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Athanasius — Select Works and Letters • SECTION 293

Letter LI.--Second Letter to Lucifer.

… To the most glorious lord and deservedly much-desired fellow-Bishop Lucifer, Athanasius greeting in the Lord. Although I believe that tidings have reached your holiness also of the persecution which the enemies of Christ …

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Leo the Great & Gregory the Great • SECTION 294

Epistle XXXI.

… evils. [1714] This epistle appears to have been in reply to one from a presbyter. Anastasius (al. Athanasius), of Jerusalem announcing his promotion to the abbacy of a monastery there. There had been, it seems …

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Socrates and Sozomen — Ecclesiastical Histories • SECTION 75

Chapter XXVII.--Of Gregory Thaumaturgus (the Wonder-Worker).

… s brother; and there was another Gregory [648] whom the Arians constituted bishop during the exile of Athanasius. But enough has been said respecting them. [647] On Gregory Thaumaturgus in general, see Euseb. H. E …

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Basil — Letters and Select Works • SECTION 156

Letter CXXVI. [2418]

… This new party arose in the Delta about 362, and was first known as "Tropici." They were condemned at the synod held at Alexandria on the return of Athanasius from his third exile. Its Synodical …

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Socrates and Sozomen — Ecclesiastical Histories • SECTION 65

Chapter XXVI.--Death of the Emperor Jovian.

… Now at that time Liberius presided over the Roman church; and at Alexandria Athanasius was bishop of the Homoousians, while Lucius had been constituted George's successor by the Arians. At Antioch Euzoïus was at …

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Fathers of the Second Century • SECTION 12

Chap. III.

… God." [225] [Concupiscence is here shown to have the nature of sin.] [226] [See the Greek of Athanasius, and Grabe's transposition, in Wake's version of the Eleventh and Twelfth Commandments.] [227] For ... God …

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Athanasius — Select Works and Letters • SECTION 140

22. Coalition of sordid Meletians with insane Arians.

… No existing text appears to bear out Athanasius in his insertion of the definite article.] [1227] John xiv. 10. [1228] John i. 3. [1229] Heb. ii. 10. [1230] Joh. i. 3. [1231] Matt. xvii. 5 …

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Leo the Great & Gregory the Great • SECTION 63

Letter CXXX.

… To Marcian Augustus. (Praising the orthodoxy of Proterius, advocating the public recital by him of passages bearing on the present controversy from the writings of Athanasius and others, and also of the Tome itself in …

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Augustine — Trinity, Doctrinal & Moral Treatises • SECTION 27

Book III.

… 416--, the treatises of Athanasius (d. 373), Basil (d. 379), Gregory of Nyssa (d. 400?), and Gregory of Nazianzum (d. 390?) had been composed and were current in the Eastern church. That Augustin thought out …

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Basil — Letters and Select Works • SECTION 121

Letter LII. [2184]

… Antioch in 269, and asserted in another by the 318 at Nicæa in 325, see prolegomena to Athanasius in Schaff and Wace's ed. p. xxxi. cf. Ath.,De Syn. § 45, Hil., De Trin. iv …

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Basil — Letters and Select Works • SECTION 182

[2620] tous en bathmo. cf. note on p. 218.

… note refers to the case of Dracontius, who had sworn that he would escape if he were ordained bishop, and so did; but was urged by Athanasius to discharge the duties of his diocese, notwithstanding …

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The Seven Ecumenical Councils • SECTION 15

Canon VII.

… Maximus, convoked a synod of Palestine, without any reference to Cæsarea, which consecrated bishops and acquitted St. Athanasius. It is true that he was reprimanded for doing so, [67] but yet it clearly shews how …

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Ambrose — Selected Works and Letters • SECTION 133

Chapter I.

… He found favour, however, with men of considerable importance in the Church, such as Eusebius of Cæsarea in Palestine, Eusebius of Nicomedia, Athanasius of Anazarbus, and others. The question was finally discussed in a synod …

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Athanasius — Select Works and Letters • SECTION 304

Letter LXI.--Letter to Maximus. (Written about 371 a.d.)

Letter LXI.--Letter to Maximus. (Written about 371 a.d.) To our beloved and most truly longed-for son, Maximus [4776] , philosopher, Athanasius greeting in the Lord. Having read the letter now come from you …

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Hilary of Poitiers & John of Damascus • SECTION 1

A SELECT LIBRARY

… The great Athanasius himself has not given to this belief a more impressive or more weighty expression. And when like assaults come round, as they are constantly doing, in what is in many respects the …

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Gregory of Nyssa — Dogmatic Treatises • SECTION 223

Chapter XXXII.

… Rom. ix. 21: phurama is used for the human body often in the Greek Fathers, i.e. Athanasius, Chrysostom, John Damascene: by all of whom Christ is called aparche tou hemeterou phuramatos. Cf. Gen. ii …

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Eusebius — Church History, Constantine & Oration • SECTION 24

Photius, in his 144th Epistle to Constantine.

… Likewise as to what things were maliciously contrived against the ever-conquering Athanasius, when he set about making his history cover these things, he says that Alexandria again was filled with sedition and tumult, and …

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