the Gospel

But the accidental vices of riches assign that "Woe" upon the rich in your gospel too, "Because," it says, "you have received your consolation" — surely out of riches, from their glory and their secular fruits.

" I might have transmitted this title to the former, since the hungry are none other than the poor and beggars, were it not that the Creator had destined this promise too specially toward the prebuilding, namely, of his own gospel — seeing that through Isaiah, concerning those whom he was to call from the height of the earth, surely the nations:

and therefore the precept in the gospel will belong to him who both built it up beforehand and distinguished it and arranged it according to the choice of his discipline, and now with reason has bound it up in a compendium — since in other respects too the Lord, that is Christ, was proclaimed as one who would make a curtailed word upon the earth.

And as to what you asked, how we have heard the words of the God made flesh, know that through the sacred Gospels we have learned all the things of the divine-human dispensation.

'There are,' he says, 'also many other things which Jesus did, which, if they were written one by one, I do not think that the world itself could contain the books that would be written.

But concerning the knowledge of God in the Gospel the Lord said:

For to choose the way of life according to the Gospel is open to everyone;

If, then, their visions in sleep run together with the commandments of the Lord, let them be content with the Gospels, which need no help from dreams toward their trustworthiness.

for Zacharias too, the father of John, is said in the Gospels to prophesy even before the child.

for in giving his precepts he affirmed that he destroyed no part of the law.

We come now to consider whether the law of the Gospel has confined that liberty within closer bounds.

The Gospel therefore, comprehending all men under the appellation of neighbour, not only forbids us to hurt our enemies, but commands us to do them good;

The very close of the Gospel too — for what does it set its seal upon these things written, but, "That you may believe," it says, "that Jesus Christ is the Son of God"?

For the rest, not to bring in the other Gospels, which confirm faith by the Lord's nativity, it suffices that he who was to be born of the virgin was determined by the angel himself, in his announcement, the Son of God.

for them the corporeality of the soul will shine out in the Gospel itself.

It was lawful too to be fed from the gospel.

For the rest, neither in the gospel nor in Paul's own epistles will you find, from a precept of God, the repetition of marriage permitted.