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Theodoret, Jerome, Gennadius & Rufinus — Historical Writings • SECTION 159
… Of this love your piety possesses great wealth, and so has told me what was befitting and given me pleasant news. For to them that fear the Lord what can be pleasanter than the health …
2,377 wordsLactantius, Venantius, Asterius, Victorinus & Others • SECTION 229
… Gracchi: [5024]1 * Gratus: [5025]1 * Gray: [5026]1 * Gregory: [5027]1 * Gregory of Tours: [5028]1 * Gregory the First: [5029]1 * Gregory the Great: [5030]1 * Gresswell: [5031]1 * Hadrian: [5032]1 * Hall: [5033 …
7,710 wordsAthanasius — Select Works and Letters • SECTION 84
… On the other hand, they expressed great indignation against Eusebius and his fellows, and requested that Julius would write to the following effect to those of their number who had written to him. Which accordingly …
2,436 wordsTheodoret, Jerome, Gennadius & Rufinus — Historical Writings • SECTION 77
… He then replied, "The responsibility is too great for us. You who have been dignified with divine grace, and have received illumination from above, will make a better choice." So they left the imperial presence …
2,403 wordsHilary of Poitiers & John of Damascus • SECTION 13
… It was, no doubt, allegorical in its method, and nothing of that kind could survive in competition with Gregory the Great's inimitable Moralia on Job. Hilary's other adaptation from Origen, the Homilies on …
2,403 wordsTheodoret, Jerome, Gennadius & Rufinus — Historical Writings • SECTION 160
… So have I learnt not only from the apostles and prophets but also from the interpreters of their writings, Ignatius, Eustathius, Athanasius, Basil, Gregory, John, and the rest of the lights of the world; and …
2,395 wordsTheodoret, Jerome, Gennadius & Rufinus — Historical Writings • SECTION 283
… God shall break their teeth in their mouth; the Lord shall break the great teeth of the lions. They shall come to nothing, like water that runneth away. He bendeth his bow until they be …
2,402 wordsGregory the Great, Ephraim Syrus & Aphrahat • SECTION 95
… Ephraem Opera, Dillingen, 1562), from whom it has been borrowed by Gerard Voss for his Latin version of Ephraim (Cologne, 1603), and by the editors of Gregory's Works. [302] Not including Ruth, Ezra, Nehemiah …
2,356 wordsTheodoret, Jerome, Gennadius & Rufinus — Historical Writings • SECTION 14
… XXXIV. [132] "Baronius obviously approves of Gregory's remark about Theodoret's lies, that is his errors in the order of events, and out of Book iv. produces no less than fifteen blunders, to say …
2,419 wordsAugustine — Anti-Pelagian Writings • SECTION 22
… In the modern Latin Church he enjoys greater consideration than either Ambrose, or Hilary, or Jerome, or even Gregory the Great; and lastly, and perhaps most strangely, he stands nearest to evangelical Protestantism, and led …
2,398 wordsCyril of Jerusalem & Gregory Nazianzen • SECTION 2
… This view is in some measure confirmed by the fact that "in the great controversy of the day Cyril belonged to the Asiatic party, Jerome to that of Rome. In the Meletian schism also they …
2,431 wordsAugustine — Confessions & Letters • SECTION 14
… Carthage, where he spent a large part of his life, had become, since its restoration and colonization under Augustus Cæsar, an "exceeding great city," in wealth and importance next to Rome. [93] "African Paganism," says …
2,397 wordsGregory of Nyssa — Dogmatic Treatises • SECTION 19
… but that it must have been on the borders of Galatia and Cappadocia is certain from what Gregory says here): Probably Dacora was his paternal estate: Oltiseris the village to which it belonged' (Dict. Christ …
2,446 wordsGregory the Great, Ephraim Syrus & Aphrahat • SECTION 97
… the Persian Sage." [327] --To the like effect, but with fuller information, the great light of the mediæval Jacobite Church, Gregory Barhebræus (d. 1286), in Part I. of his Ecclesiastical Chronicle, in enumerating the orthodox …
2,401 wordsGregory the Great, Ephraim Syrus & Aphrahat • SECTION 35
… I make unreasonable demands, and ask to have great things told me: who can fail to see this? But it is true also that thou hast great things, and knowest well that from a little …
2,474 wordsAthanasius — Select Works and Letters • SECTION 246
… iii. [3565] De Decr. §8. [3566] De Decr. §26. [3567] Sirmium [Mitrowitz on the Save] was a city of lower Pannonia, not far from the Danube, and was the great bulwark of the Illyrian provinces …
2,418 wordsTheodoret, Jerome, Gennadius & Rufinus — Historical Writings • SECTION 172
… great Basil are full of it; as well, as those of his fellow soldiers Gregory and Amphilochius, and of those who in the West have been illustrious teachers of grace, Damasus, bishop of great Rome …
2,471 wordsAthanasius — Select Works and Letters • SECTION 51
… For just as for them who walk after His example, the prize is life everlasting, so for those who walk the opposite way, and not that of virtue, there is great shame, and peril without …
2,463 wordsThe Twelve Patriarchs, Apocrypha, Clementine Homilies & More • SECTION 524
… But there appeared also those who were unprepared and unpractised, and who were still feeble, and unable to bear the tension of a great contest. Of these about ten in number proved abortions; causing great …
2,481 wordsTheodoret, Jerome, Gennadius & Rufinus — Historical Writings • SECTION 266
… I think that I have here lighted on the man who, under the name of Sallustianus Calpurnius, and through the letter written to me by the orator Magnus, raised a not very [3059] great question …
2,467 wordsGregory Thaumaturgus, Dionysius, Julius Africanus & Others • SECTION 20
… Argument XVI.--Gregory Laments His Departure Under a Threefold Comparison; Likening It to Adam's Departure Out of Paradise. To the Prodigal Son's Abandonment of His Father's House, and to the Deportation of …
2,481 wordsGregory the Great, Ephraim Syrus & Aphrahat • SECTION 51
… and Eusebia. See II. 27, note 2. Epistle XLV. To Theoctista, Patrician [153] . Gregory to Theoctista, &c. We ought to give great thanks to Almighty God, that our most pious and most benignant Emperors have …
2,531 wordsGregory of Nyssa — Dogmatic Treatises • SECTION 42
… the quotation is from Ps. xcvi. 6 (LXX.). [268] Cf. S. John i. 18, reading (as S. Gregory seems to have done) theos for hui& 231;s. [269] kai hen pros ton patera ontos. It …
2,532 wordsGregory of Nyssa — Dogmatic Treatises • SECTION 202
… Nothing of incongruity is to be observed in connection with the Divine nature, but it is absolutely necessary to admit that the power of that word is as great as the purpose, lest mixture, or …
2,538 wordsAthanasius — Select Works and Letters • SECTION 15
… its use in Plato is less frequent and less technical, but see the brief account in Liddell and Scott. [34] Gregory Thaumaturgus was the great Origenist influence in northern Asia Minor: the Cappadocian fathers were …
2,511 wordsEusebius — Church History, Constantine & Oration • SECTION 423
… Cyrus the Great, [3622]483. Dalmatius, [3623]584 and note; made Cæsar, [3624]420. Dalmatius, letter of C. to, [3625]439. Daniel, [3626]573, [3627]574. Daniel and the lions, figure of, [3628]532. Daphne …
2,088 wordsChrysostom — Galatians through Philemon • SECTION 258
… Paul when he would correct or show fondness for, [926]229; loss of, too great grief for, [927]349; what children happy, [928]351; good, meet their fathers, [929]356; eaten by women, [930]358 …
2,222 wordsGregory of Nyssa — Dogmatic Treatises • SECTION 27
It was this kind of honour that the great David fully paid, when he confessed to the Lord in a prelude [145] of his psalmody that he loved the Lord, and told all the reasons …
2,507 wordsBasil — Letters and Select Works • SECTION 19
… And how great is the danger of our falling away from the Lord's commandment on account of our own wishes is clear from the words of the Apostle, fulfilling the desires of the flesh …
2,508 wordsThe Seven Ecumenical Councils • SECTION 260
… To surrender all things to God, and not to serve our own wills, is great gain. For says the divine Apostle, "whether ye eat or drink, do all to the glory of God." And Christ …
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