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Augustine — Trinity, Doctrinal & Moral Treatises • SECTION 231
… Thus the spirit of man, cleaving unto the Spirit of God, lusts against the flesh, that is, against itself: but for itself, in order that those motions, whether in the flesh or in the soul …
2,372 wordsGregory Thaumaturgus, Dionysius, Julius Africanus & Others • SECTION 76
… 252, this series]; Gregory Nazianzenus, in his First Invective against Julian; also Priorius, De literis canonicis, ch. 5, etc.; and Thomassin, De Tesseris hospitalitatis, ch. 26. [1467] In the text, ignotum; in the Codex Bobiensis …
2,350 wordsHippolytus, Cyprian, Caius & Novatian • SECTION 266
… This is what the Apostle Paul openly and manifestly declares by his words: "The flesh," says he, "lusteth against the spirit, and the spirit against the flesh: for these are contrary the one to the …
2,330 wordsAugustine — Anti-Pelagian Writings • SECTION 12
… 12 sq., make certain; and in stating this, Augustin takes the opportunity to outline the chief contents of the catholic faith over against the Pelagian denial of original sin and grace: that all are born …
2,342 wordsGregory the Great, Ephraim Syrus & Aphrahat • SECTION 88
… This reproach he met with the meek reply, "Pardon me, my brethren, for I am a humble man;" at which they cried out the more against him, "Come, see the madman, the fool!" He held …
2,332 wordsAugustine — Against the Manichaeans and Donatists • SECTION 211
… But who can ever doubt that a baptized person can be separated from the Church? For hence all the heresies have proceeded which deceive by the use of Christian terms. [1507] Cypr. Ep. lxxiii. 25 …
2,347 wordsTheodoret, Jerome, Gennadius & Rufinus — Historical Writings • SECTION 180
… He felt warmly for Nestorius and against Cyril, and (accepting Tillemont's date) he was now about 38. [2159] oikonomia. Vide p. 72. [2160] John ii. 19 [2161] John i. 1 [2162] John i. 9 …
2,341 wordsThe Twelve Patriarchs, Apocrypha, Clementine Homilies & More • SECTION 332
… This, however, cannot be the book so ascribed to Leucius, as Pseudo-Melito affirms that his book, which is in substance the same as the Greek text, was written to condemn Leucius' heresies. There are …
2,349 wordsAugustine — Trinity, Doctrinal & Moral Treatises • SECTION 205
… It was also foretold that schisms and heresies would arise from His Church, and that under His name they would seek their own glory instead of Christ's, in such places as they might be …
2,363 wordsHippolytus, Cyprian, Caius & Novatian • SECTION 151
… Now Hippolytus, a martyr for piety, who was bishop of the place called Portus, near Rome, in his book Against all Heresies, wrote in these terms:-- I perceive, then, that the matter is one of …
2,355 wordsThe Seven Ecumenical Councils • SECTION 108
… Nay, Photius himself is pointed out to be the author of this interpolated symbol. [271] I pass by other formulæ, which the Greeks have framed for those who return to the Church from divers heresies …
2,383 wordsAugustine — Confessions & Letters • SECTION 259
… You, however, through your profound erudition, have discovered something which you think worthy to be alleged as a great objection against the Divine testimonies. For you say, "If we consider the parts comprehended in the …
2,355 wordsThe Apostolic Fathers, Justin Martyr & Irenaeus • SECTION 315
… thee, the first-born of Satan." Such was the horror which the apostles and their disciples had against holding even verbal communication with any corrupters of the truth; as Paul also says, "A man that …
2,376 wordsAugustine — Against the Manichaeans and Donatists • SECTION 98
… But now the Manichæans, and all who oppose the truth by their various heresies, leave the presence of God, like Cain and the scattered Jews, and inhabit the land of commotion, that is, of carnal …
2,359 wordsAugustine — Homilies on John & First John • SECTION 2
… By the mountains themselves it was said to the Church, "Peace be with you;" and the mountains themselves in proclaiming peace to the Church did not divide themselves against Him from whom they received peace …
2,387 wordsHilary of Poitiers & John of Damascus • SECTION 9
… But he recounts his long course of oppression and faction at Alexandria; a warfare longer than that which he had waged against Persia [67] . Elsewhere, in the East, he had spread terror and strife, always …
2,397 wordsAugustine — Sermon on the Mount & Gospel Harmony • SECTION 167
… by reason of the divers heresies and schisms of those who under the Christian name gather together flocks of lost sheep, that the kingdom of Christ also is divided against itself, He next adds, "He …
2,378 wordsTheodoret, Jerome, Gennadius & Rufinus — Historical Writings • SECTION 229
… I Gennadius, [2753] a presbyter of Marseilles, have written eight books Against all heresies, five [2754] books Against Nestorius, ten [2755] books Against Eutyches, three books Against Pelagius, also treatises On the Millennium and On …
2,391 wordsHilary of Poitiers & John of Damascus • SECTION 4
… It is against Arianism in the church that Hilary's efforts are directed, not against Arianism as an external heresy. He ignores heresies outside the Church as completely as does Cyprian; they are outside, and …
2,387 wordsAugustine — Confessions & Letters • SECTION 362
… You cannot deny that you see what we call heresies and schisms, that is, many cut off from the root of the Christian society, which by means of the Apostolic Sees, and the successions of …
2,417 wordsAugustine — Exposition on Psalms • SECTION 118
… Schisms He hath not taken to Him, heresies He hath not taken to Him: a multitude they have made of themselves, there is not one to be taken to Him. But they that abide in …
2,390 wordsTertullian, Minucius Felix, Commodian & Origen • SECTION 172
… This statement, moreover, that the flesh struggles against the spirit, and the spirit against the flesh; and the further statement, that "the life of all flesh is the blood thereof," is, according to these writers …
2,413 wordsAthanasius — Select Works and Letters • SECTION 119
… Moreover the examples of the well and the river, and the root and the branch, and the breath and the vapour, put to shame the adversaries of Christ when they reiterate the contrary against him …
2,415 wordsHippolytus, Cyprian, Caius & Novatian • SECTION 212
… of the priests, and rebels against the Catholic Church, are frightened neither by the threatening of a forewarning Lord, nor by the vengeance of coming judgment? For neither have heresies arisen, nor have schisms originated …
2,414 wordsCyril of Jerusalem & Gregory Nazianzen • SECTION 76
… But the Benedictine Editor thinks that the word prostagmasi may be an interpolation arising from the following words pros tas....The meaning would then be "in his writings Against Heresies," the usual short title of …
2,451 wordsAugustine — Sermon on the Mount & Gospel Harmony • SECTION 256
… Such are reproved in the Psalm; "For if Mine enemy had spoken great things against Me, I would surely have hidden Myself from him; and if he that hated Me had spoken great things against …
2,418 wordsChrysostom — Corinthians • SECTION 17
… were not, but from uncreated matter; and from this source they became the parents of ten thousand heresies. Moreover, in their extreme absurdities they agreed; but in those things wherein they seemed to dream out …
2,415 wordsHilary of Poitiers & John of Damascus • SECTION 135
… From the Latin of the Edition of Michael Lequien, as Given in Migne's Patrology. ------------------------ After the rules of Christian dialectic and the review of the errors of ancient heresies comes at last the book …
2,413 wordsGregory the Great, Ephraim Syrus & Aphrahat • SECTION 96
… the time of the Nicene Council (he writes [318] ), Ephraim began to write canticles and hymns against the heresies of his time,"--for few of his hymns are without a polemic spirit, though (as has …
2,390 wordsAugustine — Against the Manichaeans and Donatists • SECTION 278
… He adds remarks concerning the savage conduct of the Donatists and Circumcelliones, concluding with a discussion of the unpardonable nature of the sin against the Holy Ghost. [2467] [2465] Written c. 417. [2466] In Book …
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