...subordinates it. It does not reject it altogether, but regulates it, knowing (as I have said above) that 'in a great house there are not only vessels of gold...silver, but also of wood and of earth; and some to honor and some to dishonor. If a man, therefore, purge himself ... he shall be a vessel unto honor...

...been granted against reason. EPISTLE XXXV. To LEONTIUS, Ex-CoNSUt. Gregory to Leontius, Sec. Since in a great house there are not only vessels of gold...of silver, but also of wood and of earth, and some indeed to honour but some to dishonour (z Tim. ii. 2o), who can be ignorant that in the bosom of the...

...the noblest position. His words are : " But in a great house there are not only vessels of gold and silver, but also of wood and of earth ; and some to...some to dishonour. If a man therefore purge himself, he shall be a vessel unto honour, sanctified and meet for the Master's use, prepared unto every good...

...this Spiritual Army will never retreat to the enemy's camp. The Bible says in 2 Timothy 2:20, that "in a great house, there are not only vessels of gold , and of silver, but also of wood and of earth ...", Regardless of what the vessels are made of, they are all important. There are many members but...

...purge the floor, to endeavor to separate the chaff from the grain ! And whereas the apostle says, ' But in a great house there are not only vessels of gold and of silver, but also of wood and of earth/ * that he should seem to choose those of gold and of stiver, and despise and cast away and condemn...

...threshing-floor, should endeavour to separate the chaff from the wheat ; and since the apostle says, " But in a great house there are not only vessels of gold and of silver, but also of wood and of earth," ) should think to choose the vessels of gold and of silver, to despise, to cast away, and to condemn...

...93 each one*. And this is manifest from what the same Apostle says in the Second Epistle to Timothy, In a great house there are not only vessels of gold and of silver, but also of weed and of earth : and same fa honour and same to dishonour. If a man therefore purge himself from...

...unrighteousness." [cp. Numb 16:5, LXX; Nahum 1 :7; Isaiah 52: 1 1] 20Now in a great [fig., wealthy] house [there] are not only vessels of gold and of silver, but also of wood and of clay, and some indeed for honor, but some for dishonor. 21Therefore, if anyone cleanses himself from...

...every man that calleth on the name of Christ, depart from iniquity. 20 Notwithstanding in a great house are not only vessels of gold and of silver: but also of wood and of earth: Some for honour, and some unto dishonour. 21 If a man purge himself from such fellows, he shall be...

...of the Church, Cyprian shows that by tne great house of which the apostle spoke, in which there were not only vessels of gold and of silver, but also of wood and of earth, he understood nothing else but the Church, in which there should be good and bad, till at the last...