Letters & Polemics (CSEL) 64

THE ORDER OF THE CHAPTERS CONCERNING THE DIVINE SCRIPTURES, namely 144. I. Of the one God. II. Of the distinction of the persons of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. III. Of the Holy Spirit. IV. Of the love of the Lord. V. Of conversion and contempt of the world. VI. Of the fear of the Lord. VII. Of the good of peace and charity. VIII. That the Lord is everywhere. IX. That the Lord knoweth the hidden things of the heart. X. That one must judge justly. XI. That one must do good to the poor and not take a pledge. XII. That one must do good to the widow, the orphan, and the stranger. XIII. That the wage of the hireling must not be withheld. XIV. That the weak must not be injured. XV. That one must not walk in guile or hypocrisy. XVI. That evil must not be rendered for evil. XVII. That one must forgive a brother what he hath transgressed against his brother. XVIII.

Of guarding against the seduction of the wicked. XIX. Of honouring priests or ministers. XX. Of honouring parents. XXI. Of the proud son. XXII. That treasures profit not the wicked. XXIII. Of penitence. XXIV. Of almsgiving. XXV. That one must always pray. XXVI. Of the wrath of God and the judgment to come. XXVII. Of the resurrection. XXVIII. Of the tribulations and proving of the righteous. XXIX. That the Lord abideth not in those who have deviated from his precepts. XXX. That the servant of God must not be overcome by the detraction of the wicked. XXXI. That one must not detract. XXXII. Of correction. XXXIII. Of transgressors. XXXIV. Of pride. XXXV. Of meekness. XXXVI. Of patience. XXXVII. Of humility. XXXVIII. Of the wise man. XXXIX.

Of the conduct of the young. XL. That one must not perjure. XLI. That one must not swear. XLII. That one must not bear false witness. XLIII. That one must not lie. XLIV. Of the prohibition of idolatry. XLV. That one must not commit fornication. XLVI. Of the negligence of priests. XLVII. Of the sanctification of priests. XLVIII. Of the sanctification of the people. XLIX. Of contention to be avoided. L. Of false prophets and heretics to be avoided, or of the contentions of the law. LI. Of the restraint of the mouth. LII. That drunkenness must be shunned. LIII. That the malice of a woman must be avoided. LIV. That thunders, rains, lightnings, hails, frosts, snows, winds, thunderbolts, and clouds are from the Lord. LV. That one must not use divination or soothsaying. LVI. Of the making of the world, and that all things were made by God out of nothing.

LVII. That darkness was created by God. LVIII. Of accidental homicide. LIX. That tithes and firstfruits of crops or of all things ought to be given to the church by the precept of the law. LX. That little ones must be corrected earnestly. LXI. That one must cleave to the conversation and discourse of the saints. LXII. That usury must not be taken. LXIII. That a merchant cannot be free from lying. LXIV. That double weights must not be kept. LXV. That vows must be paid to God at once. LXVI. That one must not laugh unbecomingly. LXVII. That the testimony of one witness must not be received. LXVIII. That a man's garments must not be put on by a woman, nor a woman's by a man. LXIX. That the sin of parents must not be imputed to children, nor of children to parents. LXX. That children must be nurtured by parents in the fear of the Lord and not provoked to wrath.

LXXI. That one must first sow righteousness and afterward reap its fruits. LXXII. That tears must be shed over the dead. LXXIII. That no one is without sin. LXXIV. That one must not steal. LXXV. That one must not glory in the wisdom of the world. LXXVI. That honours must not be sought after. LXXVII. That he who despiseth a man of God despiseth the Lord. LXXVIII. Of obedience. LXXIX. That the fainthearted must not be scandalized. LXXX. Of the praise of virgins. LXXXI. Of concord in marriage and the apparel of women. LXXXII. Of the sanctity and work of widows. LXXXIII. That by the apostolic example one must labour with one's hands. LXXXIV. That one ought not to search into things too high. LXXXV. Of fasting. LXXXVI. That a man, after the example of the ant or the bee, ought to work without sloth. LXXXVII.

That the commandments of God must be preached without fear of men. LXXXVIII. Of the fool. LXXXIX. That anger must be laid aside. XC. That a man made by God is said to be of that kind or nature whose work he hath imitated. XCI. That one must answer a word wisely to him who asks. XCII. Of the faithful servant and the admonition of masters. XCIII. Of the admonition of servants. XCIV. That one must obey kings and the powers of the world in that which is just. XCV. That the light of our way in the fear of the Lord is the law of God. XCVI. Of the death of the righteous. XCVII. Of the death of the wicked. XCVIII. Of avarice. XCIX. Of spiritual sacrifice. C. That each one is judged by his own work. CI. That the Lord hath left man in his own choice and willeth not that any should perish. CII.

Of sorrow for sin. CIII. That in baptism all sins are forgiven, and that one must walk in newness of life. CIV. Of the substance of God. CV. That spiritual arms must be taken up against spiritual wickedness. CVI. That one must first do and so teach. CVII. That one must not put hope in man. CVIII. That the mourning must be consoled and the sick visited. CIX. That one must not call evil good nor good evil. CX. That one must abstain from delights. CXI. That those placed in tribulations must be rescued. CXII. That a man, a people, or nations are called a vineyard. CXIII. That holy men are called by the likeness of clouds. CXIV. That men bear the image of trees. CXV. That one must not murmur. CXVI. That men are named in the likeness of stars. CXVII.

That wicked men are called dogs. CXVIII. That a man himself is called a house or a temple. CXIX. That a man ought to be girt with spiritual loins. CXX. That men are called mountains or fields. CXXI. That unclean spirits and vices are named mountains, hills, beasts, birds, rocks, nations, stones, and thorns. CXXII. That not every saint is equal to God. CXXIII. That we are fortified by the guard of angels. CXXIV. That a man is named a wall. CXXV. That holy men are satisfied with spiritual food or drink. CXXVI. That water and fire are named peoples or vices. CXXVII. That he who is called to the faith ought not to turn back. CXXVIII. That the devil was made an angel by God and was afterward changed by transgression. CXXIX.

Of the likeness of the flesh. CXXX. That peoples are called waters. CXXXI. Of the fountains of the Lord. CXXXII. That there are waters above the heaven. CXXXIII. Of drunkenness and the cup of wrath. CXXXIV. That the Lord God hath this name. CXXXV. That a man of God is called the land of delights. CXXXVI. Of foxes. CXXXVII. Of hospitality. CXXXVIII. That men are named a harvest or crops. CXXXIX. That a wife must not be dismissed except for cause of adultery. CXL. Of the tabernacle. CXLI. Of the washing of feet. CXLII. That all things must be done to the glory or in the name of God. CXLIII. Of the holy life of Samuel and Paul the apostle. CXLIV. That the Lord is the fountain of life. I. OF THE ONE GOD. In Deuteronomy: Hear, O Israel, the Lord thy God is one God.

And you shall love the Lord your God with your whole heart, and with your whole soul, and with your whole strength. Likewise there: The Lord alone led them, and there was no strange god among them. Likewise in the Gospel according to Matthew: None is good but the one God. Likewise the Apostle to the Romans: O the depth of the riches of the wisdom and of the knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgements, and how untraceable his ways! For who has known the mind of the Lord? Or who has been his counsellor? Or who has first given to him, that it should be repaid to him? For of him, and through him, and unto him are all things. To him be glory for ever. Likewise to the Corinthians: We know that an idol is nothing, and that there is no God but one. Likewise to the Galatians: What then is the Law?

It was added because of transgressions, until the seed should come to whom the promise had been made, being ordained through angels in the hand of a mediator. Now a mediator is not of one, but God is one. Likewise to Timothy: For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus, who gave himself a redemption for all. II. ON THE DISTINCTION OF THE PERSONS OF THE FATHER AND THE SON AND THE HOLY SPIRIT. In Genesis: And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the water, and let it divide the water from the water. And it was so done. And God made the firmament. Likewise there: And God said, Let us make man to our image and likeness. And God made man; to the image of God he made him. Likewise there:

Whoever sheds the blood of man, for that man's blood shall his own life be shed, because to the image of God I made man. Likewise there: And the angel of the Lord said to her: Hagar, handmaid of Sarah, whence do you come, and whither do you go? And she said: I am fleeing from the face of my mistress Sarah. But the angel of the Lord said to her: Return to your mistress, and humble yourself under her hands. And the angel of the Lord said to her: Multiplying I will multiply your seed, and it shall not be numbered for its multitude, because the Lord has heard your humiliation. And she called the name of the God who spoke to her: You are the God who has looked upon me. Likewise there: And when the sun had risen over the earth, and Lot had entered into Zoar, the Lord rained upon Sodom and Gomorrah brimstone and fire from heaven, from the Lord.

Likewise there: And the angel of the Lord said to me in a dream, Jacob; and I said, What is it? And he said, I have seen how great things Laban has done to you: I am the God who appeared to you in the place where you anointed a stone to me, and made a vow to me there. Likewise there: And the angel of the Lord called Abraham from heaven and said, Abraham, Abraham. And he said, Here I am. And he said to him, Lay not your hand upon the boy, nor do anything to him: for now I know that you fear the Lord, and have not spared your most beloved son for my sake. Likewise there: And an angel wrestled with Jacob until morning. And he saw that he could not prevail: behold, a man wrestled with Jacob against him:

And he touched the socket of his thigh, and the socket of Jacob's thigh was strained as he wrestled with him. And he said to him: Let me go, for the dawn is rising. And Jacob said: I will not let you go unless you bless me. But he said to him: What is your name? And he said: Jacob. But he said to him: Your name shall no longer be called Jacob, but Israel shall be your name: for you have prevailed with God, and with men you shall be made mighty. Jacob asked him and said: Tell me your name. And he said: Why do you ask my name? And it is wonderful. And he blessed him there. And Jacob called the name of that place the Vision of God: for I have seen God face to face, and my soul has been saved. Likewise there: And God said to Jacob:

Arise and go up to the place Bethel, and dwell there, and make there an altar to the God who appeared to you when you fled from the face of Esau your brother. Likewise in Numbers: There shall be no toil in Jacob, nor shall sorrow be seen in Israel. The Lord his God is with him, and the glorious sovereignty of a king is with him. Likewise in the book of Judges: And it came to pass, while Gideon was yet in Ophrah of his father — (chapter: There shall be no toil in Jacob, down to: the glorious sovereignty is with him. In Judges chapter 9: And it came to pass while Gideon was yet, down to: on the summit of Maoch. In Numbers chapter 9: There is no idol in Jacob, down to: the victory of the king is in him. In Judges chapter 4:)

And while Gideon was yet in Ephrah — the Lord spoke to him in that night, saying: Take two bullocks, one your father's fatted one and another of seven years, and go and overthrow the altar of Baal which your father built, and cut down the grove that is upon it, and you shall build an altar to the Lord your God who appeared to you on the summit of Maoch, in due order. Likewise there: And Manoah said to the angel of the Lord: What is your name, that when your word comes to pass we may honour you? And the angel of the Lord said to him: Why do you ask my name? And it is wonderful. Likewise in Psalm 32: By the word of the Lord the heavens were established, and by the breath of his mouth all their host. Likewise there:

For he spoke, and they were made; he commanded, and they were created. Likewise in Psalm 44: Your throne, O God, is for ever and ever: the sceptre of your kingdom is a right sceptre. You have loved righteousness and hated iniquity: therefore God, your God, has anointed you with the oil of gladness above your fellows. Likewise in Psalm 109: The Lord said to my Lord: Sit at my right hand, until I make your enemies your footstool. Likewise in the Proverbs of Solomon: The Lord created me in the beginning of his ways for his works, and before the ages he founded me: in the beginning, before he made the earth, and before he established the depths, before the fountains of waters came forth, before the mountains were set, before all hills he begot me.

The Lord made the regions and the deserts and the peaks that are inhabited under heaven. When he prepared the heaven, I was with him. And when he set apart his own seat: when he made strong the clouds on high, and set firm the fountains under heaven, and when he laid the firmest foundations of the earth, I was with him, ordering all things. Likewise there: Who holds the ends of the earth? What is his name? Or what is the name of his sons? Likewise in the book of Wisdom: For she is the brightness of eternal light, and the unspotted mirror of the majesty of God, and the image of his goodness: and being but one, she can do all things; and remaining in herself she makes all things new. Likewise there: O God of our fathers, and Lord of mercy, who made all things by your word, and by your wisdom appointed man.

Likewise there: And wisdom was with you, who knows your works, who was present when you made the world. Likewise there: She kept him who was first formed, the father of the world, when he was created alone, and brought him forth out of the clay of the earth, and gave him power to hold all things together. Likewise in Ecclesiasticus: I came forth from the mouth of the Most High, the firstborn before all creatures: I made in the heavens that an unfailing light should rise. Likewise in the prophet Isaiah: Come near to me and hear these things: I have not spoken in secret from the beginning, nor in a dark place of the earth. When it came to be, I was there. And now the Lord has sent me and his Spirit. Likewise in the prophet Hosea: But I will have mercy on the sons of Judah, and will save them in the Lord their God.

Likewise in the book of the prophet Zechariah: Flee to Zion, you who dwell with the daughter of Babylon. For thus says the Lord almighty: After glory he has sent me against the nations which have plundered you; for whoever touches you touches the apple of his eye. Behold, I will lay my hand upon them, and they shall be a prey to those who serve them; and they shall know that the Lord almighty has sent me. Likewise there: And the Lord said to the devil: May the Lord who has chosen Jerusalem rebuke you. Likewise there: And I will strengthen them in the Lord their God, and in his name they shall glory, says the Lord. Likewise in the prophet Malachi: And suddenly the Lord whom you seek shall come into his temple, and the angel of the covenant whom you desire.

Likewise in the Gospel according to Matthew: Simon Peter answering said: You are the Christ, the Son of the living God. Likewise there: Behold, from the cloud a voice was heard saying: This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased: hear him. Likewise there: What have we to do with you, Son of God? Have you come here before the time to torment us? Likewise there: All things have been delivered to me by my Father. And no one knows the Son but the Father: neither does anyone know the Father but the Son, and he to whom the Son wills to reveal him. Likewise there: Go now, teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. Likewise according to John: In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. This was in the beginning with God.

All things were made through him, and without him nothing was made. (Go, teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. According to John, chapter 1: In the beginning was the Word. Likewise chapter:) Likewise there: For God so loved this world, that he gave his only Son for it, that everyone who believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into this world to judge the world, but that the world might be saved through him. For he who believes in him is not judged: but he who does not believe in him is already judged; because he has not believed in the name of the only-begotten Son of God. Likewise there: If I do not do the works of my Father, do not believe me.

But if I do them, even though you will not believe me, believe the works, that I am in the Father and the Father in me. For I and the Father are one. Likewise there: My Father works until now, and I work. On this account the Jews sought the more to kill him, because he not only broke the sabbath, but also called God his own Father, making himself equal to God. Likewise there: For neither does the Father judge anyone, but has given all judgement to the Son, that all may honour the Son, even as they honour the Father. He who does not honour the Son does not honour the Father who sent him. Likewise there: Thomas said to him: Lord, we do not know where you are going, and how can we know the way? Jesus said to him:

I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father but through me. If you had known me, you would also have known my Father: and from now on you know him and have seen him. Philip said to him: Lord, show us the Father, and it is enough for us. Jesus said to him: Have I been so long a time with you, and you have not known me, Philip? He who has seen me has seen the Father also. How do you say, Show us the Father? Do you not believe that I am in the Father and the Father is in me? The words which I speak to you I do not speak of myself, but the Father who remains in me, he himself speaks; and the works which I do, he himself does. Believe me that I am in the Father and the Father is in me: or else, believe for the sake of the works themselves. Likewise according to John:

If anyone loves me, he will keep my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our dwelling with him. Likewise according to John: Now this is eternal life, that they may know you the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom you have sent. I have glorified you upon the earth; I have finished the work which you gave me to do. And now glorify me, Father, with that glory which I had with you before the world was. Likewise there: Thomas answered and said: My Lord and my God! Jesus said to him: Because you have seen, you have believed: blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed! Likewise there: But these things are written, that you may believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God, and that believing you may have life in his name.

Likewise according to Luke, the angel to Mary: The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you. Therefore also the holy one who is born of you shall be called the Son of God. Likewise in the Acts of the Apostles: But Stephen, being full of the Holy Spirit, gazed into heaven and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing at the right hand of God. And he said: Behold, I see the heavens opened, and the Son of man standing at the right hand of God. Likewise there: And the eunuch answering said: I believe the Son of God to be Christ Jesus. Likewise there: And Paul, having entered at once into the synagogue of the Jews, preached to them with confidence the Lord Jesus, saying that this is the Christ, the Son of the living God. Likewise there:

For he sent his word to the sons of Israel, announcing peace through Jesus Christ: he is Lord of all. Likewise there: To whom Paul preached, saying: This is Jesus Christ, the Son of the living God, by whom the whole world shall be judged. Likewise to the Romans: If God is for us, who is against us? If God did not spare his own Son, but delivered him for us all, how has he not also with him given us all things? Likewise there: Whose are the fathers, and of whom is Christ according to the flesh, who is over all things, God blessed for ever. Likewise to the Corinthians:

But we preach Christ crucified, to the Jews indeed a stumbling-block, and to the Gentiles foolishness, but to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God. Likewise there: But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, which is hidden, which God foreordained before the ages unto our glory, which none of the princes of this world knew. For if they had known it, they would never have crucified the Lord of majesty. Likewise there: Therefore I make known to you that no one speaking in the Spirit of God says anathema to Jesus. And no one can say the Lord Jesus except in the Holy Spirit. Now there are diversities of gifts, but the same Spirit: and there are diversities of ministries, but the same Lord:

And there are diversities of workings, but it is the same Lord who works all in all. Likewise there: Concerning the meats of things sacrificed, we know that an idol is nothing, and that there is no God but one. For though there be those that are called gods, whether in heaven or on earth, yet to us there is one God the Father, of whom are all things and we in him, and one Lord Jesus Christ, through whom are all things and we through him. Likewise to the Corinthians, Second Epistle: Grace to you, and mercy, and peace, from God our Father and our Lord Jesus Christ. Likewise there: Blessed be the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory. Likewise there:

Now it is Christ the Lord who confirms us with you, and it is God who has anointed us, and who has sealed us and given the pledge of the Spirit in our hearts. Likewise there: But if our gospel is also veiled, it is veiled to those who perish, in whom the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelieving, that the illumination of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of the invisible God, should not shine upon them. Likewise there: The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all. Likewise to the Galatians: When the fullness of times came, God sent his Son, born of a woman, made under the law, that he might redeem those who were under the law. Likewise there:

And because you are sons of God, God has sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, crying: Abba, Father. Likewise to the Philippians: Have this mind in you which was also in Christ Jesus, who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God, but emptied himself, taking the form of a servant, being made in the likeness of men, and found in fashion as a man. He humbled himself, becoming obedient even unto death, even the death of the cross. Therefore God also has highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name, that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven and things on earth and things under the earth, and every tongue should confess that the Lord Jesus Christ is in the glory of God the Father.

Have this mind in you, down to: that the Lord Jesus Christ is in the glory of God the Father. Likewise to the Ephesians: One God, one faith, one baptism, one God and Father of all, who is over all and through all and in all of us. Likewise to the Colossians: Giving thanks to God the Father, who has called us into a share of the inheritance of the saints in light, who has delivered us from the power of darkness and translated us into the kingdom of the Son of his glory, in whom we have redemption, the remission of sins: who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation, for in him all things were created. Likewise to Timothy, First Epistle: For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus;

who gave himself a redemption for all. Likewise the apostle John in his First Epistle: We announce to you eternal life, which was with the Father, and was manifested to us. Likewise there: That you also may have fellowship with us, and that our fellowship may be with the Father and with his Son Jesus Christ. Likewise there (chapter): Giving thanks to God the Father, down to: in him all things were created. To Timothy, chapter 6: For there is one God, and one mediator. In the Epistle of John, chapter 1: We announce to you eternal life. Likewise: That you also may have fellowship with us. Likewise chapter 7: The whole of John's First Epistle, chapter 1: We announce to you eternal life, that you also may have fellowship with us, down to: and with his Son Jesus Christ.

Likewise: Everyone who denies the Son has not the Father either: but he who confesses the Son has both the Son and the Father. Likewise there: In this the love of the Lord has been manifested in us, that he sent his only Son into this world, that we might live through him. Likewise there: Everyone who believes that Jesus Christ was born of God — God is in him and he in God: and everyone who loves the begetter loves him who is born of God. Likewise there: For there are three that bear witness on earth, the Spirit, the water, and the blood: and these three are one in Christ Jesus. And there are three that bear witness in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Spirit: and these three are one. Likewise there: He who believes in the Son of God has the witness of God in himself:

but he who does not believe Jesus Christ makes God a liar, because he does not believe the witness that God has borne concerning his Son. (The love of God in us, down to: that we might live through him. Likewise chapter 17: Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ is born of God, down to: and these three are one. Likewise chapter 18: He who believes in the Son of God, down to.) Likewise there: And we know that the Son of God has come and put on our flesh for our sake, and suffered and rose again from the dead, and took us up and gave us understanding, that we might know him who is true, and might be in his true Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God and eternal life and our resurrection. Likewise in his Second Epistle:

For many deceivers have gone forth into this world, who do not confess that Jesus Christ our Lord has come in the flesh. These are deceivers and antichrists. III. AGAIN, CONCERNING THE HOLY SPIRIT, THAT HE IS THE FELLOW-WORKER OF THE FATHER AND THE SON, AND THAT THE HOLY SPIRIT IS OF ONE SUBSTANCE AND GODHEAD WITH THE FATHER AND THE SON. In Genesis: And the Spirit of God moved over the water. (Epistle chapter 3: For many antichrists have destroyed in this world. III. AGAIN, CONCERNING THE HOLY SPIRIT, THAT HE IS THE FELLOW-WORKER OF THE FATHER AND THE SON, AND THAT THE HOLY SPIRIT IS OF ONE SUBSTANCE AND GODHEAD WITH THE SON. In Genesis chapter 1: The Spirit of God was borne, Second Epistle chapter 3:)

For many seducers have gone out into the world, down to: this is the seducer and the antichrist. III. AGAIN, CONCERNING THE HOLY SPIRIT, THAT HE IS THE FELLOW-WORKER OF THE FATHER AND THE SON, AND THAT THE HOLY SPIRIT IS OF ONE SUBSTANCE AND GODHEAD WITH THE SON. In Genesis chapter 1. Likewise in Psalm 142: Teach me to do your will, for you are my God. Your good Spirit shall lead me in the right way. Likewise in Psalm 32: By the word of the Lord the heavens were established, and by the breath of his mouth all their host. Likewise in Job: The divine Spirit that made me, and the inspiration of the Almighty that teaches me. Likewise in the prophet Isaiah:

And a rod shall come forth from the root of Jesse, and a flower shall ascend from the root, and the Spirit of God shall rest upon him, the Spirit of wisdom and understanding, the Spirit of counsel and might, the Spirit of knowledge and piety. The Spirit of the fear of God shall fill him. Likewise there: Come near to me and hear these things: I have not spoken in secret from the beginning, nor in a dark place of the earth. When they came to be, I was there. And now the Lord has sent me and his Spirit. Likewise there: The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor, he has sent me to heal the contrite of heart. Likewise there: And they provoked the Holy Spirit, and the Lord was turned against them into enmity. Likewise there: Where is he who put the Holy Spirit in them?

He who led Moses out of the land by the arm of his glory? Likewise in the prophet Micah: The house of Jacob provoked the Spirit of the Lord. Likewise there: Because there will be no one to obey: if I do not fill up my strength with my Holy Spirit and with judgement and with power, that I may declare to this Jacob his iniquities and to this Israel his sins. Likewise in the prophet Joel: And it shall be after these things, I will pour out of my Spirit upon all flesh, and their sons and daughters shall prophesy. Likewise in the prophet Haggai: And my Spirit stands in the midst of you. Likewise in the prophet Zechariah — (turned into enmity, the Lord. Likewise: Where is he who put the Holy Spirit? Who led you out of the land? Likewise in Micah chapter: The house of Jacob says: Is the Spirit of the Lord shortened?)

Likewise chapter: Because there is no answer of God; yet truly I am filled with strength, down to: and to Israel its sin. Likewise in Joel chapter: And it shall be after these things, I will pour out of my Spirit, down to: your sons and your daughters. In Haggai chapter: And my Spirit shall be in the midst — the prophet: And the words which the Lord almighty sent by his Spirit into the hands of the former prophets. Likewise in the prophet Ezekiel: And the Spirit took me up and led me into the land of the Chaldeans in captivity, in a vision of the Spirit of God. Likewise there: And the Spirit of God came upon me and took me up and lifted me and set me upon my feet, and I heard him speaking to me. And he said to me:

Son of man, come, I will send you to the house of Israel, who exasperate me according to the contempt of their fathers, even to this present day. Likewise in Daniel: And when Susanna was being led to death, the Lord raised up the Holy Spirit in the younger boy, whose name — (chapter: The Lord raised up the Holy Spirit in the younger boy whose name was Daniel. Likewise into Chaldea, down to: in the vision in the Spirit of God. Likewise there, chapter: And the Spirit entered into me after he had spoken to me, down to: my covenant, unto this day. In the vision of Daniel, 11: And while Susanna was being led to death, the Lord raised up the Holy Spirit of the younger boy. Likewise in the vision 5: was Daniel. Likewise there:)

For there is a man in your kingdom, in whom is the Holy Spirit of God. Likewise in the Gospel according to Matthew: And when Jesus had been baptized, he went up straightway from the water: and behold, the heavens were opened to him, and he saw the Spirit descending like a dove and coming upon him. Likewise there: When therefore they deliver you up, do not be anxious about what you shall speak: for it will be given you in that hour what you shall speak: for it is not you who speak, but the Spirit of your Father who speaks in you. Likewise there: But if I cast out demons by the Spirit of God, then surely the kingdom of God has come near. Likewise there: Therefore I say to you, every sin and blasphemy — (Likewise chapter 12:)

Every sin and blasphemy shall be forgiven, down to: nor shall it be forgiven to men: but whoever blasphemes against the Spirit shall not be forgiven him. For whoever shall speak a word against the Son of man, it shall be forgiven him: but whoever shall speak against the Holy Spirit, it shall not be forgiven him, neither in this age nor in the age to come. Likewise according to John: Jesus answered Nicodemus and said to him: Amen, amen, I say to you, unless one be born again of water and the Holy Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of heaven. For that which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit, for God is spirit. Do not marvel that I said to you: you must be born again.

The Spirit blows where it wills, and you hear its voice, but you do not know whence it comes or whither it goes. So is everyone who is born of water and the Spirit. Likewise there: If you love me, keep my commandments. And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another advocate, that he may be with you for ever, the Spirit of truth. Likewise there: These things I have spoken to you while remaining with you. But the advocate, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, he will teach you all things whatsoever I have said. Likewise there: When the comforter comes, whom I will send to you from my Father, the Spirit of truth, who proceeds from the Father, he will bear witness of me: and you also will bear witness of me, because you have been with me from the beginning. Likewise there:

But because I have spoken these things to you, sorrow has filled your heart. But I tell you the truth: it is expedient for you that I go away. For if I do not go, the advocate will not come to you. But if I go, I will send him to you. Likewise there: I still have many things to say to you, but you cannot bear them now. But when he, the Spirit of truth, comes, he himself will expound to you all truth. For he will not speak of himself, but whatever he hears he will speak, and he will announce to you the things to come. He will glorify me, because he will receive of what is mine and will announce it to you. All things whatsoever my Father has are mine. Therefore I said that he will receive of what is mine and will announce it to you. Likewise according to Luke: But Mary said to the angel:

How shall this be, since I have not known a man? The angel answered and said to her: The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you. Therefore also the holy one who is born of you shall be called the Son of God. Likewise there: Go now, teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. Likewise to the Romans: For the love of God is poured out in our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us. Likewise there: But you are not in the flesh, but in the spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God dwells in you. But if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he is not his. The body indeed is dead because of sin, but the spirit is life because of justification.

And if the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in us, he who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies, because of his Spirit that dwells in you. Likewise there: For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are the sons of God. Likewise there: For I would not dare to say anything of what Christ has not accomplished through me for the obedience of the Gentiles, by word and deed and by his power, by signs and by the power of the Holy Spirit. Likewise to the Corinthians, First Epistle: For God has revealed it to us through his Spirit: for the Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God. For who among men knows the things of a man, which are in him, except the spirit that is in him? So also the things that are in God no one has known except the Spirit of God:

But we have not received the spirit of this world, but the Spirit that is from God, that we may know the things that have been given to us by God. Which things we also speak, not in words taught by human wisdom, but taught by the Spirit, comparing spiritual things with spiritual. But the natural man does not perceive the things that are of the Spirit of God: for it is foolishness to him, and he cannot know it, because it is spiritually examined. But he who is spiritual examines all things, and he himself is judged by no one. Likewise there: Therefore I make known to you that no one speaking in the Spirit of God says anathema to Jesus: and no one can say Christ the Lord Jesus except in the Holy Spirit. Now there are diversities of gifts, but the same Spirit.

And there are diversities of ministries, but the same Lord. And there are diversities of workings, but it is the same Lord who works all in all. But to each one of us is given the manifestation of the Spirit for profit. To one is given through the Spirit the word of wisdom: to another the word of knowledge according to the same Spirit. To another faith in the same Spirit: to another the graces of healings in the one Spirit. To another the working of miracles, to another prophecy, to another the discerning of spirits, to another kinds of tongues, to another the interpretation of tongues. But all these one and the same Spirit works, distributing to each one as he wills. Likewise to the Corinthians, Second Epistle: For the Lord is the Spirit. And where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty. Likewise to the Philippians:

For I know that this will turn out to my salvation through your prayer and the supply of the Holy Spirit of Jesus Christ. Likewise to the Galatians: 'Because you are sons of God, God has sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, crying: Abba, Father.' Likewise John in his First Epistle: 'It is the Spirit that bears witness, for the Spirit is truth.' Likewise there: 'There are three who bear witness in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Spirit; and these three are one.' Likewise in the Acts of the Apostles: 'You stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart, you have always resisted the Holy Spirit.' Likewise there: 'The Holy Spirit said to me that I should go with them.' Likewise there: 'And the Holy Spirit said to me: Behold, men are seeking you.'

'but rise, go down, and go with them, doubting nothing, for I have sent them.' Likewise there: 'The Holy Spirit said: Set apart for me Barnabas and Paul for the work to which I have called them.' Likewise there: 'For it seemed good to the Holy Spirit and to us.' Likewise there: 'They were forbidden by the Holy Spirit to speak the word of God at all in Asia.' 'The Spirit said to me: Behold, men are seeking me.' Likewise chapter thirty-five: 'The Holy Spirit said: Set apart for me Paul.' Likewise chapter forty-one: 'For it seemed good to the Holy Spirit and to us.' Likewise chapter forty-three: 'They were forbidden by the Holy Spirit to speak the word of God at all in Asia.' Likewise there:

'Take heed therefore to yourselves and to the whole flock, over which the Holy Spirit has appointed you to be bishops, to feed the Church of Jesus Christ.' Likewise there: 'Thus says the Holy Spirit: The man whose belt this is, so shall the Jews bind him in Jerusalem.' IV. ON THE LOVE OF THE LORD. In Deuteronomy: 'Hear, O Israel: the Lord our God is one Lord. And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your strength. And these words, whatsoever I command you this day, shall be in your heart and in your soul; and you shall show them to your sons, and shall speak of them sitting in your house, and when you go on a journey by the way, and in resting and in waking; and you shall bind them as a sign upon your hand.'

'And they shall be as things moving before your eyes; and you shall write them upon the doorposts of your house and on your gates.' Likewise there: 'And when you have eaten...' Likewise chapter fifty-five: 'Take heed to yourselves and to the whole flock, over which the Holy Spirit has set you as bishops.' Likewise chapter fifty-seven: 'Thus says the Holy Spirit: The man whose belt this is.' IV. ON THE LOVE OF THE LORD. In Deuteronomy chapter five: 'Hear, O Israel, the Lord your God is one God,' down to 'and you shall write them on the doorpost and doors of your house.' Likewise in the same chapter: '...and when you have eaten and are satisfied, take heed to yourself that you do not forget the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. You shall fear the Lord your God, and him only shall you serve, and to him shall you cleave, and by his name shall you swear.' Likewise there:

'You shall keep the precepts of the Lord your God, his testimonies and the ordinances which he has commanded you; and you shall do what is good and pleasing before the Lord your God, that it may be well with you.' Likewise there: 'And you shall keep in mind all the way by which the Lord your God has led you in the desert, that he might try you in all things and test you, and that your heart might be made known, whether you would truly keep his commandments or not. And therefore you experienced all these hardships: you hungered, and he gave you manna for food, which your fathers had not known, that he might make known to you that man does not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God man lives. Your garments are not worn out; your feet are not calloused; behold, these forty years.'

'And you shall know in your heart that, as a man teaches his son, so the Lord your God has instructed you. And you shall keep the commandments of the Lord your God, to walk in his ways and to fear him.' Likewise there: 'And now, Israel, what else does the Lord your God require of you, but that you fear the Lord your God, and walk in all his ways, and love him, and serve the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul; to keep the precepts of the Lord your God and his ordinances, which I command you this day, that it may be well with you?' Likewise in Psalm ninety-six: 'You who love the Lord, hate evil.' Likewise in the Gospel according to John: 'If you love me, keep my commandments.' V. ON CONVERSION AND CONTEMPT OF THE WORLD. In Genesis, the Lord to Abraham:

'Go out from your land and from your kindred and from your father's house, and go into the land which I will show you; and I will make you into a great nation, and I will bless you, and I will magnify your name, and you shall be blessed; and I will bless him who blesses you, and I will curse him who curses you.' [Likewise in Psalm forty-four: 'Hear, O daughter, and see, and incline your ear, and forget your people and your father's house, for the King has desired your beauty, for he is the Lord your God.'] Likewise there, to Lot, after they had cast them out, they said: 'Save, save your life, and do not look back, nor stay in all this region, but go into the mountain, and there you shall be saved.' Likewise in Numbers:

'In their land you shall possess nothing, and there shall be no portion for you among them, for I am your portion and your inheritance.' (Chapter eleven: 'And the Lord said to you.') Likewise in Deuteronomy: 'He who says to father and mother: I do not know you, and does not acknowledge his brothers, and does not recognize his sons, he has kept your words and will observe your covenant.' Likewise in Third Kings: 'And Elijah found Elisha the son of Shaphat, and he was plowing with twelve yoke of oxen before him. And when he came to him, he cast his mantle over him and covered him. And Elisha, leaving his oxen, ran after Elijah and said: I will kiss my father, and I will follow you. And Elijah said: Go and return, for I have done to you what was in my power. And he returned after him.'

'And he loosed the oxen from their yokes and slew them, and boiled them with the vessels, and gave to the people, and they ate. And he arose and went after Elijah, and ministered to him.' Likewise in Psalm six: 'For in death there is no one who is mindful of you; and in hell who shall confess to you?' Likewise in Psalm seven. (Chapter: 'Who say to mother or father,' down to 'and will observe your covenant.' In the book of Third Kings, chapter forty-eight: 'Setting out therefore from there, he found Elisha,' down to 'and ministered to him.' In Psalm six: 'For in death there is no one.' In seven.) Chapter eighty-five: 'Setting out therefore from there, he found Elisha,' down to 'and ministered to him.' In Psalm six: 'For in death there is no one.' In seven: 'Unless you turn back, he will brandish his sword,'

'he has bent his bow and made it ready; and upon it he has prepared the instruments of death.' Likewise in Psalm twenty-four: 'Make known your ways to me, O Lord, and teach me your paths.' Likewise in Psalm thirty-one: 'Do not become like the horse and the mule, which have no understanding: with bit and bridle bind fast the jaws of those who do not draw near to you.' Likewise in Psalm thirty-three: 'Draw near to the Lord and be enlightened, and your faces shall not be ashamed. Taste and see that the Lord is sweet: blessed is the man who hopes in him!' Likewise in the same psalm: 'Come, children, hear me: I will teach you the fear of the Lord. Who is the man who desires life and longs to see good days? Keep your tongue from evil, and your lips that they speak no guile.'

'Turn away from evil and do good, seek peace and pursue it. For the eyes of the Lord are upon the righteous, and his ears toward their prayers. But the face of the Lord is against those who do evil, to cut off the remembrance of them from the earth.' Likewise in Psalm thirty-six: 'Do not be envious among the malicious, nor be jealous of those who do iniquity: for like hay they shall quickly wither, and like the green herbs of the field they shall quickly fall. Hope in the Lord and do good, and dwell in the land, and you shall be fed in its riches. Delight in the Lord, and he will give you the petition of your heart. Reveal your way to the Lord and hope in him, and he himself will act. And he will bring forth your righteousness like the light, and your judgment like the noonday: be subject to the Lord and entreat him.'

'Do not be envious of him who prospers in his way, of the man who does iniquity. Do not be jealous so as to do evil, for those who do iniquity shall be exterminated, but those who wait upon the Lord shall possess the land. Yet a little while, and the sinner shall be no more; and you shall seek his place and shall not find it. But the meek shall possess the land and shall delight in abundance of peace. By the Lord the steps of a man are directed, and he shall greatly desire his way. Turn away from evil and do good, and dwell forever and ever. Guard innocence and behold equity, for there is a remnant for the man of peace.' Likewise in Psalm forty-five: 'Be still and see that I am the Lord.' Likewise in Psalm ninety-four: 'Today, if you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts.'

Likewise in Psalm one hundred and eighteen: 'By what does a young man correct his way? By keeping your words.' Likewise in Ecclesiasticus: 'Do not delay to turn to the Lord, and do not put it off from day to day: for his wrath comes suddenly, and in the time of vengeance he will destroy you.' Likewise there: 'God from the beginning established man and left him in the hand of his own counsel. He added his commandments and precepts, if you are willing to keep the commandments and to keep faith pleasing to him. He set before you water and fire: stretch out your hand to whichever you will. Before man are life and death, good and evil: whatever pleases him shall be given to him. He has commanded no one to act impiously, and has given no one licence to sin. For he does not desire a multitude of unfaithful and useless children.' Likewise there:

'Turn to the Lord and forsake your sins, and hate exceedingly what is abominable. Know the ordinances and judgments of the Lord. Stand firm in the lot appointed to you and in the prayer of the Most High. Go into the portion of the holy age with the righteous and with those who give confession. Do not linger in the error of the impious. From the dead, as from one who is not, confession ceases: while living and in health you shall confess and praise the Lord, and you shall glory in his mercies. How great is the mercy of the Lord, and his propitiation to those who turn to him!' Likewise there: 'Flee from sins as from the face of a serpent.'

'If you draw near to them, they will seize you like the teeth of a lion, killing in devouring as with a two-edged sword; the avenger of iniquities, of whose stroke there is no remedy.' Likewise in the prophet Isaiah: 'Seek the Lord: and as soon as you find him, call upon him. But immediately, when he draws near to you, let the impious forsake his ways, and the man of iniquity his counsels: and let them turn to the Lord, and they shall obtain mercy, for he will greatly forgive your sins.' Likewise there: 'When you begin to cry out, I will draw you forth from your distress.' Likewise there: 'When, being converted, you groan, then shall you be saved, and shall know where you were.' Likewise in the prophet Jeremiah: 'Stand in the ways of the Lord and see, and ask for the eternal paths of the Lord:

and see which is the good way, and walk in it, and you shall find sanctification for your souls.' Likewise there: 'Amend your ways and your devices: do not trust in yourselves in false words, for they will altogether profit you nothing.' Likewise there: 'Let us search out our ways, and let us turn to the Lord: let us cleanse our hearts with our hands, and let us look to the Lord, who dwells in the heavens.' Likewise in the prophet Micah: 'It has been declared to you, O man, what is good: or what else does the Lord require of you, but that you do equity,' (our ways, down to 'and let us look to the Lord who dwells in the heavens.' In Micah, chapter...):

'It has been declared to you, O man,' down to 'that you should walk with the Lord and love mercy, and be ready to walk with the Lord your God?' Likewise in the prophet Zephaniah: 'Come together and be gathered, O undisciplined people, before you become like a passing flower, before the day of the wrath of the Lord comes upon you. Seek the Lord, all you humble of the earth, work equity, and seek righteousness, and answer to it, that you may be protected in the day of the wrath of the Lord.' Likewise in Job: 'For if, being converted, you humble yourself before him and put away all injustice far from your way, then the Almighty shall be your helper and shall free you from your enemies, and shall restore you clean from all iniquity, and shall receive you as silver tried by fire:

and you shall have confidence before him, looking up to heaven with cheerfulness. And when you pray to him he will hear you with gladness, and will grant you to pay your vows, and in your ways there shall be splendor.' Likewise in Tobit: 'Turn therefore, you sinners, and do righteousness before him. For who knows whether he may will you, that he may show mercy to you?' Likewise in the prophet Ezekiel: 'And you, son of man, I have set you as a watchman for the house of Israel. And you shall hear the word from my mouth, that you may say to the sinner: You shall surely die.'

'And if you have not spoken to warn the wicked from his way, that wicked man shall die in his iniquity, but his blood I will require from your hand. But you, if you forewarn the impious of his way, that he turn from the way, and he does not turn from his way, he shall die in his impiety, but you have delivered your soul.' Likewise in the Gospel according to Matthew: 'And as Jesus was passing along by the sea of Galilee, he saw two brothers, Simon who is called Peter and Andrew his brother, casting nets into the sea, for they were fishermen. And Jesus said to them: Come after me, and I will make you fishers of men. And immediately, leaving their nets, they followed him.' Likewise there: 'And therefore I say to you:

do not be anxious in your soul about what you shall eat or what you shall drink, nor for your body about what you shall put on; for the soul is more than food, and the body more than clothing. Look at the birds of the air, which neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much better than they?' Likewise there: 'And which of you can add one cubit to his stature? And why are you anxious about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they do not labor nor spin, and yet they are not naked. But I say to you that not even Solomon in all his glory was clothed like one of these.'

'But if God so clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is cast into the oven, how much more you, O you of little faith? Therefore do not be anxious, saying: What shall we eat, or what shall we drink, or what shall we wear? For all these things the Gentiles seek. But your Father knows that you need all these things. But seek first the kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things shall be given to you. Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow: for tomorrow will be anxious for itself: sufficient for the day is its own evil.' Likewise there: 'Enter by the narrow gate: for wide and spacious is the way that leads to destruction, and many are those who enter by it. For narrow and strait is the way that leads to life, and few are those who find it.'

Likewise there: 'Come to me, all you who labor and are burdened, and I will refresh you. Take my yoke upon you and learn, for I am meek and humble of heart, and you shall find rest for your souls: for my yoke is pleasant and my burden is light.' Likewise there: 'Then Peter answered and said to him: Behold, we have left all things and followed you; what then shall we have? And Jesus said to them: Amen I say to you, that you who have followed me, in the regeneration, when the Son of Man shall sit on the throne of his glory, you also shall sit upon twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.'