Enjoying the soul with the kingdom’s robes – “Heavenly Life”
Inner beauty! 11. Indeed, “the king brought me into his chambers” (Song of Songs 1:4 LXX). Blessed is the soul that enters the chambers, as it rises […]
Rebekah is a symbol of the church
The perfect soul flees from evil, not from the earth. 6. As for the perfect soul, it stays away from matter, and abstains and rejects everything.
The spiritual man and the physical man
[When Saint Ambrose saw in Isaac the fountain of wisdom to which the pious soul (Rebekah) comes to drink from it, and does not approach the fountain
Introduction: How great you are!
“Yourself” is too great to be appreciated, more valuable than the whole world! Therefore, Jesus Christ says: “What does it profit a person if he gains the whole world and loses?”
Star of the East - Two Sermons on the Magi by Saint John Chrysostom
First Sermon (*) “And when Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea in the days of King Herod, behold, wise men from the east came
On the Spirit and the Letter - Letter to Marcellinus - Chapters 56-66
Chapter (56): The faith of those under the law differs from the faith of others, but nevertheless there is another difference that we must note:
On the Spirit and the Letter - Letter to Marcellinus - Chapters 45-55
Chapter (45): Those who do the law are justified, not by their works, but by grace. The name of God and His saints are blessed in different meanings, and it was not intended now.
On the Spirit and the Letter - Letter to Marcellinus - Chapters 34-44
Chapter (34) Law and Grace after saying: “It is not like the covenant that I made with their fathers on the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt.” Note
On the Spirit and the Letter - Letter to Marcellinus - Chapter 23-33
Chapter (23): How the Ten Commandments kill without the presence of grace, even though the Messenger thought that he was blaming and correcting those who...
On the Spirit and the Letter - Letter to Marcellinus - Chapter 12-22
Chapter Twelve: Paul, therefore called a valiant contender for grace. Therefore Paul, who was first called Saul,
On the Spirit and the Letter - Letter to Marcellinus - Chapter 1-11
Chapter One: The Reason for Writing This Work; Something That Could Be Done (Done) and Yet Never (Never) Done. My Beloved Son Marcellinus - I
Blessed Augustine's commentary on the Sermon on the Mount, Matthew 7
Third: Do not condemn others 59 As long as it is difficult for us to know the purpose of others in their accumulation of temporal things… their heart may be simple or