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Gregory Thaumaturgus, Dionysius, Julius Africanus & Others • SECTION 27
… The Council of Jerusalem, however, is the base of Christian orthodoxy, and decided the great principles by which the "General Councils" were professedly ruled. [434] Theological students are often puzzled to recall the councils in …
2,213 wordsLactantius, Venantius, Asterius, Victorinus & Others • SECTION 212
… to Leo the Great, who was made bishop of Rome in a.d. 451; some to Gelasius, who was made bishop of Rome in a.d. 492; and some to Gregory the First, who was …
2,202 wordsSocrates and Sozomen — Ecclesiastical Histories • SECTION 63
… That both Julian and Porphyry, whom Libanius calls the Tyrian old man,' took great delight in scoffing, is evident from their own works. For Porphyry in his History of the Philosophers has treated with ridicule …
2,245 wordsSulpitius Severus, Vincent of Lerins & John Cassian • SECTION 139
Augustine replied to his correspondents by writing what proved to be almost his latest works,--the treatises "De Prædestinatione Sanctorum" and "De dono Perseverantiæ." In these volumes Augustine, while freely acknowledging the great difference between …
2,208 wordsGregory the Great, Ephraim Syrus & Aphrahat • SECTION 41
Epistle XXXVII. To Innocent, Præfect of Africa. Gregory to Innocent, &c. The lucid eloquence of your Eminence, seasoned with the honey of the heart, has so infused its savour into our inmost soul, and ravished …
2,258 wordsAthanasius — Select Works and Letters • SECTION 175
… a matter of popular talk and debate, which is a sure mark of heresy, had received a great stimulus about this time by the rise of the Anomoeans. Eusebius's testimony to the profaneness which …
2,240 wordsSulpitius Severus, Vincent of Lerins & John Cassian • SECTION 411
… no evidence of its having been kept for forty days till sometime after the date of Gregory the Great, when Ash Wednesday and the three following days were prefixed to the six weeks expressly for …
788 wordsGregory of Nyssa — Dogmatic Treatises • SECTION 63
… It is to be noted that Gregory connects palin in v. 6, with eisagage, not treating it, as the A.V. does, as simply introducing another quotation. This appears from his later reference to the …
2,204 wordsSocrates and Sozomen — Ecclesiastical Histories • SECTION 3
… He is incorrect on several particulars in the lives of Basil and Gregory of Nazianzus, as also in assigning the attack at night on the church of St. Theonas to the usurpation of Gregory, the …
2,247 wordsThe Seven Ecumenical Councils • SECTION 262
… I find that many writers on the subject of what they call "image worship," speak frequently of these "Caroline Books," and refer to them with great admiration. It is also absolutely certain that many of …
2,235 wordsSocrates and Sozomen — Ecclesiastical Histories • SECTION 76
… While the emperor Valentinian governed in peace, and interfered with no sect, Damasus after Liberius undertook the administration of the bishopric at Rome; [658] whereupon a great disturbance was caused on the following account. [659 …
784 wordsAthanasius — Select Works and Letters • SECTION 30
… Gibbon lays aside his solemn sneer' to do homage to Athanasius the great. [88] Of his personal appearance little is known. Gregory Naz. praises his beauty of expression, Julian sneers at his small stature. Later …
2,267 wordsAthanasius — Select Works and Letters • SECTION 9
… on the right Gregory Thaumaturgus, Firmilian, and their brethren, after a long struggle, oust the adoptionist Paul from the See of Antioch. But its influence on the existing Catholic theology, however great (and in the …
2,236 wordsBasil — Letters and Select Works • SECTION 199
… If the route by sea must be taken, the season will be favourable; if indeed my God-beloved brother Gregory [2822] consents to the voyage and to the commission concerning these matters. For my own …
2,288 wordsTheodoret, Jerome, Gennadius & Rufinus — Historical Writings • SECTION 7
… 287) remarks, "Gregory the Great says that he venerates these four as the four Gospels, and describes them as the four square stones on which the structure of faith rests. Yet the hard struggle each …
814 wordsThe Twelve Patriarchs, Apocrypha, Clementine Homilies & More • SECTION 475
… 325) Sylvester to Gregory the Great, and his successor, who lived but one year, the Bishops of Rome were canonical primates. 2. Boniface III. accepted the court title of "Universal Bishop" (a.d. 606) from …
2,213 wordsGregory of Nyssa — Dogmatic Treatises • SECTION 62
… Oehler's punctuation is apparently wrong, for Gregory paraphrases not only the rule, but the reason given for it, from S. Basil, from whom the last words of the sentence are a direct quotation. [610 …
2,267 wordsBasil — Letters and Select Works • SECTION 14
… truths which Basil held dear. Gregory of Sasima was no archiepiscopal success at Constantinople. He was not an administrator or a man of the world. But he was a great divine and orator, and the …
2,276 wordsJerome — Principal Works • SECTION 89
… And so great was the admiration caused in everyone by his eminent ability that it stilled a most severe persecution. The philosopher Aristides, [2152] a man of great eloquence, presented to the same Emperor an …
2,275 wordsGregory of Nyssa — Dogmatic Treatises • SECTION 126
… Still you need not give up all hope of feeling that great man's talons [1220] . For this work of ours, while, as compared with his, it will be a great thing for it to …
2,276 wordsTertullian, Minucius Felix, Commodian & Origen • SECTION 123
… afterwards Gregory Thaumaturgus, Bishop of New Cæsarea, has left us, in the panegyric which he wrote after a discipleship of five years, a full and admiring account of the method of his great master. The …
2,283 wordsTheodoret, Jerome, Gennadius & Rufinus — Historical Writings • SECTION 45
… The emperor Constantius, having become acquainted with the plots formed against the bishops, wrote to the great Athanasius once, and twice, aye and thrice, exhorting him to return from the West [499] . I shall here …
821 wordsGregory of Nyssa — Dogmatic Treatises • SECTION 41
… but if it be true that he who is not by nature God is not God at all, let them learn from the great Paul that they who serve those who are not Gods do …
2,312 wordsAthanasius — Select Works and Letters • SECTION 133
… Being known to be so great a man, therefore, and having thus given answers to those who visited him, he returned again to the inner mountain, and maintained his wonted discipline. And often when people …
2,317 wordsThe Twelve Patriarchs, Apocrypha, Clementine Homilies & More • SECTION 462
… And the splendour appeared great, and nothing was perceived, while the body, perfectly clean, and unstained by any horror of filth, was being washed. [2667] John xiii. 23. [2668] The otherms. inserts: And Paul said …
2,299 wordsCyril of Jerusalem & Gregory Nazianzen • SECTION 1
… Cyril of Jerusalem, Gregory Nazianzen Creator(s): Schaff, Philip (1819-1893) (Editor) Print Basis: New York: Christian Literature Publishing Co., 1893 Rights: Public Domain CCEL Subjects: All; Proofed; Early Church; LC Call no: BR60 LC …
2,313 wordsSulpitius Severus, Vincent of Lerins & John Cassian • SECTION 111
… Well, their journey led them through the heart of Aquitania, and being there received with great pomp by such as knew no better, they spread the seeds of their heresy. Above all, they perverted by …
831 wordsJerome — Principal Works • SECTION 200
… It confuses counsel, breaks high and generous spirits, draws away men from great thoughts to mean ones; it makes men querulous, ill-tempered, foolhardy, cruelly imperious, servile flatterers, good for nothing, at last not even …
2,271 wordsAugustine — Homilies on John & First John • SECTION 228
… such a Physician is come, and do ye despair? Great were the diseases, incurable were the wounds, desperate was the sickness. Dost thou note the greatness of thine ill, and not note the omnipotence of …
2,299 wordsAugustine — Against the Manichaeans and Donatists • SECTION 12
… Leo the Great and Valentinian III. took measures against them in Italy (440 sq.). They appear, however, to have continued their work, for Gregory the Great mentions them (590 sq.). From this time onwards their …
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