this, were carried along
852 Thall | endeavour, O virgins, by a true exposition, to explain to you the mind
853 Thekla | wisdom which man can neither express nor comprehend, directing
854 Domn | compassion, which Scripture expresses under the figure of the
855 Thal | and shows that the words extend to Christ and the Church.~
856 Theoph | members with nerves, to be extended and relaxed at the joints?
857 Theoph | mountains; and that the house extends a great way down, far from
858 Marc | spreading to a boundless extent, God no longer allowed man
859 Theop | water, if it be drunk, it extinguishes whatever kindles sensual
860 Arete(16) | supposed, gave occasion to this extraordinary work. Possibly the epoch
861 Thal(5) | ever afterward in the other extreme. Here is a prudent caveat.]~
862 Thekla | increases, and rejoices, and exults throughout this time, until
863 Arete | tongue, but neither the eyesight, the ears, nor the hands;
864 Thekla(39) | Ezek. xvii. 3.~
865 Thal | that is married careth for f the things that are of the
866 Tusiane | World Will Be; Even Now the Fabric of the World Completed.~
867 Tusiane | adornments which they, preparing, fabricate from trees, not perceiving
868 Thekla | passing it in nothing but fabulous figments. And now may these
869 Thall | imaginations and desires fade away, the flesh now withering
870 Thekla | them. But he misses and fails of his prey, the, regenerate
871 Arete | that account, weary or grow faint, but direct her vessel-that
872 Thekla | who, burying the truth in fairies and fictions, rather than
873 Thall(4) | The above rendering may fairly embrace them both.~
874 Thekla | hence, who have rightly and faithfully contended as virgins for
875 Intro(5) | i.e., of philosophy not falsely so called.] ~
876 Marc(3) | excited in the Church by the fanatical conduct of Origen, vol.
877 Procil(13) | refuted and perishes in fanciful and over-strained analogies.] ~
878 Thal | smouldering and lurking passion, fanning and provoking it; and therefore
879 Tusiane | Scriptures, afterwards the far-spreading and thickly-leaved branches
880 Domn | thinking fit to bid a long farewell to this law, turned to idolatry.
881 Agathe | leaving on one side the fascinations and the pleasures of life,
882 Theop | the branches of chastity, fastening them to the wood that they
883 Arete | the planks of ships, whose fastenings the ship-masters diligently
884 Thal(44) | E. V. "Fasting and prayer." As in the best
885 Domn | bodies, and takes away our fatigues and ailments, and affords
886 Domn | them, Should I leave my fatness, wherewith by the they honour
887 Procil | having killed for her the fatted calf.14 ~
888 Thekla | We will answer, But, O faultfinder, not even to you will it
889 Procil | rejoice, since I too have the favouring wisdom of words, perceiving
890 Thekla(19) | interpretation the translator favours having little support save
891 Theop | Wherefore, also, we are always fearful, and we groan and cry with
892 Marc | despise the flesh, they sail fearlessly into the peaceful haven
893 Procil | torments of pleasures and fears and griefs, and the other
894 Intro | now had enough of food and feasting, for all things are abundant
895 Agathe | were commanded to have a feeble light from the evening to
896 Tusiane | words, and should speak more feebly than the rest of the virgins,
897 Thekla | of God, that they should feed her there a thousand two
898 Arete | the Peril of Chastity: the Felicity of Tranquillity; Purified
899 Intro(8) | of vol. ii., and Minucius Felix seems not infrequently reflected.]~
900 Agathe | follow the Lord, and have fellowship with Him wherever He is.
901 Theop | into the river,65 but the females to be preserved alive. For
902 Theoph | god caused the humours to ferment, mixing them with blood
903 Intro | of food and a variety of festivities, so that no delight was
904 Thekla | Nor could they bear the fetid foam which burst~From out
905 Thekla | the truth in fairies and fictions, rather than in artistic
906 Domn | afraid, ye beasts of the field; for the pastures of the
907 Thall | vine of Sodom, and of the fields of Gomorrah: their grapes
908 Procil | chastity; but resisting the fierce torments of pleasures and
909 Theop | violent currents, not only fiercely swept along whatever touched
910 Tusiane | ordinance of virginity: "In the fifteenth day of the seventh month,
911 Domn | former laws the vine and the fig, trees bearing fruit unto
912 Domn | nakedness of his body by fig-leaves; that is, by their friction
913 Domn | a plaster with a lump of figs-that is, the fruit of the Spirit-that
914 Procil | Therefore He called it figuratively a dove, because that creature
915 Thekla | the moon brightly shining fills the heaven with its light,
916 Thekla | unrighteousness, between filthiness and nobility, between licentiousness
917 Thekla | any difference between a filthy man and a noble man, a licentious
918 Theoph | modelling the clay which he finds at each hole, and having
919 Thekla | for anyone even to move a finger apart from fate. And therefore
920 Thekla | flowers, and weave with sacred fingers the purple and glorious
921 Theoph | should endeavour to put a finish to it. Now, the fact that
922 Tusiane | heaven and the earth, and finished the whole world, and rested
923 Thal | what is deep, he sometimes finishes with what is simple and
924 Thal | creation of the earth and the firmament, was formed out of clay?
925 Thal | should be joined to the first-formed man, and first and first-born
926 Procil | had pleased God from the first-made man in succession to Noah,
927 Domn | righteousness. But these, thinking fit to bid a long farewell to
928 Arete | and, moreover, from the flame of fire, and from the mortal-destroying
929 Thekla | Profuse the violence of flaming fire.~Her slew Bellerophon
930 Intro | had happened, and I was flattering myself greatly with the
931 Arete | her vessel-that is, the flesh-nobly into the port of chastity,
932 Theoph | and judgment, that this fleshly garment of the soul, being
933 Thall | another the best of his flocks, another consecrates his
934 Arete | overthrown by rains, and floods, and winds; likening, as
935 Thekla | and related vices, which flourish by nature around his murderous
936 Tusiane | by the watercourses,"19 flourishing in the word. Lastly, to
937 Thekla | listened to herself, speaking fluently, and with easy expression,
938 Tusiane | your God."2 ~Here the Jews, fluttering about the bare letter of
939 Thekla | of evils, is nourished, flying on the heavenward wings
940 Theoph | providence was it that the foetus was not suffocated by damp
941 Thekla | being shaken out by the folds of the dragon, because they
942 Thal | sharply these dishonest follies and invented excuses, and
943 Tusiane | Then again from thence I, a follower of Jesus, "who hath entered
944 Thekla(30) | In the baptismal font.~
945 Thekla | having the moon for her footstool, and being with child, and
946 Theoph | of less value than clay; forasmuch as he knew not his Maker,
947 Theoph | not, then, be absurd to forbid marriage unions, seeing
948 Thekla | with murder, and the law forbids this, punishing criminals,
949 Thal(2) | Eph. v. 32. [A forcible argument.]~
950 Arete | woman heated with desire forcibly drew him to an unlawful
951 Marc | of all acted towards our forefathers. For the world, while still
952 Agathe | Jerusalem, "Thou hadst a whore's forehead, thou refusedst to be ashamed; "3
953 Marc | s name written in their foreheads. And I heard a voice from
954 Agathe | unwise, for they had not the forethought to fill their vessels with
955 Thal | and eat of it, and live forever? "9 For it is necessary
956 Domn | was the devil unable to forge an imitation to lead men
957 Procil | wholly destroyed, through forgetfulness of the things whichwere
958 Theoph | Something Akin to the First Formation of Eve from the Side and
959 Domn | said unto them, Should I forsake my sweetness, and my good
960 Theop | reading the law, as if, forsooth, they were piously observing
961 Thekla | being in bondage to fate or fortune. And so no man would be
962 Procil(22) | The forty-fifth in our arrangement.~
963 Agathe | commemoration of the hundred and forty-four thousand.20 ~Go then, ye
964 Procil | united to Him. And in the forty-fourth psalm,22 the queen who,
965 Marc | putting away, by the word, the foulness of luxury, lest in any way
966 Marc | slips, nor lay any fast foundation."16 ~Lest, however, we should
967 Arete | wise man to a house well founded, He declares him immoveable
968 Intro | pure, formed itself into fountains, and these, overflowing
969 Thall | incense in the vials of the four-and-twenty elders were the prayers
970 Theoph | of the divine Ruler, his frame being prepared for him by
971 Procil | with which also the law is framed; because they first, before
972 Thal | Virgin by the Spirit, He frames the same11 just as at the
973 Thall | drawn from this, stained his fratricidal hands, and defiled the earth
974 Domn | that by it they may be freed from the curse, "Dust thou
975 Procil | precious stones, namely, of freedom, of magnanimity, of wisdom,
976 Intro(9) | things are pure;" but the freedoms of the converse must offend
977 Procil | because she saw and heard freely what those desired to see,
978 Tusiane | God who by means of death frees His sons from death, and
979 Domn | then confused by great and frequent calamities; but from the
980 Thal | marriage to Him. For it is frequently the case that the Scriptures
981 Domn | fig-leaves; that is, by their friction he excited him to sexual
982 Domn | shall not be alarmed, nor frightened by him who troubles the
983 Intro | way abounding with many frightful reptiles; for, as I looked,
984 Procil | calls symbolically golden fringes. For since this garment
985 Tusiane | consummated, shall pass froth the wonderful place of the
986 Domn | then those which were truly fruit-bearing trees flourished and yielded
987 Thall | made of palms or of other fruit-trees. For in the same way that
988 Domn | These are the two sons of fruitfulness23 which stand by the Lord
989 Thall | goaded on to an unnatural and fruitless desire for males. Hence,
990 Thekla | labour-pains have their fulfilment in those who are washed
991 Thall | and swiftly registers and fulfils the counsel of the Father,
992 Intro(1) | of Plato, but designed to furnish a contrast as strong as
993 Thal(54) | state of the Church which furnishes only rare and exceptional
994 Theoph | casting of seed into the furrows of the matrix is the beginning
995 Thekla | Inheritance of Virginity.~Furthermore, when they have come hither,
996 Thall | changes of life, his flesh gaining strength and urging him
997 Thekla | say the circle called the Galaxy, or milky way, which reaches
998 Arete | against the entrance of the gales of the Evil Spirit, and
999 Thall | their grapes are grapes of gall, their clusters are bitter:
1000 Thall(2) | Lit. game or toil, a@qlon.~
1001 Theoph | wrong stealing from the gardens of others the embraces of
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