Resultados25 letters/passages
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. 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. 392 · score 0.02
If indeed, like Zosimus, Eustathius and Maron, people who don’t have a shred of honesty, who never bother about the facts, or listen to the advice of others, but find themselves thrown into a perdition recognized by everyone, it is superfluous, according to you, to discuss what it is necessary to do, then you should in …
isidore_pelusium · c. 430 · score 0.02
Since it cannot come into being, but easily proceeds toward non-being. The probable, then...
isidore_pelusium · c. 404 · score 0.02
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 0.02
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. 430 · score 0.01
To Didymus and Heron the Presbyters: One must not be amazed if the wicked set themselves against the good...
isidore_pelusium · c. 391 · score 0.01
The indispositions of the body originate from excess. Indeed, when its elements exceed their own limits and are suddenly put out of order, then there is illness, and a painful death. But the same goes for the soul. If we precipitately pass from a balanced life into a disordered one, we end up swollen with pride and red …
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. 411 · score 0.01
To Diogenes the Deacon: Since genuine and sincere friendship is recognized by its fearlessness, for what reason did you throw into manifest danger those entrusted to you by your friends? But perhaps, being without taste or initiation in sincere friendship, you did this.
isidore_pelusium · c. 410 · score 0.01
To Bishop Eusebius: Know, admirable one, that judgment is without mercy for the one who has not shown mercy -- and not only on account of the gifts belonging to others, of which you deprive the poor, but also on account of your own possessions, whose sharing you are obligated to make willingly. To Ursenouphius the Read …
isidore_pelusium · c. 430 · score 0.01
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. 425 · score 0.01
On the life of Eusebius. The greatness of soul, when it inclines not toward boldness but toward generous and benevolent freedom of speech, conceals from the erring their own offense and does not purchase a shameful deference with silence. If under the tyranny of Eusebius, as you have written, the cause of the destructi …
isidore_pelusium · c. 426 · score 0.01
And especially because, for the most part, they have passed by enervated. For the one who has departed...
isidore_pelusium · c. 425 · score 0.01
To be particularly on guard against treachery; for such persons above all are plotted against...
isidore_pelusium · c. 426 · score 0.01
On why the Church and the ministry suffer. Even if, as you have written, the reverence of the emperors toward the Divine has exposed the irreverence of the bishops, and if the exceeding honor those rulers pay to the clergy has weakened those who are honored, and if their great generosity has corrupted the receivers — n …
isidore_pelusium · c. 419 · score 0.01
Many among mankind (for it is not right to accuse all) do evil things even without having learned them, yet do not understand good things even when taught. They persist in doing of their own accord the things that bring punishment, while the things that lead to crowns they do not accomplish even when compelled. Those e …
isidore_pelusium · c. 413 · score 0.01
To Theodorus the Scholasticus, addressed to students: Every planter and farmer endures his toils by a greater hope, the expectation of the harvest diminishing the weariness. Thus we too have grown weary in our catechizing. Show that the cultivation has borne fruit. To Maron: Even if the love of money despises every pun …
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. 430 · score 0.01
To Serenus: Do not gorge yourself beyond nature nor beyond measure in your prosperity...
isidore_pelusium · c. 411 · score 0.01
He was to be held as a hostage for the return of the brothers, I say, since of the...
isidore_pelusium · c. 429 · score 0.01
To Lampetius the Deacon. On the distinction between priesthood and tyranny. I marvel greatly how some of the ancients transformed tyrannies into fatherly care, while some of today's innovators have transformed pastoral affection into tyrannical self-rule — thinking they have been entrusted not with an accountable offic …
isidore_pelusium · c. 391 · score 0.01
But I, attending to the very nature of the matter, judge otherwise; for even if what I am about to say will seem paradoxical, nonetheless it will be said since it is true: that the one who persuaded is more culpable than the one who used force. For here persuasion is more grievous than force. To Hierax the Presbyter. O …