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2003 Thekla | temperance, more than from the Sirens of Homer. For many, bewitched
2004 Intro | Marcella begin, since she sits in the highest place, and
2005 Thekla | the fourth three, and the sixth two, and the twelfth one.
2006 Agathe | world, come rather to be sketches of the shadowy image of
2007 Thall | ram, that he may in nowise skip away, and fall and slip
2008 Arete | to heaven, said, Cruelly slain by a brother's hand, O Word,
2009 Arete | Jephthah offered his fresh slaughtered virgin daughter a sacrifice
2010 Domn | God gave them up to mutual slaughters, to exiles, and captivities,
2011 Thekla | taken upon Him the form of a slave, He was restored again to
2012 Agathe | Now the slumbering and sleeping of the virgins signifies
2013 Thal | joined to His wife; "22 and slept in the trance of His passion,
2014 Marc | deep rooting from bastard slips, nor lay any fast foundation."16 ~
2015 Marc | and addicted to nothing slothful or luxurious, but should
2016 Agathe | appearing of Christ. Now the slumbering and sleeping of the virgins
2017 Theoph | changed it from weakness and smallness to size, and beauty, and
2018 Thekla | to speak; and that she, smiling, passed before her and said.~
2019 Tusiane | first-born of Egypt were smitten, they themselves were preserved
2020 Thal | Thaleia had descended from her smooth and unbroken course to the
2021 Thal | purpose, they kindle up the smouldering and lurking passion, fanning
2022 Tusiane | eternal tabernacles, no snore to perish or be dissolved
2023 Intro | shining robe as white as snow. Her beauty was something
2024 Arete | undefiled virgin Church of snow-white form, dark haired, chaste,
2025 Thekla | earth, but that it should soar upwards to heaven, to a
2026 Intro(3) | answers to the Diotima of Socrates in Plato's Banquet, and
2027 Theoph | into a kind of trance,5 softened and subdued by the pleasures
2028 Procil | a spring flower, always softly exhaling immortality from
2029 Thal | of the incontinence and softness of your bodies, be perfectly
2030 Theoph | he who sows in a strange soil by unlawful embraces, as
2031 Tusiane | of which they regard as solely in remembrance of the deliverance
2032 Thekla | That Golden Age, Early Men; Solid Arguments Against the Mathematicians.~
2033 Thekla | Dracon, and Lycurgus, and Solon, and Zaleukos were law-givers
2034 Thekla | search out and explain the solution of them is beyond my powers.
2035 Theoph | friend, which needs to be solved by an example, that you
2036 | somewhere
2037 Domn | should appear to some to be sophistical, and to conjecture these
2038 Theoph | And if, again, you answer sophistically, `O, my friend, by those
2039 Arete | Thekla. 2. Fleeing from the sorrowful happiness of mortals, and
2040 Marc(11) | paganism, and inured to the sorrows of martyr-ages, when Christian
2041 Thekla | noble actions, and what sort of things she succeeded
2042 Thekla(35) | first or the last who has sought to explore the mystery of
2043 Theop(68) | cxxxvii., which has been the source of a confusion in the former
2044 Procil | manner of concubines, He sowed true words in an incorrupt
2045 Theoph | to be blamed, but he who sows in a strange soil by unlawful
2046 Tusiane | was before, but, after the space of a thousand years, changed
2047 Thal | By which he means: "I sparing you, such as you are, consented
2048 Tusiane | anything to say, being the last speaker.~Gregorion. Theopatra told
2049 Marc | mere propagation of the species; and then that they should
2050 Thekla | themselves again to the spectacles there; and, for this reason,
2051 Domn | prudence not to make long speeches, which merely charm the
2052 Thekla | shall come to her with all speed after the resurrection,
2053 Thall | practising virginity; for it speedily brings great and much-desired
2054 Thekla(45) | Christian priest, broke that spell. Could the Christian Fathers
2055 Thall | possible that men should spend their boyhood, their manhood,
2056 Domn | figs-that is, the fruit of the Spirit-that he may be healed-that is,
2057 Thekla | plants of wisdom, equally splendid, of which we here behold
2058 Thall | hearing the words, "quickly spoil, swiftly plunder."12 To
2059 Theoph | planted by men, is shaped spontaneously apart from the sentence
2060 Thall | does not admit any stain or spot, but ever shines forth with
2061 Thall | veil of the letter which is spread over it, and consider its
2062 Marc | to end, the race of man spreading to a boundless extent, God
2063 Agathe | resurrection, showing her faith springing out clear and bright through
2064 Marc | immortality itself as it springs forth4 from the undefiled
2065 Thall | to thee, O Arete, on the spur of the moment, according
2066 Theop(83) | the text it is e0pilaqe/sqai.~
2067 Thall | man, he begins to acquire stability, and to make a stand against
2068 Theop | psalm, which the pure and stainless souls sing to God, saying:68 "
2069 Domn | set free, pure from the stains and pollutions of the world.
2070 Marc | first send them to teachers stammering like themselves, until they
2071 Marc | like skilful painters, stamping them upon ourselves as upon
2072 Theoph(5) | connection, e@kstasij and eci/statai.~
2073 Theoph | within is fashioning many statues; imagine, again, that the
2074 Tusiane | the year. It shall be a statute for ever in your generations;
2075 Thall | And thou shall make the staves of shittim-wood, and overlay
2076 Arete | unclean thoughts.~Euboulios. Stay now; for I think that from
2077 Thekla | and sixty days that we are staying here, O virgins, is the
2078 Theoph | for they do a great wrong stealing from the gardens of others
2079 Intro | Gregorion, by a very rough, steep, and arduous path: when
2080 Theop | because, when its flower is steeped in water, if it be drunk,
2081 Intro | looked, I saw you often stepping aside, and I was fearing
2082 Thall | to God. If I withhold my steps from going14 in perverse
2083 Theop | their hopes, nor do they stick fast in the lusts of their
2084 Agathe(13) | 6. [This parable greatly stimulated primitive celibacy.]~
2085 Thal | notable example, in order to stir them up to emulation, he
2086 Thal | manly strength, the flesh stirring up the desires and passions,
2087 | Stop
2088 Arete | in a great and perplexing storm.~Euboulios. Shall we not
2089 Agathe | boundaries of virginity, and who strain every nerve to fulfil this
2090 Arete | Euboulios. But what about the stranger Telmisiake?11 Tell me, was
2091 Thal | wishing, as it seems, to strengthen most carefully the argument
2092 Theoph | and those who break the strings of the harmony of life,
2093 Thall | things,"22 come then, let us strip off the veil of the letter
2094 Procil | righteousness, and have striven against sin with youthful
2095 Thall | himself perfectly to God who strives to keep the flesh undefiled
2096 Tusiane | love contests, and who are strong-minded, that without delay they
2097 Thekla | Dragon, the Devil; The Stars Struck from Heaven by the Tail
2098 Thekla | account of which we have to struggle and wrestle, according to
2099 Thekla | through the seven great struggles of chastity. For incontinence
2100 Thal | such a one contending and struggling, and zealously abiding by
2101 Arete | For it is not one who has studied to restrain his flesh from
2102 Thekla | against which there is no stumbling, being taught to look upon
2103 Thall | merely not to avoid any stumbling-block which would trip up and
2104 Theop | were carried along dumb and stupid, neglecting to pilot their
2105 Thal | but flows forward into a style which is loftier and more
2106 Thekla | that He should remain and subdue the dragon who made an assault
2107 Tusiane | by which the mind that subdues the passions is cleansed
2108 Thal | boasting that he held in subjection, because no otherwise was
2109 Thall | indeed, from boyhood, to submit the neck to the divine Hand,
2110 Domn | corruption, until virginity, succeeding the law, governed men by
2111 Marc | anything, let Theophila, who succeeds me, supply the omission.~
2112 Intro | myself if I do not make the successful disputant an object of envy,
2113 Tusiane(22)| In Hebrew, Succoth. Num. xxxiii. 5.~
2114 Thal | Christ, he was first born and suckled, Ananias preaching to him,
2115 Theop | without, they receive the sudden bursts of the waves of folly
2116 Arete | mad for women, and so to suffer the eternal justice of God
2117 Thal | resurrection with the flesh, not suffering it again to be inherited
2118 Arete | have neglected to prepare sufficiency of oil for the path of life;
2119 Theoph | that the foetus was not suffocated by damp when shut up within,
2120 Thekla | she spoke, her countenance suffused with the blush of modesty;
2121 Agathe(4) | Which has suggested the form of this allegorical
2122 Thall | the sun; and thus it is suitably a symbol of virginity, which
2123 Agathe | of His Son; The Devil a Suitor for the Soul.~With great
2124 Tusiane | What They Signify; The Sum of This Septenary Uncertain;
2125 Thal | Concerning Purity.~Now Paul, when summoning all persons to sanctification
2126 Agathe(6) | signifies the index of a sun-dial.-Tr. [The lamps found in
2127 Theop | ways, God inspiring us "at sundry times and in divers manners,"60
2128 Intro | and Marcella preparing to sup. And Arete immediately said, '
2129 Thekla | of this virtue as being superior to ten thousand other advantages
2130 Agathe | to match myself with my superiors in wisdom. If, however,
2131 Thal | truly a great mystery and a supernatural, of which I, from my weakness
2132 Marc | Virginity is something supernaturally great, wonderful, and glorious;
2133 Domn | transgressions, approach to God as suppliants, and ask His mercy, and
2134 Theoph | Job draws near to Him in supplication, saying, "Thine hands have
2135 Agathe | nourishment for the light, supplying oil by their works, the
2136 Thal | his statement, powerfully supporting the state of virginity,
2137 Thekla(29) | There is no ground for the supposition. In the writer's mind, as
2138 Thal(47) | See p. 316, supra (note), and also Eusebius,
2139 Thekla | light wing, ascend into the supramundane life, and see from afar
2140 Theoph | its place of antiquity and supremacy to this scripture. Now the
2141 Tusiane | we who profess virginity supremely cultivate and offer to the
2142 Thall | hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares
2143 Arete | which is deluged with the surging waves of the passions, and
2144 Tusiane | them apples, which much surpass the citron? Indeed, in the
2145 Procil | apostles, the Bride who surpasses all in the beauty of youth
2146 Thekla | back from the circles which surround it, of which the meridian
2147 Domn | after they began to be surrounded and drowning by the waters,
2148 Arete | Seeing the great beauty of Susanna, the two Judges, maddened
2149 Arete | conception,10 and who thus became suspected of having betrayed the marriage-bed,
2150 Theop | chastity, to which we may suspend and draw up the organs of
2151 Thal | said, be overflowed and swallowed up by the waves of deceit.
2152 Tusiane | cleansed and adorned by the sweeping out and ejection from it
2153 Intro | strewn with variegated and sweet-scented flowers, from which came
2154 Intro | gentle breeze laden with sweetest odour. And the agnos7 grew
2155 Thal | creatures coming together swell like trees at the time of
2156 Thekla | oppose your armour to the swelling beast, and do not at all
2157 Thekla | And, therefore, the Church swells and travails in birth until
2158 Thall | Scriptures, even the Lord, the swift Writer of the ages, that
2159 Agathe | in which He wished the swift-moving and fiery operation of His
2160 Marc | their aim, until having, by swiftness of thought, lightly bounded
2161 Tusiane | creatures, and creatures that swim, from the water. Then, when
2162 Theop | dogs, and pearls before swine,73 in the same manner as
2163 Intro(1) | as possible between the swinish sensuality of false "philosophy"
2164 Domn(24) | sxoi/nisma: same word as that
2165 Procil | astray.16 Thence he gave the symbolical name of sixty queens to
2166 Procil | immortality, which he calls symbolically golden fringes. For since
2167 Thekla(35) | will be found in Bähr's Symbolik; also in Delitzsch's Bib.
2168 Thall | Trinity.~And perhaps He also symbolizes the beginning, the middle,
2169 Agathe | believed in Jesus Christ, symbolizing by the ten the only right
2170 Tusiane | things said in Leviticus are symbols and figures, which things,
2171 Theop(71) | Body" here = man's physical system.]~
2172 Marc | that we, beholding as on a tablet the divine Pattern of our
2173 Marc | them upon ourselves as upon tablets, learning the path which
2174 Domn | thus: "And the angel that talked with me came again and waked
2175 Intro(3) | in Plato's Banquet, and talks like a philosopher on these
2176 Procil | because that creature is tame and domestic, and readily
2177 Agathe | lest, while the Bridegroom tarries, our lamps may also in like
2178 Thal | of the Fruit of which he tasted,20 he was changed into the
2179 Thekla | wrestle, according to our teacher Paul. For she who having
2180 Domn | The Four Gospels, that Is, Teachings or Laws, Instructing to
2181 Arete | Corruption has fled, and the tearful pains of diseases; death
2182 Intro | but do oblige us by simply telling us what happened from the
2183 Arete(11) | In Jahn, Telmesiake.-Tr. [Comp. p. 356, n. 2,
2184 Arete | what about the stranger Telmisiake?11 Tell me, was she not
2185 Agathe | love, acting virtuously and temperately, and who profess and boast
2186 Procil | caring little for those temporal decorations which, like
2187 Arete | God; Virtue Disciplined by Temptations.~Euboulios. Deservedly,
2188 Thal | continence, ye be constantly tempted by the evil one, and be
2189 Thal | creatures obey and attend, who tends in order and numbers the
2190 Thekla | has more resemblance to tepid water, and all moist substance
2191 Theoph | not in marriage doeth bet ter."18 Now the word, in setting
2192 Thekla | they are by a descriptive term called newly-enlightened;18
2193 Tusiane | when this world shall be terminated at the seventh thousand
2194 Thal | of God), he suffered a terrible and destructive fall, being
2195 Domn | O virgins, from the Old Testament, written prophecy from the
2196 Procil | even as the Psalmist also testifies, saying, "The King's daughter
2197 Theoph | then, it is clear, and all testify, that those who are born
2198 Marc | prolix in collecting the testimonies of the prophets, let us
2199 Thall | decorating herself with textures of different cloths, or
2200 Thekla | not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their
2201 Intro | over the precipices. But thanks to the Bridegroom to whom
2202 Thekla | have come to exhibit in the theatre the drama of truth, that
2203 Thekla | the present time; whence theirs was called the golden age.
2204 Thal | with men, should dwell in theoldest and the first of men, even
2205 Thal(12) | will be clear enough to the theological reader.-Tr.~
2206 Thal | According to the Rule of Theology.~Such, then, I consider
2207 Thekla | the world by geometrical theorems and figures, and explain
2208 Thekla(45) | its rejection of the true theory of the universe for two
2209 Theop | pleasing and grateful to God. There-fore, I say, that we should all
2210 | thereby
2211 | Therein
2212 Intro(7) | matrons on their beds at the Thesmophoria, vitex agnuscastus. It was
2213 Arete | Thekla with a larger and thicker chaplet, as the chief of
2214 Tusiane | therefore, is a tree the thickest and most fruitful of all,
2215 Tusiane | afterwards the far-spreading and thickly-leaved branches of charity, which
2216 Theop | said in the hundred and thirty-sixth63 psalm, where the souls
2217 Procil | says,5 "As the lily among thorns, so is my love among the
2218 Theoph(11) | as washed out by baptism, thousands of pagan converts having
2219 Theoph | allotted to another, let him be threatened with fire and scourges.~"
2220 Domn | she consuming pleasures threatens besides, that unless all
2221 Thekla | punishing criminals, and by threats restrains the decrees of
2222 Thall | Consecrated to God; The Threefold Watch and Our Age.~I must
2223 Intro | very middle of the garden, threw up a most delicious drink;
2224 Marc | of the ungodly shall not thrive, nor take deep rooting from
2225 Thekla | which, like a fountain, God throws up over them, irradiating
2226 Arete | dwells there as formerly, thrust out from thence when he
2227 Marc | as the voice of a great thunder; and I heard the voice of
2228 Thekla(45) | for two thousand years, till Copernicus, a Christian
2229 Thekla | tongues, and from their forms tinged with the outward appearance
2230 Thall | having given themselves tip to drunkenness, sank down
2231 Thekla(18) | neofw/tistoi.~
2232 Thall | comes, another to offer the tithe of his fruits, another of
2233 Thall | which they bring calves and tithes, and free-will offerings,
2234 Domn | with ease, and from small toils raises up mighty hopes,
2235 Intro | pasture of immortality; toilsomely have you come by a way abounding
2236 Tusiane(20)| ed. Bohn, 1844. This is a token of antiquity.]~
2237 Thal(36) | Calvin's comment, Opp., tom. ii. p. 506, ed. 1667.]~
2238 Tusiane | dissolved into the dust of the tomb. Now, our tabernacle was
2239 Arete | therefore, it pleases you, tomorrow I will come again to hear
2240 Domn | gold, with a bowl upon the top of it.... And two olive-trees
2241 Agathe | King. I have become the torch-bearer of the unapproachable lights,19
2242 Arete | in white robes, and with torches towards the cast.Arise,
2243 Procil | but resisting the fierce torments of pleasures and fears and
2244 Theop | not be borne down by the torrents of incontinence, and be
2245 Theoph | adultery, should themselves be tortured and punished, for they do
2246 Thekla | they say that the Zodiac touches all the circles, making
2247 Theop | speak of that well-known town in Judea; but truly of that
2248 Thekla(7) | The influence of Plato is traceable, here and elsewhere, throughout
2249 Marc | virginity, when, having trained themselves to despise the
2250 Arete | Tranquillity; Purified and Tranquil Minds Gods: They Who Shall
2251 Agathe | and holy image, he will be transferred thence to heaven, the city
2252 Thekla | the earth; nor let sorrow transform your joy, melting away your
2253 Domn | sweetness and joy, and is "transformed into an angel of light,"12
2254 Domn | of pleasure. But, having transgressed, he was rejected and cast
2255 Theoph | punished as a criminal and transgressor. For the clay should not
2256 Thekla | difficult of access and of transit to the multitude; but fruitful
2257 Theop(68) | cxxxvii. 1, 2. [Here is a transition to Psalm cxxxvii., which
2258 Agathe | kindle their lamps by light transmitted from one to another, bringing
2259 Intro | the water flowing from it, transparent and pure, formed itself
2260 Thekla | therefore, the Church swells and travails in birth until Christ is
2261 Thall | last like a goat, since he traverses lofty and precipitous places,
2262 Thekla | also a head; and he who treads upon this carries off the
2263 Agathe | long, then, as this people treasured up nourishment for the light,
2264 Thal | this subject. Let us then treat this subject also; for it
2265 Thal | Here Hard and Too Slightly Treated, and Apparently Not Sufficiently
2266 Tusiane(1) | at the beginning of the treatise, p. 310, note 2.]~
2267 Arete | with thee; but she with tremulous cries said:-~Chorus. I keep
2268 Thall(5) | author has in mind (the triad) 1 Thess. v. 23.] ~
2269 Theoph | against their parents at their trial."12 ~
2270 Thekla | number six is composed of triangles. On these subjects, however,
2271 Thekla | did not remain within the triangular forms of godliness, falling
2272 Thekla | the inconsistency of their trick, so that it is now possible
2273 Marc | nature which is careful about trifles, and low, and which counterfeits
2274 Agathe | clouds, bearing our lamps trimmed, not with anything alien
2275 Thall | stumbling-block which would trip up and destroy men who are
2276 Agathe | riches from the Father; and I triumph in eternity, crowned with
2277 Arete | O spotless, gloriously triumphant Bride, breathing beauty,
2278 Marc | it weareth a crown and triumpheth for ever, having gotten
2279 Tusiane | if God delighted in those trivial adornments which they, preparing,
2280 Thekla | and beyond them is the tropic. And the Bears, turning
2281 Thekla | each side of this the two tropics, the summer and the winter -
2282 Agathe | archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in
2283 Agathe | heard from heaven, and the trumpet, when the saints, all their
2284 Tusiane | do, as it were about the trunk, yield its lowly branches
2285 Tusiane | full, both branches and trunks. Such is charity, having
2286 Domn | then come and put your trust in my shadow; and if not,
2287 Intro | Gregorion. Well, I will try. But first answer me this:
2288 Thall | make a stand against the turbulence of passion and self-conceit.
2289 Thall | of three years old, and a turtle dove, and a young pigeon; "
2290 Thekla | and the sixth two, and the twelfth one. The numbers into which
2291 Thekla | itself. For when divided into twice three, and three times two,
2292 Thekla | the Lion, the Crab, the Twins, the Virgin, the Bull, the
2293 Thal | their true meaning, so as to twist into a defence of their
2294 Domn | with virginity, the savage tyrant who was master of incontinence
2295 Marc(1) | Lit. the udder.~
2296 Thekla | righteousness is different from un-righteousness. And therefore God is not
2297 Intro | mirth; for it was wholly unadorned by art, and had nothing
2298 Thall | bodies preserved pure, like unalloyed gold, from carnal intercourse.
2299 Thall | so that day come upon yon unawares, as a snare."~
2300 Agathe | rewards in heaven, around the unbeginning and never-ending King. I
2301 Agathe | they remain such. For the unbegotten and incorporeal beauty,
2302 Thall | been handed down that the unbloody altar of God signifies the
2303 Tusiane | The Sum of This Septenary Uncertain; Not Clear to Any One When
2304 Tusiane | Lord your God."10 The Jews, uncircumcised in heart, think that the
2305 Arete | and dwells, is open to no unclean thoughts.~Euboulios. Stay
2306 Thal | preferring marriage to "uncomeliness," in the case of those who
2307 Thal | that he behaveth himself uncomely towards his virgin," he
2308 Thal | incontinent in consequence of the uncontrolled impulses of sensuality in
2309 Arete | undefiled, and are altogether uncorrupted, sinning in no respect.~
2310 Marc | calling him cursed who should "uncover the nakedness" of his sister;10
2311 Theoph | into man the undying and undecaying part, as also it is He alone
2312 Theoph | thoroughly examines and understands those things which happen
2313 Thekla | will not be difficult to undertake it; for you will quite pardon
2314 Thal | should be created anew, and undo the sentence which for his
2315 Procil | who receive the promise. Undoubtedly these are the souls whom
2316 Theoph | alone breathes into man the undying and undecaying part, as
2317 Thal | demonstration of the argument unexamined - and, so to speak, half-lame-come
2318 Marc | For the world, while still unfilled with men, was like a child,
2319 Procil | accordance with truth and an unflattering judgment. And so the prophets
2320 Thal | I should more accurately unfold the meaning of the apostle'
2321 Thekla | as a woman receiving tim unformed seed of a man, within a
2322 Domn | when men turned aside to ungodliness, so that He gave them the
2323 Marc | multiplying brood of the ungodly shall not thrive, nor take
2324 Theoph | earth, injure those who, ungratefully towards their Creator, make
2325 Arete | the sacred way of life, unhappy ones, they have neglected
2326 Agathe | this beauty inviolate and unharmed, and such as He who constructed
2327 Thal | on the other hand, sin is unholy and unrighteous and evil.
2328 Theoph | absurd to forbid marriage unions, seeing that we expect that
2329 Thekla | kingdom of heaven. And do ye unite with those before you in
2330 Procil | thou wilt yield to none in universal philosophy and instruction,
2331 Thekla | that He who was before unknown should be made known. Now,
2332 Theoph | since he is then suddenly unmindful of all things when united
2333 Thall | this, were goaded on to an unnatural and fruitless desire for
2334 Agathe | light of virtue is kindled unquenchably, making its good actions
2335 Arete | disturbed by fancies and unrestrained thoughts, so as to pollute
2336 Theop | barren and unproductive of unsettled and grievous passions, do
2337 Arete | but the immoveable and unshaken firmness of the soul in
2338 Agathe | while the soul rains down unsparingly, and pours forth these things
2339 Thekla | nerves being relaxed and unstrung, by means of which the power
2340 Tusiane | wife, through the heat of unsubdued concupiscence are excessive
2341 Thekla | such abominable desires are unsuitable to heavenly beings. But
2342 Thal | identical with the very same untainted light which poured into
2343 Thal | earth was still virgin and untilled, God, taking mould, formed
2344 Marc | tend them when, striving untiringly to hear divine discourses,
2345 Tusiane | only. But this deceives the unwary, for they have not understood
2346 Marc | mind, ineffectually with unwashed feet, and have gone aside
2347 Intro | undefiled meadows of Christ with unwedded hands, we have now had enough
2348 Agathe | and five were foolish and unwise, for they had not the forethought
2349 Thekla | necessities of fate, and her unwritten commands, are guilty of
2350 Domn | Chapter IV.-The Law Useless for Salvation; The Last
2351 Thekla(9) | companion of Jeremiah, was usually quoted, in the second and
2352 Agathe(7) | accurate, "Quid volo nisi ut accendatur?"-Tr. [A visionary
2353 Tusiane | shall be destroyed with an utter destruction by the avenging
2354 Intro | this Arete,9 entering, gave utterance to these words:-~"'Young
2355 Agathe | applauded for what she had uttered, Arete again commanded Procilla
2356 Domn | imitations of the true branches, uttering the sentence against the
2357 Thekla | were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and
2358 Thal | under the influence of vain-glory, would advance to this state,
2359 Arete | senses, but is lifted up with vainglory, and from this cause is
2360 Thal | I mean Paul - would not vainly refer to Christ and the
2361 Thall(26) | Mercy-Seat, which was within the vale in the Holy of holies.-Tr. ~
2362 Thekla | motion. For of Marcion and Valentinus, and those about Elkesaios
2363 Arete | against pleasures, being vanquished in their mind.~Euboulios.
2364 Thekla | self-destructive, and at variance with itself. And, therefore,
2365 Marc | their stand truly upon the vault of heaven, they purely contemplate
2366 Marc | generous natures, such as, vaulting over the stream of pleasure,
2367 Arete | understand them, but also vaunt that you can teach another.~
2368 Arete | thought that to repress vehement lascivious desires constituted
2369 Thall | a driver, who checks and vehemently restrains the horse from
2370 Thall(22) | difference, however, is verbal only.-Tr.~
2371 Tusiane(18)| memory and in meaning, not verbally.-Tr.~
2372 Procil | ears, for they hear. For verily I say unto you, That many
2373 Theop(63) | It is Eucharistic, and verses 10-16 seem to be specially
2374 Arete | grow faint, but direct her vessel-that is, the flesh-nobly into
2375 Theoph | did stand the queen in a vesture of gold, wrought about with
2376 Thekla | afar, when, while they were vet dwelling in their bodies,
2377 Thekla | speaking distinctly, should be vexed, and reply to what we have
2378 Thall | that the incense in the vials of the four-and-twenty elders
2379 Intro | the setting forth of the viands, and about yourself, how
2380 Thekla | lasciviousness, and the changes and vicissitudes of life, then they are more
2381 Arete | limbs of her body, with a victor's shout said:-~Chorus. I
2382 Thekla | Beast to Be Taken Away by Victorious Chastity; The Ten Crowns
2383 Arete | in speaking, I pronounce victors and crown; but Thekla with
2384 Theop | nor do they take a low view of the meaning of the commandments,
2385 Theoph | ashes, his hope is more vile than earth, and his life
2386 Theoph | but he who did this in violation of what is right; for, through
2387 Theoph | So, in like manner, the violators of marriage, and those who
2388 Theop | abundantly, and running along in violent currents, not only fiercely
2389 Marc | conceived no worthy idea of the virginal manner of life. For it is
2390 Thal | remains to speak concerning virginity-if, indeed, anything be prescribed
2391 Agathe | of the five pathways of virtue-sight, taste, smell, touch, and
2392 Tusiane | whether I am adorned with virtuous works, whether I am overshadowed
2393 Agathe | fulfil this love, acting virtuously and temperately, and who
2394 Procil | often seeing God manifested visibly, and not in a dream. For
2395 Domn | Chapter VI.-The Mystery of the Vision of Zechariah.~Moreover,
2396 Agathe(7) | nisi ut accendatur?"-Tr. [A visionary interpretation follows.
2397 Thekla | its light drive away the visions of evil which crowd around
2398 Intro(7) | beds at the Thesmophoria, vitex agnuscastus. It was associated
2399 Tusiane | charity, having no part void or unfruitful. For "though
2400 Agathe(7) | certainly more accurate, "Quid volo nisi ut accendatur?"-Tr. [
2401 Procil | easily accomplish their voyage. Now, in the same way, the "
2402 Arete | bitter tears and deep moans, wail and mournfully lament that
2403 Domn | first-born virtues that are waiting upon God, which, in His
2404 Domn | talked with me came again and waked me, as a man that is wakened
2405 Domn | waked me, as a man that is wakened out of his sleep, and said
2406 Arete | the sound of a noise that wakes the dead has come, bidding
2407 Theop | hold of and raised up to walk with Christ in heaven, that
2408 Theoph | take refuge behind a safe wall, bringing forward the Scripture
2409 Tusiane | named are adorned. Let the wanton now be gone. who, through
2410 Procil | needed other instruction to ward off the evil, and to be
2411 Domn | than their importance would warrant. For I account it a very
2412 Thall | that she may be sober and watchful from the cares of life,
2413 Theop | The commandment of the watchtower."72 Now, let us here enumerate
2414 Thekla | the Fishes, the Goat, the Watercarrier, Perseus, Cassiopeia, Cepheus,
2415 Tusiane | waters, as willows by the watercourses,"19 flourishing in the word.
2416 Tusiane | A tree planted by the waterside, that will bring forth his
2417 Theoph | Himself, and forming it like wax, in the womb, from moist
2418 Thekla | upon the earth, and their weak and lawless actions, and
2419 Thall | give herself up to womanish weaknesses and laughter, exciting herself
2420 Arete | magnanimously, and show how wealthy you are as regards wisdom.~
2421 Marc | gone they desire it: it weareth a crown and triumpheth for
2422 Marc | they do not desist until, wearing the doors of the wise,5
2423 Theop | would be no way to avoid wearying you for one who persisted
2424 Thall | animals like it; nor the weasel and creatures of that kind."
2425 Arete | he that navigates in calm weather?~Gregorion. We will say
2426 Thekla | now gather flowers, and weave with sacred fingers the
2427 Theoph | which had been stolen to the weaving art, that art, regarding
2428 Theop | and we groan and cry with weeping to God, that our harps may
2429 Thekla | moisture and its clay-like weight, by a greater force of attraction.
2430 Theop | Spirit does not speak of that well-known town in Judea; but truly
2431 Thekla | likened to the turnings of a well-rounded globe, the earth having
2432 Thekla | and beautifully wooded and well-watered abode of Arete.33 Here the
2433 Theop | there we sat down; yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion.
2434 Thekla | suddenly the clouds from the west, enviously rushing in, for
2435 Thal | he wrought a work on the wheels. And the vessel that he
2436 | whereas
2437 Thal | Now, concerning the things whereof ye wrote unto me: It is
2438 | wherever
2439 Domn | Should I leave my fatness, wherewith by the they honour God and
2440 Procil | forgetfulness of the things whichwere good, commanded His own
2441 Thall | and foolish talking, which whirl the mind around and confuse
2442 Thekla | being older, the heaven is whirling. For if a circumference
2443 Thal | is sown by Him who with whispers implants it in the depths
2444 Thal | show but moderately the whiteness by reason of which it is
2445 Procil | gives richly and widely to whomsoever it wills. For sailors who
2446 Agathe | Jerusalem, "Thou hadst a whore's forehead, thou refusedst
2447 Tusiane | luxuriousness and carelessness.~Whoso, therefore, desires to come
2448 Theop | way of the Spirit is very wide and large. Beginning, therefore,
2449 Intro | from its being exceedingly wide-spreading and shady."~Euboulios. You
2450 Procil | which gives richly and widely to whomsoever it wills.
2451 Tusiane | perceives the truth; as the widow in the Gospels17 found the
2452 Theoph(17) | was married, and then a widower, in the opinion of many
2453 Thekla | thee," signifies that He willed that He who existed before
2454 Theoph | for the blood, and a soft windpipe for the breath? or what
2455 Arete | by rains, and floods, and winds; likening, as it would seem,
2456 Tusiane | arising from the earth, and winged creatures, and creatures
2457 Arete | brings greater praise than he wins who lives a virgin life
2458 Thekla | away from her full moon the wintry clouds. It is for the sake
2459 Domn | immortality. And hence he wishes to seem a fig-tree or vine,
2460 Domn | but only their boughs - to wit, the law and the prophets-did
2461 Thekla | eaten, and do not perish and wither, but those who gather them
2462 Thall | fade away, the flesh now withering and declining to old age.~
2463 Thall | hands kept pure to God. If I withhold my steps from going14 in
2464 Thall | do not give herself up to womanish weaknesses and laughter,
2465 Arete | valiant son Joseph,7 O Word, won the greatest prize of virginity,
2466 Tusiane | showing that the Jews have wonderfully fallen from the hope of
2467 Thekla | lovely, and beautifully wooded and well-watered abode of
2468 Theoph | collectively, the whole of the workable earth, injure those who,
2469 Agathe | shadowy image of virtue, than workers who represent the living
2470 Theoph | also taught, "My Father worketh hitherto."2 But when the
2471 Agathe | with anything alien and worldly, but like stars radiating
2472 Marc | corruption should breed the worm of incontinence; for "the
2473 Domn | not save them. Therefore, worn out with ills and afflicted,
2474 Tusiane | ashamed to say that God is worshipped with cedar, to whom not
2475 Arete | contending without being worsted, or he who has no opponents?~
2476 Marc | mountains, cried out, "My wounds stink and are corrupt,"6
2477 Thal | Lord lifting him up and wrapping him round, that he might
2478 Thekla | whoever bruises this is wreathed with the crown of temperance.
2479 Thekla | we have to struggle and wrestle, according to our teacher
2480 Arete | wrestling? Whether is the better wrestler he who has many and strong
2481 Arete | Gregorion. Manifestly he who wrestles.~Euboulios. And, in wrestling,
2482 Thall | for the Word of the Spirit writes by it in clearest letters,
2483 Thal | Condemnation of Origen, Who Wrongly Turns Everything into Allegory.~
2484 Thal | concerning the things whereof ye wrote unto me: It is good for
2485 Tusiane(24)| Ps. xlii. 4~
2486 Thekla(25) | xristw=n.~
2487 Thekla | Chapter XVI.-Several Other Things Turned
2488 Theoph(19) | Matt. xxii. 30.~
2489 Thall(21) | Exod. xxx. 1-9.~
2490 Tusiane(22)| In Hebrew, Succoth. Num. xxxiii. 5.~
2491 Arete(7) | Gen. xxxix. 12.~
2492 Marc(6) | Ps. xxxvii. 6 (LXX.), xxxviii. 5 (E.
2493 Tusiane | the Lord seven days in the year. It shall be a statute for
2494 Theop(61) | i.e., ai0 yuxai/.~
2495 Thekla | Lycurgus, and Solon, and Zaleukos were law-givers and appointed
2496 Domn(22) | Zech. iv. 1-3.~
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