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Tertullian — Latin Christianity • SECTION 16
… Remarks on natural religion.] [102] [Though we are not by nature good, in our present estate; this is elsewhere demonstrated by Tertullian, as see cap. xviii.] Chapter XVIII. But, that we might attain an ampler …
1,022 wordsEusebius — Church History, Constantine & Oration • SECTION 80
… 4, and Tertullian's Apol. chap. 42). Accordingly it has been very commonly held that both Flavius Clemens and Domitilla were Christians, and were punished on that account. But early tradition makes only Domitilla a …
1,013 wordsChrysostom — Priesthood, Ascetic Treatises & Homilies • SECTION 62
… So Tertullian calls it the signaculum fidei, the signature of the Christian faith as circumcision was of the Jewish faith. St. Chrysostom: Homily i against those who say that demons govern human affairs. homilies ii …
1,023 wordsAugustine — Confessions & Letters • SECTION 91
… Compare also Tertullian, De Anima, lviii), takes it to mean the resting-place of the souls of the righteous after death. Abraham's bosom, indeed, is the same as the "Paradise" of Luke xxiii. 43 …
997 wordsTertullian — Latin Christianity • SECTION 166
… Surely Dodgson's version, if intelligible in itself even, incorrectly represents Tertullian's sense. [1963] Dissoluta. [1964] Porro. [1965] [Not to be contented with Truth, once known, is a sin preceding that against the Holy …
1,008 wordsTertullian — Latin Christianity • SECTION 287
… it to be inferior to Him? [6194] Nec natus omnino. [6195] Of course, according to Hermogenes, whom Tertullian refutes with an argumentum ad hominem. [6196] Aderit utrobique. [6197] That is, having no God superior to …
1,004 wordsTertullian — Latin Christianity • SECTION 153
… sound mind and of wisdom, even as it does those of aberration. [1766] We had better give Tertullian's own succinct definition: "Excessus sensûs et amentiæ instar." [1767] Gen. ii. 21. [1768] Prudentes. [1769] Sapere.
1,025 wordsTertullian — Latin Christianity • SECTION 167
… and concerning that which is our own,--that, and only that, [1993] which can become an object of inquiry without impairing the rule of faith. [1989] Extranea. [1990] Although Tertullian calls her "anus," St. Luke …
1,027 wordsAugustine — Trinity, Doctrinal & Moral Treatises • SECTION 247
… For hence, specially, the heresies of the Cataphryges and of the Novatians swelled, which Tertullian also, inflated with cheeks full of sound not of wisdom, whilst with railing tooth he attacks [2230] second marriages, as …
2,827 wordsTertullian, Minucius Felix, Commodian & Origen • SECTION 39
… 17, very often referred to by Tertullian. [540] Comp. 1 Tim. iii. 1, 2; Tit. i. 5, 6; and Ellicott's Commentary. [541] Sacerdotibus. [542] Rev. i. 6. [543] See Hab. ii. 4; Rom. i …
1,078 wordsJerome — Principal Works • SECTION 144
… This is the view of Tertullian, Apollinaris, and most western writers who hold that soul is derived from soul as body is from body and that the conditions of life are the same for men …
1,085 wordsTertullian — Latin Christianity • SECTION 71
… There is no good ground, therefore, for the statement of Gibbon: "Tertullian (de Corona Militis, c. xi.) suggests to them the expedient of deserting; a counsel which, if it had been generally known, was not …
1,089 wordsAugustine — City of God & Christian Doctrine • SECTION 91
… In respect to which matter I do not say what Tertullian said, perhaps more wittily than truly, "If gods are selected like onions, certainly the rest are rejected as bad." [250] I do not say …
1,090 wordsChrysostom — Homilies on Matthew • SECTION 54
… be in St. Irenæus, i. 6, 3: who lays it to the charge of the Valentinian heretics. Tertullian (de Jejun. ad fin.) imputes it to the Catholics. St. Cyprian's fourth Epistle (ed. Fell.) was …
1,060 wordsEusebius — Church History, Constantine & Oration • SECTION 29
… spoken, it is the first and the true religion. This may suffice for this subject. [66] Cf. Tertullian, Apol. XXXVII. (Ante-Nicene Fathers, Am. Ed. Vol. III. p. 45). [67] Isa. lxvi. 8. [68] Isa …
1,091 wordsTertullian — Latin Christianity • SECTION 94
… alicujus artificis intus et domini servitutis artem ostendimus elementorum certis ex operis" (for "operibis," not unusual in Tertullian) "eorum quas facis potestatis?" [867] Aut. [868] De licentia passivitatis libertas approbetur. [869] Meminerunt. [870] Num non …
1,085 wordsSulpitius Severus, Vincent of Lerins & John Cassian • SECTION 169
… for the word, Tertullian on Fasting c. i. and xvii. [779] This shows that Cassian is here writing about the monks of Palestine, not those of Egypt, who (according to the next chapter) had a …
1,100 wordsTertullian — Latin Christianity • SECTION 92
… i.e., the universe; see above. [829] The best reading is "vobis credi;" this is one of Tertullian's "final infinitives." [830] Compare Augustine, de Civit. Dei, vii. 6, 23, 24, 28. [831] Formam. [832 …
1,092 wordsTertullian, Minucius Felix, Commodian & Origen • SECTION 8
… Chapter IV.--Waiving the Question of the Authors, Tertullian Proposes to Consider the Things on Their Own Merits. Grant now that no mark of pre-condemnation has been branded on womanly pomp by the (fact …
1,104 wordsTertullian — Latin Christianity • SECTION 336
… We have here a characteristic way of Tertullian's quoting a scripture which has even the least bearing on his subject. [See Vol. I. (this series) p. 12, and same volume, p. viii.] [7368] Matt …
1,088 wordsSulpitius Severus, Vincent of Lerins & John Cassian • SECTION 148
… The third, sixth, and ninth hours were observed as hours of prayer from the earliest days. Cf. Tertullian De Oratione, c. 25; Clem. Alex. Stromata, VII., c. 7, § 40. [677] I.e., that at Tierce …
1,123 wordsTheodoret, Jerome, Gennadius & Rufinus — Historical Writings • SECTION 272
… He next passes to Cyprian the illustrious martyr, and he tells us that a book by Tertullian entitled "On the Trinity" is read as one of his works by the partisans of the Macedonian heresy …
2,889 wordsTertullian — Latin Christianity • SECTION 156
… 17. [Not ex natura, but as penalty.] [1783] Scaturigo dæmonica. [1784] It is difficult to say what Tertullian means by his "comicum credo." Is it a playful parody on the heretic's name, the same …
1,111 wordsHippolytus, Cyprian, Caius & Novatian • SECTION 231
… 16. [2794] [His aphorism, Ecclesia in Episcopo, is here used in another form. "The bishop" here = the episcopate.] [2795] [Præpositum is the word thus translated.] [2796] Antistitem. [This word occurs in Tertullian, De Fuga.] [2797 …
1,102 wordsChrysostom — Galatians through Philemon • SECTION 143
… also quotes Tertullian de Bapt. 6, who alludes to this form of using it. "The Faith sealed (obsignata) in the Father and the Son and the Holy Ghost." There were, however, other forms, as "In …
1,084 wordsTertullian — Latin Christianity • SECTION 421
… Dodgson renders, "next to this clause;" but the "forma" referred to seems, by what Tertullian proceeds to add, to be what he had said above, "not that it becomes us to wish God well," etc …
1,127 wordsTheodoret, Jerome, Gennadius & Rufinus — Historical Writings • SECTION 190
… The epistle which is called the Epistle to the Hebrews is not considered his, on account of its difference from the others in style and language, but it is reckoned, either according to Tertullian to …
1,153 wordsTertullian — Latin Christianity • SECTION 31
… corrupts the truth, and one who restores and teaches it? between its chief and its custodier? [143] [Tertullian's exposition of this enigmatical fact (see the Phædo) is better than divers other ingenious theories.] [144 …
1,159 wordsTertullian — Latin Christianity • SECTION 351
… what was besides a doubtful question, not in a body of a different kind from ours. [7535] Tertullian always refers to this book by a plural phrase. [7536] Resignandi. [7537] Consignandi. [7538] Sub tribuno. [7539 …
1,135 wordsTertullian — Latin Christianity • SECTION 374
… things which were really done by Him through the agency of the Son. [7961] John iii. 35. Tertullian reads the last clause (according to Oehler), "in sinu ejus," q.d. "to Him who is in …
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