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Socrates and Sozomen — Ecclesiastical Histories • SECTION 109

Chapter III.--Of Theodosius and Agapetus Bishops of Synada.

… Such blessings were thus conferred by Christ upon men. [910] On the supposed miraculous effects of baptism, see Tertullian, de baptismo, passim. [911] 1 Cor. i. 22.

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The Seven Ecumenical Councils • SECTION 207

Canon XXXIX. (Greek xlii.)

… Justellus on this canon shews, that Tertullian, Optatus, and Augustine, did apply these titles to their own African bishops; and therefore supposes, that the meaning of the canon was to suppress the flame of vain …

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Theodoret, Jerome, Gennadius & Rufinus — Historical Writings • SECTION 215

Chapter XIV.

… Following Tertullian, Lactantius and Papias as authorities he adopted and inculcated in his students good ethical principles and especially a voluntary love of poverty. [2596] Flourished about 270. There is wide variety of opinion respecting …

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Tertullian — Latin Christianity • SECTION 423

Chapter VII.--The Sixth Clause.

… 20, where Tertullian refers to the same event. [Note also his reference to De Fuga, cap. ii.]

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Theodoret, Jerome, Gennadius & Rufinus — Historical Writings • SECTION 204

Chapter LXVII.

… many others, especially, a great volume On the Trinity, a sort of epitome of the work of Tertullian, which many mistakenly ascribe to Cyprian. [2488] Flourished about 250 sq. [2489] PrayerA H 25 30 31 …

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Tertullian — Latin Christianity • SECTION 46

Chapter XVI.--Concerning Private Festivals.

… cause conjoins me to the sacrificer, I shall be merely a spectator of the sacrifice. [290] [288] Tertullian should have added, "and a man's on a woman." See Deut. xxii. 5. Moreover, the word …

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Tertullian, Minucius Felix, Commodian & Origen • SECTION 4

Chapter IV.--Change Not Always Improvement.

… White and Riddle), which Tertullian either purposely connects with "cloaca," a sewer (with which, indeed, it may be really connected, as coming derivatively from the same root), and takes to mean "the nymphs of the …

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Basil — Letters and Select Works • SECTION 47

Chapter XVIII.

… 13) "We honour the Spirit of prophecy in the third rank." Tertullian (In Prax. 8) "As the fruit from the tree is third from the root, and the rivulet from the river third from the …

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Gregory Thaumaturgus, Dionysius, Julius Africanus & Others • SECTION 193

Book I.

… 171, passim; and Tertullian, vol. iii. and passim.] [3223] Book iii. cap. 7, and book iv. cap. 13, note. [3224] Arnobii Disputationum adversus Gentes, libri octo, nunc primum in lucem editi Romæ, apud Franc. Priscianum …

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Cyril of Jerusalem & Gregory Nazianzen • SECTION 5

Chapter II.--Catechetical Instruction.

… But if he say, I am, you ask him further, Catechumen or Faithful? If he answer, Catechumen, he has been anointed, but not yet baptized [92] ." Augustine, like Tertullian, complains that among heretics there was …

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Tertullian — Latin Christianity • SECTION 282

[6003] Eph. iii. 8, 9.

… Paul, as Tertullian expresses it, "Quæ dispensatio sacramenti occulti ab ævis in Deo, qui omnia condidit." According to Marcion's alteration, the latter part runs, "Occulti ab ævis Deo, qui omnia condidit." The original is …

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Tertullian — Latin Christianity • SECTION 243

[4124] Luke vi. 39.

… 8, cum Refut.; Tertullian, De Præscript Hæret. 8; and De Bapt. 10. [4150] Ut ulterius. This is the absurd allegation of Marcion. So Epiphanius (Le Prieur). [4151] Ego. [4152] Scandalum. Playing on the word "scandalum …

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Theodoret, Jerome, Gennadius & Rufinus — Historical Writings • SECTION 199

Chapter XXXVIII.

… he wrote the work was the fortieth year after the beginning of the heresy of the Cataphrygians. Tertullian added to the six volumes which he wrote On ecstasy against the church a seventh, directed especially …

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Hippolytus, Cyprian, Caius & Novatian • SECTION 326

[4965] [tou tote episkopou, "the then bishop." Text of Routh.]

… 210-280.] When we reflect upon the history of Solomon, and his marvellous contributions to the sacred canon of Scripture, we must not be surprised to find a Tatian, a Tertullian, and a Novatian among …

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Tertullian — Latin Christianity • SECTION 233

[3620] Certe, for certo.

… However this be, Tertullian's old Latin Bible had the passage thus: "Hoc primum bibito, cito facito, regio Zabulon," etc.

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Basil — Letters and Select Works • SECTION 15

[403] John vi. 64.

… With him may be compared Tertullian, Adv. Prax. 7, Adv. Marc. v. 19, Hippolytus, Hær. x. 33, Origen, C. Cels. vi. 47, 63, 64, In Ioann. 1, § 22 (iv. p. 21), xix. § 5 (p. 305 …

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Gregory Thaumaturgus, Dionysius, Julius Africanus & Others • SECTION 191

[3187] [Abel.]

… He is a witness that Minucius Felix and Tertullian had not preceded him in vain. He is a representative character, and stands forth boldly to avow convictions which were, doubtless, now struggling into light from …

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Sulpitius Severus, Vincent of Lerins & John Cassian • SECTION 411

Chapter XXVII.

… xxiv.; and Tertullian De Orat. c. 18; and De Jejuniis c. ii. and xiii. [2210] Exod. v. 8, 9. [2211] Ecclus. l. 24.

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