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Hilary of Poitiers & John of Damascus • SECTION 26
… Hence the relation of mankind with Christ is not through his human soul; it was the nature of universal flesh' which He took [314] that has made Him one with us in the Incarnation and …
1,990 wordsHilary of Poitiers & John of Damascus • SECTION 30
… the conventional orthodoxy, sanctioned by Athanasius in his own generation and by Augustine in the next, which interpreted St. Paul's first-born of every creature' as signifying the Incarnation of Christ, and not His …
2,232 wordsHilary of Poitiers & John of Damascus • SECTION 171
… God the Word Incarnate, therefore, did not assume the nature that is regarded as an abstraction in pure thought (for this is not incarnation, but only an imposture and a figment of incarnation), nor the …
2,212 wordsSulpitius Severus, Vincent of Lerins & John Cassian • SECTION 139
… Catholic doctrine of the Incarnation in his work against Nestorius, VII. xxvii. But it is remarkable that, whereas on all the other authorities quoted (Hilary, Ambrose, Jerome, Rufinus, Gregory, Nazianzen, Athanasius, and Chrysostom) a high …
2,208 wordsLeo the Great & Gregory the Great • SECTION 54
… But lest the instruction necessary for the confirmation of faithful spirits or the refutation of heretics should be wanting or not expressed, I have sent the letter of bishop Athanasius of holy memory addressed to …
1,164 wordsAmbrose — Selected Works and Letters • SECTION 92
… For as we read that the Father created the mystery of the Lord's Incarnation, the Spirit too created it; and so too we read that Christ Himself created His own Body. For the Father …
2,074 wordsGregory Thaumaturgus, Dionysius, Julius Africanus & Others • SECTION 68
… In Athanasius, On the Decrees of the Nicene Council, sec. xxv. From the edition BB., Paris, 1698, vol. i. part i. p. 230. Athanasius introduces this fragment in the following terms:--Learn then, ye Christ …
2,210 wordsHilary of Poitiers & John of Damascus • SECTION 168
… In like manner, too, in the Incarnation of the Trinity of the One God the Word of the Holy Trinity, we hold that in one of its subsistences the nature of the Godhead is wholly …
1,194 wordsSocrates and Sozomen — Ecclesiastical Histories • SECTION 275
… of incarnation, [763]46, [764]48, [765]75. Edesius, visits 'India' (Ethiopia), aids in the dissemination of Christianity, and is appointed bishop of Tyre, [766]23. Edessa, study of Greek at, [767]39; Athanasius' presbyters …
2,210 wordsHippolytus, Cyprian, Caius & Novatian • SECTION 147
… For the divine is just the same after the incarnation that it was before the incarnation; in its essence infinite, illimitable, impassible, incomparable, unchangeable, inconvertable, self-potent, [1727] and, in short, subsisting in essence alone …
2,675 wordsTheodoret, Jerome, Gennadius & Rufinus — Historical Writings • SECTION 42
… For these causes, therefore, we declare the innocence and purity of our beloved brethren and fellow-ministers, Athanasius, bishop of Alexandria, Marcellus, bishop of Ancyra in Galatia, and Asclepas, bishop of Gaza, and of all …
2,253 wordsHilary of Poitiers & John of Damascus • SECTION 25
… Just as we saw that Hilary recognises a complete mutual indwelling and interpenetration of Father and Son, so he teaches that in the narrower sphere of the Incarnation there is an equally exact and comprehensive …
2,318 wordsAthanasius — Select Works and Letters • SECTION 254
… For which reasons, thus understanding all that is said in the Gospel, they assured us that they held the same truth about the Word's Incarnation and becoming Man. 8. Questions of words must not …
2,241 wordsCyril of Jerusalem & Gregory Nazianzen • SECTION 143
… 342) he adopts the rendering Create, which he applies to the Incarnation, as in several places does S. Athanasius. But Wordsworth thinks it better to apply the words to the Eternal Generation, as S. Hilary …
2,258 wordsCyril of Jerusalem & Gregory Nazianzen • SECTION 123
… On the Great Athanasius, Bishop of Alexandria. The reference in §22 to "the Council which sat first at Seleucia...and afterwards at this mighty city," leaves no room for doubting that the Oration was delivered …
2,373 wordsGregory of Nyssa — Dogmatic Treatises • SECTION 215
… this moral fitness and consonance with God's nature in the Incarnation, and do not attempt to prove its absolute necessity. Cf. Athanasius, De Incarn. Verb. c. 6; Hooker, Eccles. Pol. V. li. 3; Butler …
837 wordsThe Seven Ecumenical Councils • SECTION 246
… This and no other form, this and no other type, has he chosen to represent his incarnation. Bread he ordered to be brought, but not a representation of the human form, so that idolatry might …
2,202 wordsTheodoret, Jerome, Gennadius & Rufinus — Historical Writings • SECTION 117
… Orth.--Does the far famed Athanasius, brightest light of the church of Alexandria, seem to you to be worthy of credit? Eran.--Certainly, for he ratified his teaching by the suffering he underwent for the …
2,313 wordsLeo the Great & Gregory the Great • SECTION 63
… To Marcian Augustus. (Praising the orthodoxy of Proterius, advocating the public recital by him of passages bearing on the present controversy from the writings of Athanasius and others, and also of the Tome itself in …
1,464 wordsThe Seven Ecumenical Councils • SECTION 146
… For it was right that the flesh should be moved but subject to the divine will, according to the most wise Athanasius. For as his flesh is called and is the flesh of God the …
2,273 wordsLactantius, Venantius, Asterius, Victorinus & Others • SECTION 147
… that he also believe rightly the Incarnation of our Lord Jesus Christ. For the right Faith is, that we believe and confess; that our Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of God, is God and Man …
857 wordsCyril of Jerusalem & Gregory Nazianzen • SECTION 94
… the Incarnation only meant a certain converse between God and Man; and that Christ's Body was not really born of Mary, but was a part of the Godhead converted into flesh. S. Athanasius wrote …
2,437 wordsLeo the Great & Gregory the Great • SECTION 79
… The mystery of the Incarnation demands our joy. Let us be glad in the Lord, dearly-beloved, and rejoice with spiritual joy that there has dawned for us the day of ever-new redemption, of …
2,371 wordsThe Seven Ecumenical Councils • SECTION 142
… thine be done,"--which passage Athanasius, the Confessor of Christ, and Archbishop of the Church of Alexandria, in his book against Apollinaris the heretic, concerning the Trinity and the Incarnation, also understanding the wills to …
2,564 wordsBasil — Letters and Select Works • SECTION 232
… Does he not confuse the doctrine of the incarnation? Has not the oeconomy of salvation been made doubtful to the many on account of his dark and cloudy speculations about it? To collect them all …
2,161 wordsBasil — Letters and Select Works • SECTION 38
… Basil describes the power of God the Word being most distinctly shewn in the oeconomy of the incarnation and His descent to the lowliness and the infirmity of the manhood. cf. Ath. on the Incarnation …
2,165 wordsCyril of Jerusalem & Gregory Nazianzen • SECTION 71
… In the Ecthesis, or Statement of Faith, § 2, Athanasius writes: "Neither do we hold a Son-Father, as do the Sabellians, calling Him of one but (a sole and?) not the same essence, and thus …
2,217 wordsChrysostom — John and Hebrews • SECTION 183
… maintained that our Lord was Priest in His Divine Nature antecedent to the Incarnation. See the Oxford translation of St. Athanasius against Arianism, p. 292, note m. [add p. 267. note l.; cf. also S …
1,015 wordsAmbrose — Selected Works and Letters • SECTION 3
… and Athanasius, and was on this ground attacked by St. Jerome. See Rufinus, Apol. adv. Hieron. II. 23-25. 3. De Incarnationis Dominicæ Sacramento. The book on the Mystery of the Lord's Incarnation owed …
2,202 wordsHilary of Poitiers & John of Damascus • SECTION 31
… The passage is treated at much greater length in Athanasius' Discourses against the Arians, ii. 18 ff., where see Robertson's notes. [205] Trin. xii. 45; at the Incarnation Christ is created in the body …
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