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Fathers of the Second Century • SECTION 217
… What then? Did not the women of the Midianites, by their beauty, seduce from wisdom into impiety, through licentiousness, the Hebrews when making war against them? For, having seduced them from a grave mode of …
2,297 wordsFathers of the Second Century • SECTION 42
… Now, Linus was the teacher of Hercules, but Hercules preceded the Trojan war by one generation; and this is manifest from his son Tlepolemus, who served in the army against Troy. And Orpheus lived at …
2,285 wordsHippolytus, Cyprian, Caius & Novatian • SECTION 230
… You have fallen into it, but it was by your own sacrilegious disposition and will in easily hearkening to unchaste, to impious, to unspeakable things against your brother, against a priest, and in willingly believing …
2,314 wordsChrysostom — Priesthood, Ascetic Treatises & Homilies • SECTION 11
… Besides, he delivered discourses on separate texts of Scripture, on church festivals, eulogies on apostles and martyrs, sermons against the Pagans, against the Jews and Judaizing Christians, against the Arians, and the famous twenty-one …
2,306 wordsAugustine — Against the Manichaeans and Donatists • SECTION 104
… If the next difficulty in the mind of the inquirer arose from the divisions and heresies among those called Christians, he would learn that this too is taken notice of by the prophets. For, as …
2,303 wordsJerome — Principal Works • SECTION 227
… You likewise take Theoseca, a deacon of the church of Thiria, and make him presbyter, and put weapons into his hands against us, and make a misuse of his eloquence for our injury. You alone …
2,292 wordsCyril of Jerusalem & Gregory Nazianzen • SECTION 21
… For thou art receiving armour against the adverse power, armour against heresies, against Jews, and Samaritans [434] , and Gentiles. Thou hast many enemies; take to thee many darts, for thou hast many to hurl them …
2,356 wordsThe Seven Ecumenical Councils • SECTION 135
… So that all of us, moved with indignation by these blasphemies against God, both during and after the reading, broke forth into denunciations and anathematisms against Theodore, as if he had been living and present …
2,307 wordsGregory the Great, Ephraim Syrus & Aphrahat • SECTION 94
… Many are controversial,--directed against the Jews, against heathenism in the person of the Emperor Julian, against the heresies of Manes, of Marcion, of Bardesan, of the Anomoean followers of Arius. Others set forth articles …
2,265 wordsChrysostom — Priesthood, Ascetic Treatises & Homilies • SECTION 54
… These occur in Chrysostom's fifth Homily against the Anomoeans, one of a set of Homilies which, from internal evidence, may be assigned to the close of the year 386, or beginning of 387. The …
2,318 wordsAthanasius — Select Works and Letters • SECTION 220
… It is obvious that theotokos, though framed as a test against Nestorians, was equally effective against Apollinarians [?] and Eutychians, who denied that our Lord had taken human flesh at all, as is observed by Facundus …
2,283 wordsAugustine — Against the Manichaeans and Donatists • SECTION 212
… For if it was said of those who have sinned against us, "If ye forgive not men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses," [1541] how much more impossible is it that their …
2,305 wordsAthanasius — Select Works and Letters • SECTION 29
… We also hear of a treatise against heresies (a fragment above, No. 56). A Synodicon,' with the names of all Bishops present at Nicæa, is quoted by Socr. i. 13, but is referred by Revillout …
2,311 wordsGregory Thaumaturgus, Dionysius, Julius Africanus & Others • SECTION 205
… You bring forward arguments against us, and speculative quibblings, [3480] which--may I say this without displeasing Him--if Christ Himself were to use in the gatherings of the nations, who would assent? who would …
2,306 wordsTertullian, Minucius Felix, Commodian & Origen • SECTION 187
… Burton's Inquiry into the Heresies of the Apostolic Age (Bampton Lectures), pp. 184, 185, 498, 499. S.] [2936] Gal. iv. 26. [2937] Heb. xii. 22, 23. [2938] en psuchon genei. [2939] tou kaloumenou choriou …
2,334 wordsSocrates and Sozomen — Ecclesiastical Histories • SECTION 68
… To the emperor they could not have access, he being occupied in the Gauls with a war against the Sarmatæ; but they presented their letters to Liberius. He at first refused to admit them; saying …
2,331 wordsFathers of the Second Century • SECTION 1
… After reading Irenæus Against Heresies, then, we may not inappropriately turn to this mild protest against the most desolating and lasting delusion of primitive times. Most bitterly this will be felt when we reach the …
2,330 wordsAthanasius — Select Works and Letters • SECTION 162
… Nay, they undertook to do the like themselves, that as they had modelled their heresy upon all other heresies together [1702] , so they might share their wickedness with the more depraved of mankind. What they …
2,359 wordsAthanasius — Select Works and Letters • SECTION 123
… His address to monks, rendered from Coptic, exhorting them to perseverance, and encouraging them against the wiles of Satan. §44. The growth of the monastic life at this time (about A.D. 305). §45. How …
2,322 wordsBasil — Letters and Select Works • SECTION 181
… The man who in a rage has taken up a hatchet against his own wife is a murderer. But it is what I should have expected from your intelligence that you should very properly remind …
2,313 wordsAthanasius — Select Works and Letters • SECTION 165
… Next, finding one Epictetus [1771] a novice, a bold young man, he loved him [1772] , perceiving that he was ready for wickedness; and by his means he carries on his designs against those of the …
2,365 wordsGregory of Nyssa — Dogmatic Treatises • SECTION 87
… For who is there with so much leisure that he can give himself up to such an extent to listen to the arguments on the other side, and to our contention against the silly stuff …
2,323 wordsTheodoret, Jerome, Gennadius & Rufinus — Historical Writings • SECTION 117
… the earth were looking on." [1105] Testimony of Irenæus bishop of Lyons, from his third book Against the heresies:-- "Why then did they add the words In the city of David,' [1106] save to proclaim …
2,313 wordsThe Twelve Patriarchs, Apocrypha, Clementine Homilies & More • SECTION 16
… VIII. "The water above the heaven." Since baptism is performed by water and the Spirit as a protection against the twofold fire,--that which lays hold of what is visible, and that which lays hold …
2,328 wordsTheodoret, Jerome, Gennadius & Rufinus — Historical Writings • SECTION 273
… Why are you tormented with jealousy? Why do you inflame the minds of the ignorant against me? Wherever in translation I seem to you to go wrong, ask the Hebrews, consult their teachers in different …
2,353 wordsThe Seven Ecumenical Councils • SECTION 94
… have set forth our confession of the faith at greater length, and have appended an anathema against the heresies which innovators have recently inscribed. Now as to the particular administration of individual churches, an ancient …
2,347 wordsHippolytus, Cyprian, Caius & Novatian • SECTION 284
… Considering which things, beloved brethren, let us with vigilance and courage fortify our hearts dedicated to God against such a destructiveness of evil. Let the death of others avail for our safety; let the punishment …
2,337 wordsTheodoret, Jerome, Gennadius & Rufinus — Historical Writings • SECTION 254
… This man rouses all this alarm in you because of such expressions of mine; but he maintains that it is unjust to bring up similar expressions against him when they occur in his own writings …
2,326 wordsAugustine — Against the Manichaeans and Donatists • SECTION 281
… And this they thought might in some measure be effected, if they would take the law which Theodosius, of pious memory, enacted generally against heretics of all kinds, to the effect that any heretical bishop …
2,360 wordsAthanasius — Select Works and Letters • SECTION 221
… 10. [3055] Thus heresies are partial views of the truth, starting from some truth which they exaggerate, and disowning and protesting against other truth, which they fancy inconsistent with it. vid. supr. Or. i. 26 …
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