Wealth [N]The most basic English definitions of wealth are the condition of being happy and prosperous and spiritual well-being (OED). But the most co...
Oration XXVII. Oration XXVII. The First Theological Oration.A Preliminary Discourse Against the Eunomians.I. I am to speak against persons who pride t...
Elucidations.Elucidations.ISee p. 381, cap. i.In his third book, Clement exposes the Basilidians and others who perverted the rule of our Lord, which ...
Like unto him was there no king before him, that turned to the Lord with all his heart, and with all his soul, and with all his might. 2 Kings xxiii...
CHAPTER 23 Matthew 23:1-39 . DENUNCIATION OF THE SCRIBES AND PHARISEES--LAMENTATION OVER JERUSALEM, AND FAREWELL TO THE TEMPLE. ( = 12:38-4...
Ethics The ancient world did not consider religion to be morally inspiring, creative, or corrective; the reputed behavior of gods and goddesses repell...
Book II.Book II. Chapter I.-On Eating.Keeping, then, to our aim, and selecting the Scriptures which bear on the usefulness of training for life, we mu...
I. ESAU. And when Esau heard the words of his father, he cried with a great and exceeding bitter cry, and said unto his father, Bless me, even me a...
If any man's wrJt abide which he hath built thereupon, he shall receive a reward. If any man?s wortp shall be burned, he shall suffer loss: but he h...
VI. THE COUNSEL OF CAIAPHAS. And one of them, named Caiapkas, being the highpriest that same year, said unto them: Ye know nothing at all, nor consi...
XII. MANY MEMBERS AND ONE BODY. As the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of that one body, being many, are one body: so also i...
Letter CLXXXVIII(1) Letter CLXXXVIII(1) (Canonica Prima.)To Amphilochius, concerning the Canons.(2) Even a fool, it is said, when he asks questions, ...
Book I.Book I. Chapter I.-Design of the Treatise. Disavowal of Personal Motives in Writing It.I Have thought it meet, my best beloved fellow-servant i...
Lecture IX. Lecture IX. On the Words, Maker of Heaven and Earth, and of All Things Visible and Invisible.Job XXXVIII. 2-3. Who is this that hideth cou...
Ezekiel, Theology of Ezekiel and his contemporaries confronted what for the Israelites was the most traumatic possible challenge to their faith: the d...
Sin [N] [T] [E] [H] [S]Sin is a riddle, a mystery, a reality that eludes definition and comprehension. Perhaps we most often think of sin as wrongdoi...
Homily VII.-The Creation of Moving Creatures.(1) Homily VII.-The Creation of Moving Creatures.(1) 1. And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundant...
3:1? Now in the fifteenth year of the reign1 of Tiberius Caesar2, Pontius Pilate3 being governor of Judaea4, and Herod5 being tetrarch6 of Galilee7, a...
Work [N]For contemporary humanity the meaning and character of work have been divorced from religion, being largely shaped by secular ideologies assoc...
V. Conference of Abbot Serapion.V. Conference of Abbot Serapion.On the Eight Principal Faults. Chapter I. Our arrival at Abbot Serapion's cell, and in...