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Sulpitius Severus, Vincent of Lerins & John Cassian • SECTION 278

Chapter XIII.

… 1339] [1338] Pancarpus (pankarpos). The word originally applied to an offering of all kinds of fruit. Cf. Tertullian ad Valent. xii. It is also used in the general sense "of all sorts" by Augustine, Adv …

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Tertullian — Latin Christianity • SECTION 428

Chapter XXIII.--Of Kneeling.

… Dodgson supposes this word to mean "outward, as contrasted with the inward, praying always.'" Oehler interprets, "ex vita communi." But perhaps what Tertullian says lower down in the chapter, "albeit they stand simply without any …

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Tertullian — Latin Christianity • SECTION 60

Chapter XVIII.

… This expression is thought to confirm the probability of Tertullian's original Gentilism.] Chapter XX. How vain, then--nay, how desperate--is the reasoning of persons, who, just because they decline to lose a pleasure …

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Gospel of Peter, Diatessaron, Apocalypse of Peter & Other Early Texts • SECTION 108

Introduction.

… The proconsul at the time, who is said by Tertullian to have been the first to draw the sword against the Christians there, was P. Vigellius Saturninus. The consuls for the year were Præsens II …

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The Apostolic Fathers, Justin Martyr & Irenaeus • SECTION 106

Chapter VII.--Fasting, and the goat sent away, were types of Christ.

… 40) and Tertullian (adv. Jud. 14; adv. Marc. iii. 7)." [1529] Cod. Sin. has "by them." [1530] Cod. Sin. reads, "what commanded He?" [1531] Cod. Sin. reads, "one as a burnt-offering, and one for …

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Jerome — Principal Works • SECTION 136

[3218] Cf. Letter LX. § 6.

… 88. [3329] Jerome follows Tertullian, Irenæus, and the majority of the fathers in supposing the apostle to allude to the Roman Empire. See Letter CXXI. § 11, Comm. in Hierem. xxv. 26, Comm. in Dan. vii …

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Tertullian, Minucius Felix, Commodian & Origen • SECTION 278

Chapter XLVII.

… note in Benedictine ed. [3592] [Origen agrees with Tertullian, passim, on this subject. Hippolytus makes Callistus, Bishop of Rome, the first to depart from this principle,--accepting "digamists and trigamists."]

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Ambrose — Selected Works and Letters • SECTION 131

[1532] S. John xxi. 23.

… Other Fathers, Tertullian, St. Cyril of Jerusalem, St. Basil, with several more, refer also to the fable of the Phoenix in speaking of the Resurrection. [1536] St. Ambrose may have believed that the world would …

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Sulpitius Severus, Vincent of Lerins & John Cassian • SECTION 468

Chapter X.

… solvit" was probably an early gloss, current in very early days in the West, being found in Tertullian (adv. Marc. v. 16; De Jejun. i.) and in all Latin mss. whether of the Vetus or …

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Jerome — Principal Works • SECTION 104

Letter LXXXIV. To Pammachius and Oceanus.

… He admires him in the same way that Cyprian admired Tertullian but does not in any way adopt his errors. He then describes his own studies and recounts his obligations to Apollinaris, Didymus, and a …

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Theodoret, Jerome, Gennadius & Rufinus — Historical Writings • SECTION 191

Chapter VI.

… Moreover Tertullian who lived near those times, mentions a certain presbyter in Asia, an adherent of the apostle Paul, [2373] who was convicted by John of having been the author of the book, and who …

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Eusebius — Church History, Constantine & Oration • SECTION 202

Chapter XLII.--Others of whom Dionysius gives an Account.

… Dionysius thus shows great respect to the confessors, but does not accord them the privileges which they claimed in some places (as we learn from Tertullian's de Pudicitia, 22, and from a number of …

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Eusebius — Church History, Constantine & Oration • SECTION 186

Chapter XXII.--The Works of Hippolytus which have reached us.

… We are reminded greatly of Tertullian and of Novatian in studying Hippolytus' character. He was, moreover, strictly orthodox and bitterly opposed to what he considered the patripassianism of Zephyrinus and of Callistus. He must be …

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Tertullian — Latin Christianity • SECTION 48

Chapter XIX.--Concerning Military Service.

… read daimonia, like Tertullian. Our version has "idols." [329] Mehercule. Medius Fidius. I have given the rendering of the latter, which seems preferred by Paley (Ov. Fast. vi. 213, note), who considers it = me dius …

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