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1503 Theop(69) | Odyss. K'. 510.~
1504 Procil | course of our words without offence. And now it is time for
1505 Intro(9) | freedoms of the converse must offend unless we bear in mind that
1506 Theoph | of children as something offensive, which the Almighty Himself
1507 Thall | differently; but we say that he offers himself perfectly to God
1508 Theoph | And if, again, he shall officiously endeavour to open that which
1509 Procil | and the smell of thine ointments than all spices! Thy lips,
1510 Tusiane | truth itself. For the men of olden time and the law foretold
1511 Thekla | around which, as being older, the heaven is whirling.
1512 Thal | was most suitable that the oldest of the Aeons and the first
1513 Domn | candlestick, and what the two olive-boughs in the hands of the two
1514 Domn | the top of it.... And two olive-trees by it, one upon the right
1515 Procil | from truly wrestling in an Olympian contest for the prize of
1516 Thekla | or more ancient than the Olympians. Whence they are not mere
1517 Marc | succeeds me, supply the omission.~
1518 Domn | the Soul.~O Arete, I also, omitting the long preludes of exordiums,
1519 Thall | say what it is to offer up oneself perfectly to the Lord. If,
1520 Marc | wool of the mind, and go onwards to the practice of greater
1521 Agathe | the swift-moving and fiery operation of His doctrine to be kindled.
1522 Thal | remembrance, and guiding us, as I opine, into the way of the Spirit,
1523 Thekla | obliged to introduce the opinions of men who study the heavens,
1524 Thal(36) | 5 and Calvin's comment, Opp., tom. ii. p. 506, ed. 1667.]~
1525 Arete | worsted, or he who has no opponents?~Gregorion. Manifestly he
1526 Thekla | upon his heads are the ten opposites, O virgins, to the Decalogue,
1527 Thekla | them, and one which is not oppressed by the sun.~
1528 Intro(10) | See the oration on Simeon and Anna, cap.
1529 Thall | lovely than the poets and orators who confirm the doctrines
1530 Agathe | O fair virgins, are the orgies of our mysteries; these
1531 Thekla | say, beginning from the origin of the name, for what cause
1532 Thekla | from it with respect to an orthodox service. Whence also they
1533 | ours
1534 Thekla | a central point. For its outline being spherical, it is necessary,
1535 Domn | may entice to death, he is outwardly dyed with the colours of
1536 Procil(13) | perishes in fanciful and over-strained analogies.] ~
1537 Theop | the organs of lust which overbalance and weigh down the mind,
1538 Thall | any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness,
1539 Thekla | Church in the Wilderness Overcoming the Dragon.~The Church,
1540 Intro | into fountains, and these, overflowing like rivers, watered all
1541 Thall | staves of shittim-wood, and overlay them with gold. And thou
1542 Agathe(7) | this text been too much overlooked in its literal significance? "
1543 Domn | the deluge, because, when overpowered by wine, he was mocked.4
1544 Thekla | rushing in, for a little while overshadow its light, but do not destroy
1545 Tusiane | virtuous works, whether I am overshadowed by the boughs of chastity.
1546 Thall | way that draughts of wine overthrow man's reason, so do these
1547 Arete | immoveable because he cannot be overthrown by rains, and floods, and
1548 Domn | Christ, the chief of virgins, overturning it. So both the true fig-tree
1549 Thekla(45) | To "science" the world owes its rejection of the true
1550 Thekla | and that the head of the Ox is in honour of Zeus, who,
1551 Theoph(11) | by baptism, thousands of pagan converts having been born
1552 Marc(11) | than bestial sensuality of paganism, and inured to the sorrows
1553 Thekla | travailing in birth, and pained to be delivered. And there
1554 Marc(3) | was designed to meet the painful discussions excited in the
1555 Marc | able to imitate Him who painted it. For He was not one who,
1556 Theoph | manifest, that God, like a painter, is at this very time working
1557 Marc | human life, like skilful painters, stamping them upon ourselves
1558 Thal | as it were completing our pair, bring forth the analogical
1559 Procil | shall enter into the King's palace." Now, here the Spirit seems
1560 Thall | of wine, whether made of palms or of other fruit-trees.
1561 Thal | the Spirit of truth, the Paraclete, of whom the illuminated26
1562 Thekla | undertake it; for you will quite pardon me, if I am unable sufficiently
1563 Procil(19) | for nea/nidej, and not for parqe/noi.-Tr.~
1564 Thekla(3) | parqeni/a...parqei\a. ~
1565 Theoph | seed, which, so to speak, partakes of a divine creative power,
1566 Thekla | that each of the saints, by partaking of Christ, has been born
1567 Thekla | labours until, through their passionate desires, they fulfil the
1568 Agathe | inviolate the faith of the five pathways of virtue-sight, taste,
1569 Procil | prudence, faith, love, patience, and other good things,
1570 Domn | after the deluge, bore patiently when men turned aside to
1571 Arete | diseases, and has healed many patients?~Gregorion. I do.~Euboulios.
1572 Marc | that no one of the many patriarchs and prophets and righteous
1573 Thekla(31) | Patripassianism: nearly the same as Sabellianism.-
1574 Theoph | became silent, after a long pause, Thaleia arose, for to her
1575 Theop | she said that Thallousa, pausing a little, as though considering
1576 Theop | holy things to dogs, and pearls before swine,73 in the same
1577 Agathe(17) | Commentators have remarked on the peculiarity of the interpretation. We
1578 Thekla | masters, and servants, and pedagogues, and teachers; for each
1579 Thekla | Perseus, Cassiopeia, Cepheus, Pegasus, Hydra, the Raven, the Cup,
1580 Theop(68) | is not Eucharistic, but penitential.]~
1581 | Per
1582 Tusiane | which darken it, quickly perceives the truth; as the widow
1583 Procil | Hence the Word has with deep perception called the souls of the
1584 Theoph | perfection I understand being perfected in Christ-taught righteousness; '
1585 Arete | Tranquillity of Life? Contests the Peril of Chastity: the Felicity
1586 Arete | taken away, all folly has perished, consuming mental grief
1587 Procil(13) | allegorizing is refuted and perishes in fanciful and over-strained
1588 Thekla | perfect and radiating a permanent beauty, wanting nothing
1589 Thall | burn incense upon it; a perpetual incense before the Lord
1590 Thekla | Goat, the Watercarrier, Perseus, Cassiopeia, Cepheus, Pegasus,
1591 Thal | in word boasting of their perseverance before men, out of shame,
1592 Thal | longer having the power to persevere in the life of a eunuch.
1593 Arete | troubled by lusts, and yet perseveres against them, stronger than
1594 Tusiane | also the death of Christ is personified, by whose blood souls made
1595 Agathe | confidence of being able to persuade, and to carry on this admirable
1596 Domn | imitations, led him captive, persuading him to conceal the nakedness
1597 Thekla | which are most necessary for persuasion, and to gain approval for
1598 Thal | beginning with the more persuasive mode of speech. For the
1599 Theoph | the creative power of God, pervading all things, is more especially
1600 Thall | my steps from going14 in perverse ways, then have I offered
1601 Theop(76) | 1 Pet. ii. 10.~
1602 Procil | immortality from its white petals. Therefore He is not ashamed
1603 Tusiane | things, being like air and phantom shadows, foretell the resurrection
1604 Theop | Whence, also, they say that Pharaoh was a type of the devil
1605 Intro(3) | Banquet, and talks like a philosopher on these delicate subjects.]~
1606 Intro | Arete,5 the daughter of Philosophia?~Euboulios. Why do you ask?~
1607 Agathe | be unable to put forth in philosophizing anything that could compete
1608 Thekla(29) | Certain phrases like this have led to the
1609 Theop(71) | meaning. ["Body" here = man's physical system.]~
1610 Arete | And what say you of the physician? Do you not call him the
1611 Thekla | to crush falsehood, like physicians, taking its edge off, and
1612 Theoph | remains for you to apply this picture, my wisest of friends, to
1613 Theoph | copies of Christ, and living pictures? Whence, also, we have received
1614 Thekla | intelligently, and in fact picturesquely, the subjects on which she
1615 Tusiane | the Gospels17 found the piece of money after she had swept
1616 Thall | turtle dove, and a young pigeon; "which is admirably said;
1617 Theop | bright, and unmingled and pious and becoming, ornament of
1618 Theop | if, forsooth, they were piously observing its precepts;
1619 Domn | in the hands of the two pipes, the angel answered and
1620 Domn | they may be governed by His pity and compassion, which Scripture
1621 Agathe(7) | It is the last time." The planet is now on fire.]~
1622 Thekla | that the movements of the planets, in their opinion, depended
1623 Arete | as is customary with the planks of ships, whose fastenings
1624 Domn | commanded19 first to make a plaster with a lump of figs-that
1625 Thekla(7) | work of Jahn, Methodius Platonizans.-Tr. [ Elucidation I.]~
1626 Arete | the outside of the cup and platter, that is, the flesh and
1627 Theoph | be room for some to argue plausibly among those who are wanting
1628 Theoph | piety.' And, therefore, this plea being taken away from you,
1629 Domn | on account of their great pleasantness, the prophet calls figs.
1630 Arete | things. If, therefore, it pleases you, tomorrow I will come
1631 Theop | men than this possession, pleasing and grateful to God. There-fore,
1632 Intro | in golden cups Each other pledged, while towards broad heaven
1633 Intro | things are abundant and plentiful with us.10 What is there,
1634 Agathe | evil spirits2 love it, and plot and strive to defile its
1635 Thekla | serpent that lies in wait and plots against you; concerning
1636 Thekla | the devil and the demons plotting and striving against us,
1637 Tusiane | of immortality which is plucked from the Gospel.~
1638 Thall | quickly spoil, swiftly plunder."12 To such a Scribe the
1639 Marc | manifestly forbidding a plurality of wives. And Jeremiah clearly
1640 Agathe(2) | pneumatika\ th=j ponhri/aj (Eph. vi.
1641 Thall | things more lovely than the poets and orators who confirm
1642 Thekla | injustice, adultery, theft, poisoning, then the law is in opposition
1643 Thekla | which passes through the poles, produce the motion of the
1644 Arete | heart, are often not less polluted, even when they think that
1645 Arete | beautiful form, without polluting the limbs of her body, with
1646 Domn | pure from the stains and pollutions of the world. For which
1647 Thekla(46) | Castor and Pollux.~
1648 Theop(60) | polumerw=j kai\ polutro/pwj. Heb.
1649 Theop(60) | polumerw=j kai\ polutro/pwj. Heb. i. 1.~
1650 Marc | the Times of the Prophets Polygamy Put a Stop To; Conjugal
1651 Agathe(2) | pneumatika\ th=j ponhri/aj (Eph. vi. 12). In E.
1652 Thekla(19) | modern defenders of the late pontiff's bull Ineffabilis. Elucidation
1653 Tusiane | my goods and give to the poor, and though I yield up my
1654 Thall(14) | to\ poreutiko/n, the power of going.~
1655 Arete | the flesh-nobly into the port of chastity, is better and
1656 Procil | strive to reach different ports. Some have a fair wind;
1657 Tusiane | offer to the Lord. They also possess it who live chastely with
1658 Thekla | better, he is so tempered as possessing free-will, and not by nature
1659 Theop | greater help to men than this possession, pleasing and grateful to
1660 Arete(16) | this extraordinary work. Possibly the epoch of Anthony had
1661 Agathe | rains down unsparingly, and pours forth these things upon
1662 Thal | confirmed his statement, powerfully supporting the state of
1663 Thekla | overcome her, making her powerless and contemptible before
1664 Marc(3) | conduct of Origen, vol. iv. pp. 225-226.]~
1665 Tusiane | helper. And when she had prayed, Theopatra said that suddenly
1666 Domn | men, as Joel the prophet preaches, saying: "Fear not, O land;
1667 Agathe | delay is the interval which precedes the appearing of Christ.
1668 Domn | fig-tree;3 and the vine to the precept given to Noah at the time
1669 Intro | turn back and slip over the precipices. But thanks to the Bridegroom
1670 Thall | since he traverses lofty and precipitous places, and the other like
1671 Intro | friend, for we have had no precise information respecting anything
1672 Arete | meet Thee.~Thekla. 17. Thy Precursor, washing multitudes of men
1673 Theoph | four-footed beasts, and the predestined number of men shall be fulfilled;
1674 Thal | such a second marriage far preferable to burning and indecency. ~
1675 Theoph | he applauds chastity, and prefers it in honour. For although
1676 Theoph | of the first man, which prefigured the embraces of connubial
1677 Arete | Thekla. 11. Abel, clearly prefiguring Thy death,6 O blessed One,
1678 Arete | she, O blessed One, when pregnant, thus spoke:-~Chorus. I
1679 Theoph | Only the Faithful But Even Prelates Sometimes Illegitimate.~
1680 Domn | also, omitting the long preludes of exordiums, will endeavour
1681 Theoph | if it will receive the preparation, rejecting nothing of that
1682 Marc | engendered by habit. For presently one is introduced earnestly
1683 Procil | whom the Lord exalts, and presents in sinless glory to the
1684 Marc | Chapter V.-Christ, by Preserving His Flesh In-Corrupt in
1685 Theoph | are often called even to preside over them.11 Since, then,
1686 Intro(9) | Virtue presides, and "to the pure all things
1687 Thekla | shine in the world, although pressed upon by afflictions and
1688 Intro | answer me this: You know, I presume, Arete,5 the daughter of
1689 Theop | impiously towards God, they were pretentiously reading the law, as if,
1690 Thal | gratification of the body, under the pretext of begetting children.~
1691 Procil(18) | in many other places, the prevalent millenarian belief of the
1692 Thekla | misses and fails of his prey, the, regenerate being caught
1693 Thekla(45) | Copernicus, a Christian priest, broke that spell. Could
1694 Marc | who was first and chief of priests, of prophets, and of angels,
1695 Procil | loves the beauty of its prime, in the following words:6 "
1696 Thal | ninety and nine sheep by the principalities and powers15 which the Captain
1697 Tusiane | understood that He is the first principle and the tree of life, since
1698 Theoph | to the holes and taking privately for his modelling the clay
1699 Domn | conjecture these things from mere probabilities, and to babble, I will bring
1700 Thekla | because the number six proceeding36 from unity is composed
1701 Procil | These praises does Christ proclaim to those who have come to
1702 Procil | spiritual eighth day18 shall be proclaimed, which would bring the remission
1703 Tusiane | hasten on to the truth, proclaiming its glorious images. For
1704 Theop | also the prophet Isaiah proclaims, saying,80 "Arise, shine,81
1705 Thekla | of truth, and, instead of procreating children with modesty and
1706 Theoph | know not to despise the procreation of children, although he
1707 Theoph | longer wills to be excited by procreations to lust, and to be defiled,
1708 Tusiane | the saints, let him first procure the goodly fruit of faith,
1709 Thekla | punishing the wicked, and there producing murders and adulteries.
1710 Thal | with your own wives, lest, professing perfect continence, ye be
1711 Thekla | unrighteousness.~If that which profits is altogether good, and
1712 Thekla(35) | numbers. An interesting and profound examination of the subject
1713 Thekla | she-goat breathing forth Profuse the violence of flaming
1714 Thekla(36) | in a regular arithmetical progression.~
1715 Thal | arranged for the purpose of progressive proof, begins gently, but
1716 Thekla | law-givers and appointed laws, prohibiting adulteries, murders, violence,
1717 Theoph | into foam and curdled, is projected through the organs of generation
1718 Marc | however, we should seem prolix in collecting the testimonies
1719 Theoph(14) | St. Jerome's testimony, Prolog. in Libros Salomonis.]~
1720 Thal | organs of generation to promiscuous intercourse, considering
1721 Domn | for the purpose of truly promoting its exercise, but for deception
1722 Marc | though born for the mere propagation of the species; and then
1723 Thall | his fruits, another of his property, another the best of his
1724 Domn | the Old Testament, written prophecy from the Book of Judges,
1725 Thall | Virginity.~Now the Jews prophesied our state, but we foretell
1726 Domn | to wit, the law and the prophets-did we formerly cultivate, and
1727 Procil | speak with elegance and propriety.~Arete. I most willingly
1728 Agathe | speaking of her who prostituted herself to the powers which
1729 Thal(40) | is a@ptesqai; here it is prosyau/ein. Nothing could be gained
1730 Theoph | But what need is there to protract the argument by using such
1731 Marc | counsels; give me not a proud look; let not the greediness
1732 Tusiane | counsels: to understand a proverb, and the interpretation;
1733 Agathe | the bridegroom. For some provided abundant future nourishment
1734 Thal | lurking passion, fanning and provoking it; and therefore he, cutting
1735 Thekla(35) | also in Delitzsch's Bib. Psychology.-Tr. [On the Six Days' Work,
1736 Domn | the first laws, which were published in the times of Adam and
1737 Theoph | unlawful embraces, as though purchasing a slight pleasure by shamefully
1738 Thekla | heaven, ever going in the purest minds, come, give me thy
1739 Agathe | and of prudence, being purged from all corruption which
1740 Thekla | with sacred fingers the purple and glorious crown of virginity
1741 Thekla | this supreme and blessed pursuit was called parqeni/a, what
1742 Marc | of the truth.~For as the putrid humours and matter of flesh,
1743 Domn(8) | here followed. [This is a puzzle as well as a parable; the
1744 Theop(60) | polumerw=j kai\ polutro/pwj. Heb. i. 1.~
1745 Thekla(45) | Methodius any leaning to Pythagoras and his school? To "science"
1746 Tusiane | cedar, to whom not all the quadrupeds of the earth would suffice
1747 Thekla | should again make up the same quantity from its separated segment.37
1748 Thekla | come adulteries, thefts, quarrels, and murders, then a licentious
1749 Thekla | running to her from all quarters. She rejoices receiving
1750 Thekla | taking its edge off, and quenching it with the healing medicine
1751 Agathe(7) | certainly more accurate, "Quid volo nisi ut accendatur?"-
1752 Intro | beautiful woman walking along quietly and gracefully, clothed
1753 Thall(6) | 38. The author apparently quotes from memory.~
1754 Theop(83) | ii. 32. The author, in quoting from the LXX., slightly
1755 Theoph | suppose that a modeller r seated within is fashioning
1756 Domn(8) | parable; the Seventy give r0a/mnoj, which is not = a@gnoj.
1757 Thal | divided according to their races and tribes, man also being
1758 Theoph | harmony of life, as of a harp, raging with lust, and letting loose
1759 Domn | ease, and from small toils raises up mighty hopes, is chastity,
1760 Thekla | thyself, or because thou raisest5 and liftest up to heaven,
1761 Thekla | contribute a little to happiness, raising up the flesh aloft, and
1762 Procil | the tree of knowledge, ran aground, the author of evil
1763 Procil | their place in the higher rank of those who receive the
1764 Thal | human) life, leaving the ranks and the armies of angels.
1765 Thekla | adulteries, murders, violence, rape, thefts, as things which
1766 Domn | before the fall. Indeed, not rarely, as we shall afterwards
1767 Thal | Purpose of Virginity Not Rashly to Be Adopted by Any One.~
1768 Thekla | modesty and temperance, they rave in the wild pleasures of
1769 Thekla | Cepheus, Pegasus, Hydra, the Raven, the Cup, the Lyre, the
1770 Thekla | being renewed with a new ray,17 that is, a new light.
1771 Thal | Lawgiver Himself having re-arranged it, wishing to order it
1772 Thekla | world, but to have already reached, in thought and in the tendency
1773 Thekla | Galaxy, or milky way, which reaches from the Fishes to the Ram,
1774 Marc | upon the earth, but as also reaching up to heaven. And hence
1775 Thal(12) | enough to the theological reader.-Tr.~
1776 Procil | is tame and domestic, and readily adapts itself to man's mode
1777 Procil | most willingly hail thy readiness, O Thekla, in which I confide
1778 Thall(4) | There are two readings. The above rendering may
1779 Thal | For the passage in Genesis reads thus: "And Adam said, This
1780 Theoph | is more especially the real cause in the generation
1781 Thall | Shadows of the Law and the Realities of Heaven.~If the law, according
1782 Marc(11) | Christian families could not be reared in peace, let us not wonder
1783 Domn | with him. "Even to you, O rebellious," said he, "I come, to bring
1784 Thal | as I said, through the recapitulation of His passion, should die
1785 | recent
1786 | recently
1787 Thal | children, accomplishing in the receptacle of the soul, as in a womb,
1788 Tusiane | gathered together in their receptacles; and the light still severed
1789 Arete | they groan from the inward recesses of their mind.~Chorus. I
1790 Arete | heats of burning lust, and reckon them all as nothing, can
1791 Procil | to the Church. For she is reckoned the perfect and chosen one
1792 Arete | listen, but for correction, recollection, and abstinence. For whoever
1793 Thal(53) | Which I recommend.~
1794 Theop | to incorruption, and of reconciliation to God, and such a means
1795 Theoph | giddy, and with difficulty recovering herself, replied, "You ask
1796 Intro | abounding in the means of recreation. The air was diffused in
1797 Tusiane | who come to the waters of redemption.~He that hath not believed
1798 Thal | destructive fall, being thus reduced to a state of death, for
1799 Thekla | nothing in it is wanting or redundant, and is complete when resolved
1800 Intro(8) | Felix seems not infrequently reflected.]~
1801 Agathe | begat and formed them, when, reflecting the unsullied representation
1802 Thekla | all things are filled with refreshing dews, and crowned with the
1803 Agathe | a whore's forehead, thou refusedst to be ashamed; "3 speaking
1804 Arete | that no one hereafter may refute me.~Gregorion. Gainsay me
1805 Procil(13) | Here allegorizing is refuted and perishes in fanciful
1806 Theoph(11) | Bastardy seems to have been regarded as washed out by baptism,
1807 Theoph | the weaving art, that art, regarding this one thing only, manufactures
1808 Arete | expedient for himself alone, regardless of the necessities of his
1809 Arete | show how wealthy you are as regards wisdom.~Gregorion. A mere
1810 Thal | they are brought forth and regenerated unto the greatness and beauty
1811 Thall | that He quickly and swiftly registers and fulfils the counsel
1812 Tusiane | their love of pleasure, reject chastity. How shall they
1813 Thekla(45) | science" the world owes its rejection of the true theory of the
1814 Thal | gift of God. Wherefore he rejects those of the more incontinent,
1815 Thekla | recently attained to the relation of Son, nor again, having
1816 Theop | wedding garment - that is, to relax their minds by wandering
1817 Thal | seek the lost one. For it remained that man should be included
1818 Thal | brethren, the time is short: it remaineth, that both they that have
1819 Tusiane(3) | primitive idea. Coleridge's remarks on Jeremy Taylor, touching
1820 Theop | her cunning. If I do not remember thee, let my tongue cleave
1821 Procil | proclaimed, which would bring the remission of sins and the resurrection,
1822 Procil | God was henceforth more remote, and they needed other instruction
1823 Thekla | among those before, and the removal of these creatures above
1824 Thal | husband. Let the husband render unto the wife due benevolence:
1825 Agathe(19) | than unquenchable, as it is rendered in the Latin.-Tr. [See Discourse
1826 Thall(4) | two readings. The above rendering may fairly embrace them
1827 Thal | should be able to receive renewal and restoration. For He
1828 Thekla | the regenerate shine being renewed with a new ray,17 that is,
1829 Thal | Ananias preaching to him, and renewing him in baptism, as the history
1830 Thekla | the mind of those who are renovated is lifted up around the
1831 Thal | even Adam. And thus, when renovating those things which were
1832 Arete | dishonours it. For he who has repelled from himself charity, mercy,
1833 Domn | the waters, they began to repent, and to promise that they
1834 Thekla | distinctly, should be vexed, and reply to what we have said: "But
1835 Intro | lofty tree, under which we reposed, from its being exceedingly
1836 Tusiane | namely, the Gospel, is the representative of truth itself. For the
1837 Tusiane | images, and images are the representatives of truth. For the law is
1838 Thall | years old, as though they represented the pure knowledge of the
1839 Agathe | shall seem to bear away the reproach of silliness, if I make
1840 Intro | abounding with many frightful reptiles; for, as I looked, I saw
1841 Thekla(38) | Make Himself of no reputation."-E. T., Phil. ii. 7.~
1842 Procil | nor of necessity, nor from repute, but in accordance with
1843 Thal | of her age, and need so require, let him do what he will,
1844 Domn | discourse on virginity which you required of me, accomplished according
1845 Marc | dangers.3 ~For this reason, it requires strong and generous natures,
1846 Thekla | light of the moon has more resemblance to tepid water, and all
1847 Marc | virginity. Because it was reserved for the Lord alone to he
1848 Theoph | to flow and fall into the reservoir of the sea, and the light
1849 Thekla | courage; nor will he at all resist, seeing his adversaries
1850 Arete | Nor if he have strongly resisted the desires of the senses,
1851 Procil | the prize of chastity; but resisting the fierce torments of pleasures
1852 Thall | to the places of public resort and banquets, where wicked
1853 Arete | the manner of a chorus, responded to her: "I keep myself pure
1854 Thal | and maker of all things, responding to the shouts of the melodious
1855 Thekla | throughout this time, until the restitution of the new dispensation,
1856 Thal | able to receive renewal and restoration. For He may fitly be called
1857 Theop | has been such a means of restoring men to paradise, and of
1858 Arete | and senses clean and under restraint, as is customary with the
1859 Marc | was, from the beginning, restricted to so many, namely, a hundred
1860 Arete | temple, the Holy Spirit rests and dwells, is open to no
1861 Agathe | Virginity, with a Different Result.~Now when it is said5 that "
1862 Tusiane | seventh month, the great resurrection-day, it is commanded that the
1863 Tusiane | happy is every one that retaineth her." "A tree planted by
1864 Arete | seem to show that he who retains continence, though concupiscent,
1865 Procil | commanded His own Son to reveal to the prophets His own
1866 Marc | for this reason it was not revealed to the first generations.
1867 Tusiane | avenging angels, who shall reverence the seal of the Blood impressed
1868 Arete(16) | the epoch of Anthony had revived such discussions when this
1869 Thekla | life depends upon their revolutions and movements.~
1870 Thekla | they say that the stars revolve around the nature of the
1871 Procil | wisdom of God, which gives richly and widely to whomsoever
1872 Domn | account of its sweetness and richness, represents the delights
1873 Thall | off, even to old age, the Rider who guides with pure mind,
1874 Arete | of lusts. For it would be ridiculous to preserve the organs of
1875 Domn | had the first men so often rim headlong into combats and
1876 Tusiane | true Israelites the legal rite of the true feast of the
1877 Arete | beauty, we stand by Christ, robed as He is, celebrating thy
1878 Arete | soul in chastity to the rock.~Gregorion. You appear to
1879 Thekla | rule all nations with a rod of iron: and her child was
1880 Agathe(6) | The lamps found in the Roman catacombs have this mark (
1881 Theop | my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth; if I prefer
1882 Theoph | And perhaps there will be room for some to argue plausibly
1883 Thekla | dragon being in many ways rooted up. Moreover, the ten horns
1884 Marc | not thrive, nor take deep rooting from bastard slips, nor
1885 Domn | they firmly fixed by deep roots to the earth. But altogether
1886 Tusiane | delay, scarcely looking up, rose to pray, and turning round,
1887 Intro | went, Gregorion, by a very rough, steep, and arduous path:
1888 Procil | spouse. The queens are those royal souls before the deluge,
1889 Thal | into being along with man's ruin. For it was fitting that
1890 Thal | hard and incorruptible, sin ruined him, flowing and dropping
1891 Domn | the Word, when chastity ruled over us, when formerly,
1892 Thekla | may learn from kings and rulers, and commanders, and women,
1893 Thekla | universe by Himself, and rules all things for Himself.
1894 Thal | they are not ashamed to run counter to the Spirit, but,
1895 Thall | free-will. For the passage runs thus: "And the Lord spake
1896 Theop | the waves of folly which rush into them, being darkened
1897 Thall | first, that it does not rust, and the second, that in
1898 Thekla(31) | Patripassianism: nearly the same as Sabellianism.-Tr.~
1899 Thekla | As when they say, like Sabellios, that the Almighty Person
1900 Thall(3) | vow a vow to offer, with sacrifices of purification, chastity
1901 Thal(5) | Origen, having literalized so sadly in one case, seems to have
1902 Domn | and carries this grace safely thither with ease, and from
1903 Procil | whomsoever it wills. For sailors who have experience of the
1904 Theoph(14) | testimony, Prolog. in Libros Salomonis.]~
1905 Marc | corrupt,"6 because he had not salted himself with the exercises
1906 Marc | of angels, should also be saluted as first and chief of virgins.19
1907 Thal | Himself for it, that He might sanctify and cleanse it by the washing36
1908 Arete | respect of it are as a little sand."1 And neither does he who
1909 Arete | right of Arete, decorously sang; but the rest, standing
1910 Thall | themselves tip to drunkenness, sank down into unbelief, and,
1911 Theop | rivers of Babylon there we sat down; yea, we wept, when
1912 Domn(8) | force of Jotham's caustic satire to adopt this conception
1913 Domn | flesh with virginity, the savage tyrant who was master of
1914 Arete | Euboulios. Whether is it he that saves his vessel in great and
1915 Procil | they have left, for the saving of life, from their intercourse
1916 Tusiane | the wise, and their dark sayings."6 ~Wherefore let it shame
1917 Thekla | they are removed from the scene of truth, and, instead of
1918 Thall | touched Agathe with her sceptre, and that she, perceiving
1919 Thekla | courage on account of the schemes and slanders of the beast,
1920 Thekla(45) | leaning to Pythagoras and his school? To "science" the world
1921 Domn | commandments. Wherefore with scorn they are rejected as subjects;
1922 Thekla | the Bull, the Balance, the Scorpion, the Ram, the Archer, the
1923 Intro(7) | to a9gno/j."-Liddell and Scott.~
1924 Theoph | threatened with fire and scourges.~"Well, now, consider further
1925 Thall | swiftly plunder."12 To such a Scribe the words may be applied, "
1926 Thekla | her brother Phryxos into Scythia; and that the head of the
1927 Thekla(17) | se/laj.~
1928 Tusiane | who shall reverence the seal of the Blood impressed upon
1929 Intro | Euboulios. You have arrived most seasonably, Gregorion, for I have just
1930 Marc | every gift, unless it be seasoned with salt, is forbidden
1931 Theoph | suppose that a modeller r seated within is fashioning many
1932 Arete | inhabited the undefiled seats of heaven without beginning,
1933 Tusiane(20)| Taylor, Holy Living, cap. ii. sec. 3, Works, vol. i. p. 427,
1934 Theoph | having carried it away, he secretly, by violence, deposited
1935 Arete | but all desire of things secular being eliminated, they not
1936 Marc | deprecating, from henceforth, this seduction, saying, "O Lord, Father,
1937 Intro | and, like a mother who sees her daughters after a long
1938 Domn | and said unto me, What seest thou? And I said, I have
1939 Thekla | quantity from its separated segment.37 For, first, if divided
1940 Thekla(32) | Dokh/sei, hence Docetae.-Tr.~
1941 Thekla | himself and good, unless selecting the human example of Christ,
1942 Domn | captivities, the law it self confessing, as it were,
1943 Thall | turbulence of passion and self-conceit. And the third, when most
1944 Theop | souls, which, having with self-denial drawn in the pure draught
1945 Thekla | abhorrent to itself, and self-destructive, and at variance with itself.
1946 Marc | his carnal appetites, but self-indulgently had yielded to them, and
1947 Thekla(16) | selh/nh.~
1948 Tusiane | unfruitful. For "though I sell all my goods and give to
1949 Theoph | slight pleasure by shamefully selling his own seed. For imagine
1950 Theop | those who sing the Gospel to senseless people seem to sing the
1951 Thall | might be able, by means of sensible things, to announce beforehand
1952 Thekla | horizon; and the third, which separates these, the equinoctial;
1953 Tusiane | Signify; The Sum of This Septenary Uncertain; Not Clear to
1954 Arete | we then say that they who serenely live and are not disturbed
1955 Arete | the various wiles of the serpents, O blessed One.~Chorus.
1956 Thekla | citizens, and masters, and servants, and pedagogues, and teachers;
1957 Thall | down, and shall come and serve you. And if he come in the
1958 Thall | greatly to vow a vow," serves to show, as, with a little
1959 Theop(83) | The original has e0pilh/setai; in the text it is e0pilaqe/
1960 Theop | in the new dispensation, settling those who are clothed in
1961 Thekla | cunning, and manifold, and seven-headed, and horned, and draws down
1962 Thal | of the Word, even the sevenfold Spirit of truth, according
1963 Domn(8) | as well as a parable; the Seventy give r0a/mnoj, which is
1964 Tusiane | receptacles; and the light still severed from darkness, and the allotted
1965 Domn | chastity is a refuge and a shade, ruling men from the coming
1966 Theoph | this perhaps is what was shadowed forth by the sleep and trance
1967 Agathe | rather to be sketches of the shadowy image of virtue, than workers
1968 Intro | exceedingly wide-spreading and shady."~Euboulios. You seem to
1969 Thekla | are dragged down, being shaken out by the folds of the
1970 Arete(12) | Contrast the shameful close of Plato's Symposium.] ~
1971 Agathe | immortal and indestructible shape, they remain such. For the
1972 Thekla | then diversified by such shapes.~If the sun and the moon
1973 Thall | heathen, becoming intoxicated, sharpen their passions for murderous
1974 Theoph | the arts, injure those who sharpened it for murderous battles?
1975 Thal | therefore he, cutting off very sharply these dishonest follies
1976 Thekla | behind, And in the midst a she-goat breathing forth Profuse
1977 Thekla | For a pure atmosphere is shed over them, and one which
1978 Thall | stain or spot, but ever shines forth with the light of
1979 Arete | ships, whose fastenings the ship-masters diligently join together,
1980 Theoph | Word promised that He would shorten those days?9 For if the
1981 Thal | it, he layeth it on his shoulders rejoicing; and when he cometh
1982 Thal | things, responding to the shouts of the melodious angels
1983 Procil | through all their life, not shrinking from truly wrestling in
1984 Arete | practised, nor ever had the sick in his hands, is he not
1985 Thal | being quite unable, from sickness, to hold up against the
1986 Thall | take delight in unseemly sights, but to look up to the things
1987 Thal | what follows, and of its signification.~
1988 Theoph | and that when they became silent, after a long pause, Thaleia
1989 Agathe | bear away the reproach of silliness, if I make an effort to
1990 Intro(10) | See the oration on Simeon and Anna, cap. 10, infra]~
1991 Domn(11) | Diabolus simia Dei, an idea very common
1992 Thal | that of which it is the similitude, and not have its constitution
1993 Thal | sometimes finishes with what is simple and easy, and sometimes
1994 Thal | should henceforth remain single, as lie also did.47 But
1995 Marc | continence and chastity, sings on this wise, "Better it
1996 Agathe | O virgins, endowed with singular beauty, which has a relationship
1997 Thal(5) | of the Greek text.-Tr. [A singularly cautious testimony against
1998 Tusiane | lest man immortal, living a sinner, and sin living in him,
1999 Theop | holy and secret song, which sinners and adulterers sing to the
2000 Thal | him do what he will, he sinneth not: let him marry; "properly
2001 Arete | altogether uncorrupted, sinning in no respect.~Euboulios.
2002 Marc | Lamb stood on the mount Sion, and with Him an hundred
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