Chapter
1 INT | to me, the which devout men from the inner land Of the
2 I | superstition was banished; and men were delivered from idolatrous
3 I | deserts; and, though but men in mortal bodies, adopted
4 I | plainly proclaimed to all men the transitory and fading
5 I | life to come, and sowed in men the first seeds, as it were,
6 II | rather than the glory that men covet? And what shall it
7 II | chosen above all gods and men him whom they call Jesus,
8 II | soldiers, and all the poor, and men of low degree. ~
9 III | some five and fifty chosen men, schooled in the star-lore
10 IV | king. Wherefore certain men, looking enviously on his
11 IV | true and wise above all men." ~The worthy man, hearing
12 IV | of their teaching, that men should abstain from the
13 V | attendants, he descried two men, the one maimed, and the
14 V | these the fortune of all men?" They answered, "Not of
15 V | eighty or an hundred years men arrive at this old age,
16 V | hath dealt with the wise men and anchorets who spend
17 V | he that willeth that `all men should be saved, and come
18 VI | that there met him two men, clad in filthy rags, with
19 VI | gold, and, placing dead men's mouldering bones therein,
20 VI | manner of accosting the men by the wayside. Before them
21 VI | within is the stink of dead men's bones and works of iniquity.'
22 VI | They are like those lowly men, clad in vile apparel, whose
23 VII | without soul or sense; and men, possest of soul and reason,
24 VII | images of vile and worthless men, and named them gods, some
25 VII | forms of animals. Whence men, taking occasion by the
26 VII | of Moses and Aaron, holy men, honoured with the gift
27 VII | things to come' leading men away from idols and all
28 VII | and practice, and to bring men back to their first estate.
29 VII | lived thirty years among men, he was baptized in the
30 VII | out-worn nature, instructing men both by word and deed, and
31 VII | the way of virtue, turning men from destruction and guiding
32 VIII | many prophets and righteous men, instructed at sundry times
33 VIII | very bones. And shall we men, appointed to die, return
34 VIII | Resurrection? Many righteous men in this present life have
35 IX | from the dead. For other men also were raised from the
36 IX | whose calling was not of men, but from heaven, `Brethren,
37 IX | in Christ, we are of all men most miserable. But now
38 IX | future there is given unto men immortality and incorruption
39 IX | rewards and punishments for men's works, and that absolutely
40 IX | shall confess me before men, him will I also confess
41 IX | humble and earthly minded men, he would draw his parables
42 IX | but in condescension to men's grossness, he employed
43 IX | for every idle word that men shall speak they shall give
44 IX | upon the carcasses of the men that have transgressed against
45 IX | they shall walk like blind men, because they have sinned
46 XI | because he is a lover of men, and compassionate, as thou
47 XI | you.' ~"Now he commanded men to be poor in spirit, and
48 XI | our `light so shine before men, that they may see,' he
49 XI | whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye
50 XII | ends of the earth. Of these men, not only the words and
51 XII | sellings are concerns of men. ~"But envy and pride, the
52 XII | vain glory and pleasing of men -- what place had it among
53 XII | show their virtues not to men, but to God, from whom also
54 XII | are done for the praise of men and not for God. Whence
55 XII | themselves far from the haunts of men throughout the whole of
56 XII | things above nature. These men therefore live the lives
57 XII | and such like assemblies men of earth and clay imitate
58 XII | are the marvellous holy men whose examples we, that
59 XII | to be the desire of all men; but after a time it maketh
60 XII | its cruel snares, ~"These men that have foolishly alienated
61 XIV | prosper thee, O thou Wisest of men! For thou hast gladdened
62 XIV | can one behold the life of men.' As for that good counsellor,
63 XIV | any of those things that men on earth commend ('tis like
64 XIV | treateth mankind, shifting men hither and thither, from
65 XV | lieth on them, 'O ye sons of men, how long will ye be of
66 XV | of vantage, `O ye sons of men, how long will ye be of
67 XV | light, grope like blind men along a wall, and fall into
68 XV | the light of Christ on all men abundantly, imparting to
69 XV | it is of free will that men deliberate, and of free
70 XV | deliberate, and of free will that men choose, a man partaketh
71 XVI | that are impossible with men are possible with God. For
72 XVI | said, `Who then are these men that live a life better
73 XVI | that are impossible with men, are possible with him.
74 XVI | all the famous and wealthy men of the land." ~
75 XVII | of the same; since with men it is impossible that his
76 XVII | even if the tongues of all men that now are and have ever
77 XVII | that pursueth the tasks of men. For he saith, `There is
78 XVII | beginning of birth. For all men have one entrance into life,
79 XVII | and winketh at the sins of men, because they should amend.
80 XVIII | reckon that death, which all men undergo, as death." ~The
81 XVIII | that I the least of all men, choose not to fear bodily
82 XVIII | nature of these earthly men who cleave fast to the present
83 XVIII | I said not that these men were pinched by poverty,
84 XIX | and love of him who for us men emptied himself, and even
85 XXI | Son, his dwelling among men, his deeds of kindness,
86 XXI | against the Christians, the men have been banished hence,
87 XXII | thou who willest have all men to be saved and to come
88 XXII | place another of his trusty men to minister unto his son,
89 XXII | word of command all his men ran upon them in breathless
90 XXII | mankind. And they seized these men of reverend mien and mind,
91 XXIII | bear ye about these dead men's bones? If ye carry these
92 XXIII | through affection for those men to whom they belong, this
93 XXIII | love of those marvellous men to whom they belong: and
94 XXIII | than by the bones of other men which have already perished?" ~
95 XXIII | because ye deceive all men, counselling them to abstain
96 XXIII | why should not also the men that follow them do? Great
97 XXIII | shamefast, noble-hearted men went bravely to torture
98 XXIV | Araches gave command to his men to pursue him. They took
99 XXIV | the Son of Mary ordereth men to go? Dost thou not fear
100 XXIV | on earth conversed with men: for us ungrateful servants
101 XXIV | than the prosperity of men, what simplicity, nay, what
102 XXV | honoured and lauded of all men. It is a great count in
103 XXV | thus: many wise and learned men have I called to my council;
104 XXV | truth, witnessed by wise men honoured for their intelligence
105 XXV | life, given by them to all men, fulfilled with all manner
106 XXV | Whosoever shall deny me before men, him will I also deny before
107 XXV | are idols, the works of men's hands, devoid of breath,
108 XXV | up the dead bodies of all men that ever were since the
109 XXV | day. And then shall all men that have died since the
110 XXV | time, were it not worth men's while to sacrifice their
111 XXVI | temple-keepers of his idols, and wise men of the Chaldeans and Indians
112 XXVI | unwise and unlearned wise men. ~There sat the king upon
113 XXVI | the great and marvellous men, who have discovered all
114 XXVI | the kings and honourable men upon earth do worship and
115 XXVII | things that we see, but all men have need of him. ~"Now
116 XXVII | there are three races of men in this world: those that
117 XXVII | is trodden under foot of men and the residue of the beasts:
118 XXVII | work of God for the use of men. ~"They that think that
119 XXVII | been made for the use of men. It is under their lordship:
120 XXVII | was made for the use of men. It is subject to their
121 XXVII | victuals, and for other uses of men, it riseth and falleth according
122 XXVII | and trees for the use of men, sharing power with the
123 XXVII | and rising for the use of men, lesser than the sun, waxing
124 XXVII | error it came to pass that men suffered frequent wars and
125 XXVII | so befel it, O king, that men imitated all these things,
126 XXVII | who is lame and wanteth men's aid to be a God. ~"After
127 XXVII | flute, and prophesying to men for pay. Soothly he is needy:
128 XXVII | them in remembrance. Hence men, taking occasion from their
129 XXVII | burnt and killed by other men, and rotting away, they
130 XXVII | exposed their shame before all men. If the body of a man, consisting
131 XXVII | the prophets and righteous men that were sent unto them.
132 XXVII | flesh, and appeared among men, that he might recall them
133 XXVII | witness, nor covet other men's goods: they honour father
134 XXVII | they speak not the words of men but the words of God. But
135 XXVII | against another like drunken men. This is the end of my speech
136 XXVIII | this speech took his wise men and priests to himself,
137 XXVIII | Barlaam said) except that men beyond hope, stained with
138 XXVIII | his palace, proving to all men by his deeds the nobility,
139 XXIX | the immortal gods young men in the bloom of youth and
140 XXIX | reasonable and sensible men are the arguments that they
141 XXIX | hither and thither, that all men should gather together to
142 XXIX | divine honours from all men for all time to come." ~
143 XXIX | all thy son's waiting men and servants far from him,
144 XXIX | and enchant the minds of men. Listen to a story that
145 XXX | child together with the men that nursed him, and, until
146 XXX | and ordered his waiting men to show the boy everything
147 XXX | everything after his kind; men in one place, women in another;
148 XXX | called, "Devils that deceive men." But the boy's heart was
149 XXX | the Devils that deceive men? Nothing that I have seen
150 XXX | son's squires and serving men, and set these women in
151 XXX | teach that all the righteous men of old, patriarchs and prophets,
152 XXX | carried off by certain dread men, and passing through places
153 XXX | the eye. When these dread men had led him through this
154 XXX | Lord." When these dread men had carried him out from
155 XXXI | and said, "Most wisest of men, all that seemed good to
156 XXXI | no modesty, ye miserable men, fuel for unquenchable fire,
157 XXXI | dead images, the works of men's hands? Ye have carved
158 XXXI | rather to weep over you, as men blind and without understanding?
159 XXXI | not, and conversed with men, and mounted the Cross in
160 XXXI | God, for the salvation of men hath taken upon him the
161 XXXI | the end that he may make men partakers of his divine
162 XXXII | instituted by many mighty wise men, and interpreters, marvellous
163 XXXII | peasants, poor and common men, a mere handful, not exceeding
164 XXXII | idols are commended by many men of marvellous wisdom, and
165 XXXII | Gospel is preached by a few men of no mark, sheweth the
166 XXXII | world, whose nets drew all men from the depths of deceit,
167 XXXII | healed all the ailments of men. The devils, whom ye dread
168 XXXII | not only cast forth from men's bodies, but even drave
169 XXXII | witchcraft powerless. And these men, by curing every disease
170 XXXII | preachers of truth by all men of sound mind. But what
171 XXXII | thyself to say of thy wise men and orators, whose wisdom
172 XXXII | which are called gods, were men; and because certain of
173 XXXII | account in their lifetime, men were so deceived as to call
174 XXXII | treated as immortal gods men of like passions and corruptible
175 XXXII | Accordingly these devils persuade men, who refuse to have God
176 XXXII | themselves. Hence they teach men all iniquity and filthiness,
177 XXXII | to their deceit. So when men had arrived at this pinnacle
178 XXXII | deadly error, and taught men the true knowledge of God.
179 XXXIII | deal with his son. Many men put forward many counsels,
180 XXXIII | he more easily drew all men unto himself, being verily
181 XXXIII | gentleness and equity, caused all men to yield themselves to his
182 XXXIII | first the rulers and the men in authority; next, the
183 XXXIII | work of a king, to teach men to fear God and keep righteousness.
184 XXXIII | scent of sweet ointment, all men flocked to him daily, casting
185 XXXIV | thee, Lord, thou lover of men, and God of pity, that thou
186 XXXIV | who, having once taken men captive, hath made them
187 XXXV | hands, O God, thou lover of men, do I commit my spirit,"
188 XXXV | sepulchre wherein devout men lay; not indeed clad in
189 XXXV | pity is poured out upon all men, and thou savest them that
190 XXXVI | Follow peace with all men, and holiness, without which
191 XXXVI | Consider the wheel of men's affairs, how it runneth
192 XXXVI | and `If ye forgive not men their trespasses, neither
193 XXXVII | glory and the praise of men, to lay aside diadem and
194 XXXVIII| annoyances more easily than other men bear their pleasures. Wherefore
195 XXXIX | God hath ordered, who, of men, can scatter? Endure, then,
196 XL | good God and a lover of men, save me by the prayers
197 XL | asleep, and saw those dread men, whom he had seen before,
198 XL | delivered the souls of many men from the soul-devouring
199 XL | truthful lips of worthy men who delivered it unto me.
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