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Leo the Great & Gregory the Great • SECTION 110
Book of Pastoral Rule, and Selected Epistles, OF GREGORY THE GREAT BISHOP OF ROME, Translated, with Introduction, Notes, and Indices, by the REV. jAMES bARMBY, d.d., vICAR OF nORTHALLERTON, yORKSHIRE. Prefatory Note. ------------------------ The Text …
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… Know then that I am stricken with so great sorrow that I can scarcely speak; for the dark shades of grief block up the eyes of my soul. Whatever is beheld is sad, whatever is …
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… Amen." Gregory the Elder was now aged and infirm, and began to feel his need of a Coadjutor in his pastoral duties. So, by the great desire of the people of Nazianzus, he ordained his …
2,342 wordsLeo the Great & Gregory the Great • SECTION 111
With regard to the state of things in the ecclesiastical sphere during Gregory's popedom, it may be observed first, that there was now a comparative cessation for a time of controversial warfare. The battle …
2,593 wordsGregory of Nyssa — Dogmatic Treatises • SECTION 13
… The sheets' which Gregory says that he has collected are the 12 Books that follow. They are written in reply to Eunomius' pamphlet, Apologia Apologiæ,' itself a reply to Basil's Refutation. The other pamphlet …
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… He avoided a rock upon which Gregory runs; for with Gregory not only matter but created spirit as well vanish in idealism. There remain with him only the nooumena and God.
2,422 wordsCyril of Jerusalem & Gregory Nazianzen • SECTION 128
… Readiness of Dialectic was the great characteristic of his Sect, and it was they who introduced into the Capital that bad spirit of theological disputatiousness which Gregory deplores in the first of these famous Orations …
2,468 wordsBasil — Letters and Select Works • SECTION 60
… Gregory, bishop of Neocæsarea, known as Gregorius Thaumaturgus, or Gregory the Wonder-worker. To the modern reader "Gregory the Great" more naturally suggests Gregory of Nazianzus, but this he hardly was to his friend and …
1,118 wordsSocrates and Sozomen — Ecclesiastical Histories • SECTION 75
Chapter XXVII.--Of Gregory Thaumaturgus (the Wonder-Worker). But since from the likeness of the name, and the title of the books attributed to Gregory, persons are liable to confound very different parties, it is …
1,369 wordsLeo the Great & Gregory the Great • SECTION 240
… Further, I beg you to pardon me for replying to your letters with brevity; for I am pressed by such great tribulations that it is not allowed me either to read or to speak much …
1,161 wordsGregory Thaumaturgus, Dionysius, Julius Africanus & Others • SECTION 2
… One strange story told of him by Gregory of Nyssa is to the effect that, as Gregory was meditating on the great matter of the right way to worship the true God, suddenly two glorious …
1,641 wordsGospel of Peter, Diatessaron, Apocalypse of Peter & Other Early Texts • SECTION 111
Letter of Origen to Gregory. ------------------------ When and to whom the Learning derived from Philosophy may be of Service for the Exposition of the Holy Scriptures; with a lively Personal Appeal. This letter to Gregory, afterwards …
1,480 wordsBasil — Letters and Select Works • SECTION 118
Letter XLVII. [2157] To Gregory. [2158] "Who will give me wings like a dove? [2159] Or how can my old age be so renewed that I can travel to your affection, satisfy my deep longing …
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… Indeed, although Eunomius, [644] who was then their champion, and many others on the side of the Arians were considered men of great eloquence, yet whenever they attempted to enter into controversy with Gregory and …
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… 484) remarks, a great difference between Gregory and Origen. Both speak of an "eternal sabbath," which will end the circle of our destinies. But Origen, after all the progress and peregrinations of the soul, which …
2,251 wordsLeo the Great & Gregory the Great • SECTION 265
… That, whatever her misdemeanours, Gregory might not have heard of them, knowing of her only as a faithful Catholic, and a supporter of the Church; 3. That no such misdemeanours had become notorious when Gregory …
1,154 wordsGregory the Great, Ephraim Syrus & Aphrahat • SECTION 37
[104] Candidus had been sent by Gregory to Gaul as rector patrimonii there. See previous Epistles. Book X. Epistle X. To Romanus, Guardian (Defensorem). Gregory to Romanus, our guardian in Sicily. It has been reported …
961 wordsTheodoret, Jerome, Gennadius & Rufinus — Historical Writings • SECTION 210
… Replies to him have been made by Apollinarius, Didymus, Basil of Cæsarea, Gregory Nazianzen, and Gregory of Nyssa. [2553] Bishop 360, died before 396. Chapter CXXI. Priscillianus, [2554] bishop of Abila, belonged to the party …
714 wordsGregory of Nyssa — Dogmatic Treatises • SECTION 196
… So Great Catechism, c. 26 (fin.). Here too Gregory follows Origen (c. Cels. vi. 44), who declares that the Powers of evil are for a purpose (in answer to Celsus' objection that the Devil himself …
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[1861] Macrina may be here alluding to Gregory's brotherly affection for her. [1862] But on high A record lives of thine identity! Thou shalt not lose one charm of lip or eye; The hues …
2,337 wordsBasil — Letters and Select Works • SECTION 144
… For it is the part of a really great man not only to be sufficient for great things, but by his own influence to make small things great. But what is to be done to …
1,278 wordsBasil — Letters and Select Works • SECTION 3
… the group. [47] But if we except Basil's affection for Gregory of Nazianzus, of none of these intimacies is the interest so great as of that which is recorded to have been formed between …
2,346 wordsCyril of Jerusalem & Gregory Nazianzen • SECTION 207
… A recommendation of one Amazonius, whose learning was much respected by Gregory.) I wish well to all my friends. And when I speak of friends, I mean honourable and good men, linked with me in …
1,030 wordsLeo the Great & Gregory the Great • SECTION 120
… The view opened to us through this long series of letters into the mind and character of the great Gregory is of peculiar interest. The man himself stands out before us therein self-disclosed; his …
1,587 wordsLeo the Great & Gregory the Great • SECTION 201
… 44, note 1. [1426] Maximianus (as appears from Epistle 34), whom Gregory had himself appointed bishop of Syracuse. Cf. II. 7, and note. [1427] This Eusebius was an abbot in Sicily. Letters follow about him …
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… 369 to commend to him Nicobulus, Gregory's nephew by marriage, the husband of Alypiana, daughter of his sister Gorgonia. This Nicobulus was a man of great wealth and ability, but much disinclined for public …
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… Now we have learnt that Pastor, who labours under exceeding weakness of sight, having a wife and two slaves, who also had formerly been with the glorious lady Jonatha, is suffering from great need. Wherefore …
1,340 wordsLeo the Great & Gregory the Great • SECTION 180
… Wherefore, while there is time, while it is allowed, fly thou from the animadversion which is of so great dreadfulness: consider what is written; Whatsoever thine hand findeth to do, do it with thy might …
1,939 wordsLeo the Great & Gregory the Great • SECTION 112
[There is indeed a passage in one of Gregory's Epistles (II. 52) which has been taken to imply a claim to jurisdiction over them. (See note on passage in Migne's Patrologia.) Natalis, bishop …
2,226 wordsAthanasius — Select Works and Letters • SECTION 155
… Send also Gregory as Bishop to Alexandria, for he too is able to strengthen our heresy.' 10. Violent Intrusion of Gregory. Accordingly Constantius at once writes letters, and commences a persecution against all, and sends …
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