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Cyril of Jerusalem & Gregory Nazianzen • SECTION 10
… as we learn from Cyril's eloquent contemporary, Gregory Nazianzen, Orat. XL. § 46: "The station in which presently after Baptism thou wilt stand before the great sanctuary prefigures the glory from yonder heaven; the psalmody …
2,255 wordsJerome — Principal Works • SECTION 61
… How great a reward might they have with God if their hearts were not set on a temporal prize! With what great exertions do they pursue an empty heritage! Less labour might have purchased for …
2,201 wordsThe Apostolic Fathers, Justin Martyr & Irenaeus • SECTION 114
… VIII. [1762] With regard to the inspiration of the book (Revelation), we deem it superfluous to add another word; for the blessed Gregory Theologus and Cyril, and even men of still older date, Papias, Irenæus …
2,214 wordsGregory of Nyssa — Dogmatic Treatises • SECTION 176
… and they rehearse many such trivialities, unworthy of God's great power and authority, for the overthrow of the doctrine, arguing as though God were not able to restore to man his own, by return …
2,217 wordsAmbrose — Selected Works and Letters • SECTION 302
… The Lord made not only a public but also a private testament, and John signed this testament of His, a witness worthy of so great a Testator. A good testament not of money but of …
2,206 wordsTheodoret, Jerome, Gennadius & Rufinus — Historical Writings • SECTION 158
… Even the great teacher of the world who is wont to style himself last of saints and first of sinners, that he might stop the mouths of liars was compelled to set forth a list …
2,214 wordsTertullian — Latin Christianity • SECTION 278
… The early fathers, Justin Martyr, Clement of Alex., Origen, as well as Didymus of Alex., Gregory Nyssen., and Basil, held distinctly the threefold nature. Our own divines, as is natural, are also divided in views …
2,225 wordsTertullian, Minucius Felix, Commodian & Origen • SECTION 190
… Gregory the Great, Bishop of Rome, is also shown by Lardner (Credib., v. 127) to have quoted "the wisdom of Solomon" only as the sayings of a wise man; not at all as Scripture. The …
2,207 wordsThe Seven Ecumenical Councils • SECTION 245
… John, the deacon and chancellor [of the most holy great Church of Constantinople, in Lat. only] read. [John, the deacon, then read the orthodox refutation, and Gregory, the bishop of Neocæsarea, the Definition of the …
2,205 wordsGregory of Nyssa — Dogmatic Treatises • SECTION 91
… For if one were carefully to investigate the falsehood of these heresies, he would find that they have great similarity to the error of Eunomius. For each of them affects the Jew in his doctrine …
2,214 wordsGregory the Great, Ephraim Syrus & Aphrahat • SECTION 89
… 2)--he appeals to the authority of an unnamed man of great knowledge and judgment, "as closely conversant with the knowledge of all that is true, as he is far removed from worldly wisdom," a …
2,201 wordsThe Seven Ecumenical Councils • SECTION 148
… The Papal Oath as found in the Liber Diurnus [338] taken by each new Pope from the fifth to the eleventh century, in the form probably prescribed by Gregory II., "smites with eternal anathema the …
2,219 wordsJerome — Principal Works • SECTION 56
… The world escaped a great danger, and civil actions and suits concerning succession were saved from a yawning gulf on the day when, despising the bar, he transferred himself to the Church. For, had he …
2,215 wordsCyril of Jerusalem & Gregory Nazianzen • SECTION 19
… to the Great Mogul, brought from the East, and presented to the Bodleian Library. The second we owe to the diligence of Isaac Casaubon, who collated the Catecheses and Epistle to Constantius with a MS …
2,252 wordsAmbrose — Selected Works and Letters • SECTION 3
… His labours in preparing catechumens for baptism were blessed with great success, amongst those taught by him being St. Augustine. But the zeal and courage of the new Bishop were soon tried. The Empress mother …
2,202 wordsGregory Thaumaturgus, Dionysius, Julius Africanus & Others • SECTION 15
… Upon the great, therefore, and those who excel in powers of mind, it is incumbent, as out of their greater abundance and larger wealth, to render greater and worthier praise, according to their capacity, to …
2,245 wordsAthanasius — Select Works and Letters • SECTION 260
… And it came to pass after the death of Gregory that Athanasius returned from the city of Rome and the parts of Italy, and entered Alexandria Paophi xxiv, Coss. Constantius IV, Constans III (October 21 …
2,237 wordsEusebius — Church History, Constantine & Oration • SECTION 22
… Gregory the Great in his Epistle to Eulogius, Bishop of Alexandria. "I have now become one of the number of hearers, to whom your Holiness has taken the pains to write, that we ought to …
2,240 wordsGregory Thaumaturgus, Dionysius, Julius Africanus & Others • SECTION 45
… Some of these were ransomed with difficulty, and only by paying a great sum of money; others of them have not been ransomed to this day. And these facts I have related, brother, not without …
2,223 wordsCyril of Jerusalem & Gregory Nazianzen • SECTION 56
… let us not for short pleasure defile so great, so noble a body: for short and momentary is the sin, but the shame for many years and for ever. Angels walking upon earth are they …
2,240 wordsAthanasius — Select Works and Letters • SECTION 4
… The great Dionysius some half-century before had been involved in controversy with members of his Church both in Alexandria and in the suffragan dioceses of Libya (infr. p. 173). Of the sequel of that …
2,225 wordsThe Twelve Patriarchs, Apocrypha, Clementine Homilies & More • SECTION 491
… Thus Gregory Naz. (Orat. 40) speaks of baptism. See Riddle's Christian Antiqq., p. 484.--Tr. [3165] [This identifies the "seal" with baptism.] [3166] B. adds, "and he sat and listened to the Scriptures of …
2,214 wordsEusebius — Church History, Constantine & Oration • SECTION 276
… 69. "Such is the great temple which the great Creator of the universe, the Word, has built throughout the entire world, making it an intellectual image upon earth of those things which lie above the …
2,219 wordsFathers of the Second Century • SECTION 204
… I have less admiration for the elaborate answers of the great Patriarch of Rome (Gregory), to the scrupulous inquiries of Augustine, than for the instinctive and aphoristic wisdom of poor Theano, in all the darkness …
2,223 wordsEusebius — Church History, Constantine & Oration • SECTION 142
… It is reported [1416] that Marcus Aurelius Cæsar, brother of Antoninus, [1417] being about to engage in battle with the Germans and Sarmatians, was in great trouble on account of his army suffering from thirst …
2,240 wordsThe Seven Ecumenical Councils • SECTION 112
… The most glorious judges and great senate said, If it pleases your reverence, let the most holy patriarch of each province, choosing one or two of his own province and going into the midst, and …
2,239 wordsGregory Thaumaturgus, Dionysius, Julius Africanus & Others • SECTION 178
… But how are we to understand the opinion of Gregory [2895] the theologian, and many others? II. That Origen said that the body was given to the soul as a fetter after the fall, and …
2,239 wordsTheodoret, Jerome, Gennadius & Rufinus — Historical Writings • SECTION 119
… Away then with the flesh as well as with the mind! Let there be no inconsistency in your absurdity." Testimony of the Holy Gregory, bishop of Nyssa. From his sermon on Abraham:-- "So the Word …
2,257 wordsCyril of Jerusalem & Gregory Nazianzen • SECTION 186
… While I, Gregory, who am half dead, and, cleft in twain, torn away from our great union, and dragging along a life of pain which runs not easily, as may be supposed, after separation from …
2,241 wordsGregory of Nyssa — Dogmatic Treatises • SECTION 173
… 9 (in LXX.), where the tree is called, to xulon tou eidenai gnoston kalou kai ponerou. S. Gregory proceeds to ascertain the exact meaning of the word gnoston in the text; the eating is the …
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