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Ambrose — Selected Works and Letters • SECTION 143
… see not, we who are bidden to believe rather than enquire of that we see. [1812] St. Ambrose here uses causa in the sense of causa efficiens--arche tes kineseos. [1813] Cf. Nicene Creed. [1814 …
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Chapter VI. Having mentioned the Baptist, St. Ambrose enters into a description of the events concerning his death, and speaks against dancing and the festivities of the wicked. 26. And since we must not cursorily …
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Chapter XI. Having shown that the pretexts usually alleged for second marriages have no weight, St. Ambrose declares that he does not condemn them, though from the Apostle's words he sets forth their inconveniences …
928 wordsAugustine — Anti-Pelagian Writings • SECTION 461
… to think anything of ourselves, but our sufficiency is of God." [3598] Following whom also the blessed Ambrose ventures to say, "For our heart is not in our own power, nor are our thoughts." And …
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Chapter XVI. In order to forearm the orthodox against the stratagems of the Arians, St. Ambrose discloses some of the deceitful confessions used by the latter, and shows by various arguments, that though they sometimes …
945 wordsAugustine — Confessions & Letters • SECTION 34
… Naz., Jerome, Ambrose, Chrys. St. Augustin alludes to his division again, Serm. 8, 9, de x.Chordis, and sec. 33 on this psalm: To the first commandment there belong three strings because God is trine …
936 wordsTertullian — Latin Christianity • SECTION 38
… Ex. xx. 4, etc. [The absurd "brazen serpent" which I have seen in the Church of St. Ambrose, in Milan, is with brazen hardihood affirmed to be the identical serpent which Moses lifted up in …
946 wordsAmbrose — Selected Works and Letters • SECTION 86
Chapter XIII. St. Ambrose shows from the Scriptures that the Name of the Three Divine Persons is one, and first the unity of the Name of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, inasmuch as …
961 wordsAmbrose — Selected Works and Letters • SECTION 221
… the argument of the Novatians, that they only deny forgiveness in the case of greater sins, St. Ambrose replies, that this is also an offence against God, Who gave the power to forgive all sins …
964 wordsSulpitius Severus, Vincent of Lerins & John Cassian • SECTION 185
… somewhat uncertain (a) because the fast was observed on stated days (stasis diebus); or (b), as S. Ambrose suggests, because "our fasts are our encampments which protect us from the devil's attacks: in short …
961 wordsBasil — Letters and Select Works • SECTION 76
… 19. [1560] Ambrose, Hexæm. iii. 13, writes: Amygdalis quoque hoc genere medicari feruntur agricolæ, ut ex amaris dulces fiant fructus, ut et terebrent ejus radicem arboris, et in medium inserant surculum ejus arboris quam Græci …
929 wordsAmbrose — Selected Works and Letters • SECTION 224
… physician, but they that are sick." [2947] Col. ii. 18. [2948] Col. ii. 19. Chapter VII. St. Ambrose, addressing Christ, complains of the Novatians, and shows that they have no part with Christ, Who wishes …
982 wordsAugustine — Confessions & Letters • SECTION 368
… 396]61 Greek and Latin, Hierius' knowledge of, [397]75 of Faustus, [398]82, [399]83 of Ambrose, [400]88 Endiathetos, "in the bosom of the Father," [401]108 (note), [402]166 (note) Enemies of …
2,201 wordsAmbrose — Selected Works and Letters • SECTION 217
… the mystical feast of the altar of the Lord. Lest any should think lightly of it, St. Ambrose shows that it is of higher antiquity than the sacred rites of the Jews, since it was …
995 wordsJerome — Principal Works • SECTION 52
… wedlock as there is between fine corn and barley, let him read the book of the holy Ambrose "On Widows," and he will find, among other statements concerning virginity and marriage, the following: [1137] "The …
2,642 wordsAmbrose — Selected Works and Letters • SECTION 150
… agathon.--LXX. (2) "sons by adoption."--Gal. iv. 4, 5. [1880] S. John viii. 14. [1881] St. Ambrose' version differs in expression from the Vulg.--Ego enim Dominus et non mutor (Mal. iii. 6)--but …
983 wordsHilary of Poitiers & John of Damascus • SECTION 12
… Not only as a thinker, but as a pioneer of thought, whose treasures have enriched, often unrecognised, the pages of Ambrose and Augustine and all later theologians, he deserves our reverence. Not without reason was …
2,673 wordsAugustine — Anti-Pelagian Writings • SECTION 235
… He lastly quotes the authority of Ambrose to show that the evil of concupiscence must be distinguished from the good of marriage. Chapter 1.--Concerning the Argument of This Treatise. Our new heretics, my dearest …
1,007 wordsHilary of Poitiers & John of Damascus • SECTION 3
… not satisfy ardent and logical minds, like those of St. Hilary and his two great successors, St. Ambrose and St. Augustine. To such men it was a necessity of their faith that they should know …
2,680 wordsSulpitius Severus, Vincent of Lerins & John Cassian • SECTION 155
… For later testimonies see Ambrose, Ep. 119, ad Januarium. Epiphanius, on Heresies, Book III. (Vol. III. p. 583, ed. Dindorf). Jerome, Dial: Adv. Lucif. c. iv., and the Twentieth Canon of the Council of Nicæa …
1,015 wordsAmbrose — Selected Works and Letters • SECTION 144
Chapter XIII. Discussion of the Divine Generation is continued. St. Ambrose illustrates its method by the same example as that employed by the author of the Epistle to the Hebrews. The duty of believing what …
1,017 wordsTheodoret, Jerome, Gennadius & Rufinus — Historical Writings • SECTION 62
… the date of Lucifer's death. "To what extent he was an actual schismatic remains obscure." St. Ambrose remarks that "he had separated himself from our communion," (de excessu Satyri 1127, 47) and St. Augustine …
1,008 wordsTheodoret, Jerome, Gennadius & Rufinus — Historical Writings • SECTION 21
… d. 367 (Phil. H.E. ix. 6). Philogonius was raised to the episcopate per saltum, like St. Ambrose (Chrysost. Orat. 71, tom. v. p. 507), he preceded the Arian Paulinus. Hellanicus was present at Nicæa …
1,012 wordsAmbrose — Selected Works and Letters • SECTION 158
… 1974] Ps. xxii. 1; S. Matt. xxviii. 46; S. Mark xv. 34. [1975] Gal. v. 24. (St. Ambrose has made a curious use of this text). [1976] 1 Pet. iv. 1. [1977] S. Matt. x …
1,028 wordsJerome — Principal Works • SECTION 105
… Recently also Ambrose appropriated his Six Days' Work, [2589] but in such a way that it expressed the views of Hippolytus and Basil rather than of Origen. You profess to take me for your model …
2,718 wordsAmbrose — Selected Works and Letters • SECTION 266
… after the example of the wise men, three gifts, or after that of the widow, two. St. Ambrose concludes the chapter by an exhortation to widows to be zealous in good works. 27. In the …
1,043 wordsAmbrose — Selected Works and Letters • SECTION 166
… in general. E.g. "clementiam in procinctu habere," "to be ready to show mercy." Here, however, St. Ambrose uses the phrase more in its original sense, with reference to the impending conflict of the Goths …
1,024 wordsAmbrose — Selected Works and Letters • SECTION 25
… 227] 2 Cor. viii. 10. [228] 2 Cor. viii. 11-15. [229] Ex. xvi. 18. [230] St. Ambrose, allowing clergy to retain some of their patrimony so as not to burden the Church, is less …
1,054 wordsAmbrose — Selected Works and Letters • SECTION 270
Chapter X. St. Ambrose returns again to the subject of Christ, speaking of His goodness in all misery. The various ways in which the good Physician treats our diseases, and the quickness of the healing …
1,052 wordsAmbrose — Selected Works and Letters • SECTION 102
… who contend that the Spirit because He is called the Finger is less than the Father, St. Ambrose replies that this would also tend to the lessening of the Son, Who is called the Right …
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