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Augustine — Confessions & Letters • SECTION 56
… could be found out. [438] That is, as is explained further on in the section, the Martyrs. Tertullian gives us many indications of the veneration in which the martyrs were held towards the close of …
1,498 wordsTertullian — Latin Christianity • SECTION 158
… very angel's face, that arraigner of souls, the Mercury of the poets. [1794] We have made Tertullian's "cervicum messis" include both these modes of instantaneous death. [1795] Phædo, p. 62, c. 6. [1796 …
1,489 wordsSulpitius Severus, Vincent of Lerins & John Cassian • SECTION 437
… 2365] The earliest writer to allude to an "Ebion" as the supposed founder of the Ebionites is Tertullian (Præscriptio c. xxxiii.). He is followed in this by Epiphanius (I. xxx.); Rufinus (In Symb. Apost. c …
1,525 wordsThe Seven Ecumenical Councils • SECTION 20
… blest bread, and wine and water." [79] It was evidently a long established custom in his day. Tertullian tells us of a woman whose husband was a heathen and who was allowed to keep the …
1,550 wordsTertullian — Latin Christianity • SECTION 285
… ego. [6165] Extrema linea. Rhenanus sees in this phrase a slur against Hermogenes, who was an artist. Tertullian, I suppose, meant that Hermogenes was extremely ignorant. [6166] Experimenta. [6167] Libera: and so not a possible …
1,535 wordsEusebius — Church History, Constantine & Oration • SECTION 223
… rack by daily expectation in order to confirm their judgment and reverence by suspense of knowledge, as Tertullian says in his book Against the Valentinians [chap. 1]." Valesius. [2338] en to 'Arsinoeite. The Arsinoite nome …
1,551 wordsFathers of the Second Century • SECTION 314
… But this language is most noteworthy as an absolute refutation of modern Mariolatry.] [3667] Tertullian, who treats of the above-mentioned topic, attributes these words to Ezekiel: but they are sought for in vain in …
1,535 wordsBasil — Letters and Select Works • SECTION 182
… of Callistus digamist and trigamist bishops, and priests and deacons, began to be admitted into the clergy.' Tertullian recognises the rule as to the clergy. Thus in his De Exhortatione Castitatis (c. 7) he asks …
1,556 wordsTertullian — Latin Christianity • SECTION 382
… 37. [8198] Tertullian was now a [pronounced] Montanist. [8199] John xvi. 13.
1,539 wordsEusebius — Church History, Constantine & Oration • SECTION 70
… 1, quoted below in V. 8. §2) says directly that Luke recorded the Gospel preached by Paul. Tertullian (Adv. Marcion. IV. 5) tells us that Luke's form of the Gospel is usually ascribed to …
1,532 wordsTertullian — Latin Christianity • SECTION 353
… 26, and see Tertullian's De Anima, xxxv. [and see cap. xliii., infra, p. 576.] [7560] De Anim. c. li. [7561] Sed: for "scilicet." [7562] Carthage. [7563] 2 Cor. v. 4. [Against Marcion, p. 455 …
1,558 wordsTertullian — Latin Christianity • SECTION 7
… See Kaye's Tertullian, p. 49.]
1,584 wordsGregory Thaumaturgus, Dionysius, Julius Africanus & Others • SECTION 46
… 336, this series], and in Tertullian On Modesty, ch. xiii. [vol. iv. p. 86, this series]. Oftener, however, the people themselves made intercession with the bishop for the admission of penitents; of which we have …
1,573 wordsTertullian, Minucius Felix, Commodian & Origen • SECTION 64
… 6, where Tertullian appears to have used doloi, not zumoi.
1,564 wordsThe Seven Ecumenical Councils • SECTION 10
… Such language, like Tertullian's "regula fidei," amounted to saying, "We Christians know what we believe: it is not a vague idea' without substance or outline: it can be put into form, and by it …
1,595 wordsTertullian — Latin Christianity • SECTION 377
Again, whose doctrine does He announce, at which all were astonished? [8040] Was it His own or the Father's? So, when they were in doubt among themselves whether He were the Christ (not as …
1,570 wordsAugustine — City of God & Christian Doctrine • SECTION 26
… mind, what fears invade, what passions inflame it!" [109] [105] See the Republic, book iii. [106] Comp. Tertullian, De Spectac. c. 22. [107] The Egyptian gods represented with dogs' heads, called by Lucan (viii. 832 …
1,579 wordsHippolytus, Cyprian, Caius & Novatian • SECTION 239
… 1, 2. [Compare Tertullian, vol. iv. p. 122.] [2903] [A terrible indictment, indeed, of his brother Stephen; provoked, however, by conduct less warranted. See Ep. lxxiv. infra.] [2904] [Stephen's presumption in this step is …
1,579 wordsTertullian — Latin Christianity • SECTION 185
… A frequent meaning in Tertullian. See Apol. 7 and 12. [2419] We cannot preserve the terseness of the Latin: Deus, si est vetus, non erit; si est novus, non fuit. Chapter IX.--Marcion's Gnostic …
1,585 wordsJerome — Principal Works • SECTION 99
… 28, 29. [2455] Dido, queen of Carthage. [2456] Quoted from Tertullian (ad Mart. IV.). The same words recur in Letters CVII. § 8 and CXXX. § 9. [2457] Prov. iv. 23. [2458] Matt. xv. 19. [2459] Gen …
1,600 wordsEusebius — Church History, Constantine & Oration • SECTION 139
… Compare Shorting's and Valesius' notes in loco, and Tertullian's ad Nationes, 18, and ad Martyras, 5, to which the latter refers. [1381] Among the Romans crucifixion was the mode of punishment commonly inflicted …
1,612 wordsEusebius — Church History, Constantine & Oration • SECTION 83
… this later specific sense for the first time in this passage of Clement's Quis Dives salvetur. Tertullian, Hippolytus, and Cyprian are the next ones to use it in the same sense. Ritschl remarks in …
1,614 wordsChrysostom — John and Hebrews • SECTION 167
… 196 d. [See also in Tertullian, O.T. note H. pp. 322 sqq.] [2731] ousioseos, "communication of Being." Cf. in 1 Cor. Hom. v. § 4, p. 56, Oxf. Tr. [2732] That is the Name Son …
1,634 wordsTertullian, Minucius Felix, Commodian & Origen • SECTION 32
… Paul, who, as inspired by the Holy Spirit, is regarded by Tertullian as merged, so to speak, in the Spirit. [453] "Exemplum," a rarer use of the word, but found in Cic. The reference is …
1,655 wordsThe Seven Ecumenical Councils • SECTION 93
… His heresy infected many persons, amongst others Tertullian, but being condemned by the Church. his followers formed a sect remarkable for extreme austerity. But although they asserted that the Holy Ghost had inspired Montanus to …
1,679 wordsThe Apostolic Fathers, Justin Martyr & Irenaeus • SECTION 256
… and partly a spiritual progeny after the image of the Saviour's attendants. [2711] This term, though Tertullian declares himself to have been ignorant of its derivation, was evidently formed from the Hebrew word chkmh …
1,672 wordsTertullian — Latin Christianity • SECTION 6
… itself is made a crime. [79] [For chronological dates in our author's age, see Elucidation III. Tertullian places an interval of 115 years, 6 months, and 15 days between Tiberius and Antoninus Pius. See …
1,684 wordsAugustine — Confessions & Letters • SECTION 113
… We find Tertullian in his De Jejunio lamenting the slight observance it received during his day. We learn, however, from the passage in Justin Martyr, quoted in note 4, on p. 118, above, that in …
1,683 wordsThe Seven Ecumenical Councils • SECTION 273
… Justin Martyr, Tertullian, etc. [591] Literally "abdicate from Prayers." Johnson explains this to mean that they became Prostrators. [592] I.e., St. Gregory. [593] Johnson has a note that this canon is not "St. Gregory …
1,696 wordsSulpitius Severus, Vincent of Lerins & John Cassian • SECTION 309
… The interpretation of the passage which Cassian here rejects is adopted by Philo and Josephus, the book of Enoch, and several of the early fathers, including Justin Martyr, Tertullian, Clement of Alexandria, Lactantius and others …
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