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The Apostolic Fathers, Justin Martyr & Irenaeus • SECTION 56
… and every one that liveth and believeth in me, even though he die, shall live for ever." [805] Do ye therefore flee from these ungodly heresies; for they are the inventions of the devil, that …
1,065 wordsTheodoret, Jerome, Gennadius & Rufinus — Historical Writings • SECTION 226
… Samuel, [2719] presbyter of the church at Edessa, is said to have written many things in Syriac against the enemies of the church, especially against the Nestorians, the Eutychians and the Timotheans, new heresies all …
1,082 wordsAugustine — Anti-Pelagian Writings • SECTION 312
… For if these dogmas of yours are severally maintained with pertinacity, they may possibly engender as many heresies as they number opinions. Wherefore consider, I pray you, how dreadful it is that they should be …
1,086 wordsAugustine — Anti-Pelagian Writings • SECTION 16
… 23). "If we wish to defend free will, let us not strive against that by which it is made free. For he who strives against grace, by which the will is made free for refusing …
2,802 wordsLeo the Great & Gregory the Great • SECTION 28
… each nature is in equal reality present, the human as well as the Divine, thus opposing all Docetic and Monophysite heresies. [278] This passage (which is repeated in Serm. liv., chap. 2, down to "injuries …
1,067 wordsLeo the Great & Gregory the Great • SECTION 24
… And therefore, brother, signify to us in a full account by the hand of the most fit and competent person, what innovation has arisen against the ancient faith, which needed to be corrected by so …
1,114 wordsFathers of the Second Century • SECTION 193
… Perspicuity accordingly aids in the communication of truth, and logic in preventing us from falling under the heresies by which we are assailed. But the teaching, which is according to the Saviour, is complete in …
1,096 wordsTertullian — Latin Christianity • SECTION 156
… Now either report, which is occasionally calumnious against barbarians, deceived Herodotus, [1780] or else a large force of demons of this sort domineers in those barbarous regions. Since, indeed, Aristotle remarks of a certain hero …
1,111 wordsLeo the Great & Gregory the Great • SECTION 1
… The heresy of Eutyches, as was the case with so many other heresies, sprang from the reaction against a counter heresy. Most of the controversies which have again and again imperilled the cause of Christianity …
2,890 wordsAugustine — Anti-Pelagian Writings • SECTION 347
… Whence even these Pelagians do well to utter an anathema against the Manicheans, and to speak against their errors. But they do two evil things, for which they themselves must also be anathematized--one, that …
1,130 wordsJerome — Principal Works • SECTION 110
… The general epistle written [2635] to all Catholics belongs particularly to you; for you, having a zeal for the faith against all heresies, particularly oppose the disciples of Origen and of Apollinaris whose poisoned roots …
1,135 wordsLeo the Great & Gregory the Great • SECTION 283
… Now after what manner the serenity of your Piety, out of regard to righteousness and zeal for the purest religion, has been moved against the most flagitious pravity of the Donatists, the tenor of the …
1,149 wordsFathers of the Second Century • SECTION 161
… See also Irenæus, Against Heresies, cap. xxii. note 12, p. 391, this series.]
1,127 wordsTertullian — Latin Christianity • SECTION 179
… 1560, is an instance of "Præscription against heresies," well worthy of being recalled, in a day which has seen Truth and Peace newly sacrificed to the ceaseless innovations of Rome. It is as follows:--"If …
1,151 wordsSulpitius Severus, Vincent of Lerins & John Cassian • SECTION 273
… And although the blessed Apostle says generally that all faults are carnal, since he enumerates enmities and anger and heresies among other works of the flesh, [1317] yet in order to cure them and to …
1,170 wordsSocrates and Sozomen — Ecclesiastical Histories • SECTION 280
… 279; refuses to recall him, [2919]280; exiles John, the Melitian bishop, [2920]280; enacts law against heresies, [2921]280; baptism, death, and character, [2922]282; charges Constantius to call council regarding homoiousios, [2923]298 …
985 wordsSulpitius Severus, Vincent of Lerins & John Cassian • SECTION 447
… Nestorianism, the very heresy against which Cassian himself is writing. These instances of inaccurate language, which a later writer would have carefully avoided, serve to show one great service which heresies did to the Church …
1,182 wordsAugustine — Anti-Pelagian Writings • SECTION 3
… 6, 11, 12; Against Two Letters of the Pelagians, iv. 32; Against Julian, i. 4; On Heresies, 88; and often elsewhere. Jerome found roots for the theory in Origen and Rufinus (Letter 133, 3), but …
3,027 wordsAugustine — Sermon on the Mount & Gospel Harmony • SECTION 56
… For just as, in the course of the diverse errors of men, many persons have set up their varied heresies against the truth under the cover of His name, so the very enemies of Christ …
1,186 wordsEusebius — Church History, Constantine & Oration • SECTION 151
… The enemy of God's Church, who is emphatically a hater of good and a lover of evil, and leaves untried no manner of craft against men, was again active in causing strange heresies to …
3,050 wordsTertullian, Minucius Felix, Commodian & Origen • SECTION 366
… He continues, moreover, to linger over the accusations which he brings against the diversity of sects which exist, but does not appear to me to be accurate in the language which he employs, nor to …
1,221 wordsAmbrose — Selected Works and Letters • SECTION 110
… used against His dignity, the equality of the Trinity and the Unity of the Godhead is established. Lastly, after explaining how the Son receives from the Father, St. Ambrose shows how various heresies are refuted …
1,224 wordsFathers of the Second Century • SECTION 245
… we have deferred till the discussion of these points, in which we have undertaken to dispute against the heresies, showing that He alone is the God proclaimed by Him. But the apostle, writing to us …
1,235 wordsAugustine — Anti-Pelagian Writings • SECTION 295
… See also Augustin, On Heresies, 86, and Epistles, No. 190.
1,231 wordsTertullian, Minucius Felix, Commodian & Origen • SECTION 391
… up together various heresies, and not observing that some statements are the utterances of one heretical sect, and others of a different one, he brings forward the objections which we raised against Marcion. [4543] And …
1,263 wordsAugustine — Against the Manichaeans and Donatists • SECTION 262
… Why do those who make me sad prevail against me? My wound is grievous; whence shall I be healed? It is become unto me as lying water, that has no faith." [2283] In all this …
3,184 wordsAugustine — Anti-Pelagian Writings • SECTION 151
… to an unnecessary length. [1363] [Probably Spanish refugees; they had recently presented to Augustin a memorial against certain heresies. Oros. ad Aug. i.--W.] [1364] In his epistle (157) to Hilary, written a little while …
1,256 wordsSocrates and Sozomen — Ecclesiastical Histories • SECTION 66
… The emperor having thus successfully terminated the conflict, immediately began to move against the Christians, with the design of converting every sect to Arianism. But he was especially incensed against those who had composed the …
1,249 wordsSulpitius Severus, Vincent of Lerins & John Cassian • SECTION 129
… 529), the third and fifth canons of which are directed against it. [505] Gal. ii. 9.
1,263 wordsJerome — Principal Works • SECTION 85
… and then concludes with a request that he will draw up a short notice of the principal heresies condemned by the Church. Like the preceding letter of Augustine (Letter LVI.) this also failed to reach …
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