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Athanasius — Select Works and Letters • SECTION 76
… under maphorion [461] Lent and Passion Week was the season during which Justina's persecution of St. Ambrose took place, and the proceedings against St. Chrysostom at Constantinople. On the Paschal Vigils, vid. Tertull. ad …
2,291 wordsBasil — Letters and Select Works • SECTION 85
… in identical words in Basil's Hom. xxii. De Providentia. cf. also his Com. on Isaiah. St. Ambrose repeats the illustration (Hex. v. 20). The analogy, even if the facts were true, would be false …
2,269 wordsBasil — Letters and Select Works • SECTION 7
… the concession of Ambrose to Theodosius in Theod. v. 18. [176] Cæsarea, when sacked by Sapor in 260, is said to have contained 400,000 inhabitants (Zonaras, xii. 630). It may be presumed to have …
2,268 wordsAugustine — Exposition on Psalms • SECTION 1
… and rest at last in Catholic Christianity, in the religion of the Bible as expounded by St. Ambrose. And though we must look to his Confessions for the full view of all his cravings after …
2,293 wordsJerome — Principal Works • SECTION 27
… Damasus [507] in prose and verse, and the treatises recently written for his sister by our own Ambrose. [508] In these he has poured forth his soul with such a flood of eloquence that he …
2,269 wordsAugustine — Confessions & Letters • SECTION 191
… I understand that your Holiness has the books of the most blessed father [1553] Ambrose, of which I long greatly to see those which, with much care and at great length, he has written against …
2,310 wordsThe Seven Ecumenical Councils • SECTION 134
… and in every way follow the holy Fathers, Athanasius, Hilary, Basil, Gregory the Theologian, Gregory of Nyssa, Ambrose, Theophilus, John (Chrysostom) of Constantinople, Cyril, Augustine, Proclus, Leo and their writings on the true faith. As …
2,291 wordsAugustine — Confessions & Letters • SECTION 315
… The holy Ambrose, when speaking of Christ as the Word, says: "Jesus is seen not by the bodily, but by the spiritual eyes;" and shortly after he adds: "The Jews saw Him not, for their …
2,312 wordsAthanasius — Select Works and Letters • SECTION 208
… Ep. 28, 2. Cæsarius has aeipais. Qu. 20. On the doctrine itself vid. a letter of S. Ambrose and his brethren to Siricius, and the Pope's letter in response. (Coust. Ep. Pont. p. 669 …
2,324 wordsTheodoret, Jerome, Gennadius & Rufinus — Historical Writings • SECTION 230
… how he had defamed men like Ambrose, and therefore his present accusations were little worth: how he boasted of having taken as his teachers not only Origenists like Didymus or heretics like Apollinarius, but heathen …
2,273 wordsBasil — Letters and Select Works • SECTION 200
… of place, in view of the exigencies of the times and the practice of postponing baptism. St. Ambrose at Milan and Nectarius at Constantinople were not even "neophytes," but were actually unbaptized at the time …
2,298 wordsAugustine — Anti-Pelagian Writings • SECTION 15
… In proof of this, he makes appropriate quotations from Irenæus, Cyprian, Reticius, Olympius, Hilary, Ambrose, Gregory Nazianzenus, Basil, John of Constantinople. [126] Then he argues, that, so far from the catholics falling into Manichean heresy …
2,271 wordsJerome — Principal Works • SECTION 54
… 1, 4. [1137] Ambrose, On Widowhood, xiii. 79; xiii. 81; xi. 69. [1138] Phil. iii. 14. [1139] Matt. xv. 32. [1140] Matt. xxvi. 26, 29. [1141] Gen. iii. 16. [1142] 1 Cor. vi. 20; vii …
2,274 wordsCyril of Jerusalem & Gregory Nazianzen • SECTION 62
… Ps. xcv. 7, 8. [1613] Gen. ii. 17. [1614] Luke x. 18. [1615] Gen. iii. 24. S. Ambrose (Ps. cxix. Serm. xx. § 12): "All who desire to return to Paradise must be tried by fire …
2,331 wordsThe Twelve Patriarchs, Apocrypha, Clementine Homilies & More • SECTION 465
… xciii. [2732] See Ambrose, Epistle xxi. [2733] In the year 222. The Second Epistle. To All the Bishops of Gaul. (Of conspiracies and other illicit pursuits, that they be not engaged in, and of the …
2,312 wordsChrysostom — Acts and Romans • SECTION 216
… freedom of our will. [1434] See Bishop Bull, Serm. V. who discusses what this was. [1435] St. Ambrose, Epist. 36, gives the same interpretation. [1436] The peculiar position of the negative resembles that in Eur …
2,330 wordsBasil — Letters and Select Works • SECTION 90
… in promendo gratiam plurimam, si modesta et parca et modulata sit." On the desirability of gentleness in blame, cf. Ambrose, In Lucam.: "Plus proficit amica correctio quam accusatio turbulenta: illa pudorem incutit, hæc indignationem movet."
2,324 wordsSocrates and Sozomen — Ecclesiastical Histories • SECTION 68
… To our beloved brethren and fellow-ministers, Evethius, Cyril, Hyperechius, Uranius, Heron, Elpidius, Maximus, Eusebius, Eucarpius, Heortasius, Neon, Eumathius, Faustinus, Proclinus, Pasinicus, Arsenius, Severus, Didymion, Brittanius, Callicrates, Dalmatius, Ædesius, Eustochius, Ambrose, Gelonius, Pardalius, Macedonius, Paul …
2,331 wordsAugustine — Against the Manichaeans and Donatists • SECTION 179
… Though Ambrose had endured violence at the hand of the soldiery, they would deny him to be a Christian, for they would rebaptize even him. Maximianists on the other hand were confessed to be just …
2,331 wordsTheodoret, Jerome, Gennadius & Rufinus — Historical Writings • SECTION 254
… Once more, in his letter to Marcella he says: [2965] "Ambrose, who supplied the paper, the money and the secretaries by the aid of which our Adamantius [2966] and Chalcenterus [2967] completed his innumerable books …
2,326 wordsEusebius — Church History, Constantine & Oration • SECTION 107
… I.) says that Basilides "had even the audacity to write a Gospel according to Basilides," and this remark is repeated by Ambrose (Exp. in Luc. I. 1), and seems to be Jerome's authority for …
2,339 wordsAugustine — Trinity, Doctrinal & Moral Treatises • SECTION 231
… the Church of Milan, and the answer sent him by the Synod of Milan, at which St. Ambrose presided. Jerome had refuted Jovinian, but was said to have attempted the defense of the excellency of …
2,372 wordsTheodoret, Jerome, Gennadius & Rufinus — Historical Writings • SECTION 180
… sake found a death in the fire; [2245] by Damasus, bishop of great Rome, [2246] and by Ambrose, glory of Milan, who preached and wrote it in the language of Rome. [2247] The same was …
2,341 wordsJerome — Principal Works • SECTION 4
… Certainly his views were condemned by the Pope Siricius, by Ambrose, and by Augustin. 393. He published a book in Rome, maintaining these opinions, and others of a more speculative character, which was sent to …
2,327 wordsAugustine — Anti-Pelagian Writings • SECTION 21
… the elder Cyril; in the chaste descriptive power of Basil; in the simplicity and self-denial of Ambrose; in the fervid eloquence of the "golden-mouthed" Chrysostom; in the great learning of Jerome; in the …
2,376 wordsAugustine — Confessions & Letters • SECTION 244
… However, if you inquire or recall to memory the opinion of our Ambrose, [2056] and also of our Cyprian, [2057] on the point in question, you will perhaps find that I also have not been …
2,383 wordsCyril of Jerusalem & Gregory Nazianzen • SECTION 26
… lii.; Ambrose, Apolog. 1, Prophetæ David, c. iii. and other Fathers affirm the repentance of Solomon. Augustine (c. Faustum, Lib. xxii. c. 88) maintains that Scripture says nothing of his repentance or forgiveness. See Dante …
2,376 wordsAthanasius — Select Works and Letters • SECTION 121
… Paulinus in his prologue to the Life of Ambrose (after 400) refers to the Vita as written by Athanasius. viii. Fifth-century historians, Palladius, Hist. Laus. 8, Socrates (H. E., i. 21) Sozomenus (i. 13 …
2,371 wordsBasil — Letters and Select Works • SECTION 16
… in the commentary of Rufinus. The latter probably translated it; portions of it were transcribed by St. Ambrose. [486] "The prophets," says St. Basil, "the historians, the law, give each a special kind of teaching …
2,364 wordsAugustine — Exposition on Psalms • SECTION 64
… such ways as men like from the path of His Saints, and given them narrow ways. St. Ambrose takes it as a complaint of difficulties, so great that we cannot perfectly keep to the right …
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