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s, triari ins a suos mors baptized, as Clement tho Stromatist relatos in the fifth book of the Hypotypos . For, in explaining the apostolio statoment, Ι thank God that I baptizod nono of you,' says, Christ is sald to havo baptized riter Hono, and riter Andreu, and Andreu John, and they James and the rest.
poses, maris this statement. Fox ho says that Peter and James avd JAn, after the Saviour, ascension, though pr
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en, also, as the divine Scriptum says, Herod, on theexecution of James, seeing that What was done pleased the
And in tho 'polyposes, in a Word, he has made abbreviated narratives of the wholo testamentary Scripture; and has not passed ovor the disputed books,-I mean Judo and the rest of tho Catholic Episuos and Barnabas, and Whatis called tho Rovolation of Ρster. li And ho says that tho Z - SEpistio to the Hobrows is Paul's, and was Written to the Hebrens in tho Hebrow language; but stat Luhe, haringcarefulty translated it, gave it to tho Greelis, and henco thosame colouring in the expression is discoverable in this episse and the Acts; and that the namo Ρaul an apostis VWas Very properly not prefixed, lar, he says, that Writing to the HebreWs, Who mers preiudiced against him and suspected,
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And of this James, Clement also relates an anscdoto ' Worthy of remembrance in the seventh book of tho Hypo- poses, from a tradition of his predecessors. He says thattho man who brought him to triat, On seeing him bear his testimony, Was moVed, and consessed that he was a Christian
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162 FRAGMENTS HebreWs, Paul, as having been sent to the Gentiles, did notsubscribo himself apostle of the HebreWs, out os modestyand reverence for tho Lord, and because, being the horaidand apostle of the Gentiles, his mesting to the HebreWs Wassomething over and above sitis assigned functionJ.
Again, in the samo books Clement has set down a traditionwhich he had received. hom the elders besors him, in regardio the order of the Gospeis, to the folloWing effeci. Ηe saysthat tho Gospeis containing the genealogies Were Wruten firat, and that tho Gospei according to Main Was composed undertho following circumstanees: Peter having preached the word publicly at Rome, and by tho Spirit proclaimed tho gospei, those Who Were present, WhO Werct numerous, entrealed Mais, in much as ho hadattended him hom an early period, and remembered Whathad been said, to writo doWn What had beon spolien. on his composing the Gospei, he handed it to thoso who had madotho request in him; Whicli coming to Peter's knowledge, honei ther hindared nor encouraged. But Jolin, the last of ali,seeing that What Was corporeat was set forta in the Gospeis,on the entreaty of his intimato friend' and inspired by tho Spirit, composed a spiritual Gospei.
Boing is in God. God is divino boing, eternat and without beginning, incorporeal and illimit te, and the cause of What exisis. Being is that Which Wholly subsists. Natureis the truth of things, or the inner realiu of them. Accors
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Willing is a natural poWer, Which destres What is in accordance with nature. Willing is a natural appeten , corresponding missi the nature of the rationes creature. Willing is a natural spontaneous movement of the sel&determining mind, or the mind Voluntarily moved about anything. Spontaneity is the mind moved naturally, or an intellectual self-determining movement of the foui.
Sotas stat broatho Deo os ali inings, possess lite, and though separated hom tho body, and found possessed os a longing sor it, are borne immortal to the bosom of God: asin the winter season the vapours of the earin attracted by
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manifest. ΜAXIMUS, SERMON 59, P. 669; JORN OF DAMASCUS, B. II.; ANTONIUS ΜELISSA, B. I. SERM. 64, AND B. II. SERM. 87.
It is not abstaining from deeds that justifies the bellover, but puri and sinceriu of thoughis.
VIII. OTHER FRAGMEMS FROM ANTONIUS MELISSA.
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The reproos that is given with knowledge is very faithsul. Sometimes also the knowledge of those Who are condemnedis found to bo the most perfect demonstration.
Τo the man who exalis and magnifies himself is attachedilis quich transition and the fati to loW estate, as the divino
Puro speech and a spoliess life are tho throne and true temple of God.
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MAXIMUS, SERMON II1. P. 538, ON MODESTY AND CHASTITY. O- - DAMASCUS, BOOK III. ARALLEL CHAP. 27.
ΜAXIMUS, SERMON 13, P. 574.-ANTONIUS ΜELISSA, SERMON32, P. 45, AND SERMON 33, P. 57.
The lovere os frugaliu inun luxury as the bane of souland bov. The possession and use of necessaries has nothinginjurious in qualit' but it has in quantity above measure. Scarci of Dod is a necessary benefit.
The vivid remembrance of death is a chech upon diei; and when tho diet is tessened, tho passiora aro diminishedalong With it.
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168 FRAGMENTSalso suffered, in the moming, tho chiel priesis and thoscribes, who brought Him to Pilate, did not enter tho Haetorium, that they might not bo desiled, but might freelyeat the passover in the evening. With this preciso dete mination of tho days both tho Whole Scriptures agree, and the Gospeis harmoniete. The resurrection also attests it. Hocertainly roso on the third day, Whicli soli on the first day os the weelis of harvest, on Whicli the la prescribed that thepriest should offer the sileas.
What chorat danco and hio festivat is held in heaven, is there is ono that has hecome an exile and a fugitive homtho liso ted undor tho Father, knowing not that those Whoput themsolves far hom Him shali perish ; it he has squam dered the gist, and substance, and inheritance of the Father; is thero is ono whoso faith has falled, and whoso hope Isspent, is rushing along With the Gentiles into the samo profligacy of debauchery; and then, famished and destituto, and not ovon filled with What tho sWine eat, has arisen and come to his Fathori l