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Cyril of Jerusalem & Gregory Nazianzen • SECTION 11
… In the Latin Church "neither Tertullian, Cyprian, Ambrose, Augustine, Jerome, nor any of the Latin Fathers, makes mention of Confirmation in this sense. Nor have the Greeks any word to answer to this Latin term …
2,427 wordsHilary of Poitiers & John of Damascus • SECTION 4
… Whether, like Ambrose, he was raised directly from lay life to the Episcopate cannot be known. It is at least possible that this was the case. His position as a bishop was one of great …
2,387 wordsTheodoret, Jerome, Gennadius & Rufinus — Historical Writings • SECTION 133
… The Latin of the Benedictine edition of Ambrose is:-- Desinant ergo dicere naturam Verbi in Corporis naturam esse mutatam; ne pari interpretatione videatur natura Verbi in contagium mutata peccati. Aliud est enim quod assumpsit, et …
2,415 wordsHilary of Poitiers & John of Damascus • SECTION 19
… 633) in its 13th canon couples Hilary with Ambrose as the writer of hymns in actual use. But these canons are verbose productions, and this may be a mere literary flourish, natural enough in countrymen …
2,420 wordsAugustine — Confessions & Letters • SECTION 258
… saith the Lord." [2185] Mark this: "saith the Lord;" not saith Donatus, or Rogatus, or Vincentius, or Ambrose, or Augustin, but "saith the Lord;" and again, "All tribes of the earth shall be blessed in …
2,406 wordsGregory the Great, Ephraim Syrus & Aphrahat • SECTION 95
… after the manner of the Eastern Church," in the time when the Empress Justina was persecuting St. Ambrose (386). [308] Metrical Hymns of Ephraim, 1853. [309] Hymns of the Holy Eastern Church, pp. 34, 35 …
2,356 wordsAthanasius — Select Works and Letters • SECTION 159
… is supposed to be the author of the Comments on S. Paul's Epistles attributed to S. Ambrose, who goes under the name of Ambrosiaster. [1647] Isa. l. 6. Part VI. Persecution and Lapse of …
2,459 wordsHilary of Poitiers & John of Damascus • SECTION 17
… attack upon him; he had also outlived whatever Arianism there had been in Milan. His successor, St. Ambrose, had the enthusiastic support of his people in his conflicts with Arian princes. The Church could have …
2,421 wordsTheodoret, Jerome, Gennadius & Rufinus — Historical Writings • SECTION 260
… He had Ambrose whose works are, almost all of them, full of what Origen has written; and the martyr Victorinus, who acts really with simplicity,' and without setting snares for others. As to all these …
2,454 wordsAugustine — Confessions & Letters • SECTION 243
… you, because the word "officium" is not common in ecclesiastical books; but this did not deter our Ambrose from its use, for he has chosen the title "De Officiis" for some of his books that …
2,438 wordsJerome — Principal Works • SECTION 7
… Eusebius knew no Latin, Ambrose no Greek; Rufinus, though a second-rate scholar, was welcomed in Italy on his return from the East in 397 as capable of imparting to the Latins the treasures of …
2,423 wordsTheodoret, Jerome, Gennadius & Rufinus — Historical Writings • SECTION 172
… those who in the West have been illustrious teachers of grace, Damasus, bishop of great Rome, and Ambrose of Milan; and Cyprian of Carthage who for the sake of these doctrines won the martyr's …
2,471 wordsEusebius — Church History, Constantine & Oration • SECTION 186
… 84), was used by Ambrose in the composition of his own work upon the same subject, which is still preserved (cf. also Bk. V. chap. 27, note 3, above). [1950] Greek, eis ta meta ten …
2,456 wordsHilary of Poitiers & John of Damascus • SECTION 2
… He has, indeed, exerted an important influence upon the growth of doctrine, but it has been through the adoption of his views by Augustine and Ambrose; and many who have profited by his thoughts have …
2,503 wordsCyril of Jerusalem & Gregory Nazianzen • SECTION 171
… himself (Or. xviii. "in laudem Patris," c. 20) comments upon this passage as enjoining liberal almsgiving. S. Ambrose (in Luc. vi.) has a mystical interpretation somewhat resembling that here referred to: but I cannot find …
2,465 wordsTheodoret, Jerome, Gennadius & Rufinus — Historical Writings • SECTION 183
… and of the Italies, and who also sent to your piety the treatise of the most blessed Ambrose, written against this nascent superstition. To avoid all this, and the further troubling of your piety, we …
2,483 wordsAmbrose — Selected Works and Letters • SECTION 253
Chapter III. St. Ambrose having set forth the Virgin Mary as a pattern for life, adduces Thecla as a model for learning how to die. Thecla suffered not from the beasts to whom she was …
2,503 wordsAthanasius — Select Works and Letters • SECTION 122
… xene monachous)? The introduction of monasticism into the West seems to belong to the time of S. Ambrose (Aug. Conf. viii. 6, cf. Sozom. III. 14, the European nations [before 361] had no experience of …
2,472 wordsAugustine — Sermon on the Mount & Gospel Harmony • SECTION 239
… St, Ambrose and St. Jerome have the pass. [3744] Heb. xi. i. [3745] Vim. [3746] Rom. i. 20. [3747] Ps. xxxii. 9. [3748] Secreta. [3749] Publica. [3750] Matt. xiv. 21. [3751] John ii. 9. [3752 …
2,501 wordsAugustine — City of God & Christian Doctrine • SECTION 343
… and Gervasius, which had long lain concealed and unknown, but were now made known to the bishop Ambrose in a dream, and discovered by him. By virtue of these remains the darkness of that blind …
2,501 wordsAugustine — Trinity, Doctrinal & Moral Treatises • SECTION 283
… For it chanced at Milan at (the tomb of) the holy Martyrs Protasius and Gervasius, that Ambrose the bishop, at that time living, being expressly named, in like manner as were the dead whose names …
2,534 wordsAugustine — Anti-Pelagian Writings • SECTION 14
… to their accusation that the catholics were proclaiming novel doctrine, he adduces the testimony of Cyprian and Ambrose, both of whom had received Pelagius' praise, on each of the three main points of Pelagianism (20 …
2,460 wordsAugustine — Trinity, Doctrinal & Moral Treatises • SECTION 235
… 6 [1991] Thus Ambrose, Verellæ, and ancient Jerome, Ep. ad Ocean. and harshly against Ep. to Ch. of general custom, speaks strongly this interpretation, and says, b. i. near the end, that Ruffinus had found …
2,563 wordsAthanasius — Select Works and Letters • SECTION 155
… S. Helena was imputed to S. Eustathius, Constantine was likely to feel it keenly. Stabulariam,' says S. Ambrose, hanc primo fuisse asserunt, sic cognitam Constantio.' de Ob. Theod. 42, Stabularia, i.e. an innkeeper; so …
2,573 wordsThe Seven Ecumenical Councils • SECTION 142
… the holy and approved Fathers, and truly to understand what "my will," what "thine" signify, the blessed Ambrose in his second book to the Emperor Gratian, of blessed memory, teaches us the meaning of this …
2,564 wordsAugustine — Sermon on the Mount & Gospel Harmony • SECTION 162
… St Ambrose had prohibited these feasts in the Church of Milan (Augustin, Conf. lib. 6. 2 [Am. edition i. 90, note]). Aurelius succeeded in getting a canon (xxx.) made in the third Council of Carthage …
2,569 wordsAthanasius — Select Works and Letters • SECTION 112
… by monas taught the doctrine of a one' or a numerical unity. Singularitatem hanc dico (says S. Ambrose), quod Græce monotes dicitur; singularitas ad personam pertinet, unitas ad naturam.' de Fid. v. 1. It is …
2,606 wordsSocrates and Sozomen — Ecclesiastical Histories • SECTION 276
… Justina, wife of Valentinian I., [1337]114; persecutes and banishes Ambrose of Milan, [1338]124. Justus, father of Justina, his remarkable dream for which he is assassinated, [1339]114. Juvenal, bishop of Jerusalem, [1340]172 …
2,227 wordsSocrates and Sozomen — Ecclesiastical Histories • SECTION 273
… a presbyter of the Alexandrian church, [80]29. Amachius, governor of Phrygia, persecutes the Christians, [81]86. Ambrose, a consul, proclaimed bishop of Milan, [82]113, [83]114; persecuted by Justina, [84]124. Ammonius, three …
2,216 wordsSocrates and Sozomen — Ecclesiastical Histories • SECTION 130
… was emperor of the West; Theodosius the Great was just about to succeed Valens in the East. Ambrose was the most imposing ecclesiastic of the Occident; Gregory Nazianzen and Epiphanius were the leaders of orthodoxy …
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