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Athanasius — Select Works and Letters • SECTION 263
… April 31 March 21 12 1 F 1 13 [3812] So Leo Magnus (Ep. ad Marcian. Imp.) apud Ægyptios huius supputationis antiquitus tradita peritia.' [3813] We trace differences of opinion in spite of the authority …
2,225 wordsBasil — Letters and Select Works • SECTION 28
… Of all the smaller works a great popularity, as far as popularity can be gauged by the number of editions and translations, has belonged to the Advice to the Young and the Homily on the …
2,200 wordsThe Seven Ecumenical Councils • SECTION 147
… The holy and ecumenical council which by the grace of God and the pious sanction of the most pious and faithful Constantine, the great Emperor, has been gathered together in this God-preserved and royal …
2,224 wordsHilary of Poitiers & John of Damascus • SECTION 30
… If we would appreciate him aright as one of the builders of the dogmatic structure of the Faith, we must omit from the materials of our estimate a great part of his writings, and a …
2,232 wordsLeo the Great & Gregory the Great • SECTION 93
… of the adjective supports Codex Bezæ (D) in adding lian after hupselon. [958] S. Matt. xvi. 28. Leo's application of the prophesy is almost too fanciful to be the true one, though he stands …
2,236 wordsAthanasius — Select Works and Letters • SECTION 115
… ii. §7.) Dionysius the Great,' Bishop of Alexandria 233-265, was a pupil of Origen (Eus. H. E. vi. 29), and equally distinguished as a ruler of the Church and as a theologian. In all …
2,242 wordsThe Seven Ecumenical Councils • SECTION 83
… The great treatises of past years I need not mention here, but may be allowed to enter a warning to the reader, that they were often written in the period of hot controversy, and make …
2,224 wordsAthanasius — Select Works and Letters • SECTION 18
… very different from the claim to a jurisdiction of divine right which we find formulated in Leo the Great. The letter of Julius was considered at the famous Council of the Dedication (of Constantine's …
2,218 wordsTheodoret, Jerome, Gennadius & Rufinus — Historical Writings • SECTION 170
… The change was wrought,--not by the commanding voice of ecclesiastical authority,--not by the argumentative eloquence of any great writer, who by his surpassing abilities awed the world into peace,--not by the reaction …
2,228 wordsLeo the Great & Gregory the Great • SECTION 108
… in which case they are probably right in inferring that Leo used the Sermon more than once, and wrote these two endings for two different occasions. [1209] S. Luke xii. 19, 20. Sermon XCI. On …
2,247 wordsLeo the Great & Gregory the Great • SECTION 112
… 451); but this Canon had been repudiated at the time by Pope Leo of Rome. Hence the popes were ever peculiarly jealous of any new assumption, or uncanonical proceedings, on the part of the Constantinopolitan …
2,226 wordsLeo the Great & Gregory the Great • SECTION 58
… Nay, the immortal mystery had perished from the hearts of unbelievers, because so great salvation is of no avail to unbelievers, as the Very Truth said to His disciples: "he that believeth and is baptized …
2,269 wordsAthanasius — Select Works and Letters • SECTION 199
… of the Christian. [2431] Vid. supr. de Decr. 2. n. 6. Tertullian de Carn. Christ. 17. S. Leo, as Athan. makes seed' in the parable apply peculiarly to faith in distinction to obedience. Serm. 69 …
2,242 wordsBasil — Letters and Select Works • SECTION 61
… On the other side, the Church with the Nicene Creed, confessing Him as Homoousion, of one essence with the Father,' meaning thereby, as her great champion repeatedly bore witness, to secure belief in the reality …
2,261 wordsTertullian — Latin Christianity • SECTION 187
… These names of the two great deities suggest a connection with fire and air. [2483] i.e., Cybele. [2484] The earth's irrigations, and the washings of the image of Cybele every year in the …
2,240 wordsTertullian, Minucius Felix, Commodian & Origen • SECTION 109
… Octavius Attests the Fact that Men Were Adopted as Gods, by the Testimony of Euhemerus, Prodicus, Persæus, and Alexander the Great, Who Enumerate the Country, the Birthdays, and the Burial-Places of the Gods. Moreover …
2,261 wordsThe Seven Ecumenical Councils • SECTION 7
… While here, at the command of his superiors, and moved by the persuasion of his friends, he wrote that great book which has made his fame, which he entitled "An Exposition of the Sacred and …
2,273 wordsGregory Thaumaturgus, Dionysius, Julius Africanus & Others • SECTION 37
… For this custom had obtained great prevalence, so that many persons composed psalms in honour of Christ, and got them sung in the church. It is psalms of this kind, consequently, that the Fathers of …
2,264 wordsThe Seven Ecumenical Councils • SECTION 265
… of Dionysius was considered of great authority. They also passed into other collections, and particularly into that of the pseudo-Isidore; and in 1054, Humbert, legate of Pope Leo IX., made the following declaration: Clementis …
2,276 wordsLeo the Great & Gregory the Great • SECTION 105
… Peter was providentially prepared for his great mission. Thy confidence also was increased by many miraculous signs, by many gifts of grace, by many proofs of power. Thou hadst already taught the people, who from …
2,268 wordsAugustine — Confessions & Letters • SECTION 11
… and he died shortly before the great Christological conflicts opened, which reached their oecumenical settlement at the council of Chalcedon, twenty years after his death. Yet he anticipated Leo in giving currency in the West …
2,283 wordsAugustine — Confessions & Letters • SECTION 9
… It is still a mighty moral power, and will not lose its hold upon earnest characters until some great theological genius produces from the inexhaustible mine of the Scriptures a more satisfactory solution of the …
2,259 wordsGregory Thaumaturgus, Dionysius, Julius Africanus & Others • SECTION 84
… For hoc here, Routh suggests hic in reference to the leo so that the sense might be = But by this plan the lion was caught, and hereafter He will save the soul. [1659] The text …
2,311 wordsAugustine — City of God & Christian Doctrine • SECTION 1
… However, this great undertaking was at last completed in twenty-two books. Of these, the first five refute those who fancy that the polytheistic worship is necessary in order to secure worldly prosperity, and that …
2,276 wordsThe Seven Ecumenical Councils • SECTION 136
… For the prophecies concerning Christ he rejected and hastened to destroy, so far as he had the power, the great mystery of the dispensation for our salvation; attempting in many ways to show the divine …
2,295 wordsHippolytus, Cyprian, Caius & Novatian • SECTION 163
… Leo of Rome, called "the Great," seems to have coined the less orthodox expression, relying on Holy Scripture, indeed, in the salutation of Elisabeth (Luke i. 43). This term has been sadly abused for Mariolatry …
2,276 wordsLeo the Great & Gregory the Great • SECTION 247
… How great, then, is the virtue of humility for the sake of teaching which alone He who is great beyond compare became little even unto the suffering of death! For, since the pride of the …
2,323 wordsLeo the Great & Gregory the Great • SECTION 76
… Let him who has used great possessions well, use small ones also well. Plenty and scarcity may be equally for our good, and even in spiritual progress we shall not be cast down at the …
2,316 wordsBasil — Letters and Select Works • SECTION 8
… Sasima." "The great plain which extends from Sasima nearly to Soandos is full of underground houses and churches, which are said to be of immense extent. The inhabitants are described by Leo Diaconus (p. 35 …
2,265 wordsGregory Thaumaturgus, Dionysius, Julius Africanus & Others • SECTION 255
… I, a mannikin, not do the same? Yes, do I, and right merrily, forsooth!" On which the great African Father [5049] remarks pithily, "Omnes enim cultores talium deorum, mox ut eos libido perpulerit, magis intuentur …
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