The Instructor
Classic translationAncient Greek original
3rd c. · Treatises & Other · English translation, 1890
Source edition: The Ante-Nicene Fathers (ed. Roberts & Donaldson, 1885)
Cover art: The Oka (1903) — Vasily Polenov (Russian, 1844–1927) (Wikimedia Commons, Public domain)
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Contents
- Book 1
- 1. The Office of the Instructor
- 2. Our Instructor’s Treatment of Our Sins
- 3. The Philanthropy of the Instructor
- 4. Men and Women Alike Under the Instructor’s Charge
- 5. All Who Walk According to Truth are Children of God
- 6. The Name Children Does Not Imply Instruction in Elementary Principles
- 7. Who the Instructor Is, and Respecting His Instruction
- 8. Against Those Who Think that What is Just is Not Good
- 9. That It is the Prerogative of the Same Power to Be Beneficent and to Punish…
- 10. That the Same God, by the Same Word, Restrains from Sin by Threatening, and…
- 11. That the Word Instructed by the Law and the Prophets
- 12. The Instructor Characterized by the Severity and Benignity of Paternal…
- Chapter 13.—Virtue Rational, Sin Irrational
- Book 2
- Chap. 1.—On Eating
- Chapter 2.—On Drinking
- Chapter 3.—On Costly Vessels
- 4. How to Conduct Ourselves at Feasts
- Chapter 5.—On Laughter
- Chapter 6.—On Filthy Speaking
- 7. Directions for Those Who Live Together
- 8. On the Use of Ointments and Crowns
- Chap. 9.—On Sleep
- Chapter 10
- Chapter 11.—On Clothes
- Chap. 12.—On Shoes
- 13. Against Excessive Fondness for Jewels and Gold Ornaments
- Book 3
- Chapter 1.—On the True Beauty
- Chapter 2.—Against Embellishing the Body
- 3. Against Men Who Embellish Themselves
- 4. With Whom We are to Associate
- Chapter 5.—Behaviour in the Baths
- Chapter 6.—The Christian Alone Rich
- 7. Frugality a Good Provision for the Christian
- 8. Similitudes and Examples a Most Important Part of Right Instruction
- 9. Why We are to Use the Bath
- 10. The Exercises Suited to a Good Life
- 11. A Compendious View of the Christian Life
- 12. Continuation: with Texts from Scripture
- Elucidations