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Page 217 - Fecerunt itaque civitates duas amores duo, terrenam scilicet amor sui usque ad contemptum Dei, caelestem vero amor Dei usque ad contemptum sui.
Page 200 - For the love of Christ constraineth us ; because we thus judge, that one died for all, therefore all died ; and he died for all, that they which live should no longer live unto themselves, but unto him who for their sakes died and rose again.
Page 192 - Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying. But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts thereof.
Page 168 - I desire not the death of a sinner, but that he should repent.
Page 247 - Lacrymosa dies illa, qua resurget ex favilla judicandus homo reus: Huic ergo parce, Deus, Pie Jesu Domine, dona eis requiem.
Page 109 - Although unto the pure all things are pure and nothing is to be refused if it be received with thanksgiving, still we ought not to drink the cup of Christ and the cup of devils at the same time.
Page 169 - For I have come down from heaven, not to do my own will, but the will of him who sent me...
Page 320 - As Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so shall the Son of Man be lifted up,
Page 361 - Dictys und Dares, Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte der Troja-Sage in ihrem Übergange aus der antiken in die romantische Form (Halle, 1874).
Page 278 - Nequitiai, spargitque suos per membra ministros. Namque illic numerosa cohors sub principe tali Militat, horrendisque animas circumsidet armis, Ira, superstitio, moeror, discordia, luxus, Sanguinis atra sitis, vini sitis, et sitis auri, Livor, adulterium, dolus, obtrectatio, furtum. Informes horrent fades habituque minaces.1 Here is the idea which the poet works out allegorically in his famous Psychomachia.