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Hilary of Poitiers & John of Damascus • SECTION 31
… Dorner's great work on the Doctrine of the Person of Christ, in the English translation, with the Dogmengeschichte of Schwane (ed. 2, 1895) and that of Harnack (ed. 3, 1894) have also been constantly …
2,209 wordsSocrates and Sozomen — Ecclesiastical Histories • SECTION 141
… Gregory the Great mentions him by mistake for Theodoret in Book vii. of his letters; Ep. 34. Nicephorus Callistus: H.E. i. 1. Baronius: An Eccl. Vols. iii.-v., ed. 1707. Bellarmin-Labbe: Dissertationes philologicæ …
2,202 wordsTheodoret, Jerome, Gennadius & Rufinus — Historical Writings • SECTION 164
… Indeed even Gregory the Great when he protested against the title of oecumenical bishop, assumed by John the Faster, did not claim it for himself. [1878] Paul and Barnabas went up to Jerusalem, not to …
2,258 wordsAthanasius — Select Works and Letters • SECTION 176
… For Levi too was already in the loins of his great-grandfather, before his own actual generation, or that of his grandfather. When then the man comes to that age at which nature supplies the …
2,265 wordsTheodoret, Jerome, Gennadius & Rufinus — Historical Writings • SECTION 10
… No better reconciliation between Chalcedon and Constantinople can be proffered than that which Garnerius quotes from the letter said to have been written by Gregory the Great, though sent in the name of Pelagius II …
2,268 wordsGregory of Nyssa — Dogmatic Treatises • SECTION 26
… We need not speculate whether Gregory was aware that the Epistle to the Colossians (quoted below) is an earlier Gospel' than S. John's. [130] Coloss. i. 16. [131] Coloss. i. 16. [132] taxiarchas kai …
2,253 wordsCyril of Jerusalem & Gregory Nazianzen • SECTION 191
… But, O Pascha, great and holy and purifier of all the world--for I will speak to thee as to a living person--O Word of God and Light and Life and Wisdom and Might …
2,241 wordsGregory of Nyssa — Dogmatic Treatises • SECTION 163
On the Making of Man. ------------------------ Gregory, Bishop of Nyssa, to his brother Peter, the servant of God. If we had to honour with rewards of money those who excel in virtue, the whole world of …
2,284 wordsGregory Thaumaturgus, Dionysius, Julius Africanus & Others • SECTION 57
… Of the three hundred and eighty-nine writers enumerated, it appears that nearly two hundred are not in the earlier collections. "The contents of these great collections are, not the works of the Great Fathers …
2,248 wordsTertullian, Minucius Felix, Commodian & Origen • SECTION 191
… 522, this series. [3025] Alexander, dying just after the Nicene Council, was succeeded by the great Athanasius. A Letter to Origen from Africanus About the History of Susanna. ------------------------ Greeting, my lord and son, most worthy …
2,271 wordsSocrates and Sozomen — Ecclesiastical Histories • SECTION 42
… and as the whole Scriptures teaches, and especially the apostle who was the great teacher of the Gentiles, Christ assumed the human nature through which he suffered, from the Virgin Mary. But the summary and …
2,276 wordsCyril of Jerusalem & Gregory Nazianzen • SECTION 17
… It is strange to find that seven hundred years before the great controversy at Nicæa on the introduction of the word Ousia into the Creed, it had been the war-cry of almost as fierce …
2,311 wordsThe Twelve Patriarchs, Apocrypha, Clementine Homilies & More • SECTION 463
… But it never could have been composed by the great Archbishop of Seville; and there is great reason to believe that no Spaniard, but rather some German or Frenchman, began this imposture, "It likewise seems …
2,220 wordsAthanasius — Select Works and Letters • SECTION 258
… For ancient bishops, of the Great Rome and of our city, some 130 years ago, wrote [3749] and censured those who said that the Son was a creature and not coessential with the Father. And …
2,297 wordsSocrates and Sozomen — Ecclesiastical Histories • SECTION 139
… Eustathius, bishop of Sebaste, an ascetic treatise, also attributed to Basil the Great.................................................................. ..................... iii. 14. Eusebius, bishop of Emesa, works.................................................................. . iii. 14. Titus, bishop of Bostra, works.................................................................. ....... iii. 14. Serapion, bishop of Ancyra, works.................................................................. iii …
2,352 wordsCyril of Jerusalem & Gregory Nazianzen • SECTION 196
… Correspondence with Saint Basil the Great, Archbishop of Cæsarea. Ep. I. To Basil His Comrade. (Perhaps about a.d. 357 or 358; in answer to a letter which is not now extant.) I have failed …
2,261 wordsThe Seven Ecumenical Councils • SECTION 7
… While here, at the command of his superiors, and moved by the persuasion of his friends, he wrote that great book which has made his fame, which he entitled "An Exposition of the Sacred and …
2,273 wordsAthanasius — Select Works and Letters • SECTION 161
… Heraclius then published the letter, which reflected great disgrace upon the writer. For whereas, when the great Hosius wrote to Constantius, he had been unable to make out any plausible pretext for his change of …
2,294 wordsGregory the Great, Ephraim Syrus & Aphrahat • SECTION 87
… When summoned with the other prelates to the great Council of Nicæa (a.d. 325), Jacob took Ephraim with him as his attendant or secretary, and brought him into that holy Synod. It is to …
2,258 wordsThe Seven Ecumenical Councils • SECTION 45
… The deacons ought to be seven in number, according to the canon, even if the city be great. Of this you will be persuaded from the Book of the Acts. Notes. Ancient Epitome of Canon …
2,283 wordsHilary of Poitiers & John of Damascus • SECTION 20
… And even Gregory the Great could not surpass the prosaic grotesqueness with which Hilary declares it impious to suppose that God would feed the young ravens, foul carrion birds [164] ; and that the lilies of …
2,304 wordsTheodoret, Jerome, Gennadius & Rufinus — Historical Writings • SECTION 184
… We on the contrary abide in the teaching, and follow in the pious footprints, of the blessed Fathers assembled at Nicæa, and of their illustrious successors, Eustathius of Antioch, Basil of Cæsarea, Gregory, John, Athanasius …
2,276 wordsAugustine — Confessions & Letters • SECTION 11
… Even now, since the Catholic Church has become a Roman Church, he enjoys greater consideration in it than Ambrose, Hilary, Jerome, or Gregory the Great. All this cannot possibly be explained without an interior affinity …
2,283 wordsAmbrose — Selected Works and Letters • SECTION 1
… Obviously the great work on the Faith, De Fide, must be included, and this implied the addition of that on the Holy Spirit. Then the treatise on the Duties of the Clergy, as throwing much …
2,229 wordsThe Seven Ecumenical Councils • SECTION 111
… Baronius will not allow that a letter, confirmed by so great an authority of the Apostolic See, should be attributed to any other power but that which is supreme and indefectible: Bellarmine will not take …
2,309 wordsSocrates and Sozomen — Ecclesiastical Histories • SECTION 132
… What before was a variable matter, became a fixed policy under Theodosius the Great, and in all directions. His weak sons were controlled by both factions alternately. Anthemius, Pulcheria, and Theodosius II. adhered in the …
2,265 wordsBasil — Letters and Select Works • SECTION 17
… The unchaste lad [519] who has some great sin upon his conscience shrinks from taking his place among the faithful, and is ashamed to rank himself with the weepers. So he tries to avoid the …
2,281 wordsEusebius — Church History, Constantine & Oration • SECTION 76
… For although so great a period has already passed by, no one has ventured either to add to or to take from them, but it is inbred in all Jews from their very birth to …
2,269 wordsEusebius — Church History, Constantine & Oration • SECTION 302
… He wrote various works in the Ionic dialect, among others a "history of the deeds of Constantine the Great, in two books," composed at the age of twenty-two. The fragments or resumé are preserved …
2,218 wordsCyril of Jerusalem & Gregory Nazianzen • SECTION 43
… The Great, the Mighty God, the LORD of Hosts, is His name, Great in counsel, and mighty in work. [1033] "For even the Jewish nation had wicked heresies: for of them were...the Pharisees, who …
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