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Sulpitius Severus, Vincent of Lerins & John Cassian • SECTION 375

Chapter XX.

… viii., and for the word, in connexion with the rites of the Christian Church, see Tertullian Apologeticum, c. xl. [2041] Gal. ii. 18. [2042] 1 Sam. xxii. 7-10. [2043] Ps. li. (lii.) 7. [2044 …

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Eusebius — Church History, Constantine & Oration • SECTION 153

[1586] i.e. Montanus.

… their principles were such as to lead them to martyrdom, even when the Catholics avoided it (cf. Tertullian's De fuga in persecutione). [1591] Whether this story is an invention of our author's, or …

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The Seven Ecumenical Councils • SECTION 25

Canon XIX.

… 9 may have been deaconesses, and this seems not unlikely from the fact that the age for the admission of women to this ministry was fixed by Tertullian at sixty years (De Vel. Virg. Cap …

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Augustine — City of God & Christian Doctrine • SECTION 88

Chapter 9.--Concerning the Special Offices of the Gods.

… true God, we have to discuss more diligently. [243] Timeri. [244] Vereri. [245] Intercido, I cut or cleave. [246] Paranymphi. [247] Comp. Tertullian, Adv. Nat. ii. 11; Arnobius, Contra Gent. iv.; Lactantius, Inst. i. 20.

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Basil — Letters and Select Works • SECTION 44

Chapter XV.

… of peace should be baptized in water; others in time of persecution, in their own blood." So Tertullian (In Valentin. ii.) of the Holy Innocents, "baptized in blood for Jesus' sake" (Keble), "testimonium Christi sanguine …

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Theodoret, Jerome, Gennadius & Rufinus — Historical Writings • SECTION 61

Chapter XXVIII.--About Eusebius, Bishop of Samosata.

… 21) ascribes the preservation of both Julian and his brother Gallus to the clemency and protection of Constantius. [597] Tertullian (De Præsc. 41) is the earliest authority for the office of Anagnostes, Lector, or Reader …

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The Apostolic Fathers, Justin Martyr & Irenaeus • SECTION 260

Chapter IX.--Refutation of the impious interpretations of these heretics.

… version translates it by meditari, which Massuet proposes to render "skilfully to fit." [2782] Tertullian refers (Præscrip. Hær.) to those Homeric centos of which a specimen follows. We have given each line as it stands …

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Eusebius — Church History, Constantine & Oration • SECTION 166

[1736] On Paul of Samosata, see below, Bk. VII. chap. 27, note 4.

… 7; Tertullian, ad Uxor. II. 8; Origen, Contra Cels. VIII. 67; the epistle of Dionysius quoted below, in Bk. VII. chap. 24, &c. Compare the article Hymnen in Kraus' Real-Encyclopädie der Christl. Alterthümer, and …

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Jerome — Principal Works • SECTION 21

Letter XV. To Pope Damasus.

… 7. [257] From Tertullian, de Spect. xxx. [258] Matt. xxvii. 28, 29. [259] Joh. viii. 48. [260] Matt. xxvii. 64. Letter XV. To Pope Damasus. This letter, written in 376 or 377 a.d., illustrates …

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Augustine — Against the Manichaeans and Donatists • SECTION 31

Chapter 29.--Of the Authority of the Scriptures.

… 135] [This view of the marriage relation seems to have been almost universal in the ancient Church. Tertullian and Clement of Alexandria are fond of dwelling upon it. For Augustin's views more fully stated …

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Eusebius — Church History, Constantine & Oration • SECTION 189

Chapter XXV.--His Review of the Canonical Scriptures.

… Gospels are named, but the number four is not represented as in itself the necessary number; also Tertullian's Adv. Marc. IV. 2, and elsewhere. [1978] See Bk. III. chap. 24, note 5. [1979] See …

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Eusebius — Church History, Constantine & Oration • SECTION 174

Chapter XI.--Alexander.

… severity, and that it continued, at least in Africa, for some time after Caracalla's accession (see Tertullian's ad Scap.). The general amnesty issued by Caracalla after the murder of his brother Geta in …

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Theodoret, Jerome, Gennadius & Rufinus — Historical Writings • SECTION 111

Chapter XXXVII.--Of Theodotus bishop of Antioch.

… Good Friday, here he tou soteriou pathous hemera, was commonly known as hemera tou staurou, pascha staurosimon, and paraskeue Tertullian speaks of its early observance as a general fast, and Eusebius confirms his testimony.

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