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Augustine — City of God & Christian Doctrine • SECTION 2
… Augustin can be no mere rehabilitation of the somewhat threadbare, if not effete, arguments of Justin and Tertullian. [10] In fact, as Augustin considered what was required of him,--to expound the Christian faith, and …
2,238 wordsLactantius, Venantius, Asterius, Victorinus & Others • SECTION 2
… His principal work is The Christian Institutions, or an Introduction to True Religion, in seven books, designed to supersede [12] the less complete treatises of Minucius Felix, Tertullian, and Cyprian. In these books, each of …
2,266 wordsAthanasius — Select Works and Letters • SECTION 245
… On the other hand Tertullian uses it with a protest against the Valentinian sense. Justin has problethen gennema, Tryph. 62. And Nazianzen calls the Almighty Father proboleus of the Holy Spirit. Orat. 29. 2. Arius …
2,250 wordsGregory Thaumaturgus, Dionysius, Julius Africanus & Others • SECTION 37
… in order to confirm their judgment and reverence by such suspense in the conveyance of knowledge, as Tertullian says in his book Against the Valentinians.--Vales. [Vol. iii. p. 503.] [617] Reading elpizein anapeithonton for …
2,264 wordsTertullian, Minucius Felix, Commodian & Origen • SECTION 100
… Rig. (as quoted by Oehler) observes that a comparison of the list of bishops of Rome here given with that given by Tertullian in de Præscr., c. xxxii., seems to show that this metrical piece …
2,203 wordsThe Twelve Patriarchs, Apocrypha, Clementine Homilies & More • SECTION 523
… Jerome; and his writings against Montanism were so forcible as to call forth Tertullian himself, to confute him, if possible. He flourished under Commodus and Severus, and probably until the times of Caracalla. He bears …
2,275 wordsEusebius — Church History, Constantine & Oration • SECTION 386
… In this fanciful idea, which is obviously indefensible from Scripture he is countenanced by the opinions of Tertullian, Tatian, Clement of Alexandria, Origen, Valentinian, and Jerome, some of whom placed it in or above the …
2,271 wordsThe Twelve Patriarchs, Apocrypha, Clementine Homilies & More • SECTION 475
… It agrees with Tertullian's testimony, and he speaks (as a lawyer and expert) from "the registers." Irenæus, speaking less precisely, may be harmonized with these testimonies without violence to what he reports. Bishops of …
2,213 wordsHippolytus, Cyprian, Caius & Novatian • SECTION 143
… pp 334-343; Tertullian, vol. iii. p. 151; Origen, vol. iv. p. 402, etc.; and Cyprian, vol. v., this series.] Against Plato, on the Cause of the Universe. [1579] 1. And this is the passage …
2,277 wordsThe Twelve Patriarchs, Apocrypha, Clementine Homilies & More • SECTION 330
… There seems reason to accept the account of it given by Tertullian, that it was written by an Asiatic presbyter in glorification of St. Paul (who, however, unquestionably occupies only a secondary place in it …
2,243 wordsAugustine — Confessions & Letters • SECTION 11
… bliss, without actual suffering. [65] In the doctrine of the holy communion he stands, like his predecessors, Tertullian and Cyprian, nearer to the Calvinistic than any other theory of a spiritual presence and fruition of …
2,283 wordsTertullian, Minucius Felix, Commodian & Origen • SECTION 99
… See Tertullian, adv. Marc., l. iii. c. xviii. sub. fin.; also adv. Jud., c. x. med. [1479] i.e., all the acts and the experiences of Moses. [1480] Moses. [1481] See Ex. xxiii. 20-23 …
2,222 wordsThe Seven Ecumenical Councils • SECTION 111
… Out of this expression of that great Pontiff, the Gallican clergy drew theirs, that in questions of faith the judgment is, what Tertullian calls, "not to be altered;" what Leo calls, "not to be reconsidered …
2,309 wordsEusebius — Church History, Constantine & Oration • SECTION 87
… 2, 8), so also Tertullian (Adv. Marc. IV. 5), while Clement of Alexandria cites the gospel with the same formula which he uses for the Scriptures in general, and evidently looked upon it as, if …
2,280 wordsAthanasius — Select Works and Letters • SECTION 3
… Although the ascetic tendency was present in Christianity from the first, and had already burst forth into extravagance in such men as Tertullian, it was reserved for the school of Origen, influenced by Platonist ideas …
2,274 wordsLactantius, Venantius, Asterius, Victorinus & Others • SECTION 25
… Justin, Tertullian and other writers attest the same. There were also exorcists in the Jewish synagogues. See Acts xix. 13. [333] Sed. Other editions read et; but the one adopted in the text brings out …
2,298 wordsEusebius — Church History, Constantine & Oration • SECTION 101
… Chief among the chiliasts of the ante-Nicene age were the author of the epistle of Barnabas, Papias, Justin Martyr, Irenæus, and Tertullian; while the principal opponents of the doctrine were Caius, Origen, Dionysius of …
2,279 wordsJerome — Principal Works • SECTION 27
… If you want to know from how many vexations a virgin is free and by how many a wife is fettered you should read Tertullian "to a philosophic friend," [506] and his other treatises on …
2,269 wordsHippolytus, Cyprian, Caius & Novatian • SECTION 150
… by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature." [See vol. iii. p. 317, note 11. Tertullian anticipates the language of the "Athanasian Confession,"--"taking the manhood into God;" applicable, through Christ, to our …
2,268 wordsCyril of Jerusalem & Gregory Nazianzen • SECTION 88
… also bears witness to His Godhead, for he comes to that which is like Himself." [2425] Cf. Tertullian, De Baptismo, c. 7: "Exinde egressi de lavacro perungimur benedictâ unctione." It is clear that the Unction …
2,307 wordsLactantius, Venantius, Asterius, Victorinus & Others • SECTION 54
… See also Tertullian, vol. iii. [65]p. 38, this series, and Minucius, vol. iv. [66]p. 190. Demonology needs further exposition, for Scripture is express in its confirmation of patristic views of the subject.] [866 …
2,293 wordsHippolytus, Cyprian, Caius & Novatian • SECTION 163
… But while Cyprian is the spiritual son and pupil of Tertullian, we must seek his characteristics and the key to his whole ministry in the far-off See and city where the disciples were first …
2,276 wordsEusebius — Church History, Constantine & Oration • SECTION 165
… They are described also by Hippolytus, both in his lost Syntagma (as we can learn from Pseudo-Tertullian, Epiphanius, and Philaster) and in his Philosophumena (VII. 23-24, and X. 19). Other ancient writers that …
2,294 wordsCyril of Jerusalem & Gregory Nazianzen • SECTION 139
… over; and on this account it fell under suspicion, and was rejected by both Arius and Athanasius. Tertullian used it with an explanation which is satisfactory as regards the probole of the Son; but when …
2,285 wordsFathers of the Second Century • SECTION 42
… But I cannot part with Tatian nor think of Tertullian without recalling David's threnode: "There the shield of the mighty is vilely cast away ... . I am distressed for thee, my brother: ... very pleasant hast …
2,285 wordsJerome — Principal Works • SECTION 82
… Similar treatises are ascribed to Tertullian and to Hosius bishop of Cordova, but these have long since perished. Its date is 396 or 397 a.d. Letter LXV. To Principia. A commentary on Ps. XLV …
2,298 wordsThe Apostolic Fathers, Justin Martyr & Irenaeus • SECTION 326
… 14, etc. [3523] Another addition, also found in the Codex Bezæ, and in Tertullian. [3524] Acts x. 28, 29. [3525] Acts x. 47. [3526] Gal. ii. 12, 13. Chapter XIII--Refutation of the opinion, that …
2,303 wordsTertullian — Latin Christianity • SECTION 371
… 1. [7889] Tertullian reads Kurio instead of Kuro, "Cyrus." [7890] Isa. xlv. 1. [7891] Isa. liii. 1, 2. [7892] [See Elucidation III., and also cap. xxv. infra.] [7893] [See De Baptismo, cap. v. p. 344 …
2,305 wordsThe Apostolic Fathers, Justin Martyr & Irenaeus • SECTION 334
… Cyprian and Tertullian confirm the former reading. [3719] Isa. vii. 10-17. [3720] Isa. vii. 13. [3721] Luke i. 42. [3722] Isa. vii. 11. [3723] Eph. iv. 10. [3724] Dan. ii. 34. [3725] Isa. xxviii …
2,307 wordsJerome — Principal Works • SECTION 54
… They are, among the Greeks, Clement, Hippolytus, Origen, Dionysius, Eusebius, Didymus; and, among ourselves, Tertullian, Cyprian, Victorinus, Lactantius, Hilary. What Cyprian said to Fortunatus about the number seven is clear from the letter which he …
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