by it...’ What means this closed gate in the house of the Lord, except that Mary is
to be ever inviolate? What does it mean that ‘no man shall pass through it,’ save
that Joseph shall not know her? And what is this – ‘The Lord alone enters in and
goeth out by it,’ except that the Holy Ghost shall impregnate her, and that the Lord
of Angels shall be born of her? And what means this –
‘It shall be shut for
evermore,’ but that Mary is a Virgin before His birth, a Virgin in His birth, and a
Virgin after His birth.”
Homilies on John (416 et 417 AD):
11, 3
“If we should say to a catechumen: ‘Do you believe in Christ,’ he will answer, ‘I
do believe,’ and he will sign himself. He already carries the cross of Christ on his
forehead, and he is not ashamed of the cross of the Lord.”
The Care of the Dead (421 AD):
15, 18
“The spirits of the dead are able to know some things which happen here, which it
is necessary for them to know. And those for whom it is necessary that something
be known, not only the present or the past but even the future, — they know these
things by the revealing Spirit of God, just as not all men but the Prophets, while
they lived, knew not all things but those which the providence of God judged ought
to be revealed to them.”
Enchiridion of Faith, Hope & Love (421 AD):
29, 112
“In vain, therefore, do some men, indeed, very many, because of human sentiment,
bewail the eternal punishment, of the damned and their perpetual, unending
torments, without really believing that it shall be so...But let them suppose, if it
pleases them, that the punishments of the damned are, at certain periods of time,
somewhat mitigated. For even thus it can be understood that they remain in the
wrath of God that is, in damnation itself, for it is this that is called the Wrath of
God, not some disturbance in the divine mind: that in His wrath, that is, by their
abiding in His wrath, He does not shut up His mercies; yet He does not put an end
to their eternal punishment, but only applies or interposes some relief to their
torments.”
Sermon Against the Jews (Post 425 AD):
9, 13
“‘From the rising of the sun even to its setting My name is great among the
Gentiles, and in every place sacrifice is offered to My name, a clean oblation; for
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