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Gregory Thaumaturgus, Dionysius, Julius Africanus & Others • SECTION 87

[1740] John viii. 44.

… Jews from the times of Philo and Josephus, and was followed in whole or in part by Tertullian, Justin, Irenæus, Clemens Alexandrinus, Athenagoras, Methodius, Cyprian, Lactantius, etc. Consult the note in Migne; [also p. 131 …

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Gregory Thaumaturgus, Dionysius, Julius Africanus & Others • SECTION 131

Introduction.

… 382. [2482] On Tertullian's orthodoxy, see notes, vol. iii. p. 600, etc. [2483] When we consider his refinements about the words substance, idea, image, etc., in the dispute with Celsus, while yet these terms …

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Chrysostom — Corinthians • SECTION 179

Homily XXVII.

… gives the same account as from Tertullian, which Chrysostom here gives. [999] St. Paul's as Mr. Field supposes. [1000] This passage should have been mentioned in the note at the end of Hom. vi …

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Cyril of Jerusalem & Gregory Nazianzen • SECTION 84

[2241] Acts xvii. 32; xxvi. 24.

… the flesh itself perish utterly, for the sake and service of which nothing is allowed to perish." Tertullian himself was probably indebted, as Bp. Lightfoot suggests, to Clemens. Rom. Epist. ad Corinth. xxiv. Cf. Lactant …

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The Seven Ecumenical Councils • SECTION 26

Canon XX.

… standing at prayer on the Lord's day, and during the fifty days between Easter and Pentecost. Tertullian, in a passage in his treatise De Corona Militis, which is often quoted, mentions it amongst other …

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Augustine — Against the Manichaeans and Donatists • SECTION 103

Book XIII.

… Manichæus indeed was not a prophet of Christ, but calls himself an apostle, which is a shameless falsehood; for it is well known that this heresy began not only after Tertullian, but after Cyprian. In …

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Cyril of Jerusalem & Gregory Nazianzen • SECTION 85

THE saME aUTHOR,

… It appears from Tertullian, De Corona, § 3, that the renunciation was made first in the Church, and afterwards in the Baptistery: "When we are going to enter the water, at that moment as well as …

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The Twelve Patriarchs, Apocrypha, Clementine Homilies & More • SECTION 478

Here endeth the first book.

… 550. [Compare this fact with Tertullian's statement, vol. iii. p. 164.] [2915] The kingdom of Edessa was brought to an end and entirely subjected to the Romans in a.d. 217 or 218. [2916 …

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Tertullian — Latin Christianity • SECTION 258

[4860] Luke xvii. 1, 2.

… Kaye, On the Writings of Tertullian, pp. 293, 294, and note 8). [4879] Luke xvii. 14. [4880] Et utique viderit. [4881] Tam opiniosus. [4882] Qua: "I should prefer quia" (Oehler). [4883] Pristino leproso: but doubtful …

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Theodoret, Jerome, Gennadius & Rufinus — Historical Writings • SECTION 280

[3186] Virgil Georg, ii, 473, Æn. i. 746.

… one held by Origen, a second by Tertullian and Lactantius (as to Lactantius what you say is manifestly false), a third by us simple and foolish men, who do not see that, if our opinion …

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