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Augustine — Confessions & Letters • SECTION 230

Letter LXXII.

… 404.) To Augustin, My Lord Truly Holy, and Most Blessed Father, Jerome Sends Greeting in the Lord. Chap. I. 1. You are sending me letter upon letter, and often urging me to answer a certain …

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Augustine — Confessions & Letters • SECTION 342

Chap. III.

… 13. [2834] In a letter of Jerome (the eighth) to Demetrias, we have a very graphic narrative of the manner in which Demetrias formed and carried into effect the vow for which she is here …

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Hippolytus, Cyprian, Caius & Novatian • SECTION 60

Chapter XXVIII.--The Valentinian Origin of the Creation.

… only (see Tertullian, Contr. Valent., c. iv; [vol. iii. p. 505, this series]). [714] Bardesianes (or Ardesianes, as Miller's text has it) is evidently the same with Bardesanes, mentioned by Eusebius and St. Jerome.

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Gregory of Nyssa — Dogmatic Treatises • SECTION 214

Chapter XVII.

… Gregory here "divitiæ benignitatis," as if he had found ploutos in the text, which does not appear. Jerome twice translates the chrestotes of LXX. by "bonitas"; Aquila and Symmachus have ti polu to agathon sou …

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The Seven Ecumenical Councils • SECTION 38

Canon XVII.

… c. xi.), "We do not prohibit second marriages, but we do not approve marriages frequently reiterated." St. Jerome had spoken still more strongly (Ep. lxvii., Apol. pro libris adv. Jovin.), "I do not condemn digamists …

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Augustine — Against the Manichaeans and Donatists • SECTION 2

Chapter I.--Literature.

… cum Manete Hæresiarcha; first written in Syriac, and so far belonging to the Oriental Christian Sources (Comp. Jerome, de Vir. Ill. 72), but extant only in a Latin translation, which seems to have been made …

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Basil — Letters and Select Works • SECTION 71

[1458] Ps. cxix. 103.

… kosmon) "by reason of intervening periodical conflagrations." Cudworth, I. iii. 23. [1513] i.e. Origen. [1514] cf. Jerome to Pammachius against John of Jerusalem, § 7 (in this edition vol. vi. p. 428) and Origen's …

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Augustine — Confessions & Letters • SECTION 229

Letter LXX.

… 403.) To My Venerable Lord Jerome, My Esteemed and Holy Brother and Fellow-Presbyter, Augustin Sends Greeting in the Lord. Chap. I. 1. Never since I began to write to you, and to long for …

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Athanasius — Select Works and Letters • SECTION 252

[3637] §49.

… the Council of Aquileia in 381, was it offered by S. Ambrose to Palladius and Secundianus. S. Jerome's account of the apology made by the Fathers of Ariminum is of the same kind. We …

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Eusebius — Church History, Constantine & Oration • SECTION 88

Chapter XXVI.--Menander the Sorcerer.

… in Lucam I.), by Jerome (Præf. in Matt.), and by other later writers. The gospel is no longer extant, though some fragments have been preserved by Clement of Alexandria, e.g. in Strom. II. 9 …

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Eusebius — Church History, Constantine & Oration • SECTION 24

Photius, in his 144th Epistle to Constantine.

… Valesius gives only a Latin translation, and that in a fragmentary form. [11] The remainder of this extract from Sophronius is a translation of the chapter of Jerome's de viris illustribus, which is quoted …

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The Seven Ecumenical Councils • SECTION 273

Canon XI.

… a critic, for the Greek is certainly corrupted." [588] This canon contains the legend, refuted by St. Jerome, that St. John the Baptist was taken by St. Elizabeth away from the danger of Herod's …

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