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Eusebius — Church History, Constantine & Oration • SECTION 174

Chapter XI.--Alexander.

… of Alexander takes place "with the common consent of the bishops of the neighboring churches," or, as Jerome puts it, cunctis in Palestina episcopis in unum congregatis, which is quite in accord with the provision …

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Fathers of the Second Century • SECTION 336

HERMAS.

… 20. Incontinence, 49. Infants, 53. Innocence, 49. Intelligence, 15, 16. Irenæus, 4, 5, 6, 31, 55, 56. Jerome, 57. Justification and sanctification, 12, 16. Justification, 23. Justin Martyr, 31. Kisses, 47. Lapsers, 41. Law, the …

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Theodoret, Jerome, Gennadius & Rufinus — Historical Writings • SECTION 223

Chapter LXIII.

… Philip, [2682] the presbyter Jerome's best pupil, published a Commentary on Job, written in an unaffected style. I have read his Familiar letters, exceedingly witty, exhorting the endurance of poverty and sufferings. He died …

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Ambrose — Selected Works and Letters • SECTION 243

Introduction.

… the third year of his episcopate, a.d. 377, and it is quoted with approval by St. Jerome, Ep. XXII. 22 and XLVIII. 14 [Vol. VI., pp. 31 and 75, of this series, and St …

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Theodoret, Jerome, Gennadius & Rufinus — Historical Writings • SECTION 212

Chapter I.

… That the blessed Jerome mentions this man in his Chronicle as a man of great virtues and yet does not place him in his catalogue of writers, will be easily explained if we note that …

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Augustine — Confessions & Letters • SECTION 141

Chapter XVIII.--What Error is Harmless in Sacred Scripture.

… cxxv.: "Quia venit dare caritatem, et caritas perficit legem; merito dixit non veni legem solvere sed implere." And hence in his letter to Jerome (Ep. clxvii. 19), he speaks of the "royal law" as being …

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Jerome — Principal Works • SECTION 22

Letter XVI. To Pope Damasus.

… a few months after the preceding, is another appeal to Damasus to solve the writer's doubts. Jerome once more refers to his baptism at Rome, and declares that his one answer to the factions …

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Sulpitius Severus, Vincent of Lerins & John Cassian • SECTION 165

Chapter XI.

… monks. See Book V. xxxv., and the Conferences I. xxiii.; XV. i.; XVII. iii.; XVIII. xi. S. Jerome mentions it in his preface to the Rule of Pachomius as one of the very few articles …

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Theodoret, Jerome, Gennadius & Rufinus — Historical Writings • SECTION 196

Chapter XXII.

… 10 but he himself is mentioned in book 5 and it is likely Jerome wrote 5. Chapter XXIV. Melito [2422] of Asia, bishop of Sardis, addressed a book to the emperor Marcus Antoninus Verus, a …

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Theodoret, Jerome, Gennadius & Rufinus — Historical Writings • SECTION 192

Chapter IX.

… All these views have distinguished advocates, but this view of Jerome taken from Origen through Eusebius is not much accepted. [2387] HermasA T 25 30 e; Herman Her. Val. a 31; Hermam H Cypr. [2388 …

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Theodoret, Jerome, Gennadius & Rufinus — Historical Writings • SECTION 215

Chapter XIV.

… Not all of Origen, however, is his work, for Jerome translated some which are identified by his prologue. On his own account, the same Rufinus, ever through the grace of God published an Exposition of …

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Sulpitius Severus, Vincent of Lerins & John Cassian • SECTION 187

Chapter XXIV.

… evening; e.g. S. Antony is said never to have eaten till sunset (Vita Anton.) and S. Jerome gives a similar account of Hilarion (Vita Hil. § 4), while other instances of voluntary fasts are given …

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Theodoret, Jerome, Gennadius & Rufinus — Historical Writings • SECTION 206

Chapter LXXXI.

… Works of his are extant On the soul, On ventriloquism Against Origen and Letters too numerous to mention. [2508] Died 337, (or according to others 370-82.) Jerome in this chapter seems, unless the usual …

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Sulpitius Severus, Vincent of Lerins & John Cassian • SECTION 125

Chapter XVI.

… died in his sixty-ninth year at Tyre, and was buried there. [482] "Quis nostrum," says St. Jerome, "potest tanta legere quanta ille conscripsit."--Hieron. ad Pam. et Occan. [483] He died, as was said …

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Sulpitius Severus, Vincent of Lerins & John Cassian • SECTION 116

Chapter V.

… accounted foremost among Confessors. [435] St. Ambrose. De Fide, l. 2, c. 15, § 141. See also St. Jerome adv. Luciferianos, § 19. [436] Ibid. l. 3, § 128. St. Ambrose speaks of the Gothic war as a …

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The Twelve Patriarchs, Apocrypha, Clementine Homilies & More • SECTION 344

Chapter 21.

… nation was so given to idolatry, and worshipped such a countless number of monsters, as the Egyptians.--Jerome on Isaiah. Chapter 23. And it came to pass, when the most blessed Mary went into the …

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Socrates and Sozomen — Ecclesiastical Histories • SECTION 121

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

… 10, and Jerome, ad Rustic. (125. 6). [990] hupothesis = lit. subject' or substance'; the contents, or as later, called the argument, or summary of contents.

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Theodoret, Jerome, Gennadius & Rufinus — Historical Writings • SECTION 218

Chapter XXVII.

… In reply to his perverseness Jerome, published a book against him, well filled with scripture proofs. [2627] [2626] Fourth century. [2627] In reply...proofs A T 25 30 21; omit e 31 a. Chapter XXXIV …

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Hippolytus, Cyprian, Caius & Novatian • SECTION 81

Chapter XXI.--The System of Cerinthus Concerning Christ.

… vii. 25; Epiphanius, Hær., xxviii.; Theodoret, Hær. Fab., ii. 3; St. Augustine, Hær., c. viii.; and St. Jerome, Ep., lxxxix. We have here, as in the preceding articles, Irenæus in the Greek, as Hippolytus' text …

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Cyril of Jerusalem & Gregory Nazianzen • SECTION 16

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

… iv., which contains a brief preliminary statement of all the articles of the Creed, we may obtain some evidence from an incident recorded in a letter of Jerome [329] to Pammachius. John, who had then …

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Gregory Thaumaturgus, Dionysius, Julius Africanus & Others • SECTION 44

Epistle II.--To Novatus. [784]

… 45. [785] Jerome, in his Catalogus, where he adduces the beginning of this epistle, gives Novatianus for Novatus. So in the Chronicon of Georgius Syncellus we have Dionusios Nauatiano. Rufinus' account appears to be that …

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Sulpitius Severus, Vincent of Lerins & John Cassian • SECTION 237

Chapter VIII.

… It is however followed by Jerome Ep: ad Eustochium, xxii. 24, though the Vulgate has simply Porro unum est necessarium. For Mary as the type of the contemplative life, and Martha of the practical, compare …

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Sulpitius Severus, Vincent of Lerins & John Cassian • SECTION 126

Chapter XVIII.

… besides what may be gathered from his works, in addition to the following account given by St. Jerome (De Viris Illustribus), which I quote from Bishop Kaye's work on Tertullian and his writings: "Tertullian …

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