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Basil — Letters and Select Works • SECTION 123

Letter LIV. [2199]

… equivalent to the Greek tagma, was originally used of any estate in the church, e.g. St. Jerome, On Isaiah v. 19, 18. On the testing of qualifications for orders, cf. St. Cyprian, Ep. lxviii …

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Sulpitius Severus, Vincent of Lerins & John Cassian • SECTION 202

Book VIII.

… which seems a reminiscence of Cassian's words with the reading effundit for effodit (Moral V. xxxi.). Jerome's rendering in the Vulgate is quite different: "Vir iracundus provocat zixas: et qui ad indignandum facilis …

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Chrysostom — Priesthood, Ascetic Treatises & Homilies • SECTION 10

Chapter XI.--His Character.

… he himself passed through its discipline, must be taken into account in his unfavorable judgments of Chrysostom, Jerome and other Fathers except St. Augustin, whom he esteemed very highly. Of Chrysostom he must have read …

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Gregory of Nyssa — Dogmatic Treatises • SECTION 13

Letter I.

… short reply to Eunomius which he read, at the Council of Constantinople, to Gregory of Nazianzen and Jerome (d. vir. illust. c. 128). Then he worked upon this longer reply. Thus there were in all …

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Theodoret, Jerome, Gennadius & Rufinus — Historical Writings • SECTION 55

Chapter XXII.--Of the Council held at Seleucia in Isauria.

… represents him as deposed by Acacius for too zealous orthodoxy, and replaced by Cyril, then a Semiarian. Jerome agrees with Theodoret, and makes Cyril succeed on the death of Maximus in 350 or 351. (Chron …

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Ambrose — Selected Works and Letters • SECTION 256

Book III.

… with Arianism. [St. Hil. Pict. Fragm. VI.; St. Athan. Apol. C. Arian. 89; Hist. Arian. 41; St. Jerome, De Vir. Ill. 97, etc.] He subsequently returned to the Catholic teaching and atoned by later acts …

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Augustine — Anti-Pelagian Writings • SECTION 241

Chapter 19 [XVII.]--Blessing of Matrimony.

… The last clause, though not in Jerome's Vulgate, was yet read by some of the Latin Fathers--by Cyprian and Lucifer, for instance, and something like it also by one of the Egyptian versions.

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Jerome — Principal Works • SECTION 45

Letter XLIII. To Marcella.

Letter XLIII. To Marcella. Jerome draws a contrast between his daily life and that of Origen, and sorrowfully admits his own shortcomings. He then suggests to Marcella the advantages which life in the country offers …

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Tertullian — Latin Christianity • SECTION 384

III.

… Trinity-Sunday Sermons; (2) that I consider it as practically Apocryphal, and hence as coming under St. Jerome's law, and being useless to establish doctrine; and (3) that I feel no need of it …

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Hippolytus, Cyprian, Caius & Novatian • SECTION 55

Chapter XIX.--Pythagoras' Duality of Substances; His "Categories."

… the authorship of Origen, who assented to the Pythagorean psychology. The question concerning the pre-existence of the soul is stated in a passage often quoted, viz., St. Jerome's Letter to Marcellina (Ep. 82).

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Augustine — Anti-Pelagian Writings • SECTION 1

A SELECT LIBRARY

… Three works of Pelagius, printed among the works of Jerome (Vallarsius' edition, vol. xi.): viz., the Expositions on Paul's Epistles, written before 410 (but somewhat, especially in Romans, interpolated); the Epistle to Demetrias, 413 …

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Hippolytus, Cyprian, Caius & Novatian • SECTION 119

After something from Apollinaris:--

… Quoted in Jerome, Epist. 36, ad Damasum, Num. xviii. (from Galland). [1191] Isaac conveys a figure of God the Father; Rebecca of the Holy Spirit; Esau of the first people and the devil; Jacob of …

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Jerome — Principal Works • SECTION 44

Letter XLII. To Marcella.

… At Marcella's request Jerome explains to her what is "the sin against the Holy Ghost" spoken of by Christ, and shows Novatian's [892] explanation of it to be untenable. Written at Rome in …

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Sulpitius Severus, Vincent of Lerins & John Cassian • SECTION 183

Chapter XVI.

… x. 13. [842] Mentis robore non quoesito.--Petschenig. Gazæus omits the negative and reads conquisito. [843] S. Jerome's version, which was certainly know to Cassian (cf. Conferences XXIII. viii.) has "Temptatio vos non apprehendat …

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Hippolytus, Cyprian, Caius & Novatian • SECTION 62

Chapter XXXIII.--Secundus' System of Æons; Epiphanes; Ptolemæus.

… c. l.; Epiphanius, Hær., xxxiv.; Theodoret, Hæret. Fab., i. 9; St. Augustine, Hær., c. xiv.; and St. Jerome's 29th Epistle. [729] energon: Bunsen reads dron, which has the same meaning. Cruice reads aioron, but …

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Eusebius — Church History, Constantine & Oration • SECTION 162

[1710] i.e. the fourteenth day.

… may belong to one or more of them (see the Dict. of Christ. Biog. III. p. 265). We do not know to what bishops or churches these epistles were sent. Jerome does not mention them.

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Augustine — Confessions & Letters • SECTION 6

CHAPTER III.--Estimate of St. Augustin.

… With the Greek language, as he himself frankly and modestly confesses, he had, in comparison with Jerome, but a superficial acquaintance. [23] Hebrew he did not understand at all. Hence, with all his extraordinary familiarity …

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Jerome — Principal Works • SECTION 86

Letter LXIX. To Oceanus.

… Oceanus, a Roman nobleman zealous for the faith, had asked Jerome to back him in a protest against Carterius a Spanish bishop who contrary to the apostolic rule that a bishop is to be "the …

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Sulpitius Severus, Vincent of Lerins & John Cassian • SECTION 283

Chapter XXVII.

… name given by the classical geographers to a tribe of Arabia Felix, famous for its predatory propensities. Jerome speaks of the "mons et desertum Saracenorum quod vocatur Pharan" (Liber de situ et nominibus sub voce …

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