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Augustine — City of God & Christian Doctrine • SECTION 423
Chapter 21.--Examples of the Various Styles, Drawn from the Teachers of the Church, Especially Ambrose and Cyprian. 45. But these writings of the apostles, though clear, are yet profound, and are so written that …
2,425 wordsAmbrose — Selected Works and Letters • SECTION 263
… show herself irreproachable, set forth a ripeness of merits, have been the wife of one man. St. Ambrose notes, however, that a second marriage was not condemned by St. Paul, and adds that widows must …
1,214 wordsEusebius — Church History, Constantine & Oration • SECTION 190
… Thereupon Origen composed his work On Martyrdom, [2006] and dedicated it to Ambrose and Protoctetus, [2007] a presbyter of the parish of Cæsarea, because in the persecution there had come upon them both unusual hardships …
1,207 wordsTheodoret, Jerome, Gennadius & Rufinus — Historical Writings • SECTION 188
… 120. Eunomius the heresiarch. 121. Priscillianus the bishop. 122. Latronianus. 123. Tiberianus. 124. Ambrose the bishop. 125. Evagrius the bishop. 126. Ambrose the disciple of Didymus. 127. Maximus, first philosopher, then bishop. 128. Another Gregory …
1,240 wordsAmbrose — Selected Works and Letters • SECTION 235
Chapter IV. St. Ambrose turns against the Novatians themselves another objection concerning blasphemy against the Holy Spirit, showing that it consists in an erroneous belief, proving this by St. Peter's words against Simon Magus …
1,254 wordsAugustine — Confessions & Letters • SECTION 370
… 84 in memory of the saints and martyrs, [965]90 and note offerings at the, forbidden by Ambrose and afterwards by Augustin, [966]90 Monica discontinues hers, [967]90 and note Oratory, undue appreciation of …
2,200 wordsAugustine — Confessions & Letters • SECTION 371
… the great year of the, [1226]202 (note) Study, Augustin's distaste for, in boyhood, [1227]50 Ambrose in his, [1228]91 Substance, corporeal, Augustin's idea of God as a, [1229]102 and note …
1,145 wordsAmbrose — Selected Works and Letters • SECTION 79
… 16; S. John i. 26, 27. [832] This passage has given rise to the question whether St. Ambrose taught, as some others certainly did (probably on his authority), that baptism in the Name of Christ …
1,363 wordsAmbrose — Selected Works and Letters • SECTION 92
… as by St. Athanasius and St. Basil among the Greeks. The Latins also use it, as St. Ambrose here, but occasionally the same Greek prepositions are variously rendered, which destroys the force of the argument …
2,074 wordsAmbrose — Selected Works and Letters • SECTION 222
Chapter IV. St. Ambrose proceeds with the proof of the divine mercy, and shows by the testimony of the Gospels that it prevails over severity, and he adduces the instance of athletes to show that …
702 wordsAugustine — Anti-Pelagian Writings • SECTION 385
Chapter 31.--The Testimonies of Ambrose on the Imperfection of Present Righteousness. But now, since the Pelagians say that there either are or have been righteous men in this life who have lived without any …
1,387 wordsAugustine — Anti-Pelagian Writings • SECTION 255
… This has also, in fact, been said by Ambrose, of most blessed memory, bishop of the church in Milan, when he gives as the reason why Christ's birth in the flesh was free from …
1,399 wordsAmbrose — Selected Works and Letters • SECTION 145
… John i. 14. [1838] Is. liii. 8. [1839] S. John xx. 17. The "grace" of which St. Ambrose speaks is the grace of adoption. Jesus Christ is the Son of God phusei, we are sons …
1,402 wordsAugustine — Confessions & Letters • SECTION 4
… If I, with all that is within me, may once live in Thee, then shall pain and trouble forsake me; entirely filled with Thee, all shall be life to me." He received baptism from Ambrose …
2,212 wordsAmbrose — Selected Works and Letters • SECTION 302
… one as bishop [postulavit], and he was then elected, if they thought well, by the clergy. St. Ambrose makes this clear [Ep. XV. 12], saying of Acholius, "Ad summum sacerdotium a Macedonicis obsecratus populis, electus …
2,206 wordsAugustine — Confessions & Letters • SECTION 58
Chapter IV.--He Recognises the Falsity of His Own Opinions, and Commits to Memory the Saying of Ambrose. 5. As, then, I knew not how this image of Thine should subsist, I should have knocked …
1,491 wordsAmbrose — Selected Works and Letters • SECTION 296
Letter LXII. St. Ambrose excuses himself for having omitted an opportunity of writing to the Emperor, but is now sending a letter by the hands of a deacon, requesting forgiveness for some of Eugenius' followers …
2,244 wordsAmbrose — Selected Works and Letters • SECTION 293
… the inhabitants were cruelly put to death. This act of vengeance shocked the public conscience, and St. Ambrose felt it his duty to speak out in the name of the Church. [3619] S. Luke viii …
775 wordsAugustine — Anti-Pelagian Writings • SECTION 216
… super nomine Coelestii), was the deacon of Ambrose, Bishop of Milan, and the author of his biography, which he wrote at the instance of Augustin. According to his own showing, he lived in Africa, and …
791 wordsAmbrose — Selected Works and Letters • SECTION 273
… yet she has received so many counsels that she ought not to think little of them. St. Ambrose would be sorry to lay any snare for her, seeing that the field of the Church grows …
830 wordsAugustine — Confessions & Letters • SECTION 16
… 7. [128] That is, Ambrose, Bishop of Milan, who was instrumental in his conversion (vi. sec. 1; viii. sec. 28, etc.). "Before conversion," as Leighton observes on I Pet. ii. 1, 2, "wit or eloquence …
895 wordsAmbrose — Selected Works and Letters • SECTION 178
… Luke iv. 41. [2301] Jer. ix. 10. St. Ambrose follows the text of the LXX. with one or two variations in the punctuation. What St. Ambrose renders as "vox substantiæ" ("word of substance" or "voice …
1,659 wordsJerome — Principal Works • SECTION 45
… Ambrose who supplied Origen, true man of adamant and of brass, [904] with money, materials and amanuenses to bring out his countless books--Ambrose, in a letter to his friend from Athens, states that they …
903 wordsAugustine — City of God & Christian Doctrine • SECTION 359
… 547. [1707] This book is among the lost works of Ambrose. Contents of Christian Doctrine. ------------------------ Preface, Showing the Utility of the Treatise on Christian Doctrine. Book I. Containing a General View of the Subjects Treated …
902 wordsAugustine — Confessions & Letters • SECTION 317
… Dupin has shown that the discourse in question must have been the work of some Latin author. [2632] Ambrose on Luke, c. i. 11. [2633] John i. 18. [2634] 1 Tim. vi. 16. [2635] 1 …
1,737 wordsAmbrose — Selected Works and Letters • SECTION 258
Chapter IV. Having summed up the address of Liberius, St. Ambrose passes on to the virtues of his sister, especially her fasts, which however he advises her to moderate to some extent, and to exercise …
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Chapter X. Finally, another glory of virginity is mentioned, that it is free from avarice. St. Ambrose, addressing his sister, reminds her of the great happiness of those who are free from those troubles as …
971 wordsAugustine — Anti-Pelagian Writings • SECTION 481
… And this the blessed Ambrose also said. [3711] For he says, "To pray to God also is the work of spiritual grace, as it is written, No one says, Jesus is the Lord, but in …
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… Death of Ambrose. Simplicianus, Bishop of Milan. 397. Theophilus of Alexandria turns against Origenism. Rufinus reconciled to Jerome and returns to Italy. 397. Commentary on Jonah. 398. Death of Gildo in Africa. Alaric Master-General …
1,007 wordsAmbrose — Selected Works and Letters • SECTION 137
… By way of leading up to his proof that Christ is not different from the Father, St. Ambrose cites the more famous leaders of the Arian party, and explains how little their witness agrees, and …
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