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Jerome — Principal Works • SECTION 105
… Well, I shall never believe that a man so learned has dedicated the first fruits of his talent to defend doubtful and discredited positions. The very name of an apology which the treatise bears implies …
2,718 wordsSocrates and Sozomen — Ecclesiastical Histories • SECTION 80
… Sometimes the affairs of the Church come first in order; then commotions in the state follow, and sometimes the reverse, so that I cannot believe this invariable interchange is merely fortuitous, but am persuaded that …
1,031 wordsTheodoret, Jerome, Gennadius & Rufinus — Historical Writings • SECTION 201
… He is said to have lived to a decrepit old age, and to have composed many small works, which are not extant. [2462] Born about 160, christian 195, apology 198, died about 245. Chapter LIV …
1,071 wordsEusebius — Church History, Constantine & Oration • SECTION 418
… Justin, apology of, quoted, [1655]114, [1656]158, [1657]180, [1658]181, [1659]184, [1660]185, 193, [1661]195, [1662]196, [1663]223; work against Marcion, [1664]184; against heresies, [1665]185; martyrdom of, [1666 …
2,219 wordsTertullian — Latin Christianity • SECTION 36
… After this and the Apology come three treatises confirming its positions, and vindicating the principles of Christians in conflict with Idolatry, the great generic crime of a world lying in wickedness. These three are the …
1,095 wordsTheodoret, Jerome, Gennadius & Rufinus — Historical Writings • SECTION 272
… He comes to the Latins, and first takes the case of Hilary the Confessor, whose book, he states, was falsified by the heretics after the Council of Ariminum. A question arose about him on this …
2,889 wordsTertullian — Latin Christianity • SECTION 161
… Nay more, [1840] even in matters done through the flesh the soul is the first to conceive them, the first to arrange them, the first to authorize them, the first to precipitate them into acts …
1,103 wordsThe Seven Ecumenical Councils • SECTION 161
… For also James, the brother, according to the flesh, of Christ our God, to whom the throne of the church of Jerusalem first was entrusted, and Basil, the Archbishop of the Church of Cæsarea, whose …
1,137 wordsTertullian — Latin Christianity • SECTION 397
… For of Judaism's heretics I am silent--Dositheus the Samaritan, I mean, who was the first who had the hardihood to repudiate the prophets, on the ground that they had not spoken under inspiration …
1,137 wordsTertullian — Latin Christianity • SECTION 89
… Amend your own lives first, that you may be able to punish the Christians. Only so far as you shall have effected your own reformation, will you refuse to inflict punishment on them--nay, so …
1,137 wordsEusebius — Church History, Constantine & Oration • SECTION 215
… read hos eipen ho apostolos, "as the apostle said." It is impossible to decide with any degree of assurance between the first three readings. [2243] 1 Cor. v. 3. [2244] Col. iv. 3. [2245] Libukoterous …
1,142 wordsAugustine — Anti-Pelagian Writings • SECTION 164
… At the first trial, which was held on or about the 30th of July, at a congress of his presbyters, by John, bishop of Jerusalem, no regular record was kept of the proceedings, as we …
1,310 wordsTertullian — Latin Christianity • SECTION 191
… Now, inasmuch as from the first he had no regard for man, a stranger to him from the first, he settled beforehand, by this neglect of his, that he had nothing to do with an …
1,299 wordsTertullian — Latin Christianity • SECTION 99
Chapter XIII. [1011] --The Gods Human at First. Who Had the Authority to Make Them Divine? Jupiter Not Only Human, But Immoral. Manifest cases, indeed, like these have a force peculiarly their own. Men like …
1,297 wordsTheodoret, Jerome, Gennadius & Rufinus — Historical Writings • SECTION 47
… Constantius, who had embraced Arian tenets and readily yielded to the influence of others, was persuaded to convoke a council at Milan [517] , a city of Italy, and first to compel all the assembled bishops …
1,357 wordsBasil — Letters and Select Works • SECTION 62
… 195. [1347] The identification of an unsound Monarchianism with Judaism is illustrated in the 1st Apology of Justin Martyr, e.g. in § lxxxiii. (Reeves' Trans.). "The Jews, therefore, for maintaining that it was the Father …
1,324 wordsSocrates and Sozomen — Ecclesiastical Histories • SECTION 203
… They were joined by the partisans of Aëtius, who had been the first after Arius to venture openly upon the profession of these opinions; hence Aëtius was called atheist, and his approvers, Anomians and Exucontians …
1,332 wordsEusebius — Church History, Constantine & Oration • SECTION 55
… Eusebius is the first writer to mention it, and he identifies the Therapeutæ described in it with the Christian monks, and assumes in consequence that monasticism in the form in which he knew it existed …
1,328 wordsTertullian — Latin Christianity • SECTION 195
… If the bestowal of the Holy Ghost, how will he bestow the Spirit, who did not at first impart the life? For the life is in a sense the supplement [2668] of the Spirit. He …
1,354 wordsEusebius — Church History, Constantine & Oration • SECTION 135
… He indeed was at first a follower of Valentinus, [1342] but afterward, having rejected his teaching and having refuted most of his fictions, he fancied that he had come over to the more correct opinion …
1,392 wordsAugustine — Confessions & Letters • SECTION 52
… In his First Apology we read (c. lxvii.): "On the day called Sunday [tou heliou legomene hemera] all who live in cities or in the country gather together to one place, and the memoirs of …
1,385 wordsGregory Thaumaturgus, Dionysius, Julius Africanus & Others • SECTION 49
… But in the time of Athanasius, when several churches had been built by the various bishops, the Alexandrians met in different places, kata meros kai dieremenos , as Athanasius says in his first Apology to Constantius …
1,391 wordsAthanasius — Select Works and Letters • SECTION 67
… In the first of these passages he uses the same apology, nearly in the same words, which is contained in the text. [376] Heb. xiii. 8; ii. 10. [377] John x. 15. [378] chamaileontes. vid …
1,438 wordsTertullian — Latin Christianity • SECTION 340
… Being questioned by His disciples when those things were to come to pass which He had just been uttering about the destruction of the temple, He discourses to them first of the order of Jewish …
1,422 wordsHippolytus, Cyprian, Caius & Novatian • SECTION 52
… 50 of his first volume.] [642] This rendering is according to Bunsen's emendation of the text. [643] Cruice omits the word dedokekenai, which seems an interpolation. The above rendering adopts the proposed emendation. [644 …
1,438 wordsEusebius — Church History, Constantine & Oration • SECTION 198
… He was the first one that aimed at the complete extermination of the Christians. He went systematically to work to put the religion out of existence; and the persecution was consequently both universal and of …
1,445 wordsSocrates and Sozomen — Ecclesiastical Histories • SECTION 41
… Now at first they were satisfied with expulsion; but as the evil grew they resorted to the worse extremity of inducing compulsory communion with them, caring but little for such a desecration of the churches …
1,446 wordsEusebius — Church History, Constantine & Oration • SECTION 128
… The work is an apology, designed to exhibit the falsehood of idolatry and the truth of Christianity. The author was a learned writer, well acquainted with Greek philosophy; and his literary style is of a …
1,481 wordsTertullian — Latin Christianity • SECTION 72
… But I first say a word also about the crown itself. This laurel one is sacred to Apollo or Bacchus--to the former as the god of archery, to the latter as the god of …
1,492 wordsSocrates and Sozomen — Ecclesiastical Histories • SECTION 101
… Antiochus came first to Constantinople, and having preached in the churches for some time with great zeal and ability, and having thus amassed a large sum of money, [864] he returned to his own church …
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