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Gregory of Nyssa — Dogmatic Treatises • SECTION 99
… Gregory, when he has once used an unusual word or expression, very frequently repeats it in the next few sentences. §2. Then referring to the blasphemy of Eunomius, which had been refuted by the great …
2,034 wordsLeo the Great & Gregory the Great • SECTION 295
… But, even though my mind has been wounded in no slight degree by a proud and profane title, could I possibly be guilty of so great indiscretion as not to know what I owed to …
700 wordsGregory the Great, Ephraim Syrus & Aphrahat • SECTION 18
Epistle LXV. To Januarius, Bishop of Caralis (Cagliari). Gregory to Januarius, Bishop of Sardinia. It has come to our ears that some of your clerics, inflated with a spirit of elation (which is a serious …
710 wordsTheodoret, Jerome, Gennadius & Rufinus — Historical Writings • SECTION 209
… Euzoius, [2546] as a young man, together with Gregory, bishop of Nazianzan, was educated by Thespesius the rhetorician at Cæsarea, and afterwards when bishop of the same city, with great pains attempted to restore the …
709 wordsGregory the Great, Ephraim Syrus & Aphrahat • SECTION 40
… And indeed with regard to the nation of the Sclaves [114] , from which you are in great danger, I am exceedingly afflicted and disturbed. I am afflicted as suffering already in your suffering: I am …
732 wordsGregory the Great, Ephraim Syrus & Aphrahat • SECTION 46
… But in this heavenly gift, dearest brother, there is ground, along with great joy, for most serious fear. For I know that Almighty God has displayed great miracles through thy Love in the nation which …
2,120 wordsJerome — Principal Works • SECTION 92
… the Refutation of all Heresies--has recently become famous. [2261] Compare the similar advice given by Gregory the Great to Augustine of Canterbury (Bede, H. E. 1. 27). [2262] Nothing in the book of Acts …
736 wordsSulpitius Severus, Vincent of Lerins & John Cassian • SECTION 125
… 1. [489] "The great Origen died after his many labors in peace. His immediate pupils were saints and rulers in the Church. He has the praise of St. Athanasius, St. Basil, and St. Gregory Nazianzen …
2,155 wordsChrysostom — Priesthood, Ascetic Treatises & Homilies • SECTION 6
… After the death of Nectarius (successor to Gregory Nazianzen), towards the end of the year 397, Chrysostom was chosen, entirely without his own agency and even against his remonstrance, archbishop of Constantinople. He was hurried …
743 wordsSocrates and Sozomen — Ecclesiastical Histories • SECTION 225
… and in the churches of Pontus by Basil [1469] and Gregory. [1470] The bishop of Rome, on learning that this question was agitated with great acrimony, and that it of course was augmented daily by …
2,160 wordsAthanasius — Select Works and Letters • SECTION 156
… But even thus their flight did not succeed according to their wishes; for immediately the holy Council, of which the great Hosius was president, wrote to them plainly, saying, Either come forward and answer the …
2,205 wordsBasil — Letters and Select Works • SECTION 175
… Letter CLXXI. [2567] To Gregory. I wrote to you, not long ago, about Glycerius and the virgins. Even now they have not returned, but are still hesitating, how and why I know not. I should …
761 wordsGregory the Great, Ephraim Syrus & Aphrahat • SECTION 24
… Now let us consider how great is a father's grief if his son be killed in his sight: and hence we easily understand how much God is grieved when a sacrifice is given Him …
2,200 wordsCyril of Jerusalem & Gregory Nazianzen • SECTION 127
… Seeing and hearing this, our blessed one, true man of God and great steward of souls as he was, felt it inconsistent with his duty to overlook so absurd and unreasonable a rending of the …
2,146 wordsLeo the Great & Gregory the Great • SECTION 255
… But they should be represented now at a suitable time to our most pious lord, that he may remove such and so great a burden of sin from his own soul, from the empire, and …
770 wordsBasil — Letters and Select Works • SECTION 1
… EERDMANS PUBLISHING COMPANY GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN The tREATISE dE sPIRITU sANCTO THE nINE hOMILIES OF THE hEXæMERON AND THE lETTERS Of sAINT bASIL THE gREAT Archbishop of cæSARIA, Translated with Notes by The Rev. Blomfield …
757 wordsAthanasius — Select Works and Letters • SECTION 106
… For on comparing what has been above stated with this passage, they will find a great difference between them [832] . For what man of right understanding does not perceive, that what are created and made …
2,203 wordsThe Seven Ecumenical Councils • SECTION 193
… Pope Gregory the Great [414] and St. Isidore of Seville [415] speak still more plainly. They only know of four ancient General Councils--those of Nice, Constantinople, Ephesus, and Chalcedon. The objection of the Ballerini …
2,202 wordsAthanasius — Select Works and Letters • SECTION 88
… but a great number assembled from all parts, and we challenged the associates of Eusebius and his fellows to submit to a trial. But they, having before their eyes the things that they had done …
2,205 wordsThe Seven Ecumenical Councils • SECTION 240
… Gregory the Great says that he "revered the four Ecumenical Councils as he did the four Gospels," but the fifth Ecumenical Synod had been held a number of years before. Will anyone pretend from this …
2,202 wordsSulpitius Severus, Vincent of Lerins & John Cassian • SECTION 237
… Gregory the Great. Moralia VI. c. xxviii. Chapter IX. A question how it is that the practice of virtue cannot remain with a man. To which we, being deeply moved, replied what then? will the …
771 wordsEusebius — Church History, Constantine & Oration • SECTION 228
… and stops the psalms to our Lord Jesus Christ, as being the modern productions of modern men, and trains women to sing psalms to himself in the midst of the church on the great day …
2,210 wordsAthanasius — Select Works and Letters • SECTION 157
… 49, 50) from Constantius before the death of Gregory. The statement in the text is therefore so far inexact, but the lung illness of Gregory must have made his death a matter of daily expectation …
2,241 wordsGregory Thaumaturgus, Dionysius, Julius Africanus & Others • SECTION 25
… Moreover, in the Epistle to the Hebrews he writes again thus: "How shall we escape, if we neglect so great salvation; which at the first began to be spoken by the Lord, and was confirmed …
2,220 wordsTheodoret, Jerome, Gennadius & Rufinus — Historical Writings • SECTION 9
… support of this contention to the laudatory testimony of Popes Vigilius, Pelagius I., Pelagius II., and Gregory the Great. The peace of the Church, in the narrower sense, has not always been accorded to holy …
777 wordsAthanasius — Select Works and Letters • SECTION 153
… Montfaucon suggests in fact that the copyists omitted the first chapters on account of their identity in substance with the great Apology. But this seems to require reconsideration. If the alleged missing chapters were different …
2,204 wordsCyril of Jerusalem & Gregory Nazianzen • SECTION 122
… We have endured a great loss--because the privilege we enjoyed was great. Loss is common to all, such a privilege to few. Let us rise superior to the one thought by the consolation of …
2,201 wordsThe Twelve Patriarchs, Apocrypha, Clementine Homilies & More • SECTION 498
… We will relate in the sequel the circumstances of the coming of these personages, only mentioning their names here in connection with Ardachès, in order that you may know that these great races are indeed …
2,209 wordsCyril of Jerusalem & Gregory Nazianzen • SECTION 13
… so the bread and wine remaining so, as to their substance, yet are not said to be only bread and wine common and ordinary, but also the Body and Blood of Christ." Notwithstanding the great …
2,274 wordsGregory the Great, Ephraim Syrus & Aphrahat • SECTION 86
… Morris, M.A., from the text printed in the great Roman edition, S. Ephræmi Syri Opera Syriaca (Rome, 1743). These were all of the series known when that edition was published; but since then six …
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