Gregory the Great, Ephraim Syrus & Aphrahat • SECTION 10
Epistle XVII.
… 32) to Cyprian, the previous rector patrimonii in Sicily, for protection in some question about property.
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Hippolytus, Cyprian, Caius & Novatian • SECTION 94
Chapter VIII.--Sect of the Elchasaites; Hippolytus' Opposition to It.
… Also Cyprian, this vol. passim.] [1005] eutheos meden. Scott reads eutheos meden. Dr. Wordsworth translates the words thus: "having no rectitude of mind." [1006] John xiv. 11. [1007] [Here is a very early precedent for …
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Chapter 27.--Concerning the Nature of the Honor Which the Christians Pay to Their Martyrs.
… say in the prayers, I offer to thee a sacrifice, O Peter, or O Paul, or O Cyprian? for it is to God that sacrifices are offered at their tombs,--the God who made them …
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Letter LIV. [2199]
… g. St. Jerome, On Isaiah v. 19, 18. On the testing of qualifications for orders, cf. St. Cyprian, Ep. lxviii. [2202] meta ten proten epinemesin. 'Epinemesis is in later Greek the recognized equivalent for "indictio …
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Letter LXXXIV. To Pammachius and Oceanus.
… He admires him in the same way that Cyprian admired Tertullian but does not in any way adopt his errors. He then describes his own studies and recounts his obligations to Apollinaris, Didymus, and a …
2,428 wordsTheodoret, Jerome, Gennadius & Rufinus — Historical Writings • SECTION 191
Chapter VI.
… Barnabas [2364] the Cyprian, also called Joseph the Levite, ordained apostle to the Gentiles with Paul, wrote one Epistle, valuable for the edification of the church, which is reckoned among the apocryphal writings. He afterwards …
882 wordsTertullian — Latin Christianity • SECTION 434
4. "Then, on the day on which we remained in fetters, [8990] this was shown to me. I saw that that place which I had formerly observed to be
… See Cyprian, Epistles, vol. i. Ep. xxiii. p. 68. note i. transl. [One of those referred to by St. James iii. 1, and by St. Paul, 1 Tim. v. 17.] [9001] More probably, "rest and …
2,401 wordsHippolytus, Cyprian, Caius & Novatian • SECTION 223
Epistle LXII. [2663]
… Argument.--Cyprian Teaches, in Opposition to Those Who Used Water in the Lord's Supper, that Not Water Alone, But Wine Mixed with Water, Was to Be Offered; That by Water Was Designated in Scripture …
2,433 wordsGregory Thaumaturgus, Dionysius, Julius Africanus & Others • SECTION 12
Canonical Epistle. [121]
… the matter of recovery through penalties [i.e., to the decision of his comprovincial bishops, as in Cyprian's example. See vol. v. p. 415, Elucidation XIII.; also Elucidation I. p. 20, infra. [122] [Elucidation …
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Chapter VIII.--He Sets Out for Rome, His Mother in Vain Lamenting It.
… place quite close to our ship, where there was an oratory [397] in memory of the blessed Cyprian. That night I secretly left, but she was not backward in prayers and weeping. And what was …
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Chapter 19 [XVII.]--Blessing of Matrimony.
… The last clause, though not in Jerome's Vulgate, was yet read by some of the Latin Fathers--by Cyprian and Lucifer, for instance, and something like it also by one of the Egyptian versions.
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Epistle LV. [2595]
… Argument.--Cyprian First of All Excuses Himself to the Thibaritans that He Had Not Been to Visit Them, and Gives Them Warning of the Persecution at Hand; He Then Furnishes Inducements Readily to Undergo Martyrdom …
2,453 wordsLeo the Great & Gregory the Great • SECTION 69
Letter CLXV.
… will be remembered that the practice of rebaptism was very definitely condemned in the times of S. Cyprian (3rd cent.), who himself went wrong in advocating it in the case of heretics. [613] See n …
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[1423] Rom. ii. 4.
… Chapter 17.--25. "Can the power of baptism," says Cyprian, "be greater or better than confession? than martyrdom? that a man should confess Christ before men, and be baptized in his own blood? And yet …
2,467 wordsGregory Thaumaturgus, Dionysius, Julius Africanus & Others • SECTION 89
[1800] 2 Cor. ix. 14, 15. The text gives "velut angelum lucis," as if the Greek had read hos. So also Cyprian, in the beginning of his book
… So also Cyprian, in the beginning of his book on The Unity of the Church. [Vol. v. p. 422, sec. 3.] [1801] Avertere vos. [1802] Gal. i. 6-8. [1803] Infimo omnium apostolorum. [1804] Eph …
2,450 wordsTertullian — Latin Christianity • SECTION 384
III.
… I submit, however, that, something remains to be said for it, on the ground of the old African Version used and quoted by Tertullian and Cyprian; and I dare to say, that, while there would …
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Augustin, in 412, writes to Marcellinus [Ep. cxxxix.] expressing his delight that the proceedings connected with the trial are in preparatio
… Some who thought Cæcilian guilty would not break the unity; they imitated Cyprian. He charges their clergy with duplicity. He reminds them of the deception practiced in presenting the signature of a Donatist, who was …
2,471 wordsJerome — Principal Works • SECTION 234
27. In another place you maintain that "All are governed by their own free choice." What Christian can bear to hear this? For if not one, no
… And although he professes to imitate, or rather complete the work of the blessed martyr Cyprian in the treatise which the latter wrote to [5243] Quirinus, he does not perceive that he has said just …
2,485 wordsLactantius, Venantius, Asterius, Victorinus & Others • SECTION 57
Another [933] wrote the same subject with more bitterness, who was then of the number of the judges, and who was especially the adviser of e
… IV.--Why This Work Was Published, and Again of Tertullian and Cyprian. Since, therefore, they of whom I have spoken had set forth their sacrilegious writings in my presence, and to my grief, being incited …
2,488 wordsAugustine — Exposition on Psalms • SECTION 181
[3940] Lat. LXXXV. A sermon to the people at Carthage, delivered on the vigil of a festival, perhaps of St. Cyprian.
… A sermon to the people at Carthage, delivered on the vigil of a festival, perhaps of St. Cyprian. [3941] Rom. v. 8, 7. [3942] Luke xviii. 11-13. [3943] 1 Tim. vi. 17. [3944] Luke …
2,491 wordsThe Apostolic Fathers, Justin Martyr & Irenaeus • SECTION 171
Chapter XLIV.--The Jews in vain promise themselves salvation, which cannot be obtained except through Christ.
… See Cyprian, Adv. Jud. i. 24.-- Otto. Chapter XLV.--Those who were righteous before and under the law shall be saved by Christ. And Trypho said, "If I seem to interrupt these matters, which you …
905 wordsGregory Thaumaturgus, Dionysius, Julius Africanus & Others • SECTION 134
Chapter IV.--Christ Alone Taught Virginity, Openly Preaching the Kingdom of Heaven; The Likeness of God to Be Attained in the Light of the Divine Virtues.
… 9. [2527] [Compare Cyprian, vol. v. p. 475, this series.] Discourse II.--Theophila.
903 wordsFathers of the Second Century • SECTION 120
I know fire to be capable of exposing and curing superstition. If thou art willing to abandon this folly, the element of fire shall light th
… Thus that Cyprian Pygmalion became enamoured of an image of ivory: the image was Aphrodite, and it was nude. The Cyprian is made a conquest of by the mere shape, and embraces the image. This …
2,506 wordsAugustine — Anti-Pelagian Writings • SECTION 388
Letter II.
… Furthermore, we have read to them the work of the most blessed martyr Cyprian on the Lord's Prayer, and have pointed out to them how He taught that all things pertaining to our morals …
2,529 wordsHilary of Poitiers & John of Damascus • SECTION 28
Against these, the expressions of Hilary's usual opinion, must be set others in which he anticipates the language of St. Augustine in the Pe
… of ours [386] . This latter was a thought peculiarly characteristic of the West, and especially of St. Cyprian's teaching; but Hilary has had his share in giving prominence to the propitiatory aspect of Christ …
2,569 wordsAugustine — Anti-Pelagian Writings • SECTION 401
Chapter 26.--The Pelagians Contend that the Grace, Which is Neither the Law Nor Nature, Avails Only to the Remission of Past Sins, But Not to the Avoidance of Future Ones.
… Now I strongly advise and earnestly require your Love [3094] to read attentively the book of the blessed Cyprian which he wrote On the Lord's Prayer. As far as the Lord shall assist you …
916 wordsLactantius, Venantius, Asterius, Victorinus & Others • SECTION 58
For as an infant is unable, on account of the tenderness of its stomach, to receive the nourishment of solid and strong food, but is support
… These words are taken from Cyprian, vol. v. [84]p. 457, this series. [955] Rudem. [956] Caligaret. [957] [This censure of Cyprian fully exculpates Minucius, Arnobius, and others, superficially blamed for their few quotations from …
2,555 wordsSulpitius Severus, Vincent of Lerins & John Cassian • SECTION 14
Chapter XXV.
… This is clear from Cyprian, Jerome, and others of a much later age."
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Chapter XXIX.--Fabianus, who was wonderfully designated Bishop of Rome by God.
… 54, and especially Cyprian's Epistles, 3, al. 9, and 30). From these epistles we learn that he was a man of ability and virtue. He stands out more clearly in the light of history …
943 wordsChrysostom — Corinthians • SECTION 118
Let us not therefore sleep, my beloved. For it cannot, it cannot be that any one by sloth should attain to the kingdom of heaven, nor they t
… It is found in several versions, and has the authority of Irenæus, Origen, Basil, Tertullian, Cyprian, and other Fathers. In favor of the reading in our text, phoresomen, is the Vatican mss. with others of …
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