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1002 Theop | breastband, the girdle which gathers together and keeps firm
1003 Thal(12) | old Latin translator. The general meaning, however, will be
1004 Thal(19) | that of Migne, as being generally the more accurate.-Tr.~
1005 Theoph | all the marrow-like and generative part of the blood, like
1006 Marc | it requires strong and generous natures, such as, vaulting
1007 Thekla | seen upon thee. And the Gentiles shall come to thy light,
1008 Intro | flowers, from which came a gentle breeze laden with sweetest
1009 Theop | wisdom, is watered by the gentlest streams of Christ. For as
1010 Thal | that receiving the pure and genuine seed of His doctrine, they
1011 Thekla | circumference of the world by geometrical theorems and figures, and
1012 Theoph | strong antagonist, grew giddy, and with difficulty recovering
1013 Thall | presence of the testimony, gilded with wisdom, for the Holy
1014 Thall | faith in the heart, and gird our loins with purity, and
1015 Theop | Now the breastband, the girdle which gathers together and
1016 Tusiane | and as it were "through a glass,"8 since that which is perfect
1017 Thekla | turnings of a well-rounded globe, the earth having a central
1018 Arete | thy chambers. O spotless, gloriously triumphant Bride, breathing
1019 Agathe | the same way towards the goal had been entered upon, as
1020 Arete | for again the grace of the God-Christ has suddenly shone upon
1021 Tusiane | boughs of chastity, that God-making and blessed tree with which
1022 Agathe | and strive to defile its godlike and lovely image, as the
1023 Thekla | the triangular forms of godliness, falling away from it with
1024 Thall | Sodom, and of the fields of Gomorrah: their grapes are grapes
1025 Tusiane | For "though I sell all my goods and give to the poor, and
1026 Thekla | which he was accustomed to gore and cast down the souls
1027 Marc | saying, "O Lord, Father, and Governor of my life, leave me not
1028 Thal(36) | Laver (Gr loutro\n). Compare Tit.
1029 Intro | walking along quietly and gracefully, clothed in a shining robe
1030 Tusiane | prophet, shall spring up "as grass in the midst of the waters,
1031 Theop | possession, pleasing and grateful to God. There-fore, I say,
1032 Thekla | the breastplate, and the greaves. For you will bring upon
1033 Marc | proud look; let not the greediness of the belly, nor lust of
1034 Thekla | who know Christ, like the Greeks, who, burying the truth
1035 Procil | pleasures and fears and griefs, and the other evils of
1036 Thekla | shall cover the earth, and gross darkness the people: but
1037 Domn | things are not said of trees growing out of the earth, is clear.
1038 Agathe | but is unchangeable, and grows not old and has need of
1039 Theoph | Thou didst not, O Lord, grudge us this common light; but
1040 Procil | Almighty with joy and gladness, guarded and escorted by angels.
1041 Theoph | adultery, are committed to guardian angels. But if they came
1042 Theoph | Angels Given to Them as Guardians.~But what need is there
1043 Thall | the virgin may not, when guarding against those sins which
1044 Thekla | For they, trusting more in guessing than in prudence, that is,
1045 Intro | me, "we who were there as guests were altogether, I think,
1046 Thall | to old age, the Rider who guides with pure mind, when the
1047 Marc | their mouth was found no guile: for they are without fault,"22
1048 Agathe | through these senses, our habits of good and evil are confirmed.
1049 Agathe | reproaching Jerusalem, "Thou hadst a whore's forehead, thou
1050 Arete | of snow-white form, dark haired, chaste, spotless, beloved.~
1051 Thal | unexamined - and, so to speak, half-lame-come let us, as it were completing
1052 Thall | them.~Moreover, it has been handed down that the unbloody altar
1053 Tusiane | so largely and variously handled. Wherefore I ask to be excused
1054 Theop | when we remembered Zion. We hanged our harps upon the willows
1055 Thal | His honour, having first hardened and fixed it in the Virgin'
1056 Thekla(19) | It is hardly necessary to observe, that
1057 Tusiane | fruitful, not having anything hare or empty, but all full,
1058 Thekla | and do my prophets no harm," as though those who were
1059 Thal | which conquered death, might harmonize the resurrection with the
1060 Marc | and I heard the voice of harpers harping with their harps:
1061 Marc | heard the voice of harpers harping with their harps: And they
1062 Intro | for this reason I made all haste to come here to you, fearing
1063 Tusiane | figures have ceased; and we hasten on to the truth, proclaiming
1064 Tusiane | tree with which all who are hastening to that assembly and nuptial
1065 Thal | himself. For no man ever yet hated his own flesh, but nourisheth
1066 Marc | fearlessly into the peaceful haven of immortality.11 ~
1067 Thal(12) | chapter is indicated in the heading placed over it by the old
1068 Domn | the first men so often rim headlong into combats and slaughter,
1069 Arete | great diseases, and has healed many patients?~Gregorion.
1070 Domn | the Spirit-that he may be healed-that is, according to the apostle -
1071 Domn | of men," and the Spirit healeth them. And therefore Hezekiah
1072 Thal | that he wished all were healthy and continent, as he also
1073 Arete | virginity, when I a woman heated with desire forcibly drew
1074 Thall | family. Hence, too, the heathen, becoming intoxicated, sharpen
1075 Arete | cause is able to repress the heats of burning lust, and reckon
1076 Thekla | nourished, flying on the heavenward wings of virginity, which
1077 Thall | naked and true meaning. The Hebrews were commanded to ornament
1078 Theop | to a great and glorious height, when the righteous, and
1079 Thekla | was the Ram that conveyed Helle, the daughter of Athamas,
1080 Thekla | the battle, armed with the helmet of salvation,40 and the
1081 Domn | told that they cannot be helped by the law; the Spirit answering
1082 Thal | may co-operate with Him, helping in preaching for the salvation
1083 Domn | Let no fruit grow on thee henceforward for ever,"17 then those
1084 Thekla | Herakles from the breasts of Hera, by the commands of Zeus.
1085 Thekla | Ram, was poured forth for Herakles from the breasts of Hera,
1086 Tusiane | drones about the leaves of herbs, but not about flowers and
1087 Thekla | earth, are the bodies of heresies; for we must say that the
1088 Thekla | the Tail of the Dragon, Heretics; The Numbers of the Trinity,
1089 Intro(8) | suggests a comparison with the Hermas of vol. ii., and Minucius
1090 Marc(11) | high conceptions of these heroic believers, based on the
1091 | hers
1092 Thekla | are the assemblies of the heterodox; since they, too, wish to
1093 Domn | healeth them. And therefore Hezekiah is commanded19 first to
1094 Marc | lest in any way some slight hidden corruption should breed
1095 Arete | But lest in any wise I hinder you, if I gainsay your words,
1096 Thekla(45) | science taught them? Methodius hints it.]~
1097 Thekla(49) | of our nativity.-Tr. [See Hippolytus, vol. v. p. 27, this series.]~
1098 Theoph | taught, "My Father worketh hitherto."2 But when the rivers shall
1099 Thekla | are equal to one another, holds back from the circles which
1100 Procil | O my spouse, drop as the honeycomb; honey and milk are under
1101 Arete | much inferior to those who honourably exercise chastity. Nor is
1102 Theoph | Although the Best and Most Honoured.~And perhaps there will
1103 Arete | riches is he desirous of honouring chastity; he dishonours
1104 Thekla | now the fiery and bitter horn of fornication, by which
1105 Thekla | manifold, and seven-headed, and horned, and draws down the third
1106 Thekla | out the fountain of her horrid jaws; "41 unless Christ
1107 Thall | vehemently restrains the horse from evil? Another who turns
1108 Marc | clearly gives the name of "fed horses"15 to those who lust after
1109 Arete | the leader of the foreign hosts, whom previously she had
1110 Arete | himself charity, mercy, and humanity, is much inferior to those
1111 Thekla | and dignity. For He being humbled, and apparently degraded,
1112 Thekla | restored again from His humiliation and degradation to His former
1113 Thal | that I may not seem to hurry you on by violence, and
1114 Thal | women who have lost their husbands, and what he declares on
1115 Thall | Ye shall not eat the hyaena and animals like it; nor
1116 Thekla | Cassiopeia, Cepheus, Pegasus, Hydra, the Raven, the Cup, the
1117 Arete | meet Thee.~Thekla. 20. In hymns, O blessed spouse of God,
1118 Domn | exercise, but for deception and hypocrisy. For in order that those
1119 Thekla | in accordance with the hypothesis of the Chaldeans and Egyptians.
1120 Thal(37) | lavacrum animae.-Calvin, Ib., p. 350.] ~
1121 Thal | wisdom and life, has become identical with the very same untainted
1122 Theoph | them into various kinds of idols? And if any one should supply
1123 Thal | other who was dangerously ill, and say," In truth, my
1124 Theoph | Even Prelates Sometimes Illegitimate.~But Marcella, interrupting,
1125 Domn | Therefore, worn out with ills and afflicted, they again
1126 Thal | the Paraclete, of whom the illuminated26 receiving are fitly born
1127 Theop | Ruler and Bridegroom, O illustrious virgins, commands both you
1128 Thekla | come, contemplating them in imagination from afar, when, while they
1129 Thekla | cast down the souls of many imagining and contriving things in
1130 Domn | enemy, by his power, always imitates11 the forms of virtue and
1131 Agathe | formed and fashioned it, imitating the eternal and intelligible
1132 Domn | Malignity of the Devil as an Imitator in All Things; Two Kinds
1133 Arete | the ministry of man, by an immaculate conception,10 and who thus
1134 Procil | delights in the beauty which is immaterial and spiritual, not touching
1135 Theoph | bring forth an imperfect and immature wisdom, mixing their error
1136 Thal(54) | more deeply than I do the immeasurable evils of an enforced celibacy;
1137 Tusiane | As in the instance of the immolation of the Lamb, the mystery
1138 Marc | for it is not fitting to impart divine instruction to a
1139 Tusiane | charity and discretion are imparted in due time to those who
1140 Thall | delights, so as to become impatient of the control of continence
1141 Thekla | commands, are guilty of impiety towards God Himself, making
1142 Theop | commandments, and acting impiously towards God, they were pretentiously
1143 Thekla | evils the greatest which is implanted in many is that which refers
1144 Thal | by Him who with whispers implants it in the depths of the
1145 Thekla | Divine Being is not by nature implicated in evils. Therefore our
1146 Tusiane | lovers of virginity, I also implore thee to afford me thine
1147 Thal | appear to mix them up, and to import matters foreign to the subject
1148 Domn | greater length than their importance would warrant. For I account
1149 Thekla | according to our power, the imposture of those who boast as though
1150 Tusiane | reverence the seal of the Blood impressed upon the former.~
1151 Thekla | word of truth should be imprinted and stamped upon the souls
1152 Theoph | but if disgracefully and improperly, then it becomes disgraceful.
1153 Thall | no participation in the impurities of the flesh; but it should
1154 Theop | and be drawn like worms to impurity and corruption. For God
1155 Marc | by Preserving His Flesh In-Corrupt in Virginity, Draws to the
1156 Arete | But they are in every way inaccessible to lust, both as to their
1157 Domn | the earth, is clear. For inanimate trees cannot be assembled
1158 Agathe | which is in unspeakable and inapproachable places,1 embracing all things
1159 Domn | Lastly, the bramble not inaptly refers to the law which
1160 Thekla | far removed from evil, and incapable of human actions which spring
1161 Theoph | be thought guilty of the incentives to incontinence; and art
1162 Domn | to him who flies from the incitements of lust, and from a woman -
1163 Thal | whichever of these he may incline is said to partake of the
1164 Thekla(29) | opinion that Methodius was inclined to Arianism. There is no
1165 Thal | hold of him. Now, when he inclines to corruption, he becomes
1166 Thekla | all, by a few words, the inconsistency of their trick, so that
1167 Thal | duly fulfilled, the Church increasing daily in greatness and beauty
1168 Domn | poison of dragons, and the incurable venom of asps.15 But from
1169 Thal | preferable to burning and indecency. ~
1170 Agathe(6) | word employed signifies the index of a sun-dial.-Tr. [The
1171 Tusiane | joy, as the Jewish types indicate. For like as the Israelites,
1172 Domn | the oil which it produces, indicates the compassion of God, who
1173 Tusiane | branches; by that figure indicating righteousness, because "
1174 Theoph | moulded shall be worked up indifferently, even if it be unlawfully
1175 Theop | whom the prophet says with indignation, "They read the law74 without; "75
1176 Thal | marriage lawfully, and does not indulge in secret corruption, does
1177 Thekla(19) | the late pontiff's bull Ineffabilis. Elucidation II.]~
1178 Marc | reason of coarseness of mind, ineffectually with unwashed feet, and
1179 Theoph | marriage,"19 according to the infallible words of the Lord; since
1180 Thal | by the evil one, and be inflamed with lust after other men'
1181 Thekla | the punishment which is inflicted by the laws, since they
1182 Intro(8) | Minucius Felix seems not infrequently reflected.]~
1183 Thall | cruel venom of asps." The inhabitants of Sodom having gathered
1184 Arete | 24. O blessed One, who inhabited the undefiled seats of heaven
1185 Thal | suffering it again to be inherited by corruption. And on this
1186 Procil | and the other evils of the iniquity of men, they first of all
1187 Agathe(6) | yet be associated with the initial of Jesus.] ~
1188 Thekla | when he is licentious he is injurious to himself and to the public.
1189 Thekla | But God is the cause of injury to no one; therefore fate49
1190 Thekla | destiny, such as committing injustice, adultery, theft, poisoning,
1191 Procil(15) | of this note. Eve in her innocency is surely a competent witness.]~
1192 Arete | with Methodios12 when he inquired respecting these things
1193 Intro | the matter of which we are inquiring.~Gregorion.3 I seem to be
1194 Thall | the other of madness and insanity. The sober and joy-producing
1195 Thekla | study the stars, with much insolence. For they, trusting more
1196 Theop | of currents and ways, God inspiring us "at sundry times and
1197 Thal | Chapter III.-Comparison Instituted Between the First and Second
1198 Theop | to the Evil One. For they insult the commandments, accomplishing
1199 Arete | members are to be preserved intact and free from corruption;
1200 Thekla | words, as she set forth intelligently, and in fact picturesquely,
1201 Agathe | imitating the eternal and intelligible nature of which man is the
1202 Thekla | fulfil the want of their intemperance, and, being degraded and
1203 Tusiane | the prophets; for they, intent upon things earthly, have
1204 Theoph | is moulded apart from the intention and ordinance of the lawful
1205 Thekla(35) | the mystery of numbers. An interesting and profound examination
1206 Thall | Chapter VII.-The Church Intermediate Between the Shadows of the
1207 Thekla | Zodiac, so that through their intermingling they see the things which
1208 Theoph | Illegitimate.~But Marcella, interrupting, said, "O Theophila, there
1209 Agathe | extinguished. For the delay is the interval which precedes the appearing
1210 Agathe | from heaven, as also Paul intimates,15 that "the Lord Himself
1211 Thal | but afterwards finding it intolerable and grievous, and in word
1212 Thall | of the body, things which intoxicate the soul; on this account
1213 Thall | Manufactured and Spurious Wine, Yet Intoxicating; Things Which are Akin to
1214 Thall | natural tendency to produce intoxication and distraction of mind.
1215 Marc | case of the other saints he introduces an unspeakable multitude,
1216 Thal | difficult and delicate; and yet introducing nothing which is foreign
1217 Tusiane | be excused exordium and introductions, lest, whilst I delay in
1218 Marc(11) | sensuality of paganism, and inured to the sorrows of martyr-ages,
1219 Thal | these dishonest follies and invented excuses, and having arrived
1220 Tusiane | which things, carefully investigating, we should consider the
1221 Theoph | making use of our nature, invisibly forms us men within, working
1222 Intro | Gregorion. "We went by invitation to a garden of hers with
1223 Arete(3) | the Edinburgh edition. I invite a comparison.] ~
1224 Theoph | judgment seat of Christ, invoke Him and say, "Thou didst
1225 Tusiane | pray, and turning round, invoked Wisdom to be her present
1226 Arete | dead, they groan from the inward recesses of their mind.~
1227 Procil | that I am, like a harp, inwardly attuned, and prepared to
1228 Agathe(6) | In the Greek the accented Iota might yet be associated
1229 Procil(18) | 147, this series; also Irenaeus (same vol.), p. 562, at
1230 Thekla | God throws up over them, irradiating that state with unquenchable
1231 Thekla(47) | of the original. There it is-maqhmatikh\n and kataqematikh/n.-Tr.~
1232 Thall | the bosom of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob. Now Jeremiah
1233 Thal | fornication, goaded on by the itchings of the organs of generation
1234 Thall | Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob. Now Jeremiah says, "It
1235 Thekla | the fountain of her horrid jaws; "41 unless Christ had first
1236 Arete | to meet Thee.~Thekla. 13. Jephthah offered his fresh slaughtered
1237 Tusiane(3) | Coleridge's remarks on Jeremy Taylor, touching this point,
1238 Theoph(14) | Scripture. It confirms St. Jerome's testimony, Prolog. in
1239 Tusiane | more glorious joy, as the Jewish types indicate. For like
1240 Domn | from the face of the woman Jezebel,9 at first came under a
1241 Theoph | extended and relaxed at the joints? or who prepared channels
1242 Arete | restrain themselves? or are you joking?~Euboulios. How so, when
1243 Thekla | baptized in the water of the Jordan, "Thou art my son: this
1244 Arete | Thekla. 12. Thy valiant son Joseph,7 O Word, won the greatest
1245 Domn(8) | It spoils the force of Jotham's caustic satire to adopt
1246 Tusiane | we. For I also, taking my journey, and going forth from the
1247 Thall | insanity. The sober and joy-producing vine, from whose instructions,
1248 Procil | fragrance, and sweetness and joyousness. For chastity is like a
1249 Arete(8) | Jud. viii. ~
1250 Theop | that well-known town in Judea; but truly of that heavenly
1251 Domn(1) | Judg. ix. 8-15.~
1252 Thekla | in the eye of a righteous judge. For, if we must speak plainly,
1253 Tusiane | day in which I stand to be judged, whether I have adorned
1254 Thal | was in itself flood,48 but judging it better than burning.
1255 Tusiane | bring when we come to the judgment-seat of Christ, on the first
1256 Arete | Thee.~Thekla. 14. Daring Judith,8 by clever wiles having
1257 Arete | so to suffer the eternal justice of God in fiery vengeance.
1258 Theop(69) | Odyss. K'. 510.~
1259 Thal(48) | Kalo/n. It is the same word which
1260 Thekla(47) | There it is-maqhmatikh\n and kataqematikh/n.-Tr.~
1261 Thall(12) | original than the E. V. Cf. Keil and Delitzsch, Bib. Com.,
1262 Thekla | destiny51 leads one on to kill a man, and to stain his
1263 Procil | He did the Church, having killed for her the fatted calf.14 ~
1264 Thal | that which corrupts and kills, and not that which is corrupted
1265 Theop | it extinguishes whatever kindles sensual desires and passions
1266 Domn | that thou wilt receive with kindness from me who was chosen to
1267 Arete | desire even of mother and of kindred, for Thou, O Christ, art
1268 Marc | number, of all nations, and kindreds, and people, and tongues."23
1269 Intro | separation, she embraced and kissed each one of us with great
1270 Thekla | For this cause I bow my knees unto the Father of our Lord
1271 Thall | that, when he cometh and knocketh, they may open unto him
1272 Theoph | form, not perceiving and knowing their own Maker, are blamed
1273 Tusiane | the mind being cleansed by laborious exercises from the distracting
1274 Domn | cultivate it with care and labour. But neither did this law
1275 Thekla | while you teach that her labour-pains have their fulfilment in
1276 Intro | which came a gentle breeze laden with sweetest odour. And
1277 Thekla(17) | se/laj.~
1278 Thall(7) | Lam. iii. 27.~
1279 Arete | moans, wail and mournfully lament that their lamps are gone
1280 Thekla | defiling your mind with lamentations. Let faith conquer wholly,
1281 Domn | and affords light. For all lamp-light increases when nourished
1282 Theop | Spirit is very wide and large. Beginning, therefore, at
1283 Tusiane | the subject having been so largely and variously handled. Wherefore
1284 Arete | crown; but Thekla with a larger and thicker chaplet, as
1285 Arete | that to repress vehement lascivious desires constituted chastity,
1286 Thekla | themselves in working the lasciviousness, and the changes and vicissitudes
1287 Marc | wisdom. For would it not be laughable to go on talking to those
1288 Thall | womanish weaknesses and laughter, exciting herself to wiles
1289 Thal(37) | v. 25, 26. [Baptismus = lavacrum animae.-Calvin, Ib., p.
1290 Thekla | Solon, and Zaleukos were law-givers and appointed laws, prohibiting
1291 Thal | perfect rule, until the Lawgiver Himself having re-arranged
1292 Thekla | But if it be hostile, then lawgivers do not act in accordance
1293 Thekla | earth, and their weak and lawless actions, and doing nothing
1294 Thal | when he hath found it, he layeth it on his shoulders rejoicing;
1295 Thal | not to touch40 a woman, laying it down. and setting it
1296 Thekla(45) | think." Had Methodius any leaning to Pythagoras and his school?
1297 Marc(4) | Lit. "leaps out." ~
1298 Theop | those have said who are learned in these things, when, being
1299 Theop(75) | sacrifice of thanksgiving in the leaven."~
1300 Tusiane | the true Israelites the legal rite of the true feast of
1301 Domn(2) | 6.-Tr. [See Coleridge on Leighton, Old English Divines, vol.
1302 Thekla | which are the greater and lesser Bears, and beyond them is
1303 Marc | greatest and most exalted lesson of virginity, they should
1304 Thal | imperfect and beginning their lessons, are born to salvation,
1305 Thall | writes by it in clearest letters, from the depth and power
1306 Thal(47) | there cited. Per contra, see Lewin, vol. i. 382, 386.]~
1307 Thall | forbidden to offer sacrifice and libation, has reference to those
1308 Theoph(14) | s testimony, Prolog. in Libros Salomonis.]~
1309 Intro(7) | of its name to a9gno/j."-Liddell and Scott.~
1310 Arete | stained the dust with his life-blood, he cried to Thee, O blessed
1311 Arete | to be protected under Thy life-giving arms, and to behold Thy
1312 Theoph | not to be blamed, being lifeless.And, therefore, the material
1313 Thekla | brightness of thy rising. Lift up thine eyes round about,
1314 Thekla | because thou raisest5 and liftest up to heaven, ever going
1315 Thal | catalogue and number, the Lord lifting him up and wrapping him
1316 Thekla | temperance is strengthened, lightening the downward tendency of
1317 Thekla | it becomes stronger and lighter, accustomed daily to fly
1318 Thall | upon it. And when Aaron lighteth the lamps at even, he shall
1319 Thekla | considered as their images and likenesses.~
1320 Arete | and floods, and winds; likening, as it would seem, these
1321 Arete | manifestly crowned with white lilies, and bearing in their hands
1322 Arete | form, without polluting the limbs of her body, with a victor'
1323 Thekla | because all the straight lines from the circumference falling
1324 Theoph | the blood, like a kind of liquid bone, coming together from
1325 Thall | neither shall he drink any liquor of grapes, nor eat moist
1326 Procil | of the eighty virgins the list of the prophets from Abraham,
1327 Arete | Tell me, was she not listening from without? I wonder if
1328 Thal(5) | Scripture. Origen, having literalized so sadly in one case, seems
1329 Marc | Revelation, "And I looked, and, lo, a Lamb stood on the mount
1330 Thal | forward into a style which is loftier and more magnificent. And
1331 Thal(58) | see Taylor, i. 426, ed. London, 1844.]~
1332 Domn | Spirit is love, joy, peace, long-suffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,
1333 Marc | And hence some who have longed for it, and considering
1334 Theop | streams of passions, but he longs for the carnal and irrational
1335 Theoph | raging with lust, and letting loose their desires in adultery,
1336 Theop | she should not give up or loosen the band of chastity through
1337 Tusiane | lest she should be at a loss for words, and should speak
1338 Thal(36) | Laver (Gr loutro\n). Compare Tit. iii. 5
1339 Thekla | has shown. But virtue is lovable and praiseworthy, God having
1340 Procil | husbandman of this grace, and a lover of its beauty, and a fitting
1341 Tusiane | about the trunk, yield its lowly branches bearing chastity,
1342 Thal | Jeremiah as a trustworthy and lucid witness, who speaks thus: "
1343 Thal | kindle up the smouldering and lurking passion, fanning and provoking
1344 Arete | multitudes of men in flowing lustral water, unjustly by a wicked
1345 Arete | having shone with greater lustre than the rest.~
1346 Arete | and having despised the luxuriant delights of life and its
1347 Domn | incarnation of Christ, too deeply luxuriating in transgressions, approach
1348 Thall | agitated by a desire for luxuries and pleasures, but also
1349 Marc | addicted to nothing slothful or luxurious, but should excel, and set
1350 Tusiane | increase in us from our luxuriousness and carelessness.~Whoso,
1351 Thekla(20) | Isa. lxvi. 7, 8.~
1352 Thekla | that Minos and Dracon, and Lycurgus, and Solon, and Zaleukos
1353 Thekla | the Raven, the Cup, the Lyre, the Dragon, and others,
1354 Arete | betray my nuptials to you, O mad for women, and so to suffer
1355 Arete | Susanna, the two Judges, maddened with desire, said, O dear
1356 Thall | righteousness; but the other of madness and insanity. The sober
1357 Procil | namely, of freedom, of magnanimity, of wisdom, and of love,
1358 Arete | glad that you answer me so magnanimously, and show how wealthy you
1359 Marc | its supreme excellence and magnificence is the greatness of its
1360 Thal | which is loftier and more magnificent. And then, again changing
1361 Thekla | Euboulios. How bravely and magnificently, O Gregorion, has Thekla
1362 Theop | expression in Jeremiah,83 "That a maid should not forget her ornaments,
1363 Arete | happy nuptials, O youthful maiden.~Chorus. I keep myself pure
1364 Intro | to these words:-~"'Young maidens, the glory of my greatness,
1365 Thall | glory in part of not being maimed in her virtue, but in both
1366 Intro | divine. Modesty, blended with majesty, bloomed on her countenance.
1367 Domn(11) | to the Fathers. He is the malignant caricature of the Most High,
1368 Domn | Chapter V.-The Malignity of the Devil as an Imitator
1369 Procil | that different persons, managing their course differently,
1370 Thekla | and the image, and the manliness of Christ, the likeness
1371 Theop | sundry times and in divers manners,"60 who can have the choice
1372 Theoph | regarding this one thing only, manufactures the material submitted to
1373 Thekla | but the many-headed and many-faced beast will immediately allow
1374 Thekla | One more powerful; but the many-headed and many-faced beast will
1375 Thekla | their own motion. For of Marcion and Valentinus, and those
1376 Tusiane | themselves were preserved by marking the door-posts of their
1377 Thal | that he made of clay was marred in the hand of the potter:
1378 Arete | suspected of having betrayed the marriage-bed, she, O blessed One, when
1379 Theoph | marriage state, all the marrow-like and generative part of the
1380 Marc | of Abraham, the custom of marrying with sisters has ceased;
1381 Arete | Her; John the Baptist a Martyr to Chastity; The Church
1382 Marc(11) | inured to the sorrows of martyr-ages, when Christian families
1383 Thekla | carries off the crown of martyrdom. Unbelief and folly, and
1384 Thal | together according to a certain marvellous relationship, he works into
1385 Intro | number; and the place was marvellously beautiful, and abounding
1386 Thekla | discourse, and look upon this marvelous woman as upon virgins prepared
1387 Thal | thus call the assembly and mass of believers by the name
1388 Agathe | if I make an effort to match myself with my superiors
1389 Thekla | many to the knowledge of mathematics, or, rather, to a knowledge
1390 Tusiane | of All; The Very Use of Matrimony to Be Restrained.~"And ye
1391 Theoph | into the furrows of the matrix is the beginning of the
1392 Intro(7) | of which were strewn by matrons on their beds at the Thesmophoria,
1393 Theop | virginity to blossom and grow to maturity when enriched by words,
1394 Thekla | understanding; that thou mayest know also where is length
1395 Theoph | flower covered and variegated meadow, adorned and crowned not
1396 Thal | woman,2 if the Scripture meant nothing higher than what
1397 Thal | come to the subject, having measured and crossed a mighty sea
1398 Thall | nor burnt-sacrifices nor meat-offering; neither shall ye pour drink-offering
1399 Arete | which appeases with the medicaments of temperance the disorders
1400 Thekla | quenching it with the healing medicine of words, here considering
1401 Domn | mistress, although it is mediocre and short, that thou wilt
1402 Domn | gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance; "20 which,
1403 Thal | responding to the shouts of the melodious angels which came from heaven.
1404 Thekla | sorrow transform your joy, melting away your hopes in better
1405 Arete | has perished, consuming mental grief is no more; for again
1406 Thal | referred back to Genesis, mentioning the things spoken concerning
1407 Domn | nourished by oil. So also the mercies of God entirely dissolve
1408 Marc | of his sister;10 God thus mercifully bringing to our race the
1409 Theop | devil in Egypt, since he mercilessly commanded the males to be
1410 Thekla | surround it, of which the meridian is the greatest; and the
1411 Domn | receiving it. And the first message to him after the transgression
1412 Intro | said Theopatra, "we were met by a tall and beautiful
1413 Arete | that she was present with Methodios12 when he inquired respecting
1414 Procil | and Enos, and Enoch, and Methuselah, and Noah, the first lovers
1415 Agathe | departure from life; and the midnight is the kingdom of Antichrist,
1416 Procil | the honeycomb; honey and milk are under thy tongue; and
1417 Thekla | circle called the Galaxy, or milky way, which reaches from
1418 Procil(18) | other places, the prevalent millenarian belief of the first centuries
1419 Tusiane | celebrate with Christ the millennium of rest, which is called
1420 Arete | lust, for they have their mined undefiled, and are altogether
1421 Intro | soft and regular currents, mingled with pure beams of light,
1422 Arete | those members also which minister to the service of lusts.
1423 Arete | in her womb without the ministry of man, by an immaculate
1424 Thekla | accordance with destiny that Minos and Dracon, and Lycurgus,
1425 Intro(8) | Hermas of vol. ii., and Minucius Felix seems not infrequently
1426 Theop | They May Emerge from the Mire of Vices.~Now I at least
1427 Intro | tempered with gentleness and mirth; for it was wholly unadorned
1428 Thekla | causes of the calamities and mischief of mortals, and busy themselves
1429 Thekla | brought forth in them. But he misses and fails of his prey, the,
1430 Theoph | house to be covered with mist and clouds, and nothing
1431 Thal | another, so as to appear to mix them up, and to import matters
1432 Domn(8) | parable; the Seventy give r0a/mnoj, which is not = a@gnoj.
1433 Arete | with bitter tears and deep moans, wail and mournfully lament
1434 Theoph | taking privately for his modelling the clay which he finds
1435 Thekla(19) | little support save among modern defenders of the late pontiff'
1436 Thal | the greatest caution, he modified his statement, showing that
1437 Thal | water. And therefore God, moistening him afresh and forming anew
1438 Thekla | aloft, and drying up its moisture and its clay-like weight,
1439 Tusiane | Gospels17 found the piece of money after she had swept the
1440 Agathe(6) | X), which is at once a monogram for Christ and a reference
1441 Theoph | having in a certain number of months made his model, giving it
1442 Procil | chastity, be engraven on a monument.~And Procilla having thus
1443 Theoph | is not destroyed by the moonlight.~Let us begin with Genesis,
1444 Arete | flame of fire, and from the mortal-destroying assaults of wild beasts,
1445 Thal | salvation, and shaped, as by mothers, by those who are more perfect,
1446 Thal | and untilled, God, taking mould, formed the reasonable creature
1447 Arete | and deep moans, wail and mournfully lament that their lamps
1448 Thekla | lawful for anyone even to move a finger apart from fate.
1449 Thal(44) | prayer." As in the best Mss., th=| nhstei/a| kai/ is
1450 Thall | speedily brings great and much-desired gifts of hopes to those
1451 Marc | women; and we read, "The multiplying brood of the ungodly shall
1452 Thekla | to stain his hands with murder, and the law forbids this,
1453 Domn | Hence God gave them up to mutual slaughters, to exiles, and
1454 Theop | since there are of arguments myriads of currents and ways, God
1455 Agathe | our mysteries; these the mystic rites of those who are initiated
1456 Domn | altogether are these things narrated concerning souls which,
1457 Thekla | forth in one day? or shall a nation be born at once? for as
1458 Marc | requires strong and generous natures, such as, vaulting over
1459 Arete | more estimable than he that navigates in calm weather?~Gregorion.
1460 Thall | themselves to vow a vow of a Nazarite, to separate themselves
1461 Procil(19) | connection, it stands for nea/nidej, and not for parqe/
1462 Thekla(31) | Patripassianism: nearly the same as Sabellianism.-
1463 Procil | the chains of the neck are necklaces which are composed of various
1464 Arete | Here are cups full of sweet nectar; let us drink, O virgins,
1465 Arete | unhappy ones, they have neglected to prepare sufficiency of
1466 Arete | of the necessities of his neighbour, honour chastity, but he
1467 Thekla(18) | neofw/tistoi.~
1468 Agathe | virginity, and who strain every nerve to fulfil this love, acting
1469 Agathe | around the unbeginning and never-ending King. I have become the
1470 Thekla | descriptive term called newly-enlightened;18 the moon ever showing
1471 Domn(5) | Good news.~
1472 Thekla(16) | selh/nh.~
1473 Thal(44) | As in the best Mss., th=| nhstei/a| kai/ is wanting in the
1474 Procil(19) | connection, it stands for nea/nidej, and not for parqe/noi.-
1475 Agathe(7) | more accurate, "Quid volo nisi ut accendatur?"-Tr. [A visionary
1476 Domn(24) | sxoi/nisma: same word as that translated "
1477 Thekla | between filthiness and nobility, between licentiousness
1478 Procil(19) | nidej, and not for parqe/noi.-Tr.~
1479 Arete | virgins, the sound of a noise that wakes the dead has
1480 Arete | wisest lady, in what do the non-concupiscent and chaste excel the concupiscent
1481 Thekla | heavens, or rather who study nonsense, who waste their life with
1482 Theoph | says, He "breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and
1483 Thal | For, taking himself as a notable example, in order to stir
1484 Tusiane(3) | may be worth consulting. Notes on Old English Divines,
1485 Intro(7) | was associated with the notion of chastity, from the likeness
1486 Domn | assist the human race, and nourish the light of the heart.2
1487 Thal | hated his own flesh, but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even
1488 Thekla | Chapter XV.-Arguments from the Novelty of Fate and Generation;
1489 | nowhere
1490 Thall | like a ram, that he may in nowise skip away, and fall and
1491 Procil | eighty, and the virgins so numerous as not to be counted from
1492 Thekla | and thy daughters shall be nursed at thy side." It is the
1493 Thal | labouring for the birth and nurture of other children, accomplishing
1494 Theop(71) | o@rganon. The word used for harp
1495 Theop | dispositions, promises with an oath to give them choice honours,
1496 Thal | then, I consider to be the objections urged by many who, despising,
1497 Marc | forbidden to be offered as an oblation to the Lord God. Now the
1498 Intro | things at present; but do oblige us by simply telling us
1499 Thal(5) | This is the obvious English equivalent of the
1500 Theop(82) | dead shall be raised," was obviously present to the mind of the
1501 Intro | breeze laden with sweetest odour. And the agnos7 grew near,
1502 Procil | sealed, in which all the odours of the fragrance of heaven
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