Resultados16 letters/passages
isidore_pelusium · c. 409 · score 0.02
To the same. You asked why inanimate things were struck. To accuse, I say, the stupidity of the Jews — because inanimate things were shattered by fear, while they themselves were turned to the nature of stones, insensible to fear and ungrateful toward beneficence. To Paul. The present life, O best of men, differs in no …
isidore_pelusium · c. 407 · score 0.02
To Proairesios. The Creator set a boundary for nature, and the law threatened the evildoers with fear. Those, therefore, who abide by the boundaries have honored nature; but those who have thrust aside the law have received the fear. To Thomas the Monk. On the text, "Let your loins be girded." Since you wish to learn t …
isidore_pelusium · c. 406 · score 0.02
To Donatos. Concerning gentleness. Do not barbarize your lawful authority with unfitting manners, but adorn it with the things that befit it, bestowing gentleness upon the despondent, and equality between the lesser and the greater. And then you will kindle a brilliant beacon of good governance. For justice is the fuel …
isidore_pelusium · c. 413 · score 0.02
You yourself, perhaps following the common opinion, have said that the one who violated a maiden by force is more culpable than the one who persuaded her. But I, attending to the very nature of the matter, believe — and even if what I am about to say will seem paradoxical, it will nonetheless be said because it is true …
isidore_pelusium · c. 404 · score 0.02
The Prophet called those who are unstable and resemble you, O fickle one, dust thrown off from the face of the earth. For though you were planted by the blessed Ammon and watered in a manner pleasing to God and firmly established and, as we supposed, bore fruit, you wander through many houses not for the sake of instru …
isidore_pelusium · c. 413 · score 0.02
How is the saying to be understood: "Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools." The saying "Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools" was spoken, O wise friend, for this reason: because among them there was a great swell of pretension, bereft of truth, while in the Scriptures there was truth free …
isidore_pelusium · c. 419 · score 0.01
On the Arians and Eunomians: The heretics are caught unawares by the very arguments they construct, and are brilliantly defeated by the very weapons with which they think they conquer. For if the Son is a creature, then neither is the greater thing accomplished — namely, the creation and governance of all things — for …
isidore_pelusium · c. 407 · score 0.01
To Neilos. Why he commanded them to eat the flesh of the lamb roasted with fire. The Hebrews ate the flesh of the lamb roasted with fire, typologically sketching through their eating the great mystery of the divine economy, and learning beforehand about the Lamb of God and the fire of the divine essence. For the roasti …
isidore_pelusium · c. 425 · score 0.01
They stood against the passions over which they had previously confessed defeat. If therefore you yourself have stumbled many times, acknowledge your weakness and fight. Know that the conflict requires perseverance, for the enemies of the soul do not retire after a single defeat but return again and again, probing for …
isidore_pelusium · c. 404 · score 0.01
To Patroclus the Sophist. Faith in God — I do not know how the unbelievers make light of it — whose knowledge is easy, whose possession is secure, and whose end is unconquerable. For faith is not, as its despisers suppose, a blind leap into irrationality, but a firm foundation upon which the entire structure of the vir …
isidore_pelusium · c. 414 · score 0.01
And if this is difficult, one must above all flee the continual company of women; but if necessity compels, one must bridle the eyes. The doctrine that the soul pre-existed, which seems plausible though in my view untrue, two things in particular, by our reckoning, appear to refute: first, that it has not been clearly …
isidore_pelusium · c. 401 · score 0.01
To Basil. For those who have been established in lawful authority, prosperity will surely follow; and prosperity will be achieved when piety — the highest of all goods and the chief of divine commandments — is strengthened. Piety is supported by right belief concerning God and sincere confession, and is made manifest b …
isidore_pelusium · c. 414 · score 0.01
Those who were ensnared, I shall pass over so as not to appear tedious — for all the sacred Scriptures, and the tragedies of the pagans, and the daily dramas of life are full of such examples. But those who exercised a certain foresight and overcame the passion (for it is not possible to achieve chastity without effort …
isidore_pelusium · c. 414 · score 0.01
For some believe that the soul is extinguished along with the body; others that they were brought into life solely to enjoy the good things of this present world; some imagined a doctrine of chance; others entrusted their affairs to fate and destiny and fortune; some declared the world to be created while others held t …
isidore_pelusium · c. 404 · score 0.01
"A great chasm has been fixed between us and you," Abraham replied to the rich man being punished, demonstrating the difference between the righteous and the transgressors. For the one was hospitable and a lover of the poor, receiving those who dwelt far away; the other was cruel and a lover of pleasure, ignoring the b …
isidore_pelusium · c. 403 · score 0.01
A word spoken at the right time is like a seed planted in fertile soil; it produces a harvest beyond all expectation. But a word spoken at the wrong time, however true and well-intentioned, is like seed cast upon frozen ground; it lies dormant and may even perish. Study the season before you sow, and you will reap abun …