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Chrysostom — Priesthood, Ascetic Treatises & Homilies • SECTION 173
… Say to thyself in the first instance, "I must not put a finger to private or public matters until I have rectified this soul of mine." If you will thus school your own sons, they …
2,280 wordsLactantius, Venantius, Asterius, Victorinus & Others • SECTION 205
… Referring to the Apology in our first volume, we observe that the order kept up in his day was this:-- 1. Prayers for all estates of men. 2. The kiss of peace. 3. Oblation of …
2,211 wordsCyril of Jerusalem & Gregory Nazianzen • SECTION 95
… In the First and Second he treats of the existence, nature, being, and attributes of God, so far as man's finite intellect can comprehend them. In the Third and Fourth the subject is the …
2,275 wordsThe Twelve Patriarchs, Apocrypha, Clementine Homilies & More • SECTION 522
… Apollinaris was bishop of Hierapolis on the Mæander, and, Lightfoot thinks, was probably with Melito and Polycrates, known to Polycarp, and influenced by his example and doctrine. [3761] He addressed his Apology, which is honourably …
2,278 wordsChrysostom — Acts and Romans • SECTION 32
… Namely, the first, "Ye did it ignorantly, as did also your rulers." The second, "It was ordered by the counsel of God:" as below, "And he puts this by way of apology," etc. The Edd …
2,266 wordsEusebius — Church History, Constantine & Oration • SECTION 13
… Large portions of the first, second, and third books are contained in the Oratio de Laudibus Constantini, nearly the whole of the fifth book is given in the Dem. Evang., while many passages occur in …
2,284 wordsChrysostom — Priesthood, Ascetic Treatises & Homilies • SECTION 171
… Art thou ashamed, tell me, when thou art going to be the first to make gain? Rather, on the contrary, you ought to be ashamed of persisting in this passion; and waiting until the person …
2,298 wordsJerome — Principal Works • SECTION 200
… The first allurement gone, the charm is lost. What shall I say, says Seneca, of the poor men who in numbers are bribed to take the name of husband in order to evade the laws …
2,271 wordsChrysostom — Galatians through Philemon • SECTION 14
… This objection he meets, first, by a protest, in the words, Ver. 21. "God forbid:" And next he brings his proof; Ver. 21. "For if there had been a law given which could make alive …
2,270 wordsBasil — Letters and Select Works • SECTION 78
… But those who overstep the borders, [1582] making the words of Scripture their apology for the art of casting nativities, pretend that our lives depend upon the motion of the heavenly bodies, and that thus …
2,304 wordsAthanasius — Select Works and Letters • SECTION 29
… We see the immense power he exercised in Egypt; the Emperors recognised him as a political force of the first order; Magnentius bid for his support, Constantius first cajoled, then made war upon him; but …
2,311 wordsGregory of Nyssa — Dogmatic Treatises • SECTION 1
… Gregory of Nyssa have involved unusual labour, which the Editor hopes will be accepted as a sufficient apology for the delay of the volume. The difficulty has been extreme of conveying with correctness in English …
2,309 wordsChrysostom — Priesthood, Ascetic Treatises & Homilies • SECTION 170
… Homily XX. [1799] That the fast of Lent is not sufficient to make us competent to partake of the Communion, but that holiness is the first thing required. How it is possible not to entertain …
2,332 wordsChrysostom — Acts and Romans • SECTION 103
… 11 sq.) which Paul represents as an inconsistency. (5) Peter's view is first given both on account of his prominence among the Apostles and because he had been the first to bear the gospel …
2,299 wordsCyril of Jerusalem & Gregory Nazianzen • SECTION 158
… 23. [3887] Nicetas distinguishes between Nosos and Malakia, saying that the first is actual disease, and the second the premonitory failing of health which prognosticates a disease. And, so he says, in reference to the …
2,351 wordsTertullian, Minucius Felix, Commodian & Origen • SECTION 103
… Him, Lord, Christ, King, God, Judgment and kingdom given to His hand, The father is to send unto the orb. ------------------------ [1625] I make no apology for the ruggedness of the versification and the obscurity of …
2,289 wordsTheodoret, Jerome, Gennadius & Rufinus — Historical Writings • SECTION 243
… them, unless they had first falsified them. It appears to me therefore desirable that the chief matter on which they have laid their forgers' hands should be inserted in this Apology, lest they should think …
2,344 wordsTheodoret, Jerome, Gennadius & Rufinus — Historical Writings • SECTION 262
… Eusebius the Bishop of Cæsarea, of whom I have made mention above, in the sixth book of his Apology for Origen makes the same complaint against Methodius the bishop and martyr, which you make against …
2,370 wordsHippolytus, Cyprian, Caius & Novatian • SECTION 316
… Baluzius, however, gives the two first, On the Public Shows, and On the Glory of Martyrdom, among the genuine Opuscula, and says: "I have not thought it fit to prejudice any one amid the diversity …
2,346 wordsCyril of Jerusalem & Gregory Nazianzen • SECTION 92
… where he was present in the Church on Easter day 362, and preached his first Sermon as a Priest, in apology for his reluctance. Strange to say, though it was so great a Festival, and …
2,342 wordsJerome — Principal Works • SECTION 4
… His departure in August and the feelings excited by it are described in a passage in his Apology against Rufinus (Ap. iii. 22, Vol. iii. 530) and in his letter to Asella (Letter xlv.) written …
2,327 wordsGregory Thaumaturgus, Dionysius, Julius Africanus & Others • SECTION 93
… Prudentius Maranus on Justin's Apology, i. § 32 [vol. i. p. 173, this series], thinks this was originally an error of transcription for cui jus est, which reading would correspond very much with the ho …
2,367 wordsEusebius — Church History, Constantine & Oration • SECTION 284
… For from the first epistle of John and from that of Peter likewise, read from the former epistle of John and from the epistle of Peter likewise. See p. 388. On Bk. IV. chap. 10 …
2,399 wordsGregory Thaumaturgus, Dionysius, Julius Africanus & Others • SECTION 189
… 27. [3112] [Evidently a homily for Palm Sunday, the first day of the Paschal week.] [3113] Ps. lxxxv. 9; xcv. 1; xlvii. 1. [3114] Luke xix. 27. [3115] Ps. lxii. 8. [3116] Ps. cxviii. 26 …
2,383 wordsChrysostom — Priesthood, Ascetic Treatises & Homilies • SECTION 121
… For if thou beseechest him to tell this to no other person, much more did it not become thee to tell these things first to him. The matter was safe while in thy possession; now …
2,394 wordsEusebius — Church History, Constantine & Oration • SECTION 64
Chapter XXIV.--Annianus the First Bishop of the Church of Alexandria after Mark. 1. When Nero was in the eighth year of his reign, [533] Annianus [534] succeeded Mark the evangelist in the administration of …
2,401 wordsHilary of Poitiers & John of Damascus • SECTION 17
… It was an appeal to the future as well as an apology for himself. But certainly it could not move Valentinian, nor can Hilary have expected that it should. And, after all, Valentinian's action …
2,421 wordsHilary of Poitiers & John of Damascus • SECTION 34
… In the first or historical division of the letter he promises a transcription, with explanations, of all the creeds drawn up since the Council of Nicha. He protests that he is not responsible for any …
2,443 wordsAugustine — Against the Manichaeans and Donatists • SECTION 106
… The Christian writers of the first three centuries seem not to have suspected the real character of these pseudo-prophetical writings, and to have regarded them as remarkable testimonies from the heathen world to the …
2,449 wordsJerome — Principal Works • SECTION 7
… of this series); and it was necessary to confine the Translation of Jerome to a single volume, with the exception of the Book On Illustrious Men and the Apology against Rufinus, which will be found …
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