a model for your own life...showing what to improve, what to imitate, what to hold
fast to.”
The Widows (377-378 AD):
4, 23
“There are three forms of the virtue of chastity: the first is that of spouses, the
second that of widows and the third that of virgins. We do not praise any one of
them to the exclusion of the others...This is the richness of the discipline of the
Church...”
The Sacraments (390-391 AD):
4, 4, 14
“Who, then, is the author of the Sacraments if not the Lord Jesus? Those
Sacraments came from heaven; for every counsel is from heaven.”
Commentaries on Twelve of David’s Psalms (Inter 381-397 AD):
38, 25
“We saw the Prince of Priests coming to us, we saw and heard Him offering His
blood for us. We follow, inasmuch as we are able, being priests; and we offer the
sacrifice on behalf of the people. And even if we are of but little merit, still, in the
sacrifice, we are honorable. For even if Christ is not now seen as the one who
offers the sacrifice, nevertheless it is He Himself that is offered in sacrifice here on
earth when the Body of Christ is offered. Indeed, to offer Himself He is made
visible to us, He whose word makes holy the sacrifice that is offered.”
Explanation of David the Prophet (Inter 383-389 AD):
1, 11, 56
“No conception is without iniquity, since there are no parents who have not fallen.
And if there is no infant who is even one day without sin, much less can the
conceptions of a mother’s womb be without sin. We are conceived, therefore, in the
sin of our parents, and it is in their sins that we are born.”
Commentary on Luke (C. 389 AD):
8, 2
“If every marriage is from God it is not licit to dissolve any marriage. How, then,
does the Apostle say: ‘If the unbeliever departs, let him depart?’ What is
remarkable in this saying is that, far from intending Christians to find in it an
excuse for divorce, he shows that not every marriage is in fact from God; for
Christians, in God’s tribunal, cannot be joined to pagans, when the law forbids it.”
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