Resultados25 letters/passages
augustine_hippo · c. 404 · score 0.02
Your letter filled our heart with great sorrow, in which you asked that I reply at some length; yet for such evils, more lengthy groaning and weeping are owed than lengthy books. For the whole world is afflicted by such calamities that almost no part of the earth exists where such things as you described are not commit …
augustine_hippo · c. 404 · score 0.02
It was in the hidden judgment and mercy of God to provide for the salvation of those kings in that way. Against King Antiochus, who killed the Maccabees with cruel torments, God chose not to provide in the same way but punished the hard king's heart with more severe judgment through their most glorious suffering. What …
augustine_hippo · c. 404 · score 0.02
We should not be so contrary to ourselves as to believe when we read and then complain when they are fulfilled. Rather, even those who were unbelieving when they read or heard these things written in the holy Books should now at least believe when they see them being fulfilled — so that from these great pressures, as i …
augustine_hippo · c. 404 · score 0.02
For you are just in all that you have done to us, and all your works are true, and your ways are right, and all your judgments are truth. You have executed true judgments in all that you have brought upon us and upon the holy city of our fathers, Jerusalem; for in truth and justice you have brought all these things upo …
augustine_hippo · c. 402 · score 0.02
To the distinguished lord, most deservedly excellent, and greatly honored son in the love of Christ, Olympius: Augustine sends greetings in the Lord. Although as soon as we heard you had been deservedly elevated — when the very report was not yet certain to us — we believed nothing else about your disposition toward th …
augustine_hippo · c. 402 · score 0.02
What I urge upon your Excellency by petition and suggestion, I have no doubt is the wish of all my colleagues throughout Africa. I judge that at the first opportunity it can and should easily be expedited, so that, as I said, these vain people — whose salvation we seek even as they oppose us — may know that the laws se …
augustine_hippo · c. 393 · score 0.01
The case was examined, judged, and completed. Peace was offered, but pride refused it. Now regarding the violence that the Donatists inflicted through the Circumcellions — those roving bands who, under the pretense of religion, committed every sort of outrage — they attacked Catholic churches, they beat our clergy, the …
augustine_hippo · c. 397 · score 0.01
And you might even be warned, by the very property you have acquired, how impious are the things you have said against him. If you believe that human law secures your title to what you have bought with money, how much more securely does divine law secure Christ's title to what he has bought with his own blood? He of wh …
augustine_hippo · c. 408 · score 0.01
Augustine to Marcellinus, greetings. You have forwarded to me the questions raised by Volusian and his circle of educated friends. Some of these questions are sharp, and I welcome them. Iron sharpens iron, and the Christian faith has nothing to fear from honest inquiry. Their chief objection, as I understand it, is thi …
augustine_hippo · c. 402 · score 0.01
For the Lord has offered no small consolation in these troubles by willing that you should have far greater power than you had when we were already rejoicing in your many great good works. We rejoice greatly in the firm and steadfast faith of many — not a few — who have been converted to the Christian religion or Catho …
augustine_hippo · c. 396 · score 0.01
That was not the case. They left of their own accord; they deserted us of their own accord, in spite of all my efforts to dissuade them out of concern for their own wellbeing. As for Donatus: since he has now been ordained before any decision was reached in Council about his case, I leave the matter to your wisdom — pe …
augustine_hippo · c. 397 · score 0.01
Letter 66 — To Crispinus, Donatist Bishop of Calama: A Direct Challenge (A.D. 402) Addressed without formal salutation to Crispinus, Donatist Bishop of Calama. You ought to have been moved by the fear of God. Since you chose instead, in your rebaptizing of the Mappalians, to rely on the fear that you as a man could ins …
augustine_hippo · c. 391 · score 0.01
And I wept myself — it would have been impossible not to, given the flood of tears around me. When I had finished, with God's help I was able to persuade the great majority of them to give it up. 4. The following morning — the day itself — some of the more obdurate members of the congregation came to me complaining, an …
augustine_hippo · c. 401 · score 0.01
Why then should not the Church compel her lost sons to return, since the lost sons themselves compel others to perish? But I insist that the terror of temporal power is useful only as a preparation for instruction. The rod alone does not heal; neither does teaching alone always reach the hardened. But when the fear of …
augustine_hippo · c. 397 · score 0.01
Alypius and Augustine to Castorius, our son deservedly beloved, worthy of honor, and to be received with respect — greetings in the Lord. A praiseworthy abdication for the peace of the Church. 1. The enemy [the devil] has certainly attempted what was in his power; but the Almighty has overcome him, to whom we sing: "Yo …
augustine_hippo · c. 391 · score 0.01
Augustine to Proculeianus, my honored and most beloved lord — greetings. How deeply Augustine longs for Christian peace. 1. God, to whom the secrets of the human heart lie open, knows how deeply I love Christian peace, and how profoundly I am moved by the sacrilegious acts of those who persist unworthily and impiously …
augustine_hippo · c. 396 · score 0.01
Letter 61 — To Theodorus: A Written Statement on Receiving Donatist Clergy (A.D. 401) To his well-beloved and honored brother Theodorus, Bishop — Augustine sends greetings in the Lord. I have decided to put in writing what I said to you in our recent conversation about the terms on which we would receive clergy from th …
augustine_hippo · c. 396 · score 0.01
All of these they possessed before, but profited from none of them — because they had no charity. For what truth is there in someone's profession of Christian love, when that person refuses to embrace Christian unity? When they come into the Catholic Church, they gain not what they already had, but what they lacked: th …
augustine_hippo · c. 395 · score 0.01
Letter 58 — To Pammachius, Roman Senator (A.D. 401) To my noble and worthy lord Pammachius, my son dearly beloved in Christ — Augustine sends greetings in the Lord. The grace of Christ at work in you has given you a claim on the love of all his members, and has made you as well known and as dear to us as it is possible …
augustine_hippo · c. 401 · score 0.01
How many of these now rejoice with us, accusing the former burden of their destructive habit, and confess that it was right for us to trouble them, lest they should perish in the sickness of ancient custom as in a deadly sleep! But some say these measures do not help. Should medicine be neglected because some cases are …
augustine_hippo · c. 392 · score 0.01
Augustine to Profuturus, greetings. I am writing to you about a matter that weighs on me constantly — the controversy over the Priscillianists and the way in which certain bishops have handled it. You know, I think, how deeply the situation disturbs me. Not because I have any sympathy for Priscillian's errors — they ar …
augustine_hippo · c. 401 · score 0.01
Those who believed in Christ exalted above the heavens, even without seeing him, were nevertheless denying his glory over all the earth, even while seeing it — though the Prophet embraced both truths in one sentence. Those formerly savage enemies of ours, who heavily harassed our peace and quiet with various forms of v …
augustine_hippo · c. 392 · score 0.01
You say — and I appreciate the soundness of your judgment — that if Proculeianus had known about the young man beating his mother, he would have barred him from communion. I answer in a single sentence: he knows now. Let him bar him now. Let me mention another matter. A man named Primus, formerly a subdeacon at the chu …
augustine_hippo · c. 391 · score 0.01
I would never believe that of you — I know your thoughtfulness. His earthly mother is battered in the very limbs with which she bore and nursed an ungrateful son. The Church, his spiritual mother, forbids this violence — and she too is battered in the sacraments by which she bore and nursed that same ungrateful man. Ca …
augustine_hippo · c. 391 · score 0.01
Augustine, Presbyter of the district of Hippo, to Alypius, Bishop of Thagaste — concerning the anniversary of the birth of Leontius, former Bishop of Hippo. 1. With brother Macharius still away, I have not been able to send you anything definite about the matter that has been weighing on me — but word is that he will r …