Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers: Second Series, Volume VI JeromePhilip Schaff Cosimo, Inc., 2007 M06 1 - 564 pages |
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Page 12
... sinner, yet a harlot was allowed to wash the Lord's feet with her tears, * and dogs are permitted to eat of their masters' crumbs.' It was the Saviour's mission to call sinners and not the righteous; for, as He said Himself, "they that ...
... sinner, yet a harlot was allowed to wash the Lord's feet with her tears, * and dogs are permitted to eat of their masters' crumbs.' It was the Saviour's mission to call sinners and not the righteous; for, as He said Himself, "they that ...
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... sinners is to admonish those in like case, and to praise the virtuous is to quicken the zeal of those who wish to do right. The day before yesterday I spoke to you concerning Lea of blessed memory,1 and 1 had hardly done so, when 1 was ...
... sinners is to admonish those in like case, and to praise the virtuous is to quicken the zeal of those who wish to do right. The day before yesterday I spoke to you concerning Lea of blessed memory,1 and 1 had hardly done so, when 1 was ...
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... sinner, in which case you have no right to complain. For if so, you endure far less than your deserts. Why should I repeat old stories? Listen to a modern instance. The holy Melanium," eminent among Christians for her true nobility (may ...
... sinner, in which case you have no right to complain. For if so, you endure far less than your deserts. Why should I repeat old stories? Listen to a modern instance. The holy Melanium," eminent among Christians for her true nobility (may ...
Page 56
... sinner rather than his death," * and " Shall they fall and not arise, saith the Lord,"6 and once more " Return ye backsliding children and I will heal your backslidings."* Their strictness does not prevent them from themselves ...
... sinner rather than his death," * and " Shall they fall and not arise, saith the Lord,"6 and once more " Return ye backsliding children and I will heal your backslidings."* Their strictness does not prevent them from themselves ...
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... sinners, a great multitude. 5. You bathe daily; another regards such over-niceness as defilement. You surfeit yourself on wild fowl and pride yourself on eating sturgeon; I, on the contrary, fill my belly with beans. You find pleasure ...
... sinners, a great multitude. 5. You bathe daily; another regards such over-niceness as defilement. You surfeit yourself on wild fowl and pride yourself on eating sturgeon; I, on the contrary, fill my belly with beans. You find pleasure ...
Contents
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Translation of the answer of the Synod | 186 |
ioS To Eustochiura memorials of her mother | 195 |
109 To the presbyter Riparius in Spain on | 212 |
18 | 224 |
Life of Paul the First Hermit | 299 |
Malchus the Captive Monk | 315 |
against Helvidius The perpetual virginity | 334 |
against Jovinianus | 346 |
vii | 454 |
page | 483 |
Prefaces to the Commentaries 495 Book II eh 57 addressed to Eustochium | 500 |
Preface to Commentary on Ezekiet Book XIII PrelacetoCommentaryonMicah Bookl i iv | 501 |
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Page 40 - Of the Jews five times received I forty stripes save one. Thrice was I beaten with rods, once was I stoned, thrice I suffered shipwreck, a night and a day I have been in the deep ; in journeyings often, in perils of waters, in perils of robbers, in perils by mine own countrymen, in perils by the heathen, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils among false brethren ; in weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often,...
Page 16 - But whoso keepeth His Word, in him verily is the love of God perfected : hereby know we that we are in Him. He that saith he abideth in Him, ought himself also so to walk, even as He walked.
Page 143 - For this cause left I thee in Crete, that thou shouldest set in order the things that are wanting, and ordain elders in every city, as I had appointed thee: 6 If any be blameless, the husband of one wife, having faithful children, not accused of riot, or unruly.
Page 100 - Behold, the days come, saith the Lord GOD, that I will send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the LORD...
Page 34 - For I am jealous over you with godly jealousy : for I have espoused you to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ.
Page 171 - Raca, shall be in danger of the council : but whosoever shall say, Thou fool, shall be in danger of hell fire. Therefore, if thou bring thy gift to the altar, and there rememberest that thy brother hath aught against thee, leave there thy gift before the altar, and go thy way, first be reconciled to thy brother, and then come and offer thy gift.
Page 228 - At what instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to pluck up, and to pull down, and to destroy it: if that nation, against whom I have pronounced, turn from their evil, I will repent of the evil that I thought to do unto them.
Page 370 - SING, O barren, thou that didst not bear ; break forth into singing, and cry aloud, thou that didst not travail with child : for more are the children of the desolate than the children of the married wife, saith the Lord.
Page 90 - Wisdom is the principal thing, therefore get wisdom : and with all thy getting get understanding. Exalt her, and she shall promote thee : she shall bring thee to honour when thou dost embrace her. She shall give to thine head an ornament of grace; a crown of glory shall she deliver to thee.
Page 277 - For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me ; but how to perform that which is good I find not. For the good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do. Now if I do that I would not, it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me.