![]() ![]() At last I obey your commands, and as charity can do all things, I will trust in the Holy Ghost to guide my course, and I shall console myself, whatever the event. You urge me to hoist the swelling sails, to loosen the sheets, and to take the helm. I see the shores sinking beneath the horizon, "sky and sea on every side" darkness lowers over the water, the clouds are black as night, the waves only are white with foam. I have not so much as handled a rowboat on a lake, and now I have to trust myself to the noise and turmoil of the Euxine. I am a mere unskilled passenger, and I find myself placed in charge of a freighted ship. ![]() What, then, must I do? The task is beyond me, and yet I dare not decline it. You in reply urge that in the things of God we must look not at the work which we are able to accomplish, but at the spirit in which it is undertaken, and that he can never be at a loss for words who has believed on the Word.ΔΆ. I have declined the task from modesty and, as I now feel, with justice, believing myself to be incapable of it, at once because bureau language is inadequate to the divine praise, and because inactivity, acting like rust upon the intellect, has dried up any little power of expression that I have ever had. You have frequently asked me, dearest Innocent, not to pass over in silence the marvellous event which has happened in our own day. He followed his friend to Syria, where he died in A.D. Innocent, to whom it is addressed, was one of the little band of enthusiasts whom Jerome gathered round him in Aquileia. Not only the first of the letters but probably the earliest extant composition of Jerome (c. FRAGMENTS FROM THE LOST WRITINGS OF IRENAEUS ![]()
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