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Eusebius — Church History, Constantine & Oration • SECTION 192

Chapter XXX.--The Pupils of Origen.

… The veneration in which Gregory held Origen is clear enough from his panegyric, and the great regard which Origen cherished for Gregory is revealed in his epistle to the latter, written soon after Gregory's …

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Gregory of Nyssa — Dogmatic Treatises • SECTION 3

Chapter I.--A Sketch of the Life of S. Gregory of Nyssa.

… In the roll of the Nicene Fathers there is no more honoured name than that of Gregory of Nyssa. Besides the praises of his great brother Basil and of his equally great friend Gregory Nazianzen …

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Gregory of Nyssa — Dogmatic Treatises • SECTION 7

Chapter III.--His Origenism.

… So that Gregory's language must have had, necessarily, a close connexion with that of the great interpreter and apologist, who had explained to his century the same truths which Gregory had to explain to …

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Basil — Letters and Select Works • SECTION 2

Council of Tyana.

… his brother Gregory to sleep. [26] Here, then, Basil was taught the rudiments of religion by his grandmother, [27] and by his father, [28] in accordance with the teaching of the great Gregory the Wonder …

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Gregory of Nyssa — Dogmatic Treatises • SECTION 1

A SELECT LIBRARY

… Yet in one respect a great gain must have at once resulted to the Catholic cause from this long work. The counter opposition of Created and Uncreate, with which Gregory met the opposition of Generate …

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Cyril of Jerusalem & Gregory Nazianzen • SECTION 91

Prolegomena.

Gregory Nazianzen, called by the Ecumenical Council of Ephesus "The Great," and universally known as "The Theologian" or "The Divine," a title which he shares with S. John the Evangelist alone among the Fathers of …

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Leo the Great & Gregory the Great • SECTION 117

Book V. Indiction XIII. (a.d. 594-5).

… As if to make up for such inaction, he had seemingly been profuse in his compliments to Gregory, using the expression, "as thou hast commanded," and calling him "Universal Pope." Such language Gregory, in reply …

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Basil — Letters and Select Works • SECTION 107

Letter XXXI. [2006]

… You will, I hope, of your great sagacity devise a means of relief from these outrageous people and intolerable annoyances. 2. No one is so ignorant of Gregory as to have any unworthy suspicion of …

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Athanasius — Select Works and Letters • SECTION 75

Introduction to the Encyclical Epistle to the Bishops Throughout the World.

Gregory was by birth a Cappadocian, and (if Nazianzen speaks of the same Gregory, which some critics doubt) studied at Alexandria, where S. Athanasius had treated him with great kindness and familiarity, though Gregory afterwards …

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Gregory of Nyssa — Dogmatic Treatises • SECTION 5

Chapter II.--His General Character as a Theologian.

Scarcely anything is known of the latter years of Gregory of Nyssa's life. The last record we have of him is that he was present at a Synod of Constantinople, summoned a.d. 394 …

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Leo the Great & Gregory the Great • SECTION 121

Preface.

… The Book of Pastoral Rule of Saint Gregory the Great, Roman Pontiff, to John, Bishop of the City of Ravenna. ------------------------ Part I. Gregory to his most reverend and most holy brother and fellow-bishop, John …

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Leo the Great & Gregory the Great • SECTION 194

Epistle VII.

… The filling up of the See of Naples appears to have been a cause of great anxiety to Gregory, probably because of the party feeling prevailing in the city. In his first letter to the …

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Cyril of Jerusalem & Gregory Nazianzen • SECTION 202

Ep. LXXII.

… LXXVI. (Basil the Great died Jan. 1, a.d. 379. Gregory of Nazianzus was prevented by very serious illness from attending his funeral, and therefore wrote as follows to Gregory of Nyssa.) This, then, was …

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Leo the Great & Gregory the Great • SECTION 222

Epistle LI.

… With this view I am in great need of the assistance of your Charity, to mention to me shortly what comes back to your memory, and what you happen to have known. For I remember …

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Theodoret, Jerome, Gennadius & Rufinus — Historical Writings • SECTION 96

Chapter VII.--Of famous leaders of the Arian faction.

… All these then whom I have named separated themselves from the Egyptians and celebrated divine service with the great Gregory. But he himself implored them, assembled as they were to promote harmony, to subordinate all …

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Socrates and Sozomen — Ecclesiastical Histories • SECTION 82

Chapter V.--Events at Antioch in Connection with Paulinus and Meletius.

… When this was done, a great disturbance arose; but afterwards the people were brought to unite on the following stipulations. Having assembled such of the clergy as might be considered worthy candidates for the bishopric …

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