ACC ~ 1 Corinthians 14 v14

THE STERILITY OF YESTERDAY’S FLESH. ORIGEN: If you have brought a word in praise of God, not new and fresh from the learning of the spirit, from the teaching of God’s grace, your mouth indeed offers “a sacrifice of praise,” but your mind is accused on account of the sterility of yesterday’s flesh. HOMILIES ON LEVITICUS 5.

THE MIND UNFRUITFUL. AMBROSIASTER: What can a person achieve if he does not know what he is saying? COMMENTARY ON PAUL’S EPISTLES.

MY SPIRIT PRAYS. AUGUSTINE: For he speaks thus, when that which is said is not understood, because it cannot even be uttered, unless the images of corporeal sounds precede the oral sounds by the thought of the spirit. ON THE TRINITY 14.16.

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