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Lactantius, Venantius, Asterius, Victorinus & Others • SECTION 206
… For this we have the important testimony of Gregory the Great, as preserved to his day: that the Apostles (SS. Peter and Paul must have been primarily in his mind, of course) delivered no other …
2,308 wordsGregory Thaumaturgus, Dionysius, Julius Africanus & Others • SECTION 29
… The First Discourse of our holy father Gregory, surnamed Thaumaturgus, bishop of Neo-Cæsareia in Pontus, on the Annunciation to the most holy Virgin Mary, mother of God. Works of Gregory Thaumaturgus by Ger. Voss …
2,315 wordsAthanasius — Select Works and Letters • SECTION 35
… fled from Theonas' four days before Gregory's arrival, the statement of the Encyclical that he left a certain church after Gregory's outrages at Eastertide. But clearly Athan. first escaped from the church of …
2,333 wordsSocrates and Sozomen — Ecclesiastical Histories • SECTION 140
… Basil the Great: the limited use is indicated by the notes. 10. Gregory Nazianzen: Orationes contra Julianum. Other occasional citations are indicated in the notes. 11. Sulpicius Severus: vita S. Martiniwas undoubtedly the source, possibly …
2,307 wordsCyril of Jerusalem & Gregory Nazianzen • SECTION 155
… Let us not appraise the bouquet of wines, the kickshaws of cooks, the great expense of unguents. Let not sea and land bring us as a gift their precious dung, for it is thus that …
2,340 wordsLeo the Great & Gregory the Great • SECTION 261
Epistle LV. To King Childebert. Gregory to Childebert, king of the Franks [1621] . The letter of your Excellency has made us exceedingly glad, testifying as it does that you are careful, with pious affection, of …
845 wordsTertullian, Minucius Felix, Commodian & Origen • SECTION 124
… writings of Origen, intended to explain the difficult passages of Scripture, and executed by Basil the Great and Gregory of Nazianzum; large extracts of which have been preserved, especially of that part which was taken …
2,315 wordsAugustine — Confessions & Letters • SECTION 136
… 76, above. [1088] As Gregory the Great has it, Revelation is a river broad and deep, "In quo et agnus ambulet, et elephas natet." And these deep things of God are to be learned only …
832 wordsAthanasius — Select Works and Letters • SECTION 121
… Monasticism, with all its good and evil, is a great outgrowth of human life and instinct, a great fact in the history of the Christian religion; and whether its origin is to be put fifty …
2,371 wordsSocrates and Sozomen — Ecclesiastical Histories • SECTION 72
… Accordingly, a great number of persons emulated Ammoun's manner of life, so that by degrees the mountains of Nitria and Scitis were filled with monks, an account of whose lives would require an express …
2,375 wordsLeo the Great & Gregory the Great • SECTION 260
… Nor indeed could the whole otherwise subsist; unless, that is, a great order of differences of this kind kept it together. Further, that creation cannot be governed, or live, in a state of absolute equality …
864 wordsLeo the Great & Gregory the Great • SECTION 200
… But, inasmuch as thou art in great haste, and I, though sick, am desirous of seeing thee, do thou leave some one whom thou hast fully proved to take thy place in the Syracusan district …
2,418 wordsBasil — Letters and Select Works • SECTION 190
… Under other circumstances I should think it a special privilege to meet with your reverence, but above all now, when the business which brings us together is of such great importance. But so much of …
865 wordsCyril of Jerusalem & Gregory Nazianzen • SECTION 87
… xxvi.): "Not once only, but three times, we are immersed into the several Persons at the mention of their several names." Gregory of Nyssa (On the Baptism of Christ, p. 520 in this Series) joins …
2,413 wordsCyril of Jerusalem & Gregory Nazianzen • SECTION 140
… The passage is one of great difficulty. Elias Cretensis renders the words as follows:--"Becoming Man, the inferior God, because humanity was" etc.; but his rendering is rejected as impossible by Petavius (de Incarn., IV …
2,392 wordsHippolytus, Cyprian, Caius & Novatian • SECTION 251
… The absurdity of calling this heretic Novatian an anti-pope involves a great confusion of ideas, however. For, as Cornelius was no more a pope than Cyprian (to both of whom the title was freely …
2,411 wordsJerome — Principal Works • SECTION 3
… He placed himself under the teaching of Gregory Nazianzen (80, 93, 357; Ill. Men, 117), and became acquainted with Gregory of Nyssa (Ill. Men, 128); he translated the Chronicle of Eusebius and dedicated it to …
2,384 wordsSulpitius Severus, Vincent of Lerins & John Cassian • SECTION 202
… vir autem iracundus effodit peccata." The verse is quoted by Gregory the Great in a passage which seems a reminiscence of Cassian's words with the reading effundit for effodit (Moral V. xxxi.). Jerome's …
882 wordsBasil — Letters and Select Works • SECTION 246
… To Thecla. [Included among the Letters of Gregory of Nazianzus, who is assumed by the Ben. Ed. to be indubitably the writer. [3264] ] [3264] Vide Greg. Naz., Ep. lvii. Letter CCCXXII. Without address. [Asking a …
876 wordsLeo the Great & Gregory the Great • SECTION 298
… Moreover, in paying you the debt of salutation which is due to you, I declare to you that I exult with great joy from knowing that you labour assiduously against the barkings of heretics; and …
888 wordsGregory Thaumaturgus, Dionysius, Julius Africanus & Others • SECTION 12
… the damsel cried, and there was none to help her." [125] [121] Of the holy Gregory, archbishop of Neo-Cæsareia, surnamed Thaumaturgus, concerning those who, in the inroad of the barbarians, ate things sacrificed to …
884 wordsGregory the Great, Ephraim Syrus & Aphrahat • SECTION 14
… To Anastasius, Bishop of Antioch [35] . Gregory to Anastasius, &c. I received the letters of thy Fraternity, rightly holding fast the profession of the faith; and I returned great thanks to Almighty God, who, when …
894 wordsAthanasius — Select Works and Letters • SECTION 89
… They raised a great outcry, affirming that Athanasius had committed murder, and made away with one Arsenius a Meletian Bishop, whose loss they pretended to deplore with feigned lamentations, and fictitious tears, and demanded that …
2,444 wordsCyril of Jerusalem & Gregory Nazianzen • SECTION 218
… for it would be dreadful to me, after having had a great city, now to have none at all, and that after your government the Temple which we have raised to God, and our love …
885 wordsSulpitius Severus, Vincent of Lerins & John Cassian • SECTION 221
… this feature, but it was certainly originally found in it for it is alluded to by Gregory the Great (Dial. Book II. c. xxiii.), who gives the form as follows: "Si quis non communicat det …
892 wordsLeo the Great & Gregory the Great • SECTION 284
… Moreover I find you in your epistles seeking with great longing after serenity of mind, and panting for tranquillity of thought apart from perturbation. But I know not in what manner your Fraternity can attain …
2,466 wordsJerome — Principal Works • SECTION 2
… The President of the Council was Gregory Nazianzen, who had come to Constantinople in 379, and, partly through his own eloquence and other great powers, partly through the influence of Theodosius, had won his way …
2,435 wordsJerome — Principal Works • SECTION 7
… Bibliography.--The writings of Jerome were, on the whole, well preserved, owing to the great honour in which he was held, in the Middle Ages. Considering the number of the mss., the variations are not …
2,423 wordsCyril of Jerusalem & Gregory Nazianzen • SECTION 169
… A little distance East of these steps is a great Screen called the Iconostasis, from the picture (Icons) with which it is covered. It has three doors, one in the centre, called the Royal Gates …
2,474 wordsTheodoret, Jerome, Gennadius & Rufinus — Historical Writings • SECTION 112
… He had enjoyed the teaching of the great Diodorus, and was the friend and fellow-worker of the holy John, for they both together benefited by the spiritual draughts given by Diodorus. Six-and-thirty …
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