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Chrysostom — Homilies on Matthew • SECTION 163

Homily LXII.

… of reading, but one of interpretation. Comp. Augustin, vol. vi., p. 107, Nicene and Post Nicene Fathers. Chrysostom does not indicate which view he accepts.--R.] [2350] 1 Sam. ii. 5. [2351] [R.V., "make …

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Cyril of Jerusalem & Gregory Nazianzen • SECTION 95

Division II.--The Writings.

… of the Oration is practically a treatise on the Priesthood, and was made use of by S. Chrysostom and S. Gregory the Great in their books on the subject. (2) The Farewell Oration at Constantinople …

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Cyril of Jerusalem & Gregory Nazianzen • SECTION 96

Introduction to Oration II.

… of the Priestly Office which has been drawn upon by all later writers on the subject. S. Chrysostom in his well-known treatise, S. Gregory the Great in his Pastoral Care, and Bossuet in his …

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Chrysostom — Acts and Romans • SECTION 124

(a) We have one world that we all inhabit, with the same fruits we all are fed. But these are small matters: by the same Sacraments we parta

… suffered him not to come into Asia, waiting (or reserving Himself) for this conjuncture." [929] What St. Chrysostom said has been misconceived by the reporter or the copyists. He meant to remark two things concerning …

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The Seven Ecumenical Councils • SECTION 134

Such was the decree of Vigilius, issued upon the authority with which he was invested. But the council, after his Constitution, both raised

… way follow the holy Fathers, Athanasius, Hilary, Basil, Gregory the Theologian, Gregory of Nyssa, Ambrose, Theophilus, John (Chrysostom) of Constantinople, Cyril, Augustine, Proclus, Leo and their writings on the true faith. As, however, the heretics …

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Chrysostom — Galatians through Philemon • SECTION 23

Ver. 11, 12. "See with how large letters I have written unto you with mine own hand. As many as desire to make a fair show in the flesh, the

… Viz., in a false step, en tini paraptomati. [150] Not plerosate, but anaplerosate. [151] ["This explanation of Chrysostom is not satisfactory. The word in all cases appears to denote a complete filling up."--Ellicott. "By …

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The Twelve Patriarchs, Apocrypha, Clementine Homilies & More • SECTION 462

[2663] The otherms. adds: at the humility of Paul.

… Rome" in strictly ecclesiastical history; her barrenness of literature, and of great heroic sons, like Athanasius and Chrysostom in the East, and Cyprian and Augustine in the West; and her decadence as a capital,--had …

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Chrysostom — Homilies on Matthew • SECTION 36

Homily XIII.

… 4. [Chrysostom varies from the LXX., introducing me dei, to strengthen his argument.--R.] [513] Matt. iii. 16. [514] Acts ii. 2. [515] 1 Cor. xiv. 22. [516] Gal. vi. 1. [The immediate reference in …

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Cyril of Jerusalem & Gregory Nazianzen • SECTION 139

But in opposition to all these, do you reckon up for me the expressions which make for your ignorant arrogance, such as "My God and your God

… Hieros., has the expression "Economy of the Mystery" (Cat. xxv.). It is also used absolutely by S. Chrysostom and others. (b) The Providence of God, as by Epiphanius, Greg. Nyss., and others. (c) The Incarnation …

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Basil — Letters and Select Works • SECTION 200

LXXVI. The same rule applies to those who take their own daughters in law.

… ecclesia epitimiois esophronizonto (Zonaras, Ad. Can. v. Conc. Antioch, p. 327), quique dicebantur oi en metanoia ontes. Chrysostom, Hom. iii. in Epist. ad Eph. in S. Coenæ communione clamabat kerux, hosoi en metanoi& 139; apelthete …

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Lactantius, Venantius, Asterius, Victorinus & Others • SECTION 228

Index of Citations

… Liturgies and Offices of the Church: [2862]1 * Liturgies of St. Mark, St. James, St. Clement, St. Chrysostom, and St. Basil: [2863]1 * Liturgies, Eastern and Western: [2864]1 * Liturgy and Ritual of the Celtic …

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The Apostolic Fathers, Justin Martyr & Irenaeus • SECTION 97

Chapter I.--Acknowledgment of her excellence and wisdom.

… On the other hand, however, this account of the death of Ignatius is in perfect harmony with the particulars recounted by Eusebius and Chrysostom regarding him. Its comparative simplicity, too, is greatly in its favour …

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Chrysostom — Galatians through Philemon • SECTION 14

Thus God made a covenant with Abraham, promising that in his seed the blessing should come upon the heathen; and this blessing the Law canno

… here connects them.--G.A.] [75] ["The word means to bewitch by words, to enchant,' and is not to be explained with Chrysostom, who has envied you?' that is, your previous happy condition?"--Meyer.--G …

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Cyril of Jerusalem & Gregory Nazianzen • SECTION 154

XV. I fear lest some monstrous reasoning may come in, as of the soul having lived elsewhere, and then having been bound to this body, and th

… said, This is My beloved Son (In Ezech. I.). There is also a Sermon, attributed to S. Chrysostom, "On the Baptism of Christ," in which it is expressly denied that the name Theophany applies to …

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Chrysostom — Priesthood, Ascetic Treatises & Homilies • SECTION 54

Homily concerning lowliness of mind; and commentary on philippians I. 18.

… These occur in Chrysostom's fifth Homily against the Anomoeans, one of a set of Homilies which, from internal evidence, may be assigned to the close of the year 386, or beginning of 387. The …

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Athanasius — Select Works and Letters • SECTION 29

(47) Fragmenta in Psalmos. Published by Felckmann from the Catena of Nicetas Heracleota, who has used his materials somewhat freely, often c

… of Tertullian, the exaggeration of Jerome, the laboured style of Hilary, the overloaded manner of Augustine and Chrysostom, the imitation of the Attic orators so conspicuous in Gregory; sed totus est in explicanda re.' That …

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Chrysostom — Acts and Romans • SECTION 169

Ver. 16. "For I am not ashamed of the Gospel."

… purpose to carry the gospel to all Gentile nations without distinction of race or culture (so Godet, Hofmann). Chrysostom's exposition proceeds upon the supposition of the simple identity of these statements.--G.B.S.

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Chrysostom — Acts and Romans • SECTION 216

Homily XV.

… of this expressive word. Cf. Luke x. 40.--G.B.S. [1433] These words show that St. Chrysostom does not mean that we do any good unaided, however much he insists on the freedom of …

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Gregory Thaumaturgus, Dionysius, Julius Africanus & Others • SECTION 29

Most of the holy fathers, and patriarchs, and prophets desired to see Him, and to be eye-witnesses of Him, but did not attain hereto. And so

… The feast of the Nativity was introduced into the East by Chrysostom after the records at Rome had been inspected, and the time of the taxing at Bethlehem had been found. See his Sermon (a …

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Chrysostom — Acts and Romans • SECTION 185

For in the case of those who have money lent them, we see that this is what the lenders do, lending, that is, with greater readiness to thos

… great abundance, and obtain everlasting goods, through the grace and love toward man, etc. [1267] So St. Chrysostom here and in the next homily, but in both places some mss. (and Vulg. ante Field) had …

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Lactantius, Venantius, Asterius, Victorinus & Others • SECTION 90

And that nothing may be wanting to the evils of men and the earth, the trumpet shall be heard from heaven, which the Sibyl foretells in this

… be burnt up." [1406] [Not the eve of Easter, but that of the Nativity. This corroborates St. Chrysostom's testimony concerning the observance of that feast in the West. See Opp., Serm. 287, tom. v …

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Chrysostom — Homilies on Matthew • SECTION 90

Homily XXXI.

… v. 27. [1253] Gal. i. 13. [1254] Luke vii. 38. [1255] It appears by this that St. Chrysostom did not consider Nathanael to be the same with St. Bartholomew. [1256] Matt. iii. 6. [1257] paesan …

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Theodoret, Jerome, Gennadius & Rufinus — Historical Writings • SECTION 144

You see the other sect of your teachers, in which you supposed that you had learnt the suffering of the Godhead of the only Begotten, abhors

… Paul's are Cyril of Jerusalem, the two Gregories, Basil, and Chrysostom, as well as Theodoret. [1422] Heb. vi. 18 [1423] 2 Tim. ii. 11-13 [1424] John iii. 16 [1425] Romans v. 10 [1426 …

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Jerome — Principal Works • SECTION 97

Letter LXXVIII. To Fabiola.

… Salvina, however, consecrated her life to deeds of piety, and became one of Chrysostom's deaconesses. Its date is 400 a.d. 1. My desire to do my duty may, I fear, expose me to …

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Chrysostom — Acts and Romans • SECTION 7

Now if thou still questionest that Christ is God, stand away from the Church: be not here, even as a hearer of the Divine Word, and as one o

… For peradventure you do not hear this Book read [at other times] from year's end to year's end." [4] The two reasons which Chrysostom urges for the study of the Acts are also …

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Gregory of Nyssa — Dogmatic Treatises • SECTION 225

Chapter XXXV.

… the matter, as the receptacle of these qualities, remaining the same)? It is in this sense that Chrysostom can say that "Christ came to us, and took upon Him our nature and deified it;" and …

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Socrates and Sozomen — Ecclesiastical Histories • SECTION 137

7. A more subordinate aim is to present selected secular matters so-called; he does not consider these to be wholly foreign to the scope of

… 2, with respect to the manner of Paul's death, or suspends his judgment, because the data are insufficient, as in the application to the empress, of Chrysostom's homily on female peccadilloes (viii. 6 …

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Augustine — Trinity, Doctrinal & Moral Treatises • SECTION 4

"O Light Eterne, sole in thyself that dwellest,

… Lactantius among the Latins, and Chrysostom among the Greeks, are almost the only fathers that have rhetorical grace. And none of them approach the beauty of the classic writers, as seen in the harmonious flow …

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Chrysostom — Galatians through Philemon • SECTION 239

Homily II.

… Titus, surnamed Justus," at Corinth, and a few mss. have the name. In the Syriac, which St. Chrysostom might know, "Titus" stands for "Justus." [W. and Hort. read: Titiou 'Ioustou.--P.S.] [1445] al. "first …

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Augustine — Anti-Pelagian Writings • SECTION 21

TO The Right Reverend The Lord Bishop OF Exeter.

… Basil; in the simplicity and self-denial of Ambrose; in the fervid eloquence of the "golden-mouthed" Chrysostom; in the great learning of Jerome; in the scholastic accuracy of Damascene; and in the varied sacred …

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