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Chrysostom — Priesthood, Ascetic Treatises & Homilies • SECTION 56

10. He therefore does not say this--that they were bringing in heresies; but that it was not from a right motive, nor through piety [456] th

… He therefore does not say this--that they were bringing in heresies; but that it was not from a right motive, nor through piety [456] that they were preaching what they did preach. For it …

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Augustine — Confessions & Letters • SECTION 74

Chapter IX.--He Compares the Doctrine of the Platonists Concerning the Logos With the Much More Excellent Doctrine of Christianity.

… charge against Christianity of having borrowed from heathenism, reference may be made to Trench's Hulsean Lectures, lect. i. (1846); and for the sources of Gnosticism, and St. John's treatment of heresies as to …

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The Seven Ecumenical Councils • SECTION 86

Canon I.

… 8) begun May 381, lasted until July of that year." Excursus on the Heresies Condemned in Canon I. In treating of these heresies I shall invert the order of the canon, and shall speak of …

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Chrysostom — Galatians through Philemon • SECTION 97

Homily VI.

… For if when chariots contend in the horse race there is nothing so pleasing as when one of them dashes against and overthrows whole chariots with their drivers, and after throwing down many with the …

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Augustine — Confessions & Letters • SECTION 9

III. Apologetic works against Pagans and Jews. Among these the twenty-two books, De Civitate Dei, are still well worth reading. They form th

… The other controversial works are directed against the particular heresies of Manichæism, Donatism, Arianism, Pelagianism and Semi-Pelagianism. Augustin, with all the firmness of his convictions, was free from personal antipathy, and used the pen …

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Socrates and Sozomen — Ecclesiastical Histories • SECTION 134

3. Another aim of his history is to prove that Providence or the divine government is promoting the Christian faith directly. The universal

… 35, where he argues against the plan of pagan philosophers to foretell the future of the empire: "The philosophers, on the other hand, acted as if the deposition and restoration of emperors had depended solely …

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Theodoret, Jerome, Gennadius & Rufinus — Historical Writings • SECTION 134

[1394] Phil. ii. 7

… Four principal heresies there are which have in those things withstood the truth: Arians, by bending themselves against the Deity of Christ; Apollinarians, by maiming and misinterpreting that which belongeth to his human nature; Nestorians …

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Tertullian — Latin Christianity • SECTION 284

Man's whole nature in Christ, seems to be sanctified by the Holy Spirit's suffusion of man's spirit; this rules and governs the psychic natu

… the rule against heretics of the lateness of their date. [6130] For in as far as by our rule, priority is given to the truth, which also foretold that there would be heresies, in so …

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Athanasius — Select Works and Letters • SECTION 171

[1856] [A note on the intimate mutual connexion of all heresies is omitted here.]

[1856] [A note on the intimate mutual connexion of all heresies is omitted here.] [1857] Joh. xix. 15. [1858] de Decr. 7, note 2. [1859] dorodokoi, and so kerdos tes philochrematias, infr. §53. He mentions …

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Leo the Great & Gregory the Great • SECTION 296

Epistle XXXIV.

… has accepted this same synod with regard to what was defined by it against Macedonius. It does certainly repudiate the other heresies therein spoken of, which had already been condemned by other Fathers: but so …

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Sulpitius Severus, Vincent of Lerins & John Cassian • SECTION 279

Chapter XV.

… How we can do nothing against our faults without the help of God, and how we should not be puffed up by victories over them. And that we ought not to be puffed up by …

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Eusebius — Church History, Constantine & Oration • SECTION 124

Chapter XXI.--The Ecclesiastical Writers that flourished in Those Days.

… His greatest work, and the only one now extant, is his Elenchos kai anatrope tes pseudonumou gnoseos, which is commonly cited under the brief title pros Aireseis, or Adversus Hæreses ("Against Heresies"). It consists of …

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Socrates and Sozomen — Ecclesiastical Histories • SECTION 8

Chapter VI.--Division begins in the Church from this Controversy; and Alexander Bishop of Alexandria excommunicates Arius and his Adherents.

… but again as chameleons they were changed, striving to apply to themselves that which is written, When the ungodly has reached the depths of iniquity, he becomes contemptuous.' [136] Many heresies have arisen before these …

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The Apostolic Fathers, Justin Martyr & Irenaeus • SECTION 179

Chapter LXI--Wisdom is begotten of the Father, as fire from fire.

… 22. [2176] Heresy or sect. [2177] Or, "among us." Maranus pronounces against this latter reading for the following reasons: (1.) The Jews had their own heresies which supplied many things to the Christian heresies, especially …

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Augustine — Confessions & Letters • SECTION 262

43. If, now, I were disposed to quote anything against you from the writings of Tychonius, a man of your communion, who has written rather i

… If, now, I were disposed to quote anything against you from the writings of Tychonius, a man of your communion, who has written rather in defence of the Church and against you than the reverse …

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Theodoret, Jerome, Gennadius & Rufinus — Historical Writings • SECTION 278

[3178] Theophilus himself.

… Yet with your wonted carelessness of statement or rather impudence of lying, which makes you imagine that every one will believe what you say, you add: "When you quoted a text of Scripture against him …

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Hippolytus, Cyprian, Caius & Novatian • SECTION 31

Book V.

… The following are the contents of the fifth book of the Refutation of all Heresies: [313] -- What the assertions are of the Naasseni, who style themselves Gnostics, and that they advance those opinions which the …

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Tertullian — Latin Christianity • SECTION 367

Chapter II.--The Catholic Doctrine of the Trinity and Unity, Sometimes Called the Divine Economy, or Dispensation of the Personal Relations of the Godhead.

… In this principle also we must henceforth find a presumption of equal force against all heresies whatsoever--that whatever is first is true, whereas that is spurious which is later in date. [7782] But keeping …

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Fathers of the Second Century • SECTION 314

Accordingly, those fall from this eminence who follow not God whither He leads. And He leads us in the inspired Scriptures.

… I have adduced these things from a wish to avert those, who are eager to learn, from the liability to fall into heresies, and out of a desire to stop them from superficial ignorance, or …

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Augustine — Anti-Pelagian Writings • SECTION 191

Chapter 59 [XXXIV.]--Although Pelagius Was Acquitted, His Heresy Was Condemned.

… heresies, there has been just now introduced, not by bishops or presbyters or any rank of the clergy, but by certain would-be monks, a heresy which disputes, under colour of defending free will, against …

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Socrates and Sozomen — Ecclesiastical Histories • SECTION 221

Chapter XI.--The Confession of Eustathius, Silvanus, and Theophilus, the Deputies of the Macedonians, to Liberius, Bishop of Rome.

… We also condemn the heresies of Patropasianus, [1448] of Photinus, of Marcellus, of Paul of Samosata, and all who maintain such doctrines themselves. We anathematize all heresies opposed to the aforesaid faith established by the …

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Eusebius — Church History, Constantine & Oration • SECTION 417

Epistles, of the Apostles, [1031]133; Catholic, [1032]261; thirteen of Paul, [1033]268.

… of, on the Hexæmeron, [1337]270; against Marcion, [1338]270; on the Song of Songs, [1339]270; on Ezekiel, [1340]270; on the Passover, [1341]270; against all heresies, [1342]270. Hippolytus, a messenger by …

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The Seven Ecumenical Councils • SECTION 93

Canon VII.

… The other heresies mentioned in this canon have been treated of in the excursus to Canon j. [233] This canon is broken into two by the Ancient Epitome. Excursus on the Authority of the Second …

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Jerome — Principal Works • SECTION 57

Letter LI. From Epiphanius, Bishop of Salamis, in Cyprus, to John, Bishop of Jerusalem.

… Withdraw, dearly beloved, from the heresy of Origen and from all heresies. For I see that all your indignation has been roused against me simply because I have told you that you ought not to …

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Augustine — Against the Manichaeans and Donatists • SECTION 14

Twelve years after this, a similar disputation was held between Augustin and one of the elect among the Manichæans, who had come to Hippo to

… The works given in the accompanying volume comprehend by no means the whole of Augustin's writings against this heresy. Before his ordination he wrote five anti-Manichæan books, entitled, De Libero Arbitrio, De Genesi …

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Leo the Great & Gregory the Great • SECTION 57

Letter CXVIII.

… For, though Eutyches' disciples abhor Nestorius, and the followers of Nestorius anathematize Eutyches, yet in the judgment of catholics both sides are condemned and both heresies alike are cut away from the body of the …

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Sulpitius Severus, Vincent of Lerins & John Cassian • SECTION 120

Chapter X.

… he might open the way to one heresy of his own, was zealously inveighing against the blasphemies of all heresies? But this was the very thing which Moses says: "The Lord your God doth try …

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Theodoret, Jerome, Gennadius & Rufinus — Historical Writings • SECTION 12

On the meaning of the passage about them that are baptized for the dead it is curious to find only one interpretation curtly proffered in ap

… The Discourses against paganism were followed by ten on Divine Providence, a work justly eulogized as exhibiting Theodoret's literary power in its highest form. Of it Garnerius, who is by no means disposed to …

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Theodoret, Jerome, Gennadius & Rufinus — Historical Writings • SECTION 209

Chapter CVIII.

… Epiphanius, [2547] bishop of Salamina in Cyprus, wrote books Against all heresies and many others which are eagerly read by the learned, on account of their subject matter, and also by the plain people, on …

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Theodoret, Jerome, Gennadius & Rufinus — Historical Writings • SECTION 198

Chapter XXXIV.

… He wrote five books Against heresies and a short volume, Against the nations and another On discipline, a letter to Marcianus his brother On apostolical preaching, a book of Various treatises; also to Blastus, On …

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