Resultados25 letters/passages
isidore_pelusium · c. 432 · score 0.02
To Theodore the Prefect. The ruler who governs justly builds a monument more enduring than bronze or marble — a monument of gratitude in the hearts of those he has served. But the ruler who governs unjustly digs his own grave, for the oppressed never forget and history never forgives. You have been given authority over …
isidore_pelusium · c. 431 · score 0.02
To Herminus the Count. The authority of the secular ruler is ordained by God for the maintenance of order and the punishment of evildoers, and the ruler who exercises this authority justly is a minister of God no less than the priest who offers the sacrifice. But authority misused becomes tyranny, and the ruler who opp …
isidore_pelusium · c. 429 · score 0.02
To Apollonius the Bishop: That man alone do I consider king and ruler...
isidore_pelusium · c. 396 · score 0.02
… s of the demands this entails. To Theodore the Augustalis. Even though you hold imperial authority, you must remember that all earthly power is temporary and borrowed from the true King, before whom every ruler must give account. Therefore exercise your office with justice and mercy, knowing that the measure you use fo …
isidore_pelusium · c. 425 · score 0.02
To be particularly on guard against treachery; for such persons above all are plotted against...
isidore_pelusium · c. 425 · score 0.02
Know this, O shrine of intelligence, that if you promote the best men — those who are truthful, upright, and contemptuous of money — to positions of authority (for most positions of power are currently held by the ignoble), you will both adorn your own administration and benefit the governed. For when good men rule, th …
isidore_pelusium · c. 431 · score 0.01
Even though in grave matters circumstances seem to compel and almost force one to deviate from what is right and honorable, yet those who are not lacking in prudence, having taken counsel, choose what is becoming rather than what appears at first sight, and regard as truly victorious not what seems to prevail but what …
isidore_pelusium · c. 399 · score 0.01
One must use one's own power as though it were to last forever, yet exercise it as though it were about to end tomorrow. All insults are not endured for Christ's sake; sometimes they come upon us for our own misdeeds, whether we are acting unjustly or doing something else wrong. But when reproach comes solely because o …
isidore_pelusium · c. 399 · score 0.01
And the secular lawgivers too punish not from words but from facts those who are judged for loyalty. And Christ set forth two requirements... To Paul the Deacon. I consider that man a splendid host not who entertains his guests with a bloated table and causes satiety to be insulted, but who blends rational exhortation …
isidore_pelusium · c. 404 · score 0.01
If teachers and fathers, having abandoned flattery as something that does the greatest harm, set before us counsel for our instruction and learning, calling the renunciation of material things "departure" and obedience "willing submission" -- and if they had only nature as their teacher, while we have their recorded pr …
isidore_pelusium · c. 412 · score 0.01
Others are lavish and prodigal. Others do not even shrink from punishments. Others flatter...
isidore_pelusium · c. 429 · score 0.01
To Lampetius the Deacon. On the distinction between priesthood and tyranny. I marvel greatly how some of the ancients transformed tyrannies into fatherly care, while some of today's innovators have transformed pastoral affection into tyrannical self-rule — thinking they have been entrusted not with an accountable offic …
isidore_pelusium · c. 430 · score 0.01
To Ausonius the Corrector: The laws, having seized the one who assaulted you in drunkenness...
isidore_pelusium · c. 433 · score 0.01
To Lampetius, Strategius, and Casius. I address the three of you together because your offense is collective. You have conspired to undermine the legitimate authority of your bishop, not because he has erred in doctrine or disgraced himself in conduct, but because his governance does not suit your personal interests. T …
isidore_pelusium · c. 404 · score 0.01
The citizens have sent us a document posted at the church, as they said, before your arrival in the city, which strips everyone of the right of defense and of refuge in the church. This is not merely cruelty but bears the suspicion of impiety. For if you grant no defense and permit no flight to God, you have both sharp …
isidore_pelusium · c. 426 · score 0.01
On why the Church and the ministry suffer. Even if, as you have written, the reverence of the emperors toward the Divine has exposed the irreverence of the bishops, and if the exceeding honor those rulers pay to the clergy has weakened those who are honored, and if their great generosity has corrupted the receivers — n …
isidore_pelusium · c. 434 · score 0.01
How old are you? Why do you rage so? Why do you transgress the boundaries of your desires...
isidore_pelusium · c. 394 · score 0.01
If you revere dignity, then direct toward it those things you consider doubtful. But if you prefer ease to what is right, you will find yourself stripped of both. For the one who loves honor must first submit to its demands, and the one who seeks virtue must first renounce what is contrary to it.
isidore_pelusium · c. 391 · score 0.01
The indispositions of the body originate from excess. Indeed, when its elements exceed their own limits and are suddenly put out of order, then there is illness, and a painful death. But the same goes for the soul. If we precipitately pass from a balanced life into a disordered one, we end up swollen with pride and red …
isidore_pelusium · c. 412 · score 0.01
Do not think it sufficient merely to be above reproach, but strive to be filled with praise as well. For the former belongs even to ordinary people, while the latter belongs to those who have reached the summit of virtue. To Eudaimon the Deacon. On self-sufficiency. Since our nature has very many needs, the most divine …
isidore_pelusium · c. 422 · score 0.01
Do not, my friend, when the enemy has made himself heard: for the things which disturb the immovable are those that rouse excitement, and how many...
isidore_pelusium · c. 434 · score 0.01
Of good judgment -- not even those things which are most excellent can exceed the provision of virtue, after its precepts...
isidore_pelusium · c. 393 · score 0.01
Who, then, does your learning consider worthy of fame and good reputation: the one who has done nothing noble but happens to enjoy prosperity, wealth, and seemingly brilliant offices? Or the one who has left undone nothing of which he was capable, but has accomplished everything that would both proclaim him and benefit …
isidore_pelusium · c. 397 · score 0.01
To Patrimos the Monk. To one who sent gifts. You honor us with vegetables, wisely displaying the simplicity of your diet, and overflowing with the springs of the Lord, and showing by your very gifts how you are a gardener of paradise. For the true monk does not send lavish presents that betray attachment to luxury, but …
isidore_pelusium · c. 430 · score 0.01
Since it cannot come into being, but easily proceeds toward non-being. The probable, then...