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Hilary of Poitiers & John of Damascus • SECTION 10
… They are not more violent than the attacks of Athanasius upon Constantius, nor less violent than those of Lucifer; if the last author is usually regarded as pre-eminent in abuse, he deserves his reputation …
2,444 wordsCyril of Jerusalem & Gregory Nazianzen • SECTION 4
… 43. [10] Robertson, Prolegomena to Athanasius, p. xxxix. [11] Euseb. V. C. iv. 43. [12] Apolog. contra Arian. § 57. [13] Cf. Athan. Hist. Arian. § 25. [14] Introductory note to Cyril's Letter to Constantius, § x …
1,411 wordsAthanasius — Select Works and Letters • SECTION 67
… Deacons Ammonius [391] , Deacon, likewise Macarius, Deacon Pistus [392] , Deacon, likewise Athanasius, Deacon Eumenes, Deacon Apollonius [393] , Deacon Olympius, Deacon Aphthonius [394] , Deacon Athanasius [395] , Deacon Macarius, Deacon, likewise Paulus, Deacon Petrus, Deacon Ambytianus, Deacon …
1,438 wordsHilary of Poitiers & John of Damascus • SECTION 2
… Hilary of Poitiers, the most impersonal of writers, is so silent about himself, he is so rarely mentioned by contemporary writers--in all the voluminous works of Athanasius he is never once named,--and the …
2,503 wordsBasil — Letters and Select Works • SECTION 129
… Letter LXVI. [2237] To Athanasius, bishop of Alexandria. No one, I feel sure, is more distressed at the present condition, or, rather to speak more truly, ill condition of the Churches than your excellency; for …
1,518 wordsGregory Thaumaturgus, Dionysius, Julius Africanus & Others • SECTION 101
… The Meletians afterwards co-operated with the Arians in their hostility to Athanasius.--See Art. Meletius, in Smith's Biograph. Dict.--Tr. [2188] dioikeseis. [2189] eparchiai. [2190] paroikia. [2191] [More simply, the Church's system …
1,519 wordsAthanasius — Select Works and Letters • SECTION 135
… But no details of the persecution of the orthodox in Egypt had reached Athanasius when he wrote, in fact he mentions it as only beginning (§5). This points to about the Easter of 356; see …
2,671 wordsTheodoret, Jerome, Gennadius & Rufinus — Historical Writings • SECTION 96
… Eusebius, Patrophilus, and Aetius of Palestine, Paulinus and Gregorius of Phoenicia, Theodotus of Laodicea and his successor Georgius, and after him Athanasius and Narcissus of Cilicia, had nurtured the seeds so foully sown. Eusebius and …
1,549 wordsHilary of Poitiers & John of Damascus • SECTION 12
… Not only is the best and fullest use of Scripture made--for Hilary, like Athanasius, is marvellously imbued with its spirit as well as familiar with its letter--but texts are pressed into his service …
2,673 wordsGregory Thaumaturgus, Dionysius, Julius Africanus & Others • SECTION 43
… And that the word strategos was used in this civil acceptation as well as in the common military application, we see by many examples in Athanasius, Ammianus Marcellinus, and others. Thus, as Valesius remarks, the …
1,574 wordsAthanasius — Select Works and Letters • SECTION 23
… We find it used freely by Athanasius in his earlier anti-Arian writings, and it was thoroughly current in conservative theology, as for example in Cyril's Catecheses (he has homoion kata tas graphas and …
2,681 wordsAmbrose — Selected Works and Letters • SECTION 132
… Eusebius says there were 250 bishops in the Council; Athanasius and Socrates, "more than 300;" Sozomen "about 320." The number 318, however, is also given by Athanasius as well as by Theodoret and Epiphanius. See …
1,586 wordsSocrates and Sozomen — Ecclesiastical Histories • SECTION 64
… Moreover, he wrote letters to and encouraged Athanasius bishop of Alexandria, who immediately after Julian's death had recovered the Alexandrian church, and at that time gaining confidence from the letters [spoken of] put away …
1,599 wordsAthanasius — Select Works and Letters • SECTION 247
… 147.] Athanasius brings this accusation against them distinctly in his work against Apollinaris. contr. Apoll. i. 15. vid. also Ambros. de Fide, iii. 31. Salig in his de Eutychianismo ant. Eutychen takes notice of none …
2,790 wordsAthanasius — Select Works and Letters • SECTION 296
… The dates of his birth and episcopate are not certain, but the tone of the letters to him imply that he is junior to Athanasius. The theory of Ceillier, based on a precarious inference from …
1,653 wordsSocrates and Sozomen — Ecclesiastical Histories • SECTION 15
… the names of the rest are fully reported in The Synodicon [200] of Athanasius, bishop of Alexandria. This Synod was convened (as we have discovered from the notation of the date prefixed to the record …
1,703 wordsSocrates and Sozomen — Ecclesiastical Histories • SECTION 55
… George as warring against the wizard Athanasius; later, the wizard was transformed to a dragon, and George to an armed knight slaying the dragon. On other forms and features of the legend, see Smith & Wace …
1,707 wordsAthanasius — Select Works and Letters • SECTION 107
… 8 and 15. [813] One of the characteristic points in Athanasius is his constant attention to the sense of doctrine, or the meaning of writers, in preference to the words used. Thus he scarcely uses …
2,922 wordsThe Seven Ecumenical Councils • SECTION 25
… their questioning he shall not answer this Trinity, let him be baptized." The Samosatans, according to St. Athanasius, named the Father, Son and Holy Spirit in administering baptism (Orat. ii, Contra Arian. No. xliii.), but …
1,740 wordsHilary of Poitiers & John of Damascus • SECTION 21
… Of that controversy Athanasius was the hero; the arguments which he used and those which he refuted are admirably set forth in the introduction to the translation of his writings in this series. In writing …
3,016 wordsSocrates and Sozomen — Ecclesiastical Histories • SECTION 138
… He passes by all the technical writings of Athanasius; he has no direct knowledge of the works of Hilary, though that might be excused. Of the purely theological works of Basil and Gregory Nazianzen, whom …
1,798 wordsEusebius — Church History, Constantine & Oration • SECTION 160
… It is possible that the practice was from the beginning more widely spread than Eusebius supposed, or, what is more probable, that the words of Athanasius and Jerome refer to individual churches and bishops, whose …
1,807 wordsAugustine — Homilies on John & First John • SECTION 204
… St. Athanasius, Bishop of the Church of Alexandria, witness that the first Epistle of St. John was written ad Parthos." (Cave, Hist. Lit. i. 614). But there is no indication elsewhere that St. Athanasius was …
1,915 wordsThe Seven Ecumenical Councils • SECTION 113
… Since we have learned that certain, after having corrupted it, have set forth the orthodox epistle of our most distinguished Father Athanasius to the Blessed Epictetus, so as thereby to injure many; therefore it appeared …
1,969 wordsBasil — Letters and Select Works • SECTION 227
… Moreover the very blessed Pope Athanasius came from Alexandria, and was most anxious that communion should be established between Meletius and himself; but by the malice of counsellors their conjunction was put off to another …
2,005 wordsGregory of Nyssa — Dogmatic Treatises • SECTION 139
… Gregory deals with the celibate life in a different way from other Catholic writers upon this theme. Athanasius and Basil both saw in it the means of exhibiting to the world the Christian life definitely …
700 wordsFathers of the Second Century • SECTION 336
… Angels, the two, 24. Anger, 49. Antonines, the, 5. Apostates, 50. Apostles, 14, 49, 51. Arcadia, 43. Athanasius, 25, 28, 36, 57. Backbiting, 49. Beast, the, 18. Bishops, 14, 52. Bishop's Cathedra, 12. Blasphemers …
707 wordsAmbrose — Selected Works and Letters • SECTION 243
… to live elsewhere. Common life amongst them would seem to have commenced in the East, and St. Athanasius, when, seeking refuge from the Arians, he came to Rome, introduced the custom to the Western Church …
708 wordsTheodoret, Jerome, Gennadius & Rufinus — Historical Writings • SECTION 13
… 42) repeats the charge of distinct errors in chronology in (a) the statement that Arius died in 325 instead of in 336; (b) the extension of the exile of Athanasius by four months; (c) the …
2,073 wordsSocrates and Sozomen — Ecclesiastical Histories • SECTION 43
… Then the Lord...rained brimstone and fire from the Lord out of heaven.' [365] Athanasius reads epi Sodoma, not eis soma. If this be the true reading, we should translate came down to Sodom,' &c …
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