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- Of the Work of Monks.
- Section 1. Thy bidding, holy brother Aurelius, it was meet that I should comply withal
- Section 3. Nor do they attend to this, that if another should say
- Section 4. First then we ought to demonstrate that the blessed Apostle Paul willed the servants
- Section 5. I would, however, proceed to a more searching and diligent consideration and handling of
- Section 6. Which thing whoso thinks cannot have been done by the Apostles
- Section 7. But lest any should fancy that this was granted only to the twelve
- Section 9. But he speaks more openly in the rest which he subjoins
- Section 10. And he comes back again, and in all ways
- Section 12. But now, that as bearing with the infirmity of men he did this
- Section 13. Of this weakness of his, he saith in another place
- Section 14. Here peradventure some man may say, |If it was bodily work that the Apostle
- Section 15. But when he might use to work, that is
- Section 16. For he himself also, with an eye to the like necessities of saints
- Section 17. On account then of these either occupations of the servants of God
- Section 18. And a little after he saith, |For as touching the ministering to the saints
- Section 19. As therefore the Apostle, nay rather the Spirit of God possessing and filling and
- Section 21. Moreover, if discourse must be bestowed upon any
- Section 22. There also is said at what work the Apostle wrought.
- Section 23. Hence arises another question; for peradventure one may say
- Section 24. This question I should briefly solve, if I should say
- Section 26. That, namely, befalleth them which in undisciplined younger widows
- Section 27. As it is, however, they, against the Apostle of Christ
- Section 28. Here then shall these persons in their turn be in another more sublime degree
- Section 29. But let us grant this also, that the whole year round there may in
- Section 31. For if they be urged from the Gospel that they should put nothing by
- Section 32. Some man will say: |What then does it profit a servant of God
- Section 33. Wherefore even they which having relinquished or distributed their former
- Section 35. And that which follows concerning birds of the air and lilies of the field
- Section 36. Since these things are so, suffer me awhile
- Section 37. We are not binding heavy burdens and laying them upon your shoulders
- Section 38. These things, my brother Aurelius, most dear unto me
- Section 40. And then that further device of theirs, if words can express it
- Section 41. Wherefore, they which will not do right things