The Apostolic Fathers, Justin Martyr & Irenaeus • SECTION 374
… are adulteries, fornications, uncleanness, luxuriousness, idolatries, witchcrafts, [4526] hatreds, contentions, jealousies, wraths, emulations, animosities, irritable speeches, dissensions, heresies, envyings, drunkenness, carousings, and such like; of which I warn you, as also I have warned you …
2,605 wordsTertullian, Minucius Felix, Commodian & Origen • SECTION 125
… On it chiefly was based the charge of heresy which some vehemently pressed against him,--a charge from which even his firmest friends felt it no easy matter absolutely to defend him. The points on …
2,639 wordsCyril of Jerusalem & Gregory Nazianzen • SECTION 93
… Nazianzus was not allowed to remain without attempts being made against its Christianity, for the Prefect of the Province was sent with an armed escort of considerable strength to demand possession of the Church. But …
2,641 wordsAthanasius — Select Works and Letters • SECTION 192
… 5, 6.
[2269] Here is a protest beforehand against the Monophysite doctrine, but such anticipations of various heresies are too frequent, as we proceed, to require or bear notice.
[2270] theos en sarki, vid. logos …
2,707 wordsHilary of Poitiers & John of Damascus • SECTION 12
… The bishops of Gaul, as we saw from the Invective against Constantius, had been less militant against their Arian neighbours than he had wished. There had been peace in the Church; such peace as could …
2,673 wordsAugustine — Anti-Pelagian Writings • SECTION 9
… The object of his letter (in which Alypius is conjoined, as joint author) to Juliana is to warn her and her holy daughter against all opinions that opposed the grace of God, and especially against …
2,635 wordsChrysostom — Acts and Romans • SECTION 268
… Fear, power for conversion of evil men, [374]252; a safeguard against Satan, [375]358.
Feastings and spectacles, evil of, [376]35.
Forgiveness of injuries, [377]92; how to be shown, [378]60; duty and …
2,264 wordsHilary of Poitiers & John of Damascus • SECTION 3
… For their own assurance and for effective warfare against heresy a reasoned system of theology was necessary. Hilary, the earliest, had the greatest difficulty. To aid him in the interpretation of Scripture he had only …
2,680 wordsAugustine — Exposition on Psalms • SECTION 295
… Idols and Idolatry, refutation of, [567]477, [568]478; rage of idolaters against Kingdom of Christ, [569]483; madness of idol worshippers, [570]632.
Idumæans, [571]398. See Edom.
Image of God in soul of …
2,216 wordsAugustine — Trinity, Doctrinal & Moral Treatises • SECTION 227
… But now, so long as "the flesh lusteth against the spirit, and the spirit against the flesh," [1818] it is enough for us not to consent unto the evils which we feel in us. But …
2,753 wordsAthanasius — Select Works and Letters • SECTION 247
… 147.] Athanasius brings this accusation against them distinctly in his work against Apollinaris. contr. Apoll. i. 15. vid. also Ambros. de Fide, iii. 31. Salig in his de Eutychianismo ant. Eutychen takes notice of none …
2,790 wordsTheodoret, Jerome, Gennadius & Rufinus — Historical Writings • SECTION 276
… against each other, when we have the same objects both of attack and defence? Pardon me for having praised Origen's zeal for Scriptural learning in my youthful days before I fully knew his heresies …
2,808 wordsGregory of Nyssa — Dogmatic Treatises • SECTION 106
… But what He is and how--leaving this as a useless and unprofitable speculation, such a disciple will open no door to falsehood against truth. For in speculative enquiry fallacies readily find place. But where …
2,798 wordsChrysostom — Galatians through Philemon • SECTION 219
… Observe accordingly how Marcion, and Manes, and Valentinus, and others who introduced their heresies and pernicious doctrines [1325] into the Church of God, measuring divine things by human reasonings, became ashamed of the Divine economy …
2,822 wordsEusebius — Church History, Constantine & Oration • SECTION 418
… Justin, apology of, quoted, [1655]114, [1656]158, [1657]180, [1658]181, [1659]184, [1660]185, 193, [1661]195, [1662]196, [1663]223; work against Marcion, [1664]184; against heresies, [1665]185; martyrdom of, [1666 …
2,219 wordsAugustine — Against the Manichaeans and Donatists • SECTION 4
… In fact one of the favorite methods employed against Mani's doctrines by the writer of the "Acts of the Disputation," etc., as well as by Augustin and others, was to reduce Mani's poetical …
2,804 wordsAugustine — Exposition on Psalms • SECTION 180
… have not yet owned their salvation. Against the Body of Christ bad Christians rise up, from whom the Body of Christ daily suffereth trouble. All schisms, all heresies, all within who live wickedly and engraft …
2,833 wordsAugustine — Exposition on Psalms • SECTION 12
… The delight accordingly was produced not in the reins, but there, where against the chiding of the reins God was foreseen to be on the right hand, that is, in the heart.
12. "God the …
2,851 wordsTheodoret, Jerome, Gennadius & Rufinus — Historical Writings • SECTION 235
… They subverted the true text of Scripture; and this man similarly first took away the true statements which I had made, and then inserted what was false to furnish grounds for accusation against me. But …
2,877 wordsTheodoret, Jerome, Gennadius & Rufinus — Historical Writings • SECTION 256
… I ask whether you can produce anything which I have written, by which you may convict me of having fallen into heresy even in my youth,--anything of such a character as the heresies of …
2,870 wordsAugustine — Homilies on John & First John • SECTION 200
… or wielding power, or acquiring gain, and not from the love of obeying, serving, and pleasing God. Against such, therefore, there stands as a wakeful sentinel this thrice inculcated utterance of Christ, of whom the …
2,936 wordsChrysostom — Priesthood, Ascetic Treatises & Homilies • SECTION 27
… For then we shall be able to fortify ourselves against the attacks of both heretics. I might tell thee besides these, of several other adversaries against which, except we contend bravely and carefully, we shall …
2,935 wordsChrysostom — Acts and Romans • SECTION 139
… This is the man, that teacheth all men everywhere against the people, and the law, and this place: and further brought Greeks also into the temple, and hath polluted this holy place." (v. 27, 28 …
2,984 wordsChrysostom — Acts and Romans • SECTION 163
… discusses a passage in a Homily to the newly baptized, which was alleged against the doctrine of Original Sin. He had spoken of infants as not having sins, meaning of course actual sins, as the …
2,991 wordsEusebius — Church History, Constantine & Oration • SECTION 285
… 54) says that he went to Achaia on account of heresies which were troubling the churches there. His words are: Et propter ecclesias Achaiæ, quæ pluribus hæresibus vexabantur, sub testimonio ecclesiasticæ epistolæ Athenas per Palæstinam …
3,032 wordsAugustine — Anti-Pelagian Writings • SECTION 484
… Temptation to be prayed against, [1880]142, [1881]145, [1882]176, [1883]428; various forms of, [1884]429.
Tertullian, [1885]334.
Testament, the Old, use and teaching of, [1886]35.
Testaments, relation of Old and …
2,202 wordsChrysostom — Acts and Romans • SECTION 57
… No clamor there, no turmoil, no enemies at variance, no heresies: there you shall see all friends, holding the same doctrines in common. The very quiet shall lead thee to higher views, and receiving thee …
3,162 wordsChrysostom — Acts and Romans • SECTION 184
… Men of this kind are fighting with the Devil, against the Church, and haply even worse than he. For him one can be on one's guard against. But these cloaking themselves under the mask …
3,171 wordsAugustine — Against the Manichaeans and Donatists • SECTION 201
… For of a truth the jealous God Himself rebukes the woman who commits fornication against Him, as the type of an erring people, and says that she gave to her lovers what belonged to Him …
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