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jerome · c. 413 · score 0.02
13. Again in selecting for yourself eunuchs and maids and servingmen look rather to their characters than to their good looks; for, whatever their age or sex, and even if mutilation ensures in them a compulsory chastity, you must take account of their dispositions, for these cannot be operated on save by the fear of Ch …
jerome · c. 413 · score 0.02
The apostle too tells us that covetousness is idolatry, Ephesians 5:5 and to one who asked the Lord the question: Good Master what good thing shall I do that I may have eternal life? He thus replied: If you will be perfect, go and sell that you have and give to the poor, and you shall have treasure in heaven; and come …
jerome · c. 413 · score 0.02
Examine their work when it is done, find fault with its defects, and arrange how much they are to do. If you busy yourself with these numerous occupations, you will never find your days long; however late the summer sun may be in setting, a day will always seem too short on which something remains undone. By observing …
jerome · c. 393 · score 0.02
My advice: follow the practice of the church you belong to. "When in Rome, do as the Romans do" — or as my teacher Ambrose put it more precisely: "When I am at Rome, I fast on Saturday; when I am at Milan, I do not. Follow the custom of whatever church you attend." You also ask about receiving the Eucharist. Should one …
jerome · c. 387 · score 0.02
To my lord bishop and dear brother John, Epiphanius sends greetings. It is fitting for men of our rank not to use our position as clergy as an occasion for pride, but to show by our conduct that we are what our title professes. Scripture warns us: "Their lots shall not profit them." What good, then, will our clerical s …
jerome · c. 377 · score 0.02
While we run the race of this world, we must not clothe ourselves in two coats -- that is, in a double faith -- or burden ourselves with leather sandals, which stand for dead works. We must not let moneybags weigh us down or lean on the staff of worldly power. We must not try to possess both Christ and the world. No: t …
jerome · c. 413 · score 0.01
When Jesus was crowned with thorns and bore our sins and suffered for us, it was to make the roses of virginity and the lilies of chastity grow for us out of the brambles and briers which have formed the lot of women since the day when it was said to Eve, in sorrow you shall bring forth children; and your desire shall …
jerome · c. 372 · score 0.01
Here where I am, I'm ignorant not just of what's happening in my homeland but of whether it still exists. Even if some venomous critic tears at me with his poisonous fangs, I won't fear the judgment of men when I have God as my judge. As someone once said: "Shatter the world to pieces if you will -- it falls upon a hea …
augustine_hippo · c. 398 · score 0.01
When you conquer, I too shall conquer, if I come to understand my error; and conversely, when I conquer, you prevail, for parents store up treasure for children, not children for parents. Let us then respond to everything, and — if Christ commands — resolve these many questions in brief discourse. You say you received …
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. 398 · score 0.01
Jerome to Augustine, greetings. I have received — at last, and by a roundabout route — letters that are said to be from you. I say "said to be" because they reached me not through any messenger you sent but through copies that were circulating in Rome and elsewhere before I ever saw them myself. Imagine my surprise at …
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 …
jerome · c. 412 · score 0.01
Weave baskets. Copy manuscripts. Tend the garden. Work is not a punishment; it is a discipline, and a discipline that keeps the imagination tethered to the real. Study. The monk who does not read is the monk who does not grow. Let the Psalter be always on your lips and the Scriptures always in your hands. As the farmer …
jerome · c. 392 · score 0.01
What impressed me most was not the grand gesture — anyone can make a dramatic sacrifice once — but the daily discipline. You fasted. You prayed. You studied. You did not merely renounce wealth; you gave it away. Together with Fabiola [a Roman noblewoman famous for her conversion and charity], you built a hospice at Por …
jerome · c. 388 · score 0.01
Furia, You beg me to write and tell you how to preserve the crown of widowhood and keep your reputation intact. My heart leaps that you wish to be, after marriage, what your mother Titiana of holy memory was throughout hers. Her prayers have been answered: she has won back in her daughter what she herself possessed in …
jerome · c. 372 · score 0.01
To Julian, Deacon of Antioch There's an old saying: liars aren't believed even when they tell the truth. And from the way you're scolding me for not writing, I can see that's been my fate with you. Should I say I wrote often, but the carriers were negligent? You'll reply: "That's the standard excuse of everyone who doe …
jerome · c. 419 · score 0.01
Sabinianus, When it repented the Lord that he had anointed Saul king over Israel, Samuel mourned for him [1 Samuel 15:35]. When Paul heard that there was fornication among the Corinthians — "such fornication as is not even named among the gentiles" [1 Corinthians 5:1] — he pleaded with tears for their repentance. If an …
jerome · c. 413 · score 0.01
Fremantle, G. Lewis and W.G. Martley. From Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Second Series, Vol. 6. Edited by Philip Schaff and Henry Wace. (Buffalo, NY: Christian Literature Publishing Co., 1893.) Revised and edited for New Advent by Kevin Knight. <https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/3001130.htm>. Contact information. The …
jerome · c. 413 · score 0.01
2 Corinthians 11:2 She stood as a queen at his right hand, her clothing of wrought gold and her raiment of needlework. Such was the coat of many colors, that is, formed of many different virtues, which Joseph wore; and similar ones were of old the ordinary dress of king's daughters. Thereupon the bride herself rejoices …
jerome · c. 377 · score 0.01
She wore rough sackcloth instead of fine robes. She spent her nights in prayer instead of sleep. She taught her companions more by example than by instruction. Her humility was such that she who had once been mistress over many was regarded as the servant of all -- and certainly, the less she resembled an earthly mistr …
jerome · c. 413 · score 0.01
Acts 4:34-35 But Ananias and Sapphira proved timid stewards, and what is more, deceitful ones; therefore they brought on themselves condemnation. For having made a vow they offered their money to God as if it were their own and not His to whom they had vowed it; and keeping back for their own use a part of that which b …
jerome · c. 413 · score 0.01
Matthew 25:1-12 This subject of fasting opens up a wide field in which I have often wandered myself, and many writers have devoted treatises to the subject. I must refer you to these if you wish to learn the advantages of self-restraint and on the other hand the evils of over-feeding. 12. Follow the example of your Spo …
jerome · c. 413 · score 0.01
For you have relinquished the world and besides your baptismal vow have taken a new one; you have entered into a compact with your adversary and have said: I renounce you, O devil, and your world and your pomp and your works. Observe, therefore, the treaty that you have made, and keep terms with your adversary while yo …
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. 398 · score 0.01
You maintain that the apostolic reproof was not a diplomatic arrangement but genuine. I shall state plainly what I think. The dispute between Paul and Peter was arranged beforehand, so that through Paul's reproof, the Gentile believers might understand that they were not bound by the Law; and through Peter's yielding, …