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Commentary on the Gospel of Luke Sermons 12-25 - Cyril of Alexandria · The Canterbury Tales

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  Speaker 1: Commentary in the Gospel of Luke, Sermons twelve through twenty five.
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  Speaker 1: This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in
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  Speaker 1: visit LibriVox dot org. Sermon twelve, Part one, Commentary in
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  Speaker 1: the Gospel of Luke, Sermons twelve through twenty five by
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  Speaker 1: Cyril of Alexandria, translated by R. Pain Smith, Sermon twelve,
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  Speaker 1: the twelfth sermon of the Commentary upon the Gospel of
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  Speaker 1: Luke by Saint Cyril. Upon the Fast of our Lord
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  Speaker 1: in the flesh from the Syriac four one through two.
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  Speaker 1: But Jesus, being full of the Holy Ghost, returned from
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  Speaker 1: the Jordan and continued in the spirit in the wilderness
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  Speaker 1: forty days, being tempted of the devil, and he ate
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  Speaker 1: nothing during those days, and when they were accomplished, he
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  Speaker 1: hungered the blessed prophets, when speaking of the only begotten
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  Speaker 1: Word of God, of him who is equal unto God
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  Speaker 1: in glory and the sharer of his throne, and radiant
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  Speaker 1: in perfect equality unto him, lead us to the persuasion
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  Speaker 1: that he was manifested as a savior and deliverer for
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  Speaker 1: those upon earth by saying, arise, O, Lord, help me.
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  Speaker 1: He arose therefore and helped, having taken the form of
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  Speaker 1: a slave and being made in the likeness of men.
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  Speaker 1: For so did he, as one of us, set himself
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  Speaker 1: as an avenger in our stead, against that murderous and
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  Speaker 1: rebellious serpent, who had brought sin upon us, and thereby
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  Speaker 1: had caused corruption and death to reign over the dwellers
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  Speaker 1: upon earth, that we, by his way means and in him,
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  Speaker 1: might gain the victory, whereas of old we were vanquished
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  Speaker 1: and fallen in Adam. Come therefore, and let us praise
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  Speaker 1: the Lord and sing psalms unto God, our Savior. Let
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  Speaker 1: us trample Satan underfoot. Let us raise the shout of
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  Speaker 1: victory over him. Now he is thrown and fallen. Let
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  Speaker 1: us exult over the crafty reptile caught in an inextricable snare.
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  Speaker 1: Let us too, say of him, and the words of
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  Speaker 1: the prophet Jeremiah, how is the hammer of all the
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  Speaker 1: earth broken and beaten? Small thou art found and hast
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  Speaker 1: been taken because thou stoodest against the Lord. For of old,
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  Speaker 1: that is, before the time of the advent of Christ,
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  Speaker 1: the Savior of all, the universal Enemy had somewhat grand
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  Speaker 1: and terrible notions about himself, for he both tully exalted
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  Speaker 1: over the infirmity of the inhabitants of the earth, saying
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  Speaker 1: I will hold the world in my hand as a nest,
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  Speaker 1: and as eggs that are left, I will take it up,
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  Speaker 1: and no one shall escape from me or speak against me.
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  Speaker 1: And in very truth, there was no one of those
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  Speaker 1: upon earth who could rise up against his power. But
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  Speaker 1: the Sun rose up against him and contented with him,
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  Speaker 1: having been made like unto us. And therefore, as I said,
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  Speaker 1: human nature, as victorious in him, wins the crown. And
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  Speaker 1: this in old time the Sun himself proclaimed, where by
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  Speaker 1: one of the holy prophets, he thus addresses Satan, Behold,
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  Speaker 1: I am against thee O corrupting mountain that corruptest the
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  Speaker 1: whole earth. Come therefore, and let us see what the
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  Speaker 1: blessed Evangelist says, when Christ was now going to battle
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  Speaker 1: in our behalf with him who corrupted the whole earth.
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  Speaker 1: But Jesus, being full of the Holy Ghost, returned from
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  Speaker 1: the Jordan. Here behold, I pray man's nature anointed with
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  Speaker 1: the grace of the Holy Ghost in Christ, as the
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  Speaker 1: first fruits and crowned with the highest honors. For of
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  Speaker 1: old Indeed, the God of all promised saying it shall
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  Speaker 1: come to pass in those days that I will pour
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  Speaker 1: out of my spirit upon all flesh. And the promise
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  Speaker 1: is fulfilled for us in Christ first. And whereas of
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  Speaker 1: those in old time who without restraint gave way to
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  Speaker 1: fleshly lust, God somewhere said, my spirit shall not dwell
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  Speaker 1: in these men because they are flesh. Now, because as
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  Speaker 1: all things have become new in Christ, and we are
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  Speaker 1: enriched with the regeneration, that is by water and spirit.
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  Speaker 1: For no longer are we children of flesh and blood,
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  Speaker 1: but rather call God our father. Therefore it is and
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  Speaker 1: very justly that, as being now in honor and possessing
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  Speaker 1: the glorious privilege of adoption, we have been made partakers
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  Speaker 1: of the divine nature by the communication of the Holy Ghost.
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  Speaker 1: But he who is the first born among us, when
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  Speaker 1: he became so among many brethren and yielded himself to emptiness,
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  Speaker 1: was the first to receive the spirit, although himself the
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  Speaker 1: giver of the Spirit, that this dignity and the grace
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  Speaker 1: of fellowship with the Holy Ghost might reach us by
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  Speaker 1: his means something like this. Paul also teaches us, we
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  Speaker 1: are speaking both of him and us. He says, for
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  Speaker 1: both he that sanctifieth and they that are sanctified, are
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  Speaker 1: all of one, for which reason he is not ashamed
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  Speaker 1: to call them his brethren, saying, I will declare thy
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  Speaker 1: name to my brethren, for as being in no degree
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  Speaker 1: ashamed to call us brethren, whose likeness he took. Therefore,
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  Speaker 1: having transferred to himself our poverty, he is sanctified with us,
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  Speaker 1: although himself the sanctifier of all creation, that thou mightst
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  Speaker 1: not see him refusing the measure of human nature, who
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  Speaker 1: consented for the salvation and life of all to become man.
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  Speaker 1: When therefore the wise evangelist says of him, but Jesus,
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  Speaker 1: being full of the spirit returned from the Jordan, be
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  Speaker 1: not offended, nor heer from the mark in thy inward thoughts,
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  Speaker 1: and wander from the doctrine of the truth as to
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  Speaker 1: the way and manner in which the Word, who is God,
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  Speaker 1: was sanctified. But rather understand the wisdom of the economy,
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  Speaker 1: by reason of which also he is the object of
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  Speaker 1: our admiration, For he was made flesh and became man.
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  Speaker 1: Not to avoid whatever belongs to man's estate, and despise
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  Speaker 1: our poverty, but that we might be enriched with what
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  Speaker 1: is his by his having been made like unto us
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  Speaker 1: in every particular sin only accepted. He is sanctified, therefore
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  Speaker 1: is man, but sanctifies as God. For being by nature God,
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  Speaker 1: he was made man. He was led. Therefore, it says
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  Speaker 1: in the spirit in the wilderness forty days, being tempted
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  Speaker 1: of the devil. What therefore is the meaning of the word.
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  Speaker 1: It signifies not so much that he was conducted thither
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  Speaker 1: as that he dwelt and continued there For we are
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  Speaker 1: ourselves also accustomed to say of anyone who lives religiously,
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  Speaker 1: so and so, whoever it may be, is a well
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  Speaker 1: conducted person. And we give the title of pedagogue not
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  Speaker 1: to signify, according to the literal interpretation, that the actually
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  Speaker 1: lead and conduct boys, but that they take care of
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  Speaker 1: them and well and laudably train them, educating and teaching
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  Speaker 1: them to conduct themselves with propriety. He dwelt therefore in
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  Speaker 1: the wilderness, in the spirit, that is spiritually, for he fasted,
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  Speaker 1: granting no food whatsoever to the necessities of the body.
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  Speaker 1: But to this, I imagine someone may immediately object, And what
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  Speaker 1: harmed them? Did it do Jesus to be constantly dwelling
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  Speaker 1: in cities? And in what way could it benefit him
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  Speaker 1: to choose to inhabit the wilderness? For there is no
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  Speaker 1: good thing of which he is in want? And why
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  Speaker 1: too did he also fast? What necessity was there for
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  Speaker 1: him to labor? Who knows not what it is to
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  Speaker 1: feel the rising of any depraved desire. For we adopt
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  Speaker 1: the practice of fasting as a very useful expedient by
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  Speaker 1: which to mortify pleasures, and above it the law of
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  Speaker 1: sin that is in our members, and extirpate those emotions
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  Speaker 1: which lead on to fleshly lust. But what need had
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  Speaker 1: Christ a fasting? For he it is by whom the
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  Speaker 1: Father slays the sin in the flesh. And knowing this,
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  Speaker 1: the Divine Paul wrote for as to the powerlessness of
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  Speaker 1: the law by reason of its weakness because of the flesh,
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  Speaker 1: God having sent his in the likeness of sinful flesh,
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  Speaker 1: and because of sin, condemned the sin in the flesh,
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  Speaker 1: that the righteousness of the Law may be fulfilled in us,
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  Speaker 1: who walk not in the flesh, but in the spirit.
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  Speaker 1: He therefore, who even in us miserable beings, mortifies the
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  Speaker 1: motions of the flesh, and has abolished sin. What fasting
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  Speaker 1: could he need in aught that concerns himself. He is
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  Speaker 1: wholly undefiled by nature, wholly pure, and without blemish. He
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  Speaker 1: cannot experience even the shadow of a change. Why therefore
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  Speaker 1: did he make his abode in the wilderness, and fast
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  Speaker 1: and endure being tempted? The type has regard to us,
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  Speaker 1: my beloved. He sets before us his acts as our example,
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  Speaker 1: and establishes a model of the better and more admirable
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  Speaker 1: mode of life practiced among us. I mean that of
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  Speaker 1: the holy monks. For whence was it possible for men
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  Speaker 1: on earth to know that the habit of dwelling in
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  Speaker 1: deserts was useful for them and highly advantageous for salvation.
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  Speaker 1: For they retire from waves and storms, as it were,
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  Speaker 1: from the utter turmoil and vain distractions of this world.
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  Speaker 1: And so to speak, like the blessed Joseph, they strip
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  Speaker 1: off and give back to the world all that belongs
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  Speaker 1: to it. And something like this, the wise Paul too says,
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  Speaker 1: of those who are wont so to live, but those
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  Speaker 1: who are Jesus Christ have crucified the flesh with its
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  Speaker 1: affections and lusts. And he shows to those who choose
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  Speaker 1: this mode of life that abstinence is necessary, of which
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  Speaker 1: the fruit is fasting in the power of endurance, and
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  Speaker 1: of abstaining from or taking but little food. For so
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  Speaker 1: will Satan, when he tempts, be overcome, but observe this,
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  Speaker 1: especially that He was first baptized and filled with the
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  Speaker 1: Holy Spirit, and withdrew into the wilderness, and made abstinence,
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  Speaker 1: that is fasting, as it were his armor, and being
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  Speaker 1: thus equipped when Satan drew near, and he had overcome him,
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  Speaker 1: he has so set before us himself as our pattern.
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  Speaker 1: Thou therefore too must first put on the armor of
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  Speaker 1: God and the shield of faith and the helmet of salvation.
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  Speaker 1: Thou too must first be clothed with power from on high,
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  Speaker 1: must be made, that is, partaker of the Holy Ghost
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  Speaker 1: by means of precious baptism. And then mayst thou undertake
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  Speaker 1: to lead the life well beloved and honorable with God.
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  Speaker 1: Then with spiritual courage thou shalt take for thy habitation
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  Speaker 1: the deserts. Then will thou keep holy fast and mortify pleasures,
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  Speaker 1: and vanquish Satan when he tempts. In Christ therefore have
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  Speaker 1: we gained all things. Lo he appears among the combatants, who,
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  Speaker 1: as God bestows the prize among those who wear the
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  Speaker 1: chaplet of victory. Is he who crowns the heads of
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  Speaker 1: the saints. Let us behold therefore the skillfulness of his wrestlings,
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  Speaker 1: how he overthrows the devil's wickedness. When forty days had
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  Speaker 1: been spent in fasting, he afterwards hungered. But he it
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  Speaker 1: is who gives food to the hungry, and is himself
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  Speaker 1: the bread that came down from heaven and gives life
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  Speaker 1: to the world, as being that whereby all things consist.
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  Speaker 1: But because, on the other hand, it was necessary that
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  Speaker 1: he who refused not our poverty should withdraw from nothing
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  Speaker 1: whatsoever that belongs to man's condition, he consented for his
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  Speaker 1: flesh to require its natural supplies, and hence the words
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  Speaker 1: he hungered. It was not, however, till he had fasted
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  Speaker 1: sufficiently and by his godlike power, had kept his flesh unwated,
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  Speaker 1: though abstaining from meat and drink, that scarcely. At length,
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  Speaker 1: he permitted it to feel its natural sensations. For it
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  Speaker 1: says that he hungered, And for what reason thatskillfully by
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  Speaker 1: means of the two, he who is at once God
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  Speaker 1: and man, might be recognized as such an one end
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  Speaker 1: the same person, both as superior to us in his
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  Speaker 1: divine nature and in his human nature, as our equal.
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  Speaker 1: Four three. And the devil said unto him. Then the
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  Speaker 1: devil draweth near to tempt him, expecting that the feeling
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  Speaker 1: of hunger would aid him in his innate wickedness, For
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  Speaker 1: oftentimes he prevails over us by taking our infirmities to
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  Speaker 1: aid his plots and enterprises. He thought that he would
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  Speaker 1: readily jump at the wish of seeing bread ready for
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  Speaker 1: his use. And therefore he said, if thou be the
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  Speaker 1: son of God, bid this stone become bred. He approaches
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  Speaker 1: him therefore as an ordinary man, and as one of
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  Speaker 1: the saints. Yet he had a suspicion that possibly he
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  Speaker 1: might be the Christ. In what way, then did he
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  Speaker 1: wish to learn this? He considered that to change the
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  Speaker 1: nature of anything into that which it was not would
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  Speaker 1: be the act indeed of a divine power. It is
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  Speaker 1: God who makes these things and transforms them. If therefore,
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  Speaker 1: says he, this be done, certainly he it is who
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  Speaker 1: is looked for as the subverter of my power. But
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  Speaker 1: if he refuse to work this change I have to
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  Speaker 1: do with a man, and cast away my fear, and
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  Speaker 1: am delivered from my danger. And therefore it was that Christ,
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  Speaker 1: knowing the monster's artifice, neither made the change, nor said
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  Speaker 1: that he was either unable or unwilling to make it,
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  Speaker 1: but rather shakes him off as importunate and officious, saying
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  Speaker 1: that man shall not live by bread alone, by which
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  Speaker 1: he means that if God grant a man the power,
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  Speaker 1: he can subsist without eating and live as Moses and Elias,
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  Speaker 1: who by the word of the Lord, passed forty days
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  Speaker 1: without taking food. If therefore it is possible to live
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  Speaker 1: without bread, why should I make the stone bread? But
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  Speaker 1: he purposely does not say I cannot, that he may
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  Speaker 1: not deny his own power, nor does he say I
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  Speaker 1: can lest the other. Knowing that he is God, to
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  Speaker 1: whom alone such things are possible, should depart from him
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  Speaker 1: and observe. I pray how the nature of man in
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  Speaker 1: Christ cast off the faults of Adam's gluttony by eating.
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  Speaker 1: We were conquered in Adam by abstinence. We conquered in
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  Speaker 1: Christ by the food that springeth up from the earth.
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  Speaker 1: Our earthly body is supported and seeks for its sustenance
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  Speaker 1: that which is congenerate with it. But the rational soul
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  Speaker 1: is nourished unto spiritual healthiness by the word of God.
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  Speaker 1: For the food that the earth supplies nourishes the body
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  Speaker 1: that is akin to it, But that from above and
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  Speaker 1: from Heaven strengthens the spirit. The food of the soul
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  Speaker 1: is the word that cometh from God, even the spiritual
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  Speaker 1: bread which strengtheneth man's heart, according to what is sung
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  Speaker 1: in the Book of Psalms, and such also we affirm
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  Speaker 1: to be the nature of the food of the Holy Angels.
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  Speaker 1: Four five. He showed him all the kingdoms of the world.
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  Speaker 1: But o thou malignant and wicked and accursed being, how
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  Speaker 1: didst thou dare to show the Lord all the kingdoms
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  Speaker 1: of the whole creation and say, all these are mine? Now? Therefore,
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  Speaker 1: if thou wilt fall down and worship me, I will
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  Speaker 1: give them THEE. How dost thou promise that which is
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  Speaker 1: not thine? Who made THEE heir of God's kingdom, who
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  Speaker 1: made THEE Lord of all under heaven, thus seized these
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  Speaker 1: things by fraud. Restore them therefore to the incarnate Son,
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  Speaker 1: the Lord of all hear what the prophet Isaiah says
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  Speaker 1: respecting thee, hath it been prepared for thee also to
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  Speaker 1: reign a deep gulf fire and brimstone, and would lad
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  Speaker 1: in order the anger of the Lord as a gulf
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  Speaker 1: burning with brimstone. How then, dost thou, whose lot is
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  Speaker 1: the inextinguishable flame promised to the King of all that
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  Speaker 1: which is his own? Didst thou think to have him
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  Speaker 1: as thy worshiper, at whom all things tremble, while the
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  Speaker 1: set of fime and all the angelical powers him his glory.
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  Speaker 1: It is written, thou shalt worship the Lord, thy God,
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  Speaker 1: and him only shalt thou serve seasonably. He made mention
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  Speaker 1: of this commandment, striking as it were his head very heart.
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  Speaker 1: For before his advent, Satan had deceived all under heaven,
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  Speaker 1: and was himself everywhere worshiped. But the Law of God,
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  Speaker 1: ejecting him from the dominion he had usurped by fraud,
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  Speaker 1: has commanded men to worship him only, who by nature
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  Speaker 1: and in truth is God, and to offer service to
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  Speaker 1: him alone. Four nine, If thou be the son of God,
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  Speaker 1: cast thyself down. Hence the third temptation which the devil
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  Speaker 1: employs is that of vainglory, saying, cast thyself down, hence
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  Speaker 1: as a proof of thy divinity. But neither did he
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  Speaker 1: make him fall by means of vanity, but himself in
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  Speaker 1: this also shot wide of the mark. For he answers.
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  Speaker 1: It is said, thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God.
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  Speaker 1: For God grants not his aid to those who tempt him,
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  Speaker 1: but to those who believe in him. Nor ought we
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  Speaker 1: because he deigns us mercy, therefore to make a vain display. Moreover,
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  Speaker 1: Christ never gave a sign to those who tempted him.
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  Speaker 1: For a wicked generation. He saith seeketh after a sign,
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  Speaker 1: and a sign shall not be given it. And let
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  Speaker 1: Satan now, when tempting hear the same. We therefore won
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  Speaker 1: the victory in Christ, and he who conquered an Adam
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  Speaker 1: went away ashamed that we might have him under our feet.
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  Speaker 1: For Christ, as conqueror, handed on to us also the
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  Speaker 1: power to conquer, saying, behold, I have granted you to
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  Speaker 1: tread upon serpents and scorpions and all the power of
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  Speaker 1: the enemy. Four ten. For it is written that he
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  Speaker 1: shall give his angels charge concerning thee to guard thee.
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  Speaker 1: But see how maliciously he endeavors by the use of
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  Speaker 1: the scriptures to humble the glory of the Lord, as
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  Speaker 1: if in need of angelic aid, and as though it
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  Speaker 1: would stumble, did not the angels help it? For the
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  Speaker 1: application of the psalms refers not to Christ, nor does
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  Speaker 1: the sovereign need angels. As for the pinnacle, it was
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  Speaker 1: a very lofty building erected at the side of the temple. Some, however,
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  Speaker 1: wrongly refer the psalm to the person of the Lord,
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  Speaker 1: and taking the verses together thus read, because thou, o Lord,
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  Speaker 1: art my hope, thou hast made the most tie thy refuge.
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  Speaker 1: They say therefore that the Lord had as his refuge
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  Speaker 1: the most high, even the Father who is in heaven.
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  Speaker 1: And their pretext for such a way of understanding it
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  Speaker 1: is that Satan sotook the verses saying, if thou be
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  Speaker 1: the son of God, cast thyself down, for it is
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  Speaker 1: written that he shall give his angels charge concerning thee
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  Speaker 1: For Satan, being false and a deceiver, applies what is
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  Speaker 1: said of us to the person of Christ, the Savior
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  Speaker 1: of us all but we do not understand it in
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  Speaker 1: Satan's fashion. Though if the Arians have so understood it.
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  Speaker 1: There is no cause for astonishment, for they follow their
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  Speaker 1: own father, who is a liar, and the truth is
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  Speaker 1: not in him, according to the Saviour's words. For if
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  Speaker 1: the truth be as they say, and we have made
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  Speaker 1: Christ our help, and he has the Father for his refuge,
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  Speaker 1: then have we fled to one who himself has need
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  Speaker 1: of aid, and call him our savior, who is saved
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  Speaker 1: by another. This cannot be heaven forbid. We say, therefore,
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  Speaker 1: to those who are wont so to think, ye tell
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  Speaker 1: us another of your errors. Ye are traveling out of
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  Speaker 1: the royal and straight path. Ye are falling into thorns
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  Speaker 1: and pitfalls. Ye have wandered from the truth. The Son
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  Speaker 1: is in all things equal to the Father, the mark
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  Speaker 1: and impress of his substance, the most high, as also
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  Speaker 1: the Father is most high. Satan then made use of
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  Speaker 1: these verses as though the Savior were a common man.
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  Speaker 1: For being entirely darkness and having his mind blinded, he
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  Speaker 1: understood not the force of what was said, that the
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  Speaker 1: Psalm is spoken in the person of every just man
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  Speaker 1: who is aided by the Highest, even the God of Heaven.
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  Speaker 1: And besides this, he knew not that the word being
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  Speaker 1: God was made man, and was himself now being tempted
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  Speaker 1: in accordance with the plan of salvation. He therefore, as
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  Speaker 1: I said, supposed the words were spoken as of a
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  Speaker 1: common man, or even as one of the holy prophets.
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  Speaker 1: But it is monstrous for us, who accurately know the
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  Speaker 1: mystery and believe that he is God and the Son
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  Speaker 1: of God, and that for our sakes he became manlike,
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  Speaker 1: unto us to imagine that the verses were spoken of him.
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  Speaker 1: To say, then, thou hast made the most hie thy refuge,
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  Speaker 1: befits not the person of the Savior. For he is
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  Speaker 1: himself the most high, the refuge of all, the hope
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  Speaker 1: of all, the all powerful right hand of the Father.
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  Speaker 1: And whosoever has made him his defense, no evil shall
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  Speaker 1: approach him. For he shall command the angels who are
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  Speaker 1: ministering spirits to guard the just. For just as our
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  Speaker 1: fathers in the flesh, when they see the path rough
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  Speaker 1: and impassable, catch up their infants in their hands, lest
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  Speaker 1: perchance their tender feet should be hurt, being as yet
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  Speaker 1: unable to walk over the hard road. So also the
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  Speaker 1: rational powers do not permit those who are as yet
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  Speaker 1: unable to labor and whose understanding is still childish to
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  Speaker 1: toil beyond their strength, but snatched them out of every
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  Speaker 1: temptation four fourteen. And Jesus returned in the power of
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  Speaker 1: the Spirit, and too Galilee. Having left the habitations of cities,
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  Speaker 1: he dwelt in deserts. There he fasted, being tempted of Satan.
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  Speaker 1: There he gained victory in our behalf. There he crushed
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  Speaker 1: the heads of the dragons. There, as the Blessed David says,
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  Speaker 1: the swords of the enemy utterly failed, and cities were destroyed,
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  Speaker 1: that is, those who were like towers and cities. Having
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  Speaker 1: therefore mightily prevailed over Satan, and having crowned in his
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  Speaker 1: own person man's nature, with the spoils won by the
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  Speaker 1: victory over him, he returned into Galilee in the power
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  Speaker 1: of the Spirit, both exercising might and authority, and performing
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  Speaker 1: very many miracles and occasioning great astonishment. And he wrought miracles,
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  Speaker 1: not as having received the grace of the Spirit from
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: without and as a gift, like the company of the saints,
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  Speaker 1: but rather as being by nature and in truth, the
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: son of God the Father, and taking whatever is his
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  Speaker 1: as his own proper inheritance. Or he even said unto
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  Speaker 1: him that all that is mine is thine, and thine mine,
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  Speaker 1: and I am glorified in them. He is glorified therefore
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  Speaker 1: by exercising as his own proper might and power that
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  Speaker 1: of the consubstantial Spirit. End of Sermon twelve, Part one,
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  Speaker 1: Sermon twelve, Part two. Commentary on the Gospel of Luke
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  Speaker 1: Sermons twelve through twenty five by Cyril of Alexandria, translated
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  Speaker 1: by R. Pain Smith. This LibriVox recording is in the
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  Speaker 1: public domain. Four sixteen. And he came to Nazareth and
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  Speaker 1: entered into the synagogue, since therefore it was now necessary
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: that he should manifest himself to the Israelites, and that
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: the mystery of his incarnation should now shine forth to
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  Speaker 1: those who knew him not. And inasmuch as he was
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  Speaker 1: now anointed of God the Father for the salvation of
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: the world, he very wisely orders this also, that is
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  Speaker 1: to say, that his fame should now spread abroad. And
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: this favor he grants first to the people of Nazareth,
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: because humanly speaking, he had been brought up among them.
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  Speaker 1: Having entered therefore the synagogue, he takes the book to read, and,
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  Speaker 1: having opened it, selected a passage in the prophets which
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  Speaker 1: declares the mystery concerning him, And by these words he
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  Speaker 1: most plainly himself tells us by the voice of the prophet,
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  Speaker 1: that he both would be made man and come to
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  Speaker 1: save the world. For we affirm that the Son was
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: anointed in no other way than by having become according
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  Speaker 1: to the flesh such as we are, and taken our nature.
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  Speaker 1: For being at once God and man. He both gives
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  Speaker 1: the spirit to the creation in his divine nature and
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  Speaker 1: receives it from God the Father in his human nature.
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  Speaker 1: While it is he who sanctifies the whole creation, both
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  Speaker 1: as having shown forth from the Holy Father, and as
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  Speaker 1: bestowing the spirit, which he himself pours forth both upon
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  Speaker 1: the powers above is that which is his own, and
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  Speaker 1: upon those moreover who recognized his appearing four eighteen. The
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: Spirit of the Lord is upon me. Therefore he hath
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  Speaker 1: anointed me, he hath sent me to preach the Gospel
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  Speaker 1: to the poor. He plainly shows by these words that
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  Speaker 1: he took upon him the humiliation and submission to the
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: emptying of his glory, and both the very name of
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  Speaker 1: Christ and the reality for our sakes. For the spirit,
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  Speaker 1: he says, which by nature is in me, by the
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  Speaker 1: sameness of our substance and deity also descended upon me
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  Speaker 1: from without, And so also in the Jordan it came
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  Speaker 1: upon me in the form of a dove, not because
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  Speaker 1: it was not in me, but for the reason for
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  Speaker 1: which he anointed me. And what was the reason for
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  Speaker 1: which he chose to be anointed. It was our being
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  Speaker 1: destitute of the spirit by that denunciation of old. My
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  Speaker 1: spirit shall not abide in these men, because they are flesh.
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  Speaker 1: These words, the incarnate word of God speaks for being
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  Speaker 1: very God, of very God, the Father, and having become
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: for our sake's man without undergoing change with us, he
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  Speaker 1: is annoyingted with the oil of gladness, the Spirit having
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  Speaker 1: descended upon him at the Jordan in the form of
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  Speaker 1: a dove. For in old time both kings and priests
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  Speaker 1: were anointed symbolically, gaining thereby a certain measure of sanctification.
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  Speaker 1: But he who for our sakes became incarnate was anointed
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  Speaker 1: with the spiritual oil of sanctification and the actual descent
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  Speaker 1: of the Spirit, receiving it not for himself but for us.
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  Speaker 1: For inasmuch as the Spirit had taken its flight and
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  Speaker 1: not made his abode in us because of our being flesh.
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  Speaker 1: The earth was full of grief, being deprived of the
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  Speaker 1: participation of God. And he proclaimed also deliverance to captives,
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: which also he accomplished by having bound the strong one Satan,
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: who in tyrant fashion lorded it over our race, and
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  Speaker 1: having torn away from him us his goods. As the
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  Speaker 1: words he anointed me befit the manhood, for it is
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  Speaker 1: not the divine nature which is anointed, but that which
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  Speaker 1: is akin to us. So also the words he sent
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  Speaker 1: me are to be referred to that which is human.
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  Speaker 1: Those also whose heart was of old obscured by the
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  Speaker 1: darkness of the devil, he has illuminated by rising as
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  Speaker 1: some sun of righteousness and making them the children no
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: longer of night and darkness, but of light and day,
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  Speaker 1: according to Paul's word. And those who were blind, for
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: the Apostate had blinded their hearts, have recovered their sight
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  Speaker 1: and acknowledged the truth. And as Isaiah says, their darkness
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  Speaker 1: has become light. That is, the ignorant have become wise.
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  Speaker 1: Those that once were in error have known the paths
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  Speaker 1: of righteousness. And the Father also says, somewhere unto the
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  Speaker 1: sun himself, I have given thee for a covenant of kindred,
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  Speaker 1: for a light of the gentiles, to open the eyes
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  Speaker 1: of the blind, to bring out the prisoners from their bonds,
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  Speaker 1: and from the guard house those that sit in darkness.
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  Speaker 1: For the only Begotten came into this world and gave
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  Speaker 1: a new covenant to his kindred, the Israelites, of whom
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: he was sprung according to the flesh, even the covenant
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: long before announced by the voice of the prophets. But
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: the divine and heavenly light shone also upon the gentiles,
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: and he went and preached to the spirits in hades,
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: and showed himself to those who were shut up in
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: the guard house, and freed all from their bonds and violence.
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: And how do not these things plainly proved that Christ
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  Speaker 1: is both God and of God by nature. And what
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  Speaker 1: means the sending away the broken in freedom? It is
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  Speaker 1: the letting those go free whom Satan had broken by
• 35:14
  Speaker 1: the rod of spiritual violence. And what means the preaching
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  Speaker 1: the acceptable year of the Lord. It signifies the joyful
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: tidings of his own advent, that the time of the Lord,
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: even the Son had arrived, For that was the acceptable
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: year in which Christ was crucified in our behalf, because
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: we then were made acceptable unto God the Father, as
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: the fruit borne by him. Wherefore he said, when I
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: am lifted up from the earth, I shall draw all
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: men unto myself. And verily he returned to life the
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: third day, having trampled upon the power of death, after
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: which he said to his dece disciples, all power has
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  Speaker 1: been given me et cetera. That too, is in every
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  Speaker 1: respect and acceptable year in which, being received into his family,
• 36:12
  Speaker 1: we were admitted unto him, having washed away sin by
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: holy baptism, and been made partakers of his divine nature
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: by the communion of the Holy Ghost. That too is
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: an acceptable year in which he manifested his glory by
• 36:29
  Speaker 1: ineffable miracles. For with joy have we accepted the season
• 36:34
  Speaker 1: of his salvation, which also the very wise Paul referred to, saying,
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: behold now is the acceptable time. Behold now is the
• 36:45
  Speaker 1: day of salvation, the day when the poor who erewhile
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: were sick by the absence of every blessing, having no
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: hope and being without God in the world, such as
• 36:57
  Speaker 1: were the gentiles, were made rich by faith in Him,
• 37:02
  Speaker 1: gaining the divine and heavenly treasure of the Gospel message
• 37:06
  Speaker 1: of salvation, by which they have been made partakers of
• 37:10
  Speaker 1: the Kingdom of Heaven, co partners with the saints and
• 37:15
  Speaker 1: heirs of blessing, such as neither the mind can conceive
• 37:19
  Speaker 1: nor language tell, For I it saith hath not seen,
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  Speaker 1: and ear hath not heard. Neither have entered into the
• 37:28
  Speaker 1: heart of man the things that God hath prepared for
• 37:32
  Speaker 1: them that love Him. Though it may also be true
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: that the text here speaks of the abundant supply of
• 37:39
  Speaker 1: graces bestowed by Christ upon the poor in spirit, but
• 37:45
  Speaker 1: by the bruised in heart, he means those who have
• 37:49
  Speaker 1: a weak and yielding mind, unable to resist the attacks
• 37:53
  Speaker 1: of their passions, and so carried along by them as
• 37:58
  Speaker 1: to seem to be captives. To these he promises both
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  Speaker 1: healing and forgiveness. And to those who are blind he
• 38:07
  Speaker 1: gives the recovering of sight. For those who serve the
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  Speaker 1: creature instead of the Creator, and say to the wood,
• 38:15
  Speaker 1: thou art my father, and to the stone, thou hast
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  Speaker 1: begotten me without recognizing him who is by nature and
• 38:24
  Speaker 1: in truth God, How can they be aught else than
• 38:28
  Speaker 1: blind seeing? They have a heart devoid of the light,
• 38:33
  Speaker 1: that is divine and spiritual, And on these the Father
• 38:37
  Speaker 1: bestows the light of the true knowledge of God. For
• 38:41
  Speaker 1: they are called through faith and acknowledge Him, or rather
• 38:45
  Speaker 1: are acknowledged of Him. And whereas they were children of
• 38:50
  Speaker 1: night and darkness, they have been made children of light,
• 38:54
  Speaker 1: for the day has shone upon them, and the Son
• 38:57
  Speaker 1: of Righteousness has arisen, and the bright morning star has dawned.
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  Speaker 1: There is no objection, however, to anyone's referring all these
• 39:08
  Speaker 1: declarations to the Israelites. For they were poor and crushed
• 39:13
  Speaker 1: in heart, and so to speak, prisoners and in darkness.
• 39:19
  Speaker 1: For there was not upon earth that was doing good,
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  Speaker 1: not even one, but all had turned aside. Together they
• 39:27
  Speaker 1: had become unprofitable. But Christ came preaching to the Israelites
• 39:33
  Speaker 1: before all others the glories of his advent, and like
• 39:38
  Speaker 1: to their maladies were those of the gentiles. But they
• 39:42
  Speaker 1: have been redeemed by Him, having been enriched with his
• 39:45
  Speaker 1: wisdom and endowed with understanding. And no longer is their
• 39:51
  Speaker 1: mind weak and broken, but healthy and strong, and ready
• 39:55
  Speaker 1: to receive and practice every good in saving work. For
• 39:59
  Speaker 1: in this error they have need of wisdom and understanding,
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  Speaker 1: who in their great folly worship the creature instead of
• 40:07
  Speaker 1: the Creator, and inscribed stocks and stones with the name
• 40:11
  Speaker 1: of gods. But those who long ago lived in gloom
• 40:15
  Speaker 1: and darkness because they knew not Christ, now acknowledge him
• 40:20
  Speaker 1: as their God. These words having been read to the
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  Speaker 1: assembled people, he drew upon himself the eyes of all, wondering,
• 40:30
  Speaker 1: perhaps how he knew letters who had not learnt. For
• 40:34
  Speaker 1: it was the want of the Israelites to say that
• 40:38
  Speaker 1: the prophecies concerning Christ were fulfilled either in the persons
• 40:43
  Speaker 1: of some of their more glorious kings, or at all events,
• 40:46
  Speaker 1: in the holy prophets. For not correctly understanding what was
• 40:51
  Speaker 1: written of him, they missed the true direction and traveled
• 40:55
  Speaker 1: on another path. But that they might not again thus
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  Speaker 1: misinterpret the present prophecy, he carefully guards against error by saying,
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  Speaker 1: this day, is this prophecy fulfilled in your ears, expressly
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  Speaker 1: setting himself before them in these words as the person
• 41:15
  Speaker 1: spoken of in the prophecy. For it was he who
• 41:19
  Speaker 1: preached the Kingdom of Heaven to the heathen, who were poor,
• 41:23
  Speaker 1: having nothing neither God, nor law nor prophets. Or rather
• 41:29
  Speaker 1: he preached it unto all who were destitute of spiritual riches.
• 41:34
  Speaker 1: The captives he set free, having overthrown the apostate tyrant Satan,
• 41:40
  Speaker 1: and himself shed the divine and spiritual light on those
• 41:44
  Speaker 1: whose heart was darkened, for which reason he said, I
• 41:49
  Speaker 1: am come a light into this world. It was he
• 41:52
  Speaker 1: who unbound the chains of sin from those whose heart
• 41:56
  Speaker 1: was crushed, thereby who clearly showed that there is a
• 42:00
  Speaker 1: life to come, and denounced the just judgment. Finally, it
• 42:06
  Speaker 1: was he who preached the acceptable year of the Lord,
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  Speaker 1: even that in which the Saviour's proclamation was made. For
• 42:15
  Speaker 1: by the acceptable year, I think is meant his first coming,
• 42:19
  Speaker 1: and by the day of restitution, the day of judgment
• 42:25
  Speaker 1: four eleven. And all bear him witness and wondered, for
• 42:31
  Speaker 1: not understanding him who had been anointed and sent, and
• 42:36
  Speaker 1: who was the author of works so wonderful, they returned
• 42:40
  Speaker 1: to their usual ways and talk foolishly and vainly concerning him.
• 42:46
  Speaker 1: For although they had wondered at the words of grace
• 42:48
  Speaker 1: that proceeded out of his mouth, yet their wish was
• 42:52
  Speaker 1: to treat them as valueless. For they said, is not
• 42:57
  Speaker 1: this the son of Joseph? But what does this diminish
• 43:01
  Speaker 1: from the glory of the worker of the miracles. What
• 43:05
  Speaker 1: prevents him from being both to be venerated and admired,
• 43:09
  Speaker 1: even had he been as was supposed, The son of
• 43:13
  Speaker 1: Joseph seest thou not the miracles, Satan fallen, the herds
• 43:19
  Speaker 1: of devils vanquished, multitudes set free from various kinds of maladies.
• 43:25
  Speaker 1: Thou praisest the grace that was present in his teachings.
• 43:29
  Speaker 1: And then dost thou, in Jewish fashion think lightly of
• 43:34
  Speaker 1: him because he accounted Joseph for his father O great senselessness?
• 43:41
  Speaker 1: True is it to say of them lo a people
• 43:45
  Speaker 1: foolish and without understanding? They have eyes and see not ears,
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  Speaker 1: and hear not four twenty three ye will altogether say
• 43:57
  Speaker 1: unto me this parable. This was a common saying among
• 44:02
  Speaker 1: the Jews, and had its origin in a witticism, for
• 44:06
  Speaker 1: when physicians were themselves ill, men would say, physician, healed
• 44:12
  Speaker 1: thyself Christ. Therefore, setting before them as it were, this
• 44:17
  Speaker 1: proverb said, unto them, you wish for many signs to
• 44:21
  Speaker 1: be wrought by me among you, especially in whose country
• 44:25
  Speaker 1: I was brought up. But I know the common feeling
• 44:28
  Speaker 1: to which all men are liable for always somehow or other,
• 44:33
  Speaker 1: even the choicest things are despised when there is no
• 44:37
  Speaker 1: scarcity of them, and people have them in abundance. And
• 44:42
  Speaker 1: so too is the case with men, for his acquaintance
• 44:45
  Speaker 1: will oftentimes refuse one with whom they are familiar, and
• 44:50
  Speaker 1: who is constantly among them, even the honor which is due.
• 44:55
  Speaker 1: He rebuked them, therefore, for asking so foolishly? Is not this?
• 45:00
  Speaker 1: The son of Joseph, and still keeping to the object
• 45:04
  Speaker 1: of his teaching, says, verily, verily, I say unto you
• 45:08
  Speaker 1: that no prophet is acceptable in his country four twenty five.
• 45:16
  Speaker 1: There were many widows in the days of Elias, For since,
• 45:20
  Speaker 1: as I half mentioned, certain of the Jews affirmed that
• 45:24
  Speaker 1: the prophecies relating to Christ had been accomplished, either in
• 45:28
  Speaker 1: the Holy prophets or in certain of their own more
• 45:32
  Speaker 1: distinguished men. He for their good, draws them away from
• 45:36
  Speaker 1: such a supposition by saying that Alias had been sent
• 45:40
  Speaker 1: to a single widow, and that the prophet Eliseevs had
• 45:45
  Speaker 1: healed but one leper name and the Syrian, by these
• 45:49
  Speaker 1: signifying the Church of the Heathen, who were about to
• 45:53
  Speaker 1: accept him and be healed of their leprosy. By reason
• 45:57
  Speaker 1: of Israel remaining impenitent four twenty eight, and all in
• 46:03
  Speaker 1: the synagogue were filled with anger. They then were inflamed
• 46:08
  Speaker 1: with anger because he had branded their wicked thought. And
• 46:12
  Speaker 1: also he had said, to day, is this scripture fulfilled?
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  Speaker 1: Namely that the spirit of the Lord is upon me?
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  Speaker 1: For they considered that he made himself equal to the prophets. Moreover,
• 46:27
  Speaker 1: they cast him out of their city, decreeing thereby their
• 46:31
  Speaker 1: own condemnation and confirming what the Savior had said, For
• 46:36
  Speaker 1: they themselves were banished from the city that is above,
• 46:40
  Speaker 1: for not having received Christ, and that he might not
• 46:44
  Speaker 1: convict them of impiety. In words, merely, he permitted their
• 46:48
  Speaker 1: audacity against himself to proceed even unto deeds, for their
• 46:54
  Speaker 1: violence was unreasonable and their envy untamed. Leading him therefore
• 47:00
  Speaker 1: to the brow of the hill. They endeavored to throw
• 47:03
  Speaker 1: him from the crags. But he went through the midst
• 47:07
  Speaker 1: of them without taking any notice, so to say, of
• 47:10
  Speaker 1: their attempt, not as refusing to suffer, for for this
• 47:15
  Speaker 1: reason he had even come, but as awaiting a suitable time,
• 47:21
  Speaker 1: for it was now the commencement of his preaching, and
• 47:24
  Speaker 1: it would have been unseasonable to have suffered before he
• 47:28
  Speaker 1: had proclaimed the word of truth, for it depended on
• 47:31
  Speaker 1: him to suffer or not to suffer. For he is
• 47:35
  Speaker 1: lord of times as well as of things. And this
• 47:39
  Speaker 1: is a proof that when he suffered, he suffered voluntarily,
• 47:43
  Speaker 1: and that neither then could he have suffered had he
• 47:47
  Speaker 1: not yielded himself there too four thirty one, and he
• 47:53
  Speaker 1: went down to Capernaum, a city of Galilee. Those whom
• 47:58
  Speaker 1: argument cannot bring to the sure knowledge of Him, who,
• 48:02
  Speaker 1: by nature and in truth is God and Lord, may
• 48:06
  Speaker 1: perhaps be won by miracles unto a docile obedience. And
• 48:10
  Speaker 1: therefore usefully, or rather necessarily, he oftentimes completes his lessons
• 48:17
  Speaker 1: by proceeding to the performance of some mighty work. For
• 48:21
  Speaker 1: the inhabitants of Judea were unready to believe and slighted
• 48:26
  Speaker 1: the words of those who called them to salvation, and
• 48:30
  Speaker 1: especially the people of Capernium had this character, for which
• 48:34
  Speaker 1: reason the Savior reproved them, saying, and thou Capernium, that
• 48:40
  Speaker 1: art exalted unto Heaven, shalt be brought down unto hell.
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  Speaker 1: But although he knows them to be both disobedient and
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  Speaker 1: heart of heart, nevertheless he visits them, as a most
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  Speaker 1: excellent physician would those who were suffering under a very
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  Speaker 1: dangerous disease, and endeavors to rid them of their malady.
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  Speaker 1: For he says himself that those who are in health
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  Speaker 1: have no need of a physician, but those who are sick.
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  Speaker 1: He taught therefore in their synagogues with great freedom of speech.
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  Speaker 1: For this he had foretold by the voice of Isaiah,
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  Speaker 1: saying I have not spoken in secret, nor in a
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  Speaker 1: dark place of the earth. The Holy apostles. Moreover, he
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  Speaker 1: even commanded to publish their words concerning him with full
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  Speaker 1: boldness of speech, saying, what I tell you in darkness,
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  Speaker 1: speak ye in the light, and what ye have heard
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  Speaker 1: whispered into the ear, proclaim upon the housetops. On the sabbath. Also,
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  Speaker 1: when they were at leisure from labor, he conversed with them.
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  Speaker 1: They therefore wondered at the power of his teaching and
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  Speaker 1: at the greatness of his authority. For the word, it says,
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  Speaker 1: was with authority, for he used not flatteries, but urged
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  Speaker 1: them to salvation. For the Jews indeed thought that Christ
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  Speaker 1: was nothing more than one of the saints, and that
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  Speaker 1: he had appeared among them in prophetic rank only, but
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  Speaker 1: that they might entertain a higher opinion and idea concerning him.
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  Speaker 1: He exceeds the prophetic measure. For he never said, thus
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  Speaker 1: saith the Lord, as of course was their custom. But
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  Speaker 1: as being the Lord of the law, he spake things
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  Speaker 1: that surpassed the law. God moreover said by Isaiah, and
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  Speaker 1: I will make with them an everlasting covenant, even the
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  Speaker 1: holy the sure things of David. Behold. I have given
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  Speaker 1: him as a testimony among the gentiles, a ruler and
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  Speaker 1: commander of the gentiles. For it was fitting that Moses,
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  Speaker 1: as a servant, should be the minister of the shadow
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  Speaker 1: that endureth not. But Christ, I affirm, was the eternal
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  Speaker 1: publisher of a lasting and abiding worship. And what is
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  Speaker 1: the eternal covenant. It means the sacred prophecies of Christ,
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  Speaker 1: who is of David seed according to the flesh, and
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  Speaker 1: which produce in us holiness and surreness. Just as also
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  Speaker 1: the fear of God is pure because it makes us pure.
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  Speaker 1: And the Word of the Gospel is life because it
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  Speaker 1: produces life. For the words he says that I have
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  Speaker 1: spoken unto your spirit and life that is spiritual and
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  Speaker 1: life giving. But mark well the exactness of the prophecy. Isaiah,
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  Speaker 1: speaking as in the person of God the Father. Concerning Christ, says,
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  Speaker 1: I have given him as a testimony unto the gentiles,
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  Speaker 1: that is, to bear witness unto them, that these things
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  Speaker 1: are acceptable. That no one may imagine him to be
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  Speaker 1: one of the holy prophets, but that all mankind may
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  Speaker 1: rather know that he is radiant with the glory of lordship.
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  Speaker 1: For being God, he appeared unto us. And so he
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  Speaker 1: goes on to say, not merely that he was given
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  Speaker 1: for a testimony, but also as a ruler and commander
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  Speaker 1: of the gentiles, for the blessed prophets, and before them,
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  Speaker 1: even Moses, holding the station of servants, ever called out
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  Speaker 1: to their hearers. Thus saith the Lord, not as being
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  Speaker 1: so much commanders as ministers of the divine words. But
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  Speaker 1: our Lord Jesus Christ spake words most worthy of God,
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  Speaker 1: and was therefore admired even by the Jews themselves, because
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  Speaker 1: his word was with authority, and because he taught them
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  Speaker 1: as one that had authority, and not as their scribes.
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  Speaker 1: For his word was not of the shadow of the law,
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  Speaker 1: but as being himself the lawgiver. He changed the letter
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  Speaker 1: into the truth and the types into their spiritual meaning.
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  Speaker 1: For he was a ruler and possessed a ruler's authority
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  Speaker 1: to command four thirty five, and Jesus rebuked him with
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  Speaker 1: godlike power. He rebuked the unclean spirits, making the miracle
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  Speaker 1: follow immediately upon his words, that we might not disbelieve.
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  Speaker 1: We have seen the guilty Satan overcome by him in
• 53:51
  Speaker 1: the wilderness and broken by three falls. We have seen
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  Speaker 1: his might again shaken, and the power that was against
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  Speaker 1: us falling. We have seen ourselves rebuking the wicked spirits
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  Speaker 1: in Christ as our first fruits. For that this also
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  Speaker 1: has reference to the ennoblement of human nature. Thou mayest
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  Speaker 1: learn from the Saviour's own words, For the Jews indeed
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  Speaker 1: maligned his glory and even said, this man casteth not
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  Speaker 1: out devils, except in Beelzebub, prince of the devils. But
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  Speaker 1: he in answer, having first said much, and too the
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  Speaker 1: purpose ended by declaring, But if I, in the spirit
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  Speaker 1: of God, cast out devils, then has the Kingdom of
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  Speaker 1: God come upon you unawares? For if says he, I,
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  Speaker 1: who have become a man like unto you, tried the
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  Speaker 1: unclean spirits with godlike power and majesty, it is your
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  Speaker 1: nature which is crowned with this great glory, for ye
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  Speaker 1: are seen both through me and in me, to have
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  Speaker 1: gained the Kingdom of God. The evil demons therefore were
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  Speaker 1: cast doubt and made moreover to feel how invincible is
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  Speaker 1: his might, And being unable to bear the conflict with deity,
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  Speaker 1: they exclaimed, in imperious and crafty terms, let us alone,
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  Speaker 1: what is there between us and thee? Meaning thereby, why
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  Speaker 1: dost thou not permit us to keep our place whilst
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  Speaker 1: thou art destroying the error of impiety. But they further
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  Speaker 1: put on the false appearance of well sounding words and
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  Speaker 1: call him the Holy One of God. For they supposed
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  Speaker 1: that by this specious kind of language they could excite
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  Speaker 1: the desire of vinglory and thereby prevent his rebuking them, returning,
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  Speaker 1: as it were, one kindness for another. But though he
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  Speaker 1: be crafty, he will his prey, for God is not mocked.
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  Speaker 1: And so the Lord stops their impure tongues and commands
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  Speaker 1: them to depart from those possessed by them. And the bystanders,
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  Speaker 1: being made witnesses of so great deeds, were astonished at
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  Speaker 1: the power of his word, for he wrought his miracles,
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  Speaker 1: offering up no prayer to ask of any one else
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  Speaker 1: at all the power of accomplishing them, but being himself,
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  Speaker 1: the living and active Word of God, the Father by
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  Speaker 1: whom all things exist, and in whom all things are.
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  Speaker 1: In his own person, he crushed Satan and closed the
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  Speaker 1: profane mouth of impure demons. End of Sermon twelve, Part two,
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  Speaker 1: Sermon twelve, Part three, Commentary on the Gospel of Luke
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  Speaker 1: Sermons twelve through twenty five by Cyril of Alexandria, translated
• 57:05
  Speaker 1: by R. Painsmith. This LibriVox recording is in the public domain.
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  Speaker 1: Four thirty eight. He entered into Simon's house. Observe therefore,
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  Speaker 1: how he who endured voluntary poverty for our sakes, that we,
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  Speaker 1: by his poverty might become rich, lodged with one of
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  Speaker 1: his disciples, a man poor and living in obscurity, that
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  Speaker 1: we might learn to seek the company of the humble,
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  Speaker 1: and not to boast ourselves over those in want and affliction.
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  Speaker 1: Jesus arrives at Simon's house and finds his wife's mother
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  Speaker 1: sick of a fever. And he stood and rebuked the fever,
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  Speaker 1: and it left her. Now in what is said by
• 57:53
  Speaker 1: Matthew and Mark, that the fever left her. There is
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  Speaker 1: no hint of any living thing as the active cause
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  Speaker 1: of the fever, But in Luke's phrase that he stood
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  Speaker 1: over her and rebuked the fever, and it left her.
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  Speaker 1: I do not know whether we are not compelled to
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  Speaker 1: say that that which was rebuked with some living thing
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  Speaker 1: unable to sustain the influence of him who rebuked it.
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  Speaker 1: For it is not reasonable to rebuke a thing without
• 58:25
  Speaker 1: life and unconscious of the rebuke. Nor is it anything
• 58:30
  Speaker 1: astonishing for there to exist certain powers that inflict harm
• 58:35
  Speaker 1: on the human body. Nor must we necessarily think evil
• 58:39
  Speaker 1: of the soul of those who thus suffer for being
• 58:43
  Speaker 1: harmed by these beings. For neither when the devil obtained
• 58:48
  Speaker 1: authority to tempt Joe by bodily torments and struck him
• 58:53
  Speaker 1: with painful ulcers, was job therefore to be found fault with,
• 58:58
  Speaker 1: For he manfully contents and nobly endured the blow. God grant, however,
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  Speaker 1: that it be said, if at any time we are
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  Speaker 1: tempted by bodily pains, but touch not his soul the Lord,
• 59:13
  Speaker 1: then by a rebuke heals those who are possessed. He
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  Speaker 1: laid also his hands upon the sick one by one,
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  Speaker 1: and freed them from their malady, so demonstrating that the
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  Speaker 1: holy flesh, which he had made his own and endowed
• 59:30
  Speaker 1: with god like power, possessed the active presence of the
• 59:35
  Speaker 1: might of the Word, intending us thereby to learn that
• 59:39
  Speaker 1: though the only begoden Word of God became like unto us,
• 59:44
  Speaker 1: yet even so is he none the less God, and
• 59:48
  Speaker 1: able easily even by his own flesh, to accomplish all things.
• 59:54
  Speaker 1: For by it as his instrument he wrought miracles. Nor
• 59:59
  Speaker 1: is there any reason for great wonder at this. But
• 1:00:03
  Speaker 1: consider on the contrary, how fire, when placed in a
• 1:00:07
  Speaker 1: brazen vessel, communicates to it the power of producing the
• 1:00:11
  Speaker 1: effects of heat. So therefore the all powerful Word of God, also,
• 1:00:18
  Speaker 1: having joined by a real union under himself the living
• 1:00:22
  Speaker 1: and intelligent Temple taken from the Holy Virgin, endowed it
• 1:00:27
  Speaker 1: with the power of actively exerting his own god like
• 1:00:30
  Speaker 1: might to put to shame. Therefore, the Jews, he says,
• 1:00:35
  Speaker 1: if I do not the works of my Father, believe
• 1:00:39
  Speaker 1: me not. But if I do, though ye believe not me,
• 1:00:43
  Speaker 1: believe my works. We may therefore see with the truth itself,
• 1:00:49
  Speaker 1: witnessing there too that the only Begotten gave not his
• 1:00:54
  Speaker 1: glory as to a man taken separately and depart by himself,
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  Speaker 1: and regarded as the woman's offspring, but as being the
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  Speaker 1: one only son, with the Holy body united to him,
• 1:01:08
  Speaker 1: he wrought the miracles and is worshiped also by the
• 1:01:12
  Speaker 1: creation as God. He entered then into Peter's house, where
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  Speaker 1: a woman was lying stretched upon a bed, exhausted with
• 1:01:22
  Speaker 1: a violent fever. And when he might, as God have said,
• 1:01:27
  Speaker 1: put away the disease arise, he adopted a different course
• 1:01:32
  Speaker 1: of action, for as a proof that his own flesh
• 1:01:36
  Speaker 1: possessed the power of healing, as being the flesh of God,
• 1:01:41
  Speaker 1: he touched her hand, and forthwith it, says, the fever
• 1:01:45
  Speaker 1: left her. Let us therefore also receive Jesus, for when
• 1:01:52
  Speaker 1: he has entered into us, and we have received him
• 1:01:56
  Speaker 1: into mind and heart, then he will quench the fever
• 1:02:00
  Speaker 1: of unbefitting pleasures, and raise us up and make us
• 1:02:05
  Speaker 1: strong even in things spiritual. So as for us to
• 1:02:09
  Speaker 1: minister unto him by performing those things that please him.
• 1:02:15
  Speaker 1: But observe again, I pray, how great is the efficacy
• 1:02:19
  Speaker 1: of the touch of His Holy flesh, For it both
• 1:02:23
  Speaker 1: drives away diseases of various kinds, and a crowd of demons,
• 1:02:28
  Speaker 1: and overthrows the power of the devil, and heals a
• 1:02:32
  Speaker 1: very great multitude of people in one moment of time.
• 1:02:36
  Speaker 1: And though able to perform these miracles by a word
• 1:02:40
  Speaker 1: and the inclination of his will, yet to teach us
• 1:02:44
  Speaker 1: something useful for us, he also lays his hands upon
• 1:02:48
  Speaker 1: the sick, for it was necessary, most necessary for us
• 1:02:53
  Speaker 1: to learn that the holy flesh, which he had made
• 1:02:57
  Speaker 1: his own, was endowed with the activity of the power
• 1:03:01
  Speaker 1: of the Word, by his having implanted in it a
• 1:03:05
  Speaker 1: godlike might. Let it then take hold of us, or rather,
• 1:03:11
  Speaker 1: let us take hold of it by the mystical giving
• 1:03:15
  Speaker 1: of thanks, that it may free us also from the
• 1:03:19
  Speaker 1: sicknesses of the soul and from the assault and violence
• 1:03:23
  Speaker 1: of demons four forty one. And rebuking them, he suffered
• 1:03:30
  Speaker 1: them not to speak. He would not permit the unclean
• 1:03:34
  Speaker 1: demons to confess him, for it was not fitting for
• 1:03:38
  Speaker 1: them to usurp the glory of the apostolic office, nor
• 1:03:42
  Speaker 1: with impure tongue to talk of the mystery of Christ. Yea,
• 1:03:47
  Speaker 1: though they speak aught that is true, let no one
• 1:03:51
  Speaker 1: put credence in them, For the light is not known
• 1:03:55
  Speaker 1: by the aid of darkness, as the Disciple of Christ
• 1:03:58
  Speaker 1: teaches us, where he says, for what communion hath light
• 1:04:03
  Speaker 1: with darkness? Or what consent hath Christ? With Beliard five two,
• 1:04:12
  Speaker 1: And he saw two ships standing by the lake, but
• 1:04:15
  Speaker 1: the fishermen were gone out of them and were washing
• 1:04:19
  Speaker 1: their nets. Let us admire the skillfulness of the method
• 1:04:23
  Speaker 1: employed in making them a prey, who were to make
• 1:04:27
  Speaker 1: prey of the whole earth. Even the Holy Apostles, who
• 1:04:31
  Speaker 1: though themselves well skilled in fishing, yet fell into Christ's meshes,
• 1:04:37
  Speaker 1: that they, also, letting down the dragnet of the Apostolic preachings,
• 1:04:42
  Speaker 1: might gather unto him the inhabitants of the whole world.
• 1:04:47
  Speaker 1: For verily he somewheeres sad by one of the holy prophets. Behold,
• 1:04:52
  Speaker 1: I send many fishers, saith the Lord, and they shall
• 1:04:57
  Speaker 1: catch them as fish. And afterwards words, I will send
• 1:05:01
  Speaker 1: many hunters, and they shall hunt them as game. By
• 1:05:06
  Speaker 1: the fishers he means the Holy Apostles, and by the
• 1:05:10
  Speaker 1: hunters those who successively became the rulers and teachers of
• 1:05:14
  Speaker 1: the holy churches, and observe. I pray that he not
• 1:05:19
  Speaker 1: only preaches, but also displays signs giving thereby pledges of
• 1:05:25
  Speaker 1: his power and confirming his words by the display of miracles.
• 1:05:30
  Speaker 1: For after he had sufficiently conversed with the multitudes, he
• 1:05:35
  Speaker 1: returns to his usual mighty works, and by means of
• 1:05:39
  Speaker 1: their pursuits as fishers, catches the disciples as fish, that
• 1:05:44
  Speaker 1: men may know that His will is almighty, and that
• 1:05:49
  Speaker 1: the creation ministers to his most godlike commands. Five four.
• 1:05:56
  Speaker 1: And when he had ceased speaking, he said an to Simon,
• 1:06:01
  Speaker 1: launch out into the deep, as he had now taught
• 1:06:05
  Speaker 1: them sufficiently, and it was fitting also to add some
• 1:06:09
  Speaker 1: divine work to his words for the benefit of the spectators.
• 1:06:13
  Speaker 1: He bade Simon and his companions push off a little
• 1:06:17
  Speaker 1: from the land and let down the net for a draft.
• 1:06:21
  Speaker 1: But they replied that they had been laboring the whole
• 1:06:25
  Speaker 1: night and had caught nothing. In the name. However, of Christ,
• 1:06:30
  Speaker 1: they let down the net, and immediately it was full
• 1:06:33
  Speaker 1: of fish. In order that by a visible fact and
• 1:06:38
  Speaker 1: by a type and representation miraculously enacted, they might be
• 1:06:43
  Speaker 1: fully convinced that their labor would not be unrewarded, nor
• 1:06:48
  Speaker 1: the zeal fruitless, which they displayed in spreading out the
• 1:06:52
  Speaker 1: net of the gospel teaching for that most certainly they
• 1:06:56
  Speaker 1: should catch within it the shoals of the heathen. But
• 1:07:00
  Speaker 1: observe this that neither Simon nor his companions could draw
• 1:07:05
  Speaker 1: the net to land. And therefore, being speechless from frightened
• 1:07:09
  Speaker 1: astonishment for their wonder had made them mute, they beckoned,
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  Speaker 1: it says to their partners, those that is, who shared
• 1:07:19
  Speaker 1: their labors in fishing, to come and help them in
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  Speaker 1: securing their prey. Fort Many have taken part with the
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  Speaker 1: Holy Apostles in their laborers, and still do so, especially
• 1:07:31
  Speaker 1: such as search into the meaning of what is written
• 1:07:34
  Speaker 1: in the Holy Gospels, and others besides them, even the
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  Speaker 1: pastors and teachers and rulers of the people, who are
• 1:07:43
  Speaker 1: skilled in the doctrines of truth. Fort still is the
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  Speaker 1: net drawn, while Christ fills it and summons unto conversion
• 1:07:52
  Speaker 1: those in the depths of the sea, according to the
• 1:07:55
  Speaker 1: scripture phrase, those that is to say, who live in
• 1:08:00
  Speaker 1: the surge and waves of worldly things five eight. And
• 1:08:06
  Speaker 1: when Simon Peter saw it, for this reason also Peter
• 1:08:12
  Speaker 1: carried back to the memory of his former sins trembles
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  Speaker 1: and is afraid and as being impure, ventures not to
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  Speaker 1: receive Him who is pure and his fear was laudable,
• 1:08:24
  Speaker 1: for he had been taught by the law to distinguish
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  Speaker 1: between the holy and the profane five twelve. And behold
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  Speaker 1: a man full of leprosy. The faith, however, of him
• 1:08:38
  Speaker 1: who drew near, is worthy of all praise, for he
• 1:08:42
  Speaker 1: testifies that the Immanuel can successfully accomplish all things, and
• 1:08:48
  Speaker 1: seeks deliverance by his godlike commands. Although his malady was incurable,
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  Speaker 1: for leprosy will not yield to the skill of physicians.
• 1:08:58
  Speaker 1: I see, however, his sai as the unclean demons expelled
• 1:09:02
  Speaker 1: by a godlike authority. I see others set free from
• 1:09:07
  Speaker 1: many diseases. I recognize that such things are wrought by
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  Speaker 1: some divine and resistless force. I see further that He
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  Speaker 1: is good and most ready to pity those who draw
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  Speaker 1: near unto him. What therefore, forbids his taking pity on me? Also?
• 1:09:27
  Speaker 1: And what does Christ's answer? He confirms his faith and
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  Speaker 1: produces full assurance upon this very point, for he accepts
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  Speaker 1: his petition and confesses that he is able, and says,
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  Speaker 1: I will be thou cleansed. He grants him also the
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  Speaker 1: touch of his holy and all powerful hand, and immediately
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  Speaker 1: the leprosy departed from him, and his affliction was at
• 1:09:55
  Speaker 1: an end. And in this join with me in wondering
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  Speaker 1: at Christ, thus exercising at the same time both a
• 1:10:02
  Speaker 1: divine and a bodily power. For it was a divine act,
• 1:10:07
  Speaker 1: so too well as for all that he willed to
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  Speaker 1: be present unto him, but to stretch out the hand
• 1:10:15
  Speaker 1: was a human act. Christ therefore is perceived to be
• 1:10:19
  Speaker 1: one of both. If, as is the case, the word
• 1:10:23
  Speaker 1: was made flesh five fourteen, and he charged him to
• 1:10:30
  Speaker 1: tell no man, even though the leper had been silent.
• 1:10:35
  Speaker 1: The very nature of the fact was enough to proclaim
• 1:10:38
  Speaker 1: to all who knew him, how great was his power,
• 1:10:41
  Speaker 1: who had wrought the cure? But he bids him tell
• 1:10:45
  Speaker 1: no man. And why that they who receive from God
• 1:10:50
  Speaker 1: the gift of working cures, may hereby learn not to
• 1:10:54
  Speaker 1: look for the applause of those whom they have healed,
• 1:10:58
  Speaker 1: nor indeed any one's pray raises whatsoever, lest they fall
• 1:11:02
  Speaker 1: a prey unto pride of all vices the most disgraceful.
• 1:11:08
  Speaker 1: He purposely, however, bids the leper offer unto the priests,
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  Speaker 1: the gift according to the law of Moses. For it
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  Speaker 1: was indeed confessedly his wish to put away the shadow
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  Speaker 1: and transform the types unto a spiritual service. As the Jews, however,
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  Speaker 1: because as yet they did not believe on him, attached
• 1:11:31
  Speaker 1: themselves to the commands of Moses, supposing their ancient customs
• 1:11:36
  Speaker 1: to be still in force. He gives leave to the
• 1:11:39
  Speaker 1: Leper to make the offering for a testimony unto them.
• 1:11:44
  Speaker 1: And what was his object in granting this permission? It
• 1:11:48
  Speaker 1: was because the Jews, using ever as a pretext their
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  Speaker 1: respect for the law, and saying that the hierophant Moses
• 1:11:57
  Speaker 1: was the minister of a commandment from on high, made
• 1:12:01
  Speaker 1: their endeavor to treat with contempt Christ, the Savior of us. All.
• 1:12:06
  Speaker 1: They even said, plainly, we know that God spake unto Moses,
• 1:12:12
  Speaker 1: but this man we know not whence he is. It
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  Speaker 1: was necessary therefore for them to be convinced by actual
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  Speaker 1: facts that the measure of Moses is inferior to the
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  Speaker 1: glory of Christ. For he, indeed, as a servant, was
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  Speaker 1: faithful over his house, but the other as a son
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  Speaker 1: over his father's house. From this very healing, then of
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  Speaker 1: the Leper, we may most plainly see that Christ is
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  Speaker 1: incomparably superior to the Mosaic law. For Meriam, the sister
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  Speaker 1: of Moses, was herself struck with leprosy for speaking against him,
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  Speaker 1: And at this Moses was greatly distressed, And when he
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  Speaker 1: was unable to remove the disease from the woman, he
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  Speaker 1: fell down before God, saying, O, God, I beseech thee
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  Speaker 1: heal her. Observe this then carefully. On the one hand,
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  Speaker 1: there was a request he sought by prayer to obtain
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  Speaker 1: mercy from above. But the Savior of all spake with
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  Speaker 1: godlike authority, I will be thou cleansed. The removal therefore
• 1:13:26
  Speaker 1: of the leprosy was a testimony to the priest, and
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  Speaker 1: by it those who assigned the chief rank to Moses
• 1:13:33
  Speaker 1: may know that they are straying from the truth. For
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  Speaker 1: it was fitting, even highly fitting, to regard Moses with
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  Speaker 1: admiration as a minister of the law and servant of
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  Speaker 1: the grace that was spoken of angels. But far greater
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  Speaker 1: must be our admiration of the Immanuel and the glory.
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  Speaker 1: We render him as very son of God the Father,
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  Speaker 1: and whoever will may see the profound and mighty mystery
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  Speaker 1: of Christ written for our benefit in Leviticus. For the
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  Speaker 1: law of Moses declares the leper defiled and gives orders
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  Speaker 1: for him to be put out of the camp as unclean.
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  Speaker 1: But should the malady ever be alleviated, it commands that
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  Speaker 1: he should then be capable of readmission. Moreover, it clearly
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  Speaker 1: specifies the manner in which he is to be pronounced clean,
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  Speaker 1: thus saying this is the law of the leper. On
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  Speaker 1: whatsoever day, he shall have been cleansed, and shall be
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  Speaker 1: brought unto the priest, And the priest shall go out
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  Speaker 1: of the camp, and the priest shall see him, and
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  Speaker 1: behold the touch of the leprosy is healed from the leper.
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  Speaker 1: And the high priest shall command, and they shall take
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  Speaker 1: for him who is cleansed, two living, clean birds, And
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  Speaker 1: the high priest shall command, and they shall kill the
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  Speaker 1: one into an earthen vessel over living water. And he
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  Speaker 1: shall take the living bird and dip it into the
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  Speaker 1: blood of the bird that was killed over the living water,
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  Speaker 1: and shall sprinkle it seven times over the man cleansed
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  Speaker 1: of the leprosy, and he shall be cleansed, and he
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  Speaker 1: shall send away the living bird into the field. The
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  Speaker 1: birds then are two in number, both without stain, that
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  Speaker 1: is clean, and liable to no fault on the part
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  Speaker 1: of the law, and the one of them is slain
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  Speaker 1: over living water, but the other being saved from slaughter
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  Speaker 1: and further baptized in the blood of that which died,
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  Speaker 1: is let loose. This type then represents to us the
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  Speaker 1: great and adorable mystery of our Savior. For the word
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  Speaker 1: was from above, even from the Father, from heaven, for
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  Speaker 1: which reason he is very fitly compared to a bird.
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  Speaker 1: For though he came down for the dispensation's sake to
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  Speaker 1: bear our likeness, and took the form of a slave,
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  Speaker 1: yet even so he was from above. Yea, he even
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  Speaker 1: when speaking to the Jews, said so plainly, ye are
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  Speaker 1: from beneath. I am from above. And again no one
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  Speaker 1: hath ascended up into heaven, but the Son of Man
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  Speaker 1: that came down from heaven. As therefore I just now said,
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  Speaker 1: even when he became flesh, that is perfect man, he
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  Speaker 1: was not earthy, not made of clay, as we are,
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  Speaker 1: but heavenly and superior to things worldly. In respect of
• 1:16:48
  Speaker 1: that wherein he is perceived to be God, we may
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  Speaker 1: see then in the birds offered it the cleansing of
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  Speaker 1: the leper Christ suffering. Indeed, in the flesh, according to
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  Speaker 1: the scriptures, but remaining also beyond the power of suffering
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  Speaker 1: and dying in his human nature, but living in his
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  Speaker 1: divine For the Word is life. Yea. Too the very
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  Speaker 1: wise disciples said that he was put to death in
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  Speaker 1: the flesh, but made to live in the spirit. But
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  Speaker 1: though the Word could not possibly admit the suffering of
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  Speaker 1: death unto his own nature, yet he appropriates to himself
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  Speaker 1: that which his flesh suffered. For the living bird was
• 1:17:34
  Speaker 1: baptized in the blood of the dead one, and thus
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  Speaker 1: stained with blood, and all but made partaker of the passion.
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  Speaker 1: It was sent forth into the wilderness. And so did
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  Speaker 1: the only begauten Word of God return unto the heavens,
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  Speaker 1: with the flesh united unto him. And strange was the
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  Speaker 1: sight in heaven Yea. The throng of angels marvel when
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  Speaker 1: they saw in form like unto us, the King of
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  Speaker 1: Earth and Lord of Might. Moreover, they said, who is
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  Speaker 1: this that cometh from Edom, meaning thereby the earth? The
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  Speaker 1: redness of his garments is from Bossar, the interpretation of
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  Speaker 1: which is flesh as being a narrowing and pressing. Then
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  Speaker 1: to they inquired, are such the wounds in the middle
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  Speaker 1: of thy hands, And he answered with these was I
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  Speaker 1: wounded in the house of my beloved. For just as
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  Speaker 1: after his return to life from the dead, when showing
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  Speaker 1: with most wise purpose his hands unto Thomas, he bade
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  Speaker 1: him handle both the prince of the nails and the
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  Speaker 1: holes bored in his side, So also when arrived in
• 1:18:54
  Speaker 1: heaven he gave full proof to the holy angels that
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  Speaker 1: Israel was just cast out and fallen from being of
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  Speaker 1: his family. For this reason he showed his garments gained
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  Speaker 1: with blood in the wounds in his hands, and not
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  Speaker 1: as though he could not put them away, For when
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  Speaker 1: he rose from the dead, he put off corruption, and
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  Speaker 1: with it all its marks and attributes. He retained them.
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  Speaker 1: Therefore that the manifold wisdom of God which he wrought
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  Speaker 1: in Christ, might now be made known by the Church
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  Speaker 1: according to the plan of salvation to principalities and powers.
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  Speaker 1: But perhaps someone will say, how can you affirm that
• 1:19:41
  Speaker 1: Jesus Christ is one and the same son and Lord
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  Speaker 1: when there were two birds offered? Does not the law
• 1:19:49
  Speaker 1: very plainly hereby show that there are certainly two sons
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  Speaker 1: and Christ. Yes, verily, men have error now been brought
• 1:19:58
  Speaker 1: to such a pitch of impiety, as both to think
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  Speaker 1: and say that the Word of God the Father is
• 1:20:04
  Speaker 1: one Christ, separately by himself, and that he who is
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  Speaker 1: of the Seed of David is another. But we reply
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  Speaker 1: to those who, in their ignorance imagine such to be
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  Speaker 1: the case. What the Divine Paul writes, one Lord, one faith,
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  Speaker 1: one baptism. If therefore they affirm that there are two sons,
• 1:20:29
  Speaker 1: necessarily there must be two Lords and two faiths, and
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  Speaker 1: the same number of baptisms. And therefore, though he has
• 1:20:38
  Speaker 1: Christ speaking within him, as he himself affirms, yet will
• 1:20:43
  Speaker 1: his teaching be false? But this cannot be away with
• 1:20:49
  Speaker 1: such a thought. We therefore acknowledge one Lord, even the
• 1:20:53
  Speaker 1: only be God and incarnate Word of God, not putting
• 1:20:58
  Speaker 1: apart the manhood and the Godhead, but earnestly affirming that
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  Speaker 1: the Word of God the Father himself became man, while
• 1:21:07
  Speaker 1: continuing to be God. And next, let those who hold
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  Speaker 1: a contrary opinion be the speakers. If they say there
• 1:21:17
  Speaker 1: are two sons, one specially the Seed of David, and
• 1:21:21
  Speaker 1: the other again separately the Word of God the Father,
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  Speaker 1: must not the Word of God the Father be superior
• 1:21:28
  Speaker 1: in nature to him of the seed of David. What
• 1:21:31
  Speaker 1: then shall we do in seeing the two birds not
• 1:21:35
  Speaker 1: distinct in nature from one another, but on the contrary,
• 1:21:39
  Speaker 1: of the same kind, and in no point, as regards
• 1:21:43
  Speaker 1: specific difference unlike one another. But they gain nothing by
• 1:21:48
  Speaker 1: their argument, for great is the distance between the Godhead
• 1:21:53
  Speaker 1: and the manhood. And in the explanation of examples we
• 1:21:57
  Speaker 1: are to understand them according to the fitting analogy, for
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  Speaker 1: they fall short of the truth and often effect, but
• 1:22:05
  Speaker 1: a partial demonstration of the things signified by them. We
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  Speaker 1: say moreover that the law was a sort of shadow
• 1:22:14
  Speaker 1: and type, and a painting, as it were, setting things
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  Speaker 1: forth before the view of the spectators. But in the
• 1:22:22
  Speaker 1: pictorial art, the shadows are the foundations for the colors,
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  Speaker 1: And when the bright hues of the colors have been
• 1:22:30
  Speaker 1: laid upon them, then at length the beauty of the
• 1:22:33
  Speaker 1: painting will flash forth, and in like manner. Since it
• 1:22:39
  Speaker 1: was fitting for the Law of Moses to delineate clearly
• 1:22:42
  Speaker 1: the mystery of Christ, it does not manifest him as
• 1:22:46
  Speaker 1: both dying and at the same time living in one
• 1:22:50
  Speaker 1: and the same bird, lest what was done should have
• 1:22:54
  Speaker 1: the look of a theatrical juggle. But it contained him
• 1:22:58
  Speaker 1: as suffering slaughtery the one bird, and in the other
• 1:23:02
  Speaker 1: displayed the same Christ as alive aunt set free. But
• 1:23:07
  Speaker 1: I will endeavor to show that my argument here does
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  Speaker 1: not go beyond the bounds of probability by means of
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  Speaker 1: another history. For were any one of our community to
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  Speaker 1: wish to see the history of Abraham depict it as
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  Speaker 1: in a painting, how would the artist represent him as
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  Speaker 1: doing everything at once, or as in turn and variously
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  Speaker 1: acting in many different modes, though all the while the
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  Speaker 1: same one person. I mean, for instance, as at one
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  Speaker 1: time sitting upon the ass, with the lad accompanying him
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  Speaker 1: and the servants following behind. Then again the ass left,
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  Speaker 1: with the servants Isaac laden with the wood, and himself
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  Speaker 1: carrying in his hands the knife and the fire. Then
• 1:23:58
  Speaker 1: in another compartment, the same Abraham in a very different attitude,
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  Speaker 1: with the lad bound upon the wood and his right
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  Speaker 1: hand armed with a knife ready to strike the blow.
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  Speaker 1: Yet it would not be a different Abraham in each place,
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  Speaker 1: though represented in very many different forms in the painting,
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  Speaker 1: but one and the same everywhere, the painter's art, conforming
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  Speaker 1: itself constantly to the requirements of the things to be represented.
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  Speaker 1: For it would be impossible in one representation to see
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  Speaker 1: him performing all the above mentioned acts. So therefore the
• 1:24:40
  Speaker 1: law was a painting and type of things traveling with truth.
• 1:24:44
  Speaker 1: And therefore, even though there were two birds, yet was
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  Speaker 1: he who was represented in both, but one as suffering
• 1:24:53
  Speaker 1: and free from suffering, as dying and superior to death,
• 1:24:59
  Speaker 1: and mounting up unto heaven, as a sort of second
• 1:25:02
  Speaker 1: first fruits of human nature renewed unto incorruption. For He
• 1:25:08
  Speaker 1: has made a new pathway for us unto that which
• 1:25:12
  Speaker 1: is above, and we, in due time shall follow him.
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  Speaker 1: That the one bird then was slain, and that the
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  Speaker 1: other was baptized, indeed in its blood, while itself exempt
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  Speaker 1: from slaughter, typified what was really to happen. For Christ
• 1:25:31
  Speaker 1: died in our stead, and we who have been baptized
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  Speaker 1: into his death, he has saved by his own blood.
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  Speaker 1: End of Sermon twelve, Part three, Sermon twelve, Part four,
• 1:25:52
  Speaker 1: and fragments from Sermon twenty one. Commentary in the Gospel
• 1:25:56
  Speaker 1: of Luke Sermons twelve through twenty five by Cyril of Alexandria,
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  Speaker 1: translated by R. Pain Smith. This LibriVox recording is in
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  Speaker 1: the public domain five seventeen, and he himself was teaching,
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  Speaker 1: and the Pharisees were sitting around him. Verily was a
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  Speaker 1: company of the envious scribes, that is, and pharisees, who
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  Speaker 1: were spectators of his wonderful works and listened as he taught.
• 1:26:27
  Speaker 1: And the power of God was present, it says, to
• 1:26:31
  Speaker 1: heal him. Is this spoken as though God gave him
• 1:26:35
  Speaker 1: the ability to perform the miracles, did he borrow of
• 1:26:39
  Speaker 1: another the power? But who would venture to affirm this? Rather,
• 1:26:45
  Speaker 1: it was he himself, working by his own power as
• 1:26:49
  Speaker 1: God and Lord, and not as partaker of some divine
• 1:26:54
  Speaker 1: grace for men. Indeed, often even after being counted worthy
• 1:26:59
  Speaker 1: of spiritual gifts, yet sometimes occasionally prove infirm according to
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  Speaker 1: the proportion known to him who distributes these divine graces.
• 1:27:10
  Speaker 1: But in the case of the Savior of us all,
• 1:27:13
  Speaker 1: there was not such as this. But his power to
• 1:27:17
  Speaker 1: heal him was not a human power, but rather one
• 1:27:21
  Speaker 1: divine and irresistible, for he was God and the son
• 1:27:25
  Speaker 1: of God. Christ alone teaches as being the true teacher
• 1:27:31
  Speaker 1: and the wisdom of the Father, for all the rest
• 1:27:35
  Speaker 1: teaches receiving from him. And there was also, it says,
• 1:27:40
  Speaker 1: the power of the Lord upon him to heal all,
• 1:27:44
  Speaker 1: which means that his power to heal was not human,
• 1:27:47
  Speaker 1: but divine and irresistible. For the rest of the saints
• 1:27:52
  Speaker 1: at one time received the power to work cures, and
• 1:27:56
  Speaker 1: at another time not but Jesus, as being God and
• 1:28:01
  Speaker 1: the power of the Father, ever healed all five eighteen.
• 1:28:08
  Speaker 1: And behold certain bringing on a bed a man who
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  Speaker 1: was a paralytic. When then no small number, as it says,
• 1:28:18
  Speaker 1: of scribes and pharisees, were assembled together, behold certain bringing
• 1:28:24
  Speaker 1: upon a bed a man who was paralytic, and not
• 1:28:28
  Speaker 1: being able to come in by the door, they carried
• 1:28:31
  Speaker 1: him up to the roof to attempt a strange and
• 1:28:34
  Speaker 1: novel deed. For having pulled up the tiling, they removed
• 1:28:39
  Speaker 1: the wood laid there. And still, while this was being done,
• 1:28:44
  Speaker 1: both Jesus waited patiently, and those who were present kept silence,
• 1:28:50
  Speaker 1: watching for the result, and wishing to see what he
• 1:28:54
  Speaker 1: would say and do. Having uncovered therefore the roof, they
• 1:28:59
  Speaker 1: let down the bed and lay the paralytic in the midst.
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  Speaker 1: What then does the Lord do, having seen their faith,
• 1:29:09
  Speaker 1: not that of the paralytic, but of the bearers, For
• 1:29:12
  Speaker 1: it is possible for one to be healed by the
• 1:29:15
  Speaker 1: faith of others, or perceiving that the paralytic also believed
• 1:29:21
  Speaker 1: he healed him. It is possible, however, that the place
• 1:29:25
  Speaker 1: into which they let down the bed of the paralytic
• 1:29:28
  Speaker 1: through the tiles was open to the air, so that
• 1:29:32
  Speaker 1: they would not have at all to break up the roof.
• 1:29:36
  Speaker 1: But when the Saver says to him, man, thy sins
• 1:29:41
  Speaker 1: are forgiven thee, he addresses this generally to mankind, for
• 1:29:47
  Speaker 1: those who believe in him being healed of the diseases
• 1:29:51
  Speaker 1: of the soul will receive forgiveness of the sins which
• 1:29:55
  Speaker 1: formerly they had committed. Or he may mean this, I
• 1:30:01
  Speaker 1: must heal thy soul before I heal thy body. For
• 1:30:05
  Speaker 1: if this be not done by obtaining strength to walk,
• 1:30:10
  Speaker 1: thou dost but sin the more. And even though thou
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  Speaker 1: hast not asked for this, yet I, as God see
• 1:30:18
  Speaker 1: the maladies of the soul which brought upon thee this disease.
• 1:30:24
  Speaker 1: And as it was necessary now that so large a
• 1:30:27
  Speaker 1: number of scribes and pharisees had assembled, that some especially
• 1:30:32
  Speaker 1: divine miracles should be wrought for their benefit, because of
• 1:30:36
  Speaker 1: the scorn with which they regarded him. Well does the
• 1:30:40
  Speaker 1: Savior provide again for them a most wonderful deed. For
• 1:30:45
  Speaker 1: there was stretched upon a bed a paralytic overcome with
• 1:30:50
  Speaker 1: an incurable disease, And as the art of the physicians
• 1:30:54
  Speaker 1: had proved altogether unavailing, he was carried by his relatives
• 1:30:59
  Speaker 1: to the physician, who is from above, even from Heaven.
• 1:31:05
  Speaker 1: And when he was in the presence of him who
• 1:31:08
  Speaker 1: is able to heal, his faith was accepted. And that
• 1:31:12
  Speaker 1: faith can take away sin. Christ immediately shows, for he
• 1:31:17
  Speaker 1: proclaims to him as he lay there, thy sins are
• 1:31:21
  Speaker 1: forgiven thee. Now, someone, i imagine, may say to this
• 1:31:27
  Speaker 1: what he wanted was to be delivered from his disease.
• 1:31:31
  Speaker 1: And why then does Christ announced to him the forgiveness
• 1:31:35
  Speaker 1: of his sin. It was that thou mayest learn that
• 1:31:40
  Speaker 1: God silently and noiselessly observes the affairs of men, and
• 1:31:45
  Speaker 1: watches the course of each one's life. And so it
• 1:31:49
  Speaker 1: is written, the paths of a man are before the
• 1:31:52
  Speaker 1: eyes of God, and he looks at all his tracks.
• 1:31:57
  Speaker 1: And as he is good and will willeth that all
• 1:32:01
  Speaker 1: men should be saved, He often purified those who are
• 1:32:05
  Speaker 1: entangled in sins by inflicting sickness upon their body. For
• 1:32:11
  Speaker 1: so he somewhere says, by the voice of Jeremiah, thou
• 1:32:15
  Speaker 1: shalt be taught o Jerusalem by labor and the scourge,
• 1:32:20
  Speaker 1: And the writer of the Book of Proverbs also has
• 1:32:23
  Speaker 1: somewhere said, my son, despise not thou the teaching of
• 1:32:28
  Speaker 1: the Lord, nor faint, when thou art convicted by him.
• 1:32:32
  Speaker 1: For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth and scourgeth every
• 1:32:37
  Speaker 1: son whom he accepteth. Well. Therefore does Christ denounced that
• 1:32:43
  Speaker 1: he will cut away the cause of the disease, and
• 1:32:46
  Speaker 1: the very root, as it were, of the malady, even sin.
• 1:32:52
  Speaker 1: For if this be removed, necessarily, must the disease which
• 1:32:56
  Speaker 1: sprung from it be also at the same time taken
• 1:32:59
  Speaker 1: away five twenty one. And the scribes and Pharisees began
• 1:33:06
  Speaker 1: to reason, saying, He then, as was said, being endowed
• 1:33:12
  Speaker 1: with a most godlike authority, declared the forgiveness of sins.
• 1:33:17
  Speaker 1: But the declaration disturbs again the ignorant and envious gang
• 1:33:22
  Speaker 1: of the Pharisees, For they said, one to another, who
• 1:33:27
  Speaker 1: is this that speaketh blasphemies? But that would itst not
• 1:33:32
  Speaker 1: have said this of him, O Pharisee, If thou hadst
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  Speaker 1: known the divine scriptures, and borne in mind the words
• 1:33:40
  Speaker 1: of Prophecy, and understood the adorable and mighty mystery of
• 1:33:45
  Speaker 1: the incarnation. But now they involve him in a charge
• 1:33:50
  Speaker 1: of blasphemy, determining against him the uttermost penalty and condemning
• 1:33:56
  Speaker 1: him to death. For the law of Moses command that
• 1:34:00
  Speaker 1: whoever spake blasphemies against God should suffer death. But no
• 1:34:06
  Speaker 1: sooner have they arrived at this height of daring than
• 1:34:09
  Speaker 1: He shows forthwith that He is God, to convict them
• 1:34:14
  Speaker 1: once more of intolerable impiety. For what saith He reason
• 1:34:19
  Speaker 1: ye in your hearts. If thou therefore, o Pharisee, sayest
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  Speaker 1: who can forgive sins but one God? I will also
• 1:34:30
  Speaker 1: say to thee who can know hearts and see the
• 1:34:34
  Speaker 1: thoughts hidden in the depth of the understanding. But God only,
• 1:34:39
  Speaker 1: for he saith himself somewhere by the voice of the prophets,
• 1:34:44
  Speaker 1: I am the Lord that searcheth hearts and trieth reigns.
• 1:34:49
  Speaker 1: And David also said somewhere concerning both him and us,
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  Speaker 1: he who singly formed their hearts. He therefore, who as
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  Speaker 1: God God knows both the hearts and reins, as God
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  Speaker 1: also forgives sins five twenty four, but that he may
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  Speaker 1: know that the Son of Man hath power. But inasmuch
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  Speaker 1: as a place still remains open for disbelief in saying
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  Speaker 1: thy sins be forgiven thee for man sees not the
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  Speaker 1: forgiven sins with the eyes of the body. Whereas the
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  Speaker 1: putting off of the disease and the paralytics rising up
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  Speaker 1: and walking carries with it a clear demonstration of a
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  Speaker 1: godlike power. He adds, rise up and carry thy bed,
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  Speaker 1: and go to thine house. And this was done, for
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  Speaker 1: he returned unto his house, delivered from the infirmity under
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  Speaker 1: which he had so long suffered. It is proved therefore
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  Speaker 1: by the very fact that the Son of Man has
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  Speaker 1: power on earth to forgive sins. But of whom says
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  Speaker 1: he this is it of himself or also of us.
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  Speaker 1: Both the one and the other are true. For he
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  Speaker 1: forgives sins, as being the incarnate God, the Lord of
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  Speaker 1: the law. And we two have received from him this
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  Speaker 1: splendid and most admirable grace, for he hath crowned man's
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  Speaker 1: nature with this great honor. Also having even said to
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  Speaker 1: the Holy apostles, verily, I say unto you. Whatsoever things
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  Speaker 1: ye bind on earth shall be bound in heaven, and
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  Speaker 1: whatsoever things ye lose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.
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  Speaker 1: And again, whosesoever sins ye remit, they shall be remitted
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  Speaker 1: unto them, and whosoever ye bind mind shall be bound.
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  Speaker 1: And what is the occasion on which we find him
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  Speaker 1: thus speaking unto them? It was after he had trampled
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  Speaker 1: upon the power of death and risen from the grave,
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  Speaker 1: when he breathed upon them and said, receive the Holy Ghost.
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  Speaker 1: For having made them partakers of his nature and bestowed
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  Speaker 1: upon them the indwelling of the Holy Ghost. He also
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  Speaker 1: made them sharers of his glory by giving them power
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  Speaker 1: both to remit and to bind sins. And as we
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  Speaker 1: have been commanded to perform this very act, how must
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  Speaker 1: not he much more himself remit? Since when he giveth
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  Speaker 1: unto others authority to enable them to do so five
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  Speaker 1: twenty seven. And he saw a publican named Levi. For
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  Speaker 1: Levi was a publican, a man insatiable after filthy lucre,
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  Speaker 1: of unbridled covetousness, careless of justice, and his eagerness after
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  Speaker 1: what was not his own. For such was the character
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  Speaker 1: of the publicans. Yet was he snatched from the very
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  Speaker 1: workshop of iniquity and saved beyond hope at the call
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  Speaker 1: of Christ, the Savior of us all. For he said
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  Speaker 1: unto him, follow me, and he left all and followed him.
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  Speaker 1: Seest thou that most wise Paul truly says that Christ
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  Speaker 1: came to save sinners. Seest thou, how the only begden
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  Speaker 1: word of God, having taken upon him, the flesh transferred
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  Speaker 1: unto himself the devil's goods. From Sermon twenty one explanation
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  Speaker 1: of what follows from the Syriac or So, how can
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  Speaker 1: a man enter the house of the strong man and
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  Speaker 1: spoil his vessels, unless first he hath bound the strong man?
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  Speaker 1: And then he will spoil his vessels by the house
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  Speaker 1: of the strong man. That is of Satan. He means
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  Speaker 1: this country upon earth, and his vessels are those who
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  Speaker 1: are like minded with him. For just as we call
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  Speaker 1: the saints holy vessels, so there is nothing to prevent
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  Speaker 1: our giving the name of vessels of the devil to
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  Speaker 1: those who are the contrivers of all wickedness. The only
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  Speaker 1: begotten word therefore of God, at his incarnation, entered into
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  Speaker 1: the strong man's house even into this world, and having
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  Speaker 1: bound him and sunk him in fetters of darkness, as
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  Speaker 1: it is written, spoiled his goods, and Levi verily was saved.
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  Speaker 1: While in us the deeds suggect to happy hopes. For
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  Speaker 1: by the very fact we are taught that repentance will
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  Speaker 1: save yea moreover, God himself, who is Lord of all,
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  Speaker 1: shall be our suredy where he says, by the voice
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  Speaker 1: of the Prophet, return unto me, and be ye saved,
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  Speaker 1: even from the ends of the earth. From the same
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  Speaker 1: sermon explanation of what follows from the Syriac as above.
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  Speaker 1: Which of you that has a hundred sheep and has
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  Speaker 1: lost one of them, will not leave the ninety nine
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  Speaker 1: in the mountain and go and seek that which has
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  Speaker 1: gone astray? And if he chanced to find it, verily,
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  Speaker 1: I say unto you that he rejoices more in it
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  Speaker 1: than in the ninety nine which went not astray. For
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  Speaker 1: the multitude of rational created beings which form Christ's flocking
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  Speaker 1: heaven and on earth is innumerable, and so great as
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  Speaker 1: even to mount up unto a perfect number. For this
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  Speaker 1: is what is signified to us by the term one hundred.
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  Speaker 1: The companies. Then, of the holy angels are the ninety nine.
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  Speaker 1: For as I said, they are many. But the flock
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  Speaker 1: on earth is one, but yet useful to complete the number,
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  Speaker 1: and sought for also by Christ. Did he then seek
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  Speaker 1: it as that which was lost, or as that which
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  Speaker 1: had not yet suffered this? But it is plain that
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  Speaker 1: that which is lost is sought for in what manner? Then?
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  Speaker 1: Had it been lost? By being brought down into sin,
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  Speaker 1: by wandering from the divine will, and going far astray
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  Speaker 1: from the universal Shepherd? But none of these things moved
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  Speaker 1: the Pharisees. On the contrary, they find fault with them
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  Speaker 1: to the disciples. For listen five thirty, and their scribes
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  Speaker 1: and Pharisees murmured, saying, unto his disciples, there are, however,
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  Speaker 1: some who endeavor to deprive those entangled in sin of
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  Speaker 1: the divine gentleness. For they do not admit of repentance,
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  Speaker 1: but as it were, rebuke the Savior for seeking his
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  Speaker 1: own and gathering from every quarter that which was scattered.
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  Speaker 1: And to these we say, the Pharisees set you the
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  Speaker 1: example of murmuring. When they saw LEVI called and a
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  Speaker 1: crowd of publicans gathered together and feasting with Christ, the
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  Speaker 1: Savior of us all, and going up to the Holy apostles,
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  Speaker 1: they vented their blame, saying, why do ye eat and
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  Speaker 1: drink with the publicans? But they had for answer, they
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  Speaker 1: that our whole need not a physician, for the Savior
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  Speaker 1: of all, as being the physician of spirits, does not
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  Speaker 1: withdraw from those in need of him, but as being
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  Speaker 1: able to cleanse them, purposely conversed with those not as
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  Speaker 1: yet purified of their sins. But let us see, o, Pharisee,
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  Speaker 1: the overweening pride of thy disposition. Fort, let us take
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  Speaker 1: Christ himself, to whom all things are known, as the
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  Speaker 1: expounder of the great blame that thou broadest upon thyself
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  Speaker 1: by thy overbearing treatment of sinners. Fort, speaking of a
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  Speaker 1: pharisee who wanted himself when praying, and of a certain
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  Speaker 1: publican who accused himself, he said, verily, I say unto
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  Speaker 1: you that he went down justified to his house, rather
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  Speaker 1: than that pharisee. The publican, therefore, who confessed his sin,
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  Speaker 1: is justified rather than the haughty pharisee. But for what
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  Speaker 1: reason do the pharisees blame the Savior for eating with sinners?
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  Speaker 1: Because it was the law to put a distinction between
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  Speaker 1: the holy and the profane, that is that whatever was
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  Speaker 1: hallowed was not to be brought into contact with things profane.
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  Speaker 1: They made the accusation therefore as vindicating the law forsooth,
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  Speaker 1: But really it was envy against the Lord and readiness
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  Speaker 1: to find fault. But he shows them that he is
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  Speaker 1: present now not as a judge, but as a physician,
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  Speaker 1: and performs the proper duty of the physician's office in
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  Speaker 1: being in the company of those in need of healing.
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  Speaker 1: But no sooner had they received an explanation of their
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  Speaker 1: first accusation than they bring forward another finding fault, because
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  Speaker 1: his disciples did not fast, wishing to obtain hereby an
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  Speaker 1: opportunity against himself, but observe their perseverance and malice. For
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  Speaker 1: no sooner have they received an explanation of their first
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  Speaker 1: accusation than they change from one thing to another, in
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  Speaker 1: the hope of finding an opportunity of convicting the holy
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  Speaker 1: disciples and Jesus himself of disregard of the law. But
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  Speaker 1: they are told in reply, now is the bride chamber,
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  Speaker 1: the time of calling, the time of instruction. The children
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  Speaker 1: are being nursed up. Those who are called are being
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  Speaker 1: fed with milk. Fasting is not yet seasonable. For yes,
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  Speaker 1: say they, you feast with publicans and sinners, although the
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  Speaker 1: law commands that the pure should not hold intercourse with
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  Speaker 1: the impure. And your pretext for transgressing the law is
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  Speaker 1: your love for mankind. But why fast gee not according
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  Speaker 1: to the custom of the just and those who wish
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  Speaker 1: to live according to the law. But in answer to
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  Speaker 1: such objections, one may say, do you understand it all yourself,
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  Speaker 1: o ju, the proper method of fasting? For as the
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  Speaker 1: prophet Isaiah says, on the days, if you are fast,
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  Speaker 1: ye find your own wills and goad all who are
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  Speaker 1: subject unto you. If ye fast for law suits and contentions,
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  Speaker 1: and strike the lowly with fists, why fast ge for me?
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  Speaker 1: This is not the fast I have chosen. Saith the Lord,
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  Speaker 1: and dost thou, then, when thou thyself knowest not how
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  Speaker 1: to fast, blame the Holy apostles for not fasting after
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  Speaker 1: thy fashion, and to view it in another light. Those
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  Speaker 1: who are made wise by the New Covenant in Christrist
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  Speaker 1: fast rationally, that is, by humbling themselves in the eyes
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  Speaker 1: of God and imposing upon themselves, as it were, a
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  Speaker 1: voluntary sentence of labor and abstinence, that they may obtain
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  Speaker 1: forgiveness of their offenses, or win some fresh spiritual gift,
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  Speaker 1: or even to mortify the law of sin that is
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  Speaker 1: in their fleshly members. But this modive fasting thou art
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  Speaker 1: ignorant of Pharisee, for thou hast refused to receive the
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  Speaker 1: heavenly bridegroom, who is the planter and teacher of every virtue.
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  Speaker 1: Even Christ. Moreover, the saints indeed fast that they may
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  Speaker 1: quell the passions of the body by exhausting it. But
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  Speaker 1: Christ needed not to fast for the perfecting of virtue, because,
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  Speaker 1: as being God, he was free from all passion. Nor
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  Speaker 1: did his companions, because they received a his grace and
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  Speaker 1: were maids strong and wrought virtue even without fasting. And
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  Speaker 1: even though he fasted for the forty days, it was
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  Speaker 1: not to mortify any passions in himself, but to set
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  Speaker 1: an example for men in his own conduct of the
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  Speaker 1: law of abstinence. With good reason. There For he defends
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  Speaker 1: himself by the words which the evangelist goes on to
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  Speaker 1: record five thirty four. But he said, unto them, can
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  Speaker 1: ye make the sons of the bride chamber fast while
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  Speaker 1: the bridegroom is with them. Observe I pray again the
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  Speaker 1: manner in which Christ shows that they have no share
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  Speaker 1: in the feast, but are altogether strangers to the joy
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  Speaker 1: felt on his account and without part in the world's
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  Speaker 1: great festival. For the revelation of our Savior to the
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  Speaker 1: world was nothing else than a general festival at which
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  Speaker 1: He spiritually united to himself the nature of man to
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  Speaker 1: be as it were his bride, that she who had
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  Speaker 1: been long barren, might be fruitful and blessed with a
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  Speaker 1: numerous offspring. All therefore are the children of the bride chamber,
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  Speaker 1: who are called by Him through the new message of
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  Speaker 1: the Gospel, but not the scribes and pharisees, who attach
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  Speaker 1: themselves solely to the shadow of the law. But as
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  Speaker 1: He had once granted permission to the children of the
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  Speaker 1: bride chamber not to afflict themselves, as a concession suitable
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  Speaker 1: to the season, inasmuch as they were keeping a spiritual feast,
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  Speaker 1: that fasting might not be entirely rejected by us. He
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  Speaker 1: adds most suitably five thirty five. But the days will
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  Speaker 1: come when also bridegroom shall be taken away from them,
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  Speaker 1: then shall they fast in those days, for all things
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  Speaker 1: are good in their season. But what is the meaning
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  Speaker 1: of the bridegroom being taken away from them? It is
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  Speaker 1: his being taken up into heaven five thirty six. And
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  Speaker 1: he speak also a parable unto them, but that the
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  Speaker 1: institutions of Christ cannot be received by those who live
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  Speaker 1: according to the law, nor admitted into the hearts of
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  Speaker 1: such as have not as yet received the renewing by
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  Speaker 1: the Holy Ghost. The Lord shows by saying that a
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  Speaker 1: tattered patch cannot be put upon a new garment, nor
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  Speaker 1: can old skins hold new wine. For the First Covenant
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  Speaker 1: has grown old, nor was it free from fault. Those
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  Speaker 1: therefore who adhere to it and keep it hard the
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  Speaker 1: antiquated commandment have no share in the new order of
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  Speaker 1: things in Christ, for in Him all things are become new.
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  Speaker 1: But their mind being decayed, they have no concord nor
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  Speaker 1: point of mutual agreement with the ministers of the New Covenant.
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  Speaker 1: The God of all accordingly somewhere said of them by
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  Speaker 1: one of the holy prophets, that a new heart and
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  Speaker 1: a new spirit will I put into them. And David
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  Speaker 1: also sings, create in me a clean heart o God
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  Speaker 1: and renew a right spirit within me. And we have
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  Speaker 1: been commanded also to put off the old man and
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  Speaker 1: to put on the new Man, renewed after the image
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  Speaker 1: of Him that created it. And Paul also gives counsel, saying,
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  Speaker 1: be ye not conformed to this world, but be ye
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  Speaker 1: transformed by the renewing of your minds, that ye may
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  Speaker 1: prove what is the good and acceptable and perfect will
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  Speaker 1: of God. Those therefore, who have not as yet received
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  Speaker 1: the renewing of the spirit are also unable to prove
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  Speaker 1: the good and acceptable and perfect will of God. End
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  Speaker 1: of fragments from Sermon twenty one. Fragments from Sermons twenty
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  Speaker 1: two through twenty five. Commentary on the Gospel of Luke
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  Speaker 1: Sermons twelve through twenty five by Cyril of Alexandria, translated
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  Speaker 1: by R. Pain Smith. This LibriVox recording is in the
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  Speaker 1: public domain. From Sermon twenty two. Explanation of that which
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  Speaker 1: is below from the Syriac as before, and no man
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  Speaker 1: puts new wine into old skins. The heart of the
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  Speaker 1: Jews then is an old skin, and therefore cannot hold
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  Speaker 1: the new wine. For this is the saving commandment of
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  Speaker 1: the Gospel, making glad the heart of man. But Christ
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  Speaker 1: hath filled us with these great blessings, by bountifully endowing
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  Speaker 1: us with spiritual gifts and opening the pathway wide into
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  Speaker 1: all virtue. Six Two Why do ye that which is
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  Speaker 1: not lawful to do on the Sabbaths? Yet a new covenant,
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  Speaker 1: God promiseth us, now that the first hath waxed old
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  Speaker 1: and is near to vanish away. According to the words
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  Speaker 1: of the divine Paul Yea. He even says, by one
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  Speaker 1: of the holy prophets, Behold the days come, saith the Lord,
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  Speaker 1: when I will perfect with the House of Israel and
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  Speaker 1: with the House of Judah a new covenant, Not according
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  Speaker 1: to the covenant which I made with their fathers in
• 1:54:08
  Speaker 1: the day when I took hold of their hand to
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  Speaker 1: bring them out of the land of Egypt. If therefore
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  Speaker 1: the new Covenant is the second and different from the first,
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  Speaker 1: there is every necessity for those who wish to live
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  Speaker 1: according to it, to abandon the old laws and conform
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  Speaker 1: to those which will guide them into the newness of
• 1:54:31
  Speaker 1: the Gospel polity. But of all this we can see
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  Speaker 1: that the scribes and Pharisees comprehended nothing, for being altogether
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  Speaker 1: destitute of knowledge of the sacred scriptures, they had but
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  Speaker 1: one sole purpose, on every occasion, to find fault with
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  Speaker 1: the divine and heavenly preaching. They lie in wait therefore,
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  Speaker 1: for the Holy Apostles, in their constant attendance upon our
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  Speaker 1: co Savior Christ, and tell him concerning them. Behold, we
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  Speaker 1: see those who are under thy instruction acting contrary to
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  Speaker 1: the precepts of the law. For they do what it
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  Speaker 1: is not lawful to do on the sabbaths. For while
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  Speaker 1: the law enjoins men to do no work on the
• 1:55:19
  Speaker 1: Sabbath and to meddle with no labor whatsoever, the disciples
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  Speaker 1: are rubbing ears of corn with their hands. But tell me,
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  Speaker 1: dost not thou thyself, when setting thy sabbath meal break
• 1:55:34
  Speaker 1: the bread? Why then dost thou blame others, but that
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  Speaker 1: we may use against thee the bulwark of the Saviour's words.
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  Speaker 1: Listen six three. And Jesus answered and said, unto them,
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  Speaker 1: have ye not even read what David did. Now, even
• 1:55:55
  Speaker 1: though David thus acted contrary to what the law approves,
• 1:56:00
  Speaker 1: yet he is rightly and justly esteemed by us as
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  Speaker 1: worthy of all admiration, for he was, in truth a
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  Speaker 1: saint and prophet, Since therefore the law of Moses expressly
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  Speaker 1: commands judge just judgment, and regard not the person in judgment.
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  Speaker 1: How saith he condemn ye, my disciples, while ye still
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  Speaker 1: admire as a saint and prophet the blessed David, although
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  Speaker 1: he did not keep Moses's command. But by the loaves
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  Speaker 1: of the showbread, there is clearly indicated to us the
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  Speaker 1: bread that cometh down from Heaven to be set forth
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  Speaker 1: upon the holy tables of the churches, and all the
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  Speaker 1: furniture of the table used for the performance of its
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  Speaker 1: mystical service was a plain type of the divine treasures.
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  Speaker 1: But spiritually the bread signifies the twelve Apostles of whom
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  Speaker 1: we we shall speak in due order when our discourse
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  Speaker 1: reaches the disciples themselves. From Sermon twenty three explanation of
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  Speaker 1: what follows from the Syriac as before, But God said
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  Speaker 1: I require mercy and not sacrifice, and the acknowledgment of
• 1:57:22
  Speaker 1: God and not hull burnt offerings. What is meant by
• 1:57:28
  Speaker 1: mercy and what by sacrifice? By mercy, then is signified
• 1:57:34
  Speaker 1: justification and grace in Christ, even that which is by faith,
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  Speaker 1: For we have been justified, not by the works of
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  Speaker 1: the law that we have done, but by his great
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  Speaker 1: mercy and sacrifice means the law of Moses six six.
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  Speaker 1: And he was teaching, and there was a man there
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  Speaker 1: whose right hand was with him. But his teaching was
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  Speaker 1: ever of things too high for reason, and such as
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  Speaker 1: made plain to his hearers. The pathway of salvation opened
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  Speaker 1: through him. And immediately after his teaching he displayed his
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  Speaker 1: godlike power, having first by words smoothed, as it were,
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  Speaker 1: the road to believe, For the miracle sometimes converts unto
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  Speaker 1: faith those who had disbelieved the word. But the pharisees
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  Speaker 1: watched him to see if he would heal on the sabbath,
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  Speaker 1: for such as the nature of an envious man, that
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  Speaker 1: he makes the praises of others food for his own disease,
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  Speaker 1: and wickedly is maddened by their reputation. And what once
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  Speaker 1: more said he to this who knoweth all things, who
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  Speaker 1: searcheth the hearts, and understandeth whatever is therein for with
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  Speaker 1: him is the light, as the scripture declares, he spake
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  Speaker 1: to him that had the withered hand stand forth into
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  Speaker 1: the midst. And why did he do this? It might
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  Speaker 1: perhaps be to move the cruel and unpitying Pharisee to
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  Speaker 1: compassion the man's malady perhaps might shame them and persuade
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  Speaker 1: them to allay the flames of envy. Six nine. I
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  Speaker 1: will ask you something. Is it lawful on the Sabbath
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  Speaker 1: days to do good or to do evil? Most wise,
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  Speaker 1: in very deed, is this question and a statement most
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  Speaker 1: suitable to meet their folly. For if it be lawful
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  Speaker 1: to do good on the Sabbath, and nothing prevents the
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  Speaker 1: sick being pitied by God, cease, thus picking up opportunities
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  Speaker 1: for fault finding against Christ, and bringing down on thy
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  Speaker 1: own head the sentence which the Father has decreed against
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  Speaker 1: those who die dishonored the son. For thou hast heard
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  Speaker 1: him where he says of him by the voice of David,
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  Speaker 1: And I will cut off his enemies from before his face,
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  Speaker 1: and put to flight those that hate him. But if
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  Speaker 1: it be not lawful to do good on the Sabbath,
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  Speaker 1: and the law forbids the saving of life, thou hast
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  Speaker 1: made thyself an accuser of the law. Thou hast landered
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  Speaker 1: the commandment for which the ministry of Moses is regarded
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  Speaker 1: with admiration. No, he replies the God of all, did
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  Speaker 1: not enact the law of the Sabbath for himself, but
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  Speaker 1: for us, rather, whose neck is bowed to it. Thou sayest, well,
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  Speaker 1: I assent to thy words. Therefore, that which is divine
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  Speaker 1: is free from the compulsion of the law. Why then,
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  Speaker 1: dost thou blame Christ for wishing also to show mercy
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  Speaker 1: on the Sabbath and benefit a living soul. And were
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  Speaker 1: it our wish to examine closely the law enacted for
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  Speaker 1: the Sabbath, we should find it ordained by God for
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  Speaker 1: purposes of mercy. For he commanded to do no work
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  Speaker 1: on the Sabbath, and entirely to abstain from labor, and
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  Speaker 1: even to give rest at the same time to the
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  Speaker 1: irrational animals. For he said that its purpose was that
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  Speaker 1: thy manservant may rest, and thy maid servant, thy ox,
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  Speaker 1: and thy beast of burden, and all thy cattle. But
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  Speaker 1: he who has mercy on the ox and other animals,
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  Speaker 1: how would not he pity on the Sabbath day a
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  Speaker 1: man who was attacked by a severe and irremediable malady
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  Speaker 1: six eleven, and they were filled with madness? Is not
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  Speaker 1: the miracle enough to produce faith? Thou seest him, working
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  Speaker 1: with godlike dignity and with supreme power, healing the sick
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  Speaker 1: and travailst Thou with murder, bread of envy and malice.
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  Speaker 1: Six twelve. He went out into the mountain to pray.
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  Speaker 1: All that Christ did was for our edification and for
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  Speaker 1: the benefit of those who believe in Him. And by
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  Speaker 1: proposing to us his own conduct as a sort of
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  Speaker 1: pattern of the spiritual mode of life, he would make
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  Speaker 1: us true worshipers. Let us see, therefore, in the pattern
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  Speaker 1: and example provided for us by Christ acts the manner
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  Speaker 1: in which we ought to make our supplications unto God.
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  Speaker 1: We must pray secretly and in concealment, and with no
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  Speaker 1: one seeing us. For this is the signification of Jesus
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  Speaker 1: going into the mountain alone and praying, as it were, leisurely.
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  Speaker 1: And this he has himself taught us, saying, but thou,
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  Speaker 1: when thou prayest, enter into thy closet. For we ought
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  Speaker 1: to pray, not seeking after glory, but lifting up holy hands,
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  Speaker 1: while the soul, as it were, mounts aloft the contemplation
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  Speaker 1: of God, withdrawing from all tumult and quitting worldly anxiety.
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  Speaker 1: And this we must do not with fickleness, nor with
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  Speaker 1: a listless feebleness, but on the contrary, with earnestness and
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  Speaker 1: zeal and a patience worthy of admiration. For thou hast
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  Speaker 1: heard that Jesus did not merely pray, but that he
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  Speaker 1: also passed the night in this duty. But possibly the
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  Speaker 1: enemy of the truth will not endure us when thus speaking,
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  Speaker 1: for he says he prays and requests from the Father
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  Speaker 1: what he hath not. Well, then do ye still say
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  Speaker 1: that he is both consubstantial and equal to him in
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  Speaker 1: all things, and in no way whatsoever unlike him. For
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  Speaker 1: without all controversy, the less is blessed of the greater,
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  Speaker 1: and decidedly he who gives is greater than he who
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  Speaker 1: makes request to receive something. Let then, those who pervert
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  Speaker 1: the right faith teach us first of all of what
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  Speaker 1: they imagine the Son to be in need, and what
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  Speaker 1: did he seek to obtain, as not as yet possessing it.
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  Speaker 1: He is the true light. He is in his own nature,
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  Speaker 1: life and the cause of life. He is the lord
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  Speaker 1: also of powers. He is wisdom and righteousness, the creator
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  Speaker 1: and framer of the universe, superior to everything that has
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  Speaker 1: been brought into being, is the King of the universe,
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  Speaker 1: the dispenser of and earth, the giver with God, the
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  Speaker 1: father of every blessing. And this thou wilt learn by
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  Speaker 1: what the blessed Paul has somewhere written, Grace be to
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  Speaker 1: you and peace from God, our Father and our Lord
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  Speaker 1: Jesus Christ. He is conspicuous on the throne far above,
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  Speaker 1: and is glorified by the whole rational creation. Accordingly, he
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  Speaker 1: is by substance the heir of all the divine dignities
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  Speaker 1: of God the Father. And therefore speak he unto them
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  Speaker 1: that all that is mine is thine, and thine mine,
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  Speaker 1: and I am glorified in them. But he who has
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  Speaker 1: everything that belongs to God, the Father as his very own,
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  Speaker 1: of what is he still in need? But if in
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  Speaker 1: fine he is in need of anything, And they affirm
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  Speaker 1: that this is true, there is no not to prevent
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  Speaker 1: our saying that there are certain things of which the
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  Speaker 1: Father himself is in need. For if all that the
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  Speaker 1: son has is the father's, but there is something of
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  Speaker 1: which the son is in need, therefore must the father
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  Speaker 1: too be similarly circumstanced. For all that the son hath
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  Speaker 1: is the father's. But the Father is all perfect and
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  Speaker 1: is deficient of no good whatsoever that is suitable to deity.
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  Speaker 1: Therefore is the Son all perfect, as having all that
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  Speaker 1: the Father hath, and being his image and the impress
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  Speaker 1: of his substance. But in the Impress there is displayed
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  Speaker 1: entirely the original form, and in the original form there
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  Speaker 1: exists entirely the Impress. And thus much then as respects them.
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  Speaker 1: And those two who have been caught by the empty
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  Speaker 1: declamations of Nestoria, say that it is entirely unbefitting the Son,
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  Speaker 1: considered as God by nature, to pray, and rather belongs
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  Speaker 1: to the man coupled with him by way of connection
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  Speaker 1: to him, that is, of the seed of David. He
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  Speaker 1: it was therefore who offered up the prayer. What reply,
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  Speaker 1: then shall we make to this, that ye are utterly
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  Speaker 1: ignorant of the mystery of the incarnation of the only Begotten.
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  Speaker 1: Remember the blessed evangelist John, who says, and the Word
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  Speaker 1: was made flesh. And of this the all wise Paul
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  Speaker 1: is given us a plain proof by saying concerning him,
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  Speaker 1: for he taketh not hold at all of the angels,
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  Speaker 1: but taketh hold of the seed of Abraham. Whence it
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  Speaker 1: became him to be made like unto his brethren in
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  Speaker 1: all things, that he might become a merciful and faithful
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  Speaker 1: high priest in things pertaining unto God, to make propitiation
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  Speaker 1: for the sins of the people. On what account, therefore
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  Speaker 1: does Nestorius eject from the measure of human nature, him who,
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  Speaker 1: though divinely begotten as the word by God the Father,
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  Speaker 1: yet humbled himself unto emptying even to becoming our brother,
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  Speaker 1: by being made like unto us, and similar in all
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  Speaker 1: things to the inhabitants of the earth, sin only accepted
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  Speaker 1: for having become like unto us. From his exceeding gentleness
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  Speaker 1: and love to mankind. He disdains not human things, but
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  Speaker 1: sets before us his conduct as a type of goodness,
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  Speaker 1: unto the end, that, as I said, we may be
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  Speaker 1: earnest in following his footsteps. Six thirteen And when it
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  Speaker 1: was day he called his disciples, and of them, having
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  Speaker 1: chosen twelve, our Lord Jesus Christ, having spent the night
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  Speaker 1: in prayer, and having conversed with his Father and God
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  Speaker 1: in heaven in a way ineffable and beyond our powers
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  Speaker 1: of understanding, and such as is known solely to himself,
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  Speaker 1: even therein making himself an example unto us of that
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  Speaker 1: which is necessary for salvation. For he taught us in
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  Speaker 1: what way we two might rightly and blamelessly offer our prayers,
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  Speaker 1: comes down from the mountain and appoints those who were
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  Speaker 1: to be the world's teachers. According to the words he spake,
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  Speaker 1: ye are the light of the world. And of this
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  Speaker 1: appointment of the Holy Apostles, the blessed David also makes mention,
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  Speaker 1: addressing himself, as it were to Christ, Thou shalt make
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  Speaker 1: them rulers over all the earth. They shall make mention
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  Speaker 1: of thy name in every successive generation. For verily, while
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  Speaker 1: they were in the body, they made mention of the
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  Speaker 1: glory of Christ, telling his mystery, both in cities and villages.
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  Speaker 1: And now that they have been called to the mansions
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  Speaker 1: that are above none the less do they still even
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  Speaker 1: thus converse with us about Him. By the most wise
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  Speaker 1: history which they have written concerning Him. And those indeed
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  Speaker 1: who were appointed priests according to the law of Moses.
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  Speaker 1: Even Aaron and his company were made beautiful to the
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  Speaker 1: senses by vestments suitable to their priestly dignity. But the
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  Speaker 1: divine disciples, being adorned with spiritual gifts, had entrusted to
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  Speaker 1: them the ministry of the Gospel oracles, for it was said,
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  Speaker 1: unto them heal the sick, cast out demons, clean's lepers,
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  Speaker 1: raise the dead, and being thus invested with Christ's power,
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  Speaker 1: they have filled the whole world with astonishment. But mark
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  Speaker 1: the extreme moderation of the evangelist, for he does not
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  Speaker 1: simply say that the Holy Apostles were appointed, but rather,
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  Speaker 1: by introducing the record of these chief ones, each by name,
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  Speaker 1: takes care that no one should venture to enroll himself
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  Speaker 1: in the company of those that were chosen. For if
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  Speaker 1: Paul saith, no man taketh this honor upon himself, but
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  Speaker 1: he that is called by God. And though the Holy
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  Speaker 1: Apostles were called by name to this great and splendid dignity,
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  Speaker 1: yet from time to time some men have gone to
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  Speaker 1: such a pitch of madness and audacity as even to
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  Speaker 1: name themselves apostles of Christ, and to usurp an honor
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  Speaker 1: not granted unto them of these the Divine Disciples have
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  Speaker 1: made men. For they say such are false apostles, deceitful workers,
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  Speaker 1: transforming themselves into angels of righteousness. And no wonder, for
• 2:12:12
  Speaker 1: Satan even transforms himself into an angel of light. It
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  Speaker 1: is no great thing. Therefore, if his ministers also transformed
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  Speaker 1: themselves into angels of righteousness. But we neither acknowledge nor
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  Speaker 1: will receive any one except those only so named in
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  Speaker 1: the evangelic writings, and him who was appointed after them,
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  Speaker 1: the most wise Paul, to whom also the Savior himself
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  Speaker 1: bore witness, saying that he is a vessel of election
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  Speaker 1: for me to carry my name before all the heathen.
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  Speaker 1: The Law indeed pointed them out before in type, and
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  Speaker 1: the prophets also proclaimed them as For instance, it is
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  Speaker 1: written in the Mostesa Record, and ye shall take fine
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  Speaker 1: flower and make it into twelve loaves, and ye shall
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  Speaker 1: put them in two rows upon the pure table before
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  Speaker 1: the Lord. And ye shall put upon the roe frankensense
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  Speaker 1: and salt. And they shall be for loaves set before
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  Speaker 1: the Lord for immemorial, for the bread that came down
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  Speaker 1: from heaven and giveth life to the world. Who else
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  Speaker 1: can it be but Christ, the Savior of the universe,
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  Speaker 1: And in imitation two of him, the blessed Disciples also
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  Speaker 1: are named loaves, for having been made partakers of Him
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  Speaker 1: who nourishes us unto life. Eternal. They also nourish by
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  Speaker 1: their own writings those who hunger and thirst after righteousness.
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  Speaker 1: And as the Savior, who is the true light, called
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  Speaker 1: the disciples also light, for ye are the light of
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  Speaker 1: the world. So also, being himself the bread of life,
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  Speaker 1: he has bestowed upon his disciples to be ranked as
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  Speaker 1: loves and observe. I pray the marvelous art of the law,
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  Speaker 1: for ye shall put it, says upon the loves frankincense
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  Speaker 1: and salt. Now the frankncense is the symbol of a
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  Speaker 1: sweet odor, and the salt that of understanding and good sense,
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  Speaker 1: both of which existed in the highest degree in the
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  Speaker 1: Holy Apostles. For their life was one of a sweet savor,
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  Speaker 1: as they also said that we are a sweet savor
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  Speaker 1: of Christ unto God. And they were moreover also full
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  Speaker 1: of understanding, so that I hear the prophet David even
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  Speaker 1: singing of them. In the Psalms. There is Benjamin in entrancement.
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  Speaker 1: The princes of Judah are their leaders, the princes of
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  Speaker 1: zebulon the princes of Nephthalim. For the Blessed Disciples were
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  Speaker 1: chosen out of almost every tribe of Israel, and were
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  Speaker 1: the bearers of light to the world, holding up the
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  Speaker 1: word of life and the wonder. Indeed, is this that
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  Speaker 1: the stages of the Greeks possess a splendid copiousness of
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  Speaker 1: speech and an admirable beauty of language. But the disciples
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  Speaker 1: of our Savior were mere artificers and boatmen and fishers,
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  Speaker 1: having no boast of words, no fluency of picked phrases
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  Speaker 1: and an expression. Indeed, were simple men, but rich in knowledge.
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  Speaker 1: Yet is the literature of the Greeks, with its sonorous phrases, silent,
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  Speaker 1: while the power of the evangelic preaching has possession of
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  Speaker 1: the world. God also makes mention of them by the
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  Speaker 1: voice of Jeremiah, saying of the enemy of all, even Satan,
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  Speaker 1: Woe to him who multiplieth for himself that which is
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  Speaker 1: not his, and maketh his collar thick and heavy. For
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  Speaker 1: suddenly shall they arise that shall bite him, and thy
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  Speaker 1: adversaries shall wake up, and thou shalt be their prey.
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  Speaker 1: For Satan had gathered unto him all the inhabitants of
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  Speaker 1: the earth, though they were not his, and had caused
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  Speaker 1: them to be his worshipers, making his collar heavy. But
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  Speaker 1: those who were to plunder his goods woke up for
• 2:16:33
  Speaker 1: the net of the apostolic teaching, cut all those that
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  Speaker 1: were in error, and brought back unto God the whole world.
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  Speaker 1: From Sermon twenty five explanation of the saying of the
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  Speaker 1: apostle that follows, be ye like unto me, as I
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  Speaker 1: also am unto Christ? And how was the wise Paul
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  Speaker 1: like unto Christ? Did he established the heavens as did
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  Speaker 1: the word of God? Did he set the earth upon
• 2:17:05
  Speaker 1: its firm foundation, and bring forth the sun and moon,
• 2:17:09
  Speaker 1: and the stars and light? How therefore was he like him?
• 2:17:15
  Speaker 1: By being an imitator of that human virtue which Christ
• 2:17:19
  Speaker 1: showed forth for our example six seventeen, He stood upon
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  Speaker 1: level ground and a crowd of his disciples, and a
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  Speaker 1: great multitude of the people. But observe I pray the
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  Speaker 1: manner of the election for the most wise evangelist says
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  Speaker 1: that it was not done in a corner and secretly,
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  Speaker 1: but rather when many disciples were gathered together, and a
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  Speaker 1: vast crowd from all the country of the Jews, and
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  Speaker 1: from the sea, coast of Tire and sidon. These latter
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  Speaker 1: were idolaters, lame in the hollow of both needs. In
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  Speaker 1: part of deserving the customs of the Jews, but yet
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  Speaker 1: not altogether abandoning their idolatrous practices. The election therefore was
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  Speaker 1: held in the presence of all these spectators and teachers
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  Speaker 1: appointed for all beneath the heaven, And this duty they
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  Speaker 1: also fulfilled, summoning the Jews from their legal worship, and
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  Speaker 1: those who served demons from Grecian error to the acknowledgment
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  Speaker 1: of the truth. And when He had appointed the holy Apostles,
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  Speaker 1: he performed very many wonderful miracles, rebuking demons, delivering from
• 2:18:37
  Speaker 1: incurable diseases who soever drew near unto him, and displaying
• 2:18:43
  Speaker 1: his own most godlike power, that both the Jews, who
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  Speaker 1: had run together unto him, and those from the country
• 2:18:51
  Speaker 1: of the Greeks might know that Christ, by whom they
• 2:18:56
  Speaker 1: were honored with the dignity of the apostolate, was not
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  Speaker 1: some ordinary man of those in our degree, but on
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  Speaker 1: the contrary, God, as being the Word that was made man,
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  Speaker 1: but retained nevertheless his own glory, for power went forth
• 2:19:15
  Speaker 1: from him and healed all. For Christ did not borrow
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  Speaker 1: strength from some other person, but being himself God by nature,
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  Speaker 1: even though he had to become flesh, he healed them
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  Speaker 1: all by the putting forth of power over the sick.
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  Speaker 1: If further you wish to learn the interpretation of the
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  Speaker 1: apostle's names, know that Peter is explained as meaning loosing
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  Speaker 1: or knowing, Andrew as comely strength or answering. James as
• 2:19:49
  Speaker 1: one who takes labor by the heel, John, the grace
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  Speaker 1: of the Lord, Matthew given Philip the opening of the
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  Speaker 1: hands or the mouth of a lamp. Bartholomew, the sun
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  Speaker 1: suspending water, Thomas an abyss or a twin James, the
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  Speaker 1: son of Alpheus, the supplanting of the Passage of life,
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  Speaker 1: Judas thanksgiving, and Simon obedience. End of fragments from Sermon
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  Speaker 1: twenty five. End of commentary in the Gospel of Luke
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  Speaker 1: Sermons twelve through twenty five by Cyril of Alexandria, translated
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  Speaker 1: by R. Paine Smith,