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The Seven Ecumenical Councils • SECTION 237
… We could wish that, like as your Holiness intimated to us, in your letter sent by our fellow presbyter Leo, your pleasure at the arrival of Apiarius, so we also could send to you these …
1,166 wordsBasil — Letters and Select Works • SECTION 201
… thinks that the Fathers of Ancyra are meant, whose authority seems to have been great in Cappadocia and the adjacent provinces. [2851] metanoias. cf. note on p. 256; here the word seems to include both …
1,174 wordsThe Seven Ecumenical Councils • SECTION 151
… i., and it was expressly enacted by the sixteenth of the Apostolical Canons, renewed by the Popes Siricius, Innocent and Leo the Great, and may be gathered from the ancient fathers and councils generally received …
1,199 wordsHippolytus, Cyprian, Caius & Novatian • SECTION 57
… The Pythagorean system, however, lays down that the Creator of all alleged existences is the Great Geometrician and Calculator--a sun; and that this one has been fixed in the whole world, just as in …
1,221 wordsThe Seven Ecumenical Councils • SECTION 178
… But the circumstance here has some excuse, in that the suspicion of his death becomes very great. But she who in ignorance has married a man who at the time was deserted by his wife …
1,233 wordsLeo the Great & Gregory the Great • SECTION 62
… Alexandria. Leo to Proterius, bishop of Alexandria. I. He commends his persistent loyalty to the Faith. Your letter, beloved, which our brother and fellow-bishop Nestorius duly brought us, has caused me great joy. For …
1,302 wordsLeo the Great & Gregory the Great • SECTION 238
… For the bodies of the apostles Saint Peter and Saint Paul glitter with so great miracles and terrors in their churches that one cannot even go to pray there without great fear. In short, when …
1,338 wordsThe Seven Ecumenical Councils • SECTION 130
… So in the "order of the holy and great church" of St. Sophia, the "Great Steward" is described as "taking the oversight of the widowed church" (Goar, Eucholog., p. 269); so Hincmar says: "Si fuerit …
1,397 wordsChrysostom — Priesthood, Ascetic Treatises & Homilies • SECTION 25
… How one, not many? Because the sacrifice was offered once for all, as that great sacrifice was in the Holy of Holies. This is a figure of that great sacrifice, as that was of this …
1,431 wordsGospel of Peter, Diatessaron, Apocalypse of Peter & Other Early Texts • SECTION 75
… The doctrine, style, and manner of thought are all in accordance with it; so that, although, as has been said, positive certainty cannot be reached on the subject, we may with great probability conclude that …
1,423 wordsLeo the Great & Gregory the Great • SECTION 10
… Excommunication should be inflicted only on those who are guilty of some great crime, and even then not hastily. No Christian should lightly be denied communion [93] , nor should that be done at the will …
1,429 wordsLeo the Great & Gregory the Great • SECTION 4
… For without being sifted by any test or bound by any previous confession of faith, they make a great point of their right to the privilege of going to one house after another under cover …
1,514 wordsAthanasius — Select Works and Letters • SECTION 87
… 6. [542] As this determination does not find a place among the now received Canons of the Council, the passage in the text becomes of great moment in the argument in favour of the twenty …
1,522 wordsLactantius, Venantius, Asterius, Victorinus & Others • SECTION 136
… 335, supra) Like his great predecessor in Patristic research (Bishop Pearson), the learned and indefatigable Bishop Lightfoot will leave us gold-dust in the mere sweepings of his literary work. His recent voluminous edition of …
1,598 wordsThe Seven Ecumenical Councils • SECTION 84
… Opusc., xxxviij. [221] Leo Allat. Græc. Orthod., Tom. I., p. 173. [222] E. B. Pusey. On the clause, "and the Son," p. 48. [223] Epiphanius, Ancoratus, cxx. [224] Peter of Antioch about a.d. 1054 …
1,629 wordsHilary of Poitiers & John of Damascus • SECTION 1
… Watson is very great indeed, and that of the subscribers to the series is, I believe, hardly less. For the translator of Hilary has before him a very difficult task. It has not been with …
1,632 wordsLeo the Great & Gregory the Great • SECTION 171
… With how great devotion my mind prostrates itself before your Venerableness I cannot fully express in words; nor yet do I labour to give utterance to it, since, even though I were silent, you read …
1,674 wordsLeo the Great & Gregory the Great • SECTION 52
… Mark, the evangelist and disciple of the blessed Peter, nor may the splendour of so great a church be obscured by another's clouds, Dioscorus having fallen through his persistence in impiety. The church of …
1,861 wordsThe Seven Ecumenical Councils • SECTION 23
… 19); Leo the Great (Epist. iii. 4), and Cassiodorus (in Ps. xiv. 10). The canons of later councils differ materially in relation to this subject, and indicate a distinct tendency to mitigate the rigour of …
1,877 wordsAugustine — City of God & Christian Doctrine • SECTION 428
… Alexander the Great, the apt reply of a pirate to, [50]66; and Leo, an Egyptian priest,--a letter of, to his mother Olympias, [51]147, [52]165; invades Judea, [53]388. Alexandra, queen of …
1,805 wordsAugustine — Sermon on the Mount & Gospel Harmony • SECTION 61
… 13. [585] Honorem opinionis. [586] From the Third Oration against Catiline, § 1. [587] Non figat sed fingat. [588] On this Leo or Leon, see also Augustin's City of God, viii. 5. Reference is often …
2,060 wordsTheodoret, Jerome, Gennadius & Rufinus — Historical Writings • SECTION 110
… The procession was accompanied by musicians; one hymn was sung by all in harmony, and thus he and his company went in procession from the western postern to the great church, filling the whole forum …
2,103 wordsEusebius — Church History, Constantine & Oration • SECTION 127
… The bishop of Sparta is mentioned in the synodical letter of the province of Hellas to the emperor Leo (457-477 a.d.), and also still later in the Acts of the Sixth and Eighth …
2,148 wordsThe Seven Ecumenical Councils • SECTION 240
… Now at first sight this argument seems to be of great force. But upon further consideration it will be seen to be after all of no great weight. We may not be able to explain …
2,202 wordsThe Seven Ecumenical Councils • SECTION 51
… Besides which, Epiphanius only says that they rejected prayer for the salvation of the souls of the departed, but not that they did not honour the martyrs; and there is surely a great difference between …
2,209 wordsLeo the Great & Gregory the Great • SECTION 77
… And so, dearly beloved, renounce all friendship with these men who are utterly abominable and pestilential, and whom disturbances in other districts have brought in great numbers to the city [707] : and you women especially …
2,208 wordsThe Seven Ecumenical Councils • SECTION 246
… After this follow the acclamations.] The divine Kings Constantine and Leo said: Let the holy and ecumenical synod say, if with the consent of all the most holy bishops the definition just read has been …
2,202 wordsLeo the Great & Gregory the Great • SECTION 27
… 6. "The angel of the great counsel" (magni consilii angelus) is a translation of the LXX. (which in the rest of the verse either represents a very different original text, or contents itself with a …
2,228 wordsThe Seven Ecumenical Councils • SECTION 99
… There have been some who have tried to reduce all the great theological controversies on the Trinity and on the Incarnation to mere logomachies, and have jeered at those who could waste their time and …
2,200 wordsGregory Thaumaturgus, Dionysius, Julius Africanus & Others • SECTION 131
… 296.) As so shortly preceding the meeting of the Great Council, this letter is most important as a clear testimony to the meaning the first council attached to that article of the Creed which affirms …
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