单词 | counsel of perfection |
释义 | > as lemmascounsel of perfection b. spec. in Theology. One of the advisory declarations of Christ and the apostles, in medieval theology reckoned as twelve, which are considered not to be universally binding, but to be given as a means of attaining greater moral perfection; so counsel of perfection, esp. in reference to Matthew xix. 21; also transferred; evangelical counsels, the three obligations of voluntary poverty, chastity, and obedience to a religious superior (see quot. 1875). ΘΚΠ society > faith > aspects of faith > Bible, Scripture > biblical events > [noun] > discourse > on perfection counselc1380 society > faith > worship > sacrament > order > ordination > [noun] > vows taken during evangelical counsels1875 c1380 Eng. Wycliffite Serm. in Sel. Wks. II. 2 Ȝif men wolen..kepe þe counseilis of Crist, loke þat þei croken not from him. 1530 Myroure Oure Ladye (Fawkes) (1873) ii. 139 By the nombre of xxii. ys vnderstonde the x commaundementes and the xii counsaylles of the gospell. 1530 Myroure Oure Ladye (Fawkes) (1873) ii. 140 The commaundementes of oure lorde that all must kepe that wyll be saued..the counsayles that longe to relygyous & to folke of perfeccyon. 1577 T. Vautrollier tr. M. Luther Comm. Epist. to Galathians (new ed.) f. 85 (margin) The Papistes diuide the gospell into precepts and counsels. To the preceptes men are bound (say they), but not to the counsels. 1649 Bp. J. Taylor Great Exemplar Exhort. §8 Although some men did acts of Counsel in order to attain that perfection which in Jesus was essential and unalterable. a1678 H. Scougal Life of God (1726) 169 We must not look upon this..as a counsel of perfection, highly commendable, but not absolutely necessary to salvation. 1863 J. Keble Life T. Wilson: Pt. I xii. 405 This..which the tenor of her life may justify us in calling no extravagance of pietism, but a real counsel of perfection. 1875 H. E. Manning Internal Mission of Holy Ghost xii. 330 But the life of counsels—that is the life of poverty, the life of chastity, the life of obedience, which is the life of the priesthood, and the life of those who enter convents. 1885 W. E. Addis & T. Arnold Catholic Dict. (ed. 3) 325/1 The high estimation in which the Fathers held the evangelical counsels. 1886 Ld. Selborne Def. Church Eng. iii. xvii. §3. 297 A tendency..to elevate counsels of perfection into laws of bondage. 1909 A. Bennett Lit. Taste 87 Every Englishman who is interested in any branch of his native literature, and who respects himself, ought to own a comprehensive and inclusive library of English literature, in comely and adequate editions. You may suppose that this counsel is a counsel of perfection. It is not. 1938 W. S. Maugham Summing Up xlviii. 186 Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul. This is a counsel of perfection. < as lemmas |
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