work_id,theme,provenance,created_at,text,reviewed_on,id,comments,metaphor,dictionary,updated_at,context
3201,"","Reading Charles Taylor's Sources of the Self. Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 1989. p. 134. ",2004-01-14 00:00:00 UTC,"Wherefore, as the life of the flesh is the soul, so the blessed life of man is God, of whom the sacred writings of the Hebrews say, ""Blessed is the people whose God is the Lord."" Miserable, therefore, is the people which is alienated from God. Yet even this people has a peace of its own which is not to be lightly esteemed, though, indeed, it shall not in the end enjoy it, because it makes no good use of it before the end. But it is our interest that it enjoy this peace meanwhile in this life; for as long as the two cities are commingled, we also enjoy the peace of Babylon. For from Babylon the people of God is so freed that it meanwhile sojourns in its company. And therefore the apostle also admonished the Church to pray for kings and those in authority, assigning as the reason, ""that we may live a quiet and tranquil life in all godliness and love."" And the prophet Jeremiah, when predicting the captivity that was to befall the ancient people of God, and giving them the divine command to go obediently to Babylonia, and thus serve their God, counselled them also to pray for Babylonia, saying, ""In the peace thereof shall ye have peace,""-the temporal peace which the good and the wicked together enjoy.
(XIX.xxvi)
ut vita carnis anima est, its beata vita hominis Deus est",2009-03-23,8426,"","""Wherefore, as the life of the flesh is the soul, so the blessed life of man is God, of whom the sacred writings of the Hebrews say, 'Blessed is the people whose God is the Lord.'""","",2009-09-14 19:33:34 UTC,""
3209,"",Reading,2004-04-19 00:00:00 UTC,"I was held fast not by the iron of another but by my iron will. The enemy had a grip on my will and from there made a chain for me and bound me. From a distorted will comes lust, and servitude to lust becomes habit. When there is no resistance to habit, necessity follows. By these links, as it were, connected to one another (hence my term chain), a harsh servitude held me under constraint.
(VIII.5)",,8438,Augustine discovers that (contrary to claims in the Protagoras) that knowing what is right is not sufficient for doing what is right,"""I was held fast not by the iron of another but by my iron will.""",Fetters and Metal,2013-09-23 17:24:11 UTC,""
3209,"","Reading Miles, Margaret. ""Vision: The Eye of the Body and the Eye of the Mind in Saint Augustine's ""De Trinitate"" and ""Confessions."" The Journal of Religion 63.2 (1983): 133.",2004-04-19 00:00:00 UTC,"I have spilled and scattered ... my thoughts, the innermost bowels of my soul, are torn apart with the crowding tumults of variety",,8678,"","""I have spilled and scattered ... my thoughts, the innermost bowels of my soul, are torn apart with the crowding tumults of variety.""","",2013-06-04 20:50:54 UTC,10.29.40
3209,Mind's Eye,"Reading Margaret Miles's ""Vision: The Eye of the Body and the Eye of the Mind in Saint Augustine's ""De Trinitate"" and ""Confessions."" The Journal of Religion 63.2 (1983): 133.",2004-04-19 00:00:00 UTC,"Only a few succeed in arriving at these reasons [rationes] with the eye of the mind, and when one does arrive, insofar as is possible, the very one who arrives does not abide in them, but as it were the eye (of the mind) itself is beaten back and repelled.",,8679,"","""Only a few succeed in arriving at these reasons with the eye of the mind, and when one does arrive, insofar as is possible, the very one who arrives does not abide in them, but as it were the eye (of the mind) itself is beaten back and repelled.""",Eye,2009-09-14 19:33:42 UTC,12.14.23
3199,Mind's Eye,"Reading Margaret Miles's ""Vision: The Eye of the Body and the Eye of the Mind in Saint Augustine's ""De Trinitate"" and ""Confessions."" The Journal of Religion 63.2 (1983): 131.",2004-04-19 00:00:00 UTC,"The Trinity's ""own light seemed to be present around us, still, no trinity appeared to us in nature, for in the midst of that splendor we did not keep the eye of our mind fixed steadily upon searching for it ... because that ineffable light beat back our gaze, and the weakness of our mind was convinced that it could not yet adjust itself to it . ",,8681,"","""The Trinity's ""own light seemed to be present around us, still, no trinity appeared to us in nature, for in the midst of that splendor we did not keep the eye of our mind fixed steadily upon searching for it ... because that ineffable light beat back our gaze, and the weakness of our mind was convinced that it could not yet adjust itself to it""",Eye,2009-09-14 19:33:42 UTC,15.6.10
3490,"",Searching KJV at UVA's Electronic Text Center,2003-06-19 00:00:00 UTC,"5: For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit.
6: For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace.
7: Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.
8: So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God.
(Romans 8:5-8)",2009-06-10,8954,•Paul uses nous only 21 times. Most of these usages appear in Romans.
•See Romans 7:23 and 7:25 for more on the laws of the mind.,"""For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace.""","",2009-09-14 19:33:52 UTC,""
3495,"",Searching KJV at UVA's Electronic Text Center,2003-06-19 00:00:00 UTC,"12: Seeing then that we have such hope, we use great plainness of speech:
13: And not as Moses, which put a vail over his face, that the children of Israel could not stedfastly look to the end of that which is abolished:
14: But their minds were blinded: for until this day remaineth the same vail untaken away in the reading of the old testament; which vail is done away in Christ.
15: But even unto this day, when Moses is read, the vail is upon their heart.
16: Nevertheless when it shall turn to the Lord, the vail shall be taken away.
17: Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.
18: But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.
(2 Corinthians 3:12-18)",2003-10-23,8961,•Paul uses nous only 21 times. Most of these usages appear in Romans.
,"""But their minds were blinded: for until this day remaineth the same vail untaken away in the reading of the old testament; which vail is done away in Christ.""","",2009-12-12 18:02:07 UTC,Moses' veil prevents Judaism from seeing Mosaic law's glory is at its end.
3495,"",Searching KJV at UVA's Electronic Text Center,2003-06-19 00:00:00 UTC,"1: Therefore seeing we have this ministry, as we have received mercy, we faint not;
2: But have renounced the hidden things of dishonesty, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully; but by manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God.
3: But if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost:
4: In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.
5: For we preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord; and ourselves your servants for Jesus' sake.
6: For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.
7: But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us.
(2 Corinthians 4:1-7)",,8962,"•Paul uses nous only 21 times. Most of these usages appear in Romans.
•See previous reference (2 Corinthians 3:14). Judaism wears a ""vail.""
","""In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them. ""","",2009-09-14 19:33:53 UTC,""
3496,"",Searching KJV at UVA's Electronic Text Center,2003-06-19 00:00:00 UTC,"17: This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind,
18: Having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart:
19: Who being past feeling have given themselves over unto lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with greediness.
20: But ye have not so learned Christ;
21: If so be that ye have heard him, and have been taught by him, as the truth is in Jesus:
22: That ye put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts;
23: And be renewed in the spirit of your mind;
24: And that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness.
(Ephesians 4:17-24)",,8965,•Paul uses nous only 21 times. Most of these usages appear in Romans.
,Vanity of mind darkens the understanding and blinds the heart,"",2009-09-14 19:33:53 UTC,""
3498,"",Searching KJV at UVA's Electronic Text Center,2003-06-19 00:00:00 UTC,"16: Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holyday, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath days:
17: Which are a shadow of things to come; but the body is of Christ.
18: Let no man beguile you of your reward in a voluntary humility and worshipping of angels, intruding into those things which he hath not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind,
19: And not holding the Head, from which all the body by joints and bands having nourishment ministered, and knit together, increaseth with the increase of God.
20: Wherefore if ye be dead with Christ from the rudiments of the world, why, as though living in the world, are ye subject to ordinances,
21: (Touch not; taste not; handle not;
22: Which all are to perish with the using;) after the commandments and doctrines of men?
23: Which things have indeed a shew of wisdom in will worship, and humility, and neglecting of the body; not in any honour to the satisfying of the flesh.
(Philippians 2:16-23)",2003-10-23,8967,"•Paul uses nous only 21 times. Most of these usages appear in Romans.
•See previous use of ""carnal mind"" by Paul in Rom. 8:7.
","""Let no man beguile you of your reward in a voluntary humility and worshipping of angels, intruding into those things which he hath not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind.""","",2009-12-12 18:03:14 UTC,""