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504 IV | in his perplexity how to conciliate the king and to escape the
505 XV | is added thereto. Thus we conclude that choice is desire accompanied
506 XXVIII | all their propositions and conclusions and exposing the fallacy
507 XXV | than mine own? But, if thou condemnest me for ignorance and inexperience
508 VII | and was God, he, I say, condescended toward his servants with
509 XI | and are clinched together, conduct the soul to heaven. Lo,
510 XXV | wild beasts my soul that confesseth thee: forget not the soul
511 XXXV | miracles were wrought for the confirmation of the Faith. Churches too
512 V | Thenceforth he lived in perpetual conflict and distress of mind, and
513 XXXIX | been well exercised in the conflicts of the religious life, before
514 XXXVI | by this time ye have been conformed to the will of the Lord,
515 XXVII | by boiling, by dyeing, by congealment, or by being brought to
516 XXVIII | unto his own palace, like a conqueror in the Olympic games, and
517 XL | their garments. These, the consecrated tabernacles of two holy
518 VII | world, he of his free will consenting thereto; for he came for
519 XXV | for worship and serious consideration, unworthy of thought, and
520 XXVII | like. By him all things consist. He hath no need of sacrifice,
521 XXI | my soul's salvation? What consolation may I find in my loss of
522 XXII | the devil, may alter the constancy of our choice, and mis-persuade
523 IX | heaven and Orion and all the constellations of heaven shall not give
524 XV | vice, the soul being thus constituted by the Creator. Free will
525 V | what is the sadness that constraineth thee, and straightway I
526 XVIII | afflicting our bodies with the constraints of cold and heat we purvey
527 XXVII | therefore I call God, who constructed all things and sustaineth
528 XXII | Son, and Holy Ghost, the consubstantial and undivided Godhead, I
529 XVII | elements have met, for the consummation of a single world, one with
530 XXXI | things take no hurt from contact with things commoner than
531 XXXVII | bodily pleasures, and to contemn riches and glory and the
532 XXV | would I not have devoted to contemning all else, and winning my
533 XXVII | into the world; and when I contemplated heaven and earth and sea,
534 XVIII | have those who labour and contend together with me on the
535 XXIII | equally brave mother when contending for the law of their fathers:
536 XXXIII | may be, by chance, he is contentious and implacable. Now, if
537 XXVI | contest, even the mightiest of contests; for one of two things shall
538 XIX | tasted of death, his Godhead continuing without suffering and without
539 XV | these waters bubble forth continuously, and their taste is sweet,
540 XI | and to abstain from their contraries. ~"But if, after receiving
541 XXIV | Hence the perversity and contrariness of thy mind, gathering strength
542 XXV | please him in all ways? Contrariwise, how deadly and cursed a
543 XXVIII | Nachor stepped forth with a contrite heart, and went bounding
544 XXXVII | discovered that these be the contrivances and bug-bears of thy malice,
545 XXX | wicked, and never stinteth to contrive mischief and hurt. For he
546 II | Unhappy man, that hast contrived thine own utter ruin, driven
547 XX | mind. He that liveth and converseth with an earthly king is
548 XXII | part of Barlaam shall be converted, and stoutly proclaim that
549 XXVII | carriage of ships, and the conveyance of victuals, and for other
550 XL | Barachias in costly tombs and conveyed by him into his own country. ~
551 VI | even as I will shortly convict of vanity those that prompted
552 XXVI | irrefutable answers, and was convicted by his own conscience secretly
553 IX | import, how have ye made your conviction on these matters sure?" ~
554 XVI | the king, and willing to convince him thereof, he nevertheless
555 XXVII | fire-tongs, and working as a copper-smith for hire. So it appeareth
556 XXXI | unquenchable fire, true copy of the Chaldean race, have
557 IX | iniquities as with a long cord, and their sins as with
558 VI | He bound them fast with cords of hair, and called for
559 XXVII | for the burning of dead corpses. Moreover, it perisheth
560 XXXI | boast is in adultery and the corrupting of boys, and other works
561 XXX | radiant settles among wondrous couches too beautiful to be described.
562 XXVIII | and to think that thou couldst so dull my sight at mid-day,
563 XXIV | bade Araches, his chief councillor, now that they had failed
564 XXXIII | office, and first of his councillors, spake unto the king, saying, "
565 XXIII | because ye deceive all men, counselling them to abstain from the
566 XV | ruler of the world; and, counting thy perishable flesh thine
567 XXXII | preaching of these few obscure countrymen to the ordinance of the
568 XVI | love him. For like as this couple were accounted fools by
569 XIII | friend, whom he had never courted, nor invited to share his
570 II | he made reply, at once courteous and unruffled: "If it be
571 XXV | the utmost kindness and courtesy, in the hope, perchance,
572 VI | purple.' Thus he shamed his courtiers, and taught them not to
573 XVIII | gird them about with the covering of shame? But be assured
574 IV | believe, he found a man in a covert, cast to the ground, his
575 XXII | to escape death by such cowardice. Nay, liefer would we die
576 XXIII | thousand deaths. We be not such cowards as to betray our religion
577 XXVI | lessoned by thee not to cozen the sons of kings." ~When
578 XXXII | and shamefulness, and vain craft that with glosing words
579 IV | took his word ill, and was craftily sounding him. So, on his
580 XVIII | their country and by divers crafts deliver one's friend from
581 X | give them good gifts, and crave to receive of their hands
582 XXVIII | like the harlot of old, and craved holy Baptism. The priest,
583 XXX | what laughter he should create against himself, and to
584 XXX | furnace of fire, and there crept the worm of torment. Revengeful
585 XXXVI | but small damage to the crew. But if the steersman err,
586 XXVII | adulteries, thefts and unnatural crimes. But, if they did well in
587 XXVII | Others again worshipped the crocodile, and some the cat and dog,
588 IV | thee. Arise therefore, and crop thy hair. Doff these thy
589 XXXVI | make one weep. They all crowded around him, as though his
590 XXIV | and then put thee to the cruellest death, dealing with thee
591 IX | even to give him of the crumbs from his table. So when
592 XVIII | money to money, and never to curb the passion for it, but
593 XXII | and his blood well-nigh curdled at the tidings. Immediately
594 XL | foundation. And many miracles and cures, during the translation
595 XXXII | powerless. And these men, by curing every disease of man by
596 XXV | Contrariwise, how deadly and cursed a thing it is to provoke
597 XXVI | leave my father's laws and customs, and to serve an unknown
598 XII | without blemish unto God, by cutting off all the workings of
599 XXX | dazzling gold, with high uprear'd parapets, built of gems
600 XXIV | and abandon the charms of dalliance, to tread the hard and rough
601 XXX | and talk inviting him to dalliaunce. Besides these, he had no
602 XXVII | for Europa; into gold, for Danae; into a swan, for Leda;
603 XII | and now they weave the dance in their fellowship, whose
604 XXXI | altars, there are lascivious dances, and strains of lewd songs
605 XVI | melody, and delighted him by dancing and cozening him with flatteries.
606 XV | saith one of the prophets, Daniel the wise, unto the king
607 VI | his kingly honour. But not daring to reprove him to the face,
608 XXXIX | fear lest perchance the darksome army of fiends may stand
609 XXXI | barren and filthy place he darteth his rays? Upon how many
610 XVIII | and its prince, the devil, dashed headlong to the earth, thou
611 XXXVIII| uncooked worts, and a few dates, planted and tended by Barlaam'
612 XXVII | Sarpedon, and the nine daughters whom they call the Muses. ~"
613 XXXIV | confirmed his words (for the day-spring from on high had visited
614 XXII | intercessions all night long. In the day-time he was often interrupted
615 V | and to establish a mind, dazed and shuddering at its cogitations,
616 VIII | not impossible to raise deadened and corrupt bodies from
617 XXXII | religion and the weakness and deadliness of your wicked doctrines.
618 XVIII | man; and those years of deadness I can never call years of
619 XIII | Wherefore be of good courage, dear friend, and fret not thyself.'
620 V | of his tutors nearer and dearer to him than the rest, whose
621 VI | come, the king sent the death-trumpet to sound at his brother'
622 XXVII | and be found partakers of deathless life." ~
623 XXXIII | the captives in mines, or debtors in the grip of their creditors;
624 VIII | So that very body, which decayeth and perisheth, shall arise
625 VIII | also it was taken, and, decaying, perisheth; but the soul,
626 II | luxury, the prosperity that deceives, whereon, O king, thine
627 XII | charm, but illusion and deception of the wickedness of the
628 XIV | likewise I counsel thee to decide thereon, that thou mayest
629 VI | of these and those. They decided that the golden ones were
630 XI | better, and thus by a just decision making peace in that continual
631 VIII | question, and him whom thou declarest I glorify as God. Only make
632 XXXIII | as the Book of the Kings declareth concerning David and Saul. ~
633 IV | again raged above measure, declaring that this was of their teaching,
634 XXV | it that I have willingly declined from the right, and chosen
635 V | especially of the anchorets decreed by the king, and how they
636 XXV | death as it were life, thou deemest that thou art well advised,
637 XXXIII | ever abased his soul in deepest humility, and thought on
638 VI | up, because they had no deepness of earth: and when the sun
639 XXVIII | leader of error had proved a defender of the right cause. ~But
640 XXXII | Concerning you, the defenders of idolatry, were these
641 XXXVIII| their full fill of long deferred desire. ~But, when they
642 XXVII | and became adulterers, and defilers of themselves with mankind,
643 XXVII | can an adulterer, one that defileth himself by unnatural lust,
644 XX | this reason the Fathers define Prayer as `the union of
645 XII | that do thus are doubly defrauded: they waste their body,
646 XVIII | that these are dead and defunct in the activity of life.
647 XXXI | symbol of his own soul, deifieth his vice and calleth it
648 XXVII | making images thereof, and deifying dumb and senseless idols.
649 XV | actions possible to us; a man deliberateth whether he ought to pursue
650 XV | souls' affairs and all our deliberations. Since then it is of free
651 XV | which was so judged by the deliberative faculty, and this is called
652 XXX | waters exceeding clear, and delightful to the eye. When these dread
653 XXV | holding fast to that sweet and delightsome life, given by them to all
654 VII | had dominion over mankind, delivering all to the tyranny of the
655 XXIII | rottenness, thou hast been deluded into taking darkness for
656 VII | called Devils, as being deluders and deceivers. ~"Thus then
657 VII | growth of sin, God brought a deluge on the earth, and destroyed
658 VII | sins and ruined in strange delusions, and wandering apart into
659 XV | vanishing as the smoke, or delusive as a dream, or intangible
660 XXXVI | master, when he cometh to demand account of our lives, and
661 XXIV | king at day-break. Again he demanded horsemen, and made as though
662 XI | strictness of these doctrines demandeth such chaste conversation,
663 XXXIII | idolatrous images were utterly demolished, and all their wealth and
664 XXIV | persistence with which he denounced his father's gods, and mocked
665 XXXVII | how the lives of all had depended on his life, and he minded
666 XXXIII | them. The king was wholly dependent on the commandments of Christ
667 XV | deliberation aimeth at action and dependeth on action; and thus deliberation
668 XIII | first lament, or which first deplore? Condemn my vain preference
669 XIV | anhungred, he, that had timely deposited his wealth, passed his time
670 XL | during the translation and deposition of their relics, as also
671 II | us of God, the worst of deprivations, and, in this intent, dost
672 XXXI | for it was put to bitter derision, supposing that it had received
673 XIX | and from it cometh the derivation. For when we see the drawing
674 II | wouldst constrain us also to descend into like peril. But as
675 XXVII | concerning God. The Jews are the descendants of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob,
676 IX | Abraham's bosom, for thus he describeth the habitation of the righteous --
677 VIII | that glory which baffleth description, the being made a spectacle
678 XXIV | household of truth: I have deserted the service of devils, and
679 XVI | the true light and being a deserter of his own accord to the
680 XXII | are the penalties that I deserve, and many deaths do I merit,
681 II | spectacle, and by his misfortune deserving of tears. Wherefore he,
682 XI | feed swine, -- thus doth he designate the most coarse and loathsome
683 VI | and a great. But, as thou desiredst to behold it, listen to
684 IX | a day of wasteness and desolation, a day of blackness and
685 XXIX | him driven the quicker to desperation. To thy wisdom for the future
686 XV | spakest a minute past of despising all things, and taking up
687 XI | and pray for them which despitefully use you and persecute you;
688 X | than these, shall be thy destiny, if thou continue in unbelief. ~"
689 IV | not to put off his good determinations, and so they would be found
690 XXVI | adhered to his old purpose, determining to put into action the plot
691 XXXVII | from the beginning didst devise mischief against mankind,
692 XIV | decay. ~"In such wise was I devising mine estate, and establishing
693 XXV | the works of men's hands, devoid of breath, and deaf, and
694 XII | unicorn was madly raging to devour him: how, below, the fierce
695 XIX | which it is an Image, and devoutly worship the form of him
696 XII | repose, submitting to a diet of uncooked herbs and worts,
697 VIII | darkness, and the worm that dieth not, and the gnashing of
698 XV | his choice, for there are differences of choice. And even as water-springs,
699 XXXVII | roaring and making a terrible din and bellowing; or again
700 XXX | home to his evil den, and, dipping into his books that had
701 XX | on earth and entreateth directly with God. ~"This acquire
702 XL | desert did he, like one dis-fleshed, endure rigours above the
703 XI | roof-work or inner building be disabled, it is allowed to renew
704 XXI | excluded ourselves by the disannulling of his commandment. Again
705 IV | through the air, quickly disappear. But the hope of the life
706 XXXVII | beasts and creeping things disappeared, like as the smoke vanisheth,
707 XV | the Sun of righteousness disappointeth none of them that would
708 IX | joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents
709 XIV | boundless rush of torrents that discharge themselves into the deep
710 XXV | Dost thou not see to what discomfort and trouble I often expose
711 XXVII | there be such warfare and discord? For if the nature of the
712 XXXVIII| spiritual converse again, discoursing wholesome words, and full
713 XVI | righteousness to God-ward, and her discreet wisdom, and I heartily desire
714 XXX | pretended -- of her prudence and discretion and of her nobility and
715 XV | choice is deliberation plus discrimination, and this from the very
716 XXVIII | though he would renew the discussion on the morrow. ~Then said
717 XXIX | go not as thou wilt, then disdain me for ever, as unprofitable,
718 XXVI | none?" Then replied Nachor, disdaining even to answer the speaker.
719 XII | the healing of incurable diseases: yea, and even their garments,
720 VI | deeming that their sovran had disgraced his kingly honour. But not
721 XXXV | thus forsaken his former disgraceful life, and repented of his
722 VI | the empire of the Indians. Disguised as a merchant man, he entered
723 X | or slack, thou shalt be disherited by the just judgement of
724 XXII | straightway astonied by the dismay that fell on him, and was
725 XXXV | began to fear and to be dismayed, calling to remembrance
726 XXVI | because thou art stubborn and disobedient, and hast thus stiffly opposed
727 XII | unstable elements which, being disordered and disturbed, bring that
728 XII | through bodily weakness, would disparage and blame himself, attributing
729 XVIII | thou shalt never wish to dispend any part of it. This is
730 VIII | rightly keep secret, not displaying it to all that would see
731 XL | saying. But now, why art thou displeased at thy father's equality
732 XXI | griefs. If thou be well disposed to him, on no account reveal
733 XXII | champion. Then, after much disputation, he shall be worsted and
734 XXX | conversion? Yea, so it is: and dispute it not. Did not even the
735 XXXVI | feigning to be Barlaam, was disputing with the philosophers, alone
736 III | once behold anything to disquiet them. Such then was the
737 XXXV | father, and wily art thou so disquieted within time? Set thy hope
738 XXX | that soldier of Christ, disquieting all the powers of his soul,
739 V | forgetfulness? When dead, shall I dissolve into nothingness? Or is
740 XXVII | s axes, growing old and dissolving through lapse of time, and
741 XII | Others build their homes at a distance one from another, but meet
742 XIV | beyond their borders into a distant great island; there, for
743 V | very meat and drink seem distasteful unto me and bitter. I yearn
744 XXII | him: it is impossible to distinguish the one from the other.
745 XVI | that was born of rich and distinguished parents. For him his father
746 IV | so now will I share thy distresses, that in the future, as
747 XL | savour, and showed naught distressful, were placed by King Barachias
748 V | these, and what is this distressing spectacle?" They, unable
749 XXVII | the orphan. He that hath distributeth liberally to him that hath
750 XV | wall, and fall into many a ditch, and scratch out their eyes
751 XVII | unchanging God. Else how could diverse elements have met, for the
752 XXXII | abode in these images and diverting to themselves these honours
753 IX | from another, as a shepherd divideth his sheep from the goats.
754 XXIV | desert practising the arts of divination), and told him of their
755 XIX | himself knoweth, of that diviner body, and to reward every
756 XXV | thou art wilfully a wrong doer, I may not say. But this
757 XVIII | neighbourhood bring a blessed dole of bread, we receive it
758 XXVI | sat down before all on a doom-stool high and exalted, and bade
759 V | barred me within walls and doors, never going forth and seen
760 XXXI | confounded, foolish and pitiable dotard, whose sins out-weigh the
761 V | countenance, feeble-kneed, bent double, grey-haired, toothless,
762 XII | Whence all that do thus are doubly defrauded: they waste their
763 XVIII | of them that are dragged downward, and waste their time in
764 XXV | whereby he deceiveth and draggeth his prey into the depth
765 XXXVII | all kinds of serpents, and dragon-shaped monsters, and these met
766 XXXVIII| victuals set before them, and drank water from the neighbour
767 XXXII | from men's bodies, but even drave out of the world itself
768 IV | Said the king, "He that dreadeth menace of death busieth
769 XIV | wantonness, nor he that dreameth of security of life in that
770 XXIX | neighbour a drink of turbid dregs, by the help of the evil
771 XXXIX | vineyard which thou hast dressed, and shall richly pay thee
772 XXVII | no need of sacrifice, or drink-offering, or of any of the things
773 XIX | learn, do evil imaginations drive out of us the Holy Spirit'
774 XXIV | fables of worlds to come, and drivel about the resurrection of
775 XXX | thoughts, as good-for-nothing drones from the hive. When he rose,
776 XXVIII | Nachor's courage which was drooping to despair, and to confirm
777 XII | than future blessings. The dropping of honey denoteth the sweetness
778 XXXVII | parched with thirst in the hot drought of that desert place, and
779 XXX | by armed soldiers; also droves of oxen and flocks of sheep.
780 XII | to-morrow he is a beggar, and drudge of drudges. To-day it placeth
781 XII | a beggar, and drudge of drudges. To-day it placeth on his
782 XXXV | piety towards him, to the dukes and satraps and all the
783 XXVIII | think that thou couldst so dull my sight at mid-day, that
784 II | unto him thus: ~"O thou dullard and mad man, wherefore hast
785 II | from mine heart, and the dullness, proceeding from the grossness
786 XXXII | they may drag their poor dupes into the unquenchable fire
787 XXXIX | thy toils, and the long duration of the time, be as one that
788 XXXVII | word, he raised a great dust-cloud of reasonings in his mind,
789 V | before hand to remove him, no dweller on earth, but, as life advanceth,
790 XL | But shew me where thou dwellest?" Barlaam answered, "In
791 XII | human glory. ~"As to their dwellings, some monks finish the contest
792 XXVII | is altered by boiling, by dyeing, by congealment, or by being
793 XVI | for fear that he might earn trouble for himself and
794 XIX | God, and hast received the earnest of everlasting life: thou
795 XXXVIII| and failed to equal the earnestness of his life. For he took
796 XL | eye purified from every earth-born cloud, and looked forward
797 II | I shall be able, in this earthen body, eagerly to embrace
798 VII | And he planted a garden eastward in Eden, full of delight
799 VII | planted a garden eastward in Eden, full of delight and all
800 XVI | we may see something to edify us." Now while they were
801 XI | Spirit, and cleansed without effort from all sin and all defilement,
802 XXXIX | and guerdoned with the effulgence of the blessed and life-giving
803 X | attain to the bulk of ostrich eggs. How then could I contain
804 VII | forth out of bondage to the Egyptian nation, and to one Pharaoh
805 XXXV | unceasingly. But, on the eighth day, he went back to his
806 V | They answered him, "In eighty or an hundred years men
807 XXIX | well-favoured damsels, and eke offer them an hecatomb of
808 XXVIII | third, sixth, ninth or eleventh hour there is apportioned
809 | elsewhere
810 VI | put on lay attire, and, embarking on ship board, arrived at
811 V | shouldest behold anything to embitter thy heart or mar thy happiness.
812 XIX | faithfully worship and salute the emblem of the life-giving and venerable
813 XXXVIII| when they had done with embracing and greeting, they sat them
814 XXVI | of the orators, the most eminent of all his fellows, said
815 VI | arrived at the seat of the empire of the Indians. Disguised
816 XVIII | ally; for thus shalt thou employ thy riches as an help toward
817 IX | condescension to men's grossness, he employed these names when he would
818 XIII | man returned from him too empty-handed and baulked at every turn;
819 XII | others too in succession emulated the Martyrs' zeal and divine
820 II | king stirred them up to emulation. He brought full many oxen,
821 XI | witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions,
822 XXV | Therefore do thou thyself enable me to continue in this good
823 INT | blessed Fathers, who did thus enact for the salvation of our
824 XXIX | sight of women to allure and enchant the minds of men. Listen
825 XXVIII | saw his life, his soul was enchanted with love, and he much occupied
826 XXVII | or luminaries. And they enclose them in temples, and worship
827 V | father might mean by thus enclosing him within those walls,
828 XXXVIII| the evil spirits that he encountered, and many the hardships
829 XXVII | good and just, because they encourage good and forbid evil; whereas
830 INT | path; by exhortation and encouragement one may scarce win him to
831 INT | reason also we need many encouragements thereto, whether it be exhortations,
832 XL | exceeding great reward. ~Here endeth this history, which I have
833 XIX | increases, arriveth at great endings. ~"Wherefore on no account
834 XVI | which was a good man and endued with righteousness toward
835 XXXII | They shall perish, but thou endurest; and they all shall wax
836 XII | them that lean upon it, and enervateth those that put their trust
837 XXV | against my foes, or when I am engaged in divers other business
838 XXII | persuasion or by divers engines of torture, against his
839 XXVII | Lord Jesus Christ himself engraven on their hearts, and these
840 XIV | vanities, while I still lived engrossed in earthly things. But when
841 XXXI | commandeth righteousness, enjoineth continency, ordaineth chastity,
842 III | everything pleasant and enjoyable, that his heart, revelling
843 XXXIV | the light which thou didst enkindle more brightly for us. Much
844 XXV | O King: for my heart is enkindled with longing after thee,
845 XVII | and pitiful, that he may enlighten the eyes of thine heart,
846 XXIV | the light of my God that enlighteneth all around, and be thyself,
847 XIX | and put on light, being enrolled in the glorious liberty
848 XII | his servants. ~"By these ensamples and such like assemblies
849 XIX | she hath by evil custom enslaved herself. ~"Wherefore with
850 VII | being mourned over, or in enslavement to mankind, or exiled, or,
851 XXXI | taking of our flesh he may ensnare and defeat the ruler of
852 XI | often must there at once ensue this rising and standing,
853 V | all to tell him that death ensueth on the pleasures of this
854 XV | to these choices are the ensuing impulses to action." ~
855 XIV | him without guile how to ensure himself against this fate.
856 XII | it hath cruelly duped and entangled in its meshes the one party,
857 XXX | spake with fawning words entangling him, right and left, around
858 XII | sanctification of soul and body. They entertain one another with the exercises
859 XII | weaker in ascetic exercises entertained no thought of malice against
860 XVI | On his journey he found entertainment in the house of a poor old
861 XIV | darkness of this world, who entice us by the soft bait of pleasure,
862 XXVI | heretofore, and shalt be entitled `herald of truth'; and I
863 IV | Hereupon the king, wishing to entrap the monks, as I ween, shrewdly
864 XX | all things on earth and entreateth directly with God. ~"This
865 XXV | grey hairs: listen to my entreaty, and come, do sacrifice
866 XXXIII | thy kingdom with him, and entrust him with the dominion of
867 II | blessings. So he that once was enviable became a piteous spectacle,
868 IV | Wherefore certain men, looking enviously on his free converse with
869 XI | strife, seditions, heresies, envyings, murders, love of money,
870 XII | Evangelist and Divine in his Epistle, thus saying, `Love not
871 XL | displeased at thy father's equality with thee in honour, and
872 XXIII | lofty spirit, however, was equalled by these marvellous fathers
873 XXXIII | marvellous in his acts, and equitable and modest in spirit. Wherefore
874 XXXIII | reinforced by his gentleness and equity, caused all men to yield
875 XXX | melody as mortal ear ne'er heard. And Ioasaph heard
876 XXVIII | mortal, shalt depart hence ere long, even as all that have
877 XXII | take Barlaam, I know of an eremite, Nachor by name, in every
878 XXVII | with Aphrodite by the child Eros and Hephaestus and was bound
879 XXXIX | all speed fulfilled his errand: for he dreaded lest peradventure,
880 IX | preached the Gospel, without erring from the truth, but establishing
881 XXIV | he found that his heart, erstwhile so sore and heavy, was now
882 XVIII | blessings utterly renounce and eschew, and flee from it, as a
883 V | that choice steeds, and an escort fit for a king, be made
884 XVI | with his son concerning the espousals, and informed him of his
885 INT | one may scarce win him to essay it, but rather by pointing
886 VII | himself unto him, not as he essentially is (for it is impossible
887 XXI | thou shalt be blessed. Esteem therefore nought in the
888 IV | this matter, and, lightly esteeming the present world, would
889 XXXIII | danger of perdition and estrangement from God, it is right to
890 XXXII | concerning thee, If the Ethiopian can change his skin, or
891 XV | and this from the very etymology. For that which is the `
892 XXVII | transformed into a bull, for Europa; into gold, for Danae; into
893 XXIV | the present world were not evanescent and fleeting, but were to
894 VIII | is the flower of the holy Evangelists, `And there are also many
895 XXX | first parent by means of Eve, thus miserably banishing
896 XXXIX | life-giving Trinity.'" ~Thus until even-tide and all night long did Barlaam
897 VI | penalty of death. So when evening was come, the king sent
898 XXXIII | lot; and if the course of events, and the care of the business
899 XXX | thou acquainted with the ever-living God, and perish not in the
900 X | hell fire, which burneth everlastingly. These, and far worse haps
901 XXIV | him to punish his son, or evilly to entreat him, and he utterly
902 XXXVII | reasonings in his mind, exactly, I ween, as it hath been
903 XX | thereto, for it is able to exalt thee from earth to heaven.
904 XVII | so many rivers, hath not exceeded her measure. The courses
905 XXIV | promised to those that love God excel in glory and magnificence
906 XXI | to recount the exceeding excellence. Great be the gifts that
907 V | prudent, and shining in all excellencies. To his teachers he would
908 XVI | because I reverenced the excellency of thy majesty, lest thou
909 XVIII | of God. And, being thus excellently armed and guarded on every
910 XXXVII | this moment, let my soul be excited by these present vanities,
911 XXX | joyaunce and heartsease, exclaimed, "Reave me not, reave me
912 XXI | good things wherefrom we excluded ourselves by the disannulling
913 IX | teeth.' Now they who made excuses and paid no heed to the
914 IV | heralds, that if any of your execrable religion were found, after
915 XXXVIII| body. In prayer and mental exercise his work was unceasing,
916 XXXVIII| obedience and lowliness, exercising himself in every kind of
917 XVII | the earth hath not been exhausted, though she hath been bearing
918 XII | and secondly, that, by exhausting the flesh by austerities,
919 XXI | words did the reverend elder exhort the king's son, and then
920 XI | Ay, and in this world he exhorteth us to let our `light so
921 XXIII | like guests to a banquet, exhorting one another to meet death
922 VII | enslavement to mankind, or exiled, or, for foul and shameful
923 XII | the world, withdrew, as exiles, into the deserts, being
924 XIII | help from me thou mayest expect none.' The other, hearing
925 V | body be careless in the expectation of an unknown death, whose
926 XXXIX | time, be as one that daily expecteth his departure hence, and
927 XXXIX | goodness that it is not expedient for thee now to lay aside
928 XXV | often expose myself in mine expeditions against my foes, or when
929 XIV | and had been miserably expelled, but his soul was plunged
930 X | seek unto the dead?' They expend wealth, for to raise statues
931 XIV | plenty mid dainties free of expense, and, rid of all fear of
932 XVIII | mightest best declare to me the explanation of the questions that I
933 XXVIII | propositions and conclusions and exposing the fallacy of their error.
934 VIII | comprehended by reason and expressed in words by us who are earthly,
935 XXVI | charge heralds to proclaim expressly that none of the Christians
936 XII | very excess of temperance, extending their zeal to limit even
937 XIII | a helping hand. To what extent then canst thou share my
938 XVI | this applieth but to those external things that are not our
939 XXXVI | what piteous pleading, what extravagance of grief did they omit?
940 XIII | first two of these he was extravagantly lavish of his honours, and
941 XXXIV | him, and tuning lips of exultation to sing an hymn of praise,
942 IX | from the beginning were eye-witnesses and ministers of the word;
943 XXXVIII| eyes deep sunken, and his eyelids seared with floods of tears,
944 XII | followers of him, first his eyewitness, disciples, and Apostles,
945 XXVII | into the sea, whence, as fable telleth, was born Aphrodite.
946 XXIV | his servants who tell thee fables of worlds to come, and drivel
947 XV | judged by the deliberative faculty, and this is called resolve;
948 I | all men the transitory and fading nature of this present time,
949 XII | of that life which never faileth, nor is broken by death. ~"
950 XII | himself, attributing his failure to slothfulness of mind
951 XXXIX | who saith, `Let us not faint; but though our outward
952 II | God, who saveth me from faintness of spirit, and from the
953 XVII | skilfully builded, or a vessel fairly framed, taketh note of the
954 XXI | wherefore he ordered me, for my faithfulness, to wait upon thee. Now,
955 X | Wherefore out of this wicked and faithless generation the Lord calleth
956 XXIII | man, who keepeth hounds or falcons tamed for hunting, before
957 XXVIII | conclusions and exposing the fallacy of their error. After the
958 VI | clad in filthy rags, with fallen-in faces, and pale as death.
959 XXX | not find his soul lying fallow and untilled, and thus easily
960 XXXII | cause had been vain talk and falsehood, it could not, possessing
961 XXXVI | that he might keep without faltering the path of Christ's commandments.
962 XVI | daughter of noble and wealthy family hath been betrothed unto
963 XI | Then, when there arose a famine in that land, he went and
964 XIX | from every evil thought and fancy, and every sinful custom;
965 I | Apostles to travel to the far-off East and to some to journey
966 XIV | whither thou must shortly fare, that when thou comest thither
967 IX | purple and fine linen, and fared sumptuously every day, but
968 VIII | the soul, being immortal, fareth whither her Maker calleth,
969 IX | themselves: some went to their farms, some to their merchandize,
970 XXXI | of his own love of wine, fashioneth an idol which he calleth
971 XIX | of thine heart, lest it fasten on and strike root so deep
972 VIII | flesh in pain and grief, and fasteneth on my very bones. And shall
973 XII | Some of them continued fasting the whole week, and partook
974 IX | may be their spoil and the fatherless their prey! And what will
975 XXXIX | Thus prayed he, and in fatherly wise embraced Ioasaph, and
976 XI | found again, and killed the fatted calf. Lo, this parable,
977 XXIII | the weal of the many, but fattenest thine own flesh, to be meat
978 XII | servitude. To-day its thrall is fattening on a thousand good things;
979 XXVII | But the Egyptians, more fatuous and foolish than they, have
980 V | and was as fair and well favoured in mind as in body, intelligent
981 XXX | Thus then she spake with fawning words entangling him, right
982 XXIII | hast erred, O king. Thou fearest that we should persuade
983 XXXVI | Blessed is the man that feareth the Lord: he shall have
984 XXIV | of moving him by threats. Fearing then that, if he argued
985 XII | that had accomplished great feats, deceived and puffed up
986 X | aloft, `Shame, sir, on thy fecklessness! What a treasure that hast
987 V | shrivelled in countenance, feeble-kneed, bent double, grey-haired,
988 XXVI | he had laid privily, and feeling the sword entering into
989 XXII | calling himself Barlaam, shall feign that he is pleading the
990 XXX | verily he is darkness, and feigneth to be light. So he began
991 XVII | stranger and sojourner, but a fellow-citizen with the Saints, and of
992 XXIII | a slight sin to betray a fellow-combatant and fellow-soldier into
993 XXII | Barlaam is our brother and fellow-monk. But now for many days past
994 XXXVI | his want of pity on his fellow-servant, he was again required to
995 XXIII | betray a fellow-combatant and fellow-soldier into thy hands. Nay, but
996 II | being by the Creator to be fellow-workers with nature; and such they
997 XXII | made the circuit of the fells around, and journeyed a-foot
998 XXVII | gods, some male, others female, creators of all passions
999 VII | they called males, and some females, and they themselves set
1000 XXIX | thy presence this public festival, and gird on for thy strong
1001 XXXIX | abode a long way off, for to fetch the things fitting for the
1002 VI | and lamenting. The king fetched him in, and seeing him in
1003 XXIX | met and welcomed him; and, fetching a seat, he made him to sit
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