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Athanasius — Select Works and Letters • SECTION 245
… It is remarkable that Athanasius should say the Egyptian Sotades, and again in Sent. D. 6. There were two Poets of the name; one a writer of the Middle Comedy, Athen. Deipn. vii. 11; but …
2,250 wordsAthanasius — Select Works and Letters • SECTION 69
… interpolation. Athanasius alludes to the early part of the clause, supr. §4. and de Syn. §13. where he says, that Eusebius implied that the Arians denied even our Lord's existence before His incarnation. As …
2,258 wordsTheodoret, Jerome, Gennadius & Rufinus — Historical Writings • SECTION 150
… These qualities are conspicuous in the right eloquent orator Athanasius, and I have been the more pleased with him because he is an ardent lover of your Excellency, and is constantly sounding your praises. Here …
2,311 wordsAugustine — Homilies on John & First John • SECTION 204
… Over against this cardinal error, the Apostle announces the manifestation of the Son of God in the flesh,--the Incarnation of that Eternal Life which was with God from the beginning. This divine fact is …
1,915 wordsThe Seven Ecumenical Councils • SECTION 113
… Since we have learned that certain, after having corrupted it, have set forth the orthodox epistle of our most distinguished Father Athanasius to the Blessed Epictetus, so as thereby to injure many; therefore it appeared …
1,969 wordsBasil — Letters and Select Works • SECTION 227
… As to the additions it is proposed to make to that Creed, concerning the incarnation of our Lord, I have neither tested nor accepted them, as being beyond my comprehension. [3135] I know well that …
2,005 wordsAthanasius — Select Works and Letters • SECTION 135
… But no details of the persecution of the orthodox in Egypt had reached Athanasius when he wrote, in fact he mentions it as only beginning (§5). This points to about the Easter of 356; see …
2,671 wordsTheodoret, Jerome, Gennadius & Rufinus — Historical Writings • SECTION 13
… 42) repeats the charge of distinct errors in chronology in (a) the statement that Arius died in 325 instead of in 336; (b) the extension of the exile of Athanasius by four months; (c) the …
2,073 wordsLeo the Great & Gregory the Great • SECTION 62
… For there is no new preaching in the letter which I wrote in reply to Flavian of holy memory, when he consulted me about the Incarnation of our Lord Jesus Christ; for in nothing did …
1,302 wordsAthanasius — Select Works and Letters • SECTION 23
… We find it used freely by Athanasius in his earlier anti-Arian writings, and it was thoroughly current in conservative theology, as for example in Cyril's Catecheses (he has homoion kata tas graphas and …
2,681 wordsAthanasius — Select Works and Letters • SECTION 186
… The Arians, after the Platonists, insisted on the pre-existing Priesthood, as if the incarnation and crucifixion were not of its essence. The Apollinarians resolved the Incarnation into a manifestation, Theod. Eran. i. The Nestorians …
2,206 wordsCyril of Jerusalem & Gregory Nazianzen • SECTION 16
… and Cyril's description may unhappily be applied to the state of the Church at almost any time from the Council of Tyre, by which Athanasius had been deposed in 335, until long after any …
2,204 wordsAthanasius — Select Works and Letters • SECTION 191
… it was the tendency of Arianism to consider that in the Incarnation some such change actually was undergone by the Word, as they had from the first maintained in the abstract was possible; that whereas …
2,202 wordsAthanasius — Select Works and Letters • SECTION 168
… Behold then, after Alexander's death too, those who communicate with his successor Athanasius, and those with whom the said Athanasius communicates, are instances of the same rule; none of them bear his name, nor …
2,200 wordsAthanasius — Select Works and Letters • SECTION 111
… of angels, and evil spirits, of the Incarnation, and the Creation. Photius, who gives this account, Cod. 106, accuses him of heterodoxy on these points; which Athanasius in a measure admits, as far as the …
2,216 wordsThe Seven Ecumenical Councils • SECTION 244
… If the holy Gregory, vigilant [526] in divine cogitation, was moved to tears at the sight of the story of Abraham, how much more shall a painting of the incarnation of our Lord Christ, who …
2,255 wordsAthanasius — Select Works and Letters • SECTION 203
… 8. [2566] Two ends of our Lord's Incarnation are here mentioned; that He might die for us, and that He might renew us, answering nearly to those specified in Rom. iv. 25. who was …
2,285 wordsCyril of Jerusalem & Gregory Nazianzen • SECTION 139
… and until the Incarnation this knowledge was sufficient; but from that time forward they acknowledged a Second Person, and through Him a Third also, the Holy Ghost. But this explanation falls far short of Gregory …
2,285 wordsTheodoret, Jerome, Gennadius & Rufinus — Historical Writings • SECTION 149
… For the reason of the accomplishment of the mystery of the incarnation was that we, being taught the defeat of death, should no more grieve beyond measure at the loss by death of those we …
2,282 wordsGregory of Nyssa — Dogmatic Treatises • SECTION 1
… The Incarnation is the turning-point of history; and yet, beyond this, its effects are for all Creation. Who made this theology? Origen doubtless; and his philosophy of Scripture, based on a few leading texts …
2,309 wordsGregory Thaumaturgus, Dionysius, Julius Africanus & Others • SECTION 110
… 17. [2238] Athanasius, Apol. contra Arian, sec. 39, tom. i. p. 177. [2239] Maffei, l. c., p. 24. [2240] Baronius, Ad Annum, 306, sec. 44. [Elucidation I.] The Genuine Acts of Peter. [2241] ------------------------ Were all …
2,316 wordsHilary of Poitiers & John of Damascus • SECTION 21
… Of that controversy Athanasius was the hero; the arguments which he used and those which he refuted are admirably set forth in the introduction to the translation of his writings in this series. In writing …
3,016 wordsCyril of Jerusalem & Gregory Nazianzen • SECTION 161
… My Lord Jesus Christ has showed that He honoured all these births in His own Person; the first, by that first and quickening Inbreathing; [4012] the second by His Incarnation and the Baptism wherewith He …
2,351 wordsAugustine — Trinity, Doctrinal & Moral Treatises • SECTION 27
… 416--, the treatises of Athanasius (d. 373), Basil (d. 379), Gregory of Nyssa (d. 400?), and Gregory of Nazianzum (d. 390?) had been composed and were current in the Eastern church. That Augustin thought out …
1,534 wordsCyril of Jerusalem & Gregory Nazianzen • SECTION 187
… This however is all that I must now say of God; for the present is not a suitable time, as my present subject is not the doctrine of God, but that of the Incarnation. And …
2,451 wordsBasil — Letters and Select Works • SECTION 88
… 166. "What is said about the Saviour had a double sense on account of the nature of the Godhead and the Economy of the incarnation. So, looking to the humanity of God, it is said …
1,517 wordsAthanasius — Select Works and Letters • SECTION 8
… Hence the deification' of man's nature by union with Christ (a remarkable point of contact with Athanasius, see note on de Incar. 54. 3); incorruption is attained to by the knowledge of God (cf …
2,507 wordsAthanasius — Select Works and Letters • SECTION 103
… epicheiremata means more definitely reasonings or argumentations. [751] alogias; an allusion frequent in Athanasius, to the judicial consequence of their denying the Word of God. Thus, just below, n. 3. "Denying the Word" or Reason …
2,544 wordsHilary of Poitiers & John of Damascus • SECTION 3
… His strong sense of the dignity of man, of the freedom of the will, his philosophical belief in the inseparable connection of name and thing, the thought of the Incarnation as primarily an obscuring of …
2,680 wordsEusebius — Church History, Constantine & Oration • SECTION 305
… 1450-1460 a.d.) gives "From the incarnation until Constantine the Great, 318 years," and speaks of a church restored by him. Ed. Bekker, in Corp. scr. hist. Byz. (1834), p. 13 and 48. (59 …
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