race?…The only alternative is to adopt the previous explanation and understand
them to be called brethren in virtue of the bond of kindred, not of love and
sympathy, nor by prerogative of race, nor yet by nature…It is clear that our Lord’s
brethren bore the name in the same way that Joseph was called his father.”
To Eustochium (384 AD):
Ep. 32
“Some, when they find themselves with child through their sin, use drugs to
procure abortion, and when (as often happens) they die with their offspring, they
enter the lower world laden with the guilt not only of adultery against Christ but
also of suicide and child murder.”
Commentaries on the Epistle to the Galatians (C. 386-387 AD):
2, 3, 11
“‘But since in the Law no one is justified before God, it is evident that the just man
lives by faith’...It should be noted that he does not say that a man, a person, lives
by faith, lest it be thought that he is contemning good works. Rather, he says the
just man lives by faith. He implies thereby that whoever would be faithful and
would conduct his life according to the faith can in no other way arrive at the faith
or live in it except first he be a just man of pure life, coming up to the faith as it
were by certain degrees.”
Commentaries on Ecclesiastes (C. 388-389 AD):
4, 4
“If the serpent, the devil, bites someone secretly, he infects that person with the
venom of sin. And if the one who has been bitten keeps silence and does not do
penance, and does not want to confess his wound to his brother and to his master,
who have the word that will cure him, cannot very well assist him. For if the sick
man is ashamed to confess his wound to the physician, medicine will not cure that
to which it is not applied.”
Letter to Pammachius (392 or 393 AD):
48, 21
“Those persons chosen to be bishops, presbyters, or deacons are either virgins or
widowers; or certainly, having once received the priesthood, they remain forever
chaste.”
Against Jovinian (C. 393 AD):
5
 |
 |
 |