Macarius
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The labours of the field come as no novelty to tillers of the land; sailors are not astonished if they meet a storm at sea; sweats in the summer heat are the common experience of the hired hind; and to them that have chosen to live a holy life the afflictions of this present world cannot come unforeseen. Each and all of these have the known and ...
Rufinus on his return from Bethlehem to Rome published a Latin version of Origen's treatise περι ᾿Αρχῶν, On First Principles. To this he prefixed the preface which is here printed among Jerome's letters. Professing to take as his model Jerome's own translations of Origen's commentaries which he greatly praises, he declares that, following his ex...
Prayer does not always obtain what it seeks — and this is itself a mercy.
Since it is difficult — hard, that is — for one who has fallen into the love of money to pull back (for such a...
"It is honorable to proclaim the works of the Lord" [Tobit 12:7].