On Prayer and The Contemplative Life


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"Hear, O God, my prayer, and despise not my supplication; be attentive to me and hear me. I am grieved in my exercise; and am troubled at the voice of the enemy, and at the tribulation of the sinner. For they have cast iniquities upon me, and in wrath they were troublesome to me. My heart is troubled within me, and the fear of death is fallen upon me. Fear and trembling are come upon me, and darkness hath covered me. And I said: Who will give me wings like a dove, and I will fly and be at rest?"[266]

[Pg 152]

FOOTNOTES:

[98] Etymologies, x., sub litt. O.

[99] Ps. xxxviii. 13.

[100] Ethics, I. xiii. 15.

[101] Rabanus Maurus, De Universis, vi. 14.

[102] On the Orthodox Faith, iii. 24.

[103] Ps. x. 17.

[104] Isa. lxv. 24.

[105] Of the Divine Names, vi. 1.

[106] Ps. xxvi. 4.

[107] Art. XV.

[108] Isa. lxiv. 8, 9.

[109] xviii. 1.

[110] Mal. iii. 14.

[111] Dialogue, i. 8.

[112] S. Matt. vi. 32.

[113] 1 Kings xv. 29.

[114] Of Good Deeds, ii. 1.

[115] Hom. II., On Prayer; also Hom. XXX., On Genesis.

[116] Eph. i. 4.

[117] Ps. lxx. 17, 18.

[118] S. Matt. vii. 7.

[119] Ps. cxx. 4.

[120] S. Matt. vi. 8.

[121] Ps. ciii. 33, 34.

[122] Ps. lxxxiii. 12.

[123] viii. 4.

[124] 1 Cor. xiv. 15.

[125] On Care for the Dead, chaps, xiii., xv., xvi.

[126] Moralia in Job, xii. 14.

[127] Ps. lxvi.

[128] S. Matt. vi. 9-13; S. Luke xi. 2-4.

[129] Of Socrates the Philosopher, vii. 21.

[130] Ps. lxxix. 4.

[131] Ps. cxviii. 35.

[132] On the Orthodox Faith, iii. 24.

[133] iv. 3.

[134] Rom. viii. 26.

[135] S. John iv. 24.

[136] 1 Tim. ii. 4.

[137] Isa. lxiii. 15, 16.

[138] xxx. 8.

[139] Ep., CXXX., chap. xii.

[140] Ethics, I. vii. 15.

[141] Ep., CXXX., chap. vi.

[142] S. Matt. vi. 33.

[143] On the Sermon on the Mount, II. x. 1.

[144] S. Matt. vi. 25.

[145] 2 Cor. iv. 18.



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