+ Jesus said to him, “Rise, take up your bed and walk.” And immediately the man was made well, took up his bed, and walked.” The number forty which is produced by multiply the number ten by four, is usually taken in scripture for the perfection of a right way...

+ “We do not give pleasure to the Devil so much when we sin as when we despair. None should despair about his salvation… Are you a tax-collector? You can become an Evangelist. Are you a blasphemer? You can become an Apostle. Are you a thief? You can plunder Paradise…There...

+ “The number forty is put to our attention as one consecrated by a kind of perfection. Now fasting, in its large and general sense, is to abstain from the iniquities and unlawful pleasures of the world, which is perfect fasting: ‘That denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we may live...

+ Owe no one anything, except to love one another. (Rom. 13:8). Paul again speaks about the mother of good deeds, and the virtue which is productive of every [other] virtue. He also calls love a debt, not that of a one-time payment, but a continuous debt. For he does...