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. 422 · score 0.02
Farewell, dear friend. I pray for you daily. [Context: Count Boniface was the Roman military governor of Africa and one of the most powerful men in the Western Empire. Augustine had known him for years and had once hoped he would enter the religious life. Instead, Boniface became entangled in the deadly politics of the …
augustine_hippo · c. 393 · score 0.02
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. 393 · score 0.01
Publicola to my beloved and venerable Father Augustine, greetings. I write to you, Father, burdened with questions that may seem trivial to a man of your learning but that weigh on me because I do not know the answers and cannot find peace until I do. Here is my first question. When our people travel through regions wh …
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. 407 · score 0.01
Augustine to Albina, greetings in the Lord. You have asked me about a matter that requires more care than a short letter can provide, but I will do my best. The question is this: how should we understand those passages in the Old Testament where God appears to command violence — the destruction of cities, the slaughter …
augustine_hippo · c. 398 · score 0.01
I received three letters at once — or rather three short treatises — from your Dignity through the deacon Cyprian, containing what you call various questions but what I perceive to be criticisms of my works. If I wished to respond to everything, a book-length volume would be needed. Still, I shall try not to exceed the …
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. 413 · score 0.01
Some time ago I sent questions to your Holiness: the first concerning reason and God, I believe through Iobinus who serves the handmaids of God; the second concerning the body of the Savior, from which it is supposed that one might see the substance of God. I now raise a third: the rational soul that the Savior assumed …
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. 392 · score 0.01
Would that he pursued this question in such a way that he did not so openly blaspheme the Church spread throughout the whole world, except for the Romans and still a few others in the West. For who can endure that, concerning all the Eastern peoples and many Western Christian peoples as well, concerning so many servant …
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. 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. 406 · score 0.01
Augustine to Albina, Pinianus, and Melania, greetings in the Lord. I was overjoyed to receive your letter, dearest friends in Christ. The news of your continued devotion — your generosity to the poor, your care for the churches, your commitment to the ascetic life you have chosen together — fills me with gratitude and …
augustine_hippo · c. 392 · score 0.01
But with that intellect you have shown me in your letters, which I greatly love as God's gift in you, examine his discourse more carefully yourself, and you will see that he has not feared to wound with the most injurious words nearly the entire Church of Christ, from the rising of the sun to its setting. And I should …
augustine_hippo · c. 420 · score 0.01
Augustine to Pope Celestine, greetings. I write with a heavy heart about a serious matter involving Antoninus, formerly the bishop of Fussala. This is a situation I feel personally responsible for, and I want to lay the facts before you honestly. When the town of Fussala needed a bishop, I recommended a young man named …
augustine_hippo · c. 396 · score 0.01
If you knew the circumstances bearing on him as well as you know your own, the delay would neither surprise nor grieve you. The same is true of my own situation — I ask you to take my word for it, as you cannot see how I am occupied. There are other bishops older than I am, more deserving of authority and closer to you …
augustine_hippo · c. 393 · score 0.01
So dear is this world to people, and so cheap have they become to themselves! This letter, then, will be my defense as a witness in the judgment of God, who knows with what spirit I have acted, and who said: "Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called children of God." Now, as you may recall, when we were in …
augustine_hippo · c. 422 · score 0.01
Augustine to Boniface, greetings. I hear disturbing reports about you, my friend, and I am compelled to write. When I first knew you, you were a man on fire for Christ. You served as a military commander with honor, defended the innocent, and lived with a discipline that put many monks to shame. You even considered lea …
augustine_hippo · c. 392 · score 0.01
Last year I sent a letter to your Dignity through our brother Asterius the subdeacon [a minor cleric below the rank of deacon], fulfilling my ready duty of greeting, which I trust was delivered to you. Now also, through my holy brother Praesidius the deacon, I entreat you first to remember me, and then to regard the be …
augustine_hippo · c. 398 · score 0.01
But intelligence is not a substitute for reading widely, and good faith is not a substitute for knowing what earlier scholars have already said about a passage before publishing your own corrections. Write again if you wish. But send the letter to me, not to the public. Your brother in Christ, Jerome. [Context: Jerome' …
augustine_hippo · c. 393 · score 0.01
Could it even have been hoped or expected that we should have to demand through our brother Severus a reply so long withheld from us, who burn with such ardent longing, by your Charity? Why must we endure two summers thirsting for you here in Africa? What more shall I say? O you who daily give away your own possessions …