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ambrose_milan · c. 388 · score 0.02
Ambrose, Bishop, to the Emperor Valentinian. Although the success of my first embassy was sufficiently proven to you — I was detained in Gaul for days precisely because I refused to cooperate with Maximus [the general who had seized Gaul and murdered Emperor Gratian in 383] — I owe you an account of my second, lest any …
ambrose_milan · c. 389 · score 0.02
I reminded them of Julian the Apostate, who had tried the same thing in reverse and failed. When I came down from the pulpit, the emperor said to me: "You have been preaching about me." I replied: "I addressed what concerned your soul's welfare." He said the order about the synagogue was too harsh — he had already modi …
ambrose_milan · c. 385 · score 0.02
Ambrose, Bishop, to the Emperor Theodosius. I explain my absence from Milan when your Clemency arrived after your great victory. I was not avoiding you — though I understand how it might appear. The truth is simpler: I was unwell, and the roads were difficult. But I also wished to write first what I might not say easil …
ambrose_milan · c. 388 · score 0.02
I replied that I had never deceived anyone: the fact that I had not cooperated with his plans was exactly the point. I had been sent by a legitimate emperor, and I had acted in that emperor's interest. Then he tried a different tactic. He claimed that Bauto, the Frankish general, had invited barbarians into the empire. …
ambrose_milan · c. 385 · score 0.02
Ambrose to his brother Chromatius — greetings in the Lord. My dear brother, your letter brought me great joy. It is no small comfort, amid the constant pressures of this see [Milan was the effective capital of the Western Empire and one of the busiest bishoprics in Christendom], to hear from a fellow bishop who shares …
ambrose_milan · c. 389 · score 0.02
To my brother's sister — greetings. You were good enough to write that your holiness was still anxious, because I had written that I was anxious too. I am surprised you did not receive my later letter, in which I reported that the matter had been resolved in my favor. Let me tell you the full story. When reports arrive …
ambrose_milan · c. 397 · score 0.01
The clerical life and the monastic life are not the same, though they share much. A good monk is not automatically a good bishop, any more than a good soldier is automatically a good general. The skills are different. But the foundation — discipline, prayer, self-denial, obedience — must be the same. Do not choose a ma …
ambrose_milan · c. 397 · score 0.01
They dress like monks but live like libertines. They affect holiness in public and pursue indulgence in private. They have drawn others after them into the same ruin. I say plainly: a man who abandons the monastic life for the world has not found freedom; he has found a different kind of slavery. The flesh he thought h …
ambrose_milan · c. 385 · score 0.01
Ambrose to his brother Severus, Bishop of Naples — greetings in the Lord. I commend to your care the bearer of this letter, a member of our Milanese clergy whom I am sending on business that he will explain to you in person. Receive him with the hospitality I know you will show, and assist him as you are able. I also w …
ambrose_milan · c. 397 · score 0.01
Ambrose, a servant of Christ, called to be a bishop, to the church of Vercellae and to all who call on the name of our Lord Jesus Christ: grace be fulfilled in you from God the Father and his only-begotten Son, in the Holy Spirit. I am spent with grief that the church of God among you is still without a bishop, and tha …
ambrose_milan · c. 385 · score 0.01
Ambrose to Horontianus — greetings. Abraham is the father of faith, and his story is our story. When God called him to leave Ur of the Chaldeans and go to a land he had never seen (Genesis 12:1), Abraham obeyed — and that obedience is the template for every Christian life. Faith is not a feeling; it is a departure. It …
ambrose_milan · c. 385 · score 0.01
Ambrose to Sabinus — greetings. You have asked what I think of Jerome's new translation [Jerome was in the process of producing what would become the Vulgate, the standard Latin Bible of the Western Church, translating the Old Testament directly from the Hebrew rather than from the Greek Septuagint]. The honest answer: …