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Lactantius, Venantius, Asterius, Victorinus & Others • SECTION 71

It is not virtue, therefore, either to be the enemy of the bad or the defender of the good, because virtue cannot be subject to uncertain ch

… 167, supra.] [1116] Ratio virtutis. [1117] [How I love our author for his winning reproof of mere philosophical virtue in contrast with evangelical righteousness!] [1118] [See the Quis Dives Salvetur of Clement, vol. ii. [105 …

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Gregory Thaumaturgus, Dionysius, Julius Africanus & Others • SECTION 191

[3187] [Abel.]

… Economizing Clement of Alexandria, he advances to an assured position and form of assault. He persistently impeaches Jove himself in a daring confidence that men will feel his terrible charges to be true, and that …

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Gregory the Great, Ephraim Syrus & Aphrahat • SECTION 98

These facts not only confirm the tradition which places him at Nineveh, but they go far to account for the obscurity in which his name and h

… being omitted), was printed at Rome in 1756, edited, with a Latin version, by Antonelli. Its text is derived from a transcript made in 1719, after an ancient copy in the Armenian Monastery at Venice …

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Athanasius — Select Works and Letters • SECTION 3

Chapter II.

… Renewed troubles and Second Exile (337-346). (1) At Alexandria (337-339). (2) At Rome. Council of Antioch, &c. (339-342). (3) Constans; Council of Sardica, and its sequel (342-346). §7. The golden Decade …

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Gregory Thaumaturgus, Dionysius, Julius Africanus & Others • SECTION 70

[1297] [A most important hint to the clergy in their accounts with the Church.]

… suspicion, or perhaps some considerable loss in things of value. [1299] Murrhine vessels were first introduced into Rome by Pompey. They were valued chiefly for their variegated colours, and were extremely costly. Some think they …

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Eusebius — Church History, Constantine & Oration • SECTION 117

37. For the fire presented the appearance of a vault, like the sail of a vessel filled by the wind, and made a wall about the body of the ma

… In later usage (so in Tertullian, Clement of Alexandria, and the Muratorian Fragment) it has the meaning "orthodox," as opposed to heretical and schismatical bodies. In the present epistle it occurs four times (§§3, 15 …

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Gregory Thaumaturgus, Dionysius, Julius Africanus & Others • SECTION 255

For who, in the first place, thinks or believes that those are gods who are lost in joyful pleasure at theatrical shows [5037] and ballets,

… had reduced the court of Rome must be contrasted with the ideas of a Clement, an Athenagoras, and even of an Arnobius, in order to give us a due sense of the crisis which, after …

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Fathers of the Second Century • SECTION 24

1. The Phrygian enthusiasm, like the convulsionism of Paris [413] in the last century, was a phenomenon not to be trifled with; especially w

… tradita verba of the old poem, i.e., words "transmitted or bequeathed traditionally" from the times of Clement. Irenæus, the contemporary of this Hermas, had received the traditions of the same age from Polycarp: hence …

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Jerome — Principal Works • SECTION 105

6. The present is not a time to speak rhetorically against a perverse doctrine. Neither the rich vocabulary of Cicero nor the fervid eloquen

… From his childhood he was a great man, and truly a martyr's son. [2591] At Alexandria he presided over the school of the church, succeeding a man of great learning the presbyter Clement. So …

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Lactantius, Venantius, Asterius, Victorinus & Others • SECTION 229

* Clement: [3125]1 * Pearson: [3126]1 * Wordsworth: [3127]1 * Æacus: [3128]1 * Ægæa: [3129]1 * Æneas: [3130]1 [3131]2 [3132]3 [3133]4 [3134]

… 4035]25 [4036]26 [4037]27 [4038]28 * Clement of : [4039]1 * Clement of Alexandria: [4040]1 [4041]2 [4042]3 [4043]4 * Clement of Rome: [4044]1 [4045]2 [4046]3 [4047]4 * Clementine …

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Theodoret, Jerome, Gennadius & Rufinus — Historical Writings • SECTION 294

Preface to Origen's Homilies on Numbers.

… by the Bishop Gaudentius, namely to turn into Latin the books called the Recognition of Clement the Bishop of Rome, the successor and companion of the Apostles. In this work I well know that, to …

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