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Chrysostom — Galatians through Philemon • SECTION 260

Gomorrah, [1572]358.

… listlessness, [1609]277; how to answer their question, "why Christ came at this time," [1610]ib. Gregory, St. Nazianzen, sermon of, against deferring baptism, [1611]361 (note 3) . Gridiron, an instrument of martyrdom, [1612]336 …

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Sulpitius Severus, Vincent of Lerins & John Cassian • SECTION 464

Chapter V.

… We learn from Gregory Nazianzen (Orat. 51) that the Greek equivalent of the title ho kuriakos anthropos, was a favourite term with the Apollinarians, as it might be taken to favour their view that the …

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Basil — Letters and Select Works • SECTION 50

Chapter XX.

… 1905), and "in the correspondence of Gregory Nazianzen we find him referring to a case where a slave had been made bishop over a small community in the desert. The Christian lady to whom he …

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The Seven Ecumenical Councils • SECTION 67

Canon XII.

Gregory Nazianzen says, in Epistola ad Cæsarienses, with regard to the election of St. Basil. From this what could be more evident than that after this canon was put out the people in the East …

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Cyril of Jerusalem & Gregory Nazianzen • SECTION 95

Division II.--The Writings.

Gregory Nazianzen. Oration I. On Easter and His Reluctance. I. It is the Day of the Resurrection, and my Beginning has good auspices. Let us then keep the Festival with splendour, [2529] and let us …

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The Seven Ecumenical Councils • SECTION 121

Canon VII.

Gregory Nazianzen describes it as a large set of buildings with rooms for the sick, especially for lepers, and also for house-less travellers; "a storehouse of piety, where disease was borne philosophically, and sympathy …

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The Seven Ecumenical Councils • SECTION 21

Canon XIV.

Gregory Nazianzen resigned the Presidency of the First Council of Constantinople, was because he had been translated from his obscure see Sasima (not Nazianzum as Socrates and Jerome say) to the Imperial City. [88] From …

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Leo the Great & Gregory the Great • SECTION 22

Letter XX.

… of which Synod the leader and chief was Cyril of blessed memory bishop of the Alexandrians, the partner and sharer in the preaching and in the Faith of those saints and elect of God, Gregory

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Chrysostom — Priesthood, Ascetic Treatises & Homilies • SECTION 2

Chapter II.--Chrysostom's Youth and Training, a.d. 347-370.

… Even Christian parents, as the father and mother of Gregory Nazianzen, the mother of Chrysostom, and the mother of Augustin, put off the baptism of their offspring, partly no doubt from a very high conception …

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The Seven Ecumenical Councils • SECTION 130

Canon XXV.

… And although Gregory Nazianzen took credit to himself for declining to appoint a "stranger" to make an estimate of the property which of right belonged to the church of Constantinople, and in fact, with a …

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Sulpitius Severus, Vincent of Lerins & John Cassian • SECTION 382

Chapter VI.

… In 373, after the death of Athanasius, he was forced upon the reluctant Church of Alexandria by the Arian Emperor Valens, and according to Gregory Nazianzen a fresh persecution of the orthodox party at once …

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Leo the Great & Gregory the Great • SECTION 136

Chapter XI.

… For, as long before us Gregory Nazianzen of reverend memory has taught, one and the same exhortation does not suit all, inasmuch as neither are all bound together by similarity of character. For the things …

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The Seven Ecumenical Councils • SECTION 82

Introduction on the number of the Canons.

Gregory Nazianzen, who was at that time liable to censure for a breach of the canons which forbade his translation to Constantinople. 8. Its action in continuing the Meletian Schism was condemned at Rome, and …

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The Seven Ecumenical Councils • SECTION 13

Canon V.

Gregory Nazianzen had grown common, for it will be remembered that in refusing to go to the latter sessions of the Second Ecumenical he wrote, "I am resolved to avoid every meeting of bishops, for …

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Sulpitius Severus, Vincent of Lerins & John Cassian • SECTION 125

Chapter XVI.

Gregory Nazianzen, and furnishes materials to St. Ambrose and St. Hilary; yet, as time proceeded a definite heterodoxy was the growing result of his theology, and at length, three hundred years after his death, he …

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Athanasius — Select Works and Letters • SECTION 304

Letter LXI.--Letter to Maximus. (Written about 371 a.d.)

Gregory Nazianzen's tenure of the see of Constantinople (the identification is questioned by Bright, p. 72, but without very cogent reasons), was the son of Alexandrian parents, persons of high social standing, who had …

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