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501 I, 12 | particles, first by the blast of the furnace, then by
502 I, 19 | opponent will not admit that blear-eyed Leah, ugly and prolific,
503 II, 11 | they must therefore be bled, that there may be room
504 I, 39 | unrighteousness delight, spots and blemishes, thinkp. 378 ing of nothing
505 II, 2 | Christ and Antichrist cannot blend. If we give Christ a lodging-place
506 I, 31 | fruits is signified the blending of all virtues in virginity. 4474 “
507 II, 4(4711) | Jerome blends two passages, Is. xiv. 12 (
508 I, 49 | outbursts of their warm but blind affection. Their love was
509 I, 36 | and fight like the 4508 blindfold gladiators, than not to
510 II, 11 | plethora be quickly relieved by blood-letting, develop tendencies to paralysis
511 I, 30 | law have fallen, and the blossoming vines of the Gospel give
512 II, 34 | of p. 414 wrought gold, blue, scarlet, purple, and fine
513 I, 1 | vile and such a heap of blunders, that I could neither understand
514 I, 8 | again.” What it was that he blushed to call by its own name,
515 II, 12 | coming down to a simple board and mean food. For they
516 II, 5 | roes, stags, fallow-deer, boars, hares, and such like game?
517 I, 41 | of Scedasus at Leuctra in Bœotia? It is related that in the
518 II, 4 | mire. He maketh the deep to boil like a pot: he values the
519 II, 6 | Naturalists say that snake-skin, boiled in oil, gives wonderful
520 II, 15 | of a single hour. Moses boldly broke the tables: for he
521 I, 40 | made perfect, if we have boldness in the day of judgement:
522 I, 16 | uncircumcision, barbarian, Scythian, bondman, freeman: but Christ is
523 II, 30 | the nose, or saw through a bone. Some members we can dispense
524 I, 39 | good gift and every perfect boon is from above, coming down
525 I, 48 | issue, so wives stand on the border line of good and ill. It
526 II, 8 | for women, is a passion bordering on p. 395 insanity. To gratify
527 II, 25 | desire it, our ear will be bored in token of our disobedience,
528 II, 14(4769)| Jerome here, as above, borrows from Porphyry. The “Wars
529 I, 36 | that you have not swelling bosoms, and are not broad at the
530 II, 6(4727) | mineralogy, zoölogy, and botany, and comprises according
531 II, 9 | gold, exclaimed, “Go to the bottom, ye evil lusts: I will drown
532 I, 26 | Apocalypse containing the boundless mysteries of the future.
533 I, 12 | of us has his appointed bounds; let me have what is mine,
534 II, 28 | than receive it through the bounty of God. The preparation
535 I, 12 | to remove mountains; the bowels of the earth are pierced
536 I, 35 | not pointing out what a boxer, but a pontiff ought not
537 II, 6 | religion does not train boxers, athletes, sailors, soldiers,
538 II, 10 | unless the vices of youth and boyhood are regulated by the wisdom
539 I, 27 | shamefacedness and sobriety; not with braided hair, and gold or pearls
540 I, 47 | figure, another with his brains, another with his wit, another
541 II, 4 | counteth iron as straw, and brass as rotten wood. And all
542 I, 41 | Leos, the lady of the brazen house, ever a virgin, is
543 II, 10 | horses without a driver go at break-neck speed, so the body if it
544 I, 49 | mind. It confuses counsel, breaks high and generous spirits,
545 II, 25 | all have the same life, breathe the same air, have the same
546 I, Int | rather belched out than breathed out his life,” and by a
547 II, 7 | those regions, is easily bred and reared. They think it
548 II, 7 | with blackish heads, which breed in decayed wood. And as
549 I, 28 | wife makes a wife proud and breeds contempt for the husband:
550 I, 44 | Pharnabazus, who took a bribe from Lysander the Lacedæmonian
551 I, 49 | poor men who in numbers are bribed to take the name of husband
552 I, 13 | lust, and cannot be p. 358 bridled, and he must do one of two
553 I, 6 | rabble, fighting more like brigands than soldiers, must be repulsed
554 II, 3 | when it is full grown, bringeth forth death.” God created
555 II, 7 | heard that the Atticoti, a British tribe, eat human flesh,
556 I, 36 | swelling bosoms, and are not broad at the hips, narrow at the
557 II, 7 | the shores of the Red Sea, broil fish on the stones made
558 II, 17 | resurrection eat part of a broiled fish and of a honey-comb,
559 II, 25 | frost, or melted with the broiling heat. The sun and the moon,
560 I, 19 | wrestling with the angel at the brook Jabbok, he began to limp,
561 II, 9 | crystal fountains, murmuring brooks, and many charms for eye
562 I, 12 | condemnation of harlots and brothels, of whose damnation there
563 II, 30 | question concerning two brothers: Was Esau in the earthly
564 I, 34 | gloomy visage, a frowning brow, a walk as though he were
565 I, 42 | authoritatively handed down that Budda, the founder of their religion,
566 II, 3 | messenger of p. 389 Satan to buffet” him. And to the Corinthians
567 II, 6 | why vipers, scorpions, bugs, lice, and fleas; why the
568 II, 26 | as the foundation one man builds gold, silver, costly stones,
569 I, 48 | said to have lusted for a bull, the second to have killed
570 II, 7 | beef, or makes the flesh of bulls or oxen, or calves, a portion
571 I, 49 | intensity of passion it burns like a raging fire, it wastes
572 I, 12 | to offer oneself a whole burnt-offering, and, according to the same
573 I, 28 | insatiable; put it out, it bursts into flame; give it plenty,
574 II, 7 | same beasts. The Scythians bury alive with the remains of
575 I, 20 | the Lord speaking in the bush, 4364 could not by any means
576 II, 7 | animals Leonto, Cyno, Lyco, Busyris, Thmuis, which is, being
577 II, 7 | their custom to cut off the buttocks of the shepherds and the
578 I, 13 | rejoice, and those that buy, and those that use the
579 II, 8 | can picture to itself even bygone pleasures, and through the
580 II, 37(4941)| That is, cælebs from cælum.~
581 II, 37(4941)| That is, cælebs from cælum.~
582 I, 39 | daughters, to the end that Cæsarea, where the Gentile Church
583 I, 5 | the names of Seth, Enos, Cainan, Mahalalel, Jared, Enoch,
584 I, 49 | violation. There is no greater calamity connected with captivity
585 I, 41(4577)| calm at Aulis. The seer Calchas advised that Iphigenia,
586 I, 41 | Iphigenia is said to have calmed the stormy winds. What need
587 I, 41 | Atalanta, the virgin of Calydonian fame, lived for the chase
588 I, 41 | famous poet; and so is 4575 Camilia, queen of the Volsci, on
589 I, 48 | comrade told him during the campaign, and the conqueror of the
590 I, 41(4582)| the Mamertini, a people of Campania, some of whom were mercenaries
591 I, 40 | opponent that our Lord was at Cana of Galilee, and joined in
592 I, 12 | and the eunuch of Queen Candace in the 4323 Acts of the
593 I, 20 | table of shew-bread, and the candle-stick, and the censer, were made
594 I, 26(4417)| Lord Himself. The third canon of Nicæa is supposed to
595 I, 24 | not add the words of the Canticles: 4403 “There are threescore
596 I, 3 | stay my course, and take in canvas for a little while; nor
597 II, 5(4723) | supported by Tert., De Iejun. cap. 16: In nostris xerophagiis
598 II, 33 | but his spirit, like the capital of a keen man of business,
599 II, 38 | that of an idol. 4943 The Capitol is in ruins: the temples
600 I, 41 | centaurs, crabs, fishes, and capricorn, thrust in a husband and
601 I, 44 | Though she was queen of Caria, and is extolled by great
602 I, 42 | Philo the master of 4592 Carneades. And mighty Rome cannot
603 II, 6 | food: and also those who carry arms and provisions, who
604 I, 46(4604)| Over the Carthaginian fleet near Mylæ, 260 b.c.~
605 II, 7 | the birds and dogs: the Caspians leave them dead for the
606 I, 41 | alone. We read, too, that Cassandra and Chryseis, prophetesses
607 I, 27 | Latin texts, sobrietas, but castitas, that is, 4435 σωφροσύ
608 II, 5(4723) | xerophagiis blasphemias ingerens. Casto Isidis et Cybeles eos adæquas.
609 I, 3 | virginity. The farther back the catapult is drawn, the greater the
610 II, 3 | this prayer belongs to the Catechumens, and is not adapted to faithful
611 II, 3(4689) | Montanists, assumed the name of Cathari, or Puritans.~
612 I, 7 | the precious life,” who causeth the young man’s understanding
613 I, 36 | through love of Him, after causing them to be born men? Let
614 I, 21 | took refuge in the cave of the body and in a place
615 II, 7(4739) | which signifies dwellers in caves, was applied by Greek geographers
616 I, 11 | remark which removes all cavil: “Ye were bought with a
617 I, 46(4606)| is related to have been ceded by Cato to his friend Hortensius.
618 II, 15 | desert and the monks in their cells, at first used the same
619 I, 49(4651)| See Origen, Contra Celsum, Bk. VII. The water hemlock,
620 I, 11(4313)| to be Greeks.” See also Celsus, Bk. vii. c. xxv.~
621 I, 15 | grow long, and cut it at Cenchrea. And he had certainly chastised
622 I, 20 | the candle-stick, and the censer, were made of the purest
623 II, 21 | for the worse is almost censurable in itself. And what we censure,
624 I, 47 | and that I might be justly censured by my learned reader. But
625 I, 41 | even among the scorpions, centaurs, crabs, fishes, and capricorn,
626 II, 7(4744) | A people of Central Asia. Cyrus the Great was
627 II, 9(4756) | Gnostic error revived many centuries afterwards by the Anabaptists.~
628 I, 26 | rest of the apostles, and Cephas, and the brethren of the
629 II, 9(4754) | was a piece of land on the Cephisus about three-quarters of
630 II, 38 | temples of Jove with their ceremonies have perished. Why should
631 II, 37 | has been derived from the Chaldæan, Syriac, and Greek languages.
632 I, 7 | When he says “likewise,” he challenges the husbands to imitate
633 II, 17 | dinner went to the supper chamber at the sixth hour, a chance
634 I, 17 | compartments and little chambers, and was made with second
635 II, 6 | blood, the ostrich, frogs, chameleons, swallow’s dung and flesh—
636 II, 3(4688) | most distinguished of its champions. Montanism has been described
637 II, 17 | chamber at the sixth hour, a chance fit of hunger does not prejudice
638 II, 21 | that such fickleness and changing for the worse is almost
639 II, 37 | they deserve no pity, who chant the words of their instructor (
640 II, 6(4726) | Book on Illustrious Men, chap. 80:—Firmianus, qui et Lactantius,
641 I, Int | virginity. The first three chapters are introductory. The rest
642 II, 31 | whole human race, but the characters depicted are either Jews
643 I, 46(4605)| probably by the fumes of a charcoal fire.~
644 II, 4 | trust in his servants, and chargeth his angels with folly, how
645 II, 10 | racing, but the soul like a charioteer holds the reins. And as
646 I, 49 | first allurement gone, the charm is lost. What shall I say,
647 II, 9 | murmuring brooks, and many charms for eye and ear, lest through
648 I, 41 | Calydonian fame, lived for the chase and dwelt always in the
649 I, 16 | loves the Church holily, chastely, and without spot, let husbands
650 I, 30 | our land.” The turtle, the chastest of birds, always dwelling
651 II, 7 | agriculture, and wished to check the bad practice of the
652 I, 10 | his son Isaac. And Ezra checked an offence of this kind
653 I, 34 | other virtues; he does not cherish the poor: he is too fond
654 I, 36 | the hips, narrow at the chest? Your voice is rugged, your
655 II, 7 | which fatten on acorns, chestnuts, roots of ferns, and barley,
656 I, 36 | the teeth were made for chewing, and the food masticated
657 I, 5 | Miriam, who, because she chided her brother on account of
658 I, 47 | share p. 384 her groans in childbirth, and suffer torture when
659 I, 46 | words teach us that men in choosing their wives look for riches
660 I, 49(4639)| Jerome in his version of the Chronicon of Eusebius speaks of “Xystus
661 I, 43(4594)| in defiance of the common chronology, makes Dido a contemporary
662 I, 42(4591)| with a play upon the word chronos (time), or with a sarcastic
663 I, 41 | too, that Cassandra and Chryseis, prophetesses of Apollo
664 I, 35(4501)| So Chrysostom and Theodoret. The simple
665 II, 7 | Sarmatians, the 4742 Chuadi, the 4743 Vandals, and countless
666 I, 48(4638)| supporting, preserving, etc. Cic., Cat. I. 13, 31—“quem (
667 II, 15(4801)| Ps. cii. 9.~
668 II, 7(4747) | 8054; ἀποχῆς ἐμψύχιων.~
669 I, 3 | used instead of the left: a circle is made with the same fingers
670 II, 8 | delights in the sports of the circus, or the struggles of athletes,
671 II, 14 | the fever by death. I have cited the example of only one
672 II, 21 | exchanges Jerusalem for 4844 Citium, Judæa for Cyprus, Christ
673 I, 38 | uncorruptness.” 4541 “For our citizenship is in heaven; from whence
674 II, 11 | cities, and foment wars civil or foreign for the sake
675 I, 42(4591)| introducer of the arts of civilized life. The philosopher is
676 II, 15(4802)| Ps. cix. 24.~
677 II, 14 | of life. 4771 Neanthes of Cizycus, and 4772 Asclepiades of
678 II, 29 | if it is rash for you to claim for yourself a faith and
679 II, Int | advocate of self-indulgence now claiming equality to the saints.
680 I, 41 | return to their country until clasping the knees of the judges
681 II, 23 | they belong to the same class, that of the sower, yet
682 I, 49 | Timoclia, the 4647 Claudias and Cornelias; and when
683 I, 13 | accounts for the fact that the clause is completely wanting in
684 I, 16 | unclean. Odd numbers denote cleanness. And yet by the double number
685 II, 2 | forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
686 I, 40 | dishonour; and that whoever cleanses himself will be a vessel
687 I, 42 | Plato’s nephew, and 4586 Clearchus in his eulogy of Plato,
688 I, 37 | explanation can make it clearer: “Flesh and blood,” he says, “
689 I, 3(4261) | est distinctio. Instead of clearness we have to make a choice
690 I, 30 | and shelter thyself in the cleft and steep places of the
691 I, 30 | my dove, thou art in the clefts of the rock, in the covert
692 I, 49(4645)| Cleobuline, or Cleobule, was celebrated for her
693 I, 37 | are we eager to frame a clever and victorious reply to
694 I, 34 | clergy not the best, but the cleverest, men, and think the more
695 II, 7 | for the camel, to suit the climate and barren soil of those
696 II, 23 | not only will the sheep climb thither, but your goats
697 I, Int | the tomb or through the closed doors. Pammachius, Jerome’
698 I, 46 | women attach themselves closely to particular men, and to
699 I, 1 | began therefore to give them closer attention, and to thoroughly
700 II, 34 | scarlet, purple, and fine cloth? The priests and 4929 Levites
701 I, 4 | sewed skins together to clothe themselves withal. But,
702 I, 4 | this and with the aid of a cloud of witnesses from both Testaments
703 I, 48 | will perhaps fall into the clutches of Antichrist, when we read
704 I, 48 | refer to Pasiphaë, 4634 Clytemnestra, and Eriphyle, the first
705 I, 48 | the abuse of his enemies. Cn. Pompey had an impure wife 4622
706 II, 3(4689) | about a.d. 250) and there co-operated with Novatianus, one of
707 I, 3(4262) | about a.d. 150, and was co-temporary with Polycarp, who is said
708 I, 47 | furniture, litters and gilded coaches. Then come curtain-lectures
709 I, 7 | Or can one walk upon hot coals, and his feet not be scorched?”
710 II, 6 | commanded 4733 not to have two coats, nor food in their scrip,
711 I, 36(4504)| The Code of Constantine, following
712 I, 46(4603)| The wife of L. Tarquinius Collatinus, whose rape by Sextus led
713 I, 43 | sister of Pygmalion, having collected a vast amount of gold and
714 II, 13 | other was blood with the colour changed? Their bed was made
715 I, 3 | way the 4266 fingers are combined—see how they seem to embrace,
716 II, 8 | by the songs of poets and comedians, by the pleasantries and
717 II, 3 | My son, when thou comest to serve the Lord, prepare
718 I, 8 | should rather forgive him and comfort him, and to whom ye forgive
719 I, 43(4595)| a brave defence. But the commandant’s heart failed him; and,
720 I, 23 | draw up a list of military commanders in historical sequence,
721 I, 4(4269) | now recalled, and after commanding the Athenians at Platæa (
722 II, Int | of Anna, Cornelius, &c., commend abstinence. If some heretics
723 I, 23 | makes for us. For we are not commending virgins of the world so
724 II, 14(4769)| or fasted daily. Philo commends them for so doing. Jerome
725 I, 41 | that our opponent in his commentaries summons us to the tribunal
726 I, 3(4264) | preferred by the chief modern commentators.~
727 II, 12 | even if our food be the commonest, we must avoid repletion.
728 II, 14 | his feeble frame, and was commonly called “Old Hand-to-mouth,”
729 I, 13 | and to revel in rhetorical commonplaces. I think I delivered myself
730 I, 16 | prefigures the marriage compact. Hence it was that all the
731 I, 14 | over much. Now again he compares monogamy with digamy, and
732 I, 32 | that a woman should compass a man, and that the Father
733 I, 37 | marriage is death. But the compensating fruit of sanctification,
734 I, 46 | betook himself home, and on complaining to his wife that she had
735 I, 47 | the livelong night: she complains that one lady goes out better
736 I, 49 | through suspicions, tears, and complaints: it begets hatred of itself,
737 I, 34 | have its full numerical complement. How is it, then, you will
738 II, 35 | have been baptized with complete faith. And we showed that
739 I, 13 | fact that the clause is completely wanting in Latin manuscripts.
740 I, 40 | Christ, and thinks his ruddy complexion worth the kingdom of heaven?
741 I, 12 | he is a servant bound to compliance. “I have no commandment,”
742 I, 41(4576)| be sacrificed. The father complied. The shrine called Leocorium
743 II, 6(4726) | cujus de Medicinalibus versu compositi exstant libri, etc.~
744 II, 3 | that ye would.” We are a compound of the two, and must endure
745 II, 36 | darkness, and the darkness comprehended it not. Boast not of having
746 II, 6(4727) | zoölogy, and botany, and comprises according to the author’
747 I, 7 | voluntarily that he might be under compulsion to render it. “Defraud ye
748 I, 9 | marry than to burn.” Having conceded to married persons the enjoyment
749 I, 49 | when they find the Apostle conceding second marriage to depraved
750 II, 7 | place produces. How does it concern us whose conversation is
751 II, 36 | herd, or rather grunts in concert with your pigs. To our flock
752 I, 11 | profit you nothing”? We must conclude, therefore, that a higher
753 I, 38 | applied to us which so finely concludes the mystical Epistle to
754 II, 34 | Joshua the son of Nun, or the concluding portions of Ezekiel, and
755 I, 4 | after the devil’s poisonous concoction. Listen with patience, ye
756 II, 14 | to be attended by a great concourse of people from all parts
757 I, 44 | his body lay unburied. His concubine, therefore, all alone, in
758 I, 16 | honour, not in the lust of concupiscence, as the Gentiles who know
759 I, 40 | But now when heretics are condemning wedlock, and despise the
760 I, 30 | saw thy face, nor did I condescend to hear thy voice. I said, 4457 “
761 I, 36 | was in the form of God, condescended to take the form of a servant,
762 II, 7(4743) | name given to the great confederacy of German peoples who in
763 I, 8 | be exp. 352 pressed, it confers a right; if a thing is only
764 I, 5 | asserts that it has been 4274 confirmed by the Lord in the Gospel—“
765 I, 36 | inasmuch as the physical conformation of the organs of generation
766 I, 38 | humiliation, that it may be conformed to the body of his glory. 4542
767 II, 31 | mayest remember, and be confounded, and never open thy mouth
768 II, 5 | question of food, and are confronted by our third difficulty. “
769 I, 16 | Zacharias and Elizabeth. He next confronts us with Peter and the rest
770 I, 49 | keeping with a sound mind. It confuses counsel, breaks high and
771 II, 22(4846)| Persius I. 128, Conington’s translation.~
772 I, 23 | does not set an example of conjugal chastity. And he surely
773 I, 11 | Lastly, how are we to connect with slavery, or with circumcision,
774 I, 33 | and was supported by the conquerors; and Nebuchadnezzar, though
775 II, 14 | the games: if the fever conquers me, I shall enter the unseen
776 I, 34 | will not feel the sting of conscience. Sometimes it is the fault
777 I, 35 | profits nothing to enjoy the consciousness of virtue, unless a man
778 I, 41 | out of so many not one consented, but they all most gladly
779 I, 44(4598)| declared against her by Rome in consequence of her having caused the
780 I, 46(4609)| proposals of Maximinus. Her consequent sufferings are related by
781 I, 13 | and by introducing another consideration, invalidates his previous
782 I, 13 | exercised thereby. But if anyone considers that his virgin, that is,
783 I, 48(4635)| made perfect happiness to consist in having a well-constituted
784 I, 34 | Gentiles, whose highest virtue consisted in not plundering another’
785 I, 4(4271) | lasting and imperishable, consisting in pure and noble enjoyments,
786 II, 11 | whose whole life and art consists in stuffing cannot live
787 I, 48 | he held his tongue, and consoled himself for the insult by
788 I, 48 | as that.” 4619 Metella, consort of L. Sulla the 4620 Fortunate (
789 I, 36(4504)| The Code of Constantine, following the Mosaic law,
790 I, 13(4332)| present at the council of Constantinople, of which Gregory was then
791 I, 34 | also in establishing the constitution of the Church, inasmuch
792 I, 49 | victim of another’s lust. The consulship sheds lustre upon men; eloquence
793 II, 25 | made more palatable for the consumer, food of this kind does
794 II, 11 | delicacies than pleasures the consumption of them. Our bodies need
795 I, 14 | them and are not able to contain; lest, 4341 having “waxed
796 I, 30 | marriage, I shall show that it contains the mysteries of virginity.
797 I, 12 | exacted of you. The apostles, contemplating the burden of a wife, exclaimed, “
798 II, 9 | sight they might lose the contemplation of philosophy. Hence it
799 II, 2 | the sins of John and his contemporaries, but for those of the whole
800 I, 43(4594)| chronology, makes Dido a contemporary of Æneas, and represents
801 II, 15 | If, however, any persons contentiously maintain that by Moses is
802 II, 6 | may perhaps look more like contentiousness and pugnacity than truth.
803 I, 13 | immediately points out the contents of her thought—that she
804 I, 28 | they must part. 4441 “A continual dropping on a wintry day”
805 I, 49(4651)| See Origen, Contra Celsum, Bk. VII. The water
806 I, 20 | of her father, and not to contract a second marriage. 4368
807 I, 11 | abide with God,” which even contradicts his previous opinion. We
808 I, 8 | conduct, says: 4299 “so that contrariwise ye should rather forgive
809 I, 48(4632)| than their eyes), you must contrive to see her naked.’ But he,
810 I, 49(4646)| commander, whom she afterwards contrived to push into a well.~
811 I, 22(4384)| with the eyes of an ardent controversialist when he describes it as “
812 I, 10 | no bearing on our present controversy. For he ordains, according
813 I, Int | part of the opinions here controverted, viz. (1) “That a virgin
814 I, 47 | And, if men are scarce, he converses with God. 4611 He is never
815 I, 10 | already married at the time of conversion, that is to say, supposing
816 I, 13 | The Latin words do not convey the meaning of the Greek.
817 II, 14 | place him on a beast or in a conveyance, he did not assent, but
818 I, 8 | fine permission which is conveyed in the words “be together
819 II, 5 | for tilling the earth, or conveying the fruits thereof, or to
820 II, 26 | for seven; and that he is convicted either of forgery, or of
821 I, 40 | and rubbings, and for the cook-shops. Is it not clear that he
822 II, 14 | from flesh, but also from cooked food. 4775 Xenocrates the
823 I, 40(4564)| Paxamus wrote a treatise on cooking, which, Suidas states, was
824 II, 5 | fig-peckers? of woodcocks? of coots? of thrushes? Why do hens
825 I, 38 | some persons loosens the cords of continence, and lets
826 II, 9(4753) | philosopher. He died at Corinth, at the age of nearly 90,
827 I, 49(4648)| goddess at the time when Coriolanus was prevented by the entreaties
828 I, 49 | Timoclia, the 4647 Claudias and Cornelias; and when they find the
829 I, 26(4417)| Theodoret, &c., together with Cornelius-a-Lapide and Estius among the moderns,
830 I, 28 | is better to dwell in the corner of the housetop, than with
831 I, 49(4650)| Fortunæ, inquit, muliebri coronam non imponit, nisi univira…
832 II, 16 | and yet prefer leanness to corpulence, abstinence to luxury, fasting
833 II, 3 | open shame. He therefore corrects this mistake by saying: 4690 “
834 II, 28 | taught in the Old Testament correspondingly with the New, that the chief
835 I, 29 | Ecclesiastes and adduce a few corroborative passages from him also. 4444 “
836 II, 3 | craftiness, your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that
837 I, 39 | been begotten again not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible,
838 I, 48 | her third husband Messala Corvinus, and thus, as it were, passed
839 II, 5(4723) | Castum. Another reading is Cossum i.e. wood-worms, which were
840 I, 49 | must be preserved at all costs, and that when it is lost
841 II, 9 | Diogenes trampled on his couches with muddy feet (he being
842 I, 13(4332)| 381; he was present at the council of Constantinople, of which
843 I, 14(4345)| however happening. And certain Councils decided in the same sense,
844 II, 17 | is not prejudiced by the counterfeit professions of the virgins
845 II, 34 | related by the one finds a counterpart in the spiritual and heavenly
846 II, 4 | cannot be wearied: 4717 he counteth iron as straw, and brass
847 I, 3(4266) | information relating to counting on the fingers, and for
848 II, 28 | of emperors, præfects and counts, tribunes and centurions,
849 I, 7 | your chaste conversation coupled with fear. Whose adorning
850 I, 48(4621)| portion of his wealth to a courtesan Nicopolis, and his death
851 I, 30 | comely.” 4456 Whilst thou coveredst thy countenance like Moses
852 I, 22 | or among those of a new covering, to signify the crowds of
853 I, 7 | by hunger from devouring cow-dung, I may allow him to eat
854 I, 43(4595)| reproaching her husband with cowardice, cast herself with her children
855 I, 49(4651)| VII. The water hemlock, or cowbane, is the variety referred
856 I, 41 | the scorpions, centaurs, crabs, fishes, and capricorn,
857 II, 3 | serpent beguiled Eve in his craftiness, your minds should be corrupted
858 II, 21 | Holy Scripture which our crafty opponent, with a perverse
859 II, 6 | the inflammation of gout. Cranes, storks, eagle’s gall, hawk’
860 I, 43(4595)| the feet of Scipio, and craved for pardon. His wife, standing
861 II, 19 | fertility of the soil need not create any difficulty, particularly
862 II, 12 | the closet? We wish to get credit for protracted abstinence,
863 I, 1(4257) | 1. 23.~Has quidem, pol, credo, nisi Sibylla legerit,~Interpretari
864 II, 13 | supported life on barley, cress, salt, and black bread.
865 II, 14 | the prophets of Jupiter in Crete abstained not only from
866 II, 25 | Pharisees and the people who cried out, 4878 “Crucify him,
867 I, 42(4592)| understanding gives us a safe criterion of truth.~
868 I, 32(4479)| untenable.” See Cheyne, critical note on Is. vii. 14. The
869 I, 42(4591)| from his teacher Apollonius Cronus.~
870 II, 26 | bad ground bear a triple crop, and the passage from the
871 II, 15 | trees and the produce of the crops, and herbs and vegetables
872 II, 5 | lower than the angels, and crownest him with glory and honour.
873 I, 38 | their solid foundation and crowning point. Against such there
874 I, 44 | defiance of the command of the cruel enemy, in the midst of strangers,
875 I, 49 | ill-tempered, foolhardy, cruelly imperious, servile flatterers,
876 I, 1 | contained in them, and would crush with evangelical and apostolic
877 I, 26 | account of the voice of one crying in the desert, 4428 “Prepare
878 II, 9 | trees, twittering birds, crystal fountains, murmuring brooks,
879 II, 6(4726) | accitus cum Flavio grammatico, cujus de Medicinalibus versu compositi
880 II, 25 | our viands are improved by culinary skill and are made more
881 I, 42 | case of Barbarians when cultured Greece supposed that Minerva
882 II, 6(4726) | Diocletiano principe accitus cum Flavio grammatico, cujus
883 I, 41 | the Sibyls of Erythræ and Cumæ, and the eight others? for
884 II, 29 | pantries, oil-cellars, and cupboards for the vessels. And so
885 I, 47 | kettles, wooden seats, cups, and earthenware pitchers,
886 II, 6 | the vulture has as many curative properties as it has limbs.
887 II, 6 | its dung and that of dogs cures gangrenous wounds. And (
888 II, 15(4786)| The curious custom of representing Moses
889 I, 47 | handsome hanger-on, to the curled darling who manages her
890 II, 36 | who is no stranger to the curling-irons, with his hair nicely done
891 I, 47 | gilded coaches. Then come curtain-lectures the livelong night: she
892 I, 11 | putting them away, so he cuts off from virgins the power
893 II, 5(4723) | V., and Jerome’s Letter cvii. ad Lætam c. 10, and below
894 I, 22(4384)| the time of Jerome (Letter cviii. 13). “Paula wondered greatly
895 I, 22(4390)| Ps. cxxviii. 3.~
896 II, 34(4924)| Ps. cxxxiv. 1.~
897 II, 5(4723) | ingerens. Casto Isidis et Cybeles eos adæquas. Compare Arnob.
898 II, 7 | named after animals Leonto, Cyno, Lyco, Busyris, Thmuis,
899 I, 4(4270) | Socrates, and founder of the Cyrenaic School of Philosophy; he
900 I, 45(4599)| Cyropædeia, Book vii.~
901 II, 12 | and sleek with well-dress’d hide,~Like any pig from
902 II, 6 | no one will snatch the dainties out of your mouth. Eat and
903 I, 40 | sleek skin, honey-wine and dainty dishes, for the sauces of 4563
904 II, 31 | In the lifetime of Bishop Damasus I dedicated to him a small
905 I, 42(4589)| Damo. Pythagoras is said to have
906 II, 7(4740) | allowed by Valens to cross the Danube, but war soon broke out
907 I, 39 | defilement, and despise dominion, daring, self-willed. For they,
908 I, 45 | Rhodogune, daughter of Darius, after the death of her
909 I, 47 | hanger-on, to the curled darling who manages her affairs,
910 I, 36 | the shield of truth the darts aimed at us. I can indeed
911 II, 14 | hand he is related to have dashed the cup to the ground, saying
912 I, 5 | unprofitable to discuss. At last he dashes into rhetoric and apostrophizes
913 I, 36(4507)| the fable, floated about, dashing against and rebounding from
914 II, 3(4688) | Various dates, ranging between a.d. 126
915 I, 48 | Leptis it is the custom for a daughter-in-law on 4630 the second day to
916 I, 48 | mothers-in-law hate their daughters-in-law?” We read of a certain Roman
917 I, 41 | virginity, the maidens inflicted deadly wounds on one another. Nor
918 II, 17 | chosen He thus teaches: “Deal thy bread to the hungry,
919 II, 21 | as I have maintained in dealing with 4845 his second proposition)
920 II, 19 | themselves, that is, like dear children, partakers of the
921 I, 41 | found that virginity is dearer to the pure in heart than
922 I, 11 | forbid divorce. And as he debars those who have wives from
923 II, 17 | ye fast for strife and debate, and to smite with the fist
924 II, 9 | enfeebled, and its purity debauched. For there is no good in
925 I, 12 | a wife is regarded as a debtor, and is said to be uncircumcised,
926 I, 27 | makes up for the loss and decay, of the root by the excellence
927 II, 7 | blackish heads, which breed in decayed wood. And as with us the
928 II, 6 | Though our outward man is decaying, yet our inward man is renewed
929 I, 43 | reluctant to survive the decease or violent death of their
930 II, 7 | who were beloved of the deceased. The Bactrians throw their
931 I, 38 | according to the lusts of deceit, and that blessing may be
932 II, 5 | and after the manner of deceivers said, I eat this, not that;
933 II, 9 | attendant on luxury, he deceives himself. For if it be the
934 I, 39 | adultery and insatiable lust, deceiving souls not yet strengthened
935 I, 14(4345)| happening. And certain Councils decided in the same sense, e.g.
936 II, 5 | sinners, because he did not decline the invitation of Zacchæus
937 II, 11 | on either to increase or decrease, and no animal can live
938 I, 6 | gave full replies. What he decreed we may regard as the law
939 I, 14 | even though she be a widow, decrepit, and in want, is not a worthy
940 II, 11 | vice? Let those persons deem meat accordant with health
941 I, 49 | rare among women, is too deeply rooted in the hearts of
942 II, 11 | strange to say, Epicurus, the defender of pleasure, in all his
943 I, 49 | all, of herself, since it defends her from external violation.
944 I, 35(4497)| Auth., though possibly defensible in the verb, is a needless
945 I, 26 | chosen, who was a virgin? Deference was paid to age, because
946 II, 15 | sentence of God, and in deferring the overthrow of his house
947 I, 39 | after they had escaped the defilements of the world through the
948 I, 15 | which a man may take is not defined, because when Christian
949 I, 13 | give to “unmarried” the definite meaning of “virgin,” so
950 I, 41 | Theban virgin who had been deflowered by a Macedonian foe, and
951 I, 49 | her riches, redeems her deformity, gives grace to her beauty;
952 II, 28 | priests who have sinned are degraded to the rank of sacristans
953 I, 49(4649)| distinguishing title from the deity to whom he ministered, e.g.
954 II, 4 | 4. I delayed for a little while the production
955 II, 5(4723) | which were considered a delicacy in Pontus and Phrygia. The
956 II, 37 | accuse me of luxurious and delicate living: you would like me
957 I, 12 | wherewith they were temporarily delighted. The Lord, when tempted
958 II, 12 | pain.”~And when, in the delightful retirement of the country,
959 I, 32(4479)| Delitzsch remarks, “The assertion
960 I, 8 | Does not the Apostle, after delivering him, in his first Epistle
961 I, 41(4576)| or plague, the oracle at Delphi demanded that his daughters
962 II, 17 | resurrection should be thought a delusion. And this is why Lazarus
963 II, 15 | tames lions, terrifies demons! Habakkuk (although we do
964 I, 48 | Macedon, against whom 4625 Demosthenes thundered in his Philippics,
965 I, 41 | The virgin daughter of Demotion, chief of the Areopagites,
966 II, 15 | terror to the lions in their den. How fair a thing is that
967 II, 3(4688) | secular life in general, denounced profane learning and amusements
968 II, 14 | Orpheus in his song utterly denounces the eating of flesh. I might
969 II, 11(4764)| Curius Dentatus, Consul b.c. 290 with P.
970 I, Int | the New Testaments.~3. A denunciation of Jovinianus (c. 40), and
971 I, 38 | us, to the intent that, denying ungodliness and worldly
972 II, 15 | Lord which made him, and departed from the God of his salvation.”
973 II, 7 | in wedlock, and in every department of life, each race follows
974 II, 15 | They spake of his departure which he was about to accomplish
975 I, 49 | conceding second marriage to depraved women, they will read that
976 I, 3 | upper finger signifies their depression, and the greater the difficulty
977 II, 36 | Your virgins whom, with a depth of wisdom never found before
978 II, 7 | Massagetæ and 4745 Derbices think those persons most
979 I, 34 | possessions, and the Pharisees derided an utterance such as this
980 I, 35(4497)| under any circumstances the derivative translation Vigilant, Auth.,
981 II, 5(4718) | That is, deriving jumenta from juvo. The derivation,
982 II, 33 | the High Priest dies and descending into hell liberates their
983 I, 30 | comes to earth, suffers, descends to the lower world, and
984 I, 43(4595)| and his family, with 900 deserters and desperadoes, retired
985 II, 23 | equal rewards to unequal deserts. Afterwards we read, 4863 “
986 II, 37 | unhappy creatures! though they deserve no pity, who chant the words
987 I, 3(4264) | sentence being probably designed to be a Christian proverb,
988 I, 14 | excusable which in itself is not desirable, so to avoid this same fornication,
989 II, 32 | kings and prophets have desired to see the things that we
990 I, 37 | flesh. The Apostle being desirous to withdraw us from the
991 I, 32 | are the children of the desolate, than the children of the
992 I, 41 | who, when the Gauls spread desolation far and wide, that they
993 I, 43(4595)| with 900 deserters and desperadoes, retired into the temple
994 II, 25 | fear, He will set to the despisers and the false prophets.
995 I, 44 | to the glory of chastity despises the flames which are burning
996 I, 3 | precious than silver? Or is despite done to tree and corn, if
997 II, 2 | those whose baptism had been destitute of the true faith: but what
998 I, 28 | wood, so a wicked woman destroyeth her husband.” But if you
999 II, 12 | repletion. For nothing is so destructive to the mind as a full belly,
1000 I, 6 | skirmishes in which I meet small detachments of my opponents. The battle
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