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Augustine — City of God & Christian Doctrine • SECTION 216

Chapter 9.--Of the Long Life and Greater Stature of the Antediluvians.

… of which Augustin here speaks, were the Latin versions of the Septuagint used by the Church before Jerome's was received; the "Hebrew Mss." were the versions made from the Hebrew text. Compare De Doct …

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Ambrose — Selected Works and Letters • SECTION 165

Chapter XVI.

… by the Goths. The latter was regarded by some as the result of the former. Thus St. Jerome: "Our sins are the strength of the barbarians, our vices bring defeat upon the arms of Rome …

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Sulpitius Severus, Vincent of Lerins & John Cassian • SECTION 488

Chapter VIII.

… to mean the "man seeing God" as if it came from 'ys, r'h and 'l. S. Jerome (Quæst. in Genesim c. xxxii. ver. 27, 28) rejects this interpretation as forced and prefers "a Prince …

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Basil — Letters and Select Works • SECTION 60

[1308] 1 Cor. xi. 2.

… does not even exist as a whole in the translation of Rufinus, who omitted portions, and St. Jerome thought that Rufinus had misrepresented it. Photius (Biblioth. cod. viii.) says that Origen, in asserting in this …

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Eusebius — Church History, Constantine & Oration • SECTION 272

Book X.

… According to Jerome's Chron, year of Abr. 2345, he was the successor of Philogonius and the predecessor of Eustathius in the episcopate of Antioch. He was still alive when Eusebius completed his History, that …

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Theodoret, Jerome, Gennadius & Rufinus — Historical Writings • SECTION 190

Chapter III.

… son," and "for he shall be called a Nazarene." [2349] Died after 62. [2350] Gospel...in Hebrew. Jerome seems to regard the Gospel according to the Hebrews mentioned by him above as the original Hebrew …

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The Seven Ecumenical Councils • SECTION 175

Canon LXXVIII.

… the early fathers seem to have recognized that the Virgin did have the "afterbirth," and this St. Jerome expressly teaches in his book, Contra Helvidium. The Greeks, however, understood it as I have translated, and …

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Sulpitius Severus, Vincent of Lerins & John Cassian • SECTION 273

Chapter I.

… Serapion of Arsinöe is the person whose Conference Cassian here gives. Gazet identifies, Tillemont distinguishes the two. Jerome, it should be noticed, speaks in Ep. cviii. (Epitaphium Paulæ) as if there was not only one …

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Gospel of Peter, Diatessaron, Apocalypse of Peter & Other Early Texts • SECTION 155

Introduction.

… either from the Scholia (commaticum interpretationis genus), or from the Homilies to which reference is made by Jerome (Prol. in Matt. I. iv). The majority of them may be ascribed to the Scholia. In addition …

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Sulpitius Severus, Vincent of Lerins & John Cassian • SECTION 436

THE SEVEN BOOKS OF JOHN CASSIAN

… a hundred the reckoning began with the same arrangement of the fingers on the right hand. S. Jerome had a similar allusion to the practice in his work against Jovian I. i. and compare also …

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Lactantius, Venantius, Asterius, Victorinus & Others • SECTION 193

A Prayer for the New Fruits.

… The theory of Jerome, which identifies them, was later.--R.] [3536] 2 Tim. iv. 21. [3537] [Noteworthy, and to be recalled hereafter. See vol. iii. [286]p. 258.] [3538] 2 Tim. i. 5. [3539] [Comp …

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Eusebius — Church History, Constantine & Oration • SECTION 237

Chapter III.--The Nature of the Conflicts endured in the Persecution.

… In Jerome's version of the Chron. (sixteenth year of Diocletian) we read: Veturius magister militiæ Christianos milites persequitur, paulatim ex illo jam tempore persecutione adversum nos incipiente; in the Armenian (fourteenth year): Veturius magister …

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Eusebius — Church History, Constantine & Oration • SECTION 74

Chapter VIII.--The Signs which preceded the War.

… of Josephus, supported by Rufinus and Jerome (who render migremus), read metabainomen, "let us go hence," and I have followed Stephanus, Valesius, Stroth, and the English and German translators in adopting that reading. [661] That …

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Eusebius — Church History, Constantine & Oration • SECTION 190

Chapter XXVI.--Heraclas becomes Bishop of Alexandria.

… the single epistle mentioned, nor do we hear from any other source that he was a writer. Jerome does not mention him in his De vir. ill. The exact date of his accession is unknown …

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Augustine — Confessions & Letters • SECTION 372

LETTERS OF ST. AUGUSTIN

… with Jerome, [1449]329 [1450]331 with unknown bishop, [1451]498 Conscience, cases of, resolved, [1452]290, [1453]294 Consolation to a bereaved sister, [1454]591-[1455]593 Conversion of Dioscorus, marvellous, [1456]576 Councils …

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Augustine — City of God & Christian Doctrine • SECTION 3

"The fourteen centuries fall away

… Capitur urbs quætotum cepit orbem."--Jerome, iv. 783. [13] See below, iv. 7. [14] This is well brought out by Merivale, Conversion of the Roman Empire, p. 145, etc. [15] Ozanam, History of Civilisation in …

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Gregory the Great, Ephraim Syrus & Aphrahat • SECTION 9

Epistle XII.

… For, as to our custom here of saying the Alleluia, it is said to be derived from the Church of Jerusalem by the tradition of the blessed Jerome in the time of pope Damasus of …

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The Seven Ecumenical Councils • SECTION 106

Canon II.

… for this and to aid him I append a bibliographical table on the subject. St. Augustine. St. Jerome. Marius Mercator, Commonitorium super nomine Coelestii. Vossius, G. J., Histor. de controv. quas Pel. ejusque reliquiæ moverunt …

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Fathers of the Second Century • SECTION 337

TATIAN.

… Southey, Robert, his remarks concerning John Wesley, 62. Spirit, the Holy, 71. Spirits, two kinds, 70. St. Jerome, 61, 62. St. Paul, 62. Tatian, Introductory Note, 61. equivocal position of, 61. influenced by Justin, 61 …

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Gregory of Nyssa — Dogmatic Treatises • SECTION 150

Chapter XIV.

… But Aquila has hupsiste, agreeing with the Hebrew; so also Jerome. [1447] oudeni aresthesetai. The Vatican Cod. has erathesetai, which would require the genitive. [1448] Wis. i. 4. [1449] 2 Cor. vi. 14. [1450] Eph …

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