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Tertullian — Latin Christianity • SECTION 1
… Semler, however, in a dissertation inserted in his edition of Tertullian's works, [6] contends that he was a presbyter of the Roman Church. Eusebius [7] tells us that he was accurately acquainted with the …
2,528 wordsHippolytus, Cyprian, Caius & Novatian • SECTION 111
… Another historian of the heresies of the Church adopts it--Epiphanius. A chronographer, however, contemporary with Hippolytus--Julius Africanus--discarded this number, as is proved by the fragments of his work preserved by Eusebius and …
1,201 wordsAthanasius — Select Works and Letters • SECTION 260
… It still awaits a critical examination, and it is not easy to give it its exact place in the history of the later Arianism. Apparently it belongs to the period 360-364, when the Anomoeans …
2,237 wordsAthanasius — Select Works and Letters • SECTION 161
… Church, which I have briefly related a little above [1672] , and which are known to all men from the protests put forth by the people, which are inserted at the end of this history, so …
2,294 wordsBasil — Letters and Select Works • SECTION 10
… in the stream of civil history was of vital moment to the cause which Basil held dear. The approach of the enemy was fraught with important consequences to the Church. The imperial attention was diverted …
2,231 wordsLactantius, Venantius, Asterius, Victorinus & Others • SECTION 2
… 191; and see Smith's History of the Christian Church in the First Ten Centuries, vol. i. p. 451, ed. Harpers, New York.] [17] The Enigmas have not been included in the present translation, for …
2,266 wordsEusebius — Church History, Constantine & Oration • SECTION 151
… He fell from the presbyterate of the Church, and Blastus was involved in a similar fall. They also drew away many of the Church to their opinion, each striving to introduce his own innovations in …
3,050 wordsAthanasius — Select Works and Letters • SECTION 14
… Monarchianism, of Montanism. [22] The position of Eusebius of Cæsarea is at the extreme left' of the Origenist body. (A reflex of the unsolved problems of the Church of that time,' Dorner.) It is as …
2,207 wordsTheodoret, Jerome, Gennadius & Rufinus — Historical Writings • SECTION 110
… A survival of the use obtains in the English Church in the Prayer for the Church Militant, and more specifically in the recitation of names in the Bidding Prayer. Chapter XXXVI.--Of the removal of …
2,103 wordsTheodoret, Jerome, Gennadius & Rufinus — Historical Writings • SECTION 112
… When the divine Theodorus was ruling the church of Antioch, Theodorus, bishop of Mopsuestia, a doctor of the whole church and successful combatant against every heretical phalanx, ended this life. He had enjoyed the teaching …
2,454 wordsLactantius, Venantius, Asterius, Victorinus & Others • SECTION 148
… the Codex, or the accuracy of the edition published by Bryennios. Eusebius (d. 340) of Cæsarea, in the famous passage of his history (iii. 25) which treats of the canonical books of the New Testament …
2,237 wordsCyril of Jerusalem & Gregory Nazianzen • SECTION 31
… Study earnestly these only which we read openly in the Church. Far wiser and more pious than thyself were the Apostles, and the bishops of old time, the presidents of the Church who handed down …
2,281 wordsFathers of the Second Century • SECTION 1
… These facts account for the history of the book, its early currency and credit in the Church. Nor must we fail to observe, that the tedious allegorizing of Hermas, though not acceptable to us, was …
2,330 wordsHippolytus, Cyprian, Caius & Novatian • SECTION 326
… Moreover, though he writes twice to the Corinthians and Thessalonians for their correction, it is yet shown--i.e., by this sevenfold writing--that there is one Church spread abroad through the whole world. And …
2,206 wordsSocrates and Sozomen — Ecclesiastical Histories • SECTION 68
… But we shall have occasion to mention both Basil and Gregory again in the course of our history. [594] [590] 367 a.d. [591] See II. 43. [592] 368 a.d. [593] If Socrates means …
2,331 wordsThe Seven Ecumenical Councils • SECTION 89
… in the history of the fourth General Council. For the present, it may suffice to add that the aversion to Alexandria which, by favouring Maximus, had exercised such a disturbing influence on Church affairs in …
1,463 wordsSocrates and Sozomen — Ecclesiastical Histories • SECTION 91
… native Smyrna, kept Easter on the fourteenth day of the moon, as Eusebius attests in the fifth book of his Ecclesiastical History. [779] While therefore some in Asia Minor observed the day above-mentioned, others …
2,365 wordsGregory Thaumaturgus, Dionysius, Julius Africanus & Others • SECTION 75
… 20. [1444] Church History, ii. p. 165, ed. Bohn. [1445] De Mensur. et Pond., ch. 20. [1446] Cateches., vi. p. 140. [1447] Chronicon, lib. post., p. 177. [1448] In ch. 24. [1449] Catech., vi. p …
2,638 wordsEusebius — Church History, Constantine & Oration • SECTION 182
… While there the bishops of the church in that country [1926] requested him to preach and expound the Scriptures publicly, although he had not yet been ordained as presbyter. [1927] 17. This is evident from …
2,231 wordsTheodoret, Jerome, Gennadius & Rufinus — Historical Writings • SECTION 11
… 255. [104] The last record in the History appears to be of a.d. 440, cf. p. 159. Eusebius ends, and Theodoret begins, with the defeat of Licinius in 323. Constantine began to reign in …
2,464 wordsEusebius — Church History, Constantine & Oration • SECTION 403
… Biog. [3528] For account of the various details of persecution mentioned, compare the Church History. [3529] "alogou." [3530] [That is, stripping the images of those whose temples he destroyed, and apportioning the spoils among his …
2,162 wordsLactantius, Venantius, Asterius, Victorinus & Others • SECTION 1
… known in the history of the world. It is amazing how little the men of the epoch itself glorified their own introduction to "marvelous light," and how very little the Church has left us, to …
2,273 wordsSulpitius Severus, Vincent of Lerins & John Cassian • SECTION 15
… Milner remarks (Church History, II. 193), "I should be ashamed, as well as think the labor ill spent, to recite the stories at length which Sulpitius gives us." See, on the other side, Cardinal Newman …
2,225 wordsHippolytus, Cyprian, Caius & Novatian • SECTION 2
… Döllinger, considering the extent of his theological learning, and in particular his intimate acquaintance with the apostolic period in church history, virtually, we submit, decides the question. [16] For a biography of Hippolytus we have …
2,221 wordsAthanasius — Select Works and Letters • SECTION 19
… The whole scheme appears to be novel and to have been suggested by the history of the case of the exiles. The canons are very important in their subsequent history, but need not be discussed …
2,218 wordsAthanasius — Select Works and Letters • SECTION 29
… We have no systematic doctrinal treatise, no historical monograph from his pen, although his writings are rich in materials for history and dogmatics alike. The exception to this is in the exegetical remains, especially those …
2,311 wordsAthanasius — Select Works and Letters • SECTION 217
… It is here contrasted to the Church's doctrine, and connected with the word idios; for which de Syn. 3, n. 6; Or. i. 37, n. 1. Vid. also Letter 54. fin. Also contr. Apoll …
2,209 wordsEusebius — Church History, Constantine & Oration • SECTION 244
… of the proposed indignity. [2553] Eusebius evidently approved of these women's suicide, and it must be confessed that they had great provocation. The views of the early Church on the subject of suicide were …
1,371 wordsAthanasius — Select Works and Letters • SECTION 238
… 3463] ; on the other hand, the Arian heresy had risen up against the Catholic Church, and found supporters in Eusebius and his fellows, who were both zealous for the heresy, and conducted the attack upon …
2,294 wordsHilary of Poitiers & John of Damascus • SECTION 4
… These were Dionysius of Milan, who disappears from history, his place being taken by Hilary's future enemy, Auxentius, and Eusebius of Vercelli and Lucifer of Cagliari, both of whom were to make their mark …
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