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Old Testament XI: Isaiah 40–66 is unavailable, but you can change that!

The excerpts included in this volume offer us a rich array of differing styles, principles and theological emphases from Theodoret of Cyr to Eusebius and Procopius, to Cyril of Alexandria, Jerome and Augustine. Readers will be enriched by the wide-ranging selections, some of which are translated here into English for the first time.

result is that the whole earth was ablaze with the fire of the Lord and Savior. LETTER 121.2.28 . BENEDICT: [The abbot] must be aware of his own frailty and remember that it is forbidden to break the already bruised reed. We do not mean that he should countenance the growth of vice but that he use discretion and tenderness as he sees it expedient for the different characters of his brothers. He is to endeavor much more to be loved than to be feared. RULE OF ST. BENEDICT
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