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isidore_pelusium · c. 414 · score 0.02
To Ophelius the Grammarian, concerning kindness to humanity: One must, dear friend, make peace even with enemies who come as suppliants. For he who refuses to make peace, but rejects human beings who send forth the cries of necessity as suppliants, and who no longer from...
isidore_pelusium · c. 421 · score 0.02
The catena author omitted the first 16 lines, beginning thus: At the coming, and in warfare...
isidore_pelusium · c. 422 · score 0.02
On the captivity of the Jews and their final expulsion. When that most celebrated temple was destroyed and the ancient metropolis of the Jews was overthrown — which once stood victorious without bloodshed — the Roman commander brought it to the ground, because in that very city every outrage against Christ had been per …
isidore_pelusium · c. 430 · score 0.02
To Ausonius the Corrector: The laws, having seized the one who assaulted you in drunkenness...
isidore_pelusium · c. 413 · score 0.02
To Archontius, concerning the same matter: The impious Gigantius, who laid a plausible false accusation against the wretched farmers, alleging theft of certain taxes and tribute, and who aggravated the census of Augustus -- though it was already most burdensome for them -- having long ago persuaded the ruler to attend …
isidore_pelusium · c. 407 · score 0.02
To Harpocras the Scholastic. Concerning divination. That divination was a fraud among the Greeks and was vainly celebrated, I have shown in my work Against the Greeks. To Palladios the Reader. Concerning the examples by which the wise man personifies wisdom in many forms. Since you asked why the examples are not all ta …
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. 422 · score 0.01
On the captivity of the Jews and their final expulsion. When that temple was destroyed and the ancient metropolis of the Jews was overthrown — which once stood victorious without bloodshed — the Roman general bowed the earth itself, because in that very city every outrage against Christ had been perpetrated. And they t …
isidore_pelusium · c. 417 · score 0.01
To the Same: For the things which they did thinking they would escape — having said, "If we leave him alone, the Romans will come and take away both our place and our nation" — these very things, because they did them, they did not escape. For after they had killed the Lord, the Romans came and destroyed both the city …
isidore_pelusium · c. 430 · score 0.01
Since it cannot come into being, but easily proceeds toward non-being. The probable, then...
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. 412 · score 0.01
Others are lavish and prodigal. Others do not even shrink from punishments. Others flatter...
isidore_pelusium · c. 397 · score 0.01
To Eulampios. On the saying spoken by John to the crowds: \"Already the axe is laid to the root.\" John, seeing the fruitless disposition of the Jews, compared them to barren trees, ready for cutting down and for the fire, warning them that the time for repentance was short and the judgment imminent. For the axe laid a …
isidore_pelusium · c. 406 · score 0.01
To Didymos. Just as the net cast into the sea... To Gerontios. If you wish to conquer the enemy, lead your army with the fear of God. For righteousness brings victory. But our injustice is an ally of the adversaries. To Ausonios. Let the dispute be referred to judgment; let the judgment examine the evidence; let the ex …
isidore_pelusium · c. 425 · score 0.01
I wrote to Zosimus to desist from his licentiousness; but he wallows all the more in the mire...
isidore_pelusium · c. 408 · score 0.01
To Isaiah the Soldier. To a soldier who is disorderly. If the points of weapons, a helmet, and a breastplate are your security for a good life — you who rob travelers and make the highways desolate — know that many who armed themselves more impenetrably than you met with a most pitiable death. In our records, Oreb and …
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. 425 · score 0.01
Wickedness is already captured by its own depravity; and once captured, it tries to hold itself captive, and strives to maintain itself by a kind of madness. The captive does not cease striving for its own ruin, and therefore labors in vain. To Ammonius the Monk. Concerning the right education of children, and that it …
isidore_pelusium · c. 403 · score 0.01
On the divine visitation. The incarnate manifestation of the Son of God frightened both human beings and demons alike — persuading the former to spare human nature, since it had been united to God, and compelling the latter to refrain from their plotting against it, since it had become sinless. But none of these things …
isidore_pelusium · c. 432 · score 0.01
This suffices—that your holiness has testified to me that it was not a difficulty of temperament producing anger over small matters, but rather an experience of affairs that have been corrupted, and that would have gone still further toward the worse had not some necessity prevented it. For the matter revealed, as you …
isidore_pelusium · c. 421 · score 0.01
On the same subject. Why do you marvel that after the Savior's incarnate coming many heresies were born? The devil, having heard clearly and explicitly that all things shall be subjected to judgment and that he shall pay the penalty, sowed these heresies so that he might have many to share his punishment. And even befo …
isidore_pelusium · c. 426 · score 0.01
Another form of almsgiving is practiced. For he who, even unwilling, has often been drawn by love...
isidore_pelusium · c. 406 · score 0.01
To Zenodotus. Even if Noah tasted the product of his own farming, not knowing what he would suffer from wine; and Lot was driven to madness by wine and became a father in old age against his will; and Herod, having become a plaything of drunkenness, stained his table and his heart with the blood of the great John; and …
isidore_pelusium · c. 393 · score 0.01
By the image of the doves he represented the extreme anguish of their souls. For those who cry out and reveal their suffering to their neighbors receive no small consolation for their distress — for sufferings are somehow lightened by the telling. But those who, through fear or some other cause, hide their calamities i …
isidore_pelusium · c. 403 · score 0.01
Therefore we must maintain moderation in all the movements of the soul, allowing neither excess of any virtue to become a vice through imbalance, nor deficiency of any good quality to leave us exposed to the assaults of wickedness. For temperance keeps the soul in good health, just as balance of humors keeps the body i …