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Theodoret, Jerome, Gennadius & Rufinus — Historical Writings • SECTION 118

Of the same from the same book:--

… But the anointed took an acquired virtue, being adorned with a chosen temple of the Godhead dwelling in it." The testimony of the holy Athanasius, Bishop of Alexandria and Confessor. From the defence of Dionysius …

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The Twelve Patriarchs, Apocrypha, Clementine Homilies & More • SECTION 2

Regarded as a sort of Jewish surrender to Justin's argument with Trypho, this book is interesting, and represents, no doubt, the convictions

… there are possible allusions in Jerome [24] and in Procopius Gazæus; [25] there is also a mention of patriarchai in the Synopsis Sacræ Scripturæ found among the writings of Athanasius, as well as in the …

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Theodoret, Jerome, Gennadius & Rufinus — Historical Writings • SECTION 236

Such are the complaints which he made while still living, and while he was still able to detect the corruptions and falsifications which had

… When he came to compose the document, he found it necessary, in speaking of the Incarnation of our Lord, to apply to him the expression "Homo Dominicus." The Apollinarists [2798] took offence at this expression …

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Basil — Letters and Select Works • SECTION 15

[403] John vi. 64.

… of the incarnation, cf. pp. 7, 12. [408] On Photinus cf. Socrates, Ecc. Hist. ii. 29, and Theodoret, Hær. Fab. iii. 1, and Epiphanius, Hær. lxxi. § 2. The question as to what Synod condemned and …

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Athanasius — Select Works and Letters • SECTION 177

[1985] [But see Or. iii. 65, note 2.]

… It was still more commonly professed in regard to the Catholic doctrine of the Incarnation. Cf. Acta Archelai [Routh. Rell. v. 169]. August. contr. Secund. 9, contr. Faust. xi. 3. As the Manichees denied our …

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The Seven Ecumenical Councils • SECTION 112

The most reverend bishops cried; Any other setting forth (ekthesin allen) no one makes, neither will we attempt it, neither will we dare to

… Cecropius, the most reverend bishop of Sebastopol, said, The faith has been well defined by the 318 holy fathers and confirmed by the holy fathers Athanasius, Cyril, Celestine, Hilary, Basil, Gregory, and now once again …

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Theodoret, Jerome, Gennadius & Rufinus — Historical Writings • SECTION 141

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… For if He Himself is life how can the life receive life?" Of the same from his work on the Incarnation:-- "For when the Word was conscious that in no other way could the ruin …

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Basil — Letters and Select Works • SECTION 61

Chapter XXX.

… Leo on the Incarnation, p. 140 Socrates (ii. 41), pausing at 360, enumerates, after Nicæa: 1. 1st of Antioch (omitted the homoousion, a.d. 341). 2. 2d of Antioch (omitted the homoousion, a.d. 341 …

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Sulpitius Severus, Vincent of Lerins & John Cassian • SECTION 137

It is difficult to determine whether a stay in the desert of Scete was comprised in the seven years which the two friends now spent in Egypt

… 430) it was at the request of Leo, then Archdeacon of Rome, that Cassian wrote his work on the Incarnation against Nestorius. Leaving Rome, Cassian is next found in Gaul, [594] which (if we are …

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Theodoret, Jerome, Gennadius & Rufinus — Historical Writings • SECTION 184

[2282] Dated by Garnerius at the end of September or beginning of October 431, before the order had been given for the withdrawal of the Eas

… We on the contrary abide in the teaching, and follow in the pious footprints, of the blessed Fathers assembled at Nicæa, and of their illustrious successors, Eustathius of Antioch, Basil of Cæsarea, Gregory, John, Athanasius …

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Cyril of Jerusalem & Gregory Nazianzen • SECTION 95

Division II.--The Writings.

… Thirty-eight are dogmatic, on the Trinity, on the works of God in Creation, on Providence, on Angels and Men, on the Fall, on the Decalogue, on the Prophets Elias and Elissæus, on the Incarnation …

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The Seven Ecumenical Councils • SECTION 134

Such was the decree of Vigilius, issued upon the authority with which he was invested. But the council, after his Constitution, both raised

… hold fast to the decrees of the four Councils, and in every way follow the holy Fathers, Athanasius, Hilary, Basil, Gregory the Theologian, Gregory of Nyssa, Ambrose, Theophilus, John (Chrysostom) of Constantinople, Cyril, Augustine, Proclus …

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Gregory of Nyssa — Dogmatic Treatises • SECTION 225

Chapter XXXV.

… This theopoiesis or theosis is more than a metaphor even from the first; "vere fideles vocantur theoi, non naturâ quidem, sed te homoiosei, ait Athanasius;" Casaubon, In Epist. ad Eustath. "We become gods' by grasping …

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Hilary of Poitiers & John of Damascus • SECTION 135

2. Neither have Mine eyes been lifted up. The strict sense of the Greek here conveys a different meaning; oude emeteoristhesan hoi ophthalmo

… also of Athanasius, Chrysostom, Epiphanius, and, not to mention others, that writer who took the name of Dionysius the Areopagite. Out of all these he culled on every hand the flower of their opinions, and …

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Athanasius — Select Works and Letters • SECTION 7

We now turn to the Apostles. Here a few brief remarks must suffice. (A suggestive summary in Sanday, What the first Christians thought about

… God, the Father of all things, is Creator, Lord, Master, and as such known to man, but in Himself Unoriginate (agenetos), ineffable, mysterious (arretos), without a name, One and alone, incapable of Incarnation (for references …

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Athanasius — Select Works and Letters • SECTION 246

[3532] On aparallaktos eikon kat' ousian, which was synonymous with homoiousios, vid. infr. §38. supr. p. 163, note 9. It was in order to se

… The Council anathematizes every heretical heterodoxy;' not, as Athanasius observes, supr., §7, the Arian. [3536] Our Lord was, as they held, before time, but still created. [3537] This emphatic mention of Scripture is also virtually …

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Theodoret, Jerome, Gennadius & Rufinus — Historical Writings • SECTION 172

[2005] Matthew xxviii. 6

… Simon, Menander, Cerdo, and Marcion absolutely deny the incarnation, and call the birth from a Virgin fable. Valentinus, however, Basilides, Bardesanes, and Harmonius and their following, accept the conception of the Virgin and the birth …

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Basil — Letters and Select Works • SECTION 253

Letter CCCLX. [3289]

Letter CCCLX. [3289] Of the Holy Trinity, the Incarnation, the invocation of Saints, and their Images. According to the blameless faith of the Christians which we have obtained from God, I confess and agree that …

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