Resultados15 letters/passages
isidore_pelusium · c. 401 · score 0.02
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 …
gregory_great · c. 590 · score 0.02
I want you to correct whatever has been done in this way without delay. Slaves taken into church possession without trial should be returned before any trial, so that if the Church has a legitimate claim, the current possessors may then be dispossessed through proper legal proceedings. Correct all this permanently. You …
gregory_great · c. 590 · score 0.02
Book I, Letter 36 To Peter the Subdeacon [Gregory's delegate in Sicily]. Gregory, bishop, servant of the servants of God, to Peter the Subdeacon. The instructions I gave you when you departed for Sicily must be studied carefully. The greatest attention must be paid to ensuring that bishops do not involve themselves in …
gregory_great · c. 590 · score 0.02
Gregory to Peter, Subdeacon. Gregory, servant of God, presbyter and abbot of the monastery of Saint Theodore in the province of Sicily, located in the territory of Palermo, has informed us that tenants of the farm of Fulloniacus -- which belongs to the holy Roman Church -- are attempting to encroach on the boundaries o …
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 …
gregory_great · c. 595 · score 0.02
Gregory to Peter, Bishop of Aleria in Corsica. On the island of Corsica, at the place called Nigeunum, on the property known as Cellae Cupiae belonging to the holy Roman Church over which I serve by God's providence, I have ordered the construction of a church with a baptistery in honor of the blessed Peter, Prince of …
gregory_great · c. 590 · score 0.01
Book I, Letter 18 To Peter the Subdeacon [Gregory's delegate in Sicily]. Gregory to Peter. We have been informed that Marcellus of the church of Baruta, who was assigned penance in the monastery of Saint Adrian in Palermo, is not only lacking food but also suffering from a shortage of clothing. We therefore order you t …
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. 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. 404 · score 0.01
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. 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. 409 · score 0.01
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. 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 …
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. 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 …