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Ignatius
<page 102>The work is not of promise,[1156] unless a man be found in the power of faith, even to the end.
It is better that a man should be silent while he is something, than that he should be talking when he is not; that by those things which he speaks he should act, and by those things of which he is silent he should be known.
My spirit bows in adoration to the cross, which is a stumbling-block to those who do not believe, but is to you for salvation and eternal life.
There was concealed from the ruler of this world the virginity of Mary and the birth of our Lord, and the three renowned mysteries[1158] which were done in the tranquillity of God from the star. And here, at the manifestation of the Son, magic began to be destroyed, and all bonds were loosed; and the ancient kingdom and the error of evil was destroyed. Henceforward all things were moved together, and the destruction of death was devised, and there was the commencement of that which was perfected in God.[1159]
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