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Socrates and Sozomen — Ecclesiastical Histories • SECTION 137
… As to method in textual criticism, there is none; we find variations in the texts quoted from those of Socrates, Athanasius, and Theodoret, but no more in him than in the rest from one another …
2,335 wordsAthanasius — Select Works and Letters • SECTION 201
… eusebeias just below. vid. §1. n. 13. Such phrases are frequent in Athan. [2497] Prov. viii. 22. Athanasius follows the Sept. rendering of the Hebrew Qanâ. by ektise. The Hebrew sense is appealed to by …
2,351 wordsAthanasius — Select Works and Letters • SECTION 300
… To my Lord, beloved brother, and most-longed-for fellow-minister Epictetus [4700] , Athanasius greeting in the Lord. I thought that all vain talk of all heretics, many as they may be, had been stopped …
2,396 wordsAthanasius — Select Works and Letters • SECTION 181
… He had not the desire of sin;' Aug. Op. Imperf. iv. 48. On the other hand, S. Athanasius expressly calls it Manichean doctrine to consider ten phusin of the flesh hamartian, kai ou ten praxin …
2,358 wordsAugustine — Anti-Pelagian Writings • SECTION 21
… have achieved results of decisive influence on the Church and its deposit of the Christian faith. St. Athanasius, "alone against the world," has often been referred to as a splendid instance of what constancy, aided …
2,376 wordsTheodoret, Jerome, Gennadius & Rufinus — Historical Writings • SECTION 159
… accept the letter written by him as well as that written by the very blessed and sainted Athanasius to the blessed Epictetus, and, before these, the exposition of the faith laid down at Nicæa in …
2,377 wordsTheodoret, Jerome, Gennadius & Rufinus — Historical Writings • SECTION 168
… He was present at Antioch when Athanasius of Perrha was deposed, and also at Chalcedon. The letter may be dated from Nicerte in 450. [1940] Luke ii. 11 [1941] Luke i. 31 [1942] Matt. i …
2,363 wordsHilary of Poitiers & John of Damascus • SECTION 9
… Only the Egyptians, with the exception of George, the intruder into the See of Athanasius, were avowedly Homoousian. Yet of the one hundred and five bishops who professed the Homoeousian Creed, he found some piety …
2,397 wordsAthanasius — Select Works and Letters • SECTION 212
… 197. [2833] Athanasius guards against what is defective in this illustration in the next chapter, but independent of such explanation a mistake as to his meaning would be impossible; and the passage affords a good …
2,389 wordsLeo the Great & Gregory the Great • SECTION 79
… form of doxology which had become associated with Arianism. He could well afford to do as S. Athanasius had done, who ascribes glory to the Father "through the Son" at the conclusion of four treatises …
2,371 wordsAthanasius — Select Works and Letters • SECTION 116
On the Opinion of Dionysius. ------------------------ Letter of Athanasius concerning Dionysius, Bishop of Alexandria, shewing that he too was against the Arian heresy, like the Synod of Nicæa, and that the Arians in vain libel him …
2,415 wordsHilary of Poitiers & John of Damascus • SECTION 19
… ii. § 21 we are told that apparently in the year 349, Athanasius excommunicated Marcellus of Ancyra. It is of course, notorious that he never did so; the mistake is one which Hilary could not possibly …
2,420 wordsTheodoret, Jerome, Gennadius & Rufinus — Historical Writings • SECTION 77
… They preferred to speak of "tres Personæ." Athanasius also spoke of tria prosopa, and thus the words prosopa and Personæ became current among the Nicene party. But about the year 360, the Neo-Nicene party …
2,403 wordsBasil — Letters and Select Works • SECTION 3
… Coele Syria, and Egypt, [65] though he was not so fortunate as to encounter the great pope Athanasius. [66] Probably during this tour he began the friendship with Eusebius of Samosata which lasted so long …
2,346 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 wordsAugustine — Sermon on the Mount & Gospel Harmony • SECTION 165
… to be such by grace before its creation, and became such in the moment of creation. St. Athanasius touches on this subject against the Arians (Orat. i. 46); St. Augustin enlarges on it against the …
2,409 wordsAthanasius — Select Works and Letters • SECTION 230
… Of Sabellius, who left no writings [3274] , the age of Athanasius knew little, except that he identified Father and Son (huiopator), and denied the Trinity of Persons. Most that is told us of Sabellius from …
2,420 wordsBasil — Letters and Select Works • SECTION 255
… Im Ganzen eriunert seine Darstellung wieder an diejenige des Athanasius, dessen Einfluss Man nicht verkennen kann: [2675]1 * d. h. wahrscheinlich gleich persönliche gegenüber, Diese veratorische Dialektik konnte zwar nicht täuschen; wohl aber wurde das …
1,951 wordsThe Twelve Patriarchs, Apocrypha, Clementine Homilies & More • SECTION 1
… instructive," says a forcible thinker, [3] and a disciple of Darwin and Huxley, "to note how closely Athanasius approaches the confines of modern scientific thought." And again he says: "The intellectual atmosphere of Alexandria for …
2,418 wordsHilary of Poitiers & John of Damascus • SECTION 135
… also of Athanasius, Chrysostom, Epiphanius, and, not to mention others, that writer who took the name of Dionysius the Areopagite. Out of all these he culled on every hand the flower of their opinions, and …
2,413 wordsSocrates and Sozomen — Ecclesiastical Histories • SECTION 217
… tell Didymus that Julian has been slain just at this hour; let him communicate this intelligence to Athanasius, the bishop, and let him arise and eat." I have been credibly informed that the friend of …
2,442 wordsAthanasius — Select Works and Letters • SECTION 222
… 44, n. 1. [3072] John vi. 6. [3073] Petavius refers to this passage in proof that S. Athanasius did not in his real judgment consider our Lord ignorant, but went on to admit it in …
2,436 wordsGregory of Nyssa — Dogmatic Treatises • SECTION 8
… destroyed the idea of creation, and made the Deity in a way dependent on His own world. Athanasius, therefore, and his followers were roused to separate the divinity of the Son from everything created. The …
2,422 wordsGregory the Great, Ephraim Syrus & Aphrahat • SECTION 97
… of his Ecclesiastical Chronicle, in enumerating the orthodox contemporaries of Athanasius, mentions, after Ephraim, "the Persian Sage who wrote the Book of Demonstrations;" [328] and again in Part II., supplies his name under a slightly …
2,401 wordsAthanasius — Select Works and Letters • SECTION 7
… Here, as we shall see, Athanasius meets the Arians substantially by St. Paul's method. But the Apologists, under the influence of their philosophy rather than of their religion, start from the cosmological aspect of …
2,429 wordsAthanasius — Select Works and Letters • SECTION 246
… The Council anathematizes every heretical heterodoxy;' not, as Athanasius observes, supr., §7, the Arian. [3536] Our Lord was, as they held, before time, but still created. [3537] This emphatic mention of Scripture is also virtually …
2,418 wordsTheodoret, Jerome, Gennadius & Rufinus — Historical Writings • SECTION 172
… Five times was the famous Athanasius driven from his flock and compelled to dwell in exile; and in the cause of these doctrines strove too his master Alexander. Eustathius, Meletius, and Flavianus, luminaries of the …
2,471 wordsCyril of Jerusalem & Gregory Nazianzen • SECTION 128
… A solidity of thought, the concentration of all that is spread through the writings of Hilary, Basil, and Athanasius, a flow of softened eloquence which does not halt or lose itself for a moment, an …
2,468 wordsAthanasius — Select Works and Letters • SECTION 174
… our Lord be the Father's Image, He ought to resemble Him in being a Father. S. Athanasius answers that God is not as man; with us a son becomes a father because our nature …
2,441 wordsAugustine — Confessions & Letters • SECTION 359
… may be supplied, and the work is not deserted by all, as we have stated above that Athanasius did; for the whole Catholic world knows how necessary it was to the Church that he should …
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