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Leo the Great & Gregory the Great • SECTION 15
… Besides anything that surpasses its fellow-creatures is not ipso facto God, nor, if a thing is great and wonderful, is it identical with Him "who alone doeth great wonders [146] ." No man is truth …
2,319 wordsLeo the Great & Gregory the Great • SECTION 78
… 17. [715] Fide iussor one of Leo's legal terms. [716] Foenus pecuniæ funus est animæ, the epigrammatic play on words will not escape notice. [717] Ps. xv. 1 and 5. [718] Ps. xv. 1 …
2,302 wordsAthanasius — Select Works and Letters • SECTION 29
… The fragmentary character of many of them is no great presumption against their genuineness. The Abbat Cosmas in the sixth century advised all who met with anything by Athanasius to copy it, and if they …
2,311 wordsLeo the Great & Gregory the Great • SECTION 94
… 12, 13, 16. [985] Leo seems here to speak as if the story of the Passion from the Gospels in his time was read only on the Sunday and Wednesday in Holy Week: various uses …
2,308 wordsAthanasius — Select Works and Letters • SECTION 221
… And that this is really so, observe how the Lord who inquired where Lazarus lay, Himself said, when He was not on the spot but a great way off, Lazarus is dead [3074] ,' and where …
2,374 wordsSulpitius Severus, Vincent of Lerins & John Cassian • SECTION 138
It must have been about the same time--a little earlier or a little later--that Cassian settled at Marseilles; and there, "in the midst of those great forests which had supplied the Phoenician navy …
2,316 wordsAugustine — Anti-Pelagian Writings • SECTION 21
… My Dear Vicar,--I have great pleasure in associating your name with my own in this volume. We are officially connected in the sacred ministry of the Church, and I think I may, not unsuitably …
2,376 wordsLeo the Great & Gregory the Great • SECTION 9
… To the beloved brothers, the whole body of bishops of the province of Vienne, Leo, bishop of Rome. I. The solidarity of the Church built upon the rock of S. Peter must be everywhere maintained …
2,397 wordsAthanasius — Select Works and Letters • SECTION 301
… by the Councils of Ephesus and Chalcedon, by Theodoret, Cyril, and Leo the Great (see Migne xxvi. 1050; Bright, Later Treatises, pp. 43 sq., and D.C.B. s.v. Epictetus and Apollinaris the younger).
2,399 wordsBasil — Letters and Select Works • SECTION 9
… death great orientals were quite unconscious of this supremacy. [274] At Chalcedon the measure of the growing claim is aptly typified by the wish of Paschasinus of Lilybæum, one of the representatives of Leo, to …
2,393 wordsHippolytus, Cyprian, Caius & Novatian • SECTION 251
… The absurdity of calling this heretic Novatian an anti-pope involves a great confusion of ideas, however. For, as Cornelius was no more a pope than Cyprian (to both of whom the title was freely …
2,411 wordsThe Seven Ecumenical Councils • SECTION 2
… To this Epitome have been added Notes, taken from most of the great commentators, and Excursuses, largely made up from the writings of the greatest theologians, canonists, archæologists, etc., with regard to whom and their …
2,410 wordsThe Twelve Patriarchs, Apocrypha, Clementine Homilies & More • SECTION 507
… But we cannot say that all those women of the Hindoos who are burnt had at their Nativity Mars and the Sun posited in Leo in the night-time beneath the earth, as those persons …
2,402 wordsHilary of Poitiers & John of Damascus • SECTION 135
… John further made use of Basil the great, of Gregory of Nyssa, and especially of Nemesius, bishop of Emesa in Syria, the most beloved of all; likewise of Cyril of Alexandria, Leo the Great, Leontius …
2,413 wordsLeo the Great & Gregory the Great • SECTION 95
… Why, unhappy Judas, dose thou not make use of so great long-suffering? Behold, the Lord spares thy wicked attempts; Christ betrays thee to none save thyself. Neither thy name nor thy person is discovered …
2,406 wordsAthanasius — Select Works and Letters • SECTION 159
… How many were the families against which threats were held out! How many received great promises on condition of their acting against Liberius! How many Bishops hid themselves when they saw these things! How many …
2,459 wordsGregory the Great, Ephraim Syrus & Aphrahat • SECTION 35
… I make unreasonable demands, and ask to have great things told me: who can fail to see this? But it is true also that thou hast great things, and knowest well that from a little …
2,474 wordsTheodoret, Jerome, Gennadius & Rufinus — Historical Writings • SECTION 172
… ad Paulinum. [2007] Leo Epist. ad Flavianum. [2008] Hebrews vi. 18 [2009] 2 Tim. ii. 13 [2010] 2 Tim. ii. 14 [2011] Matt. xxv. 23 CXLV. To the Monks of Constantinople. [2012] There is nothing …
2,471 wordsAugustine — City of God & Christian Doctrine • SECTION 109
… And not these only, but to these great acknowledgers of so great a God, those philosophers must yield who, having their mind enslaved to their body, supposed the principles of all things to be material …
2,456 wordsLeo the Great & Gregory the Great • SECTION 97
… And yet so great was His loving compassion for even His murderers, that He prayed to the Father on the cross, and begged not for His own vengeance but for their forgiveness, saying, "Father, forgive …
2,480 wordsLeo the Great & Gregory the Great • SECTION 73
… This the experience of the Alexandrine church shows, in which the moderation and long suffering of the humble has laid up for themselves great store in return for their patience: because "the Lord is nigh …
2,520 wordsAthanasius — Select Works and Letters • SECTION 8
… In the Incarnate Christ he distinguishes the divine and human as accurately as Leo the Great (ib. 27, 29). In spite of inconsistencies such as were inevitable in his strange individuality (Stoic, philosopher, lawyer, Apologist …
2,507 wordsEusebius — Church History, Constantine & Oration • SECTION 423
… Cyrus the Great, [3622]483. Dalmatius, [3623]584 and note; made Cæsar, [3624]420. Dalmatius, letter of C. to, [3625]439. Daniel, [3626]573, [3627]574. Daniel and the lions, figure of, [3628]532. Daphne …
2,088 wordsLeo the Great & Gregory the Great • SECTION 102
… that both of the two natures in Christ should be ours, as he goes on to show. [1111] The words in brackets are of doubtful genuineness, and seem in themselves a mediæval imitation of Leo …
2,497 wordsLeo the Great & Gregory the Great • SECTION 111
… For, though able to state clearly, and give the received reasons for, accepted dogmas, he nowhere evinces any great originality of conception, or depth of insight of his own. He is content to rest on …
2,593 wordsGregory Thaumaturgus, Dionysius, Julius Africanus & Others • SECTION 75
… And there are not a few notes of discrepancy and broken connections in the composition itself, [1450] which show that the manuscripts must have been defective, or that the Latin translator took great liberties with …
2,638 wordsAthanasius — Select Works and Letters • SECTION 104
… Are they not then committing a crime, in their very thought to gainsay so great and ecumenical a Council? are they not in transgression, when they dare to confront that good definition against Arianism, acknowledged …
2,640 wordsGregory Thaumaturgus, Dionysius, Julius Africanus & Others • SECTION 35
… Peter's, at Rome, are offensive copies of heathen mythology; and among the subjects there represented, is the shameful tale of Leda,--a symbol of the taste of Leo X. On the Gospel According to …
2,658 wordsTheodoret, Jerome, Gennadius & Rufinus — Historical Writings • SECTION 167
… To Jobius, Presbyter and Archimandrite. [1930] The patriarch Abraham won a victory in his old age. [1931] The great Moses was now an old man when, so long as he stretched out his hands in …
2,663 wordsTheodoret, Jerome, Gennadius & Rufinus — Historical Writings • SECTION 166
… For the writings sent from the right godly and holy lord Leo, archbishop of Great Rome, to Flavianus of holy memory and to the rest assembled at Ephesus, are entirely in harmony with what I …
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