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
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 licentious, nor did he wish them to give themselves over to pleasures as if they were born for sexual intercourse. Let the Instructor put us to shame, crying through Ezekiel, "Circumcise your fornication." Even irrational animals have a suitable season for seed. 2.10.95.3 To have intercourse not for the procreation of children is to do violence to nature, which we ought to take as our teacher, observing its wise instructions for the right time, I mean old age and childhood, which it brings in—for to the one it has not yet permitted, and the other it no longer wishes to marry—, except not to marry at all times. Marriage is the desire for procreation, not the disorderly emission of seed, which is unlawful and irrational. 2.10.96.1 Our whole life would proceed according to nature if we mastered our desires from the beginning and did not kill the human race, which is born from divine providence, by wicked arts; for these women, under the cloak of fornication, who bring on complete destruction by using abortifacient drugs, destroy philanthropy along with the embryo. 2.10.96.2 But those who have been permitted to marry need an Instructor, so as not to perform the mystic rites of nature during the day, nor to come from church, say, or from the marketplace in the morning and engage in intercourse like a rooster, when it is the time for prayer and reading and the good works of the day; but in the evening it is fitting to rest after the meal and after giving thanks for its enjoyments. 2.10.97.1 Nature does not always provide the opportunity for the encounter of marriage to be consummated; for an embrace after a long time is more longed for. Nor indeed should one be licentious at night as if in darkness, but one must shut in 2.10.97.2 in the soul modesty, like the light of reason; for we shall be no different from the weaving Penelope, if by day we weave the doctrines of self-control, but at night unravel them, when we go to bed; for if reverence must be practiced, as it must, much more must reverence be shown to one's own wife, avoiding unseemly embraces, and the guarantee of chastity towards our neighbors 2.10.97.3 is the faith that comes from home. For it is not, it is not possible to be considered reverent by her with whom reverence is not shown to be attested in those very keen pleasures. Goodwill which confesses to having a slippery inclination toward intercourse blossoms for a short time and grows old with the body, and sometimes even grows old beforehand when desire has withered, whenever the self-control of marriage is outraged by licentious pleasures; for the hearts of lovers are winged and love-potions are extinguished by repentance, and often loving turns into hating, whenever satiety perceives condemnation. 2.10.98.1 Of intemperate words and unseemly postures and courtesan-like kisses, whorish names and certain such wanton acts, one must not even make mention, obeying the blessed apostle, who says explicitly: But fornication and all impurity or covetousness, let it not even be named 2.10.98.2 among you, as is fitting for saints. At any rate someone seems to have said well: Intercourse has profited no one, and it is to be wished that it has not harmed. For that which is according to law is dangerous, except insofar as it is for the procreation of children, but concerning that which is unlawful the scripture says: A hired woman shall be counted as spittle, but a married woman a tower of death to those who use her. 2.10.98.3 He has compared the licentious passion to a boar or a sow, and he has called adultery with a guarded harlot a sought-for death. And a house and a city, in which they act licentiously, yes indeed, even your poetry writes in a way that reproaches: 2.10.99.1 Adulteries among you and unlawful intercourse of men, womanish and unjust, O evil city, all things unclean; 2.10.99.2 but on the contrary it admires the self-controlled: neither having a shameful desire for another's bed, nor rushing to the hateful and abominable outrage against a male, because it is against nature; these things the many consider
ὥσπερ λυττῶντα καὶ ἄγριον δεσπότην. Ἀλλ' ἐγκεκρίσθω δὴ ὁ γάμος καὶ ἐγκατατετάχθω· πληθύνεσθαι γὰρ ὁ κύριος βούλεται τὴν ἀνθρωπότητα,
ἀλλ' οὐκ ἀσελγαίνετε λέγει οὐδὲ σφᾶς αὐτοὺς καθάπερ εἰς ὀχείαν γεγονότας ἐκδίδοσθαι ἡδοναῖς ἠθέλησεν. ∆υσωπείτω δὲ ἡμᾶς ὁ
παιδαγωγὸς δι' Ἰεζεκιὴλ βοῶν περιτέμνεσθε τὴν πορνείαν ὑμῶν. Ἔχει τινὰ καιρὸν εὔθετον εἰς σπόρον καὶ τὰ ἄλογα τῶν ζῴων. 2.10.95.3
Τὸ δὲ μὴ εἰς παίδων γονὴν συνιέναι ἐνυβρίζειν ἐστὶ τῇ φύσει, ἣν χρὴ διδάσκαλον ἐπιγραφομένους τὰς σοφὰς τοῦ καιροῦ ἐπιτηρεῖν
παιδαγωγίας, τὸ γῆρας λέγω καὶ τὴν παιδικὴν ἡλικίαν, παρεισάγουσαν-τοῖς μὲν γὰρ οὐδέπω συνεχώρησεν, τοὺς δὲ οὐκέτι βούλεται
γαμεῖν-, πλὴν οὐ πάντοτε γαμεῖν. Γάμος δὲ ἡ παιδοποιίας ὄρεξις, οὐχ ἡ τοῦ σπέρματος ἄτακτος ἔκκρισις ἡ παράνομος καὶ ἡ παράλογος.
2.10.96.1 Κατὰ φύσιν δ' ἂν ἡμῖν χωροίη ὁ βίος ἅπας κρατοῦσι τῶν ἐπιθυμιῶν ἄνωθεν μὴ κτείνουσί τε τὸ ἐκ προνοίας θεϊκῆς φυόμενον
τῶν ἀνθρώπων γένος κακοτέχνοις μηχαναῖς· αὗται γὰρ πορνείας ἐπικαλύμματι τοῖς ἐς παντελῆ κατασπῶσι φθορὰν φθορίοις συγχρώμεναι
φαρμάκοις ἐξαμβλίσκουσιν ἅμα τῷ ἐμβρύῳ τὴν φιλανθρωπίαν. 2.10.96.2 Ἀλλ' οἷς γε συγκεχώρηται γῆμαι, τούτοις ἐδέησεν παιδαγωγοῦ,
ὡς μὴ μεθ' ἡμέραν τὰ μυστικὰ τῆς φύσεως ἐκτελεῖσθαι ὄργια μηδὲ ἐξ ἐκκλησίας, φέρε, ἢ ἀγορᾶς ἥκοντα ἑωθινὸν ἀλεκτρυόνος ὀχεύειν
δίκην, ὁπηνίκα εὐχῆς καὶ ἀναγνώσεως καὶ τῶν μεθ' ἡμέραν εὐεργῶν ἔργων ὁ καιρός· ἑσπέρας δὲ ἀναπαύσασθαι καθήκει μετὰ τὴν ἑστίασιν
καὶ μετὰ τὴν ἐπὶ ταῖς ἀπολαύσεσιν εὐχαριστίαν. 2.10.97.1 Οὐκ ἀεὶ δὲ καιρὸν ἐνδίδωσιν ἡ φύσις τὴν ἔντευξιν τοῦ γάμου τελειοῦσθαι·
καὶ γὰρ ποθεινοτέρα ἡ χρονιωτέρα συμπλοκή. Οὐ μὴν οὐδ' ὡς ἐν σκότῳ νύκτωρ ἀκολαστητέον, ἀλλ' ἐγκαθειρκτέον 2.10.97.2 τῇ ψυχῇ
τὸ αἰδῆμον οἱονεὶ φῶς τοῦ λογισμοῦ· οὐδὲν γὰρ τῆς ἱστουργούσης Πηνελόπης διοίσομεν, μεθ' ἡμέραν μὲν τὰ σωφροσύνης ἐξυφαίνοντες
δόγματα, νυκτὸς δὲ ἀναλύοντες, ἐπὴν εἰς κοίτην ἴωμεν· εἰ γὰρ σεμνότητα ἀσκητέον, ὥσπερ οὖν, πολὺ πλέον τῇ γυναικὶ τῇ ἑαυτοῦ
τὴν σεμνότητα ἐπιδεικτέον τὰς ἀσχήμονας συμπλοκὰς παραιτούμενον καὶ τῆς πρὸς τοὺς πλησίον ἁγνείας ἡ ἐχέγγυος 2.10.97.3 πίστις
οἴκοθεν παραγινέσθω. Οὐ γὰρ ἔστιν, οὐκ ἔστι σεμνὸν παρ' ἐκείνῃ νομισθῆναι, παρ' ᾗ τὸ σεμνὸν οὐκ ἐμμάρτυρον δείκνυται ἐν αὐταῖς
ἐκείναις ταῖς ὀξείαις ἡδοναῖς. Εὔνοια δὲ ὀλισθηρῶς εἰς συνουσίαν ἔχειν ὁμολογοῦσα ὀλίγον ἀνθεῖ καὶ συγγηράσκει τῷ σώματι,
ἔσθ' ὅτε δὲ καὶ προγηράσκει μαρανθείσης τῆς ἐπιθυμίας, ὁπόταν τὴν γαμήλιον σωφροσύνην ἑταιρικαὶ καθυβρίσωσιν ἡδοναί· πτηναὶ
γὰρ αἱ τῶν ἐρώντων καρδίαι καὶ σβέννυται μετανοίᾳ τὰ φίλτρα, τρέπεται δὲ πολλάκις τὸ φιλεῖν εἰς τὸ μισεῖν, ὁπόταν αἴσθηται
τῆς καταγνώσεως ὁ κόρος. 2.10.98.1 Ῥημάτων δὲ ἀκολάστων καὶ σχημάτων ἀσχημόνων ἑταιρικῶν τε φιλημάτων ὀνόματα πορνικὰ καὶ
τοιουτωνί τινων λαγνευμάτων οὐδὲ ἐπιμνηστέον, τῷ μακαρίῳ πειθομένοις ἀποστόλῳ, διαρρήδην λέγοντι· Πορνεία δὲ καὶ ἀκαθαρσία
πᾶσα ἢ πλεονεξία μηδὲ ὀνομα2.10.98.2 ζέσθω ἐν ὑμῖν, καθὼς πρέπει ἁγίοις. Εὖ γοῦν τις εἰρηκέναι φαίνεται· Συνουσία ὤνησεν μὲν
οὐδένα, ἀγαπητὸν δὲ εἰ μὴ ἔβλαψεν. Ἡ μὲν γὰρ κατὰ νόμον σφαλερά, εἰ μὴ ὅσον αὐτῆς ἐπὶ παιδοποιίᾳ, περὶ δὲ τῆς παρανόμου ἡ
γραφὴ λέγει· Γυνὴ μισθία ἴση σιάλῳ λογισθήσεται, ὕπανδρος δὲ πύργος θανάτου τοῖς χρωμένοις. 2.10.98.3 Κάπρῳ ἢ συῒ τὸ ἑταιρικὸν
ἀπείκασε πάθος, θάνατον δὲ ζητούμενον εἴρηκεν τὴν μοιχείαν ἐπὶ πόρνῃ τηρουμένῃ. Οἶκον δὲ καὶ πόλιν, ἐν ᾗ ἀσελγαίνουσιν, ναὶ
μὴν καὶ ἡ παρ' ὑμῖν ποιητικὴ ὀνειδίζουσά πως γράφει· 2.10.99.1 Μοιχεῖαι παρὰ σοί τε καὶ ἀνδρῶν μῖξις ἄθεσμος θηλυγενὴς ἄδικός
τε, κακὴ πόλι, πάντ' ἀκάθαρτε· 2.10.99.2 ἔμπαλιν δὲ ἄγαται τοὺς σώφρονας· οὔτε ἐπ' ἀλλοτρίᾳ κοίτῃ πόθον αἰσχρὸν ἔχοντας οὐδὲ
ἐπ' ἄρρενος ὕβριν ἀπεχθέα τε στυγερήν τε ὁρμωμένους, ὅτι παρὰ φύσιν· ταύτας ἡγοῦνται οἱ πολλοὶ
