Categoria: Isaac o sírio
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Livro de Isaac – As coisas de Deus
Daquele que se quer espaçar e deleitar nas coisas de Deus, e de tudo e todo se quer com ele atar. A alma que ama a Deus, em Deus é seu repouso e folgança. Esforça-te de tirar de ti mesmo toda obrigação de fora e então com a tua coragem poderás com Deus atar. Ó…
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Isaac of Ninive : SIX TREATISES ON THE BEHAVIOR OF EXCELLENCE (I)
Mystic Treatises by Isaac of Ninve. Translated by A. J. Wensinck from Bedjan’s syriac text with an introduction and registers. Koninklijke Akademie van Wetenschappen, 1923.
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Isaac of Nineveh: Mystic Treatises (XXII)
XXII ON VARIOUS (EXPERIENCES) DURING PRAYER AND ON THE LIMITS OF THE POWER OF THE MIND. AND IN HOW FAR IT HAS POWER TO MOVE ITS ARBITRARY IMPULSES BY THE VARIOUS HABITS OF PRAYER. AND WHAT IS THE LIMIT PRESCRIBED TO NATURE DURING PRAYER, THE LIMIT WHICH PRAYER IS NOT ALLOWED TO SURPASS. AND HOW…
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Isaac of Nineveh: Mystic Treatises (XXI)
XXI ON THAT WHICH HAPPENS DURING PRAYER (UNTO THOSE WHO LIVE) IN SOLITUDE
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Isaac of Nineveh: Mystic Treatises (XX)
XX ON VARIOUS INTELLIGIBLE FORCES OF THE MIND IN CONNECTION WITH THE ACTION OF REVELATIONS AND SPIRITUAL VISIONS
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Isaac of Nineveh: Mystic Treatises (XIX)
XIX ON THE REVELATIONS AND POWERS WHICH HAPPEN TO THE SAINTS IN IMAGES
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Isaac of Nineveh: Mystic Treatises (XVIII)
XVIII THINGS WHICH I HAVE HEARD FROM OLD MEN AND STORIES OF HOLY PEOPLE, THEIR PIOUS WORDS AND WONDERFUL BEHAVIOUR. MAY GOD PRESERVE US BY THEIR PRAYERS AMEN
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Isaac of Nineveh: Mystic Treatises (XVII)
XVII ON THE SHORT PATHS TOWARDS GOD WHICH ARE REVEALED TO ONE FROM THE SWEET WORKS IN VIGILS AND THAT THOSE WHO ARE GIVEN TO VIGILS ARE SUPPORTED BY HONEY THEIR WHOLE LIFETIME
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Isaac of Nineveh: Mystic Treatises (XV)
XV ON THE COURSE OF THE SOLITARY CAREER, SUCCINCTLY AND WITHOUT PROLIXITY. AND ON THE QUESTION HOW AND AT WHAT TIME ITS VIRTUES ARE BORN ONE FROM THE OTHER
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Isaac of Nineveh: Mystic Treatises (XIV)
XIV AS TO WHEN THOSE WHO LIVE IN SOLITUDE BEGIN TO KNOW, EVEN TO A SLIGHT EXTENT, HOW FAR THEY HAVE ADVANCED IN THEIR SERVICE IN THE UNFATHOMABLE SEA OF SOLITARY LIFE SO THAT THEY ARE ABLE TO HAVE CONFIDENCE SOMEWHAT ON THEIR LABOURS THAT THEY BEGIN TO BEAR FRUIT
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Isaac of Nineveh: Mystic Treatises (XII)
XII THAT IT IS NOT BEAUTIFUL FOR THE SERVANT OF GOD WHO HAS RENUNCIATED THE WORLD AND HAS GONE FORTH TO SEEK EVEN THE TRUTH, OUT OF FEAR THAT HE SHALL NOT FIND THE TRUTH TO DESIST FROM SEEKING IT OR FROM THE FERVOUR WHICH IS BORN FROM THE DESIRE OF DIVINE THINGS, OR FROM…
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Isaac of Nineveh: Mystic Treatises (XI)
XI WHEREBY THE BEAUTY OF SOLITARY LIFE IS TO BE PRESERVED AND HOW IT CAN BE A CAUSE OF GOD’S BEING GLORIFIED
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Isaac of Nineveh: Mystic Treatises (X)
Isaac of Nineveh, Mystic Treatises X – ON THE WORDS OF THE SCRIPTURES BEING SPOKEN AS IT WERE TO PATIENTS IN MODERATION LEST THEY SHOULD WHOLLY ABANDON THE LIVING GOD. BUT THIS SHOULD NOT BE TAKEN BY US AS A REASON FOR GREATER FREEDOM REGARDING SIN
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Isaac of Nineveh: Mystic Treatises (IX)
Isaac of Nineveh, Mystic Treatises IX – ON SINS (COMMITTED) INTENTIONALLY AND WITH EVIL WILL AND ON THOSE (COMMITTED) ACCIDENTALLY
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Isaac of Nineveh: Mystic Treatises (L)
Isaac of Nineveh, Mystic Treatises SHORT SECTIONS CONTAINING VARIOUS CONSIDERATIONS IN WHICH IS SHOWN THE INJURY CAUSED BY FOOLISH ZEAL UNDER THE PRETEXT OF FEAR OF GOD AND THE PROFIT ORIGINATING IN QUIETNESS; TOGETHER WITH OTHER SUBJECTS
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Isaac of Ninive : VIII WHAT IT IS THAT HELPS A MAN TO COME NEAR UNTO GOD WITH HIS HEART
{{VIII WHAT IT IS THAT HELPS A MAN TO COME NEAR UNTO GOD WITH HIS HEART AND WHY IT IS THAT HELP COMES NEAR UNTO HIM SECRETLY AND WHAT IT IS THAT CAUSES A MAN TO COME NEAR UNTO HUMILITY}} Blessed is the man who knows his weakness. This knowledge becomes for him the foundation…
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Isaac of Ninive : VII ON OTHER SUBJECTS
{{VII ON OTHER SUBJECTS, CHAPTER BY CHAPTER, IN SHORT SECTIONS. ON THE CHARACTER OF TRUST IN GOD AND FOR WHOM IT IS BECOMING TO TRUST IN GOD. AND FURTHER: WHEN A MAN TRUSTS, HE WILL HAVE POWER ACCORDING TO (THE STATE OF) HIS MIND. AND WHO TRUSTS FOOLISHLY AND WITHOUT DISCERNMENT}} There is a trust…
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Isaac of Ninive : SIX TREATISES ON THE BEHAVIOR OF EXCELLENCE (VI)
{{{VI}}} The fact that a man may fall into accidental faults, proves the weakness of his nature, namely that our nature necessarily is liable to such things. It has not seemed good unto God that it would be profitable for him that he should be wholly exalted above this (weakness), before his nature arrived at…
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Isaac of Ninive : SIX TREATISES ON THE BEHAVIOR OF EXCELLENCE (V)
{{{V}}} God has made great the honor of man, by the twofold teachings he has given him. And from every side He has opened for him a door through which he has access unto knowledge. Ask from nature a true witness concerning thyself, then thou wilt not err. If thou goest yet astray, let thyself…
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Isaac of Ninive : SIX TREATISES ON THE BEHAVIOR OF EXCELLENCE (II)
Gratefulness on the part of the recipient spurs on the giver to bestow gifts larger than before. He who embezzles petty things is also false and fraudulent concerning things of importance. The sick one who is acquainted with his sickness is easily to be cured; and he who confesses his pain is near to health.…