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Gospel of Peter, Diatessaron, Apocalypse of Peter & Other Early Texts • SECTION 190
… And to another, who had multiplied the pound fivefold, he did not render the praise which he assigned to the first, nor did he specify the word "authority," as in the case of the first …
2,220 wordsCyril of Jerusalem & Gregory Nazianzen • SECTION 199
… This I promised, in order to prevent their first plan being carried out; placing the whole matter in your hands, if you choose to call them together, and where and when. And if I have …
2,220 wordsThe Seven Ecumenical Councils • SECTION 72
… Before, however, giving the details of our knowledge with regard to this particular vestment I shall need no apology for quoting a passage, very germane to the whole subject, from the pen of that most …
2,215 wordsLactantius, Venantius, Asterius, Victorinus & Others • SECTION 207
… 316, 317. [3846] First Apology, ch. lxvii. (vol. i. [310]p. 186). [3847] St. Clement, Appendix, p. 317. The Homily. [3848] Chap. i.--we ought to think highly of christ. Brethren, it is fitting that …
2,200 wordsAthanasius — Select Works and Letters • SECTION 167
… 38. [1817] Since the Consuls came into office on the first of January, and were proclaimed in each city, it is strange that the Alexandrians here speak in February as if ignorant of their names …
2,202 wordsJerome — Principal Works • SECTION 1
… The first draught of the translation was prepared by my coadjutors and former pupils, Mr. G. Lewis and Mr. W. G. Martley, who also added most of the notes; but I have gone minutely through …
2,204 wordsAthanasius — Select Works and Letters • SECTION 94
… He began immediately to revile the bishops, and made false accusations, first against Peter himself, and against his successor Achillas, and after Achillas, against Alexander [665] . And he thus practised craftily, following the example of …
2,239 wordsChrysostom — Homilies on Matthew • SECTION 137
… But it were meet first to inquire, why the disciples ate with unwashen hands. Wherefore then did they so eat? Not as making a point of it, but as overlooking henceforth the things that are …
2,242 wordsHippolytus, Cyprian, Caius & Novatian • SECTION 272
… In this tract Cyprian partly imitates Tertullian's Apology and his treatise to Scapula, partly the Octavius of Minucius Felix. [3404] Some add, "and name." [3405] Prov. xxiii. 9. [3406] Prov. xxvi. 4. [3407] Matt …
2,205 wordsCyril of Jerusalem & Gregory Nazianzen • SECTION 48
… 4-6. [1132] The reading of the earlier Editions huper anthropon is free from all difficulty, and so the more likely to have been substituted for what is at first sight more difficult huper anthropon …
2,209 wordsGregory of Nyssa — Dogmatic Treatises • SECTION 124
… It was in this way that he has apologized for that celebrated "Apology" of his, transferring as he did the blame for that title to jurymen and accusers [1202] , though unable to show that there …
2,223 wordsChrysostom — Homilies on Matthew • SECTION 109
… And what again is the applause? what the tumult, and the satanical cries, and the devilish gestures? For first one, being a young man, wears his hair long behind, and changing his nature into that …
2,217 wordsEusebius — Church History, Constantine & Oration • SECTION 112
… impression that the quotation is taken from this work, but it is really taken from the first Apology. This makes it very probable that he had not seen this work against Marcion, a conclusion which …
2,200 wordsAthanasius — Select Works and Letters • SECTION 166
… 13 note 1. [1806] Of the two Protests referred to supr. §48, the first was omitted by the copyists, as being already contained, as Montfaucon seems to say, in the Apology against the Arians; yet …
2,241 wordsAthanasius — Select Works and Letters • SECTION 18
… from Pharmuthi 21 (April 16) 339 to Paophi 24 (October 21), 346. (2.) The Second Exile of Athanasius falls into two sections, the first of four years (p. 239), to the council of Sardica (339 …
2,218 wordsEusebius — Church History, Constantine & Oration • SECTION 22
Pope Gelasius in his Decree concerning the Apocryphal Books. "Likewise as to the Chronicles of Eusebius and the books of his Ecclesiastical History, although in the first book of his narration he has grown cold …
2,240 wordsChrysostom — Acts and Romans • SECTION 256
… 14.) As if he had said, I have not snatched at the honor for myself, neither was I first to leap forward to it, but God commanded this, and this too according unto grace, not …
2,258 wordsEusebius — Church History, Constantine & Oration • SECTION 301
… Taking in general chronological order, without attempting the impossibility of fixing the exact chronological place, the first group of contemporary sources is that of the Panegyrists (for collected editions, see Engelmann). It was a serious …
2,220 wordsTertullian — Latin Christianity • SECTION 3
… The first and greatest is, that the natural temper of Tertullian was from the first so akin to the spirit of Montanism, that, unless there occur distinct allusions to the "New Prophecy," or expressions specially …
2,212 wordsEusebius — Church History, Constantine & Oration • SECTION 20
… Of these men, one taught an incomplete human nature in Christ; the other was a most open defender of the heresy of Arius." From the Apology of Jerome against Rufinus (Book I. chap. 8). "As …
2,245 wordsGregory Thaumaturgus, Dionysius, Julius Africanus & Others • SECTION 113
… Then embalming him with sweet spices, they wrapped him in silken coverings; what each one of them could be the first to bring, this he accounted to himself as greatest gain. Then carrying palms, the …
2,225 wordsGregory Thaumaturgus, Dionysius, Julius Africanus & Others • SECTION 192
… But in some way, we know not how, a higher learning was communicated to him, and the admired rhetorician became first a suspected, then a persecuted Christian. He has left us in no doubt as …
2,235 wordsHippolytus, Cyprian, Caius & Novatian • SECTION 261
… may readily avail to forgiveness; an apology of that kind may excite compassion. Thus at one time the Lord forgave Castus and Æmilius; thus, overcome in the first encounter, they were made victors in the …
2,227 wordsJerome — Principal Works • SECTION 50
… An "apology" for the two books "against Jovinian" which Jerome had written a short time previously, and of which he had sent copies to Rome. These Pammachius and his other friends had withheld from publication …
2,251 wordsJerome — Principal Works • SECTION 247
… We do not give it because it has been given at length as a specimen of the rest, in Jerome's "Apology," book ii., vol. iii. of this series, pp. 515-516. Jerome in it …
2,248 wordsLactantius, Venantius, Asterius, Victorinus & Others • SECTION 43
… But now let us speak of His first nativity. [523] Literally, "whose first nativity not only preceded the world." He speaks of the eternal generation of the Son, as distinguished from His incarnation, which he …
2,244 wordsTertullian — Latin Christianity • SECTION 2
… of Severus for the first book, he says it is a mistake to suppose that the other books were published with it. He adds: "Although we cannot undertake to determine whether Tertullian issued his Books …
2,220 wordsEusebius — Church History, Constantine & Oration • SECTION 21
… in person, and those by his exhortation." Antipater, Bishop of Bostra, in his First Book against Eusebius of Cæsarea's Apology for Origen. "Since now this man was very learned, having searched out and traced …
2,277 wordsFathers of the Second Century • SECTION 160
… But these women, who comprehend not the symbolism of Scripture, gape all they can for jewels, adducing the astounding apology, "Why may I not use what God hath exhibited?" and, "I have it by me …
2,271 wordsEusebius — Church History, Constantine & Oration • SECTION 3
… In the first year of the persecution Procopius, the first martyr of Palestine, was put to death at Cæsarea (Eusebius' Martyrs of Palestine, Cureton's ed. p. 4), and from that time on that city …
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