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1 I, 1 | satisfied with the language of men, he attempts something loftier.4255~ “
2 I, 4 | voluptuous, that is to say men like 4267 Pythagoras, 4268
3 I, 5 | started as it were anew, men and women were paired together
4 I, 5 | of the gold of Sheba, and men shall pray for him continually.”
5 I, 5 | like the rest, were married men. The next step is to Hezekiah,
6 I, 7 | commandment. Yet I would that all men were even as I myself. Howbeit
7 I, 7 | concerns those who are married men. Is it lawful for them to
8 I, 8 | follows: “but I would that all men were as I am.” Happy is
9 I, 8 | uncorrupt. We, because we are men, cannot imitate our Lord’
10 I, 8 | effort. I would that all men were like me, that while
11 I, 11 | become not bondservants of men. Brethren, let each man,
12 I, 11 | Become not bondservants of men.” Lastly, how are we to
13 I, 11 | Become not bondservants of men.” How can we then possibly
14 I, 11 | become not servants of men.” We have been redeemed
15 I, 12 | fashioned into an ornament, men do not call him blessed
16 I, 12 | become all things to all men that I might gain all, shall
17 I, 12 | But He said unto them, all men cannot receive this saying,
18 I, 12 | which were made eunuchs by men: and there are eunuchs,
19 I, 12 | had previously said “All men cannot receive the word,
20 I, 12 | is a hard matter, and all men do not receive the saying,
21 I, 12 | others by the violence of men. Those eunuchs please Me
22 I, 12 | long series of apostolic men, martyrs, and men illustrious
23 I, 12 | apostolic men, martyrs, and men illustrious no less for
24 I, 13 | nine hundred years, as did men of old, yet we ought to
25 I, 13 | Ecclesiastes, is given to the men of this world that they
26 I, 15 | was made all things to all men, that he might gain all:
27 I, 18 | allowed to hard-hearted men, and the knife of circumcision
28 I, 20 | Nob: “If only the young men have kept themselves from
29 I, 20 | words “if only the young men have kept themselves from
30 I, 22(4384)| greatly that he who assigned men their possessions had chosen
31 I, 24 | enough to disparage holy men, but because it is one thing
32 I, 25 | Elisha in a list of married men, is plain without a word
33 I, 25 | rule of Scripture when holy men fail, to praise women to
34 I, 25 | women to the reproach of men. And it is superfluous to
35 I, 25 | of the seed royal, these men were those who were made
36 I, 25 | there were such and such men in a sinful land, they shall
37 I, 25 | Though these three men, Noah, Daniel, and Job were
38 I, 26 | boy, could not be set over men of advanced age; and a good
39 I, 26 | treatise on Illustrious Men. 4427 Peter is an Apostle,
40 I, 27 | desire therefore that the men pray in every place, lifting
41 I, 28 | the law, prophets and holy men, have been dishonoured by
42 I, 30 | Solomon: threescore mighty men are about it, of the mighty
43 I, 30 | about it, of the mighty men of Israel. They all handle
44 I, 30(4471)| Corn shall make the young men flourish, and new wine the
45 I, 32 | the occasional sight of men. Then again, Rebecca, on
46 I, 34 | stimulate lust. That married men are elected to the priesthood,
47 I, 34 | because all the strongest men are chosen for the army,
48 I, 34 | chosen for the army, weaker men should not be taken as well?
49 I, 34 | for nothing, the feebler men might be rejected. As it
50 I, 34 | might be rejected. As it is, men of second or third-rate
51 I, 34 | it happens that married men, who form the larger portion
52 I, 34 | I will say it, and good men will not be angry with me,
53 I, 34 | best, but the cleverest, men, and think the more simple
54 I, 34 | Yet I would that all men were even as I myself.”
55 I, 35 | that is, 4501 a striker of men’s consciences, for the Apostle
56 I, 36 | marriage, how will mortal men be propagated? Upon this
57 I, 36 | exist. To put a case: if all men were philosophers, there
58 I, 36 | other professions. If all men were leaders, what would
59 I, 36 | Why are you like other men, Paul? Why are p. 374 you
60 I, 36 | causing them to be born men? Let us then who believe
61 I, 38 | bringing salvation to all men, instructing us, to the
62 I, 39 | the flesh to the lusts of men, but to the will of God.
63 I, 39 | the reward of iniquity: men that count unrighteousness
64 I, 40 | were redeemed from among men, first-fruits to God and
65 I, 40 | marriage, He taught that men should marry only once.
66 I, 41 | them to pass. And so did men of all ranks. When 4579
67 I, 41 | the ship which a thousand men could not move. Yet, as 4580
68 I, 41 | on one occasion when the men of Messene attempted to
69 I, 46 | but she thought that all men had foul breath as he had.
70 I, 46 | Her words teach us that men in choosing their wives
71 I, 46 | themselves closely to particular men, and to keep to one is a
72 I, 47 | is attacked on all sides. Men marry, indeed, so as to
73 I, 47 | He has with him the good men of all time, and turns his
74 I, 47 | embrace in thought. And, if men are scarce, he converses
75 I, 48 | Samuel preferred other men to their own sons, and did
76 I, 48 | he being the ugliest of men, with snub nose, bald forehead,
77 I, 48 | and drove the purest of men wild with daily quarrels.
78 I, 48(4632)| beauty (for the ears of men are naturally more incredulous
79 I, 48 | as he thinks, the life of men is determined by the names
80 I, 49 | generous spirits, draws away men from great thoughts to mean
81 I, 49 | thoughts to mean ones; it makes men querulous, ill-tempered,
82 I, 49 | she were an adulteress. Men who say they have contracted
83 I, 49 | and, shameful to relate! men have tried to teach their
84 I, 49 | says Seneca, of the poor men who in numbers are bribed
85 I, 49 | consulship sheds lustre upon men; eloquence gives eternal
86 I, 49 | pontificate, cease to be men.~
87 II, Int | as shewing that faithful men can be tempted and sin and
88 II, Int | God has made animals for men’s food. But (6) there are
89 II, 2(4664) | other distinction between men than the grand division
90 II, 3 | by the furnace, and just men by the trial of tribulation.”
91 II, 3 | own error, and persuade men to luxury, and to the delights
92 II, 4 | over him. Why speak of holy men and angels, who, being creatures
93 II, 5 | serve for the use of mortal men.” And as man, a rational
94 II, 5 | created either for the food of men, or for clothing, or for
95 II, 5 | and 4722 tells us that men will come in the last days,
96 II, 6 | food, but for other uses of men. For if everything that
97 II, 6(4726) | the Book on Illustrious Men, chap. 80:—Firmianus, qui
98 II, 7 | Bactrians throw their old men to dogs which they rear
99 II, 8 | The desire to handle other men’s persons, and the burning
100 II, 9 | idle pretence which some men put forward 4756 that they
101 II, 11 | lusts, the objects for which men rake money together, for
102 II, 12 | of satirizing voluptuous men, he described himself as
103 II, 14(4774)| the book on Illustrious Men, c. 33.~
104 II, 14 | biographer of illustrious men, relates that Diogenes to
105 II, 15 | the extreme greediness of men, 4781 gave them liberty
106 II, 16 | suffereth violence, and men of violence take it by force.”
107 II, 17 | fast not to gain glory from men, but praise from the Lord;
108 II, 17 | we refuse to do what even men of the world see clearly
109 II, 18 | informed that among the men of Sodom and Gomorrha no
110 II, 18 | overwhelmed. Six hundred thousand men, besides those who were
111 II, 22 | flock of my pasture, are men.” Will Paul and that penitent
112 II, 22 | though I was free from all men, I brought myself under
113 II, 22 | You surely cannot say that men commit sin by living by
114 II, 23 | but there is one flesh of men, and another flesh of beasts,
115 II, 24 | understand the end of those men.” The saint does not die
116 II, 24 | of merit? Ten righteous men can save a sinful city.
117 II, 24 | in the plain, but forty men mounted on camels fled.
118 II, 24 | Siloam fell upon eighteen men who perished in the ruins.
119 II, 25 | whole world perished, all men were flesh, and therefore
120 II, 31 | suspect that you, like other men, have occasionally told
121 II, 31 | told a lie: 4911 for all men are liars, that God alone
122 II, 35 | when they see the fall of men like themselves. In the
123 II, 37 | knees, who challenge the men who come against them to
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