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Ambrose — Selected Works and Letters • SECTION 3
… He was always ready to help those requiring assistance, and so when Augustine came to Milan to teach rhetoric, a.d. 384, he was kindly received and fascinated. Probably he owed his conversion even more …
2,202 wordsHilary of Poitiers & John of Damascus • SECTION 30
… For instance, it would not be easy to overpraise his insight and courage in resisting the conventional orthodoxy, sanctioned by Athanasius in his own generation and by Augustine in the next, which interpreted St. Paul …
2,232 wordsAthanasius — Select Works and Letters • SECTION 72
… 78 and 95); and from these Greek Fathers the phrase (Dominicus Homo') passed on to Latin writers such as Cassian and Augustine (below, note 5), who, however, subsequently cancelled his adoption of the expression (Retr …
2,246 wordsFathers of the Second Century • SECTION 204
… I have less admiration for the elaborate answers of the great Patriarch of Rome (Gregory), to the scrupulous inquiries of Augustine, than for the instinctive and aphoristic wisdom of poor Theano, in all the darkness …
2,223 wordsEusebius — Church History, Constantine & Oration • SECTION 298
… In Augustine, Ep. 88 (ed. Migne 33 [1865] 3045), and also in Contr. Cresc. (43 [1861] 540, also in Op. Const. and tr. Engl. in Schaff, Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, 1, p. 370). Orders …
2,221 wordsHilary of Poitiers & John of Damascus • SECTION 18
… from him and his works to the more attractive writings and more commanding characters of Ambrose and Augustine. Yet certainly no firmer purpose or more convinced faith, perhaps no keener intellect has devoted itself to …
2,208 wordsThe Seven Ecumenical Councils • SECTION 120
… Afric., lxxxiii. (compare Augustine, De Cura pro Mortuis, VI.). This canon is found in the Corpus Juris Canonici, Gratian's Decretum, Pars I., Dist. lxx., can. j.
801 wordsTertullian, Minucius Felix, Commodian & Origen • SECTION 109
… 143, this series.] Also by Augustine, de Civ. Dei., lib. viii. ch. iii. and xxvii. In the fifth chapter Augustine calls the priest by the name of Leo. [1784] This passage is very doubtful both …
2,261 wordsThe Seven Ecumenical Councils • SECTION 174
… church-music was one early discussed among Christians, and (long before the time of this synod), St. Augustine, in debating as to whether the chanting or the reading of the psalter was the more edifying …
798 wordsThe Seven Ecumenical Councils • SECTION 186
… this whole matter of bishops interceding for culprits, and especially for those condemned to death, see St. Augustine (Epist. 153 ad Macedonium). With this canon may be compared Canon VII. of the Council of Rheims …
812 wordsAthanasius — Select Works and Letters • SECTION 30
… Not only a Gregory or an Epiphanius, an Augustine or a Cyril, a Luther or a Hooker, not only Montfaucon and Tillemont, Newman and Stanley pay tribute to him as a Christian hero. Secular as …
2,267 wordsTertullian, Minucius Felix, Commodian & Origen • SECTION 1
… Latin Christianity is essentially North-African, and is destined to continue such, conspicuously, till it has culminated in the genius of Augustine. From the first, the Orientals speculate concerning God; the Westerns deal with man …
801 wordsAugustine — Against the Manichaeans and Donatists • SECTION 1
Title: NPNF1-04. Augustine: The Writings Against the Manichaeans and Against the Donatists Creator(s): Schaff, Philip (1819-1893) (Editor) Print Basis: New York: The Christian Literature Publishing Co., 1890 Rights: Public Domain CCEL Subjects …
778 wordsBasil — Letters and Select Works • SECTION 164
… of Eusebius to Cæsarea. [2479] i.e. Valens. [2480] "Vita vere mortalis spes est vitæ immortalis." St. Augustine in Ps. iii. "Spes æternitatem animum erigit, et idcirco nulla mala sentit." St. Greg., Moral. cf. Ovid …
809 wordsTheodoret, Jerome, Gennadius & Rufinus — Historical Writings • SECTION 7
… the striking passage of Augustine (Cont. Maximin. Arian. ii. 14). "Sed nunc nec ego Nicænum, nec tu debes Ariminense, tanquam proejudicaturus, proferre consilium. Nec ego hujus auctoritate, nec tu illius detineris. Scripturarum auctoritatibus, non quorumque …
814 wordsGregory Thaumaturgus, Dionysius, Julius Africanus & Others • SECTION 102
… death by the Persian government. His tenets spread considerably, and were in early youth embraced by St. Augustine. [See Confess., iii. 6.] [2198] Plato, Timæus, 51. [2199] In substance, but not in words, Aristotle, Met …
802 wordsThe Twelve Patriarchs, Apocrypha, Clementine Homilies & More • SECTION 462
… of literature, and of great heroic sons, like Athanasius and Chrysostom in the East, and Cyprian and Augustine in the West; and her decadence as a capital,--had led Leo I., and others after him …
2,299 wordsThe Twelve Patriarchs, Apocrypha, Clementine Homilies & More • SECTION 465
… 30. [2730] See Augustine's Confessions, book ix. ch. ix. [2731] See Augustine on Ps. xciii. [2732] See Ambrose, Epistle xxi. [2733] In the year 222. The Second Epistle. To All the Bishops of Gaul …
2,312 wordsHippolytus, Cyprian, Caius & Novatian • SECTION 88
… iv. p. 245, this series] Origen, Peri arch., i. 2; Eusebius, De Præp., vii. 8, 9; St. Augustine, Hær., lix.; Theodoret, Hær. Fab., i. 19; and Philastrius, Hær., lv. [942] Literally, "unadorned." [943] Ps. xix …
817 wordsSulpitius Severus, Vincent of Lerins & John Cassian • SECTION 278
… It is also used in the general sense "of all sorts" by Augustine, Adv. Secund. xxiii. Cassian here speaks as if it had become the popular name for the conflicts of the gladiators with all …
840 wordsAthanasius — Select Works and Letters • SECTION 256
… were being made in the West, and especially in Africa (still later in the time of S. Augustine, see Collat. cum Maximin. 4; and for earlier Arian troubles in Africa, Nicene Lib. vol. i. p …
841 wordsSulpitius Severus, Vincent of Lerins & John Cassian • SECTION 440
… room for falsehood. [2384] The attesting Bishops who subscribed his recantation as witnesses were Aurelius of Carthage; Augustine of Hippo Regius; Florentius of the other Hippo; and Secundinus of Megarmita. Book II. Chapter I. How …
851 wordsGregory Thaumaturgus, Dionysius, Julius Africanus & Others • SECTION 74
… They called the same also formatæ, as Augustine witnesses in Epistle 163. There were, moreover, two kinds of them. For there were some which were given to the clergy and laity when about to travel …
2,333 wordsTheodoret, Jerome, Gennadius & Rufinus — Historical Writings • SECTION 222
… But having been admonished by the Gallican doctors, and corrected by Augustine in Africa, he wrote a book containing his retraction, in which he both acknowledges his error and returns thanks for his correction. At …
854 wordsLeo the Great & Gregory the Great • SECTION 288
… 12)." And with his words the blessed Augustine also agrees in the book which he wrote about heresies. Considering, therefore, all these things, hold ye nothing but what the true faith teaches through the Catholic …
873 wordsAmbrose — Selected Works and Letters • SECTION 74
… of what had been urged by SS. Basil, Didymus, and others. The opinion of the great St. Augustine concerning this treatise may be set against that of St. Jerome. "St. Ambrose when treating of the …
868 wordsAmbrose — Selected Works and Letters • SECTION 131
… a.d. 1000, or possibly a thousand is simply taken as a number signifying completeness, as St. Augustine (De Civ. Dei, XX. 7) explains the thousand years of Rev. xx. 1. [1537] 1 Cor. xv …
869 wordsSulpitius Severus, Vincent of Lerins & John Cassian • SECTION 221
… xxiii.), who gives the form as follows: "Si quis non communicat det locum." It was also customary in Spain and Gaul, as well as in Africa, being alluded to by Augustine in Sermon xlix.: "Ecce …
892 wordsTertullian — Latin Christianity • SECTION 263
… of and confessed before God; because all sin when it is finished bringeth forth death." In St. Augustine's time, when moral theology became systematized in the West, by his mighty genius and influence, the …
2,421 wordsGregory the Great, Ephraim Syrus & Aphrahat • SECTION 16
… For we read that the blessed Augustine refused to live even with his sister, saying, Those who are with my sister are not my sisters. The caution, then, of a learned man ought to be …
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