Latest / Homilies on Romans / 041 - Homily 24 - Romans 1311

Transcript

041 - Homily 24 - Romans 1311 · Homilies on Romans

• 0:00
  Speaker 1: Section forty one of Homily's own Romans by John Chrysostom,
• 0:05
  Speaker 1: translated by J. B. Morris. This LibriVox recording is in
• 0:08
  Speaker 1: the public domain. Homily twenty four Romans thirteen, verse eleven,
• 0:15
  Speaker 1: And that, knowing the time, that now it is high
• 0:18
  Speaker 1: time to awake out of sleep. Since he had given
• 0:21
  Speaker 1: them what commands were fitting, he again thrusts them on
• 0:24
  Speaker 1: to the performance of good works in consideration of what
• 0:27
  Speaker 1: was pressing upon them. For the time of judgment he
• 0:30
  Speaker 1: means is at the doors. So too, he wrote to
• 0:33
  Speaker 1: the Corinthians also the remaining time is short, and to
• 0:36
  Speaker 1: the Hebrews again for yet a little while. And he
• 0:39
  Speaker 1: that shall come will come, and will not tarry. But
• 0:43
  Speaker 1: in those cases it was to cheer those in trouble
• 0:46
  Speaker 1: and to solace the toils of their closely successive temptations
• 0:49
  Speaker 1: that he said those things. But in the passage before
• 0:52
  Speaker 1: us he does it to rouse those that are asleep,
• 0:55
  Speaker 1: this language being useful to us for both the purposes.
• 0:58
  Speaker 1: And what is that which he says, now it is
• 1:01
  Speaker 1: high time to awake out of sleep? It is that
• 1:04
  Speaker 1: near is the resurrection, near the awful judgment, and the
• 1:07
  Speaker 1: day that burneth has a furnace near. Henceforward, then we
• 1:11
  Speaker 1: must be free from our listlessness. For now is our
• 1:13
  Speaker 1: salvation nearer than when we believed. You see how he
• 1:17
  Speaker 1: puts the resurrection now close by them. For as the
• 1:20
  Speaker 1: time advances, he means, the season of our present life
• 1:23
  Speaker 1: is wasting away, and that of the life to come
• 1:25
  Speaker 1: waxes nearer. If then thou be prepared and hast done
• 1:30
  Speaker 1: all whatsoever he hath commanded, the day is one of
• 1:33
  Speaker 1: salvation to thee But if the contrary not so. For
• 1:36
  Speaker 1: the present, however, it is not upon alarming grounds that
• 1:39
  Speaker 1: he exhorts them, but upon kindly ones. Thus also to
• 1:43
  Speaker 1: untie them from their fellow feeling for the things of
• 1:45
  Speaker 1: this present world. Then, since it was not unlikely that
• 1:49
  Speaker 1: in the beginning of their only endeavors they would be
• 1:51
  Speaker 1: most earnest in that their desire was then at its
• 1:54
  Speaker 1: full vigor, but that as the time went on the
• 1:57
  Speaker 1: whole of their earnestness would wither down to nothing, he
• 2:00
  Speaker 1: says that they ought, however, to be doing the reverse,
• 2:03
  Speaker 1: not to get relaxed as time went on, but to
• 2:06
  Speaker 1: be the more full of vigor. For the nearer the
• 2:09
  Speaker 1: king may be at hand the more ought they to
• 2:11
  Speaker 1: get themselves in readiness. The nearer the prize is, the
• 2:14
  Speaker 1: more wide awake ought they to be for the contest.
• 2:17
  Speaker 1: Since even the races do this when they are upon
• 2:19
  Speaker 1: the end of the cause, and towards the receiving of
• 2:22
  Speaker 1: the prize, then they rouse themselves up the more. This
• 2:26
  Speaker 1: is why he said, now is our salvation nearer than
• 2:29
  Speaker 1: when we believed Verse twelve. The night is far spent,
• 2:33
  Speaker 1: the day is at hand. This then is upon ending,
• 2:36
  Speaker 1: and the latter is drawing near. Let us henceforth do
• 2:40
  Speaker 1: what belongs to the latter, not to the former. For
• 2:43
  Speaker 1: this is what is done in the things of this life.
• 2:46
  Speaker 1: And when we see the night pressing on towards the morning,
• 2:48
  Speaker 1: and hear the swallow twittering, we each of us awake
• 2:51
  Speaker 1: our neighbor, although it be night still, But so soon
• 2:55
  Speaker 1: as it is actually departing, we hasten one another and
• 2:57
  Speaker 1: say it is day now. And we all set about
• 3:00
  Speaker 1: the works of the day, dressing and leaving our dreams,
• 3:03
  Speaker 1: and shaking our sleep thoroughly off, that the day may
• 3:06
  Speaker 1: find us ready, and we may not have to begin
• 3:09
  Speaker 1: getting up and stretching ourselves when the sunlight is up
• 3:13
  Speaker 1: what then we do in that case that, let us
• 3:16
  Speaker 1: do here also, let us put off imaginings, let us
• 3:20
  Speaker 1: get clear of the dreams of this life present. Let
• 3:23
  Speaker 1: us lay aside its deep slumber and be clad in
• 3:25
  Speaker 1: virtue for garments. For it is to point out all
• 3:28
  Speaker 1: this that he says. Let us therefore cast off the
• 3:30
  Speaker 1: works of darkness, and let us put on the armor
• 3:33
  Speaker 1: of light. Yes, for the day is calling us to battle,
• 3:36
  Speaker 1: array and to the fight. Yet fear not at hearing
• 3:39
  Speaker 1: of array and arms. For in the case of the
• 3:41
  Speaker 1: visible suit of armor, to put it on is a
• 3:43
  Speaker 1: heavy and abhorred task. But here it is desirable and
• 3:47
  Speaker 1: worth being prayed for, for it is of light the
• 3:49
  Speaker 1: alms are. Hence they will set thee forth brighter than
• 3:53
  Speaker 1: the sunbeam and giving out a greater glistening. And they
• 3:56
  Speaker 1: place the insecurity for their arms and glittering do they
• 3:59
  Speaker 1: make them? For arms of light are they? What? Then,
• 4:02
  Speaker 1: is there no necessity for thee to fight? Yea needful
• 4:06
  Speaker 1: is it to fight? Yet not to be distressed and toil.
• 4:09
  Speaker 1: For it is not in fact war, but a solemn
• 4:12
  Speaker 1: dance and feast day. Such as the nature of the arms,
• 4:15
  Speaker 1: such the power of the commander. And as the bridegroom
• 4:18
  Speaker 1: goes forth with joyous looks from his chamber, so doth
• 4:22
  Speaker 1: he too, who is defended with these arms. For he
• 4:24
  Speaker 1: is at once soldier and bridegroom. But when he says
• 4:28
  Speaker 1: the day is at hand, he does not even allow
• 4:30
  Speaker 1: it to be but near, but puts it even now
• 4:32
  Speaker 1: beside us. For he says, let us walk becomingly as
• 4:36
  Speaker 1: in the day, for day it already is. And what
• 4:40
  Speaker 1: most people insist upon very much in their exhortations, that
• 4:43
  Speaker 1: he also uses to draw them on the sense of
• 4:46
  Speaker 1: the becoming, for they had a great regard to the
• 4:49
  Speaker 1: esteem of the multitude. And he does not say walk ye,
• 4:52
  Speaker 1: but let us walk, so, making the exhortation free from
• 4:56
  Speaker 1: anything grating, and the reproof gentle. Not in rioting and drunkenness,
• 5:02
  Speaker 1: not that he would forbid drinking, but doing it immoderately,
• 5:06
  Speaker 1: not the enjoying of wine, but doing it to excess,
• 5:09
  Speaker 1: as also the next thing he states likewise, with the
• 5:12
  Speaker 1: same measure in the words, not in chambering and wantonness.
• 5:16
  Speaker 1: For here also he does not prohibit the intercourse of
• 5:18
  Speaker 1: the sexes, but committing fornication, not in strife and envying.
• 5:24
  Speaker 1: It is the deadly kind of passions, then that he
• 5:27
  Speaker 1: is for extinguishing lust, namely and anger. Wherefore it is
• 5:31
  Speaker 1: not themselves only, but even the sources of them that
• 5:33
  Speaker 1: he removes. For there is nothing that so kindles lust
• 5:36
  Speaker 1: and inflames wrath as drunkenness and sitting long at the wine. Wherefore,
• 5:41
  Speaker 1: after first saying not in rioting and drunkenness, then he
• 5:45
  Speaker 1: proceeded with not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife
• 5:49
  Speaker 1: and envying. And even here he does not pause. But
• 5:53
  Speaker 1: after stripping us of these evil garments, here how he
• 5:56
  Speaker 1: proceeds to ornament us when he says verse fourteen, but
• 6:00
  Speaker 1: put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ. He no longer
• 6:03
  Speaker 1: speaks of works, but he rouses them to greater things.
• 6:06
  Speaker 1: For when he was speaking of vice, he mentioned the
• 6:08
  Speaker 1: works of it. But when a virtue, he speaks not
• 6:10
  Speaker 1: of works, but of arms, to show that virtue putteth
• 6:14
  Speaker 1: him that is possessed of it into complete safety and
• 6:16
  Speaker 1: complete brightness. And even here he does not pause, but
• 6:20
  Speaker 1: leading his discourse on to what was greater a thing,
• 6:23
  Speaker 1: far more awe striking, he gives us the Lord himself
• 6:26
  Speaker 1: for a garment the King himself, for he that is
• 6:29
  Speaker 1: clad with him hath absolutely all virtue. But in saying
• 6:32
  Speaker 1: put ye on, he bids us to be girt about
• 6:34
  Speaker 1: with him upon every side, as in another place. He says,
• 6:38
  Speaker 1: But if Christ be in us, and again that Christ
• 6:41
  Speaker 1: may dwell in the inner man, for He would have
• 6:44
  Speaker 1: our soul to be a dwelling for himself, and himself
• 6:46
  Speaker 1: to be laid round about us as a garment, that
• 6:49
  Speaker 1: he may be unto us all things, both from within
• 6:51
  Speaker 1: and from without. For He is our fullness. For he
• 6:54
  Speaker 1: is the fullness of Him that filleth all in all
• 6:57
  Speaker 1: and the way, and the husband and the bridegroom. As
• 7:00
  Speaker 1: it says, I have espoused you as a chaste virgin
• 7:03
  Speaker 1: to one husband, and a roote and drink and meat
• 7:06
  Speaker 1: and life. For he says I live, Yet not I,
• 7:09
  Speaker 1: but Christ liveth in me, and apostle and high priest
• 7:12
  Speaker 1: and teacher, and father and brother and joint heir and
• 7:15
  Speaker 1: sharer of the tomb and cross. For it says we
• 7:18
  Speaker 1: were buried together with him and planted together in the
• 7:21
  Speaker 1: likeness of his death, and a suppliant, for we are
• 7:24
  Speaker 1: ambassadors in Christ's stead and an advocate to the father,
• 7:29
  Speaker 1: For he says he maketh intercession for us and house
• 7:32
  Speaker 1: and inhabitant. For he says he that abideth in me,
• 7:35
  Speaker 1: and I in him, and a friend, as in that
• 7:38
  Speaker 1: he are my friends and a foundation and corner stone.
• 7:41
  Speaker 1: And we are his members, and his heritage and building
• 7:43
  Speaker 1: and branches and fellow workers. For what is there that
• 7:46
  Speaker 1: he is not minded to be to us when he
• 7:48
  Speaker 1: makes us cleave and fit on to him in every way.
• 7:52
  Speaker 1: And this is a sign of one loving exceedingly be persuaded, then,
• 7:56
  Speaker 1: and rousing thee from sleep, put him on. And when
• 7:59
  Speaker 1: thou hast done so, give thy flesh up to his bridle.
• 8:02
  Speaker 1: For this is what he intimates in saying, and make
• 8:04
  Speaker 1: not provision for the flesh to fulfill the lusts thereof.
• 8:07
  Speaker 1: For as he does not forbid drinking but drinking to excess,
• 8:10
  Speaker 1: nor marrying but doing wantonness, so too he does not
• 8:13
  Speaker 1: forbid making provision for the flesh either, but doing so
• 8:16
  Speaker 1: with a view to fulfill the lusts thereof, as for instance,
• 8:19
  Speaker 1: by going beyond necessaries, For that he does bid make
• 8:23
  Speaker 1: provision for it. Here from what he says to Timothy,
• 8:27
  Speaker 1: use a little wine for thy stomach's sake, and thine
• 8:30
  Speaker 1: often infirmities. So here too he is for taking care
• 8:34
  Speaker 1: of it, but for health and not wantonness. For this
• 8:37
  Speaker 1: would cease to be making provision for it when you
• 8:39
  Speaker 1: were lighting up the flame, when you were making the
• 8:42
  Speaker 1: furnace powerful. But that you may form a clearer notion,
• 8:45
  Speaker 1: what making provision for it? To fulfill the lust thereof is?
• 8:49
  Speaker 1: And may shun such a provision. Just call to mind
• 8:52
  Speaker 1: the drunken, the gluttoness, those that pride themselves in dress,
• 8:56
  Speaker 1: those that are effeminate, them that live a soft and
• 8:59
  Speaker 1: relaxed life, and you will see what is meant. For
• 9:02
  Speaker 1: they do everything, not that they may be healthy, but
• 9:05
  Speaker 1: that they may be wanted and kindle desire. But do thou,
• 9:09
  Speaker 1: who hast put on Christ, prune away all those things
• 9:12
  Speaker 1: and seek for one thing, only to have thy flesh
• 9:15
  Speaker 1: in health, And to this degree do make provision for it,
• 9:18
  Speaker 1: and not any further. But spend all thy industry on
• 9:21
  Speaker 1: the care of spiritual things. For then you will be
• 9:24
  Speaker 1: able to rouse yourself out of this sleep without being
• 9:26
  Speaker 1: weighed down with these manifold desires. For the present life
• 9:30
  Speaker 1: is asleep, and the things in it are no way
• 9:32
  Speaker 1: different from dreams. And as they that are asleep often
• 9:36
  Speaker 1: speak and see things other than healthful, so do we also,
• 9:40
  Speaker 1: or rather we see much worse. Even for he that
• 9:43
  Speaker 1: doeth anything disgraceful or says the like in a dream,
• 9:46
  Speaker 1: when he is rid of his sleep, is rid of
• 9:48
  Speaker 1: his disgrace also, and is not to be punished. But
• 9:51
  Speaker 1: in this case it is not so. But the shame
• 9:53
  Speaker 1: and also the punishment are immortal. Again. They that grow
• 9:57
  Speaker 1: rich in a dream when it is day are convicted
• 10:00
  Speaker 1: of having been rich to no purpose. But in this case,
• 10:03
  Speaker 1: even before the day the conviction often comes upon them,
• 10:06
  Speaker 1: and before they depart to the other life, those dreams
• 10:09
  Speaker 1: have flown away. Let us then shake off this evil sleep,
• 10:13
  Speaker 1: for if the day find a sleeping, a deathless death
• 10:16
  Speaker 1: will succeed. And before that day we shall be open
• 10:19
  Speaker 1: to the attacks of all the enemies that are of
• 10:21
  Speaker 1: this world, both men and devils. And if they be
• 10:24
  Speaker 1: minded to undo us, there is nobody to hinder them.
• 10:27
  Speaker 1: For if there were many watching, then the danger would
• 10:30
  Speaker 1: not be so great. Since, however, one, perhaps there is
• 10:33
  Speaker 1: or two who have lighted a candle, and would be
• 10:36
  Speaker 1: as it were, watching in the depth of night while
• 10:38
  Speaker 1: men were sleeping. Therefore, now we have need of much sleeplessness,
• 10:42
  Speaker 1: much guardedness, to prevent our falling into the most irremediable evils.
• 10:48
  Speaker 1: Doth it not now seem to be broad daylight? Do
• 10:51
  Speaker 1: we not think that all men are awake and sober? Yet? Still?
• 10:54
  Speaker 1: And perhaps you will smite at what I say? Still
• 10:57
  Speaker 1: say it, I will we seem all of us like
• 11:00
  Speaker 1: men sleeping and snoring in the depth of night. Would
• 11:04
  Speaker 1: that an incorporeal being could be seen? And then I
• 11:06
  Speaker 1: would show you how most men are snoring, and the
• 11:08
  Speaker 1: devil breaking through walls and butchering us as we lie,
• 11:11
  Speaker 1: and stealing away the goods within, doing everything fearlessly, as
• 11:15
  Speaker 1: if in profound darkness. Or rather, even if it be
• 11:18
  Speaker 1: impossible to see this with our eyes, let us sketched
• 11:22
  Speaker 1: out in words, and consider how many have been weighed
• 11:24
  Speaker 1: down by evil desires, how many held down by the
• 11:27
  Speaker 1: sore evil of wantonness, and have quenched the light of
• 11:30
  Speaker 1: the spirit. Hence it comes that they see one thing
• 11:33
  Speaker 1: instead of another, here, one thing instead of another, and
• 11:35
  Speaker 1: take no notice of any of the things here told them.
• 11:39
  Speaker 1: Or if I am mistaken in saying so, and thou
• 11:41
  Speaker 1: art awake, tell me what has been doing here this day?
• 11:44
  Speaker 1: If thou hast not been hearing this as a dream,
• 11:47
  Speaker 1: I am indeed aware that some can tell me. And
• 11:50
  Speaker 1: if I do not mean this of all, But do thou,
• 11:53
  Speaker 1: who comest under what has been said, who has come
• 11:55
  Speaker 1: here to no purpose, tell me what profit, what apostle
• 11:58
  Speaker 1: hath been discoursing to us us to day, and on
• 12:00
  Speaker 1: what subjects? And thou wouldst not have it in thy
• 12:04
  Speaker 1: power to tell me, For thou hast been talking a
• 12:06
  Speaker 1: great deal here, just as in a dream, without hearing
• 12:10
  Speaker 1: the realities. And this I would have said to the
• 12:13
  Speaker 1: women too, as there is a great deal of sleeping
• 12:15
  Speaker 1: amongst them. And would it worse sleep? For he that
• 12:19
  Speaker 1: is asleep says nothing either good or bad. But he
• 12:22
  Speaker 1: that is awake, as ye are, puts forth many a word,
• 12:25
  Speaker 1: even for mischief on his own head, telling his interest,
• 12:28
  Speaker 1: casting up his creditor accounts, calling to memory some bare
• 12:31
  Speaker 1: faced bargaining, planting the thorns thick in his own soul,
• 12:34
  Speaker 1: and not letting the seed make even ever so little advance.
• 12:38
  Speaker 1: But rouse thyself and pull these thorns up by the roots,
• 12:41
  Speaker 1: and shake the drunkenness off, for this is the cause
• 12:44
  Speaker 1: of the sleep. Drunkenness I mean not from wine only,
• 12:47
  Speaker 1: but from worldly thoughts, and with them that from wine also.
• 12:51
  Speaker 1: And this advice I am giving not to the rich only,
• 12:53
  Speaker 1: but to the poor too, and chiefly those that clump
• 12:56
  Speaker 1: together for social parties. For this is not really indulgent
• 13:00
  Speaker 1: or relaxation, but punishment and vengeance. For indulgence lies not
• 13:04
  Speaker 1: in speaking filthy things, but in talking solemnly, in being filled,
• 13:08
  Speaker 1: not being ready to burst. But if thou thinkest this
• 13:12
  Speaker 1: is pleasure, show me the pleasure by the evening thou
• 13:15
  Speaker 1: canst not. And hitherto I say nothing of the mischiefs
• 13:18
  Speaker 1: it leads to. But at present have only been speaking
• 13:21
  Speaker 1: to you of the pleasure that withers away so quickly.
• 13:24
  Speaker 1: For the party is no sooner broken up than all
• 13:26
  Speaker 1: that when for mouth is flown away. But when I
• 13:29
  Speaker 1: come to mention the spewing, and the headaches, and the
• 13:31
  Speaker 1: numberless disorders, and the soul's captivity, what have you to
• 13:35
  Speaker 1: say to all this? Have we any business because we
• 13:37
  Speaker 1: are poor to behave ourselves unseemly too. And in saying this,
• 13:41
  Speaker 1: I do not forbid your meeting together, or taking your
• 13:43
  Speaker 1: suppers at a common table. But to prevent your behaving
• 13:46
  Speaker 1: unseemly and as wishing indulgence to be really indulgence, and
• 13:50
  Speaker 1: not a punishment, nor a vengeance, or drunkenness or reveling.
• 13:53
  Speaker 1: Let the gentiles see that Christians know best how to indulge,
• 13:57
  Speaker 1: and to indulge in an orderly way. For it says,
• 14:00
  Speaker 1: rejoice in the Lord with trembling. But how then can
• 14:03
  Speaker 1: one rejoice Why by saying hymns, making prayers, introducing psalms
• 14:07
  Speaker 1: in the place of those low songs. Thus will christ
• 14:10
  Speaker 1: also be at our table, and will fill the whole
• 14:13
  Speaker 1: feast with blessing. When thou prayest, when thou singest spiritual songs,
• 14:17
  Speaker 1: when thou invitest the poor to partake of what is
• 14:19
  Speaker 1: set before thee, when thou settest much orderliness and temperance
• 14:22
  Speaker 1: over the feast, So thou wilt make the place a
• 14:26
  Speaker 1: church by hymning in the room of ill timed shouts
• 14:29
  Speaker 1: and cheers the Master of all things. And tell me
• 14:32
  Speaker 1: not that another custom has come to prevail, But correct
• 14:35
  Speaker 1: what is thus amiss. For whether ye eat, it says,
• 14:38
  Speaker 1: or whether ye drink, or whatsoever ye do do all
• 14:41
  Speaker 1: to the glory of God. For from banquets of that
• 14:44
  Speaker 1: sort ye have evil desires and impurities, and wives come
• 14:47
  Speaker 1: to be in disrepute, and harlots in honor. Among you
• 14:51
  Speaker 1: hence come the upsetting of families, and evils unnumbered, and
• 14:54
  Speaker 1: all things are turned upside down. And ye have left
• 14:57
  Speaker 1: thee pure fountain and run to the conduit of Maya.
• 15:01
  Speaker 1: But that in Harlot's body is maire. I do not
• 15:03
  Speaker 1: inquire of any one else but of thine own self,
• 15:05
  Speaker 1: that wallowest in that Maya. If thou dost not feel
• 15:08
  Speaker 1: ashamed of thyself, if thou dost not think thyself unclean
• 15:12
  Speaker 1: after the sin is over. Wherefore I beseech you flee
• 15:15
  Speaker 1: fornication and the mother of it drunkenness. Why so where
• 15:19
  Speaker 1: reaping is impossible, Or rather, even if thou dost reap,
• 15:22
  Speaker 1: the fruit brings thee great shame. For even if a
• 15:26
  Speaker 1: child be born, it at once disgraces thyself, and as
• 15:29
  Speaker 1: itself had injustice done it in being borne through the
• 15:32
  Speaker 1: illegitimate and base. And if thou leavest never so much money,
• 15:36
  Speaker 1: both the son of a harlot and that of a
• 15:38
  Speaker 1: servant maid is disreputable at home, disreputable in the city,
• 15:42
  Speaker 1: disreputable in a court of law, disreputable too, wilt thou
• 15:46
  Speaker 1: be also both in thy lifetime and when dead. For
• 15:49
  Speaker 1: if thou have departed, even the memorials of thy unseemliness abide.
• 15:52
  Speaker 1: Why then bring disgrace upon all these? Why so where
• 15:56
  Speaker 1: the ground makes it its care, to destroy the fruit
• 15:58
  Speaker 1: where it is? But why barren bread where there is
• 16:01
  Speaker 1: murder before the birth. For even the harlot, thou dost
• 16:04
  Speaker 1: not let continue a mere harlote, but makest her a murderess.
• 16:08
  Speaker 1: Also you see how drunkenness leads to hordham, hordem to adultery,
• 16:11
  Speaker 1: adultery to murder, or rather to a something even worse
• 16:15
  Speaker 1: than murder. For I have no name to give it,
• 16:17
  Speaker 1: since it does not take off the thing born, but
• 16:20
  Speaker 1: prevents its being born. Why then dost thou abuse the
• 16:24
  Speaker 1: gift of God and fight with his laws, and follow
• 16:26
  Speaker 1: after what is a curse as if a blessing, and
• 16:28
  Speaker 1: make the chamber of procreation a chamber for murder, And
• 16:31
  Speaker 1: arm the woman that was given for child bearing, and
• 16:34
  Speaker 1: to slaughter, for with a view to drawing more money
• 16:37
  Speaker 1: by being agreeable and an object of longing to her lovers.
• 16:40
  Speaker 1: Even this, she is not backward to do so, heaping
• 16:43
  Speaker 1: upon thy head a great pile of fire. For even
• 16:46
  Speaker 1: if the daring deed be herse, yet the causing of
• 16:49
  Speaker 1: it is thine. Hence too come idolatries. Since many, with
• 16:53
  Speaker 1: a view to become acceptable, devise incantations and libations, and
• 16:57
  Speaker 1: love potions and countless other plans. Yet still, after such
• 17:00
  Speaker 1: great unseemliness, after slaughters, after idolatries, the thing seems to
• 17:05
  Speaker 1: many to belong to things indifferent, aye, and to many
• 17:08
  Speaker 1: that have wives too. Whence the mingle of mischief is
• 17:11
  Speaker 1: the greater. For sorceries are applied not to the womb
• 17:14
  Speaker 1: that is prostituted, but to the injured wife. And there
• 17:17
  Speaker 1: are plottings without number, and invocations of devils, and necromancies,
• 17:21
  Speaker 1: and daily wars and truthless fightings and home cherished jealousies. Wherefore,
• 17:25
  Speaker 1: also Paul, after saying not in chamberings and wantonness, proceeds
• 17:30
  Speaker 1: not in strife and envying, as knowing the wars that result,
• 17:33
  Speaker 1: therefrom the upsetting of families, the wrongs done to legitimate children,
• 17:38
  Speaker 1: the other ills, unnumbered, that we may then escape from
• 17:41
  Speaker 1: all these. Let us put on Christ and be with
• 17:43
  Speaker 1: him continually. For this is what putting him on is,
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: never being without him, having him ever more visible in
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: us through our sanctification, through our moderation. So we say
• 17:54
  Speaker 1: of friends, such an one is wrapped up in such another,
• 17:57
  Speaker 1: meaning their great love and keeping together in the incessantly.
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: For he that is wrapped up in anything seems to
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: be that which he is wrapped in. Let then Christ
• 18:06
  Speaker 1: be seen in every part of us. And how is
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: he to be seen? If thou doest his deeds? And
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: what did he do? The son of man, he says,
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: hath not where to lay his head? This do thou
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: also aim. After he needed the use of food, and
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: fared upon barley loaves. He had occasion to travel, and
• 18:24
  Speaker 1: there were no horses or beast of burden anywhere, But
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: he walked so far as even to be weary. He
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: had need of sleep, and he lay asleep upon a
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: pillow in the fore part of the ship. There was
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: occasion for sitting down to meet, and he bade them
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: lie down upon the grass. And his garments were cheap,
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: and he often stayed alone with no train. After him,
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: and what he did on the cross, and what amidst
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: the insults, and all in a word that he did,
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: do thou learn by heart and imitate, And so wilt
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: thou have put on Christ if thou make no provision
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: for the flesh to fulfill the lusts thereof, for the
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: thing has no real pleasure, since these lusts tender again
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: others more keen, and thou wilt never find satisfaction, but
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: wilt only make thee one great torment. As one who
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: is in a continual first, even if he have ten
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: thousand fountains hard by him, gets no good from this,
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: as he is not able to extinguish the disorder. So
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: as he that liveth continually in lusts. But if thou
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: keep within what is necessary, thou wilt never come to
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: have this fear. But all those things will go away
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: as well drunkennesses as wantonnesses eat. Then only so much
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: as to break thy hunger. Have only so much upon
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: thee as to be sheltered. And do not curiously deck
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: thy flesh with clothing, lest thou ruin it, for thou
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: wilt make it more delicate, and wilt do injury to
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: its helpfulness by unnerving it with so much softness that
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: thou mayst have it then a meat vehicle for the soul.
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: That the helmsman may be securely seated over the rudder,
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: and the soldier handle his arms with ease. Thou must
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: make all parts to be fitly framed together. For it
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: is not the having much, but request wiring little that
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: keeps us from being injured. For the one man is afraid,
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: even if he is not wronged, This other, even if
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: he be wronged, is in better case than those that
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: have not been wronged. And even this very thing is
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: in the better spirits. Let the object of our search be, then,
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: not how we can keep any one from using us spitefully,
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: but how even if he wished to do it, he
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: may be without the power. And this there is no
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: other source whence to obtain, save by keeping too necessaries
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: and not coveting anything more. For in this way we
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: shall be able to enjoy ourselves here, and shall attain
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: to the good things to come by the grace and
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: love towards Man et cetera. End of Section forty one