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Tertullian — Latin Christianity • SECTION 162
Introduction, by the American Editor. ------------------------ The Second Class of Tertullian's works, according to the logical method I have endeavoured to carry out, is that which includes his treatises against the heresies of his times …
1,739 wordsBasil — Letters and Select Works • SECTION 40
… It is against us, they say, that they are preparing their engines and their snares; against us that they are shouting to one another, according to each one's strength or cunning, to come on …
1,758 wordsHippolytus, Cyprian, Caius & Novatian • SECTION 29
… But Corona nevertheless is plotted against, and forcibly drawn away by another beast, a smaller Dragon, which is the offspring of him who is guarded by the foot [299] of Engonasis. A man also stands …
1,750 wordsGregory Thaumaturgus, Dionysius, Julius Africanus & Others • SECTION 90
… For the apostle addresses the following words to us: "That ye may be lights in this world, holding [1848] the word of life for my glory against the day of Christ, seeing that I have …
1,761 wordsEusebius — Church History, Constantine & Oration • SECTION 96
… by oral homilies and exhortations, and warned them above all to be especially on their guard against the heresies that were then beginning to prevail, and exhorted them to hold fast to the tradition of …
1,761 wordsEusebius — Church History, Constantine & Oration • SECTION 132
… the Discourse addressed to the above-mentioned emperor, [1316] five books Against the Greeks, [1317] On Truth, a first and second book, [1318] and those which he subsequently wrote against the heresy of the Phrygians …
1,764 wordsThe Apostolic Fathers, Justin Martyr & Irenaeus • SECTION 272
… Moreover, they despise the workmanship of God, speaking against their own salvation, becoming their own bitterest accusers, and being false witnesses [against themselves]. Yet, reluctant as they may be, these men shall one day rise …
1,804 wordsAugustine — Anti-Pelagian Writings • SECTION 150
… Afterwards, however, on the authority of these canons, he cautions people against the opinion as a pernicious error, as one may see from many passages in his books Against the two Epistles of the Pelagians …
1,796 wordsFathers of the Second Century • SECTION 283
… Nor is sentence of condemnation to be pronounced ignorantly against what is said, on account of him who says it (which also is to be kept in view, in the case of those who are …
1,821 wordsEusebius — Church History, Constantine & Oration • SECTION 286
… 54) tells us that it was on account of heresies which were troubling the churches of Achaia (propter ecclesias Achaiæ, quæ pluribus hæresibus vexabantur). Photius (Cod. 118) reports that Origen went to Athens without the …
1,835 wordsHippolytus, Cyprian, Caius & Novatian • SECTION 299
… That remission cannot in the Church be granted unto him who has sinned against God. 29. That it was before predicted concerning the hatred of the Name. 30. That what any one has vowed to …
1,894 wordsAugustine — Sermon on the Mount & Gospel Harmony • SECTION 45
… Here, therefore, those who promise a wisdom and a knowledge of the truth which they do not possess, are especially to be guarded against; as, for instance, heretics, who frequently commend themselves on account of …
1,903 wordsTheodoret, Jerome, Gennadius & Rufinus — Historical Writings • SECTION 98
… May God keep you sound, most honoured sons." The bishops assembled in great Rome also wrote other things against other heresies which I have thought it necessary to insert in my history. [850] This rendering …
1,924 wordsLactantius, Venantius, Asterius, Victorinus & Others • SECTION 163
… In like manner, he who does not receive the penitent, scatters the flock of Christ, being really against Him. For as God is just in judging of sinners, so is He merciful in receiving them …
1,922 wordsLeo the Great & Gregory the Great • SECTION 38
… He commends Leo's zeal against the Manichees, and latterly against Eutychianism, as evidenced especially in the Tome. Of which thing indeed, though there are many other proofs to be found, your zeal against the …
1,945 wordsJerome — Principal Works • SECTION 111
… In this letter (translated into Latin by Jerome) Dionysius, bishop of Lydda, praises Theophilus for his signal victories over Origenism and urges him to continue his efforts against that heresy. Written in 400 a.d …
1,944 wordsAugustine — City of God & Christian Doctrine • SECTION 353
… Is innocence a sufficient protection against the various assaults of demons? That no man might think so, even baptized infants, who are certainly unsurpassed in innocence, are sometimes so tormented, that God, who permits it …
1,991 wordsEusebius — Church History, Constantine & Oration • SECTION 115
… The account is taken from the third book of Irenæus' work Against Heresies, and is as follows: [1115] 3. "But Polycarp [1116] also was not only instructed by the apostles, and acquainted with many that …
1,993 wordsAugustine — Trinity, Doctrinal & Moral Treatises • SECTION 286
… victorious over heresies, abides in charity, [839]374; Body of Christ: He the Head, [840]375; an heretical notion concerning, [841]389; Christ and the, [842]388, [843]389; not yet perfect, [844]390; made …
1,706 wordsJerome — Principal Works • SECTION 228
… See Jerome's treatise against him in this volume. [5134] See introduction to Jerome's treatise against Jovinianus in this volume. [5135] See Rufinus' works, especially the Prolegomena, and Jerome's controversy with him in …
2,023 wordsTertullian — Latin Christianity • SECTION 331
… on the one only God and His Christ, in our work against Marcion, [7300] on the Lord's flesh, in our book against the four heresies, [7301] for the special purpose of opening the way …
2,014 wordsSocrates and Sozomen — Ecclesiastical Histories • SECTION 180
… He turned his anger against Paul and commanded his expulsion from the city. He manifested great displeasure against Macedonius also, because he was the occasion of the murder of the general and of other individuals …
2,043 wordsEusebius — Church History, Constantine & Oration • SECTION 177
… It is quite possible that Clement's residence in Cappadocia with Alexander had given him such an acquaintance with Judaizing heresies and practices that he felt constrained to write against them, and at the same …
2,015 wordsGregory the Great, Ephraim Syrus & Aphrahat • SECTION 52
… But I declare, my conscience bearing me witness, that I never found in them any error, any pravity, or anything of what was said against them. Whence also I took care, despising report, to receive …
2,059 wordsJerome — Principal Works • SECTION 157
… Either my works will be found edifying and I shall confute the false charges brought against me; or they will be found blameworthy and I shall confess my error. For I would sooner correct an …
2,048 wordsSulpitius Severus, Vincent of Lerins & John Cassian • SECTION 115
… His doctrine may be best inferred from the anathema directed against it, appended to the original Nicene Creed: "Those who say, that once the Son of God did not exist, and that before He was …
2,099 wordsBasil — Letters and Select Works • SECTION 189
… Let an indictment for murder be preferred against the woman who gives birth to a child on the road and pays no attention to it. XXXIV. Women who had committed adultery, and confessed their fault …
2,090 wordsJerome — Principal Works • SECTION 93
… years ago [2291] in the extremely learned and eloquent books which he composed under the title Against all heresies. 4. From these facts you in your wisdom will realize how worthy of praise our dear …
2,121 wordsLeo the Great & Gregory the Great • SECTION 61
… A protest against their faithlessness and inconsistency in this matter. And so, as all these heresies have been destroyed, which through the holy devotion of the presiding Fathers have been cut off from the body …
2,124 wordsFathers of the Second Century • SECTION 77
… 177.] In placing Athenagoras here, somewhat out of the order usually accepted, I commit no appreciable violence against chronology, and I gain a great advantage for the reader. To some extent we must recognise, in …
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