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Athanasius — Select Works and Letters • SECTION 255
… Exile of Athanasius under Julian, 362-363. ------------------------ The fragment which follows, containing an interesting report of a story told by Athanasius to Ammonius, Bishop of Pachnemunis, is inserted here as furnishing undesignedly important details as …
2,039 wordsSocrates and Sozomen — Ecclesiastical Histories • SECTION 173
… As I was returning on horseback to that city which bears my name, and which I regard as my much prospered country, Athanasius, the bishop, presented himself so unexpectedly in the middle of the highway …
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… Chapter XX.--Death of Athanasius, and Elevation of Peter to His See. It must be said that as long as Athanasius, bishop of Alexandria, was alive, the emperor, restrained by the Providence of God, abstained …
825 wordsHilary of Poitiers & John of Damascus • SECTION 6
… The faith, it seemed, might be upheld by imperial support, now that it had advocates who were not prejudiced in the Emperor's eyes as was Athanasius; and Athanasius himself, accredited by the testimony of …
2,596 wordsSocrates and Sozomen — Ecclesiastical Histories • SECTION 208
Chapter VI.--Athanasius, after having been Seven Years concealed in the House of a Wise and Beautiful Virgin, reappears at that time in Public, and enters the Church of Alexandria. At this period, Athanasius, who …
1,105 wordsSocrates and Sozomen — Ecclesiastical Histories • SECTION 56
Chapter IV.--On the Death of George, Athanasius returns to Alexandria, and takes Possession of his See. Not long after this, Athanasius returning from his exile, was received with great joy by the people of …
1,401 wordsAthanasius — Select Works and Letters • SECTION 253
… 21 Athanasius re-appeared in Alexandria. He was joined there by Lucifer of Cagliari and Eusebius of Vercellæ, who were in exile in Upper Egypt. Once more free, he took up the work of peace …
2,214 wordsAthanasius — Select Works and Letters • SECTION 167
… supra); but the demand for such a treatise may have set Athanasius upon the composition of a more comprehensive refutation of the heresy. It was only at this period (Blasphemy' of Sirmium, 357) that the …
2,202 wordsAthanasius — Select Works and Letters • SECTION 262
… B.--The Festal Letters, and Their Index, Or Chronicon Athanasianum. ------------------------ The latter document is from the hand, it would seem, of the original collector of the Easter Letters of Athanasius (yet see infr. note 6a …
2,200 wordsGregory of Nyssa — Dogmatic Treatises • SECTION 11
… less struck by the divergencies from S. Athanasius' presentment of the doctrine than by the substantial identity of S. Gregory's reasoning with that of S. Athanasius, as the latter is displayed, for example, in …
2,213 wordsAthanasius — Select Works and Letters • SECTION 260
… Perhaps, if Athanasius died in the night of May 2-3, the former day might be chosen for his commemoration, while our annalist may still be literally exact. [3769] See Tillem. viii. 719 sqq. Historia …
2,237 wordsAthanasius — Select Works and Letters • SECTION 259
… The annalist evidently writes under the episcopate of Theophilus, to which he hurriedly brings down his chronology after the death of Athanasius (§19). At the fortieth anniversary of the episcopate of Athanasius, June 8, 368 …
2,263 wordsSocrates and Sozomen — Ecclesiastical Histories • SECTION 29
… For he supposes that what was done against Athanasius occurred after the death of the Emperor Constantine: he was also ignorant of his exile to the Gauls and of various other circumstances. Now we in …
1,254 wordsAthanasius — Select Works and Letters • SECTION 81
… But observe here the strange character of their machinations, and the inconsistency of their bold measures, so that by some means or other they may take Athanasius away from us. For if as Bishops they …
2,385 wordsAthanasius — Select Works and Letters • SECTION 295
… 36), that when Duke Artemius came to the monastery of Pabau in search of Athanasius, the steward of the community replied, Although Athanasius is our Father under God, we have never seen his face.' The …
733 wordsSocrates and Sozomen — Ecclesiastical Histories • SECTION 40
… And this at a time when the affairs of the Christians became no less unsettled, there being great disturbance throughout the churches on account of Athanasius, and the term homoousion. Affairs having reached this pass …
1,042 wordsSulpitius Severus, Vincent of Lerins & John Cassian • SECTION 106
… Accordingly, when our friends did not accept of the judgment which they had pronounced in regard to Athanasius, an edict was issued by the emperor to the effect that those who did not subscribe to …
1,054 wordsAthanasius — Select Works and Letters • SECTION 18
All was now ready for the blow at Athanasius. It fell in Lent (pp. 94, 503). His position since the arrival of Philagrius had been one of unrest. In this year again,' says our annalist …
2,218 wordsCyril of Jerusalem & Gregory Nazianzen • SECTION 17
… Biogr. "Athanasius," p. 190, note; Hefele, Councils, §§ 58, 66, 67. [326] Cat. vi. § 27. [327] Rell. Sac. v. p. 12. [328] Hist. Eccles. vii. c. 19. [329] Ep. 61 (al. 38). Cf. Ben. Ed. Praeloq …
2,311 wordsSocrates and Sozomen — Ecclesiastical Histories • SECTION 175
… The people of Alexandria loudly complained of the exile of Athanasius, and offered up supplications for his return; and Antony, the celebrated monk, wrote frequently to the emperor to entreat him to attach no credit …
1,096 wordsSocrates and Sozomen — Ecclesiastical Histories • SECTION 219
Chapter V.--Athanasius the Great is Very Highly Esteemed by the Emperor, and rules over the Churches of Egypt. Vision of Antony the Great. At this period, [1436] Athanasius, who governed the see of Alexandria …
2,028 wordsAthanasius — Select Works and Letters • SECTION 256
… the complaint (§10) is rather that he still retains possession of his see, which in fact he did until 374, the year after the death of Athanasius. At any rate, Damasus had had time to …
841 wordsAthanasius — Select Works and Letters • SECTION 37
… 1 for the return of Athanasius. This detailed chronology is corroborated in two ways; first by a letter of Libanius (Ep. 569) to Flavian, thanking him for a present of [Egyptian] doves, and congratulating him …
831 wordsAthanasius — Select Works and Letters • SECTION 84
… And they undertook in that case to prove all the charges which had been brought against Athanasius. For Martyrius and Hesychius had been publicly refuted by us, and the Presbyters of the Bishop Athanasius had …
2,436 wordsTheodoret, Jerome, Gennadius & Rufinus — Historical Writings • SECTION 38
… Upon their arrival, they desisted from urging any of their former calumnies, because they knew how clearly they could be refuted; but they made it appear that Athanasius had threatened to prevent the exportation of …
878 wordsSocrates and Sozomen — Ecclesiastical Histories • SECTION 30
Chapter III.--Athanasius, encouraged by the Letter of Constantine the Younger, returns to Alexandria. Constantine Cæsar to the members of the Catholic Church of the Alexandrians. It cannot, I conceive, have escaped the knowledge of …
891 wordsAthanasius — Select Works and Letters • SECTION 14
… We now perceive the subtle difference between Marcellus and Athanasius. Neither of them could formulate the idea of Personality in the Holy Trinity. But Athanasius, apparently on the basis of a more thorough intelligence of …
2,207 wordsTheodoret, Jerome, Gennadius & Rufinus — Historical Writings • SECTION 48
… therefore, if it be pleasing to your piety, order the court to be assembled, and if it be seen that Athanasius deserves condemnation, then let sentence be passed upon him according to ecclesiastical forms. For …
1,573 wordsSocrates and Sozomen — Ecclesiastical Histories • SECTION 45
… On meeting, the Eastern prelates opened the Synod by calling upon those convened to pass a unanimous sentence of condemnation against Athanasius; with this object in view, that he might thenceforward be utterly shut out …
950 wordsAthanasius — Select Works and Letters • SECTION 24
… 70), and after his return under Jovian gave in his formal adhesion to the Nicene test. (3.) The history of Athanasius during this period is the history of his writings. Hidden from all but devotedly …
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