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영문출처; The Library of Christian Classics : Ichthus Edition 제롬(Jerome)의 글 “To Heliodorus” 중에서 Be not credulous, be not over-confident. 경솔히 믿지도 말고 너무 믿지도 마시오. The perfect servant of Christ has nothing beside Christ. Or if he has anything beside Christ he is not perfect. 완전한 그리스도의 종은 그리스도에 더하여 뭔가를 갖고 있지 않다. 그가 그런 것을 갖고 있다면 그는 완전하지 못하다. Not to aim at perfection is itself a sin. 완전을 목표로 하지 않는 것 자체가 죄다..

“Battle of the Basilicas” 중에서 The counts and tribunes called on me to surrender the basilica without delay. They said that the emperor was within his rights, since everything came under his authority. I replied that if he asked me for anything of my own, my estates, my money, anything of mine like that, I should not refuse it, though everything that belonged to me belonged to the poor. “But,” I ..

영문출처: The Library of Christian Classics : Ichthus Edition ​ 암브로시우스(Abrose)의 글 “The council of Aquileia” 중에서 In blasphemous terms Arius had described the Father as alone eternal, alone good, alone very God, alone possessing immortality, alone wise, alone almighty, impiously implying that the Son is without these attributes. Palladius and Secundianus preferred to follow Arius rather than confess t..

20. Walking according to God’s moral law is endangered by words as well as deeds. The Bible which ways: “Behold the man and his deeds,” says also: “Out of thy mouth thou shalt be justified.” Therefore we must remember to guard against the inroads of idolatry also in words let drop from fault of habit or cowardice. The Law does not actually forbid us to name the gods of the heathen. We may pronou..

16. So far as concerns the ceremonies at private and family festivals, such as putting on the white toga, celebrating an engagement or a marriage, or giving a name, I am disposed to think that we are in no danger from the whiff of idolatry which occurs at them. We must consider the causes of the ceremony. These, I think, are innocent in themselves, since neither the man’s clothing nor the ring n..

14. Many Christians today have come to think it pardonable to do as the world does “that the Name be not blasphemed.” There is indeed a blasphemy which we must avoid completely, namely, that any of us should give a pagan good cause for blasphemy by deceit or injury or insult or some other matter justifying complaint in which the Name is deservedly blamed, so that the Lord is deservedly angry. Bu..

11. If we consider the other sins according to their families, first avarice, the root of all evils, ensnared by which some have made shipwreck concerning the faith, (the same apostle twice calling avarice idolatry), and secondly lying, the servant of avarice – I say nothing of perjury, since it is not lawful even to take an oath - is business suitable for the servant of God? Where there is no a..

7. On this score a zealous faith will raise its voice, lamenting that the Christian comes into church from the idols, comes from the enemy workshop into the house of God, raises to God the Father hands that have mothered idols, adores with hands which outside are adored in opposition to God, touches the Body of the Lord with hands which give the demons their bodies. And worse. Small matter, mayb..

4. God forbids the making of idols no less than the worshipping of them. Just as any object of worship must first be made, so what must not be worshipped must not be made. That is the prior obligation. For this reason, in order to root out the materials of idolatry, God’s law proclaims: “Thou shalt not make an idol”; and by adding: “Nor the likeness of any thing that is in heaven or in the earth..

The Text (본문) 1. The principal charge against the human race, the world’s deepest guilt, the all-inclusive cause of judgment, is idolatry. Although each particular fault keeps its own characteristic features and will certainly be condemned under its own name, it is listed under the count of idolatry. Forget the terms on the charge-sheet and look at what they do. An idolater is also a murderer. Y..