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Athanasius — Select Works and Letters • SECTION 149

[1404] Of Treveri.

… Their real grievance is not that Athanasius is a coward, but that he is free. Who then does not perceive their craftiness? Is it not very evident to every one that they do not reproach …

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Ambrose — Selected Works and Letters • SECTION 136

Chapter IV.

… imparted strength to others. [1744] Arius' teaching on this head appears to be fairly enough represented by Athanasius: "When God, being purposed to establish created Nature, saw that it could not bear the immediate touch …

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Fathers of the Second Century • SECTION 22

Chap. XXVII.

… Of this Athanasius would approve.] [361] [1 Pet. i. 20.] [362] His. God's.--Lips. [363] [Ex. xxviii. 12, 29.] [364] Omitted in Lips. The text in Vat. and Pal. The Æth different in form …

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Athanasius — Select Works and Letters • SECTION 240

11. Decree of the Council [3485] .

… Hær. lxxiii. 26] except that George is the Cappadocian, the notorious intruder into the see of S. Athanasius. [For his expulsion see Fest. Ind. xxx, and on the composition of the council, see Gwatkin, note …

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Basil — Letters and Select Works • SECTION 35

Chapter VI.

… kai isotupos sphragis, i.e., "express image and seal graven to the like" of the Father. St. Athanasius (Ep. i. ad Serap. xxiii.) writes, "The seal has the form of Christ the sealer, and in …

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Eusebius — Church History, Constantine & Oration • SECTION 2

Prolegomena.

… Numerous notices of Eusebius are found in the works of Socrates, Sozomen, Theodoret, Athanasius, Jerome, and other writers of his own and subsequent ages, to many of which references will be made in the following …

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Chrysostom — Corinthians • SECTION 20

Homily VIII.

… g. Origen, in Lament. iv. 11; in Ezek. Hom. xiii. §. 1; Com. in St. Matt. §. 125; St. Athanasius on Ps. cviii. (cix. Heb.) v. 15. t. i. 1194. Ed. Bened. The author of the Questions …

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Augustine — Confessions & Letters • SECTION 358

Letter CCXXVII.

… Another example we have in the holy Athanasius, Bishop of Alexandria, who fled when the Emperor Constantius wished to seize him specially, the Catholic people who remained in Alexandria not being abandoned by the other …

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Cyril of Jerusalem & Gregory Nazianzen • SECTION 5

Chapter II.--Catechetical Instruction.

… The earliest known example of a Catechetical work is the "Teaching of the Twelve Apostles," which Athanasius names among the "books not included in the Canon, but appointed by the Fathers to be read by …

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Jerome — Principal Works • SECTION 145

Letter CXXVII. To Principia.

… It was from some priests of Alexandria, and from pope Athanasius, and subsequently from Peter, [3536] who, to escape the persecution of the Arian heretics, had all fled for refuge to Rome as the safest …

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Cyril of Jerusalem & Gregory Nazianzen • SECTION 66

[1655] Is. lxvi. 10.

… ek tes ges instead of ek tes thalasses is found in the Alexandrine ms. of the Septuagint. Athanasius (Ad Serapion, Ep. i. 12) has the same reading and interpretation as Cyril. By "the shepherds" are …

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Cyril of Jerusalem & Gregory Nazianzen • SECTION 105

[2551] Eph. iv. 11.

… after the Council of Nicæa. It is called Judaism also Orat. xx. 6 as frequently by S. Athanasius. Cf. Petav. de Trin. I. ix. 8. [2631] Piety, eulabeia. i.e. The pious readily and attentively …

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Theodoret, Jerome, Gennadius & Rufinus — Historical Writings • SECTION 118

Of the same from the same book:--

… But the anointed took an acquired virtue, being adorned with a chosen temple of the Godhead dwelling in it." The testimony of the holy Athanasius, Bishop of Alexandria and Confessor. From the defence of Dionysius …

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