Self-expiations, flagellations, sheepskin cloaks, root dinners, repulsive austerities, followed.

Religious contemplation Insoluble questions Self-expiations Basil the founder of Monasticism His interesting history Gregory Nazianzen Vows of the monks Their antagonism to prevailing evils Vow of Poverty opposed to money-making That of Chastity a protest against prevailing impurity Origin of celibacy Its subsequent corruption Necessity of the vow of Obedience Benedict and the Monastery of Monte Casino

They did not dispute Saint Augustine, but they adhered to penances and expiations, which entered so largely into the piety of the Middle Ages.

The idea of penances and expiations, pushed to their utmost logical sequence, was salvation by works and not by faith.

In his repentance he mortified himself with new self-expiations.

He sees the end of expiations: the sufferers will be restored to peace and joy.

Think of an education which impressed on the minds of interesting young girls that the trifling sins which they committed every day, and which proceeded from the exuberance of animal spirits, justly doomed them to everlasting burnings, without expiations,a creed so cruel as to undermine the health, and make life itself a misery!

Think of a spiritual despotism so complete that confessors and spiritual fathers could impose or remove these expiations, and thus open the door to heaven or hell!

After the love of God had subdued their hearts, we read but little of penances, or self-expiations, or forms of worship, or church ceremonies, or priestly rigors, or any of the slaveries and formalities which bound ordinary people.

Then when any such appearance visits you, Plato says, Have recourse to expiations, go a suppliant to the temples of the averting deities.

The officer perceived that he had to do with one of those unequivocal hypocritesif such a word can properly be applied to him who scarcely thought deception necessarywho then made a traffic of expiations of this nature; a pursuit that was common enough at the close of the seventeenth and in the commencement of the eighteenth centuries, and which has not even yet entirely disappeared from Europe.

Life follows life, and each life fulfils its Karma of destined expiation, working out the earthly stain of previous existences.

The task of expiation is not yet completed, and, in the midst of anguish, corruption, and the flux of all material things, the human race goes swarming on.

Near Stafford stood one called Weeping Cross, from its being a place designated for the expiation of penances, which concluded with weeping and other signs of contrition.

They were reported to the pontifices from the places where they were supposed to have occurred, and if thought worthy of expiation were entered in the pontifical books.

It was she who had first revealed the actual world to him; it was she who had first divined his power and his purpose; it was she who had released him from guilt by showing him a means of expiation.

The landlord of the "Foul Anchor," as the inn, where Fid and Nightingale had so nearly come to blows, was called, scrupulously closed his doors at eight; a sort of expiation, by which he endeavoured to atone, while he slept, for any moral peccadillos that he might have committed during the day.

ARNIM, H. B. Expiation.

CORWIN M. Expiation.

Expiation, by Elizabeth, pseud.

cried Cato, "rather expiation!

Many, I doubt not, were guided only by the natural malignity of their hearts; many acted from fear, and expected to purchase impunity for former compliances with the court by this popular expiation; a large number are also supposed to have been paid by the Duke of Orleanswhether for the gratification of malice or ambition, time must develope.

Many, I doubt not, were guided only by the natural malignity of their hearts; many acted from fear, and expected to purchase impunity for former compliances with the court by this popular expiation; a large number are also supposed to have been paid by the Duke of Orleanswhether for the gratification of malice or ambition, time must develope.

Men do what is called a good action, as some piece of courage or charity, much as they would pay a fine in expiation of daily non-appearance on parade.

That the miseries of this life are not expiations of sins? "Cease in your avaricious hoarding of wealth!