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Augustine — Against the Manichaeans and Donatists • SECTION 179
… The discussion had opened with the question of the Church. Fortunius regretted that Augustin was not in it; the latter reversed the wish. What is the Church? Is it diffused throughout the whole world, or …
2,331 wordsTertullian, Minucius Felix, Commodian & Origen • SECTION 191
… This is a convenient place for the following tables, compiled from Eusebius as far as his history goes; i.e. a.d. 305. See also Dr. Robinson's Researches. I. The See of Jerusalem. 1 …
2,271 wordsBasil — Letters and Select Works • SECTION 4
… the Council of Constantinople, would or would not have left a larger mark upon the history of the Church. There can be no doubt, that in Basil's personal conflict with the decadent empire represented …
2,203 wordsEusebius — Church History, Constantine & Oration • SECTION 414
… thus proclaiming to all nations, with clear and unmistakable voice, in deed and word, your own devout and pious confession of his name. [3587] Literally, "Your political economies." THE CHURCH HISTORY OF EUSEBIUS. INDEX OF …
2,201 wordsJerome — Principal Works • SECTION 248
… As, then, the Church reads Judith, Tobit, and the books of Maccabees, but does not admit them among the canonical Scriptures, so let it read these two volumes for the edification of the people, not …
2,632 wordsThe Apostolic Fathers, Justin Martyr & Irenaeus • SECTION 26
… This passage is embodied by Eusebius in his Ecclesiastical History (iv. 14); and in another place the same writer refers to the Epistle before us as an undoubted production of Polycarp (Hist. Eccl., iii. 36 …
1,766 wordsEusebius — Church History, Constantine & Oration • SECTION 299
… This bids him admit all who wish to enter the church. 38. (335.) Letter of Constantine to the people of the Alexandrian Church. In Athan. Apol. c. Ar. c. 61 (Op. Const. 559-562; abstract …
1,008 wordsTheodoret, Jerome, Gennadius & Rufinus — Historical Writings • SECTION 201
… the persecution, were sent to different ones, and secondly, from the sixth book of the church history of Eusebius of Cæsarea, and from his six volumes in behalf of the same Origen. He lived until …
1,071 wordsGregory Thaumaturgus, Dionysius, Julius Africanus & Others • SECTION 69
… 32. [1284] Præpositus cubiculariorum. [1285] See Neander's Church History, vol. i. p. 197 (Bohn). [Christians began to be preferred for their probity. Diocletian's reign at first gave the Church a long peace (see …
2,285 wordsThe Seven Ecumenical Councils • SECTION 30
… 5) and of the Constitutions; for in those documents mention is made of bishops living in wedlock, and Church history shows that there were married bishops, for instance Synesius, in the fifth century. But it …
2,220 wordsEusebius — Church History, Constantine & Oration • SECTION 301
… inAnte-Nicene Fathers Suppl. (1887), 77-81. (6) Eusebius (ab. 260-340). I. Ecclesiastical History. 2. Constantine. 3. Chronicle. For 1 and 3 compare Prolegomena of Dr. McGiffert at the beginning of this volume, and …
2,220 wordsSocrates and Sozomen — Ecclesiastical Histories • SECTION 133
… governed the church of Constantinople." Proclus was elected 434, and continued in office until his death in 447. This transfer must have taken place before 439, the proposed terminus of the history, and very likely …
2,735 wordsThe Seven Ecumenical Councils • SECTION 8
… The Nicene Creed. (Found in the Acts of the Ecumenical Councils of Ephesus and Chalcedon, in the Epistle of Eusebius of Cæsarea to his own Church, in the Epistle of St. Athanasius Ad Jovianum Imp …
2,395 wordsFathers of the Second Century • SECTION 24
… Canonical censures were made stringent by the Church; and, while the vices of men and the peril of persecution multiplied the anchorites of the desert, this mischief was crushed out, and made impossible for Christians …
2,426 wordsGregory Thaumaturgus, Dionysius, Julius Africanus & Others • SECTION 70
[1297] [A most important hint to the clergy in their accounts with the Church.] [1298] Matt. xxiv. 45, 47. V. Nor will the diligence and care of that servant be less who has the custody …
2,289 wordsAthanasius — Select Works and Letters • SECTION 212
… From the custom of paying honour to the Imperial Statues, the Cultus Imaginum was introduced into the Eastern Church. The Western Church, not having had the civil custom, resisted. vid. Döllinger, Church History, vol. 3 …
2,389 wordsAthanasius — Select Works and Letters • SECTION 141
… replies that he had never spoken to the deceased Augustus except in the presence of witnesses, and that the history of his own movements when in the West entirely precluded any such possibility. The third …
2,387 wordsSulpitius Severus, Vincent of Lerins & John Cassian • SECTION 149
… who is at home in such things, may learn from ecclesiastical history. [685] At that time, therefore, when the perfection of the primitive Church remained unbroken, and was still preserved fresh in the memory by …
1,103 wordsThe Seven Ecumenical Councils • SECTION 99
… We pass now to the meaning of the word, having sufficiently traced the history of its use. Bishop Pearson says: "This name was first in use in the Greek Church, who, delighting in the happy …
2,200 wordsThe Twelve Patriarchs, Apocrypha, Clementine Homilies & More • SECTION 463
… Fabian (i.e., the pseudo-decretal attributed to him), He instituted the rite of the chrism, and the words used by the Catholic Church in its administration.' "Strange phenomenon, indeed, that the asseverations of such …
2,220 wordsHippolytus, Cyprian, Caius & Novatian • SECTION 3
… Maurice's History of (Ancient) Metaphysical and Moral Philosophy. The same subject is discussed in Ritter's History of Philosophy (translated by Morrison). [22] This word is variously given thus: Academian, Academeian, Academaic, Academe, Cademian …
2,214 wordsAugustine — Confessions & Letters • SECTION 7
… It is probable that he read Plotin, and the Panarion of Epiphanius or the summary of it, in Greek (while the Church History of Eusebius he knew only in the translation of Rufinus). But in …
1,063 wordsThe Seven Ecumenical Councils • SECTION 73
… 251) preserved by Eusebius (H. E., vi., 43), and the readers existed at least half a century earlier (Tertull., de Præscr., 41). In the Eastern Church, however, if we except the Apostolic Constitutions, of which …
2,073 wordsSocrates and Sozomen — Ecclesiastical Histories • SECTION 54
… their name was Apollinaris; the former of them was a presbyter, and the latter a reader in that church. Both taught Greek literature, the father grammar, and the son rhetoric. The father was a native …
2,830 wordsThe Twelve Patriarchs, Apocrypha, Clementine Homilies & More • SECTION 329
… But while the early Church exercised proper discernment, and the Canon of the New Testament was soon definitely recognised and universally accepted, the apocryphal writings were not without influence. The sacred legends, the ecclesiastical traditions …
2,203 wordsSocrates and Sozomen — Ecclesiastical Histories • SECTION 218
… Meletius, who then governed the church of Antioch; Eusebius, bishop of Samosata; Pelagius, bishop of Laodicea in Syria; Acacius, bishop of Cæsarea in Palestine; Irenius, bishop of Gaza; and Athanasius, bishop of Ancyra, took part …
1,181 wordsTertullian, Minucius Felix, Commodian & Origen • SECTION 35
… Equally (are they) both (found) in the Church of God; equally at the banquet of God; equally in straits, in persecutions, in refreshments. Neither hides (ought) from the other; neither shuns the other; neither is …
1,927 wordsTheodoret, Jerome, Gennadius & Rufinus — Historical Writings • SECTION 12
… Fallible he was, and exhibits failure in accuracy, especially in chronology, but his truthfulness of aim is plain. [132] (ii) The Religious History, several times referred to in the Ecclesiastical History, and therefore an earlier …
3,104 wordsCyril of Jerusalem & Gregory Nazianzen • SECTION 123
… 1) that it was already the custom of the Church of Constantinople to observe annual festivals in honour of the Saints: and at present two days are kept by the Eastern Church, viz., Jan. 18th …
2,373 wordsAugustine — Confessions & Letters • SECTION 6
… Baur draws an ingenious and suggestive comparison between Augustin and Origen, the two greatest intellects among the church fathers. "There is no church teacher of the ancient period," says he, [21] "who, in intellect and …
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