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Hilary of Poitiers & John of Damascus • SECTION 4

About the year 350 Hilary was consecrated Bishop of Poitiers. So we may infer from his own words [35] that he had been a good while regenera

… In their great works on the Trinity, Hilary most rarely, and Augustine never, allude to it; the Council of Aquileia, held in the same interests and almost at the same time as that of Constantinople …

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Gregory Thaumaturgus, Dionysius, Julius Africanus & Others • SECTION 206

[3489] Brunda or Brenda, i.e., Brundisium.

… which is wanting in the ms., first ed., and Oehler. [3512] It is worth while to contrast Augustine's words: "The death which men fear is the separation of the soul from the body. The …

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Cyril of Jerusalem & Gregory Nazianzen • SECTION 87

8. Having been sufficiently instructed in these things, keep them, I beseech you, in your remembrance; that I also, unworthy though I be, ma

… On the use of ointments), nor Tertullian, nor Augustine. [2401] On the significance of the wild olive-tree, see Irenæus, V. 10. [2402] See Index, "Exorcism." [2403] kolumbethran. The pool or piscina was deep enough …

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The Seven Ecumenical Councils • SECTION 140

But since Christ our God, who is the true light, whom the darkness comprehendeth not, hath removed all confusion from our minds, and hath so

… of sound reason be observed? Especially since it is manifest that our Fathers, and especially the blessed Augustine, who was in very sooth illustrious in the Divine Scriptures, and a master in Roman eloquence, retracted …

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Gospel of Peter, Diatessaron, Apocalypse of Peter & Other Early Texts • SECTION 52

Introduction.

… alongside of the Greek version in his Apocalypses Apocryphæ. The Revelation of Paul was known to S. Augustine, who thus refers to it in his Tractate 98 on the Gospel of John, § 8: "...There have …

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Gregory the Great, Ephraim Syrus & Aphrahat • SECTION 95

The imitation, however, is by no means complete; it is apparent in the general tone and manner, but does not extend to the form: just as the

… Eccl.) the earliest writer of Latin Hymns, and some extant Hymns are ascribed to him. But St. Augustine tells us (Confess. IX. 7) that at Milan hymns were first used, "after the manner of the …

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Tertullian — Latin Christianity • SECTION 434

4. "Then, on the day on which we remained in fetters, [8990] this was shown to me. I saw that that place which I had formerly observed to be

… Some also read the word galliculæ, small sandals. [8994] [Concerning these visions, see Augustine, De Anima, cap. xviii. el seq.] [8995] "Afa" is the Greek word haphe, a grip; hence used of the yellow sand …

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Eusebius — Church History, Constantine & Oration • SECTION 10

Chapter II

… He did not possess a great creative mind like Origen's or Augustine's. His claim to greatness rests upon his vast erudition and his sterling sense. His powers of acquisition were remarkable and his …

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Gregory of Nyssa — Dogmatic Treatises • SECTION 9

This transcendent idealism embarrasses him in many ways, and makes his theory of the soul full of inconsistency. (1) He will not say unhesit

… The word Grace occurs as often in them as in Augustine: but they do not make original sin a monstrous innovation requiring a remedy of a peculiar and overwhelming intensity. Passion indeed seems to Gregory …

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Cyril of Jerusalem & Gregory Nazianzen • SECTION 94

In such a crisis Gregory came most unwillingly to the Capital. At first he lodged in the house of a relation of his own, part of which he ar

… in 391, and in the same year that he passed from the roll of the earthly episcopate Augustine was ordained Priest at Hippo Regius in Africa. Ullmann gives the following description of his character and …

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Fathers of the Second Century • SECTION 225

Book III. [2440]

… Alexandria to its foundations. It is curious to trace the influence of Clement, through Tertullian and St. Augustine, upon the systems of the schoolmen, and again, through them, on the Teutonic reformers. The mysticism of …

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Tertullian — Latin Christianity • SECTION 433

Preface. [8974]

… Routh notes this as undoubted evidence of a Montanistic author. Reliquiæ, Vol. I. p. 455.] [8977] [St. Augustine takes pains to remind us that these Acta are not canonical. De Anima, cap. 2, opp. Tom …

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Athanasius — Select Works and Letters • SECTION 51

Introduction to the Treatise

… things, he challenges them to reject, without inconsistency, the Union of that Spirit, the Logos (compare St. Augustine Conf. VII. ix.), with one in particular of the many constituents of that Universe wherein he already …

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Athanasius — Select Works and Letters • SECTION 173

[1914] This was an objection urged by Eunomius, cf. de Syn. 51, note 8. It is implied also in the Apology of the former, §24, and in Basil.

… 4. p. 304 and S. Dionysius calls Him the Radiance, anarchon kai aeigenes. Sent. Dion 15. S. Augustine too says, Semper gignit Pater, et semper nascitur Filius. Ep. 238. n. 4. Petav. de Trin. ii …

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Hippolytus, Cyprian, Caius & Novatian • SECTION 283

23. But who is this that says that he has held his peace before, and will not hold his peace for ever? Surely it is He who was led as a shee

… 4-6. [3596] ["Deus patiens quia æternus" (Augustine).] [3597] Matt. v. 43-48. [3598] Baluzius reads, "compares obaudientes"--His obedient peers. The mss. have "obaudientes" only. [3599] Erasmus adds, "with patience." [3600] [This sublime passage …

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Athanasius — Select Works and Letters • SECTION 122

b. Historical misstatements. i. It is better to include under this head rather than under the last the title ad peregrinos fratres. Who were

… Upon it Jerome modelled his highly idealised tales of Paul and Hilarion; at Rome and all over the West it kindled the flame of monastic aspirations; it awoke in Augustine (Conf. viii. ubi supra) the …

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Lactantius, Venantius, Asterius, Victorinus & Others • SECTION 202

How and When We Ought to Celebrate the Memorials of the Faithful Departed, and that We Ought Then to Give Somewhat Out of Their Goods to the

… and "with the Holy Spirit." [3734] [They are "at rest." Yet this prayer, and wherefore? See St. Augustine, Confessions (ed. Migne), p. 765, Nebridius.] [3735] Matt. xxii. 32; Wisd. iii. 1. [3736] "With whom," one …

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Socrates and Sozomen — Ecclesiastical Histories • SECTION 240

[1540] Ruf. H. E. ii. 14-16; Philost. x. 5, 7; Soc. v. 11. Cf. Theodoret, H. E. v. 12, 13; Eunap. Fragm. ii. 48; Zos. iv. 42, 43.

… 23; many independent points in Soz. [1544] Cod. Theod. xvi. 10, 11. [1545] The opinion of St. Augustine (Ep. 158, ad Marcell.) is here quoted by Valesius: "lest the sufferings of the servants of God …

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Augustine — Confessions & Letters • SECTION 370

Moon, sun and, Manichean belief as to the, 63

… 1192]192 (note) Sinners cannot escape God, [1193]79 injure themselves, not God, [1194]79 (notes) Skins, Augustine makes, the emblems of mortality, [1195]112 and note, [1196]195 (note) Sodom, the sea of, [1197 …

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Lactantius, Venantius, Asterius, Victorinus & Others • SECTION 22

And even in the making of these God had regard to the future; for He made them so, that a representation of true religion and of false super

… So Cyril of Jerusalem, Augustine, and later Fathers. Bingham book xiii. cap. 8, sec. 15.] [249] [In baptism, the renunciations were made with face turned to the west. Bingham, book xi. cap. 7, sec. 4 …

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Hippolytus, Cyprian, Caius & Novatian • SECTION 31

Book V.

… Spenc.); Tertullian, Præscr., c. 47; Theodoret, Hæretic. Fabul., i. 14; Epiphanius, Advers. Hæreses., xxv. and xxxvii.; St. Augustine, De Hæres., xvii.; Jerome, Comment. Epist. ad Galat., lib. ii. The Abbe Cruice reminds his readers that …

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The Seven Ecumenical Councils • SECTION 142

This is the pure expression of piety. This is the true and immaculate profession of the Christian religion, not invented by human cunning, b

… will, but the will of him that sent me." On the meaning of which divine words blessed Augustine, a most illustrious doctor, thus writes in his book against Maximinus the Arian. He says, "When the …

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Cyril of Jerusalem & Gregory Nazianzen • SECTION 91

Prolegomena.

… daughter of Christian parents, and had been very carefully brought up. Like S. John Chrysostom and S. Augustine, Gregory had the inestimable advantage of being reared at the knee of a mother of conspicuous holiness …

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Athanasius — Select Works and Letters • SECTION 112

[924] From Wisdom vii. 25. and so Origen, Periarch. i. 2. n. 5. and 9. and Athan. de Sent. Dionys. 15.

… or as Augustine says, the good, the just, and the wicked, which may be taken to mean nearly the same thing. Hær. 22. The Apostolical Canons denounce those who baptize into Three Unoriginate; vid. also …

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Athanasius — Select Works and Letters • SECTION 210

81. But since He proceeds to say, When He prepared the heaven, I was present with Him [2772] ,' we ought to know that He says not this as if

… by divine power, till such time as immortality should have been given him. vid. Incarn. 4. Cf. Augustine, de pecc. mer. i. 3. Gen. ad lit. vi. 20. Pope Pius V. condemned the assertion of …

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Augustine — Sermon on the Mount & Gospel Harmony • SECTION 211

9. They answer, "knowing not," as the Apostle says, "either what they speak, or whereof they affirm:" [3226] they answer and say, "If men do

… St Augustine is followed by the Gloss Ord. [3241] Acts x. 25. [3242] Acts x. 44. [3243] 1 Cor. iv. 16, xi. 1. [3244] Phil. ii. 21. [3245] Matt. xxiii. 3. Sermon L. [C. Ben …

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Chrysostom — Homilies on Matthew • SECTION 1

A SELECT LIBRARY

… nearly contemporaneous prevalence of Manichæism in the West, as it appears in the early history of St. Augustine. In Hom. lxxxvi. there are some remarks on the device of Satan by which evil is introduced …

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Lactantius, Venantius, Asterius, Victorinus & Others • SECTION 21

But now the conclusion, with which Tully finished the sentiment, is much more absurd. [228] "But if matter," he says, "was not made by God,

… the magi of the Persians, the gymnosophists of the Indians, or the Druids of the Gauls. St. Augustine often makes mention of these. It would seem inconsistent to mention Moses and the prophets of God …

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The Seven Ecumenical Councils • SECTION 241

No doubt to these, given in Palmer, who has made much use of Lannoy, others could be added; but they are enough to shew that the council was

… creature and sometimes to the Creator; but latreuo is used to denote divine worship alone, as St. Augustine pointed out long ago. This distinction comes out very clearly in the inspired translation of the Hebrew …

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Hippolytus, Cyprian, Caius & Novatian • SECTION 147

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… So also Irenæus, Clemens Alex., Origen, Theophilus of Antioch, and Eusebius, in several places; so, too, of the Latin Fathers--Tertullian, Lactantius, Victorinus, Augustine; and long after these, Honorius Augustodunensis, in his De imagine Mundi …

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