He took down, volume by volume, several Fathers of the Church, and glanced them through; but they contained nothing to his purpose.

他一卷一卷地记下了教会的几位教父，并浏览了一遍。但它们对他的目的毫无帮助。

Empedocles the Sicilian, and Apollonius of Tyana; and truly and really, in divers of the ancient hermits and holy fathers of the church.

西西里的恩培多克勒和蒂亚纳的阿波罗尼乌斯；确实， 真的，在古代隐士和教会圣父的潜水员中。

We went to U.N. schools. We found all the schools were full. Then we came to the church, and the father of the church welcomed us and opened the church for us.

我们去过联合国学校。我们发现所有的学校都满员。然后我们来到教堂, 教堂神父欢迎我们, 为我们敞开大门。

It would be an error, however, to assume that there was any lack of understanding in the leaders of the Christian movement: —ah, but they were clever, clever to the point of holiness, these fathers of the church!

然而，如果认为基督教运动的领袖们缺乏理解力， 那将是错误的：——啊， 但他们很聪明， 聪明到圣洁的地步， 这些教会的教父们！

But at the end of a sitting, dealing with the fathers of the Church, an adroit examiner, having first interrogated Julien on Saint Jerome and his passion for Cicero, went on to speak about Horace, Virgil and other profane authors.

但在与教会教父打交道的会议结束时，一位机敏的审查员首先审问了于连对圣杰罗姆的看法以及他对西塞罗的热情，然后继续谈论贺拉斯、维吉尔和其他亵渎神明的作家。