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Eusebius — Church History, Constantine & Oration • SECTION 5
… His influential position as bishop of Nicomedia, the imperial residence, and later of Constantinople, was of great advantage to the Arian cause, especially toward the close of Constantine's reign. From a letter addressed by …
2,680 wordsGregory Thaumaturgus, Dionysius, Julius Africanus & Others • SECTION 179
… 234. [2895] Gregory, surnamed Theologus, commonly known as Gregory Nazianzen. [2896] [Athenagoras, Plea, cap. xxiv. vol. ii. p. 142, this series.] [2897] [Athenagoras, Plea, cap. xxiv. vol. ii. p. 142, this series.] [2898] 2 Cor …
2,709 wordsGregory the Great, Ephraim Syrus & Aphrahat • SECTION 29
… Consider, therefore, most beloved brethren, from how great love these things which we speak proceed, and take them all in the same spirit of charity that inspires them. For, we being one body in Christ …
1,047 wordsGregory the Great, Ephraim Syrus & Aphrahat • SECTION 42
… Gregory's apocrisiarius at Constantinople. [120] Cf. VII. 40. [121] See X. 35, note 7. Epistle XLII. To Eusebius, Archbishop of Thessalonica. Gregory to Eusebius, &c. If, most dear brother, we consider attentively how great …
1,078 wordsGregory the Great, Ephraim Syrus & Aphrahat • SECTION 44
… Epistle I. To John, Abbot. Gregory to John, Abbot of Mount Sina [123] . The Epistle of thy Humility testifies to the holiness of thy life; whence we give great thanks to Almighty God, for that …
1,087 wordsLeo the Great & Gregory the Great • SECTION 181
… But let thy Experience observe these things with such great attention as may fulfil my desire in this regard. Further, it has come to my ears that from the times of Antoninus, the defensor, till …
1,092 wordsGregory the Great, Ephraim Syrus & Aphrahat • SECTION 43
… else fit to be elected. Epistle LXIII. To Dominicus, Bishop of Carthage. Gregory to Dominicus, &c. We have already learnt what great pestilence has invaded the African parts; and, inasmuch as neither is Italy free …
1,093 wordsSocrates and Sozomen — Ecclesiastical Histories • SECTION 281
… Eunomius, [3187]207; Arian bishop of Cyzicus, [3188]351; his heresy not new, [3189]363; acknowledges indebtedness to Aetius, [3190]364; described by Gregory Nazianzen, [3191]364; secedes from Arians, [3192]379; banished by Theodosius …
2,343 wordsSocrates and Sozomen — Ecclesiastical Histories • SECTION 31
… Neither was Julius, bishop of the great Rome, [267] there, nor had he sent a substitute, although an ecclesiastical canon [268] commands that the churches shall not make any ordinances against the opinion of the …
1,964 wordsAugustine — Confessions & Letters • SECTION 1
… It is to embrace in about twenty-five large volumes the most important works of the Greek Fathers from Eusebius to Photius, and of the Latin Fathers from Ambrose to Gregory the Great. The series …
1,090 wordsBasil — Letters and Select Works • SECTION 104
… Can any heretic have grieved your orthodoxy, and driven you to the utterance of that word by malevolently putting my name to his own writings? For you, a man who has sustained great and famous …
1,131 wordsLeo the Great & Gregory the Great • SECTION 283
… Mauricius, Emperor. Gregory to Mauricius Augustus. Amidst the cares of warfare and innumerable anxieties which you sustain in your unwearied zeal for the government of the Christian republic, it is a great cause of joy …
1,149 wordsGregory Thaumaturgus, Dionysius, Julius Africanus & Others • SECTION 16
… Argument V.--Here Gregory Interweaves the Narrative of His Former Life. His Birth of Heathen Parents is Stated. In the Fourteenth Year of His Age He Loses His Father. He is Dedicated to the Study …
2,065 wordsEusebius — Church History, Constantine & Oration • SECTION 227
… Of these, the most eminent were Firmilianus, [2381] bishop of Cæsarea in Cappadocia; the brothers Gregory [2382] and Athenodorus, pastors of the churches in Pontus; Helenus [2383] of the parish of Tarsus, and Nicomas [2384 …
1,154 wordsLeo the Great & Gregory the Great • SECTION 221
… If, then, anything of the kind is committed, it ought to be restrained by canonical punishment, lest so great a wickedness, with sin in others, acquire strength from connivance. I have, therefore, the sooner given …
1,164 wordsEusebius — Church History, Constantine & Oration • SECTION 285
… In 237 or 238 at any rate, he was (again) in Cæsarea and at this time Gregory Thaumaturgus delivered his Panegyric, which is our best source for a knowledge of Origen's methods of teaching …
3,032 wordsBasil — Letters and Select Works • SECTION 125
… Letter LVIII. [2211] To Gregory my brother. [2212] How am I to dispute with you in writing? How can I lay hold of you satisfactorily, with all your simplicity? Tell me; who ever falls a …
1,212 wordsGregory the Great, Ephraim Syrus & Aphrahat • SECTION 34
… For I am afflicted by so great sufferings from gout, and so great from troubles, that my life is to me most grievous pain. For every day I faint under my sufferings, and sigh in …
1,227 wordsGregory of Nyssa — Dogmatic Treatises • SECTION 140
… 40. [1345] Basil; rather than Gregory Thaumaturgus, as some have conjectured. Chapter I. The holy look of virginity is precious indeed in the judgment of all who make purity the test of beauty; but it …
1,232 wordsCyril of Jerusalem & Gregory Nazianzen • SECTION 212
… To Theodore, Bishop of Tyana. (Theodore, a native of Arianzus, and an intimate friend of Gregory, accompanied him to Constantinople a.d. 379, and shared his persecution by the Arians, who broke into their church …
1,239 wordsHilary of Poitiers & John of Damascus • SECTION 171
… And, nevertheless, we follow Gregory the Theologian [2045] when he says, "But to us there is but one God, the Father, of Whom are all things, and one Lord Jesus Christ, through Whom are all …
2,212 wordsAthanasius — Select Works and Letters • SECTION 225
… also Pope Gregory and Chrysost. infr. [3141] S. Chrysostom, S. Ambrose, and Pope Gregory, in addition to the instances in the text, refer to I will go down now, and see whether they have done …
2,200 wordsGregory of Nyssa — Dogmatic Treatises • SECTION 234
… We shall do well in what remains to end our discourse by turning it to the loving Giver of so great a boon, offering to Him a few words as the requital of great things …
1,234 wordsGregory the Great, Ephraim Syrus & Aphrahat • SECTION 60
… Answer of the blessed pope Gregory. Over the bishops of Gaul we give thee no authority, since from the ancient times of my predecessors the bishop of Arelate (Arles) has received the pallium, and we …
2,223 wordsSocrates and Sozomen — Ecclesiastical Histories • SECTION 227
… the great treatises of Basil and Greg. Nyssa against Eunomius. Chapter XXVII.--Account Given, by Gregory the Theologian, of Apolinarius and Eunomius, in a Letter to Nectarius. Their Heresy was distinguished by the Philosophy of …
2,205 wordsSulpitius Severus, Vincent of Lerins & John Cassian • SECTION 496
… himself and the rest of the prophets most truly prophesied of Christ the Lord, and gave Him great glory: they declared that He would come not as one like themselves, nor merely greater in the …
1,263 wordsGospel of Peter, Diatessaron, Apocalypse of Peter & Other Early Texts • SECTION 109
… Origen was a great scholar as well as a great theologian; and he thought it right, as the reader may see from the letter to Gregory also here given, that scholarship should contribute all it …
2,226 wordsCyril of Jerusalem & Gregory Nazianzen • SECTION 117
… In his life and work he was seconded by his wife, and followed by his three children, Gregory, Gorgonia, and Cæsarius, whose names are all to be found upon the roll of the Saints. Funeral …
2,252 wordsThe Seven Ecumenical Councils • SECTION 263
… are distinguished by the most glaring blunders, for they attribute to the Council of Nice the teachings of the Conciliabulum, and in particular they lay them to the door of Gregory of Neocæsarea because he …
2,229 wordsAthanasius — Select Works and Letters • SECTION 188
… 15, which is in express words to deny, He was before His generation.' Again, as Gregory, Ubi pater auctor est, ibi et nativitas est; et vero ubi auctor æternus est, ibi et nativitatis æternitas est …
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