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Jerome — Principal Works • SECTION 145

Letter CXXVII. To Principia.

… After describing her history, character, and favourite studies, Jerome goes on to recount her eminent services in the cause of orthodoxy at a time when, through the efforts of Rufinus, it seemed likely that Origenism …

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Jerome — Principal Works • SECTION 236

Book II.

… We shall, therefore, give, as in the previous case, a list of the texts and the first words of them, only giving Jerome's words where he introduces some original remark of his own, or …

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Jerome — Principal Works • SECTION 20

7. I know you will rejoin that you possess nothing. Why, then, if you are so well prepared for battle, do you not take the field? Perhaps yo

… 5. [198] So Jerome, although the Vulg. has "is." [199] Col. iii. 5, 6. [200] Matt. xxvi. 15. [201] Publicarum libidinum victimæ; words borrowed from Tertullian, de C. F. II. 12. [202] Rom. xii. 1 …

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Chrysostom — Acts and Romans • SECTION 258

Homily XXX.

… Olshausen, Boise).--G.B.S. [1643] This is scarcely historical, except with reference to Arabia. Even St. Jerome on Amos v. 8, implies less. [1644] 2 mss. add hoste deixai philotimias to katorthoma on. The …

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Augustine — Sermon on the Mount & Gospel Harmony • SECTION 2

Examples of Augustin's improvement upon the Vulgate are the omission of the clause, "and despitefully use you" (et calumniantibus vos, Matt.

… of this sage suggestion, almost incomprehensible that Augustin pays no attention to these subjects in his commentaries. Jerome, on the other hand, is quite rich in these departments. 3. He presses the view that the …

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Chrysostom — Corinthians • SECTION 92

[7.] And that thou mayest clearly know how great a thing this is, hear how even Paul, going before an unbelieving judge, made his defence. "

… to point out God's hand in certain minute details of the transaction. It appears from St. Jerome, (1.169.) that Hippolytus, Irenæus' disciple, early in the third century, took the same view. St. Gregory …

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Gregory of Nyssa — Dogmatic Treatises • SECTION 15

[63] Photius reports very much the same as to his style, i.e. he shows a prodigious ostentation:' uses words difficult to pronounce, and abo

… it was then that "the world groaned to find itself Arian" (Jerome). The accursed saint' pale with fast,' i.e. Eustathius, in his Armenian monastery, gave Basil the Great a model for his own. [70 …

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Augustine — Confessions & Letters • SECTION 236

18. I ask you, therefore, and with all urgency press the request, that you forgive me this humble attempt at a discussion of the matter; and

… 14. [1912] Dispensatoria. [1913] "Videntem meum Didymum,"--Didymus of Alexandria, who, at the time when Jerome wrote his book on ecclesiastical writers (A.D. 392), was above ninety-three years of age. He became blind …

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Augustine — Exposition on Psalms • SECTION 76

14. But do those same aliens indeed serve them who are called their own? Hear in what they serve them, observe how they are ridiculed: why h

… So Jerome, Dominus noster conteret Satanam. It is noteworthy that our author attaches no such force to his reading as Mariolatry demands.--C.] [1622] Eph. v. 28, 29. [1623] [See Hippolytus, A.N.F. vol …

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Eusebius — Church History, Constantine & Oration • SECTION 152

[1569] ten legomenen kata Phrugas hairesin. The heresy of Montanus was commonly called the Phrygian heresy because it took its rise in Phryg

… 5. See especially Bk. IV. chap. 27, note 1. [1571] The author of this work is unknown. Jerome (de vir. ill. 37) ascribes it to Rhodo (but see above, chap. 13, note 1). It is …

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Athanasius — Select Works and Letters • SECTION 262

[3808] i.e. July 11, 335, to Nov. 23, 337, see above, p. 496.

… The Easter letters of Athanasius were, until 1842, only known to us by allusions in Jerome (de V. illustr. 87) and others, and by fragments in Cosmas Indicopleustes purporting to be taken from the 2nd …

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Gospel of Peter, Diatessaron, Apocalypse of Peter & Other Early Texts • SECTION 109

Epistle to Gregory

… Much of his exegetical work was still extant in the days of Jerome, who, however, reports that he did more for the Church as a teacher than as a writer. Only fragments of his Commentaries …

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Augustine — Sermon on the Mount & Gospel Harmony • SECTION 47

St. AUGUSTIN:

… and doctrinal works. Dr. Salmond, in his Introductory Notice, gives a discriminating and just estimate of it. Jerome was, in some respects, far better equipped for such a task than Augustin; yet one cannot study …

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Cyril of Jerusalem & Gregory Nazianzen • SECTION 84

[2241] Acts xvii. 32; xxvi. 24.

… for Jerome (Epist. 61) relates that Epiphanius had preached in that place in front of the Lord's sepulchre to clergy and people in the hearing of John the Bishop (Ben. Ed.).

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Chrysostom — John and Hebrews • SECTION 159

Introduction.

… Paul's, yet scholars like Jerome, when distinctly treating of the question, express the old doubts and uncertainties of Origen. The assumption of the Pauline authorship was a convenience in maintaining the authority of the …

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Gregory Thaumaturgus, Dionysius, Julius Africanus & Others • SECTION 183

III. Now consider it thus: "If, you say, the world was created later, not existing before, then we must change the passionless and unchangea

… on which see Epiphanius, quoted by Faber, Difficulties of Romanism, p. 488, ed. 1830. He gives St. Jerome, Opp., ii. p. 177. A learned friend suggests that the Rev. J. Endell Tyler's popular work …

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Jerome — Principal Works • SECTION 213

35. But now we have just sighted land: the foaming billows have been rolling mountain-high: our ship has been borne aloft, or has rushed hea

… 26. [4664] Jerome is perhaps hinting at the opinions of Jovinianus, that there was no other distinction between men than the grand division into righteous and wicked, and drawing from this the inference that whoever …

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Athanasius — Select Works and Letters • SECTION 229

67. Therefore call not the Son a work of good pleasure; nor bring in the doctrine of Valentinus into the Church; but be He the Living Counse

… Tertull. Orat. 4. Natus ex Patri quasi voluntas ex mente procedens. Origen. Periarch. i. 2. §6. S. Jerome notices the same interpretation of by the will of God' in the beginning of Comment. in Ephes …

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Gregory the Great, Ephraim Syrus & Aphrahat • SECTION 86

HYMNS AND HOMILIES

… In the main facts, however, this History is borne out by the Greek authorities--the narrations of three fifth-century historians, Socrates, Sozomen and Theodoret, the brief notices of Jerome, De Viris Illustribus (392), and …

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Chrysostom — Homilies on Matthew • SECTION 109

For tell me, art thou pleased at hearing men blaspheme? Dost thou not rather shudder, and stop thine ears? Surely I think thou dost. Why so?

… Heaven is greater than any, even the first of men who as yet dwells on earth." St. Jerome, in loco. "Finally, it is so utterly impossible that there should be any comparison between John and …

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Eusebius — Church History, Constantine & Oration • SECTION 85

[764] The Synoptic Gospels certainly give the impression that Christ's public ministry lasted but a single year; and were it not for the add

… the state of tradition which was a mere repetition of Origen's position in regard to them. Jerome (de vir. ill. 9 and 18) says that most writers ascribe them to the presbyter John--an …

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Tertullian, Minucius Felix, Commodian & Origen • SECTION 190

37. If any one, indeed, venture to ascribe essential corruption to Him who was made after the image and likeness of God, then, in my opinion

… 379.) Not by Jerome, nor Rufinus, nor Chrysostom. Gregory the Great, Bishop of Rome, is also shown by Lardner (Credib., v. 127) to have quoted "the wisdom of Solomon" only as the sayings of a …

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Augustine — City of God & Christian Doctrine • SECTION 357

Chapter 29.--Of the Beatific Vision.

… out of his chariot to meet thee, and thou tookedst his gifts?" [1676] Or, as the presbyter Jerome rendered it from the Hebrew, "Was not my heart present when the man turned from his chariot …

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Augustine — City of God & Christian Doctrine • SECTION 421

Chapter 19.--The Christian Teacher Must Use Different Styles on Different Occasions.

… Now our prophets were so far from being deficient in the musical training from which this harmony we speak of is most fully learnt, that Jerome, a very learned man, describes even the metres employed …

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Augustine — Exposition on Psalms • SECTION 268

21. "Upon Him shall My sanctification flourish" (ver. 18). Upon whom? Upon Mine Anointed. For when He saith, "Mine anointed," it is the voic

… who were censured by the forty-second Canon of the Council of Trullo. Confer also Papias: St. Jerome, Ep. 22, § 34; Hunneric's Edict. Vict. Vitens. lib. 3. A number of these, in Africa, took …

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Hippolytus, Cyprian, Caius & Novatian • SECTION 325

In an interesting chapter of his Hippolytus, Bishop Wordsworth considers the possibility of the authorship of that work as his, and discusse

… Their tomb is there, and that, too, of their father. [4960] [4956] A defender of the sect of the Cataphrygians. [4957] So Jerome, in the Epistle to Marcellus, says: "There, too, is a holy church …

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Ambrose — Selected Works and Letters • SECTION 3

The life of St. Ambrose was a pattern of the discharge of episcopal duties. He spent much time daily in study and devotion, besides the more

… Greek writers, SS. Didymus, Basil the Great, and Athanasius, and was on this ground attacked by St. Jerome. See Rufinus, Apol. adv. Hieron. II. 23-25. 3. De Incarnationis Dominicæ Sacramento. The book on the …

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Theodoret, Jerome, Gennadius & Rufinus — Historical Writings • SECTION 242

[2837] Rom. xiv. 4

… Rufinus insinuates that Jerome owed and cared more for Origen than he chose to avow. 11. Some time ago, Macarius, a man of distinction from his faith, his learning, his noble birth and his personal …

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Athanasius — Select Works and Letters • SECTION 115

Introduction to the de Sententia Dionysii.

… subordination' of the Son), and spoken (De Orat) as though the highest worship of all were to be reserved for the Father (Jerome ascribes still stronger language to him). Yet there is no real doubt …

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Augustine — Exposition on Psalms • SECTION 26

[567] Lat. XIX.

… Our author agrees with the Septuagint and the Vulgate here, as to "precious stone." Jerome gives coronam obrizam. Gr. obruzon.--C.] [590] Matt. v. 1. [Compare Mal. iii. 17.--C.] [591] John xvii. 1. [592 …

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