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Chrysostom — Galatians through Philemon • SECTION 196
[1158] ohieratai. [1159] This is urged by Tertullian, Apol. i. § 30, and Address to Scapula, § 2. See also St. Justin, M. Apol. i. § 23. [1160] narkan. [1161] See on Rom. xiii. 6, Hom. xxiii. [1162 …
2,411 wordsJerome — Principal Works • SECTION 53
… Read Tertullian, read Cyprian, read Ambrose, and either accuse me with them or acquit me with them. My critics resemble the characters of Plautus. Their only wit lies in detraction; and they try to make …
2,363 wordsCyril of Jerusalem & Gregory Nazianzen • SECTION 11
… In the Latin Church "neither Tertullian, Cyprian, Ambrose, Augustine, Jerome, nor any of the Latin Fathers, makes mention of Confirmation in this sense. Nor have the Greeks any word to answer to this Latin term …
2,427 wordsThe Twelve Patriarchs, Apocrypha, Clementine Homilies & More • SECTION 513
… The majority believe, as it is affirmed also in the Dispute between Jason and Papiscus, and as Tertullian in his book Against Praxeas contends, and as Hilarius too, in his exposition of one of the …
2,382 wordsHippolytus, Cyprian, Caius & Novatian • SECTION 321
… Compare Tertullian, vol. iii. p. 712.] [4840] Ps. cxiii. 13. [4841] Isa. vi. 10. [4842] "Coguntur," or "coquuntur,"--"are matured." [4843] [The heathen attributed this pestilence to the "atheism" of Christians, and hence persecuted them …
2,371 wordsTheodoret, Jerome, Gennadius & Rufinus — Historical Writings • SECTION 268
… I think that this was the opinion of Tertullian or Lactantius among the Latins, perhaps also of a few others. Others assert that God is every day making new souls and infusing them into the …
2,396 wordsTheodoret, Jerome, Gennadius & Rufinus — Historical Writings • SECTION 77
… But praying towards the East is specially a primitive Christian custom, among the earliest authorities being Tertullian (Apol. XVI.) and Clemens Al. (Stromat. VII. 7). [690] Matthew xxvii. 24 [691] "Locus densis," says Valesius, "tenebris …
2,403 wordsGospel of Peter, Diatessaron, Apocalypse of Peter & Other Early Texts • SECTION 101
… of the Epistle to Diognetus, who all belonged to the second century and wrote in Greek; and Tertullian, Minucius Felix, Arnobius, and Lactantius, who wrote in Latin, and Clement and Origen who wrote in Greek …
2,407 wordsCyril of Jerusalem & Gregory Nazianzen • SECTION 76
… 283; and Tertullian (Adv. Marcion. IV. 6): "His whole aim centres in this that he may establish a diversity between the Old and New Testaments, so that his own Christ may be separate from the …
2,451 wordsHippolytus, Cyprian, Caius & Novatian • SECTION 317
… Dedicatory.] [4817] Obviously imitating Tertullian's treatise De Spectaculis. [See vol. iii. p. 79.] [4818] He then prosecutes the subject, by going through the several kinds of public exhibitions, and sets forth, a little more …
2,395 wordsThe Seven Ecumenical Councils • SECTION 9
… Pamphilus the Martyr is quoted as asserting that Origen used the very word in the Nicene sense. Tertullian also uses the expression "of one substance" (unius substantiæ) in two places, and it would seem that …
2,407 wordsAthanasius — Select Works and Letters • SECTION 230
… This consequence can only be avoided by falling into the Sabellian alternative of a theos diphues (cf. Tertullian's Deum versipellem'), unless the true solution, that of the eternal divine gennesis, be accepted (§3 worked …
2,420 wordsGregory of Nyssa — Dogmatic Treatises • SECTION 199
… not for that we would be unclothed, but clothed upon." Tertullian's words (de resurr. carnis c. 52) deserve to be quoted, "Seritur granum sine folliculi veste, sine fundamento spicæ, sine munimento aristæ, sine superbiâ …
2,387 wordsAugustine — Exposition on Psalms • SECTION 279
… 4, etc. [5774] This is probably taken from Tertullian, Apol. c. 3: "What when the generality run upon an hatred of this name with eyes so closed, that, in bearing favourable testimony to any one …
2,400 wordsThe Twelve Patriarchs, Apocrypha, Clementine Homilies & More • SECTION 1
… Origen quotes from it, and Tertullian is supposed to have borrowed from it one of his expositions, as will be noted in its place. Lardner clears it from charges of Ebionitism, [7] but thinks the …
2,418 wordsAugustine — Anti-Pelagian Writings • SECTION 22
… The chief writers of the West, especially Tertullian and Cyprian in the third century, and Hilary of Poitiers and (notably) Ambrose in the fourth century, prominently state the doctrine of man's corruption, and the …
2,398 wordsAugustine — Confessions & Letters • SECTION 14
… goddess of Phoenicia under a new name." The luxury of the period is described by Jerome and Tertullian, when they denounce the custom of painting the face and tiring the head, and the prodigality that …
2,397 wordsFathers of the Second Century • SECTION 9
… a remedy.--Vat. [This whole passage seems to refer to the separation of penitents under canonical discipline. Tertullian, Pudicit., capp. 5, 13, and De Penitent., cap. 9. 2 Thess. iii. 14.] [172] Bear ... words. Give …
2,446 wordsTertullian — Latin Christianity • SECTION 259
… This is probably more than Tertullian meant to say. [4964] Aliqua notitia afflatus. [4965] Isa. lviii. 7. [4966] In the same passage. [4967] For the history of Zacchæus, see Luke xix. 1-10. [4968] Isa …
2,426 wordsAthanasius — Select Works and Letters • SECTION 12
… 84, between homoousios and monoousios is without real meaning (we say with Tertullian of one substance'). On the whole in mature years he held that the title Son' was sufficient to secure the Trinity of …
2,434 wordsGregory of Nyssa — Dogmatic Treatises • SECTION 8
… It is that of Tertullian and some Greek Fathers also: and goes by the name of traducianism.' The soul is transmitted in the generating seed. This of course is the opposite pole to Origen's …
2,422 wordsHilary of Poitiers & John of Damascus • SECTION 10
… Though no such attention has been devoted to the growth of this work as Noeldechen has paid to that of the treatises of Tertullian, yet some account of the process can be given. For although …
2,444 wordsAthanasius — Select Works and Letters • SECTION 124
… 2021^b (the reference to Tertullian is not relevant), Eichhorn, pp. 4, sqq., 28-30. [995] askes*s (so throughout the Vita). [996] Probably the word has in this place the sense of a monk …
2,435 wordsLactantius, Venantius, Asterius, Victorinus & Others • SECTION 16
… by Christians from the earliest ages for their religious assemblies, is gathered from the express testimony of Tertullian, Cyprian, and other early writers. They were called ecclesiæ; churches, not temples. [For kuriako`n, dominicum, basilica …
2,458 wordsTheodoret, Jerome, Gennadius & Rufinus — Historical Writings • SECTION 112
… Fab. i. 24) in the reign of Antoninus, a.d. 138-161, is described by the Ps. Tertullian as denying that Christ came in the substance of the flesh, but in appearance only. According to …
2,454 wordsFathers of the Second Century • SECTION 225
… It is curious to trace the influence of Clement, through Tertullian and St. Augustine, upon the systems of the schoolmen, and again, through them, on the Teutonic reformers. The mysticism of Fénelon as well, may …
2,480 wordsTertullian — Latin Christianity • SECTION 433
… impressions, but, the fact that they have never been reputed other than Catholic, goes far to explain Tertullian's position for years after he had withdrawn from communion with the vacillating Victor.] [8975] Joel ii …
2,470 wordsTheodoret, Jerome, Gennadius & Rufinus — Historical Writings • SECTION 279
… In the case of Tertullian we praise his great talent, but we condemn his heresy. In that of Origen we admire his knowledge of the Scriptures, but nevertheless we do not accept his false doctrine …
2,458 wordsThe Twelve Patriarchs, Apocrypha, Clementine Homilies & More • SECTION 476
… For Tertullian's testimony, see vol. iii. p. 258, note 9. [2886] De Maistre, thinking to overthrow the Anglicans, and imagining the Thirty-nine Articles to be "terms of communion" in the Anglican Church, where …
2,458 wordsEusebius — Church History, Constantine & Oration • SECTION 133
… 16, above), fell into heresy, and the general fact is confirmed by Tertullian, Hippolytus, Clement of Alexandria, Origen, and others. Beyond these meager notices we have little information in regard to Tatian's life. Rhodo …
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