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Cyril of Jerusalem & Gregory Nazianzen • SECTION 17
… The purpose of Cyril's attendance at Seleucia was to appeal against his deposition by Acacius, and there is apparently no evidence of his having taken part in the doctrinal discussions, or signed the Creed …
2,311 wordsTheodoret, Jerome, Gennadius & Rufinus — Historical Writings • SECTION 271
… Now, because, through the fear of God, we are careful not to utter maledictions against any one, remembering that the words He dared not bring against him a railing accusation,' are spoken of Michael in …
2,274 wordsEusebius — Church History, Constantine & Oration • SECTION 21
… But he states that they were very quickly corrected, these by the disputation of Origen in person, and those by his exhortation." Antipater, Bishop of Bostra, in his First Book against Eusebius of Cæsarea's …
2,277 wordsTheodoret, Jerome, Gennadius & Rufinus — Historical Writings • SECTION 238
… Rufinus' Apology in Defence of Himself. ------------------------ Sent to Anastasius, Bishop of the City of Rome. ------------------------ This document was called forth by accusations against Rufinus made, soon after his accession, to Anastasius, who held the Roman …
2,287 wordsAthanasius — Select Works and Letters • SECTION 267
… But after him and with him are all inventors of unlawful heresies, who indeed refer to the Scriptures, but do not hold such opinions as the saints have handed down, and receiving them as the …
2,306 wordsAthanasius — Select Works and Letters • SECTION 245
… But, we say that the Son is Like the Father, as the divine Scriptures say and teach; and all the heresies, both those which have been afore condemned already, and whatever are of modern date …
2,250 wordsCyril of Jerusalem & Gregory Nazianzen • SECTION 72
… things, have sharpened their tongue [1977] against the Holy Ghost also, and have dared to utter impious things; as Irenæus the interpreter has written in his injunctions against heresies [1978] . For some of them have …
2,291 wordsHippolytus, Cyprian, Caius & Novatian • SECTION 255
… Does he think that he has Christ, who acts in opposition to Christ's priests, who separates himself from the company of His clergy and people? He bears arms against the Church, he contends against …
2,259 wordsChrysostom — Priesthood, Ascetic Treatises & Homilies • SECTION 55
… For when the soul has been genuinely imbued by divine longing and love, it pays regard to no one of things present; but just as those who are mad venture themselves against fire and sword …
2,256 wordsAugustine — Exposition on Psalms • SECTION 17
… And because it is believed that he is to arrive at so great a pitch of empty glory, and he will be permitted to do so great things, both against all men and against the …
2,268 wordsGregory the Great, Ephraim Syrus & Aphrahat • SECTION 98
… These facts may well be supposed to have raised a prejudice against all writings coming from a Persian source; and the works of "the Persian Sage," absolutely free though they are from any thought or …
2,232 wordsTheodoret, Jerome, Gennadius & Rufinus — Historical Writings • SECTION 140
… From his third book against heresies (Chap. xx.):-- "It is clear then that Paul knew no other Christ save Him that suffered and was buried and rose and was born, whom he calls man, for …
2,264 wordsJerome — Principal Works • SECTION 123
… Nevertheless he offers to write a full confutation of Vigilantius if Riparius will send him the book containing his heresies. This Riparius subsequently did and then Jerome wrote his treatise Against Vigilantius, the most extreme …
2,270 wordsAugustine — Against the Manichaeans and Donatists • SECTION 234
… strongest evidence of truth. [1962] For the inheritance of Christ, established in all nations, is secure against heresies which have been shut out from the inheritance; but, as the Lord says, "How can Satan cast …
2,284 wordsLactantius, Venantius, Asterius, Victorinus & Others • SECTION 135
… The name occurs in Fragment IV.; [2157] and from the allusion made to him there, some have inferred that he was the author of the work against Montanists, from which Eusebius has made these extracts …
2,281 wordsEusebius — Church History, Constantine & Oration • SECTION 176
… 18),--perhaps a part of the proposed work on First Principles, and perhaps to be identified with the commentary on Genesis, referred to below by Eusebius (see note 28),--Against Heresies (Strom. IV. 13), on …
2,278 wordsJerome — Principal Works • SECTION 89
… Cyprian, a man renowned both for his eloquence and for his martyr's death, was assailed--so Firmian tells us [2140] --for having used in his treatise against Demetrius passages from the Prophets and the …
2,275 wordsHippolytus, Cyprian, Caius & Novatian • SECTION 152
… And of what sort is this one? Listen to Osea, as he speaks thus grandly: "In those days the Lord shall bring on a burning wind from the desert against them, and shall make their …
2,297 wordsAugustine — Confessions & Letters • SECTION 11
… Augustin, in the first place, contributed much to the development of the doctrinal basis which Catholicism and Protestantism hold in common against such radical heresies of antiquity as Manichæism, Arianism, and Pelagianism. In all these …
2,283 wordsHippolytus, Cyprian, Caius & Novatian • SECTION 235
… And lest it should be wearisome to go through all the heresies, and to enumerate either the follies or the madness of each of them, because it is no pleasure to speak of that which …
2,291 wordsTheodoret, Jerome, Gennadius & Rufinus — Historical Writings • SECTION 127
… Father." Testimony of Irenæus, the ancient bishop of Lyons;-- From the third Book of his work "Against Heresies." (Chap. XX.) "As we have said before, He united man to God. For had not a man …
2,256 wordsLeo the Great & Gregory the Great • SECTION 84
… All heresies proceed from failure to believe the twofold nature of Christ. The catholic Faith then, dearly beloved, may scorn the errors of the heretics that bark against it, who, deceived by the vanity of …
2,277 wordsCyril of Jerusalem & Gregory Nazianzen • SECTION 43
… The Great, the Mighty God, the LORD of Hosts, is His name, Great in counsel, and mighty in work. [1033] "For even the Jewish nation had wicked heresies: for of them were...the Pharisees, who …
2,305 wordsAugustine — Exposition on Psalms • SECTION 102
… Many heresies now are utterly dead: they have run in their channels as much as they were able, have run down, dried are the channels, scarce of them the memory is found, or that they …
2,293 wordsAthanasius — Select Works and Letters • SECTION 202
… It is observed, §8, note, how this line of teaching might be wrested to the purposes of the Apollinarian and Eutychian heresies; and, considering Athan.'s most emphatic protests against their errors in his later …
2,290 wordsChrysostom — Galatians through Philemon • SECTION 20
… 12. "I would that they which unsettle you, would even cut themselves off." Observe how bitterly he speaks here against their deceivers. [129] At the outset he directed his charge against those who were deceived …
2,303 wordsAugustine — Trinity, Doctrinal & Moral Treatises • SECTION 203
… Moreover it behoved that this same vine should be pruned in accordance with the Lord's repeated predictions, [1485] and that the unfruitful twigs should be cut out of it, by which heresies and schisms …
2,294 wordsThe Seven Ecumenical Councils • SECTION 136
… For it followed naturally that when one was condemned for such profane emptiness of speech, the sentence should not come against one only, but (so to speak) against every one of their heresies or calumnies …
2,295 wordsThe Seven Ecumenical Councils • SECTION 134
… For the same purpose they made use of those impious writings of Theodoret which were directed against the first Synod of Ephesus, against Cyril and his Twelve Chapters, and also the shameful letter which Ibas …
2,291 wordsLeo the Great & Gregory the Great • SECTION 60
… For necessity was laid upon me to argue against the heretics who have thrown many of Christ's peoples into confusion, both before our most merciful princes and the holy synodal Council, and the church …
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