장음표시 사용
112쪽
104 EXHORTATION TO THE HEA THEMtogether His own soldiers, the soldiers of peaee' Well, byΗis blοod, and by the word, Ho has gathered the bl diessitost os Mace, and assigned to them the hingdom of heaven. The trumpet oi Christ is His gospol. He hath blown it, and
ment Better sar, then, is it to become at onco the imitatorand the servant os tho best os ali beings; lar only by holyservice Will any ono be able in imitate God, and in serve and
115쪽
salvation; for tho Lord melcomes a sinnees repentance, and
not his death. Come, O madman, not leaning on the thyrsus, not cro nedmith iv; throw aWay the mitre, throw aWay the fa n hin; come to thy senses. I Will inoW theo the Word, and tho mysteries of the Word, ex unding them alter thine o nfashion. This is the mountata beloved of God, not the su, joci os tragodies like Cithaeron, but consecrated in dramas of the truth, mount of sobrie , sh ed Mili foresta os puri ; and there revel on it not the Μaenades, the sistersos Semele, Who Was struch by the thunderboli, practising in their initiatory rites unholy division os flesti, but the dau tersos God, the fair lambs, Who celebrate the holy rites of themes, mising a sober chorat dance. The righteous ars thoehorus; the music is a hymn of the Κing of the universo. o maidens striho the lyre, the angeis praise, the prophetasmah; the mund of music issum sortii, they run and pursuo the jubilant band; thoso that are called mahe hasis, eagerly destring to receivs the Father.
116쪽
108 EXHORTATION TO THE MATHEMThe Lord is tho hierophant, and seals while illuminating
endo ed with roason, both barbarians and Greeta. I callon the whole race of men, Whose creator I am, by the willos the Father. Come to me, that you may bo put in Joui due rank under the ono God and tho one Word of God; and do not only have the advantage of the irrational creatures in the possession os reason; for to you os ali mortals I grant tho enjoyment of immortality. For I Want, I Want to impartio you this grace, besto ing on you the perfeci boon os immortaliu ; and I conser on 3 ou hoth the Word and tho knowledge of God, my complete seis. This am Ι, this God willa, this is symphony, this the harmony os the Father, this is the Son, this is Christ, this the Word os God, the arm of the
117쪽
Λ spectaclo most beautisul to tho Father is the eternat Son crowned with victory. Let us aspire, then, after What
Himself is wo value least those things Whicli aro Worth most, and hold in tho highesi estimation the manifest enormities and the ulter impiety of solly, and ignorance, and thoughtless-ness, and idolato. For not improperly the fons of the phil
sophera consider that the s listi aro Milty of profanisy and impie in Whalaver they do; and describing ignorance iraelias a species of madnoss, allege that the multitudo are nothinghut madmen. There is theresore no room to doubt, the Word
are the most excellent of His possessions, let us commit ou
selves in God, loving the Lord God, and regarding this asour businem ali our liso long. And is What bolongs to friendsbe rechoned common proper , and man be the friend of God for through tho mediation of tho Word has ho been mado theseiend of God then accordindy ali things become man's, cause ali things ars God's, and the common proper oiboth the triends, God and man. It is time, then, for us to say that the pious Christian aloneis ricli and wiso, and of nobio birili, and thus cali and bellovehim to be God's imago, and also His likoness,' having become
clement here dram a distinction, frequently mado is early Christian ritera, bet Gn tho imago and likenem os God. Han never loses thoimage ol God; but as the likenem constata in moria resemblance, he
118쪽
110 EXHORTATION TO THE HEA THEMrioimus and holy and wiso by Josus Christ, and so fariaready liho God. Aceordingly this graeo is indicated by the prophet, When he says, I said that ye are gods, and allsons of the Im est.' For us, yea us, He has adopted, and wishes to bo called the Father of us alone, not of the un-believing. Such is then our position Who are the attendanisos Christi