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Eusebius — Church History, Constantine & Oration • SECTION 331

Chapter XIV.--A Farther Mention of his Prayers in the Tabernacle.

… This latter view is plausible on comparison with the account in the Church History. In this view the conditions referred to above relate to the terms on which Licinius was spared on Constantia's request …

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The Apostolic Fathers, Justin Martyr & Irenaeus • SECTION 113

Chapter XX.--The way of darkness.

… See the prudent note of Canon Robertson (History of the Christ. Church, vol. i. p. 116). [1731] Hist. Eccl., iii. 39. [1732] Ibid. [1733] [Where the fragments with learned annotations and elucidations fill forty-four …

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Eusebius — Church History, Constantine & Oration • SECTION 322

Chapter XXXIX.--Constantine's Entry into Rome.

… 3137] Compare the Church History, 9. 9. If it be true, as Crusè says, that in this inscription there are traces of the Latin original, it gives a strong presumption that Eusebius was quoting a …

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The Apostolic Fathers, Justin Martyr & Irenaeus • SECTION 114

[1746] [See Grabe, apud Routh, 1. 29.]

… And he also gives another story of a woman [1759] who was accused of many sins before the Lord, which is to be found in the Gospel according to the Hebrews.] [1755] From Eusebius, Hist …

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Basil — Letters and Select Works • SECTION 131

Letter LXX. [2251]

… 5), and of Eusebius himself who in his history speaks of the practice having been continued down to the persecution in his own day. The troubles referred to by Basil took place in the time …

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Socrates and Sozomen — Ecclesiastical Histories • SECTION 184

Chapter XV.--Didymus the Blind, and Aëtius the Heretic.

… He was much sought after by the members of the Catholic Church, and was praised by the orders of monks in Egypt, and by Antony the Great. It is related that when Antony left the …

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The Seven Ecumenical Councils • SECTION 15

Canon VII.

… This audacious attempt to set at nought the Nicene decrees, and to falsify both history and tradition was regarded with the utmost indignation by the leaders of the Christian church. Cyril of Alexandria shuddered at …

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Athanasius — Select Works and Letters • SECTION 163

[1671] Ap. Const. 22, 24, below, §81.

… Fleury's Church History, xxii. 7. p. 129, note k. [Oxf. tr. 1843.] By specifying the material, Athan. implies that altars were sometimes not of wood. [cf. D.C.A. 61 sq.] [1694] Curtains were …

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The Apostolic Fathers, Justin Martyr & Irenaeus • SECTION 36

Chapter XXI.--The date of the martyrdom.

… His subsequent history is sufficiently indicated in the Epistles which follow. Had not the plan of this series been so exclusively that of a mere revised reprint, the writings of Ignatius themselves would have made …

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Eusebius — Church History, Constantine & Oration • SECTION 334

Chapter XXV.--An Illustration from Ancient Times.

… P.), and the Church History of Eusebius. [3184] Literally "beneath the earth," referring of course to the Græco-Roman conception of Hades. Chapter XXVIII.--That God chose Constantine to be the Minister of Blessing. "And …

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Athanasius — Select Works and Letters • SECTION 39

Council of Lampsacus.

… Athanasius begins his Memorial Church. 370. Aug. 7. Memorial Church dedicated. Correspondence between Athan. and Basil begins. 371. Deputation of the Marcellians of Ancyra to Athanasius. 372. Two books against Apollinarianism. 373. May 2-3 …

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The Twelve Patriarchs, Apocrypha, Clementine Homilies & More • SECTION 34

Book I.

… confirms that of Irenæus, Eusebius, and Jerome, as to the episcopal succession at Rome (assuming that Cletus and Anacletus, named by Irenæus, is identical with Cletus). For other variations, see Church Histories and Encyclopædias (under …

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Cyril of Jerusalem & Gregory Nazianzen • SECTION 1

A SELECT LIBRARY

… UNDER THE EDITORIAL SUPERVISION OF PHILIP SCHAFF, D.D., LL.D., PROFESSOR OF CHURCH HISTORY IN THE UNION THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY, NEW YORK. AND HENRY WACE, D.D., PRINCIPAL OF KING'S COLLEGE, LONDON. VOLUME VII …

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