Discipline
“ecclesiastical/moral”
idea · 2 works · 2 mentions · 3 anchored passages
discipline · disobedient · ecclesiastical discipline · obedient · orderly · the discipline of God
in the texts
De Virginibus Velandis
The evolving body of church practice and moral order, as opposed to the fixed rule of faith
Let us see now whether, as we have shown that the arguments of nature and of the causes suit the virgin too, so also the prescripts of ecclesiastical discipline concerning the woman look toward the virgin.
Whereas it was for this cause that the Lord sent the Paraclete, that, since human mediocrity could not take in all things at once, discipline should be gradually directed and set in order and brought to perfection by that Vicar of the Lord, the Holy Spirit.
Anabasis
Orderly obedience to commanders, presented as essential to military survival.
For discipline, it seems, keeps men in safety, while the lack of it has brought many ere now to destruction.
for they believed that so long as we had our commanders and were obedient to them, we were able to worst them in war, but when they had got possession of our commanders, they believed that the want of leadership and of discipline would be the ruin of us.
We must pass a vote that, in case anyone is disobedient, whoever of you may be at hand at the time shall join with the officer in punishing him;