Chrysostom — Corinthians • SECTION 179
Homily XXVII.
… i. Tr. p. 4. and on Rom. xvi. 5. Hom. xxxi. Tr. p. 486. Compare also St. Augustine, On Care for the Dead,' where he discusses the question, whether burial at a Martyr's Memorial …
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Eusebius — Church History, Constantine & Oration • SECTION 157
Chapter XX.--The Writings of Irenæus against the Schismatics at Rome.
… What was the result of Irenæus' epistles and book we do not know; we hear nothing more about the matter, nor do we know anything more about Florinus (for Augustine's mention of Florinus as …
2,218 wordsAthanasius — Select Works and Letters • SECTION 191
10. Now the so-called gods of the Greeks, unworthy the name, are faithful neither in their essence nor in their promises; for the same are n
… and Augustine and Fulgentius may be taken to countenance him, de Consens. and Evang. i. 6. ad Thrasim. iii. 30. The Catholic doctrine is, that the Divine Word is Priest in and according to His …
2,202 wordsCyril of Jerusalem & Gregory Nazianzen • SECTION 84
[2241] Acts xvii. 32; xxvi. 24.
… failed to suppress a superstition which was sanctioned by such men as Cyril, Basil, Chrysostom, Ambrose, and Augustine. [2284] ek tes hupertheseos tes nesteias tes paraskeues, Ed. Bened. "The ecclesiastical term tes hupertheseos we have …
2,207 wordsThe Seven Ecumenical Councils • SECTION 26
Canon XX.
… Many other of the Fathers notice the same practice, the reason of which, as given by Augustine and others, was to commemorate the resurrection of our Lord, and to signify the rest and joy of …
2,223 wordsAthanasius — Select Works and Letters • SECTION 217
[2866] hos autoi thelousi. vid. §8, n. 12. not as you say, but as we will.' This is a common phrase with Athan. vid. supr. Or. i. 13, n. 6.
… 15, 16). Infr. §14, he shews that his doctrine, when fully explained, does not differ from S. Augustine, for he says, what was seen was an Angel, but God spoke in him,' i.e. sometimes …
2,209 wordsTertullian — Latin Christianity • SECTION 278
[5849] Dum alterius par est.
… of an actual separation and division he opposed and denied. See his De Anima, cap. x. St. Augustine more fully still maintained a similar opinion. See also his De Anima, iv. 32. Bp. Ellicott, in …
2,225 wordsHippolytus, Cyprian, Caius & Novatian • SECTION 3
Book I.
… the canon of Scripture. [18] For instance, St. Irenæus, whom Hippolytus professes to follow, Epiphanius, Theodoret, St. Augustine, etc. [19] The translator desires to acknowledge obligations to Dr. Lottner, Professor of Sanskrit and sub-librarian …
2,214 wordsBasil — Letters and Select Works • SECTION 28
[693] cf. p. xv., n.
… A book against the Manichæans (Augustine, c. Julian. i. 16-17). Tillemont (Art. cxlv. p. 303) mentions authors in which lost fragments of St. Basil are to be found, and (Art. cxxxvii. p. 290) refers …
2,200 wordsChrysostom — Galatians through Philemon • SECTION 88
"And in the confirmation of the Gospel," he says. So then his bonds were a confirmation of the Gospel, and a defense. And most truly so. How
… viii. 28, where "His" is not in the Greek, though rightly (as it seems) understood by St. Augustine and others. See on Rom. Hom. xv. Tr. p. 453. [531] apologia. [532] [The Greek word for …
2,209 wordsThe Seven Ecumenical Councils • SECTION 70
Canon XIX.
… shewing how even then the service for the Holy Eucharist began with the Epistle and Gospel. St. Augustine and St. Chrysostom bear witness to the same thing. [188] Within, comparatively speaking, a few years, a …
2,235 wordsGregory Thaumaturgus, Dionysius, Julius Africanus & Others • SECTION 191
[3187] [Abel.]
… Thus the way was prepared for Augustine, by whom and in whom Latin Christianity was made distinctly Occidental, and prepared for the influence it has exerted, to this day, under the mighty prestiges of his …
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Introduction.
… It hardly appears to have been formed into a separate organization, though an appeal was made to the emperor by some Luciferian presbyters about the year 384, and both Ambrose and Augustine speak of him …
2,245 wordsTheodoret, Jerome, Gennadius & Rufinus — Historical Writings • SECTION 231
This translation of Numbers was his last work. He was at that time suffering in his eyes; and he died soon afterwards in Sicily, as we learn
… Above all Augustine speaks of him as the object of love and of honour; and, in his reply to Jerome [2769] who had sent him his Apology, says: "I grieved, when I had read your …
2,213 wordsHilary of Poitiers & John of Damascus • SECTION 29
The Christian life is thus a life of hope and of high possibilities. But Hilary frankly and often recognises the serious short-comings of th
… Like Cyprian before him and Augustine after him, Hilary insists upon the value of alms in the sight of God. The clothing of the naked, the release of the captive plead with God for the …
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[4371] Ex. xxxvii.
… Version renders, "have we no right to lead about a wife that is a believer" (or sister). Augustine, Tertullian, Theodoret, &c., together with Cornelius-a-Lapide and Estius among the moderns, agree with Jerome in …
2,220 wordsAthanasius — Select Works and Letters • SECTION 4
It is doubtful whether the outbreak of the Arian controversy at Alexandria was directly connected with the previous Christological controver
… Constantine had already referred the case of the Donatists first to a select council at Rome under bishop Miltiades, then to what Augustine (Ep. 43) has been understood to call a plenarium ecclesiæ universæ concilium …
2,225 wordsHilary of Poitiers & John of Damascus • SECTION 22
But, notwithstanding this unity, there is a true numerical duality of Person. Sabellius, we must remember, had held for two generations the
… contrasted truths of plurality and unity without such explanation of the mystery as the speculative genius of Augustine was to supply, he leaves, in spite of all his efforts, a certain impression of excessive dualism …
2,243 wordsThe Twelve Patriarchs, Apocrypha, Clementine Homilies & More • SECTION 15
[176] [Matt. vi. 6. He veils the quotation by a fiction, as to authorship, to support the plan of his work.]
… 6, 7, 9; Augustine, contra Faustum, xxiii. 4; Epiphanius, Hær., lxxviii. 13. [See Reuben, sec. 6, p. 10, supra.] [182] Isa. i. 8; xxiv. 20. [183] Cf. Test. Simeon 8, and Jubilees 46. The account …
2,238 wordsThe Twelve Patriarchs, Apocrypha, Clementine Homilies & More • SECTION 19
LVII. There are then, according to the apostle, those on the summit, [284] the first-created. And they are thrones, although Powers, being t
… compiler's copy of St. John's First Epistle. See vol. iii. Elucid. III. p. 631. St. Augustine also seems to me to sustain the African text in the De Civit., lib. v. cap. xi …
2,222 wordsEusebius — Church History, Constantine & Oration • SECTION 182
Chapter XIX.--Circumstances Related of Origen.
… very high as a sage (though only human), and found much that was good in his teaching. Augustine (De consensu Evang. I. 15) says that the Neo-Platonists praised Christ, but railed at his disciples …
2,231 wordsGregory of Nyssa — Dogmatic Treatises • SECTION 63
[616] Cf. Ps. xxxiii. 9, and Ps. cxlviii. 5, in LXX. (reading egennethesan).
… viii. 19-23. [631] This interpretation is of course common to many of the Fathers, though S. Augustine, for instance, explains the "ninety and nine" otherwise, and his explanation has been often followed by modern …
2,204 wordsLeo the Great & Gregory the Great • SECTION 112
[There is indeed a passage in one of Gregory's Epistles (II. 52) which has been taken to imply a claim to jurisdiction over them. (See note
… course only in the Latin version) he was thoroughly versed, or to the orthodox Latin Fathers, St. Augustine being his favourite. His condemnation of the study of classical heathen literature by Christians, appears strikingly in …
2,226 wordsEusebius — Church History, Constantine & Oration • SECTION 20
From the Emperor's Letter to Eusebius(in Eusebius' Life of Constantine, Book III. chap. 61).
… the Book of Questions on the Old and New Testaments, which is published among the Works of Augustine (chap. 125). "We remember to have read in a certain pamphlet of Eusebius, a man formerly distinguished …
2,245 wordsGregory Thaumaturgus, Dionysius, Julius Africanus & Others • SECTION 113
And this, most prudent reader, I would not have you regard as a wild fancy and superstition, since, if you learn the cause of this novelty,
… bishop, against whom the wrath of the Arian Empress Justina was directed, according to the testimony of Augustine, who was an eye-witness. Cf. Confess., lib. ix. cap. 7. [2250] [i.e., deacon; Isa. lxvi …
2,225 wordsAthanasius — Select Works and Letters • SECTION 177
[1985] [But see Or. iii. 65, note 2.]
… viz. that in this consists our Lord's Sonship, that He is the Word, or as S. Augustine says, Christum ideo Filium quia Verbum. Aug. Ep. 120. 11. Cf. de Decr. §17. If I speak …
2,267 wordsLactantius, Venantius, Asterius, Victorinus & Others • SECTION 226
ELUCIDATIONS.
… merits, the Pontiff holds a purse [4271] of their excessive righteousness to dispense to meaner Christians. St. Augustine speaks of his dear Nebridius as in Abraham's bosom, [4272] but finds comfort in commemorating him …
2,233 wordsAthanasius — Select Works and Letters • SECTION 169
[1827] de Decr. §§2, 24, 27.
… Catholics, and again to heretics, when they are taken by Catholics as a note against them. S. Augustine says, Arians call Catholics Athanasians or Homoüsians, not other heretics too. But ye not only by Catholics …
2,258 wordsLactantius, Venantius, Asterius, Victorinus & Others • SECTION 218
Thou hast given unto us, O Lord, sanctification in the communion of the all-holy body and precious blood of Thy only-begotten Son, our Lord
… 486, supra. [Note that beautiful tribute of Augustine to the purity of primitive rites, "Honesta utrinsque sexus discretione," Civ. Dei, lib. ii. cap. xxviii. p. 77, ed. Migne.] See vol. ii. 291 and iii. 686 …
2,200 wordsLactantius, Venantius, Asterius, Victorinus & Others • SECTION 80
Cavendum igitur, ne occasionem vitiis nostra intemperantia demus: sed assuescant invicem mores duorum, et jugum paribus animis ferant. Nos i
… a change of conduct. [1257] Resipiscentiam. [Note the admitted superiority of the Greek.] [1258] Pro pietate suâ. Augustine (De Civitate Dei, x. 1) explains the use of this expression as applied to God. [1259] [Concerning …
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