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Augustine — Against the Manichaeans and Donatists • SECTION 181
… One form of apology for such a seeming vacation of all their tenets was to say, e.g., of Felicianus of Musti, that he was ignorantly condemned when innocent and absent, so in his absence …
2,203 wordsTertullian — Latin Christianity • SECTION 81
… first came the rumour, then the exhibition of the proof; first the hearsay, then the inspection; and after this, fame received its commission. Now this, I must say, [562] surpasses all admiration, that that was …
2,214 wordsThe Twelve Patriarchs, Apocrypha, Clementine Homilies & More • SECTION 257
… First, that you may not hear the discourses of piety, and so drive away ignorance, which is the occasion of evils, he ensnares you by a pretence of knowledge, giving in the first instance, and …
768 wordsThe Twelve Patriarchs, Apocrypha, Clementine Homilies & More • SECTION 517
… From the Apology Addressed to Marcus Aurelius Antoninus. [3608] For the race of the pious is now persecuted in a way contrary to all precedent, being harassed by a new kind of edicts [3609] everywhere …
2,216 wordsChrysostom — Priesthood, Ascetic Treatises & Homilies • SECTION 155
… The oath of Saul was first broken by his son; and again a second and a third, concerning the slaying of his son, by Saul himself. And the people seemed to have kept their oath …
2,227 wordsTertullian — Latin Christianity • SECTION 365
Chapter LXI.--The Details of Our Bodily Sex, and of the Functions of Our Various Members. Apology for the Necessity Which Heresy Imposes of Hunting Up All Its Unblushing Cavils. Now you have received your …
2,208 wordsLactantius, Venantius, Asterius, Victorinus & Others • SECTION 210
… Justin, First Apology, chap. lxvii. (vol. i. [314]p. 186). That lessons from some at least of the New Testament were included at the date of this homily, seems quite certain; comp. the references to …
2,207 wordsTertullian — Latin Christianity • SECTION 4
… of First Three Centuries, ii. 105-109. [21] Or versions. [22] Tertullianus. [23] Vincentius Lirinensis, in his celebrated Commonitorium, expresses the opinion of Catholic churchmen concerning Tertullian thus: "Tertullian, among the Latins, without controversy, is …
2,206 wordsAugustine — City of God & Christian Doctrine • SECTION 2
… The first overture was on Augustin's part, in the shape of a simple and manly request that Volusian would carefully peruse the Scriptures, accompanied by a frank offer to do his best to solve …
2,238 wordsThe Apostolic Fathers, Justin Martyr & Irenaeus • SECTION 125
… This has always seemed to us very slight evidence on which to reject so precise a statement as Justin here makes; a statement which he would scarcely have hazarded in an apology addressed to Rome …
800 wordsTheodoret, Jerome, Gennadius & Rufinus — Historical Writings • SECTION 228
… John [2740] of Antioch first grammarian, and then Presbyter, wrote against those who assert that Christ is to be adored in one substance only and do not admit that two natures are to be recognized …
826 wordsLactantius, Venantius, Asterius, Victorinus & Others • SECTION 228
… 1 [2776]2 [2777]3 [2778]4 [2779]5 * Festal Epistle: [2780]1 * First Apology: [2781]1 [2782]2 [2783]3 * First Epistle of Clement: [2784]1 * Fragment of an Ancient East-Syrian Liturgy: [2785 …
1,949 wordsEusebius — Church History, Constantine & Oration • SECTION 111
… And again in the first book he speaks as follows concerning Cerdon: [1070] "A certain Cerdon, who had taken his system from the followers of Simon, and had come to Rome under Hyginus, the ninth …
2,354 wordsAthanasius — Select Works and Letters • SECTION 121
… If that claim were undisputed, no apology would be needed for its presence in this volume. If on the other hand its spurious and unhistorical character had been finally demonstrated, its insertion would be open …
2,371 wordsChrysostom — Corinthians • SECTION 57
… And all this in Antioch, where men were first called Christians, wherein are bred the most civilized of mankind, where in old time the fruit of charity flourished so abundantly. For not only to those …
2,365 wordsTheodoret, Jerome, Gennadius & Rufinus — Historical Writings • SECTION 258
… even so, this was the first complaint which you had received of any injury on my part since friendship had been restored between us, and that with difficulty and much trouble. But suppose that you …
2,384 wordsThe Apostolic Fathers, Justin Martyr & Irenaeus • SECTION 126
… Thus we may measure the defiant intrepidity of this stinging sarcasm addressed to the "philosophers," with whose sounding titles this Apology begins.]
863 wordsAmbrose — Selected Works and Letters • SECTION 74
… In the first book St. Ambrose commences by allegorizing the history of Gideon and the fleece, seeing in the drying of the fleece and the moistening of the threshing-floor a type of the Holy …
868 wordsAthanasius — Select Works and Letters • SECTION 16
According to the Apology of Athanasius, all this took place some time before the council of Tyre; we cannot fix the date, except that it must have come after the Easter of 332 (see above …
2,398 wordsAugustine — Against the Manichaeans and Donatists • SECTION 19
… What need to speak of the first statement, when it is clear to all that it is a quotation from the law given by Moses? For it is there written, "Thou shalt love the Lord …
867 wordsAthanasius — Select Works and Letters • SECTION 21
… 10, 353), but the first Winter after his victory, which he spent at Arles, was employed against an enemy more odious to him than the vanquished tyrant of Gaul' (Gibbon). It is unnecessary to detail …
2,419 wordsChrysostom — Acts and Romans • SECTION 29
… 18.) Then, lest they should suppose that God's dispensation was their own apology, first he reproves them. Moreover, that the denying Him "to Pilate's face," was no ordinary thing; seeing that he wished …
2,466 wordsAthanasius — Select Works and Letters • SECTION 173
… It is implied also in the Apology of the former, §24, and in Basil. contr. Eunom. ii. 28. Aetius was in Alexandria with George of Cappadocia, a.d. 356-8, and Athan. wrote these Discourses …
2,472 wordsEusebius — Church History, Constantine & Oration • SECTION 4
… 11.) During the two years of Pamphilus' imprisonment Eusebius spent a great deal of time with him, and the two together composed five books of an Apology for Origen, to which Eusebius afterward added a …
2,507 wordsTertullian — Latin Christianity • SECTION 101
… vii., to The Apology, cc. xxii. xxiii. [1061] Divini. [1062] Et tristitiæ arbitros. [1063] Transvolem. [1064] Diva arquis. [1065] Perhaps another form of Diana. [1066] Faciunt = rhizousi. [1067] This seems to be the meaning of …
959 wordsEusebius — Church History, Constantine & Oration • SECTION 420
… Timothy, Paul's Epistles to, [2982]124, [2983]133, [2984]137, [2985]221; first bishop of Ephesus, [2986]136. Timothy, companion of Dionysius of Alexandria, [2987]282, [2988]311. Titus, first bishop of Crete, [2989 …
765 wordsJerome — Principal Works • SECTION 249
… When the first elder says the crime was committed under a mastich tree (schinos), Daniel answers, "God shall cut thee in two" (schisei). [5408] The mastich tree. [5409] To saw. [5410] The holm-oak. [5411 …
993 wordsTertullian — Latin Christianity • SECTION 388
… The good accruing is the apology for the frightfulness of the work. In short, that man who is howling and groaning and bellowing in the hands of a physician will presently load the same hands …
995 wordsHippolytus, Cyprian, Caius & Novatian • SECTION 47
… Whatever opinions, then, were entertained by those who derived the first principles (of their doctrine) from the serpent, and in process of time [608] deliberately [609] brought forward into public notice their tenets, we have …
1,007 wordsThe Apostolic Fathers, Justin Martyr & Irenaeus • SECTION 207
… for, first of all, not even now does your nation extend from the rising to the setting of the sun, but there are nations among which none of your race ever dwelt. For there is …
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