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2005 XXIV | thee with lightning, or quell thee with thunderbolt, or
2006 XXIV | without ceasing and without quenching through endless ages? And
2007 V | young prince ceased from his questioning, but his heart was grieved
2008 XXI | us from captivity, didst quicken us from death by the precious
2009 XVI | only-begotten Son, and the Holy and quickening Spirit.' ~"The king, endowed
2010 V | they marvelled at the boy's quickness and understanding, while
2011 XII | resolve, they adopted the quiet of monastic life, some facing
2012 XXXVII | athlete kept his soul in quietness, for he had made the Most
2013 XII | temperance, in humbleness and quietude of mind, in perfect charity
2014 XXXVII | hearts of the Apostolic Quire and of the Martyr folk to
2015 XXIII | their arms and legs on the rack, and lopped them off. But
2016 XXIV | as the sun surpasseth in radiance and brightness the dead
2017 IV | against the monks he again raged above measure, declaring
2018 XI | murders, love of money, railing, love of pleasure, drunkenness,
2019 XI | on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust.
2020 XII | heat and fierce frosts and rain-storms and tempestuous winds, others
2021 XII | flying before the face of a rampant unicorn, who, unable to
2022 XXII | been talking falsely and at random, and shall persuade my lord,
2023 XII | multitudes in one spot, and range themselves under one superior
2024 VIII | wrath to come, and to be ranged on the right hand of the
2025 XXVII | that is an huntress and a ranger with hounds, be a goddess? ~"
2026 XXVII | huntress, with bow and quiver, ranging the mountains alone, with
2027 XVIII | hence, that I may be fully ransomed from this deceitful world
2028 VI | these two good qualities, do rashly gaze upon this precious
2029 XXVII | certain of them worshipped the raven, the kite, the vulture,
2030 XXIV | was seen to issue from a ravine. Araches gave command to
2031 XXXIII | temples and altars, and razed them to the ground, and
2032 XXIX | his villainy sharp as any razor and did cunningly prepare
2033 IX | ashes, a resurrection and re-birth, and rewards and punishments
2034 I | dwell in heaven, and be re-claimed from the ancient fall, and
2035 XVII | that, when I was broken, he re-created me with a better renewal;
2036 XI | of the font, and wholly re-creating us (that gift is given once
2037 X | final resurrection, when re-united to her body, she shall be
2038 VIII | the Resurrection is the re-uniting of soul and body. So that
2039 XXXIII | kingship; and when he had reached that city, where royal state
2040 XXXIX | things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things
2041 INT | trustworthy records. It readeth thus. ~
2042 XXVII | mayest learn, O king, by the reading of the holy Scripture, which
2043 XXXIII | pilgrim in this world, but realised that that was his real treasure
2044 XXXI | endure evil, yet shall they reap the immortal harvest of
2045 XXIII | be miserable while thou reapest profit from their toil;
2046 XXXIII | soul, and sound in body, reaping an harvest of health for
2047 XVIII | A certain rich man once reared the fawn of a gazelle; which,
2048 XII | excelled all in this sweet reasonableness. But the spirit of vain
2049 VIII | concerning this, beware lest the reasoning of unbelief overtake thee;
2050 XXIX | Christians my son that hath rebelled against our religion, and
2051 XXXVI | and the unwilling subject rebelleth when he findeth occasion.
2052 VII | of good, to follow in the rebellion of their leader. These were
2053 XIV | all others, and began to rebuild my soul's habitation, which
2054 I | the monastic order some in rebuking his wickedness ended their
2055 XXXI | dire captivity have been recalled. Tell me whether is better?
2056 IX | Abraham, `Thou in thy lifetime receivedst thy good things, and likewise
2057 XXI | Great be the gifts that thou receivest at God's hand, on account
2058 XL | palace; and over him he recited the proper psalms, chanting
2059 XXXVII | steadfast in faith, and recked nothing of the devil and
2060 XVIII | said unto him, "Since thou reckonest not the life in the flesh
2061 XXIV | of evil devils, and to be reclaimed from dire captivity and
2062 XXXVIII| distress of hunger. And Ioasaph recognised his spiritual father, for
2063 XXIII | death, why dost thou not recollect thy latter end so shortly
2064 V | throw off its burden. He, recollecting their former communications,
2065 XXIX | against our religion, and to reconcile him to our gracious gods.
2066 XXXIII | preaching of the Gospel, and recounted the things concerning the
2067 XXX | the righteous yonder, and recounting to himself the full terrors
2068 XXI | voluntary death; finally, of our recovery and recall, our return to
2069 XXXI | answer to his prayer, thus redeeming him from the bondage of
2070 II | prospered, the very air reeking with the smell of bloody
2071 XIX | advancing from thought and reflection, catcheth at small beginnings,
2072 XXXVIII| Christ, and, asleep or awake, refreshed his soul. By the space of
2073 II | and chances thereof, and refusing to call anything good except
2074 XXI | compare more precious than any regal purple. ~Now saintly Barlaam,
2075 II | he hesitated and delayed, regarding his venerable and noble
2076 XXVII | condemn him to the Cross, regardless of his benefits and the
2077 X | of thy hands there thou regrettest a thing past and gone. I
2078 X | was distraught with grief, regretting that the bird had escaped
2079 III | should surpass all that had reigned before him. But one of the
2080 XVI | the kingdom of God, and reigning with Christ world without
2081 XXXIII | his power, being strongly reinforced by his gentleness and equity,
2082 XIV | and bringing others in, rejecting some that are wise and understanding,
2083 X | judgement of God, and by thy rejection of him thou shalt be rejected.
2084 XXVIII | hinted that Nachor should relax his resistance, and be worsted
2085 IV | everlasting punishment without release. For the pleasures of such
2086 XXIV | against me the part of a relentless foe. And shouldst thou not
2087 V | Naught but death will relieve him." "But," said he, "is
2088 XXXVI | established him, unwilling and reluctant, upon the royal throne,
2089 XVIII | come to us, and for the remainder of this present life we
2090 V | end, and ever calling up remembrances of death. Wherefore trouble
2091 XXX | all the night long, and reminding himself of his covenants
2092 XIII | wife and children and the remnant of kinsfolk and acquaintance,
2093 XXXII | there fell upon him deep remorse for his past sins. He renounced
2094 XXII | feel grateful to thee for removing us from life in the close
2095 XIII | creditors, who urge that strict rendering of account in the air, and
2096 XXIV | blasphemer of the gods, and a renegade from thy father's love and
2097 XVII | re-created me with a better renewal; and that he shall draw
2098 XXXIX | perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day. For our light
2099 XXV | and the earth shall be rent, and shall give up the dead
2100 XXXVI | because forgiveness is repaid by forgiveness, and by making
2101 XXIV | At dead of night Araches repaired to his cave (he dwelt in
2102 XXIV | advanced to this honour, repaying them for their kindness
2103 XXXVI | thou owest him the greater repayment. Render therefore to thy
2104 XXXI | to defile his lips by the repeating of their filthy communications?
2105 XXVIII | Nachor abode with him, always repentant of his sins, and blessing
2106 VI | went in, and, word by word, reported everything to the king's
2107 XI | in repentance. Again, he representeth a certain good shepherd
2108 VI | honour. But not daring to reprove him to the face, they bade
2109 XXII | health, sent a physician of reputation, and took great pains that
2110 XXXIX | with thanksgiving let thy requests be made known unto God.
2111 XXXVII | the many sweats that she requireth, with the weakness of his
2112 XXVII | rejoiceth, now he grieveth, requiring meat and drink and raiment.
2113 XXI | in him thy covenant, and rescue him from the deceit of the
2114 XI | feet, he brought up, as a reserve, bitter tears from the agony
2115 XXVIII | Nachor should relax his resistance, and be worsted by the argument
2116 XXV | audacity and unchangeable resolution. Araches gave counsel that
2117 XXIX | accursed feast till the city resounded with the cry of the brute
2118 XXVII | destroyed by Horus and Isis, any resource to save himself from death.
2119 XII | immediately transferreth the resources of its ingenuity against
2120 V | inexorable?" So he went away, restlessly turning over all these things
2121 XI | kissed him tenderly, and, restoring him to his former rank,
2122 IV | exceeding wroth: nevertheless he restrained his anger, and for the season
2123 XXV | threaten and wrathfully retire. But the son entered his
2124 II | ranks of the monks, and retired across the border into the
2125 XXIV | fools, but afterwards make returns more bitter than gall, when
2126 XVIII | whom, by his behest, he revealeth it. Wherefore am I lost
2127 XXX | night only, and grant me to revel in thy beauty, and do thou
2128 XXXI | strains of lewd songs and mad revelries. Who could recount in order
2129 XXX | crept the worm of torment. Revengeful powers were set over the
2130 XXIX | largess, and the rest of their revenues. So they arose, and withdrew
2131 XXVII | now we choose to pass in review each one of these gods,
2132 XXIV | workman, not the devil's. Revile me not; for I am thy debtor
2133 XI | persecution and tribulation and reviling, inflicted upon us for righteousness'
2134 XXIII | people to join with us, and revolt from thy hand, and place
2135 II | friendship and fellowship, but revolted against nature herself,
2136 VIII | earth, that every man may be rewarded according to his works;
2137 XXXIX | reward of thy works, and thy rewarder is already at hand, who
2138 XXVII | Helen, Polydeukes, Minos, Rhadamanthos, Sarpedon, and the nine
2139 XXVII | him who had many sons by Rhea, and in a fit of madness
2140 XXIV | father, and shake off the rheum and mist from the eyes of
2141 XVIII | comrades is incomparably richer than thou. But I trust in
2142 IX | jealousy, for he shall make a riddance of all them that dwell in
2143 XIV | yonder as through mirrors and riddles; but when that which is
2144 XXIV | father's gods, and mocked and ridiculed the whole tenour of his
2145 XXIV | become obedient unto me, and right-minded toward the gods, I will
2146 XVIII | keep it in safety and ever rightfully desire more, thou shalt
2147 XXXIII | altars and temples were rigorously chased away and put to flight;
2148 XXXVI | head, and gave the kingly ring into his hand. Then he stood
2149 XIV | living with never a care in rioting and wantonness, without
2150 XI | and there spent all in riotous living. Then, when there
2151 XXX | and sent by him, being of ripe beauty, to his own son,
2152 XXVII | for other uses of men, it riseth and falleth according to
2153 XXV | afterwards it maketh the risings more bitter than gall (as
2154 XII | and watchings they almost rivalled the life of Angels, bidding
2155 XXXIX | together, rivals in the good rivalry, apart from all anxious
2156 XXXIX | Ioasaph dwell together, rivals in the good rivalry, apart
2157 XVIII | joining them, she would roam through the glades of the
2158 XXXVII | of all manner of beasts, roaring and making a terrible din
2159 XXVII | place, for the seething and roasting of all manner of meats,
2160 XXII | delighted with his words, and rocked himself on idle hopes, and
2161 XXXIV | soul, and rule it with a rod of iron. I see our state
2162 XXXVI | he in his bed-chamber the roll containing his letter, and,
2163 XVIII | world could rejoice, were he rolling in riches, who have laid
2164 XXVII | deliver him to Pilate the Roman governor, and condemn him
2165 XXXIV | wast stretched upon the Rood, and didst bind the strong
2166 XI | if somewhat of the outer roof-work or inner building be disabled,
2167 XI | renew by repentance the part rotted by sins. It is impossible
2168 XXVIII | nothing but a few weak and rotten shreds of argument in reply.
2169 XXVII | it be soaked overmuch, it rotteth, fruit and all. It is trodden
2170 XXVII | killed by other men, and rotting away, they cannot grasp
2171 XVIII | herd, some they killed, and roughly handled others. Even so
2172 XXIII | lovely conversation, to rouse up ourselves to the like
2173 VII | the house-top their wild rout of gods, and worship lifeless
2174 XXVIII | opinions, his noble and truly royal-hearted son dwelt at peace in his
2175 XXXIII | when he had made ready a rude font, he bade baptize them
2176 XXIV | tormented, and shalt bitterly rue thy wicked counsels, and
2177 VII | subjection to divers sins and ruined in strange delusions, and
2178 XII | ceased, and Christian kings ruled throughout the world, then
2179 XXXVI | in his obedience to the ruling power. Wherefore be thou
2180 XXIV | imposed upon thyself, a runagate alas! from righteousness,
2181 XXIV | worshippers and chastising the runagates." ~Now when the king had
2182 XXXVIII| did this noble and active runner of the heavenly race order
2183 XIV | tis like the boundless rush of torrents that discharge
2184 XXXI | shattered; thy brazen god rusteth; thy gold or silver god
2185 XXX | The leaves of the trees rustled clearly in a gentle breeze,
2186 XXIII | without pity and without ruth. And they plucked out their
2187 XII | thereof, thou shalt hear. Ruthlessly it bringeth its former lovers
2188 II | preferred this rough life of sackcloth to the pleasures and delights
2189 X | are our gods.' `For they sacrificed,' he saith, `unto devils,
2190 V | darling child, what is the sadness that constraineth thee,
2191 XXI | teacher's austerities and to safe-guard him from all the workings
2192 X | themselves? Nay more, they safeguard their gods, lest they be
2193 XXXVI | with ships. If one of the sailors blunder it bringeth but
2194 XXXI | God? Who offereth God for sale? And how is that god that
2195 XV | philosophy be so ancient and so salutary, how cometh it that so few
2196 XIX | making a god of it, but saluting it as an image of God made
2197 XXI | unworthy servant, and do thou sanctify his soul with thy might
2198 XIX | perfect, life-giving and sanctifying God, with the same will,
2199 XII | and bones are full of all sanctity, mightily casting out devils,
2200 XXXV | believers, and all were sane and sound in body and in
2201 XVI | with her lips she loudly sang the praises of God with
2202 XXVII | Polydeukes, Minos, Rhadamanthos, Sarpedon, and the nine daughters
2203 XXIX | Theudas, in company with his Satanic host; and he armed himself
2204 XXIV | son's boldness and bitter satire of the gods might kindle
2205 XXVII | other nation. They were not satisfied with the idols worshipped
2206 VI | happened on one that could satisfy me as touching them. But
2207 XXVIII | pledging him forgiveness, and satisfying him that the good God is
2208 II | the royal household, chief satrap in rank, in courage, stature,
2209 XXVII | a swan, for Leda; into a satyr, for Antiope; and into a
2210 XXXIII | declareth concerning David and Saul. ~
2211 XXXV | out upon all men, and thou savest them that call upon thee,
2212 II | waiting for the God, who saveth me from faintness of spirit,
2213 XXXI | callest God that which thou sawest, but now, smitten by steel,
2214 XXVII | behold their gods being sawn and chiselled by workmen'
2215 XXXVIII| yielded even these in but scant supply. But, being kindled
2216 XXXVII | found some food, though scanty and insufficient, from the
2217 XXIII | mangled with scourges, could scarcely restrain his madness, and
2218 XXXIX | ordered, who, of men, can scatter? Endure, then, under the
2219 XXXIII | and led, as it were by the scent of sweet ointment, all men
2220 VII | raised to such honour; and he schemed to oust him from that blissful
2221 XXV | snare for his feet, and was scheming how to overthrow his righteous
2222 XIX | every sinful custom; and school thyself the rather in virtuous
2223 XXV | is a great count in the score of praise to be obedient
2224 III | he commanded heralds to scour all the city and all the
2225 XXIV | who endured for us Cross, scourge and death: who bought with
2226 XXIII | them cruelly mangled with scourges, could scarcely restrain
2227 XXVIII | terrible outrage and dishonour, scourging some severely with whips
2228 XV | fall into many a ditch, and scratch out their eyes on many a
2229 XXI | promise the Lord of all in the script of thy covenant, with the
2230 XX | mind every evil wish, and sealing thy soul with the sign of
2231 XXXIII | hoped-for bliss. After this he searched the prisons, and sought
2232 XXXVIII| sunken, and his eyelids seared with floods of tears, and
2233 I | of Egypt it is washed by seas and navigable gulphs, but
2234 XIV | dishonoured and despised, but seating others who are unwise and
2235 XII | and heavenly things: and secondly, that, by exhausting the
2236 VI | mouldering bones therein, secured them with golden clasps.
2237 XI | emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, envyings, murders,
2238 IV | it is written, `He that seeketh shall find it.' The enjoyment
2239 XXVI | certain augurs, sorcerers and seers, that they might get the
2240 XXVII | invisible, but yet himself seeth all things, and, as he willeth,
2241 XXVII | place to place, for the seething and roasting of all manner
2242 XXVIII | the king might not privily seize and punish thee, because
2243 XV | two things in view, and to select this rather than that. And
2244 XV | ariseth choice or rather selection. For choice is to choose
2245 XII | and caves of the earth, self-banished from all the pleasures and
2246 XV | silliness. But while they, self-deprived of light, grope like blind
2247 INT | others having struggled in self-discipline, and having trodden the
2248 XIX | is without beginning, or self-originate, or born of God: out on
2249 XII | their number, slaying all self-will with the sword of obedience.
2250 XV | thing thou lackest yet. Go sell all that thou hast and distribute
2251 XII | forgetting that buyings and sellings are concerns of men. ~"But
2252 XXVII | into a thunder-bolt, for Semele. Then of these were born
2253 XXVI | honour from us and all the senate, and shall be crowned with
2254 XI | evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on
2255 XV | me." Quoth Barlaam, "The sending before thee of money to
2256 X | thinking the extreme of all senselessness. ~"But idolaters -- to whom
2257 XXIX | worth against reasonable and sensible men are the arguments that
2258 XXIX | more fiercely the coals of sensual desire. After that he hath
2259 XVII | unspeakable words, uttered such sentences, what man of my sort shall
2260 XXV | our soul into peril, and separateth her from her Maker, then
2261 XXIV | sound, as our tale in its sequel shall show. ~After two days
2262 VIII | will banish them from his serene and gentle countenance the
2263 XXV | that call for worship and serious consideration, unworthy
2264 XXXVII | beasts, and all kinds of serpents, and dragon-shaped monsters,
2265 XXXII | standeth on record that the man Seruch was the first to bring in
2266 XXII | midst and is worshipped and served by you." The governor said, "
2267 XXX | bright a lustre, and radiant settles among wondrous couches too
2268 IV | repayeth us with sorrow sevenfold. Its happiness and its sorrow
2269 XXIII | the Lord. They were in all seventeen. By common consent, the
2270 | several
2271 XII | gradually draweth nigh its severance. The fourfold asps signify
2272 II | shrunken and wasted by the severe practice of discipline,
2273 XL | friend using himself to severer austerity. Twenty and five
2274 XII | all but on the point of severing it. Then he looked down
2275 XXX | and drink, and by other severities, standing in prayer all
2276 XXXVI | afar off weeping, until the shades of night parted them one
2277 VI | or royal purple.' Thus he shamed his courtiers, and taught
2278 XXIII | off. But those blessed, shamefast, noble-hearted men went
2279 XXXII | of them but unreason and shamefulness, and vain craft that with
2280 XXVI | that Barlaam which hath so shamelessly and audaciously blasphemed
2281 XXXVII | other times he assumed the shapes of all manner of beasts,
2282 XV | his lustre. But every man shareth thereof in proportion to
2283 XXVII | trees for the use of men, sharing power with the other stars,
2284 XXXI | asunder; thy potsherd god shattered; thy brazen god rusteth;
2285 XXIX | palm-staff in his hand and a sheep-skin girt about his loins, the
2286 XVIII | Our raiment is of hair, sheepskins or shirts of palm fibre,
2287 XIV | world treateth mankind, shifting men hither and thither,
2288 XVIII | salvation, and having thy feet shod with the preparation of
2289 XIV | beautiful his feet, and shoeing them with `the preparation
2290 V | archer in the tale that would shoot at the sky. For how could
2291 XXX | of that city? Light, ever shooting from above, filled all her
2292 XXII | would then make good the shortcomings of the day, whilst he stood,
2293 XIV | pleasure so unexpectedly showered upon him changed as unexpectedly
2294 XXIV | he was well advised, and showering thanks on Araches. But wickedness
2295 IV | fall. But the other, being shrewd and quick of wit, perceived
2296 IV | entrap the monks, as I ween, shrewdly said, "How now? Said ye
2297 XXXV | altars were driven forth with shrieks, and cried out in terror
2298 XXII | knowledge that ye desire, and shrink not to work your will. We
2299 XXXI | reproach? Doth he not dry and shrivel up filth and rottenness,
2300 V | well stricken in years, shrivelled in countenance, feeble-kneed,
2301 II | the Indians lay under the shroud of this moonless night,
2302 II | lived in the lap of luxury, shrunken and wasted by the severe
2303 V | establish a mind, dazed and shuddering at its cogitations, and
2304 VIII | love him.' But when we have shuffled off this gross flesh, and
2305 VII | infirmities and bare our sicknesses. For, since by sin death
2306 XXVIII | to thyself. But if both sides be with thee, mine advocate
2307 XXII | thoughts to the thorough sifting of the matter. "This, O
2308 V | saw and heard all this, he sighed from the bottom of his heart. "
2309 XIV | where pain and sorrow and sighing are fled away. But the other
2310 XXXII | misdeeds, with tears and sighs seeking the favour of God. ~
2311 XXI | hence, and their teaching is silenced. But if now their doctrine
2312 VIII | Holding then such knowledge in simple faith, believe thou undoubtingly,
2313 XXVIII | with foul words and crafty simulation, but hast rather cleansed
2314 XI | mixed for our unsteady and sin-loving heart the potion of repentance,
2315 XXIV | loosed the strength of my sinews; `for the thing which I
2316 XXXIV | tuning lips of exultation to sing an hymn of praise, saying: ~"
2317 XVI | though for great blessings, singing praise to the Giver?' She
2318 XXXIX | why expose me to fight singlehanded against their marshalled
2319 VIII | had not been mighty and singular, if they had been comprehended
2320 XXVII | be a god. ~"Artemis, his sister, they represent as an huntress,
2321 XXII | he toiled by the space of six full days, his labour was
2322 XIV | excellent sayings. Wherefore sketch me yet another picture of
2323 XVII | an house splendidly and skilfully builded, or a vessel fairly
2324 XXXII | loathly deeds. He, well skilled in the saving of a soul
2325 V | that would shoot at the sky. For how could death have
2326 X | calling, thou be loth or slack, thou shalt be disherited
2327 IV | studied how they might slander him; and this was all their
2328 IV | had long been in travail, slandered this good man to the king;
2329 XXIV | parleying, gainsaying and slandering of our religion, and belauding
2330 XXVII | suffered frequent wars and slaughters and cruel captivities. But
2331 XXIV | fire, where the worm that sleepeth not gnaweth for ever, and
2332 XXV | good, consider how many sleepless nights I have spent, with
2333 XXXV | with thy Saints whom he slew with fire and sword. Charge
2334 XII | in a moment; for they are slighter than dreams and a shadow,
2335 IX | meaning the smallest and slightest phantasy or thought. And
2336 II | were never charged with sloth or heedlessness. ~"But when
2337 XXXIX | remembering my poor and slothful soul. Rejoice, therefore,
2338 XII | attributing his failure to slothfulness of mind rather than to natural
2339 XXX | the pavement. After he had slumbered awhile, he saw himself carried
2340 VI | clasps. The other two he smeared over with pitch and tar,
2341 XIII | me not.' The other with a smiling and gracious countenance
2342 XI | here, `Whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek,
2343 XXIX | that our matters may run smoothly with the stream, adorn thou
2344 XXIV | as a man fleeth from a snake, if I know that thou grudgest
2345 XVIII | and law of covetousness to snatch more than his share, but
2346 XI | and others, being untimely snatched by death, and having not
2347 XXXII | saving of a soul and the snatching it from the jaw of the wily
2348 XXVII | potsherd. And again, if it be soaked overmuch, it rotteth, fruit
2349 XX | that prayeth; prayer which soareth above all things on earth
2350 I | prospering and many were soaring upward to heaven on wings
2351 XXXVI | of comfort hushed their sobs, and promised to be with
2352 XIV | world, who entice us by the soft bait of pleasure, and counsel
2353 XXX | tension of purpose, and to soften the temper of his mind.
2354 XV | gush forth from the surface soil, and sometimes from a lower
2355 IX | that believeth, but hath soiled his spiritual garment with
2356 XXVII | Jacob, and went once to sojourn in Egypt. From thence God
2357 XVII | be no more a stranger and sojourner, but a fellow-citizen with
2358 XX | work, pass the time of your sojourning here in fear; knowing that
2359 XXXIII | religion, yet shall it be some solace to time in thy distress,
2360 XXXVII | minded him of the other solaces of life. Then he would confront
2361 XL | with splendour and much solemnity they laid their bodies in
2362 XVII | times, the changes of the solstices, the succession of seasons,
2363 XXV | found the clear and most apt solution. ~Seeing then that I reckon
2364 XI | continueth unshattered, even if somewhat of the outer roof-work or
2365 | somewhere
2366 XXIV | assured, I shall depart thy sonship, and serve my God with a
2367 XXVIII | besmearing their eyes with soot, and casting them away from
2368 XXXII | whereby they destroyed all sorcery, and rendered witchcraft
2369 IX | dead, the poor man, full of sores, was carried away, he saith,
2370 XXV | with me, thine unworthy and sorry servant. Thee I acknowledge
2371 XVI | who have less; for both sorts journey along the same road,
2372 XL | souls of many men from the soul-devouring dragon, and presented them
2373 XII | their marvellous life to be sounded forth to the ends of the
2374 XXIV | what is this report that soundeth in mine ears, and weareth
2375 IV | word ill, and was craftily sounding him. So, on his coming home,
2376 XXIV | taught thee to choose a sour life instead of a sweet,
2377 I | traversed the regions North and South, fulfilling their appointed
2378 XXXVI | received of God a mighty sovereignty, thou owest him the greater
2379 XXXVI | thine own nature, and the span-length and swift flight of life
2380 XXVI | disdaining even to answer the speaker. He beckoned with his hand
2381 XX | an one hath converse and speaketh with him face to face. ~"
2382 XXI | creatures, his Cross, his spear, his voluntary death; finally,
2383 XXX | were called, the king's spearman, they say, wittily replied
2384 XXI | endeavouring to be-jape me with his specious follies, and rob me of this
2385 XXVIII | many words, and by dark speeches hinted that Nachor should
2386 VIII | corruptible and earthly, the `good spell' of immortality and incorruption,
2387 XII | of every man's life, that spendeth and consuming itself hour
2388 XII | tempestuous winds, others spending their lives in the hovels
2389 VII | give light to our earthly sphere; things without soul or
2390 VII | nature; and he conceived spite against man, seeing himself
2391 XVII | man, beholding an house splendidly and skilfully builded, or
2392 IX | that the widow may be their spoil and the fatherless their
2393 XXXII | skin, or the leopard his spots, then mayest thou also do
2394 XXXIX | nets which the wicked one spreadeth abroad for to trip all them
2395 VI | among thorns; and the thorns sprung up and choked them: but
2396 XXX | bright rays; and winged squadrons, each of them itself a light,
2397 XXIII | choose the rough, filthy and squalid way, and preach that they
2398 XXX | the palace all his son's squires and serving men, and set
2399 XXX | with horses from the royal stables, with golden bridles and
2400 XXXI | routed us in angry wise, and stablished himself in safety. So incontinent
2401 XXIV | safety, and have thee for the staff and support of mine old
2402 XXVII | her hounds, in chase of stag or boar. How can such an
2403 I | when he had fulfilled every stage of his life in the flesh
2404 XXVII | Walking in darkness they stagger one against another like
2405 VI | seeming, thou art a man of staid and steadfast judgment,
2406 XXXI | eye? Hath he therefore any stain of reproach? Doth he not
2407 XXVIII | your device and counsel was stale and utterly senseless; but
2408 XII | feeble power, we take the stamp of their lives, and wear
2409 XIX | every man by his own just standards. For the dead shall rise
2410 XXXVIII| thee, our God, that ever standest by and succourest them that
2411 IX | been four days dead and stank, and thus he restored the
2412 XXI | Barlaam, all but ready for to start, spake concerning his journey,
2413 XXIX | set up unto thee a golden statue, and make thee to receive
2414 XXXII | righteousness and walk in the statutes of life, he shall surely
2415 XII | or that continueth in one stay; but all things are vanity
2416 XXXII | Lord were the heavens made stedfast, and all the power of them
2417 V | immediately he ordered that choice steeds, and an escort fit for a
2418 XXXI | sawest, but now, smitten by steel, and burnt and moulded in
2419 INT | pathway to virtue is rough and steep, especially for such as
2420 XL | pilot of my soul, thou that steerest all creation with the unspeakable
2421 XVII | glorious mighty and marvellous steersmanship and all-wise providence?
2422 XXVIII | from the palace. ~So Nachor stepped forth with a contrite heart,
2423 XXXIX | robbers thy purity of heart, stepping up day by day to higher
2424 XXXIII | and on his love, being a steward of the word of grace, and
2425 XI | for a little while in his stewardship, that he might understand
2426 XXXVII | deceiver, who thou art, which stiffest up this trouble for me;
2427 XXVI | disobedient, and hast thus stiffly opposed me, insisting that
2428 IX | victory. O death where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory?'
2429 XXXI | his rays? Upon how many a stinking corpse doth he cast his
2430 VI | away devils, and without stint furnisheth its possessor
2431 XXXVII | art ever wicked, and never stintest to do hurt. How becoming
2432 XXX | for ever wicked, and never stinteth to contrive mischief and
2433 XXXIX | And, even if the evil one stir in thee thoughts of neglecting
2434 | stop
2435 XXX | father, since thou hast stopped thine ears not to hear the
2436 XXXII | beginnings of all evil, and the store-houses of devilish mysteries, burnt
2437 XXXIII | gold and precious stone he stored up for himself the treasure
2438 XII | to his own home, eagerly storing the honey of virtue in the
2439 II | its three took my soul by storm; and the remembrance of
2440 II | of spirit, and from the stormy tempest." ~When the man
2441 XXXI | are lascivious dances, and strains of lewd songs and mad revelries.
2442 V | visage was changed by the strangeness of the matter. ~Not many
2443 XXX | Christian. ~But these were all stratagems of the wily serpent. For
2444 XXX | defilement? Methink, sir, thou strayest utterly away from the truth
2445 XXX | himself to pray, and, with streams of tears running down his
2446 XXX | from above, filled all her streets with bright rays; and winged
2447 XXXVII | heavy burden and clog, the stress of transitory things, he
2448 XXXIV | fetters: do thou now also stretch forth thine invisible and
2449 V | happened with an old man, well stricken in years, shrivelled in
2450 XXII | afflicted the monks with many stripes and tortures. Their courage
2451 XXXII | and kisseth him, and he strippeth him of the shameful robe
2452 XIV | received us, dispatch us stript of all worldly goods, --
2453 XXXIII | Wherefore his power, being strongly reinforced by his gentleness
2454 XII | Kingdom of Heaven, they strove, after holy baptism, to
2455 INT | blood, and others having struggled in self-discipline, and
2456 IX | not into arrest? Like as stubble shall be burnt by live coal
2457 XXVI | commands, yet, because thou art stubborn and disobedient, and hast
2458 IV | converse with the king, studied how they might slander him;
2459 XXII | opinion, and was my teacher in studies. I will give him the hint,
2460 II | vigils, and by diligent study of the divine oracles, he
2461 XII | repentance for them that stumble, yet it is attended with
2462 XXXIV | fallen from union with God, stumbled into these manifold errors,
2463 XXXV | zeal, King Abenner made a sturdy assault on the idols, wrought
2464 XVI | and in wondrous fashion be styled the spiritual father of
2465 XXX | Therefore think not to subdue thy son in any other way
2466 XXXVIII| reward of his well-doing. He subdued himself to watchings, as
2467 XXIII | The more perils that thou subjectest us to for the sake of our
2468 XXXVII | one with him by prayer and sublime meditation. And thus eagerly
2469 XII | fleshly comfort and repose, submitting to a diet of uncooked herbs
2470 XXIV | his providence can aught subsist. He is the life of all,
2471 XVII | then could the world have subsisted for long ages, a work so
2472 XXX | proceeded to another more subtil device, he that is for ever
2473 XX | to come, without end or successor, and be illumined with the
2474 XXXVIII| that ever standest by and succourest them that love thee! Glory
2475 XXX | he exhorted her with many such-like words, immediately the evil
2476 XI | also. And if any man will sue thee at the law, and take
2477 XXI | this thine handiwork, and sufferedst us not to walk after our
2478 XXXIII | But, father, since thou sufferest me not to fulfil my heart'
2479 XII | deceiveth its own friends, nor suffereth them to take timely thought
2480 VIII | nothing, this proof shall suffice thee. He took earth and
2481 XXXIX | and arrogant thoughts, and suggesteth the glory of the kingdom
2482 XXXI | guard it, the same hath suite of guards at hand to save
2483 XXII | no sign of meanness or sullenness, and spake never a word.
2484 XV | deep wells are brackish or sulphurous, even as some pour forth
2485 XXIV | and insatiable desire, the summit of aspiration. To leave
2486 IX | and fine linen, and fared sumptuously every day, but who was so
2487 XII | partook of victuals only of a Sunday: others thought of food
2488 II | thou, O king, art miserably sundered and alienated. Wherefore
2489 XXXVIII| fallen in, and his eyes deep sunken, and his eyelids seared
2490 XXXIII | making this worthless and superfluous material fit for service,
2491 XL | that flasheth with light supernal." Again Ioasaph thought
2492 XXVIII | insolence of the ancient supplanter hath blinded the eyes of
2493 XVIII | guard! But cease not to make supplications on my behalf, that I may
2494 XXX | face, but uncomely of soul, supplied the evil fuel from without. ~
2495 XXV | confirming the word with surest oath. But, whereas thou
2496 XV | sometimes gush forth from the surface soil, and sometimes from
2497 XII | departed, nor pitieth the survivor. For after that it hath
2498 XXII | hearing his words, the king suspected that his son had been wroth
2499 XXI | desire to be on his way, and suspecting moreover that the man Zardan
2500 IV | harboureth against thee the suspicion, that thou wouldest usurp
2501 XXII | which he was especially suspicious, being minded to surprise
2502 XII | much as was sufficient to sustain life. Some of them continued
2503 VII | him to be the maker and sustainer of the whole. And God, approving
2504 XXIV | invisible, containing and sustaining all things, provident for
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