The instructor
1.2.t.1 that the instructor is in charge on account of our sins. and our instructor, o you children, is like his own father, god, whose son he is, sin
Your sins he says to us sinners. 1.2.6.5 and we at once have become infants in understanding, receiving the best and most steadfast order from his goo
And guides to salvation. 1.3.9.4 let us therefore love the commandments of the lord through works, for the word himself, having clearly become flesh,
He mystifies his acquaintances, urging them to pay attention to him as if already hastening to the father, making his hearers more eager by announcing
Allegorizing lambs for the innocence of sheep. 1.5.16.1 indeed, we too, having honored the most beautiful and most perfect of our life’s possessions w
The infant, then, is in this way more delicate, tender and simple and guileless and unhypocritical, straightforward in mind and upright and this is t
And he, having been loosed from death, playing and exulting with the bride, the helper for our salvation, the church to which patience has been given
Nor indeed 1.6.25.3 a teacher of the only teacher. will they not then unwillingly confess the word, perfect, begotten from the perfect father, to be p
The anticipation of arrival for an age and time are not the same thing, nor indeed are impulse and end no. but both 1.6.28.5 are concerned with one
We were all made to drink one drink. it is not unfitting to use their own words, who say that the filtering of the spirit is the remembrance of better
That is, the things of christ, whom alone scripture, as we have said before, calls a man, i have put away the things of a child. but childhood in chri
That which remains to be understood, the boastfulness of knowledge, hear the law of scripture: let not the wise man boast in his wisdom, and let not t
Blood has the substance. in this way also the rivers, borne along with a rush, being carded by the enclosure of the surrounding air, murmur foam, and
We flee to the pain-forgetting breast of the father, the word, and he, as it seems, alone supplies us, the infants, with the milk of love, and truly b
This will be shown in the work on the resurrection. since he also said, *the bread, which i will give, is my flesh*, and flesh is irrigated by blood,
To be. that milk is formed from blood by a change is already clear, but it is also possible to learn it from the flocks and the herds. for these anima
The perfect father of all things, for in him is the son and in the son is the father, it is time for us, following the order, to say also who our inst
Relating his conduct. 1.7.56.2 but again when he speaks in his own person, he confesses himself to be an instructor: i am the lord your god, who broug
Turn from evil and do good you have loved righteousness, you have hated lawlessness. this is my new covenant, engraved in the old letter. the 1.7.59.
1.8.62.3 an excess of philanthropy, having sympathized by nature. for there is nothing that the lord hates for surely he does not hate something, but
Admonishing the passions of the soul, he leads to peace towards the sacred harmony of the commonwealth. 1.8.66.1 just as, therefore, the hortatory and
To frighten us so that we may not sin for the fear of the lord drives away sins, but the fearless one will not be able to be justified, says the scri
Of power. a man, it says, he will judge according to his works, god having made known to us jesus as the face of righteousness, of a good balance, thr
1.9.t.1 that it is of the same power both to do good and to punish justly, wherein is the method of the instruction of the word. with all his strength
1.9.78.1 reprehension is a rebuking censure or a striking blame, and the pedagogue has also used this cure through isaiah, saying: woe, apostate child
A beautiful and graceful harlot, mistress of sorceries. having very artfully insulted the virgin with the name of harlotry, he again, turning her towa
Setting before them a certain saving outline of reasonable care: and i will bind up the lame, and i will heal the vexed, and i will turn back the wand
The justice of the instructor is shown in his rebukes, and the goodness of god in his 1.9.87.3 compassions. for this reason david, that is, the spirit
He has not stood, and on the seat of the pestilent he has not sat but his will is in the 1.10.90.2 law of the lord. counsel has three parts. one take
Of the eternal lord, what is the good path, and walk in it, and you will find cleansing for your souls. and he leads to repentance for the sake of our
To humanity. now honey, being most sweet, is productive of bile, as goodness is of contempt, which is the cause of sinning, but mustard is also reduct
To resume life. for not in war, 1.12.99.1 but in peace are we instructed. now war indeed requires much preparation, and luxury needs extravagance but
Truly irrational, given over to desires, on which 1.13.102.2 all pleasures sit. but what is set right according to obedience to the word, the stoics c
Serving for lightness, from which arises growth and health and proper strength, not improper or treacherous and wretched like that of athletes from fo
A specious name has come to be applied to dinners, from gullets and raging madness for a dinner, according to the comic poet. for truly most thing
It was a feast and they made merry, slaughtering calves and sacrificing sheep, saying: let us eat and 2.1.8.2 drink, for tomorrow we die and that he
Is occupied with pleasures. but if we should exhort any of our fellow-diners to virtue, for this reason we must abstain more from these gluttonous foo
Do not come together for judgment. 2.1.13.1 we must abstain then from all slavishness and intemperance, partaking of what is set before us in an order
He said to them, 2.1.15.3 says luke, what things he said. in addition to these things, those who dine according to reason should not be overlooked by
In his own city, establishing the holy ark in the midst of the tabernacle, having made gladness for all the subject people, before the lord he distrib
Taking away the fuel, the bacchic threat, and applying the antidote for the boiling over, which will both restrain the soul already inflamed with prid
The vision, from the heat of wine, imagines the substance more densely multiplied than one but it makes no difference whether the vision moves or the
With wines? are not they of those who 2.2.27.5 track down where drinking parties are happening? here indeed the word declares the lover of drink to be
To reject the pleasantness of flutes on account of the indecency of the sight—, as one should drink with an undistorted face, not drinking one's fill,
Both, the men being provoked to spy, and the women drawing the men's gazes upon themselves. 2.2.33.5 and we must always conduct ourselves honorably as
Yours, the only inalienable good, faith in god, the confession of him who suffered, beneficence toward men, possessing a most precious2.3.36.3 possess
Those who are hastening towards salvation to have understood beforehand that all our possession is for the sake of use, and use for the sake of self-s
Psaltery of the lord and on a cithara praise him, let the mouth be understood as the cithara, being struck, as it were, with the spirit as a plectrum
Let them sing psalms to him. and what choir is singing, the spirit itself will tell you. his praise is in the church of the saints, let them rejoice i
A proof of human reasoning, 2.5.47.3 but it indicates an opinion of cruelty. for one must not always laugh—for it is immoderate—nor when elders or oth
Accusing towards licentiousness. for he is skilled at always cutting out the roots of sins, the “you shall not commit adultery” through the “you shall
Able to think wrongly but he called her under a husband, since the danger is greater for the one who tries to dissolve 2.7.54.2 the bond of life to
But speech is a good thing 2.7.58.2 for an approved age. speak, elder, at a banquet for it is fitting for you but speak without stumbling and with a
I know that at the holy supper the woman who brought an alabaster jar of ointment anointed the feet of the lord and pleased him. and i know that the a
Again the incorruptible word, he who does not admit the poison of corruption. the magi brought him gold when he was born as a symbol of royalty. but t
We should pray but the pursuit of sweet scents is a bait for indolence, from afar drawing one into gluttonous desire. 2.8.67.3 for the licentious man
Passing through strongly to warm up the coldness. therefore, he is far from needing flowers to cool him, when the nervous system desires to be warmed.
Of the dead must be crowned. for the beautiful crown of amaranth is laid up for him who has lived well this flower the earth has not capacity to bear
A mover of bile, a laxative narcissus oil, from the narcissus, is equally beneficial as lily oil myrtle oil, from myrtles and myrrh, is an astringen
Sleep, but relaxation. for which reason, i say, we must take it not for the purpose of indolence, but for rest from our activities. 2.9.79.1 we must t
Time-, far from it should one permit sleeping during the day for those who also cut off the greater part of the night for wakefulness. and restlessnes
For from the surface of the surrounding air, the arteries around the neck, being pressed and constricted, squeeze out the breath, and this, being exce
It is immediately mounted by whatever hare it happens upon for it is not satisfied with one mating. and it conceives 2.10.88.2 again while still suck
Led aside the hebrew who was having intercourse with his own pregnant wife for mere pleasure, even if it is engaged in within marriage, 2.10.92.3 is
Like a raging and savage master. but let marriage be approved and established for the lord wishes humanity to be multiplied, but he does not say be l
Luxuries, their own sins but the more reasonable of them recognize 2.10.99.3 that they are sins, but are overcome by pleasures. and darkness is a clo
For incontinence, reason is the best medicine, but lack of satiety also helps, by which inflamed desires leap about pleasures. therefore, one must not
But a certain poor man named lazarus was laid at the rich man's gate, full of sores, desiring to be fed from the things falling from the rich man's ta
Not illegitimate the things within it is most fitting to use white and simple garments. 2.10βις.108.2 at any rate, clearly and purely daniel the proph
Coloring is done with time, but the washings and the astringents with the chemical juices of the dye, wasting away the wool of the garments, make the
The beauty of the body is a trap for men 2.10βις.114.4 nor is it reasonable for a woman who uses a purple curtain to wish to become conspicuous. for
Showing the type. but if this also hints at something, it will be revealed in other places. 2.12.t.1 that one must not be excited about stones and gol
Reason. for god has given us, i know, the authority for their use, but only up to what is necessary, and he has willed that their use be in common. 2.
Aristophanes, in his thesmophoriazusae, points out the articles of female adornment. i will quote the very words of the comic poet, which sharply expo
Whole and smooth and equal and without excess2.12.128.2 and in this way is sufficient. and sufficiency is a state which reaches its proper end without
Gods, men are gods. for the word is he a manifest mystery god in man, and man is god, and the mediator executes the will of the father for the word
The true, he will be disgusted, i know well. for he will not find the worthy image of god dwelling within, but instead of it a harlot and an adulteres
So that those who see her cry out at her beautiful rump. she has a large belly they have little breasts like those the comic actors have having adde
They have devised mirrors, on which deception it was most necessary to place a cover for not even, as the myth of the greeks has it, was it granted t
Having left behind for the sake of fading beauty and having fallen so far from the heavens to the earth. but the shechemites also are punished, having
Created in righteousness and holiness of 3.3.17.3 truth. but for a man to be combed and trimmed with a razor for the sake of elegance, and to arrange
But pitch is useful, he says. but it brings reproach, i say and no one in his right mind would want to seem to be a fornicator, not being sick, nor w
Such are they, being reproved for their manner externally by their clothing, footwear, posture, gait, hairstyle, glance for from sight a man will be
Some attend to the mirrors, others the hairnets, others the combs **, many eunuchs and these are pimps, serving without suspicion by the trustworthine
They rear melitaean dogs and recline with the snub-nosed ones, playing, delighting in satyr-like monsters and when they hear of thersites they laugh,
With the tunic and their modesty they wish to appear beautiful, but nevertheless are reputed to be wicked for through it is especially revealed the w
The one who imparts is rich, and the imparting, not the possession, shows the blessed one 3.6.36.1 and the fruit of the soul is generosity therefore
Carrying simplicity along with sober dignity as a provision for the journey to heaven and just as the foot is the measure of the shoe, so is the body
He might be persuaded by the one who spoke 3.8.42.3 these are the disciples who were persuaded by the word for this reason the one who heard is a fr
I turned away, saying— there are four reasons for which we resort to it either for the sake of cleanliness, or of warmth, or of health, or lastly, of
Women should bring from the storeroom with their own hands what we need, and it is not shameful for them to go to the mill nor, indeed, is it a repro
3.11.t.1 a summary sketch of the best life. for this reason, wearing gold and using softer clothing should not be completely cut off, but the irration
Beauty for the evil-minded. for in general, if anyone thinks they are adorned with gold, they are less than gold, and the one who is less than gold is
That forgetfulness of their erotic passions could ever arise in them, on account of the constant reminder of licentiousness. 3.11.60.2 but concerning
A soul inspired by the holy spirit and its splendors, by righteousness, prudence, courage, temperance and love of good and modesty, than which no more
Wisely and lawfully, whose children rising up called her blessed, as the holy word says through solomon, and her husband praised her. for a godly woma
To those passing by on the way, those making their own paths straight, she says clearly through her appearance and her whole way of life: which of yo
Let them cease at last from spending time in taverns, chattering idly, and hunting for the women who pass by many also do not cease from blaspheming
A possession but she is also educated without letters, and her writing, at once private and divine, is called love 3.11.78.3, a spiritual composition
It ought to be mystical—the apostle has called it holy—, † let us conduct ourselves worthily of the kingdom, showing the soul's goodwill through a tem
Sufficient then is the time that is past, says peter, to have worked out the will of the gentiles, having walked in licentiousness, lusts, drunkenness
Of the abundant arrangement of the scriptures and a readier discovery of salvation. 3.12.89.1 we have the decalogue given by moses, indicating by a si
Bitter sweet, and to others thus: woe to those who are wise in their own eyes and prudent in their own sight he who humbles himself will be exalted,
And trembling, in singleness of your heart, as to christ, from the soul with goodwill serving. and masters, do well by your servants, giving up threat
Let us infants run to our mother, and if we become hearers of the word, let us glorify the blessed dispensation, through which man is instructed, and
nor indeed 1.6.25.3 a teacher of the only teacher. Will they not then unwillingly confess the Word, perfect, begotten from the perfect Father, to be perfectly regenerated according to the economic prefiguration? And if he was perfect, why was the perfect one baptized? It was necessary, they say, to fulfill the human profession. Excellently. For I say: therefore, at the same time as he was being baptized by John, does he become perfect? it is clear that; Therefore he learned nothing from him? For he did not. Is he perfected then by the washing alone and sanctified by the descent of the Spirit? 1.6.26.1 So it is. And this same thing happens also with us, for whom the Lord became a model; being baptized, we are enlightened; being enlightened, we are made sons; being made sons, we are perfected; being perfected, we are made immortal. "I," he says, "said, you are gods 1.6.26.2 and all sons of the Most High." And this work is called in many ways: grace, and illumination, and perfection, and washing; washing, through which we wash away our sins; grace, by which the penalties for our sins are remitted; illumination, through which that holy saving light is beheld, that is, through which we see the divine sharply; and perfection, we say, is that which is without need. 1.6.26.3 For what is still lacking to one who has known God? And indeed it is truly absurd for that which is not fulfilled to be called a gift of God; and being perfect, he will of course bestow perfect gifts; and just as all things come to be at his command, so the fulfillment of grace follows his mere willing to bestow it. For the future of time is anticipated by the power of his will. And 1.6.27.1 furthermore, the release from evils is the beginning of salvation. Therefore, only those who began first from the boundaries of life are already perfect, and we, who have been separated from death, already live. Salvation, therefore, is to follow Christ. For what has come to be in him, is life. "Amen, amen, I say to you," he says, "he who hears my word and believes in him who sent me has eternal life and does not come into judgment, but has passed from death into 1.6.27.2 life." Thus to believe alone and to be regenerated is perfection in life; for God is never weak. For as his will is a work, and this is named "world," so also his wish is the salvation of men, and this has been called "church." He knows, therefore, whom he has called; and whom he has called, he has saved; and he has called and saved at the same time. For you yourselves, says the 1.6.27.3 apostle, are taught by God. It is not right, therefore, for us to consider what is taught by him to be imperfect; but the teaching is the eternal salvation of the eternal Savior, to whom be grace forever, amen. And he who has only been regenerated, as his name also implies, being illuminated, is immediately freed from darkness, and has at once received the 1.6.28.1 light. Therefore, just as those who have shaken off sleep are immediately awake within, or rather, just as those who try to remove a cataract from their eyes do not supply light to themselves from without, which they do not have, but by removing the impediment to their sight, they leave the pupil free, so also we who are baptized, having wiped away like a mist the sins that obscure us by the divine Spirit, have a free, unimpeded, and bright eye of the spirit, by which alone we behold the divine, 1.6.28.2 the Holy Spirit flowing into us from heaven; this mixture of eternal radiance is able to see the eternal light; since like is dear to like, and the holy is dear to that from which is the holy, which indeed is properly called light. For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. From this I think man was called 1.6.28.3 light by the ancients. But not yet, they say, has he received the perfect gift. I agree, too; yet he is in the light, and the darkness does not overtake him. And between the light and the darkness there is nothing; but the end is reserved for the resurrection of believers. and this is not to partake of something else, but to attain the promise that has been confessed 1.6.28.4 beforehand. For we do not say that both occur at the same time, both the arrival at the end and of the
οὐδὲ 1.6.25.3 μὴν διδάσκαλος τοῦ μόνου διδασκάλου. Μή τι οὖν ὁμολογήσουσιν ἄκοντες τὸν λόγον, τέλειον ἐκ τελείου φύντα τοῦ
πατρός, κατὰ τὴν οἰκονομικὴν προδιατύπωσιν ἀναγεννηθῆναι τελείως; Καὶ εἰ τέλειος ἦν, τί ἐβαπτίζετο ὁ τέλειος; ἔδει, φασί,
πληρῶσαι τὸ ἐπάγγελμα τὸ ἀνθρώπινον. Παγκάλως. Φημὶ γάρ· ἅμα τοίνυν τῷ βαπτίζεσθαι αὐτὸν ὑπὸ Ἰωάννου γίνεται τέλειος; δῆλον
ὅτι· Οὐδὲν οὖν πρὸς αὐτοῦ προσέμαθεν; οὐ γάρ. Τελειοῦται δὲ τῷ λουτρῷ μόνῳ καὶ τοῦ πνεύματος τῇ καθόδῳ 1.6.26.1 ἁγιάζεται;
οὕτως ἔχει. Τὸ δὲ αὐτὸ συμβαίνει τοῦτο καὶ περὶ ἡμᾶς, ὧν γέγονεν ὑπογραφὴ ὁ κύριος· βαπτιζόμενοι φωτιζόμεθα, φωτιζόμενοι υἱοποιούμεθα,
υἱοποιούμενοι τελειούμεθα, τελειούμενοι ἀπαθανατιζόμεθα· ἐγώ, φησίν, εἶπα, θεοί 1.6.26.2 ἐστε καὶ υἱοὶ ὑψίστου πάντες. Καλεῖται
δὲ πολλαχῶς τὸ ἔργον τοῦτο, χάρισμα καὶ φώτισμα καὶ τέλειον καὶ λουτρόν· λουτρὸν μὲν δι' οὗ τὰς ἁμαρτίας ἀπορρυπτόμεθα, χάρισμα
δὲ ᾧ τὰ ἐπὶ τοῖς ἁμαρτήμασιν ἐπιτίμια ἀνεῖται, φώτισμα δὲ δι' οὗ τὸ ἅγιον ἐκεῖνο φῶς τὸ σωτήριον ἐποπτεύεται, τουτέστιν δι'
οὗ τὸ θεῖον ὀξυωποῦμεν, τέλειον δὲ τὸ ἀπροσδεές φαμεν. 1.6.26.3 Τί γὰρ ἔτι λείπεται τῷ θεὸν ἐγνωκότι; Καὶ γὰρ ἄτοπον ὡς ἀληθῶς
χάρισμα κεκλῆσθαι θεοῦ τὸ μὴ πεπληρωμένον· τέλειος δὲ ὢν τέλεια χαριεῖται δήπουθεν· ὡς δὲ ἅμα τῷ κελεῦσαι αὐτὸν πάντα γίνεται,
οὕτως ἕπεται τῷ χαρίσασθαι μόνον βουληθῆναι αὐτὸν τὸ πεπληρῶσθαι τὴν χάριν. Τὸ γὰρ μέλλον τοῦ χρόνου τῇ δυνάμει τοῦ θελήματος
προλαμβάνεται. Πρὸς 1.6.27.1 δὲ καὶ ἡ τῶν κακῶν ἀπαλλαγὴ σωτηρίας ἐστὶν ἀρχή. Μόνον δὲ ἄρα οἱ πρῶτον ἀρξάμενοι τῶν ὅρων τῆς
ζωῆς ἤδη τέλειοι, ζῶμεν δὲ ἤδη οἱ θανάτου κεχωρισμένοι. Σωτηρία τοίνυν τὸ ἕπεσθαι Χριστῷ. Ὃ γὰρ γέγονεν ἐν αὐτῷ, ζωή ἐστιν.
Ἀμὴν ἀμὴν λέγω ὑμῖν, φησίν, ὁ τὸν λόγον μου ἀκούων καὶ πιστεύων τῷ πέμψαντί με ἔχει ζωὴν αἰώνιον καὶ εἰς κρίσιν οὐκ ἔρχεται,
ἀλλὰ μεταβέβηκεν ἐκ τοῦ θανάτου εἰς τὴν 1.6.27.2 ζωήν. Οὕτω τὸ πιστεῦσαι μόνον καὶ ἀναγεννηθῆναι τελείωσίς ἐστιν ἐν ζωῇ· οὐ
γάρ ποτε ἀσθενεῖ ὁ θεός. Ὡς γὰρ τὸ θέλημα αὐτοῦ ἔργον ἐστὶ καὶ τοῦτο κόσμος ὀνομάζεται, οὕτως καὶ τὸ βούλημα αὐτοῦ ἀνθρώπων
ἐστὶ σωτηρία καὶ τοῦτο ἐκκλησία κέκληται. Οἶδεν οὖν οὓς κέκληκεν, οὓς δὲ κέκληκεν, σέσωκεν· κέκληκεν δὲ ἅμα καὶ σέσωκεν. Αὐτοὶ
γὰρ ὑμεῖς, φησὶν ὁ 1.6.27.3 ἀπόστολος, θεοδίδακτοί ἐστε. Οὐκ ἄρα θεμιτὸν ἡμῖν ἀτελὲς τὸ ὑπ' αὐτοῦ διδασκόμενον νοεῖν, τὸ δὲ
μάθημα ἀίδιος σωτηρία ἀιδίου σωτῆρος, ᾧ ἡ χάρις εἰς τοὺς αἰῶνας, ἀμήν. Καὶ ὁ μόνον ἀναγεννηθείς, ὥσπερ οὖν καὶ τοὔνομα ἔχει,
φωτισθεὶς ἀπήλλακται μὲν παραχρῆμα τοῦ σκότους, ἀπείληφεν δὲ αὐτόθεν τὸ 1.6.28.1 φῶς. Ὥσπερ οὖν οἱ τὸν ὕπνον ἀποσεισάμενοι
εὐθέως ἔνδοθεν ἐγρηγόρασιν, μᾶλλον δὲ καθάπερ οἱ τὸ ὑπόχυμα τῶν ὀφθαλμῶν κατάγειν πειρώμενοι οὐ τὸ φῶς αὑτοῖς ἔξωθεν χορηγοῦσιν,
ὃ οὐκ ἔχουσιν, τὸ δὲ ἐμπόδιον ταῖς ὄψεσι καταβιβάζοντες ἐλευθέραν ἀπολείπουσι τὴν κόρην, οὕτως καὶ οἱ βαπτιζόμενοι, τὰς ἐπισκοτούσας
ἁμαρτίας τῷ θείῳ πνεύματι ἀχλύος δίκην ἀποτριψάμενοι, ἐλεύθερον καὶ ἀνεμπόδιστον καὶ φωτεινὸν ὄμμα τοῦ πνεύματος ἴσχομεν,
ᾧ δὴ μόνῳ τὸ θεῖον ἐποπτεύομεν, 1.6.28.2 οὐρανόθεν ἐπεισρέοντος ἡμῖν τοῦ ἁγίου πνεύματος· κρᾶμα τοῦτο αὐγῆς ἀιδίου τὸ ἀίδιον
φῶς ἰδεῖν δυναμένης· ἐπεὶ τὸ ὅμοιον τῷ ὁμοίῳ φίλον, φίλον δὲ τὸ ἅγιον τῷ ἐξ οὗ τὸ ἅγιον, ὃ δὴ κυρίως κέκληται φῶς· ἦτε γάρ
ποτε σκότος, νῦν δὲ φῶς ἐν κυρίῳ. Ἐντεῦθεν τὸν ἄνθρωπον ὑπὸ τῶν παλαιῶν ἡγοῦμαι 1.6.28.3 κεκλῆσθαι φῶτα. Ἀλλ' οὐδέπω, φασίν,
ἀπείληφεν τὴν τελείαν δωρεάν. Σύμφημι κἀγώ, πλὴν ἐν φωτί ἐστιν καὶ τὸ σκότος αὐτὸν οὐ καταλαμβάνει· φωτὸς δὲ ἀνὰ μέσον καὶ
τοῦ σκότους οὐδὲ ἕν· ἐν δὲ τῇ ἀναστάσει τῶν πιστευόντων ἀπόκειται τὸ τέλος· τὸ δὲ οὐκ ἄλλου τινός ἐστι μεταλαβεῖν ἀλλ' ἢ τῆς
προ1.6.28.4 ωμολογημένης ἐπαγγελίας τυχεῖν. Μὴ γὰρ κατὰ τὸν αὐτὸν χρόνον ἅμα ἄμφω συνίστασθαί φαμεν, τήν τε πρὸς τὸ πέρας
ἄφιξιν καὶ τῆς
