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columbanus · c. 613 · score 0.02
You are awaited by the whole, you have the power of ordering all things, of declaring war, arousing the generals, bidding arms to be taken up, forming the battle-array, sounding the trumpets on every side, and finally of entering the conflict with your own person in the van; since for long, alas, as is obvious in this …
columbanus · c. 613 · score 0.02
Letter 5 LETTER V To the most fair Head of all the Churches of the whole of Europe, estimable Pope, exalted Prelate, Shepherd of Shepherds, most reverend Bishop; the humblest to the highest, the least to the greatest, peasant to citizen, a prattler to one most eloquent, the last to the first, foreigner to native, a poo …
columbanus · c. 613 · score 0.02
I have shown my brotherly feelings and the eagerness of my faith, when I preferred to give an opportunity to detractors, rather than in such a cause not to open my mouth, however impolite. Thus, although the triple-tongued (cf. Hieron. Adv. Vigilant. 8) scorpion with bent blow rise up in those of whom it is written, Th …
columbanus · c. 613 · score 0.02
For the people that I see, though it maintains many heretics, is zealous and quickly troubled like a trembling flock, and so is not quickly pacified, since Italy has had so many wolves, whose cubs can scarcely all be exterminated, while indeed so many have been reared at home. But may God destroy such a progeny (cf. 1 …
columbanus · c. 613 · score 0.02
1. 16 et Heb. 4. 12) . Hence is our speech seasoned with [divine] salt (Coloss. 4. 6) , since with salt every sacrifice is commanded to be sprinkled; hence as they fall may the sparks from that divine fire (Luc. 12. 49) , which the Lord came to cast upon the earth (Luc. 12. 49) , consume wood, straw, stubble (1 Cor. 3. …
columbanus · c. 613 · score 0.02
2 Indeed I grieve, I confess, for the disgrace of St. Peter's chair; yet I know that the affair is beyond me, and that at the first blush I am, as the saying goes, thrusting my face into the fire. But what care I for saving face before mankind, when zeal for the faith must needs be shown? Before God and the angels (1 T …
columbanus · c. 595 · score 0.01
4. 14) . And if body followed mind, Rome would again suffer a real scorning of herself, so that, just as we read in the narrative of learned Jerome, how some men once came to Rome from the last confines of the strand of Hyele, and, wonderful to tell, sought something other than Rome (Hieron. Epist. liii) , so I too wou …
columbanus · c. 613 · score 0.01
If persecution was severe at the beginning of the faith, how much more shall it be at the end, of which the Lord says: Think you that at His coming the Son of Man shall find faith on the earth? (Luc. 18. 8) and again: Unless those days had been shortened, no flesh should be saved (Matt. 24. 22) . Happy is he, whom deat …
columbanus · c. 613 · score 0.01
Here, as they say, is the cause of the whole calumny; if, as is reported, you also favour thus, or if you know that even Vigilius himself died under such a taint, why do you repeat his name against your conscience? For everything which is not of faith is sin (Rom. 14. 23) . Already it is your fault if you have erred fr …
columbanus · c. 595 · score 0.01
Luc. 12. 48) . 9 Let charity move you to reply, let not the roughness of my letter restrain your exposition, since wrath is distracted into error (cf. Horat. Epist. i. 2. 62) , and it is my heart's desire to pay you honour due; my part was to challenge, question, ask; let it be yours not to deny what you have freely re …
columbanus · c. 613 · score 0.01
cf. Ioann 17. 11) , all Christians. For if, as I have heard, some do not accept two natures in Christ, they are to be accepted as heretics rather than as Christians; for Christ Our Saviour is true God eternal without time, and true man without sin in time, Who in His divinity is co-eternal with the Father and in His hu …
columbanus · c. 613 · score 0.01
16 But on top of this occasion for writing, there is added the bidding of King Agilulf, whose request reduced me to amazement and manifold anxiety; since indeed I think that what I observe cannot be devoid of the miraculous. For the rulers in this province have long trampled on the Catholic faith and consolidated this …
columbanus · c. 595 · score 0.01
Letter 1 LETTER 1 To the Holy Lord and Father in Christ, the fairest Ornament of the Roman Church, as it were a most honoured Flower of all Europe in her decay, to the distinguished Bishop, who is skilled in the Meditation of divine Eloquence, I, Bar-Jonah (a poor Dove), send Greeting in Christ. 1 Grace and peace to yo …
columbanus · c. 613 · score 0.01
Strengthened and almost goaded by this confidence, I have dared to arouse you against those who revile you and call you the partisans of heretics and describe you as schismatics, so that my boasting (cf. 1. Cor. 9. 15) , in which I trusted when I spoke for you in answer to them, should not be in vain (cf. 1. Cor. 9. 15 …
columbanus · c. 613 · score 0.01
Watch first for the Faith, then for bidding works of faith and for spurning vices, since your watchfulness will be the salvation of many, just as on the other side your carelessness will be the destruction of many. May Isaiah send you to the mountain, who publish good tidings to Zion (cf. Isa. 40. 9) , rather may God t …
columbanus · c. 613 · score 0.01
For you know how bitter were the remarks with which the fathers at the holy synod of Nicaea condemned the accusers of the innocent. But while I say this, not forgetting that in a vociferous, shrill, and uproarious crowd there are many reasons which prevent a clear and complete investigation of these matters, it is not …
columbanus · c. 613 · score 0.01
For among us it is not a man's station but his principles that matter; yet love for the peace of the gospel compels me to say all, to shame you both, who ought to have been one choir, and this motive is joined by the greatness of my concern for your harmony and peace; for if one member suffers, all the members suffer w …
columbanus · c. 595 · score 0.01
Deut. 4. 2) . 4 But while I write this with more presumption than humility, I realize that I have brought upon myself the straits of a most grievous impudence, without knowing that they must yet be crossed. For it befits neither place nor station that your great authority should be at all questioned by the appearance o …
columbanus · c. 613 · score 0.01
There is more need in this for tears than words, how the enemy of the Christian name has increased after the living words of the Son of God, after the fulness of the gospels, after the apostolic teaching, after the recent writing of orthodox authorities, who from the Old and New Testament have expounded in varied speec …
columbanus · c. 595 · score 0.01
But let this suffice for Easter. 5 Concerning those bishops, however, who ordain uncanonically, that is for hire, I ask what you decree; Gildas the writer set them down as simoniacs and plagues (Gildas, De Excid. Brit. 67) . Are we really to communicate with them? For many, which is too serious a matter, are known to b …
columbanus · c. 595 · score 0.01
2. Cor. 6. 14) . And if the moon has begun to shine in the third watch, there is no doubt that the twenty-first or twenty-second moon has arisen, on which it is impossible for the true Easter to be offered. For those who determine that Easter can be celebrated at this period of the moon, not only cannot maintain this o …
columbanus · c. 613 · score 0.01
18. 2) , to whom is applied the text, Their voice is gone out into every land and their words to the ends of the earth (Ps. 18. 4) ) you are made near to the heavenlies (cf. Origen. (transl. Rufin.) Homil. in Gen. i. 13) , and Rome is the head of the Churches of the world, saving the special privilege of the place of t …
columbanus · c. 595 · score 0.01
Bishop Victor also said this once, but no one in the Eastern Church accepted his falsehood; but our soporific sting of Dagon has drunk in this erroneous tumor. What, I ask, is this so frivolous and so uneducated judgement, which is based on no proofs from holy scripture: We ought not to hold Easter with the Jews? What …
columbanus · c. 595 · score 0.01
3 Why then, with all your learning, when indeed the streams of your holy wisdom are, as of old, shed abroad over the earth with great brightness, do you favour a dark Easter? I am surprised, I must confess, that this error of Gaul has not long since been scraped away by you, as if it were a warty growth; unless perhaps …
columbanus · c. 613 · score 0.01
Cassian. Conl. i, Praef.) is not so much drawn into the deep (Luc. 5. 4) , according to the Lord's word, but rather would stick fast in one spot (for paper cannot contain all that my thoughts for various reasons would enclose in the confines of a letter) I am next asked by the king to mention to your godly ears item by …