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Athanasius — Select Works and Letters • SECTION 120
… The word oikonomia has two main senses in Athanasius, both derived from the classical sense of management or dispensation, the adapting of means toward an end. (1) As in the present passage (cf. Origen in …
924 wordsSocrates and Sozomen — Ecclesiastical Histories • SECTION 273
… Achab (called John), a false accuser of Athanasius, escapes, [21]31. Achæa, singular custom among the clergy of, [22]132. Achetas, a deacon, [23]50. Achillas, bishop of Alexandria, succeeds Peter, [24]3. Achillas, companion …
2,216 wordsFathers of the Second Century • SECTION 16
… Our translation is made from the Vat. [294] Pseudo-Athanasius has, "of such men the life is death." [295] Pseudo-Athanasius has, "Corruption, therefore, has a hope of resurrection up to a certain point." [Death …
2,682 wordsSocrates and Sozomen — Ecclesiastical Histories • SECTION 277
… Maris, Arian bishop of Chalcedon, defends Arianism, [1498]9; refuses to assent to the Nicene Creed, [1499]10; conspires against Athanasius, [1500]29, [1501]33, [1502]41, [1503]44; joins the Acacians, [1504]71; reproves …
2,205 wordsSocrates and Sozomen — Ecclesiastical Histories • SECTION 57
Chapter VIII.--Quotations from Athanasius' Defense of his Flight.' On this occasion Athanasius read to those present the Defense which he had composed some time before in justification of his flight; a few passages from …
2,136 wordsTheodoret, Jerome, Gennadius & Rufinus — Historical Writings • SECTION 62
… Accordingly, on the promulgation of this edict, back to Antioch came the divine Meletius, and to Alexandria the far famed Athanasius. [601] But Eusebius, [602] and Hilarius [603] of Italy and Lucifer [604] who presided …
1,008 wordsThe Seven Ecumenical Councils • SECTION 10
… The use of the term and its cognates in reference to the Scriptures is explained by Westcott in a passive sense so that "canonized" books, as Athanasius calls them (Fest. Ep. 39), are books expressly …
1,595 wordsSocrates and Sozomen — Ecclesiastical Histories • SECTION 278
… Rome, church of, has authority, [1968]38, [1969]42; Athanasius visits, [1970]42; Cathedral of Peter and Paul at, [1971]109; abuses in, suppressed by Theodosius, [1972]127; taken and sacked by the barbarians, [1973 …
2,228 wordsTheodoret, Jerome, Gennadius & Rufinus — Historical Writings • SECTION 24
Chapter VII.--Confutation of Arianism deduced from the Writings of Eustathius and Athanasius. The above-named bishops, however, did not consent to it in sincerity, but only in appearance. This was afterwards shewn by their …
1,621 wordsTheodoret, Jerome, Gennadius & Rufinus — Historical Writings • SECTION 53
Chapter XVIII.--The Letter of Athanasius, Bishop of Alexandria, concerning the same Council. The great Athanasius also, in his letter to the Africans, writes thus about the council at Ariminum. "Under these circumstances who will …
2,176 wordsAthanasius — Select Works and Letters • SECTION 148
… We cannot, therefore, place the Apology much after this date, for the reference to Hosius shews--in addition to many other indications--how quickly Athanasius in his hiding-place was informed of current events. The …
2,203 wordsTheodoret, Jerome, Gennadius & Rufinus — Historical Writings • SECTION 88
… his two woollen tunics, and his bed, among Amathas and Macarius who watched his last hours, Serapion, and Athanasius." Vide Ath. Vit. S. Ant.
1,056 wordsAthanasius — Select Works and Letters • SECTION 263
… The Festal Letters of Athanasius, Bishop of Alexandria, which he sent year by year, to the several cities and all the provinces subject to him; that is, from Pentapolis, and on to Libya, Ammoniaca, the …
2,225 wordsAthanasius — Select Works and Letters • SECTION 154
… but as their proceedings against the other Bishops shew the charges which they have brought against Athanasius, in all probability, to be false; so their attacks upon Athanasius make it plain, that their accusations of …
2,258 wordsAthanasius — Select Works and Letters • SECTION 66
… The following documents form the fittest opening to the series of Anti-Arian writings of Athanasius. They are included in the Benedictine edition of his works, and in the Oxford Collection of Historical Tracts, of …
2,258 wordsJerome — Principal Works • SECTION 175
… Lucifer distinguished himself by resisting a proposition to condemn Athanasius, and did not hesitate to oppose the emperor with much violence. In consequence of this he was sent into exile from a.d. 355 to …
2,245 wordsTheodoret, Jerome, Gennadius & Rufinus — Historical Writings • SECTION 42
… For these causes, therefore, we declare the innocence and purity of our beloved brethren and fellow-ministers, Athanasius, bishop of Alexandria, Marcellus, bishop of Ancyra in Galatia, and Asclepas, bishop of Gaza, and of all …
2,253 wordsAthanasius — Select Works and Letters • SECTION 75
Introduction to the Encyclical Epistle to the Bishops Throughout the World. ------------------------ Athanasius wrote the following Epistle in the year 339. In the winter at the beginning of that year the Eusebians held a Council at …
2,263 wordsLeo the Great & Gregory the Great • SECTION 22
… iii.) and denied. [216] Of these four worthies, Athanasius is too well known to need further notice. Gregorius is either Greg. Nazianzen, Bishop of Constantinople (circ. 380) or Greg. of Nyssa, both great champions of …
1,681 wordsSocrates and Sozomen — Ecclesiastical Histories • SECTION 226
… For when Athanasius, who administered the church of Alexandria, was on his road back to Egypt from the place whither he had been banished by Constantine, he had to pass through Laodicea, and that while …
1,662 wordsAthanasius — Select Works and Letters • SECTION 187
… A number of scattered passages in Athanasius lead us to the same conclusion. For instance, if the Arian formula had the sense which is here maintained, of being an argument against our Lord's eternity …
2,255 wordsAthanasius — Select Works and Letters • SECTION 161
… He said, From regard to the affection I entertained towards my brother of divine and pious memory, I endured for a time the coming of Athanasius among you.' This proves that he has both broken …
2,294 wordsAthanasius — Select Works and Letters • SECTION 73
… The interpretation of the main text given in this tract was not subsequently maintained by Athanasius: in Orat. iii. 35, he explains it of the Son, as safeguarding His separate personality against the Sabellians. It …
2,295 wordsThe Seven Ecumenical Councils • SECTION 273
… The Epistle of the Same Athanasius Taken from the XXXIX. Festal Epistle. (Found translated in Vol. IV, of Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers (2d series), pp. 551 and 552.) [Johnson's epitome is so unsatisfactory …
1,696 wordsCyril of Jerusalem & Gregory Nazianzen • SECTION 42
… 1, and 5. [961] "In Athanasius, Quæstio i. ad Antiochum, tom. II. p. 331, Monarchia is opposed to Polytheism: If we worship One God, it is manifest that we agree with the Jews in believing …
2,309 wordsThe Seven Ecumenical Councils • SECTION 182
… iv.), "Hosius presided over" this council as legate of the Roman bishop, rests upon no solid foundation, and no trace of any such legation is found in Athanasius or in any of the other writers …
1,135 wordsSocrates and Sozomen — Ecclesiastical Histories • SECTION 37
… Chapter XXII.--The Council of Sardica restores Paul and Athanasius to their Sees; and on the Eastern Emperor's Refusal to admit them, the Emperor of the West threatens him with War. Those convened at …
1,723 wordsThe Seven Ecumenical Councils • SECTION 183
… It is said that these Sardican decisions were simply provisional, and intended for the present necessity; because Athanasius, so hardly pressed by the Arians, could only be rescued by authorizing an appeal to the Bishop …
1,140 wordsAthanasius — Select Works and Letters • SECTION 165
… This he did in the proceedings against Athanasius. For when he saw the boldness of the Bishops Paulinus, Lucifer, Eusebius, and Dionysius, and how out of the recantation of Ursacius and Valens [1778] they confuted …
2,365 wordsEusebius — Church History, Constantine & Oration • SECTION 219
… It was soon adopted in the Alexandrian church, and already in the time of Athanasius had become the basis of all Easter calculations, as we can gather from Athanasius' Festal Epistles. From about the time …
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