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Jerome — Principal Works • SECTION 175

Introduction.

… It hardly appears to have been formed into a separate organization, though an appeal was made to the emperor by some Luciferian presbyters about the year 384, and both Ambrose and Augustine speak of him …

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Gregory Thaumaturgus, Dionysius, Julius Africanus & Others • SECTION 100

[2136] But Codex Reg. Alex. Vat. reads "Stracum fluvium."

… Origen's first Homily on Luke, in Jerome's prologue to his Commentary on Matthew, and in Ambrose's prologue to the Gospel of Luke." We may add that Gieseler (Studien und Kritiken, i. 1830 …

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Ambrose — Selected Works and Letters • SECTION 152

Book II.

… 1907] sc. to the name and title of God. [1908] See Heb. i. 3. "Splendor" is St. Ambrose's rendering of apaugasma. Theodoret says: "The radiance" (or "effulgence") "of a fire comes from it and …

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Augustine — Homilies on John & First John • SECTION 237

Preface to Soliloquies.

… He expresses in the work a longing for continued support to his tender faith from Ambrose, who, however, is described as having temporarily withdrawn into some Trans-alpine seclusion, where Augustin complains that he hardly …

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Athanasius — Select Works and Letters • SECTION 259

Letters of Athanasius,

… Upon his death (374) Ambrose was elected bishop of Milan, but was confronted by the Arian party with a rival bishop in the person of a second Auxentius, said to have been a pupil of …

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Basil — Letters and Select Works • SECTION 86

Homily IX.

… 12. [1682] This word is curiously rendered by Eustathius verucæ, and by Ambrose caulis. Garnier (Præf. in Bas. 28) thinks that the latter perhaps found in some corrupt ms. kramben for kampen. [1683] Arist., H …

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Ambrose — Selected Works and Letters • SECTION 192

Chapter XI.

… 2471] Ps. viii. 6. [2472] Heb. ii. 8. [2473] Rom. xi. 36. [2474] "You think, perhaps," St. Ambrose might have said to his Arian opponents, "that this text speaks of God the Father only, as …

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Hilary of Poitiers & John of Damascus • SECTION 130

Introduction to the Homilies on Psalms I., LIII., CXXX.

… are here translated, the Roman genius for moral reflection is manifest, and the pattern set which St. Ambrose was to follow with success in such work as his De officiis ministrorum. [1358] Is. xxix. 11 …

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Chrysostom — Galatians through Philemon • SECTION 39

Homily VII.

… vi. 8. [246] The same sin is noticed among other places by S. Basil Ep. 53. S. Ambrose in Luc. lib. ix. 17-19. S. Jerome in Mat. xxi. 12, 13. [247] S. Chrysostom complains …

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Augustine — Confessions & Letters • SECTION 47

Book V.

… Having heard Ambrose, he begins to come to himself. ------------------------ Chapter I.--That It Becomes the Soul to Praise God, and to Confess Unto Him. 1. Accept the sacrifice of my confessions by the agency of …

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Basil — Letters and Select Works • SECTION 2

Council of Tyana.

… Death of Auxentius and consecration of Ambrose at Milan. Basil writes the "De Spiritu Sancto." Eusebius of Samosata banished to Thrace. Death of Gregory, bp. of Nazianzus, the elder. 375. Death of Valentinian. Gratian and …

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Athanasius — Select Works and Letters • SECTION 110

[879] Herm. Mand. 1. vid. ad Afr. 5.

… note 3. [900] Prov. xii. 20. [901] vid. ad Afros. 5, 6. ad Serap. ii. 5. S. Ambrose tells us, that a Letter written by Eusebius of Nicomedia, in which he said, If we call …

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Cyril of Jerusalem & Gregory Nazianzen • SECTION 72

[1919] Dan. vii. 9.

… separate mention of marriage and virginity. [1935] Matt. xxv. 31. [1936] Matt. xviii. 12; Luke xv. 4. Ambrose, Expos. in Luc. VII. 210: "Rich is that shepherd of whose flock we are but the one …

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Chrysostom — Priesthood, Ascetic Treatises & Homilies • SECTION 180

HOMILIES ON THE STATUES.

… to God, though in memory of men, [502]338, n.; Christian, for remission of sin, [503]443. Ambrose, St., obliged Theodosius to do penance, [504]383, n.; on invocation of Saints and Angels, [505]390 …

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Jerome — Principal Works • SECTION 89

Letter LXX. To Magnus an Orator of Rome.

… 12-17, 22. [2122] The case of Ambrose. [2123] A.V. patient.' [2124] Sacerdos: as usual a bishop is meant. [2125] Lit. chair.' [2126] Jas. ii. 11. [2127] Jas. ii. 10. Letter LXX. To Magnus …

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The Seven Ecumenical Councils • SECTION 111

(Gallia Orthod., LIX.)

… them, and according to the Canonical epistles and ectheses of the holy fathers Gregory, Basil, Athanasius, Hilary, Ambrose, and according to the two canonical epistles of Cyril, which were confirmed and published in the first …

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Augustine — City of God & Christian Doctrine • SECTION 1

A SELECT LIBRARY

… He could, indeed, not deny the truths in Greek philosophy; but he derived them from the Jewish Scriptures, and adopted the impossible hypothesis of Ambrose that Plato became acquainted with the prophet Jeremiah in Egypt …

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Augustine — Confessions & Letters • SECTION 212

Letter LIV.

… She began to be troubled, and to hesitate as to what she should do; upon which I, though not taking a personal interest then in such things, applied on her behalf to Ambrose, of most …

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