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Cyril of Jerusalem & Gregory Nazianzen • SECTION 123
… 179) gives reasons for believing that this was the creed of the council of Antioch, a.d. 363--which accepted the Creed of Nicæa, but explained it in terms capable of a semiarian construction. The …
2,373 wordsThe Seven Ecumenical Councils • SECTION 135
… creed. Moreover, the 150 gathered together at Constantinople set forth our faith, who followed that same confession of faith and explained it. And the consent of the 200 holy fathers gathered for the same faith …
2,307 wordsAugustine — Sermon on the Mount & Gospel Harmony • SECTION 268
… own, [893]463 sq. Creed, taught before Lord's Prayer, [894]274, [895]280, [896]284, [897]288; our mirror, to be repeated morning and evening: the rule of faith, [898]288; repeated by those …
2,227 wordsChrysostom — Corinthians • SECTION 187
… False Apostles, the, were not themselves Corinthians, [592]386; were Jews, [593]271; possessed power of language, [594]272, [595]387; lived in luxury, [596]274; prided themselves on fleshly wisdom, [597]286; gloried in …
2,332 wordsAugustine — Trinity, Doctrinal & Moral Treatises • SECTION 286
… Martyrs to patience, [796]529; forbearance of, to Judas, [797]529; chose and justified the Apostles, [798]533; faith of, saved the old Saints, [799]533; made poor for our sakes, [800]535; poor of …
1,706 wordsSocrates and Sozomen — Ecclesiastical Histories • SECTION 37
… great schism, which grew slowly and culminated with the adoption of the expression filioque' into the Apostles' Creed by the Western church in the eleventh century. On the various degrees of unity and communion recognized …
1,723 wordsTertullian, Minucius Felix, Commodian & Origen • SECTION 125
… The points on which it was held that he had plainly departed from the orthodox faith, were the four following: First, That the souls of men had existed in a previous state, and that their …
2,639 wordsLactantius, Venantius, Asterius, Victorinus & Others • SECTION 221
… Most note-worthy language in this place.] [4183] [Two after the Creed and one before.] [4184] [Two after the Creed and one before.] [4185] [The Anaphora.] [4186] [I have supposed the adverb hosper (as) in …
2,238 wordsCyril of Jerusalem & Gregory Nazianzen • SECTION 72
… Hast thou power to rule (prostenai)? Do this diligently." [1949] Rom. xiv. 9. [1950] Marcellus, Bishop of Ancyra, and his pupil Photinus, are anathematized in the Creed called Makrostichos as holding that Christ first became …
2,291 wordsTertullian — Latin Christianity • SECTION 180
… religion against its heathen persecutors, and the other for its lucid vindication of the church's rule of faith against its heretical assailants. The present work has equal claims on the reader's appreciation, in …
1,488 wordsAthanasius — Select Works and Letters • SECTION 11
… That the legacy of the first world-wide gathering of the Church's rulers is a Rule of Faith moulded by theological reflexion, one in which the gnosis of the Church supplements her pistis, is …
2,554 wordsLeo the Great & Gregory the Great • SECTION 61
… Faith and yet you go against the Faith. You arm yourselves in the name of the Church and yet fight against the Church. Is this what you have learnt from prophets, evangelists, and apostles? to …
2,124 wordsTheodoret, Jerome, Gennadius & Rufinus — Historical Writings • SECTION 237
… as a foreign and not genuine expression or set it down in terms agreeing with the rule of faith which we find him constantly assenting to. There are things, no doubt, which he has developed …
1,619 wordsTheodoret, Jerome, Gennadius & Rufinus — Historical Writings • SECTION 160
… I follow the laws and rules of the apostles. I test my teaching by applying to it, like a rule and measure, the faith laid down by the holy and blessed Fathers at Nicæa. If …
2,395 wordsAugustine — Trinity, Doctrinal & Moral Treatises • SECTION 291
… Rule of Faith, the Creed, [2497]369 sq. Ruth, blessed, though Anna more so, [2498]443; continent widows may not set themselves above: married again to be an ancestor of Christ, [2499]444. Sacraments, of …
2,272 wordsCyril of Jerusalem & Gregory Nazianzen • SECTION 90
… 457 A): "Not in vain was this rule ordained by the Apostles, that in the dread Mysteries remembrance should be made of the departed: for they knew that it is a great gain to them …
2,204 wordsCyril of Jerusalem & Gregory Nazianzen • SECTION 45
… Apostles and their disciples the Faith in One God the Father Almighty, Maker of heaven, and earth, and the sea and all that therein is." Tertullian (de Præscriptione Hæret. cap. xiii.) "The rule of faith …
2,238 wordsThe Twelve Patriarchs, Apocrypha, Clementine Homilies & More • SECTION 471
… From such persons, brethren, keep yourselves aloof, and beware of all who hold a faith and doctrine different from that which the apostles and their successors have held and taught, lest (which may God forbid …
2,803 wordsLeo the Great & Gregory the Great • SECTION 50
… For as in believing the Lord's own resurrection, with a view to strengthen the beginnings of Faith, confidence was much increased by the fact that certain Apostles doubted of the bodily reality of our …
1,967 wordsAthanasius — Select Works and Letters • SECTION 33
… The meeting of the Apostles and Elders' at Jerusalem (Acts xv.) exemplifies the only way in which a practical resolution on a matter affecting a number of persons with independent rights can possibly be arrived …
2,594 wordsTheodoret, Jerome, Gennadius & Rufinus — Historical Writings • SECTION 235
… I wish you to know through full information that the rule of faith which has been set forth above in his writings is that which we must embrace and hold; for it is clearly shown …
2,877 wordsTheodoret, Jerome, Gennadius & Rufinus — Historical Writings • SECTION 236
… On what ground then can his words be worthy of credit when he blames men who have only read quite a few of these books while their rule of faith is kept sacred and their …
2,229 wordsThe Seven Ecumenical Councils • SECTION 26
… Nicæa, and after the holy Council had decided what was the ancient rule for the celebration of Easter, peace and unity of faith were re-established between the East and the West. This is what …
2,223 wordsThe Seven Ecumenical Councils • SECTION 145
… the Godhead and the manhood, inconfusedly, indivisibly and unchangeably [united], so also the rule of piety instructs us that he has two natural wills and two natural operations, as perfect God and perfect man, one …
2,394 wordsAthanasius — Select Works and Letters • SECTION 32
… This rule is the same as applies (de Sent. Dion. 4) to the interpretation of any writings whatever, and carries with it the strict subordination of the allegorical to the historical sense, contended for by …
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