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Theodoret, Jerome, Gennadius & Rufinus — Historical Writings • SECTION 210
… vomit," and married a nun, a virgin dedicated to Christ. [2556] End of 4th Century. Chapter CXXIV. Ambrose [2557] a bishop of Milan, at the present time is still writing. I withhold my judgment of …
714 wordsAmbrose — Selected Works and Letters • SECTION 155
… Vulg.--"Post gloriam." A.V.--" After the glory." [1946] Isa. lii. 6. The Vulg. agrees with St. Ambrose. The A.V. has--"They shall know in that day that I am He that doth speak …
702 wordsThe Seven Ecumenical Councils • SECTION 11
… exception has been made to the rule of the Council of Nicæa--for instance, that of S. Ambrose. The canon of Nicæa does not seem to allow such an exception, but it might be justified …
719 wordsAmbrose — Selected Works and Letters • SECTION 159
… father. But where the Persons are eternal, there is no difference constituted by age. Still, as St. Ambrose acutely remarks, the names Father' and Son' indicate indeed a distinction of Persons and mutual relations of …
2,098 wordsTheodoret, Jerome, Gennadius & Rufinus — Historical Writings • SECTION 2
… Soc. iii. 16. 374. Auxentius of Milan dies. Theod. iv. 5; Soc. iv. 30; Soz. i. 24. Ambrose archbishop of Milan. Theod. iv. 6. 375. Gratian emperor of the West. Theod. v. 1; Soc. iv …
723 wordsBasil — Letters and Select Works • SECTION 24
… ears and hear not. [650] Their hands are helpless; their feet dead." The whole Homily is forcible. It is quoted by Isidore of Pelusium, [651] and St. Ambrose seems to have been acquainted with it.
704 wordsAmbrose — Selected Works and Letters • SECTION 244
Book I. Chapter I. St. Ambrose, reflecting upon the account he will have to give of his talents, determines to write, and consoles himself with certain examples of God's mercy. Then recognizing his own …
736 wordsAmbrose — Selected Works and Letters • SECTION 255
Chapter VI. St. Ambrose, in concluding the second book, ascribes any good there may be in it to the merits of the virgins, and sets forth that it was right before laying down any severe …
747 wordsChrysostom — Priesthood, Ascetic Treatises & Homilies • SECTION 133
… Thessalonica, for which St. Ambrose caused him to do penance, occurred after the date of these Homilies, and that event forms a striking comment on Hom. III. 6. St. Ambrose then required him to renew …
2,128 wordsAmbrose — Selected Works and Letters • SECTION 115
… ix. 8. [1450] Acts xxvi. 16. [1451] Wisd. vii. 22. [1452] B. III. 18. [1453] Ps. xxxiii. [xxxii.] 6. The Two Books of St. Ambrose, Bishop of Milan, on the Decease of His Brother Satyrus.
753 wordsAugustine — Anti-Pelagian Writings • SECTION 211
… forth, and which he formally mentions in his self-defence (that is to say, in the third book of his Defence of Free Will), praises St. Ambrose. [1893] Rom. x. 3. [1894] Phil. iii. 9.
736 wordsAugustine — City of God & Christian Doctrine • SECTION 388
… As to the utility of history, moreover, passing over the Greeks, what a great question our own Ambrose has set at rest! For, when the readers and admirers of Plato dared calumniously to assert that …
737 wordsAmbrose — Selected Works and Letters • SECTION 251
… loss of property are not to be feared, and an instance of this is related by St. Ambrose. 62. It is a good thing, then, that the zeal of parents, like favouring gales, should aid …
761 wordsAmbrose — Selected Works and Letters • SECTION 136
… Angel, who was one, was shown the Unity of power or nature. In another way, too, St. Ambrose points out, was the Trinity typified in that event, inasmuch as God was praised, the Angel of …
2,175 wordsAugustine — City of God & Christian Doctrine • SECTION 360
… and of each of these he gives examples, selected both from Scripture and from early teachers of the Church, Cyprian and Ambrose. He shows that these various styles may be mingled, and when and for …
773 wordsAmbrose — Selected Works and Letters • SECTION 234
Chapter III. Explanation of the parable of the Prodigal Son, in which St. Ambrose applies it to refute the teaching of the Novatians, proving that reconciliation ought not to be refused to the greatest offender …
774 wordsGregory of Nyssa — Dogmatic Treatises • SECTION 153
… These words are absent from the Munich Cod. i.e. the German; not from Vat. and Reg. Ambrose, Ep. 25, has "Quid de alterâ Moysi sorore Mariâ loquar, quæ foeminei dux agminis pede transmisit pelagi …
778 wordsAugustine — Confessions & Letters • SECTION 316
… possible for Himself to be seen by assuming the form of something material and discernible. [2631] Our Ambrose says the same: "That the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit, when visible, are seen …
2,202 wordsAmbrose — Selected Works and Letters • SECTION 286
… To the lady, his sister, dearer to him than his eyes and life, Ambrose Bishop. 1. As I do not wish anything which takes place here in your absence to escape the knowledge of your …
2,232 wordsAmbrose — Selected Works and Letters • SECTION 279
… 8. [3432] Cf. de Off. Min. II. 78, 137, 138. [3433] Gratian, murdered a.d. 383. St. Ambrose on Ps. lxii. [lxi.] § 23, gives some details mentioned by no other writer. The Emperor was noted …
755 wordsAthanasius — Select Works and Letters • SECTION 191
… 66. 74. 95. Even S. Cyril of Jerusalem makes a similar admission, Catech. x. 14. Nay S. Ambrose calls the Word, plenum justitiæ sacerdotalis, de fug. sæc. 3. 14. S. Clement Alex. before them speaks …
2,202 wordsThe Seven Ecumenical Councils • SECTION 32
Upon an invitation from Rome, S. Ambrose also mentioned the period of this same Easter in 387, in his letter to the bishops of Æmilia, and he sides with the Alexandrian computation. Cyril of Alexandria …
2,199 wordsJerome — Principal Works • SECTION 12
… 125. [16] The predecessor of Ambrose and an Arian. He was still living when Jerome wrote, but died 374. [17] Damasus, who having successfully made good his claim to the papacy, in 369 condemned Auxentius …
773 wordsSulpitius Severus, Vincent of Lerins & John Cassian • SECTION 30
… In making this request, he brought forward the example of Saint Ambrose, the bishop, who was generally spoken of at that time as being in the habit of entertaining both consuls and prefects. But Martin …
796 wordsAmbrose — Selected Works and Letters • SECTION 245
… since it is the birthday of the holy Virgin Agnes, of whose name, modesty, and martyrdom St. Ambrose speaks in commendation, but more especially of her age, seeing that she, being but twelve years old …
804 wordsAugustine — Confessions & Letters • SECTION 13
… Removes to Milan; his errors gradually removed through the teaching of Ambrose, but he is held back by the flesh; becomes again a Catechumen. 386. Studies St. Paul; converted through a voice from heaven; gives …
2,216 wordsTheodoret, Jerome, Gennadius & Rufinus — Historical Writings • SECTION 184
… their illustrious successors, Eustathius of Antioch, Basil of Cæsarea, Gregory, John, Athanasius, Theophilus, Damasus of Rome, and Ambrose of Milan. For all these, following the words of the apostles, have left us an exact rule …
2,276 wordsAugustine — Confessions & Letters • SECTION 11
… Even now, since the Catholic Church has become a Roman Church, he enjoys greater consideration in it than Ambrose, Hilary, Jerome, or Gregory the Great. All this cannot possibly be explained without an interior affinity …
2,283 wordsTertullian, Minucius Felix, Commodian & Origen • SECTION 123
… They became intimate friends; and as Ambrose seems to have been possessed of large means, and entertained an unbounded admiration of the learning and abilities of his friend, it was his delight to bear the …
2,283 wordsAugustine — Confessions & Letters • SECTION 85
… And there was a monastery at Milan [654] full of good brethren, without the walls of the city, under the fostering care of Ambrose, and we were ignorant of it. He went on with his …
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