XV. PHARISEES AND SADDUCEES. Then Jesus said unto them, Take heed and beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees.?Matt. xvi. G. Ev...
Book II.(1) Book II.(1) In which Augustin replies to all the several statements in the letter of Petilianus, as though disputing with an adversary fac...
Book XXII.Book XXII. Faustus states his objections to the morality of the law and the prophets, and Augustin seeks by the application of the type and ...
Chapter?3We now return to Jerusalem, and must again hear what God has to say to her, I. By way of reproof and threatening, for the abundance of wicked...
Who is the Rich Man that Shall Be Saved?Who is the Rich Man that Shall Be Saved?[Translated by Rev. William Wilson, M.a.]I.Those who bestow laudatory ...
Chapter?24Job having by his complaints in the foregoing chapter given vent to his passion, and thereby gained some ease, breaks them off abruptly, and...
Introductory NoticeIntroductory NoticeBy the Editor.St. Augustin speaks of this book in his Retractations, 1. ii. c. 63, as follows:I also wrote a boo...
Homily V.Homily V. The exhortation of the last Homily is continued in this. The people are exhorted to bear with fortitude the impending wrath of the ...
EDGAR ALLAN POE In passing from Whittier to Poe, we learn how wide is the realm of poetry. To use Sir William Hamilton's phrase, the two poets are se...
Chapter?23We have here, I. The happy continuance of the goodness of Josiah?s reign, and the progress of the reformation he began, reading the law (v.?...
Appendix to the Works of Hippolytus. Appendix to the Works of Hippolytus. Containing Dubious and Spurious Pieces.A discourse(1) by the most blessed Hi...
Chapter?28In this chapter we have, I. A prediction of the fall and ruin of the king of Tyre, who, in the destruction of that city, is particularly set...
Chapter?19Jerusalem?s great distress we read of in the foregoing chapter, and left it besieged, insulted, threatened, terrified, and just ready to be ...
1. IN the former book, most honored Epaphroditus, I have demonstrated our antiquity, and confirmed the truth of what I have said, from the writings...
Chapter?60This whole chapter is all to the same purport, all in the same strain; it is a part of God?s covenant with his church, which is spoken of in...
There is a subject before your eyes of vast importance. I mean the subject of religious zeal. It is a subject like many others in religion, most sad...
Scorpiace.Scorpiace.Antidote for the Scorpion's Sting.(1) [Translated by Rev. S. Thelwall.] Chapter I.The earth brings forth, as if by suppuration, gr...
Of the Manner in Which the Persecutors Died.Of the Manner in Which the Persecutors Died.Addressed to Donatus.(1) Chapter I.The Lord has heard those s...
SECOND -WEEK. SABBATH MORNING. Jenks. O Most blessed and gracious Lord our God, whose almighty hand has brought us out of nothing, to what we are;...
Chapter?1In this chapter, after the preamble of the prophecy, we have, I. A reproof of the people of the Jews for their dilatoriness and slothfulness ...