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Lactantius, Venantius, Asterius, Victorinus & Others • SECTION 228

Index of Citations

… 3074]72 * Teaching of the Twelve Apostles: [3075]1 [3076]2 * Teachings of the Apostles: [3077]1 * Tertullian: [3078]1 * Testimony of the Catacombs: [3079]1 * Tetralogia Liturgica: [3080]1 [3081]2 * Texte und Untersuchungen …

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Hippolytus, Cyprian, Caius & Novatian • SECTION 311

Qui Ecclesiæ resistitur et resistit,^(g) in ecclesia se esse confidit?

… claims the mediation, of the Great Intercessor. Rev. v. 8; viii. 3, 4; St. John xvii. 8. Tertullian [4649] refers to the responsive "Hallelujah" as "enriched prayer," and the Amen usually accompanied this ejaculation. VI …

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Gregory of Nyssa — Dogmatic Treatises • SECTION 128

[1131] Job xxvi. 7.

… 9. [1208] The theology of Gregory and his master Origen rises above the unconscious Stoicism of Tertullian, and even that of Clement, which has an air of materialistic pantheism about it, owing to his attempt …

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Sulpitius Severus, Vincent of Lerins & John Cassian • SECTION 113

The COMMONITORY

… instances of heretical defection caused by the disregard of antiquity and universality; those of Origen [417] and Tertullian, [418] of both of whom he draws a vivid picture, contrasting them, such as they were before …

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Augustine — Exposition on Psalms • SECTION 83

[1752] Gen. i. 20.

… 35. [1760] [A.N.F. (Tertullian), vol. iii. p. 67, and (Irenæus) vol. i. p. 484, note 9.--C.] [1761] Luke xix. 8. [1762] Mark xii. 42. [1763] Matt. x. 42. [1764] Luke ii. 14 …

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Eusebius — Church History, Constantine & Oration • SECTION 67

Chapter II.--The First Ruler of the Church of Rome.

… It was known to Clement of Rome, Polycarp, Papias, Hermas, &c. (the Muratorian Fragment, however, omits it), and was cited under the name of Peter by Irenæus, Tertullian, and Clement of Alexandria, from whose time …

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Augustine — Anti-Pelagian Writings • SECTION 21

TO The Right Reverend The Lord Bishop OF Exeter.

… scholastic accuracy of Damascene; and in the varied sacred gifts of other Christian worthies, from the impetuous Tertullian and the gentle Cyprian, with all the Gregories of manifold endowments, down to the latest period of …

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Fathers of the Second Century • SECTION 23

[366] [Heb. i. 3. Hermas drips with Scripture like a honeycomb.]

… An anonymous poem (falsely ascribed to Tertullian, but very ancient) did, indeed, give a clue to the solution:-- "--deinde Pius, Hermas cui germine frater, Angelicus Pastor, quia tradita verba locutus." To say that there was …

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Hippolytus, Cyprian, Caius & Novatian • SECTION 40

Chapter XIII.--The Peratic Heresy Not Generally Known.

… 30; Tertullian, Præscript., c. lxvii.; Theodoret, Hæret. Fabul., i. 14; Epiphanius, Advers. Hæres., c. xxviii., xxxvii., and xxxix.; Augustine, De Hæret., c. xix.; Josephus, Antiq. Judaic., i. 2; Suidas on the word "Seth." [512] For …

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Eusebius — Church History, Constantine & Oration • SECTION 284

On Bk. III. chap. 36 § 13.

… had persecuted. Of course, among the good emperors was included the philosophical Marcus Aurelius (cf. e.g. Tertullian's Apol. chap. 5, to which Eusebius refers in Bk. V. chap. 5). It was of Marcus …

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Gregory Thaumaturgus, Dionysius, Julius Africanus & Others • SECTION 217

[3881] i.e., Pluto.

… The words of Tertullian (quoting Varro as his authority) are very distinct: "The consul Gabinius...gave more weight to the decision of the senate than the popular impulse, and forbade their altars (i.e., those …

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