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Eusebius — Church History, Constantine & Oration • SECTION 149

Chapter XIII.--Rhodo and his Account of the Dissension of Marcion.

… in some of his doctrinal positions that he was said to have founded a new sect (so Origen, Hom. in Gen. II. 2). The slightest difference, however, between his teaching and Marcion's would have …

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Lactantius, Venantius, Asterius, Victorinus & Others • SECTION 206

AN ANCIENT HOMILY,

… While it furnishes some historical data for practical theology, it is, in homiletical method and matter, in sharp contrast with the Apostolic writings and with the homilies of Origen. Though referring to Scripture, it has …

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Fathers of the Second Century • SECTION 1

ANTE-NICENE FATHERS

… A qualified inspiration would thus be attributed to them, precisely such as the guarded language of Origen [9] suggested afterwards: hence the deutero-canonical repute of the book, read, like the Apocrypha, for instruction and …

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

The COMMONITORY

… other very signal 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 …

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Eusebius — Church History, Constantine & Oration • SECTION 51

Chapter XIII.--Simon Magus. [360]

… 1; compare also Origen, Contra Celsum, V. 62. Simon taught that this Helen was the first conception of his mind, the mother of all things, the impersonation of the divine intelligence, &c. The Simonians, according …

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Augustine — Sermon on the Mount & Gospel Harmony • SECTION 1

A SELECT LIBRARY

… But it should be remembered that only two of the great expositors of the ancient Church were familiar with Hebrew,--Origen and Jerome. Augustin knew only a few Hebrew words. In the treatise on Christian …

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Gregory of Nyssa — Dogmatic Treatises • SECTION 196

[1781] katakermatizetai

… Here too Gregory follows Origen (c. Cels. vi. 44), who declares that the Powers of evil are for a purpose (in answer to Celsus' objection that the Devil himself, instead of humanity, ought to have …

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Athanasius — Select Works and Letters • SECTION 20

[54] But they complain, p. 104, §8, of coercion not of Erastianism.

… Cyril, like the conservatives generally, is strongly under the influence of Origen (see Caspari iv. 146-162, and of. the Catechesis in Heurtley de Fid. et Symb. 62 with the Regula Fidei in Orig. de …

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Jerome — Principal Works • SECTION 91

Letter LXXI. To Lucinius.

… Of Origen [2252] and Didymus [2253] I have translated a few things, to set before my countrymen some specimens of Greek teaching. The canon of the Hebrew verity [2254] --except the octoteuch [2255] which I …

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Augustine — Anti-Pelagian Writings • SECTION 21

TO The Right Reverend The Lord Bishop OF Exeter.

… Then, again, in the curious learning of the primitive Irenæus; in the critical skill, and wide knowledge, and indomitable labours of Origen; in the catechetical teaching of the elder Cyril; in the chaste descriptive power …

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Athanasius — Select Works and Letters • SECTION 184

[2100] John xvii. 22.

… iii. Cyril. in Joann. lib. v. 2. On the subject of the sins of Angels, vid. Huet. Origen. ii. 5. §16. Petav. Dogm. t. 3. p. 87. Dissert. Bened. in Cyril. Hier. iii. 5. Natal …

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Athanasius — Select Works and Letters • SECTION 212

[2786] Prov. xviii. 3, LXX.

… ii. 9, c. Serm. Maj. de fid. 29. Cyril. de Trin. p. 554. in Joann. p. 168. Origen Periarch. p. 56. Hil. Trin. ix. 1. Ambros. Hexaem. 6. August. de Cons. Ev. i. 7. [2831 …

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Jerome — Principal Works • SECTION 71

Letter LVI. From Augustine.

… When at a subsequent period Rufinus gave to the world what was in Jerome's opinion a misleading version of Origen's First Principles, he appealed to this letter as giving him ample warranty for …

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Eusebius — Church History, Constantine & Oration • SECTION 161

Chapter XXIV.--The Disagreement in Asia.

… 5), and even Origen refers to it (Hom. in Lev. X. 2). The present duration of the fast--forty days exclusive of Sundays--was fixed in the seventh or eighth century. Cf. Sinker's article …

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