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jerome · c. 413 · score 0.02
Like him too he had with him a Cerberus, not three headed but many headed, ready to seize and rend everything within his reach. He tore betrothed daughters from their mothers' arms and sold high-born maidens in marriage to those greediest of men, the merchants of Syria. No plea of poverty induced him to spare either wa …
jerome · c. 413 · score 0.02
5. Why do I still delay to relate the sequel? When her wedding day was now close at hand and when a marriage chamber was being got ready for the bride and bridegroom; secretly without any witnesses and with only the night to comfort her, she is said to have nerved herself with such considerations as these: What ails yo …
jerome · c. 413 · score 0.02
Who would believe it? That Proba, who of all persons of high rank and birth in the Roman world bears the most illustrious name, whose holy life and universal charity have won for her esteem even among the barbarians, who has made nothing of the regular consulships enjoyed by her three sons, Probinus, Olybrius, and Prob …
jerome · c. 413 · score 0.02
The two elder women wept copiously for joy, they raised the prostrate girl, they embraced her trembling form. In her purpose they recognized their own mind, and congratulated each other that now a virgin was to make a noble house more noble still by her virginity. She had found they said, a way to benefit her family an …
jerome · c. 413 · score 0.02
I think, therefore, that I ought to warn you, in all kindness and affection, to hold fast the faith of the saintly Innocent, the spiritual son of Anastasius and his successor in the apostolic see; and not to receive any foreign doctrine, however wise and discerning you may take yourself to be. Men of this type whisper …
jerome · c. 413 · score 0.02
That we should believe this to be true of men is nothing wonderful, for even the Lord Himself was tempted, and of Abraham the scripture bears witness that God tempted him. Genesis 22:1 It is for this reason also that the apostle says: we glory in tribulations....knowing that tribulation works patience; and patience exp …
jerome · c. 413 · score 0.01
Rather slay the allurements to vice while they are still only thoughts; and dash the little ones of the daughter of Babylon against the stones where the serpent can leave no trail. Be wary and vow a vow unto the Lord: let them not have dominion over me: then shall I be upright and I shall be innocent from the great tra …
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
I do not here speak of all, but only of those whom the church itself rebukes, whom sometimes it expels, and against whom the censure of bishops and presbyters is not seldom directed. For, as it is, it is almost more dangerous for giddy girls to show themselves in the abodes of religion than even to walk abroad. Virgins …
jerome · c. 413 · score 0.01
The news penetrated to the coasts of the East, and this triumph of Christian glory was heard of in the remote cities of the interior. What Christian virgin was not proud to have Demetrias as a companion? What mother did not call Juliana's womb blessed? Unbelievers may scoff at the doubtfulness of rewards to come. Meant …
jerome · c. 413 · score 0.01
She admired also the zeal of Anna the daughter of Phanuel, who continued even to extreme old age to serve the Lord in the temple with prayers and fastings. Luke 2:36-37 When she thought of the four virgins who were the daughters of Philip, Acts 21:9 she longed to join their band and to be numbered with those who by the …
jerome · c. 413 · score 0.01
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. 413 · score 0.01
Away with all hesitations! 'Perfect love' of God 'casts out fear.' 1 John 4:18 Take to yourself the shield of faith, the breastplate of righteousness, the helmet of salvation, Ephesians 6:14-17 and sally forth to battle. The preservation of your chastity involves a martyrdom of its own. Why do you fear your grandmother …
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. 413 · score 0.01
My purpose is to praise the grandmother of my virgin in a style befitting the church, and to thank her for having aided with her goodwill the desire which Demetrias has formed. For the rest my cell, my food and clothing, my advanced years, and my narrow circumstances sufficiently refute the charge of flattery. In what …
jerome · c. 413 · score 0.01
John 9:2 and other similar passages. This godless and wicked teaching was formerly ripe in Egypt and the East; and now it lurks secretly like a viper in its hole among many persons in those parts, defiling the purity of the faith and gradually creeping on like an inherited disease till it assails a large number. But I …
jerome · c. 413 · score 0.01
To Demetrias Jerome writes to Demetrias, a highborn lady of Rome who had recently embraced the vocation of a virgin. After narrating her life's history first at Rome and then in Africa, he goes on to lay down rules and principles to guide her in her new life. These which cover the whole field of ascetic practice and in …
jerome · c. 413 · score 0.01
Some there are, however, who by their ill-behaviour bring discredit on the holy profession of virginity and upon the glory of the heavenly and angelic company who have made it. These must be frankly told either to marry if they cannot contain, or to contain if they will not marry. It is also a matter for laughter or ra …
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 …
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
Such conversations are filled with deadly venom. To express his condemnation of them the apostle has taken a verse of a profane writer and has pressed it into the service of the church. It may be literally rendered at the expense of the metre: evil communications corrupt good manners. No; you should choose for your com …
jerome · c. 413 · score 0.01
So that I am reduced to the alternative of repeating exhortations which seem superfluous or of omitting them to the serious injury of this treatise. The blessed Cyprian has left a noble work on virginity; and many other writers, both Greek and Latin, have done the same. Indeed the virginal life has been praised both wi …
jerome · c. 413 · score 0.01
He was a dutiful son, a loveable husband, a kind master, a popular citizen. He was made consul while still a boy; but the goodness of his character made him more illustrious as a senator. He was happy in his death for it saved him from seeing the ruin of his country; and happier still in his offspring, for the distingu …
jerome · c. 413 · score 0.01
Of such it is well said by the psalmist, as for the children of men their teeth are spears and arrows and their tongue a sharp sword. Now if all this is true of men, how much more does it apply to women whose fickle and vacillating minds, if left to their own devices, soon degenerate. I am myself acquainted with anchor …
jerome · c. 413 · score 0.01
The Saviour of the world, who in His virtues and His mode of life has left us an example to follow, was, immediately after His baptism, taken up by the spirit that He might contend with the devil, Matthew 4:1 and after crushing him and overthrowing him might deliver him to his disciples to trample under foot. For what …