Resultados25 letters/passages
isidore_pelusium · c. 403 · score 0.02
To Theodore the Scholastic. There is a law established from of old and well confirmed, an unwritten law looking toward compassion: that the mighty in arms should yield to the suppliant, and that those who conquer in war should give way to pity. But you, as they say, respecting neither the innate laws nor the unwritten …
isidore_pelusium · c. 434 · score 0.02
How old are you? Why do you rage so? Why do you transgress the boundaries of your desires...
isidore_pelusium · c. 425 · score 0.02
To Elias the Deacon: The licentious eye, which feeds upon the beauty of others...
isidore_pelusium · c. 426 · score 0.02
Another form of almsgiving is practiced. For he who, even unwilling, has often been drawn by love...
isidore_pelusium · c. 430 · score 0.02
Wealth is nothing, O admirable one, even if it is great and flows in from every side; dignity is nothing, even if it is royal; wisdom is nothing, even if it is adorned with eloquence — unless hope in God is mixed with these things. For wealth is perishable when God does not approve it — it has often been uprooted even …
isidore_pelusium · c. 422 · score 0.02
If you possess within yourself the treasure of virtues, do not seek it from others, but make use of your own storehouse. That heresies spring from love of power or from prejudice. Love of power is the cause of all evils, which, attempting to overturn even what is well established, has provoked terrible wars not only in …
isidore_pelusium · c. 393 · score 0.01
Wise are those who delve into the Scriptures, but more insatiable are those who misuse the tears of the poor. The former should be educated, the latter disciplined by threat. The understanding of the Scriptures, when left in ignorance, is profitable chiefly in this: it forbids the evil deeds that dominate us. It is a l …
isidore_pelusium · c. 394 · score 0.01
You seemed to have a good pretext for your last offence to forgive yourself as avenging your brother. But for your current offence, you have nothing of the sort to cover yourself, and you have even lost the benefit of the first forgiveness. Because if you were avenging earlier the wrongs done to your brother, how does …
isidore_pelusium · c. 391 · score 0.01
To the same. I hope that your soul has been filled with the Holy Spirit. It is therefore necessary to enjoy the divine psalms from the choir, and to strike down all the power of the evil one. To Theodosius the Bishop. Show yourself as you truly are. Never fail to have compassion for suffering and to hasten to bring hel …
isidore_pelusium · c. 397 · score 0.01
To Zosimus, Eustathios, and Maron. If you desire neither the eternal life with Christ nor fear the judgment of the everlasting flame, then you are either competing with the contemptuous demons, or you are lifeless images of human beings, without reason and insensible to fear. For what excuse remains for those who have …
isidore_pelusium · c. 430 · score 0.01
To Serenus: Do not gorge yourself beyond nature nor beyond measure in your prosperity...
isidore_pelusium · c. 415 · score 0.01
For the text does not say, "The stars fell," but rather that he fell, having been conquered by the stars who fought brilliantly — that is, he was defeated. And if someone should take "fell" to mean "struck" (for it is often used this way, as "struck" in place of "smote," and "his hands were healing," with the second sy …
isidore_pelusium · c. 398 · score 0.01
To Simplicius. We rejoice with the city over your rule, and we are glad to see justice now walking in the open and judging. For this you will have God as both helper and ally, who will both reveal the wicked and make the good manifest to you. For when rulers govern with justice, they become instruments of divine provid …
isidore_pelusium · c. 424 · score 0.01
On the divine visitation. The incarnate appearing of the Son of God frightened all — both human beings and demons. It persuaded human beings to spare the nature that had been united to God, and compelled demons to cease their plotting against it, since it had become sinless. For before the coming of Christ, the devil e …
isidore_pelusium · c. 418 · score 0.01
Even though, being clever, you preempted the defense by writing in a distorted manner, tell me again that the doctrine does not harm the teaching. But the truth is otherwise. For the surpassing heresy of Martinianus and Zosimus damages the faith more than any open assault could do. An enemy who attacks from without can …
isidore_pelusium · c. 415 · score 0.01
Just as — to use a vivid example — Jerusalem, when she was armed with the divine alliance, stood upright and set up her trophies effortlessly and without bloodshed; but when she was deprived of this alliance because she raged against it, hostile fire easily laid her low: so too the soul, when it is fenced about by the …
isidore_pelusium · c. 398 · score 0.01
To the City Council. God still cares for Pelusium. The seed of piety still abides in her. The patron martyrs still watch over the wretched city. The admirable Simplicius has arrived, taking in hand the reins of governance. I announce to you another manner of life. Receive the man gladly, and recount to him all your dif …
isidore_pelusium · c. 417 · score 0.01
People often dare things greater than pardon or punishment for the sake of money and power, and of yielding none of these to anyone. For wishing to acquire them...
isidore_pelusium · c. 397 · score 0.01
To Thalelaios the Monk. That it is entirely foreign to an anchorite to read pagan writings. Who would not mock you? Who would not pity you, sitting in the calm of the philosophy of the Lord's disciples, and yet drawing upon yourself the tumult and ferment of pagan writers and poets? For tell me, what among their works …
isidore_pelusium · c. 435 · score 0.01
To Orbeiios the Grammarian. How philosophy should be defined. The other philosophers defined philosophy as the art of arts and the science of sciences. Pythagoras called it the zeal for wisdom. Plato called it the acquisition of sciences. Chrysippus called it the practice of correct reasoning. Since even those who seem …
isidore_pelusium · c. 395 · score 0.01
To Eusebios the Bishop. That the priesthood is awe-inspiring and hard to attain. Desire for many things arises in many people, but it does not accord with their plans, since those things are unattainable. For not everyone who wishes attains kingship, nor wealth, nor the marriage he desires. If, therefore, as you say, Z …
isidore_pelusium · c. 430 · score 0.01
On the preeminence of the priesthood. Formerly the priesthood corrected and disciplined the kingship when it erred, but now it has fallen under it — not because it has lost its own dignity, but because those entrusted with it are not like their predecessors. For formerly, when those crowned with the priesthood lived an …
isidore_pelusium · c. 391 · score 0.01
To Makarios the Bishop. Each person who has suffered misfortune is worthy of mercy and pity when he laments his own calamities. But if he turns to slandering and harassing others, he loses, as you know, the compassion due to his misfortune; for he is no longer judged worthy of pity but of hatred, abusing his misfortune …
isidore_pelusium · c. 416 · score 0.01
To Isidore the Deacon. On the passage, "Your tavernkeepers mix the wine with water." I have often marveled at those who misinterpret the divine Scriptures and who attempt to establish their own intention rather than what lies within them. For they adulterate the divine things by mixing the pure and sincere intention of …
isidore_pelusium · c. 422 · score 0.01
On the Exodus passage: "Let each one ask from his neighbor vessels of silver and gold," and the rest. The objection which you say someone has raised against you breathes the most exacting justice. For since the Egyptians did not pay the Hebrews, who had served them for a long and toilsome period, the wages they were ow …