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1 7(4973) | Ps. cxix. 105.~ ~
2 12 | 12. I confess my own fear,
3 15 | 15. Let me add that our monks
4 13(4976)| Acts 24:17, 18.~ ~
5 Int | His Times,” published in 1844 by Dr. Gilly, canon of Durham.
6 15(4984)| Matt. 20:16, Matt. 22:14.~ ~
7 13(4976)| Acts 24:17, 18.~ ~
8 6(4959) | Ex. xxxii. 30 sqq.~ ~
9 1(4944) | Isa. 13:21, 22, Isa. 34:14.~ ~
10 6(4961) | Acts xxvii. 37.~ ~
11 Int | remark that he was born about 370, at Calagurris, near Convenæ (
12 Int | living at Bethlehem, in 395) through Paulinus of Nola,
13 Int | p. 417 Introduction.~Full details
14 2 | nay, rather, who show p. 418 clearly what measure of
15 5 | something or other which you p. 419 carry about in a little
16 6 | border on Iberia, you p. 420 follow the incredible marvels
17 8 | of the Church; it has p. 421 slept or rather been buried
18 11 | of the brethren. Such p. 422 are the adversaries of the
19 14 | received is grieved, p. 423 that while sowing spiritual
20 6(4960) | Acts 7:59, 60.~ ~
21 6(4960) | Acts 7:59, 60.~ ~
22 Int | was written in the year a.d. 406; not “hastily, under
23 2 | continency, or, if married, abandon their conjugal rights? Such
24 13 | of the holy places who, abandoning their own little possessions
25 7 | therefore the ceremony is to be abhorred; in the other the martyrs
26 9 | argue that they ought to be abjured, lest we seem to be often
27 6 | Apostles and martyrs have their abode either in the bosom of Abraham,
28 7 | says: 4969 “Let every one abound in his own meaning.” Do
29 8 | come to pray and they were absent, they could not hear?” Oh,
30 12 | cheek pale from prolonged abstinence, show forth the chastity
31 13 | in distress, but that the abundance of some may support the
32 2 | the Apostolic Seat, which accept for the ministry only men
33 7 | her heart’s devotion was accepted. All those who light these
34 7 | evidencing our joy. 4970 And accordingly the virgins in the Gospel
35 13 | but to give relief; not to accumulate wealth, but to support the
36 14 | increase of their property, act more wisely than they who
37 11 | to our minds the story of Adam and Eve in Paradise; they,
38 15 | 15. Let me add that our monks are not to
39 2 | their mothers, will not administer to them Christ’s ordinance.
40 10 | must be worthy of greater admiration because they were so powerful
41 6 | Ecclesiastes, if I admitted that Paul is dead in spirit.
42 7 | according to knowledge”—adopt the practice in honour of
43 4 | such honour, not to say adoration, to the thing, whatever
44 5 | Madman, who in the world ever adored the martyrs? who ever thought
45 5 | Christ? They were forsooth, adoring Samuel and not Christ, whose
46 9 | Easter-tide for fear that adulterers may satisfy their long pent-up
47 10 | nights together, had his adulterous connection with Alcmena,
48 10 | question now were for whose advantage they occur, not by what
49 15 | to anticipate our Lord’s advent. Knowing his own weakness
50 11 | brethren. Such p. 422 are the adversaries of the Church; these are
51 10 | torments. Let me give you my advice: go to the basilicas of
52 13 | his Epistles in which he advocates and urges with all his heart
53 13 | may be cherished by the aid of the synagogues and of
54 10 | adulterous connection with Alcmena, and thus begat the mighty
55 11 | but you, who were stripped alike of your shirt and of your
56 Int | burning of numerous tapers. alleged miracles, etc.; (3) the
57 1 | says, are to be condemned; Alleluia must never be sung except
58 7 | ceremony is therefore to be allowed. Throughout the whole Eastern
59 | almost
60 8 | tombs worthy to be Christ’s altars? And not only is the bishop
61 10 | according to Plautus’s “Amphitryon,” slept while Jupiter, two
62 1 | forth with more grief than amusement, for I cannot restrain myself
63 6 | incredible marvels of the ancient heretic 4966 Basilides and
64 5 | transferred the sacred relics of Andrew, Luke, and Timothy to Constantinople?
65 12 | superstition. When I have been angry, or have had evil thoughts
66 1 | Dormitantius, has arisen, animated by an unclean spirit, to
67 9 | treachery of Judas did not annul the loyalty of the Apostles.
68 15 | world, and with terror to anticipate our Lord’s advent. Knowing
69 8(4974) | i.e. antidote to the scorpion’s bite.~ ~
70 6 | when they ought still to be anxious for themselves, how much
71 6 | murderers, but are kept apart in liberal and honourable
72 6 | and you bring before me an apocryphal book which, under the name
73 2 | and those belonging to the Apostolic Seat, which accept for the
74 1 | The words may be justly applied to him: 4945 “Seed of evil-doers,
75 16 | respecting lust we must apply to avarice, and to all vices
76 15 | virginity would not deserve our approbation. For if all were virgins,
77 Int | station on the Roman road from Aquitaine to Spain. His father was
78 6(4965) | occurs in the Ethiopic and Arabic versions, not in the Latin.
79 5 | present day is the Emperor Arcadius guilty of sacrilege, who
80 9 | presbyter Riparius. You argue that they ought to be abjured,
81 Int | points against which he argued as being superstitious are: (
82 10 | tracts of Vigilantius. He argues against the signs and miracles
83 6 | for six hundred thousand armed men; and 4960 Stephen, the
84 16 | line of battle, put on your armour and resist your foes, so
85 2 | and infants wailing in the arms of their mothers, will not
86 4 | ancestors the Vectones, the Arrabaci, and the Celtiberians, he
87 1 | David and Jeduthun, and Asaph and the sons of Core, except
88 8 | inasmuch as God, who does not ask for the blood of goats and
89 1 | with the Catholic faith; he assails virginity and hates chastity;
90 3 | inclination to his vices, assent to his blasphemies. He is
91 8 | are taken as meaning to assert it. For in maintaining that
92 Int | It will perhaps, however, assist the reader if we briefly
93 7(4969) | 5. Let each man be fully assured in his own mind. R.V.~ ~
94 4 | brigand practices by his attack upon the Church of God.
95 Int | the martyrs, with their attendant scandals, the burning of
96 5 | a man.” And have you the audacity to speak of “the mysterious
97 Int | But in spite of this the author was followed by the chief
98 6 | though they 4958 cry for the avenging of their blood, have never
99 16 | the victory. If I flee, I avoid the sword; if I stand, I
100 8 | long time, but has been now awakened by Dormitantius. I am surprised
101 11 | the middle of the night awoke us all out of our sleep,
102 10 | by this worthless dust, aye, and is being tortured at
103 10 | or at all events Father Bacchus, of drunken fame, with the
104 9 | done be good, it cannot be bad if often done; and if there
105 9 | And if others keep vigil badly, our vigils are not thereby
106 6 | intention to confront me with Balsamus, and Barbelus, and the Thesaurus
107 8 | monster, who ought to be banished to the ends of the earth!
108 1 | sons of Core, except at the banqueting table. This I have poured
109 7 | their hands. And of John Baptist we read, 4972 “He was the
110 3 | his blasphemies. He is a barbarian both in speech and knowledge.
111 6 | confront me with Balsamus, and Barbelus, and the Thesaurus of Manichæus,
112 5 | sacrilegious, but silly into the bargain, because they carried that
113 11 | such are the mad dogs which bark at the disciples of Christ.~
114 6 | the ancient heretic 4966 Basilides and his so-called knowledge,
115 16 | run away. Stand in line of battle, put on your armour and
116 16 | not lead me captive: that beauty may not lead me to unlawful
117 15 | would lie awake in his bed. The truth is, virtue is
118 10 | connection with Alcmena, and thus begat the mighty Hercules; or
119 15 | lose their pay and turn beggars; and Dormitantius, all alone
120 Int | for a considerable time he begged to be dismissed, and left
121 12 | phantom of the night has beguiled me, I do not dare to enter
122 6 | his dissolution, he has begun to be with Christ, must
123 5 | with as much joy as if they beheld a living prophet in the
124 1 | describes Leviathan and Behemoth; Cerberus and the birds
125 12 | commended to the holy Apostles. Belch out your shame, if you will,
126 1 | breathed out, or rather belched out his spirit. And now
127 10 | the unbelieving, not to believers, as though the question
128 10 | power. Granted that signs belong to the faithless, who, because
129 2 | Egyptian Churches and those belonging to the Apostolic Seat, which
130 8 | because, as the scorpion bends itself like a bow to inflict
131 13 | sent to Jerusalem for the benefit of the saints. Now, if I
132 | beside
133 | between
134 2 | Dormitantius and his friends: 4950 “Bind the jaws of them who draw
135 1 | Behemoth; Cerberus and the birds of Stymphalus, the Erymanthian
136 1 | 1. The world has given birth to many monsters; in 4944
137 1(4946) | but not the same as the birthplace of Vigilantius.~ ~
138 9 | fault to be avoided, the blame lies not in its being done
139 5 | dead body, and therefore blaspheme. Read the Gospel— 4955 “
140 5 | be no restraint on your blasphemy) what you mean by the phrase “
141 1 | of old, he is trying to blend his perfidious poison with
142 7 | dawn, lest we should be blind like you and sleep in darkness.
143 1 | Stymphalus, the Erymanthian boar and the Nemean lion, the
144 8 | cannot find an occasion of boasting even in supposing that you
145 1 | produced Geryon, with his three bodies. Gaul alone has had no monsters,
146 2 | which in youth is mostly at boiling point, or rather slakes
147 11 | fumes of your last night’s booze still hanging about you,
148 6 | foot of the Pyrenees, and border on Iberia, you p. 420 follow
149 6 | their abode either in the bosom of Abraham, or in the place
150 | both
151 8 | scorpion bends itself like a bow to inflict its wound, so
152 10 | foaming lips, and unbridled brawling.~
153 1 | pheasants and swine’s flesh, breathed out, or rather belched out
154 11 | manner to the eyes of the brethren. Such p. 422 are the adversaries
155 2 | near unto thee with bit and bridle.”~
156 9 | martyrs, I have given a brief reply in another letter 4975
157 Int | assist the reader if we briefly remark that he was born
158 4 | he has carried on their brigand practices by his attack
159 4 | the throne, with all the brightness of His majesty, gives them
160 8 | for your heresy long ago broke out against the Church.
161 15 | something, and it fall and be broken. Hence he shuns the sight
162 2 | wherein we differ from the brute creation, or from horses,
163 8 | according to you, the sacred buildings are like the sepulchres
164 8 | for the blood of goats and bulls, much less requires the
165 8 | 421 slept or rather been buried for a long time, but has
166 7 | He was the lamp that burneth and shineth”; so that, under
167 1 | fables. Virgil describes Cacus. Spain has produced Geryon,
168 8 | formerly called the heresy of Cain pours poison into the body
169 8 | maintain that the Paraclete came into Montanus, and say that
170 2 | all men, and, unless the candidates for ordination appear before
171 7 | Gospel is to be read the candles are lighted, although the
172 Int | published in 1844 by Dr. Gilly, canon of Durham. It will perhaps,
173 16 | the harlot nay not lead me captive: that beauty may not lead
174 14 | things he must reap your carnal things. As for his argument
175 15 | frailty of the vessel which he carries, he is afraid of stumbling,
176 1 | perfidious poison with the Catholic faith; he assails virginity
177 13 | that I am pleading my own cause. You, forsooth, were so
178 10 | you are so sad and what causes your fear. That unclean
179 2 | previously married; who credit no celibate with chastity—nay, rather,
180 16 | has a monk in the women’s cells? What is the meaning of
181 4 | Vectones, the Arrabaci, and the Celtiberians, he makes his raids upon
182 1 | in 4944 Isaiah we read of centaurs and sirens, screech-owls
183 Int | unchecked till the sixteenth century.~
184 1 | Leviathan and Behemoth; Cerberus and the birds of Stymphalus,
185 4 | 4. He certainly well represents his race.
186 16 | is there for me to let go certainties and follow after uncertainties?
187 6 | you put the Apostles into chains? So that to the day of judgment
188 5 | people from Palestine to Chalcedon with one voice re-echoing
189 Int | business. He was of a studious character, and Sulpicius Severus,
190 15 | young women, and so far chastens himself as to dread even
191 1(4947) | Combining the cheating tavern-keeper with the heretic.~ ~
192 12 | chastity, and who, with the cheek pale from prolonged abstinence,
193 7 | by their solace we would cheer the darkness of the night,
194 1 | smacks his lips over his cheese-cakes; nor could he deign to listen
195 13 | except the Lord alone, may be cherished by the aid of the synagogues
196 17 | wife is seen to be with child.~ ~ ~
197 1 | evil-doers, prepare thy children for the slaughter because
198 1 | and the Nemean lion, the Chimæra and the many-headed Hydra,
199 16 | so much by nature as by choice.~
200 3 | possibly, in his malice, he may choose once more to misrepresent
201 15 | Many are called, few are chosen.” The prison would be empty.
202 6 | of his Lord and the first Christian martyr, entreats pardon
203 4 | bearing his own name, between Cilicia and Isauria. That city,
204 4 | East. After overcoming the Cilician and Isaurian pirates and
205 16 | keep clear of the crowded cities, that we may not be compelled
206 9(4975) | Letter CIX.~ ~
207 2 | holiness of life they can claim by indulging in evil suspicions
208 10 | and some day you will be cleansed; you will find there many
209 16 | solitude. We therefore keep clear of the crowded cities, that
210 4 | quarters (I mean those whom Cn. Pompey, after the conquest
211 6 | sight shut up in a 4957 coffin, from whence they cannot
212 3 | and declamatory powers in combating it, like the letter 4951
213 1(4947) | Combining the cheating tavern-keeper
214 9 | something of the kind usually comes to light; but the faults
215 3 | ever learning and never coming to a knowledge of the truth,
216 13 | to Paul and Barnabas, and commanded them to remember the poor,
217 12 | our Lord and Saviour, were commended to the holy Apostles. Belch
218 Int | Calagurris, near Convenæ (Comminges), which was a station on
219 14 | supporting the poor of the common people, what is needed is
220 13 | so generous to the whole community that if you had not come
221 17 | behalf and in behalf of his companions, whether they be disciples
222 Int | began to spread widely. Complaints having reached Jerome through
223 10 | and though in your case he conceals his wounds, in others he
224 6 | although it is written concerning them, 4956 “They follow
225 15 | urge sinners to virtuous conduct? Similarly, if all were
226 10 | wounds, in others he makes confession. You will hardly follow
227 16 | I may not be engaged in conflict with you; that the eye of
228 6 | hardly be your intention to confront me with Balsamus, and Barbelus,
229 2 | if married, abandon their conjugal rights? Such is the teaching
230 10 | together, had his adulterous connection with Alcmena, and thus begat
231 4 | whom Cn. Pompey, after the conquest of Spain, when he was hastening
232 8 | Eunomius, whose books they consider are of more authority than
233 Int | staying with Jerome for a considerable time he begged to be dismissed,
234 5 | Are all the bishops to be considered not only sacrilegious, but
235 5 | Andrew, Luke, and Timothy to Constantinople? In their presence the demons
236 5 | Apostles? Was the Emperor Constantius I. guilty of sacrilege when
237 3 | seem to have treated with contempt the letters of the reverend
238 2 | virgins, or those who practice continency, or, if married, abandon
239 13 | hunger. And this custom continues in Judea to the present
240 4 | of the cross, but, on the contrary, the ensign of the devil.
241 13 | that is, on the Lord’s day, contributions should be made by every
242 4(4952) | From convenio, to come together.~ ~
243 16(4985)| ladies as Mothers of the Convents, so as to be able to frequent
244 16 | is the meaning of secret conversation and looks which shun the
245 5 | after so long a time has conveyed the bones of the blessed
246 13(4979)| 2 Cor. viii. 14.~ ~
247 1 | and Asaph and the sons of Core, except at the banqueting
248 5 | respecting Peter, who, when Cornelius wished to adore him, raised
249 7 | that, under the figure of corporeal light, that light is represented
250 1 | Pythagoras, so in this fellow the corrupt mind of Jovinianus has arisen;
251 1 | ever been rich in men of courage and great eloquence. All
252 7 | reddening the sky, not of course to scatter the darkness,
253 15 | infants would not cry in their cradles; midwives would lose their
254 2 | we differ from the brute creation, or from horses, respecting
255 14 | habitations.” What! Can those poor creatures, with their rags and filth,
256 2 | previously married; who credit no celibate with chastity—
257 4 | carrying the standard of the cross, but, on the contrary, the
258 16 | therefore keep clear of the crowded cities, that we may not
259 16 | overcome, you may wear the crown.” I confess my weakness.
260 6 | once they have won their crowns, overcome, and triumphed?
261 6 | in liberal and honourable custody in the isles of the blessed
262 9 | appear not to observe the customary yearly vigils. If so, then
263 7(4973) | Ps. cxix. 105.~ ~
264 3(4951) | Letter CXVII.~ ~
265 12 | has beguiled me, I do not dare to enter the basilicas of
266 3 | relating to a mother and daughter who were at variance. This
267 16 | no older than sisters and daughters, 4985 and we do not blush
268 7 | misrepresent us, light them in the daytime, but by their solace we
269 2 | called bishops—who ordain no deacons but such as have been previously
270 1 | restrain myself and turn a deaf ear to the wrongs inflicted
271 1 | revels with worldlings and declaims against the fasts of the
272 3 | showing off my rhetorical and declamatory powers in combating it,
273 Int | Origen, and in other ways defaming him and his friends, wrote
274 3 | style is rude. He cannot defend even the truth; but, for
275 13 | those same letters that, in defiance of the authority of Paul,
276 8 | in a cloth,” defiled and defiling all else. Thus, according
277 1 | cheese-cakes; nor could he deign to listen to the songs of
278 14 | and needy; the Lord shall deliver him in the evil day.” But
279 17 | Sisinnius is hastening his departure for Egypt, where he has
280 12 | may smile, perhaps, and deride this as on a level with
281 16 | you will say, go to the desert? The reason is plain: That
282 15 | argument, virginity would not deserve our approbation. For if
283 3 | presbyters Riparius and Desiderius, who write that their parishes
284 16 | Holy love has no restless desire. Moreover, what we have
285 9 | satisfy their long pent-up desires, or that the wife may find
286 8 | of the whole world, who, despite the tavern-keeper Vigilantius,
287 Int | 417 Introduction.~Full details respecting Vigilantius,
288 9 | women such as are often detected at night. It is true that,
289 15 | our monks are not to be deterred from their resolution by
290 13(4978)| Deut. xviii. 2 sq.~ ~
291 5 | demons cry out, and the devils who dwell in Vigilantius
292 17 | as I have said, I have devoted to the dictation of these
293 7 | Christ, and her heart’s devotion was accepted. All those
294 13 | up through the night your diabolical vigils and drunken revels.
295 3 | little treatise, which I now dictate, is due to the reverend
296 17 | said, I have devoted to the dictation of these remarks the labour
297 6 | one another; but once we die, the prayer of no person
298 2 | swine, nothing wherein we differ from the brute creation,
299 Int | single night’s labour, is directed, may be found in a work
300 Int | considerable time he begged to be dismissed, and left in great haste
301 17 | and if he thinks fit to disparage me with that same blasphemous
302 6 | ship; and when, after his dissolution, he has begun to be with
303 13 | refreshed while others are in distress, but that the abundance
304 14 | keep what they have, and distribute among the poor, little by
305 16 | see you; that I may not be disturbed by your madness; that I
306 6 | easily by these melancholy ditties to stimulate the ignorant
307 10 | would not obey the word and doctrine, are brought to believe
308 6 | Shall Vigilantius the live dog be better than Paul the
309 6(4965) | rejected in later times for dogmatic reasons.~ ~
310 11 | rather, such are the mad dogs which bark at the disciples
311 14 | And we do not deny that doles should be distributed to
312 2 | and by his encouragement doubles the natural heat of the
313 14 | eternal habitations? No doubt it is not the poor simply,
314 Int | Times,” published in 1844 by Dr. Gilly, canon of Durham.
315 2 | Bind the jaws of them who draw not near unto thee with
316 15 | far chastens himself as to dread even what is safe.~
317 Int | work of Vigilantius which drew from Jerome the following
318 1 | village is a Quintilian, only dumb instead of eloquent, is 4947
319 Int | 1844 by Dr. Gilly, canon of Durham. It will perhaps, however,
320 5 | out, and the devils who dwell in Vigilantius confess that
321 1 | restrain myself and turn a deaf ear to the wrongs inflicted
322 11 | 11. Once, when a sudden earthquake in this province in the
323 6 | in your taverns, the more easily by these melancholy ditties
324 9 | so we should not watch at Easter-tide for fear that adulterers
325 7 | allowed. Throughout the whole Eastern Church, even when there
326 9 | the custom of having many Easters instead of one. We must
327 6(4962) | Eccles. 9.4.~ ~
328 6 | in saying so after 4962 Ecclesiastes, if I admitted that Paul
329 Int | and Sulpicius Severus, the ecclesiastical historian, who had estates
330 Int | was followed by the chief ecclesiastics of the day, and the practices
331 17 | hastening his departure for Egypt, where he has relief to
332 1 | men of courage and great eloquence. All at once Vigilantius,
333 1 | Quintilian, only dumb instead of eloquent, is 4947 mixing water with
334 | else
335 6 | isles of the blessed and the Elysian fields. Will you lay down
336 10 | traverse all the topics embraced in the letters of the reverend
337 16 | not lead me to unlawful embraces. You will reply: “This is
338 15 | chosen.” The prison would be empty. But, indeed, a monk’s function
339 2 | neck of lust, and by his encouragement doubles the natural heat
340 8 | ought to be banished to the ends of the earth! do you laugh
341 4 | but, on the contrary, the ensign of the devil. Pompey did
342 6 | and when once they have entered on their life with Christ,
343 3 | reverend persons who have entreated me to undertake the task.~
344 6 | first Christian martyr, entreats pardon for his persecutors;
345 13 | that there may be 4979 equality—not that some may be refreshed
346 9 | pious men the faults and errors of youths and worthless
347 1 | birds of Stymphalus, the Erymanthian boar and the Nemean lion,
348 6 | from whence they cannot escape? You say, in your pamphlet,
349 14 | given to all, indeed, 4980 especially, however, to those who are
350 Int | poverty; (4) the exaggerated estimate of virginity.~The bishop
351 | etc
352 14 | now or hereafter, have eternal habitations? No doubt it
353 6(4965) | The passage occurs in the Ethiopic and Arabic versions, not
354 1 | hot-bed of lust. And as Euphorbus is said to have been born
355 11 | minds the story of Adam and Eve in Paradise; they, indeed,
356 14 | who may receive you into everlasting habitations.” What! Can
357 | everyone
358 7 | darkness, but by way of evidencing our joy. 4970 And accordingly
359 11 | your nakedness in only too evident a manner to the eyes of
360 1 | applied to him: 4945 “Seed of evil-doers, prepare thy children for
361 6(4959) | Ex. xxxii. 30 sqq.~ ~
362 Int | vow of poverty; (4) the exaggerated estimate of virginity.~The
363 14 | poor the mind has blessed exercises, since you give to one who
364 8 | uncleanliness. And then he dares to expectorate his filth upon the subject
365 11 | you, showed your wisdom by exposing your nakedness in only too
366 Int | presbyter Riparius, he at once expressed his indignation, and offered
367 5 | they are not, to use your expression, kept in honourable confinement.~
368 Int | The bishop of the diocese, Exsuperius of Toulouse, was strongly
369 16 | conflict with you; that the eye of the harlot nay not lead
370 1 | Hydra, are told of in poetic fables. Virgil describes Cacus.
371 10 | shoulder, with his ever ruby face, foaming lips, and unbridled
372 14 | in the evil day.” But the fact is, in supporting the poor
373 13 | the holy places for the faithful; not to gratify avarice,
374 10 | Father Bacchus, of drunken fame, with the tankard hanging
375 8 | learned man, who wrote a famous treatise which he called
376 12 | on a level with the wild fancies of weak women. If it be
377 15 | particularly of young women, and so far chastens himself as to dread
378 12 | men of the world, I will fast with women; yea, with religious
379 13 | continence, sobriety, and fasting strike root among the people
380 1 | and declaims against the fasts of the saints; he plays
381 9 | done; and if there is some fault to be avoided, the blame
382 Int | Toulouse, was strongly in favour of the views of Vigilantius,
383 Int | spreading reports of him as favouring the views of Origen, and
384 6 | by you and those of your feather, and in this book it is 4965
385 5 | Vigilantius confess that they feel the influence of the saints.
386 10 | not really cry out, but feign their torments. Let me give
387 13 | speaking to the governor Felix, he says, 4976 “After many
388 1 | of Pythagoras, so in this fellow the corrupt mind of Jovinianus
389 13 | who gave the right hand of fellowship to Paul and Barnabas, and
390 Int | provocation such as he may have felt in leaving Bethlehem.” but
391 6 | blessed and the Elysian fields. Will you lay down the law
392 7 | shineth”; so that, under the figure of corporeal light, that
393 8 | while within they have filthy remains, and are full of
394 10 | yourself, and will be set on fire, not by the martyrs’ tapers
395 10 | offend you, but by invisible flames; and you will then confess
396 16 | I lose the victory. If I flee, I avoid the sword; if I
397 10 | with his ever ruby face, foaming lips, and unbridled brawling.~
398 4 | but Gaul supports a native foe, and sees seated in the
399 16 | your armour and resist your foes, so that, having overcome,
400 Int | spite of this the author was followed by the chief ecclesiastics
401 6 | men; and 4960 Stephen, the follower of his Lord and the first
402 8 | the Church? For all his followers refuse to enter the basilicas
403 Int | which drew from Jerome the following treatise was written in
404 5 | people of all the Churches fools, because they went to meet
405 6 | slept. And the Apostle 4964 forbids the Thessalonians to be
406 10 | That unclean spirit who forces you to write these things
407 9 | but the faults of a few form no argument against religion
408 8 | remains, and are full of foul smells and uncleanliness.
409 4 | pirates and brigands, he founded a city, bearing his own
410 15 | his own weakness and the frailty of the vessel which he carries,
411 10 | what you now deny, and will freely proclaim your name—that
412 9 | on the Lord’s day lest we frequently keep the Easter of our Lord’
413 Int | Paulinus of Nola, who was the friend of Sulpicius Severus. After
414 7(4969) | xiv. 5. Let each man be fully assured in his own mind.
415 11 | overwhelmed you, and with the fumes of your last night’s booze
416 15 | empty. But, indeed, a monk’s function is not to teach, but to
417 10 | either Mercury, for greedy of gain was he; or Nocturnus, who,
418 14(4980)| Gal. vi. 10.~ ~
419 4 | down from the Pyrenees and gathered together into one town,
420 13 | Peter, John, and James, who gave the right hand of fellowship
421 9 | argument against religion in general, and such persons, without
422 13 | You, forsooth, were so generous to the whole community that
423 1 | Cacus. Spain has produced Geryon, with his three bodies.
424 13 | training in his own faith, the gifts he had received from others?
425 Int | published in 1844 by Dr. Gilly, canon of Durham. It will
426 7 | told to have their loins girded, and their lamps burning
427 Int | left in great haste without giving any reason. Returning to
428 4 | they think, are to be made glorious by trumpery tapers, when
429 6(4966) | The chief of the Egyptian Gnostics.~ ~
430 8 | not ask for the blood of goats and bulls, much less requires
431 6 | the Lamb, whithersoever he goeth.” If the Lamb is present
432 5 | ashes, wrapped in silk in golden vessel? Are the people of
433 17 | and is impatient to be gone. If it were not so, however,
434 9 | if a thing once done be good, it cannot be bad if often
435 8 | more authority than the Gospels; and they believe that the
436 13 | Apostles, when speaking to the governor Felix, he says, 4976 “After
437 10 | occur, not by what power. Granted that signs belong to the
438 10 | faithless, but must be worthy of greater admiration because they
439 10 | really either Mercury, for greedy of gain was he; or Nocturnus,
440 1 | have poured forth with more grief than amusement, for I cannot
441 14 | when he has received is grieved, p. 423 that while sowing
442 5 | not bound up with rags or hair-cloth, or thrown on the midden,
443 7 | their lamps burning in their hands. And of John Baptist we
444 8 | are always present, lest haply if any one come to pray
445 10 | that they subdued even the hardest hearts, and compelled men
446 16 | you; that the eye of the harlot nay not lead me captive:
447 7 | honour of the martyrs, what harm is thereby done to you?
448 | hast
449 Int | dismissed, and left in great haste without giving any reason.
450 Int | the year a.d. 406; not “hastily, under provocation such
451 1 | he assails virginity and hates chastity; he revels with
452 4 | Church a man who has lost his head and who ought to be put
453 4 | the sun is still shining, heaps of tapers are lighted, and
454 Int | his native country. Jerome hearing that he was spreading reports
455 10 | subdued even the hardest hearts, and compelled men to believe.
456 2 | encouragement doubles the natural heat of the flesh, which in youth
457 13 | among us, but also among the Hebrews, so that they who 4977 meditate
458 | Hence
459 10 | and thus begat the mighty Hercules; or at all events Father
460 | here
461 | hereafter
462 8 | was in him just as other heretics maintain that the Paraclete
463 4 | the strait-jacket which Hippocrates recommended. Among other
464 Int | Severus, the ecclesiastical historian, who had estates in those
465 2 | clearly what measure of holiness of life they can claim by
466 16 | I would not fight in the hope of victory, lest some time
467 2 | David: 4949 “Be ye not like horse and mule which have no understanding.”
468 1 | is a heresy; chastity a hot-bed of lust. And as Euphorbus
469 14 | to those who are of the household of faith. And respecting
470 9 | wrong either in their own houses or in those of other people.
471 8 | martyrs love their ashes, and hover round them, and are always
472 13 | and to stave off cold and hunger. And this custom continues
473 9 | turned against her by her husband. The occasions which seldom
474 1 | Chimæra and the many-headed Hydra, are told of in poetic fables.
475 8(4974) | i.e. antidote to the scorpion’
476 6 | Pyrenees, and border on Iberia, you p. 420 follow the incredible
477 5 | because, under the mistaken ideas of the Gentiles, the honour
478 7 | you call men of this sort idolaters? I do not deny, that all
479 7 | passed from the error of idolatry. For we are not born Christians,
480 6 | knowledge, which is mere ignorance, and set forth what is condemned
481 6 | you like, you may read the imaginary revelations of all the patriarchs
482 13 | reply to this, you will immediately give tongue and cry out
483 17 | give to the saints, and is impatient to be gone. If it were not
484 10 | hardly follow the heathen and impious Porphyry and Eunomius, and
485 9 | one. We must not, however, impute to pious men the faults
486 3 | are found who, from their inclination to his vices, assent to
487 14 | poor, little by little, the increase of their property, act more
488 6 | Iberia, you p. 420 follow the incredible marvels of the ancient heretic 4966
489 2 | of life they can claim by indulging in evil suspicions of all
490 13 | of the world, and in the infant Churches which he was training
491 8 | bends itself like a bow to inflict its wound, so what was formerly
492 1 | a deaf ear to the wrongs inflicted on apostles and martyrs.~
493 5 | confess that they feel the influence of the saints. And at the
494 Int | probably the keeper of the inn, and Vigilantius appears
495 6 | receive? It can hardly be your intention to confront me with Balsamus,
496 2 | or rather slakes it by intercourse with women; so that there
497 9 | Lord’s Resurrection, and introduce the custom of having many
498 Int | p. 417 Introduction.~Full details respecting
499 8 | supposing that you are the inventor of a new kind of wickedness,
500 10 | which offend you, but by invisible flames; and you will then
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