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Chrysostom — Acts and Romans • SECTION 10
… in the Greek Church: not so in the early Latin Church. See the two Treatises of St. Augustine, De Mendacio ("Lib. of Fathers," Seventeen Short Treatises of St. Aug.) The stricter doctrine however is maintained …
1,941 wordsHilary of Poitiers & John of Damascus • SECTION 26
… than of his thought. It was not his fault that he lived in the days before St. Augustine, and in the heat of an earlier controversy; and it is his conspicuous merit that in his …
1,990 wordsTertullian — Latin Christianity • SECTION 98
… Abalienato. [992] The word is "coelum" here. [993] Eleganter. [994] i.e., as representing Time. [995] So Augustine, de Civ. Dei, iv. 10; Arnobius, adv. Nationes, iii. 29; Cicero, de Nat. Deor. ii. 25. [996 …
1,967 wordsAmbrose — Selected Works and Letters • SECTION 139
… The disciples of the school made their way into the Roman Empire, and we find them, 150 years after the death of Mani, opposed by Augustine of Hippo, who indeed had at one time actually …
1,969 wordsThe Seven Ecumenical Councils • SECTION 235
… Alypius, Augustine, Possidius, Marinus and the rest of the bishops (217) also signed. Ancient Epitome of Canon CXXXIV. Urban, the bishop of Siccas, is either to be excommunicated or else summoned to Rome unless he …
2,017 wordsSocrates and Sozomen — Ecclesiastical Histories • SECTION 92
… From Augustine's Epistles, 36. 31 et al., it appears that he fasted on Saturday and regarded this the regular and proper course to be pursued, and actually pursued by members of the church. Hence …
2,009 wordsThe Seven Ecumenical Councils • SECTION 18
… But in the second period the list of mortal sins was greatly enlarged, and Morinus says that "Many Fathers who wrote after Augustine's time, extended the necessity of public penance to all crimes which …
2,025 wordsJerome — Principal Works • SECTION 242
… c. 87. [5361] Tit. iii. 10. [5362] Rom. v. 14. [5363] Cyp. Ep. 64 (al. 59). S. Augustine preaching at Carthage on June 27, 413, quoted the same letter, which was a Synodical letter of …
2,012 wordsGregory Thaumaturgus, Dionysius, Julius Africanus & Others • SECTION 238
… of the title. Cf. cc. 7 and 16. [See Elucidation V.; also note the reference to St. Augustine.] [4523] The name is wanting in the ms. Cf. c. 28. [4524] No Attic family of this …
2,015 wordsEusebius — Church History, Constantine & Oration • SECTION 177
… represented theory simply, not practice, and did not prevent even themselves from using both classes as Scripture. Augustine went so far as to obliterate completely all distinction between the two, in theory as well as …
2,015 wordsAmbrose — Selected Works and Letters • SECTION 92
… which destroys the force of the argument. With regard to the two prepositions ex and de St. Augustine gives a very good explanation, De Natura Bon, c. 27: "Ex ipso [of Him] does not always …
2,074 wordsHippolytus, Cyprian, Caius & Novatian • SECTION 225
… Spirit, "where drinking largely sobers us again."] [2688] Apoc. xvii. 15. [2689] [This figure, copied by St. Augustine (vol. v. p. 1247, ed. Migne), is retained in the liturgy of the Reformed Dutch communion.] [2690 …
2,062 wordsSulpitius Severus, Vincent of Lerins & John Cassian • SECTION 156
… the hour for Vespers, which is sometimes called lucernarium or lucernalis. S. Jerome in Ps. cxix. S. Augustine, Sermo i ad fratres in er. [733] It will be noticed that in this chapter Cassian alludes …
2,095 wordsCyril of Jerusalem & Gregory Nazianzen • SECTION 23
… and 22: Konstantinou tou basileos. [439] Ps. xlvi. 10. Sept. scholasate, "give attention freely." [440] From S. Augustine, de Symbolo, i. 1 (Migne T. vi. p. 930), we learn that the Candidates were brought in …
2,202 wordsTheodoret, Jerome, Gennadius & Rufinus — Historical Writings • SECTION 53
… prevailed far beyond the limits of the church of Antioch, even in the time of Ignatius himself." Augustine (Conf. ix. 7) states that the fashion of singing "secundum morem orientalium partium" was introduced into the …
2,176 wordsThe Seven Ecumenical Councils • SECTION 264
… the teaching of Hadrian and the Seventh Council, but that they also cite a passage from St. Augustine, "which teaches exactly the opposite of that which this synod would make out, for the passage says …
2,190 wordsHippolytus, Cyprian, Caius & Novatian • SECTION 113
… an opinion, and uses an expression adopted universally by patristic writers, up to the period of St. Augustine. This great philosopher and divine, however, shook the entire fabric of existing theology respecting the will, and …
2,182 wordsThe Seven Ecumenical Councils • SECTION 193
… We may appeal first to Augustine, who only knew of the Eusebian assembly at Sardica, and nothing at all of an orthodox synod in that place; which would have been clearly impossible, if it had …
2,202 wordsTheodoret, Jerome, Gennadius & Rufinus — Historical Writings • SECTION 3
… and Cyril of Alexandria to John of Antioch on the Western condemnation of Nestorius. Death of St. Augustine. 431. Council of Ephesus. (3rd general.) 432. Council of Orientals at Beroea. (St. Patrick's mission.) 433 …
2,214 wordsGregory Thaumaturgus, Dionysius, Julius Africanus & Others • SECTION 92
… subtemine et, quæ stamine," etc., as it is given in the Codex Casinensis. [A beautiful anticipation of Augustine's dictum, "The New is veiled in the Old, the Old unveiled in the New."] [1895] We …
2,202 wordsTheodoret, Jerome, Gennadius & Rufinus — Historical Writings • SECTION 120
… It is so quoted by Irenæus, Clemens Alexandrinus, and Tertullian." Augustine de Civ. xviii, 33. quotes Baruch iii. 16. with the remark "Hoc testimonium quidem non Hieremiæ sed Scribæ eius attribuunt qui vocabatur Baruch, sed …
2,200 wordsLeo the Great & Gregory the Great • SECTION 75
… xxi. 1, 8.)" (n. 103.). On Serm. LXXIX. 1 the Ball. appropriately quote a dictum of S. Augustine's that what the universal Church had always held is correctly credited with the authority of the …
2,202 wordsLactantius, Venantius, Asterius, Victorinus & Others • SECTION 33
… 62, supra.] [423] Indicium sui professos putes; others read judicium, "you would think that they were passing sentence on themselves." [424] Tituli, "titles." [425] Augustine in many places expresses his opinion that the Cynics were …
2,224 wordsThe Twelve Patriarchs, Apocrypha, Clementine Homilies & More • SECTION 356
… The phrase one essence was first used in regard to the doctrine of the Trinity by Augustine.
2,203 wordsAthanasius — Select Works and Letters • SECTION 168
… 6. one Rhetorius, who was an Egyptian, whose opinion, he says, it was fearful to mention.' S. Augustine tells us that this man taught that all heresies were in the right path, and spoke truth …
2,200 wordsTertullian — Latin Christianity • SECTION 243
… xi.; Augustine, Sermon. 66, de Verbo; Hilary on Matthew; Jerome on Matthew, and Epist. 121, ad Algas.; Ambrose on Luke, book v. § 93. They say mostly that the inquiry was for the sake of his …
2,194 wordsCyril of Jerusalem & Gregory Nazianzen • SECTION 66
… s feet were indelibly impressed on the spot from which He ascended. In the next generation St. Augustine seems to countenance the miraculous story (In Joh. Evang. Tract xlvii.): "There are His footsteps, now adored …
2,211 wordsThe Twelve Patriarchs, Apocrypha, Clementine Homilies & More • SECTION 508
… Eaton's Bampton Lectures for 1872, p. 79, ed. Pott, Young, & Co., New York, 1873. On St. Augustine, see Wordsworth's valuable remarks in his Bampton Lectures for 1881.] [3370] Gen. i. 27. The Hebrew …
2,211 wordsJerome — Principal Works • SECTION 1
… It was the age of the great Fathers, of Ambrose and Augustine in the West, of Basil, the Gregories, and Chrysostom in the East. With several of these Jerome was brought into personal contact; of …
2,204 wordsTertullian — Latin Christianity • SECTION 276
… older Syriac (Peschito) (and Copt;of the fathers, Chrysostom, Cyril, Theodoret, Damascene, Thephylact, OEcumenius, Rufinus, Pelagius, Orosius, Augustine, Cassiodorus," before whom I would insert Tertullian, and the Codex Sinaiticus, in its original state; although, like …
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