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Augustine — Anti-Pelagian Writings • SECTION 126

Chapter 24 [XXII.]--Sin and the Penalty of Sin the Same.

… 5. [1194] The tribune Marcellinus had been put to death in the September of 413, "having, though innocent, fallen a victim to the cruel hatred of the tyrant Heraclius," as Jerome writes in his book …

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Augustine — Sermon on the Mount & Gospel Harmony • SECTION 4

Chapter II.

… Spiritual mourning in general (Ambrose, Jerome, Tholuck, etc.) sorrow according to God (2 Cor. vii. 10). We are helped to the meaning by comparing the woe on those that laugh (Luke vi. 22); that is …

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Basil — Letters and Select Works • SECTION 142

Letter XCIII. [2328]

… Cyprian, De Lapsis cxxxii.; Jerome, Ep. cxxv. Abuses of the practice soon led to prohibition. So an Armenian Canon of the fourth century (Canones Isaaci, in Mai, Script. Vet. Nov. Coll. x. 280) and the …

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Augustine — City of God & Christian Doctrine • SECTION 4

Book I.

… the imperfect Latin version of his day, and was at first even opposed to the revision of Jerome.--P.S.] [31] Jas. iv. 6 and 1 Pet. v. 5. [32] Virgil, Æneid, vi. 854. [Parcere …

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Basil — Letters and Select Works • SECTION 62

Introduction to the Hexæmeron.

… would rank it with the works of Plato and Demosthenes. Suidas singles it out for special praise. Jerome (De Viris Illust.) among Basil's works names only the Hexæmeron, the De Sp. Scto, and the …

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Augustine — Anti-Pelagian Writings • SECTION 44

Chapter 47.--From the Epistle to the Colossians.

… and unto them that look for Him shall He appear the second time, without sin, unto salvation." [383] [376] Amongst the Latins, as Jerome tells us in more than one passage (see his Commentaries, on …

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Socrates and Sozomen — Ecclesiastical Histories • SECTION 75

Chapter XXVII.--Of Gregory Thaumaturgus (the Wonder-Worker).

… call him uniformly Navatus, ignoring or confusing him with another person whose name is strictly Novatus. Cf. Jerome, Scriptor. Eccles. LXX.; also Smith and Wace, Dict. of Christ. Biog. [651] This was the great Seventh …

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Theodoret, Jerome, Gennadius & Rufinus — Historical Writings • SECTION 250

[2912] Eph. iv. 16

… upon Origen; so you will do well. Fare ye well." [2922] Didymus, the blind teacher of Alexandria. Jerome who admired him, though he was a disciple of Origen, delights in calling him, in contrast to …

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Ambrose — Selected Works and Letters • SECTION 262

Introduction.

… a.d. 377. [3301] [3301] It is interesting to compare with this treatise the letter of St. Jerome to Furia on the same subject, No. 54, Vol. VI. of this series. The Treatise Concerning Widows …

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Athanasius — Select Works and Letters • SECTION 40

Introduction to the Treatise

… Gentes ------------------------ This treatise and that which follows it form in reality two parts of a single work. Jerome (De Script. Eccl.) refers to them as Adversus Gentes Libri Duo.' They are, however, more commonly distinguished …

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Augustine — Against the Manichaeans and Donatists • SECTION 33

Chapter 32.--Praise of the Clergy.

… subjective. The ascetics of that age with whose history we are acquainted were not of this type. Jerome is an example.--A.H.N.] [143] Tit. i. 15. [144] Matt. xv. 11. [145] 1 Cor …

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Eusebius — Church History, Constantine & Oration • SECTION 52

Chapter XIV.--The Preaching of the Apostle Peter in Rome.

… The tradition that he was for twenty-five years bishop of Rome is first recorded by Jerome (de vir. ill. c. 1), and since his time has been almost universally accepted in the Roman Catholic …

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Sulpitius Severus, Vincent of Lerins & John Cassian • SECTION 1

A SELECT LIBRARY

… a.d. 420. He was thus a contemporary of the two great Fathers of the Church, St. Jerome and St. Augustine. The former refers to him in his Commentary on the 36th chapter of Ezekiel …

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Leo the Great & Gregory the Great • SECTION 12

IX. These injunctions to be carried out without contentiousness.

… of women who have lost their virginity by their own fault as viduæ antequam nuptæ, and S. Jerome, using the same expression (Lett. to Eustochius on the preservation of Virginity), implies that they very often …

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Jerome — Principal Works • SECTION 39

Letter XXXVIII. To Marcella.

… Many censured her for what they deemed her fanaticism, and Jerome, as her spiritual adviser, came in for some of the blame. In the present letter he defends her conduct, and declares that persons who …

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Tertullian — Latin Christianity • SECTION 399

Chapter III.--Carpocrates, Cerinthus, Ebion.

… 16. [8380] i.e., as Rig.'s quotation from Jerome's Indiculus (in Oehler) shows, "because in so far as, Christ observed it." Chapter IV.--Valentinus, Ptolemy and Secundus, Heracleon. Valentinus the heretic, moreover, introduced …

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Hilary of Poitiers & John of Damascus • SECTION 200

Chapter XXV.--Concerning the Circumcision.

… 8, 9, 10. [2719] Jerome on Daniel, ch. vii. [2720] Chrys., Hom. 3 in 2 Thess. [2721] Text, hagiosunen . Variants, agathosunen, dikaiosunen . Old trans. "justitiam," but Faber has "bonitatem." [2722] 2 Thess. ii. 9. [2723 …

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Jerome — Principal Works • SECTION 245

Preface to the Book on the Sites and Names of Hebrew Places.

… Virgil, Ec., vi. 10. [5381] Ipsa testimonia. This is what he calls in other places Hebraica veritas. Jerome was right in the main in correcting the LXX, and other Greek versions by the Hebrew. He …

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