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Hippolytus, Cyprian, Caius & Novatian • SECTION 145
… turn to the exhibition of the truth itself, that we may establish the truth, against which all these mighty heresies [1650] have arisen without being able to state anything to the purpose. 9. There is …
2,424 wordsFathers of the Second Century • SECTION 132
… head and man, the only one perfect in righteousness; and we who are children guarding against the blasts of heresies, which blow to our inflation; and not putting our trust in fathers who teach us …
2,436 wordsTheodoret, Jerome, Gennadius & Rufinus — Historical Writings • SECTION 260
… Now, since I defend myself, he writes 3 books against me as an enemy. 4, 5. He spoke of me as united in faith with him; but what is his faith? Why are his books …
2,454 wordsChrysostom — Corinthians • SECTION 23
… namely, our sinning against such a Being. Hence also Paul said, (Heb. x. 31.) "It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God." Endure I beseech you, the fiery force …
2,449 wordsCyril of Jerusalem & Gregory Nazianzen • SECTION 94
… To analyse these belongs to another portion of this work; it will be enough in this place to say, that after warning his audience against the frivolity with which the Arians were dragging religious subjects …
2,437 wordsTheodoret, Jerome, Gennadius & Rufinus — Historical Writings • SECTION 172
… Not on behalf of a duality of sons, but of the only begotten Son of God, against the heathen, against Jews, against the recipients of the plague of Arius and Eunomius, against the supporters of …
2,471 wordsHippolytus, Cyprian, Caius & Novatian • SECTION 257
… of any avail to compensate for their fewness as against the Church: "Wherever two or three are gathered together in my name," etc.; nor, on the other, could martyrdom be of any benefit to them …
2,437 wordsAugustine — Confessions & Letters • SECTION 188
… He here protests against it in this letter (ch. iii. ), and again in Letter 40, and thereby provokes Jerome's irritable temper. His last letters to Augustin, however, show sincere esteem and affection.--P. S …
2,466 wordsTheodoret, Jerome, Gennadius & Rufinus — Historical Writings • SECTION 112
… Six-and-thirty years he had spent in his bishopric, fighting against the forces of Arius and Eunomius, struggling against the piratical band of Apollinarius, and finding the best pasture for God's sheep. [957 …
2,454 wordsAthanasius — Select Works and Letters • SECTION 158
… The other heresies, as younger sisters of their own [1606] , they permitted to blaspheme the Lord, and only conspired against the Christians, not enduring to hear orthodox language concerning Christ. How many Bishops in consequence …
2,513 wordsAugustine — Against the Manichaeans and Donatists • SECTION 285
… Abraham defended against Faustus, [2]284 etc.; and Hagar, [3]284; his denial of his wife, [4]285; the prophetic and typical character of, [5]287. Abraham and Isaac, types, [6]191. Abstemiousness on the …
2,212 wordsEusebius — Church History, Constantine & Oration • SECTION 133
… Irenæus declares this in the first book of his work Against Heresies, where he writes as follows concerning both him and his heresy: [1325] 2. "Those who are called Encratites, [1326] and who sprung from …
2,471 wordsAugustine — Anti-Pelagian Writings • SECTION 14
… It was a sad fate that arrayed this beloved son of his old friend against Augustin, just when there seemed to be reason to hope that the controversy was at an end, and the victory …
2,460 wordsAugustine — Against the Manichaeans and Donatists • SECTION 253
… Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye shut up the kingdom of heaven against men: for ye neither go in yourselves, neither suffer ye them that are entering to go in. Woe unto …
2,520 wordsAugustine — Confessions & Letters • SECTION 369
… of friends natural, [595]139 (note) Habits, evil, bind like iron, [596]120 and note conviction powerless against, [597]121 Happiness, Christianity gives the golden key to, [598]75 (note) knowledge of God the highest …
2,207 wordsJerome — Principal Works • SECTION 5
… Epiphanius was popular at Jerusalem, and after a scene in the church, in which he preached against Origenism and John against Anthropomorphism, a breach was made between the two prelates. Epiphanius came to stay at …
2,514 wordsChrysostom — Galatians through Philemon • SECTION 267
… Faith, excludes questioning, [3325]410; sets reasoning at rest, [3326]ib.; excludes not prayer for knowledge, [3327]ib.; objects of being divine to be revered not questioned, [3328]ib.; adherence to the, safeguard against false …
2,216 wordsGregory Thaumaturgus, Dionysius, Julius Africanus & Others • SECTION 77
… Now this primitive man, being endued with these, and thereby equipped, as it were, for war, descended to these lower parts, and made war against the darkness. But the princes of the darkness, waging war …
2,542 wordsChrysostom — Corinthians • SECTION 188
… Herod, ashamed at the light, [837]409, which trying to put out he kindled more, [838]410; his feast a banquet of demons, [839]411; in his murder of John set up a trophy against …
2,205 wordsAthanasius — Select Works and Letters • SECTION 198
… But let the other heresies and the Manichees also know that the Father of the Christ is One, and is Lord and Maker of the creation through His proper Word. And let the Ario-maniacs …
2,574 wordsAugustine — Against the Manichaeans and Donatists • SECTION 284
… In like manner, also, when He said, "Whosoever sinneth against the Holy Ghost,"or, "Whosoever speaketh against the Holy Ghost;" it is clear that He does not refer to every sin of whatsoever kind against …
2,575 wordsJerome — Principal Works • SECTION 208
… and let not him that eateth not judge him that eateth," he does not make fasting and fulness of equal merit, but he is speaking against those believers in Christ who were still judaizing: and …
2,585 wordsBasil — Letters and Select Works • SECTION 59
… how Irenæus, who lived near the times of the Apostles, mentions the Spirit in his work "Against the Heresies." [1318] "The Apostle rightly calls carnal them that are unbridled and carried away to their own …
2,619 wordsAugustine — Against the Manichaeans and Donatists • SECTION 108
… Who could bear to hear this, unless the apostle himself consoled us by saying: "There must be heresies, that they which are approved may be made manifest among you?" [545] Why should we repeat what …
2,619 wordsAugustine — Homilies on John & First John • SECTION 49
… Now against this calumny of theirs, coming either of ignorance or of malice, the Lord speaks not at all what they can understand, but that whereby they may be agitated and troubled, and, on being …
2,631 wordsGregory of Nyssa — Dogmatic Treatises • SECTION 40
… Since then this doctrine is put forth by the Truth itself, it follows that anything which the inventors of pestilent heresies devise besides to subvert this Divine utterance,--as, for example, calling the Father "Maker …
2,617 wordsAthanasius — Select Works and Letters • SECTION 112
… 76 sqq.] Leo even says that the Apostles' Creed is sufficient against all heresies, and that Eutyches erred on a point of which our Lord wished no one of either sex in the Church to …
2,606 wordsAugustine — Trinity, Doctrinal & Moral Treatises • SECTION 288
… Heresies, fight in vain against the Church, [1540]374.
2,200 wordsTheodoret, Jerome, Gennadius & Rufinus — Historical Writings • SECTION 269
… If he is ignorant on the subject for which ill-reports are current against him, what need was there for him to send an Apology, which contains no defence of himself, but only a confession …
2,605 wordsLeo the Great & Gregory the Great • SECTION 111
… Again to Eulogius of Alexandria, protesting against being addressed as Universal Pope, and against the expression, sicut jussistis, "Quod verbum jussionis peto a meo auditu removere, quia scio qui sum, qui estis. Loco quim mihi …
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