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Augustine — City of God & Christian Doctrine • SECTION 407
… and trouble in defending against it the grace of God which is through our Lord Jesus Christ, and which (according to the saying of the apostle, "There must be also heresies among you, that they …
876 wordsFathers of the Second Century • SECTION 290
… Philosophy and heresies, aids in discovering the truth. But the things which co-operate in the discovery of truth are not to be rejected. Philosophy, accordingly, which proclaims a Providence, and the recompense of a …
2,428 wordsFathers of the Second Century • SECTION 285
… For what those labouring in heresies use wickedly, the Gnostic will use rightly. Therefore the truth that appears in the Hellenic philosophy, being partial, the real truth, like the sun glancing on the colours both …
875 wordsHippolytus, Cyprian, Caius & Novatian • SECTION 254
… The Lord speaks to Peter, [3106] saying, "I say unto thee, that thou art Peter; and upon this rock I will build my Church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. And …
2,422 wordsTheodoret, Jerome, Gennadius & Rufinus — Historical Writings • SECTION 205
… Commentaries On Genesis, On Exodus, On Leviticus, On Isaiah, On Ezekiel, On Habakkuk, On Ecclesiastes, On the Song of Songs, On the Apocalypse of John, Against all heresies and many others. At the last he …
895 wordsAugustine — City of God & Christian Doctrine • SECTION 406
… One Tichonius, who, although a Donatist himself, has written most triumphantly against the Donatists (and herein showed himself of a most inconsistent disposition, that he was unwilling to give them up altogether), wrote a book …
891 wordsJerome — Principal Works • SECTION 81
… Tranquillinus, one of Jerome's Roman friends, had written (1) to tell him of the stand that Oceanus was making against the Origenists at Rome, and (2) to ask whether any parts of Origen's …
900 wordsCyril of Jerusalem & Gregory Nazianzen • SECTION 171
… For the captivity in Egypt and Babylon was circumscribed, and moreover had long since been brought to an end by the Return; and that under the Romans, which was exacted for their audacity against our …
2,465 wordsAugustine — Anti-Pelagian Writings • SECTION 1
… Jerome's Letter to Ctesiphon (133), and his three books of Dialogue against the Pelagians (vol. ii. of Vallarsius); Paulus Orosius' Apology against Pelagius; Marius Mercator's Commonitoria; Prosper of Aquitaine's writings as also …
2,438 wordsHippolytus, Cyprian, Caius & Novatian • SECTION 253
… And First of All, Fortifying Them Against the Deceits of These, He Exhorts Them to Constancy, and Instructs Them that Heresies Exist Because Christ, the Head of the Church, is Not Looked To, that the …
2,509 wordsAthanasius — Select Works and Letters • SECTION 103
… he says, that it alone, beyond other heresies, "has been bold against the Godhead Itself in a mad way (manikoteron, vid. foregoing note), denying that there is a Word, and that the Father was always …
2,544 wordsTertullian — Latin Christianity • SECTION 1
… Next come those works which contend with internal differences and heresies. And then, those which reflect the morals and manners of Christians. These are classed with some reference to their degrees of freedom from the …
2,528 wordsSulpitius Severus, Vincent of Lerins & John Cassian • SECTION 282
… xxix., xxx.; and in Epiphanius "Heresies," c. lxvi. § 83, sq., where it is given as an answer to the Manichæan objection against the cruelty and injustice of the extermination of the Canaanites by the Israelites …
945 wordsHilary of Poitiers & John of Damascus • SECTION 82
… They are ranged, all of them, against her; and the very fact that she stands single and alone is her sufficient answer to their godless delusions. The hosts of heresy assemble themselves against her; each …
2,574 wordsAugustine — Anti-Pelagian Writings • SECTION 8
… Augustin seems to have given him his heart at once; and, feeling too little informed as to the special heresies which he wished to be prepared to controvert, persuaded him to go on to Palestine …
2,544 wordsSulpitius Severus, Vincent of Lerins & John Cassian • SECTION 114
… A Commonitory [422] For the Antiquity and Universality of the Catholic Faith Against the Profane Novelties of All Heresies. Chapter I. The Object of the Following Treatise. [1.] I, Peregrinus, [423] who am the least …
963 wordsEusebius — Church History, Constantine & Oration • SECTION 144
… This work of Irenæus, which is commonly known under its Latin title, Adversus Hæreses (Against Heresies), is still extant in a barbarous Latin version, of which we possess three mss. The original Greek is lost …
960 wordsAmbrose — Selected Works and Letters • SECTION 219
… Biog., Blunt, Sects and heresies, Ceillier, II. 427, etc.] St. Ambrose, in writing against the Novatians, seems to have had some recent publication of theirs in his mind, which is now unknown. He begins by …
990 wordsGregory Thaumaturgus, Dionysius, Julius Africanus & Others • SECTION 75
… Epiphanius, in his Heresies, lxvi., and again in his work De Mensuris et Poderibus, § 20, makes reference to the same occasion, and gives some excerpts from the Acts of the Disputation. And there are also …
2,638 wordsThe Twelve Patriarchs, Apocrypha, Clementine Homilies & More • SECTION 296
… that the doctrines against God which are intended to try men [1312] went no further than Simon! For there will be, as the Lord said, false apostles, false prophets, [1313] heresies, desires for supremacy, who …
990 wordsHippolytus, Cyprian, Caius & Novatian • SECTION 147
… From these words it is apparent also that this treatise was the closing portion of a book against the heresies (Fabricius). [1651] [This emphatic testimony of our author to the sufficiency of the Scriptures is …
2,675 wordsChrysostom — Galatians through Philemon • SECTION 263
Paul of Samosata, [2303]206; in what way heretical, and how his heresies fall before St. Paul's text, [2304]206-07; said our Lord was a mere creature, [2305]214; his doctrine refuted, [2306 …
2,292 wordsThe Seven Ecumenical Councils • SECTION 115
… After this Dioscorus was again summoned and, as he did not come, sentence was given against him, which was communicated to him in a letter contained in the acts. (L. and C., Conc., Tom. IV …
2,685 wordsFathers of the Second Century • SECTION 234
… show thence to all the heresies one God and Omnipotent Lord to be truly preached by the law and the prophets, and besides by the blessed Gospel. Many contradictions against the heterodox await us while …
1,024 wordsEusebius — Church History, Constantine & Oration • SECTION 80
… Irenæus, in the fifth book of his work Against Heresies, where he discusses the number of the name of Antichrist which is given in the so-called Apocalypse of John, [714] speaks as follows concerning …
1,013 wordsFathers of the Second Century • SECTION 43
Theophilus is said by Eusebius, Jerome, and others, to have written several works against the heresies which prevailed in his day. He himself refers in the following treatise (ii. 30) to another of his compositions …
1,030 wordsAugustine — Homilies on John & First John • SECTION 223
… in loc.) have originated in a marginal gloss, directed against the Gnostics. Thus in a scholion edited by Matthäi it is said: "For the precursors of Antichrist were the heresies, whose characteristic mark it is …
1,037 wordsJerome — Principal Works • SECTION 219
… generation, [5005] and forsake the heresy of Origen, and all heresies, dearly beloved." And lower down, "In the defence of heresy you kindle hatred against me, and destroy that love which I had towards you …
2,779 wordsTheodoret, Jerome, Gennadius & Rufinus — Historical Writings • SECTION 201
… He composed, moreover, directly against the church, volumes: On modesty, On persecution, On fasts, On monogamy, six books On ecstasy, and a seventh which he wrote Against Apollonius. He is said to have lived to …
1,071 wordsHippolytus, Cyprian, Caius & Novatian • SECTION 96
… Now, when I have broken silence on these points, I shall pass on to the demonstration of the Doctrine of the Truth, in order that, after the lengthened argumentative struggle against all heresies, we, devoutly …
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