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Hippolytus, Cyprian, Caius & Novatian • SECTION 114
… successors to Nicholas I. "patriarchs" under the Nicene Constitutions, which they professed to honour, though, after Gregory the Great, they were ever vying with Constantinople to make themselves greater. (3) Nicholas, who trampled on the …
2,245 wordsCyril of Jerusalem & Gregory Nazianzen • SECTION 114
… Discourse awhile on our present heavy blow, about the just judgments of God, whether we grasp their meaning, or are ignorant of their great deep. [3067] How again "mercy is put in the balance," [3068 …
2,275 wordsThe Seven Ecumenical Councils • SECTION 265
… von Drey wrote with profound learning; [564] and Bickell, in his work just quoted, to a great degree accepts his conclusions as being well-founded. These conclusions in short are that the so-called "Apostolic …
2,276 wordsBasil — Letters and Select Works • SECTION 142
… So Gregory Thaumaturgus was honoured at Neocæsarea, and Athanasius and Basil received like distinction soon after their death. [2332] The custom of the reservation of the Sacrament is, as is well known, of great antiquity …
1,308 wordsThe Seven Ecumenical Councils • SECTION 134
… And it is certain their decree was confirmed by Pelagius the Second, Gregory the Great, and other Roman Pontiffs. These things prove, that in a matter of the utmost importance, disturbing the whole Church, and …
2,291 wordsCyril of Jerusalem & Gregory Nazianzen • SECTION 139
… But this explanation falls far short of Gregory's meaning, which certainly is that the movement of self-consciousness in God from all Eternity made the Generation of the Son, and the Procession of the …
2,285 wordsGregory the Great, Ephraim Syrus & Aphrahat • SECTION 33
… For whose breast, even though stony, would not, on hearing of so great a work, soften in praises of Almighty God and love of thy Excellency? As for me, I declare that it delights me …
2,328 wordsGregory of Nyssa — Dogmatic Treatises • SECTION 235
… For this custom amongst the Eastern Christians of exchanging presents at the great festivals, cf. On the Making of Man (p. 387), which Gregory sent to his brother Peter: Gregory Naz. Letter 54 to Helladius …
1,333 wordsAthanasius — Select Works and Letters • SECTION 85
… Eusebius and his fellows wrote formerly against Athanasius and his fellows, as you also have written now; but a great number of Bishops out of Egypt and other provinces wrote in his favour. Now in …
2,326 wordsBasil — Letters and Select Works • SECTION 195
… There is going on among you a movement ruinous to the faith, disloyal to the apostolical and evangelical dogmas, disloyal too to the tradition of Gregory the truly great, [2772] and of his successors up …
2,331 wordsAthanasius — Select Works and Letters • SECTION 29
… The fragmentary character of many of them is no great presumption against their genuineness. The Abbat Cosmas in the sixth century advised all who met with anything by Athanasius to copy it, and if they …
2,311 wordsGregory of Nyssa — Dogmatic Treatises • SECTION 71
… For he, who was able to make himself known by miracles so many and so great, says, "God forbid that I should glory in anything else, than in the Cross of Christ [721] ." And to …
2,317 wordsLeo the Great & Gregory the Great • SECTION 238
… For the bodies of the apostles Saint Peter and Saint Paul glitter with so great miracles and terrors in their churches that one cannot even go to pray there without great fear. In short, when …
1,338 wordsEusebius — Church History, Constantine & Oration • SECTION 267
… After these things were thus done, God, the great and celestial defender of the Christians, having revealed in the events which have been described his anger and indignation at all men for the great evils …
1,334 wordsGregory of Nyssa — Dogmatic Treatises • SECTION 225
… also Gregory Thaum. Panegyr Origenis, §142. When we come to the Fathers of the 4th century and later, these words are used more especially of the work of the Holy Spirit upon man. Cf. Cyrill …
2,359 wordsCyril of Jerusalem & Gregory Nazianzen • SECTION 161
… Throughout the Arian controversy a great deal of trouble and misunderstanding was caused by the want of a precise definition of the meaning of hupostasis. It seems to have been at first understood by the …
2,351 wordsThe Seven Ecumenical Councils • SECTION 82
… 99.) The Holy Creed Which the 150 Holy Fathers Set Forth, Which is Consonant with the Holy and Great Synod of Nice [206] . (Found in all the Collections in the Acts of the Council of …
2,358 wordsGregory the Great, Ephraim Syrus & Aphrahat • SECTION 88
… This man, as he stood at midnight outside his cell after prayer and psalmody, saw an angel descending from heaven and bearing in his hands a great roll written on both sides, and heard him …
2,332 wordsCyril of Jerusalem & Gregory Nazianzen • SECTION 148
… The third great earthquake is that of the end of the world (Heb. xii. 26). [3730] Acts xvi. 3. [3731] Ib. xxi. 26. [3732] Galat. vii. 7-17. [3733] Theology is here used in a …
2,384 wordsCyril of Jerusalem & Gregory Nazianzen • SECTION 106
… 14. [2843] The great mysteries, i.e., the Sacrificial Death of Christ upon the Cross. [2844] Isai. l. 4; vi. 10. [2845] Prov. xxv. 12. [2846] Ps. cxix. 131. [2847] Ib. lxxxi. 10. [2848] 1 …
2,383 wordsThe Seven Ecumenical Councils • SECTION 6
… This collection was made by two lawyers, Gregory or Gregorian, and Hermogenes. Gregory's collection contains the laws set forth from the time of Hadrian to Constantine, and Hermogenes wrote a supplement. Although this was …
2,372 wordsGregory of Nyssa — Dogmatic Treatises • SECTION 24
… But a momentary advantage, calculated in accordance with the character and capacities of the great mass of Gregory's audience, could not be lost. The lessons of Libanius, the rhetorician, had not been thrown away …
2,384 wordsTheodoret, Jerome, Gennadius & Rufinus — Historical Writings • SECTION 250
… Origen himself; yes even if they were said by the great Gregory of Pontus, a man of apostolic virtues, or by the other Gregory, of Nazianzus, and Didymus the seeing [2922] prophet, both of them …
1,392 wordsThe Seven Ecumenical Councils • SECTION 8
"This great work is divided into three parts. The first part, in 101 Distinctions,' treats of ecclesiastical law, its origin, principles, and authority, and then of the different ranks and duties of the clergy. The …
2,395 wordsHilary of Poitiers & John of Damascus • SECTION 135
… Wherefore throughout this work you may hear not so much John of Damascus as Gregory the Theologian expounding the mysteries of the orthodox faith. John further made use of Basil the great, of Gregory of …
2,413 wordsTheodoret, Jerome, Gennadius & Rufinus — Historical Writings • SECTION 232
… Basil and 8 of Gregory Nazianzen. These are to be found in the works of Basil and Gregory, but without Prefaces; they are, however, mentioned by Rufinus himself in his Eccl. Hist. ii. 9, and …
1,383 wordsGregory of Nyssa — Dogmatic Treatises • SECTION 60
… the orthodox, which Gregory makes against Eunomius, basing that charge on the fact that the title "Son" is not interpreted in the same figurative way as the other titles recited. Gregory accordingly proceeds to show …
1,394 wordsSocrates and Sozomen — Ecclesiastical Histories • SECTION 214
… Resistance of Basil the Great, Gregory the Theologian, and Apolinarius to this Decree. They rapidly translate the Scripture into Greek Modes of Expression. Apolinarius and Gregory Nazianzen do this more than Basil, the one in …
2,460 wordsSocrates and Sozomen — Ecclesiastical Histories • SECTION 162
… Agathangelas, History of Tiridates the Great, and the preaching of Gregory the Illuminator. [1157] Here follows in the Greek text a repetition, word for word, of the first two lines of this chapter, which seem …
1,424 wordsCyril of Jerusalem & Gregory Nazianzen • SECTION 171
… They spoke with strange tongues, and not those of their native land; and the wonder was great, a language spoken by those who had not learnt it. And the sign is to them that believe …
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