enchiridion
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Handbook; a manual of devotions.
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Adventure Time: Pirates of the Enchiridion has some of the show's hilarious personality, but not enough to make its basic and trivially easy RPG mechanics worth sitting through.
Augustine taught that the eternal fate of the soul is determined at death, citation Augustine of Hippo, Enchiridion, 110 and that purgatorial fires of the intermediate state purify only those that died in communion with the Church.
Epictetus, Enchiridion, 34. The first object of philosophy, therefore, is to purify the mind.
Epictetus, Discourses, iii.3.14–19; Enchiridion, 6 Reason alone is good, and the irrational is evil, and the irrational is intolerable to the rational.
Epictetus, Discourses, i.1; Enchiridion, 1 That alone is in our power, which is our own work; and in this class are our opinions, impulses, desires, and aversions.
His Enchiridion locorum communium adversus Lutherum et alios hostes ecclesiae (Landshut, 1525) went through forty-six editions before 1576.