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Athanasius — Select Works and Letters • SECTION 98
… To the Bishops assembled at Tyre, most honoured Lords, those of the Catholic Church who have come from Egypt with Athanasius send greeting in the Lord. We suppose that the conspiracy which has been formed …
2,357 wordsAthanasius — Select Works and Letters • SECTION 22
… These incredible precautions shew the general esteem for Athanasius even outside the Church, and the misgivings felt at Court as to the reception of the new bishop. The Gentiles reluctantly agreed, and the next acts …
2,344 wordsAthanasius — Select Works and Letters • SECTION 6
… lvii., shews conclusively that the above is the meaning of the menas pente.) On his death-bed, Alexander called for Athanasius. He was away from Alexandria, but the other deacon of that name (see signatures …
2,357 wordsBasil — Letters and Select Works • SECTION 9
… Athanasius died in 373, and so far as personal living influence went, there was an extinction of the Pharos not of Alexandria only, but of the world. [254] It was no longer "Athanasius contra mundum …
2,393 wordsCyril of Jerusalem & Gregory Nazianzen • SECTION 123
… On the Great Athanasius, Bishop of Alexandria. The reference in §22 to "the Council which sat first at Seleucia...and afterwards at this mighty city," leaves no room for doubting that the Oration was delivered …
2,373 wordsAugustine — Trinity, Doctrinal & Moral Treatises • SECTION 2
… Such a powerful dialectician as Athanasius, while thoroughly and intensely scriptural--while starting from the text of scripture, and subjecting it to a rigorous exegesis--did not hesitate to pursue the Arian and Semi-Arian …
2,419 wordsAthanasius — Select Works and Letters • SECTION 299
… But the most holy Archbishop Athanasius, when he heard about our father Theodorus, was grieved, and sent this letter to the Abbat Orsisius and the brethren to console them for his decease, as follows:'-- Athanasius …
1,254 wordsAthanasius — Select Works and Letters • SECTION 155
… Eusebius and his fellows, however, seeing the declension of their heresy, wrote to Rome, as well as to the Emperors Constantine and Constans, to accuse [1537] Athanasius: but when the persons who were sent by …
2,573 wordsSocrates and Sozomen — Ecclesiastical Histories • SECTION 31
… Maximus, however, bishop of Jerusalem; who had succeeded Macarius, did not attend, recollecting that he had been deceived and induced to subscribe the deposition of Athanasius. Neither was Julius, bishop of the great Rome, [267 …
1,964 wordsGregory of Nyssa — Dogmatic Treatises • SECTION 10
… of the earlier Nicene school as represented by S. Athanasius. The council held at Alexandria in the year 362, during the brief restoration of S. Athanasius, shows us at once the point of contrast and …
2,670 wordsHilary of Poitiers & John of Damascus • SECTION 143
… 1. [1535] In the first Book of his Contra Arianos Athanasius refers to Christ's word in St. John xiv. 28. He remarks that He does not say "the Father is better (kreisson) than I …
1,352 wordsSocrates and Sozomen — Ecclesiastical Histories • SECTION 46
… When the bishops were assembled at Ariminum, those from the East declared that they were willing to pass in silence the case of Athanasius: a resolution that was zealously supported by Ursacius and Valens, who …
2,027 wordsSocrates and Sozomen — Ecclesiastical Histories • SECTION 224
… Chapter XIX.--Death of the Great Athanasius; the Elevation of Lucius, who was Arian-Minded, to the See; the Numerous Calamities he brought upon the Churches in Egypt; Peter, who served after Athanasius, passed over …
2,084 wordsAthanasius — Select Works and Letters • SECTION 288
… no verb elsewhere used in this connection in Athanasius exactly corresponds to erraverunt,' nor is the flight to Philippopolis elsewhere compared, as here, to that of Cain. But the latter comparison is often used by …
1,426 wordsTheodoret, Jerome, Gennadius & Rufinus — Historical Writings • SECTION 206
… Hilary too, in the seventh book of his work Against the Arians, mentions him as a heretic, but he defends himself against the charge through the fact that Julius and Athanasius bishops of Rome and …
746 wordsSocrates and Sozomen — Ecclesiastical Histories • SECTION 41
… Chapter XXVIII.--Athanasius' Account of the Deeds of Violence committed at Alexandria by George the Arian. What cruelties George perpetrated at Alexandria at the same time may be learned from the narration of Athanasius, who …
1,446 wordsTheodoret, Jerome, Gennadius & Rufinus — Historical Writings • SECTION 207
… Anthony [2513] the monk, whose life Athanasius bishop of Alexandria wrote a long work upon, sent seven letters in Coptic to various monasteries, letters truly apostolic in idea and language, and which have been translated …
755 wordsAmbrose — Selected Works and Letters • SECTION 105
… 355, when the bishop of that see, Dionysius, having refused to renounce Athanasius and the Nicene faith, was banished, Auxentius was forcibly intruded as bishop, and, in spite of the efforts of St. Hilary of …
2,231 wordsThe Seven Ecumenical Councils • SECTION 99
… For example, it has been said that the real difference between Arius and Athanasius was nothing more nor less than an iota, and that even Athanasius himself, in his more placid, and therefore presumably more …
2,200 wordsCyril of Jerusalem & Gregory Nazianzen • SECTION 48
… We learn from Athanasius (c. Arian. i. 37, 38, 40), that from St. Paul's language Philipp. ii. 9: "Wherefore also God highly exalted Him, &c.," and from Ps. xlv. 7: "Thou hast loved righteousness …
2,209 wordsAthanasius — Select Works and Letters • SECTION 68
… The letter which follows, addressed by Eusebius of Cæsarea to his flock, upon the conclusion of the great Synod, is appended by Athanasius to his defense of the Definition of Nicæa (de Decretis), written about …
2,257 wordsAthanasius — Select Works and Letters • SECTION 4
… they are unsupported by Athanasius, and bear every trace of invention ex post facto. That Arius was a vain person we see from his Thalia (infr. p. 308): but he certainly possessed claims to personal …
2,225 wordsThe Seven Ecumenical Councils • SECTION 86
… as being "no true avoidance of the detestable Arian heresy." See "Later Treatises of St. Athanasius," p. 5. Athanasius insisted that the Nicene Fathers, although silent on the nature of the Holy Spirit, had by …
2,250 wordsSocrates and Sozomen — Ecclesiastical Histories • SECTION 60
Chapter XIV.--Flight of Athanasius. But he fled again, saying to his intimates, Let us retire for a little while, friends; it is but a small cloud which will soon pass away.' He then immediately …
2,274 wordsTheodoret, Jerome, Gennadius & Rufinus — Historical Writings • SECTION 7
… Church has seen and valued the truth and wisdom of their utterances. Athanasius, Arius, Cyril, and Nestorius, were all great churchmen. Athanasius and Cyril stand out against the background of centuries as champions of the …
814 wordsCyril of Jerusalem & Gregory Nazianzen • SECTION 31
… p 606 (617), Athanasius derives the term from arche, in the sense of "beginning:" houtos mia arche theotetos kai ou duo archai, hothen kurios kai monarchia estin. See the full discussion of Monarchianism in Athanasius …
2,281 wordsBasil — Letters and Select Works • SECTION 162
… roused by Valens in Alexandria shortly after the death of Athanasius in 373, and the horrors perpetrated there, see the letter of Peter, Athanasius' successor, in Theod. iv. 19. [2458] en te politei& 139; kamatous …
815 wordsSocrates and Sozomen — Ecclesiastical Histories • SECTION 134
… 17, of his election he says: "Alexander, bishop of Alexandria, when about to depart this life, left Athanasius as his successor, in accordance, I am convinced, with the Divine will, directing the vote upon him …
2,275 wordsSocrates and Sozomen — Ecclesiastical Histories • SECTION 105
… and therefore it was inoperative against him--for it had been framed in the council convened against Athanasius at Antioch, for the subversion of the doctrine of consubstantiality [883] --the bishops would not listen to …
797 wordsAthanasius — Select Works and Letters • SECTION 123
… written and sent to the monks in foreign parts by our Father among the Saints, Athanasius, Bishop of Alexandria. Athanasius [983] the bishop to the brethren in foreign parts. You have entered upon a noble …
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