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Ambrose — Selected Works and Letters • SECTION 185
… Continuing the exposition of the disputed passage, which he had begun, Ambrose brings forward four reasons why we affirm that something cannot be, and shows that the first three fail to apply to Christ, and …
1,776 wordsAmbrose — Selected Works and Letters • SECTION 194
… His reward is pointed out in the case of Peter, as also in the case of Paul. Ambrose, being anxious to follow Paul's guidance, wished this book to be added to the others, for …
1,793 wordsAugustine — Homilies on John & First John • SECTION 93
… But Augustin's interpretation is favored by Ambrose, Bernard, etc. [703] In the accusative case. [704] In the nominative case. [705] Augustin here makes Christ's speaking--His use of human language--the means whereby …
1,766 wordsAmbrose — Selected Works and Letters • SECTION 97
… little difficulty in ascertaining exactly what were the tenets of Photinus, but it would appear that St. Ambrose considered that he held our Lord to be mere man, and so was worse than the Arians …
1,812 wordsAmbrose — Selected Works and Letters • SECTION 89
… Church and her mysteries. When the Holy Spirit left Samson he fell into various calamities, and St. Ambrose explains the spiritual significance of his shorn locks. 1. Even in reading the first book of the …
1,827 wordsAugustine — Confessions & Letters • SECTION 192
… 22, 23. [1553] Beatissimi papæ. [1554] These books of Ambrose are lost. [1555] Antistes. [1556] See Ps. xii. 7. Letter XXXII. This letter from Paulinus to Romanianus and Licentius expresses the satisfaction with which he …
1,849 wordsBasil — Letters and Select Works • SECTION 49
… 16 St. Didymus, as translated by St. Jerome, gives Spiritum suum. The Targum has the same. St. Ambrose writes: Quis est qui dicit; misit me Dominus Deus et Spiritus Ejus; nisi Qui venit a Patre …
1,840 wordsAmbrose — Selected Works and Letters • SECTION 168
… he is created, he should be for ever preserved in being."--H. [2136] Hurter observes that St. Ambrose understands mortality in a wide sense, as including the capacity of any and every sort of change …
1,843 wordsCyril of Jerusalem & Gregory Nazianzen • SECTION 15
… S. Cyril's Lectures. We have seen in a passage already quoted [307] that at Milan S. Ambrose expounded the Creed to Catechumens in the Baptistery. But whatever may have been the custom in other …
1,873 wordsAugustine — Homilies on John & First John • SECTION 117
… and hence there were artisan optiones, and those belonging to official or prison life, in which last signification they are used here; as also in Ambrose's works (Commentary on the Ephesians, chap. 4) in …
1,833 wordsAmbrose — Selected Works and Letters • SECTION 272
… S. Matt. xix. 27. [3385] S. Matt. xix. 28. [3386] S. Matt. xxv. 21. Chapter XIII. St. Ambrose, treating of the words in the Gospel concerning eunuchs, condemns those who make themselves such. Those only …
1,884 wordsThe Seven Ecumenical Councils • SECTION 23
… xiv); Ambrose (de Tobia liber unus). Jerome (in Ezech. vi. 18); Augustine de Baptismo contr. Donatistas, iv. 19); Leo the Great (Epist. iii. 4), and Cassiodorus (in Ps. xiv. 10). The canons of later councils …
1,877 wordsAugustine — Confessions & Letters • SECTION 32
… iii. [229] That is probably the "spiritual" meaning on which Ambrose (vi. 6, below) laid so much emphasis. How different is the attitude of mind indicated in xi. 3 from the spiritual pride which beset …
1,840 wordsAugustine — City of God & Christian Doctrine • SECTION 345
… 286, and Ambrose, Ep. 22. A translation of this epistle in full is given in Isaac Taylor's Ancient Christianity, ii. 242, where this miracle is taken as a specimen of the so-called miracles …
1,862 wordsEusebius — Church History, Constantine & Oration • SECTION 164
… Hippolytus, Basil, Gregory of Nyssa, Ambrose, and others wrote upon it, as did also the Apion mentioned in the next sentence. The work of Candidus is no longer extant, nor do we know anything more …
1,893 wordsAmbrose — Selected Works and Letters • SECTION 175
… iv. 8. [2239] Song of Solomon v. 26. [2240] Song of Solomon v. 15. Chapter XI. St. Ambrose returns to the main question, and shows that whenever Christ is said to have "been made" (or …
1,901 wordsAmbrose — Selected Works and Letters • SECTION 94
Chapter VIII. St. Ambrose examines and refutes the heretical argument that because God is said to be glorified in the Spirit, and not with the Spirit, the Holy Spirit is therefore inferior to the Father …
1,924 wordsEusebius — Church History, Constantine & Oration • SECTION 38
… One tradition sends him to Milan and makes him the first bishop of the church there, but the silence of Ambrose in regard to it is a sufficient proof of its groundlessness. There is extant …
1,901 wordsAmbrose — Selected Works and Letters • SECTION 249
… Other passages from the Song of Songs are considered with relation to the present subject, and St. Ambrose exhorting the virgin to seek for Christ, points out where He may be found. A description of …
1,930 wordsJerome — Principal Works • SECTION 21
… one with him? Let Ursicinus be made the colleague of your blessedness; let Auxentius be associated with Ambrose. [290] But may the faith of Rome never come to such a pass! May the devout hearts …
1,950 wordsAmbrose — Selected Works and Letters • SECTION 198
… 2579] S. John iv. 22. [2580] S. John iv. 23. [2581] S. Matt. xxviii. 9. Chapter V. Ambrose answers those who press the words of the Lord to the mother of Zebedee's children, by …
2,028 wordsGregory of Nyssa — Dogmatic Treatises • SECTION 148
… 6, mega anthropos; and Ambrose (de obitu Theodosii), "Magnum et honorabile est homo misericors;" and the same on Ps. cxix. 73, "Grande homo, et preciosum vir misericors, et vere magnus est, qui divini operis interpres …
2,058 wordsChrysostom — John and Hebrews • SECTION 158
… 238, which contains the first half only: but the whole catena is extant in the Library of St. Ambrose at Milan (E. 63 part inf.). [2648] Montfaucon observes that the Manuscripts frequently interchange the name.
2,053 wordsTheodoret, Jerome, Gennadius & Rufinus — Historical Writings • SECTION 13
… in 336; (b) the extension of the exile of Athanasius by four months; (c) the election of Ambrose at the beginning of the reign of Valentinian, instead of ten years later; (d) the troubles at …
2,073 wordsAugustine — Confessions & Letters • SECTION 98
… Then I slept, and on awaking found my grief not a little mitigated; and as I lay alone upon my bed, there came into my mind those true verses of Thy Ambrose, for Thou art …
2,087 wordsAmbrose — Selected Works and Letters • SECTION 161
… Father, when you hear the Father declaring His pleasure in the Son. [2033] Ps. xcv. 6. St. Ambrose follows the LXX. [2034] 2 Cor. v. 21; Gal. iii. 13. [2035] S. John i. 29, 36 …
2,100 wordsJerome — Principal Works • SECTION 93
… Lucinius may have shared the views of Ambrose and Martin against the shedding of blood. [2293] Ps. cxii. 9. [2294] Luke ix. 48. [2295] Matt. x. 40. [2296] Isa. xlix. 2. [2297] Ps. cxxi. 4 …
2,121 wordsAugustine — Confessions & Letters • SECTION 10
… 24, to interpret Genesis "non secundum allegoricas significationes, sed secundum rerum gestarum proprietatem." The work is more original and spirited than the Hexaëmeron of Basil or of Ambrose. [52] Tom. iv., the whole volume. The …
2,088 wordsSulpitius Severus, Vincent of Lerins & John Cassian • SECTION 125
… has the praise of St. Athanasius, St. Basil, and St. Gregory Nazianzen, and furnishes materials to St. Ambrose and St. Hilary; yet, as time proceeded a definite heterodoxy was the growing result of his theology …
2,155 wordsCyril of Jerusalem & Gregory Nazianzen • SECTION 6
… service (klesis strateias) [97] , appears to have been often repeated on the approach of Lent. Thus S. Ambrose, in his Commentary on S. Luke, v. 5; We have toiled all night and have taken nothing …
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