Wherein one may observe both the humility and the grace of his reverence for God. I think I shall not seem to be taking too much on myself, if, in the midst of my children, I yield to my desire to teach, seeing that the master of humility himself has said: Come, you children, hearken unto me: I will teach you the fear of the Lord. Ambrose himself, however, has to learn in order that he may teach or rather has to teach what he has not learned at any rate learning and teaching with himself must go on together.ġ. Chapter 1.Ī Bishop's special office is to teach St. The treatise was probably composed about a.d. Ambrose in basing his treatise on the lines of that of Cicero would seem to have been the confutation of some of the false principles of heathenism, and to show how much higher Christian morality is than that of the Gentiles. By many examples he then proves how holy men have sought after what was becoming, and have thereby secured what was expedient.
Nothing is to be striven after which is not becoming to this everything must give place, not only expediency but even friendship and life itself.
In the third book he treats of duties of perfection, and lays down as a rule that in everything we must inquire what is expedient, not for individuals, but for many or for all. Incidentally he shows that what is becoming is really that which is expedient, and ends the book with several chapters of practical considerations. In the second book, passing from what is becoming to what is expedient, he points out that we can only measure what is really expedient by reference to eternal life, in contradiction to the errors of heathen philosophers, and shows that what is expedient consists in the knowledge of God and in good living. After treating then of some elementary duties, such as those towards parents and elders, he touches upon the two principles which lead the mind, reason and appetite, and shows that what is becoming consists in thinking of good and right things, and in the subjection of the appetite to reason, and supplies certain rules and examples, ending with a discussion on the four Cardinal Virtues, Prudence, Justice, Fortitude, and Temperance. In the first book he divides duties into ordinary, or the way of the commandments, binding upon all alike and perfect, which consist in following the counsels. Like Cicero, he treats of that which is right, becoming, or honourable, and what is expedient but with reference not to this life but to that which is to come, teaching in the first book that which is becoming or honourable in the second, what is expedient and in the third, considering both in conjunction. The writer says that his object is to impress upon those whom he has ordained the lessons which he had previously taught them. Consequently he undertook the following treatise, setting forth the duties of the clergy, and taking as a model the treatise of Cicero, De Officiis. Ambrose, esteeming very highly the dignity of the ministerial office, was most desirous that the clergy of his diocese should live worthily of their high vocation, and be good and profitable examples to the people. Includes the Catholic Encyclopedia, Church Fathers, Summa, Bible and more all for only $19.99.
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