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Eusebius — Church History, Constantine & Oration • SECTION 174

Chapter XI.--Alexander.

… 20); and so in Africa Valerius of Hippo had Augustine as his coadjutor (Possidius, Vita. Aug. chap. 8; see Bingham's Antiq. II. 13. 4 for other instances and for a discussion of the whole …

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Chrysostom — John and Hebrews • SECTION 158

Preface.

… exception. Those which have been preserved to us have been generally taken down by some hearer. St. Augustine afterwards revised his, when brought to him for the purpose. In the case of St. Chrysostom's …

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Gregory the Great, Ephraim Syrus & Aphrahat • SECTION 46

Epistle XXV.

… To Augustine, Bishop of the Angli [136] . Gregory to Augustine, &c. Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace to men of good will (Luke ii. 14); because a grain of wheat, falling …

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Sulpitius Severus, Vincent of Lerins & John Cassian • SECTION 459

Chapter IX.

… It is also quoted as from Jeremiah by Augustine (c. Faustin. xii. c. 43): and in the LXX. version the book of Baruch is placed among the works of Jeremiah, e.g., In both the …

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Sulpitius Severus, Vincent of Lerins & John Cassian • SECTION 152

Chapter X.

… 697] Synaxis (sunaxis) a general name for the course of the ecclesiastical offices. [698] Consummatur. [699] Cf. Augustine, Ep. cxxx., § 20 (Vol. II. 389): "Dicuntur fratres in Ægypto crebras quidem habere orationes, sed eas tamen …

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Gregory the Great, Ephraim Syrus & Aphrahat • SECTION 64

Epistle LXVIII.

… And so, if our common brother the bishop Augustine should chance to come to you, let your Love, as is fit, so affectionately and sweetly receive him as both to refresh him with the boon …

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Gregory the Great, Ephraim Syrus & Aphrahat • SECTION 85

Epistle XVII.

… Know then that what I wrote to Augustine, bishop of the nation of the Angli (who was, as thou rememberest, thy pupil), about marriages of consanguinity was written specially to him and to the nation …

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Cyril of Jerusalem & Gregory Nazianzen • SECTION 16

Chapter IX.--The Time and Arrangement of S. Cyril's Lectures.

Augustine's treatise De catechizandis rudibus is also addressed to the teacher, being an answer to Deogratias, a Deacon of Carthage, who on being appointed Catechist had written to Augustine for advice as to the …

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Sulpitius Severus, Vincent of Lerins & John Cassian • SECTION 132

Chapter XXVIII.

… the recapitulation which follows.] [510] 1 Cor. xii. 27, 28. [511] Acts xi. 28. [512] "Tractatores." St. Augustine's Expository Lectures on St. John's Gospel are entitled "Tractatus." [513] 1 Cor. i. 10. [514 …

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Gregory the Great, Ephraim Syrus & Aphrahat • SECTION 9

Epistle XII.

… he may see. [25] I.e. the fifty days between Easter and Whitsuntide. It appears from St. Augustine (see Migne, Patrolog. note in loc.) that it was the custom everywhere to sing the Alleluia between …

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Chrysostom — John and Hebrews • SECTION 159

Introduction.

… Paul until the middle of the fourth century; but after this the opinion spread rapidly, and under the influence of Augustine, in the year 393 somewhat hesitatingly, but in 419 positively, the provincial council of …

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Gregory the Great, Ephraim Syrus & Aphrahat • SECTION 41

Epistle XXXVII.

… But, if you desire to be satiated with delicious food, read the works of the blessed Augustine, your countryman, and seek not our chaff in comparison with his fine wheat. Furthermore, we have learnt from …

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Jerome — Principal Works • SECTION 24

Letter XVIII. To Pope Damasus.

Augustine's dictum: "The New Testament is latent in the Old; the Old Testament is patent in the New." [330] See Augustine's letters to Jerome, passim. Letter XIX. From Pope Damasus. A letter from …

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Ambrose — Selected Works and Letters • SECTION 1

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… own writings.--Life of St. Ambrose by Paulinus, [1] a deacon of the Church of Milan.--St. Augustine, Confessions, V. 23, 24; VI. 1-6; IX. 13-16; and many other passages in his writings …

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Jerome — Principal Works • SECTION 126

Letter CXVI. From Augustine.

… From Augustine. A long letter in which Augustine for the third time (see Letters LVI., LXVII.) restates his opinion about Jerome's theory of the dispute between Peter and Paul at Antioch. In doing so …

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Eusebius — Church History, Constantine & Oration • SECTION 291

[3010] "Raging against the nobles with every kind of destruction," Eutrop. 10. 4.

… Compare Augustine, Ep. 43, ch. 2, and elsewhere, also various documents from Augustine, Lactantius, Eusebius, Optatus, &c., collected in Migne, Patrol. Lat. 8 (1844), 673-784. Compare also Fuller, Donatism, Phillott, Felix,--articles in Smith …

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Sulpitius Severus, Vincent of Lerins & John Cassian • SECTION 1

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… of the Church, St. Jerome and St. Augustine. The former refers to him in his Commentary on the 36th chapter of Ezekiel as "our friend Severus." St. Augustine, again, having occasion to allude to him …

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Hilary of Poitiers & John of Damascus • SECTION 2

Introduction.

… He has, indeed, exerted an important influence upon the growth of doctrine, but it has been through the adoption of his views by Augustine and Ambrose; and many who have profited by his thoughts have …

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Augustine — Anti-Pelagian Writings • SECTION 1

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Title: NPNF1-05. St. Augustine: Anti-Pelagian Writings Creator(s): Schaff, Philip (1819-1893) (Editor) Print Basis: New York: Christian Literature Publishing Co., 1886 Rights: Public Domain CCEL Subjects: All; Proofed; Early Church LC Call …

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Tertullian — Latin Christianity • SECTION 1

ANTE-NICENE FATHERS

… It is an African presbyter who takes from Latin Christendom the reproach of theological and literary barrenness and begins the great work in which, upon his foundations, Cyprian and Augustine built up, with incomparable genius …

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Sulpitius Severus, Vincent of Lerins & John Cassian • SECTION 439

Chapter V.

… 14. [2378] This phrase gives some countenance to the idea that the recantation was actually drawn up by Augustine, as the thought which it contains is a favorite one with him, as excluding any notion …

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