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Ambrose — Selected Works and Letters • SECTION 201
… For "Son of God" is against Ebion, [2640] "Son of David," is against the Manichees; [2641] "Son of God" is against Photinus, [2642] "Son of David" is against Marcion; [2643] "Son of God" is against …
2,202 wordsAugustine — Against the Manichaeans and Donatists • SECTION 261
… However, even if you had done this, you have yet yourself quoted the testimony of the apostle against yourself in this very epistle which you have written: "Though I bestow all my goods to feed …
2,202 wordsSocrates and Sozomen — Ecclesiastical Histories • SECTION 197
… At length, however, he wrote to the Synod, and informed them that an expedition which he was compelled to undertake against the barbarians prevented him from conferring with the deputies; and that he had, therefore …
2,206 wordsLactantius, Venantius, Asterius, Victorinus & Others • SECTION 216
… make the uprising of heresies to cease: grant Thy peace and Thy love to us, O God our Saviour, the hope of all the ends of the earth. Remember, O Lord, favourable weather, peaceful showers …
2,200 wordsHippolytus, Cyprian, Caius & Novatian • SECTION 308
… Paul to the Galatians: "The flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: for these are contrary the one to the other, that ye cannot do even those things which ye wish …
2,202 wordsTheodoret, Jerome, Gennadius & Rufinus — Historical Writings • SECTION 270
… These things I point out as heresies in the books of Origen. It is for you to point out in which of his books you have found them contradicted. [3115] Phil. ii 13. Do not …
2,211 wordsAthanasius — Select Works and Letters • SECTION 136
… For when they have a design against any, then it is that they make a great show of writing about the faith; that, as Pilate washed his hands, so they by writing may destroy those …
2,239 wordsChrysostom — Corinthians • SECTION 36
… But whoso will hold a little with injustice, shutteth the doors of all against him. To the end, then, that we may attain both to the good things here and to those which are there …
2,214 wordsThe Seven Ecumenical Councils • SECTION 51
… By many canons we are warned against fasting or grieving on the festal and joyous Lord's day, in remembrance of the resurrection of the Lord; but that we should celebrate it and offer thanks …
2,209 wordsAthanasius — Select Works and Letters • SECTION 186
(11.) What has been already said ought to shame those persons who are fighting against the very truth; however, if, because it is written, become better,' they refuse to understand become,' as used of the …
2,206 wordsFathers of the Second Century • SECTION 241
… Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are, fornication uncleanness, profligacy, idolatry, witchcrafts, enmities, strifes, jealousies, wrath, contentions, dissensions, heresies, envyings, drunkenness, revellings, and such like; of which I tell you before, as …
2,205 wordsThe Twelve Patriarchs, Apocrypha, Clementine Homilies & More • SECTION 519
… that is, until the time when he who was sprung from an uncle of the Lord, the aforementioned Symeon son of Clopas, was informed against by the various heresies, and subjected to an accusation like …
2,208 wordsAugustine — Against the Manichaeans and Donatists • SECTION 210
… So when "the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousnness, idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, strife, seditions, heresies, envyings, drunkenness, revellings, and such like;" [1506] if it be strange that …
2,213 wordsThe Seven Ecumenical Councils • SECTION 246
… But we will also consider what may be said against these in particular. Christianity has rejected the whole of heathenism, and so not merely heathen sacrifices, but also the heathen worship of images. The Saints …
2,202 wordsGospel of Peter, Diatessaron, Apocalypse of Peter & Other Early Texts • SECTION 45
… And Pilate went forth unto them without, and [46] said unto them, What accusation [3448] have ye against this man? [3449] They answered and said unto him, If he had not been doing evils, neither …
2,229 wordsAugustine — Exposition on Psalms • SECTION 196
… Why did He say, "like the horn of an unicorn"? Sometimes an unicorn signifies pride, sometimes it means the lifting up of unity; because unity is lifted up, all heresies shall perish with the enemies …
2,204 wordsChrysostom — Priesthood, Ascetic Treatises & Homilies • SECTION 69
… But thou in bringing an account against the master hast doubled thy sin instead of doubling thy talent. 3. On this account God places together servants and servants in order that the one set may …
2,240 wordsHippolytus, Cyprian, Caius & Novatian • SECTION 240
… well known that these heresies themselves, execrable and detestable as they are, arose subsequently; when even Marcion the disciple of Cerdo is found to have introduced his sacrilegious tradition against God long after the apostles …
2,237 wordsEusebius — Church History, Constantine & Oration • SECTION 17
… I am pleased to learn from him that his study of the Vita has shown him nothing which justifies the charge of dishonesty brought against Eusebius. One of the most decisive marks of veracity upon …
2,209 wordsEusebius — Church History, Constantine & Oration • SECTION 185
… Nothing was known about the character and life of Callistus until the discovery of Hippolytus' Philosophumena, or Refutation of All Heresies (see the next chapter, note 1). In Bk. IX. of that work is given …
2,221 wordsJerome — Principal Works • SECTION 213
… About four hundred years have passed since the preaching of Christ flashed upon the world, and during that time in which His robe has been torn by countless heresies, almost the whole body of error …
2,203 wordsAugustine — Against the Manichaeans and Donatists • SECTION 196
… For how does the apostle himself come to say so much about the sins of schisms and heresies? Or how comes that verse in the Psalms, "If of a truth ye love justice, judge uprightly …
2,232 wordsGregory Thaumaturgus, Dionysius, Julius Africanus & Others • SECTION 27
… Jerusalem, against Judaism, [432] a.d. 50. 2. Nicæa, against Arianism (1), [433] a.d. 325. 3. Constantinople (I.), against Semi-Arianism (2), a.d. 381. 4. Ephesus, against Nestorianism (3), a.d. 431. 5 …
2,213 wordsCyril of Jerusalem & Gregory Nazianzen • SECTION 85
… there, the blood of a lamb was the spell against [2362] the destroyer; here, the blood of the Lamb without blemish Jesus Christ is made the charm to scare [2363] evil spirits: there, the tyrant …
2,266 wordsGregory of Nyssa — Dogmatic Treatises • SECTION 91
… urged against our doctrines, is much the same as if one should lay to our charge the blasphemy of the Anomoeans. For if one were carefully to investigate the falsehood of these heresies, he would …
2,214 wordsChrysostom — Corinthians • SECTION 21
… that they should not be exalted one against another. His assertion, that they are one, refers to their inability to do any thing without "God that giveth the increase." And thus saying, he permitted not …
2,226 wordsHippolytus, Cyprian, Caius & Novatian • SECTION 325
… And then, besides, there are writings of certain brethren older than the times of Victor, which they wrote against the heathen in defence of the truth, and against the heresies of their time: I mean …
2,228 wordsThe Seven Ecumenical Councils • SECTION 147
… If one's knowledge is derived only from modern Eastern, Anglican or Protestant writers, such as "Janus and the Council," the Père Gratry's "Letters," or Littledale's controversial books against Rome, one is apt …
2,224 wordsThe Seven Ecumenical Councils • SECTION 137
… These things therefore being settled with all accuracy, we, bearing in remembrance the promises made respecting the holy Church, and who it was that said that the gates of hell should not prevail against her …
2,229 wordsTheodoret, Jerome, Gennadius & Rufinus — Historical Writings • SECTION 236
… It is true that some persons may withhold their assent from what I am saying on the ground of the difference of the heresies; since it was one kind of heresy the partisans of which …
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