...the people, nor give them notice, and the sword come and take any soul, it is taken because of its iniquity, it is true, but its blood will I require...calm, will not put confidence in the security of such • Ezck. xxxiii. 6. | Gal. ii. 20. a mode of life, but provide a multitude of other protections, defending...

...God for man. Let us therefore die for life, since He Who is the life died for the dead, that we too may be able to say, ' I live, yet not I, but Christ liveth in me ;' this is the language of the chosen. No one can die to himself, if Christ does not live...

...forego applause. Book VI. The watchman set to guard the people will be responsible for their sins. " The soul of the priest should be purer than the very...may be able to say, ' I live, yet not I, but Christ liveth in me.'" He must be more circumspect than monks, as his charge is so much greater. He has not...

...that requires angelic virtue. For the priest's soul must be purer than the rays of the sun, in order that the Holy Spirit may never leave him desolate, and that he may be able to say, "I live; yet no longer I, but Christ liveth in me".6 Even hermits living in the desert, far away from city and market-place...