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Jerome — Principal Works • SECTION 201

[4371] Ex. xxxvii.

… The reading first quoted by Jerome is that of F, a manuscript of the eighth or ninth century, and is found in Tertullian; the other chief readings introduce the Greek equivalent for sister, either in …

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Athanasius — Select Works and Letters • SECTION 172

[1882] Ps. ii. 1.

… 19. [see also Tertullian, de Orat. init.] [1889] Col. i. 17. [1890] Vid. contr. Gent. 45-47. [1891] Matt. xi. 27. [1892] John xiv. 8, 9. [1893] Rom. i. 20. [1894] Heb. i. 2. [1895 …

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Hippolytus, Cyprian, Caius & Novatian • SECTION 1

ANTE-NICENE FATHERS

… The formation of Latin Christianity in the school of North Africa seems interrupted by the interpolation, between Tertullian and his great pupil Cyprian, of a Western bishop and doctor, who writes in Greek. A little …

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Tertullian — Latin Christianity • SECTION 424

Chapter IX.--Recapitulation. [8823]

… has taught. [8823] Here comes in the Codex Ambrosianus, with the title, "Here begins a treatise of Tertullian of divers necessary things;" and from it are taken the headings of the remaining chapters. (See Oehler …

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Tertullian — Latin Christianity • SECTION 401

Chapter VII.--Tatian, Cataphrygians, Cataproclans, Catæschinetans.

… form and order of the words here used are certainly remarkably similar to the expressions and order of the "Apostles' Creed." Ethical Tertullian. ------------------------ Part Third. I. On Repentance. [8420] [Translated by the Rev. S. Thelwall.] ------------------------

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Gregory of Nyssa — Dogmatic Treatises • SECTION 204

Chapter III.

… This word "distribution" is used by Tertullian and others to express the effect of the "persons" (idiotetes, hupostaseis, prosopa) upon the Godhead which forms the definition of the substance (ho tes ousias logos). Chapter IV …

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Lactantius, Venantius, Asterius, Victorinus & Others • SECTION 1

ANTE-NICENE FATHERS

… The crabbed Latinity of Tertullian has charms, indeed, of its own sort: it was the shaggy raiment of the ascetic and the confessor, "always bearing about in his own body the dying of the Lord …

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Eusebius — Church History, Constantine & Oration • SECTION 91

Chapter XXIX.--Nicolaus and the Sect named after him.

… 24), Pseudo-Tertullian (Adv. omnes Hær. chap. 1), and Epiphanius (Hær. 25), the last two undoubtedly drawing their account from Hippolytus, and he in turn from Irenæus. Jerome and the writers of his time and …

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Tertullian — Latin Christianity • SECTION 417

Chapter XVI.--Of the Second Baptism--With Blood.

… Perhaps Tertullian means literally--though that sense of the word is very rare--"shall issue out of her," alluding to his "pariet" above. [8716] See c. i. ad fin. [8717] The allusion is to a …

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Eusebius — Church History, Constantine & Oration • SECTION 92

Chapter XXX.--The Apostles that were Married.

… the only Father who reports that Paul was married; many of them expressly deny it; e.g. Tertullian, Hilary, Epiphanius, Jerome, &c. The authority of these later Fathers is of course of little account. But …

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Jerome — Principal Works • SECTION 89

Letter LXX. To Magnus an Orator of Rome.

… Jerome here follows Tertullian and Cyril of Jerusalem. [2079] Matt. xxviii. 19. [2080] Acts ii. 38. [2081] Isa. lxvi. 7, 8. [2082] Gen. xlix. 27. [2083] Acts ix. 17, 18. Comp. Letter LX. 8. [2084 …

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Theodoret, Jerome, Gennadius & Rufinus — Historical Writings • SECTION 195

Chapter XVII.

… say that after the resurrection the Lord will reign in the flesh with the saints, follow him. Tertullian also in his work On the hope of the faithful, Victorinus of Petau and Lactantius follow this …

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Cyril of Jerusalem & Gregory Nazianzen • SECTION 62

[1525] James i. 5.

… 7 by Justin M. (Tryph. § 103), Tertullian (c. Marcion. iv. 42), and Rufinus (de Symbolo, § 21), who adds,--"And rightly does the Prophet add the name Jarim,' which means a wild vine,' for Herod was …

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Hippolytus, Cyprian, Caius & Novatian • SECTION 157

XXXII.

… 574, Tertullian, iii. p. 346 and passim.] [1970] [Isa. i. 8.] [1971] [The public reading of Scripture-lessons is implied, Acts xv. 21. See Hooker, Eccl. Pol., book v. cap. xix.] [1972] pathon. B reads …

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Sulpitius Severus, Vincent of Lerins & John Cassian • SECTION 160

Chapter IX.

… Viz., Rome. [753] The Saturday fast was observed at Rome in very early days, being noticed by Tertullian, who seems to suggest that it originated in the prolongation of the Friday fast (on Fasting, c …

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Gregory Thaumaturgus, Dionysius, Julius Africanus & Others • SECTION 97

[2048] 1 Cor. xv. 32.

… The reading is, "cum autem fuit Dei voluntas in nobis." The Vulgate, following the ordinary Greek text, gives, "at ubi venit plenitudo temporis." And so Irenæus, Tertullian, Cyprian, etc. [This should have been in the …

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Gregory Thaumaturgus, Dionysius, Julius Africanus & Others • SECTION 213

[3749] Lit., "a comparison of the worst may effect that we," etc.

… jaws of hell, as is said, deliver us? [3772] Lit., "things not principal." Orelli here quotes from Tertullian, de Anim., xxiii., a brief summary of Gnostic doctrines on these points, which he considers Arnobius to …

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