A Brighter Day Begins with His Word.

SEARCH 19.6 MILLION WORDS

Search the Early Church Fathers

767 matching sections.

Gregory of Nyssa — Dogmatic Treatises • SECTION 214

Chapter XVII.

… a striking passage in Origen; "One amongst the convincing proofs that Jesus was something Divine and holy is this; that the Jews after what they did to Him have suffered so many terrible afflictions for …

1,531 words

Tertullian, Minucius Felix, Commodian & Origen • SECTION 231

Chapter XII.

… 5, where Origen gives the length of our Lord's ministry as "only a year and a few months." S.] [3256] Cf. Clem. Alex., Strom., v. c. ix. [See vol. ii. pp. 457, 458. S …

1,554 words

Eusebius — Church History, Constantine & Oration • SECTION 223

Chapter XXIV.--Nepos and his Schism. [2332]

… in the work, and thus Jerome have had some justification for his report. [2334] Evidently directed against Origen and other allegorical interpreters like him, who avoided the materialistic conceptions deduced by so many from the …

1,551 words

Sulpitius Severus, Vincent of Lerins & John Cassian • SECTION 240

Chapter XIV.

… xxxvii., where he tells us that they were successfully refuted by Origen. It is probably to this last error that Cassian is here making allusion. [1125] Cf. 1 Cor. xi. 7; Col. iii. 10. [1126 …

1,562 words

Jerome — Principal Works • SECTION 246

Preface to the Commentary on Ecclesiastes.

… to Joshua). [5391] Lucian in Syria and Hesychius in Egypt attempted their recensions about the middle of the third century, the time when Origen also began to labour in the same direction. Lucian's recension …

1,571 words

Socrates and Sozomen — Ecclesiastical Histories • SECTION 82

Chapter V.--Events at Antioch in Connection with Paulinus and Meletius.

… 23. [700] A specimen of allegorical interpretation due to the influence of Origen. See Farrar, Hist. of Interpretation, p. 183 seq. For similar cases of allegorizing, see Huet, Origeniana passim, and De la Rue, Origenis …

1,571 words

Athanasius — Select Works and Letters • SECTION 252

[3637] §49.

… of phusis in the passages quoted by him from Alexander (in Theod. H. E. i. 4, cf. Origen's use of ousia, Prolegg. ch. ii. §3 (2) a) and Cyril c. Nest. iii. p. 91 …

1,630 words

Tertullian, Minucius Felix, Commodian & Origen • SECTION 149

Chapter VII.--On the Holy Spirit.

… to whom He openly reveals the apprehension of spiritual knowledge. [2171] According to Pamphilus in his Apology, Origen, in a note on Tit. iii. 10, has made a statement the opposite of this. His words …

1,648 words

Eusebius — Church History, Constantine & Oration • SECTION 24

Photius, in his 144th Epistle to Constantine.

… is easy to gather it from many sources; but that he shared also in the infirmity of Origen, namely, the error with regard to the common resurrection of us all, is to most persons unknown …

1,661 words

Jerome — Principal Works • SECTION 243

Prefaces.

… What can be more lovely than the strains of Deuteronomy and Isaiah? What more grave than Solomon's words? What more finished than Job? All these, as Josephus and Origen tell us, were composed in …

1,669 words

Socrates and Sozomen — Ecclesiastical Histories • SECTION 96

Chapter II.--Death of Nectarius and Ordination of John.

… The principle which he adopted, of seeking for a literal and historical meaning in preference to the allegorical and mystical interpretations attached to the Old Testament by Origen and the Alexandrians, became the corner-stone …

1,683 words

Leo the Great & Gregory the Great • SECTION 32

Letter XXXV.

… And hence that which was deservedly condemned in Origen must be punished in Eutyches also, unless he prefers to give up his opinion, viz. the assertion that souls have had not only a life but …

1,722 words

Basil — Letters and Select Works • SECTION 49

Chapter XIX.

… Cyril Hieros., and, as far as the editor is aware, without any comment which would help to determine their way of understanding the case of to pneuma; but Origen, on the words Whosoever shall humble …

1,840 words

Eusebius — Church History, Constantine & Oration • SECTION 164

Chapter XXVII.--The Works of Others that flourished at that Time.

… The same fragment of Maximus' work is found also in the twenty-fourth chapter of the Philocalia of Origen, and is said by the editors, Gregory and Basil, to have been copied by them from …

1,893 words

Eusebius — Church History, Constantine & Oration • SECTION 166

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

… 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 the article Hymns in Smith …

1,900 words

Augustine — Sermon on the Mount & Gospel Harmony • SECTION 18

Chapter XVII.

… 42; Irenæus, Clement, Origen, Chrysostom, etc.). The Anabaptists, Mennonites, and Quakers understand the precept to forbid all oaths, even in the civil court. "Christendom, if it were fully conformed to Christ's will, as it …

1,935 words

Jerome — Principal Works • SECTION 21

Letter XV. To Pope Damasus.

… But at Alexandria from Origen downwards three hypostases had been ascribed to the Deity. Two explanations are given of the latter formula: (1) That at Alexandria hupostasis was taken in the sense of prosopon, so …

1,950 words

Hippolytus, Cyprian, Caius & Novatian • SECTION 27

Chapter XXXVIII.--Illusive Appearance of the Stars.

… 26,--a work of a kindred nature to Celsus' Treatise on Magic (the latter alluded to by Origen, Contr. Cels., lib. i. p. 53, ed. Spenc.), and dedicated by Lucian to Celsius. Chapter XLII.--The …

2,012 words
← PreviousPage 18 of 26Next →