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501 | later
502 III | sendeth greeting.~If it were lawful that parents should be summoned
503 III | Let your worldly great men lead before their chariots captives
504 III | Therefore, if you desire to learn anything concerning the
505 I(1) | impress one of the talents and learning of Sulpitius so remarkably
506 | least
507 III | a reason sprang up which led him to visit the church
508 III | sweet to an old man after lengthened toil, yet my mind is a conqueror
509 III | home, no book, not even a letter-to such a degree do you play
510 III | cloaks, either old men whose life-labor was finished, or young soldiers
511 III | passed from this Life to LifeEternal.~Sulpitius Severus to Bassula,
512 II | as it is always somewhat light and uncertain in the morning
513 I | achievements were not of so limited a number that they could
514 III | epistle in which I made men; lion of the death of our master,
515 II | cross so familiar to his lips. Ere long, while my eyes
516 II | while I cannot, through the load of sin which overwhelms
517 II | at and strive after such lofty steps, suddenly wake up;
518 III(10)| stream Nonain with the river Loire.~
519 III(14)| spes" seems here to mean "longing of heart."~
520 III(2) | Instead of "justo loro," Halm reads, "justo delore,"
521 II | I have, atthe same time, lost my great source of consolation
522 I | the softness of the too luxurious bed, inasmuch as he had
523 III | overcome the world. Let madness honor these earthly warriors
524 I(4) | magis insignes periculorum suorum":
525 II | rocks or steep mountains, I maintain that, clinging7 to the testimony
526 | make
527 III | trickery, so that without making any4 selection, pieces written
528 II | in reproachings of the malignant, in persecutions of the
529 III | appearance, as if he had been manifested in the glory of the future
530 I(2) | St. Matt. xxvii. 42.~
531 I | confessed that he was in this matter beguiled by the arts of
532 III(14)| spes" seems here to mean "longing of heart."~
533 II | difficult to say what I mean-he could not be steadfastly
534 I(8) | difficult to say what is here meant by "secretarium." It appears
535 III | clerics, when he was now meditating a return to his monastery,
536 III | whole city poured forth to meet his body; all the inhabitants
537 III(6) | The identity of Tolosa, mentioned in the text with the modern
538 III | age. But if now thou art merciful to my many years, good,
539 I | have ascribed his being merely touched to his merits and
540 II | manner, though I was far from meriting such affection. And, on
541 I | being merely touched to his merits and power, because, though
542 II | letter conveys to you a message of sorrow, it might also
543 II(6) | 251; his full name was C. Messius Quintus Trajanus Decius.~
544 I | Martin having, about the middle of winter, come to a certain
545 I | his long journey. About midnight, the fire bursting up through
546 I(1) | unconscious hallucination. Milner remarks (Church History,
547 I | reason that, if I had been minded to narrate them all, I must
548 II | to rejoice. For he is now mingling among the Apostles and Prophets,
549 I(1) | Cardinal Newman's Esssays on Miracles, p. 127, 209, &c. ~
550 II | pressure rather sinks me in my misery to u the place of despair.11
551 I(6) | three nights in the sea-a mistaken inference from 2 Cor. xi.
552 III | virgins, abstaining out of modesty from weeping; and with what
553 III | meditating a return to his monastery, he began suddenly to fail
554 III | stand here, thou bloody monster? Thou shalt find nothing
555 III(12)| corrupt reading is "quis eos a morsibus nostris prohibebit?" Halm'
556 II(7) | ascendisset": lit. "would have mounted the wooden horse," an instrument
557 II | such a man ought not to be mourned over, to whom, after his
558 III | you. And yet I cannot be moved with anger against them
559 II | him ascending in a rapidly moving cloud, he could no longer
560 III | pale crowds of that saintly multitude-bands strayed in cloaks, either
561 I | eagerly and carefully read by multitudes. In the meantime, however,
562 I | said, "This man must be a murderer, whom, although saved from
563 I(5) | in Rom. xi. 13-e0w\ e0qnw=n a0po/stoloj.~
564 I | if I had been minded to narrate them all, I must have presented
565 I(1) | with the subject of his narrative, that he could hardly have
566 I(1) | say how far the miraculous narratives, which enter so largely
567 III | with the united praises of nations. Martin is praised with
568 III | so far distant from your native land, owing to the anxiety
569 II | regarding him, and will be near to us as we pray; and the
570 III | 0 Lord, if I am still necessary to thy people, I do not
571 III | with many also from the neighboring cities, attended. O how
572 II | permitted, in the times of Nero and of Decius,5 to take
573 III(16)| I am not one to yield," nescius cedere.~
574 I(1) | the other side, Cardinal Newman's Esssays on Miracles, p.
575 II | should wish you, when this news reaches you, to be a partaker
576 III(17)| nobili illo strato suo"; nobilis
577 III(17)| nobili illo strato suo"; nobilis in one sense , though so
578 III(10)| the junction of the stream Nonain with the river Loire.~
579 | none
580 III(12)| is "quis eos a morsibus nostris prohibebit?" Halm's reading
581 III(3) | notarios": shorthand writers, who
582 III | in capturing fishes, and notices that a voracious appetite
583 III | soldiers who had just taken the oath of allegiance to Christ.
584 III(4) | I know not: the reading "obaeratos," followed in the text seems
585 III(4) | Halm here reads "obarratos," with what sense I know
586 III | against them if they really obey you, and have invaded my
587 II | he instructed us to what objects our hope should be directed,
588 I | has arisen, to remain in obscurity, but shall relate the whole
589 III | reckoned similar to the obsequies of Martin? Let your worldly
590 III(12)| A singular and obviously corrupt reading is "quis
591 II | brother, should I longer i occupy your time with a letter
592 II | it happens, what does not occur in a different kind of slumber,
593 I | sleep by this unexpected occurrence, and being prevented by
594 | off
595 | once
596 I | since in that very work I openly acknowledged that I had
597 III | account of your son, what opportunity, I should like to know,
598 I | the waves of the sea, in opposition to the nature of things,
599 I | straw. Martin, being wakened outof sleep by this unexpected
600 I | prayer. For, desiring to get outside, he struggled long and laboriously
601 I | ever unconquerable, they overcame them all the more courageously,
602 III | under his guidance, had overcome the world. Let madness honor
603 II | through the load of sin which overwhelms me, secure an ascent to
604 III | distant from your native land, owing to the anxiety felt on account
605 I(1) | Newman's Esssays on Miracles, p. 127, 209, &c. ~
606 II | me? At the same time, my page being now filled, can admit
607 III | own flocks before him-the pale crowds of that saintly multitude-bands
608 II(11) | i.e. martyrdom, "palmam sanguinis." ~
609 III | would have been inclined to pardon those who wept, as well
610 III | to Bassula, his venerable parent, sendeth greeting.~If it
611 III | If it were lawful that parents should be summoned to court
612 III(10)| Augustodunum (Autun) to Paris. It corresponds to the modern
613 III(9) | praestabo his participem": the construction is peculiar,
614 III | deep the lamentations in particular of the sorrowing monks!
615 III | be made public through me particularly as the writer. Therefore,
616 III | communicate8 to you the following particulars which are comprised within
617 III(8) | expresses in this and other passages at the thought of his writings
618 II | fortitude in conquering, patience in waiting, and placidity
619 I | all their trials, being patient and ever unconquerable,
620 I(9) | pavimento": this word usually means "
621 II(5) | As being peaceful, the imperial power having
622 III(9) | participem": the construction is peculiar, but the meaning is obvious.~
623 II | in the face of all those penalties and punishments, which frequently
624 II | that difficult ascent, and penetrate into those blessed regions.
625 III | usually accompanied him, he perceives in a river a number of water-fowl
626 I | himself thus! We recognize his perfidious talk in the words of the
627 III | beings assembled at the performance of his funeral rites: the
628 II(8) | Some read "perhibeo confisus testimonium veritati,"
629 I(4) | magis insignes periculorum suorum": such is the construction
630 I | nakedness, and hunger, and perils from robbers, all these
631 III | Martin was aware of the period of his own death long before
632 I | surrounded by flames, he did not perish. For acknowledge, thou miserable
633 II | stumble and he burnt not? Who perished, and he did not mourn deeply?
634 I | the sea, the fates do not permit to live."2 But he, shaking
635 II | martyr. But if he had been permitted, in the times of Nero and
636 II | reproachings of the malignant, in persecutions of the wicked, in care for
637 II | perchance it had pleased the persecutor to inflict upon him the
638 III | dost command me still to persevere in the same toil for the
639 III | death, who didst show no personal preference for either alternative,
640 II | the morning hours, so it pervaded my members only in a hovering
641 I | displayed. I see, indeed, Peter strong in faith, walking
642 III | This," exclaimed he, "is a picture of how the demons act: they
643 I | bare ground with only a piece of sackcloth stretched over
644 II | truly indescribable in piety, mercy, love, which daily
645 III | attained, as there was a pious sorrow on account of his
646 III | being delayed; rather have pity upon us, whom you are leaving
647 II | patience in waiting, and placidity in enduring. O man, truly
648 III | his example so numerous plants had sprung up for the service
649 III | letter-to such a degree do you play the thief with all such
650 II | But if perchance it had pleased the persecutor to inflict
651 II | there in future be to me any pleasure in life, or any day or hour
652 III | everywhere. Nevertheless if you pledge your word that you will
653 III | a charge of robbery and plunder. For why should I not complain
654 III | commands the birds to leave the pool in which they were swimming,
655 III | bosom of Abraham. Martin, poor and insignificant on earth,
656 I | casestand? Was Martin really not possessed of power, and not a partaker
657 III | indeed, sorrow and grieftook possession of all, and there was but
658 III | funeral rites: the whole city poured forth to meet his body;
659 III(9) | praestabo his participem": the construction
660 III | before the tribunal of the praetor, on a charge of robbery
661 III | praises of nations. Martin is praised with the divine psalms,
662 III | warriors with the united praises of nations. Martin is praised
663 II | thought worthy of, through the prayers of Martin in my behalf.
664 I | on that account does the preacher of the Gentiles4 seem to
665 II | drive the blessed man over precipitous rocks or steep mountains,
666 III(5) | adopted by Halm, seems preferable to the old reading, "sine
667 III | who didst show no personal preference for either alternative,
668 II | long after, I saw the holy presbyter Clarus, a disciple of Martin'
669 III | And on being asked by the presbyters who had then gathered round
670 III | standard as long as thou shalt prescribe. Yea, although release is
671 II | does a miserable burden press me down; and while I cannot,
672 I | nature of things, and that he pressed the unstable waters with
673 I | and being prevented by the pressing danger, but chiefly, as
674 II | ascent to heaven, thecruel pressure rather sinks me in my misery
675 II | divers temptations, there prevailed in his case fortitude in
676 III | affliction! No doubt faith would prevent the shedding of tears, yet
677 I | unexpected occurrence, and being prevented by the pressing danger,
678 III | frequent seizures of their prey. "This," exclaimed he, "
679 III(15)| pro castris tuorum." ~
680 III(12)| quis eos a morsibus nostris prohibebit?" Halm's reading has been
681 II | however, was my object in prolonging my discourse to a somewhat
682 II | himself inferior to the prophet, nor would have shrunk from
683 II | mingling among the Apostles and Prophets, and (with all respect for
684 II | future afford; and he will protect us, as he did but a little
685 II | punishments, which frequently prove too much for human infirmity,
686 I | falsity; so that, if it had proved a stumbling-block to thee
687 III | praised with the divine psalms, Martin is honored in heavenly
688 III | respecting Martin are to be made public through me particularly
689 II | all those penalties and punishments, which frequently prove
690 I(1) | account before us, were due to pure invention, or unconscious
691 II | eyes like stars, and with purple hair.2 He thus appeared
692 III | other except him to whom it purported to be sent; or as if I were
693 II(3) | crine purpureo": it is impossible to tell
694 I(1) | bring before us one of the puzzles of history. The saint himself
695 I(7) | ad dioecesim quandam": it seems certain that
696 I | incident, about which a question has arisen, to remain in
697 II(6) | full name was C. Messius Quintus Trajanus Decius.~
698 III(12)| obviously corrupt reading is "quis eos a morsibus nostris prohibebit?"
699 II | freely have submitted6 to the rack of torture, and readily
700 I | also added that the flames raged around him all the time
701 II | followed him ascending in a rapidly moving cloud, he could no
702 II | of myself, I may, at any rate, be thought worthy of, through
703 II | wish you, when this news reaches you, to be a partaker in
704 I | an enormous volume to my readers. And indeed, his achievements
705 II | the rack of torture, and readily surrendered himself to the
706 III(18)| There is a great variety of readings here; Halm has been followed
707 I | infirmity of Martin is, in reality, full of dignity and glory,
708 III | Abraham's bosom is about to receive me."~As he uttered these
709 I(1) | the labor ill spent, to recite the stories at length which
710 III | triumph; and what can be reckoned similar to the obsequies
711 I | expressed himself thus! We recognize his perfidious talk in the
712 II | though he could be clearly recognized. Well, directing a gentle
713 I | Evangelist would not have recorded in holy writ an incident
714 I | ought to have been in having recourse to the aid of prayer. For,
715 I | he was clothed. At length recovering his habitual conviction
716 I(1) | extremely difficult (to recur to the point once more)
717 I(5) | This refers to St. Paul, being an echo
718 I | felt them shedding a dewy refreshment over him, after having just
719 III | heaven. From that blessed region, as I trust, he looks upon
720 III | to congratulate those who rejoiced, while each single person
721 I | in obscurity, but shall relate the whole affair as it occurred,
722 I | serpents!) and, as the Apostle relates, who gloried in his nakedness,
723 III(7) | jocular, aud shows the best relations as existing between Sulpitius
724 III | prescribe. Yea, although release is sweet to an old man after
725 III | towards heaven, he never released his unconquerable spirit
726 III | then gathered round him, to relieve his body a little by a change
727 II | despair.11 Nevertheless, hope remains, one last and solitary hope,
728 I | the saints have been more remarkable for3 the dangers they encountered,
729 I(1) | learning of Sulpitius so remarkably as he did; but it is extremely
730 I(1) | unconscious hallucination. Milner remarks (Church History, II. 193), "
731 II | remembrance of my sins, which had rendered me worn and miserable. Then,
732 III | following few words which I repeat? "Terrible, indeed, Lord,
733 II | words of benediction, he repeated again and again the name
734 I | take the wise course of repelling the danger by means of faith.
735 I | Assuredly those Gentiles are reported to have entertained the
736 II | for the future find such repose for my spirit as I did in
737 I | the Apostles, even in the reproaches which are thus heaped upon
738 II | nakedness, in fastings, in reproachings of the malignant, in persecutions
739 I | raised the dead and to have rescued houses from the flames,
740 III(2) | delore," i.e. "with just resentment."~
741 III | upon his own wishes, nor reserved anything to his own will,
742 III | occurred. I for my part have resolved to write nothing to you
743 I | Martin betook himself to rest, he was annoyed with the
744 I | himself, in the meantime, rested, as was his wont, upon the
745 III | themselves, Martin, wishing to restore peace, although he well
746 III | the glory of the future resurrection, and with the nature of
747 III | he was now meditating a return to his monastery, he began
748 II(4) | Compare Rev. vii. 14.~
749 I | of the Jews of old, who reviled the Lord, when hanging upon
750 III | be with Christ; but thy reward above is safe, and will
751 III | insignificant on earth, has a rich entrance granted him into
752 II | towards me, he held out in his right hand the small treatise
753 II | been given the crown of righteousness. Nevertheless, I cannot
754 III | you, and have invaded my rights under the special influence
755 I(6) | confused, and has not been rigidly followed in our translation. ~
756 III | performance of his funeral rites: the whole city poured forth
757 III(10)| here referred to was on the road from Augustodunum (Autun)
758 I | hunger, and perils from robbers, all these things are indeed
759 III | praetor, on a charge of robbery and plunder. For why should
760 II | bishop, clothed in a White robe, with a countenance as of
761 II | to those who washed their robes in the blood of the3 Lamb.
762 II | blessed man over precipitous rocks or steep mountains, I maintain
763 I(5) | the Apostle's own words in Rom. xi. 13-e0w\ e0qnw=n a0po/
764 II(6) | Roman emperor, a.d.. 249-251;
765 III | Martin that he could even rule the birds. Having then delayed
766 I(9) | of a hypocaustum, or flue running below the pavement.~
767 II | to me with a countenance sadder than is usual with one who
768 III | but thy reward above is safe, and will not be diminished
769 III | attended the body of the sainted man onwards to the place
770 II(2) | This salutation is omitted by Halm. ~
771 II(11) | i.e. martyrdom, "palmam sanguinis." ~
772 III | taken, and they can never be satisfied with what they have devoured."
773 II | members torn in pieces by saws and swords. And if impious
774 III | voice of them lamenting, and saying: "Why, dear father, will
775 I(6) | and three nights in the sea-a mistaken inference from
776 II | on high be it said) he is second to no one in that assembly
777 I(8) | there might be two or more secretaria in one church.~
778 III | spoken. Surely you have my secretaries2 in your3 debt, since through
779 I(8) | in secretario ecclesiae": it is very difficult
780 I(8) | say what is here meant by "secretarium." It appears from Dial.
781 II | sin which overwhelms me, secure an ascent to heaven, thecruel
782 I | the bolt by which he had secured the door. Ere long he perceived
783 II | to bestow, even that of seeing him in his glory, he will
784 | seemed
785 I | flight, but in the Lord, and seizing the shield of faith and
786 III | urging them on to frequent seizures of their prey. "This," exclaimed
787 III | that without making any4 selection, pieces written familiarly,
788 III | will read to no one what I send you, I shall satisfy your
789 I(6) | construction of the very long sentence which soon follows is very
790 III | leave us, nor to be longer separated from Christ. However, he
791 III | onwards to the place of sepulture. Let there be compared with
792 I | connected with shipwrecks and serpents!) and, as the Apostle relates,
793 II | the vision, when a boy, a servant in the family, enters to
794 III | dost assign me, and I will serve under thy standard as long
795 | several
796 I | permit to live."2 But he, shaking off the viper into the fire,
797 II | my grief, as you were a sharer with me in his love. Come
798 I | the Lord, and seizing the shield of faith and prayer, committing
799 I | the dangers connected with shipwrecks and serpents!) and, as the
800 III(3) | notarios": shorthand writers, who wrote from
801 III | even by death, who didst show no personal preference for
802 II | arrangement of the vision, he showed that heaven was open to
803 II | endured, he would never have shown himself inferior to the
804 III(7) | this is all jocular, aud shows the best relations as existing
805 II | And, in truth, far from shrinking from a confession of the
806 II | prophet, nor would have shrunk from having his members
807 III | and what can be reckoned similar to the obsequies of Martin?
808 III(11)| virtute verborum": Halm reads simply "potenti verbo."~
809 II | cannot, through the load of sin which overwhelms me, secure
810 III | Thus then this multitude, singing hymns of heaven, attended
811 III(12)| A singular and obviously corrupt reading
812 II | thecruel pressure rather sinks me in my misery to u the
813 III | among ashes; and I have sinned if I leave you a different
814 II | flowed, a remembrance of my sins, which had rendered me worn
815 II | me in the morning, I was sitting alone in my cell; and there
816 III | the Deacon. For, as I was situated at Toulouse,5 while you
817 II | occur in a different kind of slumber, that one can feel he is
818 I | the Gentiles4 seem to me a smaller man, whom the waves swallowed
819 II | Well, directing a gentle smile towards me, he held out
820 II | so immovable as to have smiled with joy and gladness over
821 III | when the shepherd has been smitten, will save us11 from their
822 III | limbs too appeared white as snow, so that people exclaimed, "
823 I | he was annoyed with the softness of the too luxurious bed,
824 III | life-labor was finished, or young soldiers who had just taken the oath
825 II | sweetest touch, while, amid the solemn words of benediction, he
826 I(1) | writer so frequently and solemnly assures us of his good faith,
827 II | hope remains, one last and solitary hope, that, what I cannot
828 III | felt on account of your son, what opportunity, I should
829 III | lamentations in particular of the sorrowing monks! They are said to
830 I | that as soon as he again sought assistance from the cross,
831 II | can I ever, if life be spared me, cease to lament that
832 I | have been quite prepared to speak against the Lord in these
833 III | you not think you hear him speaking in the following few words
834 III | there be compared with this spectacle, I will not say the worldly18
835 I(1) | well as think the labor ill spent, to recite the stories at
836 III(14)| spes" seems here to mean "longing
837 II | conflicts with human and spiritual wickedness, while invariably,
838 II | his guide, free from all spot of defilement. For although
839 III | In the meantime, a reason sprang up which led him to visit
840 III | example so numerous plants had sprung up for the service of the
841 III | and exclaimed: "Why do you stand here, thou bloody monster?
842 III | and I will serve under thy standard as long as thou shalt prescribe.
843 III | words, he saw the devil standing close at hand, and exclaimed: "
844 II | of fire, with eyes like stars, and with purple hair.2
845 III | own knowledge.~I have to state, then, that Martin was aware
846 II | over precipitous rocks or steep mountains, I maintain that,
847 II | strive after such lofty steps, suddenly wake up; and,
848 II | subject than him? But why do I stir you up to tears and lamentations?
849 I(5) | xi. 13-e0w\ e0qnw=n a0po/stoloj.~
850 II | infirmity, he would have stood so immovable as to have
851 I(1) | ill spent, to recite the stories at length which Sulpitius
852 II | expanse of the air, while my straining eyes followed him ascending
853 III(17)| nobili illo strato suo"; nobilis in one sense ,
854 III | saintly multitude-bands strayed in cloaks, either old men
855 III(10)| at the junction of the stream Nonain with the river Loire.~
856 III | suddenly to fail in bodily strength, and, assembling the brethren,
857 I | only a piece of sackcloth stretched over him. Accordingly, influenced
858 II | follow, while I aim at and strive after such lofty steps,
859 I | with a distempered mind, he strove to throw open the door.
860 I | desiring to get outside, he struggled long and laboriously with
861 II | deeply? Besides those daily struggles which he carried on against
862 I | sound of the crackling and struggling fire, broke open the barred
863 II | with him? Who was made to stumble and he burnt not? Who perished,
864 I | that, if it had proved a stumbling-block to thee that Martin appeared
865 II | that he would freely have submitted6 to the rack of torture,
866 II | although he did in fact suffer none of these things, yet
867 I | and thus been exposed to suffering of a dangerous character.
868 III | lawful that parents should be summoned to court by their children,
869 II | the furnace, he would have sung a hymn of the Lord. But
870 III(17)| nobili illo strato suo"; nobilis in one sense ,
871 I(4) | magis insignes periculorum suorum": such is the construction
872 III | work of God. Continuing in supplications and watchings through whole
873 I | foolish man, you had not, as I suppose, read these things; or,
874 I(6) | The writer here supposes that St. Paul was sunk for
875 I | the flames, all the time supposing that he must ere then have
876 II | of torture, and readily surrendered himself to the flames: yea,
877 II | cease to lament that I have survived Martin? Shall there in future
878 I | smaller man, whom the waves swallowed up; and, after three days5
879 III | Yea, although release is sweet to an old man after lengthened
880 II | placed on my head with the sweetest touch, while, amid the solemn
881 III | pool in which they were swimming, and to betake themselves
882 II | condemned9 to die by the sword, he would have been foremost
883 II | torn in pieces by saws and swords. And if impious fury had
884 I(1) | man, to impress one of the talents and learning of Sulpitius
885 III(1) | in tartara."~
886 III | shall be thrust into cruel Tartarus, while Martin is joyfully
887 II | those following him, anti taught us to what we ought to follow
888 II | after the example of the teacher of the Gentiles,8 as indeed
889 II | was assailed with divers temptations, there prevailed in his
890 III | few words which I repeat? "Terrible, indeed, Lord, is the struggle
891 II | of the present world, a terror of judgment, a fear of punishment,
892 III | were there present have testified to us that they saw his
893 II(8) | read "perhibeo confisus testimonium veritati," and others "veritatis";
894 II | maintain that, clinging7 to the testimony of truth he would willingly
895 II | secure an ascent to heaven, thecruel pressure rather sinks me
896 I | harm befell him, changing theirminds, they said that he was a
897 I(1) | impossible to accept the theory of willful deception on
898 | Therefore
899 III | a degree do you play the thief with all such things and
900 I | which was decayed and very thin.8 They also erected for
901 I | think that it was a greater thing to have lived in the deep,
902 III | drag you with a righteous thong1 before the tribunal of
903 III | almost to the number of two thousand,-a special glory of Martin,-
904 I | were, been done him, he threw aside the whole of the straw.
905 I | distempered mind, he strove to throw open the door. But he declared
906 III | here are over, shall be thrust into cruel Tartarus, while
907 III | thy will to me; and thou thyself wilt guard over those for
908 III | have continued the fight till now; but, if thou dost command
909 I | wont, upon the bare ground, tired out by his long journey.
910 I | endless fables, and much tiresome discourse, mention was made
911 II | happiness which he has even to-day deigned to bestow, even
912 | together
913 III(6) | The identity of Tolosa, mentioned in the text with
914 II | over the sufferings and torments he endured, whatever might
915 II | from having his members torn in pieces by saws and swords.
916 II | whatever might have been the tortures inflicted upon him. But
917 II | my head with the sweetest touch, while, amid the solemn
918 II | have just been here from Tours, and they have brought word
919 III(10)| There were several towns of this name in Gaul. The
920 II(9) | St. Paul is referred to: tradition bears that he was beheaded.~
921 II | source from which the whole train of thought had flowed, a
922 II(6) | name was C. Messius Quintus Trajanus Decius.~
923 I(6) | rigidly followed in our translation. ~
924 III | while you were dwelling at Treves, and were so far distant
925 I | things, while amid all their trials, being patient and ever
926 III | righteous thong1 before the tribunal of the praetor, on a charge
927 III | and cajole them with your trickery, so that without making
928 III | since through them any trifles I compose are made known
929 III | allegiance to Christ. Then, trio, there was the choir of
930 III | worldly men, after their triumphs here are over, shall be
931 I | but passed through it with true acceptance.9 ~
932 III(15)| pro castris tuorum." ~
933 III | have burst into tears; and, turning to the Lord, he replied
934 II | sinks me in my misery to u the place of despair.11
935 II | comforted, although I am unable to console myself. He will
936 II | consolation for my all but unbearable sorrow. And I should wish
937 II | little while ago, with his unceasing benediction. Then again,
938 III | no language can describe, unconquered by toil, and unconquerable
939 I(1) | due to pure invention, or unconscious hallucination. Milner remarks (
940 I | one who reads this letter understand that Martin was indeed tried
941 I | having read them, had not understood them. For the blessed Evangelist
942 III | or as if I were fated to undertake so great a work as that
943 III | yet he did not shrink from undertaking the journey, with such an
944 III | the service of the Lord. Undoubtedly the shepherd was then driving
945 II | discourse to a somewhat undue extent, that, since this
946 III | are sent to thee quite unelaborated and unpolished. For, to
947 I | wakened outof sleep by this unexpected occurrence, and being prevented
948 III | earthly warriors with the united praises of nations. Martin
949 III | thee quite unelaborated and unpolished. For, to say nothing about
950 I | and that he pressed the unstable waters with his footprints.
951 III | they lie in wait for the unwary and capture them before
952 II | would have been foremost to urge on the executioner to his
953 I | related, by the snares and urgency of the devil, was longer
954 III | a voracious appetite was urging them on to frequent seizures
955 II(10) | A late use of the verb deputare.~
956 | using
957 II | usual with one who gives utterance to his grief in words. "
958 III | about to receive me."~As he uttered these words, his spirit
959 III | clerics of that church were at variance among themselves, Martin,
960 III(18)| There is a great variety of readings here; Halm has
961 II | he carried on against the various conflicts with human and
962 II | having passed through the vast expanse of the air, while
963 III | Severus to Bassula, his venerable parent, sendeth greeting.~
964 II(10) | A late use of the verb deputare.~
965 III(11)| Halm reads simply "potenti verbo."~
966 III(11)| potenti virtute verborum": Halm reads simply "potenti
967 II(1) | Halm here inserts "vere."~
968 I(1) | faith, and there is such a verisimilitude about the style, that it
969 II(8) | perhibeo confisus testimonium veritati," and others "veritatis";
970 II(8) | testimonium veritati," and others "veritatis"; in either case, the construction
971 II | over, to whom, after his victory and triumph over the world,
972 II(4) | Compare Rev. vii. 14.~
973 III | delayed some time in that village or church to which he had
974 III | inhabitants of the district and villages, along with many also from
975 III | there was the choir of virgins, abstaining out of modesty
976 III(11)| potenti virtute verborum": Halm reads simply "
977 III | all, and there was but one voice of them lamenting, and saying: "
978 I | have presented an enormous volume to my readers. And indeed,
979 III | fishes, and notices that a voracious appetite was urging them
980 II | martyr, because both by vow and virtues he was alike
981 III | demons act: they lie in wait for the unwary and capture
982 II | conquering, patience in waiting, and placidity in enduring.
983 II | such lofty steps, suddenly wake up; and, being roused from
984 I | dry straw. Martin, being wakened outof sleep by this unexpected
985 I | in the deep, than to have walked along the depths of the
986 I | Peter strong in faith, walking over the waves of the sea,
987 III | is the struggle of bodily warfare, and surely it is now enough
988 III | madness honor these earthly warriors with the united praises
989 II | especially to those who washed their robes in the blood
990 I | days5 and three nights, the water restored him emerging from
991 III | perceives in a river a number of water-fowl busy in capturing fishes,
992 I | he pressed the unstable waters with his footprints. But
993 II | wicked, in care for the weak, in anxiety for those in
994 I | the cross, and tried the Weapons of prayer, the central flames
995 II | I cherish, along with a weariness of the present world, a
996 III | Christ. However, he placed no weight upon his own wishes, nor
997 II | the struggle which then went on, I take to witness the
998 I | down, and speedily die; but whenthey saw that no harm befell
999 I | fashion. How then, I askthee, whosoever thou art, how does the casestand?
1000 II | doubt, sent on before me one whowill plead my cause in heaven,
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