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# Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers: Series I/Volume II/On Christian Doctrine/Introductory Note by the Editor

Introductory Note by the Editor.
The four books of St. Augustin On Christian Doctrine (De Doctrina Christiana, iv libri) are a compend of exegetical theology to guide the reader in the understanding and interpretation of the Sacred Scriptures, according to the analogy of faith. The first three books were written a.d. 397; the fourth was added 426.
He speaks of it in his Retractations, Bk. ii., chap. 4, as follows:
“Finding that the books on Christian Doctrine were not finished, I thought it better to complete them before passing on to the revision of others.  Accordingly, I completed the third book, which had been written as far as the place where a quotation is made from the Gospel about the woman who took leaven and hid it in three measures of meal till the whole was leavened. I added also the last book, and finished the whole work in four books [in the year 426]: the first three affording aids to the interpretation of Scripture, the last giving directions as to the mode of making known our interpretation. In the second book, I made a mistake as to the authorship of the book commonly called the Wisdom of Solomon. For I have since learnt that it is not a well-established fact, as I said it was, that Jesus the son of Sirach, who wrote the book of Ecclesiasticus, wrote this book also: on the contrary, I have ascertained that it is altogether more probable that he was not the author of this book. Again, when I said, ‘The authority of the Old Testament is contained within the limits of these forty-four books,’ I used the phrase ‘Old Testament’ in accordance with ecclesiastical usage. But the apostle seems to restrict the application of the name ‘Old Testament’ to the law which was given on Mount Sinai. And in what I said as to St. Ambrose having, by his knowledge of chronology, solved a great difficulty, when he showed that Plato and Jeremiah were contemporaries, my memory betrayed me. What that great bishop really did say upon this subject may be seen in the book which he wrote, ‘On Sacraments or Philosophy.’”

## Footnotes

* ↑ Bk. iii. chap. 25.
* ↑ Chap. 8.
* ↑ Bk. ii. chap. 8.
* ↑ Gal. iv. 24.
* ↑ Book. ii. chap. 28. See p. 547.
* ↑ This book is among the lost works of Ambrose.
# Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers: Series I/Volume III

See Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers: Series I for details of authorship.

## Contents

* Title Page
* Preface
* Contents
* Doctrinal Treatises of St. Augustin
** On the Holy Trinity
** The Enchiridion
** On the Catechising of the Uninstructed
** A Treatise on Faith and the Creed
** Concerning Faith of Things Not Seen
** On the Profit of Believing
** On the Creed
* Moral Treatises of St. Augustin
** On Continence
** On the Good of Marriage
** Of Holy Virginity
** On the Good of Widowhood
** On Lying
** Against Lying
** Of the Work of Monks
** On Patience
** On Care to Be Had for the Dead
* Indexes [not included]
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# Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers: Series I/Volume II/Table of Contents

Contents.
__________
Editor’s Preface
st. augustin’s city of god:
Translated by the Rev. Marcus Dods, D.D., of Glasgow
Translator’s Preface
Table of Contents
The City of God
st. augustin’s christian doctrine:
Translated by Rev. Professor J.F. Shaw, of Londonderry
Introductory Note
Table of Contents
Christian Doctrine
Index to City of God
Index to Christian Doctrine
# Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers: Series I/Volume II/Title Page

A SELECT LIBRARY
OF THE
NICENE AND
POST-NICENE FATHERS
OF
THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH.
EDITED BY
PHILIP SCHAFF, D.D., LL.D.,
PROFESSOR IN THE UNION THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY, NEW YORK.
IN CONNECTION WITH A NUMBER OF PATRISTIC SCHOLARS OF EUROPE AND AMERICA.
VOLUME II
ST. AUGUSTIN’S:
CITY OF GOD and CHRISTIAN DOCTRINE
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# Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers: Series I/Volume III/Doctrinal Treatises of St. Augustin/A Treatise on Faith and the Creed

A Treatise on Faith and the Creed.
[De Fide Et Symbolo.]
in One Book.
Translated by
Rev. S. D. F. Salmond, D.D.,
Professor of Systematic Theology, Free Church College, Aberdeen.
[A discourse delivered before a council of the whole North African Episcopate assembled at Hippo-Regius.]

## Contents

* Introductory Notice
* Chapter 1
* Chapter 2
* Chapter 3
* Chapter 4
* Chapter 5
* Chapter 6
* Chapter 7
* Chapter 8
* Chapter 9
* Chapter 10
# Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers: Series I/Volume III/Doctrinal Treatises of St. Augustin/A Treatise on Faith and the Creed/Chapter 1

A Treatise on Faith and the Creed.
Chapter 1.—Of the Origin and Object of the Composition.
1. Inasmuch as it is a position, written and established on the most solid foundation of apostolic teaching, “that the just lives of faith;” and inasmuch also as this faith demands of us the duty at once of heart and tongue,—for an apostle says, “With the heart man believeth unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation,”—it becomes us to be mindful both of righteousness and of salvation. For, destined as we are to reign hereafter in everlasting righteousness, we certainly cannot secure our salvation from the present evil world, unless at the same time, while laboring for the salvation of our neighbors, we likewise with the mouth make our own profession of the faith which we carry in our heart. And it must be our aim, by pious and careful watchfulness, to provide against the possibility of the said faith sustaining any injury in us, on any side, through the fraudulent artifices [or, cunning fraud] of the heretics.
We have, however, the catholic faith in the Creed, known to the faithful and committed to memory, contained in a form of expression as concise as has been rendered admissible by the circumstances of the case; the purpose of which [compilation] was, that individuals who are but beginners and sucklings among those who have been born again in Christ, and who have not yet been strengthened by most diligent and spiritual handling and understanding of the divine Scriptures, should be furnished with a summary, expressed in few words, of those matters of necessary belief which were subsequently to be explained to them in many words, as they made progress and rose to [the height of] divine doctrine, on the assured and steadfast basis of humility and charity. It is underneath these few words, therefore, which are thus set in order in the Creed, that most heretics have endeavored to conceal their poisons; whom divine mercy has withstood, and still withstands, by the instrumentality of spiritual men, who have been counted worthy not only to accept and believe the catholic faith as expounded in those terms, but also thoroughly to understand and apprehend it by the enlightenment imparted by the Lord. For it is written, “Unless ye believe, ye shall not understand.” But the handling of the faith is of service for the protection of the Creed; not, however, to the intent that this should itself be given instead of the Creed, to be committed to memory and repeated by those who are receiving the grace of God, but that it may guard the matters which are retained in the Creed against the insidious assaults of the heretics, by means of catholic authority and a more entrenched defence.

## Footnotes

* ↑ Hab. ii. 4; Rom. i. 17; Gal. iii. 11; Heb. x. 38
* ↑ Rom. x. 10
* ↑ Isa. vii. 9, according to the rendering of the Septuagint.
# Mrs. Beeton's Book of Household Management/Abridged Preface to the First Edition

ABRIDGED PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION
I must frankly own that, if I had known beforehand the labour which this book has entailed, I should never have been courageous enough to commence it. What moved me, in the first instance, to attempt a work like this, was the discomfort and suffering which I had seen brought about by household mis-management. I have always thought that there is no more fruitful source of family discontent than badly-cooked dinners and untidy ways. Men are now so well served out of doors—at clubs, hotels and restaurants—that, to compete with the attractions of these places, a mistress must be thoroughly acquainted with the theory and practice of cookery, as well as all the other arts of making and keeping a comfortable home.
In this book I have attempted to give, in the chapters devoted to cookery, an intelligible arrangement to every recipe, a list of the ingredients, a plain statement of the method of preparing each dish, and a careful estimate of its cost, the number of people for whom sufficient, and the time when seasonable. Friends in England, Scotland, Ireland, France and Germany have very materially aided me. A diligent comparison with the works of the best modern writers on cookery has also been necessary to the faithful fulfilment of my task. But in the department belonging to the Cook I have striven to make my work something more than a Cookery-Book, and have, therefore, given a short account of the natural history of the animals and vegetables which we use as food. I have followed the animals from their birth to their appearance on the table; have described their management; the position of the various joints; and the methods of carving Meat, Poultry and Game. Skilful artists have designed the numerous drawings which illustrate many important and interesting items. The coloured plates are a novelty not without value.
​Towards the end of the work will be found valuable chapters on the "Management of Children," "The Doctor," "Legal Memoranda," which have been contributed by a great physician and an eminent solicitor. I wish here to acknowledge the kind letters and congratulations I have received during the progress of this work, and have only further to add, that I trust the result of the four years' incessant labour which I have expended will not be altogether unacceptable to some of my countrymen and countrywomen.
# Merchant of Venice (1923) Yale/Appendix B

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APPENDIX B
The History of the Play
It is generally believed that The Merchant of Venice was written between 1594 and 1598; but all we know is that it was written before 1598. In that year Francis Meres published his Palladis Tamia, where, in a comparison of English poets with the classics, he mentions Shakespeare as a leading contemporary dramatist, and in the list of his productions gives Merchant of Venice.
Henslowe's Diary, under date of 25 August, 1594, shows that a new play which he describes as 'the Venesyon comodey,' was performed. No one can prove that this is a reference to the Merchant of Venice. Inasmuch as most editors and critics delight in conjecture, it is surprising that no one has tried to prove that this is a play wherein Shakespeare dramatizes his adventures with the 'Venison' of Sir Thomas Lucy, of Charlecote Park.
A quarto edition was printed in 1600, and upon this the Folio text of 1623 was based. In 1619 a spurious edition, bearing the false date 1600, was foisted upon the world. Till 1906 it was generally regarded as the earliest edition and allowed vastly more authority than it in fact deserves.
No one knows when the play was first performed. A version by George Granville, Viscount Lansdowne, was played at London in 1701, and 'held the stage for exactly forty years.' It is printed in Furness as a literary curiosity.
Of the famous actors who have interpreted Shylock, Richard Burbage, the Elizabethan star, may have been the first. In 1741, Charles Macklin, an Irishman, restored the Shakespearean version to the stage, for ​which he should receive everlasting credit. When he was nearly a hundred years old, he made his last appearance in the role of Shylock. The next great actor to take the part was Edmund Kean, in 1814, whose original interpretation made a powerful impression.
In the latter part of the nineteenth century, the greatest impersonation was that by Edwin Booth, who displayed all the resources of his genius. In many ways, it was his finest role. Henry Irving attracted wide attention by making Shylock a sympathetic character, but he was neither Elizabethan nor particularly impressive. Richard Mansfield, with his uncanny intelligence, gave a memorable presentation, in which the fiendish character of Shylock was predominant, and yet his humanity not lost. Contemporary with him was the great German actor, Ernst von Possart, who made Der Kaufmann von Venedig a favorite play with Continental audiences. He was one of the best of all Shylocks. At the present writing (1922) the only important English-speaking actors of the Jew are Edward Sothern, who, with Julia Marlowe as Portia, gives an admirable production; Walter Hampden; and David Warfield.
# Merchant of Venice (1923) Yale/Text

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The Merchant of Venice
* Act I
* Act II
* Act III
* Act IV
* Act V
DRAMATIS PERSONÆ
The Duke of Venice
Morochus, a Prince, and a Suitor to Portia
The Prince of Arragon, Suitor also to Portia
Bassanio, an Italian Lord, Suitor likewise to Portia
Antonio, a Merchant of Venice
| Salarino | $\scriptstyle {\left.{\begin{matrix}\ \\\\\ \\\ \\\ \ \end{matrix}}\right\}\,$ | Gentlemen of Venice, and Companions with Bassanio |
| Salanio | $\scriptstyle {\left.{\begin{matrix}\ \\\\\ \\\ \\\ \ \end{matrix}}\right\}\,$ | Gentlemen of Venice, and Companions with Bassanio |
| Gratiano | $\scriptstyle {\left.{\begin{matrix}\ \\\\\ \\\ \\\ \ \end{matrix}}\right\}\,$ | Gentlemen of Venice, and Companions with Bassanio |
| Lorenzo | $\scriptstyle {\left.{\begin{matrix}\ \\\\\ \\\ \\\ \ \end{matrix}}\right\}\,$ | Gentlemen of Venice, and Companions with Bassanio |
Shylock, the rich Jew, and Father to Jessica
Tubal, a Jew, Shylock’s Friend
Portia, the rich Italian Lady
Merissa, her waiting-Gentlewoman
Jessica, Daughter to Shylock
Gobbo, an old man, Father to Lancelot
Lancelot Gobbo, the Clown
Stephano, a Messenger
[Leonardo, Servant to Bassanio
Balthazar, Servant to Portia]
Gaoler and Attendants [Magnificoes of Venice, Officers of the Court of Justice, Servants to Portia]
[Scene: Alternately at Venice and at Portia's house, Belmont, on the mainland.]
Dramatis Personæ; cf. n.
# Merchant of Venice (1923) Yale/Appendix C

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APPENDIX C
The Text of the Present Edition
The text of the present volume is, by permission, based upon that of the Oxford Shakespeare, compared with the First Folio and Quarto texts. The following changes from the Oxford text have been made:
1. The stage directions are those of the First Folio, necessary additional words being inserted in square brackets.
2. The punctuation has been occasionally altered, and the spelling of a few words normalized; e.g., villainy (villany), nobody (no body), everywhere (every where).
3. The following alterations of text have been introduced, usually in deference to the authority of the genuine (Heyes) Quarto of 1600 (Q) and the First Folio (F). Readings of the present edition precede and those of Craig (Oxford) follow the colon:
I. iii. 80 eanlings which (QF): eanlings that
113 spit: spet (QF). Cf. II. vii. 45
144 Bass. (QF): Ant.
162 dealings (QF): dealing (later Folios)
II. ii. 28 incarnation (QF): incarnal (spurious quarto)
103 phill-horse (QF): thill-horse (Theobald)
125 farthest (QF): very furthest
II. ix. 4 stand (QF): stands (misprint?)
III. i. 50 was used (QF): used (Rowe)
90 there, there, there, there! (QF): there there, there!
III. ii. 245 steals (QF): steal (Pope)
III. iv. 53 tranect (QF): traject (Rowe)
IV. 1. 21 strange apparent (QF): strange-apparent (Walker)
56 woollen (QF): wauling (Capell)
279 but (Q): not (F)
373 unto (QF): into (misprint?)
V. i. 185 hope, which (QF): hope, that
236 let not me (QF): let me not
302 Whether (QF): Whe'r
# Merchant of Venice (1923) Yale/Appendix D

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APPENDIX D
Suggestions for Collateral Reading
William Hazlitt: Characters of Shakespear's Plays, 1817. (Reprinted in Everyman’s Library.)
H. H. Furness: A New Variorum Edition of Shakespeare, Vol. VII, The Merchant of Venice, 1888.
R. G. Moulton: Shakespeare as a Dramatic Artist, new ed., 1893. (First published, 1885.)
Charlotte Porter and Helen A. Clarke: 'First Folio' edition of The Merchant of Venice, 1905.
Stopford A. Brooke: On Ten Plays of Shakespeare, 6th impression, 1919, pp. 127–154.
St. John Ervine: The Realistic Test of Drama. 'Yale Review,' Jan., 1922, pp . 288–298. (A discussion of the improbabilities in the plot.)
Raymond M. Alden: Shakespeare, 1922, pp. 207–214.
Sir Sidney Lee: Life of Shakespeare, new edition, 1922. (First published in 1898.)
# Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers: Series II/Volume III/Theodoret/Ecclesiastical History/Book IV/Chapter 5

Chapter V.—Of the reign of Valentinianus, and how he associated Valens his brother with him.
When the troops had become acquainted with the emperor’s sudden death, they wept for the departed prince as for a father, and made Valentinian emperor in his room. It was he who smote the officer of the temple and was sent to the castle. He was distinguished not only for his courage, but also for prudence, temperance, justice, and great stature. He was of so kingly and magnanimous a character that, on an attempt being made by the army to appoint a colleague to share his throne, he uttered the well-known words which are universally repeated, “Before I was emperor, soldiers, it was yours to give me the reins of empire: now that I have taken them, it is mine, not yours, to take counsel for the state.” The troops were struck with admiration at what he said, and contentedly followed the guidance of his authority. Valentinian, however, sent for his brother from Pannonia, and shared the empire with him. Would that he had never done so! To Valens, who had not yet accepted unsound doctrines, was committed the charge of Asia and of Egypt, while Valentinian allotted Europe to himself. He journeyed to the Western provinces, and beginning with a proclamation of true religion, instructed them in all righteousness. When the Arian Auxentius, bishop of Milan, who was condemned in several councils, departed this life, the emperor summoned the bishops and addressed them as follows: “Nurtured as you have been in holy writ, you know full well what should be the character of one dignified by the episcopate, and how he should rule his subjects aright, not only with his lip, but with his life; exhibit himself as an example of every kind of virtue, and make his conversation a witness of his teaching. Seat now upon your archiepiscopal throne a man of such character that we who rule the realm may honestly bow our heads before him and welcome his reproofs,—for, in that we are men, it needs must be that we sometimes stumble,—as a physician’s healing treatment.”

## Footnotes

* ↑ Vide page 101. “Valentinian belongs to the better class of Emperors. He was a soldier like Jovian, and held the same rank at his election. He was a decided Christian like Jovian, and, like him, free from the stain of persecution. Jovian’s rough good humour was replaced in Valentinian by a violent and sometimes cruel temper, but he had a sense of duty, and was free from Jovian’s vices.” Gwatkin, Arian Cont. 121.
* ↑ “Valens was timid, suspicious, and slow, yet not ungentle in private life. He was as uncultivated as his brother, but not inferior to him in scrupulous care for his subjects. He preferred remitting taxation to fighting at the head of the legions. In both wars he is entitled to head the series of financial rather than unwarlike sovereigns whose cautious policy brought the Eastern Empire safely through the great barbarian invasions of the fifth century.” Gwatkin, p. 121.
* ↑ Vide note on page 81.
# Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers: Series II/Volume III/Theodoret/Ecclesiastical History/Book V/Chapter 1

Book V.
Chapter I.—Of the piety of the emperor Gratianus
How the Lord God is long suffering towards those who rage against him, and chastises those who abuse his patience, is plainly taught by the acts and by the fate of Valens. For the loving Lord uses mercy and justice like weights and scales; whenever he sees any one by the greatness of his errors over-stepping the bounds of loving kindness, by just punishment He hinders him from being carried to further extremes.
Now Gratianus, the son of Valentinianus, and nephew of Valens, acquired the whole Roman Empire. He had already assumed the sceptre of Europe on the death of his father, in whose life-time he had shared the throne. On the death of Valens without issue he acquired in addition Asia, and the portions of Libya.

## Footnotes

* ↑ Gratian was proclaimed Augustus by Valentinian in 367. (Soc. iv. 11. Soz. vi. 10.) He came to the throne on the death of Valentinian at Bregetio, Nov. 17, 375. He associated his brother Valentinian II. with him, and succeeded his uncle Valens Aug. 9, 378. On Jan. 19, 379 he nominated Theodosius Augustus.
# Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers: Series II/Volume III/Theodoret/Ecclesiastical History/Book IV/Chapter 4

Chapter IV.—Of the restoration of allowances to the churches; and of the Emperor’s death.
When the emperor had received this letter, his former knowledge of and disposition to divine things was confirmed, and he issued a second edict wherein he ordered the amount of corn which the great Constantine had appropriated to the churches to be restored. For Julian, as was to be expected of one who had gone to war with our Lord and Saviour, had stopped even this maintenance, and since the famine which visited the empire in consequence of Julian’s iniquity prevented the collection of the contribution of Constantine’s enactment, Jovian ordered a third part to be supplied for the present, and promised that on the cessation of the famine he would give the whole.
After distinguishing the beginning of his reign by edicts of this kind, Jovian set out from Antioch for the Bosphorus; but at Dadastanæ, a village lying on the confines of Bithynia and Galatia, he died. He set out on his journey from this world with the grandest and fairest support and stay, but all who had experienced the clemency of his sway were left behind in pain. So, methinks, the Supreme Ruler, to convict us of our iniquity, both shews us good things and again deprives us of them; so by the former means He teaches us how easily He can give us what He will; by the latter He convicts us of our unworthiness of it, and points us to the better life.

## Footnotes

* ↑ cf. III. 8 page 99.
* ↑ At an obscure place called Dadastanæ, half way between Ancyra and Nicæa, after a hearty supper he went to bed in a room newly built. The plaster was still damp, and a brazier of charcoal was brought in to warm the air. In the morning he was found dead in his bed. (Amm. xxv. 10. 12. 13.) This was in February or March, 364.
# Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers: Series II/Volume III/Theodoret/Ecclesiastical History/Book V
## Contents

* Chapter 1
* Chapter 2
* Chapter 3
* Chapter 4
* Chapter 5
* Chapter 6
* Chapter 7
* Chapter 8
* Chapter 9
* Chapter 10
* Chapter 11
* Chapter 12
* Chapter 13
* Chapter 14
* Chapter 15
* Chapter 16
* Chapter 17
* Chapter 18
* Chapter 19
* Chapter 20
* Chapter 21
* Chapter 22
* Chapter 23
* Chapter 24
* Chapter 25
* Chapter 26
* Chapter 27
* Chapter 28
* Chapter 29
* Chapter 30
* Chapter 31
* Chapter 32
* Chapter 33
* Chapter 34
* Chapter 35
* Chapter 36
* Chapter 37
* Chapter 38
* Chapter 39