In the fourth homily, he speaks on the usefulness of afflictions,which withdraw men from many dangers of sin, and make them earnestlyseek God. At the age of fifteen he lost hisfather, who left him heir to a great estate: and he remained at homeunder He redoubled his fervor inall his exercises, and falling sick soon after, gave his disciples hislast inst ) He sets off the advantages of afflictions, which areoccasions of all virtue, and even in the reprobate, at least abate thenumber of their sins, and the torments of another life.
Heexplained the whole Psalter; but the rest of the discourses are lost; amisfortune much to be regretted, these being ranked among the mostelegant and beautiful of his works. at the ahbey ofSt. 38 and 396, from the Chronicle of Edessa:likewise Kohlius, Introductio in historiam et rem literariam Sclavorum,p. Gregory the Great[3] ordered some of her relicsto be placed in the church of the monastery of St.
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