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Sulpitius Severus, Vincent of Lerins & John Cassian • SECTION 169

Chapter XXI.

… and by Palladius in the Lausiac History 43-60; he is also mentioned by Augustine De Civitate Dei, Book V. c. xxvi, De Cura pro mortius gerenda, c. xvii., and Jerome Ep. cxxxiii. ad Ctesiphontem …

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Eusebius — Church History, Constantine & Oration • SECTION 65

[544] ekklesiastikos anher.

… One tradition put their deaths on the same day, one year apart (Augustine and Prudentius, e.g., are said to support this tradition). Jerome (de vir. ill. 1) is the first to state explicitly that …

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Hippolytus, Cyprian, Caius & Novatian • SECTION 54

Chapter XVI.--Heresy of Valentinus; Derived from Plato and Pythagoras.

… Præscript.; Clemens Alexandrinus, Strom., iv. 13, vi. 6; Theodoret, Hæret. Fab., i. 7; Epiphanius, Hær., xxxi.; St. Augustine, Hær., xi.; Philastrius, Hist. Hærs., c. viii.; Photius, Biblioth., cap. ccxxx.; Clemens Alexandrinus' Epitome of Theodotus (pp …

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Ambrose — Selected Works and Letters • SECTION 39

Chapter III.

… will come after Me, let him take up his cross and follow Me." [391] [387] See St. Augustine, De Civit. Dei. XIX. 1. [388] Ps. i. 1, 2. [389] Ps. cxix. 1. [390] S. Matt …

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Jerome — Principal Works • SECTION 32

[510] Matt. xx. 16; xxii. 14.

… 25. [642] Founder of the widely prevalent sect of Manichæans, which at one time numbered Augustine among its adherents. One of its leading tenets was that matter as such was essentially evil. [643] Matt. vii …

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The Seven Ecumenical Councils • SECTION 79

Canon XLVIII.

… it in Cardinal Bona's De Rebus Liturgicis. I shall here cite but one passage, from St. Augustine: "It is clear that when the disciples first received the body and blood of the Lord they …

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Eusebius — Church History, Constantine & Oration • SECTION 218

Chapter XVI.--Story in Regard to Astyrius.

… 409 sq. [2295] Valesius remarks that the heathen were accustomed to throw victims into their sacred wells and fountains, and that therefore Publicola asks Augustine, in Epistle 153, whether one ought to drink from a …

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Ambrose — Selected Works and Letters • SECTION 261

Chapter VII.

… suffer themselves to be violated, would seem to say that in some cases this was allowable. St. Augustine [de Civ. Dei, I. 19] speaks with some hesitation on the same subject. There is some doubt …

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The Seven Ecumenical Councils • SECTION 124

Canon XII.

… s Holy Roman Empire, p. 212), and by the French kings (Kitchin, Hist. France, i. 343, 544). Augustine explains it by "præceptum imperatoris" (Brev. Collat. cum Donatist. iii., 2), and Balsamon in his comment uses …

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Theodoret, Jerome, Gennadius & Rufinus — Historical Writings • SECTION 211

Chapter CXXVI.

… 35. Eusebius the bishop. 36. Vigilantius the presbyter. 37. Simplicianus the bishop. 38. Vigilius the bishop. 39. Augustine the bishop. 40. Orosius the presbyter. 41. Maximus the bishop. 42. Petronius the bishop. 43. Pelagius the …

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Eusebius — Church History, Constantine & Oration • SECTION 53

Chapter XV.--The Gospel according to Mark.

… The relationship of the three synoptical Gospels was first discussed by Augustine (De Consensu Evangelistarum), who defended the traditional order, but made Mark dependent upon Matthew. This view prevailed until the beginning of the present …

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Cyril of Jerusalem & Gregory Nazianzen • SECTION 32

[691] Ps. cx. 1.

… present day in the Eastern Church, though already disregarded by the Latins in the time of S. Augustine (c. Faustum. xxxii. 13). [734] Tertullian (Apologeticus, c. 9) speaks of those "who at the gladiator shows …

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Eusebius — Church History, Constantine & Oration • SECTION 197

Chapter XXXVII.--The Dissension of the Arabians. [2054]

… 90, and to whom Augustine refers, under the name of Arabici, in his de Hæres, c. 83), that is, those who taught the death of the soul with the body, or with the hupnopsuchitai, who …

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Tertullian — Latin Christianity • SECTION 43

Chapter XII.--Further Answers to the Plea, How Am I to Live?

… Luke xvi. 19-31. [259] "Apud inferos," used clearly here by Tertullian of a place of happiness. Augustine says he never finds it so used in Scripture. See Ussher's "Answer to a Jesuit" on …

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Gregory the Great, Ephraim Syrus & Aphrahat • SECTION 47

Epistle XXIX.

… return to us how your Glory has exhibited itself towards our most reverend brother and fellow-bishop Augustine, and how great succour and what charity you have bestowed upon him. And we bless Almighty God …

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Basil — Letters and Select Works • SECTION 168

Letter CLV. [2508]

… Gregory of Nyssa, Hom. i. in xl. Mar. ii. 935. As early as the time of St. Augustine (430) a thriving trade in forged relics had already begun. (Aug., De Opere Monach. 28.) cf. Littledale …

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Leo the Great & Gregory the Great • SECTION 296

Epistle XXXIV.

… Moreover in the Latin language we have so far found nothing about this Eudoxius, either in Philaster or in the blessed Augustine, who wrote much about heresies. Let therefore your Charity inform me in your …

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Gregory of Nyssa — Dogmatic Treatises • SECTION 217

Chapter XXII.

… Christ's blood, was paid, is shared by Origen, Ambrose, and Augustine. The latter says, "Sanguine Christi diabolus non ditatus est, sed ligatus," i.e. bound by compact. On the other hand Gregory Naz. (tom …

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Hilary of Poitiers & John of Damascus • SECTION 143

[1504] Greg. Naz., Orat. 35.

… So Augustine (Contr. Max. iii. 14, De Trin. xv.). Epiphanius (Anchor.), and Gregory of Nyssa (Epist. ad Ablab.) teach that the Spirit proceeds, and is not begotten, because He is both of the Father and …

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Ambrose — Selected Works and Letters • SECTION 79

Chapter IV.

… asserts [De Sp. Sanct. XII.] that baptism without mention of the Three Persons is invalid; and St. Augustine [De Bapt. lib. vi. c. xxv. 47] says that it is more easy to find heretics who …

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Theodoret, Jerome, Gennadius & Rufinus — Historical Writings • SECTION 75

Chapter III.--Synodical letter to the Emperor Jovian concerning the Faith.

… 3 [671] Christianity thus appears more or less constituted in Britain more than 200 years before the mission of Augustine. But by about 208 the fame of British Christianity had reached Tertullian in Africa. The …

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Sulpitius Severus, Vincent of Lerins & John Cassian • SECTION 144

Book I.

… The Greek is skepasmata, for which Jerome's version has "quibus tegamur." Sabbatier gives "victum et vestitum" as the rendering of the old Latin, but it is often quoted as "victus et tegumentum" by Augustine

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