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Sulpitius Severus, Vincent of Lerins & John Cassian • SECTION 132
… Nor is this way of dealing with heresy to be resorted to always, or in every instance, but only in the case of those heresies which are new and recent, and that on their first …
1,253 wordsAthanasius — Select Works and Letters • SECTION 135
… The primary purpose of the letter is to warn the bishops against a formulary which was on the point of being circulated for their acceptance on pain of banishment (§5). The creed in question cannot …
2,671 wordsTheodoret, Jerome, Gennadius & Rufinus — Historical Writings • SECTION 212
… All his writings are contained in twenty-six books namely On faith, Against all heresies, On charity towards all, On fasting, On prayer, On particular affection towards our neighbor, On the resurrection, On the life …
713 wordsTheodoret, Jerome, Gennadius & Rufinus — Historical Writings • SECTION 196
… against the Jews, which he held against Trypho, the leader of the Jews, and also notable volumes Against Marcion, which Irenæus also mentions in the fourth book [2421] Against heresies, also another book Against all …
726 wordsTertullian — Latin Christianity • SECTION 307
… Now if there are no heresies at all but what those who refute them are supposed to have fabricated, then the apostle who predicted them [6671] must have been guilty of falsehood. If, however, there …
715 wordsLactantius, Venantius, Asterius, Victorinus & Others • SECTION 55
… XXX.--Of Avoiding Heresies and Superstitions, and What is the Only True Catholic Church. But since many heresies have existed, and the people of God have been rent into divisions at the instigation of demons …
1,418 wordsAthanasius — Select Works and Letters • SECTION 170
… Thus he deceived Eve; thus he framed former heresies; thus he persuaded Arius at this time to make a show of speaking against those former ones, that he might introduce his own without observation. And …
2,204 wordsEusebius — Church History, Constantine & Oration • SECTION 125
… From them came false Christs, false prophets, false apostles, who divided the unity of the Church by corrupt doctrines uttered against God and against his Christ." 6. The same writer also records the ancient heresies …
2,205 wordsHippolytus, Cyprian, Caius & Novatian • SECTION 89
… Bishop Peter of Alexandria, were employed in his Treatise against all Heresies. This would seem irrefragable proof of the authorship of the Refutation of all Heresies. [946] Gal. v. 3. [947] [He regards the Christian …
781 wordsFathers of the Second Century • SECTION 338
… Heresies, no argument against Christian belief, 550. tested by Scripture, 551. founded on opinion, 554. new inventions, 556. authors of, 556. Heretics, their pretexts for licentiousness, 385. claim all carnal things as lawful, 388. condemn …
2,203 wordsGregory the Great, Ephraim Syrus & Aphrahat • SECTION 89
… Controversies.--Arrived at Edessa, he engaged at once in the conflict against the multiform heresies of the place, old and new--Manichean and Marcionite, as well as Arian. Of all the forms of error he …
2,201 wordsSulpitius Severus, Vincent of Lerins & John Cassian • SECTION 437
… And so one after another out of reaction against heresies they give rise to heresies, and all teach things different from each other, but equally opposed to the faith. And just lately also, i.e …
1,525 wordsAthanasius — Select Works and Letters • SECTION 199
… For these other heresies lie against the truth in some certain respect, either erring concerning the Lord's Body, as if He did not take flesh of Mary, or as if He has not died …
2,242 wordsHippolytus, Cyprian, Caius & Novatian • SECTION 114
… and it must be observed, that having summed up his argument against the heresies derived from carnal and inferior sources, and shown the primal truth, he advances (in chap. xxviii.) to the Nicene position, and …
2,245 wordsThe Apostolic Fathers, Justin Martyr & Irenaeus • SECTION 370
… irenaeus against_heresies_v anf01 irenaeus-against_heresies_v Against Heresies: Book V http://www.ccel.org/ccel/schaff/anf01.ix.vii.html Against Heresies: Book V Preface. In the four preceding books, my very …
2,259 wordsHippolytus, Cyprian, Caius & Novatian • SECTION 238
… blaspheme against God the Father, the Creator, and armed with sacrilegious arms the heretical madness that rebelled against the Church with greater wickedness and determination. 3. But if it is evident that subsequently heresies became …
2,329 wordsTheodoret, Jerome, Gennadius & Rufinus — Historical Writings • SECTION 202
… On Ecclesiastes, On Saul, On the Pythonissa, On the Antichrist, On the resurrection, Against Marcion, On the Passover, Against all heresies, and an exhortation On the praise of our Lord and Saviour, in which he …
837 wordsEusebius — Church History, Constantine & Oration • SECTION 51
… Justin relates these things, and Irenæus also agrees with him in the first book of his work, Against Heresies, where he gives an account of the man [373] and of his profane and impure teaching …
2,324 wordsEusebius — Church History, Constantine & Oration • SECTION 108
… was not yet established; both arose as safeguards against heresy. It was in the time of Hadrian, perhaps, that these speculations began to be regarded as heresies, because they contradicted certain fundamental truths to which …
1,570 wordsAthanasius — Select Works and Letters • SECTION 163
… any one so much as speaks against them, he is dragged before the Governor or the General. 67. Arianism worse than other heresies, because of Persecution. The other heresies also, when the very Truth has …
2,367 wordsGregory Thaumaturgus, Dionysius, Julius Africanus & Others • SECTION 47
… For since of the doctrine, which lately has been set on foot at Ptolemais, a city of Pentapolis, impious and full of blasphemy against Almighty God and the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ; full …
845 wordsLeo the Great & Gregory the Great • SECTION 288
… But, lest their sale should possibly lead to any ill-feeling against yourself, they ought to be disposed of, up to the amount of the debt, in the presence of John our defensor, and their …
873 wordsHilary of Poitiers & John of Damascus • SECTION 45
… And such care was needed, for (§§ 15, 16) heresies were abroad, and chiefly two; the Sabellian which said that Father and Son were mere names or aspects of one Divine Person, and therefore there had …
2,462 wordsAugustine — Anti-Pelagian Writings • SECTION 386
… to the Condemnation of Heresies. What is it, then, that they say, that "subscription was extorted from simple bishops sitting in their places without any Synodal congregation"? Was subscription extorted against such heretics as these …
932 wordsSocrates and Sozomen — Ecclesiastical Histories • SECTION 196
… Ursacius and Valens, Germenius and Auxentius, Demophilus and Caius, having protested against this protestation, the council commanded that the expositions of the other heresies should be read, and likewise that set forth at Nicæa; so …
1,007 wordsLactantius, Venantius, Asterius, Victorinus & Others • SECTION 183
Who Were the Successors of Simon's Impiety, and What Heresies They Set Up. VIII. But when we went forth among the Gentiles to preach the word of life, then the devil wrought in the …
2,818 wordsJerome — Principal Works • SECTION 59
… 8. [1245] That is, Origenistic heresies. [1246] Ps. cxli. 4, acc. to the Gallican Psalter. [1247] Acts ii. 40. [1248] Epiphanius, on a visit to Jerusalem, had preached against Origenism in the presence of John …
1,100 wordsLeo the Great & Gregory the Great • SECTION 54
… Synod of Ephesus against Nestorius, because it has so clearly and carefully set forth the Incarnation of the Word, as to overthrow both Nestorius and Eutyches by anticipation in the heresies of those times. Let …
1,164 wordsAugustine — Against the Manichaeans and Donatists • SECTION 222
… But those who say that heretics baptize truly and lawfully are themselves the men who make, not two, but many baptisms; for since heresies are many in number, the baptisms, too, will be reckoned according …
2,093 wordsThe Seven Ecumenical Councils • SECTION 243
… This heresy is the worst of all heresies. Woe to the iconoclasts! It is the worst of heresies, as it subverts the incarnation (oikonomian ) of our Saviour. [520] [518] Thus far there was no expression …
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