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Athanasius — Select Works and Letters • SECTION 110

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

… Athenagoras, however, like Athanasius, says as light from fire,' using also the word apo& 207;rhoia, effluence: vid. also Orig. Periarch. i. 2. n. 4. Tertull. Ap. 21. Theognostus, quoted infr. §25.

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Athanasius — Select Works and Letters • SECTION 142

[1290] 2 Cor. i. 23.

… The movements of Athanasius refute this charge. This certainly is sufficient for proof, yet suffer me nevertheless to lay before you an account of my travels, which will further lead you to condemn the unfounded …

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Socrates and Sozomen — Ecclesiastical Histories • SECTION 184

Chapter XV.--Didymus the Blind, and Aëtius the Heretic.

… It is related that when Antony left the desert and repaired to Alexandria to give his testimony in favor of the doctrines of Athanasius, he said to Didymus, "It is not a severe thing, nor …

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Athanasius — Select Works and Letters • SECTION 306

Letter LXIV.--To Diodorus (fragment).

… Basil, as illustrating the attitude of Athanasius with regard to the unhappy schism of Antioch. [4806] Col. iv. 6. Memorandum.--On other Letters ascribed to Athanasius. The above Collection of Letters is complete upon the …

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Basil — Letters and Select Works • SECTION 14

On Matt. xx. 23. Is not Mine to give, save for whom it is prepared.

… Clause in the Athanasian Creed, on which Waterland's remark is that it "needs no comment." St. Athanasius himself interpreted the "minority" not of the humanity, or of the special subordination of the time when …

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Athanasius — Select Works and Letters • SECTION 257

Letter of Ninety Bishops of Egypt and Libya, including Athanasius.

Letter of Ninety Bishops of Egypt and Libya, including Athanasius. ------------------------ 1. Pre-Eminence of the Council of Nicæa. Efforts to exalt that of Ariminum at its expense. The letters are sufficient which were written by …

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Eusebius — Church History, Constantine & Oration • SECTION 76

Chapter X.--The Manner in which Josephus mentions the Divine Books.

… This omission may be accidental, though it is omitted by Athanasius and Gregory Nazianzen. He makes no mention of Nehemiah, but that is doubtless included with Ezra, as in the case of Josephus' canon. His …

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The Twelve Patriarchs, Apocrypha, Clementine Homilies & More • SECTION 462

[2663] The otherms. adds: at the humility of Paul.

… of "Old Rome" in strictly ecclesiastical history; her barrenness of literature, and of great heroic sons, like Athanasius and Chrysostom in the East, and Cyprian and Augustine in the West; and her decadence as a …

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Jerome — Principal Works • SECTION 168

"Such was his constant cry: unmoved he stood.

… Wherefore be so good as to go and fetch the cloak Bishop Athanasius gave you, to wrap my poor body in." The blessed Paul asked this favour not because he cared much whether his corpse …

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Gregory of Nyssa — Dogmatic Treatises • SECTION 1

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… the expression of gratitude he had already had occasion to offer in issuing the Translation of St. Athanasius. From the careful and minute revision which the volume has thus undergone, the Editor ventures to entertain …

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Augustine — Trinity, Doctrinal & Moral Treatises • SECTION 1

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… It is the most elaborate, and probably also the ablest and profoundest patristic discussion of this central doctrine of the Christian religion, unless we except the Orations against the Arians, by Athanasius, "the Father of …

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Gregory of Nyssa — Dogmatic Treatises • SECTION 215

Chapter XIX.

… with God's nature in the Incarnation, and do not attempt to prove its absolute necessity. Cf. Athanasius, De Incarn. Verb. c. 6; Hooker, Eccles. Pol. V. li. 3; Butler's Analogy, pt. ii. c …

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Eusebius — Church History, Constantine & Oration • SECTION 323

Chapter XLIII.--Constantine's Liberality to the Poor.

… It commends itself to our feeling; but after all, the unyielding Athanasius was a greater man than Eusebius. Chapter XLV.--His Forbearance with Unreasonable Men. Moreover he endured with patience some who were exasperated against …

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Sulpitius Severus, Vincent of Lerins & John Cassian • SECTION 146

Chapter VI.

… one side, was the usual dress of monks. S. Anthony bequeathed his, at his death, to S. Athanasius. Ath. Vita Anton, 91. [658] Pera can hardly be used here in its ordinary sense of scrip …

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Cyril of Jerusalem & Gregory Nazianzen • SECTION 161

[3949] Jer. iv. 3.

… is ex heteras hupostaseos e ousias (Symb. Nic.). Similar is the use of the word in S. Athanasius. As against Sabellius, however, who taught that in the Godhead there are tria prosopa (using this word …

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Hilary of Poitiers & John of Damascus • SECTION 181

Chapter XXII.--Concerning His growth.

… But the holy Athanasius in his discourse against Apollinarius says that He did actually feel fear. "Wherefore the Lord said: Now is My soul troubled [2217] . The now' indeed means just when He willed,' but …

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The Seven Ecumenical Councils • SECTION 54

Canon IV.

… it is usually considered to have been adopted at the instigation of the party opposed to St. Athanasius and that afterwards it was used against St. Chrysostom. But while such may have been the secret …

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