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Basil — Letters and Select Works • SECTION 40

Chapter X.

… 27). Theodore of Mopsuestia had preferred sunapheia to henosis; Andrew of Samosata saw no difference between them. Athanasius (de Sent. Dionys. § 17) employs it for the mutual relationship of the Persons in the Holy Trinity …

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Basil — Letters and Select Works • SECTION 49

Chapter XIX.

… inferioris esse Spiritum crederes potestatis,' (De Sp. S. iii. 1, § 7.) The passage is quoted by St. Athanasius, St. Basil, St. Cyril Hieros., and, as far as the editor is aware, without any comment which …

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Eusebius — Church History, Constantine & Oration • SECTION 286

On Bk. VI. chap. 12, § 6.

… This work is no longer extant, but brief fragments of it have been preserved by Athanasius (in his De Sent. Dionysii) and by Basil ( in his De Spir. Sancto). English translation in the Ante-Nicene …

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Basil — Letters and Select Works • SECTION 253

Letter CCCLX. [3289]

… note is: "Hac super re reverentissime theologiceque scribit Athanasius Corinthi episcopus in fragmento quod nos edidimus A.A. class l. x. p. 499-500, quod incipit: Zetoumen, ei he plerosis ton bromaton epi Christou ekekteto …

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Socrates and Sozomen — Ecclesiastical Histories • SECTION 9

[121] Eph. iv. 3.

… the council of Nicæa, and were induced by Eusebius, bishop of Nicomedia, to cast slanderous aspersion upon Athanasius, as he himself testifies in his second apology against the Arians. It appears unlikely that the Fathers …

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

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

… Theodoretus follows the opinion of Athanasius and Julian in ascribing the main guilt to Constantius, but, as Gibbon points out, Eutropius and the Victors "use the very qualifying expressions;" "sinente potius quam jubente;" "incertum quo …

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The Seven Ecumenical Councils • SECTION 23

Canon XVII.

… Among those belonging to the Greek church we find Athanasius (Expos. in Ps. xiv); Basil the Great (Hom. in Ps. xiv). Gregory of Nazianzum (Orat. xiv. in Patrem tacentem). Gregory of Nyssa (Orat. cont. Usurarios …

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Basil — Letters and Select Works • SECTION 30

TOU AGIOU BAChILEIOU PERI TOU PNEUMATOCh BIBLION.

… The Catholic theologians were roused to the danger, and on the return of Athanasius from his third exile, a council was held at Alexandria which resulted in the first formal ecclesiastical condemnation of the depravers …

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Sulpitius Severus, Vincent of Lerins & John Cassian • SECTION 382

Chapter VI.

… In 373, after the death of Athanasius, he was forced upon the reluctant Church of Alexandria by the Arian Emperor Valens, and according to Gregory Nazianzen a fresh persecution of the orthodox party at once …

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Chrysostom — Priesthood, Ascetic Treatises & Homilies • SECTION 5

Chapter V.--Chrysostom as a Monk. a.d. 374-381.

… denied the eternal divinity of Christ; the Eustathians, under the venerated priest Paulinus, were in communion with Athanasius, but were accused of Sabellianism, which maintained the Divine unity and strict deity of Christ and the …

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Socrates and Sozomen — Ecclesiastical Histories • SECTION 190

Chapter III.--Martyrdom of the Holy Notaries.

… On the expulsion of Athanasius, which took place about this period, George persecuted [1289] all those throughout Egypt who refused to conform to his sentiments. The emperor marched into Illyria, and entered Sirmium, whither Vetranio …

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Ambrose — Selected Works and Letters • SECTION 92

Chapter VI.

… The argument from the exact force of prepositions is often urged by the Fathers, as by St. Athanasius and St. Basil among the Greeks. The Latins also use it, as St. Ambrose here, but occasionally …

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Eusebius — Church History, Constantine & Oration • SECTION 229

[2411] 1 Tim. vi. 5.

… We know from Athanasius (Hist. Ar. §71, Oxf. ed. Chap. VIII. §10), that he was a great favorite with Zenobia, and that to her he owed the privilege of retaining his bishopric after the synod …

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Gregory Thaumaturgus, Dionysius, Julius Africanus & Others • SECTION 42

Canon I.

… Amen. [745] [745] Of the work itself Athanasius thus speaks: Finally, Dionysius complains that his accusers do not quote his opinions in their integrity, but mutilated, and that they do not speak out of a …

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Sulpitius Severus, Vincent of Lerins & John Cassian • SECTION 115

Chapter II.

… Then did Egypt receive Athanasius in triumph, then did the Church of Gaul receive Hilary returning from battle, then did Italy put off her mourning garments at the return of Eusebius (of Vercellæ)."--Advers. Luciferianos …

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Eusebius — Church History, Constantine & Oration • SECTION 210

Chapter VI.--The Heresy of Sabellius.

… 62, and Athanasius, Contra Arian. Oratio 4. In the third century those Monarchians (modalists) who were known as Patripassians in the West were called Sabellians in the East. In the fourth and fifth centuries the …

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Sulpitius Severus, Vincent of Lerins & John Cassian • SECTION 125

Chapter XVI.

… peace. His immediate pupils were saints and rulers in the Church. He has the praise of St. Athanasius, St. Basil, and St. Gregory Nazianzen, and furnishes materials to St. Ambrose and St. Hilary; yet, as …

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