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Socrates and Sozomen — Ecclesiastical Histories • SECTION 224
Chapter XVII.--Friendship of Basil and of Gregory, the Theologian; being Peers in Wisdom, they defend the Nicene Doctrines. Basil and Gregory were contemporaries, and they were recognized to be equally intent, so to speak …
2,084 wordsChrysostom — John and Hebrews • SECTION 1
… the Greek Fathers from Eusebius to John of Damascus, and the Latin Fathers from Hilary to Gregory the Great. I secured the coöperation of eminent patristic scholars of England and America several years ago for …
701 wordsGregory the Great, Ephraim Syrus & Aphrahat • SECTION 11
Epistle XXIV. To Romanus, Guardian (Defensorem). Gregory to Romanus, &c. Our son Theodosius, abbot of the Monastery founded by the late Patrician Liberius in Campania, is known to have intimated to us that the late …
722 wordsLeo the Great & Gregory the Great • SECTION 211
… Wherefore you must needs consider how great a sin it is, that God should have sent you alimony from the offerings of others, and you should neglect learning the commandments of God. Further, with regard …
730 wordsLeo the Great & Gregory the Great • SECTION 258
… But in all these things we return thanks to Almighty God for that, when certain accusers held back, He brought the truth to his knowledge, lest the originator of such great crimes should escape detection …
732 wordsCyril of Jerusalem & Gregory Nazianzen • SECTION 216
… Gregory explains as follows.) I have always preferred the Great Basil to myself, though he was of the contrary opinion; and so I do now, not less for truth's sake than for friendship's …
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… And, inasmuch as the magnificent Scholasticus, judge of Campania, happens at the present time to be with us here, we have especially enjoined on him the duty of visiting the madness of so great perversity …
754 wordsLeo the Great & Gregory the Great • SECTION 219
… Whilst, then, he ought to have been most severely punished for such great crimes, the glorious Justinus [1492] , soothed (as has been written to us) by the charm of avarice, put off avenging the injury …
758 wordsCyril of Jerusalem & Gregory Nazianzen • SECTION 211
… Probably the attitude which Nectarius took up at the suggestion of Gregory was the occasion of the Edict which Theodosius addressed in February, a.d. 384 or 5, to the Augustal Prefect, withdrawing all clerics …
749 wordsLeo the Great & Gregory the Great • SECTION 287
… Ephesus. Gregory to Rufinus, &c. The charity of your acts of friendship in the past has moved us to visit your Fraternity with the present letter. For we have been refreshed with great joy by …
751 wordsGregory the Great, Ephraim Syrus & Aphrahat • SECTION 62
Epistle LXV. To Augustine, Bishop of the Angli [181] . Gregory to Augustine, &c. Though it is certain that for those who labour for Almighty God ineffable rewards of an eternal kingdom are reserved, yet we …
1,472 wordsBasil — Letters and Select Works • SECTION 131
… Letter LXXI. [2254] Basil to Gregory. [2255] 1. I have received the letter of your holiness, by the most reverend brother Helenius, and what you have intimated he has told me in plain terms. How …
1,467 wordsGregory the Great, Ephraim Syrus & Aphrahat • SECTION 85
… To our most reverend brother, the Bishop Felix, Gregory, servant of the servants of God [246] . Our Head, which is Christ, to this end has willed us to be His members, that through His large …
2,195 wordsCyril of Jerusalem & Gregory Nazianzen • SECTION 208
… But if I were to ask for vegetables from a man of Ozizala it were no strange thing, nor too great a strain on friendship; for you have plenty of them, and we a great …
776 wordsGregory the Great, Ephraim Syrus & Aphrahat • SECTION 50
… primicerium est in schola qualibet." D'Arnis' Lexicon. Epistle XL. To Marinianus, Bishop of Ravenna. Gregory to Marinianus, &c. Great infirmity constrains us, dearest brother, from which if we were free, we should seem justly …
2,230 wordsGregory of Nyssa — Dogmatic Treatises • SECTION 15
… nor the deuteros logos which Gregory answered in his second 12th Book. Most of the quotations, then, from Eunomius, in these books of Gregory cannot be verified, in the case of a doubtful reading, &c …
2,203 wordsCyril of Jerusalem & Gregory Nazianzen • SECTION 197
… To the Great Basil. (About the middle of the year 370. On the death of Eusebius Basil seems to have formed a desire that his friend Gregory should succeed to the vacant Metropolitanate; and so …
2,242 wordsAthanasius — Select Works and Letters • SECTION 19
… xviii.), Gregory, who had been in bad health for fully four years, died [65] . Constantius, according to his own statement (pp. 127, 277), had already before the death of Gregory written twice to Athanasius (from …
2,218 wordsAthanasius — Select Works and Letters • SECTION 17
… 23 he reached Alexandria amid great rejoicings (pp. 104, 503, Fest. Ind. x.), the clergy especially esteeming that the happiest day of their lives.' But the happiness was marred by tumults (Soz. ii. 2, 5 …
2,207 wordsCyril of Jerusalem & Gregory Nazianzen • SECTION 147
… Gregory Nazianzen's purpose; nor does it seem to have once been raised in the great battle between Arianism and Catholicity which was fought out at Constantinople during Gregory's Episcopate" (Swete on the Procession …
2,223 wordsGregory the Great, Ephraim Syrus & Aphrahat • SECTION 66
… For, having heard that you had contracted a very severe illness, before the receipt of your letter we were in a state of great distress. But since, when we are snatched from peril of death …
804 wordsGregory of Nyssa — Dogmatic Treatises • SECTION 86
… be a man in all, but in some attributes. The defect, however, may possibly be in S. Gregory's argument, not in the text. [898] i.e."if the middle' and end' are not admitted …
2,255 wordsGregory of Nyssa — Dogmatic Treatises • SECTION 14
… To his most pious brother Gregory. Peter greeting in the Lord. Having met with the writings of your holiness and having perceived in your tract against this heresy your zeal both for the truth and …
2,254 wordsGregory of Nyssa — Dogmatic Treatises • SECTION 226
… This is a thing which, though little in itself, is the beginning and foundation of great blessings. I call it little on account of the facility of the means of amendment. For what difficulty is …
2,273 wordsLeo the Great & Gregory the Great • SECTION 198
… We find other instances of Gregory deprecating such presents. "The temporal Xenia which you have sent us, though we are in no need of such, we have nevertheless accepted with due charity." (VI. 64, Ad …
804 wordsCyril of Jerusalem & Gregory Nazianzen • SECTION 206
… But his enemies, as I hear, have fallen upon his estate, and from all quarters with great violence are plundering it, or are about to do so. O cruelty! O savagery! And there is no …
810 wordsCyril of Jerusalem & Gregory Nazianzen • SECTION 217
… CXXXI. (In 382 Gregory was summoned to a Synod at Constantinople; he wrote to Procopius, the Prefectus Urbi, and declined to go, on the ground of his great dislike to Episcopal Synods, from which, he …
812 wordsCyril of Jerusalem & Gregory Nazianzen • SECTION 143
… 11. [3676] Elias thinks that the great S. Basil is here referred to. Petavius thinks the first argument of c. xvi. forced and unsatisfactory. [3677] John xii. 49. [3678] Heb. v. 7., etc. [3679] Phil …
2,258 wordsLeo the Great & Gregory the Great • SECTION 301
Epistle III. To Donus, Bishop of Messana (in Sicily). Gregory to Donus, &c. The most eloquent man, our son Faustinus, has come to us and complained that his late father Peltrasius left some things which …
816 wordsSocrates and Sozomen — Ecclesiastical Histories • SECTION 229
… At this period, Origen, one of the disciples of Antony the Great, was still living at a great age, in the monasteries of Scetis. [1492] Also, Didymus, and Cronion, who was about one hundred and …
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