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even from the womb of my mother, who greatly hoped in Thee, I was sealed with the mark of His cross and salted with His salt.
Sealed and salted? What does that mean? A type of blessing? Sealed with the sign of the cross?
my cleansing was deferred, because the defilements of sin would, after that washing, bring greater
His baptism was delayed
And, he that is unmarried thinketh of the things of the Lord, how he may please the Lord; but he that is married careth for the things of this world, how he may please his wife.
A good defense of unmarried priests.
invisible wine of its self-will, turning aside and bowing down to the very basest things.
But I made myself worse than I was, that I might not be dispraised; and when in any thing I had not sinned as the abandoned ones, I would say that I had done what I had not done, that I might not seem contemptible
For I stole that, of which I had enough, and much better. Nor cared I to enjoy what I stole, but joyed in the theft
the more empty, the more I loathed it. For this cause my soul was sickly and full of sores, it miserably cast itself forth, desiring to be scraped by the touch of objects of sense.
friendship.
I loved to look on; but such as upon hearing their fictions should lightly scratch the surface; upon which, as on envenomed nails, followed inflamed swelling, impostumes, and a putrefied sore.
Such is men's blindness, glorying even in their blindness.
yet I knew not that evil was nothing but a privation of good,
As if in an armory, one ignorant of what were adapted to each part should cover his head with greaves, or seek to be shod with a helmet, and complain that they fitted not:
Even such are they who are fretted to hear something to have been lawful for righteous men formerly, which now is not; or that God, for certain temporal respects, commanded them one thing, and these another, obeying both the same righteousness:
If souls please thee, be they loved in God: for they too are mutable, but in Him are they firmly stablished;
carry unto Him along with thee what souls thou canst, and say to them, "Him let us love, Him let us love: He made these, nor is He far off. For He did not make them, and so depart, but they are of Him, and in Him.
He came forth to us, first into the Virgin's womb,
Chapter 12 book 4 better Catholic translation. Outland's uses adgivitive instead of noun
