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Gospel of Peter, Diatessaron, Apocalypse of Peter & Other Early Texts • SECTION 132
… All this is said by way of apology to you, reverend Ambrosius. It is at your sacred encouragement that I have made up my mind to build up in writing the tower of the Gospel …
3,055 wordsEusebius — Church History, Constantine & Oration • SECTION 285
… It was while in Cæsarea, and when he was over sixty years old, that he first permitted his discourses to be taken down by shorthand writers (see chap. 26). His correspondence with the Emperor Philip …
3,032 wordsTheodoret, Jerome, Gennadius & Rufinus — Historical Writings • SECTION 12
… And that He did not assume man's nature in its perfection, contriving it as a veil for His Godhead, according to the heretics' fables, but achieving victory by means of the first fruits for …
3,104 wordsChrysostom — Galatians through Philemon • SECTION 73
… Let him, as if he had an image given into his hands to mould, let him, from that very evening on which he first receives her into the bridal chamber, teach her temperance, gentleness, and …
3,146 wordsGregory the Great, Ephraim Syrus & Aphrahat • SECTION 169
… And after the apology about Virginity, I have written again Against the Jews, who say:--"It is appointed for us to be gathered together." And after that defence, I have written about Almsgiving to the …
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