The Banquet of the Ten Virgins, Discourse III

Discourse III

• The Banquet of the Ten Virgins III.1 — Passages of Holy Scripture Compared. You seem to me, O Theophila, to excel all in action and in speech, and to be second to none in wisdom. For there is no one who will find fault with your discourse, however…vatican.va
• The Banquet of the Ten Virgins III.2 — Chapter II.—The Digressions of the Apostle Paul; The Character of His Doctrine: Nothing in It Contradictory; Condemnation of Origen, Who Wrongly Turns Everything into Allegory. Let it not disturb you, if, in…vatican.va
• The Banquet of the Ten Virgins III.3 — Comparison Instituted Between the First and Second Adam. And, first, we must inquire if Adam can be likened to the Son of God, when he was found in the transgression of the Fall, and heard the sentence, “Dust thou…vatican.va
• The Banquet of the Ten Virgins III.4 — Some Things Here Hard and Too Slightly Treated, and Apparently Not Sufficiently Brought Out According to the Rule of Theology. Chapter IV.—Some Things Here Hard and Too Slightly Treated, and Apparently Not…vatican.va
• The Banquet of the Ten Virgins III.5 — A Passage of Jeremiah Examined. And here I may adduce the prophet Jeremiah as a trustworthy and lucid witness, who speaks thus: “Then I went down to the potter’s house; and, behold, he wrought a work on the wheels.…vatican.va
• The Banquet of the Ten Virgins III.6 — The Whole Number of Spiritual Sheep; Man a Second Choir, After the Angels, to the Praise of God; The Parable of the Lost Sheep Explained. Chapter VI.—The Whole Number of Spiritual Sheep; Man a Second Choir, After the…vatican.va
• The Banquet of the Ten Virgins III.7 — The Works of Christ, Proper to God and to Man, the Works of Him Who is One. And now we seem to have said almost enough on the fact that man has become the organ and clothing of the Only-begotten, and what He was who…vatican.va
• The Banquet of the Ten Virgins III.8 — Chapter VIII.—The Bones and Flesh of Wisdom; The Side Out of Which the Spiritual Eve is Formed, the Holy Spirit; The Woman the Help-Meet of Adam; Virgins Betrothed to Christ. For it has been already established by no…vatican.va
• The Banquet of the Ten Virgins III.9 — The Dispensation of Grace in Paul the Apostle. Now we should consider the case of the renowned Paul, that when he was not yet perfect in Christ, he was first born and suckled, Ananias preaching to him, and renewing…vatican.va
• The Banquet of the Ten Virgins III.10 — The Doctrine of the Same Apostle Concerning Purity. Now Paul, when summoning all persons to sanctification and purity, in this way referred that which had been spoken concerning the first man and Eve in a secondary…vatican.va
• The Banquet of the Ten Virgins III.11 — The Same Argument. For consider, O virgins, how he, desiring with all his might that believers in Christ should be chaste, endeavours by many arguments to show them the dignity of chastity, as when he says, Now,…vatican.va
• The Banquet of the Ten Virgins III.12 — Paul an Example to Widows, and to Those Who Do Not Live with Their Wives. Come, now, and let us examine more carefully the very words which are before us, and observe that the apostle did not grant these things…vatican.va
• The Banquet of the Ten Virgins III.13 — The Doctrine of Paul Concerning Virginity Explained. I have now brought to an end what I have to say respecting continence and marriage and chastity, and intercourse with men, and in which of these there is help…vatican.va
• The Banquet of the Ten Virgins III.14 — Virginity a Gift of God: the Purpose of Virginity Not Rashly to Be Adopted by Any One. Chapter XIV.—Virginity a Gift of God: the Purpose of Virginity Not Rashly to Be Adopted by Any One. Consider besides how, in…vatican.va