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Tertullian — Latin Christianity • SECTION 90

Book II. [773]

… Sed enim. [784] Quidni? [785] Receptorum. [786] Necessitatem, answering to the "leges dominantium." [787] Adulterinam. [788] St. Augustine, in his de Civit. Dei, makes similar use of Varro's work on the heathen gods, Liber …

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Sulpitius Severus, Vincent of Lerins & John Cassian • SECTION 495

Chapter XXIV.

… xliv. 2. [2667] These words are not found in any extant writings of S. Ambrose, but something very like them occurs in S. Augustine's Sixth Sermon in Natali Domini. [2668] In Lucam II. i.

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Gregory of Nyssa — Dogmatic Treatises • SECTION 220

Chapter XXVII.

… 217 (Augustine, de Musicâ, vi. 4, quoted in note, "Hominem sine peccato, non sine peccatoris conditione, suscepit").

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Sulpitius Severus, Vincent of Lerins & John Cassian • SECTION 464

Chapter V.

… And Augustine himself actually uses the title Dominicus Homo in his treatise on the Sermon on the Mount, Book II. c. vi., though he afterwards retracted the term, see "Retract," Book I. c. xx. "Non …

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Tertullian — Latin Christianity • SECTION 432

Chapter V.

… 8971] [In the De Anima, cap. lv. as see above.] [8972] [Yet see the sermons of St. Augustine (if indeed his) on the Passion of these Saints. Sermon 281 and 282, opp. Tom. v. pp …

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Sulpitius Severus, Vincent of Lerins & John Cassian • SECTION 114

Chapter I.

… his object was to avoid openly avowing himself the author of a work which covertly attacked St. Augustine. Vossius, Histor. Pelag. p. 246. Ego quidem ad Vossii sententiam plane accessissem, nisi tot delatæ a sapientissimis …

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Sulpitius Severus, Vincent of Lerins & John Cassian • SECTION 479

Chapter XVI.

… i. 20. [2567] Phil. ii. 7, 8; S. John i. 14; 2 Cor. viii. 9. [2568] Cf. Augustine, Tr. 78 in Joan. Chapter XVII. Those who are under an error in one point of the …

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Ambrose — Selected Works and Letters • SECTION 219

Introduction.

… grounds, have been led to question the authorship of this treatise, but it is quoted by St. Augustine, and there has never been any real doubt on the subject. Two Books Concerning Repentance. Book I …

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Sulpitius Severus, Vincent of Lerins & John Cassian • SECTION 163

Chapter V.

… The office of "Dean" (Decanus) which is here spoken of by Cassian, is also referred to by Augustine (De Mor. Eccl. xxxi.) and Jerome (Ep. xxii. ad Eustoch.), and recognized by the Rule of S …

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Leo the Great & Gregory the Great • SECTION 170

Book I.

… ad Stephanum et Africæ Episcopos), and Augustine (Ep. ad Vitalem). Gregory may have been the first to use it habitually. It is true that in the Registrum Epistolarum we find it four times only, viz …

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Sulpitius Severus, Vincent of Lerins & John Cassian • SECTION 324

Chapter II.

… lxx.; Augustine. Hær. l. and lxxvi.; and Theodoret, H. E. IV. x.

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Hippolytus, Cyprian, Caius & Novatian • SECTION 47

Book VI.

… Hæres., i. 19, 20; Tertullian, Præscript., c. xlvi.; Epiphanius, Hæres., xxi.; Theodoret, Hæret. Fab., i. 1; St. Augustine, De Hæres., 1. See the apology of Justin Martyr (vol. i., this series, p. 171), who says …

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Theodoret, Jerome, Gennadius & Rufinus — Historical Writings • SECTION 62

Chapter II.--Of the return of the bishops and the consecration of Paulinus.

… Ambrose remarks that "he had separated himself from our communion," (de excessu Satyri 1127, 47) and St. Augustine that "he fell into the darkness of schism, having lost the light of charity." (Ep. 185 n …

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Ambrose — Selected Works and Letters • SECTION 25

Chapter XXXI.

… retain some of their patrimony so as not to burden the Church, is less strict than St. Augustine, who would have them give up everything and live in common. Serm. 355. [231] S. Matt. xi …

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The Seven Ecumenical Councils • SECTION 223

Canon LXXXVIII. (Greek xci.)

… We have come from Numidia, I and the holy brethren Augustine and Possidius, but a legation could not be sent from Numidia, because by the tumult of the recruits the bishops have either been prevented …

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The Seven Ecumenical Councils • SECTION 259

Canon XIX.

… King Henry founded three monasteries, of which the third was a Brigittine, professing the rule of St. Augustine, with the additions called by them the Rule of the Saviour. "These two convents had one church …

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Leo the Great & Gregory the Great • SECTION 232

Epistle X.

… Gregory's letter to Augustine, XI. 64 Responsio prima.

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Sulpitius Severus, Vincent of Lerins & John Cassian • SECTION 228

Chapter XVIII.

… the Pelagians. Cf. S. Jerome Contra Pelag. I. c. ix.; and in Jerem. c. xxv.; and S. Augustine De Gratia Christi contra Pelag. Chapter XIX. How this faith concerning the grace of God was delivered …

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