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1004 XXV | considered these things, and fettered his soul with divine fear,
1005 XVIII | sheepskins or shirts of palm fibre, all thread-bare and much
1006 XXVII | passionate, envious, lustful, fickle, and full of failings: and
1007 VIII | undoubtingly, that these are no fictions; but by good works be urgent
1008 XXI | among them, whom, for his fidelity and prudence, the king had
1009 XI | iniquity, who sent him into his fields to feed swine, -- thus doth
1010 IX | the earth, because "the fierceness of man shall turn to thy
1011 II | wroth, and devised a yet fiercer persecution of the monastic
1012 XXX | kindling within him the fiercest fire of lust. ~When Ioasaph
1013 III | unto the king some five and fifty chosen men, schooled in
1014 XIII | passionately to their love, fighting to the death and deliberately
1015 XXXIX | everywhere present, and fillest all things, I thank thee,
1016 XXXVIII| who openeth his hand and filleth all things living. Then
1017 XXXII | teach men all iniquity and filthiness, seeing that they have once
1018 X | worship that which their fingers made, saying, `These be
1019 XXXIX | when Ioasaph had manfully finished his long journey, and had
1020 XXVII | lame, holding hammer and fire-tongs, and working as a copper-smith
1021 IX | rose again, and became the first-born from the dead. For other
1022 XXXI | chief did once confront the first-made man and prevailed against
1023 XII | they did for two causes: firstly, that never seeing the objects
1024 XXXII | coming of Christ, those wise fishers of the world, whose nets
1025 VII | in turn with all kinds of fishes. `He spake the word and
1026 XXV | sand. For such life is the fishhook of the devil, baited with
1027 I | this present time, and the fixedness and incorruptibility of
1028 XVI | shining through an aperture. Fixing their eyes thereon, they
1029 XXV | the brightest lightning flash, yet should I fail to do
1030 XL | the city, a street that flasheth with light supernal." Again
1031 XXXI | sheer vanity. Why therefore flatterest thou things that cannot
1032 XXV | perchance, of alluring him by flattering attentions. The day following,
1033 XII | utterly denied themselves all fleshly comfort and repose, submitting
1034 VII | he formed for himself a fleshy body, animate with a reasonable
1035 X | therefrom, said, as she flew aloft, `Shame, sir, on thy
1036 XXXIV | a standing water and the flint-stone into a springing well? For
1037 XXXIV | behold this my father's flinty and more than granite heart
1038 XIV | from an eagle or a hawk flitteth from place to place, now
1039 XXX | also droves of oxen and flocks of sheep. In brief, row
1040 XV | in abundance while others flow drop by drop, thus, understand
1041 XIV | fro, so are they which are flustered by the present world. They
1042 XXVII | and, at times, harp and flute, and prophesying to men
1043 IX | so their root shall be as foam, and their blossom shall
1044 II | the part of enemies and foemen. For Desire, working in
1045 XXXII | as a vesture shalt thou fold them up, and they shall
1046 XXXI | best bullock out of your folds, or (may be) some other
1047 VI | in word and deed, a model follower of every monastic rule.
1048 XII | baptism. So as imitators and followers of him, first his eyewitness,
1049 XI | taketh not up his cross and followeth after me, is not worthy
1050 III | still remained, of whom he fondly imagined that not a trace
1051 XII | snares, ~"These men that have foolishly alienated themselves from
1052 XII | established some sort of foot-hold and thought himself from
1053 XXXVIII| sought, and thither went foot-hot, as when a cunning hunter
1054 XII | wretchedness, making them a foot-stool and a laughing stock for
1055 XXIV | within, but natural affection forbad him to punish his son, or
1056 XXII | unto him, "Why hast thou forced thyself to appear? I was
1057 XXIV | salvation, and with violent hand forcest me to destruction. If thou
1058 XX | prelude' and, as it were, the `fore-glimpse' of that blessedness. But
1059 XXXIII | that we all have one common forefather, made of clay, and that,
1060 XVI | cavernous chamber, in the forefront of which there sat a man,
1061 XIV | the custom of taking some foreigner and stranger, who knew nothing
1062 XXVII | shalt thou see! ~"First and foremost they introduce the god whom
1063 XVIII | through the glades of the forest, returning at evenfall,
1064 XXVI | wise and prudent youth, forewarned, by the heavenly vision
1065 XXXVIII| died afore his time, and forfeited the reward of his well-doing.
1066 XVIII | evil angel, which heaven forfend! ~"Let the same, I pray
1067 XI | free will, nor alloweth the forgiving of sins after baptism, or
1068 XXIV | out of nothing; who, after forming man out of clay, breathed
1069 XXIII | the land desolate, and, forsaking the gods of their fathers,
1070 XI | the law forbade a man to forswear himself, Christ commanded
1071 XXXVI | the narrow gate, on the fortieth day after his father's decease,
1072 XXIII | and passions, and practise fortitude, so as to endure all toil
1073 XI | us for the future a sure fortress and tower of defence, and
1074 XXXIII | for the king, when things fortuned thus, he was completely
1075 II | prophetic of his future fortunes. Nowhere in that land, they
1076 XII | Saviour. After him many fought the like fight and won like
1077 XXIX | have heard that thou hast foughten a mighty fight with the
1078 XXXIII | ground, and uncovered their foundations, leaving no trace of their
1079 XII | is said to have been the founder of the monastic life, Antony
1080 XVII | a steersman, but easily foundereth; and a small house shall
1081 XXVI | splendour and luxury thou foundest me. With many a speech thou
1082 XI | mercy of our God. For the fount of tears is also called
1083 XII | nigh its severance. The fourfold asps signify the structure
1084 X | instead of the beauty and fragrance of to-day, thou shalt be
1085 XXX | all a-bloom with fresh and fragrant flowers, where he descried
1086 IV | and its sorrow are more frail than a shadow, and, like
1087 XXIV | honour. Wherefore he, the framer of all Creation and maker
1088 VIII | grace of heavenly Baptism, fraught with the cleansing from
1089 VII | formed, and commanded him freely to eat of all the heavenly
1090 XXI | tutors marvelled to see the frequency of Barlaam's visits to the
1091 XIII | courage, dear friend, and fret not thyself.' Then, pricked
1092 XII | which was being continually fretted by the two mice, to which
1093 XXXVI | not a few. Sitting in the front, according to custom, in
1094 XII | scorching heat and fierce frosts and rain-storms and tempestuous
1095 XXIV | chamber, and there sat down frowning. Then calling to his son,
1096 XXXVIII| air, scorched with heat or frozen with cold, and, as one in
1097 VI | if I find in thine heart fruit-bearing ground, and good, I shall
1098 XXIV | to forfeit the eternal fruition of the happiness to come!
1099 XXXIX | neighbour's welfare? How fulfillest thou perfect love in this,
1100 IX | thereto, and the wedding was furnished with guests. And when the
1101 VI | devils, and without stint furnisheth its possessor with everything
1102 XXXII | thyself the purity that thou gainest hereby through the tender
1103 XXII | Wherefore abandon all hope of gaining the knowledge that ye desire,
1104 VI | me is true and may not be gainsaid. But, except I first make
1105 XXIV | all this idle parleying, gainsaying and slandering of our religion,
1106 XXV | unending punishments and that galling shame -- time after time,
1107 XXVIII | conqueror in the Olympic games, and with him went Nachor.
1108 XXVII | they introduce the story of Ganymede. And so befel it, O king,
1109 XXVII | serpent, and others the onion, garlic and thorns, and every other
1110 XI | he findeth it swept and garnished, but empty and unoccupied,
1111 XXXII | went out immediately and gat him to his evil den, and
1112 XXXVIII| of that grace which thou gavest thine holy Apostles, and
1113 XVIII | out and found an herd of gazelles browsing; and, joining them,
1114 XXXIV | exceeding great joy, and held a general feast in honour of the coming
1115 XXXIII | their creditors; and by generous largesses to all he proved
1116 VI | when they warned me, in gentler tones than those of the
1117 XVIII | and taketh them in many a gin. Now must I return thither
1118 XXXIX | Holy Sacrifice. And Ioasaph girded up his loins, and with all
1119 XXXVII | suddenly." ~Thus speaking, and girding on that invincible weapon,
1120 VI | contained kingly diadems and girdles. But those, that were be-smeared
1121 XXX | spirit whispered to the girl that she should spread under
1122 XVI | poor and needy as thou art, givest thou thanks as though for
1123 XIV | Wisest of men! For thou hast gladdened my soul with thine apt and
1124 XVIII | she would roam through the glades of the forest, returning
1125 V | all that was beautiful and gladsome. He bade them muster in
1126 XIII | the pleasures of life, and glamoured by the sweetness thereof,
1127 XXII | casting a haughty and savage glance upon him, said, "Ye shall
1128 VIII | face, to behold as in a glass his unspeakable glory. But,
1129 X | words, and whether he had gleaned any profit therefrom, said,
1130 XXV | seest not even one small glimmer of light. Wherefore thou
1131 XXX | brought him to a city that glistered with light unspeakable,
1132 XVI | understanding. Your palaces glittering with gold, and these splendid
1133 IX | a day of blackness and gloominess, a day of clouds and thick
1134 XIV | off `to a dark land and a gloomy, to a land of eternal darkness,
1135 X | seest to-day, wherein thou gloriest, -- pomp, luxury, riches,
1136 XL | gate, there met him others, gloriously apparelled with much light,
1137 XXXII | and vain craft that with glosing words concealeth the mire
1138 XXXI | and earth are full of his glow, by whom all things were
1139 XXXVII | Christ before his mind, and glowed with love of him, and was
1140 XII | for present joys and are glued thereto, that take never
1141 XXIV | wrathfully against him, and gnashed his teeth fiercely, like
1142 XII | black, that never ceased to gnaw the root of the tree whereon
1143 XXIV | the worm that sleepeth not gnaweth for ever, and where the
1144 II | that sentence continually goading my heart, stirred my governing
1145 XXVII | worshipped the sheep, some the goat, and others the calf and
1146 XII | maketh them nought but a gobbet for their enemies. To-day
1147 II | He, not laying aside his God-head, which he had from the beginning,
1148 VIII | illuminating and making it God-like and renewing that which
1149 XXXVII | spiritual tears; direct my goings in thy way, and show me
1150 X | who,' he saith, `hire a goldsmith, and make them gods, and
1151 XXX | driving out evil thoughts, as good-for-nothing drones from the hive. When
1152 XXXIV | compassion, through the good-will of the Father, and the co-operation
1153 XXV | good cause, and to gain the goodwill of the gods. What thinkest
1154 III | with cunningly devised gorgeous chambers, and there set
1155 VIII | Incarnation by the Holy Gospels, for thus that holy book
1156 II | friends and brethren `I have got me away far off, and lodged
1157 VII | since there was no master to govern. Others brought in fate,
1158 XVI | time, there was a king who governed his kingdom right well,
1159 II | goading my heart, stirred my governing power, my mind, to make
1160 XXXIII | hold of the helm of good government for his subjects. For this
1161 XXVIII | compelled to yield by the gracefulness of this speech took his
1162 XXXI | senseless beyond everything, so graceless and dishonoured, hath he
1163 XXXIV | long-suffering hath dealt graciously with us. I give thanks unto
1164 V | advanced in years, and his gradual decrease of strength, with
1165 XII | hour, day and night, and gradually draweth nigh its severance.
1166 XVII | before him is as a little grain of the balance, yea, as
1167 XXXIII | reverenced and feared for the grandeur of his power and kingly
1168 XXXIV | father's flinty and more than granite heart is at thy will melted
1169 XL | them that love him, and granteth them exceeding great reward. ~
1170 XXXI | the Godhead a thing to be grasped, but he remained that which
1171 XXIX | with me, and enjoying the gratification of this life of pleasure,
1172 IV | delighted, and beyond measure gratified by his devotion towards
1173 XL | over it, and raised the gravestone. There he descried Barlaam
1174 XVIII | When these removed, to graze further afield, she followed
1175 XXIII | before." That noble-minded, great-hearted monk, that lover of the
1176 I | vices, for he was of the Greek way, and sore distraught
1177 VI | rising, he embraced and greeted them tenderly. But his noblemen
1178 V | feeble-kneed, bent double, grey-haired, toothless, and with broken
1179 XXI | his mind with sorrows and griefs. If thou be well disposed
1180 XXVII | despise not the widow, and grieve not the orphan. He that
1181 XXVII | Now he rejoiceth, now he grieveth, requiring meat and drink
1182 XXXVI | and dismissed them still grieving, and bearing on their cheeks
1183 XII | see, exceeding fierce and grim, with terrible wide jaws,
1184 XV | self-deprived of light, grope like blind men along a wall,
1185 VIII | we have shuffled off this gross flesh, and attained to that
1186 IV | to be carried home, and grudged him not that tending which
1187 XXIV | snake, if I know that thou grudgest me my salvation, and with
1188 XXI | the peace of God for thy guardian, and ever in thy worthy
1189 X | and yet they call them guardians of their safety. And yet
1190 XXXIX | light unapproachable, and guerdoned with the effulgence of the
1191 XII | and won like crowns and guerdons. ~"Blessed, yea, thrice
1192 VIII | instant removed. Tell me if my guess be true: or if thou knowest
1193 IV | hearing this, but never guessing the hidden pitfall, was
1194 XXIX | he said, it was by the guidance of his prophecies that his
1195 XXI | find to be shepherd and guide of my soul's salvation?
1196 XXI | austerity, may thy wishes be guided straight toward the good!
1197 XXX | was carried thence by his guides; and, when he came to himself,
1198 VII | men from destruction and guiding their feet toward life eternal.
1199 XI | frailty, fell under the guilt of denial. Then he straightway
1200 XVIII | clothing, and put on the guise of the enemy, and pass into
1201 I | washed by seas and navigable gulphs, but on the mainland it
1202 XIII | soldiers, that made speed to hale him to the king, there to
1203 XXII | of their hermit life, and haled them before the governor;
1204 XXIX | They found our host a wild, half-drunken, feeble folk, and utterly
1205 XXXIII | make thee king over the half-part thereof; and thou shalt
1206 XXII | bore on their faces the hall-mark of their hermit life, and
1207 XXXVII | given him. That night he halted at a poor man's cabin, and
1208 XXVII | god, and him lame, holding hammer and fire-tongs, and working
1209 XXXI | mason, or timber-wright, or hammer-smith, thou hadst not had a god.
1210 XXXII | poor and common men, a mere handful, not exceeding twelve in
1211 XVIII | they killed, and roughly handled others. Even so I fear that
1212 V | devotion he won even further by handsome gifts. To him he put the
1213 XVIII | philosophers; for my soul hangeth fast on thine, and fain
1214 XX | without preparation and at hap-hazard thou shalt not advance therein.
1215 XXXVIII| as when a cunning hunter happeneth on the tracks of his game.
1216 XXII | Araches set the king in happier frame of mind; and they
1217 IV | noble sir, that the king harboureth against thee the suspicion,
1218 XXXI | work it into white heat and harden it? Doth it receive any
1219 XIX | become habits, how much harder shall it be to shift virtue,
1220 VIII | countenance the bitterest and hardest lot of all and will send
1221 XVIII | being sore amazed at the hardship of his austere life, and
1222 XXVIII | with his tears, like the harlot of old, and craved holy
1223 XXXVI | sovranty: if a subject err, he harmeth himself more than the state.
1224 VII | descended into hell, and having harrowed it, he delivered thence
1225 XII | speed. But while he ran hastily, he fell into a great pit;
1226 IX | cease, and will lay low the haughtiness of the proud.' And again
1227 XXII | indignation, and, casting a haughty and savage glance upon him,
1228 XII | themselves far from the haunts of men throughout the whole
1229 XXXIII | to safe anchorage in the haven of God. For he knew that
1230 XIV | fleeing from an eagle or a hawk flitteth from place to place,
1231 XXI | thereof is deadly, I will hazard neither them nor myself
1232 XIII | the death and deliberately hazarding his life for their sakes.
1233 XVIII | prince, the devil, dashed headlong to the earth, thou be adorned
1234 XXV | and made their lives a headquarters for all wickedness, shall
1235 XII | rested, he discerned four heads of asps projecting from
1236 IV | saying that thou weft an healer of injured speech." "Yea,"
1237 XVI | riches laid up, and a vast heap of money, such as the young
1238 XXI | And I hoped that when thou heardest thereof thou wouldst follow
1239 XIX | man that willeth, as thou hearest that unto them that believe
1240 XX | Master is present everywhere, hearkening to them that approach him
1241 XXXIII | people to him, but desire and heart-felt love, which by God's blessing
1242 XXXIX | shall we share one common hearth and board; for now I go
1243 XI | long to wander homeless and hearthless, he saith, `I will return
1244 XXX | that scene of joyaunce and heartsease, exclaimed, "Reave me not,
1245 VIII | near to Baptism anon with hearty desire, and on no account
1246 XXX | thy salvation, and long to heave thee from the depth of perdition,
1247 XXVIII | that my sins, which are heavier than the sand, be forgiven;
1248 XXIX | damsels, and eke offer them an hecatomb of bullocks and herds of
1249 XXIV | us propitiate them with hecatombs and drink-offerings, that
1250 XXXII | proverb, that heard but heeded not the harp; or rather
1251 IX | and their sins as with an heifer's cart-rope! Wo unto them
1252 XXIV | down from the unspeakable heights, to seek us that had gone
1253 XXIII | fathers and citizens and heirs of Hierusalem that is above. ~
1254 XXVII | Artemis, Perseus, Castor, Helen, Polydeukes, Minos, Rhadamanthos,
1255 XXXIII | keeping a firm hold of the helm of good government for his
1256 XVIII | righteousness, and wearing the helmet of salvation, and having
1257 XXX | soul? If the Lord had not helped me, my soul had well nigh
1258 XXX | hopeless, and the help of the helpless, remember me thine unprofitable
1259 VII | he made woman, to be an helpmeet of like nature for him. ~"
1260 XXIII | off. Sentence passed, the henchmen and guards surrounded and
1261 XXIX | hecatomb of bullocks and herds of beasts, that we may have
1262 XI | wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, envyings, murders, love
1263 XXVII | they represent as a god Hermes, a lusty fellow, a thief,
1264 XXII | to make known to you his hermitage." ~Thereupon the governor
1265 II | the saint; but again he hesitated and delayed, regarding his
1266 XXIII | commanded to fulfil thy hest, O king, but the orders
1267 XXX | of dark chambers, to be hewn out of the rock, and therein
1268 VI | loathsome smell and presented a hideous sight. ~"Said the king, `
1269 XXIII | and citizens and heirs of Hierusalem that is above. ~
1270 XXV | blessing and my kingdom!" ~The high-minded and noble youth listened
1271 XXXVI | they had occupied all the high-ways, and encompassed all the
1272 XXV | overpass. I shall cry to the highest God; to God that did well
1273 II | who loved and esteemed him highly, heard thereof, he was grieved
1274 XVI | said unto him, `What hath hindered thee until now from doing
1275 XX | anger, which most of all hindereth our prayers from ascending
1276 XXII | studies. I will give him the hint, and go by night, and tell
1277 XXVIII | words, and by dark speeches hinted that Nachor should relax
1278 XXVII | although by their poems and histories they desired to glorify
1279 XXX | good-for-nothing drones from the hive. When he rose, and spread
1280 XXVIII | childhood upwards to this my hoary age." ~When the king's son
1281 I | he might be rid of this hobble, and be called the father
1282 XXXVI | authority. And, soothly, the holder of great authority ought
1283 XXII | save me, who sustainest and holdest together all things visible
1284 XV | water-springs, issuing from the hollows of the earth, sometimes
1285 XXXIX | exceeding great joy, as at the home-coming of friends, departed on
1286 XI | enduring not for long to wander homeless and hearthless, he saith, `
1287 IX | would draw his parables from homely and familiar things. Not
1288 XII | God. Others build their homes at a distance one from another,
1289 XXII | Nay, liefer would we die honourably, and offer unto God, after
1290 XXX | had been set like bait on hook to hide the deed which she
1291 XXXIII | it with the taste of the hoped-for bliss. After this he searched
1292 XXX | merciful, the hope of the hopeless, and the help of the helpless,
1293 XI | off and fled afar, howling horribly. So the chief became chief
1294 XXVIII | of his nature. Theatres, horse-races, riding to hounds, and all
1295 XVIII | learned thereof, mounted on horseback, and gave chase, and caught
1296 XXX | splendid chariots with horses from the royal stables,
1297 XXIX | quicker than wax before the hottest fire." The king, seeing
1298 VII | those who proclaim from the house-top their wild rout of gods,
1299 XII | spending their lives in the hovels which they had builded them,
1300 III | sorrow cut short his joy. Howsoever he built, in a city set
1301 XL | had not lost their former hue, but were whole and uncorrupt,
1302 XIV | great store of money and huge masses of gold and silver
1303 XXIV | question, yet such is my humanity that I will bear with thine
1304 XII | chastity and temperance, in humbleness and quietude of mind, in
1305 XII | of dignity; to-morrow it humbleth him with a collar of iron.
1306 II | its loftiness die lowest humiliation; and who shall tell the
1307 XIX | man, and are blameless (he hungered and thirsted and slept and
1308 XI | be meek, and to be ever hungering and thirsting after righteousness:
1309 IX | the world. For I was an hungred, and ye gave me meat: I
1310 XII | the maw of hell that is hungry to receive those who choose
1311 XXVII | Adonis they show as an hunter-god, violently killed by a boar-tusk,
1312 X | But thy soul shall they hurl into the nether-regions
1313 XXXVII | nature, and thy venomous and hurtful purpose! Wherefore, wretch,
1314 XII | cells of their hearts, and husbanding sweet fruits worthy of the
1315 XXXVIII| hundredfold worthy of the husbandman and Master of our souls!
1316 XXXIX | thee the wages of thine husbandry. `Faithful is the saying,
1317 XXXVI | he with words of comfort hushed their sobs, and promised
1318 XI | fill his belly with the husks that the swine did eat,
1319 XXVII | wise-acres refrain from babbling idly against the Lord; for it
1320 I | superstitious error of his idol-worship. But, although he lived
1321 XXXIX | of the multitude of mine ignorances. ~"So do thou, my son, think
1322 II | II. ~Now while the land of
1323 III | III. ~Now on his son's birth-day
1324 XVI | son thought it strange and ill-sounding, and cast it off, and left
1325 XXIII | endure all toil and all ill-treatment for righteousness' sake.
1326 VIII | life have suffered much ill-usage and torment, and have died
1327 VIII | the soul of the baptized, illuminating and making it God-like and
1328 XII | after all no charm, but illusion and deception of the wickedness
1329 XIV | making the honourable and illustrious dishonoured and despised,
1330 XIX | The original is the thing imaged, and from it cometh the
1331 XIX | that thou blot out every imagination of sinful passion from thy
1332 III | remained, of whom he fondly imagined that not a trace was left,
1333 XXIV | he had done and planned, imagining that he was well advised,
1334 XXVII | other monstrous deeds, in imitation of their god. How then can
1335 XXIII | mayest gain the title of imitator of the gods. For, as your
1336 VII | powers, countless multitudes, immaterial and bodiless, ministering
1337 XI | number, cannot overcome the immeasurable compassion, and innumerable
1338 XL | There he appeared in the immediate presence of the Lord, and
1339 XI | of sins after baptism, or immersion in the font a second time.
1340 XII | and everlasting punishment immovable from their hearts, and pained
1341 XV | Christ on all men abundantly, imparting to us of his lustre. But
1342 XVIII | obtain which the Saints were impatient of the present. Wherefore
1343 XVIII | which, when grown up, was impelled by natural desire to long
1344 XXXIII | with bodily ailments and imperfections cast off all their trouble,
1345 XIX | same power, coeternal and impersonate. Thus therefore worship
1346 VIII | violent deaths; and the impious and the law-breaker hath
1347 XXXIII | chance, he is contentious and implacable. Now, if it be thy purpose
1348 XXXV | is everywhere present and imploring him to forgive his sins.
1349 IX | preach tidings of such vast import, how have ye made your conviction
1350 XXV | before me, oft-times no very important one, giving myself no rest
1351 XX | Trinity, and since all the importunity of prayer leadeth the mind
1352 XXI | But Ioasaph, unable to impose fresh labours on the elder,
1353 XXIV | long exile that thou hast imposed upon thyself, a runagate
1354 XXIV | a knave and villain, an impostor and rebellious son. But
1355 XXIV | walked, or received any impression of sense? Those of them
1356 V | What is the reason of mine imprisonment here? Wily hast thou barred
1357 XIV | painfully under unreasoning impulse, on no sure or firm bases:
1358 XV | choices are the ensuing impulses to action." ~
1359 XXIV | so mighty, and to serve impure devils, makers of all sinful
1360 VII | his body, but by his own in-breathing giving him a reasonable
1361 XVI | us not to turn our mind inattentively to these things, but with
1362 XXXI | himself the while unharmed and incapable of receiving any defilement?
1363 XXXI | their worship, and, thus incensing thy father the king, art
1364 XVIII | least of all my comrades is incomparably richer than thou. But I
1365 XIII | show of some slight and inconsiderable regard for him. Now one
1366 XXXI | stablished himself in safety. So incontinent we found a weapon, wherewith
1367 VII | increate, immutable and incorporeal, invisible, infinite, incomprehensible,
1368 I | time, and the fixedness and incorruptibility of the life to come, and
1369 XXXIII | helping, religion grew and increased amongst them. The king was
1370 XIX | beginnings, and then, by small increases, arriveth at great endings. ~"
1371 XIX | do thou abound therein, increasing and advancing, and warring
1372 IV | thought these accusations incredible and false; and because he
1373 XII | in faith the healing of incurable diseases: yea, and even
1374 XII | signifieth that the number is indefinite. For, whether there be many,
1375 XXIV | the shadow of death, the indestructible to the fleeting? Wilt thou
1376 XL | journeyed to the kingdom of India, and, entering in to King
1377 XVI | was not from negligence or indifference that I delayed to make this
1378 XL | Christ, being knit to him in indissoluble union. From this marvellous
1379 XXXVIII| Master, this adamantine and indomitable soul bore these annoyances
1380 XXXIII | that we have not done, to induce him to follow our doctrines
1381 XXXIX | the fate which must befall inexperienced and cowardly monks. But,
1382 XIV | to shew thee the good and infallible way to lead thee to things
1383 XXII | haste to apprehend that infamous Barlaam. If we take him,
1384 III | after he had ended his first infancy; and he forbade any to approach
1385 XXXIII | for he hoped to receive infinitely more, when the time should
1386 VII | yet without sin, took our infirmities and bare our sicknesses.
1387 XXXIX | the ghost to God, might inflict on him the loss of missing
1388 XI | tribulation and reviling, inflicted upon us for righteousness'
1389 XX | with thee, enlightening and informing thee, and leading thee into
1390 XII | transferreth the resources of its ingenuity against the other, not willing
1391 XXXIV | earth, as were the sinful inhabiters of the five cities, consumed
1392 II | Fellows, hearing of this iniquitous decree, bade farewell to
1393 XXVI | manner also he summoned the initiate and the temple-keepers of
1394 VIII | we know not. This doth my initiation into the teaching of the
1395 XXIV | listened to me, and followed my injunctions, than have obeyed the idle
1396 IV | that thou weft an healer of injured speech." "Yea," quoth he, "
1397 XI | almsgiving, forgiveness of injuries, loving-kindness, watchings,
1398 VIII | Afterward, it telleth of the innocent suffering which the Lord
1399 VIII | day of resurrection and inquisition, that each soul may receive
1400 XVIII | the passion for it, but insatiably to covet more and more,
1401 XXIV | ugliness, ill savour and insensibility of these idols, and, moreover,
1402 XVII | with another, and remained inseparable, unless some almighty power
1403 XXVI | we now farewell to vain insistance, and let persuasion be now
1404 XXVI | thus stiffly opposed me, insisting that thine own opinion should
1405 XXVIII | But evil habit and the insolence of the ancient supplanter
1406 XXV | Such terror shall he then inspire that the very powers of
1407 XXX | the powers of his soul, inspiring him with vehement love for
1408 XXXVI | that he gave in to their instancy, and dismissed them still
1409 XXXII | evident that our religion was instituted by many mighty wise men,
1410 VII | renewing our out-worn nature, instructing men both by word and deed,
1411 XXI | ended his speech with moral instruction, and dwelt much upon purity
1412 III | approach him, appointing, for instructors and servants, youths right
1413 XXIII | Barlaam: else shalt thou taste instruments of torture such as thou
1414 VI | tell the king not thus to insult the majesty of his crown.
1415 XV | delusive as a dream, or intangible as a shadow; which, when
1416 XXV | wise men honoured for their intelligence and wit, -- that there is
1417 V | or mar thy happiness. I intend that thou shalt spend all
1418 V | believed that his father intended aught but his good; and
1419 XXXII | after generations forgat the intention of their ancestors: and,
1420 IX | discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart. Neither is
1421 XVI | teachings, and taught them to interpret certain sayings of the Scriptures
1422 XIX | holy Gospel. Moreover he interpreted the Apostolick exhortations
1423 XXVII | sorcerer, bowlegged, and an interpreter of speech. It is impossible
1424 XXXII | many mighty wise men, and interpreters, marvellous in virtue and
1425 XXII | the day-time he was often interrupted by the company of his fellows,
1426 IV | that he was grievously intriguing against the kingly power,
1427 XXVII | the Greeks have erred in introducing such gods as these, and
1428 INT | INTRODUCTION ~"As many as are led by
1429 V | in the way troops of folk intuning melodies in every mode,
1430 XXXI | never lived? Thou shouldest invent some new name worthy of
1431 XV | Apostles, or is this a late invention of your wits, which ye have
1432 XXIII | them gods that are not, the inventors of all wickedness, in order
1433 XXV | my mind and soul to the investigation thereof, to find out the
1434 XIII | he had never courted, nor invited to share his happiness.
1435 XXIX | himself against the truth, invoking many of his evil spirits,
1436 XXXIX | outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day.
1437 XXXI | throat, sans brains, sans inwards, so that it is the similitude
1438 XXXVII | himself to all the hard and irksome toils of the ascetic life,
1439 XXVI | persuasiveness of his speech and his irrefutable answers, and was convicted
1440 XXV | if it be our father that issueth the abominable command,
1441 IV | IV. ~There was at court a man
1442 IX | IX. ~Ioasaph said unto him, "
1443 XXXII | the snatching it from the jaw of the wily serpent, charmed
1444 XII | grim, with terrible wide jaws, all agape to swallow him.
1445 XIII | wottest, friend, that I ever jeopardied my life for thy sake. Now
1446 XVIII | gazelles browsing; and, joining them, she would roam through
1447 IX | soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner
1448 VII | was baptized in the river Jordan by John, an holy man, and
1449 XXI | of the world, while thou journeyest to thy place of spiritual
1450 XXIX | immediately grew merry and joyful, hoping that the unbridled
1451 IX | absented themselves from this joyous merriment, others were bidden
1452 XXIII | the living. But since thou judgest otherwise, and since the
1453 XXV | have missed the goal in judging. Dost thou not see to what
1454 VI | man of staid and steadfast judgment, yet thy words prove thee
1455 XVII | how unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past finding
1456 X | sins that thou mayst be justified.' `Though thy sins be as
1457 IX | mingle strong drink, which justify the wicked for reward, and
1458 XVII | in the Lord." ~Ioasaph, keenly pricked at the heart, said, "
1459 XVIII | the heedlessness of her keepers, to herd with her wild companions.
1460 XXIII | toil; just as a man, who keepeth hounds or falcons tamed
1461 X | all company of kith and kin. And all the pleasant things
1462 XIII | faith, hope, charity, alms, kindliness, and the whole band of virtues,
1463 XIII | beareth in mind those small kindnesses that we have shown him and
1464 XXXIX | saluted him with an holy kiss. Then he sealed himself
1465 XXXV | saying, he pressed many kisses on his beloved son; then,
1466 XXXII | falleth on his neck and kisseth him, and he strippeth him
1467 XXIV | to meet him, instead of kissing him, as was his wont, the
1468 XXVII | worshipped the raven, the kite, the vulture, and the eagle.
1469 XXIV | for long, nor shall these knavish sorceries prevail. For except
1470 XXXVI | when he had thus spoken, he kneeled down, as it is written,
1471 XXVIII | With a right warm heart knelt Nachor down before him,
1472 X | called nightingale. He took a knife, for to kill and eat her;
1473 XXXVIII| the door of the cave, and knocked, saying "Benedic, father,
1474 XXVII | introduce the god whom they call Kronos, and to him they sacrifice
1475 XXV | ignorance, but after much laborious enquiry hadst ascertained
1476 XXV | the true? Aye, and I have laboriously sought thereafter. Many
1477 XXXIX | son, think no scorn of the laboriousness of thy religious life, neither
1478 XV | unto him, `One thing thou lackest yet. Go sell all that thou
1479 XI | These, even as steps and ladders that support one another
1480 XXVII | because of Tyndareus, son of Lakedaemon, and thus perished. Now
1481 XX | blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without
1482 XIII | me! Which shall I first lament, or which first deplore?
1483 XXX | soul he drew a deep and lamentable groan, and nerved himself
1484 XXXIII | hearing of many, loudly lamented the misfortune that had
1485 XV | exceeding fervent, others languid and cold: some have a bias
1486 II | him, who had lived in the lap of luxury, shrunken and
1487 XXVII | old and dissolving through lapse of time, and molten in the
1488 X | I have inside me a pearl larger than an ostrich-egg.' When
1489 XXIII | religious exercises; and lastly, because we derive sanctification
1490 | later
1491 XXV | life and be honoured and lauded of all men. It is a great
1492 XXXVII | being sober in mind, he laughed the evil one to scorn, and
1493 II | my realm made himself the laughingstock of boys, and not only forgotten
1494 XXX | wretch little knew what laughter he should create against
1495 XXV | have at times ungrudgingly lavished all the stores of my palace,
1496 XL | with another to light lamps lavishly, and rightly and fitly,
1497 VIII | riches, no pomp of rank, no lavishment of bribes, avail to pervert
1498 XXIX | of this gathering and the lavishness of the sacrifice. Now, therefore,
1499 VIII | and the impious and the law-breaker hath spent his days here
1500 XXVII | Greeks fail to perceive that law-givers themselves are judged by
1501 XXVII | stretched out arm by Moses their lawgiver; and with many miracles
1502 XX | words and considerations, layeth aside every care of this
1503 XL | religious life that thou leadest, if thou continue therein
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