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1 III | in the following words, "0 Lord, if I am still necessary
2 I(8) | It appears from Dial. II. 1, that there might be two
3 I(1) | Esssays on Miracles, p. 127, 209, &c. ~
4 I(5) | s own words in Rom. xi. 13-e0w\ e0qnw=n a0po/stoloj.~
5 II(4) | Compare Rev. vii. 14.~
6 I(1) | remarks (Church History, II. 193), "I should be ashamed,
7 I(6) | mistaken inference from 2 Cor. xi. 25. The construction
8 I(1) | Esssays on Miracles, p. 127, 209, &c. ~
9 II(6) | Roman emperor, a.d.. 249-251; his full name was C.
10 I(6) | inference from 2 Cor. xi. 25. The construction of the
11 II(6) | Roman emperor, a.d.. 249-251; his full name was C. Messius
12 I(3) | Acts xxviii. 4.~
13 I(2) | St. Matt. xxvii. 42.~
14 II(6) | Roman emperor, a.d.. 249-251; his full name
15 I(5) | Rom. xi. 13-e0w\ e0qnw=n a0po/stoloj.~
16 III | he nevertheless did not abandon the work of God. Continuing
17 I | clerics had prepared an abode for him in the private7
18 | above
19 II | console myself. He will not be absent from us; believe me, he
20 III | was the choir of virgins, abstaining out of modesty from weeping;
21 II | into tears, I wept most abundantly. Nay, ever now, as I write
22 I(1) | it appears impossible to accept the theory of willful deception
23 I | passed through it with true acceptance.9 ~
24 I(1) | that he could hardly have accepted fictions for facts, or failed
25 I | readers. And indeed, his achievements were not of so limited a
26 I | that very work I openly acknowledged that I had not embraced
27 I(1) | then, he was so intimately acquainted with the subject of his
28 III | picture of how the demons act: they lie in wait for the
29 I(7) | ad dioecesim quandam": it seems
30 I | faith. and prayer. He also added that the flames raged around
31 I(1) | of the friend he so much admired and loved. Altogether, this
32 II | page being now filled, can admit no more. This, however,
33 III(5) | reading "sine dilectu ullo," adopted by Halm, seems preferable
34 I | but shall relate the whole affair as it occurred, lest I should
35 III(8) | There is clearly some affectation in the horror which Sulpitius
36 III | desolate." Then Martin, affected by these lamentations, as
37 II | will frequently in future afford; and he will protect us,
38 | afterwards
39 III | desire15 to yield to old age. But if now thou art merciful
40 II | he did but a little while ago, with his unceasing benediction.
41 II | shedding his blood. For what agonies of human sufferings did
42 I | in having recourse to the aid of prayer. For, desiring
43 II | desiring to follow, while I aim at and strive after such
44 II | the vast expanse of the air, while my straining eyes
45 II | by vow and virtues he was alike able and willing to be a
46 III | had just taken the oath of allegiance to Christ. Then, trio, there
47 III | personal preference for either alternative, and who didst neither fear
48 I(1) | much admired and loved. Altogether, this Life of St. Martin
49 I | couch consisting of a large amount of straw. Then, when Martin
50 III | style to a friend; if, as I amuse myself I dictate anything
51 III | had been the face17 of an angel. His limbs too appeared
52 III | yet I cannot be moved with anger against them if they really
53 II | limbs fatigued with the anguish of my mind, sleep crept
54 I | himself to rest, he was annoyed with the softness of the
55 II | to those following him, anti taught us to what we ought
56 III | then he presented such an appearance, as if he had been manifested
57 III | notices that a voracious appetite was urging them on to frequent
58 III | I plead against such an appointment my declining years. Wholly
59 I | about which a question has arisen, to remain in obscurity,
60 | around
61 II | again, according to the arrangement of the vision, he showed
62 I | this matter beguiled by the arts of the devil; in that, when
63 II | Martin's who had lately died, ascend in the same way as I had
64 II | straining eyes followed him ascending in a rapidly moving cloud,
65 II(7) | equileum ascendisset": lit. "would have mounted
66 I(1) | II. 193), "I should be ashamed, as well as think the labor
67 I | been done him, he threw aside the whole of the straw.
68 III | other writings, I beg to ask how that letter could reach
69 I | like fashion. How then, I askthee, whosoever thou art, how
70 I | Eusebius.~Against Some Envious Assailants of Martin.~Yesterday a number
71 II | while invariably, as he was assailed with divers temptations,
72 III | in bodily strength, and, assembling the brethren, he told them
73 II | second to no one in that assembly of the righteous as I firmly
74 III | whatever duties thou dost assign me, and I will serve under
75 I | soon as he again sought assistance from the cross, and tried
76 I | are thus heaped upon thee! Assuredly those Gentiles are reported
77 I(1) | frequently and solemnly assures us of his good faith, and
78 III | Fierce wolves will speedily attack thy flock, and who, when
79 II | be directed, and to what attainment our mind should be turned.
80 II | cause in heaven, but I have, atthe same time, lost my great
81 III(7) | course, this is all jocular, aud shows the best relations
82 III(10)| to was on the road from Augustodunum (Autun) to Paris. It corresponds
83 III | those birds that very same authority with which he had been accustomed
84 III(10)| road from Augustodunum (Autun) to Paris. It corresponds
85 III | should like to know, did you avail yourself of, to get hold
86 II | is dreaming while almost awake. In these circumstances,
87 | away
88 III | hands bound behind their backs. Those accompanied the body
89 I | struggling fire, broke open the barred door; and, the fire being
90 I(9) | church was heated, as the baths were, by means of a hypocaustum,
91 II(9) | is referred to: tradition bears that he was beheaded.~
92 | became
93 I | a partaker of holiness, becausehe became exposed to danger
94 | become
95 I | softness of the too luxurious bed, inasmuch as he had been
96 I | whenthey saw that no harm befell him, changing theirminds,
97 III | return to his monastery, he began suddenly to fail in bodily
98 I | that he was in this matter beguiled by the arts of the devil;
99 II | roused from sleep, I had begun to rejoice over the vision,
100 II(9) | tradition bears that he was beheaded.~
101 II | could not be steadfastly beheld, though he could be clearly
102 III | what a multitude of human beings assembled at the performance
103 III | ever bear in mind that they belong to you rather than to me.
104 | below
105 | Besides
106 III(7) | all jocular, aud shows the best relations as existing between
107 II | has even to-day deigned to bestow, even that of seeing him
108 III | they were swimming, and to betake themselves to dry and desert
109 I | straw. Then, when Martin betook himself to rest, he was
110 I | the usual custom for the bishops to visit the churches in
111 III | You have left me no little bit of writing at home, no book,
112 III | will save us11 from their bites? We know, indeed, that you
113 I | also, when the viper had bitten him, for they said, "This
114 III | culprit-thou alone art to blame-inasmuch as you both lay your snares
115 I | these terms, inasmuch as he blasphemes a saint of the Lord, after
116 II | knees, and begged for his blessing according to custom. Upon
117 III | do you stand here, thou bloody monster? Thou shalt find
118 I | and laboriously with the bolt by which he had secured
119 II | while groans issue from the bottom of my heart. In what man
120 III | captives with their hands bound behind their backs. Those
121 III(13)| as he always flowed with bowels of mercy in the Lord."~
122 II | over the vision, when a boy, a servant in the family,
123 I(1) | Life of St. Martin seems to bring before us one of the puzzles
124 I | crackling and struggling fire, broke open the barred door; and,
125 I | experienced how cruelly they burned him. Considering all which,
126 III | river a number of water-fowl busy in capturing fishes, and
127 III | your snares for me, and cajole them with your trickery,
128 I | tried by a most dangerous calamity, he came forth a conqueror.
129 I | might be put forward in calumniation of the saintly man.~Martin
130 I | most dangerous calamity, he came forth a conqueror. But let
131 III | lead before their chariots captives with their hands bound behind
132 III | wait for the unwary and capture them before they know it:
133 III | number of water-fowl busy in capturing fishes, and notices that
134 I(1) | See, on the other side, Cardinal Newman's Esssays on Miracles,
135 I | it was being eagerly and carefully read by multitudes. In the
136 II | daily struggles which he carried on against the various conflicts
137 I | except that, from such cases, the human mind might be
138 I | whosoever thou art, how does the casestand? Was Martin really not possessed
139 III(15)| pro castris tuorum." ~
140 II | me one whowill plead my cause in heaven, but I have, atthe
141 II | ever, if life be spared me, cease to lament that I have survived
142 III(16)| not one to yield," nescius cedere.~
143 II | was sitting alone in my cell; and there occurred to me,
144 I | the Weapons of prayer, the central flames gave way, and that
145 II | the influence of reason, I certainly ought to rejoice. For he
146 III | relieve his body a little by a change of side, he exclaimed: "
147 III | of a body which had been changed. But it is hardly credible
148 I | that no harm befell him, changing theirminds, they said that
149 III | tribunal of the praetor, on a charge of robbery and plunder.
150 III | great men lead before their chariots captives with their hands
151 II | hope of the future which I cherish, along with a weariness
152 I | that it has always been the chief excellence of the righteous
153 I | the pressing danger, but chiefly, as he afterwards related,
154 III | summoned to court by their children, clearly I might drag you
155 III | Then, trio, there was the choir of virgins, abstaining out
156 III | It is not fitting that a Christian should die except among
157 II(5) | passed into the hands of Christians.~
158 I | the bishops to visit the churches in the diocese, the clerics
159 I | continued to pray amid a circle of flames that did him no
160 II | Hebrew youths, amid the circling flames, and though in the
161 II | while almost awake. In these circumstances, I seemed suddenly to see
162 III | also from the neighboring cities, attended. O how great was
163 III | funeral rites: the whole city poured forth to meet his
164 II | I saw the holy presbyter Clarus, a disciple of Martin's
165 I | cannot save."1 Truly it is clear that, whoever be the person
166 II | I shall never be able to climb that difficult ascent, and
167 II | mountains, I maintain that, clinging7 to the testimony of truth
168 III | multitude-bands strayed in cloaks, either old men whose life-labor
169 III | he saw the devil standing close at hand, and exclaimed: "
170 II | ascending in a rapidly moving cloud, he could no longer be seen
171 II | love, which daily grows cold even in holy men through
172 II | in holy men through the coldness of the world, but which
173 II(3) | impossible to tell the exact color which is intended.~
174 II | So I now desire you to be comforted, although I am unable to
175 II | and thus delay you from coming to me? At the same time,
176 III | miraculous10 power in his words, commands the birds to leave the pool
177 III | leave us? Or to whom can you commit us in our desolation? Fierce
178 III | anything to his own will, but committed himself wholly to the will
179 I | shield of faith and prayer, committing himself entirely to the
180 III | words. Accordingly I shall communicate8 to you the following particulars
181 II(4) | Compare Rev. vii. 14.~
182 III | always, in truth, full12 of compassion, is said to have burst into
183 III | through whole nights, he compelled his worn-out limbs to do
184 III | plunder. For why should I not complain of the injury which I have
185 III | through them any trifles I compose are made known to you. And
186 I | number that they could all be comprehended in a book. Nevertheless,
187 III | following particulars which are comprised within my own knowledge.~
188 III | with what holy joy did they conceal the fact of their affliction!
189 I(1) | Sulpitius, to form any certain conclusion regarding it. The writer
190 III | him to visit the church at Condate.9 For, as the clerics of
191 II | among other victims who were condemned9 to die by the sword, he
192 II | that Martin is dead." I confess that I was cut to the heart ;
193 I | and not without groans, confessed that he was in this matter
194 II | far from shrinking from a confession of the Lord, in the face
195 II(8) | Some read "perhibeo confisus testimonium veritati," and
196 I | surrounded by a fearful conflagration; and the fire had even laid
197 II | carried on against the various conflicts with human and spiritual
198 III | who wept, as well as to congratulate those who rejoiced, while
199 I | instructed as to the dangers connected with shipwrecks and serpents!)
200 II | of punishment, and, as a consequence, indeed as the source from
201 I | cruelly they burned him. Considering all which, let every one
202 I | erected for him a couch consisting of a large amount of straw.
203 II | although I am unable to console myself. He will not be absent
204 I | ashes by a fire of so long continuance. Now, as the Lord is my
205 III | abandon the work of God. Continuing in supplications and watchings
206 II | through my sort of friendly conversation with you.~
207 II | lamentation? And yet, in conversing with you, can I ever talk
208 II | that, since this letter conveys to you a message of sorrow,
209 I | recovering his habitual conviction that his safety lay not
210 I | example to have yourself been convinced of your falsity; so that,
211 I(6) | mistaken inference from 2 Cor. xi. 25. The construction
212 III(10)| Augustodunum (Autun) to Paris. It corresponds to the modern Cosne, at
213 III(12)| A singular and obviously corrupt reading is "quis eos a morsibus
214 III(10)| corresponds to the modern Cosne, at the junction of the
215 I | overcame them all the more courageously, the heavier was the burden
216 III | parents should be summoned to court by their children, clearly
217 I | hearing the sound of the crackling and struggling fire, broke
218 III | changed. But it is hardly credible what a multitude of human
219 II | anguish of my mind, sleep crept upon me, as frequently happens
220 II(3) | crine purpureo": it is impossible
221 III | that very numerous and holy crowd of disciples who usually
222 III | flocks before him-the pale crowds of that saintly multitude-bands
223 III | over, shall be thrust into cruel Tartarus, while Martin is
224 I | having just experienced how cruelly they burned him. Considering
225 III | Yes, thou alone art the culprit-thou alone art to blame-inasmuch
226 II | dead." I confess that I was cut to the heart ; and bursting
227 III | find nothing in me, thou deadly one: Abraham's bosom is
228 II | tears; or can I ever, my dearest brother, make mention of
229 III | my secretaries2 in your3 debt, since through them any
230 I | beneath the floor which was decayed and very thin.8 They also
231 I(1) | accept the theory of willful deception on the part of the writer.
232 I | throw open the door. But he declared that as soon as he again
233 III | against such an appointment my declining years. Wholly given to thee,
234 II | perished, and he did not mourn deeply? Besides those daily struggles
235 III | in the same toil for the defense14 of thy flock, I do not
236 II | guide, free from all spot of defilement. For although the character4
237 II | which he has even to-day deigned to bestow, even that of
238 III(5) | to the old reading, "sine delicto ullo." ~
239 III(2) | loro," Halm reads, "justo delore," i.e. "with just resentment."~
240 III | spirit which is just about to depart on its own journey may be
241 II | greeting,-1 ~After you had departed from me in the morning,
242 III | told the brethren that his departure from the body was at hand.
243 I | to have walked along the depths of the sea. But, thou foolish
244 II(10) | A late use of the verb deputare.~
245 III(8) | published. It is obvious that he derived gratification from the fact
246 III | man, whom no language can describe, unconquered by toil, and
247 III | master, Martin, to have described the manner in which that
248 III | betake themselves to dry and desert regions; using with respect
249 III | us, whom you are leaving desolate." Then Martin, affected
250 III | can you commit us in our desolation? Fierce wolves will speedily
251 II | misery to u the place of despair.11 Nevertheless, hope remains,
252 II | yet he will not remain destitute of the glory of a martyr,
253 III | before they know it: they devour their victims when taken,
254 III | satisfied with what they have devoured." Then Martin, with a miraculous10
255 I | then felt them shedding a dewy refreshment over him, after
256 I(8) | secretarium." It appears from Dial. II. 1, that there might
257 III | if, as I amuse myself I dictate anything with the wish at
258 III(3) | writers, who wrote from dictation.~
259 II | Martin's who had lately died, ascend in the same way
260 I | is, in reality, full of dignity and glory, since indeed,
261 III(5) | The reading "sine dilectu ullo," adopted by Halm,
262 III | is safe, and will not be diminished by being delayed; rather
263 I | visit the churches in the diocese, the clerics had prepared
264 I(7) | it seems certain that diocesis has here the meaning of "
265 I(7) | ad dioecesim quandam": it seems certain
266 III | saintly bishop, you should direct your enquiries rather to
267 II | clearly recognized. Well, directing a gentle smile towards me,
268 II | holy presbyter Clarus, a disciple of Martin's who had lately
269 I | even for the virtues they displayed. I see, indeed, Peter strong
270 III | that he was on the point of dissolution. Then indeed, sorrow and
271 III | Treves, and were so far distant from your native land, owing
272 I | all the time that, with a distempered mind, he strove to throw
273 III | all the inhabitants of the district and villages, along with
274 II | as he was assailed with divers temptations, there prevailed
275 III | desire and love, he almost doubted which he preferred; for
276 II | members only in a hovering and doubtful manner. Thus it happens,
277 II | What," I enquire of him, "doyou wish to tell me with so
278 III | children, clearly I might drag you with a righteous thong1
279 II | that one can feel he is dreaming while almost awake. In these
280 II | impious fury had preferred to drive the blessed man over precipitous
281 III | Undoubtedly the shepherd was then driving his own flocks before him-the
282 I(1) | account before us, were due to pure invention, or unconscious
283 III | I will fulfill whatever duties thou dost assign me, and
284 III | Toulouse,5 while you were dwelling at Treves, and were so far
285 I(5) | words in Rom. xi. 13-e0w\ e0qnw=n a0po/stoloj.~
286 I(5) | own words in Rom. xi. 13-e0w\ e0qnw=n a0po/stoloj.~
287 | each
288 I | to hear that it was being eagerly and carefully read by multitudes.
289 II | long, while my eyes were earnestly fixed upon him, and when
290 III | Let madness honor these earthly warriors with the united
291 I(8) | in secretario ecclesiae": it is very difficult to
292 I(5) | refers to St. Paul, being an echo of the Apostle's own words
293 I | the water restored him emerging from the deep. Nay, I am
294 II | grace in him even in an eminent degree, for he loved me
295 II(6) | Roman emperor, a.d.. 249-251; his full
296 I | remarkable for3 the dangers they encountered, than even for the virtues
297 I | me, it happened that amid endless fables, and much tiresome
298 II | human sufferings did he not endure in behalf of the hope of
299 II | and in whose love shall I enjoy like consolation? Wretched
300 II | part, had the happiness of enjoying this grace in him even in
301 I | I must have presented an enormous volume to my readers. And
302 | enough
303 II | grief in words. "What," I enquire of him, "doyou wish to tell
304 III | you should direct your enquiries rather to those who were
305 II | of our times could not ensure him the honor of martyrdom,
306 I(1) | miraculous narratives, which enter so largely into the account
307 II | a servant in the family, enters to me with a countenance
308 I | Gentiles are reported to have entertained the same sort of thought
309 I | prayer, committing himself entirely to the Lord, he lay down
310 III | insignificant on earth, has a rich entrance granted him into heaven.
311 III | would imagine that he was enveloped with ashes?" For even then
312 I | To Eusebius.~Against Some Envious Assailants of Martin.~Yesterday
313 III(12)| corrupt reading is "quis eos a morsibus nostris prohibebit?"
314 II(7) | equileum ascendisset": lit. "would
315 I | and very thin.8 They also erected for him a couch consisting
316 II | and trust, being joined especially to those who washed their
317 I(1) | side, Cardinal Newman's Esssays on Miracles, p. 127, 209, &
318 I(1) | facts, or failed in his estimate of the friend he so much
319 II | in behalf of the hope of eternal life, in hunger, in watchings,
320 I | Letter I. To Eusebius.~Against Some Envious Assailants
321 I | understood them. For the blessed Evangelist would not have recorded
322 I | had to bear. Hence this event which is ascribed to the
323 | every
324 | everywhere
325 I(1) | The saint himself must evidently have been a very extraordinary
326 I | under the influence of an evil spirit, had asked why Martin,
327 II(3) | is impossible to tell the exact color which is intended.~
328 I | has always been the chief excellence of the righteous in enduring
329 III | think that this would be an excellent crown to set upon his virtues,
330 II | foremost to urge on the executioner to his work that he might
331 III(7) | shows the best relations as existing between Sulpitius and his
332 II | passed through the vast expanse of the air, while my straining
333 I | over him, after having just experienced how cruelly they burned
334 I | man, whoever he is, that expressed himself thus! We recognize
335 III(8) | the horror which Sulpitius expresses in this and other passages
336 II | discourse to a somewhat undue extent, that, since this letter
337 I | door; and, the fire being extinguished, they brought forth Martin
338 I(1) | evidently have been a very extraordinary man, to impress one of the
339 III | For there was as sacred an exultation over the glory to which
340 I | happened that amid endless fables, and much tiresome discourse,
341 I(1) | have accepted fictions for facts, or failed in his estimate
342 III | monastery, he began suddenly to fail in bodily strength, and,
343 I(1) | accepted fictions for facts, or failed in his estimate of the friend
344 I | imagined that he would suddenly fall down, and speedily die;
345 II | he would willingly have fallen. But if, after the example
346 I | yourself been convinced of your falsity; so that, if it had proved
347 III | selection, pieces written familiarly, or let out of hand without
348 II | a boy, a servant in the family, enters to me with a countenance
349 I | of the Lord, after a like fashion. How then, I askthee, whosoever
350 II | watchings, in nakedness, in fastings, in reproachings of the
351 III | be sent; or as if I were fated to undertake so great a
352 I | saved from the sea, the fates do not permit to live."2
353 III | and saying: "Why, dear father, will you leave us? Or to
354 II | placed on my couch my limbs fatigued with the anguish of my mind,
355 I | that he was surrounded by a fearful conflagration; and the fire
356 II | of slumber, that one can feel he is dreaming while almost
357 I | which he had thus removed fell upon the stove. He himself,
358 III | the influence of a strong fever, he nevertheless did not
359 I(1) | could hardly have accepted fictions for facts, or failed in
360 III | commit us in our desolation? Fierce wolves will speedily attack
361 III | that I have continued the fight till now; but, if thou dost
362 II | time, my page being now filled, can admit no more. This,
363 III | men whose life-labor was finished, or young soldiers who had
364 II | assembly of the righteous as I firmly hope, believe, and trust,
365 III | water-fowl busy in capturing fishes, and notices that a voracious
366 III | he replied: "It is not fitting that a Christian should
367 III | Allow me, dear brother, to fix my looks rather on heaven
368 II | while my eyes were earnestly fixed upon him, and when I could
369 I | appeared touched by the flame of fire, you should, on
370 III | these words, his spirit fled; and those who were there
371 III | was then driving his own flocks before him-the pale crowds
372 II | you, brother, my tears are flowing, and I find no consolation
373 I(9) | means of a hypocaustum, or flue running below the pavement.~
374 I | depths of the sea. But, thou foolish man, you had not, as I suppose,
375 I | unstable waters with his footprints. But not on that account
376 III | of tears, yet affection forced out groans. For there was
377 II | sword, he would have been foremost to urge on the executioner
378 III | together, all those birds formed a single body, and leaving
379 I(9) | it here to be the same as fornax. This, however, can hardly
380 II | me, he will never, never forsake us, but will be present
381 II | there prevailed in his case fortitude in conquering, patience
382 I | that which might be put forward in calumniation of the saintly
383 II | and earth that he would freely have submitted6 to the rack
384 III | appetite was urging them on to frequent seizures of their prey. "
385 II | consolation, through my sort of friendly conversation with you.~
386 III | Wholly given to thee, I will fulfill whatever duties thou dost
387 II | of these things, yet he fully attained to the honor of
388 II | in the very midst of the furnace, he would have sung a hymn
389 II | of sorrow, it might also furnish you with consolation, through
390 II | and swords. And if impious fury had preferred to drive the
391 I | had even laid hold of the garment with which he was clothed.
392 II | which has turned out so garrulous, and thus delay you from
393 III | presbyters who had then gathered round him, to relieve his
394 III | to flight. Accordingly, gathering themselves together, all
395 III(10)| several towns of this name in Gaul. The one probably here referred
396 I | prayer, the central flames gave way, and that he then felt
397 III | special influence of your generosity to them, and ever bear in
398 II | recognized. Well, directing a gentle smile towards me, he held
399 II | have smiled with joy and gladness over the sufferings and
400 I | the Apostle relates, who gloried in his nakedness, and hunger,
401 III | spirit as he lay on his glorious16 couch upon sackcloth and
402 III | or church to which he had gone, and peace having been restored
403 II | happiness of enjoying this grace in him even in an eminent
404 III | earth, has a rich entrance granted him into heaven. From that
405 III(8) | obvious that he derived gratification from the fact of their being
406 I | inclined to think that it was a greater thing to have lived in the
407 III | Then indeed, sorrow and grieftook possession of all, and there
408 III | preferred that he himself should grieve, but that another should
409 II | command myself as to keep from grieving. I have, no doubt, sent
410 II | mercy, love, which daily grows cold even in holy men through
411 III | me; and thou thyself wilt guard over those for whose safety
412 III | he looks upon me, as my guardian, while I am writing these
413 II | follows the Lamb as his guide, free from all spot of defilement.
414 I | At length recovering his habitual conviction that his safety
415 II | like stars, and with purple hair.2 He thus appeared to me
416 I(1) | invention, or unconscious hallucination. Milner remarks (Church
417 I | who reviled the Lord, when hanging upon the cross, in the following
418 I | man Martin, and I was most happy to hear that it was being
419 I(1) | did; but it is extremely hard to say how far the miraculous
420 II | felt his hand placed on my head with the sweetest touch,
421 I | reproaches which are thus heaped upon thee! Assuredly those
422 I | who were before the door, hearing the sound of the crackling
423 I(9) | probably is that the church was heated, as the baths were, by means
424 III | psalms, Martin is honored in heavenly hymns. Those worldly men,
425 I | the more courageously, the heavier was the burden which they
426 II | compared to the illustrious Hebrew youths, amid the circling
427 II | gentle smile towards me, he held out in his right hand the
428 | Hence
429 III | driving his own flocks before him-the pale crowds of that saintly
430 I | power, and not a partaker of holiness, becausehe became exposed
431 III | little bit of writing at home, no book, not even a letter-to
432 III | divine psalms, Martin is honored in heavenly hymns. Those
433 III(8) | some affectation in the horror which Sulpitius expresses
434 II(7) | have mounted the wooden horse," an instrument of torture.~
435 II | pleasure in life, or any day or hour free from tears; or can
436 II | uncertain in the morning hours, so it pervaded my members
437 I | dead and to have rescued houses from the flames, had himself
438 III(17)| in one sense , though so humble in another.~
439 II | furnace, he would have sung a hymn of the Lord. But if perchance
440 I(9) | baths were, by means of a hypocaustum, or flue running below the
441 III(6) | The identity of Tolosa, mentioned in
442 I | acknowledge what you seem ignorant of, that almost all the
443 III | Letter III. To Bassula, His Mother-In-Law.~
444 I(1) | well as think the labor ill spent, to recite the stories
445 III(17)| nobili illo strato suo"; nobilis in
446 II | of being compared to the illustrious Hebrew youths, amid the
447 III | sackcloth, or who would imagine that he was enveloped with
448 I | no harm. They, however, imagined that he would suddenly fall
449 II | he would have stood so immovable as to have smiled with joy
450 II(5) | As being peaceful, the imperial power having now passed
451 II | saws and swords. And if impious fury had preferred to drive
452 I(1) | very extraordinary man, to impress one of the talents and learning
453 II | had seen his master. I, impudently desiring to follow, while
454 II | often happened, he had been included among other victims who
455 II | world, but which in his case increased onwards to the end, and
456 II | in enduring. O man, truly indescribable in piety, mercy, love, which
457 I(6) | nights in the sea-a mistaken inference from 2 Cor. xi. 25. The
458 II | never have shown himself inferior to the prophet, nor would
459 II | pleased the persecutor to inflict upon him the punishment
460 II | might have been the tortures inflicted upon him. But although he
461 I | stretched over him. Accordingly, influenced by the injury which had,
462 III | to meet his body; all the inhabitants of the district and villages,
463 II(1) | Halm here inserts "vere."~
464 I(4) | magis insignes periculorum suorum": such
465 III | Abraham. Martin, poor and insignificant on earth, has a rich entrance
466 I(4) | such is the construction of insignis with later writers.~
467 | Instead
468 II(7) | mounted the wooden horse," an instrument of torture.~
469 II(3) | the exact color which is intended.~
470 I | appear perchance to have intentionally passed over that which might
471 I | having been removed by divine interposition, he continued to pray amid
472 I(1) | writer. And then, he was so intimately acquainted with the subject
473 III | really obey you, and have invaded my rights under the special
474 II | spiritual wickedness, while invariably, as he was assailed with
475 I(1) | before us, were due to pure invention, or unconscious hallucination.
476 II(8) | construction is confused and irregular.~
477 II | him the punishment which Isaiah endured, he would never
478 II | burst forth, while groans issue from the bottom of my heart.
479 I | talk in the words of the Jews of old, who reviled the
480 III(7) | Of course, this is all jocular, aud shows the best relations
481 II | believe, and trust, being joined especially to those who
482 III | Tartarus, while Martin is joyfully received into the bosom
483 II | present world, a terror of judgment, a fear of punishment, and,
484 III(10)| the modern Cosne, at the junction of the stream Nonain with
485 II | so command myself as to keep from grieving. I have, no
486 III | same time that it should be kept private, all such things
487 I | part of the church, and had kindled a large fire beneath the
488 II | part, embraced his sacred knees, and begged for his blessing
489 III | peace, although he well knew that the end of his own
490 III | comprised within my own knowledge.~I have to state, then,
491 I(1) | ashamed, as well as think the labor ill spent, to recite the
492 I | outside, he struggled long and laboriously with the bolt by which he
493 II | life be spared me, cease to lament that I have survived Martin?
494 II | mention of him to you without lamentation? And yet, in conversing
495 III | was but one voice of them lamenting, and saying: "Why, dear
496 III | distant from your native land, owing to the anxiety felt
497 III | I fear." O man, whom no language can describe, unconquered
498 I(1) | narratives, which enter so largely into the account before
499 II(10) | A late use of the verb deputare.~
500 II | disciple of Martin's who had lately died, ascend in the same
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