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The Twelve Patriarchs, Apocrypha, Clementine Homilies & More • SECTION 464
… The little that is known of Zephyrinus is derived from Eusebius. That historian states that Zephyrinus succeeded Victor in the presidency of the Roman church "about the ninth year of the reign of Severus" (a …
2,891 wordsFathers of the Second Century • SECTION 110
… Church at Rome was but one of a confederation of Greek religious republics founded by Christianity." Now this confederation was the Holy Catholic Church. Every Christian must recognise the career of Alexander, and the history …
2,333 wordsHippolytus, Cyprian, Caius & Novatian • SECTION 117
… Schaff, in his useful compilation, History of the Christian Church, vol. ii. p 166, dropping into the old ruts of fable, after sufficiently proving just before, what I have maintained. He speaks of "the insignificance …
2,323 wordsHilary of Poitiers & John of Damascus • SECTION 17
… He is an Antichrist, a devil, all that is evil; but Hilary is threatened and it is the Church that threatens, submission to an Arian is enforced and it is the church which enforces it …
2,421 wordsThe Twelve Patriarchs, Apocrypha, Clementine Homilies & More • SECTION 524
… 433. [3798] In Eusebius, Hist. Eccl., v. 18. [3799] axiopiston. [3800] katechein. [3801] sunagonizesthai tois tes kainophonias logois. [3802] Or, "whom many of them (the Montanists--reading auton for auto, worship." [3803] opisthodomos, a chamber …
2,481 wordsAugustine — Confessions & Letters • SECTION 74
… to the heathen world. "None," he says in lecture 3, "can thoughtfully read the early history of the Church without marking how hard the Jewish Christians found it to make their own the true idea …
2,217 wordsSocrates and Sozomen — Ecclesiastical Histories • SECTION 283
… Christianity, [4084]211; (6) to dignify monasticism, [4085]212; (7) to give secular history; (8) to develop historically legislation favorable to church, [4086]213; his method, [4087]213-217; (1) acknowledges limitations, (2) research (a …
3,177 wordsSocrates and Sozomen — Ecclesiastical Histories • SECTION 277
… New Jerusalem, church called by the name, [1641]21, [1642]32. 'New Rome,' Constantinople called, [1643]21, [1644]22. Nicæa, Council of, summoned by Constantine, [1645]8; Eusebius Pamphilus' account of it, [1646]10-12 …
2,205 wordsEusebius — Church History, Constantine & Oration • SECTION 139
… They are possibly correct, but I have preferred to follow the majority of the codices, thinking it quite natural that Eusebius should introduce the pneuma in connection with Zacharias, who is said to have been …
1,612 wordsSocrates and Sozomen — Ecclesiastical Histories • SECTION 64
… We shall therefore proceed with our history. [547] Liban. Orat. xviii. (Opera, i. Reiske). [548] Porphyry. See above, I. 9. [549] In his Crito, Phædo, Phædrus, and Apology of Socrates. See also Xenophon's Memorabilia …
1,599 wordsAmbrose — Selected Works and Letters • SECTION 132
… See Robertson's History of the Church, Bk. II. ch. i. The victory over the infidel is, of course, the victory of the orthodox Catholics over Arius, and the Nicene Symbol may be regarded as …
1,586 wordsThe Seven Ecumenical Councils • SECTION 92
… also points out that in Canon ij., and in Eusebius (H. E. iv., 4), and when St. Basil wishes his brother to oikonomein a church suited to his temperament (Epist. xcviij., 2) the meaning of …
1,689 wordsLactantius, Venantius, Asterius, Victorinus & Others • SECTION 106
… The sixth chapter (part ii.) of his Chronological Introduction to Church History [1616] is devoted to this matter, and I can do no better than give the summary of its contents as follows:-- "Who Phlegon …
2,389 wordsThe Seven Ecumenical Councils • SECTION 133
… Historical Excursus on the after-history of the Council. Historical Introduction. (Hefele, History of the Councils, Vol. IV., p. 289.) In accordance with the imperial command, but without the assent of the Pope, the synod …
2,538 wordsEusebius — Church History, Constantine & Oration • SECTION 419
… Paulinus of Tyre, [2309]369; the tenth book of the Church History inscribed to, [2310]369; Eusebius' panegyric addressed to, [2311]370; builder of the great church of Tyre, [2312]370 sq. Peace after the …
2,223 wordsSulpitius Severus, Vincent of Lerins & John Cassian • SECTION 240
… These were the heretics of whom Eusebius speaks in his Eccl. History Book VI. c. xxxvii., where he tells us that they were successfully refuted by Origen. It is probably to this last error that …
1,562 wordsGregory Thaumaturgus, Dionysius, Julius Africanus & Others • SECTION 2
… Church and Neale's Introduction. [13] Recall Cyprian's narratives, vol. v., and this volume infra, Life of Dionysius of Alexandria. [14] Thus we have accounts of him, more or less complete, in Eusebius (Historia …
1,641 wordsGregory Thaumaturgus, Dionysius, Julius Africanus & Others • SECTION 63
… on Chronography,--a work which Eusebius (Hist. Eccles., vi. 31) testifies to have been written with the greatest care, since in these he detailed the chief events in history from the foundation of the world …
2,404 wordsAthanasius — Select Works and Letters • SECTION 23
… It was a word with a good Catholic history. We find it used freely by Athanasius in his earlier anti-Arian writings, and it was thoroughly current in conservative theology, as for example in Cyril …
2,681 wordsSocrates and Sozomen — Ecclesiastical Histories • SECTION 183
… The setting forth of the history is due to Ephraim, the Syrian writer, who wrote the story of Julian's life. God himself confirmed the high opinion which men had formed of him; for He …
1,854 wordsEusebius — Church History, Constantine & Oration • SECTION 166
… orthodox Church. [1745] On Irenæus, see Bk. IV. chap. 21, note 9. [1746] On Melito, see Bk. IV. chap. 26, note 1. [1747] Irenæus' utterances on this subject were epoch-making in the history of …
1,900 wordsSulpitius Severus, Vincent of Lerins & John Cassian • SECTION 115
… Then did Egypt receive Athanasius in triumph, then did the Church of Gaul receive Hilary returning from battle, then did Italy put off her mourning garments at the return of Eusebius (of Vercellæ)."--Advers. Luciferianos …
2,099 wordsSocrates and Sozomen — Ecclesiastical Histories • SECTION 46
… The details of what took place in both we will give in the course of our history, [392] but we shall first make a few observations on Eudoxius. About that time Leontius having died, who …
2,027 wordsChrysostom — John and Hebrews • SECTION 2
… Chrysostom and the church at Constantinople... ....................................................................... ..... 305-314 Epistolæ...................................................... III. 529 sqq. Twenty-one Homilies on the Statues........... 315-514 Homiliæ XXI de Statues ad Populum Antiochenum habitæ............................................................. II. 15-223 Vol. X. Introductory Essay …
1,967 wordsTheodoret, Jerome, Gennadius & Rufinus — Historical Writings • SECTION 111
… These events however happened later. [944] Innocent the excellent bishop of Rome was succeeded by Bonifacius, Bonifacius by Zosimus and Zosimus by Cælestinus. [945] At Jerusalem after the admirable John the charge of the church …
2,037 wordsTertullian, Minucius Felix, Commodian & Origen • SECTION 190
… 381), "the mother of all the Churches." So ignorant were the Fathers of that date of any other "mother Church," that they address this very statement to the clergy of Rome. [3020] Compare Eusebius, book …
2,207 wordsAugustine — Confessions & Letters • SECTION 211
… For if the lineal succession of bishops is to be taken into account, with how much more certainty and benefit to the Church do we reckon back till we reach Peter himself, to whom, as …
2,194 wordsThe Seven Ecumenical Councils • SECTION 131
… Excursus on the Later History of Canon XXVIII. Among the bishops who gave their answers at the last session to the question whether their subscription to the canons was voluntary or forced was Eusebius, bishop …
2,256 wordsThe Twelve Patriarchs, Apocrypha, Clementine Homilies & More • SECTION 491
… And, immediately that the judge heard these things, he sent the Sharirs of the city, and some of his attendants with them, to go down to the church and bring up Barsamya from the church …
2,214 wordsLeo the Great & Gregory the Great • SECTION 117
… its ascendency over the whole Church would simply mean imperialism, and imperial domination over the whole Church would in fact have been likely to be its practical result: and thus, in his determined protest, Gregory …
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