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1 I, 1 | remember, too, what 4259 Virgil says of senseless p. 347 noise. 4260
2 I, 3 | power, it may be crushed.~He says that “virgins, widows, and
3 I, 5 | 5. First of all, he says, God declares that 4273 “
4 I, 5 | wives and children. “There,” says he, “is Enoch, who walked
5 I, 5 | with the 4281 stake. He says there was no difference
6 I, 7 | evidence: “It is good,” he says, “for a man not to touch
7 I, 7 | his own wife.” Let him he says have and use his own wife,
8 I, 7 | Whence it is that the Apostle says, “It is good for a man not
9 I, 7 | the same, so S. Peter now, says that prayers are hindered
10 I, 7 | of marriage duty. When he says “likewise,” he challenges
11 I, 7 | quiet spirit. In effect he says this: Since your outer man
12 I, 8 | to his concession. This, says he, I wish, this I desire
13 I, 8 | after that.” What I wish, he says, is clear. But since in
14 I, 8 | his incestuous conduct, says: 4299 “so that contrariwise
15 I, 8 | And the Apostle Peter says, 4302 “as heirs together
16 I, 10 | husbands. To these he elsewhere says, 4308 “Be not unequally
17 I, 10 | consider what the same Apostle says, 4309 “A wife is bound for
18 I, 11 | according to the flesh, now says, “Become not bondservants
19 I, 11 | become uncircumcised.” If, he says, at the time you were called
20 I, 11 | circumcised. You had a wife, he says, when you believed: do not
21 I, 11 | rather.” Even if you have, he says, a wife, and are bound to
22 I, 11 | be forsaken. He therefore says, I command that Gentiles
23 I, 12 | length comes to virginity and says 4316 “Now concerning virgins
24 I, 12 | wall of virginity. “See,” says he, “the Apostle confesses
25 I, 12 | have no commandment,” he says, “of the Lord: but I give
26 I, 12 | have. He who is able, he says, to receive it, let him
27 I, 12 | I think, therefore,” he says, “that this is good for
28 I, 13 | previous concession. “Yet,” says he, “such shall have tribulation
29 I, 13 | would spare you.” Thus, he says, I allege tribulation as
30 I, 13 | virgins and the continent, and says “The woman that is unmarried
31 I, 13 | for persuading to it, and says: 4335 “And this I say for
32 I, 13 | he marry. Let him do, he says, what he will, not what
33 I, 13 | Depart from evil,” he says, “and do good.” The former
34 I, 13 | perfection. But whereas he says “and he that giveth his
35 I, 14 | marriages inferior to first, and says, 4340 “A wife is bound for
36 I, 14 | after Satan. 4342 “But,” says he, “they will be happier
37 I, 14 | wife. “And they two,” he says, “shall be one flesh”: not
38 I, 16 | concerning which the same Apostle says, 4350 “Husbands, love your
39 I, 16 | virginity. And whereas he says “Be fruitful, and multiply,
40 I, 18 | in the Revelation of John says, 4356 “I am Alpha and Omega,
41 I, 18 | eat flesh, for the Apostle says, 4357 “It is good not to
42 I, 19 | three wives, as Jovinianus says, and received circumcision
43 I, 22 | hatred, and in every trial says 4386 “But my feet had well
44 I, 25 | for “It came to pass,” he says, 4412 “in the sixth year,”
45 I, 26 | representing the Apostles, says to the Lord: 4415 “Lo we
46 I, 26 | the Father Himself, and says, 4429 “In the beginning
47 I, 27 | the Apostolic sentence and says, 4431 “Adam was first formed,
48 I, 27 | of life for the women and says “In like manner that women
49 I, 28 | woman is. Well then, he says in the Proverbs: 4436 “The
50 I, 28 | It is better,” he says, “to dwell in a desert land,
51 I, 28 | orator, Varius Geminus 4439 says well “The man who does not
52 I, 28 | writing to the Hebrews, says “Therefore we ought to give
53 I, 29 | marriage: 4445 “Better,” he says, “is the end of a thing
54 I, 29 | out many inventions.” He says that he had found man upright.
55 I, 29 | female. “But a woman,” he says, “among all these have I
56 I, 30 | Let us hear what the bride says before that the bridegroom
57 I, 30 | same thing that the Apostle says: 4451 “The time is shortened
58 I, 30 | chastity: 4452 “The voice,” he says, “of the turtle is heard
59 I, 30 | And immediately the turtle says to its fellow: 4453 “The
60 I, 30 | Whence the Apostle also says, 4454 “We are a sweet savour
61 I, 30 | like? 4459 “Behold,” he says, “it is the litter of Solomon:
62 I, 30 | I will get me,” he says, “to the mountain of myrrh;”
63 I, 30 | change their spots.” Flee, he says, from the lions’ dens, flee
64 I, 30 | chain of thy neck.” What he says is something like this—I
65 I, 30 | with new wine; with new, he says, not with old wine; because 4469
66 I, 31 | praises the virgin bride, and says to her: 4476 “How beautiful
67 I, 33 | 33. “Granted,” says Jovinianus, “that there
68 I, 33 | sweeping all before it, says, 4488 “My wife died in the
69 I, 34 | All that goes for nothing, says Jovinianus, because even
70 I, 34 | Just as the Apostle 4489 says he has no commandment respecting
71 I, 37 | the letter.” “When,” he says, “we were in the flesh,
72 I, 37 | and so on to where he says, 4522 “So then, brethren,
73 I, 37 | to join us to the Spirit, says afterwards: 4524 “I beseech
74 I, 37 | render), but “think,” he says, “according to chastity,”
75 I, 37 | consider what the Apostle says: “Be ye transformed by the
76 I, 37 | perfect will of God.” What he says is something like this—God
77 I, 37 | writing to the Corinthians, he says, 4527 “I, brethren, could
78 I, 37 | clearer: “Flesh and blood,” he says, “cannot inherit the Kingdom
79 I, 37 | did not wish them to be he says elsewhere: 4531 “I espoused
80 I, 37 | writing to the Galatians he says: 4532 “Because by the works
81 I, 38 | in view when he once more says: 4534 “Walk by the Spirit,
82 I, 39 | accompanied by Titus and Barnabas, says in his Epistle: 4550 “Be
83 I, 39 | the Father of lights, Who says to the apostles, “Ye are
84 I, 41 | uncle of Lucan the poet says, it would have been better
85 I, 48 | on women. Hence Hermione says, 4628 “The counsels of evil
86 I, 48 | disciple married Leontia) says that a wise man can seldom
87 I, 49 | lost. What shall I say, says Seneca, of the poor men
88 II, 1 | Hence it is that John says, 4653 “Whosoever is begotten
89 II, 2 | baptism. My friend Jovinianus says, 4657 “Touch me not, for
90 II, 2 | Hence David after sinning says: 4660 “Restore unto me the
91 II, 2 | transgression. Hence David says, 4669 “Behold, I was shapen
92 II, 2 | true faith: but what he says is this, “We have an advocate
93 II, 3 | denied Him. Our Lord himself says, 4674 “Simon, Simon, behold
94 II, 3 | And to the married he says: 4684 “Be together again,
95 II, 3 | it now that the Apostle says, “And have fallen away”? 4688
96 II, 3 | works. I have so spoken, says the Apostle, to withdraw
97 II, 3 | of their own free choice, says: 4691 “Blessed is the man
98 II, 3 | Again, the same James says: 4694 “Be ye doers of the
99 II, 3 | mercy upon all.” Peter also says: 4697 “The Lord knows how
100 II, 3 | works. And in Sardis He says He has a few who have not
101 II, 3 | worthy. But they to whom He says: “Remember from whence thou
102 II, 4 | Shall mortal man,” he says, “be just before God? Shall
103 II, 4 | of God. Hence the Saviour says in the Gospel: 4712 “I beheld
104 II, 5 | jumenta. 4719 ‘What is man,’ says David, ‘that thou art mindful
105 II, 5 | of the seas.’ Granted, he says, that the ox was created
106 II, 6 | Hence also the Apostle says: 4729 “When I am weak, then
107 II, 6 | publicans. But the Lord says in the Gospel to him who
108 II, 6 | he has feasted, and who says with Epicurus, “There is
109 II, 6 | We believe Paul when he says in tones of thunder: 4736 “
110 II, 7 | lust. And so the comic poet says, 4749 “Venus shivers unless
111 II, 9 | this very thing when he says, 4757 “She that giveth herself
112 II, 11 | commentator on Hippocrates, says in his exhortation to the
113 II, 11 | vegetables and fruits; and he says that we ought to live on
114 II, 11 | clothing. Hence the Apostle says: “Having food and clothing
115 II, 13 | priests of Egypt, who, he says, laid aside all worldly
116 II, 13 | unpalatable taste. What need, he says, to speak of birds, when
117 II, 14(4769)| 2 sq. Josephus nowhere says that the Essenes abstained
118 II, 15 | on every word of God. He says to the Lord, “the people
119 II, 15 | Drink no longer water,” he says. The fact that he bids him
120 II, 16 | the Gentiles. And if he says to the Romans: 4815 “Let
121 II, 17 | hunger and thirst; 4820 who says that He has food, not that
122 II, 17 | hell for his feasting, and says that poor Lazarus for his
123 II, 17 | God by the mouth of Isaiah says what fast He did not choose: 4830 “
124 II, 18 | Hence it is that the Saviour says to the Jews: 4837 “Ye are
125 II, 18 | from right. If, however, he says, you object and ask me why
126 II, 19 | and a hundred. The Lord says, 4839 “He that eateth my
127 II, 19 | anything. And if our Lord says, 4841 “In my Father’s house
128 II, 19 | she is but one. “I go,” He says, “to prepare a place for
129 II, 19 | Holy Ghost?” A temple, He says, not temples, in order to
130 II, 20 | 20. “If you tell me,” says he, “that one star differeth
131 II, 20 | and will be saved. He who says to his brother, ‘thou fool,’
132 II, 21 | views? The Apostle John says that many Antichrists had
133 II, 22 | To the Corinthians he says: 4851 “I have planted, Apollos
134 II, 22 | Again in another place he says: 4853 “Let a man so account
135 II, 23 | orders of the Church, and says: 4857 “And God hath set
136 II, 23 | goats also. “One star,” he says, “differeth from another
137 II, 23 | star and star. Lastly, he says, “there is one glory of
138 II, 23 | them among the goats. “So,” says he, “is also the resurrection
139 II, 23 | For we all,” he says, “must be made manifest
140 II, 23 | writing to the Ephesians, says: 4868 “to the intent that
141 II, 25 | Christians, though the Scripture says, 4876 “Unto you that fear
142 II, 28 | In my Father’s house,” He says, “are many mansions: if
143 II, 28 | the mansions which Christ says He would prepare for the
144 II, 28 | I might tell you,” He says, “that I go to prepare a
145 II, 28 | the same way what our Lord says to the sons of Zebedee,
146 II, 28 | to prepare? There are, He says, prepared in heaven, many
147 II, 28 | such dignity. Again when He says: 4892 “I will come again,
148 II, 29 | constantly assert. But, says our Lord: 4900 “Thou hast
149 II, 29 | Christ, agrees herewith, and says: 4903 “Hereby know we that
150 II, 30 | My little children” says the Apostle, “of whom I
151 II, 30 | The lamp of thy body,” he says, “is thine eye. If thine
152 II, 30 | Hear what the Apostle John says: 4907 “He who knows that
153 II, 31 | The mouth that lieth,” says one, “kills the soul.” I
154 II, 33 | general question. Our Lord says to his disciples, 4916 “
155 II, 33 | most. And so the Saviour says, 4917 “I say to you, her
156 II, 33 | sheep? But holy Scripture says they were not of the same
157 II, 36 | the wine-press alone,” He says, “and of the peoples there
158 II, 37 | of the Cross. And so God says by Isaiah, 4937 “O my people,
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