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Tertullian — Latin Christianity • SECTION 180
Preface by the Translator. [2316] The reader has, in this volume a translation (attempted for the first time in English) of the largest of the extant works of the earliest Latin Fathers. The most important …
1,488 wordsThe Seven Ecumenical Councils • SECTION 13
… 136) says that "Cyprian was the first to associate the specific offering, i.e. the Lord's Supper with the specific priesthood. Secondly, he was the first to designate the passio Domini, nay, the sanguis …
1,517 wordsEusebius — Church History, Constantine & Oration • SECTION 195
… Many bishops carried on investigations and discussions with him on this matter, and Origen having been invited with the others, went down at first for a conference with him to ascertain his real opinion. But …
1,521 wordsTertullian — Latin Christianity • SECTION 367
… In this principle also we must henceforth find a presumption of equal force against all heresies whatsoever--that whatever is first is true, whereas that is spurious which is later in date. [7782] But keeping …
1,522 wordsTertullian — Latin Christianity • SECTION 52
… We shall find out for what use they were made at first, when we find for what they were not. There is a vast difference between the corrupted state and that of primal purity, just …
1,529 wordsTertullian — Latin Christianity • SECTION 7
… Now first, when you sternly lay it down in your sentences, "It is not lawful for you to exist," and with unhesitating rigour you enjoin this to be carried out, you exhibit the violence and …
1,584 wordsThe Seven Ecumenical Councils • SECTION 10
… We know, by the first apology of St. Justin (Apol. c. 29) that a century before Origen, a young man had desired to be mutilated by physicians, for the purpose of completely refuting the charge …
1,595 wordsAmbrose — Selected Works and Letters • SECTION 133
… first-born of all creation," which Justin Martyr interprets as meaning pro panton ton ktismaton--"before all created things.") Hebrews i. 1-12; Rev. i. 8, 18; John i. 1-3. Justin Martyr, Apology, II …
1,586 wordsSocrates and Sozomen — Ecclesiastical Histories • SECTION 64
… 9. [549] In his Crito, Phædo, Phædrus, and Apology of Socrates. See also Xenophon's Memorabilia of Socrates and Symposium. [550] Marcus Aurelius. [551] Gregor. Nazianz. Orat. V. 23. [552] Euripid. Fragm. [553] Probably Socrates …
1,599 wordsAthanasius — Select Works and Letters • SECTION 252
… the former was not applicable to the Eternal Son; the latter was, except in the first of the two senses distinguished in the text; a sense, however, more properly coming under the specific idea of …
1,630 wordsBasil — Letters and Select Works • SECTION 97
… For it may be, that of the impiety of which we are now hearing so much, I mean the Anomoean, it is he, as far as I know, who first gave men the seeds. I …
1,636 wordsTertullian, Minucius Felix, Commodian & Origen • SECTION 149
… As, then, after those first discussions which, according to the requirements of the case, we held at the beginning regarding the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, it seemed right that we should retrace our steps …
1,648 wordsChrysostom — Galatians through Philemon • SECTION 111
… But what does he do? As a most excellent physician, He prepareth medicines of great price, and Himself tastes them first. For He Himself first followed after virtue, and thus gave it to us. And …
1,728 wordsAugustine — City of God & Christian Doctrine • SECTION 201
Chapter 10.--Whether It is to Be Believed that Our First Parents in Paradise, Before They Sinned, Were Free from All Perturbation. But it is a fair question, whether our first parent or first parents …
1,771 wordsTheodoret, Jerome, Gennadius & Rufinus — Historical Writings • SECTION 46
… Thus Athanasius writes in his Apology for his Flight:--"Let the circumstances of my retreat be investigated, and the testimony of the opposite faction be collected; for Arians accompanied the soldiers, as well for the …
1,794 wordsThe Apostolic Fathers, Justin Martyr & Irenaeus • SECTION 272
… cit. [And mine at end of the First Apology. Consult Orelli's Inscriptions there noted.] [2937] A lyric poet of Sicily, said to have been dealt with, as stated above, by Castor and Pollux. [2938 …
1,804 wordsSocrates and Sozomen — Ecclesiastical Histories • SECTION 9
… And what counsel does he offer? It was neither prudent at first to agitate such a question, nor to reply to such a question when proposed: for the claim of no law demands the investigation …
1,859 wordsLactantius, Venantius, Asterius, Victorinus & Others • SECTION 171
… into a polluted temple of the heathens, or into a synagogue of the Jews or heretics, what apology will such a one make to God in the day of judgment, who has forsaken the oracles …
1,952 wordsJerome — Principal Works • SECTION 252
… decide which he may prefer to adopt; although I must add that, in my Preface to the First Book of that work, I gave fair notice that my remarks would be partly my own, partly …
2,022 wordsChrysostom — Priesthood, Ascetic Treatises & Homilies • SECTION 136
… him confidence, and to lead him to make an apology for his offences, in order that he might obtain some forgiveness, was Himself the first to call; cutting off much of Adam's distress by …
2,039 wordsEusebius — Church History, Constantine & Oration • SECTION 229
… Jerome puts the accession of Felix in the first year of Probus, which is wide of the mark, and the Armenian in the first year of Aurelian, which is not so far out of the …
2,059 wordsChrysostom — Acts and Romans • SECTION 18
… 15.) Although having the greater part of the people on his side, he reasons with those others gently; first he removes the evil surmise, and then he establishes his apology. On this account, therefore, he …
2,088 wordsChrysostom — John and Hebrews • SECTION 198
… first, saith he, "continued not in [the "covenant"]") and the negligence is from ourselves, but the good things from Him; I mean the [acts] of bounty. He here introduces, as it were, an apology showing …
2,219 wordsCyril of Jerusalem & Gregory Nazianzen • SECTION 6
… That the word began very early to be used in this new sense, is evident from Justin Martyr's explanation of it in his First Apology, c. 61; where, after speaking of instruction in Christian …
2,200 wordsSocrates and Sozomen — Ecclesiastical Histories • SECTION 47
… but in order to be restored to it they made an apology, and claimed that they had repented of their shortcoming, as their written recantation attests: they therefore obtained pardon and complete absolution. The time …
2,205 wordsChrysostom — Galatians through Philemon • SECTION 10
… At first Paul directs his argument to the character which Peter wore, "If thou, being a Jew:" but he generalizes as he goes on, and includes himself in the phrase, [58] Ver. 15. "We being …
2,203 wordsLactantius, Venantius, Asterius, Victorinus & Others • SECTION 15
… Among the extant works of Theophilus there is not any with this title, but his work to Autolycus contains an apology for Christianity in three books. It is to this that Lactantius here refers. [110 …
2,206 wordsChrysostom — Acts and Romans • SECTION 20
… but this is in fact quite a secondary object, and the apology becomes a sermon of doctrine." [124] Kai to en I. oikein. Below he explains andres 'Ioudaioi to mean, "dwellers in Judea:" therefore the …
2,173 wordsChrysostom — Corinthians • SECTION 34
… Desiring therefore to take down their self-conceit and to point out that in respect of these things, so far from taking credit to themselves, they ought rather to be ashamed; he first of all …
2,226 wordsJerome — Principal Works • SECTION 226
… This very apology of which we are now speaking was dictated in the presence and, to a great extent, with the assistance of Isidore, so that the same person both composed the letter and carried …
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