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Tertullian — Latin Christianity • SECTION 391

Chapter IX.

… 16. [8273] The words in the Greek, though correctly rendered in our authorized version, are, when translated literally, what Tertullian represents them to be.--Tr.

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Hippolytus, Cyprian, Caius & Novatian • SECTION 60

Chapter XXVIII.--The Valentinian Origin of the Creation.

… 19. [713] Axionicus is mentioned by Tertullian only (see Tertullian, Contr. Valent., c. iv; [vol. iii. p. 505, this series]). [714] Bardesianes (or Ardesianes, as Miller's text has it) is evidently the same with …

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Tertullian — Latin Christianity • SECTION 261

[5015] See above: book iii. chap. xv. and xvi. pp. 333, 334.

… It is enough to remark that Tertullian's argument is unaffected by the discrepancy in the name of the particular prophet. On all hands the prophecy is admitted, and this at once satisfies our author …

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Tertullian — Latin Christianity • SECTION 322

[7021] He has Appelles mainly in view.

… Compare a fine passage of Tertullian on this subject in our Anti-Marcion, note 10, p. 112, Edin. [7034] Ceterum. [7035] The angels'. [7036] Sidera. Drawn, as they thought, from the stars. [7037] Ps. lxxviii …

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Lactantius, Venantius, Asterius, Victorinus & Others • SECTION 136

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… If any value attaches to this fragment, it must be found in its illustrations of Hermas and Tertullian. These, in turn, shed light on it. Elucidation. (Aviricius Marcellus, [202]p. 335, supra) Like his great …

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Tertullian — Latin Christianity • SECTION 274

[5626] He refers to his De Resurrect. Carnis. See chap. xlviii.

… He well remarks (note in loc.), that Tertullian, by intimating that the heathen rites of the Februa will afford quite as satisfactory an answer to the apostle's question, as the Christian superstition alluded to …

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Augustine — Confessions & Letters • SECTION 82

[609] Col. ii. 8.

… It is mentioned by Tertullian, Ambrose, and Jerome, and "in the fourth century," says Palmer (Origines Liturgicæ, c. 5, sec. 2, where the authorities will be found), "the renunciation was made with great solemnity. Cyril …

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Tertullian, Minucius Felix, Commodian & Origen • SECTION 97

When dawns "the holy day"--these works, for such

… for Tertullian himself, though he frequently cites the Epistle, appears to hesitate (to say the least) as to ascribing it to St. Paul. [1403] Comp. Isa. vi. 9, 10, with Acts xxviii. 17-29. [1404 …

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Fathers of the Second Century • SECTION 336

HERMAS.

… 45, 46, 50. Supererogation, 34, 52. Syneisactoe, 58. Talkative wife, 11. Tatian, 5. Teachers, 14, 49, 51. Tertullian, 5, 56. Thegri, 18. Thoughts, filthy and proud, 9. Tower, 14, 39, 44, 45, 46, 48, 50 …

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Tertullian — Latin Christianity • SECTION 57

Chapter XI.

… To conclude with a single remark about the arts which have a place in it, we know that its two sorts of amusement have for their patrons Mars and Diana. [357] [The authority of Tertullian

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Jerome — Principal Works • SECTION 38

Letter XXXIV. To Marcella.

… For the second and fourth questions he refers Damasus to the writings of Tertullian, Novatian, and Origen. The remaining three he deals with in detail. Gen. iv. 15, he understands to mean "the slayer of …

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Eusebius — Church History, Constantine & Oration • SECTION 118

[1148] See Rom. xiii. 1 sq., 1 Pet. ii. 13 sq.

… Compare also Tertullian, Scorp. 10, and Eusebius, H. E. V. 16. That the Jews were numerous in Smyrna has been shown by Lightfoot, ibid. p. 966. [1152] "The Asiarch was the head of the Commune …

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Tertullian, Minucius Felix, Commodian & Origen • SECTION 381

Chapter XXXI.

… me." [4440] phragmon kakias. [4441] pulas archonton aioni dedemenas. [4442] monotropon. [4443] lethen aperiskepton. [4444] 'Ogdoados. Cf. Tertullian, de Præscript. adv. Hæreticos, cap. xxxiii. (vol. iii. p. 259), and other references in Benedictine ed. [4445 …

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Eusebius — Church History, Constantine & Oration • SECTION 167

Book VI.

… Our principal authorities for these persecutions (which went on intermittently, during the rest of Severus' reign) are the first twelve chapters of this book of Eusebius' History, and a number of Tertullian's works, especially …

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Hippolytus, Cyprian, Caius & Novatian • SECTION 109

Chapter XVI.--Apelles.

… 654, this series, where it should have been noted that the Appendix to Tertullian is supposed by Waterland to be "little else but an extract from Hippolytus." He pronounces it "ancient and of good value …

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Theodoret, Jerome, Gennadius & Rufinus — Historical Writings • SECTION 196

Chapter XXII.

… Of his fine oratorical genius, Tertullian, in the seven books which he wrote against the church on behalf of Montanus, satirically says that he was considered a prophet by many of us. [2422] Bishop about …

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