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The Twelve Patriarchs, Apocrypha, Clementine Homilies & More • SECTION 329

Chapter XXII.--Appion and Athenodorus Return to Simon.

Jerome, exist in several of the mss.; but no one who is acquainted with the style of Jerome's letters will think this one authentic. There are, however, in his works many allusions to some …

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Cyril of Jerusalem & Gregory Nazianzen • SECTION 66

[1655] Is. lxvi. 10.

… The Latin in Milles has only "Cur igitur non creditis?" [1735] The statements of Papias, Irenæus, Origen, Eusebius, Epiphanius, and Jerome, concerning a Hebrew Gospel of S. Matthew are ably discussed by Dr. Salmon (Introduction …

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Eusebius — Church History, Constantine & Oration • SECTION 109

Chapter VIII.--Ecclesiastical Writers.

… Rufinus writes "Serenius"; Jerome, in his version of Eusebius' Chronicle, followed by Orosius (VII. 13), writes "Serenius Granius," and this, according to Kortholdt (quoted by Heinichen), is shown by an inscription to have been the …

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Augustine — Confessions & Letters • SECTION 65

Chapter XII.--Discussion with Alypius Concerning a Life of Celibacy.

… a wilderness, severed from the many, called among the few" (Ap. Aug. Ep. 24, sec. 2). St. Jerome calls him "his holy and venerable brother, Father (Papa) Alypius" (Ep. 39, ibid.). Earlier, Augustin speaks of …

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Sulpitius Severus, Vincent of Lerins & John Cassian • SECTION 483

Book VII.

… Ps. xc. (xci.) 13. [2597] Isa. xi. 8. [2598] Cf. Mal. iii. 2, 3. [2599] S. Matt. xxi. 13. [2600] Onocentauri: the allusion is to Is. xxxiv. 14, 15. Cf. Jerome in Esaiam, Bk. X.

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Jerome — Principal Works • SECTION 69

Letter LV. To Amandus.

… Amandus a presbyter of Burdigala (Bourdeaux) had written to Jerome for an explanation of three passages of scripture, viz. Matt. vi. 34, 1 Cor. vi. 18, 1 Cor. xv. 25, 26, and had in the …

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Augustine — Confessions & Letters • SECTION 199

Letter XXXIX.

… 397.) To My Lord Augustin, a Father [1603] Truly Holy and Most Blessed, Jerome Sends Greeting in Christ. Chap. I. 1. Last year I sent by the hand of our brother, the subdeacon Asterius, a …

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Jerome — Principal Works • SECTION 11

Letter I. To Innocent.

… Not only the first of the letters but probably the earliest extant composition of Jerome (c. 370 a.d.). Innocent, to whom it is addressed, was one of the little band of enthusiasts whom Jerome

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Eusebius — Church History, Constantine & Oration • SECTION 142

Chapter IV.--Irenæus commended by the Witnesses in a Letter.

… Gregory Nyssa, Jerome, and other later Christian writers refer to the event. [1423] i.e. Claudius Apolinarius, bishop of Hierapolis. Upon him and his writings, see above, Bk. IV. chap. 27, note 1. This reference …

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Augustine — City of God & Christian Doctrine • SECTION 264

Chapter 7.--Who Were Kings When Joseph Died in Egypt.

… Now our writers of chronicles--first Eusebius, and afterwards Jerome, who entirely follow some earlier historians in this opinion--relate that the flood of Ogyges happened more than three hundred years after, during the reign …

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Jerome — Principal Works • SECTION 50

Letter XLVIII. To Pammachius.

… An "apology" for the two books "against Jovinian" which Jerome had written a short time previously, and of which he had sent copies to Rome. These Pammachius and his other friends had withheld from publication …

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Chrysostom — Homilies on Matthew • SECTION 18

Homily VI.

… 238] Deut. xxii. 27. In our translation, "the betrothed damsel cried." This place is cited by St. Jerome on Matt. with reference to the same argument. [239] Isa. vii. 14. [240] [There is no indication …

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Eusebius — Church History, Constantine & Oration • SECTION 91

Chapter XXIX.--Nicolaus and the Sect named after him.

… Hær. 25), the last two undoubtedly drawing their account from Hippolytus, and he in turn from Irenæus. Jerome and the writers of his time and later accept this view, believing that Nicolas became licentious and …

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