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Socrates and Sozomen — Ecclesiastical Histories • SECTION 154

Chapter XVII.--Of the Council convened at Nicæa on Account of Arius.

… 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 …

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The Seven Ecumenical Councils • SECTION 57

Canon XI.

… 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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Theodoret, Jerome, Gennadius & Rufinus — Historical Writings • SECTION 33

Chapter XXII.--Conversion of the Indians [413] .

… 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 …

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Chrysostom — Priesthood, Ascetic Treatises & Homilies • SECTION 9

Chapter X.--Chrysostom in Exile. His Death. a.d. 404-407.

… 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 …

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Socrates and Sozomen — Ecclesiastical Histories • SECTION 121

Chapter XXVI.--Sisinnius is chosen to succeed Atticus.

… 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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Leo the Great & Gregory the Great • SECTION 116

Book III. Indiction XI. (a.d. 592-3).

… 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 …

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Cyril of Jerusalem & Gregory Nazianzen • SECTION 16

Chapter IX.--The Time and Arrangement of S. Cyril's Lectures.

… 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 …

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Sulpitius Severus, Vincent of Lerins & John Cassian • SECTION 385

Chapter XIV.

… 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 …

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Basil — Letters and Select Works • SECTION 155

Letter CXXIII. [2404]

… 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 …

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Socrates and Sozomen — Ecclesiastical Histories • SECTION 47

Epistle of the Synod of Ariminum to the Emperor Constantius.

… 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 …

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Theodoret, Jerome, Gennadius & Rufinus — Historical Writings • SECTION 152

[1676] i.e. of the Euphratensis.

… 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 …

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Gregory Thaumaturgus, Dionysius, Julius Africanus & Others • SECTION 41

[718] In Eusebius, Præpar. Evangel., book vii. ch. 19.

… 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 …

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Gregory of Nyssa — Dogmatic Treatises • SECTION 12

Chapter V.--Mss. And Editions.

[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 …

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Athanasius — Select Works and Letters • SECTION 254

4. The parties at Antioch to unite.

… 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 …

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The Seven Ecumenical Councils • SECTION 26

Canon XX.

… 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 …

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Eusebius — Church History, Constantine & Oration • SECTION 301

Chapter V

… 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 …

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Theodoret, Jerome, Gennadius & Rufinus — Historical Writings • SECTION 176

[2079] Luke ii. 11

… 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 …

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Lactantius, Venantius, Asterius, Victorinus & Others • SECTION 148

THE TEACHING OF THE TWELVE APOSTLES.

… 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 …

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