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lt. But stat divine conductor and true curator, ever so match-
structed in these laWs, at once bonds, as it Were, Were cast
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her to that fame place. For .hen me Were mintad totravet, I know not where, but certainj to any other plausinther than this, a soldier suddenly came Mon the wen bearing a letter os instructions for us in escori and pr teci our sister in her restoration to his h band, and toiner o selves also as companion to her in tho journu; in
λ Tho texi is ἀποκέουσα. Hoeacholius oves ἀπέκουσα. ' Tho texi is, οὐδεν Οὐ-ς αναγκαιον ἐν οσον - τοῖς νόμοις ημων, δυνατονον καὶ επὶ τήν ' μαίων ἀποδημησαι πολιν. Bengel fines οσον - παρέλκον. Μigne rendera, nullam ei fuisse necessitatem huc ventemdi, dis radilestra ea a, siquidem Romam posset proscisci. Simondus misis i nulla causa adeo necessaria erat qua Maaem per isma noatras ad Romanorum civitatem proficisci. Disjtjgod by OO le
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moved me thither, y sense of duty ἄλογον) D my sister, my oo studios, and over and above these, the soldior forit is right also to mention this , who had With him a largis sn ly os public vehicles than the case demanded, and more eques συμβολα) than could bo required for our sister
that man a means' in tho truth' concerning the Word, and tho profit of our sout for ita salvation. These mero the realea es that Mought us here, blind and ignorant, as We Were,.s to tho Way os securing our salvation. Where re it Wasnot that soldior, but a certain divino companion and benem
eonnection With this man who mas in bo tho author of thogreator pari es our blemings. And ho Who camo in anchmiae, stat divino angel, gave over this chame οικονομίαν in his, and did, is I may so speis, perchance talis his resthere, not indoed under tho pressum os labour or exhaustion
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52 GREGORY THA UMA TURGUSol any hind lar the generation os those divine ministere
sophy With large laudations and many nobio ulterances, declaring that those only live a lite truly Worthy os reasonablo creatures Who iam at living an upright lila, and whosea to know fidit os est themsolves, What manner os personathey are, and then the things that are truly good, which manought to strivo alter, and then the things that ars reatly erit, hom which man ought to fleo. And then ho reprehendedignorance and est the ignorant: and there are many such, Who, liho brute catile θρεμμάτων , are blind in miud, and havo nounderatanding even of What they are, and are as far astruas though they Were Wholly void os reason, and netther knowthemsolves What is good and What is evit, nor caro at ali to learn
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ho told ns that theso are tho objecis that enervato us, When me despiae that reason which ought to be the true master .ithin m. I cannot recount at present ali sto addresses
ior many days, and, in iaci, as osten as Wo mero in the habit oi ming to him at tho ouiset; and we were piercedis his argumentation as With an arro from the very fidit occasion os our hearing him for he was possessed os a rare combination os a certain sWeet grace and persuasiVeness,nlong With a strange poWer os constraint , though me stillmavered and debated the matter undecidedly With ourseives,
holding so far by tho pursuit os philosophy, Without hom
λ me tot hero is, ταυε απερ ημας ἀνέσειε, μάλιστα λέγων και μάλα τεχνικως, του κυριωτάτου, φησὶ, των ἐν ημιν λόγου, ἀμελησαντας.
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his destro was, missi a benignant, and affectionato, and most benevolent mind, to save us, and mae us partisera in tho
piein the Word os salvation, that comes to many, and su dnes in uself Hl whom it visita: for them is nothing thatshali restit it, in much as it is and inali bo itself tho iungos est; although as yet it is hidden, and is not recognis , .hether Mith easo or Mith dissicut , by the common σοWd, in such Wiso that, When interrogated respecting it, thv should abis to speis intelligently about it. And thus, lihe mme spark li ting upon our inmost sota, love vas hindled and burat into flamo Mithin us a love at once to the Hesy Word, the most lovely object os ali, who attracta ali irresistiblytoward Himself by His unuiterable beauty, and to this man, His hiend and advocate. And bring moat mi tib smittenis this love, I mas persuaded in ove up ali thom objecta orpurauita .hich seem to us befitting, and among othera even mybo ted jurisprudence, ea, my very fatherland and frienda, both those who mero present With me then, and thom hom om I had parted. And in my estimation there Mosa butone object dear and worth destre,-to Wit, philosophy, and that master os philosophy, this inspired man. - Α- tho soni ofJonathan was knit missi David. - This mota, indoed, Ι didnot read illi atterWards in the sacred Scriptures; but I festit besoro that time, not less clearly than it is initten et tor, in truth, it reached me then by the clearest os ali revelations. For it Was not simply Jonathan that was knit Mith David; but
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a ver and in connection With What things foever those actions
.hich aro proper only to it are in operation. Herefore, What I experienced has been most olearly declared in this very ahori statement, that the foui of Jonathan was knit .ith tho mul os David; ' objecta .hich, as I said, cannot by any means forced to a separation against their Will, and .hieh of their own inclination certainly Will not readilyctooso it. Nor is it, in my opinion, in the inferior subjeci, Who is ehangetes and very prone to Vary in purpοse, and in .hom singly there has been no capaci of union at firat, thattha pomer of loosing the sacred bonda of this affection resis, hut minis in tho nobier one, Who is constant and not readilyahahen, and throuo .hom it has been possibis to tis thesebonds and to faston this sacred knot. Thomsore it is not themul os David that was knit by tho divino word with tho mulos Jonathan; on the contrisy, the foui of the lalter, Who M ita inferior, is sald in bo thus assected and knit Min thomul os David. For tho nobier object Would not choosa to hiat mith ono inferior, inasmuch as it is suffcient for i
seu ; but tho inserior oriret, as standing in need of the help Uin the nobier ean give, Ouot properly to be hvit Withtho nobier, and fitted dependently to it: so that thia latior, retaining stili ita sussicien in iiself, might sustain no lossis ita connection mith the inferior; and that that which is
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56 GREGORY THA UMA TURG USos itself without ordor ατακτον) being nοW united and stted harmoniousty With the nobier, might, Without any detrimentdone, bo persectly subdued to the nobier by tho constrainis os such bonds. Whereiore, to apply the bonds is the partos the superior, and not of the inferior; but to bo knit to thoother is tho part of the inferior, and this too in such a manner that it shali possess no pomer os loosing iiseis from thesebonds. And by a similar constraint, then, did this David of
releaso this foui os mine, Which, as the holy Scripture pulsit, lis holds knit so closely mith himself.
both grow with the samo nurture: for one may osten See atree os a mixed and worthless s νόθον) species thus rendered productivo in spite os iis past barrenness, and made to reartho fruits of tho good olive on Wild roois; or one may Seo R
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os a caretui gaesener; or, once more, one may see a plant
turning it up and irrigating it, and putting est things in
Mnd so uiaregulated and precipitato in iis oWn action)felded and produced in iis uncultured luxuriance and native mittam' he cui out and thoroughly removed by the pr eesses os refutation and prohibition ; somelimes assailing usin tho genuino Socratic fashion, and again upsetting us is
his argumentation Whenever he saW us geliing restive under
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58 GREGORY THAUMATURGUS mentations; and yet he purged us by them. Αnd whon hohad mado us adaptabie, and had prepared us successsullyior tho reception of the Words ot truth, then, iurther, asinouo me Wero noW a soli meli Wrought and soli, and ready to impari graWth in the seeda cast into it, he deest liberalty with us, and soWed the good seed in Mason, and attended in ali the oster cares of the good husbando, eachin iis οὐ proper Mason; and whenever he perceived any element of infirmi or basenem in cur mind Whethor it mas os that character by nature, or had become thus Mosa throuo the excessive nurture of the body , he priched itwith his disco ses, and reduced it by those delicate Worda and turna os reasoning whicli, although at firat the very
senting to est stat came acroas us, of WhateVer character
tioned, and by others of like End for this branch of phialosophy is of varied form), and accustomed ua not to throWin our testimony at one time, and again to refuse it, just atrandom, and as chance impelled, but in ove it onb altercaresul examination not onj into inings manifest, but also into in e that ars secret. For many things whicli aro inhigh rapuis of themselves, and hono able in appearanoe, havs found enuinco throuo fala Words into our eam, Rathough they mere true, Whils yet they Were hollo and falae, and have borne os and tinen possession of the suffrage of truthat our hand, and then, no long time astematas, they havo