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Augustine — Confessions & Letters • SECTION 233

Letter LXXIV.

… 404.) Jerome's answer to Letters XXVIII., XL., and LXXI. To Augustin, My Lord Truly Holy, and Most Blessed Father, Jerome Sends Greeting in Christ. Chap. I. 1. I have received by Cyprian, deacon, three …

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Eusebius — Church History, Constantine & Oration • SECTION 176

Chapter XIII.--The Writings of Clement. [1840]

… The list is repeated by Jerome (de vir. ill. c. 38) and by Photius (Cod. 109-111), the former of whom merely copies from Eusebius, with some mistakes, while the latter copies from Jerome, as …

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Augustine — Anti-Pelagian Writings • SECTION 164

Book II. Chap. 45,

… A certain deacon, called Annianus, is supposed to have pleaded the cause of Pelagius at the synod; some learned men finding it easier to interpret of this deacon than of Pelagius what Jerome writes in …

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Eusebius — Church History, Constantine & Oration • SECTION 102

Book IV.

… 21. [970] The Chronicle of Eusebius (Armenian) makes Primus succeed to the bishopric of Alexandria in the eleventh year of Trajan; the version of Jerome, in the ninth. According to chap. 4, below, he held …

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Theodoret, Jerome, Gennadius & Rufinus — Historical Writings • SECTION 234

Preface to Book II.

… All these documents became the subject of vehement controversy which found its expression in the letter of Jerome to his friends at Rome, and the Apologies of Rufinus and Jerome translated in this volume. The …

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Jerome — Principal Works • SECTION 168

"Such was his constant cry: unmoved he stood.

… I beseech you, reader, whoever you may be, to remember Jerome the sinner. He, if God would give him his choice, would much sooner take Paul's tunic with his merits, than the purple of …

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Ambrose — Selected Works and Letters • SECTION 268

Chapter VIII.

… guilt cannot find an entrance if vigilance be not wanting. [3352] Jud. iv. 4 ff. [3353] St. Jerome agrees with St. Ambrose in believing that Deborah literally was a judge, as indeed seems conclusive from …

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Eusebius — Church History, Constantine & Oration • SECTION 172

Chapter VII.--The Writer, Judas. [1807]

… This epistle is not mentioned by Eusebius, but in spite of Jerome's usual dependence upon the latter, there is no good reason to doubt the truth of his statement in this case (see below …

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Jerome — Principal Works • SECTION 91

Letter LXXI. To Lucinius.

… 397 sent several scribes thither to transcribe for him Jerome's principal writings. To these on their return home Jerome now entrusts the following letter. In it he encourages Lucinius to fulfil his purpose of …

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Augustine — Anti-Pelagian Writings • SECTION 21

TO The Right Reverend The Lord Bishop OF Exeter.

… This wide epithet is somewhat restricted by Jerome, who says of him, Habet progeniem Scotiæ gentis de Britannorum vicinia; leaving it uncertain, however, whether he deemed Scotland his native country, or Ireland. His monastic character …

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Athanasius — Select Works and Letters • SECTION 121

Introduction to Vita S. Antoni.

… Ant. §1, note 1) for the freedom of his rendering, addressed Innocentio carissimo filio.' Now this Innocent, the friend of Jerome and Evagrius, died in the summer of 374, almost exactly a year after the …

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Sulpitius Severus, Vincent of Lerins & John Cassian • SECTION 243

Chapter XX.

… xix., and Jerome Ep. 152. See these and other reff. in Anger's Synopsis, p. 274; and cf. the note of Gazæus here. [1149] Obrizum. The word occurs in the Vulgate five times for "pure …

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Athanasius — Select Works and Letters • SECTION 212

[2786] Prov. xviii. 3, LXX.

… repose and habitate in God,' emphilochorein to theo kai endiaitasthai. And hence the strong figure of S. Jerome (in which he is followed by S. Cyril, Thesaur. p. 51), Filius locus est Patris, sicut et …

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Sulpitius Severus, Vincent of Lerins & John Cassian • SECTION 144

Book I.

… The Greek is skepasmata, for which Jerome's version has "quibus tegamur." Sabbatier gives "victum et vestitum" as the rendering of the old Latin, but it is often quoted as "victus et tegumentum" by Augustine …

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Jerome — Principal Works • SECTION 104

Letter LXXXIV. To Pammachius and Oceanus.

… A calm letter in which Jerome defines and justifies his own attitude towards Origen, but unduly minimizes his early enthusiasm for him. He admires him in the same way that Cyprian admired Tertullian but does …

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Eusebius — Church History, Constantine & Oration • SECTION 135

Chapter XXX.--Bardesanes the Syrian and his Extant Works.

… Eusebius in this chapter, followed by Jerome (de vir. ill. chap. 33), Epiphanius, Theodoret, and others, assigns the activity of Bardesanes to the reign of Marcus Aurelius (so also in the Chron.). But Hort says …

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