Socrates and Sozomen — Ecclesiastical Histories • SECTION 154
… Of that number Athanasius, who was then a deacon of Alexandria, and had accompanied his bishop Alexander, seemed to have the largest share in the counsel concerning these subjects.
[1115] Eus. V. C. iii. 6 …
722 wordsThe Seven Ecumenical Councils • SECTION 57
… that this canon, as well as the fourth, and the fourteenth and fifteenth, was directed against St. Athanasius, and it was used against St. Chrysostom by his enemies. Vide Socrates, Ecclesiastical History, Book II., Chapter …
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… in exile. (Soc. ii, 20, 26, iv, 24.) Vide also Theod. ii, 23. His works are lost. Athanasius praises him as among those who were (de Synod. 603 ed. Migne) "not far from accepting the …
716 wordsTheodoret, Jerome, Gennadius & Rufinus — Historical Writings • SECTION 33
… and informed the bishop of that city that the Indians were deeply anxious to obtain spiritual light. Athanasius then held the rudder of that church; he heard the story, and then "Who," said he, "better …
744 wordsChrysostom — Priesthood, Ascetic Treatises & Homilies • SECTION 9
… He was of small stature (like David, Paul, Athanasius, Melanchthon, John Wesley, Schleiermacher). He had an emaciated frame, a large, bald head, a lofty, wrinkled forehead, deep-set, bright, piercing eyes, pallid, hollow cheeks, and …
733 wordsSocrates and Sozomen — Ecclesiastical Histories • SECTION 121
… for after having related what took place in the reign of the Emperor Theodosius, he immediately goes back to the times of the bishop Athanasius; and this sort of thing he does frequently. But enough …
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… 47.
(2.) As illustrative of the relations between Rome and Constantinople, the case of John of Chalcedon and Athanasius of Isauria, whose appeal to the Roman See was entertained by Gregory. See note to Lib …
751 wordsAthanasius — Select Works and Letters • SECTION 269
… Here endeth the third Festal Letter of holy Athanasius.
[3975] 2 Cor. vii. 6. The historical reference is not quite certain, but the Index iii. is clearly right in its statement that Ath. was absent …
2,205 wordsCyril of Jerusalem & Gregory Nazianzen • SECTION 16
… and Cyril's description may unhappily be applied to the state of the Church at almost any time from the Council of Tyre, by which Athanasius had been deposed in 335, until long after any …
2,204 wordsSulpitius Severus, Vincent of Lerins & John Cassian • SECTION 385
… the Lord religiously in the house which had been left to her by her parents, came to Athanasius the Bishop, of blessed memory, and entreated him to give her some other widow to support, who …
767 wordsBasil — Letters and Select Works • SECTION 155
… An erroneous sense of "three hypostases" was understood to be condemned at Nicæa, though Athanasius, e.g. "In illud omnia," etc., Schaff and Wace's ed., p. 90, does himself use the phrase, writing probably …
2,204 wordsSocrates and Sozomen — Ecclesiastical Histories • SECTION 47
… 8; but Athanasius does not say that this creed was translated from Latin, as he does whenever he produces any document put into Greek from Latin; whence it appears, according to Valesius, that this is …
2,205 wordsCyril of Jerusalem & Gregory Nazianzen • SECTION 38
… iii.): "If I have gained any knowledge of either language, I am sure that Monarchia has no other meaning than single and individual rule.'" Athanasius (de Decretis Nicænæ Synodi, § 26) has preserved part of an …
2,202 wordsTheodoret, Jerome, Gennadius & Rufinus — Historical Writings • SECTION 152
… 155 n.
[1686] The delator referred to in these letters is presumably Athanasius of Perrha, who was deposed by Domnus II bishop of Antioch, in the middle of the fifth century. As Tillemont points out …
2,201 wordsGregory Thaumaturgus, Dionysius, Julius Africanus & Others • SECTION 41
… 7.
[733] Athanasius adds (ut supra, 4. 21), that Dionysius gave various replies to those that blamed him for saying that God is the Maker of Christ, whereby he cleared himself.
From the Same Second …
2,214 wordsEusebius — Church History, Constantine & Oration • SECTION 348
… 5sqq.
[3244] The number present is given variously as three hundred (Socrates), three hundred and eighteen (Athanasius, &c.), two hundred and seventy (Theodoret), or even two thousand (cf. Hefele). It has been conjectured that the …
758 wordsAthanasius — Select Works and Letters • SECTION 168
… Behold then, after Alexander's death too, those who communicate with his successor Athanasius, and those with whom the said Athanasius communicates, are instances of the same rule; none of them bear his name, nor …
2,200 wordsGregory of Nyssa — Dogmatic Treatises • SECTION 12
[41] S. Athanasius, Tom. ad Antioch, 5.
[42] Ad Afr. Episc. §4. S. Athanasius, however, does not shrink from the phrase treis hupostaseis in contradistinction to the mia ousia: see the treatise, In illud, Omnia …
2,200 wordsAthanasius — Select Works and Letters • SECTION 111
… For it is not the terms which trouble them [945] , but that those terms prove them to be heretics, and presumptuous beyond other heresies.
[922] Athanasius elsewhere calls him the admirable and excellent.' ad Serap …
2,216 wordsAthanasius — Select Works and Letters • SECTION 254
… I pray that you may be well, and remember us to the Lord; both I, Athanasius, and likewise the other bishops assembled, sign, and those sent by Lucifer, bishop of the island of Sardinia, two …
2,241 wordsEusebius — Church History, Constantine & Oration • SECTION 363
… one time or another Arian, semi-Arian, and Anomoean, and is said to have been called by Athanasius "the most wicked of all the Arians" (Venables in Smith and Wace, Dict. 2. 637). He was …
766 wordsGregory Thaumaturgus, Dionysius, Julius Africanus & Others • SECTION 130
… As its succession of teachers was like that of hereditary descent in a family, a family likeness is naturally to be found in this school, from the great Clement to the great Athanasius. It is …
2,216 wordsThe Seven Ecumenical Councils • SECTION 26
… a Latin letter purporting to have been written by St. Athanasius to Pope Marcus. This letter is found in the Benedictine edition of St. Athanasius's works (ed. Patav. ii. 599) but rejected as spurious …
2,223 wordsJerome — Principal Works • SECTION 179
… Some, therefore, remained in their own communion, others began to send letters to those Confessors who as adherents of Athanasius were in exile; several despairingly bewailed the better relations into which they had entered. But …
2,225 wordsAthanasius — Select Works and Letters • SECTION 242
… For when they said that they had banished all jealousy, and, after the expulsion of Athanasius, Bishop of Alexandria, recommended the reception of Arius and his friends, they shewed that their measures against Athanasius himself …
2,226 wordsEusebius — Church History, Constantine & Oration • SECTION 301
… 3 (1859), 502; and for editions and literature, Engelmann.
(8) Athanasius (296-373). Apology against the Arians, and various works, ed. Bened. (1698), 2 v. in 3, fo; ed. Migne, Patrol. Gr. 25-28 (1857 …
2,220 wordsTheodoret, Jerome, Gennadius & Rufinus — Historical Writings • SECTION 176
… 1, 395).
[2148] Athanasius of Perrha, the delator of earlier letters (vide note on page 264) had been deposed from his bishopric at a synod of uncertain date held between 444 and 449 at Antioch …
2,240 wordsLactantius, Venantius, Asterius, Victorinus & Others • SECTION 148
… The plural form does not forbid a reference to the work under discussion, since Athanasius (d. 373) has a notice clearly pointing to the same writing, in which he uses the singular (Festal Epistle, 39 …
2,237 wordsHilary of Poitiers & John of Damascus • SECTION 44
… This is what is stated by Socrates, and it is corroborated by Athanasius, Hist. Arian, c. 45, where it is added that he anathematized Arianism before dying. Hilary certainly does Hosius an injustice in declaring …
2,244 wordsChrysostom — Galatians through Philemon • SECTION 128
… the picture of a venerable man," one would understand a venerable expression in the features. Compare St. Athanasius against Arianism, Disc. 1, c. vi. § 20, Tr. and note d. [The argument is fine spun, and …
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