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The Seven Ecumenical Councils • SECTION 130
… consented, in order that the church-funds may be properly spent (Mansi, iii., 1257). At Hippo St. Augustine had a "præpositus domus" who acted as Church-steward (Possidius, Vit. August., xxiv.). Isidore of Pelusium denounces …
1,397 wordsEusebius — Church History, Constantine & Oration • SECTION 150
… With Marcion and Apelles we are in a world of sensitive moral principle and of deep religious feeling like that in which Paul and Augustine lived, but few others in the early Church. Rhodo, in …
1,377 wordsThe Apostolic Fathers, Justin Martyr & Irenaeus • SECTION 311
… text is here very confused, but the Greek original of the greater part of this section has happily been preserved. [This Father here anticipates in outline many ideas which St. Augustine afterwards corrected and elaborated.]
1,408 wordsLeo the Great & Gregory the Great • SECTION 236
… 43), and bids Augustine in England adopt according to his discretion the customs of other Churches (XI. 64). With regard to the essential form of confirmation recognized in the time of Gregory, it appears evidently …
1,448 wordsJerome — Principal Works • SECTION 90
… His works are extant. [2195] A celebrated man of letters at Rome in the middle of the fourth century, the story of whose conversion is told in Augustine's Confessions (viii. 2-5). [2196] Bishop …
1,385 wordsHilary of Poitiers & John of Damascus • SECTION 33
… origine et sub peccati lege se esse natum. Other passages must be cited from quotations in St. Augustine, but Förster, p. 676, has given reason for doubting Hilary's authorship. [373] E.g. Comm. in …
1,432 wordsThe Seven Ecumenical Councils • SECTION 19
… had been "called by grace" to an act of self-sacrifice (the phrase is one which St. Augustine might have used); and had shown "their eagerness at the outset" ("primum suum ardorem," Dionysius; Philo and …
1,464 wordsLeo the Great & Gregory the Great • SECTION 259
… And generally, the well-known differences of the Gallican liturgy and usages from the Roman, to which pope Gregory himself alludes in his letter to Augustine (XI. 64), as well as Irenæus of Lyons, in …
1,477 wordsHippolytus, Cyprian, Caius & Novatian • SECTION 80
… Eusebius, Hist. Ecclesiast., iv. 7, Epiphanius, Hær., xxvii. sec. 2; Theodoret, Hær. Fab., i. 5; and St. Augustine, Hær., c. vii. The entire of this article is taken from Irenæus, and equally coincides with the …
1,466 wordsTertullian — Latin Christianity • SECTION 390
… 2: "She hath killed her beasts." The corresponding words in the Septuagint are esphaxe ta eautes thumata. Augustine, in his De Civ. Dei, xvi. 20, explains the victims (thumata) to be Martyrum victimas.--Tr. [8258 …
1,498 wordsChrysostom — Galatians through Philemon • SECTION 32
… Christ as clothed about' with our nature. In Success. 2 p. 142. Vid. also Epiph. Ancor. §. 95. Augustine in Psalm 130. 10. This, as well as other theological terms, was abused by heretical disputants; as …
1,463 wordsLeo the Great & Gregory the Great • SECTION 4
… and the earlier editions insert a passage from Augustine's Enchiridion, which thus formed chapter iv. [26] A reminiscence of Phil. ii. 21. [27] Plebem: this being the regular term for the "Laity" in early …
1,514 wordsGregory Thaumaturgus, Dionysius, Julius Africanus & Others • SECTION 101
… But his early relations with the heresy of Manes, and his subsequent orthodoxy (in all which he was a foreshadowing of Augustine), render his treatise on the Manichæan opinions especially valuable. Combefis conjectured that Alexander …
1,519 wordsSulpitius Severus, Vincent of Lerins & John Cassian • SECTION 240
… 13. [1124] Augustine (De Hæres. c. lix.) speaks of "Seleuciani" or "Hermiani" as denying a visible Paradise, and a future resurrection; and again in c. lxxxiii. he speaks of some Arabian heretics, as teaching that …
1,562 wordsLeo the Great & Gregory the Great • SECTION 121
… It appears to have been taken to England by the Monk Augustine. This is asserted by Alfred the Great, who, nearly three hundred years afterwards, with the assistance of his divines, made a translation, or …
1,542 wordsTheodoret, Jerome, Gennadius & Rufinus — Historical Writings • SECTION 106
… 93 Augustine says he heard of the "revoluta tela" from a soldier engaged in the battle. The appearance of St. John and St. Philip finds a pagan parallel in that of the "great twin brethren …
1,544 wordsChrysostom — Galatians through Philemon • SECTION 126
… independent of Him, and the means of an approach to God without reference to His Atonement. St. Augustine refers to such systems, De. Civ. Dei, lib. ix. 15, 21; x. 1, &c. [712] egnote. This …
1,529 wordsGregory the Great, Ephraim Syrus & Aphrahat • SECTION 27
… Inasmuch, then, as in the work of preaching (which after long thought I have taken care to supply to the nation of the Angli through Augustine, then provost (præpositum) of my monastery, and now our …
1,595 wordsBasil — Letters and Select Works • SECTION 170
… of Mops., Augustine, and others, "get his wife." See Ellicott, Thess. p. 53.
1,606 wordsHilary of Poitiers & John of Damascus • SECTION 1
… than Hilary. He might be said to be the one Latin theologian before the age of St. Augustine and St. Leo. Tertullian had a still greater influence upon the writers who followed him. He came …
1,632 wordsEusebius — Church History, Constantine & Oration • SECTION 90
… 3), and by Augustine (De Hær. I. 8), from which accounts we can see that those views were very sensual. The fullest description which we have of Cerinthus and his followers is that of Epiphanius …
1,656 wordsTertullian — Latin Christianity • SECTION 162
… even while they denounced their brethren and the "Erastianizing" clergy, much as Tertullian does the Psychics. St. Augustine speaks of Tertullianists [1848] with great moderation, and notes the final downfall of our author as something …
1,739 wordsAmbrose — Selected Works and Letters • SECTION 285
… 30. [3512] S. John xvi. 15. [3513] S. John xvi. 14. [3514] Prov. xix. 17. [3515] St. Augustine speaks of this introduction of hymns into the services of the Church at Milan (Confess. IX. 7 …
1,713 wordsBasil — Letters and Select Works • SECTION 40
… prevailed that baptism with water, and in the prescribed words, by whomsoever administered, was valid. So St. Augustine, "Si evangelicus verbis in nomine Patris et Filii et Spiritus Sancti Marcion baptismum consecrabat, integrum erat Sacramentum …
1,758 wordsLeo the Great & Gregory the Great • SECTION 127
… has ponderosus, which was a word used in the same sense, denoting one suffering from rupture (Cf. Augustine, De Civitate Dei, Lib. ult., cap. viii.). The idea expressed by the latter word, and carried out …
1,790 wordsTertullian — Latin Christianity • SECTION 21
… Those, too, whose kingdoms have become part of the one great whole of the Roman empire, were not without religion when their kingdoms were taken from them. [114] [See Augustine's City of God, III …
1,791 wordsTertullian — Latin Christianity • SECTION 83
… xli. [And Augustine, Civ. Dei. iii.] [596] By the "manceps erroris" he means the devil. [597] Libitina. [598] Christianorum meritum, which with "sit" may also, "Let the Christians have their due." In The Apology the …
1,922 wordsGregory of Nyssa — Dogmatic Treatises • SECTION 147
… in following out the thoughts of those inspired utterances is this. [1402] Ps. lv. 6. [1403] Cf. Augustine, Tract. 6 in Joann.: "Columba fel non habet. Simon habebat; ideo separatus est a columbæ visceribus." Aristotle …
1,961 wordsTertullian — Latin Christianity • SECTION 165
… 13; Augustine, de Hæres, chap. xlii. ; Jerome, Epist. adv. Ctesiph. (Works, ed. Ben.) iv. 477, and in his Commentary on Galatians, ii. See also Tertullian, Against Marcion, p. 139, Edinb. Edition. [1909] 2 Cor. xi …
1,931 wordsHippolytus, Cyprian, Caius & Novatian • SECTION 154
… See Augustine, Sulpicius Severus, in Dialogue II., and Philippus Dioptra, iii. 11, etc. [1952] phantastiken tes sarkos autou ousian. [1953] Organ, organon. [1954] Cod. B reads ten theotokon egnomen sarkikos kai aplanos, instead of the …
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