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Augustine — Confessions & Letters • SECTION 64
… But where and when shall it be sought? Ambrose has no leisure,--we have no leisure to read. Where are we to find the books? Whence or when procure them? From whom borrow them? Let …
1,012 wordsAmbrose — Selected Works and Letters • SECTION 153
… deduce the eternity of the Word from the eternity of the Father."--Hurter, ad loc. [1910] St. Ambrose's rendering of this passage (Job xxxviii. 36) agrees with the LXX.--tis de edoke gunaixin huphasmatos …
1,012 wordsAmbrose — Selected Works and Letters • SECTION 32
… devoted to it. [317] Cic. de Off. I. 31, § 114. [318] It has been supposed that St. Ambrose in this passage by "father" means "spiritual father," in whose hands the teaching and guidance of the …
1,045 wordsAmbrose — Selected Works and Letters • SECTION 55
… This is illustrated by the example of Onias the priest, and of Ambrose, bishop of Ticinum. 144. Great care must be taken that the property entrusted by widows remains inviolate. It should be guarded without …
1,042 wordsAugustine — Confessions & Letters • SECTION 54
… Chapter XIII.--He is Sent to Milan, that He, About to Teach Rhetoric, May Be Known by Ambrose. 23. When, therefore, they of Milan had sent to Rome to the prefect of the city, to …
1,027 wordsSocrates and Sozomen — Ecclesiastical Histories • SECTION 4
… He gives a cursory account of Ambrose, but says nothing of the great Augustine, or even of the Donatist controversy, in spite of all its significance and also of the extreme probability that he knew …
1,052 wordsAugustine — Confessions & Letters • SECTION 197
… Church,--I will tell you the answer given to my questions on this subject by the venerable Ambrose Bishop of Milan, by whom I was baptized. When my mother was with me in that city …
1,076 wordsAmbrose — Selected Works and Letters • SECTION 165
Chapter XVI. St. Ambrose assures Gratian of victory, declaring that it has been foretold in the prophecies of Ezekiel. This hope is further stayed upon the emperor's piety, the former disasters being the punishment …
1,124 wordsAmbrose — Selected Works and Letters • SECTION 172
… verse. [2198] S. John ix. 5. [2199] S. Matt. xxviii. 20. [2200] S. John viii. 25. St. Ambrose's words: "Principium quod et loquor vobis." [2201] Col. i. 18. [2202] Cf. Eph. iv. 15, 16 …
1,129 wordsAmbrose — Selected Works and Letters • SECTION 248
Chapter VII. St. Ambrose exhorts parents to train their children to virginity, and sets before them the troubles arising from their desire to have grandchildren. He says however that he does not forbid marriage, but …
1,142 wordsAmbrose — Selected Works and Letters • SECTION 62
… Off. III. 11, § 67. [646] It is not certain to what date the famine mentioned by St. Ambrose is to be referred, nor is the name of the prefect of the city certainly known. The …
1,157 wordsAmbrose — Selected Works and Letters • SECTION 261
… Marcellina, who had asked what should be thought of those who to escape violence killed themselves, St. Ambrose replies by narrating the history of Pelagia, a virgin, with her mother and sister, and goes on …
1,177 wordsSocrates and Sozomen — Ecclesiastical Histories • SECTION 128
… accounts. [1034] Ezek. xxxviii. 2, 22, 23. Ambrose has also used this prophecy, applying it to the Goths, and exhorted Gratian to make war against them. Cf. Ambrose, de Fide, 2. 16. The quotation here …
1,164 wordsTheodoret, Jerome, Gennadius & Rufinus — Historical Writings • SECTION 100
… Indeed so far from enthusiasm for Ambrose and the Ambrosian view of the faith being conspicuous in the invader, he had received the bishop at Treves as envoy from Valentinian, had refused to be diverted …
1,159 wordsAmbrose — Selected Works and Letters • SECTION 61
… more than expediency gains. [641] Ps. lxxi. 15 [LXX.]. "Sanctus in negotiationem introisse se negat," says St. Ambrose, from Ps. lxxi. 15. According to the Septuagint, "ouk egnon pragmateias" which in the old Latin versions …
1,193 wordsAmbrose — Selected Works and Letters • SECTION 231
Chapter XV. Returning from this digression, St. Ambrose explains what is the meaning of St. Paul where he speaks of coming "with a rod or in the spirit of meekness." One who has grievously fallen …
1,207 wordsAmbrose — Selected Works and Letters • SECTION 275
Epistle XVII. This Epistle was written when Symmachus sent his memorial to Valentinian II. St. Ambrose presses on the Emperor the consideration that it is his business to defend religion, and not superstition. The memorial …
2,216 wordsAmbrose — Selected Works and Letters • SECTION 292
… There was not one who did not lament it, not one who thought lightly of it; your being in fellowship with Ambrose was no excuse for your deed. Blame for what had been done would …
2,215 wordsAthanasius — Select Works and Letters • SECTION 225
… as He is Head, but as to His body which we are.' Ep x. 39. And S. Ambrose de fid. v. 222. And so Cæsarius, Qu. 20. and Photius Epp. p. 366. Chrysost. in Matt …
2,200 wordsAmbrose — Selected Works and Letters • SECTION 290
… is killed for breaking idols, he is not to be reckoned as a martyr, but perhaps St. Ambrose here considers the burning of the synagogue as a retaliation for the destruction of churches. [3558] The …
2,228 wordsAmbrose — Selected Works and Letters • SECTION 162
… e. to the risen Christ. Eph. i. 20. [2053] St. Ambrose's words are: "In hoc sum natus." It is possible that St. Ambrose understands "in hoc" as meaning "hode," "here;" sc. "at God's …
1,259 wordsAmbrose — Selected Works and Letters • SECTION 190
… tell me the necessary effects of the Divine Generation, [2437] not how it is done. [2421] St. Ambrose exhibits the argument as a reductio ad absurdum. [2422] Col. i. 16. [2423] Heb. i. 1. [2424 …
2,255 wordsAmbrose — Selected Works and Letters • SECTION 277
… not practise it, so that St. Ambrose says in his funeral oration on Valentinian II.: "Quod patri defuerat adjunxit; quod frater constituit, custodivit." Epistle XVIII. Reply of St. Ambrose to the Memorial of Symmachus, in …
2,344 wordsAmbrose — Selected Works and Letters • SECTION 236
… transmitted to us that penitence, the fruits of which are shown in the case of David. St. Ambrose then adduces the example of the Ephraimites, whose penitence must be followed in order to gain the …
1,340 wordsAmbrose — Selected Works and Letters • SECTION 268
Chapter VIII. Though many other widows came near to Judith in virtue, St. Ambrose proposes to speak of Deborah only. What a pattern of virtue she must have been for widows, who was chosen to …
1,343 wordsThe Seven Ecumenical Councils • SECTION 143
… Ambrose also thus treats of in his explanation of St. Luke the Evangelist. [After this follows a catena of Patristic quotations which I have not thought worth while to produce in full. After St. Ambrose …
2,338 wordsAmbrose — Selected Works and Letters • SECTION 288
Letter XL. St. Ambrose begs Theodosius to listen to him, as he cannot be silent without great risk to both. He points out that Theodosius though God-fearing may be led astray, and points out …
2,363 wordsThe Seven Ecumenical Councils • SECTION 90
… contrived to gain the confidence successively of no less men than Peter of Alexandria, Gregory Nazianzen, and Ambrose, and to install himself in one of the first sees of the church, from which he was …
1,342 wordsAmbrose — Selected Works and Letters • SECTION 287
… place yesterday. [3522] This was probably the church now known as Sant Ambrogio, at Milan, where St. Ambrose and his brother, together with SS. Gervasius and Protasius, now rest. Of course the church has been …
1,348 wordsAmbrose — Selected Works and Letters • SECTION 262
… married already and others of marriageable age, began to think of a second marriage for herself. St. Ambrose, partly for her own sake, partly that it might not be supposed that he had in any …
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