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Augustine — Anti-Pelagian Writings • SECTION 194
… most glowing and luminous love; and he concludes with a request that Pelagius would seriously listen to Ambrose, whom he is so very fond of quoting, in his excellent eulogy in commendation of the grace …
814 wordsAmbrose — Selected Works and Letters • SECTION 280
Epistle XX. St. Ambrose relates to his sister the events at Milan connected with the demand of the Arians for a basilica, and how the people rose up in opposition. Then that on the second …
2,311 wordsSulpitius Severus, Vincent of Lerins & John Cassian • SECTION 111
… Returning to Milan, they found that Ambrose was equally opposed to them. Then they changed their plans, with the view that, as they had not got the better of the two bishops, who were at …
831 wordsSulpitius Severus, Vincent of Lerins & John Cassian • SECTION 160
… it seems to have been almost peculiar to Rome, and at Milan, in the time of S. Ambrose, the Eastern custom prevailed. See the important letter of Augustine to Casulanus (Ep. xxxvi.), where the whole …
830 wordsAugustine — Trinity, Doctrinal & Moral Treatises • SECTION 1
… His teacher, Ambrose, and his older contemporary, Jerome, went still further in the enthusiastic praise of single life. We must admire their power of self-denial and undivided consecration, though we may dissent from their …
828 wordsAmbrose — Selected Works and Letters • SECTION 254
… surety." Chapter V. The story of the two Pythagorean friends, Damon and Pythias, is related by St. Ambrose, who points out that the case mentioned in the last chapter is more praiseworthy. A comparison is …
835 wordsAugustine — Confessions & Letters • SECTION 205
… When, therefore, he was compelled to pronounce concerning Ambrose that he was not a Christian nor a righteous man, I related the persecution which he endured when his church was surrounded with soldiers. I also …
2,341 wordsAmbrose — Selected Works and Letters • SECTION 226
Chapter IX. By collating similar passages with 1 Sam. iii. 25, St. Ambrose shows that the meaning is not that no one shall intercede, but that the intercessor must be worthy as were Moses and …
841 wordsTertullian, Minucius Felix, Commodian & Origen • SECTION 124
… Under this head we place the little treatise Peri Euches, On Prayer, written at the instance of his friend Ambrose, and which contains an exposition of the Lord's Prayer; the Logos protreptikos eis marturion …
2,315 wordsAthanasius — Select Works and Letters • SECTION 181
… Prov. viii. 22. an enigma, with an allusion to Prov. i. 6. Sept. In like manner S. Ambrose says, Mare est scriptura divina, habens in se sensus profundos, et altitudinem propheticorum ænigmatum, &c. Ep. ii …
2,358 wordsAugustine — Anti-Pelagian Writings • SECTION 10
… The book closes (46-80) with a full refutation of Pelagius' appeal to Ambrose, as if he supported him; and exhibition of Ambrose's contrary testimony as to grace and its necessity.
2,336 wordsChrysostom — Priesthood, Ascetic Treatises & Homilies • SECTION 174
… not talk like others. [1846] Forty days from Quinquagesima, leaving ten till Easter; see Pref. [1847] St. Ambrose (Life by Paulinus, sec. 34), forbade Theodosius to enter the church at all, after the massacre of …
832 wordsAmbrose — Selected Works and Letters • SECTION 259
Chapter V. St. Ambrose, speaking of tears, explains David's saying, "Every night wash l my couch with my tears," and goes on to speak of Christ bearing our griefs and infirmities. Everything should be …
864 wordsAmbrose — Selected Works and Letters • SECTION 138
… of God, save by help of the image of God. [1761] i. e., of His Sonship. St. Ambrose refers to Col. i. 15. [1762] Heb. i. 2. [1763] Ps. xxxvi. 9. [1764] Wis. vii. 26 …
857 wordsThe Twelve Patriarchs, Apocrypha, Clementine Homilies & More • SECTION 511
… Payne Smith. [3494] Or, "the time." Ancient Syriac Documents. ------------------------ Ambrose. [3495] A memorial [3496] a which Ambrose, a chief man of Greece, wrote: who became a Christian, and all his fellow-senators raised an outcry …
2,414 wordsJerome — Principal Works • SECTION 53
… From all which considerations it is clear that I have said nothing at all new concerning virginity and marriage, but have followed in all respects the judgment of older writers--of Ambrose, that is to …
2,363 wordsAmbrose — Selected Works and Letters • SECTION 265
Chapter IV. By the example of Anna St. Ambrose shows what ought to be the life of widows, and shows that she was an example of chastity at every age. From this he argues that …
872 wordsBasil — Letters and Select Works • SECTION 9
… Amphilochius, at this time between thirty and forty years of age, was soon ordained and consecrated, perhaps, like Ambrose of Milan and Eusebius of Cæsarea per saltum, to the important see of Iconium, recently vacated …
2,393 wordsAugustine — City of God & Christian Doctrine • SECTION 411
… 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 …
876 wordsTheodoret, Jerome, Gennadius & Rufinus — Historical Writings • SECTION 77
… The people cried with one voice "Make Ambrose our pastor,"--although up to this time he was still [680] unbaptized. News of what was being done was brought to the emperor, and he at once …
2,403 wordsThe Twelve Patriarchs, Apocrypha, Clementine Homilies & More • SECTION 504
… In introducing the Mara bar Serapion and the Ambrose, [3353] he thus refers to his friend Dr. Payne Smith:-- The text of the two following short pieces [3354] is found in the Spicilegium Syriacum of …
2,426 wordsAugustine — Confessions & Letters • SECTION 115
… Gen. xxvii. 1. [932] Gen. xlviii. 13-19. [933] From the beginning of the hymn of St. Ambrose, part of which is quoted, ix. sec. 32, above. [934] Assumunt eam, in hymno tuo, non absumuntur …
862 wordsAugustine — Anti-Pelagian Writings • SECTION 22
… The chief writers of the West, especially Tertullian and Cyprian in the third century, and Hilary of Poitiers and (notably) Ambrose in the fourth century, prominently state the doctrine of man's corruption, and the …
2,398 wordsChrysostom — Priesthood, Ascetic Treatises & Homilies • SECTION 10
… recommended their study to laymen as well as ministers. He was not an ecclesiastical statesman, like St. Ambrose, not a profound divine like St. Augustin, but a pure man, a practical Christian, and a king …
884 wordsAmbrose — Selected Works and Letters • SECTION 256
Book III. Chapter I. St. Ambrose now goes back to the address of Liberius when he gave the veil to Marcellina. Touching on the crowds pressing to the bridal feast of that Spouse Who feeds …
889 wordsAugustine — City of God & Christian Doctrine • SECTION 434
… 1902]549; mechanical arts and dialectics as, [1903]550. Ambiguity, rules for removing, [1904]557, [1905]558. Ambrose, examples of style from, [1906]590, etc. Amos, examples of eloquence from, [1907]580. Antony, a monk …
782 wordsLeo the Great & Gregory the Great • SECTION 69
… At the end a long series of quotations from Hilary, Ambrose and other Fathers bearing upon the doctrine are also added, but these also are dispensed with in accordance with our general practice, as we …
900 wordsAmbrose — Selected Works and Letters • SECTION 188
… 2408] Ps. cx. 3. [2409] The word "womb" is used metaphorically in the original, from which St. Ambrose (though inaccurately) quotes. See Ps. cx. in the R.V. [2410] Or "to show the distinctive character …
875 wordsAmbrose — Selected Works and Letters • SECTION 240
… work, prayer, tears, and fasting are of more value than money. Some instances are adduced, and St. Ambrose declares that generosity is profitable, but only when joined with faith; it is, moreover, liable to certain …
912 wordsAugustine — Sermon on the Mount & Gospel Harmony • SECTION 157
[2096] Salvatorem. [2097] Convivio. [2098] Gen. i. 27. [2099] Detrivimus. [2100] St. Ambrose, ad loc., observes that Dei is not in the Greek but explains "in imagine" in the same sense, as does St. Augustin …
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