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Basil — Letters and Select Works • SECTION 200

LXXVI. The same rule applies to those who take their own daughters in law.

… conjugatur cum soluta committit. Hinc ilium adulterium videri fatetur his qui accuratius examinant. [2837] cf. Can. xviii. Augustine (De Bono Viduitatis, n. 14) represents breaches of the vows of chastity as graver offenses than breaches …

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Hippolytus, Cyprian, Caius & Novatian • SECTION 238

Epistle LXXIII. [2887]

… of Stephen About the Baptism of Heretics. Argument.--The Purport of This Epistle is Given in St. Augustine's "Contra Donatistas," Lib. V. Cap. 23. He Says There: "Cyprian, Moreover, Writes to Pompey on the …

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Fathers of the Second Century • SECTION 1

ANTE-NICENE FATHERS

… Granted its language is not formulated after Augustine, as it could not be: its text is St. James, but, like St. James, harmonized always with St. Paul. [11] Faith is always honoured in its primary …

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Chrysostom — Galatians through Philemon • SECTION 35

Homily V.

… created Adam under wrath. When then we so speak, we must take the word "nature" in S. Augustine's sense, not to mean our literal nature, but "as referring to our birth." "In eo quod …

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Augustine — Sermon on the Mount & Gospel Harmony • SECTION 1

A SELECT LIBRARY

Title: NPNF1-06. St. Augustine: Sermon on the Mount; Harmony of the Gospels; Homilies on the Gospels Creator(s): Schaff, Philip (1819-1893) (Editor) Print Basis: New York: Christian Literature Publishing Co., 1886 Rights: Public …

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Theodoret, Jerome, Gennadius & Rufinus — Historical Writings • SECTION 273

[3131] Deut. xvii. 6

… a Greek version of their Scriptures, and thus originated the Septuagint. [3142] Irenæus, Justin Martyr, Epiphanius, and Augustine among the Latins, adhere to the inspiration of the translators which Jerome here rejects. [3143] Aristeas was …

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Gregory of Nyssa — Dogmatic Treatises • SECTION 225

Chapter XXXV.

… It is in this sense that Chrysostom can say that "Christ came to us, and took upon Him our nature and deified it;" and Augustine, "your humanity received the name of that deity" (contr. Arian.).

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The Apostolic Fathers, Justin Martyr & Irenaeus • SECTION 339

Chapter I.--The Lord acknowledged but one God and Father.

… 8. [3828] This passage is quoted by Augustine, in his treatise on original sin, written to oppose Pelagius (lib. i. c. ii.), about 400 A.D. [3829] John xii. 32, John iii. 14. Chapter III …

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The Seven Ecumenical Councils • SECTION 194

Commonly Called

… Synodicon, Tom. II., p. 202.) Carthage was formerly the head of the whole of Africa, as St. Augustine tells us in his Epistle CLXII. From this cause it happened that a great number of councils …

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Cyril of Jerusalem & Gregory Nazianzen • SECTION 26

[506] Luke x. 18.

… Ps. lii.; Ambrose, Apolog. 1, Prophetæ David, c. iii. and other Fathers affirm the repentance of Solomon. Augustine (c. Faustum, Lib. xxii. c. 88) maintains that Scripture says nothing of his repentance or forgiveness. See …

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Hippolytus, Cyprian, Caius & Novatian • SECTION 40

Chapter XIII.--The Peratic Heresy Not Generally Known.

… xxviii., xxxvii., and xxxix.; Augustine, De Hæret., c. xix.; Josephus, Antiq. Judaic., i. 2; Suidas on the word "Seth." [512] For dunameis ...logizestho, Bernays reads dunatai...logizesthai: "While these make (such) assertions, he is able …

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Athanasius — Select Works and Letters • SECTION 121

Introduction to Vita S. Antoni.

… 13) attest the established tradition of their day that Athanasius was the author of the Life. ix. Augustine (Conf. viii. 14, 15, 19, 29) and Chrysostom (Hom. 8 on S. Matthew) mention the Vita without …

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Cyril of Jerusalem & Gregory Nazianzen • SECTION 11

Chapter VI.--Effects of Baptism and of Chrism.

… In the Latin Church "neither Tertullian, Cyprian, Ambrose, Augustine, Jerome, nor any of the Latin Fathers, makes mention of Confirmation in this sense. Nor have the Greeks any word to answer to this Latin term …

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