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Cyril of Jerusalem & Gregory Nazianzen • SECTION 86

[2368] Ps. cxix. 37.

… I. c. 61 A; Swainson, Creeds, c. iii. on the short Baptismal Professions. "The writings of S. Cyprian distinctly tell us, that in his day the form of interrogation at Baptism was fixed and definite …

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Augustine — Confessions & Letters • SECTION 260

Chap. IX.

… For read what Paul has recorded concerning Peter, [2236] and what Cyprian has expressed as his view on the ground of that statement, and do not blame the compassion of the Church, which does not …

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Basil — Letters and Select Works • SECTION 180

Letter CLXXXV. [2603]

… The Cathari are schismatics; but it seemed good to the ancient authorities, I mean Cyprian and our own [2621] Firmilianus, to reject all these, Cathari, Encratites, [2622] and Hydroparastatæ, [2623] by one common condemnation, because …

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Augustine — Confessions & Letters • SECTION 231

Letter LXXIII.

… Although I suppose that, before this reaches you, you have received through our son the deacon Cyprian, a servant of God, the letter which I sent by him, from which you would be apprised with …

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Cyril of Jerusalem & Gregory Nazianzen • SECTION 95

Division II.--The Writings.

… On Low Sunday, and on Pentecost. e. Panegyrics on Saints.--The Maccabee Brothers and their Mother; S. Cyprian of Carthage (in which there is evidence of the cultus of the Blessed Virgin Mary and of …

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The Twelve Patriarchs, Apocrypha, Clementine Homilies & More • SECTION 462

[2663] The otherms. adds: at the humility of Paul.

… her barrenness of literature, and of great heroic sons, like Athanasius and Chrysostom in the East, and Cyprian and Augustine in the West; and her decadence as a capital,--had led Leo I., and others …

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Fathers of the Second Century • SECTION 42

Chapter XL.--Moses More Ancient and Credible Than the Heathen Heroes.

… came to Sparta, Aristæus of Proconnesus, who wrote the Arimaspia, Asbolus the Centaur, Isatis, Drymon, Euclus the Cyprian, Horus the Samian, and Pronapis the Athenian. Now, Linus was the teacher of Hercules, but Hercules preceded …

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Jerome — Principal Works • SECTION 82

Letter LXIV. To Fabiola.

… 1938] What great power compassion has and what high rewards it is destined to win, the blessed Cyprian sets forth in an extensive work. [1939] It is proved also by the counsel of Daniel who …

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Cyril of Jerusalem & Gregory Nazianzen • SECTION 62

[1525] James i. 5.

… calling His body bread.'" He gives the same interpretation elsewhere (adv. Marcion. III. 19; IV. 40). Cf. Cyprian (Testimonia ad Quirinum, Lib. II. 15); Athanas. (de Incarn. § 33). [1572] Ps. lxxii. 17. [1573] Deut. xxviii …

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Gregory Thaumaturgus, Dionysius, Julius Africanus & Others • SECTION 97

[2048] 1 Cor. xv. 32.

… The reading is, "cum autem fuit Dei voluntas in nobis." The Vulgate, following the ordinary Greek text, gives, "at ubi venit plenitudo temporis." And so Irenæus, Tertullian, Cyprian, etc. [This should have been in the …

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Fathers of the Second Century • SECTION 1

ANTE-NICENE FATHERS

… contagion into the life of such as handled his relics with affection, save only those, who, like Cyprian, were gifted with a character as strong as his own. The genius of Tertullian inspired his very …

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Eusebius — Church History, Constantine & Oration • SECTION 111

Chapter XI.--The Heresiarchs of that Age.

… 1-2. [1071] Hyginus is here called the ninth bishop, and the reading is confirmed by a passage in Cyprian's epistle to Pompey (Ep. LXXIII. 2 in the Ante-Nicene Fathers), and also by …

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