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Theodoret, Jerome, Gennadius & Rufinus — Historical Writings • SECTION 257

31. But I must come to that head of his inculpation of me which is most injurious and full of ill-will; nay, not of ill-will only but of mal

… 8. [2989] This change of the gourd for the ivy forms the groundwork of a curious story told by Augustine, to which no doubt Rufinus here alludes. See Ep. civ, 5 of the collection of …

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Tertullian — Latin Christianity • SECTION 248

[4337] Amentiam.

… 4362] A Marcionite position. [4363] Habitum. [4364] Interdum. [4365] Hab. iii. 2, according to the Septuagint. St. Augustine similarly applied this passage, De Civit. Dei, xviii. 32. [4366] Zech. iv. 3, 14. [4367] Commemoremur: be …

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Athanasius — Select Works and Letters • SECTION 247

[3575] §26, n. 7.

… The Catholic doctrine is that the Son has condescended to become visible by means of material appearances. Augustine seems to have been the first who changed the mode of viewing the texts in question, and …

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Basil — Letters and Select Works • SECTION 27

The last of the Panegyrical Homilies (XXIII.) is on Saint Mamas, commemorated on September 2 by the Greeks, and on August 17 by the Latins.

… 615] There are instances of high admiration of the passage: I have not found one of appropriation. Augustine (De Civ. Dei x. 29), says: "Quod initium Sancti Evangelii, cui nomen est secundum Johannem, quidam Platonicus …

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Leo the Great & Gregory the Great • SECTION 1

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… During his early manhood the Pelagian controversy was raging, and it is thought that the acolyte named Leo, whom Augustine mentions in his letters on this subject as employed by pope Zosimus to carry communications …

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Tertullian — Latin Christianity • SECTION 274

[5626] He refers to his De Resurrect. Carnis. See chap. xlviii.

… Anima and Animale, is lost in the English. [See Cap. 15 infra. Also, Kaye p. 180. St. Augustine seems to tolerate our author's views of a corporal spirit in his treatise de Hæresibus.] [5654 …

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Lactantius, Venantius, Asterius, Victorinus & Others • SECTION 51

[786] [A very feeble exposition of Luke xix. 42, 44.]

… eyes of men. [816] [808] Ipse præceptis suis fidem detrahat. [809] Contumacibus. [810] Præsentibus factis. [811] [See Augustine, quoted in elucidation, vol. vi. [63]p. 541.] [812] Præstare. [813] Abest ab iis fides. [814] Leves …

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Lactantius, Venantius, Asterius, Victorinus & Others • SECTION 229

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