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Jerome — Principal Works • SECTION 71
… From Augustine. Augustine's first letter to Jerome (printed in his correspondence in this Library as Letter XXVIII.): through a series of accidents it was not delivered until nine years after it had been written …
2,390 wordsGregory the Great, Ephraim Syrus & Aphrahat • SECTION 84
… 9), when Gregory's reply to Augustine's interrogatories, which is the main subject of the epistle before us, had not yet been sent. Augustine does not appear to have even arrived in Britain till …
1,861 wordsSulpitius Severus, Vincent of Lerins & John Cassian • SECTION 496
… To the foregoing he adds Rufinus and the blessed Augustine. Rufinus also, a Christian philosopher, with no mean place among Ecclesiastical Doctors testifies as follows of the Lord's Nativity in his Exposition of the …
1,263 wordsThe Seven Ecumenical Councils • SECTION 106
… of these heretics at Ephesus is said to have been due chiefly to the energy of St. Augustine, assisted very materially by a layman living in Constantinople by the name of Marius Mercator. Pelagius and …
1,255 wordsSulpitius Severus, Vincent of Lerins & John Cassian • SECTION 129
… See Prosper's letter to Augustine, August. Opera, Tom. x. The semi-Pelagian doctrine was condemned in the second Council of Orange (a.d. 529), the third and fifth canons of which are directed against …
1,263 wordsAmbrose — Selected Works and Letters • SECTION 287
… Augustine, who was at this time in Milan, and if not himself on the spot, as he may well have been, would at least know whether such an event had taken place. See St. Augustine …
1,348 wordsJerome — Principal Works • SECTION 125
… To Augustine. A short but most friendly letter in which Jerome excuses himself for the freedom with which he has dealt with Augustine's questions (the allusion is to Letter CXII.) and hopes that henceforth …
705 wordsAugustine — Homilies on John & First John • SECTION 1
Title: NPNF1-07. St. Augustine: Homilies on the Gospel of John; Homilies on the First Epistle of John; Soliloquies Creator(s): Augustine, St. Schaff, Philip (1819-1893) (Editor) Print Basis: New York: Christian Literature Publishing …
705 wordsThe Seven Ecumenical Councils • SECTION 55
… Dean Plumptre (whom I am following very closely in this note) believes the earliest evidence of this use of the diocesan seal is in Augustine (Epist. lix. al. ccxvij.) He also refers to Ducange, s …
720 wordsGregory the Great, Ephraim Syrus & Aphrahat • SECTION 60
Augustine's ninth question. I ask also how we should deal with the bishops of Gaul and of the Britons. Answer of the blessed pope Gregory. Over the bishops of Gaul we give thee no …
2,223 wordsAmbrose — Selected Works and Letters • SECTION 2
… Ambrose and Augustine used a recension. But our author seems to have been very independent, and to have made use of several different versions of holy Scripture, translating, as it would seem, often for himself …
2,229 wordsSulpitius Severus, Vincent of Lerins & John Cassian • SECTION 437
… He then left Gaul and came to Africa, where he was convinced by Augustine of the erroneous character of his teaching, and under his influence signed a recantation, which was perhaps drawn up by Augustine …
1,525 wordsHippolytus, Cyprian, Caius & Novatian • SECTION 315
… If any one desires to see these judgments impugned, let him consult Augustine as above. The results of this council are given in Ep. lxxi. p. 378, supra. [4675] Of course this implies a rebuke …
2,238 wordsEusebius — Church History, Constantine & Oration • SECTION 278
… Our chief sources for a knowledge of Donatism are the anti-Donatistic works of Augustine (see The Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, first series, Vol. IV. p. 369 sq.), together with a number of his …
2,307 wordsHippolytus, Cyprian, Caius & Novatian • SECTION 239
… Migne adds, assuming the mediæval system to have been known to Cyprian, as follows]: "Thus far Augustine, whom we have quoted at length, because the passage is opposed to those who strive from this to …
1,579 wordsLeo the Great & Gregory the Great • SECTION 280
… On this account therefore we have taken thought to send to them the servant of God Augustine, the bearer of these presents, whose zeal and earnestness are well known to us, with other servants of …
854 wordsTertullian — Latin Christianity • SECTION 35
… 55.) Here we find the alliterative and epigrammatic genius of Tertullian anticipating a similar poetic charm in Augustine. The Christian maid or matron preferred the Leo to the leno; to be devoured rather than to …
1,599 wordsThe Seven Ecumenical Councils • SECTION 61
… force of the canon. Van Espen, however, reminds his readers of the most interesting case of St. Augustine of Hippo (which he himself narrates in his Epistle CCXIII.) of how he was chosen by his …
874 wordsThe Seven Ecumenical Councils • SECTION 234
… they elected for the province of Carthage Vincent, Fortunatian, and Clarus; for the province of Numidia Alypius, Augustine, and Restitutus; for the province of Byzacena, with the holy Senex Donatian the Primate, Cresconius, Jocundus, and …
875 wordsHippolytus, Cyprian, Caius & Novatian • SECTION 62
… Hær. Fab., i. 5-9; Epiphanius, xxxii. 1, 3, 4; Tertullian, Adv. Valent., c. xxxviii.; and St. Augustine, Hær., xi. Hippolytus, in his remarks on Secundus and Epiphanes, borrows from St. Irenæus. [727] Concerning Ptolemæus …
922 wordsJerome — Principal Works • SECTION 159
… To live on bread is better than to lose the faith. [3891] At this time in Palestine whither he had come as the bearer of letters from Augustine to Jerome and others. [3892] The family …
931 wordsGregory the Great, Ephraim Syrus & Aphrahat • SECTION 56
… Furthermore, let your Fraternity take care to hold as in all respects commended to you the monks whom we despatched to our brother and fellow-bishop Augustine, and for the sake of God display your …
971 wordsThe Seven Ecumenical Councils • SECTION 67
… For instance, Paulinus and Augustine sent one another these eulogiæ. But at Easter the older custom still prevailed; and to invest the matter with more solemnity, instead of the eulogiæ, the consecrated bread, i.e …
991 wordsThe Seven Ecumenical Councils • SECTION 172
… This passage of Augustine also proves that at that time Africa did not observe this precept of the Apostles. Canon LXVIII. It is unlawful for anyone to corrupt or cut up a book of the …
1,000 wordsThe Seven Ecumenical Councils • SECTION 46
… Cyprian, Athanasius, Cyril of Jerusalem, Jerome, Augustine, etc., etc. In fact the Council of Trent (it cannot be denied) only gave expression to the view of all Christian antiquity both East and West, when it …
1,033 wordsSulpitius Severus, Vincent of Lerins & John Cassian • SECTION 117
… Rome. It was common to all sees which could claim an apostle as their Founder. Thus St. Augustine, suggesting a rule for determining what books are to be regarded as Canonical, says, "In Canonicis Scripturis …
1,076 wordsJerome — Principal Works • SECTION 144
… But if you cannot procure it your bishop Augustine is both learned and holy. He will teach you by word of mouth and will give you his opinion, or rather mine, in his own words …
1,085 wordsGregory the Great, Ephraim Syrus & Aphrahat • SECTION 8
… And hearing what he did in the case of our brother Augustine, we bless our Redeemer, because we feel that he fulfils in his deeds the meaning of his name of priest. But there have …
1,972 wordsHippolytus, Cyprian, Caius & Novatian • SECTION 82
… xlv.; Epiphanius, Hær., c. xxv.; Eusebius, Hist. Ecclesiast., iii. 29; Theodoret, Hær. Fab., i. 15; and St. Augustine, Hær., c. v. [But see Clement, vol. ii. p. 373, this series.] [894] [He understands that the …
1,111 wordsEusebius — Church History, Constantine & Oration • SECTION 279
… 312), and is spoken of in high terms by Augustine (Contra Jul. I. 7; Opus imperf. cont. Jul. I. 55), and also by Jerome, who informs us that he wrote a commentary on the Song …
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