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Athanasius — Select Works and Letters • SECTION 17
… He denounced Arianism as the worst of heresies, and was solemnly escorted out of town by the bishop in person. As an annalist toward the close of the century tells us, Antony, the great leader …
2,207 wordsAthanasius — Select Works and Letters • SECTION 14
… After his expulsion he occupied himself with writing books in Greek and in Latin, including a work against all heresies,' in which he expounded his own (Socr. ii. 30). None of his works have survived …
2,207 wordsAthanasius — Select Works and Letters • SECTION 66
… The Arians are then (§5) compared to other heretics, and the bishops of the Church generally warned (§6) against the intrigues of Eusebius of Nicomedia. The letter is signed by the sixteen presbyters of Alexandria …
2,258 wordsAugustine — Exposition on Psalms • SECTION 239
… But are men, then, the only enemies that the Church hath? What is a man devoted to flesh and blood, save flesh and blood? But the Apostle saith, "We wrestle not against flesh and blood …
2,218 wordsThe Seven Ecumenical Councils • SECTION 83
… And further we anathematize such as do not confess the resurrection of the dead, as well as all heresies which are not in accord with the true faith. Finally, you and your children thus believing …
2,224 wordsAugustine — Exposition on Psalms • SECTION 28
… For I am a single people, keeping the lowliness of Thy single Church, which no schisms or heresies possess. 17. "The tribulations of my heart have been multiplied" (ver. 17). The tribulations of my heart …
2,221 wordsTheodoret, Jerome, Gennadius & Rufinus — Historical Writings • SECTION 280
… others against you? Is it not the fact that he thought that I also was a heretic because of my friendship with you? And, when I had given him satisfaction as to the heresies of …
2,246 wordsThe Apostolic Fathers, Justin Martyr & Irenaeus • SECTION 113
… 119. [1730] Against Heresies, book v. chap. xxxiii. See the prudent note of Canon Robertson (History of the Christ. Church, vol. i. p. 116). [1731] Hist. Eccl., iii. 39. [1732] Ibid. [1733] [Where the fragments …
2,237 wordsThe Twelve Patriarchs, Apocrypha, Clementine Homilies & More • SECTION 406
… And one of the heresies they had against him was, that Jesus said that their Sabbath should not be a day of leisure, and should not be observed. For he performed many cures on that …
2,258 wordsEusebius — Church History, Constantine & Oration • SECTION 82
… The former in the second book of his work Against Heresies, writes as follows: [743] "And all the elders that associated with John the disciple of the Lord in Asia bear witness that John delivered …
2,231 wordsGregory Thaumaturgus, Dionysius, Julius Africanus & Others • SECTION 128
… These men, therefore, who have dared such things against Christ; who have partly in public derided the Christian religion; partly seek to traduce and inform against its professors before the judgment-seats; who in a …
2,228 wordsThe Twelve Patriarchs, Apocrypha, Clementine Homilies & More • SECTION 33
… Elkesaites. [510] See Hippolytus, Refutation of all Heresies, book ix. 8-12, Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. v. pp. 131-134. The forms occur in chap. 10, pp. 132, 133. [511] See Recognitions, i. 45-48 …
2,229 wordsAugustine — Against the Manichaeans and Donatists • SECTION 272
… In the meantime, first extricate yourselves from the offenses with which you are acquainted in your colleagues, and then bring up against us any charge connected with those whom you hold to be wicked amongst …
2,246 wordsAugustine — Confessions & Letters • SECTION 306
… Heresies bud forth against the name of Christ, though veiling themselves under His name, as had been foretold, by which the doctrine of the holy religion is tested and developed. All these things are now …
2,237 wordsEusebius — Church History, Constantine & Oration • SECTION 142
… In the third book of his work Against Heresies he has inserted a list of the bishops of Rome, bringing it down as far as Eleutherus (whose times we are now considering), under whom he …
2,240 wordsAugustine — Homilies on John & First John • SECTION 168
… And what shall we say of this foolish and brazen-faced woman seasoning, as she does, so many wicked heresies, and serving up so many detestable fables with Christian forms of expression? Would that they …
2,251 wordsAugustine — Against the Manichaeans and Donatists • SECTION 99
… For of heretics it is said: "There must be heresies, that those who are approved among you may be manifested." [446] Go on, then, with your objections to the Old Testament Scriptures! Go on, ye …
2,232 wordsHilary of Poitiers & John of Damascus • SECTION 44
… But perhaps you will reply, Some of those who were then present at Nicæa have now decreed that we ought to keep silence about the word homoousion.' Against my will I must answer: Do not …
2,244 wordsSocrates and Sozomen — Ecclesiastical Histories • SECTION 3
… The latter passage can only be acted upon, according to Socrates, as the ground of a knowledge of that philosophy which is to be guarded against as vain. [58] Ginesthe dokimoi trapezitai. This saying is …
2,247 wordsAugustine — Homilies on John & First John • SECTION 209
… Yet most of all must those things be commended to our memory, which are of most force against heretics; whose insidious designs cease not to circumvent all that are weaker and more negligent. Remember that …
2,266 wordsAthanasius — Select Works and Letters • SECTION 169
… Two distinctions are drawn between such a title as applied to Catholics, and again to heretics, when they are taken by Catholics as a note against them. S. Augustine says, Arians call Catholics Athanasians or …
2,258 wordsHilary of Poitiers & John of Damascus • SECTION 83
… First, I wished to expose the vague and confused character of this crowd of heresies, whose mutual feuds turn, as we have seen, to our advantage. Secondly, in my warfare against the blasphemous doctrines of …
2,244 wordsThe Twelve Patriarchs, Apocrypha, Clementine Homilies & More • SECTION 518
… faith of the Corinthians; his abhorrence of "the Circumcision" so far as it bred sects and heresies against Christ; and when we find him confirming the testimony of the Apostolic Fathers, and sustaining the traditions …
2,206 wordsTheodoret, Jerome, Gennadius & Rufinus — Historical Writings • SECTION 164
… I have in my possession what I wrote twenty years ago; what I wrote eighteen, fifteen, twelve, years ago; against Arians and Eunomians, against Jews and pagans; against the magi in Persia; on divine Providence …
2,258 wordsTheodoret, Jerome, Gennadius & Rufinus — Historical Writings • SECTION 128
… From his Second Discourse against heresies: [1325] -- "We should not have been redeemed from sin and the curse had not the flesh which the Word wore been by nature that of man, for we should …
2,270 wordsHippolytus, Cyprian, Caius & Novatian • SECTION 313
… Since our Lord Christ says, "He who is not with me is against me;" [4706] and John the apostle calls those who depart from the Church Antichrists--undoubtedly enemies of Christ--any such as are …
2,247 wordsThe Apostolic Fathers, Justin Martyr & Irenaeus • SECTION 369
… 34. [Applicable to the origin of heresies.] [4432] Matt. xiii. 28. [4433] The old Latin translator varies from this (the Greek of which was recovered by Grabe from two ancient Catenæ Patrum), making the clause …
2,253 wordsAugustine — Exposition on Psalms • SECTION 94
… How great the consolation, how great the refuge "from weakness of mind and tempest," against evil men, against ungodly men both without and within, and in the case of those that are without though they …
2,244 wordsChrysostom — Acts and Romans • SECTION 135
… but what? That there should rise up against you certain of another sort: he says not, "because of my departing," but "after my departing:" that is, after his going on his journey.--And yet this …
2,253 wordsAugustine — Homilies on John & First John • SECTION 222
… How can it be said that thou deniest not that Christ is come in the flesh, who rendest assunder the Church of God which He hath gathered together? Therefore thou goest against Christ; thou art …
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