The Homilies of S. John Chrysostom on the First Epistle of St. Paul the Apostle to the Corinthians, Volume 1J. H. Parker, 1839 - Bible |
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... virtue natural to us ? " Who speaketh thus ? The Greek or the Christian ? Both of them indeed , but not about the same things ; for the one raises his objection with a view to know- ledge , the other with a view to conduct . First then ...
... virtue natural to us ? " Who speaketh thus ? The Greek or the Christian ? Both of them indeed , but not about the same things ; for the one raises his objection with a view to know- ledge , the other with a view to conduct . First then ...
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... virtue , seeing that some of them are more temperate than ourselves . But thou sayest , " I had rather have been good by necessity , and so forfeited all rewards , than evil by deliberate choice , to be punished and suffer vengeance ...
... virtue , seeing that some of them are more temperate than ourselves . But thou sayest , " I had rather have been good by necessity , and so forfeited all rewards , than evil by deliberate choice , to be punished and suffer vengeance ...
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Saint John Chrysostom. 20 Virtue and Vice not involuntary . HOMIL . pointed , even now , a law forbidding to commit adultery ' , and II . all do not obey it . " Not because the fear loses its power , but because the greater part expect ...
Saint John Chrysostom. 20 Virtue and Vice not involuntary . HOMIL . pointed , even now , a law forbidding to commit adultery ' , and II . all do not obey it . " Not because the fear loses its power , but because the greater part expect ...
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... virtue ; and after a little labour , obtain the incorruptible crowns ? For these words will be no defence to us ; rather our fellow- servants , and those who have practised the contrary virtues , will condemn all who continue in sin ...
... virtue ; and after a little labour , obtain the incorruptible crowns ? For these words will be no defence to us ; rather our fellow- servants , and those who have practised the contrary virtues , will condemn all who continue in sin ...
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... virtue ; when Plato main- tained that any thing might be credible rather than for tyrants to be truly brave . Then changing the subject , he argued concerning Justice , that the life of the just is blessed , of the unjust miserable ...
... virtue ; when Plato main- tained that any thing might be credible rather than for tyrants to be truly brave . Then changing the subject , he argued concerning Justice , that the life of the just is blessed , of the unjust miserable ...
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Page 376 - Let the elders that rule well be counted worthy of double honour, especially they who labour in the word and doctrine.
Page 588 - Now this I say, that every one of you saith, I am of Paul ; and I of Apollos; and I of Cephas; and I of Christ.
Page 402 - God hath tempered the body together, having given more abundant honour to that part which lacked: that there should be no schism in the body, but that the members should have the same care one for another. And whether one member suffer, all the members suffer with it; or one member be honoured, all the members rejoice with it.
Page 96 - Who then is Paul, and who is Apollos, but ministers by whom ye believed, even as the Lord gave to every man?
Page 235 - Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.
Page 240 - For the unbelieving husband is sanctified by the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified by the husband: else were your children unclean; but now are they holy.
Page 79 - But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned. But he that is spiritual judgeth all things, yet he himself is judged of no man. For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ.
Page 126 - But with me it is a very small thing that I should be judged of you, or of man's judgment : yea, I judge not mine own self. For I know nothing by myself; yet am I not hereby justified : but He that judgeth me is the Lord.
Page 287 - Neither be ye idolaters, as were some of them ; as it is written, The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play. Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them committed, and fell in one day three and twenty thousand.
Page 336 - God uncovered? doth not even nature itself teach you, that, if a man have long hair, it is a shame unto him? but if a woman have long hair, it is a glory to her: for her hair is given her for a covering.