 | 1887 - 264 pàgines
...terror. Asked who he was, he replied, " I am a Christian." " Thou liest," was the answer ; " thou art a Ciceronian, not a Christian ; for where your treasure is, there also is your heart." He was then scourged, and in his agony cried out that he would never again offend by heathen studies.... | |
 | 1887 - 264 pàgines
...terror. Asked who he was, he replied, " I am a Christian." " Thou liest," was the answer ; " thou art a Ciceronian, not a Christian ; for where your treasure is, there also is your heart." He was then scourged, and in his agony cried out that he would never again offend by heathen studies.... | |
 | W. H. C. Frend - 1984 - 1048 pàgines
...take up Plautus." There followed the dream with its famous assertion from Christ as Judge, "You lie, you are a Ciceronian, not a Christian for where your treasure is, there is your heart."106 This episode throws light on Jerome's outlook and that of some of his contemporaries.... | |
 | Patricia Cox Miller - 1998 - 292 pàgines
...identity, I replied, "I am a Christian." And he who sat [behind the tribunal] said, "You are lying; you are a Ciceronian, not a Christian; for where your treasure is, there is where your heart is also." Immediately I became mute, and, amid the floggings — for he had ordered... | |
 | Keith Sidwell - 1995 - 422 pàgines
...told him that he lied: Ciceronianus es, ncm Christianus: ubi enim thesaurus tuus, ibi et cor tuum: 'You are a Ciceronian, not a Christian; for where your treasure is, there is your heart' (the last part is a quotation from Mt 6.21, cf. Lk 12.34). A chastened Jerome told God... | |
 | David Lyle Jeffrey - 1996 - 420 pàgines
...status, his identity. His answer, that he was a Christian, obtained a swift dismissal: " 'You lie. You are a Ciceronian, not a Christian; for where your treasure is, there will your heart be also' (Matt. 6:21)" (30). Jerome's point in this confession is simply that his former... | |
 | Simon Goldhill - 2002 - 340 pàgines
...Judge demanded he identify himself. 'I am a Christian', he declared. 'You lie', retorted the Judge, 'You are a Ciceronian, not a Christian. For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.' And Jerome was flogged, and 'tormented by the flame of conscience', until... | |
 | Francesco Petrarca - 2003 - 574 pàgines
...sinful one. To be sure, I might hear the words in which Jerome says that he was reproached: "You lie. You are a Ciceronian, not a Christian. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also."148 I shall answer that my incorruptible treasure and the highest part of... | |
 | Margaret Schaus - 2006 - 986 pàgines
...light asked him who he was. "I am a Christian," Jerome answered. "You are lying," the judge retorted, "you are a Ciceronian, not a Christian, for where your treasure is, there your heart is too" (Matthew 6:21). Jerome promised on the spot to never again possess or study secular... | |
 | James L. Kugel - 2007 - 850 pàgines
...what my status was. But when I answered that I was a Christian, the One in charge replied, "You lie. You are a Ciceronian, not a Christian. For 'where your treasure is, there shall your heart be also' [Matt. 6:21]." At once I fell silent, and in between blows of the whip —... | |
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You are a Ciceronian, not a Christian. 'For where your treasure is there will your heart be also 