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Augustine — Confessions & Letters • SECTION 14

It is right to point out, in connection with this part of our subject, that in regard to some at least of Augustin's self-accusations, [91]

… Gregory observed that our Saviour had not styled us the sugar but the salt of the earth, and Augustin observeth, that though Cyprian in one epistle showed much of a florid orator, to show he …

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Augustine — Sermon on the Mount & Gospel Harmony • SECTION 225

4. There is indeed another way of understanding it; and I will not withhold it too. The mammon of iniquity is all the riches of this world,

… thy brother sin, rebuke him," etc., touching the remission of sins. Delivered at the Table of St. Cyprian, in the presence of Count Boniface. 1. The Holy Gospel which we heard just now as it …

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The Apostolic Fathers, Justin Martyr & Irenaeus • SECTION 344

[3920] Feuardent infers with great probability from this passage, that Irenæus, like Tertullian and others of the Fathers, connected the wor

… Tertullian, Cyprian, and other early Fathers, agree with Irenæus in his exposition of this text. [3927] Deut. xxxii. 6. "Owned thee," i.e., following the meaning of the Hebrew, "owned thee by generation." Chapter XI …

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Jerome — Principal Works • SECTION 113

Letter CIII. To Augustine.

… In this letter Augustine (1) commends to Jerome the deacon Cyprian, (2) explains how it is that his first letter (Letter LVI.) has miscarried, and (3) urges Jerome to base his scriptural labours not on …

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Hippolytus, Cyprian, Caius & Novatian • SECTION 165

3. The apostle's epistle says [2098] that novices should be passed over, lest by the stupor of heathenism that yet clings to their unconfirm

… or those whom the common obligation of the Sacrament has bound to the duty of manifesting love. Cyprian the bishop's cathedra received such as he had been before,--it did not make him so …

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Hippolytus, Cyprian, Caius & Novatian • SECTION 257

[3098] Describing in few words the ambition and dissimulation of Novatian in invading the episcopate of Rome, he argues at length, that neit

… Argument.--Cyprian Celebrates the Praises of Discipline, and Proves Its Usefulness from Scripture. Then, Describing the Glory, Honour, and Merits of Virginity, and of Those Who Had Vowed and Dedicated Their Virginity to Christ, He …

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Theodoret, Jerome, Gennadius & Rufinus — Historical Writings • SECTION 172

[2005] Matthew xxviii. 6

… West have been illustrious teachers of grace, Damasus, bishop of great Rome, and Ambrose of Milan; and Cyprian of Carthage who for the sake of these doctrines won the martyr's crown. Five times was …

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Lactantius, Venantius, Asterius, Victorinus & Others • SECTION 16

Man, therefore, is to be regarded as the parent of these images; for they were produced by his instrumentality, and through him they first h

… Christians from the earliest ages for their religious assemblies, is gathered from the express testimony of Tertullian, Cyprian, and other early writers. They were called ecclesiæ; churches, not temples. [For kuriako`n, dominicum, basilica, etc …

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Augustine — Exposition on Psalms • SECTION 42

[848] Lat. XXXVI. This is a sermon which was delivered at Carthage, as well as the two following. It should be noticed that in the life of S

… 5. [857] See Disc. 2 (omitted) on Ps. 33, delivered at Carthage in the Church of St. Cyprian. [858] Signanter accipe. [859] Gal. v. 17. [860] Rom. vii. 24. [861] Al. "shall be." [862] Perseveret …

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Hilary of Poitiers & John of Damascus • SECTION 2

Introduction.

… and thinker had certainly been accomplished before his conversion. His literary work done, like that of St. Cyprian, within a few years of middle life, displays, with a somewhat increasing maturity of thought, a steady …

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Gregory Thaumaturgus, Dionysius, Julius Africanus & Others • SECTION 243

[4708] Lit., "the sacred dedication."

… insane minds again to their senses? [4728] Lit., "punishment of violated religion." [4729] Clemens says merely "the Cyprian Pygmalion." [4730] Lit., "of ancient sanctity and religion." [4731] Lit., "imagination of empty lust." [4732] Cf. ch …

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Augustine — Against the Manichaeans and Donatists • SECTION 285

THE ANTI-MANICHÆAN WRITINGS.

… 21. "Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree," [192]207 sq. Curses, prophetic, [193]228. Cyprian referred to, [194]165. Cyril of Jerusalem on the Manichæans, referred to, 4. Daniel's representation of …

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Athanasius — Select Works and Letters • SECTION 158

31. Constantius begins to persecute.

… 445. Basnag. Diss. vii. 19. in Ann. Eccles. t. 2. Muratori, Anecdot. Græc. p. 218. Dodwell, Dissert. Cyprian. iii. Bevereg. in Can. Nic. 3. Suicer. Thesaur. in voc. &c. &c. It is conjectured by Beveridge …

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Hippolytus, Cyprian, Caius & Novatian • SECTION 283

23. But who is this that says that he has held his peace before, and will not hold his peace for ever? Surely it is He who was led as a shee

… If in any writing Cyprian is an imitator of Tertullian, assuredly in this he imitates that writer's treatise On Patience. [See vol. iii. p. 707.] [3585] [Hermas, vol. ii. 23, 49; also Tertullian, iii …

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Augustine — Confessions & Letters • SECTION 12

In this process of training, next to the Holy Scriptures, the scholarship of Jerome and the theology and fertile ideas of Augustin were the

… 679-711. "Augustin," says he, "decidely adopted Cyprian's conception [of the church] in all essential points. And once adopting it, he penetrated it in its whole depth with his wonderfully powerful and exuberant soul …

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Hippolytus, Cyprian, Caius & Novatian • SECTION 260

24. Every one of which things, O good virgins, you ought to observe, to love, to fulfil, who, giving yourselves to God and Christ, are advan

… Only remember us at that time, when virginity shall begin to be rewarded in you. [3170] The deacon Pontius, in his life of Cyprian, in few words comprises the argument of the following treatise. "Who …

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Augustine — Sermon on the Mount & Gospel Harmony • SECTION 218

13. And that which they say is not true, that immediately on losing her gods Rome has been taken [3379] and ruined. It is not true at all; t

… 1 Cor. xiii. 13. [3348] Luke xi. 11-13. [3349] Cant. iv. 8, Sept. See on St. Cyprian, Ep. p. 278, note n. [3350] 2 Cor. xi. 2, 3. [3351] Eph. iii. 17. [3352] Phil …

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Augustine — Against the Manichaeans and Donatists • SECTION 193

Chapter 15.--23. For it is the Church that gives birth to all, either within her pale, of her own womb; or beyond it, of the seed of her bri

… There are great proofs of this existing on the part of the blessed martyr Cyprian, in his letters,--to come at last to him of whose authority they carnally flatter themselves they are possessed, whilst …

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Augustine — Anti-Pelagian Writings • SECTION 14

The controversy now entered upon a new stage. Among the evicted bishops of Italy who refused to sign Zosimus' Epistola Tractoria, Julian of

… in reply to their accusation that the catholics were proclaiming novel doctrine, he adduces the testimony of Cyprian and Ambrose, both of whom had received Pelagius' praise, on each of the three main points of …

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Augustine — Confessions & Letters • SECTION 370

Moon, sun and, Manichean belief as to the, 63

… 961]76 (note) Omnipresence of God, [962]45 Onesiphorus, hospitality of, [963]203 Oratories, in memory of Cyprian, [964]84 in memory of the saints and martyrs, [965]90 and note offerings at the, forbidden …

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Augustine — Confessions & Letters • SECTION 6

CHAPTER III.--Estimate of St. Augustin.

… He combined the creative power of Tertullian with the churchly spirit of Cyprian, the speculative intellect of the Greek church with the practical tact of the Latin. He was a Christian philosopher and a philosophical …

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Gregory Thaumaturgus, Dionysius, Julius Africanus & Others • SECTION 14

Canon VIII. [137]

… I suppose, rather, he consults, as Cyprian did, the bishop of the nearest Apostolic See, and awaits his concurrence. It refers to the ravages of the Goths in the days of Gallienus (a.d. 259 …

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Hippolytus, Cyprian, Caius & Novatian • SECTION 166

10. I omit many other matters, and, indeed, many important ones, which the necessity of a limited space does not permit to be detailed in mo

… Such a place might have borne the name of exile, if Cyprian, the priest of God, had come thither; although to him, if the ministrations of men had been wanting, either birds, as in the …

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Augustine — Sermon on the Mount & Gospel Harmony • SECTION 221

7. Great is the reward He hath set before us: in so great a reward as is set before us, let us see what He hath commanded us. For enkindled

… 3420] The troubles through the incursions of the barbarian tribes, as heralds of the end. See St. Cyprian, Ad Demetr. 2, p. 201, Oxf. tr.; De Mort. v. 2, p. 216, 7. [3421] Matt. v …

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Fathers of the Second Century • SECTION 6

Chap. X.

… 1), but not reflected in written constitutions in Clement's day.] [80] [Compare Cyprian's Life and Martydom, by Pontius the deacon (sec. 16). This is doubtless a picture of the bishop's cathedra in …

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Gregory Thaumaturgus, Dionysius, Julius Africanus & Others • SECTION 234

[4372] So the ms., according to Crusius, the edd. inserting s, di-s-cere--"to learn."

… Those hidden mysteries of Cyprian Venus we pass by also, whose founder is said to have been King Cinyras, [4391] in which being initiated, they bring stated fees as to a harlot, and carry away …

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Augustine — Sermon on the Mount & Gospel Harmony • SECTION 268

Christians, must be taught first what to believe, then what to ask, [786]280; must turn all hindrances into their cross, [787]409, [788]410;

… baptism, [908]337. Crown of righteousness, God's free gift, out of mercy and pity, [909]503. Cyprian, St., good shepherd, [910]523. Darkness, he who thinks himself in, is enlightened, [911]313. Day, The …

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Chrysostom — Priesthood, Ascetic Treatises & Homilies • SECTION 181

Councils, secular, customs of, [851]400.

… by Theodosius, [878]485. Custom, no match for fear, [879]437; easier overcome than concupiscence, [880]469. Cyprian, St., on intercession of Saints, [881]389, n. Dancing, feats in, [882]470, n. Danger of arguing …

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Augustine — Confessions & Letters • SECTION 368

Books, the Manichæan, [228]83

… the weight of carnal, [343]111 power of, [344]121 Customs, human, to be obeyed, [345]65 Cyprian, oratory in memory of, [346]84 Danae, [347]52 Daniel praying in captivity, [348]181(note) Darkness …

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Leo the Great & Gregory the Great • SECTION 111

With regard to the state of things in the ecclesiastical sphere during Gregory's popedom, it may be observed first, that there was now a com

… consider now the well-known instances of resistance to such authority, as notably in Africa by St. Cyprian in the third century, and at a later date in the same province when Zosimus was pope …

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