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Jerome — Principal Works • SECTION 90
… His historical works, still extant, are of great value. [2150] See note on Letter XXII. § 35. [2151] The author of an apology for the Christians presented to the Emperor Hadrian. Only small fragments of the …
1,385 wordsThe Seven Ecumenical Councils • SECTION 89
… In like manner the Popes Leo the Great and Gregory the Great pronounced against it; and though even Gratian adopted this canon in his collection the Roman critics added the following note: Canon hic ex …
1,463 wordsGregory of Nyssa — Dogmatic Treatises • SECTION 240
… Especially as our great holiday [2192] is approaching, it would be more reasonable that the land which bare you should exult in her own treasures than that Pontus should in ours. Come then, dear one …
1,457 wordsTheodoret, Jerome, Gennadius & Rufinus — Historical Writings • SECTION 59
… The "Religious History" describes him as signalling his episcopate by the miracle attributed by Gregory of Nyssa to Gregory the Wonder-Worker, and by Sozomen (vii. 27) to Epiphanius. As in the "Nuremberg Chronicle," the …
1,444 wordsGregory of Nyssa — Dogmatic Treatises • SECTION 214
… Hervetus translates Gregory here "divitiæ benignitatis," as if he had found ploutos in the text, which does not appear. Jerome twice translates the chrestotes of LXX. by "bonitas"; Aquila and Symmachus have ti polu to …
1,531 wordsCyril of Jerusalem & Gregory Nazianzen • SECTION 215
… and we must neither write at very great length when there is little to say, nor very briefly when there is a great deal. What? Are we to measure our wisdom by the Persian Schoene …
1,551 wordsGregory Thaumaturgus, Dionysius, Julius Africanus & Others • SECTION 35
… 200-265.] The great Origen had twin children in Gregory and Dionysius. Their lives ran in parallel lines, and are said to have ended on the same day; and nobly did they sustain the dignity …
2,658 wordsHilary of Poitiers & John of Damascus • SECTION 5
… Gregory of Nazianzus, the eldest of the three great writers, was probably not more than twenty-five years of age when Hilary was sent into exile, and none of them can have seriously affected even …
2,693 wordsLeo the Great & Gregory the Great • SECTION 250
… this case your Piety may by no means despise me; since, though the sins of Gregory are so great that he ought to suffer such things, yet there are no sins of the Apostle Peter …
1,594 wordsGregory the Great, Ephraim Syrus & Aphrahat • SECTION 27
… Seeing then that so great a wickedness is not only a danger to them, but also in no small degree injurious to your kingdom, greeting your Excellency with fatherly affection we beseech you to make …
1,595 wordsGregory of Nyssa — Dogmatic Treatises • SECTION 228
… 487, because Gregory has already dealt with Baptism in ch. xxxv.-xxxvi.; and then with the Eucharist: his view of the relation between the two Sacraments, that the Eucharist unites the body, as Baptism the …
1,602 wordsGregory of Nyssa — Dogmatic Treatises • SECTION 201
… Aubertin and Casaubon both recognize Gregory as its author. The division, however, of the chapters, by whoever made, is far from a correct guide to the contents; but, by grouping them, the main argument can …
1,585 wordsEusebius — Church History, Constantine & Oration • SECTION 139
… 29, 31) as mentioning a certain senator who was "of the lineage of Vettius Epagathus, who suffered for the name of Christ at Lyons." Gregory's authority is not very great, and he may in …
1,612 wordsEusebius — Church History, Constantine & Oration • SECTION 83
… It is of course likely that in a great many churches the simple undivided office would long remain, and that bishops and deacons as specific officers distinguished from the general body would not exist. But …
1,614 wordsBasil — Letters and Select Works • SECTION 141
… To our right godly and holy brethren who are ministering in Italy and Gaul, bishops of like mind with us, we, Meletius, [2310] Eusebius, [2311] Basil, [2312] Bassus, [2313] Gregory, [2314] Pelagius, [2315] Paul, Anthimus …
1,668 wordsChrysostom — Priesthood, Ascetic Treatises & Homilies • SECTION 98
… Gregory took great interest in her, speaking of her in his letters as "his own Olympias" and delighting to be addressed by her as "father." Her governess Theodosia, sister of St. Amphilochius of Iconium, was …
2,830 wordsLeo the Great & Gregory the Great • SECTION 177
… Gregory, to John of Constantinople, Eulogius of Alexandria, Gregory of Antioch, John of Jerusalem, and Anastasias, Ex-Patriarch of Antioch. A paribus [1322] . When I consider how, unworthy as I am, and resisting with my …
1,675 wordsLeo the Great & Gregory the Great • SECTION 22
… of which Synod the leader and chief was Cyril of blessed memory bishop of the Alexandrians, the partner and sharer in the preaching and in the Faith of those saints and elect of God, Gregory …
1,681 wordsJerome — Principal Works • SECTION 57
… Feeling, therefore, that too great strictness or scrupulosity on my part might have the effect of alienating them from the Church with its ancient faith, I ordained one of the brothers deacon, and after he …
2,876 wordsThe Seven Ecumenical Councils • SECTION 280
… From the Letter of Basil the Great to the Nicopolitans. There is also in Tilius and Bishop Beveridge here [599] inserted an epistle of St. Basil the Great to the Nicopolitans, comforting them under the …
1,705 wordsGregory the Great, Ephraim Syrus & Aphrahat • SECTION 71
… Whence, since conduct of this kind on the part of potentates is wont to be a great defence to subjects, we declare the nation of the Franks happy beyond other nations, having been accounted worthy …
1,756 wordsAugustine — Confessions & Letters • SECTION 317
… As to the spiritual body which we shall have in the resurrection, how great a change for the better it is to undergo,--whether it shall become pure spirit, so that the whole man shall …
1,737 wordsGregory of Nyssa — Dogmatic Treatises • SECTION 145
… The great prophets, then, whom we have mentioned seem to teach this lesson, viz. to entangle ourselves with none of the objects of this world's effort; marriage is one of these, or rather it …
1,775 wordsLeo the Great & Gregory the Great • SECTION 291
… To Theoctista, Patrician [1704] Gregory to Theoctista, &c. That your Excellency, though placed in so great a tumult of affairs, is full of the fruitfulness of the sacred word, and incessantly pants after eternal joys …
1,795 wordsEusebius — Church History, Constantine & Oration • SECTION 196
… 31, note 1); the other to Gregory Thaumaturgus, written, apparently, soon after the departure of the latter from Cæsarea (see chap. 30, note 1), for Gregory was, at the time it was written, still undecided …
1,765 wordsBasil — Letters and Select Works • SECTION 166
… I am the servant too of honour, and cannot easily give up thinking great things of myself. Against all this I feel that I need a great instructor. Then, further, I conclude that it is …
1,872 wordsEusebius — Church History, Constantine & Oration • SECTION 164
… In that age one could hardly discuss the origin of evil without at the same time discussing matter, to which the origin of evil was referred by the great majority of the ancients. We are …
1,893 wordsSulpitius Severus, Vincent of Lerins & John Cassian • SECTION 382
… Gregory the Great, Ep. xxii., and compare eis diakonian in Acts xi. 29. [2082] To work in the mines was a punishment to which the Confessors were frequently subjected in the time of persecution: Cf …
1,962 wordsLeo the Great & Gregory the Great • SECTION 249
Epistle XIX. To Sabinianus, Deacon [1589] . Gregory to Sabinianus, &c. In the cause of our brother the most reverend John, bishop of Constantinople, I have been unwilling to write two letters. But one I have …
2,035 wordsThe Seven Ecumenical Councils • SECTION 18
… The first part after passing through "the great gates," or doors of the building, was called the Narthex in Greek, and Færula in Latin, and was a narrow vestibule extending the whole width of the …
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