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Cyril of Jerusalem & Gregory Nazianzen • SECTION 32
… 6-10, Cyril gives a long list of heresies concerning the Holy Ghost. [696] 1 Cor. ii. 10. [697] Matt. xii. 32. [698] This clause is not in the Creed of Nicæa, but is added …
1,291 wordsLeo the Great & Gregory the Great • SECTION 62
… And against this danger it behoves the rulers of the churches especially to guard and to avert from the minds of simple folk lies which are coloured by a certain show of truth [559] . "For …
1,302 wordsAugustine — Trinity, Doctrinal & Moral Treatises • SECTION 143
… But to show this would occupy us too long, for we should require to go over all the heresies which have existed, which do exist, or which could exist, under the Christian name, and to …
1,290 wordsSocrates and Sozomen — Ecclesiastical Histories • SECTION 237
… While being pushed away, hither and thither, however, the old priest turned around and exclaimed, "Reflect, O emperor, on the wrath of the Heavenly Father against those who do not honor His Son as Himself …
1,291 wordsThe Apostolic Fathers, Justin Martyr & Irenaeus • SECTION 276
… Many offshoots of numerous heresies have already been formed from those heretics we have described. This arises from the fact that numbers of them--indeed, we may say all--desire themselves to be teachers, and …
1,317 wordsSocrates and Sozomen — Ecclesiastical Histories • SECTION 220
… His anger was unbounded against the bishops of the council of Lampsacus, because they had condemned the Arian bishops and the formulary of faith set forth at Ariminum. While under the influence of these resentful …
1,342 wordsSocrates and Sozomen — Ecclesiastical Histories • SECTION 236
… He effected his purpose with regard to the barbarians; and Theodosius was equally successful against the tribes from the banks of the Ister; he defeated them, compelled them to sue for peace, and, after accepting …
1,352 wordsAthanasius — Select Works and Letters • SECTION 27
… But Athanasius marked with alarm the tendency of his friend, and in the very last years of his life wrote a tract against his tenet in two short books, in which, as in writing against …
1,346 wordsEusebius — Church History, Constantine & Oration • SECTION 135
… reign, as heresies were abounding in the region between the rivers, [1337] a certain Bardesanes, [1338] a most able man and a most skillful disputant in the Syriac tongue, having composed dialogues against Marcion's …
1,392 wordsAugustine — Anti-Pelagian Writings • SECTION 371
… After having set aside in the former books the calumnies hurled against the Catholics, Augustin here proceeds to open up the snares which lie hidden in the remaining part of the second epistle of the …
1,406 wordsAmbrose — Selected Works and Letters • SECTION 164
… For this [Arian] heresy began to be after all other heresies, and hath gathered the poisons of all. As it is written of the Antichrist, that "he opened his mouth to blasphemy against God, to …
1,421 wordsThe Apostolic Fathers, Justin Martyr & Irenaeus • SECTION 83
… The pains of the birth stand over against me. [1171] [1171] The Latin version translates the Greek here, "He adds gain to me." Chapter VII. And my love is crucified, and there is no fire …
1,440 wordsJerome — Principal Works • SECTION 90
… 4. [2141] The author of a polemical treatise against Christianity, fragments of which are still preserved in Origen's reply. He was a Platonist. [2142] A neoplatonist writer who flourished in the third century. [2143 …
1,385 wordsTertullian, Minucius Felix, Commodian & Origen • SECTION 173
… For example, if a man be led by reflection to believe and to fear God, it cannot then be said that the flesh contends against the Spirit; but, amidst the uncertainty of what may be …
1,437 wordsFathers of the Second Century • SECTION 111
… of Bishops, Presbyters, Deacons, and Widows; On the Soul; On the Resurrection; On Marriage; On Continence; Against Heresies. Preserved among Clement's works is a fragment called Epitomes of the Writings of Theodotus, and of …
1,457 wordsFathers of the Second Century • SECTION 260
… It therefore follows that it is the opinion of the wise among the Jews which the apostle inveighs against. Wherefore he adds, "But we preach, as it is written, what eye hath not seen, and …
1,470 wordsEusebius — Church History, Constantine & Oration • SECTION 122
… for instance, in the fourth book of his work Against Heresies, where he writes as follows: [1205] "And Justin well says in his work against Marcion, that he would not have believed the Lord himself …
1,518 wordsTertullian — Latin Christianity • SECTION 322
… The Scripture says nothing of this, although it is not in other instances silent when anything was done against Him by way of temptation. "Behold," it says, "a certain lawyer stood up, and tempted Him …
1,548 wordsThe Apostolic Fathers, Justin Martyr & Irenaeus • SECTION 280
… These remarks are, in like manner, applicable against the followers of Marcion. For his two gods will also be contained and circumscribed by an immense interval which separates them from one another. But then there …
1,652 wordsEusebius — Church History, Constantine & Oration • SECTION 88
… 23) gives a somewhat fuller account of him, very likely based upon Justin's work against heresies which the latter mentions in his Apol. I. 26, and from which Irenæus quotes in IV. 6. 2 …
1,634 wordsEusebius — Church History, Constantine & Oration • SECTION 90
… But Irenæus, in the first book of his work Against Heresies, [840] gives some more abominable false doctrines of the same man, and in the third book relates a story which deserves to be recorded …
1,656 wordsLeo the Great & Gregory the Great • SECTION 22
… holy Virgin, along with all heresies down to Simon Magus. Yet nevertheless I stand in jeopardy of my life as a heretic. I beseech you not to be prejudiced against me by their insidious designs …
1,681 wordsSocrates and Sozomen — Ecclesiastical Histories • SECTION 226
… Before he had ceased speaking, all his auditors at once suppressed the angry feelings by which they had been mutually agitated against each other, and directed the vote of the bishopric upon him, as a …
1,662 wordsChrysostom — Homilies on Matthew • SECTION 25
… thus Augustus ministers to the birth at Bethlehem by the decree for the taxing; Egypt receives and preserves Him, driven from His home, and plotted against, and obtains a sort of first impulse towards her …
1,657 wordsAugustine — City of God & Christian Doctrine • SECTION 227
… It was also by this prophetic spirit that, when his middle son--that is, the son who was younger than the first and older than the last born--had sinned against him, he cursed him …
1,697 wordsTheodoret, Jerome, Gennadius & Rufinus — Historical Writings • SECTION 50
… This faith was destined to be the one rival and destroyer of the Arian heresy, and by it not only the Arian itself, but likewise all other heresies were undone. To this faith to add …
1,706 wordsTheodoret, Jerome, Gennadius & Rufinus — Historical Writings • SECTION 97
… have set forth our confession of the faith at greater length, and have appended an anathema against the heresies which innovators have recently inscribed. "Now as to the particular administration of individual churches, an ancient …
1,709 wordsLeo the Great & Gregory the Great • SECTION 32
… Eutyches' heresy involves many other heresies. Although by the hands of our brothers, whom we have despatched from the city on behalf of the Faith, we hare sent a most full refutation of Eutyches' excessive …
1,722 wordsGregory Thaumaturgus, Dionysius, Julius Africanus & Others • SECTION 161
… And the stars, which the dragon touched with the end of his tail, and drew them down to earth, are the bodies of heresies; for we must say that the stars, which are dark, obscure …
1,695 wordsSocrates and Sozomen — Ecclesiastical Histories • SECTION 84
… The bishops of Egypt, Arabia and Cyprus, combined against Flavian, and insisted on his expulsion from Antioch: but those of Palestine, Phoenicia, and Syria, contended with equal zeal in his favor. What result issued from …
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