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Basil — Letters and Select Works • SECTION 4
… But countervailing events were the acceptance of the Homoousion by the Council of Paris, [94] and the publication of Athanasius' letters to Serapion on the divinity of the two Persons assailed. To this period is …
2,203 wordsBasil — Letters and Select Works • SECTION 96
… the passage from Athanasius quoted by Bp. Harold Browne in his Exposition of the XXXIX. Articles, p. 693. It is not easy for Roman commentators to cite passages even apparently in support of the less …
2,200 wordsAmbrose — Selected Works and Letters • SECTION 3
… Didymus, Basil the Great, and Athanasius, and was on this ground attacked by St. Jerome. See Rufinus, Apol. adv. Hieron. II. 23-25. 3. De Incarnationis Dominicæ Sacramento. The book on the Mystery of the …
2,202 wordsAthanasius — Select Works and Letters • SECTION 207
… Accordingly as in the comparative to obviate this exclusion, we put in the word other' (ante alios immanior omnes), so too in the Greek superlative, Socrates is wisest of "other" heathen.' Athanasius then says in …
2,201 wordsHilary of Poitiers & John of Damascus • SECTION 22
… We may read almost all of it, where Hilary himself had certainly read it, in the Discourses against the Arians and elsewhere in the writings of Athanasius. How far, however, he was borrowing from the …
2,243 wordsCyril of Jerusalem & Gregory Nazianzen • SECTION 3
… In his reign Athanasius was recalled, and Acacius and his friends subscribed the Nicene Creed, with an explanation of the sense in which they accepted the word homoousion [61] . As Cyril's name is not …
2,244 wordsHilary of Poitiers & John of Damascus • SECTION 18
… He had found the words either in some of Athanasius' writings or in the records of the Council of Sardica, and borrowed them without enquiry. He could not have done so had he been only …
2,208 wordsSocrates and Sozomen — Ecclesiastical Histories • SECTION 3
… He has also made use of Archelaus' Acts, [71] of Sabinus' Collection of the Acts of the Synods, which he criticises for unfairness, [72] Epiphanius' Ancoratus, [73] George of Laodicea, [74] Athanasius' Apolog., [75] de …
2,247 wordsHilary of Poitiers & John of Damascus • SECTION 31
… 58 ff; see Robertson's notes in the Athanasius volume of this series, p. 426. [190] E.g. Syn. 35, 37, 59, Trin. iii. 4, vi. 21, viii. 54. [191] Cf. Baltzer, Theologie d. hl …
2,209 wordsFathers of the Second Century • SECTION 15
… It is a sufficient answer to certain German critics to cite the providential approval of Athanasius, a fact of the utmost moment. Nobody doubts that Athanasius was sensitive to any discoloration of the Nicene Faith …
2,269 wordsGregory of Nyssa — Dogmatic Treatises • SECTION 16
… I have listened to Athanasius, the former bishop of the Galatians, when he was speaking of the life of Aetius; Athanasius was a man who valued truth above all things; and he exhibited also the …
2,254 wordsAthanasius — Select Works and Letters • SECTION 245
… It is remarkable that Athanasius should say the Egyptian Sotades, and again in Sent. D. 6. There were two Poets of the name; one a writer of the Middle Comedy, Athen. Deipn. vii. 11; but …
2,250 wordsEusebius — Church History, Constantine & Oration • SECTION 233
… 7, and Athanasius de Synodis Arim. et Seleuc. I. 17). He was present at the Council of Nicæa (Labbe, Concil. II. 51), and took part in the council which deposed Eustathius of Antioch, in 330 …
2,277 wordsAthanasius — Select Works and Letters • SECTION 69
… 7. [424] Athanasius in like manner, ad Afros. 6. speaks of "testimony of ancient Bishops about 130 years since;" and in de Syn. §43. of "long before" the Council of Antioch, a.d. 269. viz …
2,258 wordsAugustine — Confessions & Letters • SECTION 85
… They were, Baronius tells us, introduced into Rome about that date by Athanasius, during a visit to that city. Athanasius mentions "ascetics" as dwelling at Rome A.D. 355. Ambrose, Bishop of Milan, Martin, Bishop …
2,284 wordsAthanasius — Select Works and Letters • SECTION 133
… 16 (LXX). [1132] Of Thmuis, the friend and correspondent of Athanasius: see below, §91. [1133] Cf. below, what the Arians are now doing.' This incidental notice of time fixes the date of the present passage …
2,317 wordsTheodoret, Jerome, Gennadius & Rufinus — Historical Writings • SECTION 150
… These qualities are conspicuous in the right eloquent orator Athanasius, and I have been the more pleased with him because he is an ardent lover of your Excellency, and is constantly sounding your praises. Here …
2,311 wordsAthanasius — Select Works and Letters • SECTION 164
… Even if it be admitted that they invented false charges against Athanasius and the rest of the Bishops whom they banished, yet what is this to their later practices? What charges have they to allege …
2,331 wordsEusebius — Church History, Constantine & Oration • SECTION 7
… An Athanasius he was not, but neither was he an unsteady weather-cock, or an hypocritical time-server. [1] It is interesting to notice that the creed of the Cæsarean church which Eusebius presented at …
2,290 wordsSocrates and Sozomen — Ecclesiastical Histories • SECTION 182
… Paul, bishop of Constantinople, Athanasius, bishop of Alexandria, the entire multitude of monks, Antony the Great, who still survived, his disciples, and a great number of Egyptians and of other places in the Roman territory …
2,318 wordsSulpitius Severus, Vincent of Lerins & John Cassian • SECTION 133
… Peter, bishop of Alexandria, a most excellent Doctor and most blessed martyr, Saint Athanasius, bishop of the same city, a most faithful Teacher, and most eminent Confessor, Saint Theophilus, also bishop of the same city …
1,344 wordsAthanasius — Select Works and Letters • SECTION 241
… 237, 267.] [3496] Supr. §5, note 1. [3497] On the word 'Areiomanitai, Gibbon observes, The ordinary appellation with which Athanasius and his followers chose to compliment the Arians, was that of Ariomanites,' ch. xxi. note …
2,335 wordsThe Seven Ecumenical Councils • SECTION 90
… The conduct of Peter, the successor of Athanasius, first in instituting Gregory Nazianzen bishop of Constantinople by his letters and sending a formal recognition of his appointment and then in substituting Maximus, as has been …
1,342 wordsCyril of Jerusalem & Gregory Nazianzen • SECTION 150
… The Benedictine Editors, however, whom Benoit follows, think the reference is to the disturbances in Alexandria when the Arian Lucius was forcibly intruded into the Chair of Athanasius by the Prefect Palladius. A full account …
2,337 wordsGregory Thaumaturgus, Dionysius, Julius Africanus & Others • SECTION 129
… Ammonius, deacon, in like manner. Macarius, deacon. Pistus, deacon, in like manner. Athanasius, deacon. Eumenes, deacon. Apollonius, deacon. Olympius, deacon. Aphthonius, deacon. Athanasius, deacon. [2469] Macarius, deacon, in like manner. Paulus, deacon. Petrus, deacon. Ambytianus …
2,376 wordsSocrates and Sozomen — Ecclesiastical Histories • SECTION 72
… There is no need of counting,' said he, but of integrity of mind.' This same Pambos, at the desire of Athanasius the bishop, came out of the desert to Alexandria and on beholding an actress …
2,375 wordsLeo the Great & Gregory the Great • SECTION 268
… Your Charity, being anxious to learn our opinion, has been at the pains of writing to us to ask what we think of the book against the presbyter Athanasius which was sent to us. Having …
1,390 wordsCyril of Jerusalem & Gregory Nazianzen • SECTION 51
… 17. [1243] Athanasius (de Synodis, § 15) quotes a passage from the Thalia of Arius, in which he says: "We praise Him as without beginning, because of Him who has a beginning: and adore Him as …
2,410 wordsAthanasius — Select Works and Letters • SECTION 5
… Least of all was Athanasius the author of the homoousion; his whole attitude toward the famous test (infr. p. 303) is that of loyal acceptance and assimilation rather than of native inward affinity. He was …
2,406 wordsAthanasius — Select Works and Letters • SECTION 289
… At any rate, Athanasius addresses his correspondent as elder' and father,' which accords well with the language of Vit. Ant. ubi supr. The letter states clearly Athanasius' opinion as to the relative value of the …
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