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Theodoret, Jerome, Gennadius & Rufinus — Historical Writings • SECTION 134
… tes sullepseos henosai heauto ton ex autes lephthenta naon." The great point sought to be asserted was, the union of the two Natures. Gregory of Nazianzus (li. 738) says Ei tis ou theotokon ten Marian …
2,229 wordsAugustine — Exposition on Psalms • SECTION 1
… It was undertaken as part of the great series of original translations which appeared "under the patronage of William, Archbishop of Canterbury, from its commencement, a.d. 1836, until his Grace's departure in peace …
2,293 wordsHippolytus, Cyprian, Caius & Novatian • SECTION 150
… So Gregory Thaumaturgus, Sancta Theophania, p. 106, edit. Vossii: "Thou, when born of the Virgin Mary,...didst not loose her virginity; but didst preserve it, and gifted her with the name of mother." [1801] Luke …
2,268 wordsHippolytus, Cyprian, Caius & Novatian • SECTION 163
… Gregory the Great stood upon the Cyprianic base when he pronounced the author of a scheme for a "universal bishopric" to be a forerunner of Antichrist. It was the spirit of the Decretals to substitute …
2,276 wordsHilary of Poitiers & John of Damascus • SECTION 23
… It will help us to do him justice if we may compare the theories that have been framed concerning another great doctrine, that of the Atonement, and remember that the strangely diverse speculations of Gregory …
2,297 wordsBasil — Letters and Select Works • SECTION 200
… Those who have abandoned their faith in God, laying hands on the tables of the demons and swearing heathen oaths, without under going great violence, should be excluded for three years, hearers for two. When …
2,298 wordsAthanasius — Select Works and Letters • SECTION 164
… For he was at least pricked in his conscience, when Naboth had been murdered, and was afraid at the sight [1741] of Elijah, but this man neither reverenced the great Hosius, nor was wearied or …
2,331 wordsChrysostom — Priesthood, Ascetic Treatises & Homilies • SECTION 11
… a thinker he is behind Athanasius, Gregory of Nyssa, and John of Damascus. He was a rhetorician rather than a logician. Like all the Greek fathers, he laid great stress on free-will and the …
2,306 wordsAugustine — Anti-Pelagian Writings • SECTION 15
… Augustin, nevertheless, received them without hesitation, as they bore themselves with too great simplicity to allow him to suspect them of deception. Now we get a glimpse of life in the great bishop's monastic …
2,271 wordsEusebius — Church History, Constantine & Oration • SECTION 303
… 3 (1859), 226-227; also Chevalier and Hoffmann. (34) Gregory of Tours (ab. 573-594). History of the Franks, 1. 34. Ed. Ruinart (Paris, 1699), 27, &c. (?) History of the Seven Sleepers, do. 1272-1273 …
2,254 wordsCyril of Jerusalem & Gregory Nazianzen • SECTION 154
… It is a great thing to check murder, to punish adultery, to chastise theft; much more to establish piety by law, and to bestow sound doctrine. My word will not be able to do as …
2,298 wordsGregory of Nyssa — Dogmatic Treatises • SECTION 44
… Who does not know how great is the difference in signification between the term "only-begotten" and "first-born?" For "first-born" implies brethren, and "only-begotten" implies that there are no other brethren. Thus …
2,280 wordsGregory of Nyssa — Dogmatic Treatises • SECTION 48
… What need is there of any words of ours to reveal how great is the profanity of such a notion, when the heretical utterance of itself proclaims aloud its monstrosity? For if He was obedient …
2,327 wordsGregory of Nyssa — Dogmatic Treatises • SECTION 69
… and this, Gregory says, puts him at once on a level with the physical creation. [680] Oehler's punctuation seems faulty here. [681] Cf. 1 Cor. xiv. 2. [682] Reading hara tis for ara tis …
2,332 wordsBasil — Letters and Select Works • SECTION 90
Letter II. [1743] Basil to Gregory. 1. [I recognised your letter, as one recognises one's friends' children from their obvious likeness to their parents. Your saying that to describe the kind of place I …
2,324 wordsSocrates and Sozomen — Ecclesiastical Histories • SECTION 182
… Paul, bishop of Constantinople, Athanasius, bishop of Alexandria, the entire multitude of monks, Antony the Great, who still survived, his disciples, and a great number of Egyptians and of other places in the Roman territory …
2,318 wordsTheodoret, Jerome, Gennadius & Rufinus — Historical Writings • SECTION 117
… Gregory, too, whose glory among all men is great, who formerly ruled the Imperial city at the mouth of the Bosphorus and afterwards dwelt at Nazianzus, thus wrote to Cledonius against the specious fallacies of …
2,313 wordsAthanasius — Select Works and Letters • SECTION 143
… All however murmured, and demanded the use of the great Church. And if the pressure was so great during the days which preceded the feast, what would have been the case during the feast itself …
2,354 wordsGregory Thaumaturgus, Dionysius, Julius Africanus & Others • SECTION 173
… Gregory the Great regards the woman as the Christian Church. So Hippolytus: [2824] "By the woman...is meant most manifestly the Church, endued with the Father's Word, whose brightness is above the sun," etc …
2,312 wordsBasil — Letters and Select Works • SECTION 204
… beloved brother Gregory was with me, following the same course of life as myself? Did you ever hear anything of the kind? Was there any appearance of such a thing, small or great? How many …
2,359 wordsCyril of Jerusalem & Gregory Nazianzen • SECTION 158
… In the Eastern Church this Festival is regarded as more particularly the commemoration of our Lord's Baptism, and is accordingly one of the great days for the solemn ministration of the Sacrament. It is …
2,351 wordsAugustine — Trinity, Doctrinal & Moral Treatises • SECTION 3
… And they gave the same epithet to Gregory Nazianzum, because of the acumen and insight of his trinitarian treatises. This work of Augustin adopts the same position, and defends it with an ability second to …
2,310 wordsAugustine — Trinity, Doctrinal & Moral Treatises • SECTION 4
… and hupostasis; which shows that he had not read the work of Gregory of Nyssa, in which it is defined with great clearness. One may have a good knowledge of a language for general purposes …
2,330 wordsTheodoret, Jerome, Gennadius & Rufinus — Historical Writings • SECTION 262
… What then can you now do? The consciences of a great many persons have been wounded by the book which you have published under the name of the martyr; they give no heed to the …
2,370 wordsGregory Thaumaturgus, Dionysius, Julius Africanus & Others • SECTION 76
… When Marcellus, the man of consummate piety, had heard this recital, he burst into a flood of tears, touched with pity for misfortunes so great and so various. But making no delay, he at once …
2,350 wordsJerome — Principal Works • SECTION 181
… Gregory the Great ruled that either form was allowable, the one symbolizing the Unity of the Godhead, the other the Trinity of Persons. [4088] This ceremony together with the kiss of peace and white robes …
2,315 wordsAthanasius — Select Works and Letters • SECTION 2
… Nannius, in 4 volumes; great advance on previous editions. 3 vols. contain the version by Nannius of the genuina,' the fourth spuria,' rendered by others. The Nannian version was ably tested, and found wanting, under …
2,344 wordsGregory of Nyssa — Dogmatic Treatises • SECTION 246
… Seeing that, as the Apostle says, "He Who has begun a good work will also perform it [2233] ", I would exhort you in this also to be an imitator of the great Paul, and to …
2,364 wordsCyril of Jerusalem & Gregory Nazianzen • SECTION 195
… For to make the Trinity consist of Great, Greater, and Greatest, as of Light, Ray, and Sun, the Spirit and the Son and the Father (as is clearly stated in his writings), is a ladder …
2,364 wordsGregory of Nyssa — Dogmatic Treatises • SECTION 29
… instead of a full stop, as Oehler. [159] Gregory replaces sameness' (in the case of the energies in Eunomius argument) by likeness' since the Father and the Son could not be said to be the …
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