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Passages similar to: Stromata (Miscellanies) — Chapter XVI: Gnostic Exposition of the Decalogue.
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Stromata (Miscellanies)
Chapter XVI: Gnostic Exposition of the Decalogue. (32)
The seventh and eighth septenniads see him now In mind and speech mature, till fifty years; And in the ninth he still has vigour left, But strength and body are for virtue great Less than of yore; when, seven years more, God brings To end, then not too soon may he submit to die."
Book of Jubilees
Chapter XXIII (8)
The decreasing Years and increasing Corrup- tion of Mankind (xxiii. -).
Dhammapada
Chapter VIII: The Thousands (112)
And he who lives a hundred years, idle and weak, a life of one day is better if a man has attained firm strength.
Book of Jubilees
Chapter XXIII (12)
Machpelah; cf. Gen. xxv. 9. 4 Bracketed words a ditto graph. tribulation, and there is no peace :
Book of Jubilees
Chapter X (16)
Nine hundred and fifty years he completed in his life, nineteen jubilees and two > weeks and five years.
Book of Jubilees
Chapter XXIII (15)
Then they will say : " The days of the forefathers were many (even), unto a thousand years, and were good ; but, behold, the days of our life, if a...
Divine Comedy
Paradiso: Canto XVII (5)
Therefore with foresight it is well I arm me, That, if the dearest place be taken from me, I may not lose the others by my songs. Down through the wor...
Book of Jubilees
Chapter XXI (1)
And in the sixth year of the seventh l ( ?205o) week of this jubilee Abraham called Isaac his son, and commanded him, saying : " I am become old, and ...
Divine Comedy
Purgatorio: Canto XXX (6)
Some time did I sustain him with my look; Revealing unto him my youthful eyes, I led him with me turned in the right way. As soon as ever of my second...
Book of Jubilees
Chapter IV (30)
And he lacked seventy years of one thousand years; for one thousand years are as one day in the testimony of the heavens and therefore was it written ...
Divine Comedy
Paradiso: Canto X (6)
Now if thou trainest thy mind's eye along From light to light pursuant of my praise, With thirst already of the eighth thou waitest. By seeing every...
Divine Comedy
Inferno: Canto XXXI (6)
Once brought'st a thousand lions for thy prey, And who, hadst thou been at the mighty war Among thy brothers, some it seems still think The sons of...
Divine Comedy
Inferno: Canto XV (4)
Their litter let the beasts of Fesole Make of themselves, nor let them touch the plant, If any still upon their dunghill rise, In which may yet...
Divine Comedy
Paradiso: Canto XXVI (6)
The language that I spake was quite extinct Before that in the work interminable The people under Nimrod were employed; For nevermore result of reason...
Book of Enoch
Chapter X (17)
And then shall all the righteous escape, And shall live till they beget thousands of children, And all the days of their youth and their old age Shall...
Divine Comedy
Inferno: Canto XIII (4)
I, by the roots unwonted of this wood, Do swear to you that never broke I faith Unto my lord, who was so worthy of honour; And to the world if one of...
Orphic Hymns
Orphic Hymns (LXXXVI - Death)
The FUMIGATION from MANNA. HEAR me, O Death, whose empire unconfin'd, Extends to mortal tribes of ev'ry kind. On thee, the portion of our time...
Divine Comedy
Inferno: Canto II (1)
Day was departing, and the embrowned air Released the animals that are on earth From their fatigues; and I the only one Made myself ready to sustain...
Brihadaranyaka Upanishad
Brahmana 3 (4.3.36)
When he comes to weakness— whether he come to weakness through old age or through disease—this person frees himself from these limbs just as a mango,...
Dhammapada
Chapter VIII: The Thousands (110)
But he who lives a hundred years, vicious and unrestrained, a life of one day is better if a man is virtuous and reflecting.
Bundahishn
Chapter XIX (14)
It is said, that life is in the hand of that foremost man, at the end of his years, who has constructed the most defences around this earth, until...
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